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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-05-11
Soldiers Wives, Attention!

Camp Jackson, Columbia, May G.
Now that large numbers Of men
from the States OF South Carolina,
North Carolina, Florida, Alabama and
Tennessee are coming to Camp Jack
son through the operation of the
military draft. it is quite antural that
many wives and mothers should wish
to come to Columbia so as to be near
IL cir loved ones.
We, the undersigned agencies, wish
to send word of warning to you
women, and to urge you to stop and
consider before taking this journey.
1t is well to know facts, and to act
sensibly. Living is expensive. Twelve
dollars per month will pay for a poor
ly furnished room only; and rooms of
any kind are hard to find. Table
board is at least $1,000 per month in
addition. AS is usual in cantonment
cities groceries, laundry and other in
cidental expenses are very high. Fur
ther than this allotment checks are
often two to five months late in arriv-
Ing. So soldiers wife to visit her
husband at an army camp should
have enough funds to defray her eX-
penscs for a month. Well paid work
Of any kind is hard to secure, even for
skilled workers. Again, there are still
other difficulties beside the lack of
money The camp is seven miles
from the city, and your husband can
perhaps get in but once or twice q
week. He may not meet you at the
train. Probably will not. Your. mar
riage certificate may have to be
shown before room and board can be
secured. The welfare agencies are
overworked, caring for those already
here, who, ignorant of the true con-
ditions, have followed their husbands
to the city.
So do not come to any cantonment
city unless you are prepared to count
the cost. At best your husband is
only here for a few weeks or months.
The safest plan, the truest patriotism
and the best way, is to say good-by
at home.
The Travellers Aid (meeting al
trains.)
The Young Woman's Christian AS
sociation (Which furnishes rooms,
boarding places and advice)
The Red Cross Home Service Sec
ton (for help of al kinds to the SOL
der and his family.)
The Bureau of Protection at the
City Hall fOr relief from embarrass-
ment and dificulty.)
The Y. w. G. A. Hostess House at
Camp Jackson (Which strives to care
for the women visitors to the camp
and to render all assistance and ad-
vice in its power)
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-05-11
Union Backs Manning.

Union. May 6.-The county Demo
cratic convention met here today,
Macbeth Young being elected chair
man and w. w. Cotton secretary The
delegates to go to the State conven-
ton were instructed to uphold Presi-
dent Wilson In his every action. A
resolution was passed commending
Gov. Manning for his fathfulness and
loyalty The delegates are Macbeth
Young. w. w. Johnson. c. A. Jeter.
DIR. II. T. Hames John Little. j. Boyd
Lancaster. The meeting was quiet
and passed Off without hitch.
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sired and may be shippei without,
sorting and without any attempt to
avoid duplication. Many copies of the
same objects may be desirable in spe-
cial instances. 1t will not be prac-
ticable to return the material to the
contributors. 1t will be a gift to the
government. The active assistance Of
residents of South Carolina, especial
ly those who have resided or travel
ed in the countries indicated, or have
friends or acquaintances who have
done so, is especially requested.
Any and all agencies, such as
branches of Councils of Defense, Ii
braries and reading rooms, Boy Scouts
and other organizations are requested
by the war department and the
American Protective League, which is
organized with the approval of and
operating under the direction of the
United States Department of Justice,
Bureau of Investigation, to take no.
tice Of this matter and to assist the
government inevery w xEOdib. .bmsd
government in every way within their
power, as above indicated.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-05-11
Jap Ship Missing.

Toxic. May 4.-The fate of the
japanese steamer Saigon Maru OF s..
$50 tons. owned by the Harada
steamship company of Osaka. which
was reported as missing for sometime.
remains mystery. She is believed
to have ben sunk ny an enemy war
ship or submarine. The steamer was
last heard from at Saigon i'm January
last. when she sailed from that port
on her way To Marscillcs. being char.
tered by the French government.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-05-11
Conquest.

tBy Henri Chapelle of The Viligantes)
The broad, beloved life of a peace
ful, housekeeping nation, is a prod
uct, not an ordinance to be pro-
claimed. Why, then, do we talk OF
negotiating peace, when it has been
destroyed by violence The forces
that make peace must first be re-
established.
One might as well talk of peace 70
man struggling in the hands of a
murderous highwayman One might
as well talk of a peace settlement
with the thief to man who has
been robbed.
Wherever moral issues are involved
the instinct of mankind demands a
clean-cut conquest Of evil
Wherever there is a definite at =
tempt to injure another person, the
one assailed knows he must win a de-
cided conquest to be safe.
Wherever there is man who lives
Justly. he is entitled to conquest over
those who attack him.
Right safety, and justice all de-
mand conquest over wrong, danger
and brutality. Let conquest he the
word we use i'm speaking OF the dis
position of this war.
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An Oath That Every American Should
Vow.

will not drink from a German cup,
Or eat from a German plate;
l will not deal with q German man,
All foul with German hate.
I'll use no drug with q German name
That's grown on German land
III eat no food and drink no beer
If made by German hand.
will not use a German tool
Razor Or knife or saw.
i will not trade with German shop
THAI lives by German law
will not sail on German ship.
Where German songs are sung;
will not breathe, where Gods clean
Is soiled by a German tongue.
I'll not forget those awful deeds
To girls and little boys;
No more I'll hang on Christmas trees
Those bloOdsaincd German toys.
will not take Germans word
He'll break it if he can.
There is no love in a German heart
Or faith in a German man.
This is my oath. When war is done
I'll swear to keep it true;
And since 1 know you feel the same
I'll pass it on to you.
Kenneth Graham Duffield in
Memphis Commercial Appeal
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GERMAN INFORMATION WANT.
ED.
Loyal Americans Asked to SuppIy
Photographs, Drawings and De-
scriptiOn OF German Towns.

AT the request of the war depart
ment, the American Protective League
has undertaken to procure for that
department for immediate use for in
telllgence purposes, photographs
drawings and descriptions of bridges,
buildings, towns and localities now
occupied by the German forces in
France, Belgium and Luxembourg
and likewise in that portion of Ger
many lying west Of line running
north and south through Hamburg.
The entire organization Of the League
throughout the country will be en-
plOyed in this work in order that a
large result may be obtained.
Wide publicity of this announce
ment through the local press is re-
quested by the war department. All
citizens are urged to make diligent
search for this material and deliver
it in person or by mail to either the
editor of The Item or send it direct
to Col. A. B. Coke, 1856 Thirteenth
Street, Washington, ID. c.
A large quantity of material is de-
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Editor The Item:

me poys VINO came from wedge
field on their weekend outing were
delighted with their trip. They still
speak daily OF what fine time they
had. And the hostesses seemed per
fectly delighted" with them and
thought they were q set OF selected
boys whereas there was no selection at
all. but they were taken as they came
This seems to me the best refutation
OF all charges that can be made
against Uncle Sans army.
My object I'm writing this letter is to
try to induce other communities to
throw open their doors to the soldiers
here. find that the officers with
whom 1 have conferred on the sub
ject are. to man. very heartily in
favor OF the plan and regard il as
the best yet devised to sustain the
morale of the army. Some OF them
have said that they proposed to use
the weekend trip aa reward OF
proved that they deserve the trip. And
L find that II Is proving of no less val
ne to the communities visited than II
is to the boys. Their visit awakens
the love OF mothers and fathers for
the glorious boys who are going by
the thousands to the front to lay down
their lives for their homes. and makes
such parents prouder OF their own
boys. IL they have any In the army
and sorry IL they have not. 1t is
thus n great begetter OF patriotism
and destroyer Of all lurking German
ism. IL Yields closer together the
homes and those who are fighting for
the homes.
Can not such communities as Oswe
60. Dalzell. Privateer. st. Charles.
Bishopville. Hartsville, Lynchburg
and Florence open their doors and
get and give some OF these blessings?
IL Is worth a great deal to the boys
to sleep once more between sheets
and hear the rooster crow In place of
the reveille at A. VI. and IL costs the
communities less to confer these
pleasures than 1t costs the boys to
come after them.
Let us give them to those who are
so willing to receive them. AS i
write this afternoon 1 am thinking OF
how much Mayesvllle and Salem are
enjoying the entertainment of the
twenty-odd fellows whom we were
able to send them yesterday. / know
they will be royalty entertained. And
feel that 1t will be another case
where IL Is more blessed to give than
to receive. 1 have just said good.
bye TO one dear boy who Is going SC
joyously TO the front. He was telling
me with so much pride about his
equipment.
The personnel of our has changed
almost entirely since / came. Our re-
bgious secretary has been sent to
more important position at the audi
Eorium, our business secretary has
joined the army. our social secretary
goes over seas. and our building sec
retary becomes religious secretary at
another Y. SO we are the only ones
that are left. and any day "our
change" may come. So IL there is
anything you wish to do for this Y, do
u quickly The army. like time and
tide. waits for no man.
Next Sunday is mothers day and
our is going to observe 1t. Please
send me some red and some white
roses so that the boys may wear them
during service In honor of the bes,
mother in the world. -
Mrs. III. w. Beall.
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LUSITANIA ANNIVERSARY.
concentrated by English Palers.
Which Fear That People May For
get

London. May THE Lusit MIA
anniversary was cOmmemorated by
newspapers today with big captions
and special articles recalling the crime
to forget The Daily Graphic i'm an
editorial laments that the public is
apparently becoming dulled to the
horror of the Lusitania atrocity.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-05-11
FLEEING EROM HUNS.
American Red Cross Mission To- Rou-
mania Barely Escaped.

Amsterdam, May Tn the event
ful flight from Jassy. Roumanian cap
ital. the American Red Cross mission
to Roumania which now has arrived
In London. escaped from Odessa SO
hours before the Germans entered the
city only TO be fred on by "a German
battery In Ukraine. No damage was
done to the Red Cross train.
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DRAFT FOR MAY 10Th.
-Four Thousand and Sixty Specially
Qualified Men Called Out.

washington, May IA requisition
on all States except Arizona, Della
ware and Vermont for four thousand
and sixty especially qualified draft reg
istrants to go to camp May 2Oth was
sent out today.
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AT last l cast my mask aside
And bare the hate 1 used to hide.
NOW to myself l can be true
And do the deeds | love to do.
l am German.
The stolid, kindly man is dead;
ruthless beast is born instead.
me bars are dOwn-the beast is free
10 roam at will on land and sea.
l am a German.
love to send the good ships down.
Ana see the helpless children drown
And when the mothers scream in pain
laugh at struggles all in vain.
l am German.
Ana sometimes, in a sheltered place
spy baby's dimplcd face.
An! then I feel a fiendish joy,
And kill it quick if it's a boy.
I am a German.
poison wells so more may die:
No pity lives in such as I.
The simple homes 1 burn at night,
And in this pillage iifind delight.
I am German.
The sick and wounded feel my hand.
Ana when l see Red Cross band
l straightway set upon their track.
Because 1 know they can't strike back.
/ am German.
rape and ravish, rend and tear;
With hideOus noises fill the air,
The loudest screams of pain and fear
Are sweetest music to my ear.
l am German.
There is no law Of God or man
But will break it if 1 can.
only live to MAIN and kill,
And while live always will.
I am German.
Kenneth Graham Duffleld.
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London, May 7.-British casualties
reported for the week ending today
reached 3S,691. OF these 32,136 are
wounded or reported missing.
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i Am Il German.

AT last l cast my mask aside
And bare the hate l used to hide.
Now to myself l can be true
And do the deeds / love to do.
l am German.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-12-27
BEST TO LEAVE IT ALONE
Head Of London Medical Society Ad-
vises Doctors to Keep Out of
Politics.

DR.. Arthur Francis Voelcker, in his
presidential address to the Medical So
ciety of London recently, said that
they had lately been urged to secure
the return of medical men to parlia-
ment, but while recognizing the excel
lent services such men had rendered
parliament. could they seriously say
that even a fifth of the medical party
in parliament would add to its utility?
ut has always seemed to me" he
continued, ''that the less medical men
have to do with professional politics
the better.
1--WE must be prepared for minis
try of health" he proceeded, "and see
that it is given loyal support in every
thing which makes for the health of
the community and that the minister
himself is the selection of the profess
sion and not of any political party.
Some of us feel that it will be an
evil day when the state by its medical
service undertakes the care Of the
health Of the Individual The profess
sion of medicine is so eminently hu-
man and the services so personal chat
it may be feared that as no man can
serve two masters so no medical men
can serve both the state and the pa
tient simultaneously"
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down the names Of the men who wero
TO go and 1 talked them into putting
mine down too. Then / felt about
FIVE hundred pounds lighter.
Five O'Clock came and by that time
1 had forgotten to do any worrying.
We received our usual rations and
most of us who had volunteered fig
ured that we would receive clothes
and shoes. In the morning an officer
came down below and read out the
names Of those who were to go and I
felt even lighter when he called mine.
We were each given life belt and
mustered on deck.
The sea was pretty nasty and some
of the men had narrow escapes from
falling between the Moewe and the
lifeboats when the swells rocked us.
One man fell from the ladder and
broke his neck on the gunwale of the
lifeboat. They took over boat after
boat to the Yarrowdale until finally
we were all there. Then they mus
tered us on deck and warned us not to
start anything, because they had a
time bomb in the engine room and two
on the bridge. Meantime they had
brought over several boatloads OF hard
tack and we threw it into No. hold.
This was to be our food for some time.
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MORE ABOUT DENVER.

Writing of Denver's experience,
Harry W. Newcomb, president of the
Newcomb Realty company and once
an opponent of prohibition, says:
1T was said that the tourists would
not. come here on account of prohibi-
ton. We have had more tourists in
Denver since we had prohibition than
ever before in the history of the city.
All Of the hotels are filed, the apart
ment houses are well rented and condi-
tons are far better than they were
formerly. The credit Of the merchants
in the city is greatly increased, as
they have been able to collect their
bills and in turn pay others in other
cities a great deal faster than they
ever did before. All Of the breweries
in Colorado have changed their equip
ment and are making near beer, malt
ed milk, pottery, etc., and the loss pre-
dicted by people leaving the state on
account Of not having employment
has proved a matter of mere readjust-
ment. There are just as many people
employed by these breweries now as
there were heretofore, and most of the
saloon men found legitimate business
which they could engage in and are
now strong advocates of prohibition. !"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-12-27
AS AN ENeLIsHMAN SEES 1T.


Philip w. Wilson, special CORE
spondent of the London Daily News,
writing from New York, comments
most interestingly on the liquor stu
alton in the United States. He says:
s'By the courtesy of Fleming Revell,
the publisher, had glance through
the advance proofs of Joseph Fl. Odell's
book. The New Spirit and the New
Army His testimony is explicit. The
army may not be bone dry but drink
ing has been reduced to an unbelievable
minimum. 1T is amazing, writes Mr..
Odell, how the desire has almost died
out with the abolition of temptation
This is, think. the answer to critics
who alleged that restrictive laws are
eyaded. To some extent they may be,
but the necessity for evasion limits
consumption to the few-the reckless.
The mass Of the people are loyal in
this as in other matters, and 1t is the
mass that counts.
''The city of Washington has, since
the war, put on scores of thousands of
inhabitants, and is now, I am told, OF
over 100000 population. Yet there is
not saloon of any kind to be seen.
In theaters, movie palaces, restaurants,
hotels, you are not served with drink,
Town-planning on noble scale is I'M
marred by tavernsl at street corners.
THE question for the old world to
decide is whether she will have any
chance economically against the new
world if, to military and naval handi-
caps, she adds the burden of intemper-
ance from which society here is shak-
Ing itself free"
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CHAPTER XVI.
captured by the Moewe.
IL

GSptureQ Dy Ine MoeWS.
Wien the tugs had cast off and after
o while we had dropped our pilot, l
said to myself: "Now we are off, ard
It's the States for me-end of the
line-far as we go-IF-" But the
''if" did not look very big to me.
though / could see it with the naked
eye all right.
1 got up about four o'clock the next
morning, which was Sunday, Decem-
Der TO- 1916-a date do not think
will ever forget.
AS soon as l was dressed | went
down to the forecastle peak and from
there into the paint locker, where |
found some rope. Then back again on
deck, and made myself hammock.
which l rugged up on the boat deck,
figuring that l would have nice sun
bath, as the weather had at last
turned clear.
AS soon as I had the hammock
strung l went down to the baker and
mad nice chat with him-and stole a
few hot buns, which was what was
really after-and away to the galley
for breakfast. | was almost exactly
amidships, sitting on an old orange
box. / had not been there long when
Old Chips, the ships carpenter, stuck
his head in the door and sang out,
"Ship on the starboard bow" did
not pay any attention to him, because
ships on the starboard bow were
no novelty to me, or on the port
either. Chips was not crazy about
looking at her, either, for he came in
and sat on another box and began
scoffing. He said he thought she was
a tramp and that she flew the British
flag astern.
ate all could get hold of and went
out on deck. stepped out of the gal
ley just in time to see the fun. The
ship was just opposite us when away
went our wireless and some of the
boats on the starboard side, and then
boom boom and we heard the report
of the guns. / heard the shrapnel
whizzing around us just as had many
a time before. jumped back in the
galley and Chips and the cook were
shaking so hard they made the pans
rattle.
When the firing stopped / went UP
to the boat deck. / had on all Of my
clothing. but instead of shoes was
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wearing pair of wooden clogs. The
men and boys were crazy-rushing
around the deck and knocking each
other down. and everybody getting in
everybody else's way We lowered our
Jacobs ladders, but some of the men
and boys were already in the water
Why they jumped do not know.
Then the German raider Moewe
headed right in toward us and /
thought she was going to ram US, but
she backed water about thirty yards
away. She lowered lifeboat and it
made for the Georgia, passing our
men in the water as they came and
crashing them on the head with boat
hooks when they could reach them.
i noticed that there were red kegs in
the German boat.
When the lifeboat reached the ia
cob's ladders / went over to the port
side of the George and then the Ger
mans came over the side and hoisted
up the kegs. The Germans were
armed with bayonets and revolvers.
Some of them went down into the en-
gine room and opened the sea cocks.
About this time some of the Limeys
came up from the poop deck and I
toid them to stay where l was and
chat the Germans would take us over
an lifeboats. Another squad of Ger
mans hoisted eight Of the dynamite
kegs on their shoulders and down into
No. 8 hold with them.
Mean time the Germans saw ms nm
on the boat deck and came up after
us. And over went the Limeys. But
4 waited and one or two more waited
with me. When the Germans came up
TO us they had their revolvers out
and were waving them around and
yelling, "Gott strafe England!" and
talking about "schweinhunde!' Then,
the first thing / knew, was kicked off
into the sea. l slipped off my trousers
and coat and clogs, and, believe me, it
was not a case of all dressed up and
no place to go!
Then l swan hard and caught up to
the Limeys who had jumped first. They
were asking each other if they were
downhearted and answering, mot
bit of it, me lads" and trying to sing,
s'Pack up your troubles in your old kit
bag" only they could not do much
singing on account Of the waves that
slipped into their mouths every time
ehey opened them. That was just like
Limeys, though.
Some of the boys were just climbing
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-12-27
KIDNEY TROUBLE NOT
EASILY RECOGNIZED
Applicants for Insurance Often
Rejected

An examining physician for one Of the
prominent life insurance companies, in an
interview Of the subject, made the as-
tonishing statement that one reason Why
SO many applicants for insurance are re-
jected is because kidney trouble is so COM
mon to the American people, and the large
majority of those whose applications are
declined do not even suspect that they
have the disease,
Judging from reports from druggists
who are constantly in direct touch with
the. public, there is one preparation that
has been very successful in overcoming
these conditions. The mild and healing
influence of DR.. Kilmer's Swamp Root Is
soon realized It stands the highest for
its remarkable record of success.
We find that Swamp Root is strictly
an herbal compound and we would ad.
wise our readers who feel in need Of such
remedy to give it trial. It is on sale
at all drug stores in bottles Of two sizes.
medium and large.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N r., for .
sample bottle When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv