Cheraw chronicle. (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, December 26, 1918, Image 2

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CHER A' J. N. STRICKLIN, Les Published ?v< Entered at Postofflce, Cheraw, CHERAW, 8. C., THUB Ol'B BOYS MAKE A RECORD IN FRANCE Columbia, Dec.^.?Speaking before the meeting of the South Carolina council ~*&f defense, Senator Christie Benet told of the exploits of the 30th division in the fighting on the Western *?* Danot cnirf he had been iruuu 1*1*. w? ? told by officers who knew the facts that the 30th has been recognized as one of the typical American fighting units of Pershing's army, and had oorue the brunt of the fighting around Belleau wood. The orders were issued foi the first advance to be made by Australian troops, who were to be followed to the second objective by men of the 30th. When the Carolina boys went forward they continued to advance, reaching the third otyective which had been assigned to the Australians. Their advance was so ' rapid that the Australians could not follow and the Carolina boys were caught in a trap, which the Germans had laid, a number of the enemy being concealed in a tunnel. When this was discovered the Carolina boys were attacked on the front and rear, but fought their way out witn severe losses, though receiving the plaudits of the seasoned Australians. One comp.iny duplicated the experiance of the famous "Lost Batallion" and Senator "t ndded that modesty or some other influence Jhad withheld from these boys the publicity which their heroic fighting deserved. Mr. Benet had the state council adopt treasures looking to the secuirng of the official face for arecord to be given to the newspapers and the state historian. The Trees and ihe Hero Memorials. While the communities of the coun. try, large and small, are getting their m. iiigs as to the character of the ermanent mentorials to the heroes of the world war there will be com lete unanimity as to the wisdom of formal tree- planting in parks, on 1 * ways, houlevards- and parkways. h and about schools, public buildings on college campuses In honor of a ho gave their all for their , and their country, says the lpira FuD11C Leagm. has been clear, too, for some 'hat the country Is decidedly imthe country average ot r memorials that srrang up o after the Civil War. The said about the most of them ) better. So, as he better thought i- and there is a demana everyfor pause and judgment in selecting the kind of memorial that .ect tue needs of the hour, the ? lediate desire to do something at " . ;e can well take the form of treeanting. For over a generation most ..s have been familiar with the Arbor-Day idea, and it will be very easy to direct this vital idea into new chanalled for by the proposed sold. rmorial. tree groups and memorial, tree groups and memorial avemorial avenues. Curiously enough, Joyce Kilmel, one of the militant poets who gave, up their lives for their country, evidently had a premonitory sense that the tree was a figure more largely and emotionally in American life. And it would be fitting, therefore, if, where ver the tree memorials to our soldiers and sailors he set up there should appear in imperishable bronze his lovely tiibute that makes the trees, - >? Kmthnra to the heroes their as ii hoc, u.w.., greenery will commemorate. It runsl as follows: I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear * nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bo6om snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. THE FARMER IS THE CORNERSTONE OF THE NATION. Among the undeniable benefits that the war has conferred upon the nation is the awakening of peoples and governments to the imortance of the food problem. What the economically dependent nations kno\ now they knew before; but either because they could , not take the requisite measures for | their own protection or because they trusted to luck, not one of them had safeguarded itself against the future. They are now suffering the consequen r (EijnmiiL w, s. c. see, Editor and Manager *rr Thursday , S. C., as Second Class Matter LflOAY, DECEMBER 16, 1918 ces of their failure, says the Youths Companion. In the years of plenty Joseph ii Egypt had the good sense to lay in i stock of wheat against the comin, dearth. Even Germany, boastful o its foresight and efficiency, had n Joseph; or if it had one, it was a Jc seph that confined his statesraanshi to accumulating guns and aminun; tion and boots and shoeB lather tha: grain. Nor had Great Britian a states man bold enough to act upon the fre quent urgings of farsighted student of the food question that great store of foodstuffs be established while sup plies could be obtained. Nothing e> cept the British command of the sea has saved the people of the Britis Isles from a choice between starvs tion and surrender. It is unlikely that the lesson of th last four years has been lost upon th ruling powers of Europe. In ever country that has to import grain an meat we shall see measures to estab lish and to fill granaries aijd store houses as a protection against ba harvests and foreign enemies. Ger ?1 J u Ifa nonnl many wouia ua?c oatcu ?n> from hardship and misery if it ha' adopted that coursd, Great Britiai need not have feared any serious die aster from the U-boat, if it had no been dependent upon a hand-to-mout, supply of food from abroad. In order to carry out plans to ac cumulate food in the countries tha produce too little there mu6t be an in crease of production everywhere. I; normal times the supply of grain and meats the world over is only little more than the amount consum ed. A widespread policy of accumula tion without an- Increase of suppl would derange all the markets of th world and might bring about such a: unequal distribution of supplies a would threaten famine in large dis tricts. Consequently every country yil try to increase the crop areas and t cultivate them more intensively. A'ot only that. There must be bel ter as well as larger crops?oetter i: quality, because they give a nutritive and also better because they give large yield to the acre. The work c creating and introducing the varietie hat will meet those requirements i already going on. We hear soraethin of the share that our own Departmen n.* Aurinnltiiro haa in it. hut little C aQ<ivuivU?v what is being done abroad. The go\ arnment of India, where the food ques tion Is always acute, has made grez progress in improving both the quail ty and the yield of wheat. It has pre duced one variety that in some place has given the astonishing amount ( fifty five bushels to the acre and the has brought a higher price a bush< to the farmers than ordinary grail Its success with rice has been scarcr Ty less. No one can tell just what the resu will be when every country is tryin to safeguard itself in the matter < food, either by increasing its own pn duction or by drawing from other land larger amounts than are needed fc immediate consumption. But one thin is certain; the farmer will still t the very corner stone or the nation. THE NEXT GREAT WAR Pneun^onic plague, imported froi China as a consequence of the worl< war! That's the substance of the '"Spar ish influenza" explaination offered in New York medical journal by D James J. King of the United State Army Meidcal Corps. Three hundred and fifty thousan lives have thus far been lost in tb United States since tire epidemi reached "An Atlantic Port" in th summer of 1918. Other explanations than that offere by Dr. King fail to take into accour all the facts. The disease is indeper dent of climate conditions. It ha raged in damp Boston, in moist Cleve land and Detroit, in windy Chicago, i dry Arizona, in balmy Los Angeles, i frozen Alaska and in warm Porto Rlc with equal fury. it looK me open-air sieeper ami in man who seals his windows and cov ers his head o' nights. It hits the riders in crowded street cars and the lonely rider in the luxu rious limousine. iVeachers and bartenders fell vie tims alike. "There is no known preventive,' says Dr. Rupert Blue of the Uni'e* States public heatlh service. Dr. King tells us that penumoni< plague first appeared in 1010 in Har I j : ?? ! ISurpj Bake them | from OCCO-N way those good one as good as t occc H Takes the Guess With it you can muflins and cakes It has mixed witi baking powder, sc saves you the cos OCCO-NEE-CHI the Indian Head i When 3 buy AUSTIN-t e ~"J ? 1 1 e ?**** ??? y bin, Manchuria. It swept North Chins d It is yet prevalent. "The mortality, he says, "has been fearfully high. "In 1917"' adds Dr. King, "aboi: ^ 200,000 Chinese coolies, collected fror the northern part of China, whet e pneumonic plague has raged at inter d vals since 1910, and were sent t n France as laborers." In Marc*., 1918, some of these Chi 1 nese were captured by the Germans k "Spanish Influenza" soon appeared i; the German army and spread to Spair It had gone around the world in les than a year! Dr. King believes pneumonia an bubonic plague germs mingled in th s , blood of some obscure Chinese croli a in Harbin and produced a new diseas terror. ' All great wars of history have bee; followed by disease epidemics. n Th^ next was must be against thi 8 plague! |l . ****** AAAAAAAA A A A * A 'A . * RED CROSS ROLL 5&LJL. ' n" * IS SPIRIT OF CHRfSTBlJt ' " A Of all the observances o'f i a A Christmas the American peoplA i A have known the one this year i s will be most In keeping with thk * s A true spirit of the day. Self ceo^. * g A tered exchanging of gifts will be * t A little In evidence because our * 1 A resources are pledged to much * A more Important use. i A The Red Cross Christmas Roll i i- A Call is conceived In the new i it A light When the American man, i [_ A woman or child pays the noml- ^ ; A nal membership dues the action i A far transcends an ordinary con- i 9 A tributlon. Wherever people are 1 )f A starving, wherever they are sick, i it A wherever they lack shelter, the i >1 A Red Cross Christmas Roll Call i 1 A will stand for renewed hope and i 1 .a1IA# ? w me promise or emcHciuus mm. > How necessary, then, that the i answer of the American people i 11 should be overwhelming. The i g amount of money raised 19 sec- i if ondary. The world will measure i > our humanitarian purpose by the i . number of names enrolled. If i the word goes out that FORTY ' ,r MILLION Americans have Joined 8 the Red Cross or a greater num- ' e ber all mankind will be revived by the practical proof of our Idealism. Those who have been on the firing line knew that the work of the Red Cross will not end with the proclaiming of peace. 'n it In many respects the demands 1. upon the Red Cross will li^i crease as new fields of relief are ' opened. The readjustment pe rlod will present many opportu- a nitles for sharing our abundance r- with our world neighbors, who ;s 1 are at rock bottom In every hu man respect. ,1 1 Every American will be think | lng along this line because the ' ^ needs In Europe and Asia win IC stand forth with Insistent call to '8 his and her sympathy. In the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call " d the aim Is to place the entire lt I American people on record as j i approving the Red Cross spirit, i !" i Such approval will make every ;S j dollar expended abroad have a i-1 sacred significance to the bene- ' n J flclarles. n i To register TOUR approval of the Red Cross all you need Is a heart and a dollar I c : Separate Fat From Water. The recovery of valuable fat 1 mainlng in watar used in wnshi wool is now being accomplished means of a new machine reserabll a cream separator, says Popular \ chanlcs Magazine. In the past vn ous attempts to do this have c 3 proven satisfactory. The wash wal runs directly Into a bowl making ; 000 revolutions per minute, and the i is separated almost instantly. rise the Family " ome crispy, tasty, goiaen-br EE-CHEE Self-Rising Flour ies disappear?one, two, thre< ,he last. >-NEE-CK f-Rising Flour out of Baking and Saves ycu make the same appetizing biscuit time after time. There's no more 1 it, in the exact proportions, the 1 >da and salt. It's economical be t of these three materials. Buy a CE Self-Rising Flour today. Lor on the bag. At all grocers. tou prefer to bake with plain )lour Peerless?the best of its kind. IEATON CO., Durham, f SggSSfiBfi5fififiBB5E!i?B5fiESE5B?MBS5S2i[S *' * I . e 1 _ Half a G Half a Century A. be supplied to some meat, drawing on 1 Now two-thirds with millions of peop miles away from the ] ing sections, which a: The American r today is the developn perform a national se The function of j velop accordingly, "i ed the elements of the the best facilities tc plants and branch h< refrigerating equipm routes, trained orgai for former waste ural, inevitable chani J meat across the coun * If there were a 1 k necessary service, . * enterprise would haw k would now be using : J During 1918, Sw * a profit on meats (anc * than 2K cents per ( k % profit to have any ap] ^ Join the n- Red Gross [Ot -rlWVom :er S??_T Aj& e,- I1 l'k at A Ml i Fonight M own biscuits made 11 . \ Then watch the ;|: 3, four?and every & V&V? m J | guessing. jl | ^ery best -? JL 'b3|''0E ;v i * * I * CHRISTMAS ROLL CALL *, c< ! DECEMBER 1?1 ,n I x * l? The Red Cross flag was the * | ^ first to fiout over the battlefields h ^ j\ of Europe; it will be the last flag * h j\ k to be furled. As long as our *, Qr UJ own people or those of our allies j j\ k need help we must give It We , I , are getting ready for the Roll * j ! 1 Ch.ll?getting ready to take a pa- * IC i trlotlc census of the American j j people. Every good citizen will -k k answer "Here" when his name k , | k Is c-iied. k , k k . ***************** * * entury Ago I go, every community could * extent with locally dressed live stock raised nearby, of the consuming centers, le, are one to two thousand principal live-stock producre sparsely settled. neat packing industry of nent of the best way to jl rvice. providing meat had to derhose men who first grasp; changing problem created | ) meet it?large packing 3ns es at strategic points, ient (including cars), car ! lization, profitable outlets j - which became the natnels for the vast flow of J try* v || better way to perform this American ingenuity and 2 discovered it, and others it. " ift & Company has earned ! meat by-products) of less lollar of sales?too small a preciable effect on prices. ift & Company, U. S. A ' <?& ?) } ? T. E. Wannamaker and Sons ' Druggists . p % We Buy Our |J )rugs, Chemicals and all Medicinal Articles i ily from manufacturers ol well known reliability. >me to uo whon you want anything the durg Una. OlIp long exp&lonee at your seryloe In suggesting rem* es for ordinary ailments. The dru* at# these days have largely taken e place of the family rf mediae rse amended by the glwidmobiira. [ sep account of your bualneaa. Wi have a full line of BLANK BOOKS ?r Farmer, Merchant, Manufacture ar the ealarled man. We have the beet quality. PAINTS can And. Can eell you a emat in to touch up a ehalr or to patafc >ur Dwelling, jttore er Factety. If you have never taken "LIVER TONIC" % ik your neighbor about It we ran pmend It aa one of the BBtT MID IINEt we make.. Price 25c and Ne COMPOUND SYBUP or TAB III relieve more klnda of Coughd tan any ether Cough Remedy m new. 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