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VOLUME 37.
THE SMITHFIELD HERALD, TUESDAY, OCOTBER 8, 1918.
Number 81.
THE KAISER WANTS PEACE.
Sees Disaster Coining Quick and Fast
He Issues Proclamation to His
Army and Navy and Reminds Them
of the Heavy Blow They Have Sus
tained in the Collapse of the Mace
donian Front.
The following Associated Press dis
patch was published in yesterday’s
papers:
Emperor William today issued a
proclamation to the German army
and navy in which, after announcing
that the Macedonian front had crum
bled, he declared that he had decided,
in accord with his allies, to again of
fer peace to the enemy.
The text of tlje Emperor’s proclam
ation reads:
For months past, the enemy, with
enormous exertions and almost with
out pause in the fighting has stormed
against your lines. In weeks of
struggle, often without repose, you
have had to persevere and resist a nu
merically far superior enemy. There
in lies the greatness of the task which
has been set for you and which you
are fulfilling. Troops of all the Ger
man states are doing their part and
are heroically defending the father
land on foreign soil. Hard is the task.
“My navy is holding its own against
the unite denemy naval forces and is
the united enemy naval forces and is
its difficult struggle.
“The eyes of those at home rest
with pride and admiration on the
deeds of the army and the navy. I
express to you the thanks of myself
and the fatherland.
The colapse of the Macedonian front
has occurred in the midst of the hard
est struggle. In accord with our al
lies I have resolved once more to offer
peace to the enemy, but I will only
extend my hand for an honorable
peace. We owe that to the heroes
who have laid down their lives for the
fatherland, and we make that our duty
to our children.
“Whether arms will be lowered is a
question. Until then we must not
slacken. We must, as hitherto, exert
all our strength unwearily to hold
our ground against the onslaught of
our enemies.
The hour is grave but, trusting in
your strength and in God’s gracious
help, we feel ourselves to be strong
enough to defend our beloved father
land.
THE LIBERTY LOAN.
The people of the United States are
now engaged in a campaign to float
the largest bond issue in the history
of the nation. The Fourth Liberty
Loan is for $6,000,000,000, a sum
which the human mind cannot compre
hend. The bonds will run twenty
years, and bear interest at the rate of
4 1-4 per cent per annum, and will
have back of them the credit of the
United States Government, which
means all of the property, real and
personal, belonging to all of the peo
ple of the United States. These
bonds are, therefore, the best security
in the world. If they are not paid, it
will be because all of the people of
the United States “go broke,” and if
we all go broke it won’t matter par
ticularly -whether they are paid or
not.
The campaign to sell these bonds
to the people has been well organized.
By the time this is read, no doubt the
people in the terirtery in which Wal
laces’ Farmer circulates will already
have subscribed for the amounts ask
ed of them.
The effort has been made to appor
tion the bonds just as fairly as possi
ble, and people are being asked to
buy them in accordance with their
ability to buy them. There may be
inequalities here and there. Some
people may be asked to buy more than
they really can afford to buy. Other
people will not be asked to buy
enough. These inequities cannot be
avoided and the fact that they may
exist should not prevent the individual
from doing his full duty.
This money must be raised. It
takes money to fight a war. The more
the people lend to the government by
buying bonds, the less will need to be
raised by direct taxation. Therefore,
buy the bonds. Buy just as many
bonds as you possibly can, and take
.satisfaction in the thought that the
Lord has been so good to you that
you are able to lend to your govern
ment in tnis time of its greatest need.
—Wallaces’ Farmer.
Illinois farmers are taking more
kindly to shep raising following the
appeal of the government to raise
more of these animals in order to pro
duce more wool, and relieve the acute
shortage now existing. The Rock
Island Chamber of Commerce, in
conjunction with the Rock Island A®
ricultural League, has taken the ini
tiative in the movement by investing
in 1.000 head of sheep, obtained in
Oklahoma and sold to the farmers at
net cost.
THE IiULGARS AN OLD RACE, j
Migrated From North of Black Sea
and Became Fused With Slavs.
Were Fnder Rule of Turks from
Year 1393 to 1878—Rresent Czar a
German Prince, Who Formed Bal
kan League to War on Ottomans.
Who are the Bulgarians and what is
their history?
The Balkans peninsula is divided
into five groups: Slavs, Albanians,
Greks, Turks and Roumanians.
The Slavs in the Balkans constitute
the southern branch of the Slavonic
race, and are themselves divided into
Jugo-Slavs (Serb-Crcates and Slov
ens) and Bulgarians who are not pure
Slav.
The Bulgars are first mentioned in
histtfry as having lived in the steppes
to the north of the Black Sea in 482
A. D. In the sixth and seventh centu
ries they expanded from Eastern Rus
sia and settled along the Danube.
Gradually the Bulgars became fused
with the Slavs, and so completely
were they submerged that beyond a
few personal names no traces of the
language of the Bulgars have re
mained.
From the ninth century to the four
teenth, except for periods when it was
under Greek rule, Bulgaria maintained
its independence as an empire. In
1398 the Turks conquered the coun
try, and Bulgaria was the last of the
Balkan states to emancipate itself
from the power of Constantinople.
In 1870 began the series of insurrec
tions, some of them having a religions
basis, which finally led to the inde
pendence of Bulgaria. In 1878 a prin
cipality of Bulgaria was created, com
prising the northern portion of the
present nation, with Prince Alexan
der of Battenberg as ruler. In 1885
the inhabitants of Rumelia, or south
ern Bulgaria, proclaimed their union
with Bulgaria.
The present ruler, who was Prince
Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg, was
elected in 1886. He is largely respon
sible for the economic and material de
velopment of the country in recent
years. Taking advantage of the Young
Turks’ revolution in 1908, Ferdinand
proclaimed the completed independ
ence of Bulgaria and eastern Rumelia
under him as king or czar.
Immediately Fei’dinand cast about
him for other worlds to conquer, and
found Grece and Serbia sympathetic
towar dthe organization of a Balkan
league for a joint campaign to wrest
Macedonia and Albania from the
Turks. This leading was organized in
1911 by Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and
Montenegro, and it wasn’t long before
their armies were at the doors of Con
stantinople and the Sultan was cry
ing for peace, which was signed at
London, May 30, 1913.
Serbia and Bulgaria had agreed to
divide Macedonia between them, but
peace conference created an independ
ent Albania, which altered matters
and .shut out Serbia from the sea. The
division of the spoils was left to the
Czar of Russia for arbitration, but
while he was considering it Bulgaria,
without warning, attacked Serbia, and
the second Balkan war of 1913 was
on. Greece and Roumania joined with
Serbia in war against her former ally.
Austria is credited with having de
liberately forced the second war to
keep the Balkans in a state of turmoil
and further her own ends. But the
Bulgarians were decisively beaten and
a peace treaty was signed August 10,
1913.
For a time it was thought the Bal
kan War cloud had peen permanently
dispelled, but Austria's attack oh Ser
bia in 1914, which brought on the
world war is now a matter of history.
—Baltimore Sun.
Fuel Administrator Garfield has re
fused to lift the ban on the use of au
tomobiles for the next two Sundays,
as requested by Governor McCall, of
Massachusetts to aid in combatting
Spanish influenza. Dr. Garfield’s ac
tion was based on advice of Acting
Surgeon General Richards, of the ar
my, that continuance of gasolineless
Sundays would have little if any in
fluence on the spread of the disease.
Dr. Garfield stated that in round num
bers there were 3,000,000 barrels of
motor gasoline in stock September 23,
the latest figures available, and that
on April 1 of this year the so-called
peak period, there were approximate
ly 11,000,000 barrels on hand.
The Health Department of Balti
more reported 1,177 new cases of
Spanish influenza and twelve deaths
deaths in that city Friday. Also nine
deaths from pneumonia. Included in
the fatalities were six soldiers at Fort
McHenry. Thirty-three soldiers died
at Camp Meade, bringing the total fa
talities at the cantonment since the
outbreak up to 131. Nine hundred
and fifty-nine new cases were report
ed. Pneumonia developed in 130
cases. There were more than 30 new
cases at Camp Holabird, and it was
reported that 840 soldiers at this camp
were down with the disease.
BRAVE DEED OF KENLY BOY
—
Henry Southard Missing in France
After Volunteering to Go Over the
Top in the Performance of an Im
portant Mission—Failed to Come
Back—He is Numbered Among the
Missing.
The following letter written from
France on August 30, by Henry
Southard, a Kenly young man, to his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Southard,
will be read with great interest, as
will the one from his Platoon Ser
geant:
Somewhere in Franee,
August 30, 1918.
Dear Mother and Dad:
Just a short letter as I have not
time to write very much. I sincerely
hope that this letter will not be mail
ed, but .if it is you will know that I
am not here to prevent it.
I am leaving it in the hands of my
HENRY SOUTHARD.
old Stand-by, the platoon-sergeant,
with instructions to mail it if I don’t
return. I will go “over the top” to
morrow morning with about a hun
dred other fellows who have all vok*
unteered for the job. I have a very
dangerous as well as a very impor
ant mission intrusted to me, and I
shall perform that duty,
We are the first in the division to
go over in a regular attack and you
see it is a little distinction. I have
arranged for all of my effects to go
to you.
Give my last regards to everybody
in the family, especially to Grandad
and Earl. I am not worried or afraid
and write this letter in full confidence
of coming back.
I close with love to you all and hope
to come back to you before long, but
duty first.
Lovingly, vour son,
HENRY SOUTHARD.
The next attached letter accompa
nied the above and was written by the
platoon sergeant, mentioned therein.
Somewhere in France,
Sept. 10, 1918.
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Southard,
Kenly, N. G.
This is to be the hardest letter I
have ever tried to write. The subject
has ever been a painful one to me, and
if this communication fails to im
part the sentiment that I wish to ex
press at least believe that the fault is
with th pen and not the emotion in
my heart.
You will see by Henry’s letter just
about how things are. They are just
that bad and no worse. It is not an
absolute certainty that it is a casual
ty, the company carries him as “ab
sent” and his name will not be drop
ped until something more definite is
found out.
He and the others who were with
him are simply missing, and no one
seems to know anything concerning
them; nevertheless he left the letter
with me and I feel it my duty to. see
that his instructions are carried out.
I don’t know which is best for me
to do, bid you hope or not. I have
always believed that if we look on
the bright side that we will be happier
just that much longer.
I had a double reason for writing
this letter, first to inform you of the
circumstances, second to tell you what
manner of fellow Southard was, as we
always knew him. I am not exagger
ating when I say that every man in
the company liked him and every man
in his platoon loved him. He has al
ways been a jolly fellow, a kind un
derstanding, sympathetic companion,
and last but not least, he has been a
good and brave soldier.” Had he not
been he would not have been intrust
ed with the mission he had. The blood
of the ancestors who were in “Pick
et's Charge” has ever been apparent.
Dear parents of this brave soldier,
you have my deepest sympathy. I can’t
just imagine what your feelings must
be. It is hard to lose a comrade but
I know that it is infinitely harder to
lose a son and such a son.
Please believe if he has gone, he
GERMANY CRYING FOR PEACE.
The Imperial Chancellor Appeals to
President Wilson to Take a Hand in
Restoring Peace. Accepting the
Program Set Forth by the Presi
dent in His Message to Congress.
The following Associated Press dis
patch from Amsterdam, dated October
(), was published in Monday’s dailies:
The text of the note forwarded by
the Imperial German Chancellor,
Prince Maximilian, to President Wil
son through the Swiss government
follows:
"The German government requests
the President of the United States to
take in hand the restoration of peace,
acquaint all the belligerent states of
this request, and invite them to send
plenipotentiaries for the purpose of
negotiations.
“It accepts the program set forth
by the President of the United States
in his message to Congress on Janu
ary 8 and in his later pronouncements
especially his speech of September
27, as a basis for peace negotiations.
"With a view to avoiding further
blodshed, the German government re
quests the immediate conclusion of
an armistice on land and water and in
the air.”
It is announced that Turkey will
take a similar step.
FEEDING THE HUNGRY.
None of the enterprises to which
the government of the United States
has committed itself will meet with
more whole-hearted approval than the
obligation it has undertaken to feed
ten million Belgian and French people
now within the territory occupied by
the Germans. Acortling to the press
dispatches, last week the government
pledged itself to spend $280,000,000
for this purpose during the next
twelve months.
Mr. Hoover lias announced a ration
ing plan that calls for 277,000,000
pounds of pork products, 42,500,000
bushels of wheat, barley, rye and corn
for bread purposes, 2,200,000 bushels
of beans, 3,300,000 bushels of rice, 26,
400,000 pounds of corned beef, 55,000,
000 pounds of condensed milk for
children, 26,000,000 pounds of coffee,
18,000,000 pounds of cocoa and 40,
000,000 pounds of sugar. In addition
to these food products, the appropria
tion provides for 66,000,000 pounds of
soap.
It is interesting to note that the
number of bushels of wheat, barley,
rye and corn to be given to these
starving peoples for bread purposes is
just a little less than the number of
bushels of grains which have been
used for the manufacture of beers and
light wines. •
While the quantities of food pro
ducts enumerated above seem large, it
is stated that, used during the next
twelve months, they will furnish the
Belgians and French just about half
as much as the average consumption
of the same number of American peo
ple. The British and French govern
ments, notwithstanding the terrible
financial sacrifices which they have
been obliged to make, and the enor
mous expense to which they are sub
jected because of war burdens, are
advancing the money necessary to
provide for the shipping aqd distribu
tion, and to purchase foodstuffs other
than those secured from the United
States.
In addition to food, these unfortu
nate Belgian and French people who
are living under the heels of their
merciless conquerors, are in most ur
gent need of clothing, and Mr. Hoover
has issued an appeal to the people of
the United States to lay aside such
clothing as they can spare, to be
sent overseas later on.
However much we may be disposed
to question Mr. Hoover’s judgment in
discharging some of his duties as
Food Administrator, and especially
his efforts as they touch the western
farmer and stockman, every one must
yield to him unstinted praise for his
work for the Belgians. But for his
efforts, millions of these people long
since would have died from hunger
and exposure; and for a time at least
his altruistic work in this direction
was about the only thing that saved
the people of the United States from
utter condemnation by the British and
French as being a nation of money
grabbrs pure and simple.—Wallaces’
Farmer.
Poets utter great and wise thing's
which they do not themselves under
stand.—Plato.
went like a gentleman and a soldier
before his God with a clear conscience
and a clean slate. The platoon joins
me in expressing our most sincei-e
sympathy in your grief, and we con
gratulate you in rearing such a noble
life fer the cause of justice and hu
manity.
Very sincerely, yours,
Sergeant of 1st Platoon,
CHAS. W. FENIOUS.
SUGAR PLENTIFUL IN HAWAII
Call for Ships to Carry It Away Onlv
Exceeded by Demand for Labor to
Meet Shortages Caused by the
Draft.
The Hawaiian Islands have more
sugar than they want; more, that is,
than they would like to have on hand
just at this time. With their ware
houses running over arid their mills
still grinding, the call has gone forth
for ships, and yet more ships, to carry
the sugar away. And these ships are
coming, vessels glistening with new
paint and still sweet with the odors
of the Oregon forests; for everywhere
but in Hawaii people are demanding
sugar.
It is confidently expected that by
end of October all of the 1918 Hawaii
an sugar will be on the market. But
the need of sugar will continue and
Hawaii will be called upon almost
immediately to fill its warehouses
again. To increase, and even to main
tain, the present output of sugar in
Hawaii is not going to be easy in
these unsettled war times. Already
there is a shortage of labor in the
islands, due to the mobilization of the
national guard and the draft. To
meet this emergency schoolboys and
schoolgirls are laboring in the cane
fields. To the plantation offices on pay
days come children who can bare’y
reach over the counter for their pay
envelopes. Because of this lack of
ships and the demands of the muni
tion factories there is likely to be a
shortage of nitrates. And another
possibility quite as serious, for the re
fining of sugar demands scientific ex
actness, is a scarcity of sugar chem
ists.
To provide against this possible
shortage of chemists the College of
Hawaii is to give this fall a special
course in sugar laboratory practice.
As a terirtorial institution the college
has always sought to adapt its act
ivities to meet the especial needs of
the islands; and, although it is the
youngest land grant college, its grad
uates are already filling responsible
positions in the islands. Within the
last few months a recent graduate and
a member of the senior class were
made head chemists of two Hawaii
plantations.
During the present summer many
of the college undergraduates have
been working either in the sugar mills
or in the fields. A member of the
sophomore class, a, Japanese, recruit
ed a large force of workers from
among the school boys and girls on
the Island of Kauai, and directed them
until he wras called into the army. A
member of the freshman class, who is
under the draft age, is now acting
as head chemist on one of the larger
plantations after only a few weeks of
experience as assistant chemist.
In this emergency the college might
furnish men already trained in sugar
technology were it not ror the de
mands of military service. Of the
men in college iast year who have had
instruction in sugar chemistry enlist
ments and the draft have taken all
but one; and he, who is under draft
age, is employed as assistant chem
istist in a sugar mill.
The special course which the college
is to give is strictly a war measure.
It does not supersede the regular
four-year course in Sugar technology
which will be continued, nor does it
fit men, as do the regular courses, for
the more important positions. On
the other hand, it does not demand
as much of the student. There will be
no formal entrance requirements. A
good character is essential, and every
applicant must satisfy the professor
in charge that he has had sufficient
training to do the work satisfactorily.
Of book work and lectures there will
be but little ,and the emphasis will be
placed on acquiring a mastery of the
apparatus used in a sugar chemist’s
laboratory, and in the working out of
such practical problems as the chem
isnt must solve in his every day work.
—Honolulu, Hawaii, dispatch.
QUARTER MILLION
TROOPS MONTHLY.
Are Embarking for France Despite
the Epidemic of Influenza.
Washington, Oct. 5.—Despite the
epidemic of Spanish influenza, em
barkation of American troops is being
continued at the rate of more than
250,000 per month, General March an
nounced today, the total embarked to
date now having passed the 1,850,000
mark. The September shipments ex
ceded 250,000, although cases of in
fluenza in camps at home exceeded
100,000.
The policy of the War Department
in sending overseas only men who
have not had the disease and who have
not been exposed to it, has necessita
ted material readjustments of the
shipping schedule but has not inter
fered with the total number em
barked.
COUNTY SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED.
Hoard of Health Met Saturday and
Ordered All Public Gatherings
Stopped, Including Churches, Sun
day Schools, and Day Schools.
Sparks’ Circus Called Off.
On account of the prevalence of
Spanish influenza in different parts of
the county the County Board of
Health met in Smithfield Saturday
afternoon and oidered all schools
stopped for a period of two weeks.
They also called off Sparks’ circus
and the community fairs which were
to have been held in Bentonville,
Pleasant Grove and Oneals townships
this week. The churches and Sunday
Schools were also ordered to suspend
services for two Sundays. This has
been done with the hope of stopping
the spreading of the disease.
The order as it relates to the
schools affects only four schools, those
at Smithfield, Clayton, Slelma, and
Benson.
It is reported that there are a num
ber of cases around Benson, and that
the Board of Trustees of the Benson
school met Saturday morning and
stopped their school for a few days.
The County Board of Health is
composed of the following members:
D. B. Oliver, of Pine Level, chairman
Board of County Commissioners,
chairman.
L. T. Royall, of Smithfield, County
Superintendent of Schools, secretary.
Dr. George B. Vick, County Health
Officer.
H. L .Skinner, mayor of Smithfield.
Dr. J. C. Grady, of Kenly.
Dr. B. A. Hocutt, of Clayton.
All were present at this meeting
except Dr. Hocutt.
FAIR ONLY TWO WEEKS OFF.
Prospects for Big County Fair I’arado
Good—Thirteen Floats Already—
Entered—More Coming In.
Mr. A. M. Johnson, County Agricul
tural Agent and chairman of the
Johnston County parade to be held the
first day of the Fair at Smithfield,
says that thirteen floats have already
been entered and that more are com
ing in daily. He says that the big
prizes being offered is a big incentive
for many good floats. The floats, will
be entered under six heads: Red Cross
floats, Cotton Mill floats, School
floats. Township Agricultural floats,
Humorous floats, and general floats.
Floats from other towns and coun
ties will also be allowed to compete
for prizes.
The Fair Band will lead the parade.
The Turlington Graded School will
come next in order of the procession.
The parade will start from the court
house at 12 o’clock sharp. Floats can
be entered up till Octobr 21. Mr.
Johnson is trying to get the Tank
School at Raleigh to have a tank and
some of the soldier boys to take part
in the parade also. Old soldiers will
also march in the parade as well as
1918 soldiers. The deferred class
farmers in the county will march too.
The Fcod Administration, the Red
Cross, the Council of National De
fense will be represented. The parade
will show up our activities in times
of war. It. is hoped that Governor
Bickett will consent ot lead the pa
rade.
POLITICAL SPEAKINGS ARE
POSTPONED.
Democratic County Canvass Will Bo
Resumed After October 20.
Owing to prevalence in the county
of the Spanish influenza, the County
Board of Health, in session, deemed
it necessary to take a drastic step to
prevent the spread of the disease.
The following- resolutions were
passed:
“That all public gatherings in the
county, such as church services, Sun
day Schools, da yschools, shows cir
cuses, moving pictures and all other
public gatherings be prohibited for
two weeks from October 6, at 7 a. m.
“That notice be given to all mayors
in the towns at once and to publish it
throughout the county in the papers.”
D. B. OLIVER, Chairman.
L. T. ROYALL, Secretary.
Therefore, in obedience to the above
resolution of the Board of Health, the
Democratic appointments are called
off until further notice and the Demo
cratic nominees tender their services
to the Honorable Chas. W. Home,
chairman of the Liberty Loan Com
mitfee of the County.
This October 7. 1918.
ED. S. ABELL,
Chairman Democratic Ex. Com.
The total number of new cases of
influenza in the army camp and can
tonments reported Friday was 12,975,
making a grand total of 127.975 since
the outbreak of the epidemic. There
have been 10,429 cases of pnumonia
and 2,689 deaths. Camp Funston, Kan
sas, reported 1,276 ne\v cases Friday.