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done in one year of war. It is a marvelous record and how any man can take into consideration our total unpr arednesB and then critise those in authority is beyond my compre' hension. You may be sure those doing it are either ignorant of the facts or have some ulterior purpose. They should be looked upon with distrust and treated as enemies until they prove otherwise. . Listen, on April 6th, 1917 we had only 160.- < 000 trained soliders under arms and 9,564 officers; on April 6th, 1918 we t had 123,800 officers almost as many < officers as we had men, a year ago. I f. when you consider the fact that a < k modern war depends very largely on i ? trained officers you realize what a 1 tremendous work has been accom- ' plished. The number of enlisted 1 men is 1,528,924, an increase in one t year in the armv of about onn ?"'V ' cent. One year ago we had 84,000 i enlisted men in the navy and today > we have 343,000 an incrase of 400 t per cent. In the aviation service a 1 year ago we only had about 1,000 I men and today there is about 140,-1* 000 an increase of 10,0(^0 per cent.!8 Our experts have standardized the a liberty motor and will revolutionize 0 the air service. Twenty-five large * companies are manufacturing air- 1 planes, 15 more are producing en- 8 gines and 400 are producing acces- v sories and supplies. We have pro- w duced 10,000 automobile trucks. (? Machine guns are being mauufactur-iM ed at the rate or 2.5,(J00 per year and '? 3 1-2 Inch guns at 15,000 a year. f< The ordinance supply of the govern- ^ ment is handling every month 10,- s' 000 car loads of material. Within n two weeks after war was declared f8' contracts had been made covering I me requirements of an arfny ofl,000,000 men. The government has ft taken over and is operating 260,000 b; miles of railroad, employing more li than 1,000,000 men representing an vl investment of nearly 20 billion dol- si Jars. Outside of the loan to the Al- a lies the United States spent 12 bll-|b< lions of dollars during the first year'vi o{ the w,*\r\ We loaned nearly 4 1-2 'ot billion dollars in the other countries ai engaged in this war. The government pi has instituted a system of war insur-.w ance to take the place of the worn In out and rotten pension system and;m in one year insurance policies have;ti< been issued for millions of dollars! and also about 20 million dollars j to paid in allotments to the dependent jth families of the sailors and Roldiers. m When it seemed that we would not su be able tc send our products abroad th on account of the high rates charged bo by insurance companies the govern- gi ment stepped in and gave us war risk di insurance at greatly reduced rates m and ere actually making a large prof- 01 It out Of It. Cotton went from seven a to thirty-three cents. The greatest P1 achievement I think of the govern- er ment is the conscription act. It is the most wonderful piece of legisla^ G< ' \ tion of its kind that the world has gc ever known. What becomes of those fo that were running around over the fo J country crying out against the draft Cj 'act and predicting all kind of evil?! to POSITIONS POSITH The (i(?\ KKMKNT OFFICES, a OFFICES everywhere are CLAMOR k??e|M'rs, Stenographers, ami Typist* Young women, and young men 1 Army, have the OPPORTUNITY o SALARIED and PERMANENT |M>si advancement. Call, or write us TODAY for low DRAUGHON'S PRACTICAL largest Because Best 1(12(1 Main Street, C< I<SXsX^^iX*X*X?Xi)l^,y*^*- " y5XgX)WS)^XSXsXS)i NOTICE FA . I will pay HIGHEST CAS |j iron, rags, bags, brass, copj J Old automobiles and seco 1 specialty. I HONEST Vl % Bring a ittad of Junk w I and t&Vn it int6 cash. I Look over Veur place and j | the amotmt of apparently v 'm I can tvrn into good, hard do | Junk yard near Brick I M. SCHW I DILLON, - ? ? >1PS There has been no riot and in less time than three weeks the men of this country to the number of 10,000 000 presented themselves before these boards and were registered a( a cost per man for those accepted for service at $4.90. Our weak point has been the lack of ships, we were prevented by narrow partisan politics from developing an American merchant marine. The great transcontinental railroads postponed for 30 years the construction of an Isthmian canal and an American merchant marine. It was their purpose to force the movement of freights cast and west instead of as nature intended north and south the way thai our mountains and rivers run. | Their interest was at Boston and NJew York nnH nnt at Smith Atlantic tnd Gulf Ports. 1 know to my sorrow i what it cost, 25 years ago, for a man n the United States senate to adrocate ship subsidy with both paries dominated by this selfish raiload trust. In one year the subsidy j irinciple has brought into the serice of the country 1,14 5 steel ships nd 500 wooden ships aggregating .bout 10,000,000 tons, an increase' 1 about 600 per cent in one year in he American merchant marine. With i he planB now on foot, it is safe to | ay that at the end of another year i te will have a fleet of ships that i rill exceed that of any other nation : i n earth and that never again will l e witness the humiliating spectacle 1 i f American products depending on < ireign ships to find a market.!) /hen this war is over American < hips carrying American products :* lanned by American seaman will bej; ?en at every port in the world. t The World Needs Wilson. !1 This war is changing our very I, >rm of government, we have found j' y practical experience that a repub-M C with its fllll lihprlv In IVio UJI dual citizens is unable to wage a,1 iceessful war with an autocracy. To j * great extent a new government is * dug built up outside of that pro- ' ded in the constitution. The gov-i1 nment has charge of the railroads j * id ships. It is fixing the price of ' oducts and telling us what to eat, 1 hen to eat, and what to pay for it.,1 i another year of var the govern- !i out of this country will he prac- c cally in the hands of this extra- jo institutional machinery. It is going t i take the wisest statesmanship,; r e keenest sense of justice and the j 1 ost exalted patriotism to do this t iccessfully. We need brains for ! f is purpose as much as food for the , i Idlers, and executive ability as n ins. Russia had 15,000,000 sol- c ers under arms, countless guns and ore raw material than any nation t i earth and yet she is today from i lack of constructive statesmanship t ostrate with the heel of the Kais- p on her neck. , s There can be no peace between 11 erman and American ideals of s ivernment. We are fighting today r the principles of the Democracy p r which Christ died on the hill of ii ilvary. The right of every nation t i live its own life in its own way. s t 3NS POSITIONS I ' intl It A V UK >1 nil nr?iivL-Ck: D !i IXCJ for eflieient Clerks, B?x>k- j' . at AI,I.ritlN(i salaries. , ivbo are IXKMGIBBK for the 1 < f a lifetime to secure HIGH- r (ions, with assurance of rapid i; u cost of training. ' BUSINESS COLLEGE I \ .National Reputation HA MB1A. S. C. I i ^ ' t I r.vy.-iv^yiyt)^ , lRMERS! 11 >H PRICES for scrap 1 t" >er, rubber, etc. 1 !j nd machinery a ? i EIGHTS I fi r*"~r>i? > i Mi r i i ?niBnn iff 4* hen you come to towo % pou will be surprised at $ worthless material you | liars. Warehouse. I < ) VARTZ, I: --S C. We are now writing the most tragic chapter in the history of mun and all the nations are being punished, but out of this supreme agony new nations strong in youth and energy will arise and not even in Germany can destroy the spirit of freedom. I believe that out of this war will come a great brotherhood of nations. There is a deep significance in the appointment of an army composed of i the flower of the troops from the Allied nations. The ideal which found exprssion in the world's peace congress at the Hague foiled of its immediate purpose, because of the lack , of some concentrated power to nro tect the weak against the strong. When this war is over it will find > a great army commanded by Gen.'j Foch which will represent all the nations; it will find the council of 1 < Versailles composed of the wisest , statesmen from all the nations. It < was the supreme wisdom of Wood- i row Wilson which gave us his council t with an armed force to back it. Here 't is the machinery developed by ne- t cessity "to hold a fretful realm in j awe" the time has come when the- | nations "shall meet in the parliament j, of man, the federation of the world." i 1 In one hundred years from today > when the history of this war is be- ! ing written and the eyes of men are f not dimmed by the <rarnage and o smoke of battle, it will be realized that this action of President Wilson t, is the most important in its efTect t an the future of mankind of any one n thing that has occurred since the r crucifixion of Christ. It was an in- | epilation from on high, as much so, v is any message ever delivered to w he children of Israel through the v noutli of Moses or Samuel. I look v vitli dread on the effort of => ? mi system which in the midst of <?( his great crisis will deprive us of he wisdom of our greatest prophet. ' Are have with wonderful adaptibiliy broken the political dogma emtraced in Washington's farewell adIress end the Monroe doctrine. If ' his war goes on the wisest tiling hat the people of the 1'nited States in do is. for the time at least, to 'e fit re to he hampered by the cus?.?m of not electing an executive for } third term. Wood row Wilson was looted the last time not by the Detnn*ratic pnrt\ but by the uprising of "s he people which carried nearly ev-, t tv state. I believe that if the " lemocratic party will meet in its naional convention and adopt a plat- ,( ortn with just one single plank in A t. Wood row Wilsow, that the comnon sense of the people of this j ountry will assert Itself as it did in a( PI6. There is a great deal of ,(1 ruth in the saying "never swap " lorses crossing a stream." Conscrip- a ion is becoming popular in this ^ :overnment. President Wilson is con-|T cripting our boys to fight the Ger- ,Ci nans and I think we ought to con- I( d ipt him to tell them how to do ft. ;^ i nis war can only be won by a,31 reat statesman, combining the ideal- , sin of 'a Kenensky, with the prac- | ical wisdom of a Bismark. Our| chool teacher president is filling his role. He is something more 0 han president of these 1'nited Stat* s. de is spokesman for Democracy thej vorld over. He is the only man to vliom ail the nations listen. He will >e needed when the terms of peace " ire to be settled, and owe a du'y 11 o the balance of the voilJ. Ir a >very great movement, the ideal of,a nan is always embodied in human j orni. ,1 Wood row Wilson is the emhodi- n ilent of Democracy, the Kaiser of tl nilitarism, just as was Washington w ?f the revolution and Luther of the ^ ( formation. There is no middle ground. The yes of the world are turned on; Yilson as the exponent of Denioc-1 acy. No man is to be trusted who " alks patriotism and in Ms heart " uites Wilson. He cannot strike Wilon and not strike the cause for 11 c vhieh he stands. My friends, I say let ( is make the test in South Carolina. am willing to stand or fall with s. Voodrow Wilson. K There has come down the ages, al he spectacle of Negro fiddling while ai Mine v as burning. (_>ur men art;,*5' yii.g on the battle fields ?if 1,5 ! < world is on tin* with fever of **' list and hate. Whit I do our petty J'1 K'tsoiijil and factional polities , mount to compared with the efeut tJ -- site* at stake. I would rather die w !ian remain safe at home to take (p dvantage of the situation to make fC noney or win Wteap political glory ai iut of the h\ood of our youth and m he sorrow of our land. No man has >r i right to be governed by personal j hi late or political ambition. In times n ike these a true man will rise above! t. - p " ' ? TbeSpirtt "r" ^ J \?hI for Firing St|iiml. It must li*.i\? occurred to a gre many people, in reading ?!??? new paper accounts of the I? mi<>111 mot oils adopted |?v tlx- go\eminent a thorities in dealing with tin* sj uuestion. that the plying of tli trado hy a (lerman or (human syn pat Inzer is far safer than srrt ice i the art'V of t ho Kaisor. Tho most serious penalty impost so far has heen against an otlicer < lh" I'liitod States army who vollll ....... ? <>.iuiiii-u IIKII ll<- ('(Hill! IK ilo justuice ti? himself or his men i I ading them against his relativi mil friends fighting on the (lenna side. A man who is convicted of h< ing a leader in the spy plots agaim American lives and property is gi\ ?n a prison sentence less than tha jsually meted out to an etnbezzlin lerk. Other men, engaged in subte? anean efforts which might result ii lie killing of more American boy ban could be accomplished by an en ire German regiment, are pleasantl; ntered in quarters where they an irovided with creature comforts un mown to the young men who an ipholding the Stars and Stripes ii Jo Man's Land. The reason for this state of af airs is hard to appreciate. Th< ountry is at war and war is not ; civil matter." A man who conspire! u place a bomb in an Americar roop-sliip or a vessel carrying mud ceded supplies to our allies is war ing against this country as much even more, we believe! as the pri ate or ollicer in the German rank: rho is exposed to American bullets i'hy, then, should we treat thes? ipers as offenders against the civi iwr i-et's order out the firing quad. SUNDAY OKI MKAX WHEA3XESS JoA tw HO BMAP C?Altr? J (I || [| 11II111 1 . fA?m ( HLAKUn nw W]l I llyA COM1AININO VHCAT ( ITATIOX. talc of South Carolina, County of Dillon, y Joe Cabell Davis, l'robate Judg? Whereas. Hedie Muggins made sui > nie to grunt unto him letters, o: dministrat ion of the estate and of >cts of M. D. Muggins. These are, therefore, to cite ant dmonish all and singular the kind red and Creditors of the s*?id Jf U [uggins, deceased that they be niu ppear before nio in the Court o! robate, to be held at Dillou or hursday, May 9th next, after publi rtion hereof, at 11 o'clock in th? jrenoon, to show cause, if any the3 ave, why the said Administrntioi lould not be granted. Given under my hand this ?4 dat f April, 1918. JOEL CABELL DAVIS. Probate Judge Dillon Co -2-2t (.BOWING HOGS. For a hog to be profitable li< lust be kept growing from birth t( larke'.ing age. lie cannot h<> nmfit hie unless he is healthy. He cat lways be in a profiting-producini audition if he is fed B. A. Thomas lop Powder. We positively tell yot tat this remedy prevents cholera finoves worms and cures thumps. 1 lie powder does not make good. w< rill. Bee Dee Cash fttore, Dillon . C. May. WOMKN (IIVK OCT. Housework is hard enough whet ealtliy. Kvery Dillon woman win s having backache, blue and iter uus spells, dizzy headaches and Kid ey or bladder troubles, should bt lad to heed this Dillon woman's ex erience: Mrs. M. A. Flowers, Hampton St tys: "'I have great faith in Doan's idney Bills and never hesitatt tout endorsing them. Several years <o my kidneys were in awful bad ta??Q and J suffered a great deal 1th backaches 1 felt perfectly mis able. M> kidneys acted trregurly. m> ankles often swelled and I nl puffing under the eyes. If 1 nt over 1 could hardly straighten [> again and awful dizzy spell? ould come over me. 1 used several liferent kidney remedies in an ef >rt to find relief but wasn't helped ly until I dually used Doan's Kid ey Bills They worked like Uiagit i my ruse and in 'a short w*.ile, rici ie of all my trouble and tmt my kid eys in a good, healthy condition." 60c. at all dealers Foster-Milburr o., Mfg., Buffalo N V. - f>-9-2t. NOTH K TO . Th? Toortty Ciuitinissiotwrs hav< laopil ?>tli ilie Maoist rates over pi's ?oinmissioners with instrue cir.s t.i itin! iiU'i'M. r- i:i tloii is! i i ts mi the different joints o tails. Coniii.i.-sions I'iin > had I>\ aj lyiny ti> vi?i:r "ijiivh M -t j;?t - ^ r? -i. SOTK K. Motive is hereby yivi n that tin nti otsitTPiil ia pn:--tinner > f iho j :< isiona of law in su< I. :? .?! . i:< ..i .11 ,. i.- mm *>. ..1 )illo:i mi May 10th, 1 f? 1 v. for tin i< ssuo of new stock ot said corpora ion in the place and stead of the oi ginal certificate number thirteen tli tame having been lost and not dh >osed of by me in any manner. W. C. ROGERS, I t fws.si I (> ( . VCULUVttUtfEUffS ? H @ moniTTB <g 11- 1 UNITED STATES @ * GOVERNMENT | .'! I Buy Them And | I;} Help Win The War J * | FOR SALE EVERYWHERE ? r- 1 The above space contributed to War Savings 1 K | Committee by Tbe Peoples Bank. 1 v | Our advice is to buy War Savings Stamps, I ~ I Liberty Bonds, then deposit your other funds in | -1 The Peoples Bank 1 ! ? ./ix.f'if.y. SXSXs)? v'././ iX^-iXiXiXv ^XsXSXSXs)???^^ ; :1, " ; 1 FIGHT WITH I :j| FERTILIZER I ! i - now on hand 111 Tons H. G. Guano 1! 350 Bales Timothy Hay )[ 2200 Bushels Good Oats ISO Bags Mule Feed j barge stock of meal j|j Syrup, rice, coffee and I tobacco 1' Ship stuff daily to Smithboro, Fork, Kemper and i bake View Freight charges are light l ?? ~?? ! PALMETTO GROCERY CO. | ; COOPER - MCLLINS | I H If*m i'i i Mi i I I Put on the Bevo Glasses jj | when you set the table for the bite you are going w I j to enjoy with your guests of the evening. S 111 Here is a lunch menu worth remembering: Cream E j cheese and chopped olive sandwiches (cn brow . |v$ bread)?dill pickles?shrimp salad?ice cold Bevc. ; Itself a nutritive, Bevo adds an appetizing flavo: ft | to any meal?hot or cold, light or heavy. 4 1 1 Served everywhere?families supplied by grocers, I I ' ;i, druggists or dealers. Ii],: i The al!-ycar-'round soft cirink a f ' Manufocturfd and **m< lu*t\r+1y by fl I Anheuser-Busch St. Louis I ; >, T. C\ SLOAN IJ ( i J J ^ Distributor j ! ' - I'I A SPENDER is a Liability to the Community i ? a fliirrm s /i 1 1a 5AVLR is its Greatest Asset. | Spend, but Spend WISELY 1 | Save, and Save EARNESTLY | j Buy War-Saving Stamps | WE SELL THEM 1 A y . - 1..r.v ^PitBF.I'AL rtE'. I BVlT^ V Efcft.v> SYSTEW/*'" j First National Bank j DILLON, S. C. I The Only National Bank In Dillon County 5