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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-10-13

In the recent shipment of knitted
garments from Sumter Chapter A. r.
c. to district headquarters the fol-
lowing were included: Thirteen pairs
of socks. 9 sweaters. pairs of wrist
let's. z muf'lers. A number OF gar
ments have been returned completed
since this shipment. The women and
girls of the town and county are do
ing well with their knitting as all of
this has been done since the middle of
last month and many of the knitters
were beginners in this art. There Is
no wool on hand at present although
the chapter has orders placed Ior
large quantities as soon as II can be
supplied. Besides these orders in
Atlanta and New York. Mrs. E. II.
Moses. chairman of supplies commit
tee has written in every direction to
try to obtain wool. Regulation colors
can not even be obtained from de-
partment stores. Hearing that New
Orleans had sold some recently TO
Charleston chapter she wired there,
but can not even obtain an answer.
AS soon as any shipment is received
the papers will Immediately give no.
tice so those willing to help with the
knitting should look out for this an
nouncement.
There is plenty Of sewing on hand
at headquarters. hospital bed shirts
and pajamas. These are given out to
be made up at home or worked on al
headquarters as desired. There ar.
three machines in use there all day
two more are expected soon and
seamstresses are always welcome. The
ID. A. r. selected Wednesday after
Moons and its members meet there
and sew for the Red Cross at tina,
time. from three to six. The u. d. c.
are meeting at A. r. c. headquarters
Tuesday mornings for the same pur-
pose. Mrs. 8. c. Baker is chairman
of this work for the ID. A. r.; Mrs
Henry Hill is chairman for the u. d
G.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-08-31
Local Ausho-Chinese
War Mediated in Court
To Have Disputed Fence

There is to be no war between China
and Austro-Hungary, at least not in At
lanta, if Judge T. H. Hitchcock, of the
municipal court, can prevent it.
Tuesday Afternoon there appeared be-
fore Judge Hathcock c. II. Martin and
IFS wife TO answer the complaint Of Joe
Jung that the Martins had in several
ways threatened his peace of mind, and
lnally had purloined fence gate be-
longing to him.
Now c. II. Martin is an Austrian. Joe
Jung is Chinaman. The two are
neighbors out on Scott street.
For some time, Joe Jung charged his
Austrian neighbor has conducted a cam
paign of "frightfulness against him.
Martins chickens he said invaded his
garden. devouring the fruits thereof.
Martins dog, he said, had harrassed
his children. Martins COW, he said had
rrowled at large over his estate.
In despair Joe built him a fence. 1t
was destroyed, he said. by the enemy.
mother fence went up. And the enemy
took the gate. Joe charged.
Judge Hathcock gave Mrs. Martin,
who was named in Joe lungs COM
plant, choice between building a real
fence between the two properties or
being bound over The Martins agreed
toput up a substantial fence within one
week
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-08-31
GOVERNMENT OPERATION
OF COAL MINES PROBABLE
Higher Wages and Lower
Prices Drive Operators to
Quitting Point

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 29.--Govern-
ment operation of coal mines in the CEN
trail competitive field to insure an ade-
quate fuel supply to meet wartime
needs was possibility today.
Operators were silent while United
Mine Workers officials awaited reply
to their invitation for a JOINT conference
to discuss the wage increase proposed
yesterday. The miners, however, ex-
pect the operators to agree to a confer
ence.
There were limitations among pessi-
mistic operators here that they were
about ready to turn their mines over to
Coal Dictator Garfield and Jet him wres-
tie with their problems.
Confronted on one side with a max
imum price for coal and on the other
by the miners request for increased
pay, the operators feel, as one put It,
that they ARE between the devil and the
deep blue sea"
On the other hand, union officials
pointed out they offered, if necessary, to
go to Washington and show their need
for higher wages, in an effort to secure
an upward revision of the present coal
maximum price.
Miners feel they are in just as tight
a corner as the operators. They poin.
" ldpluly lSlIl6 N lSCS VI lhC hDNCSSA-
ties of life and to their fixed wage and
see a hard winter ahead unless they
get a raise.
Government operation of coal mines,
in many cases, will be forced by pri-
vate operators unless President VIII
sons prices are increased.
Led by Alabama operators, many mine
owners presented their claims to the
federal trade commission today. Their
cost figures exceeded the presidents
price. Unless they are allowed a big
ger margin they will shut down their
mines, forcing the government to OPP
crate them, operators stated
Numbers of retailers also besieged
the commission for ruling on retailers
profits They asked for a margin OF
from 80 cents to 81 per ton. exclusive
II overhead and delivery expenses.
The commission probably will turn
over to Coal Dictator Garfield all the
evidence taken at these hearings. Gar
fields will be the deciding voice.
The Alabama operators, headed by
Erskine Ramsay, of Birmingham. were
vehement in their denunciation of the
presidents Alabama prices. which, they
claimed, were based on costs of only
two companies serving the navy with
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-08-31
Divorce Is Paganiziing
Nation, Says Report
OF Church Committee

KANSAS CITY, Aug. 2S.-Paganism,
with all its accompanying vices. is the
shoal towards which the United States
is rapidly drifting. according to the re-
port OF the morals committee Of the con-
vsntiOn of the American Confederation
Of Catholic societies. presented this
sfternoon.
a largely contributing factor in this
organizing of the nation is divorce"
said the report at has been recently
estimated that up to the present more
Than million divorces have been grant
I'd in this country. and the expected
rJmber for the current year will be
realty in excess of one hundred thou
sand. 1t would be wholly useless to de-
vote any consideration to the vicious
ness OF this evil and what II means NOR
ally TO the nation"
TO combat this, the committee rec
0mmends: Enactment Of state laws re-
curing notices of impending marriage
% be posted several days before issu-
alce of license; abolition of common law
marriage wherever recognized and fin
IL in states where only absolute d.
prces are granted. provisions for le-
yal separation be made.
Modern pictorial reviews and the NOV
.cs also come In for their share of con-
Gemnat ton.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-08-31
DOGS WILL BE
CALLED TO SERVICE
BY UNCLE SAM
AiredaIes and Shepherds Will
Get Chance to "Do Their
Bit" If Bill by Senator Brady
Is Enacted

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-Airedale
and Shepherd dogs of Administrations
ton! Your chance is coming to save
the lives of thousands of American
boys in the trenches.
: Your brethren in other fighting coun-
tries have proved themselves smart,
shrewd war dogs. They have answered
the call to the colors and are doing their
bit.
When the war dog bill of Senator
Brady, Idaho, becomes law, you too,
will be called and must do yours. Take
Mss Anne II. Tracy's word for it. Miss
Tracy, veteran trainer of war and po-
lice dogs, interested with Senator
Brady Secretary of War Baker and the
war college in getting your "selective
service" bill passed today told some
thing of what your share in the war
will be and how you will be trained
and sent to France.
Our war dogs" said she, must be
loyal, brave, courageous and hardy.
They must have keen noses and no
nerves.
They must not mind heat, cold, wa
ter dust or mud, and must have ire
mendous endurance. Blood tells in war
dogs and experience has proved Aire-
dales and Shepherds the best. A mutt
dog is occasionally smart, but that's his
good blood cropping out.
Three to four months intensive
training will fit an intelligent dog for
the trenches. Our war dog battalionS
probably would be trained just as our
men are, first in cantonment camps
here, then under trench amsters in
sound of the guns.
Their greatest service will be trac-
ing wounded and missing men in No
Mans Land. They will save the lives
of hundreds of American boys and
stretcher bearers who otherwise would
die searching for them.
"Stretcher. bearers often do not know
when a man is dead. They may consid-
err him dead when he is alive. Trained
dogs know instinctively and infallfbly.
War dogs often refuse to leave man
the stretcher bearers consider dead.
Hundreds of lives are saved in his way.
They can sense out places where men
have been buried alive by bursting
shells, too.
'They also make splendid sentries
and dispatch bearers. They are too VAL
liable to neglect"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-08-31
GERMANY BACKS DOWN
BEFORE ARGENTINA
Reply Promising Safe Voyage
of Argentine Products AvertS
Break by South Americans

BUENoS AIRES. Aug. 29.-The ia
Vorable reply made by the German gov
eminent to Argentina concerning the
submarine campaign relieved a tense
ana critical situation. The German re-
ply acquiesced in the demands of Argen-
tina for the safety of Argentine ships
and indemnity for the torpedoing of the
steamer Toro I'm order to maintain
friendly relations" The note also con-
cedes freedom Of the seas 30 vessels
under the Argentine flag carrying food"
The Argentine foreign office has made
public the entire correspondence with
Germany concerning the sinking of the
Toro. II shows that Germany's note
probably averted the possibility OF Ar
gentine severing diplomatic relations.
On July Argentina sent TO Berlin
note concerning the Toro case which
said in part:
I'm accepting the German govern
ment's settlement of the Monte Prote-
gido case. this government understood
that Argentina's rights were recognized
and that naturalization would prevent
a repetition, but in view of another vio-
latiOn of our rights, we must now ask
for an assurance that there will be no
further violations"
On July % the German government re-
piled. 1t said the Toro sinking was not
the result of unrestricted submarine
warfare but in accordance with interna-
tional law permitting the sinking of
contraband cargoes when it was impos-
sible to take them to port. The Argen-
tine government on August notified
Germany that IL would consider the dec
laration of London in settling the ques-
tion, adding: -s.r
at Is impossible to admit that while
Argentina is guaranteeing the person
and property Of Germans in Argentine,
Argentine interests on the seas can be
attacked and destroyed by the imperial
German navy. 1t is inconceivable that
the natural products of Argentina should
be considered contraband of war at any
time.
9TH Argentine government cannot rec
ognize that the interchange Of her
products may be made a motive for
warlike and restrictive discrimination.
and is therefore unable to accept the
proposals made. We must insist on
reparation and a guarantee of freedom
of the seas for Argentine vessels"
Germany replied on August II, not
outstanding the objections which could
be made to the Argentine claims, the
imperial government, in a desire to
maintain friendly relations with Argen-
tina. would agree to the same solution
as in the Monte Protegodo case. The
German government agreed to pay the
difference between the value Of the Toro
and the insurance on the vessel and said
it would recognize Argentina's right to
freedom of the seas in accordance with
international law, provided Argentina
endeavored to prevent it's flag from
traversing the restricted zone.
Argentina refused to consider this
proposition, and on August "a de-
manded an immediate solution. The
German reply of yesterday was the re-
suit.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-08-31
AUSTRIA MAY DECLARE
WAR ON AMERICA ALSO
Officials Admit Loan to Italy
Isn't Most Friendly Act
in World

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2S.-The possl-
bility that Austria and perhaps other
allies of Germany may soon declare war
against the United States because of the
financial aid given to Italy is recog-
nized by administration officials.
It was carefully explained today that
there is nothing in the situation, either
diplomatic of military, that would cause
the United tSates to take the inintiative,
but that an anomalous state of affairs
may result in broadening the war does
exist, was not denied.
Relations of the United States with
Germany's allies are defined as still
state of broken diplomatic relations.
Officials hesitate to describe them as
unfriendly although admitting they
could scarcely be called friendly. The
policy of extending aid to the countries
fighting certain of Germany's allies,
without having declared war against
Germany will be continued, and 1T was
admitted that Austria or any other ally
might perhaps not improbably construe
such assistance as warlike act
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-08-31
CHANGE NOTION
ABOUT CALOMEL;
NOW DELIGHTFUL
Id-StyIe CaIomel Gives Place
to the New De-Nauseated
Variety Known as "CaIo-
tabs"

With all Of the liver-cleansing and
system-purifyin5 qualities or tas 60
style calomel, but robbed of its sicken-
ing, gripping and dangerous effects, Cal
otabs is destined to become the most
popular as well as the most useful Of all
home remedies. For biliousness, consti-
patton and indigestion 1T is absolutely
indispensable, for nothing but calomel
will straighten out a disordered liver.
If you have tried CaIotabs, the de-
nauseated calomel tablets. you know
how easy it is to take. One tablet at
bedtime with a swallow of water-no
taste, no gripping. no nausea Next
morning your liver is active, your sys-
TEN purified, and you are feeling fine.
with hearty appetite. Eat what you
please-no danger.
Genuine Calotabs are never sold in
bulk. Ask for the original. sealed pack
age containing twenty doses; price thir-
ty-five cents. If you are not thoroughly
delighted your druggist Is authorized to
refund your money-(Advt.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-08-31
FLAT-FOOTED MEN NOT
NECESSARILY DISBARRED
Crowdef Issues New Order on
Physical Qualifications for
New Army

The man with the flat foot who was
under the impression that the shape Of
his pedal extremity would physically
disQualify him for service in the nation
al army is all wrong
Under q ruling of Provost Marshal
General Crowder. received by Mayor
Gambler and transmitted in turn
to the various local exemption boards
the provost marshal general gives a
new rule regulating the action by the
boards on physical defects that is call
culated 10 decrease the number OF men
excused from service on grounds of ply
steal disability.
"a broad flat sole commonly known
as fiat foot is common TO all labor
ing classes. particularly among ne
groes.- states the order. land is in no
way disabling"
AS a further guide for the board pass
ing on physical defects. General Crowder
adds:
ANY physical deficiency must be
present in such a degree as to estab-
lish beyond any question OF doubt the
fact that the man under examination is
disqualified to serve"
Another ruling which will probably
affect the young men in the officers
training camp whose draft number is
called. was received
That ruling is that no person can be
exempted from the selected army on
the grounds that he is in the military
service II he has not been enlisted. ap-
pointed or engaged In such service prior
to the date on which he was called by
the local board
There is no reason however. why a
drafted man cannot be commissioned as
an officer in the military service OF
the United States or engaged as an army
field clerk quite as well from the stat
US OF a drafted man as from the status
OF a civilian the order states.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-08-31
TEXT OF AMERICAS
REPLY TO THE POPE

economic opportunities of the world
the German people of course IN
cluded. if they will accept equality
and not seek domino ton.
rs TEST FAIRP
The test, therefore, of every plan
of peace is this: Is it based upon
the faith of all peoples involved
or merely upon the word of an am
bilious and intriguing government,
on the one hand, and of a group or
free peoples, on the other? This is
a test which goes to the root or
the matter; and it is the test which
must be applied.
The purposes of the United
States in this war are known to the
whole world-to every people to
whom the truth has been permitted
to come. They do not need to be
stated again. We seek no material
advantage of any kind: We believe
that the intolerable wrongs done in
this war by the furious and brutal
power of the imperial German gov
eminent ought to be repaired, but
not at the expense of the sovereign
ty of any people-rather a vindi-
cation of the sovereignty both of
those that are weak and of those
that are strong. Punitive dam
ages, the Acknowledgement of en-
pires, the establishment of selfish
and exclusive economic leagues,
we deem jneXpedient and in the end
worse than futile, no proper basis
for a peace of any kind, least of all
for an enduring peace. That must
be based upon justice and fairness
and the common rights of man.
kind.
We cannot take the word of the
present rulers of Germany as
guarantee of anything that is to
endure. unless explicitly sup
ported by such conclusive evidence
of the will and purpose of the Ger
man people themselves as the other
peoples Of the world would be JUS
titled in accepting. Without such
guarantees treaties of settlement,
agreements for disarmament, COW
enants to set up arbitration in the
place of force, territorial adjust
ments, reconstitutions of small ma
tions, If made with the German
government, no man, no nation
could now depend on. We must
await some new evidence of the
purposes of the great peoples of the
central powers. God grant 1t may
be given soon and in a way to re-
store the confidence of all peoples
everywhere in the faith of nations
and the possibility of a covenanted
peace.
ROBERT LANSING, B.
Secretary of State of the United
States of America.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-08-31

tees and long cherished principles
of international action and honor;
which chose it's own time for the
war; delivered its blow fiercely and
suddenly; stopped at no barrier
either of law or of mercy; swept
whole continent within the tide of
blood-not the blood of soldiers
only. but the blood Of innocent
women and children also of the help
less poor; and now sSands baked
but not defeated, the enemy of four
fifths of the world. This power is
not the German people. 1t is the
ruthless master of the German peo-
pie. 1t is no business of ours how
that great people came under its
control or submitted with tempo
rary zest to the domination of it's
purpose; but it is our business to
see to it that the history of the
rest of the sworld is no longer left
to its handling.
PLAN WOULD AID KAISER
To deal with such a power by
way of peace upon the plan proposed
by his holiness the pope would, so
lar as we can see involve a re-
cuperation of it's strength and a re-
newal of it's policy; would make it
hostile combination of nations
against German people, who are
it's instruments; and would result
in abandoning the new born Russia
to the intrigue, the manifold subtle
interference, and the certain coun-
ter revolution which would be at
tempted by all the malign influences
to which the German government
has of late accustomed the world.
Can peace be based upon a restitu-
ton of it's power or upon any word
of honor it could pledge in a treaty
of settlement and accommodation?
Responsible statesmen must now
everywhere see, If they never saw
before, that no peace can rest Sc
curely upon political or economic
restrictions meant to benefit some
nations and cripple or embarrass
others, upon vindictive action of
any sort, or any kind of revenge
or deliberate injury. The Ameri-
can people have suffered intoler-
able wrongs at the hands of the
imperial German government, but
they desire no reprisal upon
the German people, who have
themselves sufferd all things
in this way, which they did
not choose. They believe that
peace should rest upon the rights
of peoples, not the rights of gov
ernments-the rights of peoples
great or small, weak or powerful
their equal right to freedom and Sc
curity and self-government and to
participation upon fair terms in the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-08-31

WASHINGTON. Aug. 29.-The repl!
by the United States government t
Pope Benedict's peace proposals is giveI
n full below:
To His Holiness, Benedictus. XIV,
Pope.
In acknowledgements of the COM
munication of your holiness to the
belligerent peoples, dated August
], 1917, the president of the Uniteu
States requests me to transmit the
following reply:
Every heart that has not been
blinded and hardened by this ter
rible war must be touched by this
moving appeal of mis- holiness, the
pope, must feel the dignity and
force of the humane and generous
motives which prompted it, and
must fervently wish that we might
take the path of peace he so per-
suasively points out. But it would
be folly to take it if il does not in
fact lead to the goal he proposes
Our response must be based upon
the stern facts and upon nothing
else. 1t is not a mere cessation of
arms he desires; it is a stable and
enduring peace. This agony must
not be gone through with again, and
it must be a matter of very sober
judgment what will insure us
against It.
His holiness in substance pro-
poses that we return to the status
quo ante bellum, and that then
there be a general conformation, dis
armament, and a concert of nations
based upon an acceptance of the
principal of arbitration; that by a
similar concert freedom of the seas
be established; and that the ter
ritorial claims of France and Italy,
the perplexing problems of the
Balkan states, and the restitution
of Poland be left to such concilia-
tory adjustments as may be pos
sible in the new temper of such a
peace, due regard being paid to the
aspirations of the peoples whose
political fortunes and affiliations
will be involved
PLAN UNSATISFACTORY
1t is manifest that no part of this
program can be successfully car
ried out unless the restitution of the
status quo ante furnishes a firm
and satisfactory basis for it. The
object of this war is to deliver the
free peoples of the world from the
menace and. the actual power of a
vast military establishment controll-
ed by an irresponsible government
which, having secretly planned to
dominate the world, proceeded to
carry the plan out without regard
either to the sacred obligations of
treaty or the long established prac-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-08-31
This Blind Tiger Had
"White Folks" Whisky;
Five Trunks of Quarts

WAYCROSS, Ga, Aug. 29.-Police
last night seized at the Union station
five trunks filed with quart bottles of
whisky believed to have been brought
here for a number of prominent people.
A negro named Gardner is in Jail
charged with violating the bone-dry
law. He grew suspicious when he saw
officers in the baggage room, and sought
to escape.
In the chase Gardner outran the Of
fcers, and it was necessary to get auto
mobiles to finally catch him. He had
the trunk keys in his hat and the
checks were in his shoes.
Each trunk contained twenty-five
quarts of what is regarded as white
folks" whisky Two of the trunks were
new, apparently having been purchased
for the sole purpose of bringing whisky
into Waycross. The whisky is being
closely guarded by officers.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-08-31
Stenographer Gets $1,000
Under VIII; Wife $40

NEW YORK, Aug. 2S.-Bequests of
1920, and no more" to his wife and
$1,000 and a diamond ring to his ste
nographer. Margaret Rorothee Klingel
are provided by the will of George
Dewolf Deans, New York Central rail-
road agent, filed her today. 1t con-
tains the request that Miss Klingei
wear the diamond in remembrance of
the donor.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-08-31
Bandits XII MESSENGERS

CHICAGO, Aug. 29.-Two payroll
messengers for the winslow Brothers
steel implement manufacturers, were
shot and instantly killed TODAY in a pis-
toll duel with five bandits, who escaped
with $4,000. The hold-up occurred in
front of the Winslow Brothers plant.