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VOL. XXXII. KIXGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 34, 1918. NO. 47
i friends of ger- i
f han democracy;
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ISSUE PATIOTIC CALL TO GERMANAMERICANS
AND SYMPATHIZERS
WITH THEIR CAUSE.
The following: appeal to friends of1
democracy in Germany was handed I
as for publication by a man who was
born in Germany and served 'that
eountry under the rule of the Kaiser
until his opportunity came to get!
away. He came to America and was
naturalized as a citizen. He's a good
one, too (even though he does sell us
tough beef occasionally), always loyal
and patriotic to his adopted country.
That man is H A Miller, who
now hates kaiserism as heartily as he
loves American ideals:
This war is not a war on the part
of America against the German
people. It is rather a war against
an atiquated system of government
that unhappily dominates the Ger-|
man neoDle to their own and the j
world's undoing.
Again and again President Wilson i
has distinguished between the Ger- j
man people and their rulers. In |
emphasizing this foundamental point
the President has performed 8 service
to Germany and to the whole
world. This distinction cannot be
too highly regarded or too much J
emphasized, both by the advocates!
ot,democracy* in Germany and by I
the friends of democracy in America.j
President Wilson has likewise very j
dearly pointed out that the war|
must go on until the triumph of.
democracy is complete. This matter
is no longer debatable. All
American citizens of German birth
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or descent roust surety remise wai i
they are face to face with a known
fact and not with an open question.!
America and the allies are going to:
win this war against the Emperor'
and the ruling classes of Germany, j
The purpose of the society is to
further democracy by aiding the;
people of Germany to establish in'
Germany a government responsible1
to the people.
Our society consists of American
citizens of German birth or descent
and all other persons whoeyer that
are in sympathy with its purpose.
It is required of all members that j
they favor a vigorous prosecution of
aims nf the United
tliC wot UUili vuv V* V...
States government shall be attained. j
During the past seventy years
I aver five millions of Germans have;
eome to America. The first great'
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German immigration, following the
German revolution of 1848 9, sprung
from the desire of freedom-loving!
men and women to take up citizen hip
in a country where political
freedom was established. More recently
there have come to us mil- J
lions of Germans who have sought
both freedom and an opportunity to
make a better living here than was
possible in the* Fatherland. All
have found open to them in Amer- j
ica every opportunity for advance
ment which has been possessed by
the native population. Our fellow
citizens .of German extraction have i
ucceeded in business, in the professions,
and in their appointed part
in the labor of the nation. They
h*ve also succeeded in making a
J - reputation for themselves as regards
the quality of their citizenship and
their ideals of public life and of
k public service. The part which they
" have taken in the upbuilding of the,
; American nation "is too widely!
known to require emphasis here.
^ ^ We now find; that the principles
^ for whictf&any of our immediate
ancestors or we ourselves suffered
* * exile are threatened by the very
poweys which forced so many of us
W- fr out of Germany. In this crisis1
our sense of duty and of honor will
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ft permit o^put out cuuibc owiuu.
<, We must rally with the our fel'ow
Amertcan? against the tyranny hir-h
? Vhas so long cursed the country of
kL. i<
our fathers and which now rises as a
dangerous threat against the liberty
of the whole world.
The Friends of German Democracy
urge all American men and women
of German extraction, by ev
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ery means m men punci, w ???...
themselves on the side of democracy
in this conflict. We, as a society,
shall use every means possible to
reach the people in Germany and
make the real issues of the war
known to them. We still believe
that a majority of the German people,
if properly informed concernins:
their own government and its
misdeeds, will not wait until their
final defeat by force of arms. They
will, sooner or later, rise against
the Kaiser and the Junkers and
establish a democratic government
in Germany. With such a government
America and the allies can and
will make peace.
Finally, let us emphasize that we,
the Friends of German Democracy,
are seeking to unify the people of
America 111 tne commuu uuk oo
well as to arouse the people of Germany
to a sense of their duty and
their opportunity. We know that
our action here and in Germany will
prove a blessing to both countries.
We hope, above all, to hasten the
end of the war by bringing an earlier
victory for the forces of freedom
than would otherwise be secured.
Surely our purposes are important
enough to touch the conscience and
spirit of every one who loves democracy.
We call upon all of you to take
immediate action. Join our society.
Distribute our literature. Every
day of inaction on your part increases
tbe danger that our efforts
may come too late. You have never
been called upon to perform a ?
duty more sacred or important. Act
at once in the name of Democracy
and Liberty.
The above call is signed by the
following prominent German Americans,
who also form the executive
committee of the great organization
that is working for democracy
in their native country:
Franz Siegel, president; F L Hoffman,
vice president; Dr S Adolphus
Knopf, Herbert Welsh, William Slei- '
cher; Frank Bohn, secretary.
Sentenced to Term in Federal Prison.
Leo Todd, a former employe of
the Union News company, was tried
in the federal court at Columbia Saturday
on the charge ofitransporting
a woman from one State to anouher 1
for illicit purposes and upon convic- 1
tion was given a sentence of 18 j ^
mnntha in thp fpdpral Drison at At- I
lanta. The testimony was to the effect
that Todd had by promise of 1
marriage caused a girl of 18 years
to leave her home at Wadesboro, N 1
C, and come with him to Cheraw in 1
this State. The girl, poorly dressed
and very illiterate, took the stand as
prosecuting witness. She told the 1
horrible details of the story of the
deception. The jury remained out a
very few minutes and returned a
verdict of guilty. District Attorney
Weston asked for a sentence of three
years because of the seriousness of
the offense, stating thst each year
many unprotected girls pass through
the same locality on their way to and
from school, and a severe example
made of one person would act as a
deterrent to others. Judge Smith
gave the 18 months' sentence.
Two men tramping through Cher- 1
okee county last week were given i
permission by T F Stroup, a farmer i
near Gaffney, to spend a night in his
house. Next morning they disappeared
with sundry wearables and
some cash. They were arrested and
given 30 days on the chaingang.
Postmaster L S Bowers of New- i
berry has Jesigned after a service of
more than 40 years. He was appointed
by President Grant and reappointed
b\ all his successors. Mr
Bowers has alwaes been n Democrat, i
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U. S. POOD REGULTAIONS.
Attention la Called to the Use of
Sugar and Floor?Penalty.
Study of the situation develops
that America must depend largely
upon flour for success in the war
with Germany. There is plenty of
wheat in Australia, but we have too
few ships to send so far. Our associates
in war must depend upon
America for their supply of flour.
The strictest kind of economiy must
be practiced in the use of flour in
every household in order to feed
the armies. To meet this condidition
the American people must
cut down the consumption of flour
by about 35 per cent, or possibly
more. Corn and other substitutes
must be used as far as possible.
Hoarders of flour, whether individuals,
firms or associations, subject
themselves to a penalty of four
years' imprisonment or a $10,000
fine, or both. Retailers who aid or
abet in hoarding of flour render
themselves liable to the same penalty.
Flour in towns and cities should
be sold in eighth to quarter barrel
quantities; in rural and farm communities
in quarter and half barrel
quantities.
These limitations are effective at
once and they must be strictly observed.
The dealers must notify all other
dealers in the community who do
not know of these rules. Reports of
violations should be made to the
food administration! Prompt investigation
will follow every reported
case.
Sugar should be sold in towns and
cities in two to five pound lots; in
rural and farm localities in from five
to ten pound lots. This regulation
must be strictly adhered to. Every
retailer should use precaution to
prevent the duplication of sales.
The United States food administration
objects to merchants advertising
sugar and fiour. Advertising
tends to increase the sale of
these commodities.
Dealers are prohibited from mak
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ing COmDination suitra ui sugai auu
other commodities, except that of
cornmeal. The dealer in his discretion
may require the consumer to
purchase two pounds of cornmeal
with one pound of sugar. This
ruling is made for the purpose of
increasing the use of cornmeal and
thereby saving flour.
The people of South Carolina mu9t
remember these facts:
Practically all flour must be hauli'd
from the We3t. The corn crop
aloaT
cuiv
"win
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war
I this year was large. Many grist
mills have been erected. By U9ing
I
i more cornmeal and reducing the
| consumption of flour, freight cars
i are released for war work; our
armies are assured of a plentiful
j supply of bread; starvation will be
kept from the doors of the peoples
of our associate countries in the
war; good prices will be secured for
our corn crop, and we will materially
strengthen the hands of the government
in the battle for right.
I have been appointed United
States food adminstrator for Williamsburg
county and 1 wish to call
upon all loyal citizens to assist in
carrying out this work, at present
this county is not fully organized
but in the near future I expect to
appoint a food administration agent
for each township.
All violations of the orders of the
food administrator should be re
ported to me and 1 shall immediately
take it up with the proper authorities.
I desire to especially call the
following orders to attention:
I shall be glad to answer inquires
and give what information I can in
regard to the food administration.
J D O'Bryan,
U S Food Adm for W'msburg Co.
Third Liberty Loan in April.
I Washington, January 18:?As the
I first financial step in preparation for
\ the third Liberty loan, Secretary
J McAdoo tonight announced a new
I issue of $400,000,000 treasury certificates
of indebtedness, bearing 4%
| from January 22 and payable April
j 22. Subscriptions will be received by
federal banks at par and accrued in:
terest until January 29.and payment
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: of tmra LiiDeriy loan win utr buuuu
April 22, and if the same plan o> instalment
payments be maintained
for the third as for the second loan,
the bond selling campaign will be in
March.
For the first time since the United
States started its big war financing
movements, subscriptions will be
received simultaneously for two is
? tUo a!Kor Koinor
HUCH U1 I'd llllkOkca, uib uuai wviuB .
the war stamp loan. Both bear the
same interest.
R B Belser and S 0 Quinn were
elected to the House of Representatives
from Sumter county yesterday
to fill vacancies.
An election will be held in a part
or Colleton county February 12 to
vote on a proposition to merge into
Bamberg county.
Private John Covington of Dillon
died in camp in France last week of
measles.
DELINQUENT REGISTRANTS.
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Sheriff Instructed to Bring Them before j
Local Board in Five Days.
Sheriff Graham has received from j
the Local Board for Williamsburg
county the following list of names
and addresses of persons notified to
file with the Local Board the questionnaire
required by act of May 18,
1817, and failed to do so. He or his
deputy is required to visit each of
these persons within five days from
the receipt of this notice and bring
karri hflfnro fhp hnnrH
Wade Murray, Greelyville
James Mack, Salters
Murray Pressley, Kingstree
Eli Parsons, Heinemann
Hayes Gaillard, baiters
David Junior, Greelyville
Cephus McCown, Bloomingyale
Daniel Burgess, Lake City
Lewis Davis, Greelyville
Allen Griffin, Cades
J J Allen, Kingstree
Dalson Norris, Cooper
Charlie Wong, Kingstree
John McCIary, Bloomingvale
Frank Miller, Greelyville
William Chandler, Kingstree j
John McBride, Kingstree I
John Scott, Hemingway, I
Levi Aiken, Hemingway
Daniel James, Cooper
Willie Fulton, Cades
Jesse James, Gourdin
Peter F Cooper, Cooper
John Scott, Bryan
Bussie Burgess, (Jades
John Blake, Bryan.
Paul McKnight, Fowler
William F Eaddy, Vox
Joe Barr, Kingstree
Horace Brown, Vox
Joseph James, Kingstree
David McFadden, Kingstree, ki
John Q Lamb, Cades
Israel Burgess, CadeB
Henry Davis, Greelyville
George Miller, RhemB
Eli Wilson, Gordon
Ben Casey, Gourdin
Clay Fry, Andrews
John Montgomery, Gourdin
Henry Scott, Kingstree, Rt 1
Benjamin F Smart, Lanes
Hassoc Alston. Kingstree. Rt 1
James Edward, Salters
Ben Cooper, Johnsonville
John Mcknight, Vox
Eric Caesar, Johnsonville
Melv in Scott, Bloomingvale
Henry Joseph Marsh, Hemingway
John E Wilson, Hemingway
Henry Belin, Johnsonville
Mack Rutledge, Excelton
Henry Benj Cox, Excelton
John Perkins. Trio
Gilbert Stone, Hemingway, Rt 2
Roy Cooper, Vox
John Shaw, Cades, Rt 1
Herbert McCrea, Nesmith
Marvin Brown, Johnsonville
L G Wiggins, Gourdin
Lewis Small, Andrews, Rt
James Fulton, King9tree
Cicero Wilson, Nesmith
William Murray, Lanes
Meldrow Keels, Kingstree
Wesley Burgess, Cades
William Montgomery, Salters
David Richardson, Suttons
William Ward, Bryan
Sam Johnson, Morrisville
Jim Crawford, Gourdin
Deems Baylor, Kingstree, Rt 1
Ezekiel Davis, Megeetts
Tom Brodie, Morrisville
Samuel Gamble, Kingstree
John Bryan, Bloomingvale
Jeffry Scott, Nesmith, Rt
Willie H Cooper. Trio
Peter Pierson, Gourdin
Grant Graham, Hemingway, Rt 2
James Brown, Hemingway
Andrew Miller, Andrews, Rt 2
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josepn ijavis, ooucio
Mack Adams, Morrisville
Deanie Alston, Hemingway
Asia White, Greelyville
Emanuel Epps, Cades
James Williams, Hemingway
Arthur Burgess. Kingstree
Harrison Mansfield, Gourdin
Ed McKnight, Kingstree
Lymas Burgess, Kingstree, Rt 2
John Rowell, Henry
Charlie Hanna, Gades
John Chandler, Kingstree, Rt 1
Robert Pegues, Gourdin
Washington Kennedy, Heinemann
Stephney Gilliard, Bryan
Willie Wilson, Vox
Judson Winters, Johnsonville or
Kingstree
Judson Mcintosh, Greelyville
Samuel Montgomery, Greelyville, R 1
Handy Brown, Johnsonville
Julius Brockinton, Kingstree, Rt
John Cooper, Vox
Eli Pressley, Kingstree
Eddie Browder. Kingstree'
Jim Burgess, Nesmith
Murray Lee Brown, Vox
Ollie Sessions, Johnsonville
Frank Godboldt, Kingstree
Eric Cooper, Nesmith
Lymas Hilton, Lane?, Rt
Billie Cooper, Cades
0?mnoAn PoorHnn T.fllfP P.itv
uoaipouu i%vuiuvii| -j
George Wright. Cades
Henry Fulton, Kingstree
Anderson James, Cooper
George Tisdale, Trio
Tom Graham, Lake City, Rt 3
Ben Graham, Lake City, Rt
If any person knows the whereabouts
of any of the above named parties he
will be aiding the Government by reporting
same to the Sheriff, police and
the Local Board.
The first of the "heatless Mondays"
had little effect upon Florida
industries, as the State was enjoying
a warm wave.
Bishopvilie had a $75,000 fire last
Thursday. i
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SENATOR TILLMAN
MAY NOT RETIRE
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ASSUMPTIONS OF THE STATE'S CORRESPONDENT
BASEIXON EVENTS
IN THE CAPITAL CITY.
The Columbia State's Washington
correspondent furnishes the following
speculation on the candidacy
of the senior Senator for reelection
this year:
Washington, January 19:?Benja- min
Ryan Oilman, the "pitchfork"
Senator frtfm South Carolina, is not
to retire from the Senate. He has
been here for more than 20 years
and is likely to be here many more
years, from present indications, despite
that the woods of the Palmetto
State are full of candidates chewing
on their political bits.
In many respects there has never
Deen a more unique ineuiuer iu
'either house of Congress than the
aforesaid Benjamin Ryan Tillman of
Trenton, S C, and last year when it
became noised around and about
the halla of the capitol in Washington
that, having already seryed his
State both as Governor and as Senator,
in the latter place for almost a
quarter of a century, he might quit
the hurly-burly ol politics,retiring to
his big acres of cotton and his asparagus
fields at home, there were
many who were speculating who
would succeed him. They reckoned
that this South Carolina Senator
would have a big hole to fill and
that it would take a mighty big man
to do it. But they believed he had
seen enough of public life and would
be well satisfied with what he had
already done since taking up the
governorship of South Carolina many
years ago.
From present indications the senior
Senator from South Carolina is
not going to retire any time soon.
The best indications that there will
be npne of this retirement business
with Senator Tillman during the present
year, at which time he must
come again before the people of South
Carolina for re-election, is that no
man with such ideas in his head
would be enlarging his political workshop
as Senator Tillman is now doing
in Washington.
For the last two or tbree years,or
since he became chairman of the
Senate committee on naval affairs,
Senator Tillman has occupied two
rather small rooms at one corner of
the Senate end of the capitol. Now,
however, he has secured, in addition
to these, two rooms,one of large size,
which would easily swallow three or
four of the others, this new one being
handsomely equipped with bevel
edge mirrors, chandeliers that fairly
sparkle with brilliance, and furniture,
the equal of which no committor
rnnm in Contrress can boast. In
a word, the new addition to the Senator's
quartere is most magnificent
in appointment.
Proud as he is, however, of the
bevel edgemirrors, the sparklingchandeliers
or the magnificent furniture
that go to make up the equipment
of this new committee room.Senator
Tillman's real new pleasure comes
when he makes his visitors acquaint
ed with two young ladies from South
Carolina, Miss Rembert and Miss
Weikert. These young ladies, the
Senator explained today, will not
supplant the man power force already
in his office, but they will fill
a much needed want in helping to
work off the big daily mail that accumulates
on the Senator's desk.
"Yes, sir," Senator Tillman said
today with all of his old time fire,
"these young ladies just insisted
that they had to have all these new
things if they were to work for me,
1 so knowing they would get them in
the end I set about to have more
room and now you see all these fine
new things, the girls have put in. I
reckon it will be a small sized palace
when they get done fixing it up.and
then it would be none too good for
them. They are fine girls and need
fine things."
All of these evidences of renewed
activity on Senator Tillman's part
leave no room to doubt that in his
own mind he has settled the question
as to whether or not he will retire
from the political arena of South
Carolina. He who runs may read.
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