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{Cfet ^alf^uuji an? 5outI)roit l^ubUabeci Wednesday and Saturd.i*, ?BY? OBTRKN riHMNtU\<; COMPAM, si \i n it. s. c. Terms: II AO per annum?in advance. Advertise meiiK One Square Drat Insertion .. On JCvery subsequent insertion.. . . 5<? Contracts for three months, oi longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which si << eerve private interests will be ehsri/ed for aa advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found? ed in ltftO and the True Southron in lilt. The Watchman and Southron now has the combined circulation sml Influence of both or the old papers, and Is manifestly the best advertis n; medium in feumter. Business Nolle?*. Statements were sent in September and October to all subscribers whoso OH ascriptions were due or ret! due during those months. A Is "ge number have sent checks or hatN called at this office to renew their subscriptions, but there are still quite a number still indebted fo. subsetIp linn who have not made oettloniont snd renewed their subscript I >ns. We have csrrle<l these accounts through the summer and now that money Is plentiful?more plentiful than ever before In Sumter County-?wo are leaking to those who have received the paper to pay the money due us The cost of publishing the Watch rr.an snd Southron is greater than aver before, but the subscription his not vet hwn advanced. We c innot afford to send the piper to anyone Who does not pay for It. ami notice is given that on the 15th, Instant, the list will be revised and delimpients will be dropped fropt the mailing list. Every subscriber has had a atatencent Of the amount ?lue. ami In add I lo the label on the paper Is a semi-week ly reminder of the date of explr-uhm of subscription. We need the no tie. doe and we ask that our frien Js cull seat week when In town attending the County Fair and pay their sub? scription. Ws do not want to lose a stngle subscriber and we do no be? lieve that anv reader of the Watch? man end Southron can afford to to without thr paper. This Is a I Inn when every family should have 0 newspaper that gives the news of the world. and this the Watch and Southron la doing as fully and completely as any newapaper pub? lished; In the State. It la worth more sJfjBgs^gsssl^ and thos< irho want the paper will pay up promptly. iced the MM- * by Saving Pound off Flour a Week. The I'nlted States Food Adir.inla (ration issue* the following: Your government asks you to use 1 pound less of wheat flour a week. These are the reasons: The wheat crop of our allie? is short. Our allies look to us to nave them from a wheat famine. They must have 220,000.OOo bushels from the United States If famine comes, they can't fight Then we would have to carry on thi war alone. 0 We have only 8*.000.nnn DUOpStl of wheat more than we ist? each year This we can aend them, but- It Isn't sufficient We cant* aend them corn meal, for it doesn't keep in shippinr. We can't send them corn, for thiy haven't the necessary mills to grind IL Wher* must these 132.Oeui.00 0 other bushels of wheat come f rom ? From our savings ?from you? There are lOO.non.son of us. ostni an sverage of r. pounds ol wheat Hour s week per person. If you. by the hundred million, us.' only 4 pounds s week 1 pound las* ?we can ship those f . J.? 000 bush eis of wheat. And your pound ly saved: By having one wheatless meal a day ?more. If you can?eating rye ic-.???!, corn bread, barley bread, and other kind* instead of wheat ??read, and be serving less pie and cake; By ordering your bread a day In ad vsnce; then the baker will not gfjlt too much and have It go etal?; ly cutting the loaf on the table as each allce la needed; then none will go atale; By making Into ssjoVstaga of lo Ing every crust or piece that does g.i atale. You are the guard over the sol rtler'a ration, he will attend to the ensmy. I.lvca In Hpartaiiburg We know a man who says h doesn t mind the coal shortage be cause he lives In a stea n - h ? 11 building.?Lancaster News. There Is or are some Bjoasjei a' Camp Jackaon. but wo indignant)! deny the rumor that there |S Of m man measles.?Tin? Stat< The gQ U Iah army absorbs in tin way of clothing supplies mote Ifcfli xn mdes of Manuel a day. vi t 1:1 r si:uvi( K u:\r\s or cokhituhacikh, Plotl In In lau !?( ornniiinleaUonv iaik?-ii I'hum UrHowci and Welsh UlYC lllfoi nialioii o| Much Vahle. New York, NoV, 1". ? PotuiLs of th ? plans of Sinti Pein leaders for the in sorrooiloii in Ireland which Culminat? ed In the Kastor Monday riois last fSSuT together With Information rela tive to thS lundinK on the Irish coast of Sir Roger Casement, were recounted In a communication found in the possession of "(Jen." l?am Mel lowes. Irish revolutionist arrested her*- several weeks ago, and made put.he today hy William J. . Flynn, chief of the Fniled States secet ser? vice. At the same time Flynn gave out eopies of an artfully worded letter which Thomas Welsh, a British sub? ject, attempted to destroy when taker Into custody by fedcrul authorities on the arrival of a steamship here last Sunday. The two communh ations. score; service agents say, have furnished much Information of value in thslr investigation of the ramifications Of Sinn Fein operatic ns in the United MellowSS3, sad to have been com? mander of a oonstdorahli foros o revolutionists during the L>ut)lin riots Is at liberty under $7.500 bail charge . with obtaining by fraud a seaman'. passport on which it is claimed he in? tended shipping on English houn vessels in order to assist in another Irish revolution. That another uprising was plan Sod for a time not far dis*ant is in licated. authorities believe, by a olo. uk sentence in the unaddressed let ? ?r found in Welsh's possession. 1 urging discretion in the wording 0 onimunJcations this letter Mid. ' Tie ;ame is so high and there is too iiiiip.: it stake to take any risk and yo gpjgt use extreme caution when wri ng. Always refer in future to th Seanfear as I do and if poss blc d< lot mention his raine at all." ^ The word "Seanfear1 occurs . lumber of times in the communlca Ion. "William Cain." "Mrs. Cuman Tomy O'C." "Liam" and persons ds gnated by the letters "MW." "M uid "I" are mentioned in the com nunication. RcfOCSaOS also is made o a man who. the letter indicates lometimes pewed as n priest and to mother pers n referred to as "the ady who was recently released." Through study of the communlca tlon, federal authorities believe the ^ l>erson designated ;is "Seanfear' i ? he director of all Sinn Fein opera ions. Tort Ions of the letter, authorities , ?i.V. K>\e ground for their belief that ^ A'elsh was one of a number of mes lengers who came and went betweei. eaders of the organization in Ire and to thsir agents in this country. Welsh is in the Tombs in default >f $2.500 ball charged with vlolatim he trading with the enemy act. || requesting that some "brooches' SI purchased with money which he, . ?v.is sending, the author of the Welsh etter wrote: "The woman's ?oelety wants to <now if it would he possible to havi i supply sent out here. They Wll HMrenvOS a sale of lOO pounds. An\ irollts from the sale will be bandet, ever to the arms fund." federal agents ere endeavor! ni t dentify 'he persons indicated by let ters and initials in the communica? tion. The communication found in Mel lowes' possession is said to constitute the tlr8t authentic narrative by B par? ticipant in the events lending ui> t< the Dublin rioting. The writer said he hattevsd the shipment ol arms sndl ? > m munition to Ireland aboard the steamer Ami, which w.ts sunk on tin way, was arranged from America and without the knowledge ,f R| Roger Casement, leader of the rs bi uion, who srranged to obtain the help of Germany. The author of the communicate ? Rprseass ths belief that In vlen ot o igreement with Germany that if th< courss of the war allowed it. Ger? many would SOI up an independent Ireland. It would have bOOfl gdvil ihU lo bars waited until the end ot the wur, if neeossnry to bring about such I movemeiit. I "I bellOVS it would then have bOOtl i BOBtbts to i n? gnns on ? huge scab end srm every man In Ireland," tie writei sontlnuea "t am fully sos rlneed that t is war ending and the promised home rule not forthcoming, the ranks of ths volunteers would hi iargei\ augmented, i would safely reckon on hiving 80,OOS armed an I <i< pendable men." Muybe the troubls I? that there Is ? no nach word as "Knough" Is the . German leili'on.?-Anderson Malt, The German word for n sufficiency I* ??genug*4 and Uncle Rum's going to sties le the task he his undertaken i until be hears it Greenville Pled* moid. ENGINEER SHIP BUILDER. PIK? PLACED IX ?rPHEMll CHAltCJE. More a* don Wanted?Emergcucj licet Coiyoeuttoii Mas \cu Head? lawk ot Method in Yards, Washington Nov, 1". A complete reorganisation of the shipping board emergency licet corporation ?as be? gun today when Charles A. PiO?, I Cliicago engineer, recently made vice president of the corporation, was put in supreme charge of the govern? ment's ship building program. Pear Admiral Washington L. Cappa appointed by President Wil? son as general manager of the cor? poral ion who succeeded Major Gen? eral QoOthalo, Will continue In that position but much of the work he lnus done heretofore, will be taken over he said tonight. by Mr. Pies. Ad? miral CajPifs denied vigorously re? ports that he would resign because of the changes that will be made. Duties that have been performed by seme of Admiral Capp'f aides, most Of them naval men, will be taken over to a largo extent by engineers who will serve with Mr. Piez. Wood? en ship construction will be put In charge of James Heyworth, a Chi? cago contractor who displaces Hear Admiral B. T. BOs/OlO, retired. The building of fabricated steel ships will he under the supervision of Charles Day, a Philadelphia engineer. A. J. Mason of Chicago .another engineer, will do most of the held work. Decision to reorganize the staff that has had charge of building was made by the shipping board after an investigation by its special commit? tee headed by Mr. Piez and compris? ing Mr. Mason, Mr. Day and Prank Kirby, a New York engineer. The committee reported it is learn? ed that ship building was not pro? ceeding as it should because of lack of business methods within the fleet corporation. Yards, they reported, s*oro not Obtaining material as rapid? ly as they needed it. Specifications, they said, were 0hanged too often iml a general lack Of harmony was 'ound. they declared, between build? ers and the fleet corporation ofli dals. i One of the first things the reorgan? ised corporation will do will be to ' ussure a supply of lumber for the :5 p? I ITOOd OD ships lindor construction. 1 -Southern pine producers have failed I Lo deliver timbers needed and the corporation will turn to Orgeon fir. < .ransporting it across the continent 1 to trains. The priority OOfnmlttOI )f the 0/Or industries board will b< < isked immediately to give these ship- 1 nents the right of wa> over niu erials not considered so essential. Wootlen ship builders came tt Washington and told the ?hlppln. KJOrd that specifications have box ihangOd so that their operations have Deen seriously handicapped. Tho\ complained too that they have roooH od no cooperation from officials o: Lho emergency fleet corporation. Out development of the conference WSJ the statement by shipping board of licials that the wooden ships now building probably are the last tha will be ordered constructed by th. govern ment. a GREAT SPEECH on a OREA'I SUBJECT. l?r. Ii. N. Snyder spoke to Very Large Audience in the Opera House. The patriotic meeting held In th Opera House yesterday afternoon : the interest of the V. M. C. A. Wa Work campaign was attended by large and interested andiene?' that represented oil sections of Bumtei county that are within a Sabbat] day's journey of the town. The low or floor was tilled to its utmost ca? pacity and the balcony seats were practically all taken. The occasio. and the cause that the meeting wi held tO promote naturally attracted a c rowd. 1 mit it is SOfS to say thai the drawing card was the announce men! that Dr, H. N, Bnydor, of Wof ford College would deliver the ad? dress. HO always draws a crowd In Sumter and always entertains, in ?truoti ami Inspires his hearers. Yes? terday afternoon he spoke from a full heart OP a subject of which he ha: a wide and intimate personal knowi edge, and the impression that h< made could be seen and felt. He touched the hearts of at] by his pro* sentatlon of Ihe Making of an Amerl can Soldier, he aroused their patriO tism and brought home- to them I fuller and deeper realization of the duty that every one owe s to our COU1I try and to the- solche rs who arc de? fending our li\cs. our liberties ate! our honor. Dr. Snyder delivered neat address on a great SUbOCl an the great audience heard him gladly The Choral Club, under the direr lion of Mr. It, C. Molue, rendered programme of patriotic songs. Riches seem to harden a me at matt; hearts. Money is going to put more people In hell than evil deeds.?Ot angeburg Times ami Democrat. CHEAPER BREAD PROMISED. wn.sox to isst'E proclama? tion RKCt'IRIN?; HAU I Ks to secure License. Government i<> Prescribe Suv <?r Loaves end Ingredients?Specific Amount of Sugar to Be Allowed? No Reqnlremenl as to Use of Mix? ed Hour. Washington. Nov. 11.?Definite steps to standardize bread and lower It* price Wll be taken tomorrow when President Wilson issues a proclama? tion placing all bakeries under gov? ernment license, December 10, and subjecting tnem to food administra? tion rules prescribing Ingredients and weights of loaves. Trices will not he fixed, but with the standardiza? tion it is expected that natural com? petition and simplification Of distri? bution will force down prices- for pound loaves to 7 or 8 cents. Fancy breads will be eliminated and the multitude of sizes now pro? duced will he reduced to conform with standard ingredient*., The weights will be one pound, one and a half, two and four pounds. The loaves will have a crease in the middle to per? mit their sale in halves. In making only three pounds of sugar will be al? lowed for a barrel of flour, instead of the present average of six pounds and two pounds of vegetable oil shorten? ing must be used instead of six pounds of lard or oil. The food administra? tion expects to save 100,000,000 pounds of sugar and the same amount of lard in this way. Bakers may use only skimmed milk for bread, and rolls will be permitted only if made In standard sizes and of regulation bread dough. Through the cooperation of the baking industry and also with the backing of the licensed system, Food Administrator Hoover hopes to work reforms in the present method of dis? tribution from wholesale bakeries to retailers and from retailers to cus? tomers. He will urge grocers, for in? stance, to buy regular quantities of bread, limiting their purchase to a single bakery instead of buying from four or, five as at present, and to make lower charges to consumers who pay cash and carry their goods home than to those insisting on delivery and credit. On the "cash and carry" basis he says, broad can be sold at a profit of 1 cent a pofcnd loaf. In addition an effort will be made to persuade wholesale bakeries to sell their pro? duct direct to customers who will pay cash and carry their purchases. j In licensing the baking industry which produces about 4o per cent, of Lhe country's bread, Mr. Hoover indi? cated no effort would be made to en? courage use of mixed flour. House? keepers, however, will probably not be saked to use mixed Hour. The food administration estimates that about 40 per cent, of the bread production of the country is in com? mercial bakeries, and GO per cent. In homes. Milling standards now requir? ing the manufacture of ai^out 7 2 per cent, of the wheat grain into flour have been found more efficient, from consideration of health and keeping qualities, and probably will not be changed. "The requirement that all bread shall be baked In multiples of one pound," Mr. Hoover said In his state? ment announcing the forthcoming proclamation, "has several objectives ?economy In labor of baking and; economy In materials-, as small breads are more wasteful In baking than larger units. The bread remains fresh longer in larger loaves and there will be less loss of stale bread. ' Furthermore, a standard weight will protect the consumer. At the present time the tendency is to adjust the weight to the cost of the bread In an endeavor to maintain Is unit of price. If the bread in the country is of fixed weights the consumer will be aide to determine at onoje the cheap? est bread, of which he is now inca? pable because of the variability In weight from six ounces up to four pounds." Litter Mates. A southern sow had olght pi^s and ???nid only nourish seven of them at a time. Rather than let the odd pig starve it was given to a liLtie girl, who raised it by hand, she joined th local Pig Club as a h:.in and bacon member, and kept close recoid of the feed given and weights of her pig. Which was not a pure bred. When the pin was 10 months old, it was killed according to tha Instruc tlOnS sent her. It weighed 22;. pounds net when dressed as meat and yield? ed also a 50?POUnd can of lard. Tin pig cost iess than .'? bushels of corn to produce, as it was raised <>n kitohen waste in addition to the corn. The other seven pi.us raised by ths mother and left to rustle with her w< re killed at the same time and averaged only 87 pounds net when dressed as meat. The instance shews how- liberally the pig will repay proper care and feed by gaining rapidly In weight. NEW DRAFT JjLES. |! PRESIDENT ISSUES FOREWORD ! of m:\\ HKUULATiOKg por SECOND CALL. More Than Nine Million RuttsU-aats j Will nu out Queeuonii to Be a Mulled by Local Boards--Work to a lie Completed Within Sixty Days. t Washington. Nov. io.- President \ Wilson formally put the new nr.- " chinery for the carrying out of the se- ( lective draft hill into operation to- 1 ? ] night with the publication of the foreword he has written to the regu? lations under which the second ? will he made. The regulations them? selves and the questionnaires which more than 9,000,000 registrants will bo required to till out are being for- j warded to local hoards but nave not yet been made public. War department officials estimate that the whole process can be com- ! pleted within 60 days. This means' that no second call will be made up? on the draft forces before the middle' of next February as the period of classification will not begin until De- ' cember 15. The president describes the r.ew plan of dividing all registered men \ not already mobilized into five classes, ?Ubjeot to military service by classes, as being intended to produce- a mot e perfect organization of our man pow? er." "The selective principle must be carried to its logical conclusion," the president said. And he added there must be made a complete inventory of qualifications of each registrant in order to determine 'the place in the military ranks of the nation in which his experience and training can best be made to serve the common good." The inquiry projected in the ques? tionnaire will go deep into the quali? fications of each of nearly 10,000,00? men. The success of the plan and its completion within the estimated time rests absolutely upon the whole hearted support given by the people, especially by the doctors and lawyers of each community and the president calls upon them for their unstinted aid. The president's foreword follows: "The task of selecting and mobiliz? ing the first contingent of the Nation al Army is Hearing completion. The expedition and accuracy of its accom? plishment were a most gratifying demonstration of the efficiency of our democratic institutions. The swiftness with which the machinery for its ex? ecution had to be assembled, however left room for adjustment and improve? ment. New regulations putting these improvements into effect, are there? fore, being published today. There is no change in the essential obligatio!, of men subject to selection. The first draft must stand unaffected by thc provisions of the new regulations. They can be given no retroactive ef? fect. "The time has come for a more per? fect organization of our man power. The selective principle must be car? ried to its logical conclusion. We must make a complete inventory of the qualifications of all registrants ir order to determine as to each man not al? ready selected for duty with the col? ors, the place In the military, indus? trial or agricultural ranks of the na? tion in which his experience and training can best be made to serve th I government. This project involves an inquiry by the selection boards into the domestic, industrial and educa? tional qualifications of nearly 10,000, 000 men. Members of these board: have rendered a conspicuous service The work was done without regard tr personal service and conditions under pressure of immediate necesity, which imposed great sacrifice. The service trained by the experience of the firs draft, must of necessity be retained and the selection board must provide the directing mechanism for the new classification. The thing they have done Is scarcely one-tenth the mag nltUde of the tiling that remains to be done, it is of great importance both to our military and our econom? ic interests that the classification be carried swiftly and accurately to B conclusion. An estimate of the time necessary for the work leads to the conclusion thai it can he accomplish? ed in 60 days. "] call upon all citizens therefore, to assist local and district boards by proffering their service and such ma? terial service os they eair offer as by appearing before the boards either upon summons or upon tlacir own In? itiative, to give stab Information as will be useful In classifying regis? trants. 1 urge men of the legal pro? fession to offer themselv?ts as asso 1 iatc members of the legal advisory boards to be provided In each com? munity for the purpose of advising registrants of their rights arid obliga? tions and Of assisting then. In the pre paration of their answers to the questions which all men subject to ?halt are required to submit. I ask the doctors of the country to Identify themselves with the medical adviSOrj boards which are to be constituted in the various districts throughout ihe nited States for ths purpose of mak ng a systematic physical exam Ina - ion of registrants. It is important hat police officials of every grade and lass should he nformed of their 'uty under the selective .service tw and regulatloi s, to search for ?ersons who <lo net respond promptly nd to serve the summons of lo sal nd district hoard Newspapers ea a ?e of very great assistance in'ci"i:i'-: ride puhlicity to the requirements of ho law and regulations and to tho lumbers and names of those who a*\i sailed to present themselves to th At ocal boards from day today. Final:; . I ask that during the time hereafte/ to be specified as making tho 60 dav period of the classification, all citi? zens give attention to betas'* in hand in order that th*< process may pro? ceed to a conclusion with ssrlftnees and yet with svtn and considerate justice to all." Supplementin the president's call to the nation, 1 ovost Marshal Gen? eral Crowder i^ued the foljowin; statement: "The question/;Hire which is the ba? sis of the new system is a collection of questions bringing out the essen? tial facts upon which all classification-* are made. It is 'he only printed for.a either in maki g claims or filhv; pi oof. "At first sight it may seem a little formidable but a reading of the ques? tions shows nat they are simple enough for any person who can read and write unde-standingly to answ< i\ "The preside?;t's message lines u > the whole legal profession of th? Fnlted States as assistants of the se? lective service system, and as impar? tial advisers to registrants in filling out their questionnaires. Under the new regulation* a place is to be pro? vided convenh it to every local board where registrants may go for free ad? vice and assist ance and in making out this document. The county judge or other judicial officer of a similar court Is placed at the head of a committee of lawyers in each vicinity and this committee is charged wih the duty of seeing that there are always plen? ty of lawyers and other volunteers present to he p registrants in filling out the questionnaire. "Questionnaires are to be mailed by the local boards to 5 per cent, of the registrants each day. The principal work of the gal advisory board will thus be over in 20 days by which time all the questionaires j-hould be re? turned to the boards. Every man has seven days n which to return bis questionnaire fully made out. The process* of classification will begin about December 15. Eight days later the boards will begin the great proc? ess of classit; cation which becomes in the words of the president a national war undertaking of ?such significance as to challenge the attention and com? pel the assistance of every American. Not sine? the war began has an opportunity been offered for practi? cally every person to take an active part in so important a war measure as the actual raising of our armies. The president's foreword offers this opportunity. It gives a definite place for the dociors to work in making the physicat examination. For th? first time i*. assigns every lawyer to active duty hi building up the Nation? al Army. In the legal advisory boards it gives every one who responds to the president's call a place in the ranks of the army behind the army. "The nation already has a remark? able record of efficiency in adjusting its political machinery to the regis? tration of 19,000,000 men within 18 days. WooMy Weather Forecast. For South Atlantic and East Gulf States: Fa>r weather with modera*<3 temperatur-s will prevail. <!reat Britain is still taking good care of BSC navy-?Anderson Mail. WANTED?To lease for three to five years, four to five hundred acrd farm within nine miles Sumter with prlv lege to purchase at end. of lease or sooner. Write full par? ticulars irst letter. 400? care Watchman & Southron. FOR SAL13?Registered Aberdeen Angus bull, four years old, tubercu? lar tested, without fault or blemish C. P. Osteen, Sumter, S. C. FORD FOR SALE?Second hand, wide gtidge, Ford roadster, engine rebored, and all working parts new, from commutator to differ? ential: tiro new tires, and two per? fectly good. C. P. Osteen, Sumter, S. C. I Geo. H. Hurst, ?idtrtiker ni Et^initr, Prompt Attention to Day and Night Calls. At 0. J. 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