The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, June 12, 1918, Image 3
Bms' WORKING RESERVE.
An <>|m?ii [idler from Federal Stair
Director for South Carolina.
To the Editor ol The Sumter Dally .
Rein
The State Council of Defense sever?
al months ago was gracious enough
to select me as I'ederal State Di?
rt tor for South Carolina In the
I'nited States Hoys' Working Re?
serve. Headquarters wer?? established
in Suintrr ami with the indispensable
assistance of a stenographer provided
by the Stute Council of Defense. the
office In Sumter has been busily en?
gaged In organizing the emmtn * of the
State In this very important work. By
this time forty counties have been
organized and many of them are al?
ready at work. On the llth of last
month a conference was held in the
t ity or Columbia which proved to be
a distinc t success in eveiy way. The
county directors who attended this
meeting were full of enthusiasm and
determined to see to it that South
Carolina is not behind the other
st ?tes m this very important werk.
Lei me. at the outset, state the pur?
pose of this organization. The ad
nunisti aUon at Washington, realizing
how acute the labor situation was go?
ing to be on account of :ho war, or?
ganized, through the department of
labor, with William E. Hall as Nat?
ional Director, the U. S. Beys' Working
Reserve. With the co-cperation of
the State Councils of Defense, Mr.
Hall appoints the Federal State Di
M ttor for each State In the union.
These State directors appoint county
directors and the county directors ap?
point a cabinet, consisting of from 15
to 20 men and in this way cover the
whole county. The government is
calling upon all boys between *he ages
of lti and 21 years to vclui tcer for
some productive activity. ; toon as
the boy volunteers he is I.,. , a a cer
titlcate showing that he Is a qualified
member of the C. S. Boys' Working
Reserve. This does not mean that he
hais to give up the work that he Is do
log. but it does mean that he has
shown by this enlisting that he is wil
Ihig to serve his government in un\
?xmergency calk If he works on the
farm or in a factory making material
for the war for a period of 6 or 8
weeks he is given a Set rtCS Rutton by
the United States government showing
that he has been faithful to his trust.
If a boy Is working on his father'sj
fi>rftl ht Is, of course, entitled to en?
rollment.
I < vs are naturally and disinterest?
edly patriotie and if thev SM made to
feel that they aro working for their
government at homo while their big
brothers aro fighting for their coun?
try abroad there will be no hesita?
tion upon their part ubout \'oluntarlh
enlisting. As soon as the parents and
their sons grasp this Idea, there will
he a unanimous enlistment of all the
boys In this State.
The direct benefit of this organ?
isation is very gre.it and its import?
ance will giow upon the people as it
ebsejrreoooe One el ins most telling
ii.< Mental benefits Is tin- oanetderatlon
of the fad that In making a cOnOUl
of UM lO.Ctl bovs in South Carolin.I
Wlsjooi ine ages of i?; and 21 it will
be aeecftained how many of theet
beys are not engaged In some produc?
tive aetlVlty? Idleness; has always
l?ecn pernicious; in this crisis in the
world's history It is a crime. If.
Innre fore this census should reveal
the fact that there are many boys be?
tween th* ages who ate spend?
ing their time In Idleness, means may
OS found to put them to work. It is
perfeetl. dear to my mind that, since
the government l.as the right to take
wuhg men between the ages of 21
and ;l and force them to light at the
peril 01 their lives for those at home.
It eertalnU has at least an equal right
t<> mike boys between lbs ages ol II
and 21 engage In some us :ul activ?
ity that will sustain our rit n in the
field and maintain our government at
hon 1
There should be no anxiety on the
part of unv pftfOftt about the dispo?
sition that shall be mad- of his son
that enlists. All question! will be set
Uei by the counts direct SV? subject to
appeal to the Federal State director,
and ull these county directors ha\?
been selected with scrupulous (are
They are men not only of intelligence
and ability hut also of bioad sympa
tbles. There will be no question as to
their appreciation of tin- whole situa?
tion In our State. As a matter 01
geasral Interest and as a matter of
special interest to the Rons Wniklns
KCSJSTVS of South Carolina we ap
P?'ftd the hsf of these directors:
Abbeville Rev. H. I >. Corbctt Ah
be v Hie
Alkcn Rev. Ilamlin Btheredge,
North Augusta.
Anderson Mr. T. L Ceh y. An?
derson.
Bamberg?Mr. C. It. Ri*<r. Otur,
Rarnwell ? Mr. II. O. |;o\lston,
Rlarkvllle.
Beaufort?-Mr. C. S. Adams, Bonn?
fort.
Berkeley- Mr. W. W. Dixon. St
Stephen.
Calhoun?Rev. Daniel Iverson, St.
Matthews.
Charleston?Mr. H. O. Strohecker,
Jr., Charleston.
Cherokee?(Should like to have u
suitable man suggested.)
Chester?Supt. W. H. McNulry.
Chester.
Chesterfield?Mr. (). Wallace Moore,
Cheraw.
clarendon?Mr. S. W. Patron, Man?
ning.
Colleton?Kev. deorge K. Way, Cot
fngt ville.
Darlington-Mr. LnCoeti Bvans,
U;irtsville.
Dlllion?Mr. W. C. Moore, Dillon.
Dorchester?Mr. J. Otey Reed, St.
tleorge.
Kedgefteld?Mr. Staunton Lott,
Johnston.
Fairfleld?(Should like to have a
suitable man suggested).
Florence?Dr. J. G. McMaster,
Florence.
Georgeto m?Prof. O. M. Mitchell,
Hemingway.
Greenville?Prof. M. E. Brookman,
15 reenville.
Greenwod?Mr. S. Brooks Mar?
shall, Jr., Greenwood.
Hampton ? (Should like to have a
suitable man suggested).
Henry?Mr. K. A. Burroughs, Con
way.
.Jasper?(Should like to have a
suitable man suggested).
Kershaw?Mr. V. A. McCaskill,
I amden.
Lancaster?Mr. V. A. Bingle, Ban
caster.
I^aurens?Mr. H. L. Dewis, Baurens.
I^ee?Prof. Marion Scott, Rishop
ville.
I^exington?Mr. John W. Ballentine,
Leesville.
McCormlck?Mr. N. G. Thomas,
MeCormick.
Marion?Mr. C. Mcl^aurin, Mul
lins.
Marlboro?Rev. J. A. McMillan,
McColl.
Newherry?Supt. C. M, Wilson,
Newberry.
Oconec?Mr. O. M. Barnett, West?
minster.
(Mangeburg?Mr. J. West Summers,
< >rangeburg.
Bickens?(Should like to have suit?
able man suggested).
Richland- Mr. T. Keith legate,
Columbia.
Saluda?Mr. J. M. Bloazer, Saluda.
(Has been freed since his appoint?
ment to resign. New director not yet
selected).
Spartnnburg?Prof. H. T. Shock -
ley. Hastoe School, Spartanburg.
Sumter?Mr. P. G. Bowman, Sum?
te r.
Cnlon?Prof. Davis Jeffries, I'nion.
Williainsbui g?Mr. George A. Mc
F.lveen, Kingstree.
York?Supt. R. C. Burts, Rock
Hill.
Since I have been engaged in this
work I have been impressed more and
more each day with the Rreat possi?
bilities of the 17. S. Boys' Working
Reserve. 1 do not know how I can
better express this appreciation than
by QtMtlUg a sentence from a letter
recently received from National Di?
rector W. K. Hall of Washington, D.
C,
"I hope that you and all your
workers feel, and I am sure that you
and they do feel, that there is no
work in which you and they could be
engaged that has a beating more di?
rect and powerful upon the future of
this country than the work that you
and they arc doing as olfieials of the
I'nited States Roys' Working Re?
serve."
Respectfully and cordially,
S. H. BDMUND8,
Federal State Director for South Car?
olina.
CHARLESTON AI RIA I. STATION.
selected ns One or Places to 00 l*ro
vlded With DofOOMM lOquipnient
Against Hun Raider.*-.
Charleston, June (',.?An appropria?
tion of $16,000,000 for the establish?
ment of in airplane ami balloon sta?
tions on lilt Atlantic ami PaclflO
? ist< fOt protection against aerial
ami submarine attacks WM asked of
the fortification! oommittet of the
houat today by Newton d. Baker,
secretary of war.
The sites for the stations already
havi boon sc Ice ted, II on the Atlantic
ooal .mil throe on the Pacific, but de?
tails are not yet available. The equip- j
monl is immediately available ami tin
latloni can be established within six
we. L.s. The $16,000,00a will be in
i loded In the $7.000,000,000 fortifica?
tion! bill to be presented to the house
iioxt wroth*
This meani Ihal bin elation! win
probably be located at Norfolk, Char*
Mrton Jack eon vi II? and Tampa. Thea?
pOllttM being selected for ~* I ,it< l| C 1 ea
and the stations will be III ad
dltlon to those already setabllehed, n
proponed tO make the Southern coast
"<.t against Germany entry,
M.inv one night speakers wlio QrO
eonetdered brilliant would prove as
barren an Rahart If they had to stay
on foe an en laiemont of three n/etkHi
THE SECOND DRAFT.
I.Ist of Men Who Registered June 5.
Rlehard Preston. R. F. D. 4 Sumter.
William Curtis, R. 1, Rox 25, Dal
tell.
Walter Cotter, R. 3, Sumter.
Clinton Drown, 20 Franklin St.,
(. harleston.
?Dudley Jackson. R. 3. Sumter.
Harvey Fleming, Jr., Mayesville.
Joseph Burroughs, Council St.,
Sumter.
Joseph Johnson, R. 1, Mayesville.
Julius Singleton, R. 2, Sumter.
John Glover, Providence.
Willie Gardner, R. 1, Dalzell.
?Richard Bryan Griliin, R. 2, Sum?
ter.
"Harman Oxindlne, Dalzell.
?Johnnie Ardis, R.,3, Mayesville.
?Thomas Raker Spann. 25 E. Cal
houn St., Sumter.
?Eldon D. McKagen, 118 S. Sumter
St., Sumter.
?Julius A. Stuhhs, 11 N. Washing?
ton St., Sumter.
Newton Dowry, R. F. D. Shiloh.
Stephen Evans, Wedgencld.
Frank Wilson, Mayesville.
?Talmage W. Mitchell, 517 W. Lib?
erty St., Sumter.
I Dillie Froniberger, R. 3, Mayes?
ville.
Lawrence Rembert, Mayesville.
Willie Johnson, W. Liberty St.,
Sumter.
?Edward P. Sanders, Dalzell.
?James 11. Mayes, Jr., Mayesville.
?Ernest C. Kolb, R. 2, Sumter.
?Johnnie Barrett, 302 W. Liberty
St., Sumter.
?Charles H. Curtis, 205 Sumter St.,
Sumter.
?William E. Burkett, Sumter.
?Troy E. Turner, R. 3, Sumter.
?William B. Grover, N. Main St.,
Sumter.
?James A. Brogdon, R. F. D., Sum?
ter.
?William T. Atkinson, R. 1, Turbe
vllle.
?Frank DeL. Jordan, Lynchburg.
Robert L. Dlnkins, Horatio.
Joe Benjamin, R. 1, Mayesville.
OUle Louder, R. 5, Sumter.
John Anderson, R. 2, Sumter.
Auiun 1?. Hastic, R. 2, Sumter.
Tobie Johnson, 11. 2, Sumter.
William McK. Muldrow, R. 1, Shi?
loh.
Willie Nelson, Mayesville.
Robert James, R. 5, Sumter.
?William H. Shaw, R. 5, Sumter.
W. sley Willis. Jr., R. 1, Sumter.
LaFayettt MeFaddin, R. 2. Mayes?
ville.
Cye Brunson, R. 3, Sumter.
Frank James, Mayesville.
Tonnie Cooper, R. 2, Mayesville.
?Henry McL. Sanders, Hagood.
?William K. Wright, 19 Levi St.,
Sumter.
?Pelton Welch, R. 1, Lynchburg.
Matthew Jennings, Dalzell.
?John T. Truluck, Lynchburg.
Frank Kibler, R. 2, Sumter.
Richard Rembert, 35 W. Liberty St..
Sumter.
Ernest Ford. Tindal.
Hubert Atkins, R. 1, Sumter.
Abie Brailsford, 4 20 Main St., Sum?
ter.
Hannibal Weston, R. F. D., Oswego.
Josh Ballard, Sumter.
John Olden. Wedgetleld.
"Robert C. Richardson, 220 East
Mary St., Sumter,
*George Cutter, 10 E. Hampton,
Sumter.
?Lesley L. Boney, 217 Church St.,
Sumter.
?Tyrie (). Reynolds, 336 W. Liberty,
Sumter.
?Rernard A. Siddall, 30 Harby Ave.,
Sumter.
* James B. Madray, 121 S. Main St.,
Sumter.
David Pitts. Walker Ave., Sumter.
Lee Wilson, Brogdon.
101 ijab Jones, Brogdon.
Eric Brown, ?66 W, Liberty St.,
Sumter.
Willie Roach. R. 3, Sumter.
Thomas Wright, Hudson St., Sum?
ter.
Thomas Ramsey. R. 3, Sumter.
Thomas Green, 205 Canal St., Sum?
ter.
Aha Jackson. R. 1, Tindal.
John c. Fleming, 11? x. Washing?
ton St., Sumter.
?
Clarence Ford, R. 1. Tindal.
William Jones, R. 1, Wedgefield.
IfeCaW Colclough, R. 3. Sumter.
Solomon Spencer, .">23 S. Harvin St.
Sumter.
remit Dlnkins, Hagood.
Pinkney Thompson, 523 w. Libert)
St., Sumter,
Samuel Phillips, R 1, Wedgefield.
Barton white, Sumter.
Samuel Robinson, Horatio.
Willis Nelson, Tindal.
Paul McMlehael, Sumter.
Harmon tinkler, Wedgefield.
Paul Western, DuBose Hiding,
Marlon n. Brown, Wedgefield.
Willie Williams. Wedgefield.
Harry Butler, R, l. Wedgefield.
William Holllday, R, 2, Rembert.
Petei Nelson. P.. 4. Sumter.
Cromwell Pollard, Sumter.
Harvey .lames, K. 3. Sumter.
Howry Rums, R. l\ Privateer.
John a. Gallagher, 21? B. Libert)
St., Sunder.
Hani mite Gallashat, R. 1, Oswego.
?James M. Benenhaly, R. 3, Sum
ter.
* II yra M. Edens, R. 4\ Sumter.
Job Jackson, R. 1, Oswego.
Alexander Hooks, Hoyt Heights,
Sumter.
??Thomas R. Minis, Shiloh.
?David M. Brunson, R. 4, Sumter.
Eugen-? Billups, R. 1, Tindal.
Wilson Dow, R. 1, Oswego.
Sol Reese, R. 2, Sumtor.
James H. Davis, R. 1, Sumter.
?John P. Booth, Jr., IG S. Salem
Ave., Sumter.
' Thomas E. Brogdon, R. 1, Man?
ning.
Roheit Mellette, R. 3, Mayesville.
* Marion M. Brown, R. 1, Mayes
ville.
DeLoach Vaughn, C03 W. Liberty
St., Sumter.
Isaiah Brown, 228 Manning Ave.,
Sumter.
Freddie Kennedy, 710 Harvin St.,
Sumter.
?Aubrey C. Webster, 208 S. Sumter
St., Sumter.
-Bishop J. Willis, 336 W. Liberty
St., Sumter.
??Mohn Carraway, Lynchburg.
Charles Muldrow, R. 5, Sumter.
McKinley Thompson, R, 1, Clare
mont.
Charles Carolina, Mayesville.
Charlie Andrews, Jr., Lynchburg.
"Clarence E. Locklair, Lynchburg.
?Collin F. Schwerin. 24 S. Mag?
nolia St., Sumter.
Augustus Wrights, Shannontown,
Sumter.
?Daniel Chandler, R. 1, Olanta.
?Wiley M. Braziel, Jr., 529 Oakland
Ave., Sumter.
?Charles D. Bradhani, 10 N. Harvin
St., Sumter.
?Ansley L. Yates, 15 W. Calhoun
St,. Sumter.
John Jenkins, Oswego.
Marion Mathers, R. 1, Dalzell.
Alfred Knox, R. 1, Rentbert.
?Richard P. Gainley, Sumter.
?Horace A. Prescott, R. 1, Sumter.
?Ben E. Furse, Y. M. C. A., Sumter.
Aaron Jackson, Dalzell.
Clarence McDaniel,. 265 Broad St.,
Sumter.
Moses Prince, R. 1, Mayesville.
Willie Lude, R. 3, Sumter.
Roland Williams, Dalzell.
Milton James, Hoyt Heights,
Sumter.
Joe Davis. R. 4, Sumter.
Francis Vaughn. Dalzell
Isaiah Washington. Sumter.
Sandy Cantey, R. 3, Sumter.
Calhoun Pinckney, R. 4, Sumter.
Charlie H. Brown, R. 1, Dalzell.
Willie Hunter, R. 8, Sumter.
George Robinson, 10 Sampson St.,
lunttor.
Ivory White, R. 1, Lynchburg.
James Swinton, R. 5, Sumter.
Richard Nelson, Sumter.
Colin Austin, R. 3, Sumter.
Dook Cato, R. 2, Mayesville.
Lauren Conyers, Jr., R. 2, Sumter.
Murray Nelson, R. 1, Sumter.
Josep Frierson, Sumter.
Major James, 107 N. Sumter St.,
Sumter.
Richard Gregg, R. 5, Sumter.
Richard Pringle, R. 2, Sumter.
Maliciah Vaughn, 10 Bradford St.,
Sumter.
Charlie McKnight, R. 1, Lynchburg.
Robert James, R. 3, Sumter.
Marion Withers. R. 1, Sumter.
Henry Dickey, R. 1, Lynchburg.
L. A. Ttndall, R. 2, Sumter.
Thomas Moody, Horatio.
Jackson Nixson, Horatio.
John Ludd, R. 2, Sumter.
Vanderbilt Jones, R. 1, Rembert.
Richard Coleman, R. 5, Sumter.
Theo. Ford, R. 1, Brogdon.
James Mickens, R. 2, Rembert.
Daniel Taylor, R. 2, Rembert.
Frank Hunter, Dalzell.
Harry Wells, Sumter.
Willie Smith, R. 1, Dal'/cll.
Jersey Rembert, Borden.
John H. Evans, 334 S. Sumter St.,
Sumter.
Charlie Mack, Green St., Sumter.
Wallace Steadman, Tindal.
Eugene Potts, R, 1, Sumter.
Ambrose Danner, R. 1, Olanta.
Willie McKiover, F.road St., Sum?
ter.
James Johnson, R. 3, Sumter.
Bammle Smith, Claremont
Fmanuel Miller. R. 1. Shiloh.
Edward Nixon. Hagood.
Eddie McKnight, Lynchburg.
Eugene Brown, Borden.
Willie Bradley, Borden.
Isaac Lewis, Henry St.. Sumter.
Holly Thompson, Jr., Paxvllle.
Samuel Little, Hagood.
Andrew McDowell, Shiloh.
Martin Haynsworth, Dalzell.
John Kendrick. Horatio.
James Giant, R. 1. Dal/ell.
Jerry Ford, 566 B. Main St., Sumter.
Kdward Jam CS, Mayesv'?e.
Joe i ioodlow, Sumter.
General Sumter, R. I, Rembert.
?Hugh C. Brown, 33 7 W. Liberty
St., Sumter.
?Robert L. Crier, Jr.. Mayesville.
* Clarence H, Haynsworth, Sumter.
?Edward C. McLeod, 814 Dingle St..
Sumter.
?James G. Keels. Mayesville.
?Thomas A. Edens. Dalzoll.
?Johnnie McElveen, Shiloh.
William McBrlde, R. Sumter.
Sylvester McDowell, R. 1, Olanta.
Bowman Pack, R. 2, Sumter.
Edmund Jones, R. 2, Sumter.
*W. Henry Evans, R. 3, Mayes?
ville.
Benjamin Montgomery, Shlloh.
?George D. Pritchard, R. 2, Sum?
ter.
Sink Blair, Tindal.
Luke Richardson, Oswcgo.
Joseph Wilson, R. 2, Sumter.
Raphal Stokes, R. 1, Oswego.
William Dicks, R. 3, Sumter.
Eddie Richardson, R. 2, Sumter.
Abrain Tomlin. Brogdon.
Peter Cayman, R. 1. Sumter.
James A. Frierson, R. 5, Sumter.
Preston Willis, Sumter.
John W. McElvcen, Lynchburg.
Bichard Mitchell, R. 1, Mayesville.
Lewis Burgess, Jr., R. 1, Tindal.
McKinley Lewis, 603 W. Liberty
St., Sumter.
James Weston, DuBose Siding.
?James H. Whitehead, R. 1, Lynch?
burg.
?Horace M. Bradford, 15 Levi St.,
Sumter.
?Wayne W. Browder, 110 S. Mag?
nolia St., Sumter.
?Willie M. Truluck, Shiloh.
*Lucius L. Brunson, 424 N. Main
St., Sumter.
?Simson C. Truluck, R. F. D.
Olanta.
Walter Hickman, Oswcgo.
John Hunt, Oswego.
Shuvine Laney, R. 1, Dalzell.
Robert Holland, Oswego.
"Charles Ingram, Tindal.
(?) Indicates white registrants.
Our Racks Against the Wall.
(By Alvin M. Higgins.)
Your heart chilled when the British
leader told the Anglo lines that their
backs were against the wall. It
seemed to spell the end of strategy.
It meant that muscle and steel must
clash and win, or clash and die.
But, the Allies have had their backs
against the wall for months. And
America's millions of men and billions
of money should have put their backs
against the wall four months. And
America's millions of men and billions
of money should have put their backs
against the wall four years ago, when
tiny Belgium was outraged and anti
Christ began his bloody march.
If Ludendorf's wolves, swelled by
the million loosed from debauched
Russia break through the few French
miles to the sea (and the trenches are
only as far from Calais as Chicago is
from Joilet, or Washington from Bal
timore); if a German u-boat base on
the open ocean, rivetted by rails to
Kiel, stops the How of armies into
France; if Krupps and Skodas, by
sheer overweight, push the Allies
from Paris and cut our supply lines
so that our Atlantic and Gulf coast is
the front, have you stopped to think
what might happen?
This war might end on the Hudson,
if America fails to win it on the
Rhine. The Kaiser's whelp might be
crowned in Chicago, if not beaten
back to Berlin. Not an Allied soldier
stands as near to Potsdam today as
the Allied armies stood two years ago.
Plans for the subjugation of Boston,
and Charleston, of Detroit and New
Orleans, the seizing of our rulers,
the looting of our treasuries, the im?
position of staggering billions, of in?
demnities are as much in the files of
the German general staff as their
plans for taking Warsaw and Brus?
sels. Don't sneer. You sneered at the
Boche as an impotent enemy months
ago, and you have had to eat your
words. He smashed altars and homes
as many and as pure as your altars
and your homes.
Close your eyes and see what the
Kaiser and his Gott will do, if the
struggle is on American soil. No
Liberty bonds for your cash then.
You will give your all to a German
hauptman at a threat. You will walk
bowed in the street while Prussian
lieutenants strut on the sidewalk.
Your wife or your mother will be in?
sulted with impunity, and your pro?
test will mean deportation or jail.
English language will be vorboten.
Junker kultur will regulate our cities,
our factories and our schools. En
foremen! of the law-kriegsrecht?
will be swift, sure and bloody. Sweet
revenge the cowardly German spies
will have, when they can betray you
to the Boche governors They will
be known to von Hinenburg. win
will despise thorn but spare them,
while you will be shot or hanged for
condemning rape and baby-killing by
the Huns.
Shall America wait until the Teuton
butchers make New England a No
Man's I*and. and their battle planes
destroy the Brooklyn bridges and the
Pittsburgh mills?
St like! America, strike! With all
the power of a continent! Strike to
Kill the Beast of Berlin!
Our backs are against the wall
Strike now, and strike to ill!
Kin by Marriage.
The Sinn Feiners and Bolshevik
may not be any blood relation, but
they act very much as if they were
kin by marriage.?G-eenwood Jour?
nal.
WADE HAMPTON
COBB FOR CO?S.
Wado Hampton Cobb his announc?
ed his candidacy for congress from
the Seventh Congressional District
and his first expression in doing so
was to pledge his unstinted faith int '
the wisdom of President Wilson and
congress in declaring a state of war
with Germany and Austria-Hungary.
Ho states that the preservation of the
American ideals of freedom, liberty
and democracy, and the respect and
honor of the nation on land and sea
could not have been otherwise guard?
ed and maintained. To the end that
the autocratic Kaiser of Germany
might be more quickly brought to hie
knees, which alone will result in a
lasting peace to us and our posterity,
he favors the prompt and aggressive
support by congress of all war meas?
ures looking to the further organiza?
tions of a powerful army and navy to
act in co-operation with our Allies.
Mr. Cobb, in the event of his elec?
tion, promises to attend to, and look
after, with fairness and impartiality
the interests of each county in the
Seventh Congressional District, as
well as the interests of the District
as a whole, and those who are ac?
quainted with his work as a public
official know that he can be relied
upon to make an aggressive, pains
staking and faithful public servant.
Mr. Cobb who is now forty-one
years of age, was born in Hichland
county, and there obtained his pri?
mary education in the rural schools,
afterwards attending the University
of S. Cm for a short while. He then
taught In the rural districts, follow?
ing this line of endeavor for ffve
years, during which time he pursued
the study of law under the direction
of Jno. P. Thomas, Jr., Esq., who is
now Dean of the Daw School of the
University. After being admitted
to the Bar in 1900 he worked in the
office of his preceptor until 1902,
when he was elected Judge of Pro?
bate for Hichland county. He filled
that office successfully and without
opposition until 1908, when he was
elected Solicitor of the Fifth Judicial
Circuit, which office he still holds,
having been twice re-elected without
opposition.
Mr. Cobb invites the voters of the
Seventh District to investigate hi3
standing and his sixteen years of ser?
vice as a public official, with the min?
utest care and scrutiny, and by that
record he is willing for the yard stick
to be applied in testing his fitness and
merit to represent the Seventh Dis?
trict In Congress.?Advt.
Italy Making More War Munitions.
Headquarters Italian Army, June 5
? (By Associated Press?General
Crosier of the American ordnance de?
partment and member of the Advis?
ory War board has spent a week of
observation along the Italian front
and at the */ariOUS large centers where
artillery and munitions are produced.
Besides seeing General Diaz and the
Duke of Aosta ho visited a number of
the corps and division commanders
along the mountain and Piavo fronts,
going into the trenches and among the
num. discussing the n.any questions
of equipment and supplies and spe?
cially obsen ins the resources in
funs. His impressions on the gen
era! condition Of affairs wer.? cntire
':? tavomble.
The production of artillery in Italy
has been greatly Intensified within re
d nt months and the present equip?
ment of light, field and heavy guns is
probabjy as good or better now than
it was before the reverse of last fail.
The great industrial plants of Genoa
and Milan have doubled and quadrupl?
ed their output in guns, trench mor?
tars, rilles. machine guns, the pro?
duction of mortars Increasing seven
fold during the year.
similar extensive development has
been going on in the production of
mines and armor for naval construc?
tion and in the output Of airplanes,
ninety establishments being now
equipped to turn out comple:o air?
planes.
The things a man wants the most
arc seldom good for him.