University of South Carolina Libraries
MIGHTY FORTRESS L BEING DESTROYED P Heligoland Returning to Peaceful r Pursuits. | Heligoland, Nov. 24. r "Our present rulers \v;ll not think I -CH n.-f no it in fflrPWell to til i ill VI WO AX, AAA i Queen of England, who has ruled us so kindly, we do so with heavy I hearts." The words were spoken nearly .20 years ago by an island dignitary' on behalf of tne people of jueligoianu. Sir Arthur Barkly had yielded up the ^ governorship 10 the German minisA ter of state; glasses had been raised to the English queen and the German emperor; the German national anthem had been played by the band; W and the Union Jack over the Hesi w , dency and the little English cannon at the southern point of the Rock Island had been lowered and removL .?L That the island dignitary?the Heligoland baths director ? was * wrong in his estimate of Teuton tolerance soon became evident. Ths following day, August 10, 1890, German men-o'-war in the roadstead |i thundered out their salute to his imK perial majesty in person stepped 1 ' * nncco?. f DriSKiy asnore iu tabc iunuai I sion of the island; and forthwith, says I the chronicler, began the most incisive alterations in all branches of the l| administration. ? Jr We know what that means, writes a correspondent of the London Times. The war lord in landing pronounced that Heligoland should become the k Fatherland's protection and defense against enemies trespassing in the spa Fvervthinsr became at K VA w*4 wv*?. M ^ ^ A' once Kaiserlich or Koniglich, down to the names of streets and villas and bungalows. A military governorship F was established. The towering rocks were converted into bristling forts. A war harbor nearly as large as the island itself was run out to the southwest at a cost of many millions. ! * Heligoland, transformed into the Eye j of Empire, guarding the river mouths, * 1 ;-J- ?? tVlO tceasea.to exist save as <x ycm, v* Prussian fighting machine. Prussians Mar Island Beauty. It still remained a summer .resort', but Prussian military engineers as your first walk above the red cliffs would prove did their level besi to rid it of all claims to beauty. In due course came war. The whole population, some had lived there their whole lives and had never set * ' 11 _ J foot on mainland son were expenea from th?ir homes at six hours' notice, & shipped to Altona and Hamburg, and there put under fierce police super k vision. Strict orders had been issued W by the island commandant that all H keys, to houses, rooms and cupboards ' * were to be left in their locks, and only A such luggage was allowed as each I one could carry. And these were K German citizens! It is significant /love nf nric !c tlidv Bbiic uajfo vx waavj h v?v as semi-English. The only ;ual British subjects resident island, one a sailor with 23 ervice in the British navy, mg into prison three days ber was declared. int no catch being under 1 rule," says the sailor, relt over a rum-grog, but still m his long bondage.) xt i>otnmor] fo *ir houses occupied by Gerval officers, who had brought milies to share their rest cure, *cked by the garrison of artilrho had spent the war in com; luxury?"stupefied with ment." For from start to ot a salvo was fired by the s, though their erection cost y 2,250,000 pounds (nomi$11,500,000). They / found ir local government\?ill fur ther undermined by the six hundred Prussian officials and employees retained on the island. Party political conspiracy is fermenting even here, and the autocracy stipulated by the Anglo-Germany treaty of 1890 is I more mythical than ever. Strong Separatist Movement. Long experience of the German Ann/tWinn fllQ Cdi" I'OflnOCC Ul luv uub^vuitvwv V* treaties has undoubtedly caused a strong separatist movement among Beligolanders. If the right of self determination were justly applied the Union Jack would float in the breeze again above the old Residency garden, where floats a shredded German naval ensign. Meantime the islanders have reminded the supreme counL cil of the years when, "under the I lonsr and blissful administration of F the great British nation, all our rights ^ and customs were always most loyally ** upheld," and have begged that the many injustices of the Prussian reIgime may be examined and abolished. The quaint concluding phrases of this petition to Versailles are worthy of wider reading: "We Heligolanders, on our little island in the middle of the sea, far from all the world's commotion, form the very smallest nation which has for ' centuries maintained its independ er.ce and its local customs. We seek neither wealth nor ostentation, but L desire and hope to live our lives in BC our lonely home upon the rocks, in ^ peace and contentment, as our forefathers did before us." f Their little town is an old-world seaside place, hemmed in by fantastic rock shapes, isolated from the Rnt sometimes for weeks toyet rich in memories. Its ate as clean as its kitchen 'its only newspaper is its towncrier. It has no roads, icles, not a dozen four legged , and in former days it had ies. oland wants to i?ct back to conditions. It would have ^d to remain an obscure marilage, as nature had ordained, ;han figure in history as a r tyrant s s<ave. Charles Katchkiss of Ashtabula, is seveat v-liv n and his right leg ha 7 s n broken hi five places, but !. malres h"s living mowing lawns a-*.! shoveling snjv*. Jn twenty eighvc;'s3 this year lie mowed OvO lavv*::s, ana was paid for work $402.72. He l:c- t forty-one hv/r.; mo we J eaeL w du"i.'ii g the summer. I * Head l|} *BUY _ *1 j''m ^ ''4 ' - ,==y i i' BIG ARMY CF WOMEN ; BATTLES WITH H. C. L 9 ' I In All Parts of District They Are j i Forcing the Fight to Reduce Costs. ; > Budget Plan Popular. Nearly one thousand women in the Fifth Federal Reserve District are. today acting as chairmen of clubs ! and groups of women who are plan-: ning to fight to a finish the H. C. L. All over the states of Virginia, North j and South Carolina, Maryland and j nictnvt nf Columbia, women's cr-i 'ganizations are up In arms agamstj high prices, aDd are working on defi-i nitte programs for .saving in household and living expenditures. In practically every instance the war-time slogan of "Buy O^ly What You Need"; has been adopted by these wcmen, as;: is sliown by reports and letters piling; up at headquarters of the Woman's Division of the "V^ar Loan Organiza, tinn at "Richmond. Ya. Sayings programs that are popular! among these organizations include j discussions of the leaflets issued byj tyj Woman's Division, a series of'; sheets giving suggestions for saving! materials and money by special clean- ' ing, taking care of clothing, thrift in the use of fuel and others. The division has also distributed a model budget for regulating household ex-!; penditures that has excited a greatj deal of interest. ' "I thought at first that I oould iiever persuade my husband to try the budget system," one woman reported recently at headquarters, "but I showed him' how thoroughly business it looked, and now he is a more ardent budgeteer. even, than I am. Instead of 1 merely putting th? amounts allotted for food in each column, be insists 1 on tabulating the different kinds of food we ou?M to in rrler to b? 1 pp.ii.Jo'itori r> - ~*v?he's as much inj t^-'-^d as if it were a baseball game." The Woman's Division has an-i' nounced that it will be glsd to s^ndl' thrift literature to any clubs or indi-, viduals desiring it. In High Places By Walt Mason. ! ? i I have bought a grand piano and a sumptuous sedan, and a lot of other doodads, on the monthly pay- j ment plan. On each thing I paid a dollar, and I'll pay a monthly bone, till I'm laid away and sleeping underneath a sagging stone. It is true, I didn't need them, and j I haven't coin to burn, but I see i' my neighbors blowing every ko- J peck that they earn, and if they can have pianos and fine motors -? 1- ? T x n ~ ~ ana sucn sum, i win so ?.? they do though it makes the sledding tough. Every month I'll pay ' a dollar on the junk I do not need, i till I limp around on crutches and my whiskers go to seed; and when j I have crassed the fiver to the ! shining golden shore. I will still be ewing money to the Jinx Installment Store. And I fear the recollection will destroy my peace of 1 odC mind, when I have a harp be- j for# me and a pair of wing* behind. But my neighbors, fchsy kee? blowimf every rouble, every red, and I'd he a sort of piker if I let tkem get ahead; so I'm buying circus wagens, and I'm buying costly gems, and my wife is wearing ; sables and diamond diadems, and I j bought the whole caboodla on the I lonthly payment plan, a::d I'm rid- 11 ing to the poorhouse in a super- c iight sedan. . Ij (Copyright, 1919. By srpobl T>*r- f ' mission to the Savings Division, ? Treasury Department.) L . Sign no arrr'stk* wit"-; r-xlra?:\-; fmce. Kern on buying W-ir Saviu r.1. ! Ftamps ami 'thr? v,-~vliV. '.h.jice-t j i r'.los," Liberiy ?*c,a2s. |; s Up! v " I r1 IjlffSlP-x \ A?w ' // w -'iX> i v ifep^ Iji 4** t CAN REDUCE COST bF~ WA3M AND SAVING IFUlUUltU 1AKV I 441V ^cw Imperatively Necfss*ry If Nation !s to be Steeled From Skoals of Hardship. "Perhaps at no other time in this nation's history is the appeal 'Work and Save' so necessary as at present. .Manufacturers, financiers, economists and many others, including the conservative labor leaders, realize that unlets we work and work,hard; ?nd save and save hard, we are headed for a period of unprecedented hardship. "This is not the mere mouthing or a jingo or professional pessimist. - It is a fact, and is supported by innumerable signs everywhere. Every hour, wasted and fcvery dollar spent..; needlessly is like a dagger thrust at the heart of this country. Enough of 'i-JiwflT fh rusts will finally liiCOV^ v reach the heart itself. "The fact that we ars extraordinarily rich furnishes no immunity from ultimate disaster if we waste ' these riches. The thing to do is for each and every one of us to pull in the same direction, towards national economy. Without it we are lost With it we can assure our national a-j. ,-A/l 1 I LUlUre. ?V^ua iiuc iictic'IT. Tremendous Food Waste The National Association of Wast? Material Dealers estimates that Americans throw away $700,000,000 worth of food each year. If only one ouncs of food is wasted or spoiled in each of the 20,000,000 homes of America, the total loss is 1,300,000 pounds a J ~ ia wacfpd ?T1 U Ay. AO U1UVU l/V?i ? nually as all the mines of the country could produce in two weeks. Thrift and saving are needed not only in materials but in labor and monpv. Each added individual effort will tend toward the increase of production and consequent fall in price of necessities, but physical idleness is no less an obstacle to the reduction of living costs than financial idleness. There are millions of dollars idle in the United States through lack of proper investment which should be wording for the common good. These suips if put to work would constitute the> new capital so urgently needed to tide over the period of reconstruction. 1 | GHOSTS OF LOST FORTUNES IN SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES ' If ihe safetv rienosit boxes of the United States could give up their dead stores of fake securities enough wasted money would he disclosed to', stagger the imu^iiiution. If a man expects his financial barrel to fill up he must stop the leaks in it. Untold numbers of fake scheme j promoters and regiments of investment sharks, because of this popular Ignorance, are pointing out "short j. roads" to big fortunes to those whose j Liberty Bonds and War Savings j Stamps they hope to secure in ex- j change for beautifully embossed but 1 absolutely worthless stock certifi- i cate\ These fakers know the value ' of government securities, ^.ey are : r.nxious to get them, for they fig- j ure that they will goon be selling at ! par and above. But their victims do i not know these facts, and so they ! trade the best securities is the world j for some wild-cat proposition that ; promir.es a high rate of interest, but j; rarclv na v< 4 - j Tn tbr? year since tbe armistice was ' signed thf Treasury Department has , i retired nearly n billion dollars worth of Liberty Bonds. Buy more now, whlie j. rices arc favorable. at any banking ins?iiUt;on. j ? ^ S'gn no arniisiir^ w:th waste. Highpr.:ced o!o*r?.*i;! f v;d : re higher v/hf.n v lc'o i'J nv.If. '. Get yov.r v > yen. : E'.'VWp ilil./ . ' .. > j. I t (' '' 1 % 4-feSSisi^ c .. h M?h&B . z&m ?: Wm 'i*SaM - vj'j:? gtM$i ? \:V; , ?$ 08 'i ' }^; j :! V v J tt, !"H ^. .>-*{' i * &' *. r^hwi . i: :H' \ d\* ?\t } r-~- '? >1 0" ""V * ' Words cannot des S 1 . . . greatest inventive Thomas A. ?dis^; produced, and aft expenditure of thr gave th- world I he N Before thousands that it reproduces it cannon be distin lie Greatest Ar 1 he I - We have a fa: fill o. 51 I Jl Uoi VA WV/* ? , early purchase Chalet - - $95.00 Mc Sheraton - - i| In g Aeen< Gilde: FER' WE are agei phate and m. kinds. Also I j Let us G??i< Subscribe to The Herald a?d j News, $2.00 a y^ar. ~ ( The State of South Carolina?Coun- i ty of Nev/berry?By W. F. Ewart. Probate Judge. Whereas Mary Thomas made suit to me to grant her Letters of Administration with Will annexed of the Estate and effects of J. H. Thomas. -l1 4-r\ n ifo on.! 1 nese ?'ire. meit-iinc, iv admonish mII and singular the Kindred and Creditors of the said J. E. ( Thomas, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held a Newberry. S. C.. on Monday. .Jar.urvy 5th, next, afU puMicatio;} i^rcof, ;-.t 3 3 o'clock i~ the forenc . -how cause, if any ' fiicv h:.ve. wr.y *he said Administer- > ^ tiw, slioulii ;:oi bo granted. ; | t'liven ; d; my b"-d t'v" I~th day f of Decern? ? ? . A"~ j U\ ' .. v. f !i> Subscv: 2 U Cev/s, $2.1-/ a yc: - ^ i XKa oKlo ! L ZlXs EDISON: I o>* f g. I tailed I l ,: , Sopberb & I Supreme crsbe the finished prod act of the * - 1 mind the world has c ver known, i di covered that sound could be retr years of tireless research and the ee mil ioft dollars in exp riments, he j I ew EDISON : of audiences he has demonstrated anrl all miisir Srt HR fectlv th&t ? A V ci.< IU 1411 JLM.M. Ml/ ?V w ? ? ? J guished from the original. iists la al! lines make Records for I x irly good stock;and nope- -to mi you had better make' an i to be sure. , ' > * >dernes - -$120.00 Hepple white - -$167.50 |>200.00 Chippendale - - $295.00 : :nuine Oak and Mahogany. :y for Newberry County at r & Weeks Co. I < j ????? ??p? I * ?rr:? riLIZERS i HHHHHHiSHHHBSEE&SBRHHMUHMHHHHHHHHHHHHB irj A ndJ/ayc An PllO? ill!) llll - 111U OilUVi V/1A A AAVfW Oil Co. Fertilizers of all | titrate of Soda. \ quote you oar prices t ?????? r, Jl :e Nations! Bank B'dg. * j I CARTER'S SIXTY YEARS I LITTLE LIVER THE WORLD'S A Inn I C most perfect p * I kkafc^i^^tsSA LIVER AND BOWEL H L^<rt\v?0 r\UOU.?TtlOHI REGULATOR. I (SS^^VfOR C0^Sl&9^ ^mand the genuine I MM 1 IpiMSIii. liMSliHI c { - fY'S POSSESSING Rr.M?R:<A3LE BSAUTSFYWC proper. t /' ' ii*J vk'tl ties YEr absolutely haerflfcss. ALL shades. H 5 McfiS' *?3^1 COTZS BETECTICN. U-;^ not RETAIN VOIR YOUTHFUL |i <1 ^>y. ? . .2. .vt^ *. ?. J yo; R FAVOB^rs. HEALER l-'OX n "DARLING" i.'OUJ.riCHT'ROUGE, 35c a box \a \<X fijlj c.-?,r.ADCLFK KLAR > vv,'"?.:Vr " ^3^y .' / 221 FOURTH AVENUE r;??;/ YOF?? Jjf "* ' ; -r:\T-1 i -t i><,r * I~;':^''''^?'i' rfc * ^ ' .'^^-t.I. If'/<w*.*? jl <*l'r?yf?'i l?"*i?'M ii1