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% rwo GERMAN PLOTS KNOWN TO THIS GOVERNMENT United States Authorities Have Much Information About Hostile Intrigues < SITUATION REMAINS SAME FOR PRESENT No Developments to Make Notable Changes Expected Until Congress Acts. Washington.?It was learned defir.ictly that the American government has no knowledge of any development likely to come before congress acts which would change the present situation between the United States and Germany. If Germany contemplates any sort of peace move or has considered abandoning submarine ruthlessness or of any other nation has a step in mind designed to alter the present international status, the government is without information on the sub ject. Except for information concerning German plots, the public knows as much .of the general situation as ; decs the government. Concerning German intrigue in this and other countries, the government has much information which up to the present it has not thought wise to make public. President Wilson continued conference with his advisers, preparatory to writing the address he will deliver to congress next week. The administration is said to he chiefly concerned at present with the form of action to be taken by congress recognizing that Germany is making war on the United States and with preparedness measures. Left to Congress. Aggressive steps, while being care fully considered, are understood to be looked upon as questions for determination after congress has defined the status of the nation. Whether suggestions that a hug< lean or gift of money to one or more of the entente allies should be adopted, whether an army should be sent abroad, and whether increased supplies of munitions should be forwarded are generally regaarded as question which would only confuse the issue if pressed to decision now. The president has told no one just what his message to congress will , include. It is expected to review "the history of the negotiations with Germany leading up to the present situation and submit what he believ < ; congress should do. The preponderance of opinion still is that congress will adopt a resolution declaring that a state of war exists. The president conferred during the day with Col. E. M. House, who came here last night, and returned to New York today, and with Senator Husting of Wisconsin, just back from hom?, Discuss Their Duties. Secretaries Lansing, Daniels and Baker met to discuss activities common to their departments, and at the department of labor, there was a con ference to lay plans for the mobilization of the labor forces of the country. Secretary DaniQls, Attorney General Gregory and Secretary McAdoo paid brief visits to the White House. On leaving the White House Senator Husting said he could not give the president's views, but that his personal opinion was that Germany is making war on the United States and that the United States should recognize that fact. He added he believed the people of the V/est ready to support the president fully. "Armed neutrality has not kept Germany from sinking our ships," Senator Husting said, "and therefore I think we should go further. Of course, I am opposed to war if it can can be avoided, but we have no say in the matter. "Germany is making war on us. I cm not concerned with details just now; just what steps are best should De left to the determination of the hoard of strategy, whoever that may be. Discussion of details at present only cause discord." President Wilson and practically every member of his cabinet have r< ecivod invitation within the last fe v days to across patriotic meetings in various parts of the country, but so far have consistently refused Is accept them. They have done so part <fc STATE ITEMS) OF INTEREST TO ALL SOUTH j CAROLINA PEOPLE | Mr. Farmer, it is better to grow plenty of foodstuffs than to wish next fall that you had. j The J. C. Rateliff company, Inc.,' of G?ffney, has been chartered by the secretary of state with a capital stock of $10,000. Supervisor Miles Dallune, of Georgetown county has received notification from the Hon. J. M. Johnson, chairman of the State Highway Commission that the application of Georgetown County for participation in the federal highway fund has been marked No. 1, being the first inquiry in the State addressed to the State Highway Commission. The enormous destruction by fire of common staples ar.d commodities is directly responsible for much of the high cost of living. During last week yegg men visited Denver, seven miles from Anderson, and robbed the safes of Reed Garrison and J. S. Hamby. W. G. McAdoo, secretary of the trasury, passed through Charleston last week on his way from Georgetown to Washington after a visit with Mrs. McAdoo to the plantation! :"?t T TC CjiiiMViin I Twenty-one Columbia physicians, alumni of the Modicai College of South Caro'ina at Charleston, offer-[ ed their sei*vices to the United Stat-j es government in case of war. in ac- J cordance with a system devised by ; the intercollegiate intelligence bu-! reau. WANTS HOLLAND TO ARM MERCHANT SHIPS The question of the status of arm-] ed merchantmen continues to be the j predominating subject of discussion i in the Dutch newspapers. The Han-1 delsbald urges that. Dutch merchantmen should be prmed on the ground that conditions have altered since the government's decision at the outbreak of the war that such ships could not enter Dutch ports. The pv per says. "There is no good reason for the government to refuse to recognize the right of foreign merchantmen, Americans for instance, to carry the means of defense against unlawful attack. The refusal of Holland to recognize such a right is more un- j friendly toward America thai-* a mod! ification of the Dutch standpoint would be unfriendly toward Gc.r ; ? many. The capture of 40 more villages on the front in France is announced in the official statement from British! headquarters. a FOR YOUR CHILD'S COUGH. Here's a pleasant cough syrup that every child likes to take, Dr. Boll's Pine-Tar-Honev. If your! child has a deep hacking cough that I worries you give him Dr. Bell's Pine-1 Tar-Honey ,the soothing pine balsams relieve the cough, loosens the I phlegm and heals the irritated tissues. Get a bottle to-day at your druggist and start treatment at once. 25c.?adv?No. 3.? ly because they have been too busy here with actual preparations, and parity because they do not desire to be placed in a position of making efforts to stir up the country. They believe that the nation is fully aware of the danger of the present situation and will re^rvorwl r^nHilv f?. ?r?\/ 1 ? J ^\t reasonable demand for money or fori I men. BUY DIRECT FROM FACT MAN'S PROFIT. SEE ME SAVE YOU Dan W. N LORIS, f THE HORRY H WHAT OTHER PAP Strange. The strange part of it is that the food riots in this country <*ontniue ii the very face of the assurance that ail will be investigated?The State. We Might. Germany had better not tell us to come over there after those sailor prisoners, because me might do it.? Florence Times. Gone. What lias become of the old-fashioned gentleman who always carried a corkscrew??Daily Record. To The Hills. Apparently, the only Biblical advice that Villa follows is that of fleeing to the hills.?The State. Is It So? A real gentleman is one who is accustomed to having money and has ceased to brag about it.?Winthrop Weekly News. Brings Reaction. "Regulating personal conduct and liberty by law is a tricky business," says the New York World. "Just when the enthusiastic regulator is sure he has everybody in hand he h liable to go too far and startle regulators into sudden resistance and re action." This is just what too much "monkeying" with the liquor law in South Carolina is going to do tw; years hence if the would-be regulators don't curb their activities somewhat in the intevium.?County Record. Exactly So. Charity begins at home, but reform is generally practiced on our neighbors.?Winthrop Weekly News After the Grip i??What? , Did it leave you weak, low in spirits and vitality? Influenza is a catarrhal disease, and after you recover from the acute stage much of the catarrh is left. 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The former not long ago raised a whooping big sum for a new hotel and the latter is now putting the finishing touches to a fund of $100,000 for another hospital. We like to behold these things, feeling pride in everything that Tar Heels do, and we like to cite them as an inspiration for others.?Wilmington Dispatch. ORY AND SAVE MIDDLE BEFORE BUYING. \m MONEY. lardwick, s. c. I % ERALD. CONWAY. S C 'ERS ARE SAYIN6 The Labor Problem. Immigration has been at a minimum for two years. The new federal law, which became so in spite of the president's veto against the literacy test, will in all probability make it even more difficult for foreign laborers to come into this country. Thus the situation is anything but satisfactory to agriculture, which needs men to work on the farm. In the last 12 years, 1912 showed the biggest alien immigration, 1,387,000; this has fallen to an average of only 300,000 the past two years In the crop season of 1917 more than ever before there must be the wisest utilization of farm machinery and farm power. There will be an enormous demand for products of the farm of all descriptions. The problem will be to produce at a minimum of cost.? Johnsonville Progress. Many Sad Things. There are many sad things in this war, murder, starvation, rapine?but there is nothing more deplorable than the fact that 2,000,000 sons of Poland hail been drafted into three opposing armies and forced into a fatricidal strife for which they had no taste, 110 desire, nothing to gain, all to lose. As a sheep led to slaugh ter. The end of this war will end such racial tragedies.?Copied. o COPY SUMMONS FOR RELIEF (Complaint Served.) STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Horry. Court of Common Pleas. The M. B. Thompson Company, a Corporation, Plaintiff vs. James Grissett, otherwise known as Jim Grissett, Nancy Lewis, Julia Ann King, and Emma Gore, Defendants. TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMON Hjd ana required to answer the complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscriber at his office at Conway, S. C., within twenty days after the service here of, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated January 9th, A. D. 1917. W. L. BRYAN, (L. S.) C. C. C. P. H. H. WOODWARD, Plaintiff's Atoornoy. To James Grissett, otherwise known as Jiit. 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Civil sevice commission official: have called upon heads of America universities and colleges to permi senior technical and scientific stu dents to receive diplomas at once, s-, the government if necessary may quickly obtain their services. Approximately 2,000 men through out the country already have qualified for commissions in the Officers' Reserve Corps of the army, created by Congress. William J. Bryan addressed an appeal to the Senate and House of Representatives urging that an attempt be made to obtain suspension of Germany's ruthless submaiine campaign through the application of the so-called Bryan Peace Plan. The tendency is to regard the wat | no longer as a struggle between nations, but as one between the now I spirit of democracy and the old spirit lotj imperialism. Government officials look upon the KtlPwIino' n?"? 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Repoits from many souiccs have convinced officials has*' that Americans captured on the British steamer Esmeralclas are hold. As yet no reply has come to an inquiry sent through the Spanish foreign office as to whether there were Americans among the crews of vessels captured. Dispatches from Minister Egan to day told of Alexander Meyer and Jack Benson, taken fr >m the Norwegian hark S.aUt, reaching Copenhagen. They said in addition to 30 men from the Esmeraldas the Germans are detaining one from the British steamer Breckonorshirc. Ail, they said, arc iu detention camp at Westphalia. The two were released he^nuse it tncy were on an unarmed ship. This government, it is considered certain, will make a vigorous demand tor the release of the American sailors. 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