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FRENCH AND BRITISH MAKE MORE GAINS Press Hard Against Germans and Take Positions From Hindenburg's Men V . TEUTONIC FORCES PUSH SLAVS BACK Compel Russians to Retire in B&ronovichi Region^?Austrians Attack. The British and French troops have made additional and important gains against the Germans on the line running from Arras to Soissons. On the British centre at several points Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig's men have pushed forward appreciably nearer the St. QuentinCambrai road, occuping the villages of Longavesnes, Lieramont and Equancourt, and in addition have recaptured from the Germans a position T-iriT-tV-i nf Rotinmptaipfi.Diimhi ni u-liicli the Germans took from them in an attack Monday night. The gains of the French were made in the region to the south of "La Fere, where they drove the Germans completely out of the lower | forests of Coucy and also captured the villages of Petit Barisis, Verucuil and Coucyla-Ville, bringing the French line in this region to the western outskirts of the forest of St. Gobain and the upper forest of Coucy. In the Soissons sector fur j ther progress was made north of { Nciiville-sui-Margival and northeast 1 of Leiully. THie flormim whv n'fien ?di.nt? capture by the British of the town o'| Jtoisel, about 11 miles west of St. j Qucftfcii], and the falling back of the) German fareeg before the French at several points in (Ijtf forest region south of f,u Koit, In vvU-v t-t avoid 1 b?irg outflanked. 1 Violent artillery fighting in tht'w fCgion of Verdun and at varoius 1 point* in Belgium, notably near Dix- ' piude, Stotmatveute and Hot Sas, has ? teen in progress. "*** t)n tlie Russian front the Russian.7 r have been forced to fall buck before i the Germans south of Baronovichi, 1 according to a statement ol' tee Petrograd war office. In this fighting j Berlin claims more than 300 Rus-! sians were made prisoners, and four i machine guns and seven mine throw-1 evs were captured. Russians attacks | miar Lutsk in Volhyuia and in Galicia were repulsed by the Teutonic! allien, says Berlin. Apparently a renewal of fighting in Roumania is indicated by the German official communication i which says that the Russians have been prevented from carrying out an attack south of the Trotus valley. In the Austro-Italian theatre, along the Julian front, the Austrians i made an attack in . force between j Dosso Faiti and Frigido and cap- j captured a section of Italian trenches j on Hill 120. At all other places,! however, the attack met with repulse, according to Rome. About 400 yards of Teutonic allied trenches have been captured by theFrench near the Cervaigna crest in Servian Macedonia, together with some 100 prisoners. A Bulgarian j attack in the Cerna river bend in this) region was repulsed. ? Two more British torpedo boat destroyers have been sunk?one by striking a mine and the other in a collision. Announcement is made by the Hrit ish admiralty that the British hospital ship Asturias, which was reported previously by Berlin to have been sunk, was torpedoed without warning. Thirty-one presons were killed in the attack and 12 persons are still missing from the6 vessel. Asturias had no wounded on board at the time, but carried some 200 persons. Unofficial advices from Amsterdam, quoting a Berlin dispatch, say it is rumored in Berlin that Germany has offered a separate peace to Kussia. O1 " Bad Colds From Sudden Changes. Spring brings all kinds of weather and with it chmo eo'ds th" Vvfr \al of winter coughs and hoarseness. I>r. Boll's Pinc-Tar-Honey will head t*ff a new cold or stop the old one, the soothing balsams relieve the sore throat and heal the irritated tissues. a bottle to-day and start treat-1 roent at once. At your druggist, 25c. Formula on the bottle.?adv. 1 RECRUITING URGED BY 60V. MANNING Maximum Strength of All Commands Advised in Letter to Captains. Gov. Manning sent letters to the captains of the different infantry companies in the National Guard oi South Carolina, urging the necessity of recruiting their respective commands up to the maximum wai strength provided by law. A similai letter will b? sent to other officer? in the National Guard in the neai future. The letter fs partly confidential, in that in the opinion of the govcmoi part of it would come under one oi the censorship regulations, agreed upon between newspapers and officials of the army, navy and state departments of the government. The letter in part is as follows: "The policy of the war department, in which I concur, is to havo the present National Guard units recruited t' their maximum strength in case of a declaration of war with Germany. 1 therefore urge upon you the necessity of exerting your efforts towards recruiting your respective commands to the maximum war strength provided by law. "I think that you can obtain tin best results in recruiting by pushing the matter while at your home ion i dezvous, for after a call is issued yoi 1 will be in mobilization camp, busy with affairs of administration. Re eruiting- after mobilization is alse more expensive than at the present time. When recruits enter the National Guard they know the officers who will be over them, while in the case of the volunteers the personnel of the commissioned officers will be u:.known. Furthermore, the disposition of volunteer fovc* in aetiyc sor vice wpl ruK have the same onuunt d* coHsidt^'ution as will the Nationa'! Guard.'1 Gov. Manning has said that h* Ll. I 1 .1 V . - ~ - ' 1111 uks tne rsunonnl tiuarcl ol South | Carolina will again ho cnl'ed info tin j service of the United States, ard it i to prepare for this vveutUHlity that h? j has called upon all commanding' offi , cers to obtain recruits. It is n's0 noc j cssary to fill the depleted ranks ol j the various commands due to the dis ' charges granted for various rersjnsj "ince the recent muster-out. | ?o Read the Story in this Paper, There is mischief in those eyes. There is a marvelous charm in her every rythmic movement. There is a wonderful appeal in every installment of our new photoplay JPatria /The <&ria! 'Juptvttu* ^m^niunCastk MfJSait Dretttd. TUitKrom Wwhm Ii Jmsriot iy INTERNATIONAL KeltattJ ky PATHS See the pictures at the Pastime J o Awful. When the new spring shades get thoroughly distributed Main street will look like a mustard plaster.? Daily Record. The war department's comprehensive border report shows no indication of a general northward movement of Mexican troops and officials have no fear of an attempt at invasion. o One man's misfortune may prove good fortune to another. o Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains th* well known tonic properties of QU1NIN I! and IRON. It acta on the Liver, Drive? out Malaria, Enriches the Stood and Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents. - WjK HttSjET HEKA COST OF TliC GREA WAR PLAC .. . * Almost the Equal of One-Third ti States Is Swallowed Up?May Next Year?Along Wit Goes Frightful London.?A careful estimate of the total wealth of the United States at the beginning of 1917 places It at a little above $200,000,000,000. A careful estimate of the cost of the war down to the beginning of the spring campaign Is $66,000,000,000. In other words, almost exactly onethird .of the total wealik of the United States, by far the richest country In the world, has been swallowed in the voracious maw of the war monster. As a matter of fact, this docs not nenrly represent the total cost of the war to the world. Aside from the expenditures of Great Britain the dependencies representing the outlying empire have all Incurred tremendous costs by their part In the war. The United States added more than onehalf to Its annual expenditures for the fiscal year 1010-17, chiefly by reason of the war. All over the world countries have boon Increasing their expenditures In order to carry their part of the burden which the war has laid | upon the world, white the greater part. of them have been suffering and are more or less impoverished because of the dislocation of economic processes. And there is yet, by common consent In all probability at least another year of war ahead. If the struggle ! continues to the spring of 1918 Its ! cost to belligerents and neutrals will by that time probably he estimated as high as $100,000,000,000. Appalling Human Losses. Along with tl\is loss of substance goes a frightful loss of human resources; millions of the best manhood of the most highly developed and productive countries. It Is impossible to realize the mean- 1 ing of the figures which nttemnt to suggest what the war is costing. ' Statesmen of Groat Britain, France and Germany have recently been warning their peoples that after peace is | (declared the war basis of expenditures will have to go on for yet a long time. It will be impossible immediately to ] demobilize the armies and return them to the business of production. The restoration of something like normal con-;' dltions will probably require, In the ' view of those authorities, as long a 1 time as the length of the war itself. ' Of course as the process of demobilization goes on and conditions are restored more and more toward the normal the extraordinary expenses will he in progressively diminishing vol ume. . . . - ' The wisest men, the ones in possession of tlie fullest information ort which to base judgment, shy at every attempt to lead them into discussion of the situation which the European i world will have to cope with after the , war. 1 Bonar Law's Reassurance. Ilonar Law, chancellor of tlie British exchequer and a cool-headed man of affairs, who has no disposition whatever to fall into panic, lias repeatedly admitted that England's rate of expenditure could by no means be car rien on inuennireiy, tnougn no nas always coupled tliisr with the reassuring insistence that Britain and her allies could stand the strain longer than their enemies, and that therefore they were hound to win. At no former time in the world's history was war so much a question of economic power as now. The one Justifiable and really worth while parallel which history presents to the present struggle is of course found in the wars of the French revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. Honar Law has assured the British nation that in the opinion of himself and his colleagues in the government the empire will as easily hear the burdens of the war as it did those imposed by the Napoleonic struggles. Indeed. the example which was furI nished by the Napoleonic struggles, of how great nations absorbed over a period of years the tremendous losses ! caused in such a struggle, is the one i thing which furnishes reassurance ; and encourngemerft to European statesmen as they contemplate the burden which they are piling up for the future to hear.? England at Debt Reducer. After the Napoleonic wars England pretty steadily reduced from year tr year the principal of Its debt, and by Successive reorganizations was able also greatly to reduce the rate of lntcrest. The marvelous increase of wealth, the expansion of commerce, the great development of the mercantile marine, the profitable opportunities for foreign Investment that were afforded by the development all over the world not only of British colonies but of independent countries provided Itritnln with the opportunity to rehabilitate Itself. Rut the experience of France following the Napoleonic nra was different. France did not possess a great over-as empire whose development gave it opportunities for great profit. Neither did France become a great industrial country during the era of the factory systems development to anything like the extent England did. Finally, Franco did not apply itself in ld. ooirwr&Y.B. o T EUROPEAN ED AT 66 BILLIONS he Entire Wealth of the Unite* | Reach $100,000,000,000 by h This Loss of Substance I Loss of Life. the assiduous English fashion to wiping out the Napoleonic war debt. | France. in short, lived chiefly with-! j In herself, while Great Britain became a world empire, its commerce, Its domains, its investments. Its every interest reaching ull over the world. Yet the genius of the French people,, .though they went about it In an entirely different way, proved Jtfst as capable of taking cure of the obligations handed over to it frotn the Napoleonic period as did that of the English people. ; New Heritage of Freedom. If England emerged from that struggle firmly possessed of an empire and colonies and commerce extendiug to all the continents and all the seas, Franco emerged with a new heritage of freedom, of something like real opportunity, with a redistribution of! its land am! wealth, which vested tho average French family with a power of productiveness quite beyond any- j thing that had been dreamed of or j had been possible under the o.d regime ' of bourbonism and feudalism. If England gained in substance, ! France Improved in spirit. If England was able to go about paying otY its debts, France was able to increase : lis producing capacity so greatly that the.burden of its debt was borne without difllculty and without; interfering with a vast and continuous enhance- i 111 Oil t" nf tlin nnUniw 4 ....... 1??. .. v W? V..V klUliV/IK T ? ruil II. Is it possible that Ibis experience of Europe following the Napoleonic wars may be repeated after the present European struggle? For answer i to this quest inn men with visions of the future have little difficulty finding an affirmative; and they Justify their j confidence by pointing out that this ! war is as truly a war of emancipation ! as were the struggles Hint began with 1 the French Resolution. If the revolution wrenched Franee ' and the continent generally away from the institutions of political feudalism and spiritual repression, the present ! war will, if its event be fortunate, lib- I orate the world from the institutions j of po'h'cnl militarism and industrial ; feudalism. * If the land of France was democra- I tlzcd as to its ownership as a result : of the revolution the instruments of ! factory production, of transportation, i of finance, developed since the revo- I lotion, will he socialized as a result , of the present struggle. Tf the revolution brought not only to France but to the rest of Europe a justcr distribution of political power, : the war of today will bring a fairer ' distribution of the products of the ' world's industry, a wider recognition | of man's rights in the pursuit of lib- i erty and happiness, a great sharpening of intelligence and widening of educational opportunities. Following the Napoleonic wars the ; big dominating fact in the economic development of the nineteenth century was the rise of tlm factory system of j production and the development of modern means of transportation. Fol- i lowing the present war it may confi- ( dently be expected that there will he j further and no less significant ad- J VJMiei'S In tli*? nf lirnrlnnUnn ' - w- * I carrying to nil the world the benefits of those big, highly organized and intensely efficient units whose growth has particularly marked tlie more recent industrial evolution in the United States and Germany. American Republic Is Model. In the direction of nation building, of peopling and utilizing for the common benefit of men the unused places of the world, the master achievement of the nineteenth century, was the building of the American republic. To the twentieth century's aspirations in this same direction is reserved the privilege of making a truly great and modern nation out of the teeming, essentially democratic millions of Russia ; of developing Africa and South America as the eighteenth an{l nineteenth century developed America; of building great European communities in Australia, in South Africa, in East Africa, in the Niger and i Congo basins and in North Africa; of directing the Occidentalization of China, with its vast and capable popuI o i I /\ n n >i/l nlmAaf liivitfl P/kU/ma/ma MUIUII UUU milHfni, UllUlll'^O MTOUlll^^n | of building a group of grout, powerful, efficient democracies on the foundations that are already firmly laid in the republics of South America. | Along with this political develop- I ment will go an industrial advance whose measure and results must be Judged by projecting into the future the gains of the last century. Tour industrial democratic thinkers point out always that the rate of this ad, vance is constantly being accelerated. | Science Is more and more coming to the re-enforcement of invention. Productive capacity Is growing at a pace that moves with the expansion of intelligence, the Improvement of educational methods, and everywhere there Is insistence that educational systems ) must, in the new era, be so improved , that the Intellectual potentiality of ; mankind shall be brought to bear upon the problems of the race as never be* ? .1 tort, Europe Bears Strain Well. , One of the marvels of these times t? the fact that Europe is able to bear the strain so well. But for khaki everywhere and girl bus drivers London would look not particularly different from the Londoo of noriuti times. Everywhere one hears people. Inquiring with wonderment und almost awe, "How does this people carry the load with so little evidence of strain?" Doubtless the answer will be found In the fact that an appraisal of property accumulations does not Include the value of the new "days* works" that every 24 hours brings to the world. The war is belng^paid for In great part day by day, month by moirth. Waste is turned from Its peace channels to war channels. War compels the community to save; to waste less in the ordinary ways In order that It may waste more hi guus and shells and battleships and mines and all the paraphernalia of war. A philosopher once said that If nil the constructions and plants of the earth's surface might be conceived as being destroyed In one catuclysm while leaving Intact the human ruce In Its present stage of intellect and adaptability, a single generation would see those structures restored in far more useful practical form, and mankind would be better for the privilege of that one sweeping reorganization. I Not many people will want to see ; the experiment tried. The present war is neur enough to the universal cataclysm. But to the extent that It. shall teach men to utilize more effectively the power contained in this great stream of human energy, flowing past the undeveloped dam site of each successive today, it will have made human effort more important and accumulated property less so. I The chief wealth of the world, after , nil, is its people. Europe is learning this. It is getting ready for great i social reforms after tb" war that will enable it by a better utilization of Its human resources to make up the losses ' it is now suffering, and by the economies it is effecting in its (htily life , it is paying as it goes for a large j share of the war's cost. HUDSON MAXIM AND WIFE r? 1 ?1. Hudson Maxim, export 011 explosives and inventor of many things connected with munitions, is ?i frequent visitor to Washington during the present uncertainty in foreign relations. This photograph shows him and his young wife on the steps of the state, war and navy building. Mr. Maxim is a member of the naval consulting board and an active preparedness advocate. WANT TO WORK IN ALASKA Sixty Thousand Parsons Have Applications on File for Jobs on the Railroad. Portland, Ore.?Almost 60,000 persons have applications on file for positions with the Alaska Engineering commission, which lias charge of the construction of the government's railroad in Alaska. The co>riud#&lon will employ 6,500 men In construction work this summer, which Is an increase of 1,000 over last summer's maximum. The Seward division will have 1,000 men, the Anchorage division 3.500 men, while the Nenuna division will have 2,000 on the payroll. From present indications the line to Chlekaloon, In the Mntanuska coal fields, will be completed by August 1. Station work on the 14 miles from King's river to Chlekaloon was let this winter and construction Is being rushed. Plans for the coming season include the construction of all-bridges in the Seward division, so that by next fall the old railroad between Seward and Mile 71 will be ready for heavy traffic. Preliminary werk is now under way for the construction of the $800,000 railroad bridge across the Susitna river at the mouth of Indian creek. Requisitions for supplies to the estimated value of $1,055,000 have been received at the Portland headquarters of the commission. CONWAY AND HORRY I AND ITS CITIZENS! Should Get Their Heads,! Hearts, and Capital I Together. I To The Editor of The Horry Herald r 1 I notice that man y towns and cities I with less natural advantages than! Conway has' in our own and sister! states have more industries and morel vVagO earners, ami tins &..ou<d nuv be! so. We have the money at home audi 'can get more" to come in if we only! get busy. Why can't we start ufl hosiery mill or two. Try one withl white labor and one with colored la-! borf keep them separate and seel which one pays best. I am confident! both with good management will pay! hatidsome dividends, and we can. give! our people, while and colored, wurkH at home and stop them from going! away from home. There is a great! and growing demand for hosiery at! large profits which will continue i'or! i years to come, even though the war! now rafting throughout the World! shall find quick termination for it I will take years for Europe to adjust I herself to new natural conditions ni.dl rebuild the industries already ile-B stroyed, and besides even after- their! industries become rehabitated. The! industries once established and in up-! eration here will have an advantage! in competing for the world's ti"< :^.! i We have the labor in our midst, bo,h! white and colored, and we are duty! bound to take care of the workingfl people now out of employment or! they will go elsewhere to get wc rk.l And with our wonderful rc son ioer<& we want to bring more laborers i<>! our town and county. Wo are loosinft! good people both white and colored J more rapidly every year because wo! are only looking after old "SELF, li'l we don't get together some of us! high up will possibly be moving off! because we need a job. All hosiery! mills properly managed aro payi large dividends and we need a yarn! mill, a paper mill, and many other J manufacturing enterprises that could! be started in the near future right! here in Conway, and everybody, the! Banks, Merchants, and Farmers! would be benefitted as well as the? laboring class of people. Our town? and county will grow and cur sel.i.di? fears will soon be wiped away \>ur^B large dividends, if we will get <,wi? heads, hearts, and cash together u >e them to upbuild our town rnd? county and our working- class of p<u^| pie. Bring in ten families for every? one that moves away, and put the try? to work and pay them good wages a J? much as thy can get elsewhere. The? great trouble with the southern p-o-l pl.j is we underestimate our means? and ability to do things. There >|? practically no limit to us. We m:;y? not have as much cash as we hav<? brains and energy, but if we will put? concentrated action with what vofl have and quit being selfish and ical-? ous we will soon have a town ;m.<? county that we will all be proud <'T? I suggest two Hosiery Mills be es-? tablished here with home capital, one? Ifor white people and one for colorc<? people, both to be managed and of-? ficered with white people, who have? businss experience and tact. One? 'enterprise calls for another, and it? we will got the ball started with < ? land and water transportation lic e? and many other natural advantage*? there is no telling* when it will s'.op? I will cheerfully aid in such enter-? 'prises all that I can, and 1 certainh? hope that the suggestion will Ik? taken up by some in our midst tha? will get busy and get us all to follou? suit. Let us cast every jealous am? selfish thought from us and get to? gefher and not hunt cold water t<? throw en the proposition. You \vil? soon rpali7A u'tint if f ? - - - Tf a?MV I V ntVMUO V fj l'(( so many good families both whitB and colored leaving your town aij^ j county because you fail to proviW| equal work and wages for thcnJH Quit your business long enoug|H to think and start a business and lefl old self rest a day or two, and yofl will feel better, live longer, and diS happier. H Respectfully, - A. . Thompson. I His Whiskers. I It seems that even more thaj* usual is being hidden behind CarranM za's whiskers these days.?EvcninW Post. w Henry Yager, a Maywood (N. real estate dealer, was sentenced ' six months in the workhouse for ha^iH ing attacked President Wilson in Ik public speech. I MM. ^MM- ^| (