Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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AR A MKMBKR OF A WAR HAVING SOCIKTY. Women ?11? Children are Asked to Bon Together to Kncourege Each Other In Practising Thrift ami In Helping; the Government. The administration of this nation naked the cltu.cn* to practise thrift in order that the nation might thrive, and to encourage this there has been pot out for the dual purpor? ts' helping the government and help? ing the people the thrift stump and the war saving stamps. The pur chaae of these helps the government because it is lending the government money with which to prosecute the war. and the government,has need of sll the manor it can get Its hands on. It helps the people because it Is put? ting before them the greatest thrift movement this country has ever known. In buying these stamps the buyer Is giving nothing, but Is lending money at Interest to the government. Sad is laying up a nest egg for him* deaf To further the buying of stamps and also to further other patriotic tttda the government uiges that war saving societies be formed. The purposes of the war saving so? cieties sre> 1 To awaken a realisation among the men. women, and children of America that In th?lr hands lies the hey to the successful prosecution of tho wir, that they eon render the most far-reaching patriotic service through refraining from the purchase Of unnecessary articles, confining themselves to the use of such things as are necessary for health and of. flHsnoy. thus releasing* labor and ma? terials for the support of oar armies In the held; that there is not enough labor In the Pnlted States to produce the great variety of articles needed to support our soldiers and at the same time provide ail the comforts and lux? uries we enjoyed before the war. t. To lay the foundation for thrift and economy throughout the Unlt-rJ States and to bring home to the peo? ple the fact that intelligent and con? sistent saving is not s dry problem in economics, but Is the most vital step toward personal success. t. To obtain for the government a large amount of money through the sale Of Thrift Stamps and War Sav? ings Stamp*?little government bonds ?the safest sod best investment in the world.<and at the same time pro? vide a method by which the small In? vestor may put his savings at the im smtdtate service of his country. Mem here of War Havings Societies pledge themselves to support the government by refraining from unnecessary ex pendltures, by systematic savtng, and by obtaining new members. It takes tsn members to constitute a society, but it takes only one to form It. Men. women, girls or boys, fcen form these societies. and they ean be formed among the colored peo-1 pie aa well as among the whites. Why do not you form a society? Phone* see or write a post csrd to Herbert A. Moses, Chslrman of War gmvlngs for Bumter county, and you will get full information on the sub? ject. HOARDING OF OOAJ. FOH|IIf>. DKN. Cotssamern in Pro*Ming Nest Winter's Supply Will be Limited to Needs. Washington. March 1.?Consomeis t of coal in providing this spring and summer for their next winter's fuel requirements will be limited by thej fuel administration In their purchas? er strictly to their needs. In making this announrorr.ent tonight Fuel Ad? ministrator Oarffeld said all local 1 fuel committees will be Instructed th see that there is no hoarding. The fuel administration has advised all consumers to begin ss esrly as April 1 to lay In their next winter's supplies. If the advice is followed officials believe there will be no marked coul car congestion on the rairoada nest winter and that no coal sbortsge will occur. m a Tho fuel and railroad administra? tions have about completed their plan for distribution of coal by zones and when flnalL approved, ss It probably will be next week. It will be put int?, operation Fader tho plan tho coun? try Is divided Into twenty or more producing districts, each of which will SSjppfy a particular consuming sons. Many complaints thai tin- coal now sold is of an inferior quality haW caused the fuel administration to pre. pare orders to operators, providing ? bst coal shall be cleaned and estab? lishing grades Wsgener. S C, March* W? Approxi? mately one hundred thousand dol? lar* worth of long staple cotton was dostroved hv fire In a warehouse here this morning. finndon. March 2 - Hermans nro moving on the town of Rnlogoie. on the Moscow-Petrograd railroad which I? the chief freight center for food Ing I'otrograd. soys an BlShOOgS Tel? egraph Company niapnieh from I'.t sog red deled Friday. GERMAN PRESS MI ZZLED. Newspapers Tell People That Ameri? ca Is Not Really In Earnest About war. New York. Feb. 28.?The German press ts carefully and- adroitly con? tinuing; to foster the Idea among the German people that America is not really in earnest about the war" de? clared Dr. A. N. Davis in discussing the situation in Herlin as he left It Just over a month ago. Dr. Davla. formerly of Piqua, Ohio, ia the Ameri cAn dentist who lived in the German capital for 16 years and numbered Emperor William among his patients. "Every effort is being made to be? little America?even the highest of? ficials are attempting to convey th* Impression that Germany has little to 'ear from the United States. Prac ically nothing Is printed concerning America except the president's ad? dresses on war alms. Even these are treated by the papers as if the pres? ident were speaking as a sort of de? tached person whose interest was the welfare of the world; not with the Idea that they represent the earnest determination of the American people to see the war through to a successful conclusion. "Not until Germany begins to feel the military pressure of the United States will the people realize the ne** conditions that confront them. Then, t predict, the fostered enmity toward England will be as nothing to the hatred that will be poured out by the inspired press against America." GERMANS ATTACK KAISER. Pamphlets Secretly Circulated in Berlin. London, Feb. 11 (Correspondence of the Associated Press).?Some of the pamphlets which were secretly circu? lated in Berlin during the recent strikes consisted of savage attacks on the German emperor, a fact which was admitted and deprecated recently by the German newspapers. One oi' these pamphlets smuggled out ol Germany has reached the Liverpoo Dally Post, which gives a lltera translation, which In part follows: "When will peace come? It wil come when Germany is ready for it and the time Is approaching. "It will come when Germany has learned the lesson of the war; when it has found, as every other nation has had to learn, that the voice of Europe can not be denied with impunity. "The hour of peace will strike wher Germans no lonKer heed the makers of war, when they despise and his the apostles of militarism, and jingo Ism, Peace will come when the Ger mans say to their emperor: 'You whom we have followed and obeyed you, for whom we have sacrificed ourselves and our dear ones; you, whe have not spared even ouf Ideals an ' beliefs and traditions?we have sac riflcod all to you?and what do W# get in return? Nothing but hunger and cold ant) nakedness, disease and death, ruin end destitution. "Never before In the history of th? world has there been sacrifice sc great or so willingly made. Heforr our heroic deeds the armies of No polcon shrivel, and what have we woi by It? Four years ago the world lay at our feet: strangers from everv land came to our cities; all over th? world the Industry of our merchant* was successful. Everywhere the Ger man spirit was honored. Will It eve be so again? "All over the world we are despia ed and hated. On our forehead rests the curse of Cain. Men shun us in the streets and our language is for bidden. We have Emperor William We have you to thnnk that the achievements of a century of nation, effort have been lost. We will m longer follow you." The document ends with a stil 'longer denunlcation of the ambition vanity and personal cowardice of th* emperor. t IK.EK VOTES 1X>R NEGRO. Colored Women Ashed to Support Own Race's Oong-ress Candidate. Philadelphia Public Ledger. New York. Feb. 27.?Declaring that the black women of the North who now have the right to vote mus l and together for the black women o the South. Mrs. Howard Gould was to day campaigning for votes for Reverd? C llnn?om, negro Candidate for con Kress. Rhe warned the negro voters, espe Hatty the newly enfranchised women Bet to be misled by white politicians bat to vote for the candidate of theii own race. "We fall people blacks and white now. hut same Ass we'll call then junrtsd States, Asaorleasjs," Mrs Gould said. A thrift stamp will help can tin Kaiser and t costs onlv ? quarter Russin is going to pet Ittel wht everybody SPSppt the ItttSAsaJttl si peeted - the daphte ere P N;:mh 111 . Tesnrssean. TAKEN FROM ARMY. Two Thousand Men Returned to Yard and Thirty Tliousand Given Defer? red i lasstlh'utioii. Washington. Feb. 28.?Through the jofforts of the Emergency Fleet Cor? poration 2,000 ship workers drafted in the military service have been re? turned to the yards, it was announced tonight. Thirty thousand workers sub? ject to call have been placed in the? deferred classification lists and will remain there as long as they are en? gaged in ship constructibn. The men returned to the yards were all taken from camps and canton? ments as tho war department has thus far declined to give up men who al? ready have been sent to France. The fleet corporation is seeking an arrangement with tho army for the return of workers who volunteered service of which there is said to be several thousand now In the various branches. Great Britain was forced to draw from her army many thousands of volunteers who left the ship yards early in the war. CLEM SON COLLEGE IN FRANCE. Clemson Joins the American Univer? sity Union in Paris. Clemson College, Feb. 27.?Clemson College is now a member of the American University Union with headquarters In Paris at the Royal Palace Hotel, on the corner of the Place du Theatre Francais and the Rue de Richelieu. The mail address is 8 Rue dc Richelieu, Paris, France. The cable address is Aunion, Paris. The general object of the union li to meet the needs of American college lien who are in Europe for military Of other service. The more" specific purposes of the union are: 1. To provide at moderate cost a home with the privileges of a simple ?lub for American college men anc iheir friends passing through Parh or on furlough: the privileges to in? clude information bureau, writing and newspaper room, library, dining room, bed roms, baths, social fea? tures, opportunities for physical rec ?eation, entertainments, medical ad? vise, etc. ? ?1 2. To provide a headquarters foi the various bureaus already estab ished or to be established in France by representative American Universi? ties, colleges and technical schools. 3. To cooperate with these bu 1 reaus when established, and in theii ibsence to aid institutions, parents or friends, In securing informatioi about college men in all forros of wai iervlce, reporting on casualties, visit ug the sick and wounded, giving ad . ice, serving as a means of communl' ration with them, etc. All alumni and former students o 'lemson are invited to make use o hese privileges. They are especially isked to Inform their parents an riends of this convenience of com nunicatlon, and of the other purpose: of the union. Parents and friends o lemson men are urged to cut thh >ut and save the address for a pos dble emergency. BRYAN EXPLAINS TORONTO AF? FAIR. ?. irKaiit/cd Effort to Make Him Un popular. Chicago, March 1.?William Jen lings Bryan issued a statement tonighi explaining the Incident at Toronto 'anada, where he was Jeered las dght while speaking at a prohlbltlo: i mass meeting, and declared that a. organised effort to make him un >opular In Toronto had*been carrlc >n previous to his arrival. One pape carried an editorial which he sale "was an incitement to riot." "There were editorials in somi 1 iew8papers declaring that the per sons responsible for bringing me t< Toronto should be summarily deal with," he added. "And theae ma> 1 have had much to do with the at tempts to keep me from speaking The papers which attacked me were ho only Toronto papers carrying 11 luor advertisements. | "The Incident has been greatly ex igKerated in many places and mad' to appear that ('anada rejected me In fact not more than 2 per cent, o the audience was antagonistic an< these offenders?who were said to bt returned soldiors, though they wor no uniforms?would have been pu I out had I not Interfered. (.onioning in Paris. Paris, Feh. 26.?-Amateur garden mg around the fortitications of Pari: was so successful last year that ap ? licatlons for gardening plots for tin ?oming season have multiplied beyond ?he space available. The allotment Ol hese garden spots of a hundred yard ujuare ?ach will ?<><?n h*' l?*d? UDOI written Applications, preference beln given to largo and necessitous families FSmiltei with five or more cbildre will he allowed two lots. Any bachelor will tell you thai he ! would take orders from do s/onnr ' living. That's whv he's unmarried I < ha rlsston Post. THE VALUE OF COTTON. Thirty Oritt Cotton Buys Less Bread and Meat Tlian Twelve Cent Cot? ton Did. The farmers of South Carolina who were Inclined to run away with the idea that thirty cent cotton is a great thing, (as it really is), ought to bear in mind that thirty cent cot trn and buying foodstuffs does not work out in the ends. The raising of foodstufTs at home is just as neoes ry as fertilizers for the cotton. In his very excellent address at Ettmter, Mr. Clarence Poc, the dis? tinguished editor of the Progressive Farmer, presents some astonishing fiqures that had been prepared by Mr. Bradford Knapp of the United States department of agriculture, showing lhat "with even thirty cents a pound for cotton the farmer who grows "all cotton" and depends on It to buy his bread and meat is not only no better off than he was with twelve cent cot? ton, but la actually worse off. We take only the "bread and meat" ar t'cles commonly purchased and con? sumed on cotton farms. Here are the facts: At Twelve Cent Pre-war Prices. One 500 pound bale of cotton at $60 v. ould have bought? 80 bushels corn at 75c. 12 barrels flour at $5.00. 3,000 pounds corn meal at 2c. 600 pounds lard at 10c. 500 pounds salt pork at 12c. 400 pounds bacon at 15c. At Thirty Cent?War Prices. One 500 pound bale of cotton at H50 will buy? 75 bushels corn at $2. 12 barrels flour at $12.50. 2,143 pounds corn meal at 7c. 484 pounds lard at 31c. 455 pounds salt pork at 33c. 366 pounds bacon at 41c. These conditions are not likely to Improve, emphasizing all the more he absolute importance at this time ef planting*plenty of corn and other food crops. STATE TEACHERS* BUREAU. Mokes .Appointed Manager by Swcnr Ingen. Columbia, March 2.?W. S. Stokes, linister, teacher and editor of coun 17 newspapers a number of years, has I *en appointed by John E. Swearin en registrar under the act by the re ont general assembly to create a bu eau of registration for teachers in onnection with the State department f education. Mr. Stokes has been eading clerk of the senate 12 years nd has an extensive acquaintance iroughout the State. An appropriation of $2,000 has been lade for the work, which is designed 9 relieve teachers of charges by achei8' agencies. A fee of only $1 'ill be required of teachers who Join. Qd trustees will find the new depart lent an important factor in procur ig necessary teachers. Mr. Stoke? j AM likely have an office in the Loan nd Exchange Bank building near the ther departmental offices. The act ias not yet been signed by Gov. Man lng, but is understood to meet with is approval. The bill was introduc d in the upptr house by Dr. Ridgell >f Batesburg and in the lower house y Victor E. Rector representative rom Darlington county county. Th? ct reads: The State superintendent of educa ion is hereby authorized to establish naintaln and operate as a part of hh'| dflce, a bureau for the registration nd employment of teachers. Any per on legally qualified to teach in thf ree public schools of this State and| ligible to be employed by any board ?f sshool district trustees shall upor he payment of $1 be entitled to en ?ollment In this bureau. The said $1 0 be applied to the support of the bu eau. Any board of district schoo rustees, any superintendent or prin eipal of a system of school or an: ounty superintendent shall have ac? cess free of charge to all papers and ?ccords in said bureau except such a;^ nay be of a personal or confidential nature. The State superintendent is au? thorized to secure an office, a registrai 'nd all other stenographic or clerica1 help that may be necessary for the dficient operation of such bureau. He lhall make to the general assembly s full report each year showing th? work and the expenses of the bureau To carry out the purposes of this act the sum of $2.000 is annually ap? propriated. I/ondon. March f.?The Herman carried out n raid on a wide front against Portuguese troops in northern Prance this morning, but were drivei out by a successful counter attack. Washington. March L'. - The Inter state commission today approved In? creases averaging fifteen per cent, in all water class, commodity rates o' ocean steamship company from ims ton. Providence and N'ew York, te Augusta, (5a.. Beaufort, Port Royal ind other South Atlantic ports PROMISES 60 SHIPS. oiliciaIs of Hog- Island Yard Say That Vessels Will be Ahead of the Schedule. Washington, March I.?Launching Of fifty ships at the Hog Island yard this year was promised the senate commerce committee today by Har? ris D. H. Connick, vice president of the American International Shipbuild? ing Corporation, which is bui ding' ?hips for the government. He said twenty-five would be ready by Novem? ber 1, another twenty-five by De? cember 15, and that all of the 120 vessels contracted for would be deliv? ered before time specified, July, 1919. Mr. Connick made a vigorous de? fense of the corporation against charges of mismanagement and ex? travagance, declaring that enonious expenses beyond the original estimate had been made necessary by enlarge? ment of the plant and changes order? ed by the shipping board. Members of the committee who re? cently visited the Hog* Island yard expressed the opinion that if the work now under way there is suc? cessful the United States will bo in position after the war to compete with European ship builders. Mr. Connick said there was no question that the American merchant marine could be placed in the front rani: wdth the building of fabricated, stand? ardized ships. After the original contract for the Hog Island plant was signed, the wit? ness told the committee, seventy 8, 000-ton ships were added to the pro? posed output, which had been ftx?jd at fifty vessels of 7,500 tons each. The original estimate on the prob? able cost of construction at the yards was made by Stone & Webster, engi? neering contractors, who placed, the probable cost at $19,000,000. l-ater Mr. Connick said $2,000,000 was add? ed, but the cost has exceeded $21, 000,000. BATTLE WITH RKSERTER;?. German Deserters and Escaped Bel? gian Workers Attacked by Boeder Guard. The Hague, Netherlands, Jan. 30? A pitched battle between the Ger? man frontier guards and a detach? ment of German deserters who were trying to escape across the border into Holland took place a few days ago just across the barbed wire boundary. The deserters were Alsatian? and were well armed. They were accom? panied by a number of Belgian work? men, who also wished to escape into Holland. The Alsatians had beon on the Russian front throughout; the war, and were just being transferred .o the west. As they approached the boundary, he German guards opened fire, but he Alsatians replied promptly, killing vnd wounding three of the small party of guards. The others retired tu seek reinforcements while the Alsa? tians began cutting the wire, which was presently short-circuited, causing a blaze. ? Before a path had been oi>ened icross the border a detachment of mounted German military police gal? loped up. After a short skirmish, the .guard succeeded in overpowering the Alsatians. A few of the Belgian workmen however, succeeded in get? ting into Holland safely. Married at Camp Eunston. Announcement is made of the mar? riage of Miss Lillian E. McLain of Cattfden, S. C, to Lieutenant Hosko I. WllBon at Camp Funston, Kansas, Tuesday, February 12. Miss McLain is the daughter ?t the late Geo. W. McLean of Camden. S. C. and sister of Mrs. Daisy McLain ?iulkley, the only Colored Field Secre? tary of the Women's Home Miusion iry Society of the M.-E. Chuach and i cousin of Dr. Sidney E. Johnson, of his city. Lieutenant Wilson is a son of the ate Dr. J. E. Wilson who for a num? ber of years was postmaster of Flor? ence, s. C. and at the time of his leath was chairman of the Board of Trustees of Claflin Univorslty, Orangeburg. S. C. Lieut. W'ilson Js a graduate of the Colegiate Depart? ment of Claflin University and a grad? uate of the Medical Department of Howard University of Washington. D. C, For several years he practiced his profession at his native home and mtered the training camp at Fort Des Moines, la., last June an.i WSS commissioned first lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps Octob?r 5. He is now stationed with the Und Division at Camp Funston, Kansas, where they will be at home aft??r th?? Iftth.?Kansas City, Mo.. News. Tusla, Ok la., March I.?The exact date of the meeting of the Confeder? ate veterans reunion which will prob ably be postponed from .Tune until September, will i>.> decided at a meet? ing here tonight, it Is now virtually assured that the reunion will in held, as Director General MeAdoo has given assurance that railroad equipment i will be supplied. AMERICANIZING FRANCE. Tho Changes Tliat Have Take? Place in the Port Csed by the Americnos in France. A Port in France, Jan. 31 (Corre? spondence of The Associated Press)? As far as it is possible to American? ize any French city, this base of tho American armies has undergone the process since the first troops arrived 'last June. Collectively it talks English quite fluently?much more so than the visitors speak French at any rate?and its shops have taken on an American air. Likewise the months have quieted the exuberance that expressed itself in jammed and crowded streets and cafes, noise and exhiliration at the time of the arrival of the first Amer? ican troops. This in part can be laid to the fact that about nine-tenths of the city has been placed "out of" bounds" for all not equipped with special passes; so that the "dives" and other undesirable establishments that at one time threatened to spring up have died of inanition. Scarcely a store now but flaunts Its ware with tags and comments in Eng? lish, and the store keepers have pro? fited by the constant succession of American customers to learn a fair brand of English. Nine out of ten of them at least are able to conduct a sale in English, while not one of tea of the customers couM get what he wanted if he had to rely on French. Some of the English of course is ragged, and a compendium of the signs displayed in the main" street shops would furnish an excellent basis for a treatise on "Enclish as she is written." There is for example the "House Taking Charge of Parcels; Everyone get a received," which lies adjacent to the store featuring^ a-mod? el warmly clad in What the proprietor fondly believes Is a "Tranche Coat.M Thus a large notion and curio store, situated on a corner, has painted both facades to represent a double Amer? ican flag, with a single centerpiece containing the stars over the door at ihe corner. 'The topmost stripe on j both sides bears the inscription, "Sou? venirs, Don't Forget Her.? Occasion? ally the advertisements donf say quite what was intended, even though they tell the truth, as for instance tho sign over a store which reads, "Money Taken Here." Such announcements as "American H Breakfasts, 7 to 9 A. M." and ?Tce Cream" appeal. ?? V The naval element is perhaps most I conspicuous by its absence. In June ittd July the streets swarmed with na? val officers and sailors from the bat? tleships and cruisers that forme^H>ttrt-^ of each convoy. More and more the city has come . under the vice-like control of the American authorities. No resident \ even may send a telegram to any point in France without submitting it to a local censorship that has been created at the suggestion of the Amer? icana The censor is the local police commissioner and he passes on all French messages that are not doubt? ful. Likewise his stamp is obligatory for telegram in English, but he will not wield Mie stamp until the Ameri? can authorities have passed upon the matter. No single Individual leaves the city by train without submitting to an ex? amination. Papers of identification, In many cases written official permis? sion to leave, are necessary. The civilian falls inevitably into the hands of the jealous French who are co? operating with the Americans, while the man In uniform, especially the American khaki wearers, are handled by our military police. Ealy last July the French, at the suggestion of the Americans, laid down exceptionally severe rules for the cafes, limiting: to the lowest con? ceivable point?for France?the hours during which men In uniform might be allowed in all public houses. Later in the summer the French government issued rules governing tho sale of spirituous liquors for all Prance. The two combine by chance in such a way that drinking for the soldiers 'is virtually out of the ques? tion at any hour?even for those limited few who ore able to obtain passes to come into the "out of bounds" portion of the city that com? prises all of the cafes.' The soldiers are on the whole in? tensely popular with the Inhabitants. They are. for one thing, extremely kind to the French children, which strikes a responsive chord in th* breasts of the mothers, particularly since it is not a French male custom to fondle and make much of the youngsters. Then, too. a number of the mili? tary organizations have clubbed to? gether and have give entertainments for French charities wh\ch-not only have netted a lot of money but which have been novel and interesting. The latest of these-was a negro minstrel show which brought in over $500 for the war WidOW? of the port. It is really surprising how many women think they are built for short Rtttrta, Isn't lt.- Anderson Mail,