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^OL. :!5. v KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL21 . 1919. NO. 7
- GOVERNOR COOPER
IN PROCLAMATION
CALLS I PON CITIZENS OF
STATE TO SUPPORT VICTORY
LOAN
Governor Cooper on Monday issued
a proclamation calling upon
the citizen? of South Carolina to
support the victory liberty loan
campaign which will be launched
Monday and the War savings movement
a!readunder way. Governor
v,.V mif.'nTl ic as follows:
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"Whereas. oar own South Carolina
hoy.-; have attracted to their native
State the respect and admira-;
tion cth> world because out of the
forty-five moduli awarded '\0 Congress
and the President, seven were
giver, to South Carolinians, and because
the military authorities of
^ Great Britain gave the highest honors
to our sons fighting for us and
"Whereas, This war for the preservation
of American institutions;
and the liberty of the individual citizen
has been won, but has not yet i
been paid for, and.
"Whereas, the Government of the
United States has incurred heavy
obligations in the conduct * of the!
war and great expenditures will be J
necessary to meet post-war conditions,
now. therefore. I, Robert A. j
Cooper, Governor of South Carolina,'
do ^arne-stiy urge the people of j
South Carolina to subscribe to, and j
in every way within their power to
aid t!:< \ ictory liberty loan, and .hat
they invest to the fullest extend of
their individual means so that the!
Government of the United States!
may be able to meet its obligations. j
"Robert A. Cooper,
' Governor of South Carolina."
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FOR GERMANY TO PAY
Billions to Be Assessed and Ability
to Produce them
H In the cable dispatches telling of i
the twenty-free billions of dollars of:
reparation to be taken from Ger- \
many as a minimum, with some-:
th'::j; mere to follow as it can be
worked out, all the terms of pay-1
ment are not clearly stated. There1
is no <*oubt as to the first block of
$5,000,000,000 to be paid in two
vears without interest. Apparently
the second block of $10,000,000,000 f
is to pay only interest of 2^ per!
cent a year from 1921 to 1926, with
nothing going into the sinking fund
during those five years. Apparently,
also, interest of 5 per cent is to be
paid during the next twenty-five i
years. But possibly the published
arrangement means that the 5 per j
cent is to take care of both interest I
and sinking fund charges.
No terms are announced as to the
third block of $10,000,000,000 and I
nothing gives an inkling of even the i
amount of the further reparation
that may be required.
If we assume that Germany can
I raise, in gold, in securities, in com
modities and other property the first!
$5,000,000,000 to be paid within two
years, the task of the next five
years, with merely interest at 2Vz
per cent on the second block of
$10,000,000,000 and perhaps the
same interest on the third $10,000,000,000,
wiil be relatively easy?
some $500,000,000 a year. The heavier
going will begin in the seventh
year from now, when, to cover interest
and extinguishment of the
debt, Germany may have to pay for
a while, according to the way you
read the terms, perhaps $1,750,000,000,
a year, without reckoning the
still unfixed reparation.
Even at that, if the new Germany
is to be what the old Germany was,
the load, heavy as it would be, could
be borne. In the seven years Between
now and the bigger task the
German genius for organization, the
German adaptability to industrial
production and the German love of
hard work might easily restore the
nation to its old economic position?
fthe Allies consenting.
Before the war, Germany, with
her $80,000,000,000 of wealth, probmly
had a national income? naJHpal
production?of between six
^^4! ions and eight billions of dollars
a year. It is not an unusual thing
for an industrious, thrifty people to
be able to save a full quarter of
their annual production, the rest being
needed not merely to feed, clothe
and shelter themselves, but to build
and expand their industrial and
commercial structure. Under presi
sure hueh a people could set aside
a full third of their income, with a
steaming up at times to even onehalf.
as our own country did in paying
for our share of the war and
helping the Allies to pay their share.
A third of Germany's normal production
could safely be " stated at
two and a half billions of dollars a
year. This, after a long pull would
clean the debt. So much for Germany's
ability to do the reparation
job.
Hut the question is not could Germany
pay the twenty-five billions
of dollars or more, but will she pay
it? The opinion which understands
the German nature, knows the German
economic situation and weighs
the German trade future, will con
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glad to pav the announced reparation.
will he very glad to pay any
reparation that she is able to pay.
Germany cannot reoperate her industrial
machine, restore her productive
capacity and eirn her own
living without a re-establishment of
her old relations with the markets
of the world. Until the markets of
the world are open to her again she
cannot buy materials she needs for
her industries; she cannot sell surplus
products. Until she signs the
treaty of peace, not merely accepting
its terms, but fulfilling them.
Germany cannot get into those markets
of the world either to buy or
sell.
Nobody knows better than Germany
that the very peace treaty,
with the gigantic reparation to be
paid, is going of necessity , to put
Germany back into the markets of
the world. The Allies themselves
must put her there so that she can
pay them. Then, once she is back in
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her material from them and is sending
it back again as the finished
product from her industries to Great
Britain, to France, to Italy and to
other countries in payment of her
war debts to them. Germany, as she
thus cuts her international debts
lower, will be rising year after year
higher and higher to the economic
power she possessed and exercised
before she went forth to war in madness
and returned to expiation in
grim resolve.?Xew York Sun.
Trophies of War to Be Exhibited
Columbia, April 21.?Trophies of
war will be exhibited throughout
South" Carolina, arrangements having
been completed for the routing
of the "Thirtieth Division Special".
This train will be filled with military
equipment and machinery covering
every phase of war-time sci
ence and activity. The schedule for
this train was prepared in Richmond
and will be announced by the first
of the week. Every variety of weapon
and every kind of equipment
used by allies in the successful
prosecution of the war will be presented.
including rifles, hand granades,
machine guns and even large
caliber cannon. The tank corps is
the only arm of the service that
will not be represented. And there
will be a separate tank train.
It is expected that in many towns
the arrival of the trophy train will
be the occasion of a holiday or halfholiday,
and there will be regular
exercises, of speeches by veterans
and others.
The train will be parked where
the general public may have easy
access to inspect tne tropnies.
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BUSY ON REPLY
Attorney General Wolfe to File Answer
in Express Co. Case Soon
Columbia. April 23.?AttorneyGeneral
Samuel W. Wolfe is preparing
his answer in the case of the
Southern Express Company against
the treasurers of forty-five counties
of the State asking for the return of
about a half million dollars paid them
under the Isnecie ayaYcs mfwymfm
under the license tax law. which they
claim is inoperative now as the express
companies are controlled by the
federal government. Mr. Wolfe ex
pects to file hi.-; answer in the r.e>:z
few days.
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"The Barrage is Down?Let's Drive"
This is the Slogan submitted by
Miss Bertha Piatt of the Georgetown
High School, adopted by the
Woman's Liberty Loan Committee
as the State slogan to be used in
the Victory Loan Drive and little
Miss Piatt will be awarded one of
the coveted German helmet, by
Mrs. LeGrande Walker, chairman of
Georgetown County.
SOLDIERS AND S
ARE W
Thousands of People
cident to Victory Be
Interjeres Wi
The people of Williamsburg took
on r.Kv. < "V.Lusiasm veste;v;.v. They
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were h?re by the thousand.-; and represented
the remote corners of the
county as well as the- progressive
little towns that are located within
its limits. They came to the county
seat for a two-fold purpose. Chairman
Kpps had sent out a call a-king
the citizens of Williamsburg to
he here at the opening of the Victory
Bond drive also to welcome back
to their native heath th<* hundreds
of soldier boys who have recently
returned from the fighting fields of
France and from the various army
camps of the country. These came
i in their uniform and were accorded
a reception commensurate in its
scope with the service they have
rendered to their country, state and
; county. The old cannon that has
weathered the storms of the years
since Sherman's march to the sea
was pressed into service and boomed
forth a glad salute during the day.
The town was decorated with flags
and bunting and presented a lively
appearance, such as caused passengers
through the town on the trains
to crane their necks out of the windows
or jump from the train to find
out what was going on.
The crowd began to assemble
early and a constant flow of people
poured into town over every highway
until noon, and in spite of the
threatening clouds and the drizzling
rain that began to fall about 11:00
o'clock there were estimated to be
i about four thousand people present,
and apparently every automobile in
;the county.
On account of the rain which
came down rather lively about noon
: the program had to be materially
changed. The dinner had to be served
in the court house instead of in
the shade of the trees on Brooks
| street, while the colored soldiers
I were dined in the colored Methodist
j cnurcn instead 01 uc iminvn.-nu i*?
j bles or. West Main street.
The speakers scheduled to talk
in the forenoon were interfered with
soon after the opening of the pro!
grant. but as the clouds cleared awav
i and the sun came out about 1 o'clock
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AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
Colortd Man Runs Car Into Thad
Coward And Child
Tv?o r.cgioes, Dave and John Flu'!!.
father and son, respectively,
were guests of Jailor Cockfield this
week, ar.d John the son. still is subs,sting
at th(. expense of the county
despite several efforts to obtain
the:2 release on bond, not because
of any special objection to the fare
arc charters Mr. Cockfield furnishes
them, but because of the fact
i that they cave a big Hudson car
sitting idle outside and they would
i rather oe joy-riding than reposing
i behind the bars.
While driving along the road, at
or near Mr. Heller's place on the
east edge of town Saturday morning
they ran into the buggy of Mr.
, Thad. Coward, who was also driv1
ing along the road to Kingstree.
;The buggy was broken up, and Mr.
Coward and his little four year old
i g-irl thrown into the road, the car,
i which was. driven by John Fluitt
I running over Mr. Coward and strikI
rng the child with such force that it
i was picked up for dead.
Mr. Cuttino Bryan, was also, on
| the road in his car coming to KingsI
tree and was driving slowly on account
of Mr. Coward's buggy in
front in the middle of the road and
|he, Mr. Coward did not ?eem to hear
' the signal of Mr. Bryan. The r.^gro
| Fluitl drove up rapidly, and passing
| Mr. Bryan, attempted to "force hi?
i way past" the buggy, as he is said
^to have admitted. His car smashed
into the vehicle, the occupants Mr.
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uowara ana cnnu were iuiuwh um.
the car passing over Mr. Coward's
legs and striking the child, stopping
with one of its wheels pressing its
' side. The little one was brought at
once to the Kelley Hospital and for
a time was thought to be in a dying
condition, that afternoon, however,
it revived and is reported to be im
'AILORS
'ELCOMED HOME
Attend Celebration Inmd
Campaign-?Rain
fth Program.
the exerqises were carried to con-!
elusion.
I The program was opened by invo- j
cation by the Rev. W: I. Sinnott,;
i and district field chairman J. W.
! Lynch of Florence, who has done
jsuch splendid work in behalf of the j
| liberty loan drives, addressed th<%;
I gathering. Other speakers were:
[Captains Hougarty and Wilson of j
I the regular army, Dr. Sikes of
I Hartsville, Hon. J. W. Ragsdale, of!
Florence. The meeting was presided
over by Messrs. A. C. Hinds and L.
W. Gilland, of the local bar. Music
was furnished by the navy band!
from Charleston.
A fish dinner was served to the
soldiers and sailors. This was pre- j
pared by Mr. D. J. Epps, while many i
tempting side dishes were prepared
by the ladies of the community, such
as boiled ham, pies, cakes, pickles,
etc., in bountiful supply for both i
white and colored soldiers, estimated
in number to have been over 500.!
The parades scheduled for the day j
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I naa to De aoanuurieu uu attuuui. ui.
rain.
The people of the town and community
felt very grateful to the
committee in charge of arrange-.
ments over the manner in which en-;
tertainment was provided, and especially
to Mr. H. A. Miller, a citizen
of German birth and whose son was
gassed by a German shell on the
Flanders front. At no time has Mr.
Miller spared time or money in
showing his disapproval, often ^contempt
of, for the "Vaterland." He
was chairman of the committee on
arrangements for yesterday's celebration.
i Chairman Epps and other work- j
ers in the interest of the Victory!
bond drive feel very much encouraged
over the spirit of patriotism
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I Miuwu uric ^coi^iuoj ktj m>> v*?^/www
! of citizens, and the general belief is
I that Williamsburg will not fall bejhind
in raising her quota of the fi'nal
loan, which is $292,000.
j No calls were made at the meetI
ings yesterday for subscriptions, but j
'the committee in the various town-'
j ships will start at once to make a;
quiet, systematic canvass.
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proving.
Monday Dave Fluitt was released
from jail on bond. His son is still
stopping with Jailor Cockfield, and
the Hudson car is impounded in the
jail lot.
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From Our SaHers JPorrespondqnt j
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Walters. April 21,?We have had!
some cool weather the past week. |
?K,I covoml <vininil? qhow- i
\il tuxucu kj j nvfviM. vwr.VH.. ers
which did gardens, wheat, and,
oats much good. Com has about all (
been planted and is coming up toai
fairly good stand.
Some cotton has been planted and!
is coming up. !
Tobacco setting is going ahead as
fast as plants can be had, but there
is a good deal of complaint of plants
being scarce.
Mr. Rawles and son is preparing
to put in another saw mill in Laws
swamp this week, which will add
new UUbJUCdd WV/ mc wvtIIU .
Three hundred and fifty tons or
more of cotton seed have been sold
here the past two weeks, which has
a?-lped the farmers very much.
Mrs. Mary Moseley of Charleston,
and children are visiting relatives
here.
Mr. Ja. per Sires of Charleston, I
visited friends here Sunday.
Messrs. J. G. LiFrage, Jr., and F.
L. Richardson spent several days in
Atlanta, Ga., last week on business.!
Mr. J. C. Davis who was badly j
burned on his arm several days ago [
and takc-n to Florence Infirmary is,,
*.ve are g ad to say. improving.
Miss Florence H. Stubbs, is visit- j
ing her aunt Mrs. Mattie Ferrell j
here this week.
Mr. Ga>y Dillard of Clinton, spent
several days with friends here last j
week.
Miss Lilian C. Salters spent- the
Easter holidays here.
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The rain yesterdayhas made tobacco
planting popular today.
RED CROSS NOTES
Community Nurse Doing Fine Work |
?Juniors Are Busy.
Mrs. Hessie Mouzon, since herap-'
pointrnent on April 2nd, as commu-1 g;
nity nurse for Williamsburg county, j
has been busy visiting and caring;
for the sick here at Kingstree or in J
the county. She has spent ten daysj
at Lane, gave daily care to one pa-! fQ
tient there and visited three others1 ^
several times; also visited a number p(
of families where all the children ;?v
had whoopifig cough. Mrs. Mouzon'0f
th.it the mothers irreatly ap-1 cn
predate and we'eome suggestions
made for the care and relief of their cs
little ones, and that the idea of a rj(
community nurse seems to appeai
very strongly to the people of the
county. t0
The Kingstree Red Cross chapter jn
feels that there is no better way to m
promote public health than by se- ^
curing the services of a community 0f
nurse. Mrs. Mouzon has written to q\
representath e women in each district
of Williamsburg county', ask- a
ing that they secure all new mem- 2(
bers possible for the Red Cross. We s?
hope that many hundred more jn
members may be added to our chap- j f
ter in this way. The salary and si
traveling expenses of our communi- ^
ty nurse must be paid, and although
there is at present a substantial m
sum in the Red Cross treasury, how- ft
ever, if this work is to continue in- cc
definitely, as all progressive and ai
rieht thinking citizens hope that it in
will, there must be a constant pour-' ai
ing in of membership fees. tr
Illustrative of the efficient home th
service being rendered our soldiers a
and their families by the local chap- si
ter of the Red Cross, the following ri
incident may be cited: On Saturday, ai
March 1st, Mr. R. E. Adams, who w
lives about ten miles north ofiw
Kingstree, informed Mr. McDowell, w
chairman of the Kingstree chapter,} w
that he had not heaif from his son,! tr
Private J. F. Adams since Decern-! g<
ber 26th. That he was then wound- J th
ed and in a base hospital in France, vi
That every effort to hear from him 01
had failed and that he was greatly ot
distressed, fearing that his son's' le
wounds had terminated fatally. Mr. ei
McDowell at once took up the mat- gi
ter with the War Department at
Washington, and one week fromisc
that date another son of Mr. Adams fi<
was in town with a letter from the ta
War Department saying that Private
J. F. Adams had been located cl
at a hospital in France, and though J sc
wounded was doing well. This, of j n<
course, is but one instance.
The officers of the Red Cross1 (j
stand ever ready to render most i
cheerfully any service possible to!
the soldiers and their families, j t0
white or colored. They should either ^
see personnally or write, fully ex- cj
plaining their troubles, to Rev. E.A. w
McDowell chairman, Kingstree, S- jj,
C. ^ j si
Kingstree Juniors j \\
Miss Aggies Erckmann, chair-j n<
man of the Junior Red Cross of the | cc
Kingstree School Auxiliary, has ap-' fr
pointed the following girls and boys er
on the clipping committee: From B
the 4th grade Dora Harrington and B
Emery Davis Nesmith, from the L
5th grade, Jane Gilland and Jack J b<
Arrowsmith, from the 6th grade, ai
Pattie Scott Epps and Adolphus' b<
Frierson, from the 7th grade, Daisy w
Mcintosh and Paden Montgomery, li;
It is the duty of this committee to ki
clip all Red Cross news from the si
newspapers of Williamsburg county; in
of these clippings one copy is sent oi
to Red Cross Headquarter in At- th
lanta, one to Washington, one to to
the local chapter, and one to go in B
a scrap book kept by the Junior ca
chapter. si
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Ail sewing itiiuieu lu uic 111U5.V ...
tree Juniors has been completed.
The work of raising money for ^
French orphans continues. One Saturday
afternoon several enterprising
little girls of the fifth grade ^
held an Easter egg hunt on the
Kellahan Park, and cleared $7 to
add to their fund. Sandwiches and j ^
ice cream are being sold on the jn
school grounds at recess for the (j?
same purpose. The children are u.;
evincing much originality in devis- (j?
ing schemes to secure funds for (jj
their adoption of French orphans.
Mrs. P. G. Gourdin, w]
s Publicity Chairman. ^
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Mrs. Morgan Barney of New Ro- Ac
chelle. N. Y., a niece of Elizabeth ar
CaHy Stanton, was graduated as a at
civil engineer from Cornell univer- .
sity. cI
VAR TANK COMNIG
TO KINGSTREE SOON
[G MACHINE THAT DEMORALIZED
GERMAN SOLDIERS TO
ARRIVE APRIL 28.
South Carolina is particularly
rtunate to got three tanks to be
ken entour over the State that the
ople may see the workings of the
vhippets" that broke the morals
the German army. There has been
much of romance and of mystery
>out these great crawling fortressthat
the people have a great cuosity
to see them.
These tanks will cover the entire
ate. beginning Columbia, Charlesn
and Greenville. The sergeants
charge are Blankenship of Richond,
Va., at Greenville; Wells of
ichigan at Charleston and Young
New York State and Landis of
leveland, Ohio, in Columbia. Lans
is a smooth faced chap who has
very pleasant smile, but he was
) months in foreign activities, and
iw a whole lot of ups and downs
i the tanks. His tank served atdif"nnt
Hmoc with eiv cftmhat. divi
ons and he was in the Argonne
roods fighting for two weeks.
There is a regular manual of
ovements for the tanks just as
?r infantry bodies. Sixteen form a
>mpany and 48 a battalion.. There
e times when they go into battle
i squad formation. 50 metres 'apart
id 50 metres ahead of the infany.
The drivers of the tanks state
lat it was rare that a tank was
lught in the barrage of its own
de, but they had seen infantry
ish too far ahead of the objective
id get caught in the tank fire. TJiat
as one of the saddest things of the
ar. They had seen trenches filled
ith German dead caught in the fire
ith which tanks had raked the
nvtrl ntlAkla f A
encncs Wlieu lau^ui auu uuauic W
) further. Landis had seen a tank
lat had fallen into a cunningly desed
trap. The Germans had dug
it a great cavern and covered it
rer with limbs and twigs and
aves. The trap was filled with wat
and the tank went to a wateryrave.
These young men who have seen
> many wonderful things on battle
?lds in France accompany the
.nks and demonstrate them.
Wells, ox Michigan, will have
large of Tank No. 2 which is
beduled to arrive in Kingstree
?xt Monday, April 28.
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nnaren a lruuoie ttaus iu nviu?cide
Bamberg, April 21?The little
iwn of Ehrhardt, 1 mile from Bam;rg,
was thrown into a fever of ex- ?
tement this. morning at 10 o'clock
hen Ham Brabham, an employe of
le J. M. Kirkland Company, was
lot and instantly killed by R. 0.
'illiamson, 30 years of age, his
;xt door neighbor, who came to the
immunity three or four years ago
om Rock Hill and has since been
igaged in the saw mill business,
oth were men of families and
rabham was about 50 years old.
ast Wednesday there was trouble
?tween the children of the families
id later in the week their mothers
?came involved in the difficulty,
finollir folron lin Kir Wfl
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am.son and Brabham and led to the
lling this morning. Brabham was
tot with a shotgun, the charge takg
effect in the face and neck. Corler
Zeigler held an inquest over
te body this afternoon and the au psy
was performed by Dr. Robert
lack, county physician, Williamson
ime to Bamberg this afternoon and
irrendered to the sheriff and is
>w a prisoner m the county jail.
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ost Amazing Dances Permitted
In Atlanta
Atlanta, Ga, April?Atlanta is
e only city in the country where
e newest and most amazing dance
The" Shimmy" is danced in public
the nicer class of people, accord- .
g to Arthur Murray, a New York
tncing expert who is spending the
inter here. He says that they
tnce the "shimmy" in the Bowery
strict in New York, but that all
e leading hotels and cabarets
here there is public danceing, the
uples who indulge m dancing the
himmy" are invited to leave the
>or. In Atlanta the tickle-toe jazz
id even the "shimmy" is danced
the larger hotels and even in the
ubs.
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