The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 19, 1917, Image 1
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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:
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"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
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stonishingly low
mu select OUR
the assurance of
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GARDEN WILL BE JUST FUN
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ire Company.
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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
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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
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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
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i j# Are we forty years be
, j* selling of Hardware we i
; gj oughness which we estab
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: g( times in such principles v
! $ ; years we bhve been sellir
!? ideals of integrity and w<
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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.
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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
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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