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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-10-02

cause. When the war Is won theffi
the degree of our sacrifices and oug,
lending will not matter. But y if we do do
not, then nothing in the world wiz;
ever make any difference to III EtSSle
US. The trumpet calls to victory afsS, 81 s
every true American Of the grea i aAl:
yilian army will respond to- the ia n h
by subscribing for every dollarS,
worth of Liberty Bonds it is possible
for them to buy. "Buy until itfhnrtaV u
MRS. IT. w. GUNTER.
Paxville, S. c.. s755'S 81 sssssI
Sept. 80, 1918. 4 Il 6 So
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-10-02
THE MANNING TIMES

were disarmed, according to a state
ment issued at the~war office. The
statement says that Japanese and Chi
ncse who have been on duty along
the Amur river entered Blagiovest-
schensck with the main force of Japa-
nese cavalry when that city was
taken by the Allied forces.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-10-02
Roads Built Under Fire

..3pcatcGly trucks have been mired
so dcepi" that it was impossible to
throw them over to the side of the
-oad. I'm such instances new roads
lavc had to be built directly across
he she'll torn fields, not deliberately
and carefully, but in ten minutes
lime, and capable Of carrying the tre-
nendous and continuous traffic, and
hey have been built almost in the
lime it takes to tell it.
The situation thus described is one
about half way up the slopes APP
preaching Montfaucon and so far
lhead Of their artillery that it could
,ot shoot without danger Of hitting
.ts own men, and a halt had to be
called. From above the Germans
seemingly held the Americans at their
mercy and hurry calls went in for
the heavy and light artillery. Then
the right Of way was denied to every q.
thing but ambulances so that the guns
might get into position.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-10-02
PAXVILLE ITEMS

"..e Paxville graded school opened
Monday morning with d large enroll
ment. Several of the patrons were
present for the opening exercises. All
the children and the ceachers were
full of glee and enthusiasm.
The opening exercis IS consisted Of
speeches by one of the trustees, Mr..
w. Il. Keels, and the principal, Miss
Ethel Corbett. The music consisted
of patriotic songs.
The corps of teachers assisting
Miss Corbett are Misses Jimmie
Broadway and Jessie Curtis of this
place, and Miss Leila Brown, of
Ridgeway.
Mr." and Mrs. James Holladay, of
Sumter, spent the weekend at the
home of Mr.. w. P. Corbett
Mrs. Atlee Bradham has returned
fro ma short stay in Manning.
There will be no preaching service
at the Methodist church on next Sun
day afternoon, as the pastor, Rev. A.
5. Lesley is away on two weeks va
cation. A part of this he will spend
attending the Indian Field camp
meeting.
Miss Lorraine Latham, of Sharon,
came Thursday to visit her sister.
Mrs. j. w. Minis, Jr., before going to
Her school in williamsburg county.
Messrs. P. A. Hodge, and r. B.
Bradham spent Saturday in Colum-
bia.
Miss Hattie Herlong left Friday to
accept school near Elloree.
Mr.. Dewey Reynolds has gone to
resume his studies at Carlisle school,
and Eugene Brown and Vernon Hodge
have entered Furman University.
Miss Thelma Harvtn of Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, is visiting relatives in
the community
The Woman's Christian Tcmperance
Union will meet Tuesday afternoon
at 5 o'clock, Oct. 8th, uS the home of
Miss Daisy Rhame. All members are
urged to attend.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-10-02
Chile and the United States

. Santiago, Chile, Sept. 3O.-A move
...ent has been organized to bring:
about closer relations between Chile
and the United States. This move
ment is meeting with notable sup
port.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-10-02
PANVILLE WOMEE READY FOR
FOURTH LIBERTY LOAF

Mrs. Josie Sprott, as county chair
man of the Woman's Liberty Loan
organization, has appointed Miss Eth
el Corbett to organize the ladies of
PaXvllle district for the Fourth Lib
erty Loan drive. Miss Corbett has
been elected captain and the following
team workers have been appointed to
assist her: Mesdames w. G. Pack, G..
H. Lackey, j. w. Brown, Jr., S. e,
Curtis and Miss Tab.tfa Geddnps.
Mrs. II. w. Guntcr was elected pub
licity chairman and is advertising and
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-10-02
HEU,,i1c EtCI 'EEES
CLEAR WAY FOR Biz Gvi,S Guns
Did Magnif cent Work on American
Nerdun Front
HOW MONTFAUCON FELL
' Sammics StOrmed Hun Stronghold
Without Help Of Artillery
Preparation
HOW MONTFAUCON FELL

With the American Army North
west Of Verdun, Sept. 29.-Hardly too
much can be said Of the remarkable
and heroic work of the engineers
which enabled the guns to be brought
u below Montfaucon and of the gal
lantry Of the troops thai stormed it.
The engineers, for instance, besides
restoring bridges and doing other
strenuous repair work under shell
fire over a belt of devastation nearly
five miles in width, smoothcd the way
for the advancing supply forces by
bridging over gaping twenty-five foot
shell holes, filling them in with the
plentiful rock and adding thousands
Of sacks of sand at the top.
For days at stretch, with little,
f any rest, and little food except
for the iron rations they had brought
forward with them, these engineers
have guarded and tended the roads
and filled IN the rutS as fast as the
heavy trucks made them far into the
soft earth. Now and again trucks have
broken down and wagons have lost
their wheels threatening thus to OBJ
struct all tn" vitality necessary traf-
fic for indefinite periods. AS the
French did during the battle of Vcr-
dun, the Americans have ruthlessly
tipped over such obstructive vehicles,
reloading the cargocs on to other
trucks, so that the vital supplies and
, ammunition might continue to adj
yancc
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-10-02
-W-S--S--
JAPS TAKS HUN PRISONERS
Fifteen Thousand of Them Bagged at
BlagiOvestschensck

Toxic, Friday, Sept. 20.-Fifteen
thousand armed Austro- German pris-
oners from Blagiovestschensck
reached Heiho on September 18 and
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-05-03
Due POWer for the President.

The President and the country alike are to be
congratulated upon the Senates passage OF the
overman bill giving the Executive full power to
coordinate and, where efficiency may require. to
combine the wartime activities of Government
agencies and departments. This measure, which
undoubtedly will pass the House with little delay,
marks important step in organizing the na-
tons victorywinning resources. It's provisions are
essential to the most effective prosecution Of the
Each of them is designed to meet some par
tieular class of needs; each was carefully thought
out and based upon the varied and abundant ex-
perence of the Governments war activities Real
izing this, the friends of the Administration stood
firmly for the bill in its entirety and in spite of
persistent opposition, pressed it through in sub
stantially unamnndad form
The powers thus to be conferred upon the
President admittedly great, but no greater
than urgently needed and no greater than the
nations COMMANDMENTS Chief is due in time of ex-
treme peril. If Congress had been guided by
those meticulOus statesmen who seem to distrust
the President more than they hate the Kaiser we
should not have advanced a step in war-making
efficiency. If they had had their way, we should
be as far from food conservation and control as
we were year ago and so, dangerously farther
from winning the Happily however the
majority of the Senate and the House see the sit
uation it truly and stand ready to aid in
stead of obstruct AS with Congress. so with the
country. The American people have faith in
President Wilson. They know whatever powers
he asks at this time needed and that what
ever conferred upon him, he will employ sole
ly for the nations security and honor.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-05-03
The Cruz of the Food Problem.

The Waycross JournalHerald finds great assur-
in the fact that America controls the food sit
uaton land will continue to do so as long as every
American with patch of land does his duty" Our
allies can look to us for sustenance, but for the
enemy:
The millions of Germany and Austria
hungry. Ii largely to make them forget
their hunger. or to break through and get
them food. that the big drive launched
on the western front. Don't be deceived by
those apparently inexhaustibe supplies of fight
ing men. Their strength is deceptive. because
the strength of the nation back of them is be
ing Slapped by undernourshment'
There is good we'll good cheer in
this point of view, provided bear constantly in
mind the supreme Importance of Americas pro-
ducing and saving enough food to fill out the pre-
cariously lean supplies of the nations Joined with
US in the fight against the Huns. Germany has
the Ukraine. 1t appears, indeed that the grain and
meat store of that region are so near exhaustion
that the Teuton expeditionary forces sent thither
could not scrape together enough to maintain them
and had to be supplied from Austria
In time, of course the agricultural resources
of Russia be organized, developed and turned
to far-reaching economic and military account for
Germany. but hardly within the present year.
Meanwhile, the crux of the Allied food situation is
in the United States, and the consequent duty of
all Americans is plain.
Why kick? We haven't come to saltless days
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-05-03
SILENCE AND SUCCESS
BY H. Addington Bruce

Y you must have noticed, on visiting your pub
lie library, the sign in the reading room
silence is expected of all using TINS
room"
Has it ever occurred to you that this sign prof
fers hint invaluable for personal application out
side the public library?
In the reading room silence is required so that
all in the room may have maximum of oppor-
tunity for mental concentration.
Theoretically people ought to be able to con-
centrate, however noisy their surroundings And
matter of fact people-notably neWspa-
per workers-train themselves to concentrate
amid much noise.
But noise always tends to distract the mind,
and usually does distract the mind. The quleter
the environment the easier it is to think
Now it may we'll be the case with you-cer-
tainly it is the case with many people-that sim
aid afforded concentration by silence you have
hitherto failed to develop am great thinking power
Your thinking is incohate, almost dream-like.
Your mind, continually and oVereaslly distracted
Jumps nervously from subject to another.
You never work out anything to logical con-
clusion. If problems come up, you always try to
solve them by the shortcut method of guessing.
1t is poor method, because more often than
not it brings wrong solutions. Necessarily it ham
pers rather than helps along the highway of sue
If this is your situation, if you recognize that
you have never made yourself truly strong
thinker, accept the hint of the reading room, and
regularly utilize silence to assist you in mental
development.
At some set time every day-perhaps after
the other members of your family have gone to
bed or, better in the early morning, when you
fresh-find place where you can have alb
solute quiet for half hour.
Spend that half hour in practicing mental
centration
Don't spend it in reading. Don't spend it in
day-dreaming. Spending it in thinking
Every day, if you are truly ambitious man,
you will have plenty to think about.
Take some specific problem of personal sig
nificance to youthe problem, say, of selling some
goods to particularly difficult customer
Look at it from every angle Ponder the GUS
toners possible and actual objections to the
goods. Make mental study of his personality
with view to determining the wisest method of
approach.
Keep your mind fixed this problem. Cling
to it as your dog clings to his bone.
Because YOU are unused to concentration you
VIII find this no easy matter. But also, because
you have surrounded yourself with silence, you
will soon find ii becoming much easier.
And soon your sience-aided concentration will
begin to bring definite results.
After while, i'll fact, you will find yourself
thinking with unusual effectiveness in no matter
how noisy surroundings This because you have
unconsciOusly developed your concentration DOW
/ a whole.
Make an honest trial of this plan. if you feel
the need of it. 1t will help you. it is bound to
help You. in your efforts TO win success.
Copyright, 1918 by the Associated Newspapers
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-05-03
A Remarkable Georgia Record.

The Dublin Courier Herald directs attention to
hgures showing that Georgia's purchase of pork
from out-of-the-State markets has decreased from
forty million dollars year in 1914 to about four
teen million in 1917. The prediction is made that
this year the bill will drop below ten million and
that by 1920 we shall be raising all the pork we
consume
'Ldurens county, says the COurieT-Her-
aid, lis doing it's full share in increasing the
hog and cattle supply. If anyone had pre-
dlcted three years ago that by now the county
would be shipping out hogs and cattle by
scores of carloads he would have been laugh
ed at; but this is now true"
There is no happier omen Georgia's farm
ing interests and for the great fields of industry
and commerce dependent upon them than this re-
markable development of live stock production
1T implies a s0under system of agriculture than
the State ever knew before more abundant out
put of all kinds of foodstuff. larger measure or
prosperity, and quickened stride along every
path of material progress.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-05-03

two-thirds of the number to study agriculture
while the rest will learn various handicrafts. II
is expected that about 200 of these men would
be permanently settled this area, the rest pass
ing out into various occupations for which they
had been trained.
The committee which has charge of this plar
does not contemplate the establishment of fac
tories in these towns. An article the subject in
the London Lancet, which is quoted by the Month
ly Review of our own labor department says:
There is growing reaction against the univer
sal to the factory system with its special
izatiOn of labor, speeding up and lack of personal
relationships. There is in many quarters del
sire to return TO d modified form of the old craft
guilds, in which a may learn to create article|
for of high standard, and himself become
master craftsman, not wholly spending his life id
performing some mechanical and deadening process
The workshops of the proposed settlements mus
aim at high conditions of work whereby articleI
well and heartily made, and to attain this il
desirable that the producers shall have somd
share and interest in the things which they have
produced. associated, as far possible, in sell
governing workshops
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-05-03
COLONIZATION AFTER THE WAR-By Frederic j. Haskin

w WASHINGTON, April 2s.-Villages populated
w by wounded and convalescent soldiers and
w their families, together with necessary med
zeal attendants, may be feature of the British
postwar reconstruction program. A plan for the
establishment of such villages is being con-
sidered.
This is one of a number of colonization plans
for taking care of returned soldiers which have
been formed in this country and abroad and this
movement toward the founding of communi-
ties is certainly one of the most interesting and
typical movements which has come out of the war.
1t shows how the ideas of men have changed in a
few decades. Following other wars, the assump-
ton seems to have been that if the soldier was
given a pension to make up for any disabilities he
might have suffered. he could safely be left to find
his place in society Today the idea seems to be
prevalent all over the civilized world that place
must be found for him.
More than that. these numerous plans for the
founding of special communities amount to ad-
mission that the place which is given the soldier
must be a better place than that which he
pied before the war; otherwise, there would be no
need to found special communities or colonies. In
other words, this colonization movement is
acknowledgement that industrial and social condi-
lions in the principal countries Of the world are
faulty. and that these who return from
to take up life anew should do so under more
favorable conditions.
These English villages for wounded and
valescent soldiers are intended to offer men homes
where they will govern themselves live with their
families, and undergo prolonged training which
viii fit them to earn their ivingS. In addition to
this the villages are to form the nuclei of perma
nent communities which will be established
basis of healthfulness and social welfare. The
committee which has charge of the plan cogenty
argues that men who settled in cottages with
their families will be far better satisfied to follow
long courses of training than would in hos
pitfalls and that recovery under pleasant rural liv
ing conditions will be more rapid.
The plan is not to use towns which already
built but to build new in healthful locations
and convenient to transportation lines An area
of one square mile is considered adequate for the
founding of q village OF one thousand disabled
men. This will afford enough land for perhaps
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-05-03

Let every loyal Georgian remember that Satur-
day. May the fourth. is the last day on which he
tan register to vote in this years elections Ii by
then his name is not on the registration lists, he
~il he barred from the ballot box on issues of un-
-recedented concern his interests and to the
honor OF his State. He will have voice in the
selection of State and County officials and none
in the selection of Representatives to Congress.
Most important of all. he will have no vote in the
suoremely important issue which the Senatorial
contest involves.
No citizen who prizes the States good name
can AFFORD not to vote in that election Georgias
PEOPLE have been msrepresented and her traditions
traiIed in the dust Intensely loyal though she is
and intellectually with the President for the
most effective prosecution of the war, she has been
repeatedly placed in q false light at Washington.
The forthcoming Senatorial election affords her
people the opportunity to repudiate that misrepre-
sentation by' electing in Senator Hardwick's place
one On whom they can depend to speak and act
their true sentiment
To the citizen who is not registered. however,
this opportunity will be closed. Nor will he have
ballot in am of the State and County elections
all OF which of practical importance to him
The duty is as essential part of good citi-
=euship the duty to pay taxes or to serve the
country in any other capacity. Especially is this
true at time when the republics very existence
is at stake. and when the entire nation looks to
Georgia TO prove her Americanism at the polls
The last day for registration. remember is next
Saturday, May the fourth.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-05-03
is GLOOM A NATIONAL DUTY?

Inc Milton (Fla.) Gazette is exercised over the
TACT that a large number of people in the town
went 10 minstrel show the other night and laugh
ed while our soldiers dying in France II saws.
approximately two thousand people paid from
"a cents TO a dollar to witness a cheap minstrel
snow saturday night, and will wager the price
OF new hat that not one-twentieth part of those
VINO spent their time and money thus for their
own amusement have spent single 25 cents for
war savings Stamp to help take of the boys
in the trenches"
This is rather common attitude of mind. but
1t is twisted conscfeniousness, moral earnestness
that does not reckon with human nature and has
slumped into peevishness
No one should minimize the horror that is now
darkening Europe. Its shadow lies on all our
hearts. 1t is skeleton at our feast The
pity of it all is with us night and day
But in our supreme hour it is not the nature
of the American people to mourn and NOPE Our
soldiers go to battle singing. If we are to perish
we shall die CALAMITY, without Whispering
The same is true of France. Wounded and
bleeding she still fights with cheer and the wom-
en- at home smile through their tears.
And the British game. Rollicking and Joking
the Tommies march to the trenches And in Lon
don and Glasgow the citizens go about the streets
sobered indeed, but with grim humor
That does not mean heartless or fatuous
ignorant of the frightful issue It means that
our spirit is yet unbroken. HumOr is the defiance
of fate.
The Hun would like nothing better than to
plunge England and France into gloom. II is for
that very purpose he invents schemes of frightfuI
ness. He bombs peaceful towns. sinks ships laden
with women and children, bombards Paris with
his phantom gun. blows up factories and spreads
to break spirit.
And the fact that refuse to be afraid that
still go to theaters and ball games and make
merry means not that fools. but that we
have the spirit of Lincoln. who loved his Joke even
in the darkest hours. 1t means have some
thing of the Gascon courage of Cyrano de Bergerac
1t that not only shall armies not be dis
mayed at the savage fury of the German brutes.
but that hearts at home shall never be reduced
to weeping impotence.
1T means that
In the fell clutch of circumstance
We have not WINGED cried aloud:
Beneath the bluegeonings of chance
Our head is bloody but unbowed."
We sending our boys to die, spend
ing billions in the cause, we are eConomiZing and
doing our bit otherwise as best can. but
Are down hea rted?
We ARE NOT!
Copyright. 1918. by Frank Crane
We don't know what the mole is that the Brit
sh seq rpidcrs attacked hut whatever it is it prob
ably saw its shadow and ducked back.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-05-03
OUIPS AND QUIDDITES

During a conversation in the lobby of
Washington hotel Representative John A. Peters
of Maine remarked on the proneness of some PEG
pie to pat themselves on the back, but said tn
same did not apply to farmer named Uncle Josh
One afternoon last summer automobii
party from the city called on the aforesaid Josh
and in being shown over the farm they came to
large cornfeld which had just been planted.
whole lot o time an labor there" said Unc
Josh with glance across the broad acres "Yet
be surprised if told We how much seed was Gov
cred up in them hills
mo. I wouldn't" returned one of the parts
but should think that you would put up fey
scarecrows to protect it.
NO, faint necessary" was the solemn re
jonder of Uncle Josh. Eye see. I'm out her
nearl- all day myself
In fact. We don't know which is the harde
task: that of the soldiers defending those FrencI
towns the proofrcadcr whose job it is to correc
the names.