Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-07-23

not fit to vote" and a mother who
is not willing to raise her boy to be
soldier is not fit for citizenship. Be
fore the address at the club house ne
planted a tree. War and Peace was
the topic of Colonel Roosevelts ad-
dress to an immense audience gath
cred in the Court Of the Universe
Col. Roosevelt was given a presiden-
tial salute of 81 guns by the warshlps
in the harbor.
Senator Bankhead of Georgia,
and Representative Tribble Of Geor-
gia, urged President Wilson Wednes-
day, to take further steps to stop
British interference with cotton snip
ments from the United States to Eu-
rope. The president assured them the
government was acutely conscious Of
the situation and was doing every
thing possible to better 1t. Senator
Bankhead said a large surplus from
this years cotton crop must be car
ried over as a result Of interference
with American trade. Representative
Tribble, following the interview, SAID
the administration is hopeful that the
cotton export situation Will be much
improved this fall. president VIII
son is closely studying the situation
with reference to getting our staple
way will be found to insure safe de-
liyery." said Mr.. Tribble. IF the ad-
ministration is able to carry out It's
plans the prices Of cotton should De
stiffened as a result.
The latest report from Gen. Sir
Ian Hamilton, commanding British ex-
peditionary forces at the Dardaneiies'
given out in London last night by the
Ian Hamilton reports that in the nortn
a raiding party rushed trench on
the front Of our line the night OF July
IS. All Of the enemy fled, except one,
who was killed. On July 19 an anti
aircraft gun was hit by one OF our
shells and blown into the air. On the
southern area the Turks on July IL
attacked some newly captured trench
es in the French section, but were re-
pulsed with ease. In the British sec
ton there has been STEADY progress
daily, consolidating and in some cases
extending the trenches won on the
18th and 18th. Yesterday, the 2lst'
a small redoubt was captured with
insignificant loss and a successful at
tack was made on part of communl-
eating trench held by the enemy. A
Turkish machine gun opposite our
left was knocked out by the French
artillery. In both sections the enc
my's artillery has been active"
I'm a statement given to the press
at Savannah, last Wednesday, Dr.
Joseph Goldberger Of Washington, head
of the department for pellagra research
Of the United States public health ser
vice, in announcing his conclusloEs
about the malady and its causes, said:
After experiments conducted at the
Georgia state sanitarium at Milledge-
Vile and in q similar institution at
Jackson, Miss, we have come to the
definite conclusion that our theory
made public last year, that pellagra Is
the result Of eating too regularly too
much starchy food, is correct. Patients
in these two institutions kept upon
proper diet have failed this year to de-
velop symptoms Of the disease. We
also know that pellagra is not con-
tageous. There is not the slightest
danger Of catching the disease by
contagion with one who has 1t. Pei
lagra, we have found, is more prevalent
in the south than in the north, al
though there is just as much possl- :
bility Of the reverse, except for the fact
that people in the north eat a great
deal more meat and other non-starcny
foods than do people in the south.
What we need more than anything else
is to return to the old smokehouse
meat age"
THAT a large part of the ship
ments of American cotton held up by
England probably will be condemned
by the prize court was indicated in a
ruling last Wednesday by the British
government. The ruling, announced
by the board of trade, held that when
the ownership Of cotton shipped un-
der the agreement with American eX-
porters passes from the American
shipper to an enemy Of Great Britain
it will not be purchased by the Brit
ish government under the terms Of
the agreement. Premier Asquith
touched on the cotton question dur
ing the debate in the house OF COM
mons on the new vote Of credit. The !,
government is not without hope,
he said, that we shall obtain
without much delay a more satisfac-
tory and more adequate solution OF
the various difficulties surrounding
the cotton question than has yet been
possible. l am not satisfied myself
with the existing state Of things. l
believe a great deal Of this material
which is a necessary ingredient in the
manufacture of very formidable kinds
of ammunition, reaches the enemy
which ought not to reach him. On
the other hand, we have to be very
careful in the exercise OF our bellig-
erent rights not to unduly infringe on
the trading interests and legitimate
susceptibilities of neutral powers with
which we are on terms Of perfect am
ity, and with which we do not desire
to provoke anything in the nature OF
an unnecessarily gratuitouS quarrel.
The premier added that no subject
was receiving more watchful and anX-
ious attention from the government,
but it was a delicate and difficult mat
ter. The ramifications Of the cotton
trade were so complicated, he said,
that a particular line Of policy which
might appear to present an easy and
practical solution would in reality
multiply rather than minimize the
difficulty.
The Austrians and Germans, ac-
cording to a London dispatch, continue
their drive at Warsaw from the north,
the west and the south, and are re-
ported further north toward Riga.
The tone of Petrograd dispatches be-
speaks plainly that Russia is aware OF
the gravity of the situation involving
not orly the fate of the Polish capital
but the integrity Of the Russian army
in Poland, which might be cut in twain
by a decisive defeat along the Lublin-
Chelm railroad. 1t is along this latter
section that he Russians are hghting
most desperately, for the railway is
Poland's sole great artery of commu-
nication with southern Russia. Hav-
ing several times been reported within
five miles of the railroad and now, ac-
cording to Austrian claims, having
pierced the Russian front. the Teu-
tonic forces probably are within rifle
shot of the line. No claim has been
made of having seized it. Northwest
of Lublin the Teutonic forces have
pushed forward to the bridge head po-
sitions south of Ivangorod, and thence
northward. Around the circle tight
ening on Warsaw they have made
steady progress, though meeting with
serious opposition along the Narew
river, northwest of the capital. Else
where. generally speaking, the Rus
slams are employing in their retreat
the tactics with which they harassed
Napoleon in 1912. They are burning
bridges, destroying roads and laying
waste the countryside with fire, and
dynamite. All Courland has been laid
waste and Windau. in flames, sent up
a glow visible many miles away. Elim-
mating the stroke against Riga, Oper-
ations in Poland occupy a front OF