The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, August 17, 1917, Page 4, Image 4

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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY THE UNION TIMES COMPANY TIMES BUILDING, MAIN STREET! BELL PHONE NO. 1 LEWIS M. RICE EdUo Registered at the Postoffice in Unior S. C. as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $1.5 Six Months .71 Three Months .4 ADVERTISEMENTS One square, first insertion $1.0i Every subsequent insertion .5* FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1017. National Defense Day in Union Sat urday, Aup. IS. Show your patriotism National l)e fense Day, Union, Saturday, Aup. 18 Distinguished speakers will he hen on National Defense Day, Saturday Aug. 18. Mexico is hard pressed for money it is reported. Every sign point; that wav. Join in the big automobile paradi Saturday, Auc. 18, 11)17. Assemble at high school building at 11:31 o'clock, speaking to be at city park 12:30. Senator La Follett should resigi his seat and apply to the German em peror for a job. Ilis pro-German pro clivities unlit him for service to hi: own country. Give Russia time to work out hei destiny. Do not expect the impossi ble. Time will show that the sun o a new day has truly arisen in the tffAnt nai-iAti r\f Iaa \Ta??*U Considerable space is being givei by the newspapers of the State advo eating that arrangements be made fo the soldiers to vote in the election next year. We had never thought i improbable that they have this oppor tunity. Certainly they should vote no matter where they are?Soutl Carolina, France or Timbuctoo. Am vote they will. Our government, Stat and national, will have to see to that The Red Cross chapter here is urg ently calling for voluntary worker? no matter whether they be member of the chapter or not. The chapte has a number of sewing machines an the work is multiplying. All thos ladies who can spare a little tim from home duties are urged to assis in this good work. Perhaps you hav supposed that there was no need; tha the number of workers was sufficien This is not the case. There is roor for many more. Come and help. The Times man, determined to sho< some spirit of loyalty in the matte of boostng the day for the completio of the campaign for National Defend which has been going on throughoxj the county during the past two week and which closes here on Saturda with a grand rally, appealed to th merchants of Union for advertisin patronage sufficient to get out a hi bigger and better paper than usua The appeal was not in vain. The mei chants, as may be seen by the patror age in this week's issue, tells its ow story. And the appeal we made t them was that they not only help u get out this extra paged paper, bu that they look over their stocks an on that day, Saturday, Aug. 18, mak a special bargain day of it. We fet sure that they have done this, as yo may see by reading the advertise ments in this issue. Union merchant are selling goods today under th wholesale market price. This is i fact that you can easily demonstrat for youTself. ? 5 TO COME TOGETHER HER ~ Saturday, August 18, is to be a big day of decorated automobiles, speeches by di; to patriotic impulses and aims. Many ^ at war?" or, "What is the necessity for _ at war?" and a thousand other question r do to help win the war?" or, "What doe questions, and many others of like natui ' in position to know. Distinguished sp - tell us these things. Come to Union ? the demonstration for that day. Crops i ? hard?harder than usual. The prospects 5 O It will do you good; it will help others, - draw near to each other. It is a great the history of mankind. It is a "grand ? be living is sublime." This is the daw " the crowning of "Democracy," and the to see the coming of that day. For, ha people? Have we not through all the the sovereignty of the people? If th brighter, better day for mankind; if nr free; if there is to come a day of reckonii ian people, a people almost destroyed especially the Russian Jew, is now abou persecuted and maltreated of well-nigh every oppressed race of earth, every sir a new protection and a new vision?th not only the biggest thing that has ye thing. Say what you will, there are ms as results to be broupht about by this pr< . that it is thus Gcfd's will would have it. and the disloyal traitor to the contrar; untrue to his country's call now is not o traitor to all penerations to come. It is to hearten each other, instruct ea country, to one another and to our God, Come and brinp the women and childrc , near. And let the town people turn ou years to come: "If I had known the me more nobly my part. Come, all ye pe< makinp a complete demonstration of ou our preat nation?the earth's greatest d< s movement Union County will do her ps has?doing her part. 1 Now that you have worked hard, tl 2 skimped, saved and planned for many f 1 months, don't you think it is about 1 > time to pet yourself a new suit, your t' wife a new dress and take a day o(T p j ana get some nit 01 recreation : it a 1 will not hurt you to do any one or all a - of these things. Nor would a little fi - extra palatable food be amiss. For* n 5 my part, I don't care if I never see s another bean until next summer. I 1 don't care to can any in tin cans, for y r I have canned them internally for h - three or four months, and I am not I f going to can any more that way nor J e in any other way until I have a bit a of rest. e o Some people say: "TVell, now that F we are in war, the thing must be gone 0 r _ through with. We must do our duty 1 S V if\ Aiir irAvommont " Thn imnlipiitinn t ~"v- ? being that we should never have pone ^ in. But this is not enough. If it were, 8 J the thing now to do would be the * ^ hastening to cry for peace. No, this c is not sufficient. We are in, and it's ? e : a pity we stayed out as long as we 1 did. If we were out now the only ^ honorable and possible thing to do * would be to hasten in. We are in be- * cause the foundations of civilization 1 are at stake. If the civilization of * r j Germany and Turkey be sure enough civilization, God deliver us from "civC ilization!" . e it ' ' LET THE SOUTH FEED ITSELF. i e J With a soil capable of an almost 1 t nmiuess range in prouucuon, uotn as ' n to variety and quantity, it does seem 1 strange that the South has been so ' blind as to buy almost everything it ' needed. Corn and bacon from the ,r West; flour from afar; canned goods n from just any old place; even grass , had to be brought in. Tons and tons ( ,t imported! No wonder we have felt ] the pangs of poverty. It would have v been just had we come to the verge of . e starvation. One of the chapters of tt our history that will be read by future , it generation will be that one dealing ] |. with this wholesale importation of ] food and feed stuffs. It would be , funny if it were not so tragic. , n But a better day is at hand. The ( o day was being slowly ushered in be s fore the outbreak of the war, but the ] it war has tremendously accelerated the | d sunrise. In ten years it will be a \ e matter of disgrace for a farmer to be \ ?1 caught hauling hay from a railway j u station to his farm! Ijet us hope that < i_ there will not be left by that time j s one farmer in Union county so sadly 8 e deficient in judgment. i a ' c e The war on the Eastern and West- y ern fronts has so filled the horizon c \ - J I E SATURDAY, AUG. 18. in Union town. A big street p |T stinguished visitors and a day 1,1 ' people are asking: Why a l)f war?" or, "Is it right that J i 8. More are asking: "What c s my county expect of me?" re will be answered by men wh||^f eakers and students of affam?VT laturday, Aug. 18, and join in if are about laid by. You have w iff 5 are fine. Come and enjoy It is a time for all our peoj H period in our nation's history a and awful time," certainly, an< ( ming of the day that is to vSl<< people of this nation should s this not been the dream of . ( , days proclaimed our firm beis day means the beginninthrf1 lore of earth's slaves are to ( ( ng for the persecution of the /eS?' by iniquitous tyrants; if thi j t to come into his freedom, th?, jj all nations; if there is to c 1 mil nation of earth, a new frsptl en, thank God, the present fljoi t happened, but it is also tl f] my signs that point to thesej^^l ;sent war. Many of us firmly 1 A ?J li. 2- iL al_ 1 aL- * rtiiu il is worm me eusi, tne i.^ im y notwithstanding. He who ' ,j| nly a traitor to his country bu"** ich other and renew our vows t^A*^ that we would gather on Augusfc|T ;n. Come from far and come fan t, as well. Let no man say, in 1} aning of the war, I would have mi >ple; let us join heart and hanf r loyalty, our love and our hopJl emocracy. In the council of detjj art. This is a habit Union Cd^ ity hat there has been very little rom Palestine, a field in whic , ird "urks have held full sway. B, iie he coming of the war every >re aper reader was familiar wit . . vs- 1 trocities practiced by the le gainst the Armenians. One of s , oulest crimes ever committed by e : ation has been the almost tot) 4y truction of the Armenians b ( 'urks. Now comes news of eflBf rider scope being given jss butchers of the Ottoman t appears that the whole popi.4'1** " " fte ew, Armenian and all other ' 1 lities in that stricken land ar xterminated. It seems to be 1 e" e be if these butchers to leave a lar . 11 ?letely desolate. But the day <^'m t ming draws nigh. The doom c lation, festering in its sensual*. r >estial tyranny is almost here ^ t he penalty is?death! If t^' 1 iny Turkey left to tell the tale f be >e disgraceful to the manhood J kill :ivilized world. And yet, th? ^ I ilackers and fools and knave n this country who say: "Win Ven vith Germany? Why a war wi )ody?" One finds it difficultfar 'rain from expressing the deejP^ Iji. ng that is aroused in the hAf 11 ,hese babbling knaves and foer I rbV I A NATION OF BARBAR, It is becoming more and r, parent that Germany, the( . proudly boasting of its "kultl . 0 nation of barbarians. The < 5 can furnish no parallel in u<S * 11 unpardonable abondonment ts %i instincts such as have beer . ited to this people. - * Ved- " At first the world refused 1 ? o the reports of German atrocil, icve mitted against Belgian wo li children. That helpless wom|'?m 11 be violently assaulted and af p foully bandied about should h' . F to death with bayoneta; tha^"^ P infants, snatched from the arms, should have their**1*" d knocked out by being flung brick walls; that there shov'"8 P one district in F'rance, for ^"St " overrun by the German arm! T dred thousand children borflme 0 willing mothers and of fat ?n~ ^ by mere physical force, e)uu" 0] these helpless women to n n their base desires; that the1 se the wholesale seizing an^ ^ % iway into a captivity w<e . leath, thousands of helplef j.* firls used to satiate the b?L ti lions of men lower than thi? ^ n the African forests, th^L\* leath or turfied out to die fay* of nation and disease?the^l *? 8a leeds, laid to the charge of "jf ^ l_ be :--i V I SEMI-ANNU I MANH/ x A All regular $1.75 Manha V All regular $2.00 Manha V All regular $2.50 Manha V All regular $3.00 Manha V All regular $3.50 Manha V All regular $4.00 Manha All regular $6.00 Manha This begins Thursda V This is an opportunit V stop in and look 'em over X R ?? Our semi-annual cles ?* until Saturday, August ; ?? prices we cannot duplica Boys' Palm Beach, Cool t* Children's low quarters, ?? reductions. Come in. ? ?J. COH ~ ^and her ruthless spirit of war and ? ,lu?i the world was slow to believe. I But vith the evidence accumulating I 1 the tihth of the charges have bee.. I I T)rover,. There is nn Henht olmut !t IB ilt is not pleasant to have to write ' 'about these things, but it is necessary. Our people ask for a reason for our being in war?let them know that the world is to be made safe for democracy and more, it must be safe for women and children. IF THE Eg UNITED STATES HAD NOT GONE B INTO THIS WAR IT IS MORE E THAN PROBABLE, YES, IT IS AL- E MOST CERTAIN THAT THE VERY p SAME ATROCITIES PERPETRAT ED AGAINST THE BELGIAN AND FRENCH WOMEN WOULD HAVE BEEN ALSO THE FATE OF THE (VdMEN OF AMERICA. It is the man uninformed or whose ielfish interests blind him to every de^l above those of a pig who can luestion our going to war. Let the rooks and cowards and peace advoates cease their mouthings. It is beter to die in a cause like ours than degredation offered il^^xthe guise of German "Kultur." Aiftf fciow come reports of Germany ntering upon a course at home that - 1 A- - 1 f s nurnxying to everyDOtiy in America inless it be the Emma Goldman stripe ?f woman. It is said that the Gernan authorities have conscripted heir women of apes within a certain imit for the purpose of having them jive birth to children so that the >tate may be repopulated. Thus the tasest construction has been put upon he most sacred thing in life, and mariage has become a mockery and a nyth. With a loathing deep and eterlal, and with every ounce of red blood n our veins, we say, GERMANY tfUST BE CRUSHED OR HUMANTY IS DAMNED. AMEN. FEEDING THE NAVY. "Naturally, with this busy day of rills and recreations and the tang f salt air, the men of the battleship's row eat heartily, writes F. E. Evans, i the August St. Nicholas. The mess ttendants for the officers are Filiino boys. Nowadays, on ships like he dreadnaught Nevada the cook of he ship, always an important and /ell-paid post, is a trained electrician. Ivery bit of work in the Nevada's allery is done by electricity. The ook turns a switch, and along the r.e of electric ovens the appetizing icats, the potatoes?that are peeled y electricity?the sonns. nnH tv?o umr tables begin to steam and sizzle, llectric hoists carry the pans and ots with their steaming foods to the ecks below, and the cleaning and couring of the ironware dishes i3 one by an electric dishwasher. "The navy feeds its men from the ick of the market because its paylasters, buying daily for so many len, get the best at wholesale prices, he mess tables, scrubbed until they re white, are slung in racks above j le deck when not in use; and as Don as the meals are served, all signs F them are removed in shipshape tanner. Because every bit of space board ship is precious, each man has is mess table, hammock, sea bag and un all in the same casemate. To help at the sweet tooth of the crew, which a big one, the paymaster also cares a large stock of candy and other dbits that are sold at low prices, nd twice a week, whether in port ' at hea, he serves chicken and ice earn to his big family. The days ?' hardtack and of the old 'shellback* .ilorman are gone. The modern ilorman can no longer 'pass the Oi eather caring,' but he is handier, ion, tter cared for, and more useful man picn h' "mtry than the old tar.'* to i) I K. jftfc jftb A^A jjfc AL SALE OF THI \TTAN SI ttan Shirts, Sale Price ttan Shirts, Sale Price ttan Shirts, Sale Price ttan Shirts, Sale Price ttan Shirts, Sale Price ttan Shirts, Sale Price ttan Shirts, Sale Price y, August 16th, and ends Satui ,y not to be missed and it tvill b E M E M B E R trance sale of our enormous si L8th. Do not lose this chance te today. We have a big sel Cloth and Mohair Suits, Men and Men's Straw Hats. All iENU Union's A 4^# 4^4 4^4 A ^A a.+A. C0M1 (j? *i * , . ' America's F Mr ' JL Read the Storj I , Watch Fo ?.-.;,i-iill OF COURSE 1 Pearl White (Pathe) TIlC have you a ^ Tt C5" Now that prices are 1 than ever important that you \ ation to the roof you are gc can save real money and get a Certain Roofii Thru quality and sheer merit CERTAIN-TEED is now being able type of roofing for sk hotels, stores, warehouses, gai etc., where durability is nece; ?. * n is economical to Duy, inexp< practically nothing to maintaii light weight, clean, sanitary s is guaranteed for 5, 10 or IS thickness (1, 2 or 3 ply). There are many roll roofings on t CERTAIN-TEED. It pays to get t to lay a CERTAIN-TEED roof ti roof, but there is a vast difference in the quality of a roofing by looks or fee label, tic sure that it is CERTAII ctrta'm of quality and guaranteed satis fa Certain-teed Slate-Surfaced are supplanting wood and slate shingles fo are just as good looking, wear better, won't are fire-retardant, and do not have to be pai Certain-teed Paints ai mrlPbl The name CERTAIN-' P5""* or varnish ^UPBB guarantee of quality and c agMpM^Ml u on a roll of roofing or shingles. Made for afl us CERTAIN-TEED PRODUC1 New York, Ohlcfuro, Philadelphia. 8t. Louis, Boat* Buffalo, San Franclsoo, Milwaukee, Olnclnn Minneapolis, KanaaaOity, Seattle, Indlanapolla.J Math viae. Salt Iavko City, Due Moines, Houston, 1 For Salo The Union Hai V ? NOTICE. come n account of the big rally in Un- grand Saturday, the 18th, our W. O. W. ing. ic at Cross Keys haa been changed Hj Friday, Aug. 24th. Everybody * k, A^4 A^A ifti " A^ A "A^ A^ TA? E FAMOUS | HIRTS ? Y $1.35 . $1.65 $1.85 $2.15 $2.85 $3.15 $4.85 Y rday, September 1st. Y >e worth your while to t Y nmmer stock will last ? for buying goods at ?|> ection of Men's and ?? 's, Boys', Ladies' and ?? are to be sold at big BEST Store % 1NG SOON orcmost Film Favorite IL WHITE and Greatest Film Success [Fatal r in The Atlanta Georgian r Date of Exhibition IT WILL BE SHOWN AT EDISONIA building hands?/ tJr I high it is more jive careful considering to put on. You t better roof by using -teed : as a roofing material r used as the prefer? y-scrapers, factories,, ages, farm buildings ssary. snsive to lay and costs 1. It is weather-tight,, md fire-retardant. It years, according to he market, but only one i i . iic ucn. it costs no more lan it doe-* to lay a poor the wear. You can't tell 1. Your only safety is the ^-TEED?then you are ction. I Asphalt Shingles r residences. They cost less* fall off, buckle or split. They nted or stained. nd '3 CORPORATION m. Cleyplarxl. Pittsburgh. Detroit, atl. New One am, Loe Anfrelee. Atlanta, Richmond, Grand RapM*. Julutb, London. ttyOiM>y, Bareo*. by rdware Co. that day and help us have a time and hear some fine speakorder of Pojlcr camp. W. N. Bobo, Clerk. ,