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' gg ibe ?0tints |tccori>. f^| 1 Vflt'* 35. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH20, 1919. NO. 2 ^ V UNDER ALLIES' I RIGID TERMS! r ??? U GERMAN'S GIVE LP VESSELS : AGGREGATING 1,500.000 TONS TO UNITED STATES Brussels, Fridey,?The German r t delegates to the conference at Brus-' j sels Saturday regarding; the taking , c over by the Allies of the German < mercantile fleet and the provisioning j of Germany Saturday definitely ac-'; cepted the conditions imposed by the c Allies. ( The German representatives sat * on one side of a long table, while on v the other were an equal number of ^ Allied representatives. There were s no greetings, salutations or ameni-| ^ ties of any sort. The whole proceed- : ings were marked by imperronal ri- ^ gidity..The chairman of the German j delegation stared at a spot on the j r table and addressed his remarks to j no one in particular. Vice Admiral , Sir Rosslyn Wemyss, of Great Bri- ' tain, chairman of the Allied delega- . tion, began by reading a statement J prepared for him by the civilian members, calling on the Germans to , say categorically whether they abid ed by the terms of the armistice. . Under Secretary of State von Biaun J replied curtlv: , "Yes". J Admiral Wemyss then read one j page of typewritten memorandum, giving in crisp sentences the terms ( of the Allies for grantin g food to i Germany? the German merchant , fleet to be handed over at once,financial provisions to be made at once, ( food to be delivered at once and to . be continued until the next harvest, j or as long as Germany abided by the , terms of the agreement. ^ the statement was read it was . translated into German and French, the German replies receiving the ( same treatment. The air of imper- . sonality was preserved throughout. ' It was then settled that the details j of the ration of 70,000 tons of food J monthly with the shipping and financial plans should be elaborated in sub-committees and the first plenary ( l jmdSibn adjourned, having lasted only j "a few minutes. ] , In this meeting there were no ap- , . peals or references to humanity and J ^ civilization or to women and chil- j dren, the only statement in this con- ] H necticn being that infant mortality , had doubled in the last three months, j and this was simply mentioned as a \ cold declaration of fact in connection , with the request of the Germans for i more condensed milk. \ The German delegates were an- j xious to enlarge the proposed monthly imports of certain commodities, , only to be met with the statement.: , "1 regret that the world's shipping j does not make this possiDie. , Reference on some points was re- 4 served by the Germans for discus- j sion with the rovemmrnt at LVrlin. ] DR. CURRELL MAY RESIGN j Students Petition for His Removal ( As University Head i j Columbia, March 18.?Students of j the University of South Carolina to- > day presented to the board of trustees of that institution a petition ask- 1 in? for a new president in place of 1 the incumbent, Dr. William Spencer 1 Currell, which is tantamount to ask- ' :? *? r~l- f r*>v!DTintion 1 IDS 'VI I/l. vuitvu ? .0 The petition was signed by 166 students out of an enrolled student ' ^ body of 240, of which forty were < ^ young women who were not ap- : W proached on the subject. Thirty-four 1 of the men did not sign, the majori- 1 ty of them, it is said, being special 1 and day students, who did not room j in the campus dormitories. The peti- J tion was voted on at a mass meeting;> of students yesterday afternoon. The ; board of trustees, which met today, J1 gave immediate consideration to the < petition. 1 The petition states that the insti- 1 tution has deteriorated under the 1 presidency of Dr. Currell, who, the students allege, is an inefficient and incompetent executive; is lacking in the qualities which would draw the students to him, and has not the leadership which will make the university a great institution. "We have no charge to present as to Dr. Currell's character, personal integrity and zeal in laboring for the university's interests," said the < petition. "We record a high regard for his moral qualities. We believe him a gentleman of scholarship and culture." o SLEEPING SICKNESS CASES Drs. Hayne and Aiken Return from Investigation Columbia, March 19.?Dr. J. A. iWjne, secretary of the State Board ^^k^Mealth, and Dr. P. V. Aiken, of Qtotoc nnKIiV Kpalth qpr- f returned to Columbia today c an investigation of a case of ^Hrgic Encephalitis or "sleeping ^Hss", at Latta. Dr. Aiken made ( j^Bicial report on the case there. ] ^Hnan, fifty-eight years of age. ; ^Vhas not previously suffered with r Henza or any other disease in re- i jm years, in which he predicts a ] Bl termination. Four cases have \ Hi reported, one each at Latta, Rvsonvillp. Marion and Charleston w I r^\ rifr * m CROSS WORK FOR PAST WEEK SOTES ON WHAT THE GREAT ORGANIZATION IS DOING AND PROPOSES TO DO Some time ago the executive com nittee of the Kingstree Chapter, American Red Cross met and disussed the advisability of engaging i public health nurse for Williams>urg county, her salary to be paid Yom funds in the Red Cross treasirv TVip nwd for such a work in our ountv was unquestioned, and it was lecided that Miss Martha Gordon be isked to accept the position. After onsideration Miss Gordon has con;ented to undertake the work, even .hough at a salary much lower than ;he could earn by private nursing. Hie officers of the Red Cross are reoicing at their success in securing ;o excellent a young lady and soeficier.t a nurse for this pioneer work n our county. Miss Gordon is enterng upon her duties with interest ind enthusiasm. Her chief aim at jresent is to visit the homes of the >oor and ignorant people of the . ountrv districts, to instruct these >eople in home care of the sick, in imitation and personal cleanliness, n guarding against tuberculosis, ind in preparing proper food for heir young children. Public health vill be greatly promoted in this vay, and in case of another epidemc many lives may be saved. Miss Gordon, is now in communication with all the physicians in Williamsburg county tnrougn wnom ;he expects to be informed as to what cases need immediate attention. At present she will work imong the white people only, but it s earnestly hoped that before long ;ome arrangement may be made .vhereby negro families may receive issistance sdso. Most of th' c:*.ies and larger towns >f the I'nited States now arc imsloying public health nurses. Are r?ou not proud that our community is equally as progressive and up-tolate ? Clothing Drive , With millions of men. women and ,-hildren refugees in Allied countries n sorest need, of clothing of any tind the American Red Cross has set the week of March 24-31 for a nationwide collection of used clothing, shoes and blankets for these telpless people. Every report and survey from abroad shows unmistakably that the clothing problem faced by those returning to their devastated homes is one of the most serious they .have to face and it is qually clear that it is to America the suffering must turn. The collection of cast-off clothing, tvhich will be conducted by the thousands of Red Cross chanters scattered through the States, has beentimt?d to the season when millions of Americans are changing from winder clothing to light, most of that !aid aside being garments they will sever use again. Through every possible agency the plight of the refugees in Northern France, Belgium, Italy, Czecho-Slovakia, Roumania, Greece. Poland, Mecedonia and Alba 11a win oe orougnt nome to tno American people and a minimum of ten thousand tons of used clothing, ;t is expected, will be donated. The reason the refugees must look to the outside world for succor is that even though they had raw materials they would still be helpless because of the vandalism upon thentextile industries by the Teutons. Hie first step toward V.wiping them ias been taken by the War Council jf the American Red Cv>ss arranging for an emergency shipment of 13,500.000 yards of tvilc-s valued it over $4,500,000. Lit -I'll more must be done. "The need is great to a degree that few at home can possibly '-ealze," cabled Col. Harvey D. Gibson. a : n..i n * muencan awi v,ross representative n Europe. "Every garment furnish?d will cover a body which otherwise vould lack proper clothing and each garment furnished will actually present suffering." Mrs. T. E. Anowsmith, chairman )f the drive for old clothing has apaointed the following women to assist in the town of Kingstreo?Mrs. L. W. Gilland, Mrs. M. A. Shuler, Mrs. Donald Montgomery, Misses Belle Harper and Florence Jacobs. Ml householders are asked to have heir bundles of clothing ready for :he collecting committee when they all. All kinds of garments for men, vomen, bovs. girls, and infants, both >uter clothing and underwear are leeded: also bed sheets, blankets, jUilts, ticking: and piece goods, varm canton flannel, woolen goods, uid other kinds of c'othing from -vhich to make garments for new >om babies. Shoes of all sizes, both >ld and new are asked fov. Will not he merchants open their hearts and ontribute a few yards of cloth, or shoes, or sweaters .sp- something' out >f their abundance to aid these desitute people. The following are not needed? limsv dresses, derby hats, high hats, ollars. neck-ties. Pinafores Have Come The 100 pinafores for refugee hildren have come and are at the fted Cross room waiting for .seamcresses to take them home and nade them. They are all cut out and eady to be stitched up. Please see tfrs. Arrowsmith at once and gel /our share. Mrs. P. G. Gourdin, Publicity chairman. I NOT ASHAMEI j ~ U.J. nn. n n*rr .irfints r?iauc msiui > I Very little has been said or written of the Negro's part in bringing about the ei.1 of the war, but a real thrill went through the War Savings Convention at Carnegie Hall on February 21 when Colonel William Hay-: ward of the 369th U. S. Infantry, the regiment of fighters from the negro population, known as the L5th New York, told of the scrap put up by his boys. The majority of the enlisted men are from Harlem, and Colonel Hayward said that the way those boys conducted themselves in the last days of the war forms a part of great history which will be written some day. "In talking to Justice Hughes a few days ago I was astonished to find out that the people in this coun try did not know what happened in that last big German offensive on the "V?,. tV,,. 1UU1 UI UU1) ( lit* VI. JL vu 1 Mtv ; Germans had been reinforced by re leased prisoners from Russia so that they had their maximum forces. They had broken through the Brit- J ish line and it was pretty near disaster. This was east of Rheims. Th ? i Germans had also torn through the French at MonUiidier, gone through thirty or forty kilos." Colonel Hayward then explained' the old Fifteenth had been turned over to General Gouraud, command- i er of the Fourth French army and that his men captured some Germans on the night of the 14th of July thus learning that the expected attack would be launched upon their front.' During the 191 days that the regiment was in the trenches, he said, thorn worn manv weeks when there was nothing between the German' army and Paris but his regiment. "Hut that was fair enough," he said, "because there was nothing between us and Berlin except the German' army." "When the French knew this battle was coining," he continued, their forces did not remain a thin blue line. It seemed that all the soldiers and all the cannon in the world crawled over and took positions back of us. "General Gouraud saved the world for civilization, but he took a chance the greatest chance any soldier ever took in the world. He took his troops i out of the front line trenches over a front of fifty kilometers. He abandoned them when he was sure the attack was coming. "And when this attack occured he Pifto?ntV> Veu- York on one end'of that fifty kilo line and the old sixty-ninth New York, in the Rainbow Division, on the other hand. And so, when the German fire fell on these front line trenches for five, hours and twenty-five minutes, they fell on empty trenches except for the fefc patrols left in reinforced . trenches with signal rockets, gas shells and a few machine guns. | Practically all of these came back to us in the morning. "When the hour for the German infantry attack came these patrols left off gas bombs and signal rockets and our artillery let loose on the m?>eco^ flnrmnnc TJm npjTrmns were literally smashed and never got through to our second line. "But on the other end they did get through. They crashed the Rain-1 bow Division and the Sixty-ninth met them hand to hand in some of the most terrible fighting of the war ?fighting fit for that terrible battie, the battle that was the turning point of the war." o A stuffed turkey is not bom that , way. \ I . ) OF THE BILL | I j Y| (ST<S>!%Y I tMA RM6 Fl SMF-S wjm fctaeAuwoops ki KP\| CHATEAUTHltRRY i||| ARMNNE FOREST H ||| armyofocou- I 1 ^ TAKES YEAR TO MARRY IN AFRICA PROCEDURE NECESSARY FOR TWO METHODIST MISSIONARIES WEARISOME MATTER Africa Ls a very hard place to get married in, as was found out by Rev. Thomas E. Reeve of Calhoun, ,Ga., and Miss Etha Mills, a pretty school teacher, formerly at Applegate, Virginia. The two voung people are missionaries of tfie Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in the Belgian Congo. Reeve left the pastorate of the Wesley House, San Francisco, California and Miss Mills left five years teaching Virginians the three R's to go direct to central Africa. After a courtship that was watched with much interest at the offices of the church in Nashville a snag was struck by the young people that threatened to indefinitely postpone their wedding. The laws of the Congo State required that both their birth certificates and marriage ceri;#; ? A- i 1 L. ?? L.. ?La iiiicaif* nau tw ut* uppiuvt-u u\ uitBelgian Consuls in the United States as well as the Colonial Minister of the Congo at Boma. However, a way was found out of their difficulty by moving to and establishing a thirty-day residence in the French Congo. Rev. Mr. Reeve was born in Atlanta, Ga., on January 4, 1889. His father was a well known Georgia physician,'who died in 1900. In 189G the family removed to Calhoun, Ga.. where the family residence still is. After receiving his education at Emory College, Georgia, and Vandcrbilt University, Nashville. Tenn., he entered his first pastorate in 1911 at Woodland, Ca). He remained there a year, iinii ser\eu a mu-M'ai [wmuiate at Alameda. Cal.. until 1911. when ho became pastor of Wesley House, San Francisco, Cal. Ho was first vice-president of the Pacific Conference Kpworth league. At the Wesley House in San Francisco, he was familiarly known as "Pop". The bride specialized in Latin and French at Peabody College. Nashville, and also at the summer school of the University of Virginia, after being graduated in 1905 from Illackstone Female Institute. Virginia. Their work in Wenbo-niama. Africa, was made possible by a gift of; $5,000 from Mrs. Glide of San Francisco. Their work as teachers and evangelists will be greatly enlarged, it is expected, as the result of the great camnaign for $."5,000,000 now underway as part of the celebration of the Methodist Centennial of Missions. m In an order promulgated Monday the South Carolina Railroad Com- j mission refused the reouest of the Charleston-Isle of I'alms Traction; Company for increased rates and turned its file over to the Attorney | General to bring action against the corporation to compell it to put in the three-cent rate per mile, with a minimum charge of five cents, ordered bv the commission October 2,1 1918. ?0 i When you buy a shotgun to get that chicken hawk, make sure it's a' Remington. BOYD PATRICK COMMITS SUICIDE ENDS HIS LIFE BY SENDING PISTOL BALL INTO BRAIN SUNDAY MORNING The announcement in Kingstree Sunday that G. Boyd Patrick was dead was a shock to his many friends in the community. His death occurred about 9:80 Sunday morning, he having committed suicide by firing a pistol ball into his head near the right temple. Death was almost instantaneous. It was generally known that the young man had been in a despondent state of mind for several months, but no one ever heard him express himself as being tired of living or make any threats upon his own life. He was"* devoted to his family and apparently happy. The deplorable act occurred at his home on the place of his father-inlaw, Mr. J. D. Galloway, in the Indiantown neighborhood. After feeding the stock and doing the usual chores about the home, Mr. Patrick had begun making preparations for going to preaching, when suddenly a shot was heard by , those in the house, who, upon looking out in the direction of the unusI ual Sabbath noise, saw the young man fall over in his car?dead, with I a' smoking revolver, the same weapon his brother. Jack Patrick,'had I used a few years ago in taking his I life, still in his hand. Mr. Qalloway was onJv a short distance away and rushed to the car, in which Mr. Patrick had deliberately seated himself to commit the rash act. Life was extinct when he reached him. He notified some neighbors, who assisted in removing the body : from the car. Coroner IJrown was i summoned and an inquest held. There was but one decision to ren: derrthat the poor fellow had taken his life by his own hand. ; G. R. Patrick was well known throughout the county, and esteem, ed by all for his kind hcartedness, ; hortcsty and integrity. For the past twelve or eighteen months prior to the "work or fight" j rule adopted bv the government he ' operated an automobile lively and ' resided, with his family in North ; Kingstree. I'pon the promulgation jof this government order he gave up (his automobile work and went to the ; farm of his father-in-law, where he has since been engaged. He is survived bv his wife and two small children, also one sifter and i two brothers. The remains were buried at Indiantown church Monday. % o MAKING USE OK OLD GUNS Victory Medals Being Made From ^'elKd German Cannons For Liberty Loan Workers Victory rhedals to be awarded to workers who participate actively in the Victory Liberty Loan Campaign arc now being made from melted German cannon. The big guns were captured from the Huns by the American troops in their historyj making drive at Chateau Thierry. They have been melted, the metal rolled into sheets and the medals are bemg stamped. Every member of local Victory Liberty Loan eom.rtittpex throughout the United States who does conspicuous work, such as serving on volunteer soliciting organizations, will receive one of the trophies. These medals, the first of the kind to be distributed in this country, will be about the size of a half dollar. One side will be a reproduction of the United States Treasury Building with the inscription, "Victory Liber" * ?? i- " :11 . ty Loan." un tne otner sme wiu appear the certification of participation in the bond campaign. A space will be left blank for the owner's i name. Treasury Department officials de eided to offer the medals after a wide-spread demand for a permanent. souvenir. The medal will be. in fact, more than a reminder of the loan campaign. It will represent victory which the American boys won. against the best troops of the Prussian Guard and the glory of the sacrifice of those who bv laving down their fives made that victory possible. Attention Students Home Nursing Course All who have enrolled as students nf the Home Nursinc Course, and a ' others who wish to take the course, arc asked to assemble in the auditorium of the Baptist curch at -i o'clock Monday afternoon. March 2!. At this meeting classes will be organized, a president and secretary of each class will be elected, textbooks will be pro'ided and all preliminaries preparatory for beginning work at once will be executed. As already announced, the classes will be taught in the Kelly Hospital. The above meeting will be for the . purpose of organization, simply, and it is highly important that every prospective student attend it. Miss Belle Reece, the instructor, will be present at this meeting. B. A McDowell. Chairman Kingstree Chapter A. R. C HOUSE WOULD NOW M FAVOR GOOD ROADS < FORTY-ONE MEMBERS FAVOR 1 SPECIAL SESSION; 69 WIL- \ ING TO COMPROMISE I The Charleston New and Courier's Columbia Correspondent, W. J. CorMack, says in that newspaper Monday morning: "Should an extraordinary session of the General Assembly be called by Governor Cooper a measure for a system of improved highways would be favorably voted on by a majority of the House of Representatives. "This statement is made after a thorough study and digest of the replies of ninety-five members of the House of Representatives received by J. Wilson Gibbes, clerk of the House, in answer to a questionnaire sent out by hjm to the members, and . the vote on the Senate bill, which was continued by the House. "Of the ninety-five replies received by Mr. Gibbes tonight forty-nine of the House members are opposed to a special session and forty-one are in favor of it. Of the affirmative answers eleven are conditioned on the knowledge that a majority of the members would favor good roads legislation and of the negative answers one is conditioned. Three members are doubtful of the wisdom of a special session and two members (lid not vote on the question. Sixty-nine members are willing to compromise on a highway measure, ? twenty-two of these to a limited extent. Nine members are against a compromise, but two of thern, although voting in the negative, will wait certain points. Should there be an extra session, thirty-six-members are positive in their belief that a highway measure will be passed, thirty are satisfied that there can be no good roads legislation. Seventeen are doubtful and twelve did not vote on the question. Should there be a special session, twenty-seven members want it called for July 23, seven each for June and August and twenty-two did not state a preference. "The majority of the members heard from, seem to prefer a highway measure providing for a property tax of one or more mills, the onemill levy being the more popular; a license tax on automobiles of fifty cents for each horse power and an abuting property tax, which will take a constitutional amendment. LikeKMC/. o niotAtiifi' A f iVio momKore would be assured that each county would receive its proportionate share of improved highways. "A variety of reasons were given * for the defeat of the good roads bill in the House, the most popular conception being that it did not carry a referendum clause, and that the counties were afraid that they would not receive their share of improved roads. The State Highway Commission came in for considerable criticism, many of the members objecting the money accruing from the various counties. "On the night of Friday, February 28, when the Senate amendment came up for discussion, debate on the measure was adjourned until the first day of the next seesion by a vote of 55 to 43. A canvass of this vote shows that twcnty-fiv^ members were not voting. Of this number, judging some previous votes, seventeen of them were friends of a good roads measure and two, which were opposed to a highway bill, have since become its friends. One other man. whose position was in doubt and who did not vote, since has announced that he would stand sponsor for a good roads measure . Of the fiftyfive which voted against the Senate bill, ten of them in answering the Gibbes questionnaire, are unqualifiedly for a special session and will support a good roads bill, and others of them, while not of the opinion that an extra session should be Held, state they will vote for a highway .measure should they be called back to Columbia by Governor Cooper." o _ *1 Items From Bryan ^ \ Mrs. W. D. Bryan, has returned home from an extended trip to Columbia where she visited her daught- < er, Mrs. h'. E. Ulmer. Miss Margaret Brown, of Bryan, was called to her brother, Mr. W. B. Brown last week who was ill of pneumonia. It is reported that Mr. Brown is convalescing. His friends wish him a speedy recovery. o The Peace Treaty . . Paris, March 19.?The inclusion of the League of Nations covenant in the preliminary peace treaty v. ill not delay the signing of the treaty which it is hoped will be accomplished with in two weeks, said Lord Robert Cecil, of Creat Britain, talking to British and American newspaper correspondents to night. o The Woodmen of the World in convention at Spartanburg yesterday accepted tiie invitation of local wood men in conjunction with that of the Chamber of Commerce to hold their next State camp in Florence in 1921. o Not to bend the knee to popular prejudice, but stand firmly erect while others are bowing and fawning for praise and power.?The New Success.