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Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-03-02
SOME P~OSTSCRIPTS.

The Suez canal tolls last year
amounted to $26, 0 10000.
Nearly 1000 girls are being taught
to operate electrically driven ma
chinery in a New York trade school
Applying electric currents to the
base OF the brain, a Berlin physician
has found a way to give sleep to the
s%leepless.
Electrical equipment of the average
home costs about one and one.half
per cent of the total expense of con.
struction.
Through experiments with chickens
and small mammals a Paris scientist
believes he has discovered the germ
Of govt.
The largest locomotive crane in the
United States is being constructed at
Cleveland for use in the Brooklyn
navy yard.
Camels, imported from Asia, have
been tried In Australia with fair sue
cess for hauling wagons in regions
lacking railroads.
The worlds production Of raw silk
last year was the greatest on record,
French figures placing It at nearly
5000, 900 pounds.
With proper care brass dies for
printing upon wood have been known
to make more than 100000 impress
sions before wearing out.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-03-02

The worlds production Of raw silk
last year was the greatest on record
French figures placing It at nearly
5 5000, 900 pounds.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-03-02

With proper care brass dies for
printing upon wood have been known
to make more than 1000, 900 impress
sions before wearing out.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-03-02

Camels, imported from Asia. have
been tried In Australia with fair sue
cess for hauling wagons in regions
lacking railroads.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-03-02

Mar, 2-3O.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-03-02

The father who keeps his boy away
from school does what he a to
make a fool Of him.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-08-14
KnINGS SUIT FOR s25,OGS
AGAINST THE EQUINOX MILLS

Anderson Mail
Jesse Hicks, minor by his guar
clan ad ntenl Lille Hicks, has
brought suit against the Equinox
II Ills asking for damages in the sum
G.: $4,000.
IN the complaint docketed in the
clerk of courts Office the plaintiff al
leees that he was working as floor
sweeper in the weave room OF the
mills in June. 1916, and that the floor
OF the room was slippery because OF
the use of soap and washing powders,
causing him, while attending to his
duties. to fall against one Of the ma
chimes. 1t is further alleged that the
machinery broke large bone in his
LEI. leg, which necessitated the am
yutation of the leg above the knee.
Messrs. Martin & Henry of Green
vile are attorneys for the plaintl1f
The case will probably he tried at
II next term of the court Of COM
n on pleas in this county.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-08-14
A Millionaire Stacker.
naendations.

Greenville News.
Kingdom Gould, son Of the multi
millionaire George Gould, is president
OF the Consolidated Coal company OF
St Louis and the Western Coal and
Mining company. He is vice pres1-
dent of the Utah Fuel company and
the Texas and Pacific Railway COM
pany. He is a director in three other
railroads. He was born to the pur-
ple and he has lived in luxury. He
is a skilled athlete and is said to be
in the pink Of health.
The selective draft act was passed
ca Nav IS. Could married on July q
On August 6 he appeared before an
exemption board in New Jersey and
claimed exemption from military serv-
ice On the ground that he had a de-
nendent wife. Tt New York news
PAPERS are inclined to make light OF
his claim, apparently being OF the
oninion that he has enough money
to take care of his wife. Some IN
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-08-14

ments. His father, who enjoys a
large practice, had offered him part
nership upon his graduation, and the
fu.ure was full of brilliant promise.
He wrote his father that he was
sensible of the obligation to him for
giving him money and love in un-
s;inted measure; for all of the pa
! entail advice which had been of un-
talculable advantage to him in his col
lege career; that it was a bitter dis
appointment to him that he could not
enter at once upon the practice Of
his profession that he realized what
t.'s decision meant to all of his family,
as we'll as the personal sacrifice that
t involved to himself, but he knew
that if his father was his age he
would not fail to answer the call to
arms in defense of his country, and
that, proud as he was OF his own
family history, it was simply impossl-
ole for him to consider his own per-
sonal interest when his, country need
ed his service And this gallant boys
mother, as We handed her back the
letter, said, with eyes full o. tears,
that if she had 20 sons She would
want lem all to go.
As .ong as America HIS such sos
and such mothers our liberty is ~c-
, cure. If her noble and gallant son
fall; he will do it with his face to
the foe and with his weapons in his
hands. Her heart might break, but
there would benz vain regret. There
would be tie solemn and sweet con-
sciousness that she had laid upon the
altar of ner country hear dearest ana
finest Offering.
We trust the example Of this boy
and this mother may serve as an In
spiration to others in this hour Wnen
the United States is calling upon her
sons to defend her. There will not
be. there must not be, any pusillanl-
nous spirit on the part OF our boys or
our mothers in this war. There has
| never been any such spirit on the
part of South Carolinians. and tnere
must be none now.
Those WHO go to the front, however,
have the right to expect that their
dependents will be taken care OF by
the nation, and by those who 10 not
go.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-08-14
THESE TWO MEN
ARE THE RIGHT STUFF.

Greenwood Journal.
Here are two men who want TO 40
taeir duty in the defense of the Unit
ed states:
Caleb DeLoach, Of Ninety Six,
made some mistake when he regis
tered some mistake wnen he regis
tered in his cause for exemption. Al
ter he had passed the physical c.
animation he was sent the following
TO fill out: Affidavit Of son OF
widowed mother in support OF his
claim. DeLoach read it and sent
the exemption board the following
reply:S"I am sending this blank back.
7 cannot sign an untruth'' He was
Immediately certified as soldier and
vas notified by the board of such &C
ton, and commended for his honesty
in the matter.
At first it was thought that an
alien would not be accepted for serV-
ice. but later the matter was recon
sidered. But before it was Gus Mar
| ks, Greek, appeared before the
board and he was told that he would
be discharged because of the fact that
| he was not an American citizen, AZ
ter the later ruling was made, Gus
was notified and he Immediately ex-
pressed his willingness to serve the
United States. Gus is to be commend
ed for the step he has taken. He
| shows true signs of patriotism fo1
his adopted country.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-08-14
innate that he is nothing less than

innate that he is nothing less than
Stacker
Whether he is a Stacker or not, he
will have to go into the army if his
claim is rejected Nothing better il
lustrates the equality with which the
seiective draft operates. If the VOL
upteer system prevailed. it is most
likely that Kingdom Gould would have
stayed at home and let some poor fell
low from the East Side do his fight
ing for him. The draft reaches the
rich and poor alike; it is no respec-
ter of place. The millionaire and the
,.Cor chap must go together, bear the
same hardships, do the same work
and have an equal opportunity of life
or death upon the battle field, If that
isn't equality and democracy, what
is it? Yet there are some people who
held that this is in violation OF the
American constitution and in conflict
with the spirit of our institutions.
Under the draft, the rich young
man cannot say to the poor young
man: 81 have constitutional right to
stay at home, but you must take my
gun and fight in my place, but must
90 his part himself. Both must 60.
Under the volunteer system, Kinkdon
Gould could have gone on clipping
coupons and living in luxury, but un-
Ger the draft system he'll have to
slare his tent with some son of the
masses to whom bond means a
method of getting somebody out OF
jail. Equality of citizenship means
equality of burden, under the draft. In
all the history of America what has
been more democratic than the draft?
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-08-14
1Why So Many Weaklinss"
Baltimore American.

Baltimore American.
1t has occasioned much general
surprise that so many of the male
contingent registered for the draft
and belonging to the age-class be-
tween Twenty -one and thirty-one
years; are failing to meet the physical
! tests for ARMY service. |SDe. Americans
grade: physically on the average below
the British, the Germans or 1.-The
French?:. Or are the ;~exaninatlon
standards set up fer army service IN
the United States more -exaoting than
Erropean standards? - - -: =
We hear of men being turned down
because of defective. teeth. IS not
this a defect that ~can,.be quickly rem
edied? If the plans for creating the
/ .n0O. 900. army do not include a corps
NJ dentists for each draft and Volun-
teer division OF the prospective army
tbere is reason for the saying that
the organization plans are, in THIS re-
spect, defective.
But. as Adjutant General Warheld
has. suggested, these draft examana-
tions are teaching, or should teacn'
Americans of. all classes and caillnss
This highly important lesson-tnat
nhvsical training, beginning in child"
hood and carried along up to mldole
life, or even to the three-scofe periou'
mnst be made a part OF the dlsclp'
,;na,y svstem in the family ana III
the schools. Americans in the large
and general are intent upon gl'iie
, their children a primary education III
tho three RS, and then, if posslole'
ar academic training that extenos
throush the secondary school and the
college.
The affair of physical development
is too generally treated with lnolnei
once II is a demonstrated fact 1ha'
children who are apparent weakllngs
NAV be developed into physically VIZ
o-ous men and women. 1t has peer
done in thousands Of instances anu
+,,ore Is reason for the belle1 1ha'
# can be done in practically every
instance.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-08-14
The Stacker Propaganda.

Augusta Chronicle.
In two OF three sections OF the Unit
Ell States-and the most deplorable
thing about it is that most Of it is here
in the South where we have been
toasting of our heroism and Amer
icanism-there are well defined or
we'll defined plans for promoting an
tagonism to the governments select
i've draft law.
There are slackers and slackers, to
be exact, for there certainly must be
a distinction. Those who are wilfully
sowing the seed of riot and diseord
should be put in category different
from the poor deluded creatures who
follow in their footsteps.
II the truth about the thing could
be presented to the public, there 1s
nc doubt that a few of the eonniving
characters who have fattened at the
pclitical trough in the past would be
shown to be recipients OF some OF
the German Doodle which is coming
into this country, and leaders OF a
political organization-or any other
effort to create international strife
Germany has done just this very thing
in Russia, and has tried it in the Scan
dinavian states, where they sent
money and dynamite to carry out their
desires and it is no far-fetched the
ory to think that such might be at
tempted in this country. More Is ths
n;ty of it that some Of our rampant
self-styled loyal Americans are nes
above taking the graft.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-08-14
BIG LUMP IS PAID
FOB FOREST LANDS.
ficonee County Property Owners Get
$27,7S2.70 from the Federal
Court.

Greenville News.
On August the judge OF the
Gnited States district court for the
western district of South Carolina
ordered paid out of the registry of
the court the total sum of S27,lS2.10,
icing the proceeds of the condemna-
ton and purchase by the government
OF 5.121.06 acres of mountain land
situated in Oconee county. This
money was paid to the owners OF
twenty-four tracts of land.
This is very good start on the
acquisition of mountain lands in this
state for the Savannah area OF the
Appalachian forest reserve. There
are a number of other cases in con-
demnation pending in the federal
court of this district for further ac-
QUESTION of land for the use and
PURPOSE of the forest reserve in Oco-
nee county. The total number OF
acres already contracted for and un-
DER process of condemnation in the
federal court of this district amounts
to something like 10000 acres.
When the lands in Oconee county
adjoining those already purchased
BY the government have been &C
auired, it is the intention of the gov
ernment to extend the purchase OF
our 'mountainsides into and through
fickens, Greenville and Spartanburg
counties, linking up with lands pur-
chased and to be purchased in North
Carolina.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-08-14
PRESIDENT WILSON URGES
AN INVESTIGATION.
Wants to Know Cost Of Producing
Materials-Announc Soon
to be Made-Desires to Keep
Prices Down Without
Legislation.

A washington dispatch of Tuesday
said:
President Wilson turned his ar-
tention today to the subject
Of war prices and paid a per-
sonal visit to the federal trade COM
mission to urge expedition of investi-
sations to ascertain the costs of pro-
ducing minerals required by the gov
ernment.
At the presidents direction the COM
mission has undertaken inquiries to
determine production cost on most of
tie basic supplies needed for war
uses, including coal, coke, steel, iron,
petroleum, tin, aluminium, wire, zinc,
copper, lead, cement lumber and their
derivatives. Preliminary reports will
beforthcoming within few weeks.
Announcement of a definite policy
respecting war purchases and prices
probably will be made soon. War pro-
fits will be kept to minimum and
if producers and manufacturers evince
any great unwillingness to supply the
country's war needs at reasonable
prices the governments power to
commander materials will be invok-
Ell.
The biggest problem occupying OIL
cials studying war prices is protec-
ton for the general public.
Although the proposal is meeting
determined opposition the administra-
ton intends that the allies shall share
with this government in reduced costs
for supplies.
It is realized, however, that heavy
government purchases will tend to
raise prices to private consumers. The
administration desires to keep prices
generally down without resort to leg
islation.
The war board will meet again to-
morrow and probably will make
known buying policy 80 far as ques-
tions of priority and procedure are
concerned The present plan is te
consolidate purchases through the
central purchasing committee which
| is a part OF. the war board.
Trade commission officials IN
their investigation of production costs
are proceeding slowly. This is due
it is said, to the fact that a great
burden of work has been thrown on
the commission for which it was poor
ly prepared.
The commission some. time ago be-
gan inquiries into the fuel and lum-
bel industries and data on production
lecsts of. these materials: will e ready
soon.
Although charged only with an In
yestigation of costs it is entirely like
" the commission will make, sugges-
tions as to what it considers fair
prices for materials ard that the wal
hoard will follow closely its recon-
meadations.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-08-14
THE BRITISH LOSSES
IN SHIPS RISING.
J;.Boats Sank % Vessels During the
Past Week.

There was a slight increase IN
the loss of British merchant ves-
sells by submarines or mines dur
ing the last week, according to the
official summary issued Wednesday
Tventy-one British vessels of more
than 1.600 tons and two vessels Oh less
than 1900 tons were sunk last week
Thirteen ships were attacked unsuc-
cessfully. No fishing boats were
lost
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-08-14

Iut before long We were jumping
ever bloddy eorpses and quickly for
got all about them.
We saw wounded soldiers raising
themselves OH their elbows and shoot
ing, interjected another wounded
sirl. I'VE just forgot ourselves en-
t:rely. We were simply Russia,
lighting for her life.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-08-14
Southern Farmers Opportunity

The Progressive Farmer.
A bale OF cotton with the seed is
now worth $3.50 to $3.50; corn is
q: ound $3.50 at most Southern points,
and wheat, oats and hay are CORES
pondingly high. Prices of all kinds
of livestock are soaring; and the
same is true of tobacco, peanuts,
sugar, syrup-practically everything,
in fact, the farmer grows.
These prices mean, above all things
else that the Southern farmers hour
Of golden opportunity has struck.
Never in the history Of our country
has the farmer had greater oppor-
tunity to achieve that economic lnde-
randence that is the rightful due OF
every American citizen. Never again,
probably, will we see time when the
whole world will be so dependent up
on the farmer, so willing to adequate
" reward him for his labor.
To the white tenant of the. South
and the struggling landowner We
would es2eciall5 appeal to make use
# an opportunity that may never
come again.
In msay community in the South
tbis fall there will be small farmers
both tenants and landowners, with the
nroceeds of from ten to th1rty-nVe
bales of cotton, or from one to four
or five thousand dollars in cash. VI
c,rse in most cases the run must
le paid for, but even after this IS
cone there is probably going to be
,orser surplus of clear cash than ever
be fore.
The use that is made of this money,
tho wisdom and foresight with which
it is expended, is going to determine
tne future economic status Of many
Southern farmer-determin whether
he shall remain tenant, slave 10
time prices, or whether he shall De
independent.
To the white tenant farmer, we
would say buy land. The man VINO
owns the land he tills, who lives IN
der his own roof, has achieved an in
coincidence that is worth all the ef-
fort the work, the hardship 1t may
have cost. But in buying, buy wise
lv Get good land, even if it costs
more, for some lands are dear at any
price. And then SO plan that after
the land is bought there will be some
uoney left for equipment aud opera
| ton.
To the landowning farmers OF the
South. now is the time to put away
forever the crushing time-prlces sys-
tenn that has dragged many good
man down to ruin. From the pronts
of this years crops let us put oy IN
the bank cash surplus on which tc
do business until the next harvest
time. ..fter this surplus has been pro-
vided. whatever remains may be USED
for providing whatever simple luxu-
ries and conyeniences the family may
r,;cb FOR But let us make sure OF
cur operating bank surplus first :,
Now is our time of opport Nty
Brother Farmer Improvident " "ste
roints the way to poverty; thrift ano
saving, to independence.
Which road will you choose?
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-08-14
Not Looking Around.
1o IA h1ipd -

"Loye is said to be blind
81 don't know about that, but a
know that most wives seem to thlRi
that married love ought to wee'
blinkers.-Smart Set.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-08-14
Patriotic.

Customer-I'd like to buy this flas'
'rut the price is too high. Can't you
come down a dollar or so?
Dea1er-What! Lower Old Glory
Never sir,-Boston Transcript.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-08-14
Father, Sen and Aether.
York News.

York News.
1t was our privilege to read a let
Ter from a young man in North Car
Gina to his father. It was beautl-
full letter He had graduated from
Chanel Hill. with high distinction IN
both the academic and law depart
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-08-14
2ESSlAN WOMEN REFUSE
TO BE TAKEN PRISONERS
Fear Their Fate Then Would Be
Worse Than Death-0ne OF Them
Tells How She Ran a Ger
man Through with
. BayOnet.

Russias women soldiers have
pledged themselves to take their own
lives rather than become German
war prisoners, says a recent Petro-
grad dispatch.
Each woman soldier carries ra-
ton of cyanide of potassium to be
/ swallowed in event Of capture. The
members of the women regiments,
now constantly increasing, agreed
that death was to be preferred to the
fate they would probably meet at
the hands of the Germans.
The Legion of Death" fighters are
"good killers. Your correspondent
learned this when he talked to five
If them in a hospital near here, suf-
fering from shell shock.
From woman's lips he heard how
she had run a German through with
her bayonet, firing the rifle at the
same time. From others he heard
how these women and girls, fresh
1ro.n comfortable homes and unlver-
-sities, went leaping over mangleo'
bloody bodies in the charge with
enemy shells bursting all about them
But these narrowing experinces OF
the women fighters have steeled them
and hundreds of other girls to new
determination to see it through.
Girl soldiers drilling in the streets
are now common sight in Petrograd
Huge crowds gather daily about tine
engineers school where 1000 girls are
preparing to go to the front
IN Moscow 1000 more are training
while Kiev and Odessa have smaller
bands.
Premier Kerensky has also author
azed the formation of women marine
detachments and has promised to as
sign them to ships.
The new women commands attemp'
10 sort of decoration. Their neaos
are shaved and they wear, the reg
Iiation uniforms including the heavy
ugly army boots.
The five women fighters your cor
respondent visited at the hospital
were partially paralyzed by shell
shock. One of them, peasant girl
smiled, joyously as she pointed TO
German helmet on the bed oesloe
her. It was the first war prize OF
Russian woman.
41 saw a German in front Of me as
ran forward with the others in the
charge, she said. st was his hIe
OR mine. raised my rife. l plunged
with all my strength. stabbed MN
The bayonet went deep into his body
At the same moment pulled the trig'
ger. He dropped-dead. Then toof
his hat as souvenir.
The girl soldier smiled with de-
tight.
"what was the battle like?" an
her of the legioners was asked.
Rt'I was very nervous just beforf
L charge, she replied. I'VE knew
order was coming and NATURAL!
were just little scared. But a:
n as the orders to go forward came
forgot everything else in the ad
nce.
.I could hear our girls yelling ant
outing throughout the march for
ard. None of US were afraid once
e got started We were IN lhs
$1n.dst of a great fusillade of shots
hhen terrific big shells began break
Is all around US.
awe were again frightened a little
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STATE MEETING Of
Y. N. c. A. OPENED
Thirty.seeond Annual Session, With
Many Delegates Present, Opened
at Marlin Today.
(By Associated Press,

Marlin. Texas. Feb. is.-The thirty.
second state convention Of the Young
Mems Christian Association opened
here today. A program also has been
arranged for tomorrow and Sunday.
The principal speaker at the conven.
ton will be +. A. wilson.I-awrenso
secretary OF the international commit
tee. OF New York. regarded as n
speaker OF note and an extensive trav.
eler.
Texas rural life problems will be
discussed during the convention by
Clarence Ousley Of College Station
and Judge s. A. Lindsay Of Tyler. The
rural problem also will be discussed
by T. d. Lanham OF Columbus. Ohio. j.
Other speakers on the program In
cludc DIR. c. II. Williamson OF Mem
phis. Tenn; II. H.. simmons. state
chairman; Tom A. Connally OF Mar
lin: G. A. Sanford Of Sherman. and q
s. Bilheimer OF Denver. secretary sl
the International committee.