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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-06-19

LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
Arnoldus Lewis was in town this
week visiting his mother, Mrs. E. H.
Folk.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hal Beman are spend
ing this week here with Mr.. and Mrs.
C. H. Key. .
Rev. Kneeland will preach at
Horns Creek next Sunday afternoon
at 4:30 o'clock.
Miss Mamie Dunovant is at home
from her school duties in Darlington
for the summer.
Mr.. W. E. Lynch who resides at
Rowland, N. c., is here visiting his
mother, Mrs. Kate Lynch.
Mrs. W. A. Byrd and the children
are visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
C. C. Fuller at Longmires.
MI. George Henry Edwards of
Greenville spent the weekend at the
home of Mrs. Emma Dobson.
Miss Fannie Sheppard and George
Edward are in Birmingham, as the
guests of Prof. and Mrs. Burns.
Mrs. James S. Byrd is spending
this week in Columbia with her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Fitzmaurice
MI. J. H. Allen received a message
Monday from Lieut.. w. D. Allen
stating that he had arrived safely in
Europe.
Mr.. R. L.. Dunovant has received
a card announcing the departure of
his son, Lieut.. R. G.. M. Dunovant,
for service in France.
Rev. A. L. Gunter was re-
elected president of the Epworth
League at their convention held this
week in North Augusta.
The second cotton bloom to reach
US was sent in by Master Marvin
Burts McManus' who gives promise of
being a hustling young farmer.
Little Miss Ann Lawton accompa-
MED her father, Nj. j. NJ. Lawton
to Scotia, S. C. on Wednesday where
they will visit Mr.. Asbury Lawton.
Major w. Arthur Collect and Mr..
James E. Hart, Jr., are down from
Camp Sewer for a brief furlough and
have been very cordially greeted by
their friends. ..:::.::....n,....
Rev. and Mrs. P. H. Bussey ar
rived in Edgefeld Tuesday night,
Mrs. Bussey being greatly improved
by her stay Of some weeks at the
hospital in Boston.
Mr.. John P. Nixon is now serving
W. w. Adams as salesman, filling
the place made vacant by the volun-
teering of Mr.. DeLoach Warren for
service in the navy.
Mr.. Bowles Morgan has been en-
joying a furlough of 10 days with
the home folk. Bowles is deservedly
very popular with the officers and
men at Camp Jackson.
DR.. E. Pendleton Jones is in Char
lesion conducting revival services in
the Cannon Street Baptist church
and in his absence next Sunday Rev.
2. P; Blalock will preach Sunday
morning:
The third cotton bloom of the sea-
son which we have seen was brougHe
to The Advertiser office by Master
lanes Deal. In his o~ver-alls and sun
hat James looks the part VI ohe VI
"Unclel Sans" regular farmer boys,
MI w. w. Fuller, Edgefeld coun-
tvs capable superintendent of edu-
cation has gone to Greenwood to
undergo a surgical operation. He will
be in the hospital about two weeks.
The operation is not of a serious ma
ture.
Buy all the War Savings Stamps
YOU can and then buy some. Unless
YOU do. your best, Edgefield county
will not sell it's quota of stamps. None
of us want Edgefeld county classed
as a Stacker among the counties OF
New-York tribune., 1918-07-01
The Menken-Hearst Incident

On June IS Hearst's "New York
American" devoted more than one whole
page to what purported to be defence
OF the Hearst newspapers, signed "S
Stanwood Menken, president of the Ma
tional Security League" together with
warm personal appreciation of Mr..
Menken, signed by William Randolph
Hearst himself.
'The next day, June 10, Mr.. Menken
repudiated Hearst's use of his statement
and the National Security League re-
pudiated Mr.. Menken. Nevertheless,
that part of the Menken statement which
could be construed as defence of the
Hearst newspapers-and that part only
was reproduced in one of the pamph-
lets by means Of which Hearst is now
advertising his conversion to loyalty.
On June % Mr.. Menken, unable
wholly to counteract the unfortunate
effect of the discussion produced by
Hearst's misuse of his statement, re-
signed as president of the National Se-
curlty League, which he had founded.
The next day, June 20, "The New York
American" devoted another page to the
matter. 1t denounced the National Sc
curity League as an organization con-
trolled by pirates, and referred to S.
Stanwood Menken as "Poor little Men
ken, long time cabin boy of the black
craft Plunderbund."
Hearst now vilifies the man whom he
dishonesty advertised less than two
weeks ago as one of his defenders. The
1ncongruity does not end there. "The
New York American" is casting mud
upon the name of the National Security
League and upon the reputation of S.
Stanwood Menken, while at the same
time Hearst's pamphleteers are misusing
both In their efforts to deodorize the
fame of Hearst.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-01

railroad employees. Eventually, the Al.
bany interests obtained the enactment of
law prohibiting the erection of any but
two-span bridge across the Hudson.
Nevertheless, the railroad, acting on the
Federal authorization, began construc-
tion in accordance with it's plans, and
the state officials obtained a temporary
injunction against it.
In this litigation Justice Chester holds
that acts of Congress and the determina-
tion OF the Secretary of War pursuant to
them must be controlling now, taking
precedence of the acts of state Legis-
lature. 1t is to be hoped that decision
will stand. The Castleton cutoff is
greatly needed. 1t would shorten the
time of transmission of freight between
the West and the seaboard several days,
and it would, by avoiding the heavy
grade between Albany and Schenectady
and the "bottle-neck" at West Albany,
greatly reduce the difficulties of the haul
and the demands on the railroads rolling
stock. In short, its construction would
aid In the carrying out of the country's
war programme.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-01

Costa Rica has declared war against
Germany. She is, in fact, an ally of the
United States. Yet we treat her as a
stranger and an incompetent. We refuse
to do for her what we have done for
Mexico
1t is diplomatic travesty. Why not
bring delegation of Costa Rcan edi-
tors to Washington, and thus give Pres
ldent Wilson chance to end it grace
fully with a few cordial and tactful re-
marks? All he will have to do will be to
revise the passage we have quoted from
his speech of June 7, so that it will read:
My own policy and the policy of my
Administration toward Costa Rica was
based at every point upon this principle:
That the internal settlement of the af-
fairs of Costa Rica was none of our bust
ness; that we have no right to interfere
with or dictate to Costa Rica in any par
ticular with regard to her own affairs"
Bygones should be bygones. Let us all
get together to win the war.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-01
The Nation Before ALBANY

Justice Chester's decision, regarding
the Castleton cut-off-the branch line
projected by the New York Central Rail-
road to shorten its route to the West and
lessen the grade-is sound sense, par
ticularly applicable to the existing situa-
ton. Approved by all the Federal au-
thorities, the railroads plans for a
single-span bridge across the Hudson at
that point were fought bitterly by AL
bany citizens and commercial interests
On the ostensible ground that only two
span bridge might be erected with safety.
The real ground of opposition was that
the cutoff would deprive Albany of much
Importance as railroad centre and
lessen the sum of money spent there by
New-York tribune., 1918-07-01
Lieutenant General Crowder

No one will begrudge Major General
Crowder the honor of raise in rank.
Adjutant General Henry G. Corbin-an-
other desk ot1icer-was made lieutenant
general in recognition of his services in
the Spanish War. And lieutenant GEN
eralship was a rarer distinction in those
days than it is now.
General Crowder was fortunate in get
ting into a branch of war activity in
which the stage was already set for I'M
posing results. National conscription
was the one~thing for which the country
was not unprepared. Congress didn't
know this. Neither did the Administra-
ton. Up to the day when the draft of
q selective service act was sent to Con-
gress the War Department had not been
able to bring itself even to whisper the
word conscription. But the people were
ready for it. The pioneer work done by
men like General Wood and Colonel
Roosevelt had borne fruit. The expert
ence of Great Britain in the first three
years of the war had soaked in The
common sense of the nation had dis
missed as fatuous all the hesitations at
Washington about basing our military
effort on universal service. Even wear
ago the country would have welcomed a
broad and logical conscription law, with
maximum age limit of forty or forty
five.
The law which Congress passed-al-
though it exceeded the recommendations
of the War Department-was defective
in many respects. As administered. it
was made unequal and discriminatory
by faulty apportionment. The public
overlooked these shortcomings. Conscrip-
ton became an unqualified success
through the support of popular opinion
and the volunteer efforts of private cit;-
zens. Thousands of patriotic men gave
their time and labor to constructing and
operating the machinery through which
the draft armies were created.
General Crowder would be the last
person in the world to withhold credit
for the result of the conscription expert
= ment from the men who really did the
Work-the unpaid members of the state
and local conscription boards. He profits
now by their enthusiasm and unassuming
devotion. 1t is right that he should profit
by them. He has shown creditable
capacity to learn, to be guided by expert
ence and to broaden in his views. He
has more nearly caught up with public
sentiment than Secretary Baker has or
than Congress has.
We shall be glad if the House of Rep
resentatives concurs with the Senate in
promoting him. And some day Congress
may be moved to recognize also the SER
vices of the others who contributed to
the triumph of the conscription principle
those who farsightedly paved the way
for its adoption and those who labored
in their states and communities to carry
it through.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-01

be criminal to go back and yield to the
temptation to reestablish things as they
were. And the harder our experience, the
greater the dangers that arise, the more
thoroughly we must think out our prin-
ciples. Here is huge process; we
very little, but if we believe we have a
principle that will guide US through we
must hold to it not merely by faith and
habit, but by clear and sensitive blinking
on the application of the principle to actual
issues, thinking in way that will broaden
the scope of the principle, deepen its i'm
plications and make it more accurately serve
the purposes of forecast.
The case Of Russia shows the necessity
for retesting, reexaminng democracy as a
principle of worldwide validity. Look a.
Eastern Europe, and then beyond What
about Japan and China and India? What
CT Africa, even? We dare not limit our
view if we demand worldwide test. The
awakening has come. is coming. In Russia
it has come and it must be faced as it is,
accounted for and analyzed What Of all
those surprising, irrational forces that ex-
traordinary play of instinct, those new and
of principles and appetite. the astonishing
vagaries of emotions that democracy
revealed in Russia? And the whirl of So
cial and national questions, the swapping
of nationalsm, of clear-cut political philoso-
ply, Of the principles of civil liberty by the
subconscious confusions of mass psy-
chology? There it all is with its stimulat-
ing and its destructive power. 1t cannot
be ignored, crossed out, reversed. 1t is
battling in the extreme, but we dare not
finch from it or deny it. 1t is an awaken
ing, after all, the beginning of long
process. There is how the principle has
begun to work in Russia.
What about the rest Of the world when
peoples still more remote awaken? We
hardly know what is awaiting US. At any
rate if we try to analyze what has actually
happened in Russa-and that will take some
time-we shall be better prepared ~ facs
that immense problem of world democracy
New-York tribune., 1918-07-01
When C. K. G.. Goes to War

The essential paradox about Gilbert K.
Chesterton has always been that he was
born in the nineteenth century. All the
flood of salt and merry paradoxes with
which he has excited us these many years
has flown from this beginning. Now
the news that he has been drafted and
found physically fit goes long way tow
ard remedying this anachronism. G. X.
was born to be swashbuckling soldier
OF fortune, say, Of the Prince Hal period
and while present-day fighting is not
strong in swash and similar romantic
qualities 1t is a mans job and great
adventure, and we risk the guess that
G. K. in trench will be more at home
in his age than anywhere else.
There will be an outcry against turn
ing so great a writer into cannon fodder.
But in this protest we feel sure Mr..
Chesterton will not join. Paradoxes are
all very we'll for peace time, but thew are
pale meat in these days of great battling.
Already in his writings in "The New
Witness" he has abandoned a good
many Of his old tricks. Take this pas
sage from the latest number of his maya
zine to reach this country:
eve stand for the man against the ma
chine; and if a machine can kill a man
1T remains true that there is no machine
that can make one. We hold on for the
history of the West; for the men who
built the cathedrals against the man who
can only burn them; for the spirit that
filled Shakespeare with songs against the
spirit that only confuse him with
notes. This truth should be trumpct
for US in this beyond all other times; it
means, while we stand fast, that if ex-
ultation be premature exalation is su-
premely practical; and that if ruin reallv
came our hearts if not our hopes could
be high
That is glorious, hard-hitting talk. It
is English in it's strength and magnif-
cence and un-English in it's utter ideal
ism. 1t is the new G. X. who has al
ready gone forth to war with one of the
best pens of the day. When he changes
that pen for a Lee-Enfeld pity the poor
German against those mighty pounds of
beef and ale and reckless courage!
New-York tribune., 1918-07-01
Burial No. 2


editors President Wilson buried his Mex
lean policy Of 1927. 1t was COM
pendable war diplomacy. We need
friends, and we should seek to sponge
out old and trivial enmities.
Why doesn't some progressive diplo-
mat connected with the Administration
Colonel House, for instance, or the
Hon. John Barrett-organize an excur-
sion of Costa Rican editors to Washing
ton? Then the East Room of the White
House might witness the burial of our
Costa Rican policy, which certainly
needs in.erment as badly as our Mexican
policy did.
President Wilson said to the Mexi-
cans:
"My own policy and the policy of my
Administration toward Mexico was based
at every point upon this principle: That
the internal settlement of the affairs of
Mexico was none of our business; that
we have no right to interfere with or die
tate to Mexico in any particular with re-
gard to her own affairs"
The principle underlying our relations
with Mexico is here stated with admi
rable clearness. Confusion had arisen in
the minds of Mexicans and Americans
merely because of the now-you-see-it-
ow-you-don't-see-it manner in which
the principle was applied. The President
has washed his hands of all those mis-
understandings. We are now back to the
theory Of non-interference in Mexican
domestic affairs--no more Huerta ,or
Carranza boycotts, no more Vera Cruz
or Chihuahua expeditions without a
declaration of war. We have recognized
Carranza's revolutionary government.
Why not back-track in Costa Rica as
we'll as in Mexico?
In ostracizing the present Costa Rican
government our State Department has
been governed by a theory without
standing in international law morals.
lt IS an improvisation, arbitrary and
rashly sentimental in character. Recop-
milton of another government NAV rea-
sonably be withheld on personal grounds
or on grounds of expediency. But to
withhold it merely because the govern
ment to which recognition is refused
came into existence through revolution is
a fantastic innovation in American or
general diplomatic practice.
We have recognized scores of revolu-
tlonary Latin-American governments.
Every republic on this continent was
born through revolution-our own in
cluded. What excuse has the United
States for attempting to establish new
order of legality and legitimacy-to set
up rule denying recognition to govern
ments of revolutionary origin?
The present Costa Rican government
is firmly established. 1t has been ac-
cepted by the Costa Ricans. There is No
rival government in sight. To treat it as
an outcast from the Pah-American cir
Gle is in effect to abolish that right Of
revolution which President Wilson eulo-
gized so feelingly in message to Con-
gress only couple of years ago.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-01
The Hearst Within Our Gates
Issys I'D by the Vigilantes)

Hearst Sti'red Up Dislike of Japan
"If Great Britain cannot restrain her
special ally, Japan, from acts of aggres-
sion inimical to our interests we can re-
move our ships and troops from Europe
and transfer them to Asia."-New York
American, March 8, 1918.
Mr.. Hearst controls the following publ
cations, with total avearge daily circulation
of 2,572,8S5 for the Hearst newspapers and
total average circulation per issue Of
2,2Sl,627 for the Hearst magazines.
Newspapers:
The New York American
The New York Evening Journal
The Chicago Herald and Examiner
The Chicago American
The Boston. Advertiser
The Boston American
The Atlanta Georgian
The Atlanta American
Inc San Francisco Examiner
The Los Angeles Examiner
The New York Deutches journal ldiscontfna''
April 21 1879
MaoaSines:
The Cosmopolitan
Good Housekeeping
Harpers Bazaar
Hearst's
Motor
Motor Boating
Puck
New-York tribune., 1918-07-01
That Odor of Sanctitv
(From The CHICAGO Mems,

NTo'h TIE Chicago Neusl
1T was a church wedding, and the church
was handsomely decorated with flowers. the
air being laden with their fragrance. Just
as the ceremony was about to begin small
VIVIAN exclaimed in an audible whisper:
"Oh, mamma, doesn't it smell awful solemn
in here? ?"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-01
For Conspicuous Bravery

from The Seattle Post Intel,ioerce,,
A patch on the pantaloons was once NOT
lar removed from disgrace in public esti
nation Now it is one of the minor deco
rations of war.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-01

NrNBrR OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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are also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-01

YOU can purchase merchandise adverussa 70 ., -.
TRisuNe with absolute safetyfor " su.
suits In any case THE TRisuhe guarantees ~ pay
money back upon request. No red tape NO 0u''''"s'
We mako good promptly II the advertiser does nv"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-01
Aircraft Discoveries
By Theodore M. Knappcn
SIDE from errors of administration

~ two major errors of fundamental
policy have been charged to the
aircraft production scheme. They are that
for the first year we should have contented
ourselves with manufacturing one Of the
accepted foreign motors, meanwhile dcvel-
oping and perfecting the Liberty motor
and that the productive capacity of the
country in tho aircraft line has been drawn
on to only per cent of its potentiality
With the latter goes the implication that
nefarious aircraft "ring" has been trying
to monopolize aircraft production for its
own benefit and the nations detriment
New-York tribune., 1918-07-01
Safety in Concentration

AS to the complaint that the countrv's
productive potentiality is not being utilized
to more than per cent of its extent. those
who make it complain at the same time
that we have intrusted the building Of o;r.
craft to inexperienced concerns. TO have
enlarged the number of primary contrac.
tors would have taken US still further into
the realms of inexperience. This criticism
is made more as to the building of planes
than as to motors, but even with the latter
l am inclined to believe that their mann.
facture has been spread out too much
rather than too little. Not that the nri-
mary contractors-there are onlv sx-are
too few, but that the parts not made bv
them have been drawn from too manv
secondary contractors. If there had been
greater concentration in this respect
there would have been less confusion lose
delay and fewer mistakes and reflections.
The business was so widely distributed that
it was rarely large and important item
with any single manufacturer. The six
Liberty motor makers will be able to give
US l2oOo motors month, which is proba-
bly, greater capacity than will be reouired
continuously over any considerable period.
AS for the "ring"-there is none.
SO conclude that the decision to 70 IN
for an American motor instead of turn;no
to foreign motor, as our chief contr;bu.
tloh 10 Allied aviation, is not only merely
defenslble, but that to have done other
wise would have been an egregious blunder.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-01

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New-York tribune., 1918-07-01
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New-York tribune., 1918-07-01
Plausible Criticism,

AS to the first of these criticisms / was
much impressed when l began my study Of
the aircraft situation. 1t seemed to be OBJ
vious. 1t seemed plain that if we had
taken, say, the Rolls Royce and proce eded
to reproduce it on a large scale we would
have been far advanced in production many
months ago. The experimentation stage
would have been avoided altogether, it
seemed. 1t was, apparently, merely a mat
ter of building and "toolng up" factories
and going ahead. 1t would have been
prodting by the experience of others.
The first thing that caused me to see that
this method would not have been so simple
after all the discovery that a large
American corporation started in to do that
very thing with foreign motor two years
ago and has only within the last year sue
ceeded in turning out 500 motors after
spending some $3,00O,0O0, large part of
which is in the scrap heap. This corpora
ton had at its disposal the best American
and foreign engineering assistance. Its
troubles were due chiefly to the fact that
building motor by hand and by machine
are two very different things. The motor
in question was not designed for quantity
production methods. None of the foreign
motors is. 1t took the company longer to
adapt its motor to American methods than
it has taken the Signal Corps to design and
produce an entirely new motor. Now, when
the engineer of this company-Mr Fl. M.
Crane. is the man and his company is the
Wright -Mart:n-publicly states that the
only wise course to pursue was to take up
the manufacture of an American motor at
the start, he is entitled to have his words
weighed very carefully.