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Cotton Mill Men Meet

Spartanburg. s. C.. June 2s.-P Prominent cotton mill manufacturers from all parts of the state gathered in Spartanburg yesterday for meeting of the South Carolina Cotton Manufacturers associa- ton The deliberation of the body con sisted principally of discussions relative to cotton mill labor and to the situation created by a shortage of coal for cotton mill use. Officers of the association say that fully % per cent of the membership attended the meeting.
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Cards Divide With Pirates

St. Louis, June 29-Pittsburg won the first game of todays double header 5 to 1, and St. Louis took the second. to 4. Rankin Johnson, the pitcher obtained from Milwaukee, made his debut on the hill for the To- calls in the first game Pittsburg played a successful bunting game while Mayer held St Louis helpless, excepting in the fifth when the locals scored their only run.
 In the second game St. Louis rallied in the eighth and tied the score. In the inning Sherdel. who twirled the last two innings for the locals singled with two down and scored the winning
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Braves and Dodgers Split

Boston, June 29.-A base hit by 1lonetchy over 2. Wheat's head, with the bases full, in the last of the tenth gave Boston the winning run. to B. in the first game of today's double header with Brooklyn. Coombs had pur- posely passed Wickland and J. c. Smith filling the bases with oue out to gam ble on double play.
 Brooklyn won the second game, to 8, the visitors falling on Nehf's de- livery for five runs on six hits in the seventh inning. Scores:
 First game: R IL F. Brooklyn ... 900 101 01o 0--3 ' Boston ........ .0o0 003 900 1-4
 Batteries: Coombs and Miller; Ru- dolph and Wilson.
 Second game: R H. F. Brooklyn .........oO0 900 500-5 lo ' Boston .......... 100 200 000-3 8
 Batteries Cheney and M. Wheat Nehf and Wilson.
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Holiness Preacher Held

Nashville, June 29.-John R. Miller, who elaims to be from Cincinnati and n Holiness preacher, was bound over to the circuit court at Murfreesboro Tenn, to- day charged with sed,tious utterances He is said to have opposed the purchase of War Savings Stamps In default ot Sl0O0 bond, he was committed to iaiI
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Red Sox Even Series

Washington, June 29-Boston evened up the series with Washington today by taking the second game, to l.. Ayers was hard bit, but supported brilliantly was not scored on until the eighth when McInnis and White man doubled in succession. Errors by Lavan and Picinich were responsil le for Bostons other two runs Score: Boston ...,..... 900 900 021--3 13 l Washington -.... 100 900 O00-1 , 4
 Batteries: Jones, Bush and Agnew Ayers and Picinich
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American Association

At Minneapolis: Minneapolis 1, Indian- apolis 2
 At St. Paul St Paul 10, Louisville ,. At Milwaukee: Milwaukee B. Toledo t At Kansas City: Kansas City 0, Colum- bus 3. (Casled seventh. rain)
 At Minneapolis: Mineapolis- Indiana C. oils twilight game postponed, rain.
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S|SLER NOW KING. OF SLUGGERS IN AMERICAN LEAGUE: Ty Cobb Shows Burst of Old Time Speed and Takes the Lead in Run-Getting RUTH BRINGS TOTAL OF HOMERS UP TO 9 Fred Merkle Continues at Head of National League, Followed by
 Daubert, Smith, Groh
 and Kauff

Driving out 10 hits in the last six games. George Sisler. St. Louis star takes first place in the American league list of batters. according to averages, in- cluding games of Wednesday, released 1 today.
 Sisler is batting .351, seven points ahead of George Burns of Philadelphia. Sisler also is leading the league in base stealing. having 29 thefts to his credit. Ty Cobb, Of Detroit is showing burst of his old-time speed having tied Gil hooley of New York for scoring honors. Each has registered 41. The Georgian also is climbing steadily in batting, being fifth with .324.
 Babe" Ruth, the Boston pitcher, bagged another home run during the week. bringing his total up to g. Shearl of Boston, with 20, continues to lead in sacrifice hitting. New York leads in team batting with .263, and Boston iii fielding with 974. Leading batters ara
 BURNS IS RUNNER UP
 Sisler. St. Louis, .351; Burns, Philadel- phia, .344; Baker, New York, .336; Ruth, Boston, S25; Cobb, Detroit, 1924; Milan, Washington, 1923; Walker, Philadelphia .o-V, lfpf ANtN OI h, .oOV, 4slt4fi SlAi- cago, 1903; Speaker, Cleveland, BOP.
 Iii the National, Fred Merk1e, Chi cago, continues to light the way with an average of .360. according to figures including games of Wednesday, and is tied with Benny Kauff, New York, for total base hitting, each having stretched their blows for 100 bases
 Tn 57 games, Merlkle has cracked out "A hits. He also has scored 20 runs.
 Burns of New York, however, excels in scoring. having registered 41. Carey Pittsburg, added a brace of stolen bases to his credit bringing his total up to 27. Roush, Cincinnati, and Mann Chicago, are tied for sacrifice hitting honors with IA Chicago iea ds the league in team batting, with .272 and New York in club fielding, with .970. Leading batters who have played in 25 or more games: Merkle, Chi cago, .360; Daubert, Brooklyn, SAT-; Smith, oBston, .346; Groh, Cincinnati, 337; Kauff, New York .324; Mann, Chicago, .329; Wickland. Boston, .314; Hollocher, Chicago, BIO. Williams, Philadelphia, .30S; Young, New York, 1905.
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SPORTS s,r,rurn nv n VI HV,TbAyTl1 JR
Braues andDodgers WW Fry 7wiightBaH
Championship Of City League Hangs on Double Bill July 4
Acpco and T. C. l. Teams to Settle Long Standing Argu ment by Locking Horns in Two Games at
 Redwood Fireworks Day

the grand  occupy among
 
  championship Acpco and the conceded be
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run when Heathcote tripled to the fence. Scores:
 First game: R. H. E Pittsburg ...,,.. no 900 021-5 St. Louis ........ 900 010 000-1 1
 Batteries: Mayer and Schmidt; John son, Sherdel and Gonzales.
 Second game: R. H. E Pittsburg ....... 0o1 21o ooo-4 9 ( St Louis ...... 200 010 011--5 9
 Batteries: Miller and Schmidt; Pack ard, May, Sherdel and Gonzales.
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International League

At Rochester: Rochester 5-4. Newarx 2-1. At Buffalo: Buffalo 2-4, Binshamton 0-s. At Toronto. Toronto 9-2, Baltimore 2-s. (Second game, l4 innings).
 At Syracuse: Syracuse-Jersey City, rain
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Games Today
NATIONAL LEAGuE
Yesterdays Results

Philadelphia 2-1. New York 1-2. Chicago ?, Cincinnati O. Boston 4-3, Brooklyn, 3-5. Pittsburg 5-4, St. Louis Is.
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White Sox Beat Browns

Chicago, June 29.--A ninth inning rally gave Chicago a 5 to victory over St Louis in lstless game today
 Score: R, H. E. St. Louis ....... Oil 900 011-4 g ? Chicago ...... 010 100 012--5 10 ?
 Batteries; Rogers and Nunamaker; Russell and Schalke
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FLAGSTEAD HEADS SOUTHERN

In the Southern association, which suspended its season this week, Flag stead of Chattanooga, has command
 ing lead among the batters with an
 average of .3S4 The averages include games of Tuesday. Other leading bat
 ters are: Hauser Memphis, .337; Compton,
 New Orleans, .329; Barger, Memphis, S25; Hyatt, Little Rock, .32; South wort tl. Birmingham, .S11; Altenberg, Birmingham. .309; Bues Mobile, a0S; Haworth, Birmingham, .306; Walker Mobile, .3O5.
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Wharves and Docks Taken Oye

Washington. Jun 29.-President Wilson by proc ana tion today formally took over the wharvas and docks of the North Ger man Lloyd and Hamburg -Americzn sseasnsh.p companies at Hoboken.
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1 which has been set at some unknown figure between 70 and 80. After all play is completed, refresh
 ments will be served on the lawn in
 front of the clubhouse, where the heroes
 and heroines will be crowned. This is fine opportunity for everybody to take
 a peep at the ''souths finest club,' and to help swell Birmingham's contribution to the Red Cross
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Texas League

At San Antonio: San Antonio ?. Fort Worth 5.
 At Houston: Houston 8. Dallas f. At Waco: Waco 6-3, Shreveport 0-1.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Vauphn Blanks Reds

Cincinnati, June 2s.-Vaughn out pitched Toney in a well-played game today, giving Chicago its seventh straight victory. The locals could do nothing with vaughn's delivery in the pfnches. It was Toneys seventh starlight defeat Score: R. H. E. Chicago .......100 o1o ooo-2 10 2 Cincinnati ...... 1000 900 000-o 0
 Batteries: Vaughn and Kilifer Toney and Allen.
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Giants Win and Lose

New York. June 29.-New York and
 Philadelphia divided double header
 here today. The Giants won the first game, to 1, and Philadelphia reversed
 it's score in the second game. It was
 Philadelphia's first victory in New York this season. Perritt was strong in the
 pinches in the first game and won his eleventh game in 13 pitched. Oeschger
 had the better of Causey in the seconG
 game. New York had only one run, re- sulting from an error. Scores:
 First game: R. H. T Philadelphia ... '. 900 900 1oo-1 ( New York ....... .11o 900 00'-2 6 l Batteries: Prendergast, Davis and E. Burns, Adams; Perrit and Rariden Second game: R. H. E
 Philadelphia .1o1, 900 0o0-2 ] New York ... .O0O' 0o1 00O-1 1 Batteries: oeschger and Adams; Cau- sey and Rariden.
 Tho A,narican Rihte cociatv has IiS-
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LEAGUE STANDINGS
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Yesterdays Results

Yesterdays Results Chicago 5, St. Louis 4. Cleveland, 13, Detroit 4. Philadelphia, ?, New York 1. Boston 3, Washington 1.
 Games Today St. Louis at Chicago. Detroit at Cleveland.
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SPORTS
Liberty Golf Tourney To
 Attract Hundreds on July 4
Country Club Will Throw Open Its Gates on ndepend ence Day and Invite the Public Out to Help
 Swell Red Cross Donation
LoCAI-RY NYIRE

The Country club will swing wide it's July and all Birmingham within
  golf ball. you'll moneys worth fun for old
  the
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Games Today

Chicago at Cincinnati. Pittsburg at St. Louis.
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The American Bible society has dis tributed over 2,5O0,000 Testaments during the past year, 100000 having been given to the Y M. C. A. for men in the service.
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Oregon has passed a law prohibiting women from acting as messengers
Evening star., 1918-06-10
COMPROMISE WITH
- HUN IMPOSSIBLE,
Mr.. LANSING SAYS

CONTINUED from First Page.)
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to obtain the great purpose for which
we strive. This task must not be left
half done. We must not transmit to
posterity q legacy of blood and mis-
cry. The world must be made n
safe place in which nations and indi-
viduals may live free and happy lives
we must go on with the war until
the desire of the nations ls satisfied
and until human liberty Is forever
freed from the peril which is ours so
long as greed and ambition and blood
lust dominate the German empire; so
long as Prussianism is supreme in the
mind of the German people.
I'VE may in this great conflict be-
tween civilization and savagery go
down into the valley of shadows be-
cause our foe is powerful and Injured
to war. We must be prepared to meet
disappointments and temporary re-
verses, but we must, with American
spirit, rise above them. With coura-
geous hearts we must go forward un-
til this war is won.
Closely associated, as I have been
in these critical days. with our great
leader, Woodrow Wilson. I have been
more and more impressed with his
wise judgment. with his stern deter
mination to lead democracy to victory.
unity and splendid spirit Of the ma
tion.
Let US. as loyal citizens of the re-
public, serve in this mighty crusade
against Prussianism, confident. as our
President Is confident. that the right
eousness of our cause and the courage
and tenacity Of the American people
will carry this war through to victory
and to peace"
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energies to preparing for another on
slaught on democracy and liberty.
for another attempt to win world
sovereignty.
Never to Be Unprepared Again.


'It is true that the free peoples of
SO unprepared as they were before
this war to meet a militant Germany.
and would never again be victimized
by German intrigue and perfidy
Every government would look to that
But such a state of uncertain peace
would compel the whole world to re-
main under arms in anticipation of
German aggression. The resources of
the nations, already SO heavily taxed
by this war, would have TO be further
burdened for the maintenance of
great military and naval establish
ments. Peace would be in constant
jeopardy because it would depend on
the belief of Germany's rulers as to
their ability to. succeed in a new
essay Of conquest.
'1t Is not such a peace as that
which. will satisfy the longing of tho
world. 1t seeks and must have a
peace which will silence for the flu
make needless the marshaling of
armies and the assembling of navies-
a peace so secure and so certain that
mans energies may be safely devoted
to the, productive and not the de-
structive pursuits of life, and ma
becoming the prey Of foreign aggres-
sion.
This great war must end with a
decision which will be a blessing and
not a curse to the present generation
and to future generations. Prussian-
ism with its distorted ideas. its false
conceptions and its intolerable cruel
ties must be brought to an end. The
Germanizing Of other countries must
cease. The dream Of Hamburg to the
Persian gulf and Of an enslaved Po-
land and Russia must be dispe!led.
German diplomacy and intrigue. as
now practiced, must be proclaimed
an International crime and suppress
ed forever. The philosophy of the
.superman' and of world mastery
must die discredited. The evil in
fluences which have SO long poison
ed the minds of the German people
must lose their potency.
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IS HONORABLY DISCHARGED.
Brig. Gen Rafferty, Third to Be Re.
tired From N. A, Service.

Brig. Gen. William c. Rafferty, has
been honorably discharged from fur
ther service in the Field Artillery.
National Army. because Of physical
disability.
That action automatically relieved
him from command Of the 54th Artil-
lery Brigade. 18th Division. at Camp
Mcclellan. Admission, Ala. and restored
him to his former status as colonel,
Coast Artillery Corps. in the Regular
Army. He Is a West Pointer and is
given credit for. the invention of
artillery indirect fire methods"
Gen. Rafferty, is the third brigadier
general of the 29th Division to be
discharged since last fall. The others
were Brig. Gen. Charles D. Gather
of the Maryland National Guard and
Brig. Gen. Cecil c. Vaughan of the
Virginia National Guard.
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Germans of high and low degree be-
lieved dominion over all nations to
be the destiny Of their race, and with
a devotion and zeal worthy of a bet
ter cause turned their energies into
those channels which would aid the
ruling class in their plans to attain
the summit of earthly power, Ger
many's vaunted place in the SUM-
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Must Go on With War.

complished, as they will be when the
war aims stated by the President are
attained. we must go on with the war.
There is no other way. Peace with
out a radical change in present con-
ditions or even in those conditions
preceding the war would be Interpret
ed BY the German people as a vindica-
tfon of Prussianism. The German en-
pire would continue to accept its doc
trines' and to menace the world.
I'VE must go on with the war. inten-
styling our efforts and expending all
our energies and resources, II need be,
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What Prof. Meinicke Said.

mot less ominous to liberty are the
words Of Prof. Neinecke. We want
remind ourselves that the belief in
our mission as a world people has
arisen from our originally purely
spiritual impulse to absorb the world
into ourselves
"Observe that extraordinary phrase
no absorb the world into ourselves
To conceive such 4 national destiny
is to resurrect the dead ambitions
Of an Alexander or a Caesar; to teach
it as right to young men Is to SOW
in their minds an egotism which
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Col. Baker Transferred.

Col. David Baker. Medical Corps.
now commanding the base hospital at
Camp Sheridan. is transferred to the
command OF base hospital No. 81 at
Camp Gordon, Atlanta. Ga.
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an article which appeared in the Fort
nightly Review Of February, 1871;
and as 1 read. remember this was
written of the German invasion Of
France nearly half a century ago. 1t
might have been written in February.
1918, so truly does 1t portray Prus-
sianism as we know 1t today.
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Many Germans Deny.

Many Germans Deny.
"T know that many Germans indig-
| nantly deny that this ambition for su-
rremacy has inspired the conduct of
the German government or that it ex-
listed In the minds of the German peo-
pie. l wish sincerely that 1t was SO,
for 1t would make the problems of the
future far more easy Of solution. But
the numerous utterances Of German
thinkers and writer's belle these de-
tenders of Germany's purity of mo-
tive.
TT is hardly open to debate. in the
light of subsequent events, but that
which have been taught for years
from the university platforms. from
the pulpits and through the printed
word to young and old in Germany
excited in them an insolent pride of
blood and infused into their national
being an all-absorbing ambition to
prove themselves 'super-men' chosen
by natural superiority and by divine
mandate to be rulers of the earth.
Not only in Germany but among those
OF German descent in other lands has
this pernicious belief spread, linking
Germans everywhere to the father
land in the hope that they would be
considered worthy to share in the
future glory of the masters of the
world.
"A few examples of the teachings.
which have so nodded German char
acter and implanted in the German
mind false conceptions of life, will
suffice to show their nature and the
evil influences which they exerted on
a people peculiarly susceptible to
flattery' and possessed by a selfshness
which blunted their sense of honor
and moral obligation.
Prof, Thenden Quoted.
prof. Theuden, imbued with an as
founding vanity. which is character
istically German, declared, as the
great war began, Germany. as the
preponderant power in pan-German
world supremacy And Poehlmann, in
considering the good to Germany
which would result from the conflict.
wrote to his fellow-countrymen, We
shall be an uncomfortable people
capable of ruling the world
"These words but described those
visions which the German philosoph-
tion and certainly with the approval
of their government, had so constant
ly conjured Up to allure and tempt
the Cer,aan people. They Were ut
tered before the great PrIssian war
machine lad failed in its first en-
Paris and in pi owing itself to possess
the irresistible force in which its
builders believed.
"A decade before the war Reiner.
inspired with the imperialism of Prus-
sia, announced. 1T is precisely our
craving for expansion which drives
us into the paths OF conquest. in view
of which ali chatter about peace and
humanity can and must remain moth
Ing but chatter.
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Swift 4 Company's Sales of Fresh
beef in Washington. D. c.. for the week
ending Saturday. June s, 1918, aver
aged 22.9S cents per pound.-Adver-
tisement.
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burden Of agony for naught. After
all this woe and waste temporary
and unstable peace would be q curse
rather than a blessing. A firm founda-
tfon must be found, and is to be found
In the frank and clear declaration by
President Wilson of the aims which
the republic seeks in this war ana
which with Gods help it will attain.
whatever the cost may be. Nothing
less will satisfy the American peo-
pie; nothing less will content the de-
anocracies Of the earth.
'"The conditions which prevailed
prior to August, 1914, produced this
conflict. 1t Is not then in return
to the states quo ante that lasting
peace is to be found. though that
with domination of the Slavic peoples
on their eastern borders appears
now to be the minimum terms OF
the Teutonic powers To restore
those pre-war conditions would be
to invite new disaster. Peace
must rest on a more substantial
done with war and with conditions
which produce war. However long 1t
may take, however great the sacrl.
fee may be-, physical might uncon
trolled by morality must never agafIi
be considered a standard of interna.
( tional right Justice must and will
become the supreme force In human
affairs. No other result will insure
civilization against the evil passions
which today convulse the earth.
Blood Not Shed in Vain.
stT do not believe-in fact, it seems
to me to be unbelievable-that the
blood of brave and devoted hearts,
so generously poured out on land
and sea in the cause of liberty. Is
hnin
treasures, wrested from the earth by
mans enterprise and industry. are
being wasted in the support of so
sacred a cause. But these lives and
these riches have been wasted un-
less from the ashes of these sacri-
fees. which have been offered on the
altar of liberty. there arises peace
which shall endure. 1t cannot be
that the merciful Ruler of the Uni
verse has permitted humanity to SUI
fer all this without comforting a
lasting blessing.
.-The conditions which brought on
this war are rooted in the past and
are not of sudden or spontaneous
growth. They are the natural de-
velopment of influences which have
been long at work in PrusslaniZed
Germany and which the rest Of the
world ought to have perceived but did
not. We can now with a clear vision
look back through the history of
Prussia and see the motives which in
spired the conduct of her rulers. We
can now read the words of Prussia's
statesmen and of the masters of re-
cent German thought with under
standing minds.
1--WE now recognize that the policies
Of the imperial government of Ger
many and the boasted 'kultur' Of
the German people have been concen-
trated on the single purpose of ex-
pandin4 the territory and power of
the Prussian Emperor of Germany,
until he, through the possession of
superior force, became the primate of
all the rulers of the earth. World
dominion was the supreme object.
That was and is the central thought
of Prussianism. 1t excited the cupid
b.s- of the governing and wealthy
classes of the empire and dazzled with
its anticipated glories and by its
promise of a boasted racial superb
ority the German millions who were
to be the instruments of achievement.
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Strange Mental Slavery.

Minds filled with such conceptions
Of the sacredness of conquest and Of
the divine right of a ruler to COM
mand obedience have furnished fertile