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^ SilUm ifmtli. j l> 1994. THE DILLON HERALD, DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MOltMNO, JULY 25, 1918. VOL. 22. NO. 30. fKMH TURN TIDE ; . WITH MHERI6ANS ' YIU&NCH AND AMERICAN DRIVE COSTLY TO GERMANS. I Pari* Is Safe While Estimated Loss' of German Soldiers is Round | 900,000. i While too much importance must j not be attached to the Franco-Amer- j lean offensive in which the Germans i WO?e driven back across the Marne, still It mast be idmitted that it is a rignal victory for the allied armies. Some observers compare the allied drive to a second Gettysburg, but this attaches too much importance to the battle in which Germany lost only ?09,000 men. Gettysburg was the turning point in the civil war, but Lee was whipped before the battle of Gettysburg was fought while the Germans are far from being whlpped. While Washington is elated at the success of the French and American armies, stilt Washington realizes that It is only the beginning of a series of much stronger drives that will have to qome before victory is in sight. This is evidenoed by the announce ment coming from Washington yesterday that planB were being laid to plftce 5,000,000 men in France at the earliest possible moment. Nothing will bo attempted on a very large J scale until America has at least 2,000,000 men in the field. Only 250,000 Americans out of 1,000,000 now in France were engaged, in last week' fighting but these gave an excellent account of themselves and fought like veterans. The French dispatches praised the Americans highly while one German pris. oner taken during the fighting said the impression behind the German lines was that ten million instead of one million Americans were in the lighting. The German war dispatchsis referred to our soldiers as the "white and black" Americans. The negro took a prominent part in last week's fighting, and as the negro is practically unknown in Germany the presence of colored soldiers in the AUIOl 1UIU rHUM WttD Ul DUUlUCUl importance to receive notice in the official dispatches. The Indians also took part in tbe fighting and gave the Germans their first taste of Indian warfare. The Allies have taken much valuable ground, a number o( towns of \ strategic importance, a considerable \amount of ammunition, other war "^material and thousands of prisoners, but the importance of these successes, while apparently large, must not be overestimated, for it must be remembered that the battle front extends from one end of Europe to the i nthnr and An nnaratinn on a fift-milp I front does not count for so much when the fighting is being done on such a large scale. It is conceded that Paris is safe for the time being and that the German's next move will be a drive for the channel ports. HOME MEN WINNING LAURELS. General Bullard a Robenson County Man and Major Harllee a Native of Dillon. The following from the Robesonian of Lumberton will be of interest to many people in Dillon county: General R. L. Bullard, commander of the first division on the west frontj In France, is the son of a Robenson county man, Mr. Daniei Bullard, who ^ moved to Alabama from Robenson many years ago. Gen. Bullard is a i ^ first cousin of Messrs. Loh and Will | Bullard, who live near Elrod, and ho j has other relatives in the county. Rev. R. Walter Townseud of Rayn-1 -ham called the Robesonian's atten-' tion to these facts whon he was in j - X.umberton Thursday evening. Mr. j Townsend says that he has known of; Oen. Bullard for years and has fol- j lowed his career with interest. Gen.: Bullard has been in the army contin-1 uousiy since he was a cadet at West .*Point. He was with Gen. Pershing in Mexico, a colonel then, and has 1 V1since been promoted to the rank of general and evidently stands high in 1 ,<*military circles. His father has been' back to Robeson two or three times] 4*4ince he moved to Alabama, in the neighborhood of Opeleiku. General1 . *rBullard, Mr. Townsend says, is about | 55 years old. A picture of him and jtphis staff with some facts about hiB( career was published in a recent is,,-ue of the llaleigli News and Observer, but no mention was made of the1 | fact that he is ?. sen of a former f Robeson county man. Mr. A. W. McLean came home yesterday from Washington to attend >w?gomo cotton mill directors' meetings and will leave this evening to return to Washington. Just before leaving Washington ^Mr. McLean had a talk with General Aneell, who has Just returned from It 2-months' visit to the west front in PPT. * r4 The Dillon County Benatonfhlp. J Dear Editor:?Have received the ' last issue or The Herald and have enjoyed reading same very much. I will appreciate your inserting the following in your valued paper: I note that among other things thejC paper contains the announcement ofj Mr. L. M. Rogers, of/ Fork, for the. office of senator from Dillon county. I t ???.-? - ... I naw Dvuicniim BurpriBeQ lO SCO IJ118 as I had read some time ago a statement by the prospective candidates to the effect that they had all agreed to withdraw from the race and place t the name of Dr. J. H. David before 1' the people. I later noticed the an- d nouucement of Dr. David. I thought o this action on the part of the condi- b dates was a very magnanimous one s and one whioh deserved commenda- 1 tion. I understood that Mr. Rogers 1 was among the candidates who had' d signified his intention to withdraw, realising that in the present great j world crisis it was necessary for all a to forget personal ambition and f honor and by every act try to help win the war. jd Dr. David, in my opinion, and thisjt seems to have been the opinion of' o the prospective candidates, is at the b present time qualified to fill this j i place as few men are in Dillon coun-Ji ty. The sole idea has been that 1 the county and State would be bene- v fited by his serving in this capacity, thus making the people the bene- b ficiaries Instead of Dr. David. ;s It is "too little" in men too fight <1 over an opportunity to serve "the'a people" politically. There are num-j erous opportunities for everybody to 1 be servants of the people in the pres-, v ent preat crlsla In tho <!? '? tory. The greatest opportunity to be i1 of service, in my opinion for those' t physically fit, Is to don the uniform | and line up with the forces who are {t fighting for democracy and civiliza-: s tion. The service thus rendered then t is not limited to the confines of one t small county, |>ut stretches out to 1 every nation on the face of the glofco, t both to our enemies and to our noble Allies. ic "AN ENLISTED MAN." 8 i 1 France. General Ansell is enthusias- i tic about the splendid fighting qual- > ities of the American soldiers in' \ France. They hawe won the admira-1 tion of the leaders of the Allies. The g North Carolina soldiers, he said, areh acquitting themselves splendidly. 1 Mr. McLean says that General R. s L. Bullard, son of a former Robeson c county man?concerning whom an i article will be f oud on page 6 of this j s paper?is making quite a reputation 11 In Prnnrp On? nf thA W??hin?fAn L papers carried his picture the other a day and newspapers are ^erly a printing what information they j t can get about him. In official circles' \ in Washington Mr. McLean says Gen.' j Bullard is considered one of the 1 'greatest generals. He has been put in i ! charge of the American troops at a the most important points, and is' t considered General Pershing's right J hand man. 1 t 1 Another prominent man in military j t circles who is a ne^r-Robesonian is' t Major Harllee of the marine corps. | c Major Harllee was raised by Capt. fo A. T. Harllee, who lived near Row-' c land, just across the South Carolina!v line. The family has long been prom- i f inent. The Harlleesville road lead- f ing out of Lumberton was named for t the family. Major Harllee married 1 a daughter of Judge Z. T. Fulmore,1 formerly of Robeson, now and fori many years pas? of Austin, Texas. < Major Harllee has won for himself quite a reputation, Mr. McLean says, t He is related to some of the Town-: i sends and McCallums and other fam-a ilies in Robeson. !u t (Major Harllee, better known to f th people of Dillon as "Will" Harl- 1 lee, is a son of the late John Harl- 1 lee and a nephew of tho late Capt. j* Harllee. Major Harllee was bornje near Little Rock and his boyhood days were spent near Little Rock. His father moved to Texas when the 1 Major was about 13 years of age, but 1 Major Harllee returned to South Oar 8 olina and spent his young manhood days with his uncle Capt Harllee 1 and attended the Little Rock Schools. 1 Major Harllee took ?e prominent part ( in the Phillipine wars and the Boxer / uprising in China. He commanded a { company of marines in the Philli- ( pines and was one of Gen. Funston's ; [ablest officers in these stirring cam- ' paigns. He fought in the Cuban war,1 and after the close of the war took a small detatchment of marines and ( went into the mountains where he captured Onenjebo, the famous Cuban bandit, who had terrorized the Cubans for years. He was a fearless fighter and in the Boxer uprising ( was the first man to scale the walls at Peking. When the South Atlantic, equadron visited Charleston several years ago Major Harllee, with a reg-1 ment of Marines, was the command- r ing officer of the battleship South ' Carolina.) o f We manufacture all kinds of loose i leaf outfits. Herald Publishing Co.? 7-25-tf. 1 \MERICAN SOLDIERS FIGHT LIKE VETERANS i ; 10 It MAN SHELLS COULD NOT SI LENCE AMERICAN BATTERY. .lieutenant Has 8 Hones Shot Fron Under Him and Wounded Men Return to Fight. An enemy submarine attacked a ug and tow four miles south of Oreans, Mass., lifesaving station Sunlay afternoon and sunk three barges if the tow. The tug stood by th? large until she was shelled and herelf on fire when she disappeared 'he crews of the barges comprising 6 men, three women and five chilIren, reached shore in small boats Only one of them, a man, was inured by flying wood splinters in the rirr. The submarine was plainly seer rnm shnro Two barges were aimk by torpeioes but it required a huncred shells o sink the third barge. In the midst if the shelling an eleven year old ioy on a barge seized a small Amer can flag and waved it defiantly it he faceB of the German gunners le still clung to the flag when h? iras brought ashore. A hydroaeroplane from the Chatiam aviation station attacked th* ubmarine and appeared to hav< lnven it off while the tug was still flout. The attack began at 11 a. in. and a.-utd an hour when the submarine .ithdrew. Two shells struck the wat i 500 yards from the shore whicl sas lined with thousand persons at racted by the firing. The sea was calm and there wai 10 wind. The barges had only foui mall life boats intended to accom uodate five persons each, but all ol he crews of the barges were safely anded at Nauset harbor. The fate ol he crew of the tug is not known. The crew of the tug?seventeer 11PT1?IttfOfO rocntwiH K4- ?-? ? ?? T< Vk V VMVvrvu nuu u* uugut U ibore by the crew of the Orleani ife saving station. Only two of then njured, one seriously. The lattei vas an Austrian 25 years of ag< vhose right arm was blown off. The flashes of the submarine') cuns were plainly seen from shore L'he tug with the three barges ii ine wus puffing along slowly wbei urprised. The first torpedo launch >d struck the leading barge, whict reeled over and sank quickly. Th? econd torpedo similarly disposed o! he third barge. The second barge inallest of the tow, was left vulner ible and with the tug was shelled foi in hour before she sank. Meantim< he tug had been repeatedly hit anc vas in flames when the aviator ap eared, circling over the submarine The latter quickly submerged. The submarine was a large one ipparently 400 feet in length. Th< nw ufh'O hnnnH cnnth for Mnnr Vni?lr ifuch shipping was passing at th< ime and regardless of the danger t< heinselves, several vesels went t< he aid of the barges, the lifeboat: ?f which were towed ashore by thes< ther vessels. The women and th< rews were terrified and one whc v-as making her first trip at sea hac ainted when brought ashore. Of the orty-one persons on the tug ant rarges, only three yere injured anc tone fatally. o Where Ignorance is Criminal. Fifty years ago it was a commoi telief that every child must hav< neasles and mumps, scarlet fevei .nd whooping cough before he "grew ip." and the etirlier in life each ont ook his turn the better it would b< or him. Not infrequently mother: ook their little ones to visit a sicl teiglibor in order to expose them t< he disorder because it happened th< pidemic was light in form and th< eason favorable. Now it is known that children grov ip stronger and in better health i hese diseases are altogether avoidet mil that if it should happen that an] ire so unfortunate as to "catch' heni, the older and stronger they trri it the time, the greater probability >f going through the disease un cathed. We now know that whoopinj ough alone kills ten thousand chil Iren in the United States every yea ind that others who do not die fron t have their bodies so weakened a o be unable to uesist other seriou naiadies. Measles and scarlet feve ake equal or greater toll, beide eaving their victims with maimei ars and eyes and throats. o NORTH CAROLINA DEAD. 'hief .Justice Clark's Cncomnionl Beautiful Tribute. At the unveiling of the monuuien ind statue to the Confederate dea' rt Morganton June 22, 1918, the ad Iress was delivered by Chief Justlc 21ark. The following extract fror rom his speech is of more tha massing interest: "As against 2,850,000 men in th Jnion line the South, first and lasi SHKLLKD GERMANS WHILE UNDER FIRE, I One I'. S. Lieutenant Had Eight | Horse* Shot From Under Him. * London. July 22?How an Amer/ lean battery on the bank of the Marne shelled the Germans for 72 hours while under fire from enemy i guns is described by Reuter's correspondent at French headquarters. A young lieutenant, after telephone wires had been sewred. maintained l communication between the battery - ^and the infantry. He had eight horses -1 shot from under him in making 16 s trips and on the last journey wur s | wounded in the knees. The corres pondent says: "I spent yesterday (Saturday) on ; the bank of the Marne with the American troops. There were the . officers and men of a battery of . American 75's which had been in ? position on bare, exposed plateaux, i above the river about a thousand yards from the boche bridges during - the entire week. They were aroused j by terrific artillery preparation on t the part of the enemy on the night of I July 14. The American battery was - in the open and the 30 enemy batteri ies which had been identified in the . sector, five were concentrating th?ir s fire on the American battery. The men had to turn out and open on - the enemy without a moment's dolay ; They continued to fire as hard as ; they could for 72 hours. 1 "The Americans were under a heavy shell fire thomselves durine I j the whole time, but they never re-jlaxed their offorts for a moment. The - whole plateau is plowed up by Ger1! man shells. The Americans, whc - have never been in a serious actior, before, lost bolli men and horses 3 but the battery was nover silenced f "In the first hour of the bombard - ment every telephone wire in the t sector was cut by German shells and r the battery was left without mean! f of communication with the Americar infantry in the river valley below 1 whom it had to support. "A young lieutenant volunteered 3 to restore the liaison himself. Tak1 ing a horse he rode down to the rivei r through the German barrage and - back and during the night galloped 16 times between the battery and 5 the river, always under a terriblj hoavy fire. He had eight horses hit i under him and on the last Journey 1 he himself was hit in the knees. "A battery commander told me he i had the greatest difficulty with hit ' slightly wounded men. None of them F wanted to leave the battlefield and the men ordered to go away foi " treatment would hide themselves in r order to avoid notice, hoping in thie ! way to remain with their comrades. I The gun, the crew of which had been " knocked out by a single big shell, was kept working by the telephone men, who, realizing what had hap? pened, dashed out of their shelter 5 and began to man the gun themsel ves without orders." ; o j Look at the label on your paper . and see if your subscription is due. } The Herald's subscription list will ? be revised next week and if your sub~ scription is due and you fail to rej new you will not receive next week's . issue. The recent postal law is so [ rigid that hereafter the subscription j | list will have to be revised every i week ana every subscriber in arrears j will have to be dropped from the list or first class postage will have to be I paid on the paper. This is important | and if your subscription is out re; i new before the next issue. r j was able to send to the front about 650,000. Of these North Carolina ?sent 125,000, or nearly one fifth ol si the whole number. Of these, 43,000 t!of our best and bravest, being one) | third came not home again, s | "They sleep where the silver Sheni'andoah sweeps along; some rest jon the heights at Gettysburg; some r^aleep by the sounding sea at f Charleston; others at Vicksburg. 1. "By the great inland river, whence ;';the fleets of iron have fled; j And the green grave grass quivers 5 above the ranks of the dead." i On the plains of Chickamauga and - where the Georgian pines are bare; * around Chickahominy and where the - Potomac's "breezes answering low r soothe many a soldier's endless l sleep." s "Across the fields of yesterday s they come back to us, as we knew r and remember them, in all the splens dor of their young manhood. Age iius nu i wiuitit'u iiit'iii. i 11111 ilinj trouble have not touched them The Roman poet said tlvi it was sweet tc die for one's country. It was glorious for them to pass in the prime of theii y powers, with the sunlight of victorj on their faces and fronting the morning. They died in 'lie full assurance t and confident hope of our ultimate d success. They saw not the torn ane [- tattereel battle flags furled forever al e Appomatox. The bugle did not rinf n out for them, as for you, the fina n call to stack arms. No drums bea for them the retreat. Their ear! e caught only the sound of the reveille t, They live in immortal youth. COUNTY NEWS i AND HAPPENINGS NEWS LETT KIIS BY REUl'LAlt' CORRESPONDENTS i News Items of Interest to Herald Readers, Ebb and Flow of the j Human Tide. Floydalc. Mrs. Dan Coleman and Mrs. Gates: of Florida are spending the summer j with their brother, Mr. Mtirry Hayes, j Miss Sophie Alford returned from! Rock Hill Saturday night where she' had been to summer school. . Mrs. J. M. Hugh and little Miriam I Wbyte of Greensboro, N. C., have returned home after a weeks visit to Mrs. John H. Stackhouse. ' Mrs. Marvin McLean is spending a few days with her mother, Mrs. ! Alford. Miss Mabelle McLaurin is visiting I her grandmother, Mrs. McElyea at ' Maxton. l| Joe Stackhouse returned to Lake View Monday where he is working in ' the tobacco warehouse. Miss Ada Guthrie of Burlington, ! N. C., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Merritt Allen, and her aunt, Mrs. J. H. Stackhouse. 1 M rs. P. H. Highfill returned to her home at Winston Salem Sunday. She nad been on a visit to her laughter, ; Mis. E. Roland Roberts and sis' r, Mrs. J. H. Stackhouse. ( ? Mr. J. L. McLaurin has been quite Sick, but is improving now, w > are ? glad to say. i Mr. and Mrs. J. L>. Moore and ?-L?., dxen of Grantham, N. C., spout a . few days at Mr. J. \V. Conaeliy : last week. s' o I Mai lory ! Ever and again the question 1 conies up, shall the farmer plant wheat? It is urged by officials, by farm miners and hv Homn?o??-otun ' agents. Occasionally a new flour mill is erected, yet for the one horse farmer to plant wheat is an expensive I and almost foolish endeavor. There ' are a few rattle trap threshing machines about in the county and the ' experience most one horse farmers - have had is sore disappointment, lie hauls his wheat 4 or 5 miles and finds he will have to have 4 or 5 ex! tra men to attend the thresher, sack1, ing, feeding and pushing straw away. ' \ Th>3 old dead full machine breaks II down, the manager talks rough to "ihis patrons as if they were responsible for'break downs, and the whole 1 experience convinces us that those ' who operate flour mills should also 1 operate a complete portable thresh1 ing outfit. Unless this is done there ' will be less wheat planted next year. What the small farmer needs is encouragement, not extra trouble.; Mrs. Addie Hodges Smalls, a resident of Brownsville, hut well known' to many Herald readers, died on > Sunday morning at Mullins. Funeral was held on Monday morning at Bethlehem cemetery, the burial services being conducted by Rev. J. B. Welrion i Mr. R. B. Brad dock is very ill and as the patient is 98 years old there is little hope for complete recovery. ! Mrs. Will J. Galloway of Collins.1 ; Ga., is visiting relatives here. Mr. A. G. Ellen and family of Doi than spent Sunday, at Mallory. Protracted "meeting commences next Sunday at Catfish. The pastor will be assisted by Rev. W. W. Reynolds, of Virginia. o Quiet Home Wedding. I On Monday afternoon, July 22nd, at 5:45 o'clock Miss Edith Allen became the bride of Rev. Arthur C. Sherwood of Bennottsville. The bride j is the daughter of Rev. Joel I. Allen| and one of Dillon's most popular young ladies. The bride and groom left inune-. , diately after the ceremony for the; mountains of North Carolina. Corn Culture for South Carolina. I Corn is the greatest of all graip . crops for feeding animals. It is one WI uv feit-rtL DUiJU UUl?a clUU IS fitaii) [ the most important American crop.' It prefers productive soils and on the, best types of land yields of one hun-! - dred bushels an acre or three tons . of grain an acre may bo made where I . the climate is suited. The average! I yield of grain an acre in the United! > States is about three-fourths of a ton | > and for South Carolina about half' , ton. On single acres, yields of over j twohundred bushels an acre have! . been made. The states of Illinois and . Iowa average about one ton of grain , an acre or twenty four million > acness. I South Carolina is a better cotton [ state than it is a corn state for the , simple reason that cotton is a better I poor land plant than corn and some t farmers will give cotton better cultis vation than they will corn. Plenty of home grown corn makes a good basis for a prosperous farmer. I l \ If South Carolina farmers were to make enough corn to supply needs of the state would they be more prosperous by doing so or is there something better they can do? Men express regret for a great manythings but a farmer never expressed regret that he had plenty of home grown corn in his crib. The average yield of corn in South Carolin is a little less than 20 bushels, some make 40 bushels and a few make 50 bushels an acre. Far- 1 mors who make less than 25 bushels an acre can afford to be a little more intensive in their methods so as to { bring the acre yield up to 30 bushels or more, while farmers who are mak- i ing from 30 to 4 0 bushels an acre, and wish to produce tnore corn, would do better to increase their acreage in corn until the land bernm.'ia ninpo n enH nnitifn forty bushels an acre is about right for most lands in this state and farmers who make such yields may be found in all parts of the State. On some farms the land is good enough to make forty to fifty bushels an acre by proper ure of commercial fertilizers. Sometimes there is good ground for difference of opinion as to whether a thing should be this way or some other way, but thore is one thing that every farmer in South Carolina can do and know that he is right and know that he will produce more feed at about the same cost and be better off for doing it?he can put i his corn rows six feet apart and when ;the corn has been worked and has a good start he can plant a row of velvet beans between every two rows of jcorn on his place. By doing this he will about double the amount of food produced and he will have land that ; is more productive. No farmer on 'earth has within hiB reach a thing ;that is easier to do and that will accomplish more. The hills of beans should be about three feet apart with | two beans in a hill. Subsequent cultivations will take care of both icrops. The early speckled bean, 'sometimes caller "90 day" and again "100-day," is the best to use. ; The tillage of the soil cannot be | too good for corn. The land should |4>e fine, mellow, aiftt moist and should be free from weeds. CornVill ; not make a crop in either clods or 1 grass. I Break the land from four to seven ! inches deep and with harrows thoroughly pulverise the ploughed soil | the full depth. Disking the land ahead of the plow is a good practice. ' Fix the land right before you plant and then so cultivate it as to keep it nice you rixed it until the crop in made. The soil should be clean and mellow. The cultivation should not be deep enough to injure the roots of the crop. Use fertilizers moderately, not extravagantly and do not withhold the application too long. Nitrate of soda pays applied at the rate of 75 to 100 pounds to the acre. Apply just before the corn tassels. The mixed fertilizer can be a mixture of equal parts of cottonseed meal and acid phosphate, or it can be 8-3-0 or 8-4-0 Cottonseed meal by itself is a good fertilizer for corn. There are many good varieties of corn. Mdrlboro, Williamson, Brumson, Weekly, Lee County, Reids, Pee Dee 5, Goodman, Lowman, Belmont, Garric, Mosby, Baldwin, and Douthit are all g >od, and even this long list dees not include all the good varieties.?By Prcf. W. L. Hutchenson, Clemson College. ??Q?? Services at the Methodist Church. Main street Methodist church, Dr. Watson B. Duncan, pastor. Sunday school at 10 a. m., Mr. W. Harry Muller, Superintendent. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 8:45 p. in. by the pastor. Morning subject: "The Beast wnose Number is 666". The sermon will be an effort to answer the question as to whether or not this number in the book of Revelation refers to the German Kaiser. Evening Subject: "Restoration and Service." Evangelistic service. Epworth League at 8 p. m., Mr. L. C. Braddy, Jr., President. Prayer service on Wednesday at 8:45 p. in. o Married on Friday. On Friday evening at 9 o'clock, July 19, 1918, at the Methodist Parsonage, Mr. Jeter Franklin Moser and Miss Edna Beatrice Howell, both of Marion, were happily married Dr. Watson B. Duncan performing the ceremony. A few intimate friends accompanied the happy couple and witnessed the marriage. After the ceremony the company returned to Marion where the newly-weds wilt make their home. _ ? o I>r. Ma J or "Over There." News has just been received in the city announcing the safe arrival overseas of Major E. C. Major, R. M. C. Dr. Major's family will remain here while he is away. He has won for himself an enviable position in the military service of the country in the medical department.?Latta Observer. . iJiH