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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1917-11-21

Mr.. Frank Henderson, Of Denmark,
accompanied by his bride of fc%
weeks arrived in the city Monday to
spend few days with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. j. w. Henderson, and other
relatives.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1917-11-21
Nearly Seven Thousand
Dollars Raised.
Y. M. c. A. FUND IS
OVERSUBSCRIBED
City OF LaurcnS Raises almost enough
to Meet The Allotment for the Cvun-
ty and Other Parts OF County Make
Handsome Contributions.

In the campaign for the army Y.
NJ. G. A. fund, which closed Alondav
night, laurenS county acquitted her
self we'll. She had been asked for So
800 and she almost doubled the
amount Laurcns city alone raised al
most the allotment for the entire coun
iy and other places in ,hc county con
tributcd handsomely. The exact
amounts have not been arrived at yet.
but the approximate figure for Laurcns
county is $G,92l.50 Approximate CON
lributions of the various communities
in the county are given below.
Yesterday afternoon Chairman r. II.
Nickcls asked The Advertiser to cx-
press his thanks and the thanks of the
committee for the loyal work of the
various b-committccs, the speakers
and those who contributed. AS an cx-
preston Of libcrality, loyalty TO gov.
eminent and Christian ideals and Of
support OF the boys at the front he
could not ask for a better spirit.
l.aurcns county won great laurcls
among the different counties Of the
two states Of North and South Caro-
lima. Yesterday morning Chairman
NickclS received telegram Of con
graduation in which il was stated that
this county exceeded its proportion by
Il larger percentage than any other
county in the two states.
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The Times Of the Gentiles.' -

[ seem to have created a good
deal Of excitement among my
readers by my statement in last
issue that the Gentiles were given
just $500 years to rule the world,
and that their time was out in
1914. Several have written ask
ing me to give my authority for
that statement. Sure l. will. I
was going to anyhow as soon as
[ got room for it. It is a subject
that will take two or three
columns to explain it fully, giving
the Bible quotations and the his
tory that proves it. There isn't
room in this issue for it, but I will
certainly give it to you in my
next. Tell everybody to look out
for it. Yes, it is a sure-enough
fact that the Bible tells just how
long the Gentiles would be allow
ed to rule the world. History tells
when the period started, and it is
a simple matter to calculate and
find the end. If anything in this
world CAN be certain, it is GER
tain that the beginning Of this
great war in 1914 marked the
beginning Of the downfall. of
Gentle dominion.
Get everybody to subscribe and
look. out for the next issue Of
Good News.
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and always flowing Though blind
ly) toward a more ideal state.
These men didn't know exactly
what it was they wanted nor just
how to get to it, but they had
an instructive knowledge that
there was something better for
the race just out in the future
somewhere, and they went after it
in the very best way they knew.
They. were like a vine growing in
a dark cellar and reaching out
it's hungry tendrils toward the
light.
The Socialist party is in itself
a glorious prophecy. Like Daniel
Of old, it has never quite under
stood it's own message. 1t has
never seen clearly the star Of hui
man destiny but it has felt the
pull Of it and has led the way.
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HOW DOES TT STRIKE YOU?

M YOU think this dope [ am Civ
YOU is something new that l
have just gotten hold OF and
4khaaght it would do for a sensa-
ton, you are badly mistaken.
it may be sensational to some
folks, but it isn't new at all. 1t Is
as. 6iA as the Bible, and the fact
chat you didn't know it was IN
there amt my fault.
Malions Of people have believed
these things for a long time and
usiil44iiens more are beginning to be-
tievc them these days. It is no
raew revelation to me, but has
been gradually unfolding before
arsy eyes for several years. I have
been just OH the verge Of launch
TBg this campaign two Or three
times before, but decided the time
was not quite ripe for it.
Especially since the Great War
.started 1 have been convinced that
we were in the closing scenes OF
this age, and I have not felt salts
fed 10 go on being a mere clown
TO. make people laugh. My
<@mouth has watered'' more than
once to say the things that [ am
now saying, and at last they are
said. That is, some of them are
said. There is plenty more to say.
This is a mighty big subject, and
as Che hurrying stream Of events
rushes on it will get bigger. |
can only just touch the high
places in this first issue. In future
issues there will be room to treat
the different phases Of the ques-
ton more at length.
Now. Mister, if you believe it Or
dom believe it, I want the priv
nege Of talking to your head
about a quarters worth, anyhow.
By that time you will either de-
eide that [ am a fool or that you
aye one, and maybe both Of us
Will learn something.
Now come! Get up a big club
and send it in. And if you think
that way about it you can tell all
your. friends that Pearson has
suddenly gone crazy and they just
ought to watch his capers.
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l have in type a very interest
ing and Illuminating article on
Inc Lords Prayer" which is
crowded out of this issue by lack
OF space. 1t will appear next
month along with many other
COCA things. Getfeverybody>a and
all their folks to subscribe.
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THEY WANT TT.

It turned out just like | thought
it would-the people arc ready
for my New Message. The re-
spouse to the last issue has been
better than I expected, and as [ go
to press with this issue the re-
turns are growing larger every
day. There has not been time for
it to reach it's best. The New
Message, under the New Name, is
going to go like "hot cakes"
wherever it is introduced, which
shows that the people r begin
ming to wake up and do some
thinking.
But the country at large can't
get my message except as those
already ON my list help me to scat
ter it. Let every reader become a
self-appointed missionary to put
it into the hands Of all their
neighbors and friends. I will fur
nish all the sample copies possible,
and you must put them into the
hands Of people who will, in their
turn, continue to spread the Good
News.
This is not going to be a money
making scheme for me. At the
present prices Of paper and other
supplies [ will be lucky if I make
a bare living. So don't be afraid
Of making me too rich. No dan
ger Of that. The main thing I
am after is to get the Good News
scattered among the people. There
are some things worth more than
money, and this Good News that
[ am sending out is one Of them.
Without regard to whether any
Of us make a cent Of money at it,
let's all pull together and spread
it over the world. For the field
IS ripe, the harvest is great, and
the time is short.
X = + *
c. G., Coleman, Cuthbert, Ca
Please find enclosed $1.20 for which
send your paper to the accompanying
list of names. I got these subscrip-
tons by showing the July issue. Every
one wanted to subscribe at once.
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1917-08-01
HEART-TO-HEART TALK.

Now. dear readers and friends,
this is a personal letter to you. |
want you to regard it as just as
personal and just as important as
if [ had written it direct On my
typewriter and mailed it. to you in
a scaled envelope under a two
cent stamp.
What do you think Of the line
Of talk I am giving you this times
If you believe my New Message
contains something that the people
ought to read and think about,
then I want you to appoint your
self as a missionary to help spread
it among your friends. Tote this
issue around in your pocket and
read it to people you meet and
ask them what they think about
it. You will find more people
thinking along these lines than
you might suppose. And if you
happen to strike a few who have
not yet. begun to think on these
things; this paper will wakerthem
up and put them to thinking.
The whole human raceFtodaytis'
aware Of the fact that this old
earth is passing through a great
CRISIS, and that SOMETHING of
far-reaching consequences to the
people must be the result. The
human mind is in a questioning
attitude, wondering if this really
IS the end, and the old cut-and-
dried conceptions Of what is going
to happen in the wind-up are be-
ing changed rapidly.
Hence the time is ripe for this
New Message, and I want you to
help me spread it into every nook
and corner Of this broad land. It
is gong to take a great deal Of
money to run this thing under
present conditions. Print PAPER
costs about twice what It former
~ did, and some kind of var tax
IN the form Of postage or other
wlse) Is gong to fall heavily on
all publishers. And besides that.
| am constantly needing to add
new machinery and office equip
ment to handle the business. You
folks hustle up the clubs and TIL
furnish the chin-music till very
thing goes easy.
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TAKE NOTICE

DO not send postage stamps on sub
=s~cFips4on.
Re4nittances should be made by
gegastered letter, express or postofflce
sxsDHeN order.
Be careful to write your own name
and address plainly, and direct all
aetbers and make all orders payable
10:
GOOD NEWS,
S,0aNER. NORTH CAROLINA.
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NEW THINGS.

~
things" It makes no difference
at all how good the new thing is
or how bad it may be needed, the
old fogy conservatives are going
to fight it.
They used to think the earth
was flat, and when somebody Of
fered to prove that it was round
oh, my, what a fuss! They used
to. think the liquor business was
an actual benefit to society, and
when the Prohibition Patry first
started up you remember how un-
popular it was. The government
and all the conservative element
of society took the liquor side,
and the prohibition advocate was
considered a wild-eyed crank. But
the prohibition idea continued to
live and grow in spite Of persecu-
ton until it's "newness' wore off
and people began to e it was a
good thing. And now what do
you see today? You see the pro-
hlbltlon movement sweeping
everything before it, and it's as
much Of a disgrace now to be for
liquor as it once was to be against
it.
The woman suffrage movement
has had exactly the same expert
ence. twas dangerous while it
was new, but now you can't find
a political party with nerve
enough to oppose it.
Take Socialism-and there is
the same experience over again.
You may say that. the Socialist
party is not yet,popular. which is
true; but what about the reforms
that it first had the courage to
advocate? Nearly every one Of
them has been stolen and adopted
by the other parties and now there
is a general fuss about who loves
them the best. But the Socialist
party had the nerve to advocate
them while they were yet new
and dangerous, and now it is
not getting any Of the credit. It
looks like it will have to "go way
back and sit down" by the side Of
the poor old Prohibition party,
and there together they can watch
public sentiment go galloping on
with reforms that have been
stolen from them. They remind
me Of two poor old men watching
their sons come to honor while
they themselves die in the poor
house.
But it all goes to show that the
world is simply afraid Of new
things. Not that a new thing is
always bad, any more than an old
thing is always good. There are
good new things and there are
bad old thiags. But the world
will hug the bad old thing to its
bosom and run like a scared rab-
bit from the good new thing.
The only thing that has made
any progress possible is the fact
that the world has always contain
ed a few men who were not afraid
Of the new things. There have al
ways been a few men who have
had a sort Of prophetic outlook
on life and who could see some
little distance beyond their noses.
The pioneers Of the Socialist
movement were men like that.
They looked out and realized that
tnOthlng IN nature was stationary
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Entered as second-class matter
March 8, 1916, at the postofice at
Hsooner, N. c., under the act OF
MaEA 3, 1879.
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James I4arkin Pearson, $500 Editor
BOOMER, NORTH CAROLINA.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Single subscription, " year 25 cents.
aR clubs of five or more Is cents.
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c.. G., Coleman, Cuthbert, Ca
Please find enclosed $1.20 for which
send your paper to the accompanying
list Of names. I got these s~ubscrip-
tons by showing the July issue. Every
n wanted to subscribe at once.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-04-30
We Must Pass the School Tax
Statements by Pens acola's Leading Men

are not civilized and drive us from
our homes into the wilderness as our
forefathers did the American Indian
am going to vote for the special
tax district because l Ns,,uw that in
this age of progress it is the fathers
duty to educate his child better than
he himself was educated. Unless he
does this his child must fall behind
in the forward movement of the en-
tire world.
can leave my child no better
legacy than a good education. If |
keep the few dollars that my childs
proper education may cost me, in or
der that my child may nave it at my
death, what assurance have l that
can hold it against land and money
sharks, thieves, robbers, food pirates
and vampires? But the child cannO
lose or be robbed of his education
1t will stick throughout life, and b
a constant and immeasurable he'll
morally, socially and Financially
Ny parents proceeded on this Theory
and / have never regretted it.
must.I proceed. So must you.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-04-30
CLEAN UP!

Today begins the spring cleanup drive
a national movement with which Pensa-
cola has affiliated itself, and by the time
Saturday rolls around it is to be hoped that
every eyesore, every rubbish heap, every
old tin can, bottle, or piece of paper will
have been consigned to the perdition of the
incinerator
It's astonishing how filth and trash does
accumulate; to realize it one must actually
do the cleanup work himself. And trash,
besides being ugly, is the incubator of
disease.
Pensacola, naturally beautiful, naturally
healthy, spread upon its hills like man
tie, can, with surprisingly little effort on
our part, be made model in every re
spect, an ambition which, as tourist city,
we can not lay too much to heart.
Pensacola is to be congratulated on be
ginning the cleanup work SO early this
year-prevention is worth great deal
more than cure. Infantile paralysis has
rot assumed alarming proportions in the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-04-30
THE LADY JANE
WAS FAIR

"The Lady Jane was tall and sim,
the Lady Jane was fair" No laiF
can be fair and beautiful with a Sal
low complexion, pimples on the face
and skin eruptions which are causes
by impure blood. Number 90 Fol-
The Blood, by its wonderful altera-
tive properties, changes certain NOR
bid conditions of the system from a
diseased to a healthy state, there
reducing flesh when in excess. q
is employed in diseases Of the glandu'
lar system, in blood poison, rheuma'
tism, catarrh, constipation, malaria
liver, stomach and kidney trouble;
Under its use nodes, tumors, sores
ulcers, mucous patches and cope
colored spots disappear as if ?,
magic. Made by ]. c. Mendenn,al,
40 years a druggist, Evansville mo
Sold by Crystal Pharmacy.-AdV
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-04-30
Civil Service
Examinations

The secretary of the Fifth Civil
Service District, Atlanta, Ca, an
nounces the following organizations
to be held on the dates indicated at
various places in the district. APP
plication blanks and additional infor
nation concerning them may be OBJ
tanned from the local secretary at
any first or second class postofJ &c,
the secretary, Fifth Civil Service
District, Atlanta, Ga, or from the
u. S. Civil Service Commission,
Washington, D.. c.
Expert radio aid, $500 per day. APP
plicants rated on technical education,
experience and fitness. Age, 2S-45.
Application form 2118.
Stencgrapher and typewriter; 500
81 200. Male and female. Examina-
tons held every Tuesday at all places
where this examination is usually
held. Age, Is or over. Application
for 30l.
Chief inspector of fuses. $4,000.
One years responsible experience
necessary. Application form 1912.
Mocha nical craftsman, Ordnance
department. $1,000s1, 400. Three
years training (practical experience)
or graduation in engineering neces-
sary. Application for 1912.
Apprentice craftsman. $3.50. Age,
1921. One years training necessary.
Many vacancies. Application form
| 1912.
Assistant inspector of hull (wood)
construction. $4.00-$6.00 per day
| Applicants rated on education, ex-
perience and fitness. Iany vacancies
Application form 1912.
| Chemist. $1,400. Many vacancie:
in arsenals. Graduation in chemistry
and two years experience in metals
necessary. Age under 45. Applica
| ton form 1872.
General mechanic. May Is, 1917
| $1,000 Vacancies in South Dakota
and elsewhere. Three years expert.
ence including plumbing, steamfittine
and electrical work, etc., required
Age, 20 or over. Application form
/ 1912.
Blue printer. May 16, 1917. 5000
Age 10, or over. Application form
1872.
/ Sub-inspector of powder. May 16
1917. S5.04 per day. One years ex
perience, or three years in chemistr!
necessary. Age, 20-45. Application
form 1912.
Assistant land classifier. S1,08O
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-04-30
The SCRATCH PAD
By THOMAS EWING DABNEY.


Arm and farm is the watchword.
Americas advice is to can kings
and vegetables.
"The sheriff is coming, alas, alas,
is the song of the slackers today.
Tag, you're it, will soon be the
game Uncle Sam will be playing with
the slackers.
No, Imogen, we doubt seriously
that razorback hogs will cut the cost
of living.
Hydrogen makes the dirigible rise,
but the thing that sends the average
man right up in the air is Old Tom
Gin.
Now is the time for Americans
who don't enlist to take their place
in the sun and show what they can
do with hoe.
If women are the equal of men,
as the suffragists declare, the con-
stitutional amendment for which
they are working should give the
vote only to those who take their
hats off in the moving picture the
atre.
About 10000 men will have joined
the army during April, which is not
half million a year-commentary
sufficient on the volunteer system
and its ability to raise the army of
two million men this country needs.
Jeanette Rankin wired her con-
stituents for instructions, saying: Il
have heard of no one in the house
WHO is supporting the presidents
CONSUMPTION bill. Do you wish me
to stand alone?" "Stand alone if
you have to-" came back the answer
But she had plenty of company, and
the only wonder is what the 397 die
with themselves that the lady from
Montana couldn't find them.
/ If the impossible did happen and
Germany did land an army in Amer.
lea, there are two newspapers we
know of, that would get lot OF
straffing. one is the Ohio State
Journal, which recently suggested
that the Crown Prince should be op-
Grated on for adenoids, and the other
! is the New Orleans States, which re-
marks that the same poor fish
should be sent to sanitarium that
speclalizes in mental weakness.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-04-30
OUR EMBATTLED FARMERS

Worthy OF special note is the response of
our country communities to the call for
men. The embattled farmer is still our
proudest boast.
Fourteen recruits in one day is Milton's
contribution to the regular army-and
more expected; six from Muscogee for the
navy; a number from Myrtle Grove; Boni-
fay well represented. The DeFuniak
postmaster holds the recruiting record of
Florida. We lack space to tell the whole
tale-suffice it to say that the spirit of the
country was typified by young boutwell,,
OF McDavid, who, when the recruiting Off
Ger spoke to him, man-to-man, did not tarrv
to change his work clothes, but caught the
first train bound for the city and the re-
cruiting office
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-04-30

$1,620 and expenses. May 1911,
1917 Many vacancies. Applicants
must be college graduates or senior
students. Age 2035. Application
form 1912.
Clerk, departmental service. May
rs, 1917. $840$1 900. Vacancies at
Washington, D. c. Male and female.
Age Is or over. Application form
3Q4.
Nautical expert. $1,00o-s1 500.
Graduation from nautical school and
three years experience in navigation
necessary. Age 81 or over. Appli-
cation form 1912.
Special mechanic qualified in sub
marine construction. S5.04 per day.
Application form 1900. Many va
cancies.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-04-30
REAL PREPAREDNESS.

That conscr1ptlon was inevitable, think
ing men have long known-the most logi-
cal the only efficient solution to the
national preparedness; but it is doubtful If
even the optimistic expected the bill to pass
so overwhelmingly to 8 in the senate
and 397 to "a in the house-a composite
majority of fifteen to one!
Less than 10000 men will have been
raised for the army during April, or 100000
a year, if recruiting did not fall off, which
it has been steadily doing and we need
100000! That summaries the whole sit
uation.
As the bill adopted is practically the
army measure endorsed by the president,
there is no doubt of it's ratification, and it
goes to him just as soon as dependencies
between the house and senate measures
are reconciled in conference, which is not
expected to take long. Of these, the prin-
cipal is the question of the age, the senate
measure making men between the ages of
81 and 81 liable to draft. and the house 81
and 40. The army staff recommended 10
and %.
In its present form, universal service IS
for the war only, but without going out of
our way to discuss the problems of the
future when those of the present press, it
may be stated that the friends of prepared
ness and the advocates of democracy in re-
sponsbility will endeavor to perpetuate
the system after this emergency has
passed.
In a few weeks the drafting will begin.
Those with dependents engaged in agri-
culture, or in industries necessary to the
maintenance of military establishments or
of national interests, are, of course, ex-
empt, but everybody must register in their
respective voting precincts when the proc
lamation has been issued by the president
after which the community's pro rata will
be chosen, probably by the jury wheel
method. The first draft, which will be
made in four or five weeks, will be for
100000, and subsequent increments will
follow as rapidly as provision can be made
for them.
Among the amendments added to the
bill was one providing that men subject tc
draft who voluntarily present themselves
will be recorded as volunteers. Thus il
still remains with our manhood whether
or not it is to be insulted with CONSUMPTION
as one senator described it. Another pro
vision, showing how democratic the meas
ure is, forbids the payment of bounties tt
encourage enlistements or furnish substi
tutes. Each man must do his duty
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-04-30

The girl students of Mount Holyoke
college are to do their share in raising food
products. Land is to be prepared for gar
denlng, and the girls will work the plots.
lime spent in this way will count as sub
stitution for the periods ofrequired weekly
exercise. During the summer, a college
hall will be kept open and groups of girls
will stay at the college one month each.
In the fall the college will have the pro-
ducts for its own use.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-04-30

Says: NJ E. Morey:
If we had wall around Pensacola
sufficiently high to keep the Ger
mans and all others out and to keep
all of US everlastingly in, then per
haps we would be just as successful
and just as contented without schools
and school teachers. Bnt we cannot
have it this way. All the balance of
the world is moving forward, NOV
ing upward If we refuse TO for
ward march," then the outside world
will eventually step in and tell US we