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INOTHIl the fa Our s i article or You c~ are so ma I The 1IM ISAP EL. I I- ~ PML21, 1915. Ib * AANNING. S. C., DEC. 1, 1915 C r PUBLISNED EVERY WEDNESDAY S L I1.. APPELT,t EDITOR AND PROPREhTOR. - Do your Christmas shopping 11 bot~h early and late. You-. can't -afford to miss the excrntiating joys of the grand rush. 1: 11 First thing we know the nen- u tral countries will be scrapping e with each other to see which one li can cap off the honors of neu trality. c *We are perfectly willing to have the whole world formed in. ~ to one great republic, provided y Uncle Sam is the big squeeze ins the push. t -No man can expect-the rest of C the world to think him a saint unless he is one. And by the same token we are not looking for any shower of bouquets. If we could have Cupid as our t commander-in chief and use his u darts in lien of bullets. war g would become a popular pastime tl and every hemale in this blessed C town would be rushing off to en- ti list, a n .A snake, a liar, a gossip and a e loud mouthed bully are among , the most delectable-abominations t) this world has ever produced- a except the cuss who reads bis c home papcr for five years and ti then -reunses to pay. If only the good and pure in mind go to heaven, what is to become of the doctors, and the a lawyers, and the merchants, and e the editors aind bankers, and s farmers, and the rest of the corn mon herd? And where, oh, ~ where. will the politicians go? S *IffUncle Sam has to take a y licking he will have the supreme c satsfaction of knowing it is the r -first one and that it is trailing c long late in lijte. It H R [G else does c ,ct that He'll i tore is filled a garment in ti in hunt the ni ny appropria Rev. J. L. H'arley of Spartan z urg,- for the: past eight years c scretary of the Anti-Saloon i ~agne, has resigned his position c r. Harley is said to feel that1e is work in this State is finished '] nce the State voted "dry" last s eptember. A Chicago doctor charged aa atient $1,000 for stopping a ase of nose bleed. The patient e fused to pay. ~The doctor i ed, and another doctor testi-i ed in court that the fee was not t iessive, while yet another one ought $500 was at out right. e .d to think 'hat we are run ig a niewspeper instead of be- t ig a nose bleed specialist! s If we would teaeh a child to t ke that which is good in read- a g, we must establish the liking a i his early years. It is not 2ough that we shall tell him in 6 ter days that certain books ares od and bid him read 'them. g hen he is grown up he will 2ose that which he likes and , r work is to lead him to like t ood things. We cannot begin , o early. The nursery taless ould be those which have fed , e children of many an age and e ime. The song, the hymn. tbe em should be those that are orth reading and reciting. Let i s make the beautiful story and yth and hymn a part of the i ild's early enviroment. More E ian this, let us remember that i i teaching the children to read d ood books we aro re-enforcing t em against the ills of life. Ac- t ~mpanied by noble thoughts g ey shall go to their drudgery d d toil with a brave spirit, and d ake melody in their hearts ev 2 when their hands are rough b pith toil, they shall dwell with e great and good and then mo- a ents of leisure shall be rich be- a use of these good times of ieir youth. Spartanburg, Tuesday 22. 'he gallon a month law, passed the 1913 session of the gen ral assembly, was ruled uncon itutional in its application to terstate shipmernts by Judge Vilson in the court of general a essions yesterday, Upon this t uling, Judge Wilson directed a a erdict of not guilty in the case ii f B. L. Turner, under indict- o ent for transporting 150 pints v f beer from Union into Spar-- S nnr ouarnty this' pmst snm- r rMi for a Christn best of His a Lble Gifts! Ev would not mrn 'y Chris Raincoats Pajamas House Coats Neckwear. Suspenders A Man's St ind you can' ten and BoyS nd ler . 14 North MA the matter under consideration The peace comm~ission will sai from New York on board the O0 car II, 'of the Scandinavian American Line, going to Chris tiana, Norway; Stockholm,Swet ten, and Copenhagen, Denmnark~ Prominent persons of Europeai nations ase to meet the peac' commission from this country a some central point to be estab~ lhsbed later and hold an interna tional conference dedicated ti negotiations looking to a setle ment of the European war. Thb American commission is to in cdude about one hundred prom inent men and woinen from dif ferent parts of the Unmted State: Mr. Ford last week invited Gov Manning, who because of officia business, was farced to decline Among those who have accepte< membership on the Americai commission are John Wanna maker, Thomas A. Edison, Jane Addam~s, Helen Keller and Fred erick C. Howe, commissioner o immigration. SUNDAY AND THE CARIVAL We never like to censur ou: city officials, but when they a] low a carnival company to coin' into our town, and deliberatela go to work unloading their truel and erecting tents on the Sab bath, and too, in a stones throw of two churches. it is time fo: all good citizens to protest. .1 is an outrage. There is a Stati law regulating work on Sunday and while it is too late now t< stop what has already happenei the people should take steps a once to see that this does no occur again. Why should a car nival, a traveling bunch of wan derers. people who have' no re gard for the Sabbath or respec for the feelings of those who d< regard it, be allowed to come it to a civilized town and openl3 break the law of both God ani State? What good is a carnival! What good do they do? It is bad enougb to have these "mon, ey grabbers" during the week but we might be spared fromt them on Sunday. A soda foun. tain is not allowed to dispense five cent drink on Sunday, tho the owner pays a license and taxes to do business in our towi year in and year out, but a car nival can pay out $75.00 or $100. 00 to draymen to have their junk~ moved to the show grounds. The dayoman has sold his labor Is", tuite so well vear it isthe with services ie store that A\ Men Suits. Overcoats Trousers Gloves Umbrellas Come to iap all over a te gifts for 19 No er. The motion for a directioi f the verdict in~ favor the de mdant was made by defendant's onsel, on the 'gronds of the nonstitutionality of the statute 'he motion was resisted by the licitor. Judge Wilson disagreed ~ith the defendant's counsel as the unconstitutionality of the et as a whole, but agreed -thai iwas not in accord with the nstitution in so far as it re ted to movement entirely with the State. Judge Wilson ruled at the title of -the act does not onform to article 8, section 17, f the constitution, which pro 'ides thab every act or resolu. on having the force of the las al relate to but one subjeci nd that shall be expressed ii be title. The title of the* galloz month law states the subject f the act to be that of regula ion of alcoholic liquors into this tate, but makes no reference tc bipments entirely within the ~tate. Commenting upon his de ision last night, Judge Wilson a~id that under his interpreta. ion of the case, there would be o prosecution of detendants for ipment of whiskey entirely within the State until the act amended by the legislature. e intimated, however, that the efect could be easily rernedied. . L. Turner is alleged to have ~ought about 150 pint bottles of eer in Union and to have check l them in a trunk as baggage, om Union to a point near Lan rum, and it was there seized by e officers of the law as contra and. After the evidence for the ~tate had been concluded, the efense made the motion .fora irectin of the verdict, which as granted. Judge Wilson alsc eld that since the whiskey had t been handled by the defend ut in Spartanburg county, the leged crime had been commit d entirely in Union county, d the case was therefore out *f the jurisdiction of the Spar mburg court. FORD ASKS BETHEA TOJOIN. Columbia, November 28-Spec I: Andrew J. Bethea, Lieuten t Governor, today received a ~legram from Henry Ford, the utomobile manufacturer, invit ig him to represent South Car ina on the peace commission bich is to go to Europe next aturday. Mr. Bethea has not piedr to the invitation. but has an as somethi our Holiday ae and most a Hi1m ndkerchiefs ncy Vest rht Robes eaters th Robes. in's Gift! 'store in thic .ung intelligenice, quick discernment, iron determination and unques tioned mntegrity. He must be cool headed, energetic and per sistent-a man who rides over all obstacles and "gets th~ere on time with the, goods." The duties of tbe position are so numerous, so varied and so intricate as to require years of training to produce even a mod er-ately suecessful quartermaster The civilian without training or~ theoretical knowledge who is made an officer of the- quarter master corps over night and sent to the front is nothing but a handicap and a detriment. If appointed in large numbers, as has been done in all of our past wars, they even constitute -a ser ious menace to the successful ex ecution of movements of vital importance to an army in the field. The quartermaster corps of an army clothes, feeds, shelters and transports the troops, it pro vides horses. mules, and the forage and equipment for them, it furnishes stoves, fuel and light, constructs roads, bridges, railroads, barracks, warehouses., docks and wharves, charters ships. tugs and other means of water carriage, pays officers, men and other employes, furn ishes transportation for all ma terial of war, supplies tentage, cots, bedding, incmnerators. and in fact everything for the up: keep of any ar-my. with the ex ception of arms, ammunitionl, medical supplies, engineer and signal property. And of these manifold duties none is of more vital importance than that of subsisting the troops. The congress will take up this winter the problem of strength ening the national defenses by an increase mn the regular army and navy and by the raising of of .force of volunteer- reserve troops. If we are to provide for the raising of a great ar-my to be used in emergency, by all means let us heed the advice of Col. McCar-thy and make provision for a corps of quartermasters who are trained to their duties, and not send our young man hood forth to suffer from the gross ineficiency of a horde of political appointees who are dumped onto the qua rternmaster corps at the Jast minute becauseI they want to be c-aptains arnd .ng he can v stock, there cceptable gift At Svicinity w1 ~omp majors and haven't th e courage to shoulder a rifle on the aring line. One weak link will destroy the mightiest chain, and an ineffi ient quartermaster corps will quickly transform a great fight ing force into a growling and kicking aggregation of malcon tents. The quartermasters of our reg ular army, though few in num ber and-handicapped in a thous and ways, are among -the best the world has ever produced. Bt they are but a drop in the bucket to the vast number of trained men who will be requir ed if we are efer called upon to place an army of a million men in the field in defense of our cuntry. The editor of this paper ab hors war in its every phase-;I is barbarous demoralizing and destructive of a'll that is best an noblest in mankind.' But as a patriotic American citizen we can not wilfully close our eyes to the fact that-we are a nationi so rich as to tempt the cupidity of an aggressor, and so weak as to be helpless in the repelling of attack and in the safeguarding of our har-d earned possessions. Let us have no wveak links in the chain of national defense. DEFECTIVES AND EUMANITY. The action of Dr. H. J. Haisel den of Chicago in refusing to perform a surgical operation for the purpose of saving the life of a defective infanit has brought acutely before the people the problem of what to do with our defectives. It is the burning is sue of the day, the theme of die cussion by millions upon mil lions of people ~throughout the civilized world. When born the child was in this condition- It had but one ear; it had no neck, the base of the skull being about even with its shoulders; one side was par alyzed; it had a curved spine; on the left side it had a double kid ney connected to the bladder by one tube; on the right side it bad no kidney; There was no opening to the lower intestine; its stom ach was dilated; its thighs were abnormally large; it had a hem orrhage in the spinal canal, in dicating an injury or a diseased condition of the blood vessels; there was no passage way to the miing- er its brain was aD ias gift to a M ppreciation. ren outside of ike a handsor tmas foi Hats Ha Hosiery Fa Pajamas Nil Shifts Svw Mufflers Ba ore for A M& t find another pe. Clot] in St., Sumtei ,and collected for it. Why should 1 not a merchant be allowed the 3 -same privilege? If this concern - bad perishables on their train -they could have been tak'en off, I' and the rest of tbe stuff moved .on Monday. We are no saint by 1 any means. but we do protesi against this open defy of the t laws of mankind and Him who -made this world. The mis -take has been made. but we hope . it will never happen again. SA WEAK I.NK IN THE NATIONAL. CHAI4 It has been left to the far .sightedness of Col. D. E. Sc SCarthy, chief quartermaster ol .the central department. of the IUnited States Army, to bring tc the fore at this time one of. the weakest links in our chain of na tional defense. and that is wholly Sinadequate provision that is - made for an enlarged quarter f master corps in time of war. CJol. McCarthy has recommend ed to the war department that a quartermaster reserve corps of the brightest executive minds in r the country be organized in time - of peace sufficient in size to sup a ply the requirements of any 1 amy of a million men, which t would be the smallest force this -country could expect to put mnto the field in time of war. These e men could be commissioned by b ihe president as captains and a lieutenants in the quartermaster ,reserve corps of the federal > army, but without pay until lcalled into active service, as is t now the case with the medical b reserve corps. -To the average layman this - may not appear to be supreme importance but to the trained t man it is illuminating, and for > several reasons. SAn army, however efficient rand valorous in other respects, l is almost wholly dependent up on the prompt and thorough ex ecution of the duties pertaining to the quartermaster corps. If that corps is weak the useful ness of the whole army is ser iously impaired, is dangerously near to being destroyed. A fighting unit of an army can be trained for reasonable service in from four to six months. But it is useless without its corps of trained quartermasters. It can accomplish little' without them. The office of quartermaster re quiraesn. man of a. high order of rear, andl is not an3 paretly r eawt te jx ception of a hemorrhage on the~ left side.. - The performing of a sim pie operation would have saved the life of this child. But the so rb geon, knowing the future that would await it, refused to oper ate. A coroner's jury, consisting of a number of -the most noted physicians ~in Chicago, found tsbat be acted strictly within- his rights and. within the ethics of the medical profession. Was this doctor' a. human be ig with a great heart, who re fused to prolong' the life of this chbild-and thereby condemn. it t'o an existence of helpless inisery? Or was he a criminal in his re fusal to,. perform an operation that meant life, though life be worse than death? Hardly a day passes but we read of a crime committed by some person who is later proven to have been a defective from birth. There is no punishment for such. They must be commit ted to an institution for the rest of their days, or permitted to run at large and continue to be a menace to. all people with whom they come in contact. Many of these defective peo pie grow to maturity and marry. and bring other defectives into the world. The world is full of tbem, and humanity is becoming wore morally depraved and men tally warped every day. Enrope in particular is deluged with them in high plac-es. brought about by the pernicious system of inter marriage. and Europe is drowning in a sea of blood -. and destruction. What are we to do with 'our defectives? Are we to mature them and send them forth into the world to oreed other 'defec tives, to serve as a canker in the mentality and morality of man kind? Or should they be allow ed to slip back into the mystery from whence they came? - We correct the mistakes of na. ture in all other respects by r-e moving the menace in time. But what are we to do with re gard to thc greatest of all menaces to future generations?' What will the future of our race be if they are allowed to grow, and propagate. and cover the? land with the ever increas mingadnta.l hights of nature?