The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, May 01, 1919, Image 11
FINISH nt Jiai I'PiumwiE mBEW I CENEfjjl
ITALY WENT BEYOND TREATY
OF LONDON IN CLAIMING
PORT OF FIUME.'
Unique in the annals of war loan
history is the case of A. F. Moon, Jr.,
icashier of the Cartersville Bank, Car-
ttersville, Va. He has already secured
■aubscriptions for the entire allotment
vt his bank. This is the first bank
In the Fifth Federal Reserve District
which has made such a record, so far
as is known. ’ .
“I am working j]Jght and day for my
town, county, state and nation,’* de
clared Mr. Moon. "At the close of the
Fourth Liberty Loan campaign, I
thought it would be a good idea to
keep the ball rolling, so Jnstead of
stopping I went straight ahead and
continued getting subscriptions for the
Fifth Loan. Our bank sold $35,000 of
the Fourth issue, which is more than
double its quota, and I was so much
encouraged over that record that I de
cided to start right to work on the
Fifth Loan.
•"Up to date, we have subscriptions
•for more than $20,000 Victory Bonds,
but we are not through yet and ex
pect to go right ahead and try ^o
double this if possible. The argument
I used was simply that the Victory
Loan was needed by my Government
and that it was up to every man to
finish the job by paying the bills for
a victory which would have been
cheap at double the pcice.”
Mr. Moon said he didn’t know much
about the terms, interest rates * of
other details of the Victory Loan and
didn’t care, going on the assumption
that the loan would be a good proposi
tion in any shape offered.
SPECULATORS TRT
Rep rts are wide-spread that some
vners of Liberty Bonds have sold
iem at prices lower than their mar-
jt value. Investigations show that
trewd speculators are active in try-
g to induce people to part with their
jvemment securities. Many of them
■e offering to take Liberty bonds in
tchange for other so-called "securi-
’’ which promises a higher rate of
terest than Liberty Bonds.
It is pointed out by treasury offi-
als that Liberty Bonds are worth
rery dollar paid for them. One evi-
*nce of their .value is the ? eagerness
the speculator to get possession of
em. He knows what they are
orth. The Liberty Bond owner does
>t know the value of the "stock” or
►ond’Lhe is offered^ in exchange for
s government security.
Liberty bonds have back of them
e entire resources of the United
.ates which makes them worth their
ce value. The person who ex-
.anges them for some other kind of
tper risks losing the money invest-
I jn his bond as well as the inter-
t.
Other people are selling their bonds
>caure they feel,that "the war’s
*er” and they are no longer obligat-
[ to hold them. Although fighting
is ceased, the war will not be over
itil the peace treaty is signed and
ir soldiers are home. A Liberty
jnd is a certificate of service and
e person who sells it at a sacrifice,
cept in cases of extreme necessity,
failing to “carry on.” He is re-
icting on his own patriotism and
^rendering an investment that
Iver will fail to pay returns.
It is recognized that there are
ues when investors are compelled
seek relief from financial distress.
!ten their first impulse is to dis-
ise of their Liberty Bonds. In such
iSe s the bank is the place to go.
inks will lend money on Liberty
>nds. The borrovAer is, helped out
his difficulty and does not ’ose
issessioi^ of his government bond.
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| liberty Loan Levity
HARRY W. WEBB.
He is a Baltimore theatrical man
and has been appointed film chairman
by the War Loan Organization of the
Fifth Federal Reserve District. He
will direct the movie prograrif of the
district, his biggest job being the dis
tribution of "The Price of Peace,” a
movie of actual battlefield activities,
which will be shown during the Vic
tory Loan campaign.
Mr. Webb operates six of Balti
more’s leading motion picture thea
ters. He has had wide business ex
perience, having hMd executive posi
tions with electric light and telephone
plants in Wilmington, Pittsburgh and
Baltimore. He was formerly vice pres
ident of the Wiln*ngton Telephone &
meciricLighTT^dfnliany.inJvvialFr^
engaged in the development of ?everal
of Baltimore’s suburbs. Reci ntly he
has devoted his time to thi motion
picture business.
CURED BY COLLAR
Surgeons Mend Lieutenant
After Fall of 2,500 Feet and
He Now Flies Again and is
Happy.
i half-wit. they called Barber
Blaney.
r knew, thongh, some day would
be rainy,
te shaved and he shaved
be saveid and he saved—
>ought bonds.—Now they -call
Blavey Uriiiay.
There is a man'in San Francisco
walking around with a broken neck/
He is Lieutenant (Charles M. Cum
mins, of Virginia.
Cummins was an army aviator.
While making a flight at Gerstnet
Field, La., in February, 1918, he fell
2,500 feet, fracturing the fourth, fifth,
and sixth cervical vertebrae and dis
locating several other vertebrae par
tially.
After the fall be was sent to Let-
terman General Hospital at the Presi
dio ' in San Francisco for treatment.
Army surgeons who are working al
most miracles there in the reconstruc
tion of the war wounded finally fitted
a metal colar on the aviator to carry
the weight of his head. It worked—
and now Lieutenant Cummins is Walk
ing about apparently normal.
One of Many.
Lieutenant Cummin’s case is only
one of many, but it stands out be
cause of the popular superstition that
a man can’t live if his neck is broken.
The reconstruction surgeons at Let-
terman are working on hundreds of
cases much more difficult than the
flyer’s.
They are receiving men there daily
from the battlefields of France, whose
legs and arms hang withered and
helpless and they are turning these
men out, after months of treatment
and patient mechanical manipulation,
able to use their arms and legs and
capable of making a living. The cost,
of course, is tremendous when one
takes into consideration the fact that
the same work is being carried on in
many military hospitals.
• More Money Needed.
Already Congress has appropriated
millions of dollars to carry m the
aork and many millions more will
have to be made available for the
cause. For it is a cause, this regen
eration of the men who gave their
bodies to their country.
Part of the money to "be realized
from the Victory Liberty Loan will he
us 3d for this job of reconstruction jf
regeneration. Think of this when you
are making up your mind as to how
much of the loan you, personally, are
going to subscribe.
Lieutenant Cummins jnade a flight
with his .collar on Just to convince
himself that he hadn’t lost his nerve.
We can’t afford to lose our nerve on
a dollar and cents proposition in the
face of the deeds of such men.
SOME PAPERS
Evening Globe, Strongly Anti-Wilson,
Say* That the President Take*
an Impossible Attitude.
London.—All the London evening
newspapers devote their leading arti
cles to President Wilson’s appeal in
connection with the Italian situation
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at the Paris conference and to Pre
mier Orlando’s decision to withdraw
from the conference. The Westmin
ster Gazette endorses the statement
of the American executive, netting that
Italy in her claims went beyond the
treaty of London in claiming Fiume
as well as the Trentino and other ter
ritory assigned her by thd London
pact.
"We are obliged to.point out,” says
the newspaper, "that in this very
treaty Fiume was assigned to the
Croatians. If, then, the appeal is to
the treaty, we are as much hound not
to give Fiume to Italy as we are bound
to give her the other territories.”
if—the tfnliarrs trlatm ^Fnime ■ under
the principle of self-determination,
adds The Gazette, that principle also
applies to the Slav regions which were
assigned to Italy under the treaty.
The Evening Standard says ^ can
not pretend to b* convinced by Pres
ident Wilson’s arguments, while Th#
Pall Mall Gazette says that Italy is
. claiming the fulfillment of the treaty
where she is the gainer by its terms
and its abrogation where it stands in
the way of her full demands.
“Her statesmen,” The Pall Mall Ga
zette adds, “must realize upon reflec
tion that the seccmd attitude under
mines whatever moral force is inher
ent in the trudt.”
The Evening Globe, which is strong
ly anti-Wilson, says the President has
taken up an impossible attitude. It
refers to his appeal as an insult to the
Italians and suggests that his best
course would be "to retire gracefully
from a discussion which concerns
neither himself nor the American con
tinent”
REQUEST OF THE GERMAN
GOVERNMENT GRANTED
Paris.—The request of the German
government that German fishermen be
permitted in the Skagerrak and Oat
tegat passages was granted by the su
preme economic council.
The council also approved the pro
posal for a more extensive use of the
water route through Germany by the
way. of Hamburg and the River
Elbe. , It abolished the existing limi
tation of 8,000 tons of food and ma
terial in order to supply the present
needs of the Czecho-SIovaks. It is
estimated that the traffic through the
Elbe probably will amount to from
25.000 to 35,f00 tons at a time.
TO BE LITERAL ENFORCEMENT
OF WAR TIME PROHIBITION
Pi
TRADED HIS LEG.
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A Canadian Baptist minister,
who chose a rifle rather than a
chaplaincy and lost his leg in
action, was being commiserated
on the “loss” of the leg.
» “I did not lose my leg,’’ he re
plied. ‘^I traded it fofr a clear
conscience.’’
“I traded It for a clear con
science.”
Better trade your dollars for
a clear conscience in the Vic
tory Lhan. You won’t regret it
and y;ni will get the dollar*
back with interest.
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New York.—The government pn>
poses a literal enforcement of the war
time prohibition act. including a bar
on production and sale of all beers and
wines, whether or not they are intoxi
eating, the depArthient of justice, an
nounced th-rough a special repr^senta
tive in the federal court here.
While no steps will be taken tc
prevent brewing, pending a court do
termination of the law’s constitution
iality raised by brewers of the New
York district, manufacturers will open
ate in peril of future prosecution, ac
cording to the statement of William C.
Fitts, special counsel, appearing foi
Attorney General Palmer in the beer
litigation.
The law prohibited sale alter Jun«
30 of distilled beverages as well a»
manufacture after April 20 and sale
after June 30 of “beer, wine and other
intoxicating malt or viuous liquors for
beverage purposes, pending the* de
mobilization of the military forces,*
SAYS WILSON IS TREATING
ITALY AS BARBAROUS NATION
Paris.—Premier Orlando declares
that President Wilson’s proclamation
is an attempt to place the government
in opposition to the people. ^
"He is treating the Italians,” a ids
the premier, “as if they were a bar
barous people.”
The premier says he has never de-
-nied that the pact of London did not
apply to Fiume. but the Italian claim
was based on the principles of Presi
dent Wilson’s 14 points.
MAY ORDER ALL Y. M. C. A.
WORKERS OUT OF ITALY
Paris.—The possibility of orderin'*
all Y. M. C. A. workers out of
Italy is being considered by John
R. Mott, of the war work council
of the Y. M. C. A, There are
about 2C0 American workers in Italy
assigned to’ various units of the
Italian armv and Mr.~ Mott was some
what perturbed oyer the possibil
ity ti. a,. they might become Involved
! n manifestation* of antbAmerlcan
foaling.
THE
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Kryl and His Band
Bohumir Kryl is known
everywhere as one of the
world’s greatest band
masters. . ,
He is often referred to as the world’s.
i greatest cornetist
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Mr. Kryl will personally direct his band at each concert
Afternoon and Night 5th Day
REDPATH CHAUTAUQUA
“WAR, VICTORY, PEACE”
The Great Musical Pageant
WILL BE A FEATURE OF THE NIGHT PROGRAM
ChMtavqua
Tickets for the Entire Week $2.50 and War Tax
REDPATH CHAUTAUQUA^
Laurens Chautauqua Week', May 13th to 20th.