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THE UNION TIMES < PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 1 BY THE UNION TIMES COMPANY ' _ < TIMES BUILDING. MAIN STREET ; BELL PHONE NO. 1 , LEWIS M. RICE Editor 1 1 Registered at the Postoffice In Union, < 8. C. aa second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 . e Year *1.50 Sue Months .75 Three Months .40 ADVERTISEMENTS One square, first insertion f 1.00 Every subsequent insertion .60 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively ..tltl.J ?L_ r? Li; ? .i ? >ii?iivu iv me use tur irpuuiicuuun of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. THURSDAY, RECEMRER 27, 1017. Several of our friends have subscribed to our daily to bo sent a year as a Christmas present to some friend or relative. We like that fine! I Maybe there are others who will be > willing to do the same thing. Here's > hoping. ( ] And so, the Russian Bolsheviki , have and are truly sending men and money to this country to be used in furthering their doctrines? And, be ^ it noted, straight to the I. W. W. . camps they move. This government will not, we feel confident, allow j these propagandists to move about with freedom. They should be capped just as soon as they begin operations. They out herod Herod in their bold A doctrine of anarchy. The chaingang . is a fine place for such people to t have opportunity to reflect ,and, if we mistake not, that will be the desj tination of these spoilers of utter an- ^ nihiliation of every institution that we hold sacred. However, we predict that the foolish reign of these madmen in Russia, even, is nigh to its ending. While our president, Woodrow Wilson was seeking in every honorable * way to avoid war, going even to the 1 point that called down upon his head 1 the malicious charge that nothing would lead him to decide upon war; we said that he would be slow to g<v in, but once having made the decis- 1 ? ion, it would not transpire that he would easily withdraw. This fact * the German authorities seem still to fail to recognize, or they would cease to waste good money on German propaganda in this country. They * would cease, also, to cry peace, when ( everybody, far and near, sees clearly that the cry is merely for effect, and to gain time for yet greater prepar- | mivu. \icriiiany s peace iaiK wouio make a cat laugh, if one ever did laugh. While the German Emperor is crying peace, the uttermost power e of the whole empire is turned into building airplanes and strengthening every resource for waging war. It would be but the sheerest folly to be* lieve that Germany has in any de* J gree let up. What she has not s done, or will not do. to keep up preparation is simply the things she cannot v do. Do not be deceived. Germany , v is by no manner of means slackening; ^ it is the very reverse. Rut Germany will begin to talk more to the point ^ an dmore truthfully a few months hence, we verily believe. s WHY? v I wrote Governor Manning a letter c yesterday, asking him to exercise ex- b ocutive clemency in the case of Will a J. Estes, now serving a sentence on n the county chainKanp. Of course I n do not know that it will have the ri slightest result, but if it should have it any influence upon the provemor it if will be because I have always been n insistent in these matters; refusi to sign petitions, save on the rar occasions, and I have never plaj Jouble-face. I have never signed petition and then written the gov nor to pay no attention to it, an< have never promised to write < thing and then, having promised, down and written something difl ent. Once or twice, Governor M ning has granted requests from i and I sincerely hope he will this ti feel inclined to exercise his power extend clemency. In justice to friends of law, and to my own frie: as well, I feel that I should give reasons that impelled me to wi in behalf of Estes, for I realize J well that many will be quite rei to offer criticism of the action, matter whether it be with or with result. First of all, Estes, I belie has already been severely punisl having served the sentence impo upon him for conviction upon charge of assaulting Magistr Mann. He has just entered upon se ing the suspended sentence for s ing whiskey. To a man of his ture, the punishment has been great as it can ever be, I sho judge. Again, Estes emphatics asserts that he has learned his 1 son, and is for all time done w the whiskey business and with dri ing, as well. I believe he is sine in this attitude of mind; that he really penitent, and will, if given chance, make good. These are prime reasons that led to my writ] in his behalf. There are other v< good reasons, as well: his wife i six children, themselves guiltless, j n sore need of his help; his mothei sne of the best women I know, tias a brother, a manly young fell who was one of the first to volunti it the call of his country, and who naking good, Estes, himself, has t riaking of a man in him; in fact, le had given his attention to legi nate business there would ne\ lave been any occasion for his g< ;ing tangled up with the liquor bu less. Weighing all these things, :oncluded that he should be given s >ther chance; and this led me to wr n his behalf. It may not, as I ha aid, have the slightest effect. E ny friends throughout the coun lave a right to know why I took t :ourse I did, and I am herein telli dieon. I just cannot play double inything, least of all in matters pi aining to the law's enforcement. TO OUR ADVERTISERS We sincerely thank each one J he liberal patronage given us di ng the past year, and will apprecu i continuation of this patronage he year that approaches. And 1 >elieve we are able to give value 1 .he money spent with us in advert ng, both in direct and in indirect i mlts. There is something more tl nay be said in regard to the advert ng proposition than the detailing ne mere visiDie results to the e 'ertiser. The advertiser helps ke he newspaper alive; the newspaj ielps keep the community alive; lead community will show first sig >f life in the coming of the nev )nper. The merchant who advertis s helping to keep his town a li own. The very things that attra he settler in a community are t hings that newspapers foster, boo mphasize and urge in season a >ut of season. When you refuse idvertise you are refusing aid to t me agency that does more to ke -our town going than any oth igeney. If all concerns were ome are, it would not be long bcfo hese same shortsighted concer vould have to seek other fields rhich to operate. The progressi usiness man stands by the newsp L .11- x V * - mr, uvm topeiner ooost tfie tow 'hat makes a pood town; mak usiness pood in a town. The selfis hortsiphted man who refuses to a ertise is enabled to thrive, not b ause he is shortsiphted and selfis ut because he is in a town held i nd made propressive by others. T1 loney you spend for advertisinp ot thrown away, even when the <i BCt returns are small. It would p loney in the pocket of every concei 1 Union if each one would po to tl ewspapers on January 1 and sa ing "Here is $50, use it boost Union, make Vi est a better newspaper, a bigger, broad- " fed er newspaper." It woud pay every ^ I a one of Union's business men to do er- this, if they never put one single ad- yj 1 I vertiseanent of their own in a news- Vi Jne paper during the year 1918. It was ^ sal reasoning along this line that led us ^. er- to make the venture in the daily field. ^ an- We got enough of having Union pracme, tically out of touch with the outside 4,1 ime world save through newspapers ptibt? lished in other communities. We feel ? _ B the that it would benefit every concern in ads Union to have a daily. And we are A the yet of that opinion. Yet we have "te asked for advertising patronage from Mi some of Union's business houses and ^ idv munfK oVvonliif a I w mvv v? ?vi* uuovtuwv iciuoat| uuicru ^ no have given it, yet expressed the T ou* thought that it was a sort of charity. T !ve? This erroneous view is far from the ^ ied, real truth of the situation. If there jj sed Wa3 not for the next two years a u the newspaper published in Union, it I ato would dry up and blow away, or be ^ rv~ tacked on to the coattail of Spartan- ^ 11 fc11* burg or Santuc. ^ na_ Every business man and every citas izen, rich and poor, in Union, should "1 subscribe to the papers, thus giving A illy them moral and financial support. If [ M es* there were not another newspaper ^ 1th published in Union for a period of 'i "k- two years, you would find Union a Ir ere poor place in which to live. Oppres- K Is sion and lawlessness would run rife. ^ the Your property values would shrink It the up. You should subscribe to your M local papers, even if you never read a jry line in one. It would pay you, even ind if you never saw one. We believe you are should subscribe to our daily paper, jj " is not alone for the reason that it will E He help us, but for the further reason ow that it will help you. We believe" ^ -er Union merchants should give us a j.j Is larger advertising patronage, not he alone for the reason that it will help R< if us, but for the reason that it will Ai ti- help every one of the merchants. ^ r?r Spend less in the way of foreign adet vertisinc. if np#>d Vic hnv Imo r>f cnl. . ? , j A1 si- endars, buckets to give away and I such advertising propositions, and in- give this to your newspapers in the ite way of advertising patronage. It I ve will pa^ you directly and indirectly. ^1 'ut You are slitting your own throat ^ 'ty when you turn away from your own qj he newspaper to some distant agency to nK advertise your wares. If the Times W in should go to Spartanburg and se- ^ -r- cure advertising patronage from the merchants, the very local mer- yy chant who has refused to give us any patronage would be our severest crit- A ^or ic. We are not writing these things ^ T1 ir" to fill space; nor do we feel called uplte on to assume the attitude of a beg- yy in gar. We believe we have a right to we expect the support of Union's busi- Tl or ness houses; and we believe they is" will get value received when they ' re- gjve us liberal patronage. We believe g, ,at the merchant who refuses to adver,s_ tise is standing in his own light and ?f that if all were as he is, the town lfi" would die of starvation and dry rot. j eP I >er THE MOTHER'S PART A a . ns (Published by request of a mother) ^ fS- ^ How do the mothers whose boys Ai ies are in the army and on their way to ve France feel about this war asks an W ict exchange. Maybe you have asked that question. A mother who has 3 I sons in service handed the following W * cliDnimr VCSt-PrdftV n? an or.oii'Bi" n(* Edward Markam ,the poet, under Ai to the unpatriotic title, "I did not raise ed he My Boy to Be a Soldier," wrote this I ep stanza: "Oh mothers, will you longer pive Bi your sons to feed this awful thunder T1 ns of the puns. What is the worth of Ai re oil these battle drums if from the Sa ns field the loved one never comes. jn What all these loud hosannas to the brave if all your share is some forV( potten prave?" 'a~ Dr. James L. Huphes, of Toronto, Nt m. who lost a son in Belpium, replies as eg follows: in, . ,. God pave my son in trust to me: Be Christ died for him, and he should be e- A man for Christ. He is is own, ;h, And God's and man's, not mine alone. Jp He was not mine to "pive." He pave Himself that he mipht help to save All that a Christian sould*rever, W1 ,n All that enlightened men hold dear, li- I>e ut "To feed the guns!" Ah, torpid soul, ,n Awake and see life as a whole. So When freedom, honor, justice, right So Were threatened by the despot's Ah y? might, I 1 rith heart aflame and soul alight e bravely went for God to fight gainst base savages whose pride lie laws of God and man defied. rho slew the mother and her child, rho maidens pure and seewt defiled e did not go to "feed the guns," e went to save from ruthless Huns is home and country, und to be guardian of democracy. What if he does not come?" you say, h, well! My sky would he more gray, ut through the clouds the sun would shine, nd vital memories be mine. od's test of manhood is, I know, ot "will he come?" but "did he go?" [y son well knew that he might die, nd yet he went with purpose high, o fight for peace and overthrow he plans of Christ's relentless foe. e dreaded not the battlefield; ? *i -J-'~ ~i-U v ftvuv tv xiciwc vauuais yitriu. ' he comes not again to me, shall be sad, but not that he rent like a man?a hero true? is part unselfishly to do. [y heart will feel exultant pride hat for humanity he died. Forgotten grave!" This sefish plea wakes no deep response in me, or, though his gave I may oot see, [y boy will ne'er forgotten be. [y real son can never die, 'is but his body that may lie 1 foreign land, and I shall keep cmembrance fond, forever, deep rithin my heart for my true son ecause of triumphs that he won. . matters not where any one ay lie and sleep whesi work is done. matters not where some men live; my dear son his life must give, osannas I will sing for him 'en though my eyes with tears be dim, nd when the war is over, when is gallant comrades come again, 1 cheer them as they're marching by, ijoicing that they did not die. ad when his vacant place I see, y heart will bound with joy that he as mine so long?my fair young son, id cheer for him whose work is done. ONLY A VOLUNTEER. 1; why didn't I wait to be( drafted, len led to the train by a band, r put in a claim for exemption, i! why did I raise up my hand? hy didn't I wait for the banquet, hy didn't I wait to be cheered? 'hile the drafted men got all the credit 'hile I merely volunteered. n no one gave me a banquet nd no one said a kind word? he grind of the wheels of the engine as all the good-bye that I heard. hen off off to the seas for four long years 3 meet all hardships and danger, nd not an eye was wet with tears? Lit all were turned to the drafted ranger. ad then in the scuffle I was forgocten. was only a volunteer. saw the drafted passing nd heard them wildly cheered. nd maybe some day in the future, hen the little folks sit around ad ask me what I did in the conflict hile their bright eyes fairly bound will have to look back, blushing, hile the eyes that so strangely peer, ad tell them I missed being draft9 was only a volunteer. it proudly we Tide the blue ocean, le roar of the big guns to hear, rwl T T n/^1 A CJ fx /lAdAitAM IU Viaic uaui, III uucp UI'VUUUII, ,y: "Boys, he's a volunteer." ?Written by Robert P. Colson. THE ONLY SON ly, tell me n*< my sacrifice is less In that I have but only one to give: That my torn heart is not so sensitive cause love counts its yearning by excess. Doth deeper love in wider boundaries live. And its commandments less imperative lere there is only one to servo and bless ? ar God, it ofttimes seems my heart must break? do I live in him, my only son? he has grown a very part of ine! ! ye who think that greater numbers take To AH Oui We desire to e one of y Season's We sincerely trust i bring you multip And we take the opp our appreciation i patronage you havi the past year. We U and purpose striving tinue to merit the PEOPLE OF UNH COUNTY. May the year bring Prosperity and I r A J. L U "THE HOUSE OF The greater toll, remember that in one Has centered all my love's epitome! I ?Robert Adger Bowen of Vigilantes. < Summons For Relief. . i (Complaint Served). State of South Carolina, County of Union. ( Court of Common Pleas. ' Duncan Sams, as Trustee, etc., Plain- ( tiff, J against Carolina Hill Hughes, Defendant. 1 To the Defendant, Caroline Hill 1 Hughes: ( You are hereby summoned and re- ^ quired to answer the complaint in this 1 action, of which a copy is herewith 1 served upon you, and to serve a copy ^ of your answer to the said complaint ( on the subscriber at his office at Union, South Carolina, within twenty 1 days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the . plaintiff in this action will apply tr | the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. I Dated Union, S. C., Dec. 19, A. D. 1916. J. Ashby Sawyer, Plaintiff's Attorney. i T> c nr:ii! iv, v/, it uiuuns, ? Clerk of Court, a (Seal) By J. W. G., D. C. I To the Defendant, Caroline Hill <i Hughes, and to any child or children a or the husband of said Caroline Hill t Hughes, if any such living and she be > now dead. Take Notice: That the complaint in this action, together with the Summons, of which the foregoing is a copy, were duly filed in the office of the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas J for Union County, South Carolina, at Union Court House, South Carolina, on the 19th day of December, A. D. 1917, and are now on file in said office. J. Ashby Sawyer, Plaintiff's Attorney. Union, S. C., Dec. 19, 1917. 51-0 Stockholders' Meeting. The regular annual meeting of the stockholders of the Merchants & Planters National Bank of Union, S. C., will be held in the directors' room at 12 o'clock on Tuesday, January 8th, 1918. J. D. Arthur, 51-tf Cashier. Leave out hate and heaven and hell g in the human heart. * ' r Friends! xtend to each ou the ? u reefing. the New Year will ilied blessings. ortunity to express of the splendid z given us during re/ deeply gratified ' faithfully to conconfidence of the. ON AND UNION i to us all Peace, luring Happiness. mm w* mm HEN, SATISFACTION" * Notice of Sale. State of South Carolina, County of Union. By virtue of authority contained in i Power of Attorney executed by Mrs. Dthella Ltee Whitmire and Mrs. Eoline Lee Mobley, I will, on Monday, the 7th. iay of January, 1918, during legal lours of sale, before the Courthouse loor in Union, S. C., sell the following ands, to wit: All that certain tract of land lyingn Goshen Hill Township, said County ind State, containing 148 acres, more >r less. Bounded on the North and Bast by lands of Mrs. Victoria Colenan, South by Dr. R. R. Jeter and iVest by lands of E. V. Going and Vliss Mary Lee, being the home place >f the late Green J. Lee. Terms of Sale?Cash. Purchaser to >ay for papers, stamps and recording. W. W. Johnson, Attorney in Fact. Dec. 17, 1917. 51-8 MTICE TO COLORED PEOPLE! [Ton M-:- II 2 uoc nuaii a niiir Lfressinjf. Noah's is a most superb hair dressng and intended to preserve, beautify ind restore the Hair and keep it in a imooth, glossy condition; elegantly >erfumed; at all drug stores. If your lealer cannot supply you send 25c in tamps to Noah's Products Corporaion, Richmond, Vn., and we will send rou liberal sized can. Take A Bottle ol Dr. M. D. Huiet's Cough Syrup For Sore Throat and you will refoice at the results. For Sale at the \ a i t irT-ra nnu* mm AUVJt IIU UKUti UU.