Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Allendale (dnei . orf Easter Styles of the Hour for the Woman Who-Wants Individuality. Styles for every personality—prices for every inclination —and every style at every price bound to warrant enthusiasm. No collection of Suits and Dresses so varied in style. It is an easy matter to find a color, model and size for the most discrim- inating. EASTER DRESSES in Silk, Serge and Voile, revealing the newest conceptions of the foremost designers. Also an unex celled selection of dainty EASTER BLOUSES. , 1 '■ > 1 ■ 1 ' He’s a Back Number! We refer to the man who does not pay particular attention ^ to his dress. No, you don’t have to look like a “dandy,” but the stress of modem form and eternal fitness of things demand that you make yourself at all times fit to mingle with business and professional men.- ^ . Our Spring Clothes will let you into the real secret of how* to dress well on a very moder^teoutlay of money, and it's the best investment you can 'mSEE^Hnrthi* week and let us fix you upTor Easter, is Sunday. • in • t ♦ ❖ ? f X v ♦> Western Carolina Dept. Store, B. MAZURSKY. Prop. Barnwell, S. C. MIL KOGAR A. BROWN MADE STIRRING TALK TO VETS (CONTINUED FROM FIRBT PAGE) Ev*rjr friend of fr^dom; evory opoo- tl« of pooce op earth, and every am bemad or of good will toward men and women ahould favor the plan of the Pam conference. Of courae. it may not be a perfect plan, but the world ia human, iU agencies are managed by human beings, end we must do all that we can to remedy its imperfections and to insure its final accomplishment. Civilisation is a thing of slow growth, but the shadow on tke dial of time agnaJmckwart^ It is only when iome great convulsion or cats strophe, itirs humanity to the depths that men snd women realise the Impotency of the present agencies of the world, and demand new agencies to insure better conditions. The great war has dem onstrated the weakness of the past snd the necessity for better things in Lhe future. It is easy to find out wheth er the League of Nations is a good thing, or a bad thing. Think, who is for it and who is against it! The American Government, headed by that matchless statesman of statesmen— yea, I assert that the American peo ple in the great majority are in favor of it; England, our mother country, and one of the great world powers; France the bravest, truest little nation in the world, and our century old friend; Belgium, Italy, Japan, and oth er great nations are supporting the League of Nations. Who is against it? The Red Rebels of Germany say that it is not Democratic enough. (Think of those fellows talking of Democracy). The heathen Turk, the Hungarian revolutionist, the Bolshe- viki of Russia—of course Lenine and Trotski are against it; the I. W. W.’s, the Anarchists, the Socialists, some of the leaders of the Republican party in America, and one or two Democrats (God save the mark). Ain’t Senator Reed and Marse Henry Watterson in bad company? Reactionaries are ev er afraid of progress and fearful of ex periments. They forget that all im provement is along the highway of experiment „ and compromise. They sre like the fellow who rides to town in the back end of his spring wagon— they never see the landscape of bet ter things until it is past. In these perilous times, when the fu- are of the world is perhaps at Stake, the League of Nation*. 1 am willing to trust President Wilson. I believe that he knows what he is doing, and I believe further, that if there be im perfections in the League that tune will remedy those imperfection*, and advancing year* will call louder and eloerer for the coming of the day when wars shall be no more and peace shall reign on earth. You say, perhaps, that I am dealing with National and international af fairs, but where do we come in, do pres ent conditions touch us here in South Carolina, or here in the South? They do. 1 believe, while hoping that my prophesy may not come true, that we are confronted with, and will have to deal ’wtHT tfie mbsY tfSHOUT of reform and reconstruction that h*ve confronted, us for more than fif ty years. We might as well, as South ern men, stand four-square and look the isaues in the face. They are com ing. The issues are political, labor and social conditions in the South. R is admitted, to begin with, that the black man is the backbone of labor in the South. The black man ought to know by this time that the white man of the South is the only friend that he ever had. But the war has changed conditions somewhat. The black man, whether wisely or unwisely, has been conscripted along with our white boys, trained and made a soldier of. He was sent to Europe to fight white men, and though one high American officer who served in France is quoted as saying that the negro has yet to demonstrate his right to stay on the firing line (meaning that he was not a fit soldier), a great deal has been made over the returning colored heroes. They have been entertained, wined and dined, and the Legislature of South Carolina has recently passed an Act appropriating a considerable sum of money to build a stone monument to commemorate the deeds $f the black men in the world war. These men, when appro priating that money to build a monu ment to the negroes, forgot that to day there lies in South Carolina the bones of such men as Mart Gary and Martin Bellinger and others, who did more in reconstruction times after the civil war to redeem South Carolina from the carpet bag rule and negro domination, than South Carolina will ever benefit by the deeds of the ne groes in France, and yet their graves are unmarked by public monuments. The negro ia demanding better labor ing conditions, if be labors at all. beard lately to ||| that if were normal, a Constitutional Con vention would be of groat benefit to the people of South Carolina, but ev ery one knows that one of tho great est questions considered ia any Con stitutional Convention is the question of suffrage. For my part tho question of suffrage to South Carolina was well settled by tho Constitutional Conven tion of 1896, and there are too many demagogues to South Carolina to open a discussion of the question of suf frage to a Constitutional Convention at this time. If the negro has poli tical ambitions to this white man's country, he had best keep them under his shirt; if he does not, let him be ware that he ia not consumed in the 1 ambitions In closing I must refer again to csose of the South, which we com memorate on this occasion; of those brave soul* that went forth to the spirit land from the bodies of men who fell facing the North; of those who survived, were here last year and on other occasions but are not here now; to those that are here today who will not be here next, and of all the brave ones who have fallen in the cause of Democracy, let us hope in the lines df the Immortal Tennyson: Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me, AmL-may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea. For such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight ffnd evening bell And after that the dark; And may there be no sadness of fare well, When I embark. For though from out our bourne of time and place The tide may bear as far; I hope to see my pilot face to face, When I have crossed the Bar. Duroc Jersey Hogs all registered and of the l^st breeding in the South. Pre- prre to meet the ravages oHhe boll weevil by growing more and better hogs. Durocs are the best breeding of the Orions, Impertors, Model* Critics, Colonels and Defenders will be offered.. Everybody come. Sale will. be held rain or shine Strictly it.2 o’clock at Allen & Riley’s Sale Sables in Allendale Wednesday, April 30tfc BUROe Hoe FARMS> Cartersville, S. C. '*1 Geo. G. Palmer, Owner O. M. Home, Manager MM0 •MMI11 M | IM + . WOE AN I* WAIE OF' "POE: Stop limping through life with a wail of woe over a sore toe. Buy shoes that protect your feet from chafes and bruises. Buy shoes that conform to the shape of the foot—shoes that give you a light and springy step and a day of ease and comfort. And to get all of these it is not nec essary to sacrifice style. There is no reason why you should be compelled to buy a big, broad, unsightly shoe when you can be fitted to perfection at our store. We have just the shoe you want in stock constancy, of all styles and I prices, and they make life worth living. Smith Brisco Shoes for Men Dolly Madison and Mauss & Owens Shoes for Women RAISE HOGS AT LESS COST. You can eaaily do this by giving them a few dotes of B. A. THOMAS’ HOG POWDER every week. It caus es your hogs to -digest and assimilate all the foed that is Red them. It U a and conditioner, thereby causing Farmers Union a