Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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AX OUR MEN STEADILY 0UTH6HT GERMANS Germany's Finest Soldiers Being Slaughtered in Droves hy Americans NINETEEN DIVISIONS TRY TO BAR PROGRESS Advance Now Menacing Supply , T All rt ofWflM Armioc 1 ?i ii IT iui rajLi vr^i mwu jnu IUIVU Near Argonne. "With the First American Army in France.?"Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small." This maxim might be applied to the progress of the 1st American Army north of Verdun. 1 With relentless srtength, with fiery ardor unquenched by villainous weather, physical fatigue or the sight of death in most hideous forms, our American boys are gradually grinding to dust the enemy's ' power of resistance. 1 On either side of the Mouse, Prussianism is battling with the fury born of despair. The empire's finest soldiers have been slaughtered in (troves, in order that their hardpressed comrades to the west and, north might escape the trap in < which they would be caught were ' Pershing's divisions to forge ahead too fast. Beating Back Odds of Five to Two. Three days ago sixteen, to-day nineteen, German divisions are striv . ir.g with dogged desperation to bar " our advance. At several points on*American battalion is facing and forcing backward four German battalions, which, taking into account the proportionate strength of the op < position units, means about five Ger | mans to two Americans. 1 i . One of the most distinguished of i the Kaiser's commanders, Gen. von . Marwitz, hurriedly summoned from : the scenes of past triumphs against i the British, has just taken over the direction of the enemy forces on ] this front. His instructions, as he < passed them down to his subordinate Generals, are to prevent the Ameri- ' cans from realizing any further ap- , preciable advance, "whatever the ( cost of holding them may be." Above all, the German high command is resolved to keep us from attaining the heights between Damvillers and Dun-sur-Mcu.se in the east and between Dun-sur-Meuse and Buzancy in the west. Losing these hills the foe would lose his only means of bringing supplies to all his armies in line from Flanders to Argonne, for from the slopes our guns would knock to pieces that all important lateral channel of communication, the Mezieres-Longuyon railroad. Americans' Most Painful Ordeal. Lacking a sufficiency of man pow or and perhaps of ammunition fh strike on a grand scale, von Marwitz must fritter away his resources in small hut costly counter attack4hero and there. This form of resistance is accompanied by a concentric artillery fire whose violence recalls the first battle before Verdun, and it is the most painful ordeal which the American troops have yet had to undergo. Put where our in fantry cedes feet, under a Niagara of high explosives in Bcllcu Wood on! the right, they gain yards in the I centre. J Everywhere the fighting is incessant. o? APPRECIATES THE PAPER. Mr. L. Johnson, of Galivants Ferry, renewed his subscription last i week and wrote us as follows: j "Please extend my subscription into i 3919. Would have paid in advance before now but it slipped my remembrance. I would not have the good old Herald stop coming for anything in the world as it is so valuable to read." FOR DEMOCRATIC HOIISEAND SENATE Washington.?President Wilson today issued an appeal to the people to' return a Democratic Congress in the | November elections if they approve | of his course in this critical period. T* * - * * ' xveiurn 01 a itepublican majority to either house of the Congress, the Pres ident said, would be certainly interpreted on the other side of the water as a "repudiation of my leader*hiP-" ... i HAY AND GRAIN IN SOUTH GAROUNA A bulletin issued recently by G. A Cardwell, Agricultural and Indutrial Agent of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, contains some very interesting information concerning production during 1917 in the Southeastern States, beginning with Virginia and running around the Atlan tic Coast to Mississippi and Louisiana and taking in the States of Tennessee and Kentucky. Our readers will doubtless feel the most interest in the figures for South Carolina. In our own State the production of hay and grain in 1917 was as follows: Hay 280,000 tons Oats 6,000,000 bushels Corn 43,947,000 bushels W heat 1,838,000 bushel s The average yield of wheat per acre in South Carolina for the year 1917 was 10.5 bushels, while corn was 19 bushels per acre, oats 1"> bushels per acre, and hay 1.12 tons per acre. Up to the fall of 19^7 there was practically no wheat planted in Horry County. Ilut for that season tlr farmers became interested in the raising of wheat and more than 4 AAA 1 1 1 /* 1 _ _ . 1_ 1 i ,uuu nusneis ox seen wncai wasused. The great majority of farm ers who planted wheat in Horry County last year had success with it More farmers are interested in wheat this year and the acreage will be greatly increased. o Of the ten thousand houses in Lens visitors found not one left standing, the town having beer, completely razed. LEMONS MAKE SKIN WHITE. SOFT, CLEAR Make this beauty lotion lor a few cents and see for yourself. What girl or woman hasn't heard of lemon juice to remove complexion blemishes; to whiten the skin and t<" bring out the roses, the freshness and the hidden beauty? But lemon juice done is acid, therefore irritating, an ! should be mixed with orchard whit* chis way. Strain through-a fine cloth the juice of two fresh lemons into n xxttle containing about three ounce: :?f orchard white, then shake well an i . ~.. 1. ...1. I ?..J. I jvu nave u \m.jii; quaritT pun, ui i * * arid complexion lotion at about the cost one usually pays for a small jar of ordinary cold cream. Be sure to strain the lemon juice so no pulp go into the bottle, then this lotion wil remain pure and fresh for months When applied daily to the face, nock, arms and hands it should help tc bleach, clear, smoothen and beaulifv the skin. Any druggist will supply three ounces of orchard white at very little cost and the grocer has the lemons.? ?adv?(5) VIVIDSTORY^OF ATTACK ON HUNS New York Worid Quotes William Luck of Charleston on Action. / > The New York World correspondent, in a graphic description of the fighting that is forcing the Germans from the ivriemhild line, auotes Wil liam Luck, of Charleston, a member of the !17th engineers. The engagement referred to took place at the edge of the wire belt that marked the Kriemhild line just south of Lander.at St. Georges. The following is taken from the story in the World of Octob' r : ' Here again the wire had to be cut by hand, and again the 117th engineers were to the fore. "Was Rough Going." "I talked to one of them this morning, a boy named William Luck, from Charlseton, S. C. 'It was tough going.' said Luck. 'Their guns were fired point blank range, and believe me they knew how to shoot straight, Roys were being torn -up all around me, and how I got through I won't ever know. Two platoons started out hut there were not more than a dozen of us left, as far as I could see, when we got to the wire. " 'We dynamited enough hole through it to let the doughboys through; then we just lay where we were. I didn't know there were as many shells in Germany as fell right around us that night. And stil a lot of boneheads think all that the engineers rlo is to build roads or run railroads back in the rear.' " THK HO&KY HSBA Thanks to PER ' Mrs. Kate Marquis, Middleburg, Logan Co., Ohio, writes as follows: "I have used Peruna with success. It has cured me of catarrh of the head and throat. It is the best medicine for catarrh that I have ever used. I am completely cured. Thanks to Peruna." Mrs. Marquis is but one of many thousands who know the ft - _ * OS - # - vaiuo ot rorum tor tnat catarrhal condition of tha membranes responsiblo for many of the human alls* WORK AGENCIES' INTO RELIEF ARMY i Great Organizations Which Are Helping to Keep Up the Morale of Fighting Millions Unite in Campaign for $170,500,000. With nil 11 Ions of American men on war fronts, In training camps and on the seas and with thousands of Anicrl- i can women on foreign soil, nil engaged in the stupendous task of making the world safe for democracy, a great duty devolves upon those who remain in the United States,?the duty of send- ; lug Home to those who have put Home 1 behind them for the period of the war. | The agencies through which thtsT can be accomplished are Joined in the United War Work Campaign. From being given the cigarette or chocolate bar, with which he stays his hunger In the fury of battle, to the theatrical entertainment or the uthletic games, which relax him Into normal comfort after weeks of terrltlc combat, the American tighter is dependent upon the continued efforts of the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. A., the National Catholic War Council and K. of C., the War Camp Community Service, the Jewish Welfare Hoard, the American Library Association and the? Salvation Army. To carry on this work the combined welfare organizations are seeking a fund of $170,000,000. The Y. M. C. A. provides 088 huts in American training camps and more than 800 In the war zone as centres which tlie fighters can use as clubs, schools, theatres, stores, churches, 11 braries and writing rooms. ^lore that* 7,000 men and Women had been sent | overseas or approved for overseas i work by early autumn and 3,82'J were I serving in Americun camps at home. Y. M. C. A. huts arc the canteens ot tlie American Expeditionary Force and are the theatres where the American entertainers, sent over by the appear. Noted American public men and clergymen speak in the huts. Classes are conducted there. Millions of letters are written there on paper provided free by the "Y." Physical directors of the "Y" teach and spread mass athletics, using material furnished free by the organization. The Y. \Y. C. A. does similar work for the thousands of American women in war work overseas?signal corps telephone operators, nurses and French munition workers. It provides cafeterias, rest and recreation centres, entertainment and reading for these women and girls. The Y. \V. C. A.'s outstanding conJ tribution to soldier welfare work in | training camps was the establishment j of Hostess Houses, where the soldier I /-?! 111,1 v I'l'i'iiit II lli? llllitiior U'iflV j sister or sweetheart in the su;foundings and atmosphere of the best homes. The National Catholic War Council co-ordinates all Catholic welfare work in support of the government and through the Iv. of C. provides club| houses for our fighters in a'l Amoricjm training camps, as well as having seventy-five centres in Prance and three in Pngland. In their Uuts the Is., of C. provides ontortainingment, movies, b';\ing hotils, educational work, religious services. free stationi ery, reading matter and writing rooms, In Prance their roiling canteen accompanies tin? American army, their secretaries r.nlreh with the troops, giving away cigarettes, cookies, chocolates. soap and towels. t The K. of C. had fiOO workers hi Prance at th*? beginning of autumn with ?ir>() more passed by the govern mcnt and 200 others signed up. At the same date they had 10S secrotarle> iu American training camps, 150 build ings, fifty-six more in the course ol erection and contracts lot for fiftj more. War Camp Community Service functions exclusively in America, 11s special mission being to "surround the ! camps with hospitality." In place oi leaving the soldier or sailor to the promiscuous companions and diver slons formerly his lot, the orgnnlr.a tlon obtains for him the best to be had , In communities adjoining camps 01 through which lie passes. W. C. C. S. obtains for him Invlta tions to dine, bathe or spend the dnj In tlie best homes. It Introduces hill to the best women and girls at socla gatherings, cfTurch entertainments theatre parties. It arouses communi ties to provide concerts, athletic con tests and other wholesome diversion} for the soldier, and to drive out 01 discourage the vicious elements whlcl have been historic camp followers. LP, OOHWAT, B. 0. -UNA AI" Am f||i Completely |^| Cured If you object to liquid remediea m for Peruna in tablet form, i * I I ne Jewish Welfare Board ts correInt Inv tho kitpiiimtli iiml r\n ... . ps %?.*< ?? v>>i(k i >* ti\i |Mii |>urn*.> Ul 100,000 Jewish soldiers, sailors and marines with that of the Gentile soldiers. The board teaches the tOngllsh language,, American civics and ideals i to thousands of young Jewish men who were Inducted into service after only a few years' residence in this country. While safeguarding his religious rites, the hoard a*sisis In the process of wcHting the Jewish soldier into the solid American unit and in bridging over the differences between him and -the others. The American Library Association I? providing reading matter for every I Amende**) soldier, sailor, marine ami prisoner of war. In addition to gatle i ering and forwarding three million j books contributed by the American \ people the association bought 500,271 ; books, mostly technical, of which 10^,I 207 were sent overseas. More than I 1,500,000 books of all kinds have been assigned to libraries In Y. M. C. A., K. of C. or Salvation Army huts In the war ZfUlP- n simlln r Iw.tn., ?tlo_ trlhutcd in Americau (ruining ramps. wMIc half a million are on warships 01 transport's. The association has erected tind operates forty-one library buildings. The Salvation Army, with 1,210 workers, principally women, overseas, has won the affection of the lighters. Its 501 huts, rest and reading rooms are popular gathering places for the soldiers. The doughnuts fried by Salvation lassies in huts or trenches and given to the men have become famous around the world. _ The Salvation Army gave forty-four ambulances to the American and Allies' armies and In many other ways gives constant tinHclflnh service. o Individual heroism was rampant during the sue or. sful British and American attack Tuesday. o FOUND BOOKS DEEP DOWN IN DUG-OUTS American Library ~iation Books Sure Reach Soldiers, Says Raymond Fosdick ? "I found the books of the American Library Association everywhere in France," says Raymond Fosdick, chairman of the National Commission on Training Camp Activities, who has just returned from an extended trip overseas, during which he conducted a thorough investigation of the work I being done by the various war work ' agencies. "I found them in dugouts thirty or forty feet, below ground, in cow-barns where shrapnel had blown parts of the roof away, as well as in the sub: tar.tial huts and tents far back from the firing line. 1 "I have found them in hospitals and dressing stations; in scattered villages in the training area where our men are bilk tod and even in the remote parts of franco where the forestry units are carrying out their lonely, but efficient and essential work. Your books are in continual demand from the time the soldiers arrive in camp in America until lhey come back borne after service over there." The A. L. A. library service has grown tr mendouslv within the past few months and millions of books have been distributed wherever soldiers and Kiilors are quartered, on sea or land. "NEED ONLY CSEE3" SMS GIPSY SMITH I 1 "Need is the only creed over there," declared Gipsy Smith, the famous evangelist, speaking to enormous audiences in southeastern cities, where f mass meetings have been held in the .'interest of the United War Work cam1 paign to open on Novehibcr 11. ,j FLORIDA NEWSPAPERS ! | PLEDGE ASSISTANCE . Representatives of Florida daily and i weeklv nowsDaners in nti ^ ? w?i\4uiiv?v: Ul ?1 I luncheon held In connection with a conference of United War Work cam paign workers, pledged themselves tc .'concentrate behind the big drive tc r I open on November 11. j | Their action puts the full strength I of the Florida newspaper fraternity in the field aftd in every section o! -I the state the public will be informec 'through the columns of the press just * what the aims and objects of the sever rj groat war work agencies are in thh >' coming campaign to raise $170,500,000 MERCY MUNITIONS ! NEEDED IN TRENCHES ' | Lieut Coningsby Dawson, Fighting Author, Makes Stirring Appeal for Y. W. C. A. ?? I Lieut Coningsby Dawson, who wroto Carry On." says of the war work which the Y. W. C. A. l? doing: "You at home cannot fight with your Uvea, i hut you can light with your mercy, j The Y. W. C. A. Is offering you Just i this chance. It garrisons the women's | support trenches, which lie behind the ; men's. It asks you to supply them 1 with munitions of mercy thut they , may be passed on to* us. We need j such supplies htidty. Give generously I thut we may the sooner defeut the J Hnn.M I What Lieut. Dawson says of the Y. I \V. C. A. he might have sahl of all the ! national organizations which are coming together for the biggest financial campaign that organizations have ever headed. All the $170,000,000 to be raised by the seven great national organizations the week of November 11 ! will be used to garrison and supply ' , the support trenches behind the lines, j ' They are the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. 1 C. A., the National Catholic War Council, Jewish Welfare Board, American Library Association, War Camps Community Service and Salvation 'Army. American girls In various uniforms mingle strangely with picturesque Brittany costumes in France. The American Y. W. C. A. has a hostess house In Brittany where the Signal Corps women live and a hut where tlie nurses spend their free time. Both these centers are titled with many of the comforts and conveniences of home. "At a tea given at tlie nurses' hut one Saturday afternoon," writes Miss Mabel Warner, of Salitin, Kansas, Y. W. C. A. worker there, "there was an odd gathering?one admiral, a bishop, a Presbyterian minister, a Itotnan Catholic priest, a doctor, an ensignone clvllinn nod invwlf M First. Victory Boy's Work. "Say, I'm wise to you. nil right," n Western Union messenger boy whispered to one of the directors of the United War Work Campaign In the ; New York headquarters. The director's desk had only Just been moved i In and the work of the big drive had hardly begun. "I'm onto your stunt," the boy went on as he swung a grimy list over the desk ; "you're goln' to give us fellows that ain't old enough to go to war a chance to earn an' give to hack up a tighter an' help win the war. Listen; ' I'm in on this." i The crumpled $5 hill he d'opped on the desk made him the first of "a million boys behind a million fighters" who are to he lined up us Victory Boys during the week of the drive. There will he a division of Victory Girls, too, and every hoy and e-'cry girl enrolled will have to earn every dollar he or site gi\es U? llie war work futd. CURE FOR BLUES NEAR THE GAMPS Community Service Takes Place of Mother, Friends and Home for Soldiers. Ton young officer# of the Student Army Training Corps of the University of Detroit recently applied for a furnished house and a housekeeper who would not be a servant, but, aa one young, officer expressed it, "the sort of woman to whom the boys can call out 'Hello, mother I' when they come in the front door." Homesickness is the malady for which War Camp Community Service supplies innumerable cures. "We've got your number," says the W. C. C. S. to the homesick boy frmn camp with leisure to spend in any one of the three hundred towns scattered over the country. While lie's wondering what on earth he'll do wlt.li him self when he gets there, not knowing a soul In town and with a limited percentage of his "thirty per" in his pock; et, along comes a friendly printed card I from the local branch of his own lodge announcing a reception that night especially for soldier members. Ity the same mall the Methodist" church sends an announcement of nil its meetings, addressed to him, with This Mean? You printed at the bottom. How did they know he was a Methodist? He had forgotten about the little : "Personal Card" he made out at the ! adjutant's request during his flrst day | in camp when It was only one of the endless details In the round of dentist! , and doctors and general confusion, > The W. C. C. S. had not only his number, but his name and address, hti 1 home town, the name of the school i he'd gone to and a good hit about the i things he was fondest of doing?each fact written into a little blank en Um ? card esoeclallv for it_ > j n i Dr. W. S. Currcll, president of the ' University of South Carolina, ha f returned .from Chapel Hill, N. C I where he attended the funeral scr| vices of the late Dr. K. K. Graham, j prori'lent of the University cf North .Carolina. ^ HOUSE AND BENSON TO SPEAK FOR U. S. Washington.?Col. E. M. House, pcisonul representative of President Wilson and spokesman of the State Department, and Admiral Wm. & Benson, chief of naval operation)^, have arrived in France to represent the United States in the consideration of Germany's plea for an armistice and peace negotiations. Louisa Logan, of Columbia, has been advised that her son, Corp. Philip Logan, now in France, has received a portion of the 1,000 francs recently awarded by the trench government to a raiding party which captured a non-commissioned German officer, while am bushing a German listening post. o l\ . CONDITIONS IMPROVED. %' The influenza epidemic is evidently going dexvn in this entire section according to reports received at n late hour before going to press. No new cases have been heard of in the town for several days, unless one or two ; which developed late in isolated coriv rs. Those who were sick are taking care of themselves and getting: ? hotter. The situation can he said. to**, be greatly improved and things^ a re about normal once more. o ACMMiNG CP THE EVIDENCE Many Conway People Have Been Called As Witnesses. J Week after week has been publTSh^^ | cd tin? testimony of Conway people? kidney sufferer.'.?backache victims? people who have endured many form, of kidney, bladder or urinary disorders. These witnesses have used Doan's Kidney lh'lls. All have given their enthusiastic approval. , H\; the same everywhere. 50.0 >0 i American men and women are pubj licly recommending Doan's?always ! in the home paper.;. Isn't it a won^" j v!( rful, convincing mass of profify If you are a sufferer your verdict | must he "Try Doan's first." Here's one more Conway case. W. 1). Woodward, prop., grocery, 'Third Ave., says: "1 had a slight touch of kidney trouble. My back hurt me and once in a while I had headaches. Dizzy spells bothered me too, and my nerves were in bad shape, j The kidney secretions passed too 1 often, and were scanty. Finally 1^, got a box of Doan's Kidney Pills at the Norton Drug Co., and they cured me entirely of the trouble." I Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kid/iov remedy?g>*t Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that ! Mr. Woodward had. Fo> tc r-Milbu: n Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y. SAYS WILSON WILL MASK GERMANY London. ? Lord Northcliffe, commenting on Germany's reply, said tonight: "A hasty perusal of the German note reveals that, with truly Prussian selfishness, 110 mention is made of Austria-Hungary or Turkey. It scon s j to me that the document may be read I either as a means to gain time or as 1 confession of a state of affairs mil1 itarily and economically worse than I we know. The German GovornI merit may be hoping to exploit the j condition.; of the armistice as an out' age upor German honor and as a means of rallying the German nation for desperate 'resistacc, or it may : imply be trying to put the President ..... w:-- - r - - ? " ' jmiaj till.: [IU? lion Ol DU.Tf'O ior mo German people, which will havtf thrrown itsoll' upon his mercy. "The President, who dolt so firmly j and shrewdly with the previous Gcr! man attempts to entangle him in Iwvi'dy discussions, may bo triisted to .compel the German Govornnj^nt to how whether it really intends urA^j conditional surrender, which alorJ* \ can satisfy the demands of the mil* j tary and naval authorities of the Al- I lies, or whether it simply is playig for time." British Labor for Jifstice. "In Arthur Henderson, the British labor leader, declared in a speech at 'a , labor meeting Saturday night, the situation created by the Genmql peace offer, British labor ranges ] self solidly behind President Wilson. | '.Labor men should continued) sup- ' ' prot President Wilson because his i peace programme embodies the war I aims of organized ablor. British deiimocracy seeks a peace of impartial , I i i: 1 it - ? 11 ju?nce ami uie destruction of the ar. bitary power in Gennany which ' planned the war and has carried | on wit hruthless fury. It has become ) increasingly clear that unconditional , surrender on the part of the rulers of v l Gcimay is necessary in order that the vital interests of the German people themselves can be safeguarded." COLDS & LaGRtft>E 5 or 8 doses 666 will brer.l | any case of Chills & Fever, Coldi & LaGrippe; it acts on the livei 1 bettor than Calopicl andjdoes no' tripe or sicken. Price 25c. \ "\ I