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SON BILL

Our son Bill has not been able to
get the usual number of spoonfuls
of sugar in his coffee each morning
for sometime, and has been told so
often that we must economic on
account of the war until he has
economy on the brain. Wednesday
afternoon he went around the bend
with us, holding his Scotch Collie in
his lap, and as he rode he told us
this,-"I economical today or pea
nuts" When asked how he accom-
plished this he said,-"I had a nick
els worth and saw Jack Bradley
coming and put them in my pocket"
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FRENCH OFFICER PLEASES
ABBEVILLE AUDIENCE
CONTINUED from Page One.)

been without the blessed British
heet?", the speaker asked amidst
great applause. 1t fills the French
heart with joy to be fighting side by
side with England. At the Marine,
Britain wrote with US n of the
most glorious pages of her history,
she who had been writing most of
the pages of her military history
against US, the French. Nor must
unofficial American aid be overlook
ed. Many lady nurses and men in
the foreign legion aided in the win
ming of the great battle.
1t was General Foch, who was in
immediate command at the Marine
and he is the most epical figure in
the war. (applause). "My left wing
is broken" he wrote, 'and my right
wing is broken; but with my cen
ter, I shall attack" He did. And he
routed the Prussian Guards, pride
of the German army. If Foeh could
do that, if he could save the chan
mel ports Immediately after with
only $4,000 Fusiliers, what can he
not do with all the allied armies I'M
der him?
French Bull-dogism.
For a long time, the world has
lacked faith in the French ability to
hold pugnaciously. 1t was admitted
that the Frenchman was brave and
spirited. Blu it was thought that he
soon lost courage and gave. up; that
"bull-dogism' was an Anglo-Saxon
monopoly. This representation Of
the Frenchman is a great injustice
to him. He has always had a good
share of the bulldog in him. After
fighting throughout the long Hun
dred Years War, an uphill fight,
"the English bulldogs were nightly
glad to get home, but many of them
were not allowed to-" 1t iR true
that France then had the inspiration
of the sanity Joan of Arc. But
now she has the inspiration of all
the sanity women of France and
also of all the sanity women of all
the allies. (great applause.)
In fact, this is merely a part OF
the insidious German propaganda
started years before the a The
worst phase has been the creation of
a conception of "poor bled white
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-07-26
ing our streets.

ing our streets.
We pay into the school funds OF
the county a three mills constitu-
tional tax for the support of the
schools, and of the amount paid by
this city, under the law as enacted
by the legislature, about n mill OF
our money is taken to run schools
in country districts, while we are
forced to levy eight mills special
taxes in this district to support our
schools, to which access must be
given to the pupils of country dis
tricts free of tuition, or else we
cannot share in the state high school
appropriation after helping pay it.
Of course the Tax Commission of
South Carolina is not responsible for
the distribution of the taxes in the
state. But it's members should know
what we say is true in Abbeville and
every other town of like size. And
knowing this the members of that
commission should make no order
which imposes other h%ardships on
those communities which are al
ready bearing more than their bur-
dens of the public expense of run
ming the government. The Tax Com
mission should not in violation OF
the oath which they have taken.
make an order which can have no
other effect than to impose on one
community for the benefit of other:
a burden greater than the burden
imposed in other. communities.
The truth of the business is w
shall have no relief until the pres
ent Tax Commission is abolished.
Mr.. Cooper advocates the only pro-
per solution of the tax question in
this state. That solution is to ap-
point a commission each four years
to %apportion the public expenses be-
tween the several counties on a per-
centage basis, and let every county
make it's own levy for the purpose
of raising the necessary amount OF
money.
And in the name of common JUS
tice and fair dealing let the COM
mission consist of business men and
not professional politicians.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-07-26
FARMERS MAY GRIND
FULL YEARS SUPPLY
Grinding of HOMEGROWN Wheat
Modifed-FIour May Be Sold Under
Certain Conditions.

Columbia.-Under modified regula'
lions of the Food Administration
farmers are now permitted to grind a
full years supply Of flour from home
grown wheat. Millers Throughout South
Carolina have been authorized by the
Food Administration to grind, from
wheat made by farmers, enough flour
to supply their families and their ten
ants for IL months. This amount
must, however, be based upon a cal
culation of IL pounds per month per
person.
Although using flour ground from
homegrown wheat, farmers are ex.
pected by the Food Administration
! to nevertheless observe strictly the
ffty-ifty rule and to use -four substi-
tutes, pound for pound, with the flour
! they have ground. The fact that they
have produced their own wheat does
| not release them from this obligation.
They are also expected to see to 1t
that their tenants, furnished by them,
use flour substitutes ON the ffty-dfty
basis.
Farmers who grow wheat may sell
-four to their neighbors who perhaps
have not, but in such cases they will
be- required, under the rules Of the
Food Administration, to sell an equal
amount of flour substitutes, the same
as a merchant, or take miller's Ger
tificates from the purchaser showing
that the purchaser has had flour sub
stitutes ground to the flour
bought, pound for pound. Farmers
may sell -four, from their wheat, to
merchants, but when merchants re-
sell this -four 1t must be sold, pound
for pound, with flour substitutes, to
the persons who buy 1t.
These regulations apply to thresh'
ermen as we'll as to furmers.
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WHY We MUST SAVE FOOD
Tho United States tho Last
Reservoir Of Men, of Ships
and Of Food to Save World
Civilization.
BY Herbert Hoover.

"If you could stand In the middle OF
Europe today and survey the land to
it's borders, you would discover its
whole population Of 400, 900, 900 human
being short Of food. Millions Of pso-
pie in Poland, Finland, Serbia, Ar
menia and Russia are dying Of starva-
ton and other millions are suffering
from too little food. Our Allies and
the neutrals are living on the barest
margins that viii support life and
strength.
This, the most appalling and dread
ful thing that has come to humanity
since the dawn Of civilization, is to
me the outstanding creation Of Ger
man militarism. The Germans them
selves are not the wost sufferers. They
are e1torting at the cannon's mouth the
harvests and cattle of the people they
have overrun, leaving them in desola-
ton. II the war we're to cease TO-
morrow, the toll OF actual dread from
starvation and its attendant diseases
within the German lines would double
or treble the 5000. 900 OF 100000 Of
men who have been actually killed by
Germany and her allies In arms. The
10000, 900 people in occupied Belgium
and Northern France would have died
Of starvation had it not been for US
and the Allies.
I'VE must build Dur food resources
to stand ready for any demands upon
US by the Allies. 1t Is Of no purpose
to Us to send millions of our best to
France II we fail to maintain strength
of their men, womea and children on
our lines of communication. The Uni.
ted States IL the last reservoir Of
men, the last reservoir of ships, the
last reservoir Of munitions and the
list reservoir Of food upon which the
Allied world must depend II Germany
is to be defeated and II " T 20 b
Tree me-"
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France" The Germans say, "Poor
France! We hate England. But we
love France and hate to see her led
astray and commit suicide. Poor
France! She is bled white and can't
fight long" Lieutenant Dewierz-
bicki gave the lie to this and proved
it by figures. One set of statistics
alone is sufficient to illustrate this.
Of the 470 miles of French front,
the United States holds 38 miles,
the Belgians hold 16 miles, the Brit
ish hold the 100 miles protecting the
channel ports, and France-the So
called "bled white" nation-holds
the remaining two-thirds, or three
hundred odd miles.
One other kind of German propa-
ganda is now patent, he said. 1t is
the attempt to make America believe
that she is protecting France as an
act of gratitude for Frances aid
during the revolution and doing it
for this reason alone. No, the Sam
mics over there are protecting the
United States first and foremost!
American enthusiasm must not be
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-07-26
WAR SAVINGS STAMPS NON
TAXABLE.

Whom preparing for the issuing
Of Thrift Stamps and War savinss
Certificates the national admlnlstra-
tratlon very wisely decided that
they should not be subject to any
taxes, federal, state or local. In
this respect they are entirely
unique, being free when almost ev-
erything else Is subject to Impost.
As the amount that an Individual
may hold is limited to $1,000, this
concession does not deal unJustIy
toward other security holders.
1t is simply ar Indueement to the
small investor to make an unusual
effort In his own and his eountry's
behalf by ~deposIting as much of his
surplus with the government as
possible. Those who buy these it,
tie bonds-and all should do It
should understand In advance of
tho coming days of taxation return
In April that whatever of their
earned savings or surplus derived
from economics ls converted into
Thrift Stanps or War Savings Cor
~tlf1oates need not be recorded upon
the assessors blank. Az tho Inter
eet and principal are payable In
1923, neither Is It necessary to
make mention Of tho investments
In the return to the Income tax col.
leotor.
They are, AZ stated, absolutely
FREQ and, as they also pay 4 per
cont compound l~nterest, are the
best securities that one can buy In
those troubled times.
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HOME AGAIN.

Mrs. Minis is in Abbeville for t
remainder of the summer with h
daughter, Mrs. Fred Cason. M
Minis has been visiting her daua
tiers in Columbia and Leesville,
her heart naturally turns to Abb
vile.
She stood the trip up here v
indeed, and despite her eighty-nI
years she is in excellent health 9
takes a vivid interest in the affa
of the world and in the pleasuI
of youth.
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allowed to cool by the contrary cor
ception.
After the address,, the chorus san
"The Star Spangled Banner"
had been hoped that Lieutenaa
DeWierzbicki would remain in All
beville over night and a receptid
at the home of Mrs. Greene had bed
arranged. However, the lieutenai
had to return to Greenwood immed
ately.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-07-26
UNEQUAL TAXES.

The esteemed Tax Commission OF
South Carolina, manned by a crowd
of politicians a%ppoined by Governor
Manning, is keeping up its record.
Early in the year the command went
out that all property must be re-
turned at one hundred cents on the
dollar, and when so returned its
value was to be reduced to forty
two per cent. of the real value, and
taxes were to be levied on this re-
duced valuation.
This paper which has opposed the
present Tax Commission as an en-
tirely useless body and a worthless
adjunct to the state government, TAX
ing the commission at it's word, took
occasion to commend it for doing
the one proper thing in South Caro-
lima, namely: the equalization of
taxes according to the value of the
property assessed. Other newspa-
pers denounced the order as a
scheme to extort more taxes from
the cities, towns and corporations,
with a concealed purpose to relieve
country property of its just burden.
1t seems that these newspapers
were wiser than we were. In the
Abbeville school district, the tax as
SCISSORS undertook to place a reason
able value on all property in the
district, city and country property
alike. No man in the country, so
far, has appeared before this board
and complained that his property
was not worth the sum assessed
against it. This board having put
all property on the books on a hun
dred per cent. basis passed a resolu-
ton that if the property was to be
reduced, all property was to be re-
duced on a per cent. basis in order
that relatively all should be assessed
alike.
But this will not 60 with the Tax
Commission. The order has now been
made to reduce the farm property in
this school district from an average
tax value of seventeen dollars per
acre to eleven dollars per acre, with
no corresponding order. for city pro-
perty. In other words the. farm pro-
perty in the Abbeville School dis
trict, which at forty-two per cent. of
its real value stands at seventeen
dollars per acre, is to be reduced to
about two thirds of that amount, and
is to be taxed at eleven dollars per
acre, about thirty per cent. of it's
real value, while the city property
in the school district is to remain at
forty-two per cent. and continue to
do in the future as it has done in
the past-pay more than it's just
share of the taxes in Abbeville coun-
ty.
Not only do we pay one-fourth of
all the taxes in the county, but I'M
der the law we get no direct benefit
from a great part of the taxes which
we pay. The million and a half dol
lars worth of property on which we
pay five or six mills in order to work
the roads of Abbeville county and
keep up the notorious chain gang
counts for nothing when the work
is being done. All the money is
spent outside of the city of Able
vile and we must pay another eleven
mills in this city, about four or
five mills of which is used in work
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-07-26
IN LONG CANE.

During the month of June il
Long Cane township there were 1:
births, 8, whites and 8 colored, AM
4 deaths, 1 white and 8 colored.
E. R. Miller, Reg.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-07-11
STACKER DRIVE
NETS A DOZEN
Men Evading Draft or DESERVING
Taken Up by Guard

A Stacker drive. conducted by the
Bismarck Home Guard, in conjunction
with the North Dakota Council of
Defense, Loyalty Week, resulted in
rounding up twelve actual or techni-
cal deserters. OF these, four were es-
corted by home guardsmen to the ar
my recruiting office, where they were
promptly enlisted. One other has
been sent to camp, while seven are
still held at the Bismarck Stacker sta
ton. in charge of Sheriff French. OF
these two are actual deserters from
the United States army. They had
taken French leave from a training
camp in Texas and were found here
with the carnival company which en-
tertained the Loyalty Week crowds.
One of these is Wisconsin boy, un-
der the legal age, who ran away from
home and enlisted without his fathers
consent His much worried parent
is now here, seeking some way by
which his son may be extricated from
his difficulty. Other slackers detain-
ed here are from New York, San Fran
cisco and other spots on the CONT
nent.
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wall Hanging. o. Patchwork.

Wall Han0in0s Of Patchwork.
The art of making = patchwork Is
very old. It was practiced in the days
of ancient Egypt 1t was not used
there for quilts. however, us the Nile
valley has 4 warm climate, but was
used extensively as wall hangings and
screen coverings.
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THURSDAY, JULY II, 1885,

sisting upon cooperation among deal
ers TO insure efficiency. The dealers
went on record in support OF the gov
ernment's rulings and pledged them
selves to the enforcement of these
regulations.
During the meeting the Northwest
ern Hide Dealers association was re-
organized, with the election OF Jonn
Mack, Minneapolis, president; Z. =.
Clagg, LeMars. Ia, vice PRESIDENT
Louis Andersen, Minneapolis secre-
tary: Oscar Bergman, st. Paul, treas
urer, and J. c. Wade, Minneapolis.
and D. Bergman, st. Paul. executive
committee. The new board OF direct
ors consists of Abe Hirsch, Albert
Lea, Mimi; c. H. Hull, Marshall
town, Ia; Fred Redick, Grand Forks,
n. d.; H. G. Guynn. Mitchell, S. D.;
c. c. Dougherty, Billings, Mont: ID.
Bergman, Minneapolis. A committee
to revise the rules and regulations
was named, consisting OF H. G. Guyn,
Mitchell: Charles Percival, Des
Moines: H. G. Grove, Bismarck: ".
n. Wrixson, Great Falls, Mont;
Charles Arnold. Minneapolis, MINI:
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-07-11
WILSON CLEARS
WORLD VISION
SAYS ASQUITH
Former British Premier Gives
President Sincere Praise
for War Course
CARRIES PEOPLE WITH HIM
Makes Greatest Decision Of the
Age and Has United Sup
port of Country

London, July l1.-Sincere praise OF
President Wilson's leadership in the
war and his advocacy OF league OF
nations after the war was given by
Herbert H. AsQuith, the former pre-
mier, in an address last night at the
National Liberal club, the occasion
was Hospitality dinner to Ameri
can officers" at which 500 prominent
Englishmen were hosts. The dinner
resolved itself into meeting OF ova'
ton for the president.
Vice Admiral Sims, commander OF
the American naval forces in the war
zone, paid tribute to the cooperation
OF the British and American navies,
and declared:
THE submarine menace is not at
an end for we are destroying them
faster than the Germans can build
them"
Former Premier Asquith, urging the
Importance of President Wilson's idea
of league of nations. as The most
urgent of all peace problems" said:
THE United States as nation has
had the very good fortune that in the
supreme CTlSIS VI ucI ldtIOlol AASto'.
the man whom she most needed for in
SEPARATION and guidance has always ap-
peared Thus came Washington and
Lincoln.
president Wilson has taken the
greatest decision of our age and has
carried his people with him in it.
Moreover, he has laid before the world
the grounds for his decision. the rea-
sons which justified and compelled 1t
and the spirit in which it was
adopted.
America has had her difficulties.
They have not stifled, but have slim
ulated her energy and we grasp the
opportunity tonight of acknowledging
our unbounded admiration of the mag
nificent contribution America has
made, is making and will continue to
make in ever increasing measure.
"Probably the world owes its great
est debt to President Wilson for
helping men whose vision has been
blurred and blinded by the smoke OF
battle fields. to lift up their eyes and
to look through it and beyond it. 1t
is very difficult in time of war to
keep steady head and a clean tongue.
President Wilson does both"
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interests and that such protection III
mis- emergency is essential to prof.
liable agriculture.
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SIBERIA REPUDIATES
BOLSHEVIKI TREATY

London, July 1.-THE OBJ
jects of the new Siberian
government include repudiat-
ing of the Bolsheviki and the
\ Brest-Litovsk treaty and the
establishment of a Russian
republic with an autonomous
Siberia. According to a dec
laration made by a member
of the new government to
she Vladivostok correspond
ent of the Daily Express, it
is also proposed to rehabili-
state the army and send the
troops against Germany. Rus
sia's national debt would be
acknowledged, Siberia assum-
ing responsibility for her
share.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-07-11
GROVE RETURNS
FROM HIDE MEET
Dealers of Northwestern Terri
tory Confer in Minneapolis

H. G. Grove, Bismarck hide and fur
dealer, has returned from Minneap-
oils. where he attended meeting OF
car-lot hide dealers of Iowa, Mime
sofa, North and South Dakota and
Montana, called by D. Bergman re-
gi0nal federal director. Eighty-fiye
dealers were present, comprising 80
per cent of the dealers in the terri
tory represented. The object OF the
meeting was to receive instructions
regarding the handling Of hides dur
ing the war and to organize the deal
ers so that further instructions could
be- disseminated among the dealers on
short notice, as the government is in
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-07-11
.L0AFER LID is
FINALLY GIVEN
COUNCILS 0. K.
Everybody in North Dakota
Must Work Eight Hours
Daily or Be Jailed y
BY Condo

After flirting with the question for
several weeks, the North Dakota
Council OF Defense has finally adopt
ed resolution placing ban on
loafng The council had this mat
ter up more than a month ago, and a
majority of the members thought a
resolution had been adopted. 1t was
discovered at the beginning OF the
present session. however. that formal
action had not been taken. and Assist
ant Attorney General Bronson. the
councils legal adviser. was directed
to prepare resolution. AS adopted,
the resolution requires 48 hours, pro-
duc1iye labor each week from every
able-bodied male between the ages of
Is and so and declares vagrant any
person within these ages who does
not do his bit. The resolution is ex-
pected to help with the harvest labor
question.
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HOW .RUMANIA
LOST CHANCE
IN !. D J
Confidential Document Tells of
Interesting Opportunity
Passed Up
POLITICIANS ARE BLAMED
Failure Not Due to the Military
Leaders, Says Memoran.
dunn Now Published
POLITICIANS ARE BLAMED

London. June neutrality-suspicious.
OF the Associated press)-4ttow the
humanian armies lost an opportunity
OF annihilating the German and Bul,
garfan armies IN the Dobrudja in 1916,
is revealed in confidential document
which has just reached the Associated
Press from an authoritative source in
kumania.
The document contains an account
OF a conversation between Field Mar.
shal Won Mackensen and the human.
ian military leaders which occurred
after the kumanian peace treaties
were signed. Won .Mackensen declar-
ed that the failure OF the Rumanians
to press their advantage in 1916
changed the whole course Of the war.
ell said that action by the Ruman>
ians could easily have been FOLLOWED;
by a separate peace with Bulgaria
which would have separated Turkey
from her allies and changed the whole
balance of power in the east
The Rumanian failure, the memoir
andum states, was due not to the mill
tary leaders. but to the shortsighted-
ness of the politicians at Bucharest.
In September, 1916 General Aver
escu, commander in chief of the Ru-
manian army had taken an army Of
four divisions and had crossed the
Danube into the heart OF the enemy's
country. He had found clear path
into the heart Of the German.Bulgar-
ian Dobrudja army, and had penterat-
ed Is miles with q view to cutting off
all their communications ana striking
them from the rear, General Ayeres-
Gus own position was safe, for be-
hind him he had eight divisions of
support and reinforcerontS including
Serbian. and Rumania troops Of the
st quality.
''rt Averescu had r":lecteil to cut
the w;res, which conne,'... him with
itol, and he had only got Is miles be-
yond the Danube when there came an
order to withdraw. 1t was an ahso,
lutte command from the :war cabinet
Averescu tried to reason with his pc.
litical chieftains over a long distance
telephone wire, but the politicians re-
fused to change the decision. The
cabinet, it appeared. felt that there
was DANCED of the 5German'Grmies on
the other side Of Rumania-Thc Car
pathian front-breaking through. The
politicians preferred defensive pol
icy to a daring offensive and Ayrres-
Gu andShis army withdrew from their
commanding positions.