The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 12, 1917, Page SIX, Image 6
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.
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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. |
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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
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KeltattJ ky PATHS
See the pictures at the Pastime
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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.
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One man's misfortune may prove
good fortune to another.
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- 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 '
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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*
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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
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