The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, July 13, 1917, Page 4, Image 4
THE UNION TIMES
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FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1017.
Plans for your fall and winter garden
should he now well under way.
If we mistake not, the fall and winter
garden will be of even more value
than was the summer garden. It is
a "habit of mind" to plant for summer.
Most of us are content to let it go
at that. But a small amount of time
and energy now will bring in good
returns.
The "colt club" being organized in
union county is a good movement,
and should appeal to a larger number
of our boys on the farm. If you pet
into the club you will have to act at
once. Suppose you see Mr. A. B. Carwile,
farm demonstration agent for
this county, and pet from him some
more definite information.
Corn throuphout the county is lookinp
fine, and there is more of it planted
than usual. Cotton, very poor at
the start, has preatly improved during
the Tecent favorable weather. We
do not feel that Union county is in a
bad case, althouph there are some
people who are disposed to grumble.
These same people would grumble 110
matter what the conditions were.
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i m.* exocius 01 neproes to the North
and Northwest seems to be abatinp.
In fact, reports frequently come to the
effect that many who have migrated
would be plad to return. This is no
more than we expected. The Southern
white man, after all, is the best
friend to the nepro. Jt will not be
lonp before most of the neproes who
left will come back, provided they can
pet back.
The Red Cross chapter recently orpanized
for Union county should find
in the citizenship of the county a
larpe number who are willinp to become
members of the orpanization.
The recent response to the call for
funds to meet the pressinp needs
snows that our people are willing- It
should he an easy matter to secure
r.OO regular members of the Union
county chapter. Will you not send
your name to one of the membership
committee, published elsewhere in this
issue ?
The present great war is a crime
against civilization. Its horrors continue
to pile higher and higher. The
earth runs red with blood and the
flare of war paints the heavens lurid.
When the individual or individuals
responsible for the crime are brought
to the bar of judgment full penalty
should be exacted. And there is no
doubt but that the time will come
when there will be just such an arraignment.
Tf the German emperor
is the real culprit, death should be
meted out to him. If men in high
places find that even such high places
are no protection to the murderer, it
will have a very sobering effect upon
such individuals. When the whole
thing is thoroughly sifted, and it is
clearly known who put the match to
the great conflagration, a just punishment
will be the death penalty.
Mrs. Susan Tinsrey has returned
from a visit to her daughter, Mrs. W.
H. Lancaster, at Whitestone.
MOST HIDEOUS SPOT ON EARTH;
GRAVEYARD OF FALLEN WOMEN
(By J. Herbert Duckworth)
I have just looked into the bottom
of the hell-pit that is the ultimate
end of the majority of the little victims
of the white slave ring.
Following the slimy ramifications of
this semi-organized trade in the
bodies and souls of young women, I
have come across the most desolate,
hideous and revolting piece of land in
the whole world.
It is New York city's potters' field.
Here on Hart Island up Long Island
Sound are budied '.>0,000 unidentified
dead. Here is the last resting place
of that vast army of doomed girls of
the Tenderloin who every year disappear
into the great unknown.
These poor bodies that are brought
here are the remains, not only of New
York girls, for the hideous traffic in
souls, in the metropolis brings here
the flower of youth from wherever it
can be pucked.
And in each city over the land and
over the world there are other fields
like this, not so large, in which are
buried bodies like these, bodies from
everywhere?the end of the road for
the great army of missing girls.
White slave investigators have no
delusions as to the last destination
of the victims of this traffic. When
girls like Ruth Cruger have been
caught in the clutches of the vice trust
their days are numbered. Soon their
youthful charm disappears. Worn out
and bedraggled they are dropped by
tne pandorers. They wander about
the streets homeless for a few
months. Then comes the hospital; or
a bodj' dragged from the river.
In a few days these bodies lie in the
mortuary. Nobody wants them. They
are placed in rough board boxes,
taken down to the department of correction
pier at the foot of East
Twenty-sixth street and shipped to
Hart Island. Here they are taken off
by gangs of convicts.
I watched the gruesome operation.
I watched the hard-faced criminals
and degenerates?more of society's
victims?stack up about tfO of these
rude coffins on the dock.
One man was told off with a hose
to sprinkle the boxes to keep the flies
away.
Each coffin had its label tacked to
it. "From Bellevue hospital," or
"From the Morgue," they read.
Some black, square boxes, were
marked "Bellevue Hospital Refuse."
The "refuse" was the remains of "unknowns"
that had come from the dissecting
rooms.
The eoflins were piled into a closed
wagon and taken to Potters' field,
overlooking the Sound.
Here I saw a huge trench made to
hold a hundred coffins. These were
laid in two layers in the hole and
covered with earth.
The convicts seemed to enjoy their
job. When the keeper wasn't looking
they would pry open a lid with
a shovel and, with morbid curiosity
look in.
There was no passing bell or funeral
rites for these unknowns. There
was 110 crypt or tomb for them. With
convicts as sexton and grave-diggers
the white slave victims were shovelled
into the hole and covered up.
That was all.
The guard blew his whistle, the
convicts formed up in double file, and
marched off to dinner, singing, "Pack
Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit
Bag."
The "regulars" as the convicts call
them, get no monument or tombstone.
When 100 bodies have been put away,
"unknelled, uneoffined and unknown,"
a numbered board is put at the head
of each pit and "Finis" is added to
100 more tragedies of a big city.
AMERICAN SOLDIERS
MUST BE COURTEOUS
General Pershing wants his men to
be not only perfect soldiers, but equally
perfect gentlemen.
In one of the first army orders the
American commander-in-chief has issued
on French soil he appeals to the
chivalry of his troops, urges them to
treat the French people, especially the
women, with the greatest courtesy
and consideration. The laws and customs
of France, he says, must be
faithfully observed. The order which
was issued reads:
"It should be a point of honor for
each member of the American army to
property in France which would stain
avoid doing the least damage to any
the good name of the United Suites.
"The maintenance of cordial relations
between the United States and
France requires perfect deportment on
the part of the soldiers.
"The valiant deeds of the French
army and the unusual sacrifice of the
civil population command our profound
respect."
Praises Spirit.
viuncrai i ersmng naa some woras
of warm praise and appreciation for
the hearty reception accorded him and
his forces in France. He spoke particularly
of the Fourth of July celebration.
"This celebration," he said, "testified
to the deepest feeling. It was almost
overwhelming to see how women
and children clung to the arms of our
soldiers during the march, treating
them as though they were their own
men. Everything is proceeding in the
most satisfactory way."
Hundreds of souvenir cards and letters
from young and old in all parts
of France are daily pouring in on the
American chief. All are touching testimonials
of the deep affection conceived
by the people of this republic
for the Americans.
General Pershing gave his formal
approval to "Sammy" as the "official"
nick-name of the American soldiers
in France.
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