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I i)e pamberg ^eralb FSTAIil lSHEJ) A PHIL. 1891. Thursday, May 31, 1917. Don't be misled into thinking that anything is going to excuse you from registering next Tuesday. Don't fail to present yourself before the registration officers in your voting precinct. Answer the questions truthfully. If there is any good reason why you should not go to war, your reasons will be given careful attention. Illness or absence will not excuse you from registering next Tuesday. Read the instructions in this issue of The Herald. Have your answers well in mind when you go before the officers and tell them the truth?the whole truth. It is a lot better to give correct answers than to serve a year in prison, and then have to register, just the same as you should have done at first. Tt is a significant fact that during the month of May, according to the official reports, the tonnage of ships sunk by submarines has been only about one-half the tonnage sunk during April. Xo announcement has been made of the operation of any device to destroy submarines or of any device to minimize the destruction of vessels, but it is very evident that i something is being done to stem the tide of destruction. .Many people do not understand the registration system for the selective draft. Some ignorant people think they are signing up to go to war if they register. This is not | true in any sense. We suggest that! it would be a good thing for all the colored preachers to explain this matter to their congregations. There are hundreds of negroes, and a good i many white people too, who never read a newspaper, and we find that I this class of people do not realize tne the fact that unless they register f next Tuesday they will be punished ! by a prison sentence. The United J States government will positively re-1 <juire every person within the age. limits to register, and they might as ! well make up their minds to do it. t whether they want to or not. No I country has ever been known to con- j duct a draft system in a flippant man-1 ner. and this country will not do it. ! Nothing proves more certainly that i Governor .Manning is not influenced ; by politics in his war preparedness | appointments than the appointment : of Mr. Otto Klettner, Mr. E. R. i Buckingham, and Major John G.1 Richards as members of the South j Carolina council of defense. After j the silly criticism that was directed i i at the governor for conferring with a ; leader of the opposing faction as to; suitable names for appointment, none i but a broad-minded man would have j made any appointments at all from j that faction. But Governor Man-j ning did appoint these gentlemen,; and his appointment is a good one.; Mr iC'Pftner i?; a native German, and : at this time has two brothers in the j army o:' the kaiser. But he has been ; a resident of this country for 40 j years, and is a true American citi- i zen. His speech at the patriotic ] meeting in Newberry a few weeks ago ; was a remarkable one. and showed , Mr. Klettner to be clean-cut. and i there is no doubt about where he i stands. .Major " -hards and Mr. | Buckingham are aiso representative; citizens, and will make useful mem- j bers of the council. ^? Announcement is made that the; war department intends to deal en- j tirely frankly with the people with ! regard to disasters to American! troops and vessels in the war. That is. when a ship is sunk, the fact will not be withheld from the public. This is as it should be. We do not think that the withholding of facts would help America in the war. This country is used to getting the news; sup4 * - * i J pression 01 lacis, wiieiuer gouu <j: ill. is strictly un-American. Of course, there are many things in connection with the American army and navy that cannot be published for the reason that to do so would be to betray military or naval secrets. The operations of vessels and the movements of troops cannot be printed, for. if published, it would put into; the hands of the enemy valuable in- j formation, the possession of which! might be disastrous to or.r forces, j might be disastrous to our forces. The j to cooperate with the war and navy departments in this respect. There j are some newspapers, though, which I undoubtedly need a muzzle. We are glad to say that they are few in number. Xo doubt the government will map out a plan whereby this small class will be properly dealt with. The Herald wishes to impress upon its readers the absolute necessity or' registering t'or the elective draft next Tuesday. We do no 1 elieve that the people generally understand the matter, and we are afraid that many people are going to fail to register. The law states specifically that failure to register, for any reason, will be followed by prosecution, the penalty being one year's imprisonment. without the option of a fine. When the prison sentence is complet ed, the party thus convicted will be required to register. Failure to register will not be excused on any grounds, even those who are too ill to go in person must send someone to register for them. All males between the ages of 21 and 31 are required to enroll their names. This means that every man who will have passed his 21st birthday on June 5. and who will not be 31 years of age on June 5, must register. The law applies to everybody, white and negro, rich and poor. Registration does not mean enlistment for war. It is possible that you may have excellent reasons for not entering the army, and ; it is possible that you may be ex- j cused, but this does not release you from the duty of registering. Every intelligent man, especially those who employ labor, should tell their la-; borers about this matter, and require i Vv ~ t- *1-1^ T^nrriot ro tinn nf_ CUfiU LU OCiVIC UlC ICHiCUUUWi v/1 ficer. This is extremely serious bus-* iness, and the seriousness of it should be impressed by those who read the newspapers upon those who are igno-. rant and who cannot understand the matter from what little they may be j able to read or pick up from conversations of others. Every person will be responsible for his own action in this matter, and ignorance will be no excuse for dereliction of duty. ? v4rjfev J' 'j " a . xk . *.JMSBEflMHa > v l&JhSBBHHI Vij' >hE H.-J. BRABHAM The Herald is no knocker, and we. believe we have just as much patriotism as the average person, but we t certainly fail to see why the govern-: ment should expect the newspapers; ?as a class one of the least pros-, perous industries in the country?to ! sell the Liberty Bond issue: for the selling depends absolutely on the publicity the newspapers give. The government pays big salaries and all expenses for men to go around and get! the farmers to plant food crops, which the farmers sell at big profits. The farmers are given great credit for doing something that enriches them. The newspapers are cussed out for not doing that which will make them poorer. We haven't heard of any other industry that has been asked ; to give its merchandise to help the government sell bonds. The Herald j cannot sell anything but subscrip- j tions and advertising, and every- i body with a grain of intelligence j knows that the subscription price, nnthino- like envprs the eost of nrint- ! ing any newspaper. Therefore, the; only thing The Herald has to raise : revenue from is advertising: and the government is not only willing to accept that, but from expressions in the i prints, newspapers refusing to give! away its space are considered slack-1 ers. There are a good many mouths | dependent on The Herald's advertising ! space for food and clothes, and if the! government wont pay for the space it! wants to advertise bonds, we will ' have to sell it to somebodv who will ' pay for it. We are giving plenty of} t r\ T V> o /.nr> ;pri nt lVirt cv?td)11 hilt CV UiV. *.v'Us.Ai w vv**i, V\*V j when it comes to sellinsr bonds, that I ~ I is a money proposition, and one of the arguments offered for buying! bonds is that this is the richest conn-1 try in the world. If we have billions j of dollars in this country for the allies, we have plenty of money with , which to pay the poor printers who ! have to dig their living out of the case, and those millionaire newspaf per owners in congress who fought the plan to pay the newspapers for advertising the bond issue ought to have their millions confiscated, instead of the government levying on the little county papers for space which is needed for live news and local advertising that advertisers are glad to pay for. Why Does Oil Calm the Sea? Waves in inidocean are caused entirely by the action of the wind. The adhesion between the rapidly moving particles of air which compose the wind and the surface particles of the water cause the water's surface to be dragged along with the air. Sntali ripples soon overtake others near them. They unite, and, due to the friction between the water particles, each succeeding ripple piles up on the top of previous ones. Just as soon as oil is spread upon the water, however, the size of the waves is reduced like magic. The reason for this is interesting. Oil. unlike water, has very little internal friction between its particles. The ripples of oil formed by the wind, therefore, cannot pile upon each other to any considerable height. Hence water waves cannot grow in an area of oil placed about a steamer. They begin to fall down instead. By j the time these waves reach the boat I they will have lost their formative j ripples, and the result is a perfectly j calm surface over the portion of the sea through which the boat is making its way.?Popular Science .Monthly. Time's Changes. The naval captain had granted a ' private interview with the cadet whose father had been his boyhood friend. "Well, youngster, he said jovially.. "the old story, I suppose?the fool of the family sent to sea." "Oh. no, sjr." replied the boy: "that, has all been altered since your day."?Coliier's Weekly. ' %> * . ' ,;/v: wm 5. HALL, CARLISLE SCHOOL. (Re it <5rows a tX little bigger^ X? ATt\A I a Fortune, \? That young couple who to put into the bank each pc the right idea. What is the good of extn ifAn'if/? e?r>*?rsf- uftnr WAnffV U5 yXJKA M K* jpoi u j vu i t i ivi money is your best friend; k Put YOUR mor We pay 4 per cent intei People I BAMBEi HKAT KEEPS HEART GOING. Would Continue to Heat After Death Under Certain Conditions. The Question "Why does a man or an animal die?" has been answered ; "Because the heart stops beating." But any hunter or fisherman who has dressed his own catch can testify to the tact that the heart does not stop beating at the moment of the animal's death. It will continue to pulsate rhythmically for several minutes after it has been removed from the : carcass. The most recent answer to : the "Why?" of this is that the heart i muscles themselves possesses the ini herent quality of contraction and J will contract, or beat, just as soon or ; as long, as the conditions of environj ment are right. That is their busi! ness, and they can no more refrain | from doing it under the right condi} tions than a rose could help giving ! out its fragrance. | A Scrap of Paper Worth While. I It was rather a modest looking bit : of paper which Samuel H. Lever, financial secretary for the government of Great Britain and Ireland : handed to the Federal Reserve bank I in New York calling for the transfer : of $200,000,000, the largest sum ; checked out of any bank in the his1 tory of the world. It was written on an ordinary scrap of paper, upon ' ^ ? of- oil wmcii uiere %><*.& uu pinning ?n, an, and read: '"Please pay to .Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. the sum of $200,000,000, charging this amount to the government of Great Britain and Ireland." And the Federal Reserve bank cashed this uncommonly democratic check without requiring .Mr. Lever to bring up somebody to identify him.?Charlotte Observer. An Exception. She?Isn't it funny that handsome men are always disagreeable? He?Oh. 1 always try 10 be pleas! ant.? Lite. " mi - ... m ? HI " : ' -.' l r ; . *4 I ;--v " '' cently Remodeled.) began together ssving a little iy day and made it grow, had gant "splurging?" As soon ' your friends disappear. Your ;eep it safe in the bank. | ley in OUR bank I rest on savings accounts. i s Bank 1 RG, S. C. I Put the "Loafers to Work. At a time when every American citizen should be doing something for i his country there should be no sympathy with loafers. The police should j make their campaign against this gentry thorough. The navy wants men. the army wants men. men are wanted in the foodstuff campaign?and street corner denizens should be made to get busy at something use- i fill. What an army could be raised ] if all the loafers were made to drill! And drilling would be a good thing for them: maybe it would teach them that there is something better than killing' time.?Savannah morning | News. . A Suspicion. "Why is George Washington described as 'First in war and first in peaco'?" "I dunno," replied Senator Sorghum. "I suspect somebody was trying to square him with both the preparedness people and the pacifists." j ?Washington Star. In Genteel Society. Wife?Use the tongs in 'ere, Will- J iam, for the sugar.. ! Husband (surprised)?W'y! 'Taint 'ot is it??Judge. c ex I FT F5TWP1 Ride \on the P to the fL RE you getting your share of serve a part of your wealt the bank. Willful waste means possible change in conditions. 1 to provide for a s e ::. rnf^llinor U'llOTI TP A a premium. It is Y ready cash who is i 9 IlitiSSkSlI day about that ban 4 Per Cent. Interest Ps CAPITAL AND SURPLU Bamberg E 1 THE INVESTMENT I YOUR ESTATE II I TION IS I | absolutely impossible by I your executor or trustee | maintained in a separat 1 are closely scrutinized b\ | can therefore only be in : h the law requires. By y iyour Executor or Trustee assume, wnen you name BAMBERG BAN Barabe 1 "FOUR I f- Why Yon Shoold Sabscri FIRST?The Government, : support?your fi t support. SECOND?The Loan must t point?it must b ^ funds needed by THIRD?It is the Duty of 9^ his, or her. indi welfare of our C< eal and trying ti 4?J FOURTH?These bonds ar * A ^ A -il won a, pay 6 i-z all taxes except J SUBSCRIBE NOW. tc ?{^ We nave subscribed to the loan for 0#, vices at the disposal of the pubii* scri'oers to make their subsci 1 The Citizens I DE.VMA 4 / * * I , Hard Lines. There is in the employ of a Brooklyn woman an Irish cook who has managed to break nearly every vaI rietv of article that the household ! contains. The mistress's patience I reached its limit recently when she discovered that the cook had broken the thermometer that hung in the dining room. "Well, well," sighed the lady of the house in a resigned way, "you've managed to break even the thermometer, haven't you?" Whereupon, in a tone equally re signed, the cook said: "Vis, mum; and now we'll have to ? :;.ke the- weather just as it comes, I won't we?"?Brooklyn Eagle. * *1 Thunder and Theology. * The thunder crashed and pealed between flashes of lightning and blinding dashes of rain. One of the darkies thought maybe a little strong language would ease his mind; but his companion remonstrated with him. "Look heah, yo' Charles Richard? yo' quit yo' cussin'. Don't yo' know dat Gawd's got yo' completely in His i power jest now?"?Richmond TimesDispatch. x> o rosperity \ Bank the prosperity? If you ire, conh. Deposit your surplus cash in woeful want. Be prepared for a veep enough balance in the bank tagnation. There's adv cash will be at * the man with the (i inal'raid. See us to- V ik account of yours. iiy&Ajil t . lid on Savings Deposits. 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