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THE MANNING
THE MANNII
I. I. APPELT.--.
F. M. SHOPE--.........
I'UBLISHED EVERY
MANNING, S. C., )
OUR OBLI(
The speech of Premier Llo
House of Commons on the qu
Bill now pending, should be reE
read carefully. There is much
serious thought.
Mr. Lloyd George practically
is making little if any headwa3
a.nd that England is nearing th
men. The bill proposed to call
The speaker is careful to state
will be sent to the front, but th
the places of younger men w
fighting.
In this emergency America'
longer-sit back and wait for the
hordes, We are as vitally inter
great. a stake in the final outco
ropearr nations.
Certafnly no person of averai
for;4,. mment that the fate of A
jialted; with that of the allies.
tMat an allied defeat would pr
Ameinan progress and America
very;-existence as a free nation.
merica must win t.he war.
add'ed force that shall turn the
eause. To that end all her im
erted'. President Wilson has a
armies will be rushed to Europ
possible to put them there.
But while our fighting men
there is also a herculean task f<
and girl who remains at home.
save-. We must feed our trool
all the necessaries of war. And
the allied world. There is no
The cause is our own, and the rn
'forever bear the brand of the sl
--W-S
Von Hin the Hun seems to h;
-W-S
.Up to date no enterprising
niewed von Hindlenburg to learn
Uncle Carranza must be g
waiting for Germ any to keel) he
as to him.
Ireland is untrue to herself.
''Irishman" has stood for' all tha
and. true. That she should r'efu:
great world conflict, when the
her history has been one long et
the balance, is inexplicable. It
that she will not accept the hoi
land, submit to the same rigorol
poCs on1 herself, and forever ek
that must attach to it if her p
further, .e..
Food Sug
Sun Dried Apples --
California Peaches --
lisvaporatedl Apples
Strin~gBeans----. ---
Okra and Tornatoes
Tomatoes, fancy quality,
Engliah, Prs, all kinds,
Corn, Finest Maine Sugar,
tiima Beans, fresh as new,
Sweet Potatoes,
Seeded Raisins, a good food.
Gallavant or Lady Peas -
Seasonable Fresh Vegetables
ping Phone No. 8.--1
Manning Gi
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hi ICKENS
eding to Make
'hrive.
HICK GRAIN FEED,
RAP, CHARCOAL,
NUT MEAL. BABY
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S.
GROCERY CO.
\G TIMES
------------ --Editor
.-..--.-.---. Business Manager
WEDNESDAY.
PRIL 24, 1918
CATION
yd George in the British
estion of the Man Power
Ld by every American, and
in this speech to give us
admits that Great Britain
toward winning the war,
e limit of her resources in
men of 50 and boys of 18.
that not all the older men
At they are needed to take
1o can participate in the
s duty is plain. We can no
allies to stop the German
ested as they, and have as
me as any one of the Eu
re intelligence could doubt
merica is now indissolubly
Certainly none can doubt
ove a staggering blow to
m prosperity, if not to her
Her power must be the
scale in favor of the allied
mense power must be ex
ssured our allies that our
e as fast as it is humanly
re hastening to the fray,
>r every man, woman, boy
We must work-work and
)s and provide them with
we must practically feed
escaping the obligation.
an who shrinks now must
acker and the coward.
.s-.
we struck a stone wall
Paris reporter has inter
yhow he likes the city.
~etting mighty impatient
r promise and deliver Tex
For centuries the term
t was gallant, brave, loyal
se to bear her share in the
iery principles for which
ntention are trembling in
is sincerely to be hoped
ne rule tendered by Fag
as condlitions England im
'a her name of the odlium
aist cour'se is puirsued any
gestions !
lb. 20c
lb. 20c
----------Pkg. 20c
----------Can 12e
----Can 15 and 20c
Can 8c., 15c. and 20c
----Can 20e to 25c
----Can 20e and 25c
---Can 20c and 25c
-----large Cane 16e
- - - - Ib. 18c
Quart 25c
,Etc.
Vle'll do the Rest.
rocery Co.
SPEECH OF EX-SEN. JOHN L.
MclAURIN DELIVERED Al
SUMTER ON MOND
(Continued from Page One)
failed of its immediate purpose, 1
cause of the lack of some concentra
ed power to protect the weak agair
the strong. When this war is over
will find a great army commanded
Gen. Foch which will represent
the nations; it will find the council
Versailles composed of the wise
statesmen from all the nations. It w
the supreme wisdom of Woodr<
Wilson which gave us this coun
with an armed force to back it. He
is the machinery developed by r
cessity to hold a fretful realm
awe. The time has come when the r
tions "shall meet in the parliam(
of man the federation of the work
In one hundred years from tod
when the history of this war is bei:
written and the eyes of men are r
dimmed by the carnage and smo
of battle, it will be realized that ti
action of President Wilson is t
most important in its effect on the f
ture of mankind of any one thii
that has occurred since the crucif
tion of Christ. It was an inspirati
from on high, as much so, as any me
sage ever delivered to the children
Israel through the mouth of Moses
Samuel. I look with dread on the c
the mdist of this great crisis will d
prive us of the wisdom of our grey
est prophet. We have with wonderf
adaptability broken the political do
ma embraced in Washington's far
well address and the Monroe doctrir
If this war goes on the wisest this
that the people of the United Stat
can do is, for the time at least, to r
fuse to be hampered by the custom
not electing an executive for a thi
term. Woodrow Wilson was elect,
the last time not by the Democrat
party but by the uprising of the pe
ple which' carried nearly every Stal
I believe that if the Democratic par
will meet in its national conventii
and adopt a platform with just o1
single plank in it, Woodrow Wilso
that the common sense of the peop
ofthis country will assert itself as
did in 1916 .There is a great deal
truth in the saying "never swap hor
es crossing a stream." Conscription
becoming popular in this governmer
President Wilson is conscripting 01
boys to fight the Germans and I thir
we ought to conscript him to tell the
how to do it.
This war can only be won by
great statesman, combining the idea
ism of a Kerensky, with the pra
tical wisdom ' of a Bismarck. O
school teacher president is filling th
role. He is something more th
president of these United States; I
is spokesman for Democracy tl
world over. He is the only man
whom all the nations listen. Ile wi
be needed when the terms of pea<
are to be settlcd, and we owe a dui
to the balance of the world. In eve1
great movement, the ideal of man
always embodied in human form.
Woodrow Wilson is the embod
ment of Democracy, the Kaiser
militarism, just as was Washingt<
of the revolution and Luther of tl
reformation.
There is no middle ground. Tl
eyes of the world are turned on Wi
son as the exponent of Democrac
No man is to be trusted who tall
patriotism and in his heart hat
Wilson. le cannot strike Wilson at
not strike the cause for which I
stands. My friends, I say let us mal
the test in South Carolina. I a
willing to stand or fall with Wcodro
Wilson.
There has come down tie ages ti
spectacle of Nero fiddling while Ron
was burning. Our men are (lying<
the battle fields of France; the wor
is on fire with a fever of lust at
hate. What (10 our petty personal at
factional polities amount to compar<
with the great issues at stake.
would rather die than remain safe,
home to take advantage of the situ
tion to make money or win cheap p
litical glory out of the blood of 01
youth and the sorrow of our land. ?
man has a right to be governed I
personal hate or political ambition.
times like these a true man will ri;
above it.-Sumter Item.
ALL, EMBARGOES
LIFTED ON SEE
Field1 and gardlen seed will be u
c'ondlitionally e'xemptedl from all er
ba rgoes, accord ing to -an announc
ment from the U~nite~d States Depar
me'nt of Agriculture, following a co
ference between Edward Chambers,
rector of traffic for the United Stat
Railroad Administration; Claren
Ousley, Assistant Secretary of Aga
culture ;andl other members of the D)
partment of Agriculture.
British and [rcnlch Raid Submaril
Basis at O8tcnd lcchruggc
(Continued from Page 1)
"'rhe results thus far are known
he that two block ships wvere r1
ashore andl blowvn up at Ostend.
is too early to say dlefinitel y wheth
they accomplished their object, bI
so far as the officers could see in t
dlarkness they were slightly off t
course. At Zeebrugge two of th(
block ships attained their objecti'
being sunk and blown up at the
trance of the canal. Trho third grour
ed while passing it.
Enemy Craft D~amaged
"A certain amount of dlamage,t
extent at present unknown, was de
by gunfire andl torpedlo attack on
enemy dlestroyer and other craft
ing at the mole. Coastal motor bot
report having torpedloedl an enemy<
stroyeor.
"0Ono of the two 01(1 submarir
gaied tsobjective andr destroy
th piigapproach to the mole.
"Sorig parties from the V
dictive and the ferry boats attaci
under an extremely heavy fire a
fought with the greatest gallant
maintaining thae noaitaan aing.
Why
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all'
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is best for us.
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the mole for an hour and causing, it
is believed, much damage to the ene
., my and inflicting considerable losses.
m The objectives for the storming and
1 demolition parties on the mole were
the enemy forces holding it and the
battery upon it, and the large sea
1C plane base
Vessels Withdraw
Y- "After reembarking their landing
cs parties the aforesaid three vessels
-s withdrew. This attack primarily was
"d intended to engage the attention of
1C the garrison on the mole, thereby al
Ce lowing the block ship to enter the
ml harbor.
w "The casualties to the personnel, as
we had expected in a hazardous ad
ie venture of the kind, were heavy in
ie proportion to the number of men cn
mn gagedl. Up to today the British loss
Id Cs reported 'e one destroyer sunk by I
1(d gunfire and two coastal motor boats
1(d andl two launches missing. =:
ad "We have sufficient information to
I show that the entrance to the Brugge
at canal probably wvas effectively block- I
a- edl and that material damage was dlone
o- and that the greatest credlit is dlue to
ir all ranks for their gallantry."
lo Trhe ports of Ostend and Zeebrugge I
>y on the Belgian coast, are the p)rinci.
[n le bases of the operations of subma
se rinies in their campaign against ship
ping in the North sea and the English I
channel. They are of great import
ance to the Germans for this purp~ose,
andl it has been recognized by the Al
1) lies that to (deprive the eaemy of them
would he one of the most effective I
a- means dealing with the submarin.
a- An attack on these ports by the
e- British fleet has been urged, but the I
t- British naval authorities regardedl the
a- land defenses as too strong to make
i. this practicable. Various measures
as hav~e been adlopted to, (destroy German
: sub~marimes on enaterimg or leaving
.i- 'these ports. Field Marshal Ilaig's of
e- fensive in Flanders last summer was
generally believed to have had as one
of its main objectives the bending
hack of the German northern flank
Cso as to (deprive the enemy of these
IThe Buges canal i" abhout six miles I
long, nuaning f romi the city of that
name to the North Sea at Zeebrugge.
Tlhis canal is of great value to the
German9, because the principal base
tof submarines operating from Zee-1
tobrugge is at Bruges, where there are
ex'tensive dock endi shipbuilding yards5.
er Unification and Else
he -
he' Intelligent Methodist people every
re where will want first-hand information I
,e about the G;eneral Conference of the
n' Southern Methodist Church convening
d-.n Atlanta, Ga., (luring the month of
Thdaiie there assure me they
wiledavor to give complete endl ac
he curate reports. Rates are for 4 weeks:
ne The Advocate (official) $1.26; The
an Constitution, and the Journal, each 60
ycents. The Christian Advocata (32
Lti pp), issuedl every week at Na'shvi lle,
e- Tenn., will also contain very 4!ull re
portsa$2.00 a year, 6 mos. $1.00.
ies I am a superannuate p reacher and
ed1 get a small commission if the ordlers
come ~trug e.i Thanking each in
n-avnefrterpatronags herein
ndl Fraternallyv
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me of the re
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sh.
these thing
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[right now oi
ngs.
we sell all w<
.ould buy the
td what's be
Marx Clothes are al
priced to give you ti
r be had. If you don
ue, you get your mont
from $25.00
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g CompaE
Marx Clothes,
High Cattk
Accomp
High Beef
If consumers are I
beef, live-stock raiseri
receive less for cattle.
If farmers are pail
stock, consumers will
more for meat.
Swift & Company
approximately 90 per c
received for beef ar
The remaining 10 pea
dressing, freight to mi
of distributing houses
cases, delivery to the
profits also have to c<
10 per cent.
This margin cannc
arbitrarily without dan
the only effective mear
Ithe complex service
cattle into meat and
meat to the fighting
Iconsumers.
Swift & Company'
I beef during 1917 wa
Icent per pound. On
was a little less than
each dollar of sales.
nation of these profits a
appreciably retail pri
farm prices of live stoc
Swift & Company
co-operate inA devising
will improve conditioi
and live stock industry.
1918 Year Book of i
instructive facts sent
Address Swift & 4
Union Stock Yards, C
Swift & Co
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any
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o pay less for
Snaturally will 2
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necessarily pay =
pays for cattle
ent of the price
Ld by-products.
r cent pays for
arket, operation
and in mostU
retailer. Net
me out of this
it be squeezed
ger of crippling
s of performing.
of converting -
distributing this I
forces and to =
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all products, it E
four cents on
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:es of meat, or
will be glad to
methods that
is in the meat
Iteresting arnd
on request.
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