The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-01-14
CeF. RI MA1yING's ANNUAL
MESSAGE To LEGISLATURE
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work of the women. in the fourth loan
campaign, the Women's Committee re-
ported 9,992,75O subscribed through
their efforts. with 41.CS9 subscribers.
In addition. the people Of South Car
olina have responded 10 the appeals OF
the National Government and have
bought unsparingly OF War Savings
Stamps, pledging themselves to the
amount of s13,745,249, Of which the
negroes of the State have pledged to-
buy more than a million and quar-
ter. There are 296,253 individual
pledges, of which 22O,1sS are white
people. The pledges made total $3.50
per capita, which applies in proportion
to the races S16.06 per capita as to the
whites and s1.4S as to the negroes. OF
the population of the State It's per
cent. are pledged, but analysis Of these
figures will show that 2S5 per cent. Of
the white population is pledged as
Iagains tS.7 per cent. of the negro poDu-
Iation.
In both the Red Cross campaigns, OF
1917 and 1918, the people Of South
Carolina oyerscribed their quotas, CIV
ing total of S1.s9G.221 in the two
campaigns.
Not in dollars alone, however, can
the Red Cross work OF the State be
measured. In South Carolina there are
81 organized chapters, with q total
membership of 90,647 covering every
county in the State. The Red Cross
workers in South Carolina have IL
men and 20 women in overseas work.
No account is here taken of the Red
Cross Christmas Roll Call of 1918. the
figures for which are not available.
To the welfare work among the SOL
diers and sailors, the Young Mems
Christian Association and other
agencies, the people of South Carolina
have also given literally, both in men
and money. There have been eighty
odd South Carolinians in the Y NJ. C..
A. overseas service and 70 South Caro-
linians engaged in this work in camps
and cantonments in this country. To
the two Y. II. C. A. campaigns 1S7,606,
was given, South Carolina was asked
for S905,730 in the United War Work
Campaign, which came on after the ar
mistice was signed, and gave 1,146,000,
oversubscribing the States quota by
nearly a quarter of million dollars.
Summing up these figures, it will be
seen that South Carolina's contribu-
ton in money towards financing the
war, through Liberty Loans and War
Savings Stamps, and to the humani-
tartan and welfare work, incident to
! the war, through the Red Cross and
j the Y. NJ. c. A, Knights Of Columbus,
lY. w. C. A, the Jewish Welfare
Board, the Salvation Army, War
Camp Community Service, and other
agencies, has been s95,S40,541, a, fnan-
cial burden which has been borne
without hardship by the people, al
| though in some instances involving
patriotic sacrifices, and, undoubtedly,
accomplished only through quicken
ed sense of the obligations of citizen
ship and splendid determination to
| live UP to them in the fullest measure.
/ The war is over and won. Victory
has been achieved and the enemy has
surrendered under the most humiliat-
ing and stringent terms that history
records But it is more than the mere
winning of the war which causes US to
exult and, although millions Of men
, have died and millions more have suf-
! fered permanent invalidisp, to glory
in the final result of the conflict. not
I only between nations of peoples, but
of oppo9ng and irreconciliable ideals.
Civilization has been saved by the
crushing of the Prussian theory that
might is right, and, new era has
been ushered in by the heroic sacrifices
made by the American and their CON-
rade soldiers of the allied armies to
! establish forever that truth and JUS
tice are the essential foundations Of
that which shall prevail as the mighty.
President Wilson has given expression
to our position as We stand on the
threshold of this new era in the world s
history: What the world is now seek
ing to do is to return to paths of duty,
! to turn from the savagry Of injustice
to the dignity of the performance of
duty" Unless we, as people are abe
to consecrate our best efforts, our
highest ideals, our unselfsh endeayors
and orr moral Spiritual and materiai