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VOL. XXV.
EVERY YOUNG MAN
MUST REGISTER
Who Has Reached the Age of
Twenty-One Since June 5,
1917--Heavy Penalties for
Failure to Comply.
The Secretary of War authorizes the
following:
With the signing b.v President Wil
son of the bill and proclamation desig
nating Wednesday, June 5, as the day
on which all men who have reached
the age of 21 since last June 5 shall
register for military service, Provost
Marshal General Crowder’s office im
mediately began preparations for the
enrollment of the men. Instead of us
ing the election machinery as was
done last year. General Crowder will
call upon the local boards. It is be
lieved that their experience during the
past year has peculiarly fitted them to
handle the new registration economical
ly and efficiently.
Gen. Crowder has estimated that
probably three-quarters of a million
men will be added to the American
karmy by the new registration. His
estimate is based oil the fact that al
most 10,000,000 men registered last
srear.5 r ear. This number included all be
tvfeen the ages of 21 and 31, and sta
tistics collected by Gen. Crowders of
fice show that a little more than 10 per
cent of these men were 21 years old.
On that basis it is estimated by draft
that the total registration will
exceed 1,000,000, of which 750,000 will
be available for military service. This
makes proper allowance for physical
defectives, exemptions because of de
pendents, and others barred to military
service.
The law provides that every young
man in the United States who has
reached the age of 21 years since June
5, 1917, or will reach that age on or
before June 5, 1918, must register.
The only exemptions are in the cases
of men who are actually in active mili
tary or naval service. All male per
sons, citizens or aliens, born between
June 5, 1596 and Junfe 5, 1897, inclusive,
I except officers and enlisted men of the
' regular army, navy, and marine corps,
and the national guard and naval mili
tia while in federal service, and officers
in the officers’ reserve corps and enlist
ed men in the Enlisted Reserve Corps
while in active duty, must register.
Some misunderstanding has been
caused by publication of reports that
medical and divinity students need not
register, and Gen. Crowder has issued
the following statement:
“Divinity students and students of
medicine must register. Under the
terms of the law signed by President
Wilson on Monday students who were
preparing for the ministry in recog
nized theological or divinity schools
and students who were preparing for
the practice of medicine and surgery
in recognized medical school on May
20, 1918, are exempt from the draft.
However, the law' does not relieve Such
students from the duty of registering
on Wednesday, June 5, Registration
comes first, exemption afterwards. It
is absolutely necessary that these stu
dents register.”
The registration will be held in the
office of the local board having juris
diction of the area wherein the person
to be registered permanently resides,
or in such other places as by public
notice is designated by the board, be
tween 7 a. m. and 9 p. m. on Wednes
day. June 5, 1918.
It is necessary to go to the registra
tion place in person. Any nnyi who
expects to be absent from home on
Wednesday, June 5, 1918, should go at
once to the office of the local board
where he expects to be and have his
registration card filled out and certi
fied. He must then mail this card to
the office of the local board having
juridiction of the place wherein he
permanently resides, and in view of
the fact that this card must be re
ceived by his home local board on or
before June 5, 1918, it is essential that
anyone who expects to be away from
home on that date arrange for his reg
istration immediately.
Anyone who is sick on June 5 and
unable to present himself in person at
the office of the local board may send
some competent friend, who may be
deputized by the clerk to prepare his
card.
Any person in doubt as to where he
should register should consult the
local board in the place where he per
manently resides, or he may obtain
the desired information from the office
of the mayor if he lives in a city of
30,(XX) population or over, or in the
®k lllinikT fas.
OUR HIGH SCHOOL
COMMENCEMENT
The commencement of the Winder
High School was a success from start
to finish.
Prof. J. P. Cash and his efficient
corps of teachers have done a splendid
year's work and the students have done
the best work in the history of the
school.
Winder High School is now in the
South’s list of accredited schools, and
one more unit lias been added to the
cirriculum.
The exercises commenced at the spa
cious auditorium Sunday morning with
a masterly sermon on “Influence” by
Rev. Graham Forrester, of Montezuma,
which was largely attended. Special
music had been prepared under the
leadership of Miss Tumlin, the popular
and successful music teacher.
Monday morning the high school
girls favored the audience with some
effective choruses, and Dr. Kennedy, of
Erskine College, South Carolina, deliv
ered the annual literary address. All
of our citizens should have heard this
practical and helful, yet wonderfully
deep and effective address. Every pa
tron and pupil should have been pres
ent at the sermon and the address.
Monday night the students gave a
most excellent play to a crowded house,
admission of 10 and 15 cents was
charged and Winder with the real Win
der spirit came to the fore in the great
crowd that packed the spacious audito
rium.
The exercises came to a close Tues
day evening with the graduating exer
cises. Seven of Winder’s finest finished
—two boys and five girls—Messrs. Earl
Kilgore and Ralp Cross, Misses Wilma
Appleby, Hattie Dunnahoo, Ruth Wil
liams, Lucy Turpin and Beulah Fergu-
son.
Misses Beulah Ferguson and Wilma
Appleby tied for first honor.
Hon. W. B. McCants, chairman of
the board of education, delivered the
diplomas to the graduating class, and
Prof. Cash delivered the certificates to
those finishing the grammar school,
one of the largest classes in the hostory
of the school. It is to be hoped that
every member of this tremendously
large class will finish up both high
school and college.
Rev. W. 11. Faust delivered the
prizes offered by the W. C. T. U. for
best articles on prohibition. The first
prize, a thrift card, to Miss Beulah
Ferguson, of the High school. First
prize to graded students to Sara Joe
Roberts.
Honorable mention was made of the
work done by Ruby Woodruff and
Robin Brooksher.
Prof. Cash in a touching speech
closed the exercises of 1918. The music
by the band led by Prof. Barber, and
the orchestra led by Prof. Cooper add
ed much to the pleasure of the com
mencement.
The graduating class had charge of
the exercises Tuesday evening, and an
excellent program was the result —in
fact one of the best of all the good ones
given in the Winder High School.
Following is a list of those who have
finished their course at Winder High
and who received diplomas from that
institution Tuesday night:
Misses Hattie Dunnahoo, Beulah
Ferguson, Ruth Williams, Lucy Tur
pin, Wilma Appleby, Messrs. Earl Kil
gore and Ralph Cross.
MR. R. W. HAYNIE ILL.
The many friends of Mr. R. W. Hay
nie, of Chandler’s district, will learn
with regret of his serious illness.
While visiting near Watkinsville last
Sunday he was sdddenly stricken, and
his relatives and friends are anxious
over his condition.
A local physician rendered first aid
assistance and Drs. Ross and Almond,
of Winder, were called, and Monday
they brought him to his home in Bar
row county.
He is still in a precarious condition
and an operation may be necessary be
fore relief is had.
office of the county clerk or parish
clerk if he does not live in a city of
30,000.
It is not anticipated that many will
be delinquent. It is hoped that none
will be, but for those who do fail to
perform their duty congress has pro
vided a very heavy penalty. Failure to
register on June 5 constitutes a misde
meanor punishable by imprisonment for
one year, and may result, furthermore,
in the loss of valuable rights and priv
ileges and immediate induction into
military service.
OFFICIAL ORGAN' OF HARROW COUNTY
Winder, Barrow County, Ga., Thursday, May 30, 1918.
GERMANS DRIVE FIFTEEN MILE
WEDGE ACROSS THE RIVER VESLE
RESERVES OF ALLIES
ARE RUSHED TO STOP
PROGRESS OF ENEMY
British and French Yielding Slowly Be
fore Superior Numbers, But Re
tire in Order.
Paris, May 29. —“The German ad
vance at certain points on the Aisne
front has reached a depth of 15 1-2
miles,” the Echo de Paris declared to
day.
There has been no let up as yet in
the German drive south from the Aisne
and both the French and British have
been forced to give further ground.
Confidence is expressed in Paris, how
ever, that the allied reserves, now rap
idly coming up, will shortly turn the
scale and stop the enemy’s advance.
Apparently the Germans are already
being held in the center of their ad
vance, along the Vesle river, in the
vicinity of Fismes, where the point of
the German wedge has been thrust.
The pressure on both the allied flanks,
however, has been such that both have
been compelled to fall back.
On the west the French lines have
been withdrawn to the easterly out
skirts of. Soissons, which town is about
seven miles south of the nearest point
of the battle line, as it existed before
the new German drive was begun on
Monday. This considerably broadens
to the west the front on which the en
emy is advancing.
On the east the Franco-British line
has been pulled back from St. Thierry,
northwest of Rheims, where it rested
yesterday, to the heights south and
southwest of that town. This also has
the effect of widening out the front of
the enemy thrust.
The bringing of Soissons into the
battle area may indicate that the
weight of the German blow has been
shifted in this southwesterly direction,
and is being exerted along the railway
that leads to Paris from that town.
The possibility of the trend of the en
emy push being turned in this
direction has been forecast by the com
mentators.
Around Fismes, about half way be
tween Soissons and Rheims, and the
center of important allied communica
tions, a desperate battle is being
fought. Berlin cliams the Germans
have crossed the Vesle on either side
of Fismes, but the French are in the
town and are holding it stubbornly
while the reserves come up.
Overwhelming numbers enabled the
Germans in their first attack to pene
trate the allied lines to beyond the
Aisne and capture more than half a
score of villages and 15,000 prisoners.
As in the offensive in Picrady and
Flanders, the enemy advance has as
sumed the form of a blunt-nosed wedge
with its apex less thun three mile's in
width, lying between Bazoches and Fis
mes.
Notwithstanding their successes in
pushing the allies from the Chemin des
Dames and the heights of Craonne to
beyond the Aisne and into territory un
touched by fighting since early in the
war, the enemy has not succeeded in
widening the “elbow” about Monrdi
dier nor in changing the allied line in
Champagne, east of Rheims. Direct
highway and railroad communication
between Soissons and Rheims has been
broken by the Germans, but neither
of these shell-devasted cities appears
to be in immediate danger.
Observers state that forty-eight
hours more will probably witness the
halting of the forces of the German
crown prince. The French reserves are
moving forward swiftly and General
Foch has the situation well in hand.
“TUSCANIA HERO” IS
TAKEN AS DESERTER
Baxley, Ga., May 29 Lee Beecher is
in jail in Baxley, charged with being
a deserter from the army. He was ar
rested by Sheriff It. L. Overstreet in
Toombs county while plowing in a field.
Beecher had had the report circulated
that he was drowned when the Tus
eania was torpedoed, and many people
thought he had died the death of a
hero. He will be taken to Camp
Wheeler by the sheriff and court- mar-
Ualed.
Mrs. Georgia Harris and children,
Clair and Gladys, went to Athens Wed
nesday to be present at the commence
ment exercises of 8. N. S., at which
time Miss Sadie Harris received her
diploma.
182 PRISONERS ARE
TAKEN BY OUR MEN
IN BRILLIANT DRIVE
Huns Are So Anxious to Surrender
That One Group Offered to Give
I’p to Newspaper Man.
With the American Army in Picardy,
May 29. —An instance of the Boclie
anxiety to surrender in the Cantigny
battle was furnished when a group of
twenty offered to surrender to an un
armed newspaper correspondent.
“Jimmie” Hopper, famous magazine
writer, went over the top with the
Americans. As he was entering Cantig
ny, a crowd of Germans rushed at him,
begging to be taken prisoner.
Hopper was nonplused, but called to
an officer.
An American regiment attacking the
German positions west of Montdidier
Tuesday morning captured the village
of Cantigny, penetrated to the enemy's
second line and occupied the Boche po
sitions on a front of two kilometers
(1.242 miles) all in 45 minutes. (An
American regiment consists of 3,052
men and 125 officers.)
The attack followed violent artillery
preparation.
The Americans charged across 600
meters (nearly half a mile), of No
Man’s Land in 10 minutes, capturing a
German machine gun position with the
use of hand grenades.
French tanks, advancing simultane
ously with the American infantry, de
stroyed machine gun nests along the
Grivesnes road, northwest of Cantigny.
The Americans captured the houses
in the village and finally stormed the
chateau. They then penetrated the en
emy second line along the northern end
of the village. The entire operation
consumed only 45 minutes.
The final count of German prisoners
taken in the capture of Cantigny by
the Americans this morning was 182,
including five officers.
American airmen within the last 24
hours have brought down three German
biplanes and have driven down two
others. The fate of one of the latter
is uncertain but the other crashed
down, apparently out of control.
Lieutenant Eddie Rickenbacker got
three of these victims, including one of
those that were driven down.
Lieutenant Andrew Campbell, of Chi
cago, former member fo the LaFayette
Escadrille brought one enemy machine
down in flames Monday morning.
Monday night five American planes
engaged two German biplanes, shoot
ing one down and forcing down anoth
er.
TWO GENERALS TAKEN
IN LATEST HUN DRIVE
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In their violent attacks on the 35-
mile battle front running from Sois
sons eastward to the region northwest
of Rheims, the German armies are con
tinuing to force back the British and
French forces on nearly every sector.
The fortified tow r n of Soissons, the
extreme loft flank of the allied battle
line, has been occupied by the enemy,
although the French are still holding
tenaciously to its western environs,
through which emerge the railw'ay lines
leading to Baris and Compeigne.
According to the German official
communication over 25,000 prisoners,
among them a French and British gen
eral, have been taken and numerous
additional towns anil vantage points all
along the front have been captured.
Seeminly Rheims, like Soissons, also
is doomed to fall into the hands of
the enemy, as the French war office
reports that the troops covering the
famous cathedral town, which almost
daily for several years has been the
target for shells of hate from the Ger
man guns, have been withdrawn be
hind the Aisne canal northwest of the
town.
MORE THAN DOUBLED
BARROW COUNTY’S QUOTA
The drive in Barrow County for the
ocond Red Cross War Relief fund,
headed by Mr. C. M. Ferguson, closed
last Monday night. The figures given
to the press shows that the county
more than doubled the amount asked
for—sl,(MX).
The figures furnished The News
Thursday morning by Mr. Ferguson
was $2,600.
Mr. L. A. Fortson is Alabama on
business.
16 MEET DEATH
IN ASYLUM FIRE
Columbia, S. C. f May 29.—Sixteen
white male patients at the South Caro
lina hospital for the insane have per
ished in a fire which destroyed the one
story frame building on the hospital
grounds this morning shortly after 3
o'clock. Fifteen of the number were
burned to death in the building, hav
ing run back into the burning structure
after they had been taken to a place of
safety by rescuers. The other dead
man was recued from the building a
second time but not until after he had
received injuries from which he died a
few hours later. Four other patients
are more or less seriously injured.
There were forty-five patients sleep
ing in the ward and the greatest diffi
culty was experienced in saving them.
The building was a very old one and
proved an easy prey to the flames,
which spread so rapidly that by the
time the fire department reached the
scene the building was doomed.
Hospital authorities stated that every
patient in the war was removed, but
that most of them ran back into the
burning building. Efforts of the nurses
and attendants to hold all of them back
proved unavailing.
U. S. DAILY SENDING
NEARLY AS MANY AS
GERMANS CAPTURED
Figures are valuable or have mean
ing only by comparison. The German
announcement of the capture of 15,000
allied troops by the end of the second
day of their renewed offensive in
France sounds fairly formidable at
first. -On second thought it must be
realized, however, that 15,000 men cut
very little figure in this war on either
side, and that the total is slightly
larger than the number of .American
troops which W'ere sailing from our
shores daily some weeks ago, accord
ing to official figures.
MR. GEORGE W. O’KELLY
BURIED HERE FRIDAY
Last Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock
from the residence of his daughter,
Mrs. Strickland, on New Street, oc
curred the funeral services of Mr. Geo.
W. O’Kelly.
The deceased w'as born in Madison
county in the early ’so’s and while a
lad moved to Jackson county, Com
merce, where he resided until the last
few years.
His death occurred at the home of
his daughter near Arnoldsville in Ogle
thorpe county, and the remains were
brought here for interment.
The funeral services were conducted
by Rev. W. H. Faust, assisted by Rev.
John H. Mashburn.
Mr. O'Kelly was a splendid citizen,
and for nearly a half century was a
prominent Odd Fellow, which orgnai
zation was represented largely in the
funeral services, members being pres
ent from the Winder and Commerce
lodges.
His wife and daughters, together
with a host of friends mourn the loss
of this good man.
RED CROSS WORK ROOM.
The Red Cross work room will be
open on Tuesdays and Wednesdays of
each week. MesdameS Strange, Ross,
Mllliken and Williamson will have
charge of the room.
If we are to be successful in this
most important work, every woman
must givea few hours of each week to
the task. Don’t wait to be called or in
vited. This work is open to all, and if
Is a duty you owe to the boys in kha
ki to help all you can. It is our work;
it is your work, and you should be
glad to have a part.—Executive Com
mittee Winder Chapter.
GOING TO WASHINGTON.
Edwin Starr and Keith Quarterman
will leave tonight for Washington, 1).
C. to accept positions in the govern
ment printing department. These posi
tions were secured for these young men
by Hon. Thos. M. Bell.
Georgia Highway Projects Approved.
Washington, I). C., May 29.—Approv
al of a number of Georgia highway
plans was anounced today by the de
partment of agriculture with whose of
ficials Judge T. E. Patterson, chairman
of the state highway commission, and
memliers of the Georgia delegation
have been in conference.
COUNTY FOOD
ADMINISTRATOR
Calls Mass Meeting of Citizens
at Barrow County Court
House for June 3, to Dis
cuss Food Prices.
The federal food administration has
promulgated another rule affecting ev
ery county in the United States. This
order requires tin* publication weekly
of what is known as “fair price” at
which articles of food are to be sold.
In order that we make the right
start at this work we want a meeting
at the court house Monday, June 3,
1918, at 10 o'clock a. m.
To this meeting everybody is invited,
and the following are urged to be pres
ent :
First, the editors of all newspapers
in the county.
Second, a representative from every
grocery jobbing house.
Third, a representative from all gro
cery merchants—at least as many as
six from Winder, four from Statham,
three from Auburn, two from Bethle
hem and one from Carl. Each town
may elect their own delegates. Let
someone be from the big supply stores
and some from the small fancy gro
cery stores. Still, it would be prefera
ble for all to attend.
Fourth, a representative from the
Red Gross chapter of each community,
a representative from the Council of
Defense ns well as from every other
organization in Barrow county that is
interested in winning the war.
Fifth, all assistants and representa
tives of the county food administrator
of the county.
The above are urged to be present
and a cordial invitation is extended to
every one to attend.
Remember the date, Monday, June 3,
1918, 10 o’clock a. m.
G. W. WOODRUFF,
Federal Food Administrator for Bar
row County.
ROOSTERS ARE COSTING
GEORGIA S9OO PER DAY
Nine hundred dollars a day is the
loss to Georgia by raising roosters.
The state department of agriculture
is entering into a good egg educational
campaign, through the pure food and
drug division, and begins with the fol
lowing notice:
“Notice to producers and dealers in
eggs: Both the state and United States
pure food laws read as follws:
“‘An article shall be deemed to be
adulterated if it consists in whole or
in part of a filthy, decomposed or pu
trid substance.’
“A bad egg is a putrid substance anil
its sale is illegal. Every egg sold or
shipped must be fit for human food.
“Georgia pays S9OO every day in the
year for bad eggs. This entire amount
can be saved by proper handling. We
need the food and can use tha money.”
GERMANS ( LAIN MANY TOWNS
AND 15,000 ALLIED PRISONERS
Berlin, May 28. (Via London) —The
official report from headquarters says
that up to the persent 15,000 allied pris
oners have been taken.
“The attuck of the German crown
prince south of Loan,” says the official
report, “completely defeated the French
and English divisions stationed there.
“Early this morning Pinion, Chavig
non, Fort Malmaison, Courteson, Ferny,
Winterberg, Craonne, Villeberg and
fortified works near Berry-au-Bac were
taken by storm.
“In the afternoon Vailly was taken.
Between Vailly and Bairiux we recall
ed the heights due north of the Vesle.
“The eaemy was thrown out of
strong positions between Sapigneul and
Brimont and hack across the Aisne-
Marne canal, t'ormichy, Cauroy and
Loivre were taken by storm.”
PRICES ARE TO BE FIXED
ON COTTON PE ICE GOODS
Washington, May 29.—A special com
mittee of cotton goods manufacturers
met the price fixing committees of the
war industries hoard today to present
preliminary cost figures to faciliate
the work of the price-fixing committee
in arriving at a fair price for cotton
piece goods.
The government, it was intimated to
day, may take over control of cotton
goods, as it did in the case of wool,
naming John Scott, of Chicago, as tex
tile administrator.
NO. 9.