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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-01-03
Advice for Business Men.

Get down off your high horse II you
expect to be heard and patronized by
common, everyday people Put plain
horse sense and honest intentions In
YOUR advertisements. These are the
;hi1gs that appeal to you, and in all
essentials you are just like most OF
the people you're trying to sell goods
to.-Jed Scarboro.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-01-03
Auditors Notice.

All persons owning property ot
any kind whatsoever, or in any ca
pacity, as husband, guardian, exc
cutor, administrator or trustees are
required to make returns of the
same to the Auditor under oath
within the time mentioned below
and the Auditor is required by law
TO add penalty Of so per cent tc
all property that is not returned on
or before the goth day Of February
in any year.
All male citizens between the
ages of 81 and 60 years except those
exempt by law are deemed taxable
polls. The SO per cent penalty will
be added for failure to make re-
turns.s
For the convenience of tax pay
ers, or my representative will be
at the following appointed places
on the dates mentioned to receive
tax returns:
Ropers, Wednesday, Jan. II.
Meriwether, Thursday. Jan. Is.
Golfers, Friday, Jan. 10.
Red Hill, Saturday, Jan. 90.
w. R. E. Winn's Store, Monday.
Jan. %.
Cleora, Tuesday, Jan. 90.
Pleasant Lane, Wednesday, Jan.
"a.
Meeting Street, Thursday, Jan 25.
Johnston, Friday, Jan. 26.
Herring's Store, Saturday, can 81
Trenton, Monday, Jan. 20.
This office will be open to receive
returns from the first day of Janu-
ary till the 26th day of February
1917 as prescribed by law.
J. r. ZIMMERMAN.
Auditor E. G. S, G..
Dec. lS--l9l6.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-01-03
tSHORTHORN BREED IN FAVOR
Country Church in Northwest Missouri
Is Center Of Community De-
voted to Breeding.
(By FRANK D. THOMSON.)

A country church near Ravenswood,
in northwest Missouri, is the center of
q community devoted to breeding
tShorthorns. In the past three months
the 26 members of the organization
!and to be eligible to membership in
this special effort one is required to
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-01-03
Piles Cured In 6 to Il Days

Your druggist will refund money if PAZo
OINTMENT fails to cure any case Of Itching,
Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6to IA days.
The first application gives Ease aud Rest Sc.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02
CHEERFUL ECONOMY

.sVTIHATENER is pleasant is wrong"
w says the kill-joy moralst. Many of
us have believed him. Mr.. Hoover, of the
Food Commission, however, is under no
such conventional delusions. He actually
recommends "seleCtive luxury" and
urges that those fortunate folk who can
afford the delectable trinity of It's
terrapin. turkey and tenderloin-should
not hesitate TO eat them in war times in
preference to humber and more durable
foods suitable for transportation to the
Allies.
The epicurean diner who can pay for
,perishable products is entitled virtuously
to consume them. Thereby he is helping
to conserve the stores of smoked meats,
wheat and other staples needed by the
less wealthy at home and abroad
As the war goes on we shall learn that
the prime factor in economy is not neces-
sarily hardship. 1t is wisdom. And the
great principle Of selection" may make
even certain luXuries justified.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02
TWO KINDS OF HEROISM

To the Editor Of the Euening Ledger:
Sir-Noluntary action in any undertak
ing always insures success. Enforcement
lacks inspiration. People are differently
constituted, Some mothers take their sons
voluntarily to the enlsting office to others
the thought of their sons being taken is
anguish Always conceding the greatest
heroism to the former, the latter should
come in for their share of consideration.
Leaving the forming of the army to vol.
untary action would be helping ALL The
poor, timorous mothers would. in their own
little way, try to work for the welfare of,
their country through gratitude that their
sons had been spared. l am sure that am
voicing the sentiment of many many
mothers. Freedom of action in all things
within the law. NJ C.
Philadelphia, April 1S.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02
THE CALL OF THE FLAG

Its stripes with patriot blood are dyed,
Its first star rose DER Lexington,
Where farmers faced the foe and died
And by their glorious deaths there won
First place in Freedoms annals grand
The first for her to make their stand.
The first to answer her stern call
And first In her great cause to fall.
And through a century's growing might
That old flag always proudly stood
For Liberty and for the Right
And bonds Of mankind's brotherhood
Each star in its great galaxy,
Like beacon light of Liberty
Lights still with its clear radiance
The path Of Freedoms grand advance
o torch of Liberty! now wave
Across the seas your signal light,
To Allied hosts and peoples brave
A nation comes in hammered might!
The call has come nom Europe's shore
To stand as erst 1t stood of yore
OF Liberty we SCAN
Lad on. Q Flag, In Freedoms van..
~ 2. sQdduth. An the New York Wrrld.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02
THE BANKRUPT AT BAY

UNLESS the Imperial German Govern
~ ment's peace offer, now anticipated,
should be made in terms of complete
surrender the proposals can only impel
America and the Allies to greater efforts.
Partial concessions, such as would have
been considered strikingly liberal year
ago, should confirm the judgment OF
one of the English commissioners that
Germany is just like a bankrupt busi-
ness house, which sees the crash coming
and seeks to make a settlement with
the creditors on the basis of so many
cents on the dollar"
1t Is hinted that probable terms to be
offered by Bethmann-Hollweg may in
clude surrender of all the Kaisers con.
quests in France and Belgium and even
the retrocession of Alsace- Lorraine. But
this would make Germany supreme in her
own "Mittel.Europa." A few years of
intensive organization, military and com
mercial, would reinvigorate the autocracy.
Civilization could be attacked again, and
there would be a new world war.
America disclaims desire to crush the
German people, but we are pledged to
destroy the militaristic menace. We can
listen to no peace terms now. because
fully aware that the Imperial Govern
ment is not yet decisively defeated, VIC
realize that II will make no proposals
based on such a fiction. We also know
each concession 1t makes brings US nearer
| to our goal. Then. Inevitably. we mus
nght on TIL We WIN 4, X.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02
THE POLICY OF SH.H!

WASHINGTON has cnvcloped itself in
Wa mystic atmosphere Of reticence
which is lust the wrong atmosphere TO
inspire the practical, cheerful zeal which
Is the essence of the American spirit OF
seeing things through TO finish.
The energies of this nation have
always kept step with certain bolster
Gus publicity and have always Jagged
when the soft pedal was put on. This
mixture of inquisitiveness and earnest
ness. OF wanting to know the entire
scheme of endeavor from a national
viewpoint so that each individual may
know just how much his personal &C.
complishment is going to count for
the success of the whole, may sometimes
have its defects, but we have to accept II
as the genius Of our race, the instructive
swing of our stride. the only way we
can do things.
There was a ha2y feeling in the aver.
age man before selection was decided
upon. He wanted to volunteer for
something" but did not know where he
was most needed. Adoption Of selection
has brought a sense Of dccisiveness to
the minds of men of military age not
engaged in work that will produce food
and munitions. But it leaves the com
munity in general still in the hazy state
about other practical ondeavors. We
know that the two big vital things in
which the nation is interested are:
First The swift construction OF
merchant ships to break the t-boat
blockade.
Second The construction of sufi-
cient naval vessels to guarantee the
future safety of. the nation
But how will the vitality essential
woodenship program affect the equally
essential warship program? W!ll ship
builders. now or soon to be engaged for
the navy, have to be used To build mer-
chantmen? If so. what efforts are being
made to draw mechanics, carpenters.
etc, from their present work into the
ranks of shpbulders? Must they order
their affairs to be in readiness to drop
their work to build for the navy or for
the merchant marine? Will it be neces
sary to have a selective draft Of work.
men as well as of soldiers?
No doubt the Government will give
answer in action that speaks louder
than words to these and other questions.
But there must be free discussion of
everything except specific military and
naval movements. The hush" clauses of
the espionage bill are the echo of the
hush" policy of oiicialdom. There are
grotesque Inconsistencies. Officials give
out statements which seem to let the
Germans know about wheh to expect an
American expeditionary force in France,
about how large it viii be and about
how swiftly the units will be modified.
Then they turn around and whisper that
a nameless merchantmen arrived in a
port. This policy if adhered
to later on, will arouse needless fears
and suspicious where all is well, and
and high hopes where all
is not well.
We have accomplished lot in the last
month, and it has discouraged Germany
to hear of it. Let us not hide our energy
under a bushel in accomplishing still
more, and this should be accomplished
by the freest possible discussion and co.
operation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02
FORD'S IRISH PROJECT

To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir-Some time ago | tried to illustrate
some phases of .he economic war that is the
main and insurmountable barrier TO any
reconclement of Ireland and the BRITISH
empire 1t was shown that while outwardly
both peoples were treated alike, inwardly
one was wording perpetually to exploit and
CommercialiZe the other. England, VINO
wished to do all the manufacturing wished
Ireland to confne her activities to raising
food for the British markets and men TO
wage her wars abroad. The facts used were
from history, but this week new facts come
to hand which must give Americans
shock as it throws a new light on imperial
ism.
Some time ago Henry Ford, of Detroit,
was offered a large tract of ground by the
City Council of the city of Cork, Ireland.
for the erection of a motorcar factory. No
opposition was offered until the necessary
permit was sought from the British Gov
ment, when opposition of all kinds poured
in on the Government from interested par
ties in England, mainly motor interests, who
wanted the permit refused on the grounds
of unfair competition. All the motor manu-
facturers of England sent in protests call
ing for refusal of the permit, and in the
light of what has happened in the past, the
permit will undoubtedly be refused as
result.
Perhaps the project will be killed in an
other way. Influence may be brought to
bear on Henry Ford to give up the idea Of
a motor factory in Ireland and instead to
establish it somewhere in England. The
unfair competition" mentioned Is only a
cloak to discourage industry in Ireland.
This will be made clearer when it is un-
derstood that Ford has already factories in
Manchester, Eng. and another in the south
to the erection of Which no opposition was
offered such meets the project in Ire
land. PADRAlC LAGAN.
Philadelphia, May !.
of the London Times it was stated that Mr.
Ford had received permission to go ahead
with his Cork project. The Times, how
ever, did write column in protest.-Editor
of the EVENING LEDGER.l
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02
CALL THE BACHELORS FIRST

To the Editor Of the Evening Ledger:
Sir-Allow the men to do something for
their country,
our country is making a call for the
Young men from the ages of eighteen to
thirty. Why call on the brightest prospects
of our country-men who, no doubt have
great ambitions, spurred on by marriage
and the raising Of a family? Why not call
on the unmarried men of the ages of
thirty to fifty first? 1t is not likely that they
will ever serve their country better than by
meeting the call now Make the next call
the married men without children from the
ages of thirty to fifty; 1t is not likely that
they will ever have any family. What will
become Of this country II we send the prime
TO the front that is, those who will produce
the families to take the places that we now
hold?
Why not save the morality Of our coun-
try in protecting the young wives by allow
ing them their husbands protection as long
as possible? TUDOR.
Rockledge. Pa April 80.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02

emgrants in ships owned by the bankers
and make Colonists of them,
When we most reluctantly were forced
by Prussia into this war it was logical
to expect that our hyphens would have
been the most keen to avenge the wrongs
of centuries and one would have imagined
a great wave of enthusiasm among them
-"on to Berlin. Let us raze the castle
of every robber baron! Let us have tri-
umphant democracy as we have found it
here and peace to do what we will with
plenty Of opportunity and safety for our
selves and our property
1t Is strange, | think that people with
such past should be Indifferent Hot
heads and empty will he found among all
races but it is surprising that any senti-
ment should hold Germans back from being
in the very forefront of any army we may
send against Germany as she is and has
been under her ruling class.
AN AMERICAN
Philadelphia, April 80
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02
OUR PROTECTORS

To the Editor Of the Erening Ledger:
Sr-I have read with great surprise that
American soldiers and sailors are being re-
fused rooms in apartment houses and hotels
where there are vacancies. / do not under.
stand it, l keep an apartment house and
do not take any transients; STILL a week
ago my nephew called me and said two new
sailors wished room for the night ] was
glad could let them have a room They
both acted like gentlemen. We offered
them breakfast, but they could not accept
as they wanted to be on their boat at $50
a. IN.
] am only too glad to house our pro-
teetors, and hope everybody else will do the
same. b. GREENFIELD.
Philadelphia, May,1
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02
Lost
The First SpOOn-Riverman

"who was Ausonius?" The undoctored
layman may ask. He was fourth century
schoolmas ster of Bordeaux, man of one
poem and of fifty-seven varieties, The one
noem Is the "Mosella" of nearly 500 hexam-
eter lines unique for sustained descrip-
tion in Latin literature and perhaps in all
literature until nearly 1900 years after
ward, when Wordsworth described the
River Duddon. The fifty-seven varieties
comprehend so bewildering a collection of
verse novelties that Ausonius will have
no trouble In establishing his position as
the most acrobatic versifer in history He
wrote In Latin and Greek. separately and to-
gether. An early master Of macaronics, he
wrote in all kinds of meter. sometimes with
several varieties In the same composition
He wrote epitaphs for all his grandparents,
parents, sisters, cousins and aunts, thirty
in all, and ne composed an anthology OF
twenty-six other epitaphs on fellow school.
masters The modern poet who versified a
graveyard In an anthology may have been
reading Ausonius. Ausonius was no believer
in vers libre. He longed for shackles. COM
posing hexameter lines, beginning and end
ing with monosyllables. and at another
time lines made UP Of words Of one syllable
followed by a dissyl.abie. then a tri-
syllable. until the lines ended in a nve-sylla.
BILE word.
-F. ID. p, In America
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02

Il Anything to save booze" II cries
by two-to-one vote in rejecting a
resolution petitionlng the President 10
stop the diversion Of grain to the liquor
industry. These are the tactics which
are bringing us nearer to war prohib''
tion every day, this ruthless corruption
shown by the heirs of the greatest slush
fund In American history. Next to
patriotic action, unpatriotic intention Is
the greatest stimulant to. patriotism
known to psychology. A few more at
tempts by the corrupt combination of
distillers and politicians to extend wet
territory and, like the bicycle beginner
who runs into everything he tries espe'
cially to avoid, they will run into the big
gest "dry" map west of Russia.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02
QUIZ

1. Point out error in the sentence: "neweys
fleet won the battle Of Manila Bay d
by the United States and about what b
their value?
s. Who was Daniel Boone?
!. After whom is the sO-caled Wotan line d
e,eIman defenses in northern Franee
named?
D. what is meant by the letters In the namo
captain John Smith. L. =. Az
q. Where Is Gizeh and for what Is il noted?
7. What il the chief difference between III
coat OF n tiger and that of leopard?
y. What is the Magma Charta?
D. What Is n "big league" city:
10. Some United States soldiers wear blue ha,
cords, some yellow and some red. What
do the colOrs signify?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02


Does truth | kno,c sccncc time I be
A iccfla girl by mddre's knce,
An dl,cdys Get tcos cen mn mind
Wen Joe bdy0dn TO be so Kind
But he ccS gon' for ,Cdr; and noe
Uolb alone an kroW not hoU
ThccngS ezra gond como out right
An 1cerc mn house n kecna by night
Wal, derc ccs Jccm ddts StecH on han
An strorg'aS amy soldier man.
DccS mornecng on dd street he say:
II ,cccsh uou come uceh me today
Where am tear some houses dorm;
max for you ,coodcn cro,cn!"
An so for 9nt my loddd rood
com 10 ,chcre do houses stood.
look up on dd WdH. an hioh
see hecm stan against da SKY,
An sure he ccSa look 10 me
SO fnc dS amy bccng could be.
He Scccng hoes pecck ccrto dd EaH
An step aside bdyfore Get tnH
He strike Get 1recth hoes pecck ooer,
An more Of Get goes tumb den.
stan an ,cdtch an prcttd soon
We hear dd cheestic blow for noon.
'bW'' S'fi NttfN Wf M INih, SNU JFFWi
An so ! share hoes lunch ,ccch hccm,
BaUsidc da house dat USE to be;
For Hothccng'S lct dat can sec
ErCcpt do chccmney. straight an tall
"Eet ccS d0 strongest part Of dH"
he say 10 me. $50 like dd heart
Dat burns for iorc-dn strongest part"
An den he try for catch mn han.
BHt-prcsto!-Comcs dnuddcr ldp'
Like pccctUrcS; an bdyforc my cDcs
DcrC'S NANNY broken ChcemncuS rise
bore dn smoke an dust dat falls
On soldiers hid ccnSidc dd TdllS,
on men dat hold dd house an fqht
An so arc Kecn0s. bp ezra right
"Ah, Rosa so he say to me.
you sec hotc strong yow man can be-"
An, yes" sdU. 81 see; an so
! justn 0ond tcnit for Joc"'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02
MA y

MAY
Mdy-morn in the mdsy city
Thrills the youthful citiseus
Who're a fondness for the prettu
Mdi-denS.
Mdysie, Mdyme, MnybeHc or Marv.
Make en- prdnce and cardcole
Round some mere imaginary
Muy-pole.
Mdy-queens pcdchy, lightly hitting
Where youths eyeS may feast on them.
Make EN- long TO be committing
Mayhem.
Mny-utnc IN pour blood gyrnttna.
Makes you fancy you're the chan
Ann Mny-qucen tcould be mating,
Mdy-hup.
May.doy tancies then are taking
Flights to cosy kitchen dnys--
Mdy-kin9 udtchin9 Mdy-queen maxim O
Wdy-OnndiSe. JUVENIS.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02
Norway has lonJ

Norway has long considered it
more profitable to suffer certain
amount of submarine outrages than to
take up arms against Germany. But
sooner or later the Teuton seems bound
to turn the most persistent leniency
into defiance. Norwegian ships totaling
$4,000 tons were sunk by Usboats during
the last week. Morse patience is now
strained almost to the breaking point
Since the word moderation was long
ago censored out of the German die.
tionary, the time seems likely to come
when even the canny Scandinavian
business instinct will rebel against such
financially disastrous ruth'essness.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02

Nevada may be a good State for
marital "s,ackers," but 1t is no place for
reluctant patriots. That western Com
monwealth is the first in the Union to
complete its quota of recruits for the
regular army.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02

We know now Just how the old coored
gentleman felt when he was asked If he
had change for S. Our proofroom has
appealed to us to explain why the Greeks
put the character Chi into their alpha.
bet when they already had Kappa. IL they
intended it TO be pronounced Ky" or
"kee." One of the things we fiunked in
at the final exams in 80 was Greek
memory"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02

America will be an old story TO
the two distinguished Italian commits
sioners now on their way here. Mar
conf was for some time a resident of New
York. AS for the Duke of the Abruzzi
whoever has forgotten his romantic en-.
deavors in our land must have deliber.
ately skipped hundreds of excited col
umns in American newspapers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02

when the call comes" declared
President Ban johnson, of the American
League, "our men are going to war.
When we haven't the players we natu-
rally won't have baseball" Sports loss,
however, is Uncle Sans gain, for he will
be defended by some of the hardest hit.
ters extant.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02
Virgin Islands

l.. B-Columbus. who discovered these
islands, named them all. He named the
group Las Vrgenes, in honor of st. Ursula
and her maidens. In naming individual
Islands he is said to have followed the gem
eral custom of naming them for the saint
on whose day they were discovered. Holy
Cross" was, Of course. a common name, in
any case.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02
EQUAL SERVICE is BEST

To the Editor Of the Evening Ledger:
Sir-Conscrption by all means. II is
the only sensible plan to build up the sery-
ice. The rich as well as the poor should
be compelled to do their bit for this great
and glorious country. C. j. CHAPMAN,
Master Machinist
Marcus Hook. Pa, April 10.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02
THE VOICE OF
THE PEOPLE
Henry Ford's Proposed Motor
Factory in Ireland-"Call the
Bachelors First t'-German
Robber BarOnS

This Department is free TO all redderS Dho
,cish TO erpreSS fhcir opinions on SuOJeCtS ,o
current interest. II is an open forum dnd tne
EreniuQ Ledger assumes reSponStbihtU jor
the rieUS Of its correspondents. Letters ,muSt
be signed bU the aud address, OF the
,criter. not necessarily for publication, but as a
guarantee OF good faith.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02
"Das RheingOld"

H. J. B,-(a) "Das Rheingod" is the
first of series of four musical dramas by
Richard Wagner, forming the Ring des
Nibelungenlied." The others are Die
Walkuere," "Siegfried" and "Goetterdaem-
merung." (b) "Siegfried" was first pros
duced at Bayreuth. August l6. 1875, and
made its first appearance in this country in,
the Metropolitan Opera House, New York.
November ., 1887.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02

Why not hang the American and
Japanese flags together in our windows
and heal some old wounds? Nippon's is
an easy flag to make-a red disk in the
center of white field.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02

Germany is a seaed box in regard
to that famous revolution" which May
Day was to start. 1t may he many days
before we get the real truth.