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HHSfc <?iumtu ' VUL AJLJL11' KIJfGSTREE, SOUTHCAROLmi, THCRSPAT, APRlClTm 7. ^ f Mhe presidents urgent appeal I TO ALL THE PEOPLE TO STAND ?T . THE NATION IN THIS THE OF CONFLICT. Washington, April 15:? Prewdent Wilson tonight in an address to his countrymen called upon every American citizen?man. woman and child?to join together to mike the nation a unit for the preservttion of its ideals and for triumph o:' dem- j * a1? ?rotr ocracy in trie ??m "The supreme test if the nation has come," says the aidress. "We must ail speak, act .nd serve together." The president urg* all the people to concentrate their aergies, prac- ' taee economy, prov-unselfish and^ demonstrate efficien. He appealed to tt farmers withj emphasis on his wds and partic ularly to the farmeof the South, | to plaat foodstuffs The Southern! farmers, he said, an show their patriotism in no brr or more contvincing way than' resisting the ? great temptationf the present price of cotton anelping to feed the nations and t peoples everywhere fighting 1 their liberties and our own." The address fos: AVOO TH f' Do K Wait to ordocreens. W lower w and v | hurrieOur sped I ables to produc | W1NDV AND 1 I of alhds at a I prices When j I Screerou have f corre^orkmans | Kingse Mfg. I (some L Ngvy HOEN ID -^1 IHOW?U EXPECT YC LESS1VE OUR GOC WORKDRKING YOUR IF YOU FURNISH YG PLEMI WE IANY "LABOR WILLDUR BACK FI w W OR HARDEN. COM I Br ourn tuuls ak ^ test. Kidardwe opular Hi ta I "My fellow countrymen: "The entrance of our beloved country intc the grim and terrible war for democracy and human rights which has shaken the world creates so many problems of national life and action which call for immediate consideration and settlement that I hope you will permit me to address to you a few words of earnest counsel and appeal with regard to them. J'We are rapidly putting our navy upon an effective war footing and are about to create aDd equip a great army, but these are the simplest parts for the great task to which we have addressed ourselves. There is p.ot a single selfish element, so far as I can see, in the cause we are fighting for. We are fighting for what we believe and wish to be the rights of mankind and for the future peace and security of the world. To do this great thing worthily and successfully we must deyote ourselves to the service without regard to profit or material advantage and with an energy and intelligence that will rise to the level of the enterprise itself. We must rog)i?p tr? thp fnllest how great the task is and how many things, how many kinds and elements of capacity and service and selfscrifice it involves. , "These, then, are the thinprs we mu9t do and do well, besides ficrht[if until Summer Prices are much workmanship not ial equipment ene high grade XX)R SCREENS stonishingly low mu select OUR the assurance of l 1 ! nip ana superior & Const Co. ojsJ9f >UR GARDEN TO "GROW" UN. >D TOOLS WITH WHICH TO GARDEN WILL BE JUST FUN lU WITH NEW GARDENING IM. -SAVERS" FOR YOU WHICH ROM BREAKING WHEN YOU IE SEE THEM. E BEST; THEY STAND THE ire Company. *rdware Store* % ing ?the things without which mere fighting would be fruitless. "We must supply abundant food for ourselves and for our armies and our seamen, not only but also for a large part of th? nations with whom ; we have now made common cause, in whose support and by whose aid ' we shall be fighting. "We must supplv ships by the I hundreds out of our ship yards to carry to the other side of the sea, , submarines or no submarines, what will every day be needed there, and abundant materials out of our fields and our mines and our factories with which, not only to clothe and equip our own forces on land and sea. dui also to clothe and support our people for whom the gallant fellows under arms can no longer work, to help clothe and equip the armies with which we are cooperating in Europe and to keep the looms and manufactories there in raw materials; coals to keep the fires going in ships at sea and in the furnaces of hundreds of factories across the sea; steel out of which to make arms and ammunition both here and there; rails for worn out railways back of the fighting front; locomotives and roll stock to take the place of those every day going to pieces; mules, horses, cattle, for lobor and for military service; everything with nonnln rtf PncrlanH and I Willed llic (A^vpiv v? France and Italy and Russia have usually supplied themselves but cani not now afford the men, the materials or the machinery to make. "It is evident to every thinking man that our industries, on the farms, in the shipyards, in the mines, in the factories, must be made more prolific and more efficient than ever and that they must be j more economically managed and better adapted to the particular re-1 quirements of our task than they have been; and what I want to say i man or>r) tVio irnmpn Ujhfl Id tliai iUC UKU ?UU VIIV devote their thought and their energy to these things will be serving the country and conducting the fight for peace and freedom just as truly and just as effectively as the men on the battlefield or in the trenches. The industrial forces of the country, men and women alike, will be a great national, a great international service army?a notable and honored host engaged in the service of the nation and the world, the efficient friends and saviors of free men everywhere. Thousands, nay, hundreds of thousands of men otherwise liable to military service of j right and of necessity be excused 1 tUnt ooMMrto anrl ocaifrnpH f/1 iiuuj iiiav oci * in.v, uuu the fundamental sustaining work of the fields and factories and mines, and they will be as much part of the great patriotic forces of the nation as the men under fire. "I take the liberty, therefore, of addressing the word to the farmers of the country and to all who work on the farms: the supreme needs of our own nation and of the nations with which we are cooperating is an abundance of supplies and especially of foodstuffs. The importance of an adequate food supply, especially for the present year, is superlative. "Without abundant food, alike for armies and the people now at war, the whole great enterprise upon which we have embarked will break down and fail. The world's food reserves are low. Not only during the present emergency but for some time after peace shall have come both our own people and a large proportion of the people of Europe must rely upon harvests in America. Upon the farmers of this country, therefore, in large measure rests the fate of the war and the fate of the nations. May the nation not count upon them to omit no step that will increase the production of their land or that will bring about the most effectual cooperation in the snle and distribution of their products? ' The time is short. It is of ^ ivG3oKz5???2c?n^^ 1 Here 1 I ? ? i j# Are we forty years be , j* selling of Hardware we i ; gj oughness which we estab | gj ness, no concealed faults : g( times in such principles v ! $ ; years we bhve been sellir !? ideals of integrity and w< | Coffins and Cash I Kingstr the most imperative importance that everything possible be done and done j immediately to make sure of large harvests. I call upon young men ! and old alike and upon able-bodied boys of the land to accept and act iupon this duty?to turn in hosts to j the farms and make certain that no j labor is lacking in this grave matter. "I particularly appeal to the farm! ers of the South to plant abundant i foodstuffs as well as cotton. They 1 cannot show their Datriotism in any better way than by resisting the great temptation of the present price of cotton and thus helping, upon a great scale, to feed the naI tion and the people everywhere who are fighting for their liberties and for our own. The variety of their ( crops will be the visible measure of: their comprehension of their national duty. "The Government of the United States and the governments of the several States stand ready to cooperate. They will do everything possible to assist farmers in securing an adequate supply of seed, and adequate force of laborers when they 1 om m.iof napdprl at harvest time. ?.V- .UVBV > ' | and the means of expediting shipments of fertilizers and farm machinery as well ?is of the crops themselves when harvested. The course of trade will be as unhampered as it is possible to make it and there shall: be no unwarranted manipulation of j the nations foodstuffs by those who | handle it on its way to the consumer, j This is our opportunity to demon-1 strate the efficiency of a great dem- j ocracy and we shall not fall short' of it! "This let me say to the middlemen I of every sort, whether they are han-! ! dling foodstuffs or our raw materials ' of manufacture or the products of our mills and factories: the eyes of! the country will be especially on you. j Tnis is your opportunity for signal | service, efficient and disinterested. The country expects you,as it expects all others, to forego unusual profits, to organize and expedite shipments of supplies of every kind.but especial-1 j ly of food, with an eye to the service jyou are rendering and in the spirit of those who enlist in the ranks, for their people, not for themselves. I shall confidently expect you to deserve and win the confidence of people of every sort and station. "To the men who run the railways of the country,whether they be managers or operative employes, let me say that the railways are the arteries | of the nation's life and that upon them rests the immense responsibility of seeing to it that those arteries suffer no obstruction of any kind.no inefficiency or slackened power. To the merchant let me suggest the motto, small profits and quictc service ana to the shipbuilder the thought th at the life of the wardependsuponhim. The food and the war supplies must be carried across the seas, no matter how many ships are sent to the bottom. The places of those that go down must be supplied, and supplied at once. To the miner let me say that he stands where the farmer does: the work of the world awaits on him. If he slackens or fails,armies and statesmen are helpless. He also i [s a Que hind the times or ten years a ire maintaining the standard: lished many years ago. There i in any Hardware sold by us. ye will stand whatever criticisn ig Hardware from our store, orthiness. ets We Lead; ee Hardw ?????R3gS?JSSJS?SKJ&8 s is enlisted in the great service army. The manufacturer does not need to to be told, I hope, that the nation y looks to him to speed and perfect ev- a ery process; and I want only to re- n mind his employes that their service j is absolutely indispensable, and is \ counted on by every man who loves 0 the country and its liberties. ^ "Let me suggest also, that every v one who creates or cultivates a gar- c den helps greatly, to solve the prob- q lem of the feeding of the nations; j that every housewife who practices 'y strict economy puts hereself in the ranks of those who serve the nation. I a This the time for America to correct her unpardonable fault of wasteful-1 ness and extravagance. Let every' j man and every woman assume the n duties of careful, provident use and j, expenditure as a pumic duty, as a dictate of patriotism which no one n can now expect ever to be excused or forgiven for ignoring. "In the hope that this statement of the needs of the nation and of ^ the world in this hour of supreme | crisis may stimulate those to whom jfi it comes and remind all who need n reminder of the solemn duties of a n time such as the world has never seen before. I beg that all editors tj and publishers everywhere will give p as prominent publication and as ^ wide circulation as possible to this a appeal. I venture to suggest also to all advertising agencies that they jr would perhaps render a very sub- n stantiai ana timely service to tne g country if they would give it wide- ^ spread repetition. And I hope that clergymen will not think the theme of it an unworthy and inappropriate E subject of comment and homily from C their pulpits. 4 "The supreme test of the nation has come. We must all speak, act and serveltogether! ii "Woodword Wilson." ii Recipi You Help the And the Governn The Farmers & Merc through its conn< Federal Res offers, as an aid to the imr adeauate food suddIv in tb der all reasonable financial ers, secured by the growi cotton and tobacco. Farmers & Merchai lake err Capital, Surplus and istion: I thead of them? In the gj s of honesty and thor- g ire no shams, no cheap- g; If we are behind the g; 1 we merit. For many g; always with the same g; ; Others Follow || are Co. 1 Mrs W E Jenkinson Dead. Mrs Carrie Jenkinson, wife of Mr if E Jenkinson of this place, died t a Florence infirmary Monday ight, after a lingering illness. Mrs enkinson was, before her marriage, liss Carrie Haynesworth, daughter f Mr and Mrs Monie S Haynearorth of Florence. She was a deout member of the Methodist hurch, and was a most lovable Ihristian woman. Mrs Jenkinson was about forty ears old ana leaves a husband and tvo children, little Belva and Billy, father, mother, two brothers and , riree sisters. The remains were aken to Manning on train No 47 uesday afternoon for burial. Maning being the former home of Mr enkinson. The funeral services )ok place at Manning yesterday lorning 11 o'clock. $7,000,000,000 War Bill Passed. Washington, April 17:?The war nance bill providing for issuance of 7,000,000,000 in securities ? the trcrest singly war budget in any ation's history?was passed unanilously by the Senate. After 3even hours of discussion ie administration measure, which assed the House last Saturday and 'hich provides for a loan to the Hies of $3,000,000,000, was approvd by the Senate with few changes 1 record time. The amendments iay necessitate a conference, or the enate changes may t>e accepted by ie House. Just received 1 car Grits, 1 car [ay, 1 car Oats, 1 ca:* Flour, 1 car VI u. -19-tf People's M ercantile Co. The Bank of Georgetown is offerig $65 in prizes to the corn raisers j that county. rocity. Government I lent Helps You. I ihants National Bank ' action with the erve Bank nediate production of an lis national crisis, to renassistance to our farmng crops of foodstuffs, its National Bank V Q f I i, vj. v. Profits, $136,000 I