The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, November 22, 1917, Image 1
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VOLUME 36?NO. 36 CHESTERFIELD, S. C., THURSDAY. . OVK.MER 22, 1017 $1.00 A YRAR IM AnvAMiiM
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100 Men Called A;
Tuesday; 7 Men
The local board of exemption on
Tuesday examined 100 men for the
National Army.
One point worthy of note is the |
larpre proportion of men who accept- (
ed service without filing claims end
who were physically acceptable.
There were ten in this class.
Accepted Without Claim*
The following ten men accepted
service without claims and were
cepted by the board:
Walter C. Funuerburk
W. Ervin Knight!
.djAk Prince Humphries
Charlie M. Swink.
William E. Huntley
W. Harley E/a >4.
Charlie Roseoe
Robt. H. Sullivan
Wayman Baker
Fred Sellers
Rejected.
The following were rejected on
physical examination:
Samuel L. Manguin
Preston W. Kunderburk
Robt. N. Strif \lin
Oscar B. f*underburk
c^iyue miner
Elbert DeBerry
Abe'Sowell
t James S. Gullcdge
Accepted With Claims
The following were accepted by
JUNIOR ORDER EXERCISES
AT PINE GROVE, NOV. 29
Following is the program for Flag
Raising and Bible presentation, at
Pine Grove School, Thursduy Nov.
29th, at 10 o'clock, A. M. by Chesterfield
Council No 87, Jr. O. U. A. M.
Master Ceremonies, 15. J. Douglass.
. Opening prayer, Itev. J. K. Hair.
Song, ''America," by school.
Address of Welcome, J. H. White.
Hp- Response, F. W. Rivers.
Address, "Virtue," Rev. F. M. Cannon.
Address, "Liberty," W. P. Odom.
Address, "Patriotism," Hon. (i. K.
Laney.
Good of Order, Rev. J. I). Purvis.
Song, "Staf Spangle Banner," by
school.
ji Closing Song, "God Be With You
' Till We Meet Again," by Rand.
* There will also be a picnic. Evcrybody
invited to come and bring full
baskets.
Thursday, the 29th, is Thanksgiving
Day, so these exercises should
take on n double significance.
COUNTY CAMPAIGN TO
GROW MORE WHEAT
The campaign in Chesterfield
County to urge the farmers to grow
, more wneat ami no^s begins today,
November 22<1.
Meeting will be held today at Shiloh,
Bear Creek, Patrick and Midden<lorf.
Tomorrow, Novemht r 2.'?d, speeches
will be made ut MeBee, Union, Macedonia
and Angelus.
Monday, November 2Gth meetings
will be held at Five Forks, Pageland,
Plains and Jefferson.
Interesting adresses are promised
at each of these places, where people
who are in position to known the
facts, will lay the true situation before
the farmers.
PESTS OF SEA DESTROYED
London, Nov. 19. Five (lerman
nunmarines wore r<?y?*?l on Saturday.
Premief Lloyd George made
this announcement today in the
House of Commons, when he closed
his speech in an optimistic strain concering
the prospects of victory, saying
he now has no fear of the mennce
of submarines, five of which
"pests of the sea" had been destroyed
on Saturday.
't
nd Examined j
to Columbia Today,
the board, though filing claim? for
exemption:
James L. Watts
Pete Rati iff
Daniel A. Roscoe
Robert M. Berry
j Lewis E. Courtney
| Cyrus James
Edgar Miller
II. Dargun Jordan
I Frank W. Wilson
Ben T. Douglass
Ttobt. K. Deese
| John Scott
Daniel Dixon
Joseph F. Reid
J. W. Amnions
Sam M. Winnate
Bill Johnson
Lee Sikes
TO REPORT FOR SERVICE
The following men have been orordered
to report at Cheraw today,
Nov. 22d, to entrain for Camp Jackson,
Columbia.:
Raymond Brown
Thomas (Irooms
Davis C. Davis 1
George W. Lewis <
Preston C. Moore
Willie K. Parker
tiillium M. Tiller
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TEUTONS FAIL TO !
ADVANCE FURTHER ,
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niuj ? armies arc minting nrmly at
the point at present most vital to the
preservation of the Piave river line.
The Austro-German attempts with
heavy masses of troops to drive
southward along the west hank of the
Piave and Quero and thus outflank
the lower river front, have been
checked by the heroic resistance of
the Italian troops at the Monte Tomba-Monte
Monfenera. The rep ?rts
from both the Rome sind Berlin war I
ofliccs today show this clearly.
In the light of the current state-'
merits it appears probable that the '
Austro-German drive at Monte Tomha,
whe-h protects the It than right
flank wst of the Piave, did not result
in the en??f 11 r<> /.f :
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nence as yesterday's official report
from Berlin indicated. The Gere ?"
staff today mentions positions c f>- j
tured l?v the Teutons on the "n?rthern
slopes" of Monte Tornha, iiulicnt- I
inj.- retention l?,v the Italians of tire ^ j
remainder of the hcijrht.
Even this much of a Teutonic hold
on the hill is lieinir fiercely eout"ste?l
by the Italian forces, for Berlin announces
the continuation of the desperate
strut;;''e there \ h Italian i
counter attacl s hy concentrated i
masses.
No further advances anywht re on 1 i
t ).< I * I i:tn front tin- claimed by the
(Jornmns. 'I hoy tin four succos- j I
Hive thrusts to cipture the Monte-j <
fern spur but each time were thrown <
back by the determined resistance of , |
the Italian troops. i
The sinkinjr of the American old 1
type destroyer ('haunoey in a colli- i
sion in the war zone, with the proh- <
able loss of 21 lives,- was announced <
in Washington. No details were I
Kiven. | <
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RF.D CROSS DRIVE j t
IS TO BE UNIQUE i
ji
\.Vflul> ? '<<> V...r 10 I* I
....... J iri>[)lliy in
transparent service (lairs in window* <
f homes ami of emblems in business i
places will feature the American Red i
Cross Christmas nivinbeiship drive t
between December 17 anil Christmas '
eve. These emblems are to be so ar- i
ranged as to indicate the number of f
people at each place who join the Red i
Cross. I'lann also contemplated are I
to have church bells chime at half- t
hour intervals on Christmas eve and I
to have trroups of Red Cross workers
march and sine carols as a climax to s
the membership campaign. 1
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?WOOIHiOW Pros,,1c.,, \\ lis<mi
1 WII.SON.
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FARMERS AND PATRIOTISM
Darin.- tin- hc;*/h. of 'hi* Liberty
11 Iion-i jiioL imim'iI
many rural communities subscribed
proportionately less than the people
>f towns. 'I he fact was claimed in
certain ouarlers to sh .w lack of patriotism
on the part <>f farmers. We
leny the assertion and denounce the
ignorance of wilful misrepresentation
>f those guilty ? f the aspersion.
The fact has little real significance
find is easily explained by natural
causes. First, however, we insist that
in the present, and every past war in
which our country has been enirarred,
the patriotism of the American farmer
has been a shining fact. The minute
men of '7(5 were country boys.
It was a farmer who lef; 1?i?lnw
in the furrow and rode his plowhorse
to Hunker Hill to assume command
of the little army of patriots.
It was mostly farmers who composed
the American army at Lundy's Lane
and who won the battle on Lakes
Champlain and Krie.
It was the predominating agricultural
States which sent their volunteers
with Taylor ami Scott. It was
the farms of country New Kngland
and the Central West which filled
the armies of (Irani and Sherman. It
was country boys who flecked to
the standard of Lee ami Jackson. It
was large towns which made "Copperheads"
and saw the only draft
riots. The Rough Riders were countrymen
except for a few ad/enturous
spirits who had learned country ways.
Not only are country hoys forming
the larger part of the new nat
?nal army, hut their commanders
nsist that the highest efficiency of
this at my demands this leaven of
country character, strong h and loyultv.
There can be no doubt whatever
that the real cause f? r the apparent
relative slow response of farmers to
the call for subscription., to Liberty
I'onds was due to the failure of tho. e
in charge of the campaign to cither
appreciate the point of view of the
farmer or to understand the difference
between tie- method for reaching
him and that effective with the
town people. 'Ihis essential differ
ence was used with conspicuous success
in CJreen county, Missotiri. A
public bond rally was held in every
country school house in the county
where the issues were explained by
uen in whom the farmers hail eonfilenee.
Then every resident of the
listrict hot present at the school
louse was personally visited by a
listrict committee the next dav. The
csult was one of the largest per capia
subscriptions in any agricultural
ourity in the country, largely exceed-'
ior its allotted quota.
Those willing to vilify the farmer,
>r ignorant of his real position, have
ised other facts to his disad vantai;c
n this connection. They tell us that
he demand of the farmer voiced
>y every national agricultural or^anzation
that farm labor he made a
'avored class in army exemt tion is
mpatriotic. It is more logical anil
ar more true to fuet to believe lihat
*.? real motive behind this eour.se is
>urely pat riot ie. It is adopted as the
oily sure way for meeting thi* war
horlajfe of labor needed for the proluclion
of food erop.s indispensable
iwdvc Rlcil Wantt
E.oca! Board Foi
'i ho following negroes have failed
to report to the Local Hoard for examination,
and are snnjoci to immediate
call for service.
The Hoard has been unable to locate
any of these men and ask that
anyone who may be able to gi' e any
information as to any of them, will
i do so, as other men will have to t iUc
their places, if they can not be found
I
! at once.
j Corwell Brewer, registered at Che'
raw.
Jim Robinson, registered at McBee.
Alex James, registered a' l.u oil".
to the success of our armies in the
field.
A resolution unanimously passed
at the recent annual session of the
Farmers' National Congress?with
I twenty-seven Slates represented by
delegates?sheds some light on the
attitude of some of those now engaged
in misrepresenting the farmer:
| It (this organrxation? specifically
| demands from the nationa1 congress
{additional legislation, at tin- earliest,
i possible moment, increasing the per|
contage of taxation on excess war
I profits, to a point at least equal to
that now in force in our allied wa.
j ring countries, to the end that the
greatest possible percentage of the
| cost of war shall be borne by those
who profit most by lite war, in the
belief that the conscription of wealth
< is a measure of necessity fully equal
to the conscription of men.
This will go hard with some of the
profiteers? it is intended to?but th<
farmer stands for it and he will sec
that it comes to pass.
Meanwhile his patriotism has sloot
every test?including the giving uj
higher prices for the wheat he sell:
and the accepting of higher price:
for the bread he buys.?Southern Ru
ralist.
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; GERMAN AGENTS BERN
WHEAT IN AM ERIC/
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Philadelphia, Nov. ?'<> A state
merit that wheat fi -hl.-, grain ware
i houses and flour miiis arc being ays
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| tcmatically burned l?y German t:
at a time when Amori -a ai:<l i: allie:
are facing a perilous shortage <>1" .noi\
than 50 per ee.il, of the nece.'sarj
supply was mad" today f>y Krwin K
Smith, United States department o
agriculture, before the National Aca
demy of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Smith advocated drafting foi
harvest work men not found accept
able for the army. After the war, he
said, there wdl he world shortage rtl
wheat for many years.
seriolTS rioting in
berlin last sunday
i mhiiIdii, N <v. *20. Serious rioting
I took place in Berlin last Sunday, according
to dispatches rcet ived by the
Wireless Press and the K\chany<
Telegraph company from Amsterdam
The message to the Kxchanye Telegraph
company r.r.y:: that tin- fiyhtiny
between tin- mob and the police
was very fierce and that there was a
heavy casually list as the police used
their firearms.
The Wireless Press says the military
and police were called upon to
oppose the progress of the independent
Socialist demonstrators. In tinriotous
scenes which followed tinpolice
were forced to fire with theii
rifles and levolvers and the nryam
y.er.s of tin- meet my responded with
firearms and knives.
The (iorinan press, the dispatches
say, have been forbidden to publish
details of the afTray. No newspapers
have arrived in Amsterdam from
Berlin.
AMERICANS IN ACTION.
With the American Army in
Fram e, Nov. I'd. Their has la en
another dash between American ami
German patrols in No Man's l.aml.
Full details are not known at this
hour heyi. nl tl.e fact tin; o ,e A in i\ean
soldier was killed.
;d By T
r immediate Service
Junius I)i;r>rs, registered at Snow
( Hill.
Jim Robinson, registered at Mc;
lice.
Sylvester Dijrtf!-'. registered at Italefch.
j Julius Parsons, registered at Ches-,
j terlield.
IMdie Dense, rej;i:<t' r? 1 at Odo us
Mill.
Lewis Rlakeney, registered at Papjelaiul.
John MrGwin, registered at IVIt.
1\y i ' iicin.
Julius Porter, registered at < la-raw.
Lon Hough, registered at Plains.
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WASHINGTON WILL NOT LET
UP IN SUBMARINE FIGHT
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Washington, Nov. 'JO.?The hopeful
outlook for .effectively curbing
the submarine menace, imlicateil in
the speech of the British premier yes;
terdny, will serve to increase rather *
i than lessen the pressure the Washington
government is putting upon
' destroyer building and other antisuhmarine
measures. This was ind.ii
ealed by Seeretaiy Daniels today, it,
j refusing to discuss details of the part
; American vessels have been playing
j in the campaign.
' The incidt nl used by Lloyd-Geoig<
I to lend force to liis slatement that
i he no longer feared the submarine
; menace?the fact that . e tstmi
I lines had been sunk in >>... .! .?
bably represents the best one day's
achievement of the anti-submarine
? forces.
The policy of .-" 1 :: e as t ? the nam
bers of submarines destroyed or ti e
place of actions has a definite place
I in this program now seemingly
> achieving a measure of success. For
s this reason, the navy department will
s continue to 1 < ;> strict silence as to
- what it accomplished by \inericans
j vessels.
OVER THREE MILLION LET IO
^ FARMERS Dl'PING OCTOBER
Washington. Nov. 17. Loans rtf
j $o,"'7,t,UOi) were made to farmers in
j October under t h" federal farm loan
" j system, raising the total paid out.
s | since the system's inauguration lif
' teen months ago to $'J 1 .iMHl.ntio. The
< j Federal Farm Loan Board's report
? today showed that the demand for
i loans was four limes the amount ac1
tually paid.
Loans applied for by States in;
elude: Virginia, ; North
r j Carolina, .$(">, 1 -tj, 1 I; South Carolina.
$r>,;{20.7H7; fJeorjria, .S2,-V2.*>,2*7, ami
' Florida, $"?,7i)0,o07.
f Application to tin- Columbia fed
eral farm loan hank total $1P,7(>K,
HOlt, while the loans cloud amount,
to $<>20, 2M>.
GERMANY'S DEFEAT
II is not in.possible to defeat <Jer
many, declares The New Republic.
Iler defeat will come through no mi'
rac.c, hut throuph perseverenci' under
suffering and loss of the three
Allied nations that combine industrial
power with military fitness and
have no particular interests to misdirect
their efforts, France, England
and the t inted States. The ropon nihility
of the three nations is a
heavy one. I'poti them res'.s all
hope of an international i 1
-. ??x. i mniMj
upon free cooperation, instead of
Upon suhservieney and autocratic
hegemony. Kngland and France arc
alive to the responsibility. They are
putting forth ihe'r maximum enertries.
We are doing much, hilt we
I must do more, and 'ptickly. With
Italy, We have sulfered defeat, hut it
is the character of a ureal nation to
meet defeat with new evidences of
resolution, new exhibitions of energy.
(ierman fighting morale has been
heightened, hut when in the course of
months it becomes clear to (icrmuny
that the morale of hei enemies has
been also heightened she will again
ask herself, Of what profit are victories
m subsidiary fields, the crushing
of weaker nations, when we cannot '
shake off the tightening grip of the
armies at our own gates?