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VOLUME III.
ALLIES TAKE OVER
5,000 GERMANS
OPERATIONS RESULTED IN GAIN
ING STRATEGIC POINTS AND IN
INFLICTING HEAVY LOSSES
ALLIED AIR JIGHTERS BUSY
One Hundred And Seventy-Three Ger¬
man Planes Downed — Thirty-Six
British Machines Missing
London.—During the week the en¬
tente allies on the western front have
taken more than five thousand pris¬
oners. A series of minor operations
also resulted in their gaining posses¬
sion of several important strategic
points, inflicting heavy losses on the
enemy and obtaining valuable infor¬
mation as to his plans for the immedi¬
ate future.
Another satisfactory feature of the
operations is the work of the allies in
the air. Great damage was done by
the aviators to German communica¬
tions and concentrations of men and
material behind the lines. The supe¬
riority of the entente air fighters is
shown by the fact that during the week
on the British front alone one hundred
and seventy-three German airplanes
were downed, while only 36 British
machines are missing.
The British military reports for the
week pay a high tribute to the work
of the Americans at Vaux and on the
Somme, declaring that the American
soldiers have shown the highest fight¬
ing qualities, while their staff work
has been excellent.
REBELLION MENACES THE
BRITISH IN SOUTH AFRICA
Premier Botha Takes Measures To
Stop Trouble—German Propaganda
At Work To Stir Up Confusion
Pretoria, South Africa.—Premier Bo¬
tha of the Union of South Africa has
issued a statement showing that seri¬
ous unrest exists in South Africa and
military measures are being taken to
cope .with the situation.
Premier Botha said that had not
prompt and effective military meas¬
ures been taken the situation would
have culminated in a grave disturb¬
ance and probably serious loss of life.
The Boer leader added that the gov¬
ernment had information pointing to
the existence of ti movement having
for its object the subversion of the
constitution by violent methods.
Continuing, Premier Botha, in his
statement, says:
“There is good reason for suspect¬
ing that enemy agencies are at work
in this country and that they are in¬
triguing to stir up strife not only
among Europeans but also among the
natives, and no means or matters are
deemed too despicable so long as they
can attain their object.”
UNITED STATES CORPORATION
IS URGED TO HANDLE SALE
OF COTTON AT FIXED PRICE
Priority Order Regarding Transporta¬
tion Of Cotton May Be Granted
By R. R. Administration
New Orleans.—Establishment by the
government of a cor^Dration to be
known as the United States Cotton
Corporation, with power to buy for the
account of the United States govern¬
ment such cotton as may be offered
for sale without other available buyers
at a price to be fixed now by Presi¬
dent Wilson, will be recommended to
congress by a special committee con¬
sisting of one banker and one cotton
producers from each of the states of
the cotton belt.
Resolutions to this effect have been
passed at a conference of cotton states
bankers and producers. Members of
the committee were immediately ap¬
pointed. the
The conference recommended to
railroad administration that the pri¬
ority committee be instructed to grant
a priority order in regard to the trans¬
portation of cotton.
Indorsement was given a senate bill
now pending before congress which
would amend the national banking
laws so as to allow, in the discre¬
tion of the federal reserve board,
hanks to lend not more than fifty per
cent of their capital to a cotton grow¬
er providin gthe staple is offered as
security.
Army Transport Sent To The Bottom
Washington—The United States
army transport 'Covington, homeward
bound with a fleet of troop ships con¬
voyed by American destroyers, was
torpedoed in the war zone, and sank
night and sank the next day while an
while an effort was being made to tow
Tier to port. Six of the crew are miss¬
ing, but the others with officers were
landed at a French port. No soldiers
or passengers were aboard. The Cov¬
ington was the first American trans¬
port to be sunk while in convoy.
TIMES-COURIER
GERMANY TOJtULE POUND
Will Limit The Polish Army To Nine¬
ty Million Men—German Mark
To Be Official Money
Washington.—Germany proposes to
settle the Polish question by virtual
subjugation of Poland, says an offi¬
cial dispatch from Switzerland, quot¬
ing the semi-official Augsberger Abend
Zeitung. The aims of the German gov¬
ernment are summed up by the news¬
papers as follows:
First. The frontier of Poland will
be determined definitely by the Ger¬
man command.
Second. The Polish army will not
go beyond 90,000 men, and every at¬
tempt at new armament will be con¬
sidered as a casus belli.
Third. The central powers will en¬
joy for 50 years in Poland the treat¬
ment of the most favored nation.
Fourth. The German mark will be
for 50 years the only Polish money
having an invariable legal tender.
Fifth. The Polish government will
accept all inhabitants of Poland for
public function without distinction as
to religion. This course is meant to
prevent the exclusion of pro-Germans
and Jews.
Sixth. The right to assemble and
complete freedom of the press will be
assured to subjects of the powers.
Seventh. The Polish authorities will
be obliged to support a German school
in every town or village where live
more than ten German-speaking chil.
dren.
Eighth. The subjects of the central
powers will in no case be judged by
Polish rtibunals, but will depend en¬
tirely upon their own consular juris¬
diction.
JULY FOURTH MOST
SIGNIFICANT SINCE THE
FIRST FOURTH IN 1776
Observed As Never Before—Not Only
National But International
Holiday
Washington.—American Independ¬
ence Day was observed as never be¬
fore. While the people of the United
States were gathering to celebrate forty-two the
signing one hundred and
years ago of the Declaration of Free¬
dom, exercises were held in Great
Britain, in France, in Italy and In
other lands to commemorate the birth
•of American Liberty to the defense
of which the nation already has sent
a million men overseas.
In this country the day was the oc¬
casion of a renewal of allegiance by
the foreign-horn and President Wilson
was the honor guest of a committee
representing thirty nationalities on a
pilgrimage to the home and tomb of
George Washington. The president de¬
livered an address which was read
simultaneously with demonstrations
throughout the country and which was
cabled for reading and publication in
foreign lands.
Patriotic celebrations were arranged
in virtually every city and town in the
country in which native-born and for¬
eign-born joined, while the day was
made a gala one at all army and navy
training camps and stations. No small
part of the day’s celebration was the
launching on the Atlantic, Gulf and
Pacific coasts of one hundred mer¬
chant ships and fourteen torpedo boat
destroyers to challenge the German
sea wolves.
553 SHORT LINE ROADS
KEPT BY GOVERNMENT
Washington.—The railroad adminis¬
tration announces that 553 short line
railroads have been retained
government control. All employees
of these lines will receive the wage
awards to employees of the steam
roads and owners will be compensated
under the general contract.
Control of approximately 1,300 short
lines, terminal roads and main line
feeders finally has been relinquished
by the railroad administration, which
was given until July 1, by the original
railroad control act, to turn back to
private ownership roads, operation of
which by the government was not re¬
garded as essential.
In the meantime congress passed a
joint resolution extending the time for
turning back the roads to January 1,
and providing that control of short
lines should not be relinquished while
connections or competing lines were
continued under government control.
Some senators have contended that
Freedom Stronger Than The Krupps
New York.—The ideals of freedom
and justice, enforced by the willing¬
ness To sacrifice of 21 nations, are
sronger than all the batteries of
Krupp, all the aircraft of Zepplin.
all the strategy of Hindenburg, and
more invincible than all the undersea
assassins of Von Tirpitz, Secretary
Daniels declared in an Independence
day address at the City College sta¬
dium. It was the naval secretary’s
second speech of the day In connec¬
tion with New York celebration of
the Fourth of July,
Push For Prosperity—Give Us-a Pull”
EIiIilJAY, CxA., FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1918.
OVER MILLION MEN
ARENOWOVERSEAS
FIGURES GIVEN TO INCREASE
ZEST ON INDEPENDENCE
DAY, JULY 4
AMERICA IS AHEAD OF TIME
Substantially Thirty Divisions Ready*
To Meet. Whatever Move The
Germans Have To Offer
Washington.—American . troops sent
overseas numbered 1,019,115 on tha
first day of July.
This was made known by President
Wilson, who gave to the public a let¬
ter from Secretary Baker, disclosing
a record of achievement which the
president said “must cause universal
satisfaction” and which “will give ad¬
ditional zest to our national celebra¬
tion of the Fourth of July.’’
The first units—non-combatant—left
American shores on May S, 1917. Gen¬
eral Pershing followed twelve days
later, and at the end of the month
1,718 men tad started for the battle¬
fields of France. June saw this num¬
ber Increased by 13,261 and thereafter
khaki-clad “crusaders'’ from the west-,
era republic flowed overseas in a
steady stream until upwards of three
hundred thousand had departed when
the great German thrust began last
March.
President Wilson’s determination to
meet Germany's supreme efforts with
the utmost of America’s available man¬
power to assist the desperate resist¬
ing French and British armies is
sharply reflected in the movements of
troops during the last three months.
The March sailings of 8,811 were in¬
creased in April to 117,212. May saw
another 244,345 men embark and last
month 276,372 were sent away, mak¬
ing a total for the three months of
637,929. This, Secretary Baker said
later, put the troop movement six
months ahead of the original program.
Substantially thirty divisions are
now in ( France ready to meet what¬
ever move the German staff has in
preparation. Some o fthese divisions
already have been formed into the first
field army under Major General Lig¬
gett, others are holding trench sec¬
tors at important points along the
tie line, and still others have been
broken up and brigaded with the Brit¬
ish and French troops. And, so when
the German thrust comes, the Amer¬
icans will be called upon to play no
small part in meeting it. *
Allies Continue To Harass Germans
New York.—Allied troops continue
to harass the Germans ami are making
further important gains in anticipa¬
tion of a renewal of the enemy offen¬
sive. American and French troops are
meeting with success in carrying for¬
ward their lines in the important sec¬
tion of front between the Aisne and
the Marne rivers. Two villages and
more than five hundred prisoners have
been taken by the FrancoAmerican
soldiers.
Italians Continue Successes On Piave
Rome.—“On the lower Piave we car¬
ried out thrusts,” the Italian war of¬
fice announces. “Northwest of Mon¬
te Grappa, we captured 1,900 prisoners
and many machine guns. At the head
of the Santa Lorenzo valley we with¬
held an enemy counter attack and took
621 prisoners and much material,” the
war office further reports. “On the
Asiago plateau, a French surprise at¬
tack in the Ocelie region resulted in
prisoners being taken.
Sevier Training Camp To Be Moved
Greenville, S. C.—The officers train¬
ing camp which was established at
Camp Sevier in May will shortly be
moved to Camp Gordon, Ga., it is of¬
ficially announced. More than a
thousand men are in the camp. The
present course of the officers’ train¬
ing camp will be completed about the
first of September. The majority of
the men in the school are from South
Carolina, North Carolina and Tennes¬
see.
New Orleans Raises Stamp Quota
New Orleans.—Announcement is
made that the New Orleans quota of
eight million dollars has been passed.
It is believed sales and pledges will
total between nine million and ten mil¬
lion dollars.
DANISH SHIP IND1EN
SUNK BY A SUBMARINE
An Atlantic Port—The Danish
steamship Indien was attacked and
sunk by a ■ German submarine with a
loss of 29 members of the steamship’s
crew off the Azores on March 31, it
is learned on the arrival here of nine
survivors from the Indien. The ves¬
sel, bound from France to an Ameri¬
can port, was sunk by shellfire after
the crew had taken to four lifeboats.
Three of these boats were lost in a
storm.
DEATH OF SENATOR TILLMAN
Death Followed Two Strokes Within
The Past Ten Days—Was In
Senate 24 Years
' Washington.—Senator Ben R. Till
|man, of South Carolina (“Pitchfork
iBen”), died here of paralysis.
The senator had been ill for soifie
days as a result of paralysis attacks
and all hope for his recovery was
Abandoned. Members of his family
(were with him at the end.
The death of the senior South Caro¬
lina senator marks the passing of one
of the most unique and interesting
imembers who ever sat in the upper
’'branch of congress. He represented
(bis state there for twenty-four years,
land, as he hoped, “died in action.”
The senate, soon after it convened,
‘adjourned until Friday, over the
Fourth of July, when Senator Tillman
is to be buried, out of respect to their
deceased colleague. After a brief
.eulogy by Senator Smith, of South
Carolina, the senate also adopted reso¬
lutions for appointment of a commit¬
tee to attend the funeral. Advising the
senate of Senator Tillman’s death,
Senator Smith, of South Carolina,
said:
“We all know the sturdy character
of the man, the splendid ruggedness
of his nature. We did not always agree
with him but we all admired the mo¬
tives with which he backed the posi¬
tion he did take. He steadily grew,
in rounding out 24 years’ service, in
the estimation of his state and his
country. They mistook in the begin¬
ning the manner of the man for his
character and purpose.”
Senator Tillman had been in failing
health for several years. Although
he partially recovered from his first
stroke of paralysis, his remarkable vi¬
tality was unable to withstand the
last and more severe attack.
As governor of South Carolina, as a
leader in the southern wing of the
democratic party and as an active par¬
ticipant in the last generation’s
growth of the American navy, Senator
Tillman had been prominently before
the public for many years. Senator
Swanson, of Virginia, probably will be
his successor as head of the naval
committee, to which Senator Tillman
had devoted almost his exclusive in¬
terest in congressional legislation for
many years. He had been its chair
mna since 1913 and was one of the
most ardent “big navy” advocates, be¬
ing among the first to urge extension
of submarine construction and gor
ernment manufacture of armor plate.
SEIZURE FAVORED OF
THE WIRE SYSTEMS
Favorable Report Ordered On Reso¬
lution Giving Power
To Wilson
Washington.—The house interstate
commerce committee ordered a favor¬
able report on a resolution authoriz¬
ing, if the president deems necessary,
government control of telegraph, tele¬
phone, cable and radio systems as a
war measure. Congressional leaders
continue to make plans looking to a
recess of both houses through July
and August. 'They expect to dispose
of pending appropriation measures
and recess immediately afterwards.
Chairman Sims of the house commit¬
tee announces that he will submit a
report on the telegraph resolution for
a brief holiday session and would en¬
deavor to bring it before the house
as early as possible. Despite this,
however, leaders declare that final ac¬
tion on the resolution will-go over un¬
til after the recess unless President
Wilson asks for its adoption before
that time.
In reaching an agreement on the
proposal, the house committee adopt¬
ed as a substitute for the Aswell res¬
olution, which was approved by the
president, one proposed by Representa¬
tive Sanders of Louisiana. This is
similar to the resolution under which
control of the railroads was taken over
with a provision providing for “just
compensation” to be paid the compa¬
nies for the use of their wires.
Anti-Semitic Riots In Galician Towns
Amsterdam.—Anti-Semitic outbreaks j
have occurred in Jarouslau and other
Galician towns, according to informa¬
tion received by the Jewish correspon¬
dence bureau from Vienna. Jewish
residents, it is declared, have been
made the victims of excesses, and
their shops have been plundered. The
authorities refused to interfere, the
advices state.
Plenty Of Sugar For Tobacco Use
Washington. — A tentative agree¬
ment was secured from Food Adminis¬
trator Hoover by senators from to-^
bacco-producing states of the South
that the supply of sugar for the to¬
bacco industry, which Mr. Hoover had
planned to cut in half, will not be re¬
duced this year. Because of the ef¬
fect upon the tobacco industry, Mr.
Hoover agreed to carefully consider
suspension of the sugar reduction or¬
der as it affects tobacco manufacture.
In the meantime manufacturers will
experiment with sugar substitutes.
Newsy Paragraphs
Of State Interest
Atlanta.—A bill by Mr. Arnold of
Lumpkin, chairman of the house com¬
mittee on the state sanitarium, to pro¬
vide for a commission of experts com
(posed of physicians and the solicitor,
!to pass on lunacy cases, was favora¬
bly acted upon by the committee and
was reported to the house.
Thomasville. — From twenty-three
iacres of watermelons, Messrs. Metcalf
and Moore of Mitchell county are said
to have received $3,060 for their crop
in the field. The gross income from
each acre planted 'averaged them
$130. This was one of the finest crops
in this section and it is estimated that
twenty cars of melons will be loaded
from it.
Thomasville.—The Second district
Masonic convention will hold its an¬
nual session at Camilla on Wednesday,
July 10. E. S. Collins, of Bluffton,
worshipful master, will preside. This
convention embraces all of the coun¬
ties in the Second district, with 40 or
more lodges, all of which are expect¬
ed to send representatives.
Atlanta.—War Savings Stamps to
the amount of $140,076,647 were sold
by the Atlanta postoffice during the
month of June, according to statistics
made public by Postmaster Bolling H.
Jones. As the Atlanta postoffice is
the depositing point for all postofflees
in Georgia for War Savings Stamps
funds, the total of these deposits dur¬
ing the month of June was $1,309,-
238.18.
Moultrie.—The final chapter has
been written in the Duckworth-Poole
Gunn litigation which has been be¬
fore the courts for several years, by
a decision of the supreme coprt refus¬
ing to set aside the verdict awarding
farm land in Worth county, valued at
about twenty-five thousand dollars, to
Mrs. John Duckworth. In many re¬
spects the case is one of the most
unusual ever tried in a south Georgia
court. ^
Atlanta.—Gov. Hugh M. Dorsey and
Maj. Arthur McCollum, acting adju¬
tant genera! for the state of Georgia,
issued the following commissions in
the G&rgia state guard: Dublin
Guards—Captain, L. C. Pope; first lieu
tenant, E. R. Jordan; second lieuten¬
ant, William M. Breedlove. Whitman
Guards—Captain, W. A. .May; first
lieutenant, William M. English. Dor¬
sey Rifles, Lafayette—Captain, Wil
liam E. Esloe; first lieutenant, Joseph
E. Fields.
Atlanta.—A meeting of the Western
and Atlantic railroad commission was
held in the commission’s office at the
capitol and a report adopted to be sub¬
mitted to the legislature of the work
done during the last year. The report
is being drafted by Chairman Mur
phey Candler and will be submitted
at an early date. It is understood that
the report deals mainly with the mat¬
ter of encroachments on the state's
right of way and the means being tak¬
en by the commission to eject the al¬
leged trespassers.
Athens.—Fifteen hundred teachers,
probably a hundred of them men,
from literally every county of Georgia
—and some few fro mother states—
joined the several hundred representa¬
tives of Georgia chapters of the Amer¬
ican Red Cross here in the first gen¬
eral state conferenec of the American
Red Cross, in attendance upon which
also and participating actively on the
program were the national secretary.
Dr. Stockton Axson, the manager and
director of the southeastern division,
and Dr. Guy Snavely, of Atlanta.
Atlanta.—The Georgia senate pass¬
ed, by a vote of 20 to 1, Senator
Brown’s constitutional amendment bill
which will allow counties and munic¬
ipalities to pass bond issues by a two
thirds majority of those voting in¬
stead of the constitutionally required
two-thirds of the total number of reg¬
istered voters. The Georgia constitu¬
tion requires that before a proposed
bond issue can pass two-thirds of the
total number of registered voters must
vote favorably. Senator Brown of the
forty-first — the author — stated that
it was the most important legislation
to come before the senate in years.
Atlanta.—Getting do^n ta the actual
grind of lawmaking the house passed
three general bills and one local bill.
First in general interest and having
the right of way as a war measure
was the bill of Representative Bale
of Floyd, known as the absent voters
bill. This measure, the purpose of
which is to give Georgians absent from
the state or country in government
service the right to vote, was passed,
after a number of amendments had
been adopted, by a vote of 95 to 19.
Mr. Bale explained that the measure
was in the main the same which he
had presented two years ago, when
Georgia soldiers were sent to the Mex¬
ican border, and which had been de¬
feated at that time. Since then, how¬
ever, the bill, which was based upon
a Virginia act, had been enacted by
more than a dozen states, including
the Southern states of Maryland, the
Carolinas, Tennessee, Texas and West
Virginia.
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(By REV. Lesson P. B.
Teacher FITZWATER, D. D„
of English Bible in the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago.)
(Copyright, 1918, Western Newspaper
Union.)
LESSON FOR JULY 14
READING GOD'S WORD.
LESSON TEXT—Psalms 19:7-11; Acts 8:
26-39.
GOLDEN TEXT—Ye shall know the
truth, and the truth shall make you free.—
John 8:32.
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL FOR
TEACHERS—Psalms 37:31; 119:9-16: Pro¬
verbs 13:13; Isaiah 55:8-11; John 5:39-46-47;
Romans 15:4.
DEVOTIONAL READING—Psalms 119:
9-16, 97-105.
I. Characteristics of God's Word
(Ps. 19:7-11).
The Psalmist here sets forth six de¬
scriptive titles of God’s Word, six out¬
standing qualities, and six resultant
effects.
FIRST GROUP—
1. Title: “The Law of the Lord’'
(v. 7).
By this is meant the fundamental
principles which God as a moral being
reveals to the consciences of men as
binding upon the soul.
2. Quality: “Perfect” (v. 7).
It is free from omissions and re¬
dundancies. It is perfect as a moral
code, and it perfectly accomplishes
man’s salvation.
3. Effect: “Converting the Soul"
(v. 7).
The practical effect of the law of
God is to turn men to God himself,
righteousness and holiness.
SECOND GROUP—
1. Title: “The Testimony of the
Lord" (v. 7).
It is the witness which God bears as
to his attributes, und against man’s
sins.
2. Quality: “Sure” (v. 7)
It is plain and infallible. We can
repose in it our interests for time and
•eternity.
3. Effect: “Making Wise the Sim¬
ple" (v. 7).
The simple are those who have hum¬
ble, open and teachable minds.
THIRD GROUP—
1. Title: “The Statutes of the Lord”
(v 8).
These are the principles or charges
which the Lord gives to us all, to fit
us to rightly perform the duties which
the different relations of life make
obligatory upon us.
2. Quality: “Right” (v. 8).
They are from the righteous God
and are absolutely just and equitable.
3. Effect: “Rejoicing the Heart” (v.
8 ).
The true heart rejoices in justice
and equity.
FOURTH GROUP—
1. Title: "The Commandment of the
Lord” (v. 8).
This brings into view the personal
God who stands back of his law to en¬
force its demands—to require obedi¬
ence to its precepts.
2. Quality: "Pure" (v. 8).
It is free from deceit and error.
3. Effect: “Enlightening the Eyes”
(v. 8).
Tlie effect of God’s law is to give
man ability, not only to under¬
stand his love and salvation, but to be
wise as to the things about him.
FIFTH GROUP—
1. Title: “The Fear of the Lord” (v.
9).
Reading the Word of God produces
reverential fear in the heart of the
reader.
2. Quality: “Clean" (v. 9).
It is not only clean in itself, but
sanctifies the heart of those who re¬
ceive it.
3. Effect: "Enduring Forever” (v. 9).
The life and relationship founded
upon his law abide forever.
SIXTH GROUP—
1. Title: “The Judgments of the
Lord” (v. 9).
By this is meant the sentences pro¬
nounced by God’s Word.
2. Quality: “True and Righteous”
(v. 9).
The penalties prescribed by God
are true, conformable to the intuitive
moral sense of man.
3. Effect: “Serve as Warnings and
Bring Reward” (v. 11).
If the warnings be heeded, ship¬
wrecks upon life’s sea will .be pre¬
vented. Besides God pays a wage
for obedience to his laws. Godliness is
profitable unto all, having the promise
of the life that now is, and that which
is to come.
II. A Notable Example of Bible
Study (Acts 8:26-39).
1. Who It Was (v. 27).
The Ethiopian eunuch, a man of
great authority. He was the secretary
of the treasury of the Ethiopian queen.
The wisest and best men and women
of the earth have been reverent stu¬
dents of the Bible and have testified
to its beauty and power.
2. The Circumstances of (v. 28).
It was while traveling that this
great man was studying the Bible.
