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THE UNION TIMES i PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY 1 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 Every subsequent insertion .50 FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1917. Too frequently we fail to do our best because we are busy attending to the other fellow's business. The world stands agap at German brutality, but the state of mind that justifies this brutality is even more difficult to understand. It is to be hoped that Union county will raise a prood fall crop of Irish potatoes. Then we may eat them instead of wearing them as ornaments. The world is coming to realize more i and more than both business and government must rest primarily upon a moral hasis T?icrVit not miorVit ic tVio > rock bed principle. 1 We do not know all the facts in the case of the recent rioting of the ' ' negro troops in Texas. It looks bad, ; very bad; but we presume Uncle Sam will deal with the disorders severely and justly. Germany, it appears, has conceded the demands of Argentine. If this same attitude had been maintained towards the United States it is probable that there would now be so many rifltlAns linnrl lin Qrraincf If the great war leads to the freedom of the peoples of the earth, if it brings protection to the weak nations of the earth, if it establishes the reign of honesty in international affairs, then will it have been worth the price. Much agitation is going on about the necessity of our people eating corn bread. That doesn't worry this scribe one bit. Corn muffins, corn cakes, corn pone?any old way, it is good. If nothing worse than the necessity for eating corn bread results , to us from the great war, we can stand that with a contented mind. We cannot help admiring the splendid patriotism of Dr. Jeter, who has recently, at great sacrifice, entered the service of his country as a soldier. But it does seem that a man who had i _ 1 -1 - - * - - * aireauy given two sons had done his i part in that direction. Here's hoping that the doctor and both his boys will 1 return safely from the front. From what we are able to gather the rents in cities that have secured i cantonments has risen to such heights that many people are contemplating leaving. This condition, if true, is unfortunate. The cantonments, after a time, will be removed; then the fictitious prices will drop and the corresponding shrinkage will he snmethincrl fierce. The Teply of President Wilson to Pope Benedict is one of the greatest . papers we have ever read. It is a masterpiece. We believe Mr. Wilson has made out his case, and has stated < more clearly than it has yet been done the absolute necessity of fighting to a successful conclusion in this great war, or of losing every point gained in this great strife. If the world is I to be made safe for people to live in, the war must go on until the ruthless German spirit is crushed. -J v The South, when this great war is * over, is going to find its freedom from t the smokehouses and barns of the t West, unless all signs fail. Here and there we have had a farmer who has N lived in that happy state even before r the war, and he has been prosperous x and contented, although in so helpless { a minority. Recently the writer was in the home of one of the most suc< cessful farmers, and the dinner, quite an elaborate one, was furnished from ' home products except the sugar that j was used and the salt that seasoned the food. The present high prices in '1 foodstuffs had no terror for this man. ( He could sell corn, if he would, at j three dollars a bushel. It is further < to be noted that the habit of living ) out of cans, which has been so fixed j with the people of the South, will this ' vo:ir hnnr 1 J Viiv IVIIIUI I\?U1C Wliail^C. IHU . contents of the cans is homegrown. \ All of which goes to show that we < are beginning to come into our free- . (lorn. The chains that have long bound t us are falling away. ( CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR SOLDIERS ( The American Red Cross with its j three million members has just com- j pleted plans for the Christmas cheer ] of every soldier and sailor in the Na- c tional Service. Many of the men who j will be in the cantonments and i trenches this year will be spending their first Christmas away from home. None will be fogotten. j Red Cross chapters nearest the T2 \ army camps and cantonments will probably arrange in their towns, com- ^ munily Christmas trees with carols, \ pageants and holiday movies to which ^ the (500,000 men in training will be in- \ vited. c Arrangement of the details of the ( Christmas i/-?n ? - - ?7- uui ,i,v" ,n r France is being made, but the Red s Cross will see to it that every soldier \ has his Christmas package with its t message of good-will from the women a on the home side of the Atlantic, d There will be surprise in every pack- t age, but all of them are likely to con- e tain writing paper, pipes, tobacco, a cigars and cigarettes, unbreakable p mirrors, puzzles, dominoes, handker- f chiefs and playing cards. T Many of the chapters are already f at work finishing their Christmas al- r lotments of comfort bags. Most of them are made of khaki and are fur- p nished with extra pairs of woollen a socks, housewives with needles, pins, v thread and buttons. Detailed sugges- c tions of how to wrap these Christmas p packages for shipping will be issued s by the Red Cross. The Red Cross will \ also welcome the cooperation of any- > one desiring to have a part in sending s Christ.mns! phoor <-? ' ?: ? ? vv.^4 vw tiiv lilCli 111 LI <1111- T inj? or at the front. Some people will i want to tfive money to buy articles, j bags, mouth organs, envelopes and i paper, safety razors, extra soap, r spoons and knives. Some will want c to have a personal part in tyinp up the d packages. Children will he asked to [ help with the package making. i The pifts will he bouprht from con- t trihutions especially piven for the j Christma sprreetinp. The Red Cross t War Fund will not he used for this c purpose. Last year the American Red Cross ' sent. nrosAnto r\f noA- Al? r. ui tknuua imiiujs 10 ine men on the Mexican border, and the marines at Haiti and San Domingo. ' The articles were suggested by General Pershing on the request of Red Cross officials. Commenting on the 1 Red Cross Christmas gifts to the soldiers, he said, "These things bring the soldier to remember that the people at home are behind him. You do not know how much that is going to mean to us who are abroad. You do not ^ know how much that is going to mean { to us who arc abroad. Yon do not f know how much that means to any !( soldier who is over here carrying the flag for his country." J Let every farmer remember that f the plow at work is equal to a ma- c chine gun and a hoe in action is as 1 good as a rifle. 8 fc The young man who can't decide v whether to join the army, the navy or the marine corps can't miss it far in t any case. t Hy the time the backyard garden j. calls for the third hoeing it will he ^ difficult to find a citizen boasting of his happy lot. ( There really does seem to be some- c thing wrong with prices when the in- 1 digenous onion costs more than the v far-fetched orange. The country editor doesn't receive r an offer of a bag of potatoes for a i subscription as he may have done in j haughtier days. i The curbstone general staff should j lose no time in submitting plans to ? president Wilson to win the war in ^ the shorteat fctme. f Every ounce of food that is saved 1 from waste in the household means r valuable economy now and aids the * food supply next winter. When you see the dainty feet of a i girl hitting the pavement in shoes that t have heels only an inch high, you may t know she is on a war footing. c RESIDENT WILSON'S REPLY TO POPE] (Continued from page one) vould result in abandoning the new >orn Russia to the intrigue, the manibld subtle interference and the cerain counterrevolution which would >e attempted by all the malign inluences to which the German govcrnnent has of late accustomed the vorld. Can peace be based upon a estitution of its power or upon any vord of honor it could pledge in a reaty of settlement and accommoda,ion ? Basis for Peace. "Responsible statesmen must now >verywhere see, if they never saw lefore, that no peace can rest securely jpon political or economic restitu;ions meant to benefit some nations ind cripple or embarrass others, upon vindictive action if any sort or any cind of revenge or deliberate injury. The American people have suffered intolerable wrongs at the hands of the mperial German govern nent, but they lesire no reprisal upon the German icople who have themselves suffered ill things in this war, which they did lot choose. They believe that peace should rest upon the rights of peoiles, not the rights of governments? the rights of peoples, great or small, .veak or powerful?their eaual ritrht o freedom and security and self-government and to a participation upon 'air terms in the economic opportuni.ies of the world?the German people >f course included, if they will accept equality and not seek domination. . "The test, therefore, of every plan >f peace is this: Is it based upon the 'aith of all the peoples involved or nerely upon the word of an ambitious ind intriguing government, on the one land, and of a group of free peoples >n the other? This is a test which roes to the root of the matter; and it s the test which must be applied. Purposes of America. The purposes of the United States n this war are known to the whole vorld?to every people to whom the ruth has been permitted to come. They do not need to be stated again. We seek no material advantage of any ;ind. We believe that the intolerable vrongs done in this war by the furiius and brutal power of the imperial lerman government ought to be retaired, but not at the expense of the overeignty of any people?rather a 'indication of the sovereignty of hose that are weak and of those that ire strong. Punitive damages, the lismemberment of empires, the esablishment of selfish and exclusive iconomic leagues we deem inexpedient ind in the end worse than futile, nor roper basis for a peace of any kind, east of all for an enduring peace, "hat must be based upon justice and airness and the common rights of ..?i.i_ j iiaimmu. >-V?-| "We can not take the word of the iresent rulers of Germany as a guarantee of anything that is to endure, inless explicitly supported by such onclusive evidence of the will and lurpose of the German people themelves as the other peoples of the vorld would be justified in accepting. Vithout such guarantees, treaties of lettlement, agreements for disarmanent, covenants to set up arbitration n the place of force, territorial adusts, reconstruction of small nations f made with the German government, 10 man, no nation could npw depend ?n. We must await some new evilence of the purposes of the great peo)les of the central powers. God grant t may be given soon and in a way o restore to the confidence of all jpeoples everywhere the faith of naions and the possibility of a cov-1 inanted peace. "Robert Lansing, 'Secretary of State of the United States of America." 3N LISTED MEN MAY BECOME OFFICERS ?ViH Be Given Every Opportunity to Fit Themselves for Commissions. Officers' Schools Next. I Washington, Aup. 28.?Enlisted nen of the national army, National luard and regular army will be ^iven very opportunity to fit themselves 'or commissions, it was learned to lay. This is in "line with the fixed >olicy of the government to take no nore officers or officer candidates rom civil life after the second series >f officers' training camps, now in irogress, has been completed. Thereafter all additional officers needed will ie found in the ranks of the various tranches of the war army. To carry out this plan it has virually been decided to establish an tffieers' school at each of the divisonal training camps. Men from the anks who show special qualifications vill be sent to these schools. With tnffs of French and British officers >f experience on the firing lines on luty at each camp as advisers an unisual opportunity for lecture courses vill be presented. Third Series of Camps. The divisional officers camps will nake the third series of such camps irranged by the War Department to irovide men to command "the enornous forces being raised for the war. I,iie commissions will be granted to nen from civil life after tho? a itarted, except that a few men who vere denied admission to the other amps through loss of their orders n the mail or some other mischance nay be given an opportunity in the .hird series. Will Pass Out of Existence. Secretary Baker pointed out today, n reply to a question as to whether he revised divisional army organiza.ion* adopted for the war would "be 'ontinued after the restoration of I ii r "r??? Iisn Lin Some years ago : this country bought 1 then they watched tl Today those sail regularly as additions their equipment with The reason ? Tl compared with any o Do you want anj Internationa We sell Internatit capacity and Model F body your business re truck owner appreciati Truck. Telephone 01 r. h. r? AUl I peace, that with the exception of the officers of the regular and a few men of the old regular enlisted forces, whose enlistments may not have expired at that time, the entire war army will pass out of existence. The question is establishing a continuing military policy of universal service has been debated to some extent. The impression prevails among many members of congress, however, that it would be urtwise to take up this question now. If the war is long it may become necessary to provide for the registration of new classes, which reach the military age of the selective service bill each year. DR. WILLIAM S. McMURRAY RECEIVES COMMISSION Headquarters Co., 22nd Cav., F. A. Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga., Aug. 25, '17. The Editor Union Times, Union, S. C. Dear Sir: It is with keen anticipation and pleasure that I have purported to personally write you, knowing that it will be of interest to you and the many friends and acquaintances of Dr. William S. McMurray, to learn of his recent. oroftH fnrtuno He being a native born son and resident of Union, it is a request and heart-felt desire that you announce to the people of Union, through your worthy publication, the fact that he has recently been commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Officers' Reserve Corps, at Ft, Oglethorpe, Oa.'s Training Camp. Prior to his entrance and ultimate graduation from a recent camp at this station, he was a practicing physician of Union and Lockhart respectively. His wife is at present a resident of Lockhart. Upon his graduation and appointment, he has boen assigned to duties i k? > Vu i kcjiuiiu cue acas. Hoping that my request may find favor with you, with a view to publication in your columns, I am, Yours very truly, Robert M. Wood, Serp^. Hq. Co., 22nd Cav., F. A. WHITE FISH in Kits or Bulk is about half as expensive as Fat Back Meat, and a whole lot better for a change. Good Mackerel are wholesome and cheaper than any fresh or smoked meat. The Union Grocery Company will serve you promptly and well and a personal call will convince you that these items with scores of dainty good things in Tins make it possible to serve the most wholesome meal on the shortest notice and with the least possible cost. When you can't go in person ring 100 or 80 for the best service and politest attention. ?????^^ at Reason Er i few of the biggest, most careful bi nternational Motor Trucks. They pi lem. le concerns are buying Internationa il trucks are needed. Some of then Internationals ? buying nothing els< le International does its work well ther kind of equipment, horse or mol r better reason than that ? il Harvester Company oi ( Incorporated ) >nal Motor Trucks in two sizes?Modt of 2,000 pounds capacity. We can su quires. We give our customers the kin ;s. Come in and let us show you the * write and we will come to you. JESBITT | .31 "O CO. | UNU i NEW FAI ; \i: Our new Stetson and K] t the latest creations. Milli i be proud of. j Also new Neckwear, ju V mans latest fads. 8 New Interwoven Stockin \ on earth. J Bostonian and Barry Sh | Call and look over these j glad to show them. Union Uo | "The New A V '" * dp^2SKSq SERVIC! can be used as an Ambulance, for deli1 sions. Especially adapted for long dist where within thirty miles of Union FR BAILEY UNDEI Office Phone 106 . NOTICE. The time for sending the "Hoover I Cards" to Washington has been ex- * tended to Sept. 5th. If there are any 1 committees throughout the county who have not completed their work 1 they are urged to push the canvas and J leave the signed cards at The Union < Times office by Saturday, Sept. 1st. ( Mrs. J. W. Mixson, Chairman Woman's Committee, Union I ' County Council of Defense. I ?!inf$ I lough? HI usincss concerns of it them to work and 9!!!.M il Motor Trucks as ii are standardizing 114 m and at low cost as n ! ! j F America * 1 >1 II of 1,500 pounds II j>ply any kind of a 3 d of service a motor I I International Motor S| VI/VIM ST I )N, S. C. I iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiB X HATS | nox Hats are here in all >[ nery that a man should j: iff st from Broadway, Alt- J: gs for Men, the best Sox | oes for Men. ji T i New Goods; we will be { : j| thing Co. j; Vay Store" $ j ?~rr3U^Hl ' flSi E CAR vering CasketR and on Funeral occaance calls. We deliver Caskets anyEE OF CHARGE. RTAKING CO. Residence Phone 88 PROUD OF FATHER. "Yes," said the young wife, jroudly, "father always gives some ,ning expensive when he makes iresents." "So I discovered when he gave yoir iway," rejoined the young husband. \nd with a large, open-faced sigh he continued to audit the monthly bills >f his better half. In the matter of popularity, the back lot garden is giving the war a ?ood run.