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m _ J VOtUME XXXI ALLIES DON'T THINK ;! PEACE POSSIBLE NOW Supplementary Reply to Wilson Sets Forth Promise or Long War GERMAN AMBITIONS AND METHODS EVIL Must Be Supprsesed, Says Entente Communication Sent Through Balfour. Washington?The entente allies, in a note addressed by Arthur Balfour, British foreign minister, to Ambassador Spring-Kice, and delivered today to the state department, amplify their reply to President Wilson's peace note by explaining in detail why they believe it impossible at present to attain a peace which wil' assure them such guarantee as they consider essential. The note also explains why the allies demand the expulsion of Turkey from Europe; restoration of Alsace-Lorraine to France, of Italia Irredenta to Italy Orwl fU n 4 aimii 1 nhn ?i onf wiiu vnu uvuvi ivi i HVI IUI viiaiigun oci forth. . I Those who think the future peace of the world may be insured by international treaties and international laws, the note says, have ill learned the lessons taught by recent history. After charging that German influ-j ence in Turkey had resulted in conditions as barbarous and more aggressive than were known under Sultan Abdul Hamid, and that it had been shown Germany can not be expected to respect treaty obligations, Mr. Balfour says: "So long as Germany remains the Germany which without a shadow of justification overran and barbarously ill treated a country it was pledg- j ed to defend, no state can regard its rights as secure if they have n0 better protection than a solemn treaty." Not Only Belgium. ' Asserting that Belgium was not Germany's only victim, and that "neutrals were invited to note outrages which accompanied its conquest," the note recites the "reign of terror" attendant upon Germany's method of warfare, and in that eon-j nection says: "The war staffs of the central pow ers are well content to horrify the world if at the same time thev ^nn1 terrorize it." The people of Great Britain, MrBalfour says, share President Wilson's desire for peace, but do not believe it can be durable unless based on tho success of the allied cause. Such a peace, it is argued, cannot be expected unless these three conditions are fulfilled. Existing causes of international unrest shall be as far as possible removed or weakened of the aggressive aims and the unscrupulous methods of the central powers should fall into disrepute among their own peoples; avid, finally, that behind international Jaw and behind all treaty arrangements for preventing or limiting hos tdities some form of international sanction should be devised which v ould give pause to the hardiest aggressor. It is recognized that the conditions may be difficult of fulfillment, but the belief is expressed that they are in general harmony with President Wilson's ideas. Only Sure Ponce. The note declares confidence that so far as Europe is concerned, none o? the conditions can bo satisfied, even imperfectly, unless peace is socured on the general lines indicated by the allies' joint note. ? LEAK INQUIRY EXTENDED. Washington.?Empowered to employ counsel and expert stock exchange accountants and given 30 days longer to report, the house Tulse committee temporarily halted its peace note leak hearings to consider what lawyer would be sought to direct the broadening inquiry. ' (The "HORR TEACHERS GRANTED HOLIDAY WITH PAY Enabling Them tc Attend the Two Days leacners Institute. To the Teachers of Horry County: You wiil notice in the following recommendation from the County Board of Education that holiday will oe granted to all the teachers of the county on Friday, Feb. 9. This holiday will make it possible for every ?eacher to attend the Teachers' Institute in Conway on Feb. 9th and 10th. The Friday morning session will be devoted to obseving the work in the grades of the Burroughs School, Friday afternoon there will be a discussion of some special phases oi school work. Friday evening will be given up to social features ?*dch will be announced later. On Saturday morning there will be a meeting of the Horry County Teachers' Association. State Supt. of Education, J. E. Swearingen will address the meeting at that time. All teachers are invited and expected to attend this Institute. An interesting program will be given and everything will be done to make your stay in Conway both pleasant and profitable. Please make every effort to be here for Feb. 9 and 10, 1917. I am most anxious to have each teacher of tho county know what the Teacher-Training School is doing and what it hopes to do. This Institute will afford an opportunity for teachers to see the work of the school and to realize the benefit which can come from taking advantage of the training offered. Will you not attend the meeting ? A hearty welcome awaits you. Yours very truly, AGNES D. RICHARDSON, Training-Teacher. Jan. 22, 1917. TEACHER-TRAINING SCHOOL Agnes D. Richardson, Principal. Conway, S C., Jan. 19, 1917. To the Trustees of Horry County: Gentlemen: , Feeling assured of your interest in the schools of Horry county and of your desire for their improvement in every way, and believimr that I shall have your cooperation in every effort I shall make to further improve the schools through the teachers; I Jiave arranged to hold a twodays Teachers' Institute in the Burroughs High School on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 9 and 10, 1917. You will see in the following resolutions that the Cotfnty Board recorn mends that Friday, Feb. 9, 1917 be given as a holiday, provided the teachers attend all the sessions of j the Institute. Will you, please, urge your teachers to attend ? An interesting and instructive programme has been arranged and all who attend will be benefitted from exchange of ideas. State Supt. of Education, J. E. Swearingen, will be present and I hope he will see evidence of interest on the part of trustees and teachers in a full attendance on this meeting. I further believe that much good would result through the formation of a trustees' association and therefore in accordance with the suggestion of the County Board of Education I invite the Trustees of Horry County to meet at the Court House at 11 o'clock Saturday morning Jan. 27, 1917 for the purpose of forming (Continued on page Eight.) m Mrvifp rnntfl nimm WLWd mum UAMIAL ON POSTOFFIGE SITE Congrsesman J. W. Ragsdale wired the Herald late last week that the provision for the purchase of a postoffice site in Conway had just passed the national House of Representatives. The bill passed the house ami went to the Senate where it will fto doubt pass. The news also stated that village mail delivery for Conway is a certainty. Wmx ? COUNTY AND HER PEOPLE, FII CONWAY, S. 0., THURSDAY, ANOTHER RAILROAD WOULD BRING CONWAY Horry is a. large county, ami although we .have a railroad out ol Conway to the out-side world by way of Chudbourn, still the county is to a great extent cut off from the rest of the world as compared to other places in this section of the country. Besides the line to Chadbourn, there is only the branch line of railway to Aynor in one direction and to Myrtle Beach in the other. It is well known that a new road through this county into and across Marion County connecting with the new road somewhere across the Pee Dee, would do as much as any one thing of that kind could do just at this time to aid in placing our town, ns it is said, on the map. Conway would be then very easy of access. The boat lines to Georgetown arc alright in their way, but it is slower than railroad transportation. Let every business man and prop erty owner in Conway exercise his thinking apparatus to the limit from this time on in devising some means of furnishing Conway with better facilities for getting in here from the outside and then going out again whenever people are ready. newwarehousT plans under way New plans for running the Planters Tobacco Warehouse are under way. It will be in operation the coming season. Contracts have been signed for the purchase of two ginning systems which will be erected and run on the second floor during the cotton ginning period of each year. This will not interfere with the tobacco sales which are conductxl entirely on the lower floor of the building.' "We are not at liberty to give the names of the managers yet, but the complete plans will be published later on in the season. OFFICER NEEDED TO ENFORCE LAW Discussing the proposal that a commissioner be elected by the general assembly to enforce the prohibition law, J. K. Breedin, State superintendent of the Anti-Saloon league, said, while in Columbia. "The commissioner should be able to visit every county at least once a year and these trips, made in response to complaints or upon his own initiative, would give to the commissioner first hand impressions. On these trips he would confer with the sheriffs, magistrates and rural policemen and these meetings should result in largely promoting both the activity and efficiency of the officers for they would have at their e'bows the full power of the State instead of the tedious routine of correspondence, which is never fully satisfactory in police measures. ?irr\t ine commissioner in his person would be the coming of the strong arm of the State to cooperate with local officials. From some experence that I had last summer I learned that much more can be accomplished by an aroused local officer, I sometimes with special assistance than by employing .a numerous constabularly. And once a local official is aroused and successful he become - j complete mastre of that situation for i all time. "The commissionership, as I con ceive it, should accomplish much bettor results for the State at loss expense than heretofore. The increasing demands upon a governor's | time and thought make imperative j the delegation of this part of his effort to a commissioner. Another reason for the commissioner might attend preliminary hearings when especial reason should exist and so have the State represented at the beginning." o A large shipment of machinery for the making of munitions, purchased by the Mexican government in Japan is expected to arrive at Manzanillo ir the next two or three days. || j?! tST, LAST, NOW AND FOREVER." JANUARY 26, 1817. TIMBER GUT OUT MILL WILL MOVE The Ward-Bate Company with onft of its saw mills has recently finished the cutting of the timber on the large holdings of Mr. C. B. Dusenbury near Port Harrelson; and the mill has been moved, or rather will be established near a tract of timber belonging to this company at Murrcll's Inlet. The mill while cutting the timber on the Dusenbury \ands was under the management of Messrs. J. W. Little and M. G. Andersen, and their good management resulted in cutting and movnig. the product rapidly. It is stated that Mr. Little and his family will occupy a cottage at Muv roll's Inlet while the work is going oil at that place. Their many friends in Conway will regret foV the family to leave and will be glad when they return. k RECORD BREAKING noniAfn rvnrnTrn unuwu LArcuicu Everything points to a recordbreaking Sunday School attendance throughout our County and the State of South Carolina on "South Carolina Come-to-Sunday-School Day," February 11th. The watchword of the campaign, "Everybody in Sunday School on February 11th?If you're not there, you'll be lonesome," is being heard all over the county. This is said to be the first time in the history of our State that a concerted, systematic, organized effort has been made simultaneously by ah denominations to reach for the Sunday School the last man, woman, ^nd child in South Carolina, and the officers of the South Carolina Sunday School Association, who are directing the campaign, are said to be more than pleased with the present prospects. A large number of our Sunday Schools of all denominations have indicated their intentions of observing the day, and an active campaign is being earned on. This will culminate , j.. n i /M i ? - wn v^vnie-vo-ounuay-scnooi L>ay, l<ebluray 11th, when an attendance more than double the usual average is expected. BUILDINGAT AYNOR GOES ON STEADILY Building is going ahead steadily | at Aynor. The place is fast becoming a nice town. A. D. Lewis has just completed a five room cottage. The handsomepainting makes it one of the best looking dwellings in the town. Daniel Graham is building a nev. dwelling, said to be intended as place fcr Rev. J. D. Harrelson. It will b< a nice house. John T. Shelly has just finishc the foundation for a new and moderi dwelling. It will be among the bcs. looking in that whole section of th< county. The Ladies Temperance Society held a meeting this week at th^ Masonic Hall and listened at a fine lecture from the Rev. Mr. Richardson. Tlinvo - ?!i ? ? ... ii^i v rvv-i u ill ICi it'I'll'' ticns on temperance by the boys and girls. Aynor has one of the best schools in Horry County. It is making constant progress. H. B. Johnson of Aynor spent lasi Monday in Conway. He is one of the leading business men of the place. Aynor is coming. Watch it grow. SOUTH CELEBRATES LEE'S BIRTHDAY Atlanta.?The South Generally celebrated the 110th birthday of General Robert E. Lee today. There were special exercises by the confederate veterans, daughters and s6ns of the confederacy in Atlanta, Memphis, Birmingham and many ether cities, and towns. The banks' are closed in all southern towns. j mM. GERMAN SEA RAiUER AGAIN WREAKS HAVOC Vessel Escapes Blockade and Deals Destruction to Allies' Shipping. A German commerce sea raider has been working havoc in the Atlantic ocean on entente allied shipping. Between the Azore islands and South America during the period from December 12 to January 10 at least 13 vessels?ten British steamers, a Japanese steamer and two French sailing craft?were captured by the raid or, and it is presumed that most of them were sunk. The British admiralty assumes that eight of the British steamers and the two French sailing vessels, all of them long overdue and some <f them known to have been loaded with arms, ammunition, horses and outer war supplies tor tlie entente j allies, have been sunk by the raider. The Japanese steamer was releas-] ed by the raider off the coast of brazil and permitted to land at Pernambuco 237 men of crews of vessels destroyed. One of the British steamers is said to have been sent away by the raider with 400 more men to be landed, but up to the present no advices of her having reached port have been received. The where-1 abouts of the raider is not known. British Strike Blow. The British troops in France have hit the German line hard at two places for good gains according to the latest British communication. Northeast of Cite Calonne the Canadians carried out a brilliant raid ot German trenches on a front of 700 yards and penetrated the positions to a depth of 500 yards to the German second line. The German dugouts were completely wrecked and 100 men were made prisoner. The Germans suffered heavy casualties. At Beaucourt Sur Ancre another drive by the British gave them German positions over a front of 600 yards, which they held despite a counterattack in which the Germans lost heavily und?r the British barrage fire. The Russians, in a vicorons nftjwir have recaptured the village of Vadeni, six miles southwest of the important Danubian town of Galatz. according to Petrograd, and repulsed with heavy casualties a Teutonic allied countterattack. The Teutonic allies were also driven out of the village of Gerleschi, near the mouth of the Rimnik river, but later the Rus sians were compelled to withdraw in the face of superior forces. Berlin Admits Check. The Berlin war office admits that jMe'd Marshal von Mackensen's Turk :sh advance posts near Dadcni were vithdrawn, but makes no mention of the evacuation of the village. In the Kasino and Suchitza valleys the Rusians still are vigorously on the offensive and at one point have succeeded in gaining a footing on a| peak. Everywhere else they were repulsed with sanguinarv lossos Berlin reports that near Smorgon. which lies on the railroad between Vilna and Minsk, the Russians after heavy artillery preparations attacked and penetrated the German lines or. a narrow front, but later were driven out, leaving the battlefield covered with Russian dead, In Gali cia near the Zborow-Zlochoff railway the Germans are carrying out an intensive infantry fire agains* the Russians. In the other theatres there have been no important battles, the opera lions still consisting of artillery duels and engagements between small par ties. amerpnIilleeT in bandit raid Washington, Jan. 22.?One American, a Marine was killel and another wounded in a night fight with native bandits in the Dominican Republic, Capt. Knapp commanding the American forces cables the war Department. f-. - '*? t! *i ,\rj" L NO. 40 PERSHING REPORTED STARTING EOT HOME Withdrawal Operations Said Already to Have Begun in Mexico PREPARATIONS MADE ALONG THE BORDER Troops Will Be Disposed of on Frontier, According to Belief. El Paso, Texas.?It was unoffi cially reported tonight by army officers that actual withdrawal ?portions were under way at El Valle, the southern outpost of the punitive expedition in Mexico, and at San Juaquin, between El Valle and the field headquarters at Colonio DubIan. j Predictions that the entire expedition will begin its march to Columbus, N. M., within the next 72 hours I were made by army officers today. I All supplies billed to Americans in the Casas Grandes-Colonia Dublan district and sent to Juarez for transportation over the Mexico Northwestern railroad have been ordered held at Juarez and no more shipments of supplies will be made over this road for the punitive expedition. Arrangements were also being made in Juarez today for sending all available freight cars to Caaaji Grandes to bring out the stocks of goods and surplus supplies from the stores of the American Mormons land others who haye been supplying I the American troops in Mexico. The dispatching of four empty motor truck trains of 30 trucks each from Columbus during the past 24 hours was taken here to mean early withdrawal. The pitching of a number of large tents at Columbus for housing equipment, ordnance, merchandise and other army stores also was considered an indication of the early withdrawal and arrival of the expeditionary column at the field base. 4 Gen. Pershing's troops will be disposed along the border with headquarters at El Paso and San Antonio acmording to reports here and in Columbus today. Andres Gracia, inspector general of Carranza consulates, said tonight Carranza troops were ready to occupy the territory evacuated by the punitive expedition. These troops ?will be brought north to Juarez and sent down the line of the Mexico Northwestern railway he explained, adding that a troop train went down to Casus Grandes yesterday in anticipation of such a move. A military train left tonight for Chihuahua City with about 60 men and 40 officers. These officers had been in Juarez on leave or on minor duties, it was said, and were evidently wanted to take the place of the many who fell in the Jiminez battle. MAGISTRATE HEARING AT ADRIAN THURSDAY Thrti'ft ii'?" " " ? l - ? * ...v.v ?<1 preliminary neanng ac Adrian last Thursday before Magistrate J. J. King into charges of killing stock brought by VV. L. Edge against Edgar Gore, Wesley Gore and Lee Gore. The warrant charged that the defendants killed two steers belonging to the prosecutor. The proceedings began before Magistrate VV;. H. Chestnut some time ago and the case was turned over to Mr. King owing to relationship o$ Mr. Chestnut to the parties accused. After hearing s^veraj fitnesses for the State the Magistrate court dismissed the charge against Leo Gore, but required Edgar and Wesley Gore to make bond for their appearance for trial at the next term of the court of General Sessions. 1 L? . f iffil j V 1 Q 1 -"IP" ^ n Mrs. A. T. Cook of Sin ford. Kla., is at home on a visit to her parents.