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T'ublluhcil 1C very Afternoon IJurlnK
the and nn Sunday Mnrnln*
THE WIFE OF A SUPERHERO!
The lady in the picture above is Mrs. Samuel Woodfill.
The man is (. artcr Glass, U.S. secretary of the treasury.
He is taking her application for a Victory Bond.
Mrs. Woodfill was one of the very first Americans to buy
a Fifth Liberty Bond.
And who is Mrs. Woodfill?
She’s the wife of Lieutenant Samuel Woodfill, hero of
Cunel. That’s who she is. The worthy wife of as fine an
American as ever lived !
You remember Lieutenant Woodfill? He was one of the
heroes picked by Pershing, whose heroic deeds “over there”
were retold in a series of articles published in this newspaper,
entitled, “Ten Best Hero Stories of the War.”
We will repeat a few sentences from the Story of Lieu
tenant Woodfill.
On Oct. 12 the lieutenant was leading men of Co. M.
Sixtieth Infantry into action at Cunel. They ran into a hell
of a German machine gun fire, and were halted.
Picking two privates, Lieutenant Woodfill said, “hollow
me.”
They did. When near the gun, Lieutenant Woodfill told
them to remain under cover while he went alone to the Hun
nest. When they saw him coming alone three Hun privates
rushed at him. He shot and killed the three. Then the Hun
officer sprang upon him, giving him no time or range for his
rifle. So Wodfill used his gun as a club and beat the Hun
down, drawing his pistol to finish him.
Then the company advanced Then* they came upon
another machine gun nest. And again Woodfill went alone
to clean it out. And he did, capturing the three Huns in the
pit.
The company advanced. A third machine gun nest
blocked the way. For the third time- this super-American
went ahead, alone, and wiped out the Huns, this time using
a pick as a weapon in a hand-to-hand encounter.
Then the company went on to victory.
Lieutenant Samuel Woodfill di<tn’t wait, hesitate, post
pone, hum-and-haw about doing his duty; doing what he
thought ought to be done; something his country wanted
done!
And his wife didn’t say. “Let somebody else with more
money buy our country’s bonds; we’ve done enough in this
war.” You bet she didn’t!
THE FRUITS OF BOLSHEVISM
STARVATION.
There are three things which are absolutely necessary to
existence—air, water and food.
A man can get along without a house, without clothing
w ithout a hat on his head, without shoes on his feet, without
hooks to read, without pictures to look at.
But everyone must have air to breathe, water to drink
and food to eat. Failing in one of these three essentials he
will die. «
Before the war Russia was a world reservoir of food.
Not only did Russia produce far more food than she con
sumed, but there were vast areas of tillable and pasture land
which could, and it was expected would, furnish still more
food.
There was food enough and food to spare, even up to the
days when the tyranny of the czar’s ministers, under the di
rection of German cunning, at last caused the people to rise
against their oppressors and bring them to the ground.
There was food enough under the administration of
Lvoff. There was fftod enough in the days of Kerensky.
But since Lenine and Trotzky have secured control of
Russia there has been a steady decline in production, a break
ing down of the means of transportation and a return to the
famine conditions of 5000 years ago.
Today the situation in Russia is that not enough food is
produced to keep the Russian people from starvation, and
that the food which is produced is not evenly distributed.
Presumably, the object of any government is to make life
Nafe. 'I ho apparent result of Bolshevism is Russia is to make
death sure to all except a few. unless a radical change occurs.
There is nn English workingman named H. V. Keeling,
for nearly a lifetime a member of the British Trade Union of
Lithographic Artists, Designers, Engravers and Process
Workers, for many months a reporter on the Bolshevik Daily
News, nnd, for several months in the latter part of 1918, chief
photographer on the staff of the commissar of education, Lun
archarski. He has returned to England from Russia and con-'
firms what has been said of the classification of the Russian
people for the distribution ol food. (The latest report on this
classification is. as follows: Laborers on heavy manual work
and children are allowed 1 1-2 pounds of black bread a day;
workmen on lighter work allowed 3-4 pound a day; clerks,
teachers, etc., in Bolshevik institutions allowed 1-4 pound;
and those living on capital allowed 1-8 pound.)
And the Russian peasants, he says, manage to keep alive
on their hoarded supplies, which they refuse to willingly sell
tor the so-called money of the Rolsheviki. There is so much
bitterness toward the Rolsheviki for seizing the peasants’
giain, however, that the peasants this year are going on a
great strike against the cities; that is, they are going to plant
only what they need for themselves. Keeling says: “I haven’t
anything against the Bolshevists except, judging from the
results of their rule, I think they have failed.”
The cause of the failure is the very essence of Bolshe
vism. namely, the elimination of the possibility of saving
something for od age or disease. Since no man in Russia can
have more than the minimum amount to eat. no man ciyes
a straw to produce more than he and his family can eat.
Human nature has acted as human nature has acted in
the past under such circumstances, and has shown once again
hat the average man will not work overtime in order that his
lazy or criminal neighbor may live without work
OWN AND CONTROL OR SHIRS.
Th* «»••*« drHtk'k to Moulhtm
prosperity him been. rvw •inc# th#
«ivtl w»r Unit ah« did not own and
control Mm ship# whereby h#r prod
uct# could be delivered in foreign
countries wherever needed Much
the South has sufTered from this and
her porta have languished aa a re*
suit The commerce of Wilmington,
t'harleeton. Port Royal, Hrmtswrick
and Mobile baa dwindled almost to
the point of dlaaptmarin*. while hur
>«iinah and New Orleans have
held their own
The cause, of dour**, of this anom
alous state of affairs ha* been the
vast a*« uinulatlon of capital at the
Northern ports which owned and con
trolled t lfh ocean-not rtg st« Mmshlp
lines in foreign countries Southern
pn>duci» would travel hundreds and
thousands of tittles right past the
door# of Southern ports to increase
the enormously swollen tonnage of
Northern port* All Uuttng the Ku
ropean war and many months prior to
the outbreak of hostilities ttetwean
America and Germany, mam lines
«nd tidetVack* at the Northern porta
were choked with loaded cars termi
nals wrere blocked with freight, and
harbors were overcrowded with ship
ping while Southern (torts were com
Iteratively Idle It there had Wen
sufficient capital at Southern port*
to own and control the shifts to han
dle (he traffic the result would have
h • n different
Now that the Reserve Rank has
Entered At the Augusta. Ga.. J’ostof
floe as Mall Matter of the Second la*s.
I'—" II will aupply th,
lacking capital to finance enterprises
»l Oita wort Tim, »s> when Ku,
•-oulil not l>c done without (hr ,on
•*n‘ of the money hlrur* of Wall
Mieet, Hut new »nv |e« tlniate and
worthy enterprise looking to the
ten,lon of foreign trade with Am«r
h'» will receive the proper eoneld'T
•lloh With abundant capital ,on
venlent. atmtninhip line, ■henhl b ■
•■lablMhed between Southern port,
and feielgn count t ie,
Ch.ni town Hurley of ih, fnited
State, Shipping Board will have
ln»ny ahlpa for Mle. hulll (or the
wnr and going at a much lower prior
t hit nth, ~o*t of prodtii lion Thta I,
the South’, great opportunity to huy
and keep the fotltrol of ,Ufh of theae
ahtiw aa ahe can uve to advantaae It
would be directly In the Intereat of
Ih, cotton grower,, for It would r»-
auc the ft eight on lu* cotton to
forego deatlnatton point, Thl,
would not only Inrreaev the profit on
glowing cotton, but It Would lend lo
Budding up th* Interior
•’Ofto arc the BBagatea of tit- back
countm How can a country dcurtah
wild, Ita aragate, chiaeel * Southern
l' ilt » might juM «a welt h Mg.
aded fill all the good they d (he
fitoidh Think of th, oontrttt he-
Iweett tta Northern port* and tha
Southern port. Hairy congealed ai
the Northern txjrt, and ahipmenta de
layed ntnntha end month, while all
1, atagnaiion al the Southern i«»rta
All the adiantai: a are with if s nth
in the matter of Itan,purtat on hvi
port, are alwaya free- from I . and
the ratltoode liner lue«k down In
winter Th South la a year iound
proposition
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
FORD’S BIG TRANSACTIONS.
Mr. Jlenry Ford Huh wold his hold
ings hi the Ford Motor Corporation
to th»* General Motor* Corporation,
according to reliable Information
from New York The amount of
money involved in the transaction i«
not Riven out. but thoac who should
b«* Informed bdieve it totals many
millions
Control of the Ford Motor* Corpor
ation tv ill make, the General Motor*
Corporation tile larges* manufactur
ing concern in the automobile busi
ness on the glob The corporation
already manufacture the <'adillati,
tin* Hunk. the Oldsm* bile, the
Scr.pps-Hooth and many other well
known and popular motor cars
Mr. Ford resigned the presidency
of tin Ford Motors Corporation in
l) c< ♦ inber. J'jlS and Eds*-J ** ant
Ford, hln son, was elect„d his sua
eessor. at a salary of $150,000 a year.
Mr Ford is now pub shing a new**-
paper, but that is merely a diver
sion Ills newspaper venture may
cost him some of his hard-earned
dura is, but not enough to hurt.
ills newspaper experience may
have ronvbe • d him that his larger
field of usefulness lay in the manu
fnet nr** of automobiles, for he has
recently announced that he would
build a great factory to make auto
mobiles that would undersell the fliv
ver. Ford handles millions a* famili
arly an Me A doo talk* in terms of bil
lions
BBIDSE 11 SB
818 FEBBy SEEMS
TD BE ASSURED
Governor Cooper Working on
Program to Spend Vast Sum
on Good Roads in Carolina.
Columbia, f>. C.—lt 1h practically cer
tain that Aiken and Richmond counties
will apply for federal aid to erect a bridge
acro.MH the Savannah river at Sand Bar
Ferry. The board of county commis
sioners of Aiken county and the hoard
of commissioners of roads and revenue*
of Richmond l ounty have both filed reso
lutions with the State Highway Commis
sion, agreeing to supply their shares of
the money, as the fir.**! step In the secur
ing of federal aid for spanning the Sa
vannah river with a bridge at Sand Bar
Fern,. This action of the hoard of com
missioners of Aiken county was based
on tin* outcome of the election held in
that count> recently on the uuc*tlon of
Issuing bonds for roads ami bridges. As
the outcome of the election in the town*
ships which will b( most, directly served
by the proposed bridge was In favor of 1s-
Hiiing bonds. It Is not thought that any
difficulty will arise in regard to secur
ing Aiken county's share of the money
necessary to hluld this bridge.
The bridge Itself will afford s spen
did outlet to Augusta for the Beech Is
land section of Aiken county and the ter
ritory traversed by the Charleston and
Western Carolina railroad in Aiken and
Barnwell counties. It is now necessary
In order to get to Augusta by road from
the Beech Island section of Aiken coun
ty to go by way of Bath, or to cross on
the ferry. The new bridge across the
Savannah river at Sand Bar Ferry will
Shorten the distance several miles.
Oho I'Vndred and twenty million* of
dollars for Rood roads In South Carolina i
in the next nix yearn in the program on
which (inventor t’ooper |m working. The
appropriation of 120.Out).000 a year for nix
yearn in the plnti the governor proposes
to launch with the preparation of three
blllp for the next general assembly, one
(Siting for the creation of a nyntern of
good roads to be built by the state, an
other for the maintenance of county
roads, and nflll another state aid. In the
name way that weak rural achooln ate
now strengthened by ntate aid. All three
of these hills would take Into considera
tion federal aid for road construction
Thin program on the part of the gov
ernor was made public* in his address
before the nnnoeintlon of coßtity super
visors. which wan formed In Columbia
thin week, and which will Its If prove
n powerful factor in’working for good
roads In South Carolina The South
<’«#dlna Automobile Asnoriation engi
neered the meeting
In announcing thin gigantic platform
for good roads improvements in South
Carolina, the governor stated that lie
kne w that if north a program had been
announced a few yearn ago It would
have been met with un avalanche- of
opposition, hut that he feels confident
now that public- opinion will back him up.
In the opinion of Governor Cooper, such
a program will go a long wav toward
solving the race problem In explaining
this statement he said that In past years
white- setth-rs have not been content to
remain In the rural sections of the state
because of the poor road conditions but
that with improved highways all through
the state which will eliminate distance.
this objection wih have been removed.
I’crmanent highwaxs will also mean pro
gress and advancement in many other
ways, commercial, agrlculturad and In
dustrial.
Before the next session of the general
assembly the governor will have three
measures prepared, and these will be pre
sented for introduction. It is believed I
there will he such an overwhelming sen- j
tlment In favor of good toads hv next
January that It will be simply a matter of I
choosing which system will he adopted !
B. L. Harbeson. 1253 Broad
St., Has Just Received New
Shipment of Racine Extra
Tested Automobile Tires.
Mr It I, Hurb stn. local dealer for
tno l xtra Tested lUelne tin-* ban fust
received a new ahtpm nt and urges that
tin; public come by this work and look
th:H tire oviu A large number have
b» '*n sold In f Augusta and all are giving
excellent service- doing more than the
factory guarantee, which is 1.00(1 miles
If you r«MI\ want to try a good lire, one
that will give you the mileage that you
deserve you should hv all moans see this
tire before buying Mr Harbeson s place I
°f business is 1213 Proud street, next door
to the Headquarters of the Vlre Im part
melit. and he will he very glad to demon
strate the llaelne tires to you
MEMORIAL DAY IN ATLANTA.
Atlanta. OA.—Coni eue rate memorial
day is being generally elaborated today
throughout the southern states with
patriotic ineeHe**, parade* a-id decont
tlon of the * caves of soldiers who fell
in the war between the states In many
communities the day also Is belli*; made
the occasion for special drives In eon
nectlon with the victory loan campaign
In the expectation of sending scores of
towns and counties “over the top’* of
their quotas
The day Is a legal holiday In Georgia,
riorida. Vlabama. and Mississippi
BUILDING SUPPLIES
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Miss Clarke Hudson Enthusiast
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Miss Prances Clarke, the Atlanta girl, who pleased Atlanta so much several week* ago in the show, “Come Out
of the Kitchen. ' is here shown with one of the latest model Hudson Super-Six Speedsters. Miss Clarke is very en
thusiastic over this distinctive Hudson. This car is sold by the Reliable Garage and Sales Company.
CAPT. GAINES MOSELY OOF AIKEN IS
DECORATED FOR CONSPICUOUS SERVICE
U. S Marine from Aiken Wins
Coveted Prize —A Veteran of
Many Operations by Marine
Corps.
(By Walter E. Duncan.)
Special to The Herald
Columbia, S. C.—lnformation has been
received that (.'apt. (hiines Moseley of the
United Sttaes Marines, who hails from
Aiken, a member of one of the pioneer
families of that town, has been deco
rated for conspicoua service in action,
this murk of honor and distinction hav
ing been given him when Secretary Dan
iels of the navy recently visited Cob
lenz, Germany.
Gaines Moseley i.« one of the few* m**n
who have worked themselves up from the
ranks to captaincy In the marines. It
is not often done About twenty years
ago he enlisted In the marines, and lias
seen in many climes. Long be
fore the Great War In Europe he re
ceived his baptism of fire He was a
veteran long before Chateau-Thierry, and
at the time he engaged In that fight had
already Teceived hi* rank of first lleu
tengfct.
The first actual service T recall that
Gaines Moseley was engaged In as a
first-class fighting man was in Nica
raugua. after one of those opera bouffe
revolutions they have down in Central
America. The marine were around
Manauga. and Gaines Moseley, then a
private, was with them. There was some
pretty good flvhtlrg done, as fighting
went In those days Every one remem
bers how it used to 1*» There would be
trouble in some country and it would
become necessary f«r Unde Sam to take
a hand. And almost Immediately there
after would come the cable back:
“The marines have landed and have the
aitu&tion well in hand.**
In Cuba In 189 k Gaines Moseley saw
service, and was among the marines to
participate In the scrapping In China
during the Boxer tiprising. When the
marines were land.-d in Vera Cruz,
Gaines moselcy was with them.
Prior to the entrance of the United
iU Into the Great War then was
trouble In Haiti, and for n year or more
the marines were there sitting on the lid
and holding things in check. Gaines
Moseley had Ills part in that enterprise.
In France the marines have made a
new name and a new record for them
selves And among them, this man
from South Carolina has made an envia
ble name and record for himself.
Have You Seen the New Trucks
of the Consumers Oil Company
on the Streets of Augusta?
They Are Reo Trucks.
One of the big sales made this past
week was a fleet of Heo Oil Trucks to
the Consumers Oil Company, sold by
Kdelhlut and Murphy, the local dealers
for Reo cars and trucks. This salt' again
demonstrates that Kco trucks are as
popular as ever, and the old saying that
■ Ueo trucks are always running" proves
true Two 7-passenger touring Heo cars
were also sold last w-cek. and Mr. Jake
Murphy reports bus!naan very good, and
Mr Kdelhlut savs that it looks to him as
if the automobile business is going to he
better for the year I*ls than ever before.
UP TO ST. LOUIS MEETING.
Now York—Lieutenant Colonel Theo
dore Roosevelt, in charge of the organi
zation of the American legion said hero
today that all questions of eligibility to
membership would be decided at the
caucus of war veterans to be held In St.
Louis, May Bth. No individual, he said
had the authority to say whether Civil
War and Spanish American veterans
would be admitted or excluded.
A telegram was sent last night from
Grecnvills. S C. after a conerence be
tween Colonel H. B. Spring and Major
\V 1> Workman former officers of tha
••Old Hickory" division, informing Cal.
Roosevelt (hat unless former Confederate
Hokliert are accepted as members of the
leg «»n South Carolina veterans of the
world war probably would not want mem
bership in the organisation.
baker s busy day
Cobiens —Secretary Baker today had
hit* busiest day since he, arrived in oc
cu led Germany Aft»4 breakfast with
Gr uni I * railing and other officers in
th. former royal suite In the largest ho
tel in Coblena, the secretary attended to
» w official telegrams from Paris and
, W hingtun and before 9 o’clock had
cn m 1 th. Rhine, and in an automobile
I in; le his way up the uromontory crown
i ed by the fortress of Khrenhreitateln.
nr* OS IN BAD FIX.
Perna—The position of the Russian
| Ho hevlk troops in Odessa has been ren
de i critical bv the capture of Bogus
-1 lav bv the Ukrainians The Ukrainians
a! have captured the railway line from
i K v eastward to Konotop, threatening
! th- Bolshevik line of retreat from the
O *a region
STRIKE AGREEMENT REACHED.
Roanoke, Va. —Agreement has been
reached it was learned today between
officials of the Norfolk and Western
Railway and the board of adjustment of
the Brotherhood of Railway clerks
whereby the railway company recognizes
the right of the clerks’ organization to
handle all claims and grievances of its
members More than 2,000 clerks of the
company are members of the brother
hood.
VANCE COUNTY OVER TOP,
Henderson, N. C.—The local Victory
Loan committee announced at 2 o’clock
this afternoon that Vance county had
over-subscribed its quota of $351,40*),
making it the first county in North
Carolina to go “over the top.”
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Ihe myriad different instruments
atrd voices it is asked to reproduce
call for a tone quality and versatility
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VICE PRES’T MARSHALL
HAS CHANCE AT RECORD
Washington—if Thomas Riley Marshall
remains vice president until March 4.
1921. he will be the third man In history
to complete two terms in that office.
John Adams was vice president during
both presidential terms of George Wash
ington and Daniel D. Tompkins served
two terms with President James Monroe.
George Clinton was twice* elected vice
president, but died during his second
term in office. John C. Calhoun was
elected vice president with John Quincy
Adams and Andrew Jackson, but. resign
ed during his second term to become a
senator.
John Adams. Thomas Jefferson and
Martin Van Buren are the only three
\ice presidents who completed their
terms In that office and were later
elected to the presidency.
SIGHTS FLOATING MINE.
Washington—The navy department
was advised today that the steamer Pre
toria had sighted a floating mine 600
miles off the South Atlantic coast on
April 25th. The dispatch did not say
whether the mine was destroyed.
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Conventional models, equipped with
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