Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Tour Own Boy* First. (By Anna Stoese Knh.irdson of T Vigilante*.) Last wNk, a friend, dressed In her smartes' fsll raiment and armed with the ubiquitous kniting bag. motored to one of the cantonments wh? re our new army is being trained, to attend the opening: of i club house lot officers. It wes an extremelv fash? ionable function, but my friend slip, ped awi.y with a young non-comm s sioned officer to see the sights of the camp. That night she knitted as she had nevtr hnlt before, because she coild not sleep for the memories which be? set her. memories of shivering figures, echoes of hacking cougha And the next morning the was at U before her friends were out of bed. telephoning to them. Imploring theni to knit. knit, knit, and stand between the men she had seen and that grim enemy, pneu? monia. Another friend served as waitress In a fled Cross tea room at a county fair near one of the northern can? tonments. When thero were no pa? tron* to serve, the waitresses brought out their knitting. Three young sol dlers from a western .State, finding tht women thus occupied, asked in all seriousness if a class in knlting could not be started among the men In the camp. They could Unit before taps, an hour or so. and it would bo Jolly to have sweaters, mufflers and wrist? let* I listened skeptically to these tales. , The uniform was working its litt I. I tricks on the emotionalism of women, I argued. Tnen yesterday I saw tho picture j with my own r>es Aul I no longer doubted. I went to a nearby encampment to I look up the eon of an old friend who lives In a distant State. Wherever I turned, 1 saw half finished windows ^ through which the fall wind whistled and ahrieked bleakly. And all around me were shivering men. The half-finished buildings arc the ' barracks which contractors have not completed as promised for otir new'y ^ mobilised army. The shivering men are your sons, tho sors of your friends, the boys fron? your town who ? i rode forth cheerily to make the great fight for gasmi Th" boy I went in so? was not shivering. His mother, ? nromaa of ?eeaasv had seat him forth srtta mare than her prayer*?warm underwear, a heavy overcoat, knlted sweaters, muffler*, wristlets and socks. Some ^ of the things he still has. The rest ' he has given to his pals. I 1 saw men in shoddy overcoats which were made to wear in crowded trolleys and subways?not In the ^ open, jnyen In leather coal* which they wore when riding motorcyl^r. men In pea pickets and slickers widen had been loaned to them by kindly ^ fishermen from nearby towns. Uniforms? Nothing doing In that Uno! The contractors who are turning out uni? forms, shirts, overcoats and shoes have not begun to catch up with the army which la rallying to tho colors. But winter is catching up with it? coming on hard and faM. The hoy tramping at my side ex? plained the situation thus: "You see. most of them* chap<* come from Inside Jobs, store*, factories, of flcee, where there's gleam heat a plenty in cold weath?r. They don't know what life In the open means. They hadn't the clothes for this sort of life. And most of them haven't the money to buy it with. Hundreds of *em. like the average American, lived right up to the tip end of their salary If they had anything laid away, it wa> left behind for the folks We haven't had any pay yet, and when It does come. 90 per cent, of these men will send the bulk of it home. Some of them signed all but money for 'smokes' over to their folks befop they left. Wo didn't come out for g Pullman cur, camplng-with-Indlan gulde holiday, but gee whiz, if sono of these fellows don't get something warnt on their backs soon, they'll be whistling something besides Tipper ? ry* through their teeth, and it'll be pleurisy or pneumonia." It wasn't a cheerful line of conver? sation I hated, list aver heated at? mosphere of the train on which 1 rede back to New York. loiter In the afternoon. I stopped at certain headquarters of a great or guntsation. It seemed to havV ben knitter's da) Reorea of women wo e turning In finished garments, eimfy. snuggly wool-warm sweaters, muffler*, wristlets und socks in khaki unit grsy. As I watched the- work, a nlc warm glow enveloped > "'. It was Mcs going Into your living room fnun n snow storm and Unding that some thoughtful soul had lighted the fire. And then the glow lud ,md left in? cold. All those garments were going to Barop*. Nobody knew Just where in Kurope. but tho great boxes would overseas. <>h. I know our fcgfl are hi IVnn'"1 ?but the regulars went first, in It perfectly equipped r? 'ffaf 1 meat. Ami I know our Allies com mand our deepest sy m pa t hies, out i 1 most generous impulses L'.ut our hoy. ure our hoys. Ami thcN are here in America, s?> easy to reach! No QUOf* tlon of shi pim-nt. liagj journeys ov. r s> a, Mf rod ta|>e in distrihution. .lusi a great bo\, and express companies that Kive consignments for canton nts tiic right of way! And for hoys who shiver needlessly. All over America today, women arc knitting?without knowing Where Un? finished garments ate going. It is all right In a way. Some lighting man will get their gift! sometime, but why sol oortaln boyi now?while they art close at hand .' Here in New York, the knitting towtltag of the rtational League for Women's S? r\ice, Uli Madison Avo BUOi heard that tin- Rainbow Division, consisting of men from all over tie United States, trail ing at Mineoli Long Island, was only half equipped with warm garments. An emergency OaJ] WM issued. The entire baOOmenl of the Madison AVOnui headeiuarto's was turned over to .hem. They orgi 1 their friends and neighbors, personal y. to come to head(|tiarters and knit regular working hours. They issued statements in the daily papers. They Doneentrated on the Rainbow Division as 0 busniess man concentr.ites Oll I the weakness of a certain part of his j plant. And tlmy are equipping this; regiment as fast as knitting needles! can perform the I -a u t if ul miracle. Kvery community ca it do the same ; thing. Outtit your own hoys first. i Whether you have a Red, Cross Chap- i ter or any otrmr sot t of war relief or- i raniaationi form ? now committee, a i personal, intimate, get-right-down to I business committee and call it "Our l >wn Doyi First Committee." \ Find out the name of the rej/mie'm 1 uul the company in which each and i vay man from your town or com- 1 nunity has enlistee, or been drafted. i Somebody can tell you?your post- i naster .the editor of your local pa- 1 ;?er. the National Guard enthusiast of < /our town. 1 If you have sent out an entire com- i [?any, write to the captain and learn. I Lhe individual needu,of his men in theP way of warm clothing?and till them, l Don't wait for I'm le Sam. He is do- : Ing his best with contractors. We i dornen can l>eat the contra et sors with < air knitting needles If you have no* i ??nt any men from your town, from | .our district (ami t seems Incredlhh i when I look on this son Ol men en- i ?amped near New Fork, That anv j own however small has not sent Itn i ?oy> then write to the next town and t isk what you can do to help provide 1 'or their boys. ] Never mind if you do not know Jim i lluk'hes, yie boy on the next bloc': t who .Wfal drafted. Never mind if you i luve not spoken to the mother of i Hilly Green who enlisted with Co. G.? | vVori. for .Jim and lfilly and for the 1 tillage ne'er-do-well, if he has kom" i Wer mav make heroes of all three. And you'll be glad that you helped tO warm their bodies and their heart- i with your work. i ?rest If you know no man In ti uning, knit for OOS and make sure rhiit your finished garments go to some one man from yoUf part of the country. Don't SOOd \oiir sweater or muffler or so. ks to the nearest big or ganlsatlofl and sny?'i want this to i;n into a box for the boys from m> state." It oannOt be done that way. All th. se organi/.atiouM are huge machim which must do things iti a big, im per? sonal way. They cannot lit the gar ment to the man. They must deal Wttfc the army as a whole, and answer ? alls as they come most loudl> , from America ot sTUTope, l'.ut yog ean 00 the warm, kindly thing In a personal way. Your gar menu Call reach the 0100 from > our town?if you will ?001. Mil those men. And how can you do less? How oan you tail to roa|lae the ex? tra pleasure \ oil will have in knitting if you know sou ? work goes to warm a lad from your own state? We are ? great nation, with tremendous nat? ional pride- but we are still neighbor? ly*?-and our own boys should come first. ' \ Don't misunderstand mo! i be? lieve in sound organizations and all their work?but?our own boys first. There'll be time a-plenty to work for tho Red Cross and we'll work batter [if WO know our own nun ore warm. As I write this, a carpenter is lil? ting storm windows on my porch. In the backyard .two husky darkles an pouting coal Into m> collar. A great bucket of eannel coal has just been set beside my lireplaee, ponding K evening of WO k. Comfort warmth ? luxury ? for heart. Brslight, winds- baffled of thoh pre) arc luxuries. And out on Logg Island nun shivering that you and l and all otto er women may k<> to our night s rest without fear or dread. nur boys?our ' own boyi ttfit! Where are \oui boys the b??\ s from your towns. rot r farms? I'ind them and knit for Hum. It || our bit' foi the democracy of which We talk ro easily, Now lot ss1 serve demoerac i and our boyi Bend to iii Burden. i - j (Charleeton i ... t.) in October the United States jet* i" nded something taor i than a biltl?n dollar*, or at the rale Of lorty-two million dollars per day. Kur one (toy, liist Friday, the expenditures ran up to nearly se\cnty millions, but thai was, ol* course, exceptional. It is jfii at Washington, though, that Uns hUS< sum may become the average for No? vember) and that the total for the coming month may rea< ii two billion dollara Nothing like this rate an total of expenditure has eve!1 been known In tin- history of nations. Greal Britain has been spending more than any other nation engaged in the war. hut its total i'or the entire period of the war has just come to twenty three blllione, which, it Is not unlikely, our boohs for tho past year of our participation In the war will show to be our portion. It is, of course, im? possible that even the richest nation in the world, as this has become, can continue to pour out treasure at this lavish rate Indefinitely, or even for a comparatively short period, save at great sarriiice by its people, and, since it is practically certain that we shall have to bear the principal burden ol' the war in a financial way for the En? tente nations, the absolute, immediate and pressing nceessiiy for rigid econ? omies on the part of all the people o! this country, in ways they have not thought of and to which they have, as yet, shown no tendency to adapt thorn selves, is inevitable. V.'e are in this tremendous world conflict up to our necks ami we must go through it. ni til costs, to complete satisfaction. Thai Is not to be done without heavy sac? rifice, in the blood of our young m< a ac are already about to seal our de? motion to the cause we have made our iwn and the tliOkie which has air. udy leguri on the soil of Franbe will soon well to torrents, bringing anguish t< nany hearta, Against that we shall lave to steel ourselves, and the trng ?dy of it will, somehow, carry itself through, but the daily round of de? ntal, the constant pinching, the need )f restriction in little things to which have been accustomed wall require more than mere passive acceptance ;nd will yield no sensations of hero? ism, yet they are of, the very essenc. r>f the achievement to which we have let ourselves, What the British peo? ple have come to in three years in ihe Way of self denials we will reach in a. year, The enormous sums lh< ? comment Is sxpending must com. Crom the pockets of tho people, am [hey can not be produced it" we are to live as WO have lived. A good many people seem to think Ihey can go on In the same old ways of extrava? gance and still prevail, Some of them ire making money ont of the world': need and have felt no i rsssurc of*th u'reflt burden the war has laid upon me* nation. Bui the muss of the goo pie ni" already beginning to rewllst that the deadly Struggle into which SfS have entered will relentlessly OX tOt of t u b of them h ivy tribute. Ti distribute this exaction equally mas' 1??- tin- care of the government, ami It has yet been barely taken in hand. Withal the portion of everybody will be as much SS can well be borne, ami lie- time has come to bend to it. How far it is going to be possible to reduce the expenditures of the na* tlon, retaining still the maximum of efficiency, is yet to be determined. There is some consideration being given to that question at Washington and it is necessary that it should )>< -?arefully Weighed. Bllt, for month to come the drain ?n the resources ol tin- nation will be enormous, and every cltlaen should understand that upon his energy, ami, even more per ha|>s, upon his thrift, depend! the great issue of the war. VOTES FOR WOMEN. New York t.hes Hundred Thousand Majority for Suffrage. New York, Nov. 7. Tin- women of Si \\ York wyere given unlimited suffrage by yesterday's election by a majprlty estimated to reach on.' hun? dred thousand, a celebration of Xew- York I'ity women will be held tonight at Cooper Union, it is an? nounced. INCREASE SUGAR RATER. Itullniads Ask for Authority to \d \uncc Freight Twenty iVr < cm. W ishington, NOV. 7.? The rail? roads today applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to increase rates on sugar in car lots about twenty per cent, from eastern s? aboard points and from New ? ?r bans to interior eitles. Washington, Nov. 1 7. The navy department today Is awaiting a com pit ts report of the torpedoing of the American patral vessel Aleedo, winch WUS sunk in the war /one early Mon? day with the probable loss of one of? ficer ami twenty men. Seventy-one \\ ere re ICUOd, but litl le hope is held tor those who are reported missing. Th" \< ei sank tour mlnuti after being hit t Fighting England's War. (By E3, !?;. Harriman of The Vigil? antes. ) There are Btill a few men left in tl United States, notably In our capital, Who maintain that ore have l>een ln veli led Into lighting a war for Eng? land. They make me remember h certain old tinner I knew back in the seventies-:, somewhere in Minnesota? lie subscribed for the-County Times ami he carefully carried home from the Sunday School tin- thin pa* par that was handed round to the members by the librarian at the end Of the lesson hour. He own* d a Hilde, a hymn hook, a eo)ry of ?, S. Agricultural Reports for i860, and an almanac, With this up-to-date library and tit: careful preparation whieh he was able to make through its aid on Sundi afternoons, between naps, he wa ready to meet all eomeis in debate. And he swore that "any fool man that tried to make him believe thai the alrth is raound is wast in* time an' I wind, 'y gorry."^ I Come now, 1 am telling facta He did, and I heard him. In fact i was working in his harvest held at the time he said it and lie stopped three Cralderg, three binders, and one bay raker of bundles, that's me. to listen. Then he bawled me out for whistling through my teeth to show my aston? ishment at Iiis Ignorance. That man had a colossal Intellect compared tu that of the man who argues that we are in this war to do England's lighting. When I was a. boy here i go again ?on biography of Ha- auto variety ? l stood by and watched two other boys fight over .1 bail whieh both claimed, [n the muss the bill roiled away from the con a testa tits ami as it came m\ way I jac ked it up and held it in my hand, Waiting the decision by wager of bat? tle. The boy that licked jumped t his feet, looked for the ball, saw m holding it out and slammed mo a hard one on the nose without asking B question as to my mot i .e. Hid 1 refuse to scrap on the plea that 1 would be fighting Clint's battle for him? 1 did not. When that ?s landed 1 knew that I had a war of m> own and that I was the gtty Who had to fight it. 1 fought for my own h?nd, as the Bcotch say, though In this casi it was a nose. I squared'up for o.-r tain crimson drops and blobs an gopts that fell on the spotless snow in Dakln's pasture, whore we played town ball. I was not fighting &0\ Clint Gould, 1 was lighting for mysell but If ciint profited)by my action tha di?l not hurt my foolingg any. .America, is lighting h?r own war She is not lighting that or England oi France or Italy or Serbia or Poland 01 Belgium or .Montenegro or Uoumani. or Russia. She is fighting the war ol that big, easy going, fat and Blow-to anger country that lied all across th< western continent like a blanket oi a mule. That is whose war she b lighting and her nose. Is still smartlll! from the wallop given ? by Germany she stood by and watched the sera] until Germany took a poke too much at her and convinced her that ehe,had a war tit" her ou n. The main trouble with Miss Colum? bia is that she did not clear for action when she got the first hard poke af? ter issuing a warning. If I had waste.; time in arguing with Jeff Burrelt, In? stead of going into action instantly, i might have wound up alongside oJ Clint, wait hing the gory snow gel more gory from my own veins. Co? lumbia, oi' her business manager pre tem, argued the matter until some o) us feared thai our war would be 0U1 subjugation without any powder burned by us. While the manager argued, the ene? my kept on throwing in hooks ami jabs and uppercuts, sneering and jeering all the time. Well, Columbia is awake now and there may be semt lively hair pulling before long. Tlu very fact that she waited and argue I has made the arguments of the claim tints that this is not our war strong ir Had I hesitated to- act when Jeff pulped my nose that time on the bail Held, the crowd would have felt BUM that there was some Justice on his aide, When 1 sailed into him like I concentrated cyclone in trousers Working both hands with every ounce I hail behind them, they concluded that 1 had been wrouged and ever) kid on the held was on m> side when I yanked him up to his feel by the hair and made him give 'me his ker? chief to bleed on. He had to use snowballs to stanch his gore. We lost prestige ami sympathy, but that is past and we ore In Ol II WAR! It Was OUr blood wasted in ile cold waters of the Atlantic by the 1' boats'?cowardly attack that made thii our war. It was the parading of cruel, inhuman frightfulness before a nation that held the right to cham? pion tlu.? oppressed, that mnd< it OUT war. It was arrogant and Btruttlti barbarism challenging civilization th.nl made it our war. There aie -' thousand and one reasons why i' Is 0 ir war. our personal, private war, no mattet If w 1 ha \ e a hundred allh -;. It 1 I out s, iM'KS! NATION S BUSINESS IS WAK. Economy and Efficiency Paramount to Succeee. (Bp William Guggenheim, Member of Hoard of Trustees, Chairman Vig? ilance Com mitt i <?, American Lk ? tense Society.) Tlicre undoubtedh haa b< i n persist ont effort on the pan of many of those who are in a position to in Iluence our national affairs, to en coinage policies that are contrarj the best interests of our cou and it is not the purpose of this ar? ticle to question their plttcercitj m proposing politics different from whai keener and more courageous minds would have perceived to be the wiser ones. At the same time if sumo state? ment is not now made regarding mat? ters relating fro finance and business and proper attention given thereto we will eventually And our financial and business condition a precarious one. It is important for us to under? stand that when we entered th? war and declared our hostilities to Ger? many we were nnpropan d not only from a military, hut likewise a finan? cial standpoint. So far as our unprepared financial condition is concerned, we fortunat? - ly had installed our federal reserve banking system, which material!. leasened the harm that otherwis would have resulted. It was this un? prepared financial condition that w r responsible for the appointment of numerou committees for tho pur? pose of fixing prices on certain com? modities as well as on many materials required for the prosecution of the war. Every student of finance knows that tiie beat way to control prices? where no monoply exists?is through the .system of credit, and that if our finances had. been properly handled throughout the past several years the question of price fixing * would not have been necessary. Furthermore, certain financial episodes would have been impossible. In the year 1916, When this coun? try was being Hooded with money as a result of the tremendous gold im? portations, good financial judgnie \\ would have suggested the retirement of circulation and the building up of very large gold reserves, which should have been mandatory, so as to hav< prevented the fictitious prosperity through which the country passe< . ]i such a policy had been adopted man;. lines of business enterprises would naturally but properly have been re? stricted. However, as Mr. Yandeilip of tin National City bank has so wisely stat? ed, "The business of the country to? day is war"?that is, we must pro? duce a maximum amount of the things that we and our aHlsa require and rationally restrict the production of the things that are not required. The question,' therefore, that we should now ask is: How shall the war be 'prosecuted from a financial and in? dustrial standpoint? Shall we run on in a haphazard and ha ppy-go-luck\ fashion, concealing the facts from the public, or shall we with fortitude tell the public the truth and ask them to aid by adjusting themselves accord ingly? Moreover, to enjoy the victory thai surely awaits us, wo must not onl> defeat Germany and as Mr. Rooseveli states, "Heat her to a. frazzle." bUi also have an eye to the future so that ; i the end of the war we wid have suf? ficient reserve to continue our happj and prosperous way. When we entered the war we found our allies, at hast tram a financial standpoint, bled white, so that our en? trance for their financial preservation tvaa none too soon. With this tremen? dous burden we arc confronted with a. further necessity id" preserving our financial and economic Strength! Oui aim, therefore, should be "economy and efficiency." But how shall this economy and efficiency be brought about? Shall it be by again encour? aging a fictitious prosperity? shall ft be by telling the people that w ? ;ire being wonderfully benefited by ? l?*? war and that we are to Immediately grow rich and financially strong, or shall we be more frank and tell them that economy ami efficiency must pre? vail throughout iie land; that many unnecessary business eniei prises, BUOh :is the building of hotels, apartment and other Houses and places of amuse* mcnt, should temporarily be aban? doned and work in other fields lor w hose products the nation will have no immediate need must also l s re? strict* d. for remember the sooner w adjust ourselves to these condition, the belter it will be for the nation? A financial policy directed along restricted linos would mean the cur tailment of credit and subsequent cop traction of loans, a greatly reduce cost of the war ami comparative!) less financing, much less competitloi for profits and much more rcadine on the part Ol our eitizt ns to Offel their services for military duty in stead of waiting for conscription. The government's financial posltloi Ib.- little altered whether the war b< prosecuted with pro perity or ait I depression, for it can adjust itself to either condition without difficulty. it is Within the pow r of the Fed? eral Reserve board, however, to dic? tate a policy SlthOff of < untinued infla? tion, which* would 0 ean fictitious r< iporlty, with rising prices in com? modities, including labor, or one of deflation ,whlch would result in busi ness reaction and a subsequent de the prices of commodities, including labor, \ . t berefor \ that wo eallse the situation and compel tho economies . i ! efficiencies that uro n< 11 ssary the better It will bo, not only for the a tion, but likewise for the great cause of liberty to which wt are so magnificently consecrat? ing ourselves. Y. M. C. A. WORK. Wiiat the Organization l'iaus tu im I or Army Men and I low Money is i'eiun N|K'iit. While a large nortloo of the $35, 000,000 Which is sough? by the Y. M. c. A. for its war work Is a great cam? paign to be conducted from Novem? ber 11 to II is required for Ameri <; ii soldiers and sailor- in the camps in this country, only one-third of the toti 1 ? for this purp? The other two-thirds is lor wo k across the I This oven e?s pfogra' t is-very large? ly . to Berve the American I lighting men who will pour into France in gn at num' em within tho next few months. For them one-third of the total sum to b?S raised will bo spent. ? The remaining portion of the fund is for WOrk among * :tr allies, and I War and to provide for inevitable expansion which cannot now be foreseen* The budget as- it bos been mapped out to July 1, 1'jIS is is follows: U. B. Forces at home.$11,120,000 tJ. S. Forces overseas .. 11,994,000 In Russian army ...... 3,305,000 In French army. 2,049,000 In Italian army. 1,000,000 In prison camps. 1,000,000 For expansion. 3,932,000 1 Total. . $35,000,000 When it is realized ihat there are now 14,000,00u men under arms in the nations of the allii i and there are 6,000,000 more In prison camps wdio should be reached by "Y" war work, it Is evident that the budget is most reasonable. This work is now in progress in nearly 800 buildings a id tents in the United States military camps and na? val bases. It is bell cairied nn \\%. 234 lifferent localitie fit "is being mam,.--: by moresu/a l 2,000 secre? taries. When tho soldiers now in the nat? ional guard and national armv train? ing camps begin to move ovt rseas to France during the months immediate? ly ahead, this work must go with them, hut neither the men of the equipment now being ,sed in America can be spared for this requirement, for the camps here .ill be imme? diately refilled With m??n of the second draft. It i 'ans that the work must be enlarge ! to take care of the expeditionary * jrces. Prance's armies, standing as they vc, the brunt of the var, are in dire need of this sort of a tvice, and yet If ;t is provided them l\ must be with men and money from America. Italy has just invited the Y. M. C. A. War Work Council to establish 1,000 stations among her troops. Russia's need :- greatest of ah Her millions, struggling to perfecta now democratic government ami trying to resist the insidious German Propaganda? can be strengthened and held firm through the agency of the v. M. c. A. better, perhaps, than any other, The pris? on* rs Of var have no >ther means by which their great needs can be met. So it is to grasp this opportunity Which demands 4,500 more men and hundreds of buildings within the next few months* BS * well is to maintain the work now under w y, that the As sociaion is making its tppohl. ARRESTED FOR EM U^Zd.KMKXT. Major (hange L. re;;- rsosj of North Carolina in 'I rouble. Raleigh, Nov. 7.?It ijor George R. r. terson, qnartcrmasl r en the staff Of tho Thirtieth division at Camp Sc vier. Greenville, was arrested last night charged with en\beswlement Of Boven thousand, siv hdftdroi dollars of state funds while -aymaster gen eral of North Car-dina National Guard. In a signed ita'temest today he admitted tho she;- igo In his ac ? mts, but said it v ts due to dls bu st meats properly inside for which r.o vouch* rs were issued. Mino ruoiUh! Y WET. Flection lb turns at Noon show Ma? im a \ VgalUSl I rohihition. Cincinnati, Nov. ?.? With Mho pros I lenlal woman's luffrage propo? sition decidedly beaten Ohio rotes to day were still In doubl whether the Stat?> is wet or dry. '. urea at noon showed a majorlt) a the \\et.s of four thousand* liundi 1 rtd one.