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ESTABLISHED 1844 The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, S. C. q o Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. tl . e The Press and Banner Co. " Published Every Tuesday and Friday Telephone No. 10. ^ ' o Entered as second-class mail mat- v ter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. n . p T?Mn? of Suhacriotion: II One year $1.50 v Six months .75 ^ Three months .50 ^ Payable invariably in advance. t FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1918 p h THE LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE. New life has been given the Liber- 0 Q ty Loan I>rive in Abbeville, and the tl chances that we will go over the top are very much better than before Wednesday. On Tuesday afternoon I v Mr. Lander of the Calhoun Mills,0 telephoned Chairman Barnwell thatj he had read The Press and Banner! s s and, in order to stimulate interest in the movement in this county, his mill , desired to increase its subscription ^ ^ from twenty-five to fifty thousand dollars. * h Wednesday morning Messrs. J. L. ^ McMillan, J. S. Stark and S. H. Ros-jv enberg began a new canvass of the business section of the city. Before j( doing so each made a new subscript c tion for himself. Mr. Sol. H. Rosenberg, on behalf j q of his corporation, The Rosenberg, ^ Mercantile Company, subscribed for!f $11,000, and in order to make it ? tion surrounding us to t^ke 60% of c< the amount allotted to the county, j tl or $360,000. We should make the si amount $400,000, which will mean p that the remainder of the county! d must raise at least $200,000. With, the subscription of the Calhoun Mills r< to assist them, they should be able ri to do this without any great effort, a It is expected that more than this B amount will be taken by them. ' tl The remaining $150,000 which we is are to raise will not be raised as tl easily as the $250,000 now in sight,! e but it will be forth-coming if the j tl work proceeds. There is no way to j get it except to thoroughly organize; ti the working forces, divide the whole1 n force into squads, and to send one'u squad into a certain territory and tl other squads into other sections, so j tl that the whole community may be 11 thoroughly combed, and every man j n brought face to face with the im-: ti perative duty of assisting the coun-js; try in the most momentous period of n the world's history. c Abbeville expects every man to do tl his duty. s! \ even numbers he took $1,000 in his^ own name, although he might have j v rested on the subscription of his j business. Mr. and Mrs. Philip j ^ Rosenberg, subscribed for $6,000,! j, and other members of the family: s made subscriptions, bringing the to- j v tal to more than $20,000, which was t the amount The Press and Banner. ^ believed they would take. The Ros- J t enbergs and Visanskas have never r failed Abbeville when the city need-'0 ed assistance. Uncle Jim sat down and wrote out ( his card for $10,000 and asked no-'j body any questions. Mr. McMillan im-; a mediately subscribed for $5,000, n while Mess. W. M. Barnwell and J. 0 Foster Barnwell, each, took a like a amount. Mr. A. M. Smith did theJ t right thing when he put his signature j 2 to a card for $10,000 showing the! a committee that his heart is in the J right place. J. Allen Smith, Jr., andjp E. R. Thomson each, asked for $5,-|0 000 as did J. R. Gienn, W. H. White !g and others. At the noon hour the a ! increased subscriptions amounted to j 0 over $115,000. Several members of | i> the five thousand dollar class had| not been seen, and other large sub-'j acriptions are expected. The Abbe-j ville Cotton Mill has indicated its] purpose to take $25,000, but v has[ been asked by the committee to|w make the subscription $50,000. j tl Should it decide to do so the total i tl subscriptions in Abbeville and vicin-' c ity will amount to something like c< $250,000. That all sounds mighty well. But|b it will not do to rest on what has r< been done. If the county is to go d over the top, it will be necessary ;L for this city and the immediate sec-;tl ' I A COMMITTEE OF SAFETY. I While the work of raising our uota o.f the liberty Loan is going n we must not lose sight of the fact lat people are falling sick from the pidemic in our midst, and that it is levitable that whole families will be tricken, that people will sicken and ie without the care and comfort tiey should have, unless the people f the city are prepared to keep up rith every home where the disease lakes its appearance, and are preared to succor those who need help. Already the d^ath toll has comlenced. It has /come into a home rhere the wife lay sick, as did all he children, e::cept one. The other indred of this family were already tricken with a great grief, and some hemselves were suffering from the revailing malady. Other homes ave been visited and every ableodied person in the home has been ? _ t_ ?1 iiL ? A orced to taKe to a sick Dea. wiui iw ne to even measure out the- mecHines which are necessary to fight he plague. It will not do for those who are rell and strong to be unmindful of thers. It will not do for those who re stricken to think only of themelves and their hard lot. The mesenger of death must be kept out, l the efforts of this community may eep him out; but if he must enter h.e homes of our people, let us pr^y hat as he enters to call the father e may not find the mother and chilren stricken too, without care, and rith only thte pallid faces of fifteen ear old girls, with signs of sleep2ss nights, and hours of patient are, to meet him. We need very much just now a !ommittee of Safety which will make ' its business in Icppti in tourh with he doctors, and with the homes /here there is sickness, in order hat help may be sent to those places /here it is needed. It is work which only women may ;o rightly. Some of those who have ?een busy the last few days in asisting with the Liberty Loan drive irould be glad, we believe, to allow he men to complete this work, and o take up the work of caring for heir neighbors and friends who are leeding the care and the touch which mly a woman's hands will bring. Mrs. T. Gordon White, Mrs. M. T. Coleman, Mrs. J. L. McMillan, Mrs. '. C. Ellis, and numbers of others ,re capable of serving on a committee such as we have in mind and >f doing a great work for the sick nd suffering in this community. If he members of the City Council will ,sk them, they will take up the work nd do it as it should be done. Man's inhumanitv to man has no lace in Abbeville today. The men f the community will give these :ood women all the financial assistnce they need if they will only take ver this phase of the change which 3 upon all of us. A MATTER OF CREDIT. It is not surprising that people rho have money to loan, and who are fiemselves patriotic, begin to doubt he financial standing and moral seurity of people who do not help the ountry in its time of need. The Board of Trustees of the Abeville School District has adopted as esolution to invest five thousand! ollars in the bonds of the Fourth iberty Loan, and in order to raise le money, if necessary, it is to be oliected from those people owing le sinking fund who have failed to ibscrioe to this loan, unless these eople can satisfy the agents of the ist.rict that they are unable to do so. Men who are accustomed io bor* jw money from the banks for va-j ious purposes, and who have money, nd who refuse to take Liberty londs need not be surprised when ley apply hereafter if the inquiry i made as to the number of bonds ley own, nor need they be surpris-j d if they are turned down when| ley have refused to subscribe. Some people do not believe that a| ix dodger is honest, because taxes lust run the government under 'hich we live, and every man owes tie duty to do his share if it is only be widow's mite that he contributes, "he call of the government for loney from the people of this counry is as binding a charge, morally peaking, as the call for taxes. No lan who refuses to do his part can laim to be as good a moral risk as he man who does his. A man who hirks a plain duty has not the stand ing of one who performs his duty. Therefore, we say that we shall not be surprised as time goes on if the patriots of this country are first served by the banking institutions and every other institution in this country. The people have their eyes on the slackers. AUTOCRACY MUST GO DECLARES WILSON (Continued from Page One.) provide absolutely satisfactory safeguard and guarantees of the maintenance of the present military supremacy of the armies of the United States and the allies in the field. "He feels confident that he can safely assume that this will also be the judgment and decision of the allies' governments. "The president feels that it is also j his duty to add that neither the govj ernment of the United States nor, I he is quite sure the governments with i which the government of the United i .... , i I States is associated as a belligerent, j will consent to consider an armistice so long as the armed forces of Ger! many continue the illegal and inhut mane practices which they still persist in. "At the very time that the German government approaches the government of the United States with proposals of pei.ce its submarines are engaged in sinking passenger ships at sea and not the phips alone, but | tjie very boats in which their passengers and crews seek to make their way to safety, and in their present enforced withdrawal from Flanders and France the German armies are pursuing a course of wanton destruc ticyi which has always been regarded as in direct violation of the rules and practices of civilized warfare. Cities and villages, if not destroyed, are being stripped of all they contain, not only, but often of their very inhabitants. * "The natiqns associated against Germany can not be expected tc agree to a cessation of war while acts of inhumanity, spoliation anc desolation are beiner continued whifck they justly look upon with horroi and with burning hearts. "It is necessary, also in order thai there may be no possibility of misunderstanding that the presidenl should very solemnly call the attention of the government of Germans to the language and plain intent oi j one of the terms of peace which the ' German government has now accepted. It is contained in the address oi the president delivered at Mounl Vernon on the Fourt of July, last. "It is as follows: " 'The destruction of every arbitrary power anywhere that can separately, secretly and of its single choice, disturb the peace of the world or if it can not be presently destroyed, at least its reduction to virtual impotency.^ " "The power which has hitherto controlled the Greman nation is of the sort here described. It is within the choice of the German nation to alter it. The president's words just quoted naturally constitute a condition precedent to peace, if peace is to come by the action .of the' German people themselves. The presi, dent feels bound to say that the whole process of peace will, in his I judgment, depend upon the definitej ness and the satisfactory character of the guarantees which can be given in this fundamental matter. It is indispensable that the governments associated against Germany should know beyond a peradventure with whom they are dealing. "The president will make a separate reply to the royal and imperial government of Austria-Hungary. "Accept, sir, the renewed assurances of my high consideration." (Signed) "Robert Lansing." Frederick Odelin, Charge d'Affaires, ad interim, in l iiai^c ui vjrci liic'.ii uitcicsid 111 ? the United States. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Dr. J. E. Pressly takes this means of notifying all his patients and creditors that he has been called to the service, and will leave Abbeville on October 23rd. In order to straighten out his own obligations, it is necessary that he ask those persons who are indebted to him to settle before he leaves. Money may be left for him at The McMurray Drug Company in his absence, and a receipt may be had there. He will appreciate the prompt attention of all persons concerned. J. E. PRESSLY, M. D. 2,000,000 AMERICANS ARE OVERSEAS SAYS GEN. MARCH Allies Now Within 14 Miles of Aulnoyc, Junction Pofat of Two Chief Artrie* of Communication. Washington, Oct. 11.?America has now nearly reached 2,000,000 in troop shipments over here, General March anounced today. More than 1,900,000 men are now in Europe, March said, and shipments are continuing. To assure victory the war department changed the draft ages so that 2,000,000 men might reach soon as possible and is asking more money for supplies and ordnance. The capture of Le Cateau by the British, March pointed out, bring3 thej Allied forces to within 11 miles of! the most stategic town of Aulnoye?| the great junction point of two rail-i roads comprising the Chief artery of communisation of the German forces in France and Belgium. An advance of a few more miles, he said, will put this point under com-' mand of the allied guns . The enemy's resistance in the Le Cateau region is shattered and con-j stant pressure of the allied forces is keeping the Germans constantly on the go, March declared. In the north the British are 12 miles from Valenciennes and communication with Douai are threatened. J From July 13th to September 13th they captured 248,494 men, 3,699 ; guns and vast quantities of other i weapons. March located specific units as fol-' lows: 91st division in the training area i in France. Deleware troops contained in the 78 division have been le, cently reported on the line, exact Io-1 cation unknown. 329 infantry and > the 83rd are in the training area in( France. 147 is in the Vosges on the line. Third division, composed of ,|the 4th, 7th, 30th infantry, and the ,j 10th, 8th and 76th field artillery was [ reported in the Marne attack. The , 2nd pioneer infantry, the 320th field . artillery and the 82nd division were reported east of the Argonne on Oct tober 7th. t- FINAL FIGURES SHOW J BIG REGISTRATION r! ?r. [ Nearly Thirteen Million Enrolled in > September, Making Grand Total of Twenty-Three Million. Washington, Oct. 15.?Final returns from all States show that 12,966,594 men registered for military service September 12. This was " 187,836 in excess of the estimate of 12,778,758 made by the office of Pro' vost Marshal General Crowder, based on census figures. j The total announced today does not include registrations received by mail by local boards after September . 12 nor delayed enrollments by men who were absent from the country ^ that day. Including such cases it is believed the actual figures will be still further increased by the registration in Alaska, Puerto Rico and Hawaii, which are to be held on later dates recently fixed by the president. With the figures compiled today, ! the total number of men who have ! been registered since the United ! States entered the war is 23,456,021. Classification by local boards of j men of the new draft registration ! have been so rapid that questionaires ! soon will be sent youths of 18 and | men between 37 and 46 years of age. j Reports today showed that 555 local j boards, out of 4,543 in the United j States had classified registrants be| tween 19 and 37. Bob Wilson (the Wolf,) the acj commodating delivery-man for Bowj den-Simpson Drug Co., is a victim ' of the prevailing malady, which aci counts for the medicines getting j there late from this store. STATEMENT OF THE OWNERcuid man Af.FMFVT riRril. j LATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912, Of Abbeville Press and Banner, nnhlished semi-weekly at Abbeville, i S. S., for October 1, 1918. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Abbeville. Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared Wm. P. Greene, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he i? j . is the editor of the Abbeville Pres and Banner and that the followini is, to the best of his knowledge an belief, a true statement of the own ership, management, etc., of th aforesaid publication for the dat shown in the above caption, require by the Act of August 24, 1912, era bodied in section 443, Postal La'w and Regulations, printed on the r< fAMA 4-Vi-ta Af T?nf VCIOC VI bins IVlllly VV YTAWi 1. That the names and addresse of the publisher, editor, managin editor, and business managers art Publisher, The Press and Banne Co., Abbeville, S. C., Editor, Wm. I Greene, Abbeville, S. C., Managin Editor, none, Business Manager Wm. P. Greene, Abbeville, S. C. 2. That the owners are: Wm. I Greene, Stockholder, Abbeville, S. ( 3. That the known bondholder: mortgagees, and other security hole ers owning or holding 1 per cent, c more of total amount of bonds, mor gages, or other securities are: Dot son Printers Supply Co., Atlanta, Gi Mergenthaler Linotype Co., Ne' York. 2. That the two paragraphs nej above, giving the names of the owi ers, stockholders, and security holt ers, if any, contain not only the lis of stockholders and security holdei as they appear upon the books of th company but also, in cases where th stockholder or security holder a] pears upon the books of the con pany as trustee or in any other fid\ ciary relation, the name of the pe: son or corporation for whom sue trustee is acting, is given; also tin the said two paragraphs, contain statements embracing affiant's fvj knowledge and belief as to the cr cumstances and conditions und< which stockholders and security hol< fwSL&| uauxo KY TVS L UMITED ftTATBS I jXrVMLKMEHT j I rncviM HIV3IV11Y COLLEC Has oom for addit: bers. r ' / At least 12 units are Young men having bring up work and examination. Certi accredited big] Members can be ini 21st. For further inform; J. S. MOF Due W ; - 1 Fagged Out Vinol is W If all the tired, overwo: this community could Vinol, which contains ] tones. 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