The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-08-30

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Adam made a pretty poor job of the
latter.
Isn't funny thing to hear anybody
talking about none but my friends
need apply" and then chewing the
rag about his friends missing all the
patronage?
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1t is a peculiar fact, but true, that
crooks and thieves believe everybody
else are crooks and thieves. When
YOU hear anyone continually accusing
other folks of crookedness, it is a
pretty good sign that that person is
thoroughly yellow.
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A piece of bread in the garbage can
is an act OF treason. If every family
in the United States throws away
one slice of bread day it means
total of two billion wasted loaves
daily.-Aiken Standard.
This would give us pretty large
population. about a hundred billion
or so. However, the sentiment is a
good one. Enough is wasted every
week in America to feed a large
army. This waste must cease.
Every slice of bread wasted may
mean a hungry mouth unified.
They lynched a negro preacher in
York county the other day because
he was opposed to the draft and be-
cause he had been talking against
the war. Why, we thought, after
reading about that Filbert picinc, and
how unanimously the hands were
raised when the vote was taken, that
everybody in York county was against
the war-yet we are told that this
preacher was lynched by mob COM
posed of both whites and blacks. We
must confess we don't see the logic
of taking vengeance out on, an ignor-
ant negro preacher when white men,
from whom so much more is to be ex-
pected, are allowed to say things
much more harmful than anything a
negro can say.
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England or Germany, which? Dis
regard the initial cause for war
between France and Germany. The
German army was modified within
few days and started on it's way to
Paris through Belgium. Germany
had a treaty with Belgium, binding
Germany to respect Belgium's neu-
trality. This document was treated
merely as scrap of paper, and was
utterly disregarded by the German
government in its mad attempt to
overrun France before that country
could gather an army to resist the
invasion. Belgium resisted the Ger
man army going through Its terri
tory, and saved France from COM
plete occupation by the German army
| England had a treaty with Belgium
| obligating that country to protect
the little kingdom. England did not
consider her treaty merely as a scrap
of paper, but threw her armies into
Belgium's defense as fast as she
could mobilize, which was about as
difficult to England then as to the
United States today. AS the New
| berry Observer remarks, If England
started the war, as Germany charges
why was England so unprepared
| Germany was absolutely prepared
| so we'll prepared that it modified an
army of hundreds of thousands in, we
believe, four days. Such wonderful!
mobilization could not have been pos,
sible if Germany had not foreseen
the struggle, and was only waiting
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Germanys alleged grief against the
United States was that we should
not have allowed expectation of mu,
nitions of war. DR.. Watson made
the point the other day that this was
equivalent to Germany saying, 1--WE
are prepared, we have plenty of mu'
nitions; and you must not furnish
munitions to the Allies" AS a mat
ter of fact, as DR.. Watson said, Ger
many furnished war supplies to bel
ligerent countries as late as the Bal
kan wars. But, now that Germany
is at war, it is not right for the
United States to furnish belligerents
with supplies. 1t is to be borne IN
mind that America did not restrict
her trade to the Allies. Germany
could have purchased if she could
have had use of the seas. But thai
is the point of Germany's contention
she could not get supplies herself