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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1918-08-08
Grade Crossings closad,

Several matters Of interest to The
people Of the State were considered
at the regular weekly meeting OF the
railroad commission.
The attention OF Coast Line officials
was called to reports OF delayed han
ding OF short tra<State freight ship
ments. Some Of these delays. It is
said. have been unusually long and the
commission hopes to effect prompt
movement OF such assignments.
Mr.. Shealy will make a physical in
spection OF several railroads in the
upper part OF the State. The policy Of
eliminating dangerous railroad cross.
ings will continue during the inspec-
tion Of the several railroad systems
in the State. Over 200 of such cross
ings have been eliminated within the
past year, and others will be con-
demned and eliminated as soon as
county officials can provide for the
convenience OF the travelling public
who use the highways.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1918-08-08
ARMY TO REQUIRE $4,000; RED
CROSS CAN MAKE USE
OF 10000 MORE.
DISPATCHES FROM COLUMBIA
peInos and Happenings That Mark
the Progress Of South Carolina Peo.
pie, Gathered Around the State
Capital.
Columbia.

The woman's committee, cooperat.
Ing with the surgeon general OF the
United States army. the American Red
Cross and the nursing committee have
launched an intensive campaign to
enroll $4,000 nurses by August IL.
The United States government looks
TO the State divisions and the county
and local units Of the woman's com.
mittee to supply these student nurses.
This great responsibility and oppor-
tunity has been placed in our hands.
VIII South Carolina do her part?
1t is estimated that the army alone
will require total Of $4,000 graduate
nurses by January 1, 1919. Already
$4,000 OF this number has been with
drawn from civilian practice for serv.
Ice In military and naval hospitals.
Hence the Red Cross has .iust called
$4,000 additional. 1t is an imperative
military necessity that every graduate
nurse not needed at home should en-.
ter military service.
Graduate nurses can only ha re-
leased by recruiting new student
nurses. They can only be supplied
by filling the training schools con.
nected with our hospitals.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1918-08-08
Forage From Local Farmers.

August Kohn. chairman OF conser-
walton and production of the food ad.
ministration for South Carolina, has
received letter from the chief OF the
forage branch OF the war department,
quartermaster's division. stating that
offers OF forage from farmers and deal
ers having 1t for sale in the neiEhbor-
hood Of the army camps and canton
ments will be gladly received and will
be given consideration.
I'm fact" says the letter. I'VE are
here to buy forage for the government
wherever we can do so to the best ad-
vantage. all things considered"
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1918-08-08
Fourth Of Winter Supply.

B. B. Gossett, State fuel adminlStra.
tor, sent the following letter to tbs
fuel committeeman through the State:
due to heavy shipments Of domes-
tic coal to the Great Lakes and army
environments, the movement OF this
grade OF coal into South Carolina is
going to be very light during the
months Of August and September.
I'm order that all domestic con.
sumers may be assured OF receiving
at least part OF their winters re-
quirements before November 1, you
are directed to instruct all dealers not
to deliver to any one consumer until
further advised more than 25 per cent
OF his winter requirements.
"This order is intended to apply not
only to future applications made by
consumers. but also covers untitled or
ders already on file with the dealers.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-13
ASSUMING TOO MUCH

Presidents of the United States and members of both
houses of congress are elected by the people, and they realize
that they represent the people in administering the affairs of
the nation whose government is the machine by which society
achieves its desired ends. Unfortunately, the horde of minor
clerks and bureaucrats in federal offices forget or ignore this
fundamental fact, and assume that the government enjoys di
vine authority to interfere with the rights and liberties of the
people. Being little cogs in the vast government machine,
these office holders write letters to the newspapers and to al
most everybody mentioned in the news of the day, telling
them how they should conduct themselves and their affairs.
We are fighting Prussianism, while all sorts of petty office
holders in Washington and elsewhere are trying to introduce
the bureaucracy which is the destructive feature of Prussian-
ism. The state has no more claim to divine right in American
eyes than has the German emperor or the Russian car. In
America the people are the state. A western judge recently up
held the divine right of the state by incorporating in a formal
decision his dictum that the states "authority to command is
divine" Danger lies somewhere along that path. Patriotism
may declare my country right or wrong" but we must stop
short of claiming that this or any other country exists by nat
ural divine right. History records the wrecks of empires and
thrones founded upon the claim of divine right through all the
ages of which we have knowledge or tradition. Let us be con-
tent with democracy, with a government of the people, by the
people and for the people, seeking the guidance of God, but not
claiming ordination by Him-Exchange.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-13
A TRADITION SHATTERED

We noted in the press dispatches the other day an account
of the death of Mrs. Eddie Foy. Prior to her marriage to the
accomplished Mr.. Foy this estimable woman was an Italian
dancer. 1t is not recalled that the writer ever heard of Mrs.
Foy before the announcement of her death, yet in the account
of her life carried by the report reciting her death there is that
which awakens a feeling of genuine respect. No tribute is
paid her beyond the simple statement that she married Eddie
Foy in 1895, and was still married to him at the time of her
death, and was the mother of his eleven children.
There is something about that statement that is so COM
petely at variance with. the usual record of stage marriages that
it rather gets" us. An Italian dancer marries a comic opera
star and stays married to him until her death twenty three
years later! Amazing! And she bears him eleven children.
Marvellous! So cynical have we become concerning stage mar
riages that we are prone to look upon them as of no more gen
uineness than stage money, and in reality a sort of convenient
cloak for laisons. Yet here we have this whole theory upset
by a couple from whom we would least expect it.
No doubt those who were familiar with the rather rough
cloWnishness of the Eddie FOy of the stage smiled and shrugged
their shoulders when they heard years ago that he had married
an Italian dancer, cOolly calculating that such a union would
endure anywhere from three to six months. Yet it endured
until death did them part, and that they lived happily and low
ingly together we have eleven testimonials that cannot lightly
be set aside.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-13
GERMANS WITHOUT CHAPLAINS

At Hot Springs, North Carolina, there are 23OO interned
Germans and they have been there for a year. Many of them
were taken from the interned German ships and they are Ger
mans throughout. But from those twenty-three hundred men
we are told there has come not a request from a single one for
a minister of the gospel of any kind. There has been a \. M.
c. a. worker there, once, but he has not been asked to return.
We haven't much use for the church" said one of the captains
of a big North German Lloyd liner. "At least, it hasn't been
much use in this war. The church could have helped. 1t
hasn't. If there is a God He would have stopped this terrible
war. We want no religion until this war is over"
However, for burial services on two or three occasions,
ministers were permitted to officiate. The attitude of the men
is said to be that of sullenness. They are far enough removed
from their beloved Germany to realize the plight in which
their country has placed itself and placed its subjects. The
contempt of the world for Germany is enough to make those
men sulen. They have little to hope for, as things stand now,
and in their hopelessness they probably include the hereafter,
so why should they be concerned about what ministers of the
gospel can say to them, and they best of all know what a mock
cry of God and religion the kaiser and his clique have made
during this war.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-13
WHAT YOU HAVE MISSED

70, bovon,t hoard The boom of the distant cannon as IL
burls IFS venomous charge of death and destrucuoh, YOU
haven't seen the fearful work of Dissertation III nHm 80
the wake of the vandalistic Hun; you haven't felt the thrill OF
Lorror of the aged and infrm and the women anu VIC -
as the gray-clad minions of the modern AHlla enter I'll cap
tured town.
You have read. with a oul-sickness, OF the malicious w
liberation of TEMPLES of art and shrines OF devotion; lahumarhs
that have withstood the ravages of time for centuries d Isl
TO fall before the senseless hate of the self-styled superman'
O.. the diaboHcal deeds perpetrated in the name of val OH e
fenseless neonles. of tbe wanton murder of innocents, oil Inc
crucifixion of gallant foes who have fallen n Datte; anu o'er
examples of fiendish cruelty, too revolving for menuoh'
You haven't fell. perhaps. a personal interest in these nor
rOrs-thev are 5000 miles away-but "over there" In sunny
France and i'm heroic battle SCARED little Belgium, the motners
and the little ones have witnessed the appalling work OF te
arch fiend Of history, whose creed is iron ana Dloou' III "oy
have suffered agonies such as only could be inflicted by a race
gone mad-a nation bestialized by the superlatve study OF OAR
barism and imbued, by a'royal example, with all the hehlSh a-
tributes of medievalisms darkest spawning!
You have missed all this-and thank God you have! AND
be thankful at the same time for the mighty armada OF Britain,
for the epic holding of the line by our courageous and lovaDle
French cousins. for the mastery accomplishments of the Terri
torials. for the Italians, for the Portuguese and for those other
worthy and valiant fighters from all over the world who have
east their all on the side of right-and last but not least for the
million of our heroes "over there" now and for the millions
vet to come.
But because you missed all this, don't think for a moment
that this isn't your war.
Your interest is just as great as that of your khaki-clad
rr;nnd whose hand you wrung in parting with the injunction,
Get the Boche," and your duty just as real, just as vital, just
as necessary. He'll get the Boche-Cantignyhas proven that
your task is to get the dollars and to cheerfully loan them to
your government that the mission Of America may be speedily
accomplished. A systematic setting aside each week of part Of
your income for War Savings and other securities of your
government is the most acceptable manner in which you may
fulfill this obligation-Robert Stein in New York Letter.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-13
HOW THE MOVIES. HAVE HELPED

There is one thing for which the moving picture shows
must be given credit, and that is the services that they have
rendered during the war. They have been foremost in promot-
ing every undertaking of the government, and next to the
they have been advertisers and promoters. And
all the time they have kept the people in the war spirit through
the pictures of things being done in the war. There has not
been a night when patriotism in its most concrete form has
not been brought home to the visitors at these shows.
And for most of us what a boon they have been. They
have enabled us to see the whole world in action. The pictures
have been made of every front and of every war device. We
have sat in easy seats and seen all that has been going on in the
world. If we could have journeyed to the scenes depicted we
probably could not have CLEANED a better idea of the actual sit
uations. The moving picture men have literally gathered
miles and miles of territory on their films. No one man and
not many men could undertake to see the tenth of what has
been shown us.
The moving picture seems to have come into the world at
the right time. Without this device to visualize the world the
war could hardly have been made so real to the people and,
therefore, it could not have been carried on so successfully.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-13
ANOTHER BUBBLE BURSTS

When readers of the Commercial were warned six months
ago that the Garabed motor seemed to be a near relation of
the Kelley motor of Centennial Exposition days, Garabed G. X.
Ciragossian, who claimed to have discovered a new source Of
power and perpetual motion, was petitioning congress to guard
his rights as inventor and discoverer. So eloquently did he
dent Wilson, after vetong the bill once, finally gave him a
chance to show what he could do.
A board of five scientists was selected from his own nomi-
nees to examine his claims and has reported to the federal sec
rotary Of agriculture that Mr.. Giragossian had nothing to show
but a model which was not in shape to run or develop power.
and that it's principles, as explained by him were not sound.
These judges of his own selection say they do not believe the
device is operative or that it can result in the practical devel-
opment or utilization of free energy.
Certain fixed principles of physics are firmly established.
Perpetual motion is impossible because man cannot create
something out of nothing. A machine, engine or motor can
exercise or give forth no more power than is put into it. We
can convert coal into heat and heat into energy or motive pow
er, but the energy we obtain is stored up in the coal and came
originally from the sun. We can intercept the suns RAYS and
develop heat and power, but we can get no more power than
the intercepted light and heat of the suns rays contain. No
scientist can explain what electricity is, but applied electricity
does not furnish any exception to the general rule.
If magnetism could be insulated without absorbing it. we
might have practical perpetual motion, because a common
rse-shoe magnet protected by an armature never loses it's
strength while constantly exertng its drawing power or tract
i've force. This is one of the mysteries that battles science.
It is theoretically possible to increase the amount of power
developed by burning coal. If coal could be converted into
electric current without wasting so per cent of it in raising
steam, we would see a revolution in applied mechanics. IF we
could construct a perfect storage battery at reasonable cost we
could use the power of the wind to do most of our work. If we
batteries we could tap a source of unlimited and unfailing
power. These are among the theoretical possibilities which do
not defy recognized physical laws, but perpetual motion is
not on the list.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-13
MORE LENINE TREACHERY

Instead of advising poor Russian peasants to till the land
and produce necessaries of life, Lenine is urging them to take
food from the rich. That might give the poor food for a few
weeks and then would come famine. Gold will not buy food if
none is produced by labor. If the poor peasants, who are do
ing nothing. destroy the frugal peasants who have some food ana
re irving to produce more, famine and a reign of terror will
prevail in Russia next winter that will have no parallel in his
tory.
The only Interpretation of the acts of Lenlne and other Boil
shevik leaders that seems logical is that they are trying to de-
liver the whole of Russia to the Germans in such a state OF
anarchy that all Russians will welcome the change and regard
the kaiser as their deliverer. Are the entente allies, including
America TO let Russia fall into the hands of the kaiser when
!apan and China can prevent it if invited to do so? They alone
can recreate an eastern front to relieve pressure in the VEST
Exchange.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-13
OUR EXPECTATION OF SILVER

Sixty-four million silver dollars have been melted into
bullion by the United States treasury, most of which has been
exported to India. Fifty-eight million dollars of silver certifi-
Gates have been withdrawn from circulation and destroyed as
the silver on which they were secured was melted down. The
treasury still holds 4~26lOO0OOO silver dollars, against which
$39OOOO,OOO in silver certificates are outstanding. New federal
reserve bank notes Of The denominations of 81 and 50 are be.
ing issued to replace the silver certificates withdrawn.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-13

Congress did not pass the bill directing the railway admin
istration to retain control of the short railroads that wished to
keep company with the big ones in the government fold. so
100 of them have been freed from government control More
than 1900 of them are industrial lines which do not seek shell
ter, but the others will lose most of their business if excluded
from the national system which has been created. Congress
and the railway administration will deal with the problem at
Their leisure while the owners of these short lines do the wor-
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-13

If the fuel administration and the railway administration
cannot secure enough coal for next winter the voters will ex-
press their opinion at the polls next November. No other in
dusry is more important than coal mining, and miners should
be exempted from the draft if the cause is the shortage of fuel.
We have plenty Of coal and the mine capacity is ample. 1t is
the duty of federal officials to supply transportation and labor
They cannot plead surprise in this case-Exchange.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-13
ALIENS AND ENEMY ALIENS

There are enemy aliens and there are native aliens. The
American who does not do his part toward winning the war,
who neither fights nor works nor lends for victory is as much
an alien to Americas purposes and Americas cause as the rank
est Prussian informed in this country.
This is a war of peoples as well as of nations, and each in
dividual has a place and a duty.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-13

Kerensky and other prominent Russians ask the entente al
lies to rescue their country from the Bolshevik and the Huns.
Do they speak for Russia or themselves? Convince us of the
former and America will lead the movement to rescue Russia
from those who are plundering her and enslaving her people.
If the Russians desire freedom they must fight for it as we are
doing. They will receive help as soon as they ask for it. All
we ask is to hear the voice of her people-Exchange
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-13

The republicans of Montcalm county, Michigan, seem to be
a merry tribe of testers. They have soberly resolved in formal
fashion that they will join with the democrats in electing
Henry Ford to the senate, providing that the democratic party
will give further evidence of its non-partisanship by agreeing
to nominate Ford for the presidency in 1920. Something seems
to tell us that Montcalm county republicans will not vote for
Mr.. Ford next fall.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-13

Princess Mary, daughter of King George of England, is TAX
ing a course in nursing. 1t is a regular course, too, including
all the hard work and d~rudgery. This fact is mentioned as a
possible inspiration to a good many thousand American girls
thus far have seemed to regard themselves as too fine and
fancy for war work. An idle girl or woman today is as much
out of place and fully as open to censure as an idle man or boy.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-13

Mrs. Busch of st. Louis is playing in hard lines these days.
Kaiser Wilhelm has confiscated all of her property situate in
Germany and later A. Mitchell Palmer took over her hold
ings in this country on the assumption that she is an enemy
alien. When war is on folks who get between the lines usually
get peppered by both sides.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-13

From scissors to Belfort on the Swiss border the Huns hold
!he longer outside lines. Why should not the tables be turned
on them in the south to offset their strategic advantages of in
side lines in picardy and Flanders? Paris is asking that ques-
tiOn-EXchange.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-13

The U-boat commander who sank the President Lincoln
ought to receive a special decoration from the kaiser, seeing
that the vessel was one of the finest in the German merchant
leet-ROchester Democrat.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-13

When the charges against those who have been paying
and receiving contingent fees and commissions on government
contracts are sifed it will be found that the bad reputation con-
gress has gained for slow pay had much to do with the I'M
willingness of manufacturers to deal directly with the govern
mnnl Exchange.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-13

Substitutes for sugar made from potatoes will be used by
candy makers. Pure glucose is good food. The only thing to
Guard against is deception. Such substitutes should be sold
for what they are, and not as sugar, even in time of war.-Ex-
change. +.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-29
Pets Five Cents.

Which of my little girls would like to earn five cents this morning? ?' said MT Anderson one morning at the breakfast table.
 And you may be sure that there were just about three girls that were ready for the work; but really Pet, as they had fallen to calling little three-year- sister spoke up first and said: "Me earn fl cen, papa" and she slid down from her chair and came around to papa's chair, taking her cape and hat from the nail by the door, and stood there to know what the errand was to be.
 T would like some one to get my laundry and to call for the small mail and to hand this two dollars to MT. Wright" said Mir. Anderson. land am just afraid that Pet will find that too much for such little girl to do; her arms are not very large and ii is quite a distance to the laundry and with the money and the mail and the laundry, I guess she will have to grow little more before she can earn the five cents"
 Pet went back cheerfully enough but her sister Carrie saw a little cloud of disappointment pass over her face so she got up from the table, and putting her arm around Pet, said Well, deary, you're growing real fast and you'll be big before long, and IT go for you and you may have the five cents.
 So Carrie put on her coat and hal and went skipping away to the store and office, and Pet watched her unti she was out of sight, thinking al