The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, January 17, 1918, Image 2
BERLIN SUFFERS
GREATEST MISERY
SITUATION IN GERMAN CAPITAL
IS NOW DESCRIBED AS BEING
"ABSOLUTELY AWFUL."
A London dispatch to The New
York World says: An observer at
nrkrv loft HprmflV ITT the
JJIOV uanu v*iiv ?v?v ^
middle of December, and for whose
trustworthiness the Morning Post
vouches, gives an amazing account
of conditions in Berlin, both economic
and political.
"The situation in Berlin,'' he said,
"is sbsolutely awful. For the great
mass of the population there is
hardly any light, warmth, clothing
or shoes, and an appalling lack of
food.
"The worK of the city is carried
on by decrepit men and women, reduced
to nearly the same condition.
On one occasion I saw a coal cart
with a Russian prisoner in the driver's
seat and four women literally
in rags carrying bags of coal into a
house.
"The linen worn by both sexes is
abominably dirty, for there is no
soap.
"There is intensely bitter feeling
among the people against the gov??
ernment, and there would be a revolt,
only, as the people are always
saying, 'Women can't make a revolution.'
The government knows
this and forbids the return to Berlin
of able-bodied men, and officers are
allowed to return only in exceptional
circumstances.
"Von Hindenberg is loathed by
the people of Berlin. Placards with
his picture appealing for subscriptions
to the loans were torn down,
although they were not touched in
South Germany.
"All over Berlin notices are posted
offering 3,000 marks (normally
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persons criticising the government,
the Emperor, the war or officers.
"The population of Berlin is divided
roughly into three classes. The
upper military class, which adores
Hindenberg and hates Ludendorff;
the middle class, which loves Ludendorff
because he gives high posts in
the army to Jews, who are making
vast sums out of the war, and the
lower working class, which loathes
Hindenburg, Ludendorff and especially
the Emperor and ridicules the
Crown Prince unmercifully. Otherr>/-,knrlu
monHnnn thp imnerial
family, which has ceased to be a
dominant factor.
"The well to do get along fairly
comfortably, because the necesaries ;
are purchasable at fabulous sums.
A ham costs $90. A special restaurant
dinner for three, costing $10,
consisted of warm water soup, some
tiny fishes, a fragment of some sort
of meat, a few carrots, a piece of ,
turnip and an uneatabie pudding.
"News is circulated secretly
among the officers that a recent fire
or explosion in the, Krupp Works
destroyed 250 new airplanes.
"The officers know that the Turks
are utterly sick of war.
"Everything is being moved west.
Double rails are being laid wherever
possible, creating the hope that
food may come from Russia. j
"From Berlin to Basile, including
a whole night on the train, there
was neither light, heat, food nor
drink of any sort obtainable."
Teachers' Examination.
a ..?matinn fnr tPReherS will
/Ill CAailliuuvivM -
be held in the county court house at
Kingstree on Saturday, January 19.
The examination will begin at 9 a.
m. and close at 4 p. m.
J V McElveen,
1-10-2t Co Supt Education.
The British destroyer. "Racoon,"
struck on the rocks off the the Irish
coast Wednesday of last week and
foundered, it is officially announced.
All on board the Racood were lost.
Twenty bodies have been recovered.
The vessel's crew normally consisted
of one hundred and 9ve, but nine
were left behind at the port of Call.
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The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless
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out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. 60 cents.
WELLS FARGO VET
PASSES TIP ALONG.
"GET TANLAC, A FRIEND TOLD
ME," SAYS PALMER.
TOOK GOOD ADVICE.
"Am Now a Different Man," He
Declares. "Now Rid of
My Troubles."
For 2N years, more than a quarter
of a century. F E Palmer, of No
7 Elizabeth St, Binghampton, N V,
has been a valued employee of the
Wells Fargo Express Company, and
a man with a record like that has,
of course, proved his ability and integrity
beyond question.
TKiu tlip sort of nmn whose en
dorsement is worth a great deal and
it is a matter of pride that men of
this calibre endorse Tanlac.
"I feel just like a good friend felt
for me?I want to help the other
fellow who may be suffering,'' Mr
Palmer said, and that is the spirit
which moves such men and women.
They want others to share their
good fortune.
"For the last six years I have
felt myself slipping from the path
of health," he continued. "Indigestion
and cattarh had attacked
me. My appetite became poor, my
food did not taste right and I would
suffer after eating. I grew nervous
and was getting run down. I did
not feel well and would get up feeling
achy and dull. I knew it
would not do for me to keep on
feeling that way. 'Get Tanlac,' a
friend told me, and I took his tip.
Now I am a different man. I don't
have to light off worries and little
ills. I am entirely well of my
troubles. I don't feel any more indigestion
and my catarrh has disappeared.
I can eat anything without
fear of it hurting me. My
sleep could not U* better. Tanlac
has done the work for me and I
give my statement now to others.
Get on the Tan lac Special and start
for Wellville, I tell them."
Fof themselves, the well known
men and women who endorse Tanlac
would not talk, but the bond of
sympathy between such people is
strong. Once relieved themselves,
they want others to know of this
reconstructive, system purifier and
stomach tonic which, because of its
record, is called the Master Medicine.
Tanlac, the master medicine, is
sold by Kingstree Drug Co, Kingstree;
Mallard Lumber Co, Greelyville;
Farmers' Drug Co, Hemingway;
S S Aronson, Lane; R P Hinnant,
Suttons; W D Bryan, Bryan. I
The Walterboro bakery has disfontinued
makintr cakes on account'
of the sugar famine.
A Cowpens man has a device by j
which half the quantity of. coal
burned in grates can be saved. It
has been patented.
James P Campbell, for four years
Auditor of Marlboro county, has resigned
to enter private employment.
Vigorous campaigns are on in
several States to increase the use of
wood for fuel in place of coal. In
Virginia convict labor is employed
to provide wood for fuel.
Women 1 11
Here is a message to fjjf.
suffering women, from $j !'
Mrs. W. T. Price, of W|{j
Public, Ky.: "I suf- gj ;
fered with painful..g? i
she writes. "I got down (WJ;
with a weakness in my g &
"back and limbs...I E\
felt helpless and dis- Bj r
couraged.. .1 had about b
giveD up hopes of ever h ?
beinfe well again, when m y.:
a friend insisted I F/ejfp
Take "Bl!
CARDUI
Tlis Woman's Tonic
flBTII I began Cardul. In I [BR
II a short while I saw a JjjjBj!
Illl marke(i difference... 1 Kl jj
jB Ij I grew stronger right I IB jj
jPI II along, and it cured me. ||H{
lJjW I am stouter than I nVJ
have been in years." |g ^
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! I WAR TALKS I
By UNCLE DAN
Number Three
How War Methods Have Changed
Everybody Must Help.
?D?lln TTn/>U rtsn Timmlo nnd I
IilCllU) VUVIC uruu, wiftutMiv ?
have been waiting for yon."
"Sorry if I have kept yon long," said
Uncle Dan. "Your mother has been
telling me how bashful I used to be.
She said If a girl spoke to me I would
blush to my hair roots. Well, I reminded
her of the time your father
first came to see her and the joke we
played on them, so I guess that will
hold her for a while."
Continuing, Uncle Dan said: "You
want to talk more about the war, do
you? Well, war methods have undergone
many changes and they are still
changing. No two wars are fought
alike. Ixj early times, the weapons were
stones, clubs, spears, bows and arrows,
swords, etc. In this kind of warfare,
victory was with the strong right arm.
Men of enormous size and strength
were the great warriors. The invention
of gunpowder, however, has
changed all this. It has enabled men
to kill one another at a considerable
distance, and do it wholesale. The
war, as we know it now, is a combination
of chemicals, machinery, mathematical
calculations and highly trained
men. Just think of it! Airplanes,
submarines, armored tanks, or caternlllnrs
nnUnn c?k#>h and curtains of
fire are all used for the first time In
this war; and they are destructive beyond
anything heretofore known.
"The methods followed by the kaiser
and his allies are simply devilish.
He must answer In history to the killing
of thousands of innocent women
and children. He has broken every
international law and every rule of
warfare; he has bombarded hospitals
and undefended cities, sunk Red Cross
ships on errands of mercy; he has destroyed
cathedrals and priceless treasures
of art that can never be replaced;
he has made slaves of his prisoners;
he has tried to get us Into war with
Japan; his emmissarles have blown up
our ships, burned our factories and
fired our forests. He knows no mercy
or honor. The most charitable view
to take of this blood-thirsty tyrant
is that he is crazy.
"One thing Is certain," continued Uncle
Dan, with great emphasis, "Our
liberty, the safety of our homes and
our country, and the security of the
world demand the speedy and abso
lute overthrow of tne Kaiser ana
crushing out once and forever the
reign of Prussian brutality.**
"How about the German people,"
said Blllie.
Uncle Dan replied: 'The splendid
German people were happy, thrifty,
prosperous and contented. They have
been tricked into war and made to
suffer the tortures of the damned;
they have been cruelly and systematically
deceived. God grant that the real
facts may get to them, and If they do.
Lord help the kaiser!"
"Of course the allies will win," said
Mrs. Graham.
"Probably so," said Uncle Dan. "But
If we are to win, we must go the limit
We must check the awful destruction to
shipping by the German submarines,
or we may not be able to get food and
supplies to our own men and to our allies;
we must also put hundreds of
thousands, and perhaps millions, of
first-class soldiers in the battle line.
"Food is the first consideration," Uncle
Dan continued. "No army can hold
out against hunger. It has been said
that food will win the war, and this is
largely true. Hence the Importance
of the farm In the war plans of our
country."
Mrs. Graham Interrupted by saying:
"T- ?* imnAvtonoo nf forming
1U View U1 u1c luijn/i iuuvv v. _D,
don't yon think, Daniel, that the farmers
ought to be exempted from war
service?"
"No, a thousand times no," said Uncle
Dan, striking the table so hard to
emphasize his protest that he tipped
over a vase of flowers. "We must
have no class legislation. The duty to
serve is the common duty of all, and
no class must be relieved of this obligation.
The question of exemption
must be a personal one and decided by
the facts surrounding each case. In
no other way can we have a square
deal, and to Insure this, it is the duty
of congress to pass immediately the
Chamberlain bill, or some such measure,
which is fair to all classes. It
would settle all these questions and
do It fairly. Safety now and safety
hereafter demands such legislation,
and let me suggest that you and your
Know irlfh 17 All r A A n ITrPSLS
1UCUU3 gcx l/uoj fT?M? #VW.
man and senators and urge them to
prompt action.
MIt is time for us to realize that we
are not living in a fools' paradise;
that this great country of ours cost
oceans of blood and treasure and it is
only due to the loyalty, sacrifice and
service of our forefathers that we have
a country, and it is our highest duty
to preserve it unimpaired and pass it
on to posterity, no matter what the
cost may be. Our citizenship and their
ancestors came from all parts of the
world to make this country a home
and enjoy its blessings and opportunities;
hence, in the crisis before us,
it is the duty of everyone to stand
squarely back of our country and be
prepared to defend the flag. Everyone
in this crisis is either pro-American
or pro-German. Great as the country
is, there is not room enough for
two flags."
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