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VOL. XXX. KiyOSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH2 191?}. Ndl>2~
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i PRESIDENT WILSON'S
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^ AMERICA SHOULD NEVER SACRIk
FICE HONOR AND JUSTICE
? FOR PEACE, HE SAYS.
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j President Wilson told members
and guests at a Gridiron Club dinner
Saturday night in Washington that
America ought to keep out of the
ji European war, "at the sacrifice of
everything except this single thing
upon which her character and her
L history are founded, her sense of
humanity and justice."
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rue address was coquucuum, aiuw
the speeches at the dinners of the
Giidiron Club, composed of newspaper
correspondents, are not reported.
It was later made public, however.
with the consent of the PresiMfcat
and club, because many of
tbeae who heard it urged that it
should go to the country.
Fhe President spoke of the Najfj
ticn's affairs with unusual gravity.
^ His hearers, including several hundred
members of Congress, Govern1
nwnt officials, business men and corU7.?rp
hrnmrht to their
feet cheering when he concluded
with these words:
TRUE VALOR.
f "I would be just as much ashamed
to be rash as I would to be a coward.
Vtior is self-respecting. Valor is
circumspect. Valor strikes only
| wlec it is right to strike. Valor
t withholds itself from all small imWpl'cations
and entanglements and
[ i waits for the great opportunity
when the sword will flash as if it
carried the light of heaven upon its
blade."
I In his address he said:
I "T I llfflo fn oov f-nnicrht
1 nave ycjj ubbie iu jwj
; except to express my warm appreI
ciation of the invariable courtesy of
this club and of the reception you
have so generously accorded me. I
find that I am seldom tempted to
say anything nowadays unless somebody
starts something and tonight
nobody has started anything.
'' "Your talk, Mr Toastmaster, has
| been a great deal about the candidacy
for the Presidency. It is not
a new feeling on my part, but one
which I entertain with a greater intensity
than formerly, that a man
who seeks the Presidency of the
United States for anything that it
will bring to him is an audacious
fool. The responsibilities of the of<
fice ought to sober a man even bej
fere he approaches it. One of the
; difficulties of the office seldom api.
predated, I dare say, is that it is
B very difficult to think while so many
V people are talking, and particularly
J while so many people are talking in
a way that obscures counsel and is
entirely off the point.
NATIONAL AFFAIRS.
"The point in national affairs,
L gentlemen, never lies along the lines
1 of expediency. It always rests in
Lthe field of principle. The United
Pn^ates was not founded upon any
P principle of expediency, it was found|
ed upon a profound principle of huD
man liberty and of humanity, and
P whenever it bases its policy upon
D any other foundations than those it
B builds on the sand and not upon solid
B rock. It seems to me that the most
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enlightening thing a man can do is J
suggested by something which the 2
Vice President said tonight. He j
complained that he found men who, *
when their attention was called to 2
the signs of spring, did not see the >
blue heaven, saw not the movement f
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great spaces of the quiet continent, c
but thought only of some immediate ?
and pressing piece of business. It ?
seems to me that if you do not think ?
of the things that lie beyond and ?
away from and disconnected from ?
this scene in which we attempt to ?
think and conclude you will inevit- ?
ably be led astray. I would a great ?
deal rather know what they are '
talking about around quiet firesides :
all over this country than what they
are talking about in the cloak rooms
of Congress. I would a great deal
rather know what the men on the
trains and by the wayside and in the
shops and on the farms are thinking
about and yearning for than hear 1
any of the vociferous proclamations
of policy which it is so easy to hear
and so easy to read by picking up
any scrap of printed paper. There
is only one way to hear these things,
? J ;n nnnafanflo fn trn hflpk I
auu tiiai) to wvuomujuj w
to the foundations of American ;
action. ,
SIMPLICITY WITH STRENGTH. t
"Senator Harding was saying just j
now that we ought to try when we c
are a hundred million strong to act
in the same simplicity of principle I
that our forefathers acted in when r
we were three million strong. I t
heard somebody say that the present
population of the Union is one hun- \
dred and three millions. If there are t
three millions thinking the same r
things that the original three mil- s
lions thought, the hundred million i
will be saved for an illustrious fu- j
ture. They were ready to stake c
everything fur an ideal, and that >
ideal was not expediency, but \
justice. And the infinite difficulty ! t
of public affairs, gentlemen, is to' 1
square the things you do by the not: t
simple but complicated standards of, t
justice. Justice has nothing to do j i
with any temporary standard what- i
ever. It is rooted and grounded in ! j
the instincts of humanity. j J
"America ought to keep out of l ?
this war. She ought to keep out of 1 s
this war at the sacrifice of every- ' i
thing except this single thing upon ! i
which her character and history are ! ?
founded, her sense of humanity and <
justice. If 3he sacrifices that she \
has ceased to be America, she has 1
ceased to entertain and love the tra-!
ditions whicn have made us proud 1
to be Americans, and when we go ' j
about seeking safety at the expense j
of humanity then I for one will be-1
lieve that I have always been mis-1 (
taken in what I have conceived to I (
be the spirit of American history, j i
DETERMINING THE FUTURE.
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"You never can tell your direc- (
tion except by long measurements. *
You cannot establish a line by two *
posts; you have got to have three at j
least to know whether they are ]
straight with anything, and the (
longer your line the more certain
your measurement. There is only j
one way in which to determine how (
the future of the United States is; f
going to be projected, and that is by c
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and contractors. Our pla:
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We can place you in any se
you want. Address all cor
Gpurdin & Harpei
ooaing DacK ana seeing which way
he line ran which led up to the
>re8ent moment of power and of
>pportunity."
The American roll of honor, the
^resident said, consists only of the
lames of men who have 'squared
heir conduct by ideals of duty.'
"And I wish," he added, "that
vhenever an impulse to settle a
hing some short way tempts us we
night close the door and take down
lome old stories of what American
dealists and statesmen did in the
Dast and not let any counsel in that
loes not sound in the authentic
foice of American tradition. Then
ve shall be certain what the lines of
he future are because we shall
cnown we are steemig by the lines
?f the past. We snail know that no
:emporary convenience, no temporary
expediency, will lead us to be
ash or to be cowardly. I would be
lust as much ashamed to be rash a3
[ would to be a coward, Valor is
lelf-respocting. Valor is circumipect.
Valor strikes only when it is
ight to strike. Valor withholds
tself from all small implications
ind entanglements and waits for the
mat opportunity when the sword
vill flash as if it carried the light of
leaven upon its blade."
FCHn?.<! F?nn "CEDAR SWAMP"
low Does This Suit Our Psteem*
ed Correspondent?
Thi9 section of Williamsburg coun- j
;y away back in time that ante
lates the war between the States,
ind possibly the revolutionary pe iod,
was settled. The names of
iome of the older settlers are: the Mc>eas,
McCulloughs, McCotterys,
Scotts, Flaglers, Chandlers and :
jrayson's. There was a tim?, (we
?et our information from deeds and
joundaries of old land papesr), that
Vlontgomerys, McElveens and Boyds
>wned property in this section.
These lands are drained by Cedar J(
iwamp, and the neighboring coun-J]
;ry was known then and is to day
railed Cedar Swamp section. Some '
ifteen or twenty years ago a post- i
)ffice was established here. The :
ers:
he people to i
? none but tht
d our prices e
ardware
/HY NOT NOW
lT we will
our Store, your Barns, Stables
nt is equipped with new machii
!ne consists of:
ings, Frames, Column
;, Railings, Mantels, Bi
iade to your order, you furnisl
ow small the order you send is,
no more than you generally pa?
ing & Construction Co.,
Fam^^ands^
rown Lots For Sale!
t> Buy, See Us
o Sell, See Us
ction of the County that
respondence to
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name9, "Cedar Swamp" and "Benson",
were sent in, but as a shorter
name is preferable to the postoffice
Hpnsrtmpnt "Odar Swamo" was
rejected and "Benson" accepted as
the name of the new office.
In the course of time Benson postoffice
was discontinued and the patrons
are favored now by a rural
route instead.
Ye scribe has been reporting news
from Benson postoffice and, as we
have no more postoffice, but have
still the old original Cedar Swamp,
with Cedar Swamp Graded school,
Cedar Swamp church, Cedar Swamp
Camp "W 0 W" and Cedar Swamp
voting precinct, we are asking our
obliging editor to find as a caption
other than Benson News, etc.
Misses Alma Watson and Nell =
Sellers of Sellers, sister and niece of
Mrs J Y McGill, were visitors there K
last week.
Mrs Mayme Rumph and little
daughter, Edith, of Charleston are
visiting at the Grayson home. :
Messrs Vandolph McConnell and
Jack McCullough of Bryan were in
this neighborhood Saturday and Sunday.
Misses Lena Haddock, Myrtle Cooper
and Mr Maxie Hemingway spent
the week-end here with friends.
Messrs Ed Vause and Roger McGill
were noted in our midst Sunday.
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1IJIS IX XV XVU9SC1I mill lin VVTW UUJo,
Harry and "S T,"spent a short time
with relatives last week.
The church-going folk are very
much pleased at the earnestness with
which the new pastor of the Baptist
church, Rev A E Riemer, has begun
his work, and the entire community
welcome him in their midst and will
co-operate with him in the furtherance
of his sacred duties. WES.
Dyestaffs to be Shipped.
Washington, February 29:?Great
Britain will permit the shipment of
two cargoes of dyestuffs, valued at
$5,000,000, from Rotterdam to the
United States, Ambassador Page, at
London, has advised the State de
partment.and officials here are hope- 1
ful that Germany will make an ex- I
ception to it3 embargo by granting I
permission for their exportation. ?
Ambassador Page said that the I
British foreign office had given him I
assurances that the cargoes would I
not be interfered with. m
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