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PERSONAL MENTION.
People Visiting in This City and at
Other Points.
?J. F. Carter, /Esq., speni
Monday in Columbia.
?Miss Cora Connor spent a few
days in Branchville last week.
?Miss May Bowman spent a few
days last week in Orangeburg.
?Mrs. F. B. McCrackin has gone
to Millen, Ga., for a two weeks visit.
?Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Heard spent
Sunday in Orangeburg with relatives.
?Miss Mary Livingston, of Columbia,
was in the city for several
days last week.
?Miss Mamie Hartzog visited her
Mater, Mrs. D. C. Murph, in Orangefcnrg
this week.
?Mrs. J. Gary Black, of Charleston,
is visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. E. L. Price.
?Mrs. S. A. Hand left S"uday afternoon
for a Charleston hospital to
nndergo treatment.
?Misses Edith White and Lucile
Hunter, of Coker college, Hartsville,
ere at home this week.
?Misses L^lla Byrd and Ottawa
Easterling spent a few days at home
from Columbia last week.
?Mr. Pinckney Smoak, of Woflege,
Spartanburg, was at home this
eek for a short vacation.
?Mrs. J. Gordon Ellison, of Millen,
Ga., was the guest of Mrs.
- George S. Smith last week.
?Prof. W. H. Hodges has returned
to the city from Charleston,
here he spent a few days with reli
atives.
?Mrs. H. N. Folk and children
tiave returned from Orangeburg,
here they spent two weeks with
relatives.
?-Misses Mary Williams and Jean
Price, of Columbia college, spent a
few days in the city last week.
?Misses Vista and Evelyn Brabham,
\ Mildred Jones and Leona
\ . Brabham, of Converse college, Spartanburg,
spent a few days at their
homes in the city this week.
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?Col. and Mrs. J. R. Owens left
Taesday for Charleston, where Col.
. * Owens is to be under treatment.
Col. Owens has been ill for several
weeks, and it is likely that he will
have to undergo an operation. His
many friends trust that he will soon
return home recovered in health.
The Great Clock of Strasburg.
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The great clock of the cathedral
has been for nearly six centuries an
object of public curiosity and amusement.
The astronomical clock was
hrst built by the Bishop Bercthold,
of Birchegg, in 1352, and was completed
two years later by the Bishop
John, of Lichtenberg. The clock originally
occupied the space facing that
j which it occupies at present in the
southern transept. Besides various
astronomical devices indicating the
true solar time, it has a great plane
tarium in which the revolution of
the planets is represented, so that the
relative position of each at any time
can be seen at a glance. Then, on an
elevated platform, are moving figures
representing the four ages of man.
On a still higher platform is a
natural-sized figure of Jesus and
at noon the twelve apostles pass bev
fore the feetvof their master, bowing
low. As Peter passes a large
and marvelously lifelike cock flaps
fcls wings, ruffles his feathers and
crows three times very loudly and
naturally. The clock was definitelycompleted
in 1574, to be destroyed
during the revolution of 1789. But
In 1842, a Strashurg artist named
Cchwielgue built the clock which still
exists and is a faithful copy of the
Old timepiece.
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Airplane Regulations.
President Wilson, in submitting
? to the house recentlv recommends
tions of the national advisory committee
for aeronautics for legislation
placing the licensing and regulation
of aerial navigation in charge of the
department of commerce, declared
"he fully approved the suggested
legislation." Secretaries Baker Daniels
and Redfield also have indorsed
the proposal.
The legislation would give the'department
of commerce authority to
Issue licenses for civilian operation
of air craft and provide an appropna
tion of $25,000 for the necessary expenses.
A letter from C. D. Walcoti,
chairman of the executive committee,
said the legislation should be
passed at once. Mr. Walcott
pointed out the absence of any federal
authority for establishing rules
and regulations governing civilian
operation, said if the war department
sold its surplus machines many ama
teurs would attempt fljing with many
accidents resulting. Operation of
"unlicensed and irresponsible aircraft,"
he added would cause proba.bly
complications from smuggling
from Mexico and Canada.
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STICK TO 1
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Stick to the Jews, for the
Grand in their strength
Thousands of graves tell
Who have done more tl
Stick to the Jews?blesse
True in their honor as
Saving with blo^d Frecdc:
Giving their all that 01
Stick to the Jews?they a
They who were happy t
Never betraying that ban
Brothers forever in Lil
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Stick to the Jews, for the
Grand in their strength
Thousands of graves tell
Who have gone further
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FIGURES OF THE DRAFT.
At End of War United States Forces
Numbered 4,791,172 Men.
The United States was ready to increase
its fighting force to 7,131,172
men during 1919 if the war had continued.
Provost Marshal General
I Crowder stated in his annual report
to Congress.
A reserve of 2,340,000 class 1 men
! was waiting to be mobilized when
I the armistice was signed, the report
stated, the armed strength of the nation
then being 4,791,172 men. When
war was declared the armed strength
' was 378,619 men.
i Two out of every three men in unij
form were raised through the draft,
j Crowder stated, the total number in
ductad during the war being 2,810,296.
Every one was taken from
class 1.
Only 18 per cent, of the men of
I military age, 18 to 45, were in the
! service, the report stated, while Eng1
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available fighters.
In all 24,234,021 men were registered
by the great draft system for
military service.
Seven per cent, was the maximum
percentage of men taken from any
any one industry.
The farmers were treated better
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than any other workers, 69 per cent,
of those registered being granted deferred
classification. Comparatively
few married men were taken, the
records showing that 89 per cent, of
them were deferred.
Physically the nation is 70 per
cent, perfect, according to the draft
.examiners. This is the percentage
of the men found fit. This does not
include the limited service of men
or those whose defects could be remedied.
The highest percentages of physical
fitness come from the middle
west. Oklahoma led the nation with
82 per cent,, closely followed by Arkansas,
Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming.
Texas and North Dakota. Rhode
Island and Arizona show the largest
percentage of physically unfit with
Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont,
New York and Washington close.
Rhode Island had only 53 per cent,
fit and New York 60 per cent.
Heart troubles, eyes, tuberculosis
and mental defects brought the largest
number of rejections, each claiming
more than 19 per cent, of the total
disqualified. Flat feet took only
1.3 per cent.
General Crowder's "work or figl)t"
order forced 120,000 men either into
the army or useful work and his
drive on the slacker marriages added
123,000 men to class 1. Eighteen
thousand waiters alone changed their
More than 295,000 are still classed
work, as did 17,000 clerical workers,
as deserters by the provost marshal
general's office, having failed to answer
calls or register. About 67,000
have been apprehended.
Eight thousand convicts or exprisoners
were inducted and their
records show they made fine fighting
men.
General Crowder closes his report
with a tribute to all who helped make
the draft a success. The total cost
of the draft was only $16,000,000
and General Crowder had S3S.000,000
appropriations waiting to go
back to the treasury. The per capita
cost of the inductments was $6.52,
as compared with $217 in the '60s.
The cost of enlisting a volunteer was
$28.95 during the operation of the
draft.
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A Tip for the League of Nations.
Paderewski is going to be the
president of Poland. Then why not
place John McCormack, the Irish
sweet sin?cr at the head of the population
of the Emerald Isle, and elect
Caruso president of Italy? Thus
^irrht harmonv be established in
Europe?New York Globe.
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THE JEWS.
swish Welfare Drive.)
y stuck to Old Glory!
to the last dying breath;
the eloquent story;
ian to battle to death!
d race of the Master,
heroes of old?
sn's Flag from disaster?
ir Nation might hold!
re ours and we love them,
o battle and bleed;
ner above them?
mrty's Creed!
y stuck to Old Glory!
to the last dying breath;
the eloquent story;
than to battle to death!
JAMES EDWIN KERR.
BUSINESS OF THE FARMER.
1 Cannot Pay Good Wages Because It
Does Not Control Product Prices.
, "An employment agency in one of
; the largest cities of Texas states that
i out of 1,000 applicants for employment
not one asked to be sent to
i work on a farm." B. Harris, comi
missioner of agriculture, says in an
| interview just given out. What does
J that mean? Merely that farm life is
I not remunerative enough and not at1
tractive enough for the young men
! of our country. Why should not our
I young men on the farm be paid as
| much as cotton mill operatives or
the man at the forge? The only answer
that I can see is that the man
on the farm is not allowed to fix the
price of what he produces.
"We are now engaged in a fight to
the finish, a fight which means that
the South must forever submit to accept
with the submission of beggars
the price that may be fixed by individuals
that have never worked, or
the South will now emerge master of
the situation and able to place upon
its own commodity the price which
the South sees fit. The coal miners
of England and the diamond mines
of Africa do not say that they wrill
accept any price that may be offered
them?they tell the world what it
must give.
"Now, with regard to the cotton, I
wish to call attention to some singular
facts. The largest cotton crop
ever grown in the United States yielded
less to the producer than one of
the smallest. That doesn't appear
reasonable, but it is a fact. The great
crop of 1912 which was 16,184,930
bales brought in cash to the producers
but $810,000,000, while the
small crop of two years ago, 11,302,375
bales brought in cash to the producer.
$1,667,000,000. In other
words we grew in 1912 for nothing
4,832,555 bales.
"This should be the very strongest
evidence possible to convince the farmer
that the right thing and the best
thing for him to do is to take warning
and to do what the^ best informed
people are urging him to ao?curtail
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per cent.
"The farmer should not raise a
large crop this year and thereby
should sell it for a profit and not
merely for the cost of production or
less. It is much better to raise five
bales to the horse and make a profit
on them than it is to raise ten bales
at a loss to the farmer. As surely as
the cotton farmers grow a big crop
this year, just that surely they will
grow it at a loss.
"What will the farmers gain by
growing a 14,000,000 bale crop this
; year that will cost them at least 25
| cents per pound with high priced
j fertilizer and high priced labor? Now,
just stop and think and remember
: that you farmers can make the crop
I profitable or unprofitable. Which
| shall it be?"
I Commissioner Harris is no convert
! to the new idea of mixed farming,
, for he has ^een trying it for 3V
I years. The first year that he began
| to farm, he failed because he planted
! all cotton. But since that time he
has been engaged in what is now
known as diversified farming, and
he is a living example that it pays.
| Deliverable Grades of Cotton.
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Kepresemauve bever, ui ouum
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, Carolina, chairman of the agriculi
ture committee, has introduced in the
I house a hill amending the cotton future
act so as to reduce the number
of deliverable grades of cotton from
20 to 10 and to provide for govern;
ment classification of the certificated
! stock of the cotton exchanges to be
i delivered on contract to middling
! fair, strict good middling, strict mid!
dling, middling, strict low middling,
i and low middling, and the grades of
yellow tinged to good middling and
strict middling. Good middling, yellow
stained cotton, is also included.
ART WORKS RECOVERED.
French Get Back Many Masterpieces
t That Germans Carried Away.
Great anxiety, writes a Paris correspondent,
has been felt during the
whole course of the great conflict for
the invaluable artistic treasures
which for four long years were exposed
in the north of France to the
devastation or war. r or tne museums
of northern France were
amongst the richest of the couatry
even of Europe, and were consequently
a tempting prey for German official
connoisseurs.
The museum of Lille was, perhaps,
most badly treated by the Germans.
It contained masterpieces signed by
Rubens, Frans Hals, Van Dyck, Jordaens,
Garard David, Goya, Chardin,
Fragonard. All these works were
transported to Valenciennes, as well
as several hundred drawings by Mantegna,
Giotto, Poussin, Corregio, Anna,
Giotto, Poussin, Corregio, Andrea
del Sarto and Michael Angelo.
These deported masterpieces were
soon rejoined by the pictures which
had been the pride of the museum
of Douai; works by van der Weyden,
Rubens, Holbein van der Goss, Antonio
Moro, followed by the rare MSS.
of the archives of Loan, were soon
stored near the artistic spoils of Lille.
Happily they have now been discov
ered; at the approach of the British
troops, the Germans had hastily sent
them on to Brussels in barges which
were abandoned by the army of the
former kaiser at La Capelle-au-Bois.
Fortunately the Germans had intrusted
the safety of these master|
pieces to M. Plevet, of Valenciennes,
J who had also undertaken to watch
; over the art treasures of his native
I city during their forced journey to
j Brussels. With much difficulty he
i succeeded in getting the barges safely
towed, to Brussels, with their
precious contents, in spite of the intense
disorganization of the retreating
German army; and it is characI
teristic of the Germans that on sev!
eral of the largest cases was inscribed
the name and address of
Prince Ruprecht of Bavaria.
The art treasures of the north are
safe. Even the celebrated pastels of
j Latour, which were the glory of the
j museum of St. Quentin, have been
j recovered, whilst the Quentin Matsvs
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] of Bruges were rouna in a seurei
cellar in which they had been hia
den. The French government is taking
the necessary measures for returning
the vagrant work of art to
, their original museums ? and it is
j hoped that the magnificent works of
: Shongauer which belonged to the
I Colmar museum will soon be resored
i by Bavaria, where they are, it is said,
j one of the finest ornaments of the
I Munich museum!
| American Ships Again Sail the Seven
Seas.
For the first time since the days of
: the famous "Clipper" ships, says a
! Washington dispatch, American merj
chant craft now are plying the seven
i seas, carrying products of the United
I States to the farthest corners of
j the earth and bringing home both
j essentials and luxuries,
j The shipping board announced re
j centlv that the American merchant
j marine fleet, built up under the spur
of war's necessity, now represented
nearly one-fifth of the entire seagoing
tonnage of the worl'd and comprised
46 per cent, of all ships clearing
from United States ports, as
compared with 9.7 per cent, of the
great war.
Trade routes not traversed by
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American craft for more inan ou
years once more are invaded, with
new routes established to China, Australia,
New Zealand, India, the Dutch
East Indies, the west coast of Africa
and ports on the Mediterranean,
j Ships flying the Stars and Stripes
! also are running regularly to South
America, Great Britain and continental
Europe, as well as Canada and
Mexico.
The fleet now engaged in overseas
commerce consists of 351 freighters.
48 freight and passenger vessels, 71
j oil tankers, 230 sailing vessels, and
| 16 miscellaneous ships, aggregating
i 1,961,239 gross tons. Of this total,
j 406,528 gross tons are employed in
i A tlonttn frodo 215.925 tons of
j U aiiOTiuiaativ^ ^ ,
! South American trade, 761,252 tons
j Carribean and Mexican trade, and
! 76,014 tons in Alaskan and Canadian
trade.
When the army and navy return to
the shipping board the 353 ships with
which they are operating the commercial
fleet under the American flag,
the tonnage will be increased by 1,873.251
gross tons m; king the total
3,834,750 gross tons, wich many hundreds
of thousands of tons building
or under contract.
An Infallible Recipe.
Little Eunice was attending her
first class in domestic science and
was asked to tell briefly the surest
j way to keep milk from souring. And
Eunice, who was an exceedingly
practical child, gave this recipe:
"Leave it in the cow."
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REFUSES TO GIVE UP JOB.
Augusta Postmaster Ousted for Alleged
Incompetency.
Augusta, Ga., April 1.?On telegraphic
orders from Washington removing
Postmaster John W. Clark,
of this city, for alleged incompetency,
and appointing J. C. McAuliffe
acting postmaster, Postoffice Inspector
0. C. Cole today offered to install
McAuliffe. Clark for hours refused
to vacate. Late in the afternoon
Clark left the office, when Cole
posted notices in the building that
employes must only obey orders
from McAuliffe. Late tonight Clark
asserted he was still postmaster a"d
that he expected orders in the next
twelve hours which would reinstate
him beyond dispute.
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Now in the Bread Line.
Baron Von der Lancken, formerly
German civil governor of Belgium,
writes an Asociated Press correspondent
from The Hague, sought refuge
in Holland when the Germans retreated
from Belgium. Von der
Lancken was the man to whom the
American minister, Brand Whitlock,
delivered his vain appeal to spare
the life of Edith Cavell, the English
nurse who was executed by the Germans
in October, 1915, for aiding
the British, French and Belgian soldiers
to escape from Belgium. Von
der Lancken then told Hugh Gibson,
fipprptnrv nf fhp AmpriVan Ipg'ntinn
that the sentence imposed by the
military governor on Miss Cavell was
final and that civil governor covla
not overrule it.
When Von der Lancken arrived
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! here he'went to the German legation,
but in order to obtain food cards, he
j had to apply to the police station
where he failed miserably in his efforts
to obtain preferential treatment
as a "distinguished visitor." A
chance caller there found him in line
with a group of unwashed refugees,
his well-groomed figure out of keeping
with his surroundings. He was
compelled to stand in line for two
hours before his wants were attended
to. v
To one who remembers the time
wThen to get a word from Von der
Lancken in Brussels it was necessary
to give two days' notice, after which
one had to struggle through a bodyguard
of haughty, suspicious underlings,
the spectacle of this exquisite
specimen of Prussian junkerdom
waiting his turn in the file amid the
grimy proletariat afforded an excellent
illustration of "the times that
are changed."
Hungry for Hdrse Meat.
Eight hundred condemned army
horses and mules were sold at auction
to a German butcher near Coblenz
last week, writes a correspondent,
with the understanding that all
the animals must be killed to help
relieve the meat shortage within the
occupied area. All the animals sold
had been inspected and found unfit
for military use, owing age or because
they had been infected by gas
during the war. Captain Joseph Kittell,
of Pikeville, Tenn., remount officer
of the quartermaster corps, acted
auctioneer, and butchers from all
parts of the occupied zone attended
the sale. One horse brought $1,175.
Before the war, first-class Belgian
horses in this district were worth
about $500 each. The sale was advertised
in German newspapers, and
as a result many inquiries are pouring
into Coblenz from other cities
asking when the next sale takes
place. A great many letters inquire
especially regarding mules, as the
mule is said to find a better market
than the horse.
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REDUCTION EXCEEDS THIRD.
Cotton Association Gets Reports
From Many States.
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| Columbia, April 1.?The central
committee of the South Carolina
i Cotton association, leaders in the
! cotton reduction movement, today v
| received telegrams from practically
[ all States in the South and in every
i case the reports, which were from official
records, show that the entire
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I South is awake to cotton reduction
! movement and is reducing by more
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I than one-third. In some cases the
' percentage goes as high as 4 0 per
1 cent.
The central committee meets tomorrow
to tabulate these reports
; for the State cotton convention on
Thursday, which promises to be the
largest agricultural gathering ever
held in the State. A sentiment has
been built up in this State which /
makes it impossible for a farmer to
plant his last year's acreage.
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Lincoln Said.
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Well, as to education, the newspapers
are correct. I never went to
school more than six months in my
life. I can say this: That among
my earliest recollections I remember
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'JLiuw, wueu n xiicro cniiu, 1 uacu iu
get irritated when anybody talked
to me in a way that I could not understand.
I can remember going to
my little bedroom, after hearing the
neighbors talk of an evening with
my father, and spending no small
part of the time trying to make out
'-ga
what was the exact meaning of some
| of their, to me, dark sayings.
I could not sleep, although I tried
to, when I got on such a hunt for an
idea until I had caught it; and when
I thought I had got it I was not satisfied
until I had repeated it over
and over again and had put it in language
plain enough, as I thought,
for any boy I knew to comprehend.
This was a kind of passion with me,
and it was stuck with me; for I am
never easy now, when I am handling
a thought, until I have bounded it
north and bounded it south and
Dounuea u east ana Dounaea it west.
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A New Sensation.
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"Well, after next July we won't
be able to take a drink except on the
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sly."
"That's no hardship. I've led an
open life so long now under govern
ment inspection that it will be a
pleasure to practice deceit in ^ny
form." ' # Read
The Herald, $2.00 per year.
TO OUR FRIENDS.
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Not being able to see each one personally,
we wish to take this means r
to thank our neighbors and friends,
both white and colored, for their v ' nmany
expressions of sympathy in the
loss of our home by fire. Especially
do we thank those who so Generously
divided their means, their cash,
their clothing, their provisions,
their feedstuff*, and their laoor
with us. From the depth of our
hearts we thank you; we can never
hope to live to partially repay you,
but we commend you to the great
Ruler of the universe, Who doeth all
things for the best, Who giveth and
Who taheth away. Think for a moment
of a home, not even left with
an emntv bottle, empty jug, or hen
nest box; neighbors and friends, this
is for a purpose, that purpose we do
not know; your gifts takes out
minds back to our Sunday school
lesson of a few weeks ago, "Who is
' our neighbor?" Friends, if we can
| ever be of service to any of you, in
1 any capacity, command us. Again
we thank you. Gratefully and sincerely,
G. B. CLAYTON,
MRS. G. B. CLAYTON,
WILMA CLAYTON.
j Ehrhardt, S. C., March 31, 1919.
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