The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-09-06

n.
The most startling sentence in the
presidents reply to the pope's peace
proposal was that "the world can have
no faith in the autocratic government
Of Germany"
Domestic.
Capt. Harvey Kennedy, a noted San
Francisco automobile racer, was in
stantly killed at the county fair at
Lima, Ohio, when his car cast tire
turned turtle" and crashed through a
fence.
Ten women arrested in front of the
white house in Washington who were
making a demonstration in behalf OF
the National Woman's Party were fin
ed $26 each in police court. They gave
notice Of an appeal and were released
on 500 bond each.
| byron Nelson, son Of Congressman
John M. Nelson, Of Madison, Wis. will
De arrested on the ground that he did
register under the selective draft law.
He claim exemption on the ground
that he is not a citizen Of the United
States, having gone to Canada before
Practically every one Of the approx.
imately three thousand officers who
Will train the selective service men
for the new national army division at
Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga, have ar.
rived at the camp, and have been as
signed to their several commands and
to their quarters.
Organization Of the sixth reserve
district which will have charge of the
distribution Of the second Liberty
Loan. to be issued within the next
month, has been perfected with the Sc
lection Of the directors Of the federal
reserve bank in Atlanta, Ca, as the
committee to have charge Of the work
in the four district states-Georgia,
Florida. Alabama and Tennessee.
Atlanta, Ca, will be the center for
all loan activities in the sixth dis
trict.
Arguments have been made in the
federal district court at Greensboro
N. c., in the first test case Of the new
federal child labor law. The consti-
tutionality Of the law was one of the
chief points argued by both sides to
the case. Opponents to the law say
1T violates states rights, and hint
that it Is class legislation
The federal child labor law becomes
operative September 1, and prohibits
employment Of children under four.
teen IN any factory, mill, workshop or
canncry whose products are to be
shipped in interstate commerce, and
further provides that no child ID or II
years OF age may work over eight
hours in any twenty-four hours.
George II. Hartford, president for
many years Of the great Atlantic and
Pacific Tea company and former may
or Of Orange, N. j., where his home
was, Is dead, at the age Of 84, at Spring
Lake, N. J.
Only four thousand negroes will
train at Camp Gordon, near Atlanta
Ca, says Gen. Eben Swift, in chare,
of that cantonment. These will be
draft men drawn from the Camp Cor
don jurisdiction.
1t Is not known yet whether segre
cation will be put into effect at Camr
, Gordon, near Atlanta, Ga, in order tt
prevent feeling between negro ant
white troops.
Delegates in Chicago representinf
the ice industry Of the United State.
voted unanimously to turn over to thu
federal food commission all the colo
storage facilities controlled by the ic,
manufacturers and dealers "to be use,
, in any manner the government ma,
see At"
, 1t is announced by those ownin,
3 cold storage warehouses in the Unit
cd States that spectators will be re
: FUSED the use, ,,of storage facilities, 8,
that every pound Of food may be de
voted to the necessities OF thu war ant
the citizens OF the United States a
! a fair" price.