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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-12-13

A body of 100 surgeons has been
organized for service in the hospit-
ais of Roumania.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-12-13

All persons between the ages or
twenty-one and sixty years Of age.
except Confederate veterans and sail
ors, who are exempt at so years Of
age, are liable to a poll tax of one
dollar.
Capitation dog tax so cents.
All persons who were 21 years of
age on or before the 1st day Of jan
uary, 1917, are liable to a poll tax
of one dollar, and all who have not
made returns to the Auditor are rel-
quested to do so on or before the
1st of January, 1918.
I will receive the commrtation
road tax of two $4,000 dollars from
the 18th day Of October, 1917, until
the 1st day of March, 1913.
G. A. JENNINGS,
Treasurer Bamberg County.
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24
HUGE WAR BUDGET PASSED
Initial Allowance for Armament and
Ship Construction Is $3,342, 10000

Washington-The administration
initial war budget. increased to a to-
tai of S3,342, 100000 by the addition
OF $750,000000 for the merchant fleet
construction program, passed the SEN
ate without roll call.
AS it passed the house the measure
carried approximately $4,000, 000, 900
and did not include the ship program
appropriation. This provision was put
IN by the senate at the request of the
administration.
Most of the money appropriated will
go to pay expenses of the war army
and of the increased navy and marine
corps already authorized. The larg-
est single items are for pay of en-
listed men, provision being made to
meet the increased pay schedules APP
proved for the army and navy person
mel. There also are big appropria-
tons, for equipment, Notifications and
munitions.
Under the bill, President Wilson is
given power to commanders ships
built or building and is also given an
immediate emergency shipping fund
of $405,000,000. This is part of an au-
thorization of $750,000,000 for merch-
ant marine.
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24
U. S. SHELL KILLS 2 NURSES
Accident Occurs Aboard Merchantmen
Bound for Europe.

New York-In an accident during
practice firing at sea Sunday, aboard
an armed American merchantmen
bound for Europe, two American Fed
Cross nurses were killed and third
wounded
Official announcement of the cause
of the accident was withheld by both
army and navy authorities here.
One unofficial version was that the
shell from the gun had exploded
about IT'S feet distant. just as it was
striking the water, and that pieces
ricocheted back and struck the nurses.
Another was that the accident was
caused by breach explosion of a de-
fective shell as the gun fired. An
other was that the shell exploded as
it was being loaded
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24
COAL SHORTAGE ARTIFICIAL
Brokers, BY Reconsigning Shipments,
Blamed for Condition.

Lansing-The Michigan railroad
commission has started something
that may put up to the National De-
Tense council the abolition of recon
signing privileges on cars of coal.
The commission has suggested to the
special committee of the American
Railway association, working with the
way-and the only way-out of the
present coal shortage trouble is the
complete abolition of the reconsigning
privilege.
UNLESS something is done this state
will be in very bad shape before win
ningham. Now is the time the coal
supply is replenished, but you cannot
replenish it with the prices held up
by the brokers as they are. They
cannot return the cars when they are
reconsigned and reconsigned and held
there, unless the consignee is ready to
take them"
The railway association has been re-
questing the Michigan commission to
clear up the coal situation in this
state, and requesting that the car
shortage be kept as low as possible.
The answer from Michigan is, "Cut
out the reconsigning privilege"
The interstate commerce commits
sion can make such an order If it
will, and Mr.. Cunningham thinks the
National Defense council can put it up
to the commission as a patriotic duty.
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24
DuIcimer Forerunner of Piano.

The dulcimer is really the prototype
of the piano, the strings of which are
set in vibration by small hammers held
in the hands. AS it is not large (never
more than about three feet by four)
it is portable, and was at one time a
very popular instrument for accom-
panying singing, as well as solo work.
The tone is inclined to be harsh If IL
Is played too boisterously, but If played
softly, the tone is very pleasant, the
smooth vibration of the strings produc-
ng fine effects. The dulciner is prob
ably one of the oldest of musical In
struments. Along with the psaltery Ga
similar instrument, the strings of
which are plucked instead of being
struck 1t has been long known In the
East, and was one of the earliest men,
toned of Hebrew instruments. 1t is
one of the parents of the family of
string instruments, such as the auto
harp, either. piano-harp, harpsichord,
cembalo and modern pianoforte.
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24
3 SWEDISH STEAMERS SUNK
Torpedoed Vessels were on Way From
Eneland-Loaded With Grain.

Stockholm, via London - News
that the Swedish steamers Yes
News that the Swedish steamers Yes
terland, Aspen and Vixen, laden with
grain from England, had been sunk
by German submarines, was received
here and caused much indignation.
The message telling of the sinking
said eight members of the crew of the
Vixen and two of the Vesterland had
been lost.
Papers CT all shades of opinion uni
ted in voicing Indignation at the tor
pedoing of the steamers. The Stock
holm Tidningen captions its article
"The Germans Dastardly Deed Against
Sweden" and characterizes it as a
deliberate and bloody crime" 1t de-
clares that land capable of such a
deed is capable of anything.
The Stockholm Dagblad says a
share of Indignation must be vented
on England which delayed the depart
ure of the steamers until after May 1,
but that the first and foremost feeling
must be bitterness against the meth
DDS of the Germans.
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24
Rice Husks as Fuel.

Shortage of coal in Spain has led to
experiments with various substitutes.
including the husks of rice and in
ferior qualities of Ignite. In the prov
Inces that raise rice, the husks have
lately been mixed with tar and formed
INTO briquettes under hydraulic pres
sure. In their natural form rice husks
make an expensive fuel, burning with
little heat, but the briquettes are said
10 ignite readily, give off little smoke
and cas be used to some extent as a
substitute for coal, says Popular Me-
.hanics Magazine.
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24
HOOVER IS MADE
FOOD DICTATOR
NEW OFFICE CREATED FOR MAN
WHO HANDLED BELGIAN
RELIEF WORK.
WILL SERVE WITHOUT PAY
Appointment Is Intended to Meet a
Manifest Emergency and Con-
tinues While War Lasts.

Washington-Herbert c. Hoover has
been appointed food administrator"
of the United States, by President
Wilson. Mr.. Hoover accepted the APP
pointment ION condition that he ia to
receive no payment for his services
and that the whole force under him,
exclusive of clerical assistance, shall
be employed so far as possible upon
the same volunteer basis"
1.-THE proposed food administration"
the president said, lis intended only to
meet a manifest emergency and to
continue only while the war lasts.
Since it will be composed for the most
part of volunteers, there need be no
fear of the possibility of permanent
bureaucracy arising out of it. All con-
troll of consumption will disappear
when the emergency has passed"
Enlistment of every woman in the
United States as an actual member
of the food administration, pledged
to save food in every possible way,
was one of the four main branches of
the work outlined by Herbert c. Hoov-
er in his statement accepting the food
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24
CAMPS FOR NEGRO OFFICERS
coIored Fighters Will Be Trained
Apart From Whites.

Washington-A training camp for
Negro officers will be established at
Fort Des Moines, Iowa, where 1000
candidates for commissions in Negro
regiments of the new army will be
trained.
A draft of $50 men will be taken
from the colored regiments of the reg
ular army. selected from the non-com-
missioned officers and privates who
have shown qualifications fitting them
for command, and assigned to the new
camp. The remainder will come from
Negro regiments of the National
Guard and from graduates of the var
ious educational institutions for Ne
groes.
The few Negro candidates for com
missions now at the regular officers
training camps will be sent to Fort
Des Moines.
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24
STATE IS facing
MEATLESS DAYS
PREPAREDNESS BOARD MEMBER
SAYS ARMY NEEDS ARE
CREATING SHORTAGE.
MEAT RAISING NEGLECTED.
Even Army, Where Beef and Bacon
Are Chief Meat Staples, Will Have
to Adopt Substitutes.

Lansing-"With the present army in
the field, and an additional 100000
men probably to be called out August
l, the United States is bound to have
a food shortage next winter" declared
Major r. c. Vandercook, of the war
preparedness board.
Some articles OF food will disap-
pear from our menu, and we may as
well face the fact and adjust ourselves
to It.
There will undoubtedly be a great
shortage of meats. We shall be COM
PEELED to turn to various substitutes
and will be better for it, Meatless
days, which are in vogue in England
and Germany, are not outside the
bounds of possibility.
I'm the army, the staple meat is
sues have been beef and bacon. This
will be changed before many months,
because beef and bacon in sufficient
quantity is not in sight, and more at
tention is being paid to the raising of
beans and potatoes throughout the
country than to an augmented beef
supply.
There sailed recently from New
York a large vessel laden with meat
for the Allied armies, and the> entire
hold was filled, not with beef quarters,
as in the past, but with hearts and
livers. That shows the shortage which
exists today
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24
COTTON FROM "oTHER SIDE"
SaIesgirI Makes Slip in Using Excuse
That Has Become So Common
Since War Started.

The excuse that everything we buy
must either be inferior In grade or
else much more expensive than be-
fore the war has now become so uni
versal that it is brought forward re-
CARELESS of circumstances by sales
men and saleswomen.
The other day in large shop three
women from cotton growing states
asked for white cotton stockings.
The girl offered some. They were
not of the quality desired, and she
brought out others.
Haven't you any openwork cotton
stockings?" asked the customer.
The saleswOman shook her head.
"YOu know it's impossible to get
cotton since the war;" she informed
the customers gllbly. you sec we
have TO get all our cotton from the
other side"
And the three customers from cot
ton states bore 1t with the customary
talent for martyrdom of the Ameri-
can public.
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24
PASSING OF TIN PEDDLER
Modern Transportation Methods Have
Caused New England Business
Fixture to Disappear.

The automobile. trolley car and oth-
er latter day improvements have driV-
en- the tin peddler out of business.
Only few short years ago every
section of New England had several
tin peddlers canvasslng through the
city streets and along the country
roads looking for business, says the
Boston Globe. They sold everything
from paper OF pins to wash boiler.
They bought your old rags and news
papers and sometimes exchanged them
for bar Of soap or a teakettle.
Nowadays the tin peddler Is no
more.
The tin peddler's cart is like wom'
ans sewing basket; there is little OF
everything In it. Rag bags trail along
behind, the sides open like the cage
of the animals in the circus; brooms
stand majestically in the rear ana
there are box-like compartments for
every conceivable article of merchan-
disc under the drivers seat.
The tin peddler's cart has been
sort of travelling country store, but It's
usefulness has been wiped out by
quick transportation to all trade CEN
ters. With It's passing another New
England business fixture is no more.
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24
NICARAGUA DiSOWNS KAISER
Announces Break Of Diplomatic ReIa-
tions With Germany.

Observation-Disclosures, following
the lead of Guatemala and Honduras,
has severed displomatic relations with
Germany.
All Central American republics, ex-
cept Costa rRica and Salvador, now
have severed relations with the Ger
man empire. Costa RIGA, with a new
government yet unrecognized, had Of
fered to the United States the use of
her territorial waters during the war
for military purposes. The attitude
of Salvador is not known here.
Nicaragua's action is another mile
stone in the progress of the wave
sweeping around the world to outlaw
Germany for her aggressions against
laws and humanity.
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24

Harbor ,Beach-A meeting of black
smiths of Huron county was held in
this city to arrange new schedule
of prices. The recent advances in
prices OF material have hit the black
smiths particularly hard.
Sault Ste. Marie-Dense smoke
caused by heavy forest fires on the
north shore, added to the troubles of
navigation. So dense was the smoke
In Whiteflsh bay that tugs were not
able to work in the ice, and practical
" the entire upbound feet was com
PEELED TO come to anchor.
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24

New YOrk-Franz Won Rintelin Mon.
day was sentenced to one years i'm
prisonment in the Mercer county Jail
for his part in the activities of the
Labor Peace council attempt to pre-
vent shipment of munitions to the AL
lies by strikes.
David Lamar, 'FWolf of Wall street"
were also sentenced to one year i'm.
prisonment in the Mercer county Jail
at Trenton, N. J.
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24

Monroe-Postmaste Sidney r.
Younglove, of this city, has received
notice that commencing July 1 next,
the postoffice at Monroe will be rank
ed as a first class postoffice because
of increase In business.
Kalamazoo-Harry L. Dettman, of
Detroit, was arrested here on charge
OF attempting to steal $500 worth of
automobile tires from a freight train.
Dettman tried to throw the tires off a
moving train to several of his confed-
crates who were stationed about three
miles outside the city, II is alleged.
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24
U.S.-TeutOnic War News

The American steamship HllOnian
has been destroyed by German sub
marine off the Italian coast with loss
of four lives. News of the disaster was
received in Il cablegram TO the owners
In New York. The Hilonian was YES
sci of 1920 tons. The value of cargo
and ship was $30O0,000.
Secretary of the Treasury William G.
McAdOo told 800 bankers and bond
dealers at a banquet at Chicago that it
was time for every man in the country
to get busy. The 'liberty loan" he as
serted, must be taken at once, as
every dollar subscribed is n blow
struck for liberty throughout the
world"
The National Guard will be called to
the colOrs in three installments, begin
ming on July 10, for early service in
Europe. The units in midwestern states
will be called out on the following
dates: July 10, Iowa, Michigan and
Wisconsin; July %, Illinois; August 8,
Indiana and Kentucky. These dates
were fixed at a general staff conference
held at Washington.
The British admiralty announced at
London that American destroyers had
arrived in British waters. A crowd of
several hundred persons cheered the
destroyers. The American navy's ac-
tual entry into the war zone has al
ready been productive of u brush be-
tween a destroyer and a German I'M
derwater boat, but the result of it has
not been made public. The destroyer
squadron put to sea again for the hard
work that is before it.
At the conclusion of q two-hours'
conference with Governor Whitman,
Col. Theodore Roosevelt announced at
Albany, N. Y, that he would accept the
governors offer of major generals
commission in the state service If the
federal army bill were passed without
the provision to permit him to go to
Europe with an expeditionary force.
Labor and capital must cooperate
In sacrifice. This was the keynote of
the address of Samuel GOmpers. pres
ident of the American Federation of
Labor, before a great gathering of
American capitalists and labor leaders
in Washington.
President Wilson, following a con-
ference with Secretary of War Ba-
ker, issued an executive order at
Washington authorizing the raising of
$4,000 men, in four increments, to
bring the regular army to full war
strength.
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24

Agreement 10 spread the ban ON
wheat buying over the United States
and Canada was reached in Chicago
at a conference of representatives of
leading grain exchanges of this coun'
try and Of the Winnipeg mart An in
definite ban on trading in futures was
agreed on and the only new buying al
lowed will be that 20 close existing
contracts.
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24

dictatorship of the United States for
the war. The other three were: con-
troll of commodities by expert boards
drawn from existing agencies; the
control of distribution working
through state administrations; and
purchasing for our allies and neutrals
to avoid competition.
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24
Foreign

Although many of the striking mu-
milton workers in the Manchester dis
trict have returned TO work, the strike
has spread to Nottingham, where a
number of men have gone out. The
Daily Express says that 1t is obvious
that an organized plot exists to him
der the output of war materials.
The cabinet crisis in Russia may be
considered as settled. A declaration
Of the governments policy. accepted
by the representatives of the council of
workmen's and soldiers delegates, with
merely verbal alterations, will be
signed by both parties at Petrograd
without delay. 1t has been decided to
take into the cabinet five representa-
tives of different sOcialistlc groups.
The death at the front of General
Won Victinghoff, former governor of
Strassburg, is reported in q dispatch
to Amsterdam from Berlin.
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24


tine has been laid in waste by the
Turks, according TO Milan dispatch
printed In the London Daily Telegraph.
The British troops completed the
capture of the village of Bullecourt,
according to the announcement from
the London war Office.
In the Canadian casualty list posted
at Ottawa, Ont, are the names of two
Americans who died of wounds, w. &.
Clark, 40 Arcadia street, San Fran
cisco, and A. Diningan, Springville,
Mich.
The Rome war office announced that
as result of the offensive began this
week the Italians thus far have cap
tured 1919 prisoners, II mountain bat
terry and 30 machine guns.
The capture of trenches on front
of 600 meters east of La Melville, is
announced in the official statement is
sued at Berlin.
The British have captured most Of
the ground they had lost In Bullecourt
and have established new posts on the
west side of the village, says a dis
patch to London from Reuters CORE
spondent at British headquarters.
A manifesto to the Russian army
issued by the council of soldiers and
workingmen's delegates at Petrograd
urged the continuation of the war
against the central powers and stated
that a separate peace is impossible.
Chancellor Won Bethmann-Hollwegi in
his speech in the reichstag at Berlin
virtually made peace offer to Rus
STA, saying that if Russia renounces
her aims of conquest, Germany would
not prevent a permanent friendship by
making impossible demands. The chan
cellor declined TO set forth any pro-
gram of conquest.
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24
WORLDS EVENTS
IN SHORT FORM
BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED
DOWN TO LIMIT.
ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE

Notes Covering Most important Hap
penlngs Of the World Compiled
In Briefest and Most Succinct
Form for Quick Consumption
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24
Personal

Joseph IL. Choate, eminent lawyer
and former ambassador to the court
of st. James, died at New York. He
was eighty-five years old.
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24

Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood reached
Charleston, S. c., to take command
of the southeastern department of the
army, comprising the South Atlantic
and Gulf states.
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24
Washington

The government at Washington, IL
given power to fix maximum food
prices, would exercise the authority
only to break up corners or to prevent
eXtortiOn, Secretary Houston explained
in letter replying TO an inquiry.
The senate at Washington adopted
the conference report on the war army
bill, accepted by the house, and sent
the measure to the president for his
signature. The vote was 81 to s. The
war department will at once set in mo-
ton the machinery for registration of
all men between twenty-one and thirty
years of age inclusive.
In response TO suggestion by Sena-
tor Jones of Washington that the new
selective draft army help harvest
crops, Secretary Baker disclosed that
1t Is not expected TO call out the first
| 100000 men before September / be-
cause of 'the depleted state Of our
supplies" and that there will therefore
be no "appreciable interference with
the labor supply of the country until
that date"
Democratic Leader Kitchin an
nounced in the house at Washington
that the treasury department had notl-
fed him it would be necessary to raise
50, 245, 100000 instead Of 81 100000 600
by the war revenue bill now under de-
bate. He urged support of new pro-
posals TO raise the income surtax in
creases on sums above $4,000 as now
contained in the bill, by one-fourth.
American consumers will have TO
deny themselves canned beans and
canned soups of all kinds for time,
under a decision of the war can COM
mittee at Washington. which cuts Off
the supply Of cans to packers of those
foods. The committee holds that the
shortage of tin makes 1t imperative
that cans be supplied only to packers
of perishables and of foods absolutely
necessary to the national existence.
The order will be effective for 60
days.
Representative Gardner of Massa-
chusetts has resigned from congress
TO enter the army. He has been or
dered to active duty as a reserve Off
Ger.
Carrying no press censorship nor war
prohibition clauses the senate at Wash
ington passed the administration es-
plonage bin by vote of n to O. I'm
portant sections curbing activities OF
enemy spies remain in the bill. The
amendment forbdding the use OF
cereals and grains for the manufacture
Of intoxicants was stricken from the
bill by vote of to 81.
b. S. Cutler, Buffalo manufacture
er. was made assistant chief of the
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24

Representative breadmakers of the
United States and Canada met at Chi
cago in an important conference. Sew
eral speakers advocated the establish
ment by the government of a standard
loaf of bread and the fixing of retail
price for staple foodstuffs.
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24

b. S. Cutler. Buffalo manufacture
er. was made assistant chief Of the
bureau Of foreign and domestic CON-
merce at Washington.
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24

The textile strike at Lawrence,
Mass, among the skilled crafts which
has affected 1900 of the Wood,
Washington and Aver mills, assumed
new phase when 800 operatives agi-
tated a movement to demand an eight
hour day schedule.
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24

The British troops completed the
capture of the village of Bullecourt
according to the announcement from
the London war Office.
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24
European War News

All of the southern part of Pales-
tine has been laid in waste by the
Turks, according TO Milan dispatch
printed In the London Daily Telegraph,
The Yale expositor., 1917-05-24

Representative Gardner of Massa
chusetts has resigned from congress
to enter the army. He has been or
dered to active duty as a reserve Off
Ger.