The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, June 06, 1918, Page 5, Image 5
FOLLOWING
FALSE GODS
By 8. STANWOOD MENKEN,
President of the National Security
League. \
Just as the teat of the Individual Is
heat found under the stress of great
trial or play of passion, so nations
prove themselves In time of war and
are able to Judge.
?KBeJbbMC?8BI not alone of the
their peoples are
so the measure of
con0dence^^ which
| for they admit it;
, 3. Stanwood look back over
Menken our .l*i8t?ry and
consider how we
have met great problems?such, ns
slavery, by a great war; tariff, by
fourteen bills nnd a like number of
panics; conservation, currency, banking,
anti-trust and railroad questions,
by making the same matters of politics?It
may be doubted whether we
aro quite as groat as we think we are.
In considering how we exercise our
Judgment, we should remember the
extent to which we have devoted ourselves
to the education of the young
and the large sums we have spent at
all times for public schools nnd foi
colleges. When we look back nnd see
the mistakes we have made, tt would
almost appear ns If we had failed to
apply much that had been taught us In
school and college, or that perhaps the
school nnd college had not taught us
bow to solve great political measures.
Then, again, the thought comes to us
of whether or not we have not had
false lenders, and have not clnng to
false gods.
Corporation Wrongs.
We all remember the outcry against
vested Interests of the capitalists.
There have been great wrongs done
by many corporations?some of their
franchises have been obtained by corruption
and theft and great Injuries
hove often been done to the rights of
the people; and so, when we found
times hard and things going wrong,
3 -
* nc 11 ??e veuicu uur anger upon corporations
and upon the capitalists who
controlled them. In many cases we
flowed ourselves to become angry
with a" dags, or with certain Individ1
uals and expended our strength on
our temper, rather than upon a study
of the cure of the conditions about
which we complained; and In many
Instances we punished corporations
for the wrongs of their predecessors
In ownership, much as sins of parents
are visited upon their children.
Demagogues, knowing the public
mood, appealed to prejudice and Ignorance
In discussing public matters
and made Issues like currency, antitrust
laws and the railroads political
footballs. Just as If the question of
whether meney could he saved by
jolalng together companies aad providing
for economy In purchases and
sales was political. Of course It was
a matter of economics (which is the
science of commerce). Such matters
I
\ ou ?m n vuuicirm c uri wrrn reprw
sentatlves of farmers, laborers, scientific
students of world conditions,
and manufacturers and purchasers of
goods, to consider nnd determine how
goods can be produced with a fair |
wage to the employee, a fair profit to !
the employer and the maximum benefit
to the public.
Future Problems.
In Europe they have taken ihese
questions up In this careful way and
tile result has been of great benefit.
Now, and In the future. America will
have to deal with countries that are
short of resources through the cxhaus- |
Hon of war and have, of necessity, to
get down to rock-hot torn. The thrifty.
Intelligent, Industrious European Is
apt to he a good merchant, and we are
going to have a hard time competing
with him for commerce and for world
position, so we must consider all of
our proniems mort' ciireiuny tnun ever
before and cast aside those men who
attempt to lend us away from a
thoughtful, dispassionate view of great
questions.
Graft and neglect In local communities
of political duties by the average
citizen are responsible for the mlsgovernment
that breeds disresp'ect, where
we should have pride been use of tlx
efficiency of our people. The llrst concern
of the citizen In every community
must he to see that It Is governed in
a way that will assure the approval
of clean th'nking men and women
The mechanics governing n city re
quire the same kind of clear thought
and careful work ns that given to
shop work or fa^rn planning, and every
good American must feci that at this
time there is nothing more worth
while.
If we do these things well, we will
rot have to worry about the foreignborn
loving America, because living
conditions here ydll he bo excellent
that they slmplfr cannot help It. cape
daily when they are Riven not alone
good government and healthy conditions
surrounding home and worlr
shop, hut also education, opportunity
and a charter of liberties which will
mean' happiness to them, if w? per
form our duties as citizen*
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FOOD CONTROL
MEANSVICTORY
European Shortage Places Problem
Before American Government?Farsighted
Policy <
Adopted.
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NEED 75,000,000 BU. WHEAT. !
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Food Administration Asks Aid of
Every American In Glgantio
Task of Feeding Millions. 1
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It Is the food problem over there
that makes a food problem over here. 1
If we wished to be supremely selfish? :
and supremely shortsighted?we could
iu uu cuuiiK hh mum as we lue ana l
whatever we like, without much dlfll- :
eulty or interruption?at leaHt, until
the Germans came!
But we are not doing things In that .
neltish and suicidal way. We are trying
to make a great common pool of
all of our food, and all of the food of
th? allies, and all of the food we can
get from South American' and other 1
neutrals, and dividing it up fairly 1
among America, Blngland, France, Belglum
and Italy.
This does not mean that all of the
people in the great pool are going to
have the same ratios, but means that
we are trying te arrange to have
enough for everybody, so that tike soldiers?our
soldiers and their soldiers?
will be well fed, as they have to be
to fight hard and continuously, and
that the munitions workers and the
workers in all the other necessary Industries,
and tfie men and women at
home will all have enough to keep
alive and well. It is absolutely necessary
to do this If the war is to be won,
and we are going ta do it, but It means
planning, working, arranging, co-operating,
being careful, not wasting, saving
And It means that each and every
one of us has got to help.
Now, we have enough and more than
enough food for ourselves, and the
Government Is going te see to It that
we keep here at heme a sufficient supply
of every essential kind wf food to
support our people. But over there
they simply have net enough. Lord
Rhendda, the English food controller,
recently cabled the American food administrator,
that unless wa can send
the allies before the next uropean
harvest 75,000,00# bushels of wheat In
addition te what had been sent up to
January 1 of thia year ha could net
assure the allies that
they wo"'"f lo produce the ?. . ,1
feed to^lity of root, and the maijju?a<
He did liract f**?/ything In this cable
about the otne. food necessary, bat
he has told of these needs In othei
cables?and by his actions In Englaad
For example, his latest regulation
oempels a reduction of meat eating In
Che United Kingdom to a maximum o!
me pound per week per person, thli
pennd Including the hone and othei
waste parts id the meat as bought Is
tike shop.
The allies must have mOlre wheat,
sore meat, more fats, more dairy prodacts,
more sugar. Their harvests were
very short?France had less than hall
her normal crop of wheat?and the
available shipping Is small In amount
and constantly being lessened by submarines,
so that It Is now practlcallj
Impossible to use any ships for the long
voyage necessary to bring food from
Australia and other remote markets
The food must come chiefly from
America. In specific figures It Is necessary
for us to send to the alliei
1,100,000 tons of foodstuffs a month
This is a great responsibility and a
great problem. The food must he
found, and also the ships to carry It
It Is being done, but can only continue
to be done by the help and full cooperation
of all of us over our broad
land. We must produce and save
more.
To supply the wheat necessary until
the next harvest, we must reduce out
consumption by from one-fourth to
one-third; we must cut down our usual
average consumption of meats ami
fats by from 10 to 15 per cent, and
dairy products by about 10 per cent.
Over there they are tightening theli
belts and doing everything they enn
They are eating war bread; they are
Cutting down their sugar In England
to two pounds per person per month,
and In France and Italy to one pound?
how much are you eating??and they
are using ration cards for most of the
staples. We must meet sacrifice with
sacrifice. If we don't, we are helping
to lose the war Instead of helping to
win It.
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Buy Local Food (
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RELIEF THROUGH THE
AMERICAN RED CROSS
Headquarters Italian Army, May
15.? (Correspondence of the Associated
Press)?Arrival of relief from
America through the Red Cross
Agents behind the Italian front
along the Piave river, which section
is filled with refugees from the regions
invaded by Teutonic troops, is
greeted with evidences of fervent
gratitude and jubilation. This is true
not only because of the actual gifts
in money, food and clothing but because
it signifies to the Italians the
fact that America is standing behind
time in their long conflict with the
Austrian invaders.
The aged priests at Castello-diGodega
was so overcome by the unexpected
donations from America that
he threw up his arms, knelt in prayer
and exclaimed, "it is a gift .lirect
from 'heaven."
WhpTPVPTO tifo PoJ frnoo ?
??- - ^ vt voo acia
have distributed their relief, the
mayor and local committee directed
the succored families of that commune
to write to the soldiers at the
front and tell them what America has
done. The work of the Americans
was extolled and the people were told
that the United States was thus cooperating
in close and practical accord
with Italy.
In some cases huge posters have
appeared on the town walls with proclamation
by the mayor announcing
what America was doing.
The misery which prevails among
the refugees in the provinces of Treviso,
Venetia and Padua is most distressing.
Stopping at the little town
of Riesi, in a tour of this section,
there was a chance to see one of these
communities of refugees in all its
misery. It is a strange community,
which has migrated as a whole from
its former home at Vidor, now held
by the enemy, to its present habita
tion of Riesi. Vidor is the village on
the eas bank of the Piave which was
occupied by General von Below and
his German troops, and when they
came these townspeople, with only
the clothes on their backs and a few
household belongings, fled across the
Piave and settled down here. Most of
the refugees have scattered all over
Italy, but this is one of the few towns
that has held together in its flight.
The parish priest led the way as
the Red Cross workers went on a
round of inspection to see just how
these people were living. The mayor
and the parish priest are usually consulted
on this work, the latter because
he is in touch with all the troubles.
Most of the people are religious,
but even those who are not to
get religious when they are in trouble,
and everyone is in trouble here.
They all knew him, and he made his
way through crowds of ragged children
and the choked alleys of whai
would have been a concentration
camp if it had been organized but being
unorganized was only a vast hive
of refugees in their misery.
In one room about 15 feet square
25 people were sleeping on straw
strewn over the earthen floor. The
place was stuffed with soiled garments,
the pitiful remnants of what
these occupants possesseed, ' and
reeked with vileness. Across the
court there was a smaller room where
13 were sleeping, and in another
eight all huddled together On the
straw, w*omen, children, babies and
their rags. All the outhouses, bams,
grain lofts, were utilized for sleeping
quarters. There were few men,
for all the men have gone to the war,
4e\cept the very old and very young.
Many of the women were very old,
with wizened hungry faces like
witches. A number of the women
carried babies, and all of them were
trailed by lnrpe broods of children.
All these people had lost everything:.
Their clothes were in raps. Underclothes
and stockinrrs bad lonp apo
disappeared. Even the consolation of
work was denied to these people, for
there was nothinp for them to do here,
and they stood about with their crowds
of children and babies, fiphtine to
keep off hunper and typhoid, and helpless
in their misery.
As a result of the inspection the
T??.l Ci-noo I, r. ? H.. ... 1 ~'
?vu vi uon una aim icu wile WUI IN. (M
ameliorating this condition, providing
suitable sleeping quarters, with
sanitation and the nucleus of a hospital
for the growing sick list.
The secretary of the Loria municipality
said all the barns there were
fairly packed with people, 30 or more
to everv barn, filling the stalls and
lofts. The mayor of Castello di Godega
said the spirit of the farm people
was showiner remarkable fortitude
in spite of the troubles thev
were encountering. "They are going
to carry on their May plnnting as
usual." he said, 'gathering the sprine
cloved and then nutting in corn."
America may have very few aeroplanes
on the western front, but the
few there seem to be doing the business.?Greenwood
Journal.
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They will have to rake up the"Ta\vn
yery carefully at the White House y>
tee that not a single strand of the
Golden Fleece escapes the auction
block.?The State.
WAR RAVINGS STAMP* NONTAXABLE.
Whim preparing for the ieeulng
of Thrift Stamps and War Saving*
Certloatee the national admlnlstrstratien
vary wisely decided that
they ehould not be subject to any
taxes, federal, state *r leoal. h
this reepeet they are entirely
unique, being free when almost everything
else is subject to impost.
As the amowii that an individual
may hold is limited to $1,000, this
concession doe* not deal unjustly
toward other aeeurity holders.
It is simpty an inducement te the
small investor to make an unueual
effort ia hre own and his ooontry:s
behalf by depositing as much of Ma
i surplus with the government ae
possible. Those who buy these little
bond*?Bind atl should do IS?
ehauld understand In advene* of
the coming days of taxation return
In AprM that whatever of their
earned savtnge er surplus dertved
; from eoeueaelas is converted lute
I Thrift Stomps or War Savings Oertldeatee
need not be reaordad upon
the assessor's blanbk As the hsbareaft
and principal are payable in
' 1993, neither Is M nsoetsary to
RWtM mention of A* IwvrtwtnW
In the return to the teeems tan ?o4Keeter.
They ere, ?? a*a*sd> ehnehitety
free and, as they afoo ftmy 4 per
sent compound totereat, are the
beat eeourKles that one ?an bap In
theae troubled timee.
Ft err time von buy a War
Savings Stamp you help
weaken the Hindenburg liae.
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SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS
LOST One pair gold rimmed spectacles, i
front of my residence. A little chil
threw these glasses into the street. The
have been picked up by someone. Rewar
if returned to me. Mrs. Ida C. Bakei
23-3 wA
FULL LINE OF KODAKS and Kodak Sup
plies sold by Palmetto Drug Co.
WANTED?To sell or exchange for smal
farm, one nice building lot on South St
80x226. J. Wesley Greer. Box 386. 162-t
ALL SILK, Georgette and Foulard Dressei
values up .to $25.00, during our Fou
^ Days' Sale at $10.00. At the Wonder.
-n
FOR SALE?One good plug mule. Apply t
D. J. Gregory, Union, R. F. D. 3. 161-t
SAVE YOUR SURPLUS EGGS in Egg-Con
omy, a harmless egg preservative. Fo
sale at Palmetto Drug Co.
WANTED?Fifty used Fords; 1917 and 191
preferred. Drive over to Gaffney and re
celve the cash for your Ford. We swa;
sell and buy used Fords. Gaffney Liv
Stock Co., R. E. Johnson, Buyer. 151-2G-P
LOST Tuesday afternoon a black hat be
tween Monarch and City Park. Findc
please return to Times office.
REMEMBER THE BIG FOUR DAYS' SALE
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Satui
day, at the Wonder.
BATHING CAPS?Beautiful new line, l.tl
est styles, sold at Palmetto Drug Co.
FOR SALE?Old Hickory Wagons. Car loa
just received. Peoples Supply Co., E
Fant Gilliam, Pres. & Mgr. 21-12-di
FOR RENT?Three or four nice rooms fn
light housekeeping. Apply to Dr. W. F
Hope. 101AT
THE WONDER All Gage Hats at hal
price during our Four Days' Sale.
MONEY TO LOAN at 7 per cent. straigF
interest on business and residence prop
erty in amounts of $2500 and abov<
F I -. i c r
TOR SALE?Fifty bushels of King's Cotto
Seed; 15 bushels of Mitchell's Early lm
proved King and seven bushels Big Bo
King Cotton Seed at $1.50 per bushe
f. o. b. Sedalia. J. E. Minter. 17-t
I HAVE several improved Farms for sal(
ranging from 75 to 100 acres, located nea
town. Terms and prices right. Addres
Box 177. 17-1
FOR SALE?A irood supply of can
seed for sale, several varieties. J
W. Gilbert. 165-Thu.
Buy Purest and Freshest
DRUGS
and
Have
YOup
DOctors
Prescriptions
Filled
At
Palmetto Drug
Company
I JmiLN
J,SPp
jw FOR w
SI Usually women are
*" 1 men in the manajrem
B\ perience often leads 1
B\ Women of property
PjM, with its care. The N
pacities and we will
fairs for a moderate c
Conferences invited.
Kmtdio Nicholson, J. Ro
"resident, V
8
; Makina Readv For
d v ^
- Or even a Brief Outing renders
regard for the Clothes to be 1
know how important it is to h
Cool, Comfortable Clothing. ?
business to know that.
We are prepared to serve yo
Largest Selection of Summer C
? and Underwear, Shirts and Ties
Kool Kloth, Palm Beach ai
prices?
' $7.50, $10.00, $12.50 s
i, Boys' Kool Kloth and Palm B
$3.50, $5.00, $6.50 a;
? Panama, Leghorn and Bancoc
I". $3.00, $3.50, $4.00 a
Straw Hats at prices?
$1.00, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50, $
ii White Canvas and Palm Beac]
_ $2.00, $3.00 and
washable l ies at?
r 25c and 5()<
r Men's and Boys 'Bathing Suit
patterns at prices?
r. $1.00, $1.50, $3.00 ai
We have everything to mak<
fortable.
j. cot
The House of Sati
Convenient features are found in I DR.
a five-spindle turret drill-head attach
merit that occupies about as mucn qj
space lengthwise as an ordinary chuc k,
says the dune Popular Mechanics
Magazine. It may be applied to a
single or multiple machine in a couple
of minutes. Only the one spindle
that is in working position resolves.
MOO
By pressing a lever at the front, the '
turret may be turned in either direction.
RUB-MY-TISM ?
r Will cure Rheumatism, Neu-' wiI]
! ralgia, Headaches, Cramps, Colic .. .n.
> Sprains, Bruises, Cuts, Burns, Old ' '
Sores, Tetter, Ring-Worm, Ec- The
zema, etc. Antiseptic Anodyne, Jersej
used internally or externally. 25c defcm
:holson
tK&TRUSTO?
IN/ON. S. C. \Q
OMEN !j
less experienced iknti
"lit ami care of pita,
matters. This ino\
to serious mistake
need not be Iviixleno-I
ICHOI.'SON HANK &
nets in all Trust catake
care of your afli
?r*re.
iy Fant, M. A. Moore,
ice President. Cashier.
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A Vacation
5 necessary a special
taken. In fact, you
lave Dressy, Stylish,
5o do we. It is our
u with the Best and
lothing, Shoes, Hats
i.
id Mohair Suits at
md $15.00.
leach Suits at?
nd $7.00.
?k Hats at prices?
nd $5.00.
13.00 and $4.00.
i Oxfords at prices?
$3.50.
? '
;s, in plain and fancy
nd $4.00.
* you cool and comIEN
sf action
I
I. MURRAY HAIR
Dentist
fice: 507 Chapman Building
Phone 1569
SPARTANBURG. S. C.
MONEY TO LEND
on
FARM LANDS
m tin nnn t1 t
vu ?iu,vuir?i nciHjr years ume.
See
J NO. K. HAM KLIN
IA* w ver
j
territory (lomany is gaining
ot be much more than a graveror
her men we are killing.
sinking of those boats off the
r coast will wake up our coast
<e t,o keener watchfulness.
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