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The Chesterheld Advertiser PUBLISHED EVE RY THURSDAY Subscription, $1.00 a ycnr. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Chesterfield, South Carolina. PAUL H. 11EARN Editor and Publisher. We have just passed through a Liberty Loan Drive in which we were all given our opportunity to lend Dionov ?lf eilKuf ontiul infnroot o ?"? government. This loan, though patriotic, was nevertheless a good financial investment. Beginning May 20th and ending May 27th you will be given an opportunity to GIVE of your means to tho Red Cross. This is a gift in every sense of the word. There is to be no gilt-edged interest-bearing security attached to this gift. Millions of our young men and thousands of our young women have gone and are going "over there," giving all, their wealth, there time, their life. You are not now asked to imttch these gifts with a loan. But are given an opportunity to match them with a gift of money?the least thing you can give. Every man whose soul is not dead within him will eagerly respond "till his heart says stop." The price of milk in Columbia has Kone to 20 cents a quart. Who jrot Columbia's tfoat? Many people have objected to the teaching of Greek and Latin in the schools because they are dead lanKua^es. They now object to German because it is a rotten lan^ua^e. FIXING PRICE OF COTTON Senator Smith, of South Carolina, recently *rave out two very important statements. One was to the effect that no bill fixinjr the price of cotton can pass Congress unless prices on every article of commerce in America are also fixed. It would be manifestly unfair to put a price upon cotton unless a price were also put upon articles manifacturod of cotton. If cotton prices were lowered cotton cloth and all other articles made of cotton must necessarily be lowered. In this opinion Senator Fletcher, of Florida, heartily joined, ursine that such action by ' -ingress would cause much demoralization. Ho said in this connection: "I am against this bill or anything like it and will oppose it to the host of my ability." In this connection the Augusta ( hroniclc says: "In summing up reasons vhy thenis no possible method whereby any definite basis may be derived at for determining a price which should be | ! xed for the fleecy staple, it must j he considered that the element of weather plays a more important part in cotton production that in al-1 most any other crop which is grown, j nd this, alone, is e lough to chang { the yield in many localities, if not in-! deed, over the whole cotton hell by fill per cent. GF.RAltD AND GERMANY Hon. .lames YV. Gerard was American Ambassador at the German Imperial Court, July ID HI to February 4, 11)17. The following is f'*om his pen : YV e are engaged in a war airainst the greatest military power the world has ever seen; against a people whose country was for so many centuries a theatre of devastating wars that fear is bred in the very marrow of their souls, making them ready to submit their lives and fortunes to an autocracy which for centuries nus ground | their faces, but wnich has promised them, as a result of the war, not onl> security but riches untold and the dominion of the world; a people which, as from a high mountain, has looked upon the cities of the world and the glories of them, and has been promised these cities and these glories by the devils of autocracy and of war. We are in this war because we were forced into it; because Gerniany not only murdered our citizens o.i the high seas, but also filled our country with spies and sought to incite our people to civil war. We are warring against a nation whose poets and professors, whose pedagogues and whose parsons have united in stirring its people to a high pitch of hatred, first against France und Russia, then against England, Italy, Belgium, Serbia, Rumania, and now against AMERICA. Is it not a shame that the world should have been so disturbed; that peaceful men are compelled to lie in tne mud and filth in the depth of] raw winter, .shot at and stormed at and shelled, waiting for a chance to murder some other inoffensive fellow creature? Why must the people in old Poland die of hunger, not finding dogs enough to eat in the. streets of Lemberg? 'i he long lines of broken peasants in Serbia and ii Rumania; the population of Belgiun. nnd northern France torn from theii homes to work us slaves for the Cier mans; the poor prisoners of war starving in their hata or working fac YOUR RE An Army Wi By MEREDITH Of the Vi ' I HE Red Cross is tin ** mercy the world has service of mercy and help days, the Red Cross surpa only in the range and va efficiency and eftectivenes The Red Cross is, we mothers of the world rea< hind up their wounds and Cross is an army withou only upon suffering and ffag of the stars goes the; Cross must fly beside it. forth to war with a spirit < know that this great age close behind them; that i but the intelligent diree most marvelous organiza American genius. We have all contribu shall be called upon agt funds,?again and perha] respond again and yet ags the defense of civilizatioi splendid, glorious Ameri< that it shall be fought w Cross solidly supporting o STRETCHING P MEET THE NE THE RED CROSS HAS ERNMENTS WI The HvaluiK'he of refugees that > swept Into Paris from tlie north of j France had been the despair of the j civil authorities. These homeless, stunned people were a new responsibility to ho added to the thousands of wounded men that came steadily from j the shambles of the west front. Paris is an old city. It was not ! ready to take in Its neighbors' chll-! dren. Its population was already a tight fit. So It made the best of Its poor hospitality by offering up Its gar-, rets. New building const ruction seem-1 ed Impossible. Men were scarce. The j mechanic was either manning the trenches or fighting the fight In the i war factories. Paris was distracted. It Is wonderful indeed how nobly Paris tried to meet this condition. Ami it is remarkable how Paris met It 1 with the aid of our own Iteil Cross. , Unhampered by red tape or precedent, , our Ked Cross put on overalls ami Jumper, carried the hod. became architect. engineer and contractor and went ' Into the building of homes. Here was a church lot that lay vacant; here an unfinished hospital; there a worn out I I THE RED C By AMELIA JO: Of the Vi Broken with pain and And sapped with vilt Back to the land of : Of murdered men an Through Switzerland The trains of wreckaj And on the French fr< And when to what ha Those haggard exiles Young wheat was gr< Of steel and blood an Round new built hou The work of life bega And still they found I Them the husband c The wife he mourned The child was on its i TI e old were comfori What wonder if they The Angel of God's Who meets them at t 'ories and mines; the cities of the ;<ld and the children, wounded by bombs from Zeppelins; the wails of 'he mothers for their sons; the very rustling of the air as the souls of the ten million de.id sweep to another vorld why must all these horrors come upon a fair green earth, where "c believed that love and friendship, 'onius and science and commeree, elision and civilization, once ruled? It. is because in the dark, cold Norihern plains of Germany there exists: in autocracy, deceiving a great people, poisoning their minds from one 1 ?: D CROSS thout a Gun NICHOLSON ailante*. - I ? greatest instrument of ever seen. Noble as the fulness was in Civil War isses it immeasurably not riety of its effort, but in s. may say, the arms of the died out to their sons to comfort them. The Red it a gun that wages war heartache. Where the re the banner of the Red We watch our boys go r>f hopefulness because we ncy of humanity presses ts work is not incidental, ted effort of one of the itions ever contrived by ted to the Red Cross; we lin to contribute to its [>s again. And we will lin! For this is a war for i, and we of great, free, :a, have every intention ith the army of the Red >ur soldiers. IRIS TO EDS OF FRANCE HELPED WHERE GOViRE HELPLESS. building, all of which In a fortnight were started on their way towurd new apartments, rooms and sleeping wards. We here at hofue who associate the great Ited Cross movement with bandages ami whitfe gowned nurses must lose this old Illusion In the light of a thousand other works for humanity. In this cuse we see the Red Cross first as diplomats convincing the civil authorities of Paris as to their ability to remedy the situation, then a? architects remodeling buildings, ehnng lug building plans, hiring labor gath ercd by themselves from the ex-sol tilery and the older man, all the while working under every Imaginable handicap. while Father Time cried, "Get It done, get It done." So out of the garrets came those de spalrlng people to find new hope li clean homes, to get new cheer out ot sheer bodily conifott and fresh cour age to again take rp the great trust that France has kept so well?"to car r.v on." It Is not strange that out French brothers believe in your own Red Cross Just a little more than you do. Rut should this he? :ross man SEPHINE BURR. igilantes. I weariness ? disease, ruined towns, d trees, from Germany Ke ran,? >ntier they found A Hed Cross Man. id once been home i came, ?on above the scars d flame ses where once more in. Lo welcome them A Red Cross Man. lasped a^ain 1 1 as ucaa-mother's breast, ted. hope to find Plan he hevcnly Kate A Red Crpss Man! ?generation to another and preaching the viriu?- and necessity of war; am until that autocracy is either wipec out or made powerless, there can b< no peace on earth. What a reel oning there will he ir Germany some day when the plair people realize the truth, when thej learn what Mae motives actual et their rulers, jn condemning a whoU generation of the earth to war anc death! , Fortunately, America, led by t fighting president, will allow no com' promise with brutal autocracy. NEED FOR FIRING 8QUA0. J, 1 ty must have occurred to a groat many people. In rending the newspaper accounts of the lenient methods adopt- : ed by the government authorities In | dealing with the spy question, that the 1 plying of this trade by a German or German sympathizer is fnr s#fer than service In the army of the Kaiser. The most serious pennlty Imposed so far hns beeu against an officer of the United States arnty who voluntarily announced that he could not do justice to himself or his men In lead Ing them against his relntlves and | - friends fighting on the German side. A man who Is convicted of being a leader In the spy plots against American lives and property Is given a prison sentence less than that usually meted out to an embezr.llng clerk. Other men, engaged In subterranean efforts which might result In the killing of more American boys thnn could be accomplished by an entire German regiment, are plensantly Interned In quarters where they are provided with creature comforts unknown to the young men who are upholding the i>tnrs and Stripes In No Man's Land. The renson for this state of affairs Is hard to appreciate. The country Is at war and war Is not a "civil" nmtter. A man who conspires to plnce a bomb in an American troop-ship or a vessel carrying much needed supplies to our allies Is warring against this country as much (even more, we believe) as the prlvnte or officer In the German > ranks who Is exposed to American bullets. Why, then, should we treat these vipers as offenders against the civil law? Let's order ou;. the firing squad I TRUE CITIZENSHIP i Much ns we dislike to admit It, there still exists a distinct npathy toward the war on the part of a great many people In various parts of the country. The renson for this Is even deeper than constitutional pacifism or pro-Gertunnlsm hased upon explainable blood or mental association. The fact Is. , although we did not realize It until recently, the average citizen of this country has not had Instilled In hlra real responsibility In and to his gov the democratic Idea In America nnd the ultra-political nature of our form of government hns resulted In the al- . most total disappearance of the appreciation l>y the Individual of what the government means to him. The chancing of thin condition Is , posslhl.v the most serious problem facing the United States today, outside of winning the war. It Involves a comi plete readjustment and revitalizing of ; our methods of civic Instruction. This ' work must start In the schools of the I lowest grnde. Many men who have had the advantage of collegiate Inatruction In political economy, nnd even the Influence of the discussion of these matters In high school debating societies, appreciate the problem. It must he remembered, however, that by far the greater majority of boys who later make up the citizenry of the nnthyi leave school after passing through only the most elementary grndes. The National Security League, organized at the start of the war as a preparedness proganda and now devoting Its "ntlre efforts to the awakening of the people to a realization of the meanings of the war and the menace of defeat, has undertaken a nationwide eampalgn on this question of true citizenship which Is worthy of attention nnd support. It has enlisted the co-operation of state, county and city superintendents of schools In all parts of the country to make dally Instruction on the war part of actual school tuition. The league has also obtained the release to It on full pay by the Boards of Trustees of a number of the largest colleges nnd universities In I he country of a corps of professors who are to constitute a "National Patriotic Education Faculty" to carry on this work In the broader field. These men will crcnte a sort of peripatetic university, Journeying personally Into nil purls of the country to sprend this thought of the necessity of awakening the citizenship of the country to responsibility In Its government. More power to the National Security league find may the nation quickly realize the Importance of Its work! Great Wheel Stocks Isolated. It's the shortage In ships that Is putting the Allies and the United States on wheat rations. Great stocks of wheat are Iho lated In India, and Australia. At great sacrltlce In ship space and use the Allies are forced to secure some wheat from Argentina. On Jnnuai-7 1, Australia hart I stored 100.000.000 bushels of ' I wheat that wus ready for ex- | port?but there were no shlpa. Then mine the new crop with an exportable surplus of 80,000,000 bushels. Now Australia has approximately 180,000,000 bushI els waiting for ships. India, at the same time, had 70,000,000 bushels of wheat stored for export. During April 60,000,000 bushels more out of the new crop will be added to j the pile. Argentina closed the last shipping season with ll.OOO'.OOO bushels of wheat left In the | stock avaiiame ror export. The new crop will add 135.000,000 to the left over. II (a not a problem that the ' wheat doea not exlal In the world?It Is entirely a problem I of shipping. which haa thrown on ? Amertm the obligation of dlvld ing our Mtock with tlie Allies. i ^ ? ; 1 i RUB-MY-TISM Will cure Rheumatism, Neu1 ralgia, Headaches, Cramps, Colic Sprains. Bruises, Cuts, Burns, Old i Sores, Tetter, Ring-Worm, Ec-1 sema, etc. Antiseptic Anodyne, | used internally or externally. 25c AMERICAN TROOPS STRONGLY PRAISED BY LONDON PAPERS London, May 13.?The American invasion of London is the feature of the rqorning newspapers today as it was on Sunday. The most critical military experts are loud in their praise of the fine bearing of the Americ .1 troops who paraded through the British capital Saturday. One writer sums up the general opinion in this way: "They have the cut of an infernal y adequate lot of fighters. I would rather lead them than tackle them." Newspaper articles are illustrated with photographs of different stages of the march, an important place being given to the scone outside Buckingham palace with King George standing beside Colonel Whitman and saluting the American flag. On every judge of fighting manojiI," ihe Daily telegraph says, wie American troops made ..he sa.-ie ..npression. In physique and morale they are equal to the finest troops raised by any country at the time when the standard of European man..er stood at its highest point." The carrying through of the Ame ricun effort, the Morning Post thinks, means the turning of the scale against the enemy. Germany it says never made a more profound or more fatal miscalculation than when she held the power of America to be cheap. "The kaiser and his advisers," says The Times, "have brought together the English-speaking peoples more closely and more rapidly than the fondest dreamers after more ruimate relations between them had dared to hope. This is an immense event in the history of the old world and the new. It is the greatest that has happened except the war itself since the French revolution." "The lesson for England and America is plain, and there is abundant proof that both understand it. We have to stick it out and the Americans have to hurry up and they are harrying up splendidly. "Not one peace note has been heard in congress. The only criticisms i>i"eathed against the government consist of occasional complaints that it does not get on fast enough with the war. That is the right temper for both sides of the Atlantic." FORD WILL DISTRIBUTE TRACTORS TO FARMERS Columbia, May 13.?Henry Ford's manufacturing plants will supply 100 tractors, at factory prices, to the farmers of South Carolina, according to a letter received today by Governor Manning from Ernest Kanzler, of the Ford organization. These tractors are to be distributed among the farmers with the understanding that they are to be kept in constant use in war food production, either on his land or on that of his neighbor. The Ford organization has reduced its commercial output to 35 per ent of maximum, the other G5 per | EggsFor | FROM MY I ! Barred ! Foundation Stock \ You Can Get Eggs i \ | Florence, S. C., Nov. 6-9. Pec , exhibition Pen, let Cockerel Florence, S. C., Dec. 26-29. let | end 2nd Cockerel bred Pull hibition Hen, 2nd Cockerel ' uion Pen. I : r. r P Bamrockbi i A Bank Accou Is the Gibraltar If yon are a man of family yon n ACCOUNT IS THE BULWARK, T1 It protects you in time of need. It gives yon a feeling of indepeni It strengthens yon. It Is a Consolatit to Your The FARMi w cent of plant activities being engag-f If ed in the manufacturing of tjie aero-l planes, submarine chasers, army trucks and other war material for the ' government. This war activity is K ; being pursued at cost to the govern1 ment. Some time ago a member of the ; Ford Company visited Governor Manning and broached to him the idea of distributing tractors among the farmers of the nation at factory B cost to assist in increased produc tion of food crops. Governor Man ning was of the opinion that the farmers of this State could use the tractors to a decided advantage. "We are in receipt of your letter hi dated May 4f 1918," said Mr. Kan- vv /.ler's letter, "in which you advise t( t ihat you would like very much to ^ I have the people of your State given the opportunity to purchase our ' Fordson tractor." ti A TRIBUTE TO CORN BREAD ti It many be remembered by readers si of The Advertiser that this paper be- rr gan some months ago to urge the r; more general use of corn bread. This rr was before the government began to lj limit the amount of flour to be used, ci So this paper is somewhat a pioneer fi in advocating the conservation of h flour and the more liberal use of d corn bread. Now comes the Indianapolis Her- ii aid and proclaims corn bread as the h great American dish. It pays this b high, but well deserved compliment, p to the corn meal diet: "Nothing is more patriotic and nothing is more nourishing. It graces any meal, and is suitable for J any combination of food where wheat a bread would serve and some places e where it would not. It is the campcr's friend and the true epicure's delight. Those who declare that they 1 do not like corn bread argue against 1 their appreciation of the better 3 things of this world. c "It is food fit for a king; indeed. it is entirely too good for somc of | ^ the kin^s who are striving? 'desperitely to hanjj on to their jobs now- ? , aduys. Eat cornbread, and be heal- ^ thy, happy and wise, for if you eat * cornbread you save wheat flour, and * that is one of the wisest thinj*s that ^ any of us can do at this time." To which let us add that if Cotton is King, Corn is Queen. I miaffMtsniM I times ar tb I UKTrtD trtiam | oovxMMamr / Buy Them And Help Win The War ? FOR SALE EVERYWHERE n Hatching ; HIGH CLASS a u Rocks ': s Thompson Ringlets * n ^rom These Winnings 1; s r i Dee Fair, lat Cock, lat Hen, lat | I mating. ( t and 3rd Cockerel Mating, lat leta, lat exhibition Pullet, 4th exbred Hen, Champion Male, ChamE 4RKER I k. urn, S. C. j jj 11 / // A*/\ \ jL OVw <*) | m ^H^^H^PWEL lr -^T t^BCHr LAM of the Home! R i p ?mt have a bawk account. A BANK IE GIBRALTAR, OF YOUR HOME ience. on to Your Wife. Children EK.S* BANK 5S5F i WEEK WAS ABLE TO RESUME HIS. WORK NOCKED ME OUT SO I SIMPLY * HAD TO QUIT WORKING/' HE SAYS LOSING MONEY FAST gan Taking Tanlac And In Waak Wat Toiling Hard aa if Nothing Had Been Wrong "It's the honest truth, before I ad taken this Tanlac a week I was ell and strong enough to go back ? work," said W. R. Made, wellnown resident of Winnficld, La., le other day. "I had a very bad case of stomach rouble and rheumatism," he conr nued, "that knocked me out so I imply had to quit working. My stolach was in such an awful fix, eveything I ate disagreed with me and . . ^ lade me miserable all the time. My imbs and joints would ache so I ould hardly stand it, and, in fact, ar a whole day before taking Tanic I wasn't able to put in a full ay's work at all. "One of my friends had been takig Tanlac and told me it had done im a world of good, so I got me a ottle to try. Well, sir, it sure sur risod me, for 1 began to feel better ight after the first dose, and before he week was out I was back on my ob and have been working rigty long ever since like nothing had ver been the matter with me. I ever saw anything in my life before hat gave such quick relief as this 'anlac, and I haven't had a single ymptom of my trouble since I startd on it." Tanlac, the Master Medicine, is sold y The Chesterfield Drug Co., Cheserficld, S. C.; T. E. Wanamaker A Ions, Cheraw; Mt. Croghan Dhug Co, It. Croghan, S. C.; McBee Drug Co., IcBee, S. C.; Pageland Drug Co., 'ageland, S. C.; J. T. Jowers & Sons, efferson, S. C. Adv. HER GREATER WORRY "Her sweetheart has gone to war." "Is she worried?" "Dreadfully. She's afraid he mag all in battle, but if he doesn't she'a fraid he may fall in love with a Red 'ross nurse."?Detroit Free Press. EVER WATCHFUL i Little Cere May Save Many Chesterfield Readers Future TroubU Watch the kidney secretions. See that they have the amber hue f health; The discharge not excessive or inrequent; Contain no "brick-dust like" sedi Doan's Kidney Pilla are especially or weak kidneys. Let a Cheraw citizen tell you how hey work. J. W. Eskridge, High St., Cheraw, !. C., says: " I had rheumatic pains nd kidney trouble. The pains were 1 the small of my back and I had to top work for a week. I could harder bend over to put on my shoes and t was just as hard for me to straight-: n. The kidney secretions were scany and highly colored and passed too requently. I had to get up several imes during the night on this acount. Doan's Kidney Pills cured le and I can't praise them too highr" m Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't J imply ask for a kidney remedy?get *| loan's Kidney Pills?the same that I !r. Eskridge had. Foster-Milburn !o., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y. Adv. 7 DR. L. H. TROTTI, Dental Surgeon Chesterfield, S. C. nm..? j ? v...w uii Dcvuna noor in Koil luilding. ' All who desire my services will . lense see me at Chesterfield, a* I ave discontinued my visits to othsr * awns. * DR. R. L. M c M A N U S Dentist Office over Bank of Chesterfield. I /ill visit Pageland every Tuesday; It. Croghan every Wednesday. Other days in Chesterfield. f'riceB reasonable. All work guarnteed. 1 J. ARTHUR KNIGHT Attorney-at-Law j Office in Courthouse I Chesterfield, S. C. HANNA * HUNLEY .' t ?Attorneys? 1 ,. E. Hanna, C. L. Hunley, Cheraw. Chesterfield Offices: ' ' ' eoples* Bank Bldg., Chesterfield Bank of Cheraw Bldg., Cheraw ? m T C Fa?AJ HrffiTfTBi | BM 4: KmU^H r~~