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THE SUN THAT NEVER SETS
Contributed by H. Davltt Welsh.
INVEST IN HUMANITY
By JOHN OLIVER LA GORCE
Associate Editor, National Geographic Magazine.
"OUFFER Little Children to come unto me," de
^ clared the compassionate Christ.
Rut never since He dwelt in flesh upon the earth
have there been so many "Little Children" in need of
compassion as now.
There are the "Little Children" who have gone to
France for you and me and fpr Christendom and by .
going have given their all. Can you do less? Shall
you keep from your boy or your neighbor's boy that
which is symbolic of the Compassionate One by neg
lecting the ?all of the Red Cross Mother?
Then there are the uncounted "Little Children"
of our allies who have fallen wounded and ill in de
fense of their home fires. Who but the Red Cross
Mother can know the suffering, the anguish, of the
shell-torn, thirst-stricken soldier who lies upon the
ghostly bed of No Man's Land? Will you deny him
the life-giving cup?
Think also of the "Little Children" of devastated
lands. Some are "Little Children" in size and tender
years. Others, alas, are mature in stature and age,
but none the less "Little Children" in their helpless
hold from them the bare bread of existence? Can.
we still our inner voice with the thought that others
will bear our burden, when in our heart we must
know that there are no others?
The Red Cross Jielps no one who does not need
help a hundred times more than we need the money.
Therefore, let us give, give until we feel it, give until
it pinches. Then and only then we shall know that
we have indeed offered the "Little Children" of the
war the tender compassion of a nation.
What the Italian Premier Thinks of
the American Red Cross
When the Austrian* last October
routed the Italian Army by trickery
and flrove before them half a million
refuir.'fs, the part which the American
Ke.l rross i?luyed in this stupendous
tragedy will ko down In the history of
and the world as one of the roost
magnificent dashes of relief work that
Kts ever come to light
Listen to what the Italian Premier
*ald of this work in his address at the
"renins of Parliament early last De
cember :
"Our soul iS stirred again with ap
preciatlou aud with admiration for the
magnificent dash with which the Amer
ican Red Cross has brought us power
ful &W in our recent misfortune. We
attribute treat ^?lue to the cQ-opera
fton which will be given us agklnst the
common enemy by the prodigious
activity and by the exuberant and con
sistent force which are peculiar to the
American people."
And (his, mind you, was only a little
over a month after the American Reu
Cross made Its triumphant dash into
Italy I
* ... - ? *
LIKE MOTHER
USED TO MAKE
Khaki Clad Boy With a Lump in
Throat Welcomes Home
Cooking.
Imagine your boy on a troop train
bound for some United States seaport
where a transport lies ready to take
him and his regiment "over there."
He never felt healthier in bis life ? In
body. In mind? If he finds moments
wIwmj his thoughts begin to race back
toward you, wondering what you are
doing, can you blame him if occasion
ally something lumps in^hls throat
about as comfortable as a billiard ball?
And then the train grinds to a stand
still. Some one yells, "Rig eats; oh.
boy!" as several Red Cross uniforms
flash out in the crowd on the station
platform. For here Is a Red Cross
emergency canteen. Here he can get
coffee? good, hot coffee ? sandwiches,
candy, tobacco, fruit, postal cards and
almost anything that he may have for
gotten.
Does it help his spirits?, Does it?
Does it cheer him to get these snacks
of good home tasting food served by
women like those in his own family?
Probably the most valuable part of the
Ked Cross canteen service work Is the
effect of the smile and cheer from the
women who are in charge. Soldiers
write frequently stfch messages as the
following, indicating their apprecia
tion of this branch of Red Cross
work :
"The R<*l Cross of Chicago met ns
with coffee, sandwiches and post cards.
I hope the Montana women are all do
ing the same. Chicago sure Is n big
city and plenty of pep. Join the Red
Cross and help the boys who have vol
unteered their lives."
There are now more than 500 . of
these Red Cross canteens or refresh
ment units located at the Important
railroad centers In the United States.
Every commander of a troop train has
a UJW of these capteens, so thrft he cstt
call upon the Red Cross for this serv
ice nt these stations en route.
Women Give $36,0()0,00Q.
Thousands of patriotic women In all
parts of the United States are freely
: giving their time to make surgical j
dressings, knit goods, hospital gar
ments. comfort kits, socks and sweat
ers. The value of this labor given by
1 American women Is estimated at $36,
000,000 a year.
The Tied Cross operates In France a
motor track transportation service
with 250 motor truck*
COLOMBIA MAN SLAIN
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?lAiftrtt MrliOUihHii Wa* Itw^n To
Whllp Hp
Columbia. May it. ? - J a men Me
I /oughlfii, fur a half Mtnv ,v*mi r* stew
ard for (Adumhiu Aerie No. NMD. Fra
ternal Order of Wag lost was foifiul
IIHinh'IX'd (ll I llU club's roolU# this
morning, Ills IttHitl hud l**en severe
ly tattered Mini cut by some slmrp
instrument, supposedly a hatchet. I'l
'lu?rt Cray, it former negro portvr of
the aerie, was arrested by (ho Co
luiuhla |h>I lee xlvortly after noon t <?
? hiy, iind held in connection with the
i'm so fur Investigation.
McLnughllu. accordl ug tu registra
tion certificates foUlld ull Ills clothes,
whs :t}? yoars of age. He bus been
IU iiit! in < 'olumbhi m i in in I i <>f years.
Itefore he Imhnmuo connected with the
laigles in an utlh'lMl oa parity die was
ii harbor. His former home roubl
not Ik> astvrtaincd today, but it is
supposed to he in Connecticut. In
til- clothe* was found n letter front
.?.*? Sumter street, Hartfonl. Conn.,
nmler ilnte of March 10, signed
"Mary". From tlie tone of the let ?
ler. the writer was evidently a kins
woman of Mel.oughiiu. and the ehlef
of police of Hartford bus Ins'ii rum
aiunieateil with to yet a line uii the
drMil man's former life. Another let
1 1* i was also foniul from a saving*
bank in l.uwel. Mass., notifying Mr
l.oUL'blin that ?evern I sums uf money,
dividends evidently from stink. h;id
been deposited to Ills credit.
The murdered man was exception
ally well liked anion); the Kagles uf
Columbia, who spoke favurably of bis
exemplary life. He was a consistent
'communicant St. Peter's Catholic
Church of this city and a prayer book
"f that fulth was fuund in bis clothes.
(treat Campaign in June.
Charleston, May 14. ? During the
month of June the greatest campaign
.ever undertaken in the State of South
Carolina will ive conducted by the War
Savings Commit tee. It will be part
of the nation -wide War Saving Cam
paign which, in magnitude, will be the
greatest popular war campaign ever
conducted in the history of the world,
intensive activities on the part of
thousands of volunteer workers will
culminate on June 2K, which President
Wilson is to designate otlleially ns
National War Savings Day. The' pur
pose of this great drive will bo to
get the i*X>ple of this state to pledge
to invest during the year &l'J.000.000
of their savings in War Savings
Stamps, which amount is twh-e the
state. s quota In the Third Liberty
I , on n. and of which uitly slightly uver
one million dollars hnve been invest
ed.
The patriotic men, women, nud child
ren of the nation will, on June L'S,
unite in a great outpouring, and to
the world and to the military musters
i "f Ccrmnny will be sent America ,.'s
message :
" I 'olce to the utmost! Force with
out stint or limit! Behind the mil
lions of American tlgtiug men stand
a united nation of one hundred mil
Lion determined Inhabitants who have
pledged their resources to the cause
of victory, of A mrlca. of humanity.'..'
J. W. Wright. Ji it engineer on the
Atlantic Const IJno nt Sumter died
suddenly Friday morning a* his train
reached Sumter.
ANOTIIKK BLOW AT IIASKS
lirUlsh Surressfully lllork ttutraiire
To (Mend Harbor.
(ioruutii submarine n^ritllott^ from
tho Uui'Iko' of (NihkI. Itelgium. have
been seriously hani|>ercd for a tliuv If
not rendered impossible h,\ a ilarliiK
raid made on tho harbor by (ho Brit
ish Friday morning Aii oHclal *(ate>
inertl Issued h.v (ho Itritish admiralty
says (ho olmunol hsidlnn out of (ho
Inner harbor litis (*><>11 compKotolly
blocked l?y 1 ho hulk of (ho old cruiser
Vindictive. which was maneuvered
lulo |NKs|(ii>u under houvy tiro and
thou sunk by honrb*. It ap|>onrs.
howevor. that tjioro is *oinc doubt
(hat tlu' outlro ohaiiuol Is blocked, one
roiMirt saving that tho vo.saol IhS at
an initio uiul ilu's not absolutely In
toi'i'upt tho ns<> of (ho fairway.
Tin- tlrriiiiiu oittelal statement eon
ivruiug tho raid sa>s tho attempt was
a fa II 11 ro antl that tho hulk of tho
old cruiser lies outside of tho navi
gation vhamiol. Tliis ro|K?rt may bo
compared to tho one Issued on April
'J I the 1 In > follow ing; tho rahl i>u Zoe
hrucgo, which < lainied that no dam
age was <louo l<> tho iiiolo or the har
bor ihoro. Subsequent events base
proved that tho damage done h.v tho
rahl on April ?."? was of a serious nav
tare.
It is pointed oilt thill 'tho ohstruc
(ion in the oliaunol at Ostond will
(rial in eventually close tho harbor
through tin- notion of t ln? tiilos and
tho rapid silting up of tho harhor.
If Ostond and Zoebrugge are re
moved iis ports from which tin* <?or
man l'-*>oats may l?o 0)401*11 ted the
(lermans apparently will ho coin-pel led
to withdraw their submarines to,
their homo |H?rts. In this oonnection
it Is interesting to note that a xvoek
ago It was anttounood that -tin* great
est mlno Hold known t ?.? naval o)>era
tlons had been plantod In tho North
sou to cmnhnt the submarines. It was
officially stated that the area of this
mine Hold would l>e 121. 7Kli nquarr
miles and that l( would be completed
h.v May 1. Some months ago Ad
miral .folllooo. of the British navy,
announced that tho .suhmarlne menace
would he mot hy August I and it is
possible that he had the blocking of
the harhors of Zoobruggo and Ostond
lind the laying of an Immense mine
Held in mind when lie made bis state
ment.
While t lie naval arm of the entente
nations wn- busy on the Belgian coast,
the militar> force* wore engaged in
local lighting in the Ypivs and Sotnuio
sectors. Tho French made a notable
advance at (Jrivosnos, whore they took
tnirt of the town whioh had been in
liei'iiiini bauds for three weeks. Along
the front to. the north there were
scattering engagements, notably at
Aveluy wood. north of Albert, wliore
1 he contending armies are striving for
strategic ground. There, wore also
siinll operations in tho Kciiimcl hill
front, southwest of Ypres.
There have Ihhmi the usual local
engagement* between patrols on tho
Italian and Macedonian fronts but
MADti THKM KI8S PlJlii ,v
Itishopvllle MerrtuiutH Kefu^d 1?
Clo?? During I'anuk
Siki'ImI to the Now* and Courier.
lUshopvllle, May 1 1. -?Five mor
ehttnts of foreign Idrth wlvo failed to
close l>|? their places of business 'ut
lug the patriotic rally here today,
after promising to do .*>. were waited
on hy a committee of citizens ami u?>t
o:iiv fn>?vd to close ui?, but were
marched (o Ma 111 street, and there be
fore tho big crowd that had assem
bled for the exercises, made to kneel
a ii?l with uplifted hands, kiss the Stars
and Strl|>e*.
Several hundred |>cn|>lc. represent liiu
r \ erj Mvtloii of l.ee County, attended
the big war savings rally ut Woodward
grove. The meeting market! a red let
ter du.v for l,ee <\>unty. A Idjt |?a -
imi ? 1?? w\i* formed at the Methodls,!
Church b.v tho citizens. school chil
dren, local in i I M la . lied Cross and oth
er societies. and intiivhcd down Dennis
avenue to Railroad street and thence
tp Mu lu Street and up Mailt to the
jj'rove, where the exorcises were held.
Tim lion. \\\ A. Stuekey presided
1 1 f t ee n selmols entered the comity con
test and rcprescnt-at Ives spoke on the
war savings staUi|is. The four local
banks otTereil a $-0 prize eaeh for the
four Imys, or girls. who made the
host speech. All the speechon were
line and showed that much time ami
thought had been taken in preparing
them.
Then Myers, representing tho Ash
laml School : Martin IMayer, of the 101
I lot is High School ; Miss llallle New
som of i he Turkey Creek School, and
MUs Annie May Tlinnions of Lynch
hurt; High School, won the prizes, and
revived the fcJO war saving stiimp*
each and will be carried by automobile
all over l/v County In a campaign
lo present the war sa vliiK" stamps In
the different sections.
, In*. H. W. Slkw, of Coker College,
llarfsville. made a most excellent ad
divss and received close attention. The
Hon. T. <!. M?'T<ihhI called fi>r a sub
scription and $1(1, (HKI was raised in less
than thirty mluutefc.
Nine Soldiers Killed.
Columbia, May 10. ? Nine soldiers
were killed and twenty-live Injured
when two coaches of an outbound
troop train were derailed at Oamp
Jackson this morning and toppled over
the trestle crossing Wlldeast creek.
Five of the dead were Instantly kllleu
ami three died on the way or lit the
hns-c hospital shortly afterward, and
the lenth sinvumbed at tlu? hospital
lale t "h iglit . of the injured four wru
seriously and twenty-one flight l.v in
jured. according to an otllcial list given
out this afternoon at the headqiiar
ters of the Kighly lirst division. Ail
of the. dead and injured were mem
bers of the .TJlst infantry, of the M?h
ly-lirst division, en route to another
camp, most of tlieni being North Car
idlniaus. There were few South Oaro
linians on the train and only one wa?
injured ? Robert A. Moore, of Trio,
s. <\, who was injured slightly.
nothing approaching n general eu
gagement has been fought.
i'ope Itcnedb't has set. aside June
'JO as a day to be observed in the
Catholic churches of the world as a
? lay for prayers that peace may be
restored to tho world.
BEST IN THE LONG RUN
GOODRICH
WUrt Yo?? "m TJ.U S1?n |
Go<xiii4? Til 3* *.r* Stodw f:
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T the City of Goodrich, they
have officially announced the
erand milea&e of Goodrich's
nation-wide Test Car work of 1917:
1,044,686 linear miles
4,178,744 tiie miles.
Those figures indite the Emancipation
Act of motorists, freeing them from tire
mishaps and amputated mileage.
Compressed in them is the story of the
famous Six Fleets, and how they hurled
Goodrich Tires the length and breadth of
our nation, over city pavement and country
road, ploughing them
through sand and mud;
mauling them against rock
and gravel.
Mathematics has no fa
vorites. That multiplied
mileage of 4,17S,744 miles
I S?lf Denial !?
the Add Teet
of Loyalty.
BUY WAR
S A V I N O
coldly, calculatingly, puts the seal of rriulti
plied proof on Goodrich Tires, and stamps
them 'Tested." Zn that searching test, no
slightest defect, no hidden short-coming
could scape the sight of the Goodrich ex- *
perts. - . jxK
SILVERTOWN GOADS* and BLACK
SAFETY TREADS, under light and heavy
oars, defied the rough going of roads wher
ever the Test Car Fleets rushed them.
v ? ?" ? 4% ? '
* The spiral- wrapped, cable-cord tire body, ?
and Goodrich's tough black tread rubber
fought the hard fight and conquered.
Seek tire surety and long mileage in the
proven service of "America's Tested Tires."
Goodrich guarantees you will get it because
Goodrich tested and cot It
Test(*t Tires mean 100 per cent, quality.
Demand it. Temd Tires mean supreme
service. Demand it h ?'
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Charlotte Branch: 438 So. Church St., Charlotte, If. 0.