The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, August 03, 1917, Page 8, Image 8
VEllV FEW TO HE EXEMPTED.
Civil Service Men Not Excused From
Draft.
Washington, July 28.?Very few
employes of the civil branches of the
government will be exempt from the
draft, according to an official ruling
published today by I'rovost Marshal
den. Crowder.
At tlic White House, Secretary Tumulty
is the only employee named as
exempt. He was over the registration
aire anyway, but all other employes
of military age are liable for
service. The line has been drawn as
closely in sill other depar' icnts. In
sill the executive departments none but
the executive heads are exempted by
the ruling. Clerks, stenograhpers and
many others who expected to be exempt
because of their government service
will be disappointed.
CLASH BETWKEN NKCltO
TROOPS AND POLICE
Waco. Tex., July .'10.?All of the negro
soldiers of the 24th United States
infantry who took part in last night's
clashes with the local authorities have
been accounted for.
Six were arrested not long after
the disturbances took place. Fourteen
others who escaped the enviroes
of the city reported at their camp today
and were placed under guard.
There has been no repetition of
shooting, and the police, co-operating
with army authorities, believe
the incident is closed except for the
trial of those taking part in it.
Will Jones, a negro trooper, was
shot in the head and Patrolmen
Todd. Edgar William and Neal Harris,
all white, were sloghtly injured.
Cause <?F Trouble.
The trouble started shortly after t?
o'clock when the negro troopers,
massed before a negro picture theatre
refused to permit whit eciti/.en<
tc pass. Police reserves cleared the
street and the disorder subsided.
About two hours later hostilities
broke out attain when a group of 1 I
negro soldiers left their camp for
town.
Enlisting the aid of a provost
guard of the negro troops, Night Captain
.lames encountered the rebellious
soldiers before an alley on North Second
street. A volley was fired into
the group by the police and members
of the provost guard with the injury
of Jones, one of the recalcitrants, the
invaders fled at the first shots. The
police sought further aid from the
military and were joined shortly afterwards
by Captain Iligginson and
Lieutenant Cromley, officers of the
24th infantry to aid in the rounding
up of the rebellious troops.
A posse with five motor cars took
a route down the Brazos river while
a detachment of troops under Captain
Iligginson proceeded to best the outskirts
of the ritv
Following institution of the man
hunt the streets were cleared of
pedestrians and quiet was restored after
a night of excitement.
GODMOTHERS FOR ORPHAN
SOLDIERS OF UNITED STATES
Washington, duly "28.?Introducing
America's first two volunteer war godmothers
for our Sammies in France:
"Mrs. A. N. Schweitzer, llf>2 Third
street, Milwaukee, Wis., and Mrs.
Bessie B. Mendenhall, 12011 Avenue G,
Birmingham, Ala.
They're the first to offer to write
to the "lonely boys in khaki," who
stand aside "when the mail is handed
out 'way over there where the guns
are never still."
The two first god-mother volunteers
names will be given to Adjt. Gen. McCain.
Before long they may receive
the names of their new god-sons
among America's Sammies at the
front in France.
Others Hoped For.
Army folk here hope Mrs. Schweitzer
and Mrs. Mendenhall are onlv the
advance guard of an army of big
hearted American mothers who will
volunteer to write their Summie prodsons
letters.
There'll he hundreds of these army
orphans in cantonment camps in
America this fall and the leaders of
training camp activities is interested
in the pod mother idea too.
The Y. M. ('. A. and the Knights
of Columbus, both of which will have
big buildings at each cantonment
camp, may be offered the handling
of the draft Sammies jrod-mothers.
The plan would be for any lonely
Sammy to give bis name and address
to the proper authority at the camp.
A volunteer god-mother would be
notified and "adont" that Sammv.
Roth of the first volunteer trodmothers
have boys of their own, hut
they're ready to take on some more
"sons" for Uncle Sam.
"I would like to he ^rod-mother to
one of those lonely hoys," wrote Mrs.
Schweitzer today.
Sons Too Voun'jj.
"My two hoys, 10 and 1", would he
in the army if they were old enough.
Rut as they are too younir they think |
and so do I, that the next host thing
would he to adopt a brother Sammy."
"I would he so triad to write to some
American hoy in France without a
mother," wrote Mrs. Mcndenhnll.
"1 have four of my own, hut I love
all hoys. And I certainly would appreciate
havinir some irood womnn
write to my hoys if they were away
from home ami motherless."
"The foundations of our national
policy will he laid in the pure and ,
immutable principles of private
morality." ? (ieorge Washington's
First Inaugural Address.
"The man who does not give his
fullest cooperation to his country in
this hour will die unhappy."?Woodrow
Wilson, President of the United
GOVERNOR OF TEXAS
INDICTED FOR FELONY
Grand Jury Charges Misapplication
of Funds?Other High Officials
Under Indictment.
Austin, Texas, July 27.?James E.
Ferguson, governor of Texas, was indicted
on nine charges of felony by
(he grand jury of Travis county late
today. The indictments were not
made public tonight when Sheriff
George S. Matthews notified the governor.
Seven of the indictments
charge misapplication of public funds,
one diversion of public funds and one
embezzlement.
Churchill J. Bartlett, secretary of
state, was indicted on six counts,
charging misapplication of funds; C.
O. Austin, commissioner of insurance
and banking, on four counts on the
same charge and C. L. Stowe, State
superintendent of buildings and
grounds, one count charging misapplication.
The speaker of the Texas house of
representatives called a special session
for August 1 to consider wheth
UI ell ta ics III I III JJUilUil IIIL'II t SIIUU1U I)t
presented against the governor. In
his call the speaker said the most important
matter to consider was the
governor's veto of appropriations for
the University of Texas and alleged
misrepresentations in the awarding of
the West Texas Agricultural and Mechanical
College to Abilene.
The indictment charging embezzlement
contains only one mention of the
sum involved, ?>'5,000.
The charge of diverting a special
fund refers to the fund provided by
the legislature for the purchase of
supplies for the executive mansion. It
is charged that the governor applied
this fund to the purchase of "various
goods, wares and merchandise not authorized
by law."
Of the seven charges of misapplication
of funds, one refers to the sum
of *10> collected by (lov. O. II.
Colquitt, Ferguson's predecessor, as
insurance on the building of the West
Texas Normal School at Canyon City.
The governor is alleged to have received
this sum from Colquitt and to
have placed it in the Temple State
Hank.
Immediately after Governor Ferguson
had been served by the*sheriff in
his ollice he gave bond in the sum of
$5,000 in one case and $1,000 in each
of the others.
Governor Ferguson late tonight answered
the nine charges of felony
placed against him late today by indictments
returned by the Travis
county granu jury i>y announcing himself
as candidates for governor of Texas
for a third term.
In his statement Governor Ferguson
attributed the indictments
against him to "contemptible politics
inspired by contemptible men." The
basis of the indictments, he declared,
grew out of a deposit of $100,000 insurance
money collected in 1913 when
the Canyon City (Texas) State Normal
School was burned; that the money
was deposited by his predecessors
and that when he became governor he
withdrew the money from certain
banks and placed it in other banks
and that the money was paid out
promptly subject to builders' estimates
for the rebuilding of the Canyon
City Normal. Recause he did not
deposit the money in the treasury, he
said, he is charged with a felony,
while no charge is made against his
predecessor.
PEACE TALK WILL NOT
GO IN THIS COUNTRY
Washington, July JO.?Germany's
proposals of peace will be considered
by the allies when the Teutonic war
machine has been driven to the wall,
and no sooner.
This, in brief, is what the State Department
today thinks of the three
German peace incidents that have
come to the front within the last 4K
hours.
Chancellor Michaelis' utterances
that "the war will end sooner or later
in a peace by understanding"; Foreign
Minister C/.ernin's declaration that
Austria is fighting with Germany because
she is forced to do so by Germany's
enemies, and Matthias Erzberg's
appearance in Zurich as a
peace negotiator, are regarded by official
Washington as propaganda.
To Weaken.
Germany hopes to weaken her enemies
by stirring up peace sentiment in
various other countries, the State Department
believes. The direct effect
of such a policy has been seen already
in the United Stales. The American
Union Against Militarism yesterday
asked Senator Stone to introduce ai
resolution in the senate declaring!
America's peace terms. Today the
same organization appeared at the
State Department asking that their
position be transmitted to the reichstag.
"I can think of no place less likely
to communicate with the reichstag
i nun mic i niicu mares rstaio Department,"
said a high official, after the
demand had hecn received. "It will not
ho forwarded."
Allied diplomats see an attempt on
the part of Germany to cover up
weakness of her principal ally, Austria.
In Harmony.
Another view is that Germany also
hoped to impress upon the Russians,
on the eve of callintr their constitutional
convention, the thought that
fiormnnv finfl hor .?* /? I?
mony with the Russian pronouncement
of "peace without annexations."
Leeds, Enjr., has a coal tar products
plant.
Suez canal rates have been advanced.
Costa Rica has one electric street
railway.
SAVE YOUR TINFOIL.
Mrs. C. E. Storm, chairman of the
ways and means committee of Red
Cross chapter, is daily receiving packages
of tinfoil from interested friends
and a good many people have notified
her of their willingness to help in this
collection and from various parts of
the county they are saving tinfoil.
Miss Lillie Mae Gregory has donated
some beautiful crocheted lace
which will be sold for the Red Cross
work and several other contributions
have been made for this work.
Mrs. Storm wishes to ask that you
save everything you can for the rummage
sale and sent it to the Edisonia
theatre or The Times office.
Don't forget that chickens, eggs,
fruit, vegetables, lace, tatting, hemstitching,
embroidery, crocheting and
anything of that nature can readily
be turned into money and the chapter
needs the money to buy material. The
demand for hospital supplies is very
great and the time is short for us to
work. "Help the Red Cross and down
the Iron Cross," should be the slogan
for Union county.
"SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE."
(K. C. B., in Atlanta Georgian)
In a little while your boy may be
"Somewhere in France."
You won't know where?you'll only
know
That somewhere on the firing line,
Side by side with your neighbor's
boy,
ir? ...:n l.- ?
iic win i?e iigiiwug on
Toward the goal th?lt must be
reached
r.efore the war is dona
And here at home you'll wait, and
pray
That he'll come back,
And God grant that he may:
And God grant, too, that he'll come
back
Just as he went away
With shoulders back, and head
erect,
And in his eyes the lijrht that comes
Into the eyes of those in whom
there is no fear
That future days, or months, or
years
May point to them and say,
"They heard, and answered not!"
And while he's prone, unless you're
brave
Beyond the strength of human
kind.
You'll dream of him, and wake,
And in those hours of the night
The darkest ? just as morning
breaks?
You'll take the hand that soothed
his brow
In babyhood, and hold it tight,
And wonder how it goes with him,
And where he is when morning
breaks
On that same day "Somewhere in
France." .
And, then, if you have "aon# your
bit"
Back home, while he is over there;
If you have sent across the seas
A Red Cross nurse and what she
needs?
A surgeon to hold back the life
That looks down where the valley
lies
And shadows lurk?
There'll come that light into your
eyes,
And you will know no one can point
To you, and say,
"lie heard, and answered not!"
TTV/"'1 TA n * ?a*ci f
u.ivLiii o;im a rKUl'tild'Y,"
York, July 28.?Employed at a local
pressing club are two negroes,
"Mooch" and Arthur. Both negroes
were drafted and will probably be in
the first national army. Another negro
who works at the pressing club
became incensed at Mooch for some
reason a day or two ago and made as
if to strike him. "Don't you dare hit
me, nigger," said Mooch, as he faced
the angry one bravely; "Pse ain't to
be hit by everybody now ;I'se de property
ob Uncle Sam!"
FIREPROOF.
The clergyir\t?n was engaged in that
unprofitable occupation of giving advice
to the woman who had just painted
her own husband in vjry dark
colors.
"Suppose you were to try to keep
coals of fire upon his head?" he suggested.
" *Twouldn't do no good," she returned.
"I've thrown a lighted lamp
I at him several times, but he is just
I as bad next day."?New York Times.
Miss Trene McDow returned Tuesday
afternoon from a ton days' visit
to Mrs. T. Mac Lean's at Hawthorne.
Miss Elizabeth Cobb, who has been
the puest of Mrs. |>. Arthur, returned
to her home at Greenwood
Wednesday morninp.
Ik'fore marriape a pirl wants a
man to write love letters, but after
marriape nothinp but hecks will do.
When a man tells his wife that he
is stayinp downtown late in order to
pet a balance he is likely to lose it
f\ n li r? u/ nv hnmn
No man is so strong Or great that
ho is not afraid of somebody. The
chances being that the somebody is
a woman.
When the nuts of life are passed
around the pessimist hollers bloody
murder he is so angry if he doesn't
get a worm in his.
The way of a ship at sea, the way
of a serpent upon a rock and the
way of a man with a maid set old
Solomon boy a-guessing. But 'the
way of a modern maid would fair
astound him.
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