The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, August 31, 1917, Page 4, Image 4
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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
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aireauy given two sons had done his i
part in that direction. Here's hoping
that the doctor and both his boys will
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.