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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-03-06
HOME DEMONSTRATION
DEPARTMENT.
(By Miss Daisy Harris.)

The following are several receipts
which the housewife may follow in
supplying the table with dishes which
! confor.n to the requests Of the food
administration, the receipts having
been cotton out by Mrs. Kate Vaughn,
4 noted culinary artist:
Meat LOnf For MeatlcSS Day.
cup bread crumbs.
2-3 cup scaldcd milk
tablespoons Of peanut butter.
| cup ground parched peanuts.
tablespoonful minced onions.
teaspoon salt, dash pepper.
tablespoon worcester, or any
sauce.
teaspoon Of baking powder.
] egg ibeatcn separately.
Make into LOAF and bake until
brown, as everything in the loaf is
cooked. it does not require much cook
ing. Serve with brown cause, made of
drippngs left from meat days, or mint
GClatinC
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-22
STORY OF A CRMY PANEL

The boy who did janitor work for the confectionery store was red head ed and pug nosed. He aimed to do his work and maybe he would have done even a trifle more if Duffle had re- trained from airy persif1age. Duff1e was, fat and, the red headed boy as- serted, fatheaded It stood to reason that no mere Dufie could give him orders, especially as the latter young gentleman occupied the same position in the dry goods and notion store that the. redheaded boy did in the candy shop
 It was sunny morning and all down the business street windows were trickling with running water. There was a two-foOt raised panel on the white brick tiling wall extending down to the sidewalk which marked the division between the dry goods store and the candy shop and toward this panel Duff1e and Casey of the red hair merrily sloshed along. Now the panel really belonged to neither store
 A psychologist might decide wheth- CT, silence having prevailed, that pane would have been secured of it's winter | liked thoroughness in all things, or by 1 lat yOu1lE DOtllCs WIIO WACA OAlCC pu' into motion, travelled until somebody stopped him.
 Hurry up!" grinned Duff1e to the red headed boy. I'm going to beat you. You've got that panel to wash you know!"
 There was a quaver of doubt in his voice which the red headed boy failed l to observe in his instant indignation "Say!" he got out, Who do yor think you are. Me wash your panel I guess not"
 "Betcha dol" insisted Duff1e firmly
 Huh! Bet I don't" retortec Casey.
 @Huh!" said Duffle in injured tones
 "Huh!" said Casey defiantly. Young MT Casey washed ant scrubbed carefully and with grea vigor each white tile on his store iron until he arrived at the edge of tht disputed, panel. Once there he ceased his labors. Young MT. Duff1e likewise used special elbow grease until he at tained the opposite edge of the strip He, too, rested. With precise car, each gentleman gathered up his pails rags and brushes and turning thei backs upon one another departed int, their respective stores whistling botl l loudly and out of tune.
 At that instant the doctor who's, offices were upstairs across the stree
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-22
VALUE OF ARMED SHIPS,

At the present time the claim is being made. without any good reason to dispute it. that two U-boats have been destroyed off the Atlantic coast. Whether this is so will be determined to certain extent by the effect upon shipping. It there is a sudden de- crease in the depredations there will be pretty good proof that the mer- chantmen were successful in one instance, at some distance off Nan tucket, the end of the underwater boat was brought about by shell fire and in the other by ramming the sea wasp. but the former instance pretty clearly demonstrates the value of arming the merchant ships if such a demonstra- ton is necessary at this time after it has been conclusively shown in many instances that it is one of the import ant protective measures which has been taken to safeguard shipping.
 Armed merchantmen is not the only means which has been resorted to on this side of the water to deal with the menace for many government yes seis are securing the waters for a sight Of the U-boats. but it is the cargo carriers which they are anxious to sink and they become the easiest kind ot prey when they are permitted to sai without a gun at each end to pro- tect themselves. This applies to the coastwise vessels as we'll as those en. gagged in transoceanic service. Yes. sels may make repeated voyages with. out getting glimpse of a U-boat or being in danger of an attack, but fl s vital to their safety to be properly squipped when occasion requires then 10 defend themselves. The vessel of Nantucket is afloat today. and in al probability another submarine is a. he bottom because the precaution wa! saken to arm thesvessel. and the great pr the number so equipped the hotte will be the reception given the sl, visitors.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-22
A HUN CHARACTERISTIC.

It is always interesting to note how prompt Germany is to put forth a pro- test whenever it thinks 1t has discover ed an instance where the allies are disregarding the requirements of in ternational law. The latest claim is that it's enemy is equipping the men with shotguns which is against the provisions of the Geneva treaty.
 It sounds funny to hear Germany quote any treaty provisions It was not supposed that it realized that there was any such thing. and if the real feeling of the imperial German gov ernment was expressed there is every reason to believe that it would insist that the treaty terms apply solely to the nations which are fighting the cen tral powers and not to Germany. Ger many has presistently disregarded all treaties by which it has been bound and there is no evidence that it does not intend to maintain that same at titude.
 It is not to be forgotten that Ger many scrapped the Belgium treaty by which it was solemnly bound to main. tain the neutrality of that nation. anc it will be remembered that it insti- gated the air raids over defenseles! towns causing the deaths of non com batants. that it launched out into it submarine warfare with the declared purpose of respecting no restriction. | as to belligerents or neutrals, that i employed gas in it's fighting, that i carried off the civilian population O territory which it invaded for war al well as other work. that it utilized liquid fire and engaged in many othe violations of treaty provisions Ant l in spite of all this disregard for tn rules of warfare it now has the bold ness to insist that the allies are no observing the rules. That, however. Ii
 only what can be expected from tn | Huns.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-22
EDITORIAL NOTES.

No complaint will be made about the delightful weather which has been provided during the past few days.
 # Lenine has fled to krenstadt he is making sure of a clear avenue of escape to Germany at the right time.
 Every war gardener who has suf- fered will consider the magistrate who soaks the produce thief his particular friend
 The man on the corner says: When there isn't anything else to bother, it can be figured that hay fever will bob up serenely.
 While waiting for the next Liberty loan no one should forget the pledges which have been made regarding the war savings stamps
 Good work has been done in run ming down the prisoners who escaped from the local jail and the credit shoul fall where it belongs
 German agents are now placino bombs aboard Argentine slips. It is time that that country insisted upon clearing out of the reptiles. Those who are harvestina from lHelT war SdruenS ma that the y1eiG more than pays for the efforts which have been put forth in it's behalf.
 Sixty Prussians surrendered to the Americans without shot being fired And there is no exaggeration to say that there will be many more of them They are getting their eyes open.
 With millions of pounds of wlrea l gluten stored here for shipment tt Germany. it becomes evident tha there is plenty of opportunity yet fo running down the agents of the enem! in this country
 lnasmaei, as German writers declare that the success of the allied opera tions has been due to the Americal reserves, it is quite evident that the! do not take any stock in the contemp which the kaiser has shown for tn Yankee fighters.
 The action of Governor Mccall 0 Massachusetts in withdrawing his can didacy for United States senate against Senator Weeks must be re garded as a wise move and at tn same time indicating that he saw tn lhopeiessness of his undertaking.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-22
STORIES OF THE WAR
Americas irst Artillery Battle

The special correspondent of the Boston Post writes from France:
 Vaux goes into our history as the first American artillery battle, guns personnel and plans being American. As for the men who served the guns, l can say only that it was hard. hot work and cold, stark heroism. The artillery does not advance. It sticks. There is not even that littlt which is left of romance in infanry warfare of modern days to be shared by artillery, for their part is merely to stand up and fight. to stand up in a pit under a camouf1age curtain and fire the guns while the German guns drop their terrible explosions 40 feet to the left, 30 feeet to the right, hundred feet in front of you and perhaps finally, and after many deafening efforts, a shell right on your displacement.
 1 In this battle our perfect inteIli- gence aided our artillery in smother l ing the German fire in the shortest possible time, so that our gunners could concentrate on the village and our men have safer passage from the shallow trench line they had dug or l the slope a thousand yards away The 'spotting" by our aeroplanes, en- 1 abling our guns to register a few 1 SneilS DeIOIe lne dltSCk, was lnValQ- able, and thus the four services, the intelligence, artillery infantry anG aviation are linked in the victory.
 The men who captured Vaux may be called old fighters by those whC judge only from the integer over tht crossed rifles on their collars, but
 found in one of the shelters a grouI composed of a soldier who had beer in Tien Tsin, another who spoke O how his regiment won the famous punch bowl in China, a youth iron St Louis who joined just before the, went down to Laredo, Texas; a draft
 ed man named Joe Salinous iron
 Waterbury, Conn, born in Suwall1i, Lii
 thuania and a number of officer from Syracuse, N. Y, one of whon
 had spent most of his life with thi
 unit, and another who never dream
 ed of military activity before Apri 1917.
 The officers took their men out an
 rehearsed them behind the lines. The
 drew up plan of the village laid ou
 the street, and named them. The
 preferred to do this instead of mum
 bering them, because names remain
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-22

and that is why yesterday while I was stumbling over the debris in VauX I found myself at the corner of Selina street and Woodrow Wilson avenue, and ten miutes later came to Broad way and Forty second.
 Selina, of course, was named for the street in Syracuse, N. Y, which so many of the men remember well and hope some day to see again. The re- hearsal provided for the capture of the town, house by house. cellar by cellar, street by street. It was known that there were a cerain number of tunnels in Vaux and they suspected that the Germans would take refuge there. It was known that the Germans had built a tank trap and that they had minnenwerfers concealed at cer- tain places. Provisions were made accordingly.
 On the day of the attack the lieu tenant colonel of the Intelligence De- partmen invited us to witness the battle and upon the capture of 'Vaux permission was given to enter. The artillery fire began the day before, and in "A hours mort than 12 900 pro- iectiles or more than 100000 pounds of high explosives encased in steel and lead were handled by our artillery
 
 which we had huddled and over which both srapnel and high explosive shells were breaking, we could see our shells falling into the houses, roofs blow up walls !crumble and dust and smoke rise and fall thick and lingering waves of it, hour after hour.
 In addition to the infantry. machine gun units and engineers lined up in their shallow trenches and in the lideep ravine which ran circuitously in- to .Vaux, west from the Vaux- Mon- neau road, and just south of the Paris troad, at 5:30 D. m, on July 1.
 The artillery fire became intense roaring and laundering along with oc- casional louder rumbles and still more 1 occasionally terrific crush when 3 direct hit crumbled up a series oi | houses Our trench mortars helped rend the town, and at p. m. preceded by an excellent rolling barrage, oul men went over, most of them smok- ing cigarettes.
 Lieutenant Hamon Gray of La porte, Indiana, scout officer, and Lieu tenant Hanford MacNider of MasoI City, Iowa, led the way down the "a vine, while Lieutenant Melvin H Leonard commanded the compan! l Wnlcn came uOWn the Senlle Siope to
 wards the German battery on the out skirts. The first prisoner was founC hiding in a tree in the ravine He wa on his way to surrender when cap tured. Lieutenants Gray and Mac Nider took the next four prisoner with a, machine gun from behind
 wall on the left of the ravine.
 It is one of the incidents of our ex
 nloitS tbaf is heconinp moro common
 to find among the prisoners, German
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-22
PREssINe eERMANs eAcKWARp

Never has it been believed that General Foch had any idea of letting up in his pressure along the western front. Of course in any offensive there are times when the activities may slow down fer the purpose of consolfda- ting the gains. reorganization and the bringing up of the artillery for further and more effective operations. While such has been going on in the past few days the allied generals have nevertheless been biting into the Ger man lines at strategic points and at a time when the enemy is driven to desperate measures in order to prevent the allies from securing too great an advantage.
 But no better evidence that there is no thought of showing a disposition 10 be satisfied with what has been accomplished or of permitting the in itiative to pass into the hands of the Teutons could be furnished than the resumption of the drive which is now underway along the line to the north west of Soissons. Germany knows the importance of holding back the allies in the region just as long as possible. IL is giving up other territory under pressure In order to provide sufficient divisions for the defense of these lines, but regardless of it's resistance the allies are going ahead over 9 wide expanse of territory for gains which vary from one to three miles a day and taking large numbers of prison CTS and much war material At this rate of progress it is only a question of a comparatively short time before General Ludendorff must retire to a different line and when the import ant cities of Noyon Rove. Lassigny and Chaulnes will be in allied hands and Albert, Peronne and Bapaume ser ioHly threatened. It seems highly probable now that the Germans real ize that they are headed for the ole Hindenburg line. from which they de- bouched last spring.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-22
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Concerning the Election of City
 Surveyor

surveyor.
 Mir Editor: There is some mis- understanding among the members of the court of common council concern ing the appointment of a democvrat 10 the office of city surveyor. Several members of the city government imagine that the street department has such power, but this is wrong impression. The court of common council alone has such power Sec tion VI. of the chapter provides. after stating the manner Of choosing the Mayor and others. ''all officeys of said city other than those above mention ed, except as hereafter is expressly provided, (shall be chosen or appointed 1 by the Court Of Common Council of said city. City Surveyor, is first on 1 the list of ''other officers" named for selection. Thus it is apparent that the street department has no author | ity in the matter. The city has no city surveyor at present, because the council has not made any appointment i Chapter ". of the ordinances reads as follows: Sec. I. Certified copies of all maps and plans. field notes and descriptions made for any depart ment of the city of Norwich, shall be l properly indeXed, filed and deposited in a fire proof vault in the city hall, 1 lu the custody of the City Clerk, at l the time such plans, notes and des- criptiona are made" Sec. ? No per son engaged in rendering services for any department of the city requiring the making of such maps, plans, field 1 notes or descriptions shall receive any compensation for such services as aforesaid
 i If we consider the above quoted sections worthy of notice, one would suppose that competent person should be appointed by the Court of Com
 mon Council to carry the ordinance
 into effect in a manner that had al
 least a slight tinge Of business.
 The failure of the council to do SC
 is probably due to the pressure O
 ether important business, but thi'
 matter can be settled at the next } meeting of the common council
 The negligence of the administra tion in this instance is the cause O
 a great amount of unfavorabie com. ment that might have been avoided The city should have regularl! elected surveyor upon whom the re sponsibility would rest. otherwise tn, ordina nee is not of much avail Il , the final s&nalyEls the street depart l mem. appears to have no valid juris diction in the matter That is evi , dent when we read the charter. You
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-22
OTHER VIEW POINTS
All New England of a few decades ago learned that:

All New England of a few decades ago learned that:
 "Zaccheus he did climb a tree,
 His Lord to see.'
 Zaccheus had nothing, in the tree climbing art, on certain we'll known Litchheld clergyman, the other afternoon. The latter believes evidently, in safety first" where a possible mad dog is concerned Litchfield Enquirer.
 Yes, but the day is surely com ing when profiteering is going to be the most unprofitable business a man can engage in.-Bridseport Tele- gram.
 Nominally government control Of the railroads is supposed to end within short period after the end ing of the war, but as events make progress the probability that the taking over of the railroads will re- suit in permanent government con trol becomes greater. More and more does government control of what heretofore has been corporate enterprises become so complicated that it is difficult to see how the government can disentangle itself from them.--Waterbury Republican Transplanting towering and vege- table plants is now greatly facili- tated by the use of paper flower pots which are nothing more or less than the familiar drinking cups For use in the farm and garden these cups, are perforated and the seedlings are grown in them in the nursery. When it comes time to put l the delicate plants out in the oper they are transferred bodily, pot; and all, and placed in the ground | The transfer IS attended by nc shock whatever, which is rarely tht case when the roots are disturbed during the operation as when re moving them from the little pots O i clay which are generally used fo this purpose. The perforations en able the rootlets to find their wa! beyond the limits of the pot ant so the paper does not interfere witt their growth.-Hartford Times.
 If hurdy -gurdy plays the na tional anthem is it incumbent upol | all within hearing to stand unti the selection is concluded
 A hurdy gurdy man travelling through the city raises the question
 of etiquet. How far is this respec
 to the national anthem to go? Is
 to apply to those at work in office laround the corner from the turne
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-22

pensation for the losses which it had been. forced to suffer.
 There can be no question but what Spain has been too tolerant of the methods of Germany for it has ex- perienced serious troubles and other embarrassments as the result of the Teuton propaganda, and there is no reason why it should not proceed as it was claimed that it promised it would if the provocation continued The strange feature of the case now comes to light through the claim that there has been no note sent to Ber- lin and therefore it is impossible to give out the terms thereof. Whether this is an effort to cover up the com munication until the matter has been completely thrashed out. or whether it means that Spain has backed down in it's insistence upon respect for its rights, remains to be seen.
 That country has lost over 30 yes. l sels as the result of the submarine | and other activities of the Germans
 It has oyer 90 German ships in itS i ports and if it does not now take ad.
 vantage of the chance to take these
 over it simply means a knuckling tt
 the German policy of terrorization.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-22

very truly.
 ANOTHER DEMOCRAT. Norwich, August Fist, 1918.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-22

glanced out his windows idly. q see they're starting to wash that tiled front,'' he told his assistant "Sayi" he exclaimed a second later, why did they leave that paneled strip be- twen those two stores untouched? It is a blot on the whole affair"
 He was so irritated that he spoke to the confectionery shop owner when he went in for a cool drink Casey ordered the candy man I later to his redheaded employe. q want that paneled strip out in front I washed!"
 Yes, sir!" said Casey. 'Duffie" said the dry goods store | owner, who had surveyed his own l frontage with sharp eyes, q want that paneled strip washed next the window"
 Yes, sir" agreed Duff1e, frowning. The morrow's sun shone down on an unwashed strip and so did the next morrows. The dentist as well as the doctor across the street was indig- nant over the botchy piece of work, l The dentists wife, who was chairman of the relief committee, told them about it when they met at her house and every woman agreed that some l thing must be done to keep up the 1 looks of the street. One of them said her husband, being an alderman, cer 1 tainly could do something he l could introduce an ordinance. The | doctor decided he would boycott the candy store man and the candy store man, looking again at the griny l panel, entered his store with a rush and yelled for Casey If you can't dc your work, you're f1red!' he ended.
 Yes, sir,'' agreed Casey, collected his wages and walked out. Outside he ran into Duffle. He was not grinning. Lost my job over you1 fool panel" he growled. All your fault
 ''Huh!" growled Casey morosely With one accord they turned to glare at the offending wall. Over the entire grimy panel of dispute was neatIy pasted a beautiful Red Cross poster and the man who had pasted it wa. vanishing down the street.
 'Gee!" grinned Casey The olt man can't tell me to wash that off Guess I'll go back and get my jol again."
 'well!" said Duf1e, smiling broad. ly, "I don't mind if I do, too! Say I'll help you when it's time to scrapt that offl''
 And that was the end of the grea
 excitement on that street over tn, | Unwashed Panel-Chicag News.