Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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? * / in sdnd that all snb^ scriptions to The Herv^aY -a ahl must now be paid _ * IzZ?WF"1 advance. This is the ? j0UEBf 4 ^ the law, and we will i () fti> 4/ajtnt h^rrr to I n > ? JPauuu Ay i^ri aiy ,g ^ * $2.00 Per Year in Advance. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 16,1919. Established in 1891. I OLAR PLAYS NOBLE PART IN THE WAR LARGE CONTRIBUTIONS IN MEN AND MONEY. AD War Work Quotas Oversubscriced la Every Phase of the War, This Fine Town Showed Up in Splendid Manner. i The town of Olar has an enviable war record. Although nothing more than a country village with a popuv v lation of around 400, she has made aa great contribution, if not greater, than any other town in this State for its size. The citizens of Olar justly feel proud of the noble part they have played in making the world victory possible. We are told that in such stupendous times as our country has been passing through for the past year, actual service is the only - word that counts. If this be true, then Olar and her folks, should ever be remembered as faithful co-workers in the great struggle for democracy. Her contributions consisted of % men and money. Absolutely every . liberty loan quota was oversubscribed. Today Olar points with pride to her ^ young men who sacrificed business careers left cherished home ties and volunteered in the service of their country. No praise would be too elaborate for these young warriors. We stand ready to do them honor, because when the roll was called and the press reports began to reach the dear old U. S. A., what division was it that was commended by no less noble personages than Field Marshal Haig and our venerable Pershing? The thirtieth division is composed of men from Tennessee, North and South Carolina, and it was with this T\_ yT?' "y . / division that many of the Olar lads had an opportunity to make good the promises they made to their facers and mothers when -the word * Sood-bye was spoken. The ^11 .of hpnor comprises the following names: E. C. Parker, Archie Barker, J. B. Barker, Frank Brown, Hayne Breiand, C. M. Chitty, J. W. Chitty, W. B. Cooke, Shelly Fail, Joe Garrett, R F. Goodwin, Horace Gunnels, S. L. Hiers, Jr., Clyde Kearse, Elvyn Kearse, Faber Kearse, Henry Kearse, J. C. Kearse, Fletcher Kirkland, J. R. McCormack, Jr., A. R. Morris, Beaelle Morris, C. C. Morris, Eddie Morris, Henry Morris, J. H. Morris, J. E. Neeley, C. B. Ray, M. E. Rizer, C. H. Still, and Juttie Still. x > Since most of these men were volv> anteers, they naturally selected the ' branch of service most inviting, and "W for which they were best equipped and-fitted. Olar's quota rates as follow?: Number serving in infantry, 18; H. artillery, 4; Q. M. C.,\4; M. R. C., 1; aviation, 1; navy, 3. * Number of commissioned officers in army, 3; in navy, 1; non-commissioned officers in army, 5; in navy, 1. Now that the war is over, we are thinking of their home coming. Fortunately for Olar she has not lost but one white man, although many of her sons have been in the thickest of the fray. The friends and admirers of First Lieutenant C. B. Ray, M. R. C., who was gassed while in action on the night of October 28 near Verddn, will be glad to learn that he has returned r v to duty with his original division, the 26th. Lieut. Ray, before volun.. teering for foreign service, practiced medicine here. Dr. Ray is an honor graduate of the Medical College of S. C. In 1917, realizing the need of doctors in the army he gave up a fine practice and offered his rervices to Uncle Sam. Immediately after volunteering the government commissioned him first lieutenant and or dered him to report to New York, where he sailed for France Sept. 7, 1917. Since his arrival on foreign soil, he has served on various sectors, all of which will go down in history as immortal battle grounds. They are: Toul, Chateau Thierry, St. Mihie] and Verdun. His time and attention while abroad, has been given to sue! units and organizations as: 101 ambulance corps, 104 field hospital, 101 ammunition train, 101 infantry. Dr Ray was almost worshipped in his home town, and the news of his dismissal from the hospital will certainly be a source of much comfort tc his many friends.?Contributed. / Automobile batteries recharged b: Delco-Light at Brickie's Garage, adv S. C. TROOPS BROKE THROUGH LINE FIRST FIELD MARSHAL HAIG MAKES REPORT ON BATTLE. Thirtieth Division On Job At Hindenburg Line High Tribute Paid to American Fighters by Head of British Forces in France. London, Jan. 8.?American troops were the first to break the Hinaenburg line, according to the The Daily News in its comment today on the report of the field marshal on the report of operations from April last to the close of hostilities. The News points out that at least the first mention of a break through contained in the field marshal's report was in the course of his description of the day's work on September 29, in which he wrote: "North of Bellenglise the Thirtieth (North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and District of Columbia) American division, Major Gen. E. M. Lewis, having broke through the deep defences of the Hindenburg line, stormed Bellincourt and seized Nouroy. On their left the twenty-seventh American division, (New York) Major Gen. O'Ryan, met with very heavy enfilading machine gun fir? but pressed on with great gallantry as far as Jouy, where a bitter struggle took place for possession of the village". The fighting on the whole front of the second American corps was severe and in Bellincourt. Nouroy, Gillemont farm and a number of other points, amid the intricate defences of the Hindenburg line, strong bodies of the enemy held out with great ob stinacy for many hours. "These points of resistance were gradually overcome either by the support troops of the American divisions or by the Fifth and Third Australian divisions." Americans Great Fighters. London, Jon. 7.?Field Marshal Haig, whose report on operations from the end of April until the end of hostilities was made public tonight, pays a high tribute to Marshal Foch and alludes to the "splendid fighting qualities of the American forces." In concluding his report the field marshal wrote: "At the moment when the final triumph of the Allied cause is assured ; we and all others of the Allies and i associated armies can look back on , the years that have gone with satis. faction undimmed by any hint of dis. cord or conflict of interest and ideals. . Few alliances of the past can boast of such a record. Few can show a purpose more tenaciously and faith L fully pursued or so tuny ana gion. ouslv realized. Absolute Loyalty. "If the complete unity and har[ mony of our action is to be ascribed . to the justice of our cause, it is due i to the absolute loyalty with whicl that cause has been pursued by al those, entrusted with the control o] . the different Allied armies whicl 5 fought side by side." The report takes up in detail tin - fighting on various parts of th( > British front, which the field mar shal states, was carried on as a par of the grand plan of the campaigi j laid down by the Allied high com . mand. At the close of operation: ! CARLISLE SCI ACCEPTE 0F1 I J The friends of Carlisle School will be interested to learn that the school has been awarded a unit of the reserve officers' training cor^s, and that an army officer will be detailed here at an early date. Some weks ago Major Freeman, of the corps, stationed at that time at the South Carolina Military academy, Charleston, visited Carlisle and """''n on innnnnfmn Wa ronnrtpft tf? Luauc au lUi^yuv/bivu. aav A ?v the Southeastern department, who in turn reported to the war department. Sunday mori/ing Headmaster J. C. Guilds received a telegram from the war department informing him that the school had been accepted as a part of the corps, and that the army officer would be sent to command the corps. This means .that hereafter Carlisle will be a full fledged military school under the direct supervision of the war department. The new status of the school will be permanent, as it has nothing to do with the students' officers' training corps', i which was recently disbanded. I It is understood that the order i carries with it provisions for the j furnishing of regulation army rifles, ; and possibly uniforms and full mili! tary equipment. Head Master Guilds was instruct| ed to proceed with the organization T~~\ the report declares: Fought to a Standstill. "In the decisive contests in the period conversed by the report the strongest and most vital parts of the enemy's front were attacked, his lateral communications were cut his best divisions were fought to a standstill. On the different battle fronts the British took 187,000 prisoners and 2,850 guns, bringing the total number of prisoners captured during the'year to over 201,000. These results were achieved by fifty-nmt> fighting British divisions, which in the course of three months battle engaged and defeated ninety-nine separate German divisions. When the armistice was signed by the enemy his defensive powers had already been definitely destroyed. Continuance of hostilities would have meant only destruction to the German s.rmj ies and an armed invasion of Germany." Indomitable British. The morning Post says that the . field marshal's report demonstrates l "how the British army, having been brought as near to defeat without being beaten as any other army in . history, and standing before Europe : and disaster, rallied its spent vigor, i assembled and trained reinforce ! ments, built new plans on the ruins of the old, waited until the moment came to strike, struck with more than the old weight and resolve be. hind the blow and continued strik[ ing until the resistance of the ene? my was utterly broken. i The Post pays tribute to the won Herfni strategic schemes of Marshal , ~ - - I Foch and concludes: i "Field Marshal Haig ranks as the peer of the greatest among British j generals." j The Daily Express says the crux . of the whole of the Hindenburg det fenses, and adds: 1 Unity of Command. "But, above all, the unity of com3 mand stands out from these pages as -iOOL D AS UNIT WE R. 0. T. C. of the corps. As the school is already fully organized, no further organization is necessary, and it is likely that the school will go into the R. O. T. C. at or.ce. Carlisle is to be congratulated upon securing the government recognition, as very few schools in the State have thus far been accepted into the R. O. T. C. The school is already under strict military discipline, but this is purely a local matter. Hereafter the military discipline ana training will be under government control and supervision. Being under war department supervision will easily put Carlisle in the racks of the best and most attractive schools for boys in the South. The school has experienced wonderful development in the last few years, ! and this year has the largest attendance in its history. At the beginning of the present session it was decided to put the school under military discipline, and regulation uniforms, with a distinctive mark, were permitted to be worn. The picture shown herewith is a j photograph of the boys of the school : taken while in formation. The school | also has this year about twenty-five girls, one dormitory being given over ! to. the girls under the supervision of 1 a capable matron. fe^|Kiy^yg^!^gBwBW^^8q^^K^>|sfi^v^|y^r" I having given the victory." The Daily News thinks the raaiD service of the field marshal's report | is to demonstrate "the unappreciated brilliance of the achievement, of the British forces and the magnitude of | the part played by these forces in | the last great movement. "The risk, royally accepted by the British commander-in-chief when i Marshal Foch arranged that defense should give place to attack," continues the newspaper, "has never yet been released. Early in July Crown Prince Rupprecht's army was facing the British opposite Douai, with reI serves intact, ready for the attack, j Nevertheless, Marshal Foch, anticii pating an attack upon Rheims, transI ferred all the eight French divisions | in Flanders t-o that (sector, and he j also had four British divisions movI ed south to the Somme in order to j enable him to transfer more French j divisions to his right flank. "A few days later a further four | divisions were asked for and duly dis; patched to the French front. The j British force north of the Somme was therefore, weakened by sixteen divisions. If Rupprecht had struck before Foch the consequences might have been alarming, but Foch struck first and Rupprecht's opportunity was lost forever. "The Germans might be forgiven for misjudging the situation in view of the completely successful system or camouflage devised by Field Marshal Haig to conceal his real intention. That is only one of the many convicing evidences that, in the later [ stages of the war at least, the efficiency of the British geners.iship was ! not less than the valor of the British i troops. "What may, if the ru'e of sanity ; and justice in world affairs be estab' lished, prove the last great campaign of the British army will live in history as a campaign in which the re pute of the British arms was raised > to its summit." SOUTH CAROLINA'S PART IN THE WAR WALTER E. DUNCAN REVIEWS STATE'S ACTIVITIES. 60,000 Men Under Arms From This State State's Financial Contributions to Various Drives Reached $95,840,541. Columbia, Jan. 11.?South Carolinavhas upward of 60,000 men in the armed service of the nation during the war, of which there are actually recorded around 53,000 in the army ancf 5,011 in the navy, according to a review of this State's parti cipation in the war, prepared by Walter E. Duncan, executive secretary to Governor Manning, which was released today for publication. In addition to this the review shows that the Red Cross, exclusive of the recent Christmas roll call, has 90,641 members in South Carolina, and that this State has ten men and twenty women workers overseas. There are eighty South Carolinians in the Young Men's Christian Association overseas work and seventy-two in training camps and cantonments in the United States. In summing up South Carolina's financial contribution to the war, Mr. Duncan said: "South Carolina's contribution in money toward financing the war through liberty loans and war savi ings Stamps, and the humanitarian and welfare work incident to the war, through the Red Cross and the Y. M. j C. A. and other agencies, very nearly i approaches the hundred million mark ! ?to be exact, $95,840,541." i The full text of Mr. Duncan's review, showing as it does South Carolina's wonderful achievement, fol! lows: Mr. Duncan's Review. "Out of a DODulation of 1,515,400, i according to the census of 1910, ! South Carolina has furnished to the i army upwards of 53,000 men and to ! the navy and marine corps, during I the period of the war, 5,011 men. | The Palmetto State's quota of fight| ing men, therefore was more than j 58,000 men?which figure does not | include those in the military or naval I service to April 6, 1917. "In the first draft South Carolina's quota was 15,147 men. About onethird of the full quota enlisted?to be exact, 5,040 men?and the remaind| er, 10,081, were drafted into the I military service. j "In the second draft South Carolij na furnished the nation 37,271 men, ! in addition to which number 3,480 I ! enlisted voluntarily, making a total of 37,751. "These figures take account of only those of whom there is complete rec ord. In addition, many South Caroj lina boys, residing temporarily in | other States, or away from their homes, enlisted; and many others living near the border lines of other States, near to cities in other States, crossed over and enlisted. Of those | there is no record in South Carolina. The total will, therefore, upwards of 60,000. South Carolina's Part in the Liberty Loans. i "To all of the four liberty loans the people of South Carolina responded generously, subscribing to $6,000,000, of the first loan, $17,921,X r OVERSEAS MAIL ALL BALLED UP POSTOFF1CE FOLK PASS BUCK TO WAR DEPARTMENT. Letters Coming Back To This Country Millions May Be Returned to United States Failing to Reach Soldiers. Washington, Jan. 50.?Prom eight to ten car loads of mail for American soldiers are undelivered in France, Second Assistant Postmaster Otto Praeger told the senate postoffice committee today, and "thousands and probably millions" of letters addresed to the men overseas will arrive in New York soon to be sent to the dead letter office when an attempt will be made to return to the writers. Blame for the failure to deliver this mail was placed on the war department by Mr. Praeger, who again explained that the army authorities handle all soldiers' mail in France, the postoffice delivering outgoing mail at Hoboken and receiving returning mail at the French ports. Mr. Praeger said one way to improve conditions overseas would be ^ ta aati/1 n Af ovnoriflnmail LU O^UU Ck LXJX V-\J VJL ^A^VIA^JUVWU UAWAA clerks to France to deliver the mail to the soldiers. " / Members of the committee sought to ascertain whether there was any delay at French ports in handling ihail coming to this country. Not at Ports. : . 3! "The trouble does not lie at the ports," declared Mr. Praeger. "It lies somewhere between army headquarters, censors and the ports." Mr. Praeger told the committee one reason for the confusion in the delivery of mail to soldiers was the failure of the war department to keep up its index system. This same cause, he declared, also was responsible for the department's delay in sending out allotments to soldiers and in reporting casualties. Another source of delay in delivering mail promptly, he added, was the transferring of units of troops from one point to another, but he said this should cause only a few days' delay as the mail could readily be forward-' 7" ed to. the moving troops. Asked what facilities the war de-, partment has for handling mail, Mr. Praeger said about 50 experienced mail clerks were sent by that depart jpent overseas while the remainder of the necessary force for this work was made up of inexperienced men. The second assistant postmaster general appeared before the committee to urge an appropriation of $3,000,000 for the maintenance and development of the aerial maid service. ' Future in Air. He predicted a great future for this service and declared extensive plans for developing aerial mail facilities are being made by France, England and Canada, the latter now planning the establishing of an air route connecting Montreal with Boston. Extension of the present air mail service between Washington and New York so as to connect Boston with Atlanta is planned, Mr. Praeger said. in aaauion it is ?ns>u piupuscu lv/ establish routes connecting New York and Omaha, via Chicago and Boston, with Detroit through Albany and Buffalo. Establishment of these routes, he said, would cost $2,034,000 while he estimated the revenues ! would total $2,060,125. Replying to questions of senators, Mr. Praeger said, relative to the cost ' of operating the air mail service be! tween Washington and New York ! during the last six months was $75,165, while the revenues totalled $60,653. 750 of the second loan, $19,426,250 of the third loan., and $37,117,950^ of the fourth loan, a grand total ot $80,465,950, a sum sixteen times the State debt. To the third loan there / were 87,905 subscribers in South | South Carolina, and the State's quota | of $14,625,000 was greatly oversuhi scribed. The percentage of the State's subscription, based on the quota, was 132.8. In the fourth loan, the people of South Carolina oversubscribed their quota of $32,452,000 by nearly $5,000,000 or 114.4 per cent, and there were about 114,000 subscribers. (Continued on page 4, column 1.) - ' ' v