The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, May 16, 1918, Image 2
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.
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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
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\ 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.
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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
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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."
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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
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?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
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