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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE UNION TIMES COMPANY TIMES BUILDING, MAIN STREET BELL PHONE NO. 1 LEWIS M. RICE Editor Registered at the Postoffice in Union, S. C. as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $1.50 Six Months .75 Three Months .40 ADVERTISEMENTS One square, first insertion $1.00 1? 1 x i 1 - r r\ tivery suusequcni insertion .00 FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1917. One good effect of the war lies in the fact that many people are learning anew the joy of serving others. This is true of the women and men who stay at home, yet help, as well as of the soldiers who go forth to do battle. There is a joy of service, as many already know. More are learning. The farmers of Union county have responded to the appeals of President Wilson and other men prominent in government circles, to raise food and feed stuffs. It is probable that there is today more acres of growing corn than there has been at any one time in the history of the county. And, it is in line condition, too! We notice in looking over the names 1:~r --1- i-J ? *<i naia ui men seieciea as tney are published in various newspapers of the counties the astonishing number of times that the first name is "Ben Tillman." I tis Ben Tillman this and Ben Tillman that, world without end. (lee! Ben Tillman proper must have been some considerable factor in the life of this old State! The war is teaching wholesome lessons on economy, and this is of great value to our people. We have been wasteful?of that there is no doubt. We have been a nation of prodigals. We have been in the habit of throw ing out of the kitchen window a large part of our food. We have loaded our tables with three times the necessary food for the family. A large portion of the food found its way to the garbage can. All this is being changed. We are slowly learning some sense. But knowledge comes slowly, too slowly, it seems to us. Union county has shown that her men are no "slackers" when it comes to enlisting. Our boys have offered themselves to the country's need in this day of mighty struggle And we do not. hf'lipvo r.11 ! 11.. ? '? -* - _ ^n..v.y is m?mg 10 develop "slackers" in the matter of producing food and feed stuffs. Many farmers who paid $2.2f> a bushel for corn this season, will not be caught again. Both our patriotism and our pocket book insistently demand that we go the limit in tin? production of food and feed stufr.s. Every available foot of land niust be made to produce. The war department is making it plain that the "vice districts" in cities near encampments of soldiers must be cleared out. When these misguided and pitiful women are driven from Spartanburg, Columbia and Charleston, there will be a tendency for them to congregate elsewhere. The smaller communities may be overrun with them. There should be some way to protect these communities. They should protect themselves. And there should he some way for these misguided women to go about making t an honest living. This is a big problem that demands more and more thought on the part of the people. The .Tonesville Coast Artillery company were ordered to report Wednesday of this week, and the entire comV*.. I I pany of 109 men are encamped on the high school grounds at Jonesville. Under the leadership of Capt. F. M. Ellerbe and his coworkers this company has reached no small degree of efficiency. They are as fine fellows as one could wish to see. All Union county is proud of this fine company of soldiers. No wonder Union county came out with the unique distinction of having more men enlisted than the first call of the draft required. The Jonesville Coast Artillery company and the Johnson Rifles?these, together with the large number of men enlisted in both the regular army and the navy?turned the trick. Germany's peace talk is not to be taken seriously. It is nothing more than a "tissue of lies," and is very like Germany's diplomacy has formerly been. There is no sincerity in Germany's dealings with other nations. There can be nothing to a nation that regards its treaties as scraps of paper; that butchers women and children in ruthless fashion upon the high seas; that brutally assaults helpless women in conquered territory, giving these same helpless women over to a brutal, diabolical handling | that puts to shame "the unspeakable Turk"; that arogantly, impiously and brazenly calls upon the God of heavenly to sanction the foul crimes committed. The civilized world need look for no peace short of -the absolute humbling of this monster, this cannibal among nations. There must be a crushed Germany, else the ends of justice will not be met. The mauldin cry for peace is not to be heeded. The ends of justice must first be met. The strong arm of the victors must not be stayed until the German kaiser and every autocrat directly responsible for the world-carnage is not only dethroned but adequatey punished. The death penalty must be meted out to the guilty ones. In no other way can a self-respecting civilization justify itself. If the world is to be made "safe for Democracy," if truth at\i honor are to be basic principles in national life, if righteousness and justice are to enter into the future life of the world, German ideals and German ethics will have to be crushed. Don't fool yourself into supposng that this war would have been justifiable unon anv nth or hvnnthooii! It is the death struggle between freedom and slavery; between democracy and autocracy, and to fight short of a finish would be to fail. Germany must be completely whipped. Nothing short of that will make the future safe; nothing short of that will make the world a safe place for women and children. And a world in which wo- i men and children are unsafe is a poor world, a world not worth the saving. SUPPRESSION IS THE ONLY SAFE COURSE. The financial basis is not the highest foundation upon which to rest a plea for law and decency, yet it is a very practical foundation, to be sure. It has often been pointed out that to the law-abiding citizen thare is no protection save the law. He cannot go around armed to the teeth and ready to shoot down those who may attack him. He becomes a law breaker himself when he deserts the law as his defender and takes the matter into his own hands. The man in business who commits his life to obedience to law, moral 01 civic, brings down upon his head the most ruthless opposition of all those committed to law-breaking. This jeopardizes his business, put him in a defenseless case, and sorely tempts him to surrender to the ways of the lawbreaker. If all business, however, were in the hands of the unscrupulous, it would soon be a condition of anarchy which kills all business. Yet, to stand out against the immoral and unworthy operators brings down upon , his head all manner of underhand competition. He will find slander to be a chief weapon of the man whose malice he has brought upon himself. He will find his business boycotted. He will find the gamblers and blind tigers lined up against him and indirectly diverting business to his competitor who is himself one of the "gang." Then, too, the honest business comes to feel the disaffection engendered by such enemies among its own forces. Clerks, helpers, work men, in the employ of the man who stands for clean business and clean living come to feel the influence of the outside hate and are themselves incited to unfaithful service and lack of cooperation if not to downright alliance with the forces of evil. A young clerk, frequenting the gambling den may soon become antagonistic towards an employer who fights shy of such places. It is then but a step to deeper hostility that may lead to theft and betrayal. It is hard for honest business to succeed under such conditions. In fact, it is well night impossible. The moral of all this is that 110 quarter should be shown the blind tiger, the gambler and the moral crook of whatever nature. It is poor business to allow such individuals to go unwhipped of justice. Suppression is the only safe course. | WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT US ] union county won't have to furnish a single man under the first call for the selective draft, having already supplied more than her quota to the army. Bully for Union?true to her best traditions!?Greenville News. The quota allotment for the selective draft army shows Union in a class by itself among the other counties of the State. Union county has always produced war-like citizens when necessity demanded.?Woodruff News. We take off our hats to Union.? Negro Review. Not a single man in Union county, South Carolina, will have to be recruited for the army under the selective draft. More than Union's quota of men volunteered some time ago.? Wilmington Star. And thus is Union being advertised all over this country.?Greenville Piedmont. OUR TROOPS IN FRANCE HAVE FOOD FOR 3 MONTHS American Training Camp in France, July 18.?The busiest of all the American troop departments these days is the quartermaster's, which is working almost feverishly to perfect its system of supplying the men with all the necessities. The work has gone ahead so fast that the quartermaster already has a three months' supply of all foods withn a short distance of the camp and a constant ten days' supply here. The troops are stilly eating the dar\, French bread which ft being with American flour, but within three days bakeries will have been established, and the rations will change to white bread with a heavy crush, that makes it transportable and durable. The American army will then be the only one in Europe eating white bfead. It is today the biggest meat consumer, as the men receive a ration of 20 ounces daily. So far, the troops have been rigidly held to water, even though the difficulties or filtering are considerable. Refrigerating plants will be necessary b-iU i* ? ' - uuLii ior waie. and iood supplies, and recommendations for the construction of these plants have already gone forward. Practice today began early, as usual, despite dismal weather. It included anti-craft practice, which was pronounced highly successful. "The first death occurred at the camp yesterday when Private Nolan of the infantry was drowned. GERMANY WILL NOT HAVE REVOLUTION Great French Writer Predicts People Will Not Rise Against Government. Paris, July 5, (By Mail).?Asked to state whether he believed a revolution to be a possibility in Germany, I)r. Max Nordeau, the great sociologist and editor, writes from Spain: "Food rots there may be and will be in Germany, but a revolution is fillt" nf "The German people still believe the monstrous lies invented by the government, despite the most palpable evidence which establishes the truth as clear as daylight and is available to everybody who can read. "The soul of Germany has been methodically perverted, demoralized, dehumanized by official teachings and propaganda, by intellectual deceit cunningly organized into a form of scholastic, official and social terrorism. "The German people rejoice in their slavery; they are proud of it because meir masters have been astute enough to wrap it up with attractive names, is called organization, abject degrada"Livery is called uniform, servitude tron of the human personality is called discipline and the renunciation of all rights and dignity and personality is called heroic abnegation. "It is enough to make one quit the human family in disgust to think that for a whole century two worlds have regarded the Germans as inveterate, immutable individualists. "However, let us hold on to our faith in the final triumph of reason, truth, justice, law and morality?in a word, civilization." BOTTLES! BOTTLES for the Red Cross. Send or bring them today. Ways and Means Committee A. R. C. A^A i^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A ~^~ ^~ ^>~ ~^" ~^~^" <$> # ^ ^ | OPPORTUNITY KN I SO WATCH I BEGINNING AUG. 1st I x | We will offer all Su | Straw Hats away b % These goods will be worth % next season. You will sa> ? and keep until next sum i| and Pants ^ oil regula V v ? $20.00 Coat and Pants for $15.00 V $18.00 Coat and Pants for__$13.50 V $16.50 Coat and Pants for__$12.38 $10.00 Coat and Pants for $7.50 ? $8.00 Palm Beach Coat and 8. 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