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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE UNION TIMES COMPANY TIMES BUILDING, MAIN STREET BELL PHONE NO. 1 LEWIS M. RICE .Editor Roistered at the Poatoffice in Union, S. C. as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year. $1.60 Si* Months. .76 Three Months .40 ADVERTISEMENTS One square, first insertion. $1.00 Every subsequent insertion .50 MF""PR "? %*iSOC| ? ' > ::?' T'< \Hs?x*inl?>d Pr?>?? '"si* ' ent<*l>'l 'he use ff- iMJ?-:,ii?,. of a'' ? HiqnnlrlTf r nof ?' ' !" is,, credited ' ' and <ls?. ?h. lorn' . nen-in THURSDAY JAMUA^' <>i ]oio | My Mother. The vonrs hive left some wrinkles on ho- pretty. saintly f"oe Car< ; ?*,l to!] arnl t ?"0'sl ! _? on oh l , e 'eft their trace; But her sunnv disposition and liov kindly word of cheer. Have eased other's burdens and has: made her to us more dear. Unselfishness and patience has enshrined her in our hearts. And she has inspired in each of us a i desire to do our parts. A faith unfaltering and a hich sense of right Have made her life a bendiction and her days among us bright. And. as she sits before the firenlaco in the lovely evening's glow. Knitting for the soldiers and gentlv rocking to and fro; We love hor and we wonder if she would care to know That we think she is the sweetest. truest mother here below. ?Francis HuffmasUr, Kaufman. Tex WAKE UP, MAN! We are living in stirring times, of. that there is no doubt. In such a time we cannot understand the attitw^e of a map who can make up his1 iPind that ha does net need to subscribe to a daily newspaper. If it .jJid not have but ten lines of live news, news of the great events transpiring In a day, it would be worth the few dollars a year that it costs. Wake up, man, and subscribe to a daily newspaper. If you will not take our daily, take some other! You owe it to your..,.14 ........ _u:u 1 A- - Dcii) juui i.iiiiuicii t?uu lu juur tuuntry that you inform yourself You cannot find safety in not knowing. You cannot serve best without knowledge. These be dangerous times times when men should be informed, times when men should think and think straight. And it is nor, going to come to pass any more that one can afford to ignore what is going on outside his own narrow world. Whether we will it or not, it is a fact, just the same that hereafter and for all time, the world is going to be smaller than it even was before and we are goin^ to need all the knowledge, all the information and all the straight thinking that can be commanded. From this time on in the history of this earth ignorance is going to walk in the way of slavery. It has always done this, but the chains have been guilded or hidden altogether. If we mistake not the day fast approaches when the iron links will not even he guilded, not even hidden. If you care for yourself, your children, your country, awake?inform yourself; qualify yourself for clearer judgment, keener thinking. Get interested in the big things going on in the world. Help shape the destiny of the world; be a part of the manhood that is to rebuild the world. To do these things you must havo information, you must know what is going on. Read more; discuss more, think more. Get out of the old ruts of indifference. Do not say that it is worth nothing to know. How can you vote wisely if you have not full information? How can you hope to escape the snares and pitfalls if you must needs take your information second hand ? Why should you rely upon your neighbor to tell you VlAHT 4 r% vnfft mliof a /1a r* 4 4 * ?w*? vv ?*/W| TTtiat t\| 111/ 9 vr IKlb LU 1/1 I I I I r\ when you have an equal opportunity with him for j^atherinf? information for yourself? Subscribe to the daily Times if you will. If you don't like it, subscribe to some other daily. But get busy; awake! A new day has come and it brings great opportunities; only, you cannot see them if your eyes be closed! Russian Socialists Experiment. (By H. II. Windsor, in the Popular Mechanics Magazine.) There are apparently as many kinds of socialists in Russia as there are varieties of grapes in a vineyard. These range all the way from nihilists and bomb throwers to quite conservative thinkers At any rale t' e v ord socialist in Russia an dheve. foi instance, means quite di'Tor* v, thin s in Tiny rejects. It a most j be st ia that anv man or p tr"V in Russia who is anti-czar, calls itself socialist It is unfortunate in more ways than one that Germany has so seedily doj minated Russia?or apparently so? for it fould have been interesting to have watched how some fond theories, worked out when the opportunity came to give them the acid test of actual use For instance, how far an army would get under direction of com-1 m it tees of privates; for one of the | first acts of the Iiolsheviki was to1 < form a committee of three from the ranks in each company, which was to 1 decide wha' their company would do. : and instruct the officers to carry out such decision. Even Kerensky and his cabinet associate, Savinkov, who i soon after the revolution abolished the death penalty in both military and ' civil life, recently acknowledged to a distinguished American that to their i great regret the ideal they had cher- 1 ished proved to be impossible in 1 these davs, and after some weeks i were obliged to return to the old way. < And the same was true, they stated, 1 in regard to other ideals; all right i in theory, but in practice a failure, i A* date of thi? writing, and from 1 our wistance, it would appear that '< Russia was listance, it would appear 1 that Russia was lost to democracy i and that by German intrigue she had t merely exchanged a czar for a kaiser*. J Eighty-five per cent of the Russians 1 fire illiterate, and in their newfound 1 freedom many of these have as wild t expectations as the southern negroes i when as suddenly set free. On the c other hand, the very fact of many p- t tical parties of socialists gives ex- I pectation that Russia will not per- I manently be sacrificed to the ignor- 1 ance and gullibilty of the Bolsheviki, whose present leader is a German who has changed lys name to a Russian one. 1 That distinguished physician. Dr. Frank Billings of .Chicago, with *h?; rank of lieutenant colonel, recently went to Russia at the head of the n Red Cross Mission. With unusua1 i a courtesies at his command he travel-1 n ed Russia and Siberia extensively.; ^ talking with representative men ] a everywhere. The cabinet in control j * at this writing is the seventh, but r Dr. Billings points out that each sue- I ceeding cabinet, by evolution, brings c the national condition to a higher * level than before. His observation ^ as to the intelligence, ability and 11 conduct of the masses there, is of * a most encouraging nature and places * the Russian citizen, as a whole, on a very much higher plane than we have been accustomed to regard him. They * are keen business men, surprisingly 1 skillful in all manner of handicraft, ' thrifty, good-natured, and with free- s dom and education have the making ^ of a nation of world leaders. If. ( therefore, German intrigue finally 1 fails there as uerman arms already J have, we may yet count Russia anions the republics, and in the meantime we must be patient and can be hopeful that right and justice will, in (rood season, rule a free Russia. Sam M'Gowan's Efficiency. (New and Courier.) Endorsing the idea that one man rhould be Riven control over the purchasing of supplies for the army and the navy, for the shipping establis ment, and for export to our allies, the Baltimore Sun says that "one of the difficulties in the way of centralized control seems to be the fact that the navy department has got along ><> v.ell unoer the present system and Paymaster General McGowan, the naval purchasing authority, has been so efficient in office that the navy d-.paitn.cnt officials are unwilling to consent to a change." It is hard to see why this should constitute a difficulty, and if it is so regarded. The Sun itself suggests a remedy. Why not put Paymaster rinnnrnl Mof!Aiim *-* in oViq af t )wi t viviiuiai in uitui VA viiv j purchasing for all the departments? i The same abilities which have made 1 him so extraordinarily useful to the 1 navy would make him useful to the 1 army. The same methods which he | has worked out for taking care of 1 the cast naval supply problem would i go far toward solving the army sup- ! ply problem. < Instead of being an argument . against the establishment of one-man. control of government purchasing the efficiency of Sam McGowan as purchasing officer for the navy is about the strongest argument there is in favor of one-man control. For it means that the right man for the job has already been found, and finding the right man is always the hardest part of the problem. Why Tolerate Disloyalty The Senate committee, to whom was delegated the investigation of La Follette, made a faint bluff of doing something at the start, and then appeared to follow the course of the proverbial New Year's resolution. If they made a conscientious ocort to get at the truth, the public somehow haven't been overwhelmed with the fact, and if they found out anything it has, at this writing, been politely hushed up. And right here is where our law-making and governing bodies make a great mistake. To varnish, l. ; a L n wimcwasn, camounage, excuse, condone, conceal, or let go by default such official shortcomings as the senator is accused of, is radically wrong and the public simply will not stand for it forever. What does "senatorial courtesy" mean to the average voter? The man with the open life and the clean record has no occasion to avail1 himself of the "traditions" when accused, unjustly, of sedition. Instead of seeking delay and the oblivion which time throws over congressional investigations, one would naturally expect a demand for instant and complete investigation. Did you ever know an honest, innocent man, who, when accused of wrongdoing, did not insist on immediate and fullest investigation? Da Follette by virture of his office, was able to use the Government presses at a time when the government Printing Office is weeks behind; and, we understand, mailed one million "public documents" under his frank, the postage on which would have cost you or me $30,000. But in ill the million we do not recall that L.a Follette made any frenzied appeal for early and through investigation >f the charges against him. The pubic can and often have borne patienty with their servants at the Capitol >uilding who have lacked in many hings, who have wasted our money n foolish appropriations; but there is me thing they will not tolerate and j hat is nay question of loyalty on the j >art of a senator or congressman.? i. H. Windsor, in the February Popuar Mechanics Magaaine. Gentian Not Huns "oday's Enemy of Mankind Descend- t" ant of Goths. 'o the Editor of The <5tate: Your editorial in Friday's State is misleading. You rr it appear that . German is a Hv^ an(j a Hun a German. It is true that the great war is eing conducted on the other side in very strikingly Hunnish manner, but he ethnographer knows that the nodern Hun is a scion of the ancient >eople of Tartary whose diabolical leed3 caused the Chinese to build the treat wall across China that even a Hun could not scale or batter down. Under Attila, "the scourge of God," ,hese people invaded Europe and what .hey did is too well know nto repeat. The German on the other hand is of Teutonic stock, the descendants of the Uoths, and the stndent of history is ilso aware of their doings. We find ihem as VisigothB and Ostrogoths but ire the same people, the one coming from the west (visi) and the other eoming from the east (ostro.) Their leeds are also well known trampling into rust, utterly annihilating the world's most lasting civilization, a i livilization covering a period of 2,200 years and wiping from the face of Lhe eartli a people, the greatest lawgivers of the ages. It is not generally known hut is a >atent fact that nearly every civil government today has its code, the basic laws, taken bodily from the Roman eode. The Jewish laws were taken from the drastic codes of the Assyrians,, Babylonians, Chaldeans, Egyptian and so on. Civil liberty where iver found is a legal jewel left us by >y the Roman, a precious heritage of paganism. The Hun and Goth are strangers, have ever been strangers to ^his pagan gift of Rome?liberty. A.W. Brabham. P. S.?In my varied readings I must ;hink from scraps picked up here and ihcre, the Goths were the people who invaded India at a period so remote .hat the historian can not get at the >asic facts. At any rate the invaders lid not overrun the Hindu, but assimilated or amalgamated with them, [ 'acts that can not be disputed demonstrate that the white man was born in Europe, and the white blood of all the East, even in prehistoric times, ivas of European stock. Evidences in t)oth France and Germany have come to light that make the white race at least 50,000 years old and had its beginning somewhere on or near the Somme, Of course this does not loincide with the teachings of the Jews, but they claim everything and I i ? have not the least right to do it. A. W. B. Olar.?Colombia State. Bids for Chamber of Commerce Supper The committee appointed to accept^ bids for a membership supper for Chamber of Commerce on January 31st, in accordance with the spirit of the times has decided on the price of .35 a plate. These bids are open to the ladies of the various churches and should give the proposed menu. All bids are expected to be in the hands of the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce not later than noon, January 29th. Colored Insurance Company Had Gains 11 a ln/?roaoA A ? * ? ?Jip, Auvivooc ail uiVBB ABBCU) &IIU 111 Net Income of This Company The Morning Herald, Durham, (N. C.) . Jan. 2, 1918. I The nineteenth annual report of the j financial condition of the North Caro- | lina Mutual and Provident Association shows that this, the largest colored in- j surance company in the world, has continued to make fine progress dur- i ing 1917. The report shows that there is over twelve million dollars of insurance in force in four states of the union and the district of Columbia. In addition to North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia and the District of Columbia, in all of which ; the Durham company already had good business, application has been made for admission to Maryland and other states. These are included in the plans for 1918. The North Carolina Mutual, which was founded by colored men of Durham, is officered by Durham men and under these has attained its position of leadership that is unique in the business world; has assets of $350,000. The annual report shows that these assets are divided into the following classes: $100,000 in State bonds, $35,000 in Government "Liberty Bonds" and the remainder in municipal bonds, first mortgage bonds, real estate, policy Joans and cash. The annual rental income of the company amounts to $16,000. ihe income for 1917 was in round numbers $626,000. That was an increase of $124,000 over the previous year. During the past year the company has paid in claims about $24,000. The gross assets have doubled during the past three years. The North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association is operated tin the legal reserve basis, and i& today the largest and strongest insurance company in the world financed and managed entirely by colored men. _ (Editorial) A SUBSTANTIAL ENTERPRISE The North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association, a business enterprise owned, controlled and actively manage by colored men of Durham has developed into an important asset of the city during its nineteen years of existence. It is not idle boast nor advertising motto that this company is the "largest and strongest Negro insurance company in the world." It is just that and more. It is managed along the most modem lines and is a business which notonly the colored people may be proud of, but one which also deserves a high place among the new insurance com? r < ..ii _i^i. paiues ui ine soutnern scare. G. W. Bolden, = Supt. Union District, office over Piedmont Drug Store, Union, S. C. 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Julcanizing Shop of ster's Shop, and am ss Work at ReasonRANTEED ngs and Inner Tubes I Will Cure Them. n Smith 3 ITICETO COLORED PEOPLE! se Noah's Hair Dressing. ?u j 1UUII o ID a iiivdi nujJCU) Httir urCBS and intended to preserve, beautify 1 restore the Hair and keep it in a ooth, glossy condition; elegantly fumed; at all drug stores. If your der cannot supply you send 25c fn mps to Noah's Products Corporan, Richmond, Va., and we will send I liberal sized can. Money is character, and charater is mey. Let us pass over the river and rest der the shade of the trees.?StoneII Jackson. . i \ > - ' I ' ' yS