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New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

! line-that idea is secuted with all
the haste and emphasis required by
the thoroughgoing Americanism that
pervades every department-bus
ness, recreational and social or of
American army life. It's no extra
ordinary thing to see bunch of
colored Southern Baptists playing
pool around table in a X. of C. hall
with the priest watching their game
and, where h can, giving them
points at it. The chaplain sits in
and tells an anecdote when the bows
are patient enough to attend to that
unexciting diversion. He'll teach
them checkers and chess just as
readily as he'll revive their remem-
brance Of their catechism. And the
big point to get is that the X. of c.
chaplain isn't put in camp to pro
lect religion: he is there to supply
the means of practising it to the
boys who enjoyed these means un-
hampered at home.
Chaplain Wins
The Croix de Guerre
Father John B. De Wales, one of
the first K. of c. chaplains to sail
overseas, went through a hell of fire
and incidentally won the Croix de
Guerre for going through it to save
the life of non-Catholic in the
regiment to which he was attached.
Father Fitzgerald, Of Boston. who
was K. of c. chaplain before the
| War Department commissioned him.
stood by an isolated American ma
chine gun company through one ter
rible night in No Mans Land. and
when members of the crew were
killed took his place by the cartridge
wagon and fed the sole remaining.
gunner until the Germans were fed
up with the meal of bullets and the
Americans advanced over the ground
to relieve the fatigued fighters. An
officer in high command offered
Father Fitzgerald a commission as
an officer of the line. so impressed
was ne with the chaplain's fighting
qualities.
Osias Boucher, another K. of c.
chaplain, now wears the CroiX de
EueIIe Tor singular bravery under
tire Advancing, as is the rule Of
n. of c. chaplains, over the top with
charging. Americans, he and the
party of men he was with were
stranded in shell crater. The bows.
facing their first baptism of fire.
were chating over their misfortune:
but he rallied them, kept their cour-
age to the sticking point, and. when
the right opportunity came thew
gave a splendid account of them
selves. Father Boucher and other
priests afterward gave assistance in
helping the wounded and in passing
around not soup to the battle-scarred
boys entering and leaving the
trenches. Real mans work. there
under the bursting shells, although
1t may not have been done with a
gun!
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-07-02

Gently promulgated by the food adj
min;st~ation ought rot to apply to
the soat1. FEis reasons are that the
south, especially states like South
Caroina. have 10 elevators Or other
arrangements for making a CONNER
cial commodity of wheat on a large
scale, and conditions in this section
are so different from those in the
regular wheat growing sections, that
rules that are perfectly proper i'll
one case are totally Inadequate in the
other case.-Yorkville Enquirer.
In this position Mr.. Lever is abso~
lutely correct. The farmers down III
this state do not raise enough wheat
for their owr9 rse. And some Of them
live long way from a wheat mill anil
it would be bad business to force
them to grind what little wheat they
have in dribbles, and then they have
l!O way VI Saving tllS WiSdt IihS tNSy
haze in wheat growing sections. We
may have five or six bushels of wheat
and at the present rate OF eating
wheat bread that will make flour
e2oHgh TO last us for whole year,
and why require Us to have two or
thraa trips t. tho wheat mill 70 have
this little grinding done, and when
we daye 70 way Of taking care Of and
saving the wheat IS We could the
ground floHr IT is al rigHt ii the
wheat growing sections Of The coun-
try. What we want to do here is to
encourage tIe farmer to grow AL the
wHear VIII need FOR his family ana
his plantation, and, there should not
BE ary laws shat Will 1an7 TO dis
co"raea this.
Mr.. Hoover shor7d listen 10 NJ
Lever in this appeal.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-07-02
ENGREE PATRIOT SETS EX
AMPLE

Tohn J. Clark, of Eroree, formerly
Of Abingdon. Va. who is a former
Confederate soldier, and is now 75
years of age, has bought and paid
for $4,000 worth of War Savings
Stamps. And he has done this our
Of wages amounting to $50 per
day. Mr.. Clark's example is one that
is pointed to with pardonale pride
by the War Savings Club of that
town. for # shows that age and
small earning capacity do not inter
fere in the least with mans patri :
otism Many others at Enoree viii
do well to follow the fine example set
by this old gentleman, who is doing
his part to win the war that finds
him too old to again shoulder his
musket.
It is not surprising to know that
the employees Of Enoree are buying
liberty War Savings Stamps ps.--Spar-
tanburg Herald.
That is fine and it only demon
strates what we can do if we make I'D
our minds to do it.
At the meeting at Chappells on
Friday afternoon we had similar
case which is worthy Of special men
ton, and it was not done for the pur-
pose of having the mention made,
because the gentleman is not that
kind, but is at all times humble and
honest and sincere in what he does,
and he did not know there was g
newspaper man anywhere near the
place. But we stopped there on our
return from home just as the meet
ing was near its close and did not go
in, but could hear very we'll what
was going on. We suppose he had
already bought some saving stamps,
but the township was within S14O0
of it's allotment, and an effort was
being made to raise that amount. anc
it was soon raised. Mr.. J. R. Irwin
said he would take S10O of the amount
and stated that he had given all his
property away and did not pay any.
tax and had only his daily earnings,
hut that he would pay the amount
from them, and he is a Confederate
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-07-02
DO NOT ELI1IElTE tLL PLEAS,
IRE.

0ftentime you near some who ad-
vocates the elimination Of al forms
Of pleasure as a war measure This
would ne one of The gravost mistakes
that we could make. Il is Up to ev-
cry citizen to cut out e',trcvaganc@
but We should have sctae firm of
alnuse7ne-+ and recreation. The peo-
pie, who are left at hon2a have grea.
burdens Cd sac~i9,cr = nc1-a ana
they should try and enjoy life as
much as possible. e.--Craenwo Journ-
al.
That IS Tarr true. II & trve say
ing. even # old. that al work and
no play makes Jack q dull boy, but
there should he work bv every enc of
some sort that is productive and no:
al pleasure and pleasure riding and
wasting. We are a strong believe.
il the doctrine OF good cheer and
sunshine. It does no good to moan
and mourn over conditions and to be
complaining all the tine ABOUT tl1ings
Won can't help. if you have done your
best 70 prevent them. It IS just as
necessary to have some recreation
for the folk at home as it to have
some sort of amusement for the boys
at the front. In fact it fits Us the
better for work as it fits them the
better to fight.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-07-02
i soldiers CheerfnI Letters.

Private 7. R. Livingston of Co. 6,
l?2.h Infantry, 59th brigade. S0th
division. while at Camp Mills, Long
Island, y. Y. in May wrote his par
eDts letters, two OF which we have
seen. His letters were cheerful and
be was in the best OF health the
roys we're all in good spirits. He
tells his people to say nothing about
war IN their letters. Dent think
an worried over this, for I an in a:
good spirit as when l LEFT home It
IS ny Opt and I will co my duty
2ot rs a Stacker, but a solder. Tell
All that I will go tn. ,ugh this war
ike a man. not efraid and doing my
lHtv' He says there VIII rot be any
Eng against h:s record when the
va closos. unless it IS through ig-
1o~aneo Tho2e words have the ring
Of the right metal Young Livingston
t2',s lis father to go on with his work
@at ASS his absence Unnoticed; that
&c IS ,oahins forward 20 the soul
saving protection of his life ana
eahh and to "get hack nome some
dav ard Grd you and ma doing fne."
It is his full belief, be says, that "he
viii rcme back all right" but "of
course a man has to swallow MS
rnart N this thing, for no man Knows.
what be Will have TO come up against.
t'ore Good and sound advice IS:
Hope you are getting along nicely
with your little farm. Try to work
It in such a way that you won't have
- hUv horse feed, for that is big
drawback in your farming when you
f1s ~e7't got feed. and YOU cant keep
q horse IN good shape and buy the
feed He also says something that
81 ~arents should heed when he
writeg: "pa, don't want you and ma
u worrv about ne, f. that viii do
40 good"
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-07-02
WIZ 0BSFPTE TIE F0TRTH

We ere glad 70 see that olr 2ner
c?,aa+s have 0~ar4;cailv I'll agreed =
G sa~va tho fourt7, and close their
rzo~aS nf l,-,e;nnss md those whH
have not signed will likely close
ai&o
The Ta~ala ard News viii a'j7o
observe Tho dav and close It's shop
and LEI the so~s have holiday. TIE
Fri72v ;s%~a I'll 'e printed Vedrss-
dav aftarroon a~A in, order to 90 50
wa vii s0oed ~ IS much as We car,
a~d Il thera 70 +hoen Who want adver-
tisements in that issue. as we nope
there viii be, we would thank them
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-07-02
ILLNESS OF SENATOR TILLMAN.

The Fer9ld aa1 News regrets to
!eqrn Of the serioas illness Of Sea-
ator Tillnlan. From the reports re-
ceived the conclusion is inevitable
that his work is ended. We had N
tyre a communication written from
Cd<eGe!d bv john K. Aull and had
the type in the form, bat upon hear
ing of his severe i:lnees We have
taken it cut Of the for.n and will no.
print it. We can not get or con
sent to print anything now that
void be G:sagreeabla 70 Ms family
eve1 # true. We would not object
to printing matter that would have
? political Bearing if he werc we'll and
il Inc ra"n L i we~a 70 'ihelons.
Senator T!1man fas 1aaa prom
!ne7t 6gTra N the lisa cf the Stats
2n1 tie n7-ia~ sor nearly forty years,
and a one 4t,aa was : rowarfrl fieUra
= 10 n9,Eti s; 3fEe Of <0'ta Carolina
I 10 e"a7- Of his death it viii
Ies"a ca'v taroa candidates in the
r2ca for he @anate. as re understand
ti3e rules Of tho party it has been
fXe3 tat "a 02w ertries are posi-
~ after the olcsing.
Orr ne~soaa} relations with seaa-
- Ti'lr'o.1 "ove always been Of the
acst pleasant character. even away
ia i. IN taa H:net;es. f'oGg'a We never
d'd srr2ort MIN politically. He al
ways gave US credit for dealing fairly
W. hi'>o. AID ar hc2o~abIe ran VIII
not fall ou- With vou personally fo-
political differences.
n their hoar o: SCREW we sy:rpa-
thtze deeply with the members OF his
family.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-07-02

AS to the political aspect of the
letter we happen to know that some
time back in 1914 McLaurin attended
a Blease conference and made a
speech praising what he called the
Reform party, and then when he was
not chosen as their candidate for
governor he went over to some other
side, and now he is playing to catch
the vote of the anti-Blease folk ana
trying to destroy Cooper. Why he
himself admits that he first support
ed Blease when he thought he need
ed him and then when he did not and
thought he could use Manning ha
supported him. The fact is he never
stays hitched anywhere, or STANDS
long by any one, however much he
may feign friendship. The upshot Of
the whole matter will be when ne
finds that his lodging around will rot
conserve his purpose he Will with
draw from the present race fos gov
ernor, and we predict that he will d.
that very thing before the campaign
is ended.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-07-02

to lei Us hare the coy as early as
possible. And those who have item
OF news they would like 10 have in
that issue Will also let the COPY cone
in as early as they can to insure its
insertion.
We notice that the day is to be on-
served in France by the French peo-
pie and if they are going to observe t
there should be no question as to
what We should DO. We hope the
observance Will be IL a sane and SER
sihle manner.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-07-02

up OF Saturday afternoon We thank
our cotemnorary, The Observer. for
kindly latting US have the use Of his.
mach:na after hours ana our operator
fer sa:ting type OF Friday night
wai = also helped rs GIT. And our
toys in Columbia for working over
tire to get rs some t"De for the last
issoe. Without helping bard We
would al be in bad fix And all the
people have been nice to rs and we
are t1ankfGl.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-07-02
THE STATE CAMPAIGN PaRTT

HE 81 AtE .A-HI 3eUN y Di
The State campaign party will be y
New5erry Tuesday. tomorrow, an3
the meeting will be held in the court
house. We suppose it will start about
II O'clock. The probability is that
the attendance viii be small. Thern
should not have been any campaign
this year for State of county Offices
and the energy campaigning might
have been spent more proftably.
We have not yet fully made up GU
mind for whom we will vote for
governor. We have several very good
friends IN the list Of candidates a!
Of whom would fill the ofdce all
right.
For lieutenant governor we VII
vote fer our neieh9or Geo. Wighnan.
For attorney general we have about
made I'D our mind to vote for Gland
Sano who IS at present the assistant
attorney general.
For secretary Of state. comptroller
general and adiutant general the in
curbents have no opposition.
For superintendent of educa ton We
:-tend now to vote for V. e. Rector
though we suspect that Superintend-
ert siweariDgen will be elected but
some few years ago when we pre-
sented to him and his board the al
most unanimous request of the trus
tees of the 80 school districts for our
appointment as c. ty superintend-
ent OF education le almost insulted
Us and we do not suppose he expects
or cares for our vote. He makes
g. very good superintendart so long
as you agree with him and he can be
the dictstor. But Rector is an edu-
Gator and is from the mountains and
self made and will also make good
Official.
For railroad commissioner we are
goinc to vote for D. i. (Jackl Smith.
He has been our friend for good
r,,anv years and we served in the leg
is1ature together and whenever We
have called on him and he could do
it consistently he has answered the
call. Some years ago when Gov
Heyward and Col. Geo. tombstone
and others were in the race for the
senate and Hayward afterwards with
drew and we wired Smith to help US
for tombstone, the answer was
nromnt that he would do what he
could. Howard was from his county
and he was for Hayward so long ac
he was in the race And then we be-
came a candidate for clerk Of the
senate while he was in the house and
he did what he could but the New
berry senator declined to help be-
cause we had dared to oppose him
for the senate and of course without
the support of our Newberry senator
there was little hope of success
though we made fairly good race.
That was gratitude on the part of the
Newberry senator. But we stick to
our friends in defeat as we'll as vic
tory and have no apologies to make
We were also in the house with Mr..
Fl. Fl. Arnold from Spartanburg who
is a candidate for railroad commits
sioner and is a good man.
For commissioner Of agriculture we
do not know any Of the candidates
and have not yet decided how we
shall ote.
It may not concern the reader how
the editor is going to vote but he does
not mind saying how and you may do
as you please and we will not quarrel
with YOU about it.
Mr.. Lever has protested to Mr..
r-;{J, rof-
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-07-02

The Herald an3 News PHYSICIAN, 4
John c. Gosgans. II. has pat the
wheels Of our linotype machine to
moving again, brt this tine BY out-
ting IN a new motor, an3 we started
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-07-02

The above was written before W.
saw the replies CT Cooner, BIease
and Aull printed in the Monday pa
pers. They are too long for US to
handle today but will be printed III
the Friday paper
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-07-02

votarHa ard n"0re than - years old.
It w3s a patrictic act and there is no
ore whose heart is more in what he
does HAN lTr. Twin. He has been i
t;i;~nn @: Cha2Dells for many years
a~3 has al~a~s Seen active in all
eood wo~1s ard what was best for the
cr-7inrn;tv The love Of country ana
Of home and Of church and Of right
an"sDnss hnrns N his soul with the
a1"w of vO-;th ard his country o.
his church nevar calls but he is ready
70 resnOnd WITH whatever he may
have. trHn a!wavs to the highest ideals
Of rat"ictisc2 a7d civic righteousness.
The n"rcha sing Of SAVINGS stamps
by men Ike tF;ose is not for invest
mont and rot if Won nlease. as 2 con
tribution in the simple sense Of Civ
ing. hut rather. if you n1eaea. It Is
done in the snrit of sacrifice and fo~
tha nr~-ose Of hn1ping America and
her allies t. win the war. And in the
shirt CT ho!n'n~ those wilo are n dis
tress end .to save the wo-"er and
children from the horrors which they
have been forced to undergo 2atiie",
!: -oH ,,ease. IN tire spirit as sunS
A
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-07-02

Mr.. Lever has protested to Mr..
Hoover that the regulations with ref
erence to the grinding of wheat, re-
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-07-02

Letter 20 the people come to Us in the
shape of a shock. If the statements
in his letter do not reveal the basest
kind of a Stimulating friendship then
we do not know how to interpret the
English language.
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2olitical- differences.

n their hour Q: screw We sv:GDa
thtze deeply with the members Of his
family
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-07-02

I'D 4',;r = tHn c9;~;t *fa+ : =;
r:ng TIE var It co1l3 not re Q he :
wiso.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-07-02

Mr.. Hoover shor7d listen 10 N.
Lever in this appeal.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-26
CHAPTER xVI-continued.

From the kitchen you could walk
directly into the cow-barn, where two
cows were kept, and this, as / have
pointed out before, is the usual con-
struction of the poorer Belgian houses.
/ could not make out why the caller
seemed to be so antagonistic to me,
and yet am sure he was arguing with
the family against me. Perhaps the
fact that I wasn't wearing wooden
shoes--I doubt whether 1 could have
obtained a pair big enough for me
had convinced him that / was not
really a Belgian, because there was
nothing about me otherwise which
could have given him that idea.
At that time, and suppose it is
true today, about "a per cent of the
people In Belgium were wearing
wooden shoes. Among the peasants 1
don't believe 1 ever saw any other
kind OF footwear and they are more
common there than they are In Hol-
land. The Dutch wear them more on
account of q lack Of leather. l was
told that during the coming year prac-
tically all the peasants and poorer
people in Germany, too, will adopt
wooden shoes for farm work, as that
is one direction in which wood can be
substituted for leather without much
loss.
When the young man left, left
shortly afterwards, as was not at
all comfortable about what his inten-
tons were regarding NE. For all 1
knew he might have gone to notify
the German authorities that there was
n strange man in the vicinity-more
perhaps to protect his friends from
suspicion of having aided me than to
injure me.
At any rate, was not going to take
any chances and I got out Of that
neighborhood as rapidly as 1 could.
That night found me right on the
frontier of Holland.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-26
CHAPTER XVIII.
ExperIeneea in Holland.


But was not quite out of the
woods.
now knew that was in Holland,
but just where had no idea. walked
for about thirty minutes and came to
path leading to the right, and had
proceeded along 1t but few hundred
yards when 1 saw in front of me a
fence exactly like the one / had
crossed.
This Is funny" said to myself. 81
didn't know the Dutch had a fence,
too" I advanced to the fence and
examined It closely. and judge of my
establishment when saw beyond Il a
nine-foot fence apparently holding
live wires exactly liz the one which
had nearly been the death Of mel
had very little time to conjecture
what 1t all meant, for just then i
heard guard coming. He was walk
ing so fast that / was sure 1t was a
Dutch sentry. as the Huns walk much
slower.
/ was so bewildered, however, that
decided to take no chances, and as
the road was fairly good / wandered
down II and away from that mysteri-
Gus fence. About half mile down
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-26
When a Prisoner Is EXCHANGED.

Ivan Rossiter, captured by the Ger
mans and later exchanged, says in the
Farm and Fireside: "Then lay down,
not to sleep but to think. 1 thought
of the day when / enlisted in Canada.
Of leaving home, the training camps.
the trip overseas to England, the
training in England, going across the
channel to Flanders, the terrific fight
ing at Ypres, of the many friends who
fell on that bloody battlefield, how
was wounded and captured, the inhu-
man treatment received at the hands
of the German surgeons, who had four
husky Germans hold me down while
they cut FIVE bones out of my wrist
and amputated my middle finger at the
second joint when ! was wounded In
the palm of the hand. the kicks and
the cuffs from prison guards and the
terrible stuff the Germans called food
In the prison camps"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-26

wire fence and breathed the free air of
Holland. l had no clear idea just
where 1 was and didn't care much.
was out Of the power Of the Germans
and that was enough. / had walked
perhaps a hundred yards, when / re-
membered the lace had thrown over
the barrier, and dangerous as real
lied the undertaking to be, deter
mined to walk back and get 1t. This
necessitated my going back onto Bel
gian soil again, but 1t seemed shame
to leave the lace there, and by exer-
cising a little care 1 figured / could
get it easily enough.
When came to the spot at which /
had made my way under the barbed
wire. put my ear to the ground and
listened for the sentry. 1 heard him
coming and lay prone on the ground
till he had passed. The fact that he
might observe the hole In the ground
or the ladder occurred to me as lay
there, and IL seemed like an age be-
fore he finally marched out of ear
shot. Then went under the barbed
wire again, retrieved the lace and once
again made my way to Dutch terri
tory.
1t does not take long to describe the
events just referred to, but the incl
dents themselves consumed several
hours in all. To dig the hole must
have taken me more than two hours
and 1 had to stop frequently to hide
while the sentry passed. Many times,
indeed, l thought heard him coming
and stopped my work and then dis
covered that it was only my magma
ton. 1 certainly suffered enough that
night to last me a lifetime. With a
German guard on one side, death from
electrocution on the other, and starva-
ton staring me in the face, my plight
was anything but a comfortable one.
1t was on the 10th of November,
1917, when 1 got through the wire.