The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, May 23, 1918, Page Page Two, Image 2
FIFTY-SIX KNOWN
TO HAVK PFKISHKl
Searchers Continue to tiring Oi
itomnuuLs of Iknlies from ihv
Ituins.
Pittsburg. Pa.. May lit Fifty-si
are kuuwn to be d ial, ninety-four ii
jured and in hospitals and lliirty-OK
employes of tin Aetna Client ica
Company -are missing tis a r? suit t
the nine explosions yesterday whit*
wrecked this company's explosit
manufacturing plant at Oakdale, si:
teen miles from this city. This repot
ls the result of the day's investiga
tion by State, federal, county an
city oilicials.
Throughout the night vtud all da
today men were extinguishing sma
fires in the debris and bringing or
remnants of human bodies.
In most cases there was nothin
lu luuicuie nit; iut"uin>.
All day a blue-brown smoke cor
tinued to hang over the ruins, ini
peding the work of the searchen
Its deadly fumes are feared by th
residents of the community. For \
time the work was impeded furthe
by the thousands of sightseers. Au
tomobiles blocked all roads and an
other company of the State constab
ulary was rushed in automobile
from Oreensburg and the crowd
were ordered back and automobile
were reached within five miles o
Oakdale.
Thousands of persons streame<
into the temporary morgue all da;
to view the gruesome finds from thi
ruins, and it took a special detail o
police to keep this morbid elenieu
in check. There were many there o
right, however, and some identifi
cations were made. Pitiful scene
were on every hand and one in par
a: 1 \/l.,..i M n id t nni
IIVU1UI Wcia WIICI1 nuaui .uui ib, uu
of the coroner's workers in the mor
gue, collapsed. He had found in
bucket a bunch of keys and a pen
knife, which had belonged to hi
son. who had been employed in th
plant.
The country today is desolate fo
an area of several miles around th
plant where the former beautifu
green hillsides have been scarred am
burned by the blasts and fruits am
shade trees denuded of their fol
iage.
Federal ollicers, representing tin
Department of Justice, today orderec
the arrest of two men who were pho
tographing the ruins, and who wen
charged by a woman with makinj
seditious remarks. A special police
man employed by the Aetna Chemi
cal Company arrested two men earl:
today as they were about to hurt*:
away from t<!ie plant on a motor
cycle.
The Cotton Crop of I1J17.
With the possible exception of five
counties, "very county in South Carolina
produced more cotton in 1 ! 17
than in 1016, and the State has had
more cash money than every in its
I,ic-n The sliort crop in Texas
and Arkansas caused the price to
soar, and South Carolina for once
was i:i luck. No county in the State
had a in' ' ' " lling olV in the
anion.: of cotton grown, not a thou
sand bah's and (he total increase
for lit" State was '"mii "on,nun
bah Thos ic? h have
had " mos. phenomenal increase
are. ken. I.nop hales, in round
nutn' Harnwell. i:L4uu. Berkley,
" in, Calhoun. T "on; Charleston,
f?.4uu; Chesterfield. :5.200;
Clat' t.dm, 1<M)u or about su per
cent. increase, Colleton, tS.UOO
50 per cent; Darlington, 13.0'in,
Uiost of vhi? h wtc long sttiple cotIon
h"iuging a fasu - :s price: Di!
Ion nun; i)orclic;.t< r.nou, J-'lor
ere- " nun. llaiiifoon. t.ooo.
-diav. : nun Laurens, l.nuo;
1C.. or sn per cent . Lexington
one Marlboro, 17.nun; Orang?
l?ur:t ?! U'lH; Sll III t el*. I?o0ti; Wil
tian. . rg, 1 :* o' . thttn ! "
per . *1" gain i due to tht
' M.I he , ; i|, . |,y . <>
i? d ' a 1 i .. ;rst h. di e - 1.
it ' I,, a it eshe- - The < o o
tlld i 7 I'oll v. ?? \ ,
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IV? i <> it i t) V. a. Yet. 11' .
a\?- i' ii |?>r i omul ' . i
ill . ' M pi ol It 11.Ill
I !l- j ill'St io!l <> ill
price or lotion. \V. \\ Mon.-'ii. o
>' V Ollea!l> -Oliio liuiir<t'.
ti throw so: .1- intcivstiim ami mi
portant. iii;ht oil t!:* subject. tioin
tHHlC to till* Ji'lll of tin- 1M'\
oar pre. ? ding tin- lirst yoar "i ih
war, Mi Morrison hnds tl.at tin- av
orauo pin-, ol' cotton was i.: 1-j ren
itnl at . a's a pound at ?1
tlm arti.-l w.i- written, ilit ad?anc
was I _ *, per Intrtiii; tin* .-am
time I'liic standard rominoditie
11. v ;m|\ati< <mI .is follow - 15aco
i'ihs. 17 "> p?*t rent; leal lanl. I."
pci ri-ni . i orii meal, 24<> per reni
I'ldiii', 12 > per lit ; oats, 1",", pe
cent; corn 22"> per cent; wheat. J !
per cent; firm implement-. 2t)M pe
cents, standard cotton goods, 20
per cent. standard woolen goods
200 per cent; standard shoes, in
per cent. This is war time and al
that. l> ;o tile light of these (i^
ures, it would seem to us t!r.u thos
who think cotton is too high are
hit unreasonable say the least o
it
Very Particular.
Mrs. Swift I hear Mrs. Prime i
opposed to ail sorts of society func
tions and entertaining.
Mrs. Smith She is. Sin is tha
narrow-minded that she wouldn'
even entertain '.mi idea.
The Kaiser's Dentist.
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Greenwood Journal.
at Dr. A. N. Davis, an American den
tist who looked after Kaiser Wil
noiiiis muiurs lor several years uihj
who is back in the United States
lx preached a pretty good patriotic ser
l" inou at a Liberty Loan rally in New
York ; he other day. Asked by sonu
" i tie o\er-zealotts why lie did no)
*' do something to the Kaiser when In
was so close to him. Dr. Davis ree
plied that lie thought too much ol
iiis own head, -and then proceeded tc
r tell the following very interesting
i_ things about the thick-headed rulei
^ of the German Empire:
'I said to the Kaiser on one oc
? casion at Grand Headquarters: 'You
are underestimating the power oi
11 the United States." The Kuiser re!plied:
'1 underestimate nobody sir".
g "Many people have asked me,
since my return, w4hy 1 didn't do
. something to the Kaiser, when I was
l"|So close to him. Well, for one thing
' , I wanted to return to America with
e,my head on uiy shoulders. Again, I
a | felt that the German people themr
| selves would in time attend to
l" him."
l~ Since the assassination of the King
of Portugal and a close relative,
8 some years ago, the Kaiser and the
sfr.prnmn Crown Prince have never up
8 peared together in public. Dr. Davis
f said, lest an assassination might deprive
Germany of both of them at
i once.
V The dentist said he knew that the
B Kuiser wanted to start this war over
f the Moroccan trouble in 1905 and
t tried again to work up a war in 1911.
f|So he gladly seized the Serbian epi
j sode of 1914 as an excuse.
s "Germany has no sense of honor.
-.The only thing she can understand
e[is force, and it is up to us to apply
- to her all the force we can sumii!
inon," Dr. Davis continued.
"I'd advise the United States to
s send all its pro-German sympathizers
e [ back to Germany, and in three days.
j under present conditions, they'd be
rj !>< - to return and become partie
otic-Americans. The conditions in
lj Germany are terrible. They are usil
ing substitutes for bread, eggs, and
1 coffee.
"They have made one of the gravjest
mistakes in not analyzing our
e j psychology. Some of them really bell
lieved that we would seize Mexico
- and Canada at the beginning of the
s war, instead of coming on the side
5 j of the Entente. They do not realize
-ithat the more they attempt to ter
rorize and harass us the harder we'll
t \ tight them."
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Prisoners of War Most Work.
Included in War Department leg
Mirations regaruing me riuyiujincin
of prisoners of war and interned
enemy aliens are the following
?[statements:
. j All classes of prisoners, excepting
commissioned oflicers and such others
are physically not fit for labor,
, will he required to perform work necessary
for their comfort or for the
: unkeep of their prison barracks. Interned
enemy aliens will not he held
for eompulsoiy labor except as provided
in this paragraph.
Prisoners of war. excepting ollicers
warrants, petty, and noncommissioned
ollicers, may be required to work
for the public service?they may be
thori/.ed to work for private persons
count. I'nder exceptional circumstances,
when specially authorized
by the Secretary of War, they may
upon their written request, be authorized
to work for jrivate persons
01 for corporations. Petty and noncommissioned
ollicers may be authorized
to work on their own account,
and - their written request
may be authorized to work in
the same manner as other prisoners
oi wai, except that they w ill be employed
:n -,i supers isory capacity
only.
An ord' i tot labor will he regard
' - a military command, and pris
1 : i' to obey such order will
t" put ' d a< i oi i:ngiy.
A ti i; ! >;. > d wo k bat
; : kill"} <>: t coiiifoid, or For
' 1-,< i lie pi ison bat racks in
: -i . : . nt ei'tii (|. prisom i s
1 fec< :\ , . . -.,t Ml!. Wh. It
' . ' OI I! " < ; OS eft) I.. Mlt
O ' ; \Mi| , M'l llil U W'ln It
wwii. i - mi w: in r i?: am iit . 01
, i. public r\n < ?>r l'or private p? r
rt . '.!, conditions oi and tli?- coni|
it ion '< sin li work v. till hi' set,,
til-! in aglccmeni between repfesi-ll,
i;.';\.-- ol" s;-hI branehos or persons
;ml 'I'le Atlujiant tleneral of the
A i in\
The \ia :es oi tie prisoner- -hall
j'i toward improving theii positi":
ami tie ha lame shall lie paid t em
? "a their release, after deducting th<
e t of ih?*ir t'lainteiiaiH'
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II \\ allelic* \|-1- *?;, llipat-ili't i? .
superstition <>r not, 1 am hall mii<
i i he wat- ! alive, and knows its
ownir. t .1.11 it Iras some soil of sym
i p. ii> with 'he person who carries it.
n i?o you not know the bitterness of
i, sending your own watch to hospital
o ami harboring another a patient
II in your pocket?11 lies always.
The scientific man reduces the whole
e nutter to rhythmic motion Po put ii
a roughly, tin- watch likes or does
f not like your particular skip, jump,
stump or decent walk. Really the
scientist has nothing much more to
say about it as a conclusion, but that
s rhythmic motion. The touch of
t lie w atch on t he heart
tj 1'eople may applaud a kicker at
t the start, hut they feel like kicking
in in long before the finish.
WOMAN LYNCHED BY
INDIGNANT CROWD.
- Georgian* Still I cooking for N eg roe*,
and llaee Feeling Reported
I Running High.
Valdosta. Ga., May 1 ! Mary Turr
nor, wife of Hayes Turner-, was
hanged this afternoon at Folsome's
L hi ige over l.ittle river, ahout six>
t, mi miles north of Valdosta, Hayes
Turner was hanged at the Okapilieo
" river, in Rrooks County, last night.
? His wife, it is claimed made unwise
t remarks today about the execution
of her husband and the people in
their indignant mood took except
inng # t\ hor ro??io ebe ? 4- u-oll ??
i attitude -and without waiting for
nightfall took her to the river where
she was hanged and her body rid.
died with bullets.
, This makes five persons lynched in
i this section as a result of the Smith
i tragedy at Barney. All of Sidney
; Johnson's relatives, including his
i mother and father, were landed in
juil here last night. Tonight, owing j
to the increased feeling among the
i people, the jail is being strongly
guarded to prevent trouble. Besides j
a chase after Sidney Johnson posses j
are tonight looking for other negroes
in this section and feeling among
both white and black seems to be
growing more iutense.
On Thursday night two negroes
stole a shotgun from Hampton Smith
at Barney and shot and killed Smith
in his home. Mrs. Smith fled from
the house and was attacked. She >
awoke the following morning in a;
creek and went to a negro cabin for;
aid. Those who investigated her story!
found Smith's body and the negroes,!
farm hands, has disappeared.
Since then the farming section of
that part of the state has been greatly
aroused.
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Ijhc Lesson of Cotton
i Memphis Commercial-Appeal.?
We wonder if the people of the,
South have read the lesson of the
cotton market during the lust two
weeks.
ii is 100 into now to suggest any
further reduction of cotton acre-]
age.
If the war keeps on and shipping!
room remains scarce that condition
will run against cotton. If the railways
remain blocked that injury I
will be to cotton..
Flour. meat and meal will be'
transported to Europe first, along
with men and guns and munitions.
Cotton and lumber will have to follow.
If the war continues we will have
a million soldiers in Europe by fall of
this year, and it will take great
numbers of ships to supply this number
of men with food.
Flour will be dear this fall; so
will meat, and so will corn.
Railways transportation may he
so hard pressed that we cannot get
these supplies from the North. Cotton
may go low and we may not be
able to sell it fast.
Therefore, if the South grows!
* nough to eat it will be in a place of
safety, but the South should not be j
content with growing enough to eat.
It should grow something for the
boy.- who go over to France.
In the second place, if cotton is
low and food is high, we may not
have money to buy stuff. If we grow
enough to eat, then we can take our
cotton money and buy Liberty Honds.,
The South ought to become a bond ;
holding count ry.
So there is every reason in busi-;
11 ess and sentiment and in patriotism
dcm-tmling us to plant big gardens
ami to can fruits and vegetables and
grow beans and hogs.
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"Idxie" Popular Air in France.
\\ ashington 1'ost;
"The most popular air in France
is "Ihxit." and ii brings the crowds
up cheering like nothing save "The
Marsellai:'* .' I; has been played so
! i -?iuen11 j by r< gimcntal bands that
1 l-'tt'tii 11 peasants have come to think
j 11 >- the A: erican national anthem"
i d !Jog? . T. Stoddard, of lletriul.
iri France, at the Willard.
"I. :ii r. ' i!.' <!i-..u 1 1 Intel in l'ar
.' a play* 1 bv an orchestra,
{while .Michigan and Wisconsin boys
heitrty, weird 'rebels' yells that
i i in- <rovvd wild with delight.
| That dcmunsl rates liovv finally the
'Northern blip* and the South* r i
i . i .1;. !.?>? mm ii'11 iniu in- Allien- 1.:
1 khaki that demonstration by
1 M i < -11 i )_* ; 111 aii'l Wisconsin boys. * I?i x i?- *
ji-- a l"1' per cent. American song.
1' ilia \ lack 1 In- lof t i iicss of 'The
Star Spangled lianner,' but foi
11.'? to send tlu'in into battle, de''
i 111 i 11 I'll to I I" 1111111?11 or (lie there
ha- never been anything like it.
i hove hoard tin agitation that
tie words of the old Confederate
battle .ong be changed, but the wisdom
ot this must be doubted, though
'.- vera I pretty new versions have
been written. Itut it seems to me
that the old words with their cheery
present day message from the South
sounding in France would be a
source of pride and confidence to
the nation. The American soldiers
i 111 r nuiw were a merry ioi
to trifle impatient to get at the
throat of the Hun. but happy. There
is one thinK they want very badly,
and nothing about sentimental. They
eare nothing about sentimental effusions
from persons they do not
know, but letters that have the home
touch and the 'auld lang syne' to
cheer them in their grim work."
Greatness is never thrust upon
the man who leads an aimless life.
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Life A Century Ago.
| He could not ride a bicycle.
He could not send a telegram.
He had never taken a ride in an
elevator.
He had never used anything but a
ii r* i m- 11 ill 11 .
ODon't
<iet Tired So Ka>y.
In I In* May American Magazine an
author says:
"The thine that makes the 'tired
business man' tired is his belief that
he is tired. IJelieve the contrary.
There have been times when you
worked all day and all night on a
stretch. It did not kill you.
"Work itself, as the modern business
world is organized, cannot pos
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lit* hud never seen liis wife using
a sewing machine.
He hud never received typewritten
communications.
He could not call ; stenographer
and dictate a letter
He had never seen a reaper or a
self-binding harvester.
He had never struck a match on
his pants or anywhere else
He could not go from Washington
to New York in a few hours.
One hundred years ago a man
could not take a ride on a steamboat.
He had never seen an electric light
nor dreamed of an electric car.
He couldn't take an anesthetic and
have his leg cut ofT without feeling
' it.
He couldn't talk through the telephone.
and he never heard of the
hello girl.
He had never imagined such a
thing as a typesetting machine or a
typewriter.
He never heard a phonograph talk
or saw a kinetoscope turn out a
prize fight.
He never saw through a Websters
Unabridged dictionary with the aid
of a Roetgan ray.
He had never heard of the germ
theory or worried over bacilli and
bacteria, iIc had ncc-i looked pleasant
before a photographer or had
his picture taken.
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What War llrctul Saves.
Warbread saves wheat because it
contains less than the normal quantity
of that all-important grain. Put
it down at 25 per cent.
Hut it saves wheat in another way.
People eat less bread because it is
less palatable. It doesn't tempt appetite.
Say what you will, the war bread
however highly recommended by
the best dietrv experts are rather
poor stuff. Though, of course, we
are resigned?we are even glad?to
(Hi t f >1 Pfll
Were it not so we could hardly
consider ourselves patriotic. But we
don't really like them. Let us frankly
own up. They are suggestive of
sawdust.
So much the better. We save at
least another 25 per cent, of wheat
by eating less bread.
There is, however, war bread and
war bread, it may be more or less
palatable. A whole lot depends on
hovr it is made.
In our big cities so-called "warbread
wagons" are going about
manned by expert women cooks, who
teach assembled crowds how to use,
in bread making the various substitutes
for wheat recommended by Mr.
Hoover.
l'at Name.
"What do you think of Scribbler's
new story. The Boundary Line?' "
"It is well named, any way. for
jslbly "tire out' the man of average er, would not be controlling and dir *
normal health. If it could, Edison recting the nation's food supply toJ
would have been dead at the age of day, Woodrow Wilson would be in *
! 3 5. Bell would never have produc- a sanitarium, and General Pershing
ed the telephone, Henry Ford would be taking a 'rest cure* Instead
I would not be now a king of the au- or rommanding American soldiers in ^
toniobile business, Herbert C. Hoov- France."
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H. ;,\ lr\ Ask for it today and have it served at
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