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The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-06-13
Billion Bushels of Grain Need, d

SA Niohl lNSeOt q
Washington, June S.-Herbeit
Z. Hoover's report to the GOV
ernment on what the Unite.l
States must do to sustain is
allies with food, made public
TODAY, shows that the allies and
a few neutrals, which must b.
considered, required during the
next wear l,0OO,0OO,OOO bushels
OF cereals alone and their needs
OF meat, fats and sugar also will
be enormous.
Production in the allied coun.
tries and imports from other
countries can meet only a por.
ton of these needs; America
must supply the remainder.
Americas surplus OH the present
scale of consumption will not
meet the deficiency, Mr.. Hoover
says.
Americas duty is set forth by
Mr.. Hoover thus:
"All those conditions throw
on North America the brunt of
the burden of supplying Our
cobelllgerents with the hui
man and animal food necessary
to maintain their great armies
in fighting condition, as we'll as
to keep alive and efficient the
families of the fighters and the
great industrial army at home.
The exports from America
necessary to meet these needs
which absolutely must be met
if the war is to be won or even
is to be carried on at at all dur
ing the next year must be i'm
mediately greater than they
have been in normal times.
"Our consumption must be re-
duced. This can be done first
by elimination of waste; second,
by the substitution for the kinds
of foods needed by the allies of
food not so needed. but which
we Can just as we'll use, as corn
for wheat. poultry and eggs for
red meat and so on; third. bv
voluntarily restricting ourselves
10 sufficient and sensible
ration, and if done at a little
sacrifice OF preference of estate
or inclination for a feeling of
over repletion will be of advan-
tage to us morally"
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-06-13
Has McIlwain Been Captured
or Is 1t Another?


Lancaster, June 7.-On No.
vember 6, 1915, a Lancaster
negro, Johnny McIlwain, shot
and killed Earnest Nj. Watkins,
superintendent of the Ian.
caster Oil company. and made
good his escape. Since then
John P. Hunter, Sheriff of the
county, has been trying to locate
the fugitive from justice. Joseph
Orr, chief of police he re, work
ing on the case in conjunction
with the sheriff, went to a little
station 80 miles this side of
Knoxville, Tenn. where some
construction work is going on
in which many negroes are EN-
ployed, and brought back to
Lancaster with him last Satur
day night a negro who closely
resembles the McIlwain negro
and answers the description of
him exactly as TO height. The
fellow has been look ed over and
over by a hundred or more
Lancaster folks who claim to
know McIlwain and there seems
to be very positive difference
of opinion as to whether the
negro under arrest is McIlwain.
The negro himself claims that
on November 6 he was serving
time on the chaingang at Cedar
town, Ga Sheriff Hunter has
offered reward of 500 for the
capture of McIlwaln in addition
to 500 reward by Gov. Manning.
Since McIlwain's escape he was
located and captured once at or
near Pageland. it is said, and
while being brought to Lancas
ter in an automobile in some
manner got loose from the off
GERS and disappeared in the dark.
ness.
Note-McIlwain was captur-
ed by two or three citizens and
Rural Policeman Melton near
Guess, a few miles east of Page
land last summer and escaped
by working a ruse on Mr.. Mel
ton at the home of Mr.. G.. w.
Arant at Five Forks. where the
party had stopped for few
minutes enroute to Lancaster.
For several days the negro was
hunted, But made his escape
The JournaD
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-06-13
Month of May Was Very Cold

General summary of weather
conditions, obtained during the
month of May in South Caro-
lima, indicate that the month
was the coldest on record by
rs degrees The abnormality
was incident TO the cold wave
which swept over the State be
tween May S and Is. Precipita-
ton was somewhat below nor
NAL. Many of the thunder
storms during the latter part of
the month were accompanied
by hail in the northern and
western counties.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-06-13
Russians Reject Separate Truce


Petrograd, June 9.-The Ger
man commander in chief on
the Eastern front has invited
the Russian armies to a sepa-
rate armistice, according to a
statement by the council of
workmen and soldiers made
public today. 1t was proposed,
according to the statement, that
secret pour parlers with the Ger
man leader be inangurated, but
the scheme was denounced by
the council.
In a wireless telegram, the
councils announcement states,
the German commander pro.
posed to show the armies a way
toward an honorable peace and
a means of ceasing to wage war
without a rupture with the en-.
tente allies. The council of
workmen's and soldiers dele.
gates has in this connection ad-
dressed to the Russian army the
following appeal:
lhe commander in chief of
the German armies on the Eas
tern front has sent to our troops
a wireless message proposing to
indicate to them a way toward
an honorable peace and a means
TOR ceasing to wage war without
a rupture with the allies. The
German general talks this way
because he knows that the Rus
sian revolutionary troops would
reject with indignation any overt
proposal for separate peace.
That is why the enemy com
mander in chief invites our arm
les 10, a separate armiStice and
proposes that we should enter
into secret pour parlers with the
German military leaders on the
the Eastern front. In his wire.
less telegram the German de.
clares that a separate armist1ce
does not offer Germany any ad.
vantage. But this is untrue for,
in speaking of the inactivity of
the German army on the Rus
sian front, the German general
forgets what Russia can not
forget, notably the Russian de
feat on the Stockhod. The Ger
man general has forgotten that
the Russian troops know
whether the division and heavy
batteries are being taken from
our front. The German general
has forgotten that we IN Russia
hear the sound of the bloody
battles which are being fought
on the Franco British front. He
has forgotten that Russia knows
that the overthrow of her allies
would mean the overthrow of
Russia and the end of her DO
litical liberty"
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-06-13
Wise Boy

A tall man impatiently pac-
ing the platform OF a wayside
station, accoSted red haired
boy of about IL.
"S-ssay," he said, do, id
y-y-yOu know ha-ha how late
this train is?
The boy grinned but made no
reply. The man suffered out
something about red-headed
kids in general and passed into
the station.
A stranger, overhearing the
oneSided conversation, asked
the boy why he hadn't answer
ed the big man.
ID d dye wanter see me
e-g-get me fa.fa-face punchedo"
stammered the boy. I'D dat
gig g-gguy'd think | was mo-
mo mocking him."
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-06-13
General Wood Speaks
Negroes

Negroes
Last Thursday while in Col
umbia General Leonard Wood
addressed about 1,50O negroes
at Allen University. Much
good advice was given the
negroes, and they were compI1.
mented on the way they regis.
stored. Many negroes in this
section have an idea that the
leaders of the negro race are
not backing up the Govern
ment in the war, but this is erone-
Gus. Richard Carroll and
other negro leaders are using
their energies in an effort to
arouse the negroes to a reali-
zation of their duties at this time.
In addressing the negroes
General Wood said:
DO all you can and in so do
ing you are Strengthening your
own position and your country's
position and you are serving
the cause Of human liberty"
When Gen. Wood arrived at
the college a student band
marched around the campus
playing THE Star Spangled
Banner" Hundreds OF Ameri-
can flags were waved by the
negroes. Richard Carroll intro.
duced the Rev. R. A. Vance,
who introduced Gov. Manning
TO the audience.
Gov. Manning introduced
Gen. Wood as "the man who is
statesman and a soldier. who
is in charge of military affairs of
this department." and a "man
who does things"
Gen. Wood said that he was
delighted at the opportunity of
addressing the negoes of the
State. when we speak of ex
amples of SERVICE" said Gen.
Wood. "you have only to look
at YOUR governor to see what
his sons, acting under his in
spiration, are doing. Four of
them, If / remember correctly,
are in the service of the service
of the government, ready to
serve their country.
That idea of service is the
idea that we want all of you to
take up. When this country
goes into a war as it has done
into this one, you must not
think only of the soldier part of
ii. There is a great deal behind
the fighting line that is to be
done. You must raise food,
make munitions. build railway,
transports, telegraph and tele-
phone lines and cultivate food"
In the Northern States, he said,
thousands Of women and chill
dren were engaged in the max
ing of munitions; hundreds of
thousands of others are making
clothing and shoes; a vast horde
are running transportation lines,
while others are serving as sur
geons, doctors and nurses.
you must not have undue
anxiety" said Gen. Wood, ito get
10 the fighting line. Somewhere
we have all got to serve and
prepare others for the firing line.
Every man on the firing line
must have people back of him
who are working to keep him
clothed and supplied with food
and munitions and other neces-
sites of life. The fight part of
II is going to be for men. but the
work of preparation is for men
and women"
Nov as to registration" said
Gen. Wood. you behaved splen
didly in that. You paid a great
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-06-13
The Liberty Loan

N lduy VI lily acquaintance IN
the City of Washington recently
adopted two orphaned Belgian
children. Bv good luck they
managed to get across the ocean
without being murdered by Ger
man submarines.
The children are little girls,
one of them II years old, and
the other fourteen. Some time
after they arrived they began to
all. and a doctor was called in.
He found that both were about
to become mothers. They had
been the defenseless victims of
Prussian officers.
Don't you want to punish
such people as those? And if
you cannot fight them weapon
finland, will you not fight them
with your money? You can do
it by buying a Liberty Bond.
If the Germans win in Europe,
they will thereupon attack us.
Supposing that thev succeed in
invading this country. they will
practice upon ourselves their
methods of "frightfulness." "
Among other things, they will
debauch our little girls and chop
off the hands and feet of our
little boys. That is the way the
PruSSlans make war.
You are anxious that they
snail not have an opportunity to
do these things to us? Very well,
then. Buy Liberty Bond. and
it will help to make such hap.
penings impossible.
Civilized warfare has always
protected Observation-Disclosures
t1cularly women and children.
But the Germans have pre-
ferred to practice the method of
savages, specially of theirs be-
ing the murder and mutIlation
of children.
They would like to do that
sort of thing in New jersey,
Massachusetts. and Pennsylva
MIA. If you wish to prevent it,
buy Liberty Bond.
The policy of 'frightfulness"
is based upon the idea that
much is gained by terrorizing
the enemy. Hence, whenever
the Germans perpetrate a new
and particularly horrid crime,
they defend it on the ground of
military necessity"
1t is military necessity" TO
sink hospital ships; likewise to
direct the wholesale violation of
women and murder of non
combatants. The private Ger
man soldier is not the man re-
sponsible for these methods.
They are carried out under ord.
ers from highest authority.
Shall they be applied to us?
If you want to prevent it. buy a
Liberty Bond.
1t is no exaggeration to say
that friends from hell could de-
wise no practices more dibolical
than many of those which have
been in comElUh employment
by the Germans in this Wal. al
the expence, too, of people who
(the Belgians and French, for
instance) had done nothing to
incur their enmlty.
But the Germans hate us with
a fierce hatred, because they
think our munitions have pre-
vented them from quickly WIN
ming the war. They will have
no mercy on us, or upon
our women and children if they
can get at them to outrage and
murder and mutiIate.
Will YOU not do evervthino
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-06-13
Expects to Fight With Left Arm
Yet

United States Senator Tillman,
who is a patient at the Robert
son Blackman sanitarium, At
lanta, writes that he expects TO
be out in little while and about
his duties in Washington. Re-
Gently the senior senator's left
wrist became infected with py-
oderma, the infection extending
about one third the way around
the wrist and two inches in
width In the centre. Concern
ing the rumor that his arm had
been amputated, the Senator
T1llman writes to Col. August
Kohn:
"Have just learned through
friends that the rumor has been
widespread in South Carolina
that my arm had been amputa
ted, Senator 1'illman once pick
ed up a paper and saw an ac.
count of his own death. His
only comment was, this IS very
greatly exaggerated and so
about the amputation. | have
not lost my good left hand, with
which l write and will do my
fighting, if l ever have TO do,
but feel on the road to recovery
and will have as good use of Il
as ever in little while. but
have been cut and burned
enough to know how ii feels"
Mrs Parker-Now, young
man, why aren't you at the
'front.'
Young Man (milking cow
Cos there amt any milk at that
end, missus,
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-06-13

not yet realized" said Gen.
Wood. He advised the negroes
to cultivate every foot of land
possible, produce food and help
win the war.
The department commander
advised the negroes not ITO get
into their heads that the war
will be over quickly"
The American people," said
Gen. Wood, should thank God
every morning and night be
cause our allies are sttong
enough to protect us while we
are getting ready.
I'VE are going to win the war,
because ii is for the freedom of
mankind" concluded Gen.
Wood,
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-06-13

MIR. Robert P. Turner return
ed TO his home here Thursday
from the University at Colum.
bia, where he graduated this
year.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-06-13

routine Of their daily labor IN office or
shop or mill or mine and who might
easily find the time for it. ~.ssv,
With some Intelligent direction these
school children and older boys and girls,
and men and women might easily pro-
duce on the available land an average
OF SIS each In vegetables and fruits for
their own tables OR for sale in their
immediate fneighborhood, fresh and
crisp through all the growing months
and wholesomeiy canned and preserved
for use In winter. This would add
$3.50 100000 to the best form of food
supply of the country without cost Of
transportation or storage and without
profits Of middlemen. The estimate Is
very conservative, as has been shown
by many experiments.
! In addition to the economic profits,
there would be for the children health
and strength, removal from temptation
to vice and education Of the best type,
and for older persons rest and recrea-
hon In the open air and the Joy Of
watching things grow.
This might all be attained at COM
paratively little cost by putting into
the public schools for every hundred
children between the ages Of nine and
sixteen one teacher skilled In garden
ing and paid for all the year. One
such teacher could easily direct the
work Of a hundred children and of the
1b0 older persons belonging to the
families of these children living in
their community. Thus 10000 teachers
Of this kind would be sufficient for the
entire country. These teachers might
easily be had for an average additional
salary Of $500 or total Of $50, 900, 900.
There would be some cost for seeds
and some for fertilizers and tools, but
after the first year the cost of these
last two items would be comparatively
little. The proceeds would represent
profits to a greater extent thanin any
other kind Of production The miracle
Of 1t Is, In bringing together idle land
ON theione hand and idle children and
lired people on the other. Alone nei-
ther is productive, but all would be
benefited by the combination even If
the vegetables ndtfruits produced had
no value-the land by the cultivation,
the children by the health giving, edu-
cational labor and the older people by
the hours outdoors and the contact
with the soil. .
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=FAlTHFUL=T0~ SICK cow

Probably Owes His, Own and Three
children's Lives TO Il.
Baker, Ore.-Fred Spencer probably
owes his and his three children's lives
l to his faithfulness to a sick COW.
He arose in the cold at / O'Clock In
the morning and went to the barn to
give medicine to the sick COW. When on
his way he saw flames issuing from a
defective flue, and amoment later the
house burst into flames.
He fought his way back and with
great difficulty carried his three little
ones from their beds in their night
clothes. S 5:s
The house was new and had been oc-
scupied only four months. ~s..y
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-06-13
Norway's Maoistrom.

korway's Maeistrom.
e., The greatest whirlpool in the world
Is the maelstrom off the coast Of Nor
way. It Is an eddy between the main
land and an island, and when the cur.
rent is in one direction and the wind
in another no ship can Withstand the
fury of the waves. Whales and sharks
have been cast ashore and killed. The
current is estimated to run thirty miles
an hour 55 $751; 3
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-06-13
TRAINING YOUTH :.
IL QaA0A1AH-- 1ANuw 80
I" IN GARDENING Gar C
School Children Could Work
Back Yards and Vacant Lots. .
add TO THE. FOOD % 5

With Intelligent Direction eoys and
Girls, ~ WeII a. Men and Women,
Could Be Shown How to Raise Veg
stables and Fruits on Small Plots
and Gardens.
The high cost Of living is on the lips
Of people in Ill cities, towns, suburban
communities and manufacturing and
mining villages in the United States,
writes DR.. p. p. Claxton, commissioner
Of education, department of the int
rior, in the American City. It has
many causes. Two Of these are the un-
usual lack of food and the fact that
most Of the food Is consumed far from
the place of production, which makes
the consumer pay the cost Of storage
and transportation and the profits Of
the middlemen, many of whom in times
like these take advantage Of the wants
Of the people to make profits larger
than they should.
Is there a remedy? There Is q par
tial remedy at least, but not wholly in
Investigations or legislation. This rem
edy is so simple and close at hand that,
as is SO frequently the case, it Is over
looked. In the schools Of the cities,
towns, suburban communities and man
ufacturing and mining villages Of the
United States there are approximately
100000 boys and girls between the
ages Of nine and sixteen. Most Of
them are idle more than half Of the
year. They are in school less than q
thousand hours in the year and, allow
ing ten hours day for sleep, are out
Of school more than 1000 waking hours,
more than an average Of nine hours a
day, not counting Sundays. National
and state laws make it impossible for
most Of them to do any profitable work
in mill, mine or shop, and many Of
them are forming habits of idleness
and falling into vice. Even during the
vacation months only about 10 per cent
have any profitable employment. Only
about per cent Of them 60 away from
their homes except for few days.
Still they must live and be fed and
clothed. < ,~ =
For 100000 Of these there is access
to back yards, side yards, front yards
and vacant lots, which might be cult
waited as small gardens for the growth
Of vegetahles and mallafruits. Many
live where space could be easily had
for chickens, ducks or pigeons. And
there are not less than 5000, 900 older
boys and girls and adult men and wo-
men for whom an hour or two Of work
each day in garden would be the best
form Of recreation and rest from the
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-06-13

Some men do not make fortunes for
the sake. of living, but, blinded by
avarice, live for the sake Of money
getting.-Juvenal. .%Sl g i.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-06-13
Raising Garden Produce In Kansas

Raising Garden Produce In Kansas.
Garden produce will this summer
take the place of willows on a three
acre tract of river front land near
Kansas City, Kan. This tract has long
been known as the levee and has beer
wholly neglected It is public property.
An enterprising Kansan: has secured
the permission Of the city commission
ers to clear and cultivate the?tract and
will operate it this summer ais a truck
farm. 'i%T
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-06-13

Beans are mentioned in. the Bible.
They are cultivated In Palestine,
which produces many leguminous
plants. They are in blossom from late
I'm January until March. & :. ,..55.ss 4 ; r.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-06-13
A Trifs Fresh.

- "sSir;" said the, fair canvasser..& II an
selling stock In apeach orchard
."Are you a fair sample Of the or
chard outputY' he inquired II so
think ri invest" City Jour
nal r. r. - =. ''s4
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Business and Professional

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New Britain herald., 1917-09-05
NAVY NEEDS ASST. SURGEONS.

Washington, Sept. 5-Examinations for assistant surgeons to fill 6S va cancies in the medical corps of the navy will be held at various points through the country September IT, TWenty-one vacancies the navy den- tai corps will be filled through exam nations to be held here September "A and at Mare Island, California, October 15
New Britain herald., 1917-09-05
CONFERENCE ON LIVESTOCK.

Washington, Sept. 5.-Secretary Houston today opened the conference of the United States Livestock Indus tries committee called primarily to discuss the advisability of removing breeding stock from the west to the east and south where more rough food is procurable
New Britain herald., 1917-09-05

FOR SALE-Black Walnut Desk with
 large drawers, 'compartm ents and
 book shelves. Mrs. W. H. Upson, Upson's Corner, Kensington, Ct. Tel. 653-4. 9-1-3dx
New Britain herald., 1917-09-05

FOR SALE-Several two family houses of nine Or ten rooms, mod ern improvements, also building lots on or near trolley lines. w. P. Steele, 26O Chestnut street.
 9-1-6dx
New Britain herald., 1917-09-05

FOR SALE--Good reliable bay horse. Five years old. For work or draw ing. Rackstron, Maple Hill avenue.
 9-4-2dx
New Britain herald., 1917-09-05

FOR SALE-Overand touring car. Complete with extras. Owner, hav- ing enlisted in army, must sell at once. Price right for quick sale. Box 27 A, Herald.
 8-31-E. o. D. times