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i What is the Maxi f Of All th (By Ililairo Bclloc, Foremost >1 tary Writer in Europe.) What is the maximum strength men of all the great powers at wt ' * We can set down in tabular fo the following list of "potentials" ' millions: y ALLIES. Great Britain 3 France 7 Russia 10 20 GERMAN FORCES. Germany 12 Austria 0 21 j ACTUALITIES. These potential figures do not, course, represent actualities. Th are maxima, and maxima altogeth superior to what will really be rais ?save, perhaps, in one case?in i rulJ year. Let us proceed, then, the last stage in this analysis, to cc sider the actualities to which the "potential" numbers shrink in th< turn. GREAT BRITAIN. The three million maximum pote tial which we have set down for En land is modified only by two consl erations. The first is whether i cruitment upon the present systt will give this numl ar?which c certainly In theory be attained, i < second is whether the existing ari on the Continent into which the n? levies must be "digested" will large enoughf when the time conn to achieve that process of absoi tion. You do not pour new levies into field unsupported. It would be fat; You mix them with and embriga them with?make them fight side side with?men who have alrea formed themselves to war in actic If we allow so long a space as year for the process, and if we co aider both the quality of the materl and the intensive training to whi it has been submitted, we may, think (short of unexpected disaste be easy as to this second considei , tion. As to the first consideration?tli is, whether our present system of i cruitment will provide the full nui ber or no?only the future will sho * More than half, but not two-tliiri of the task is already accomplish* We have about another million I1UU. 1U ttucuuipuau LIIIO UJ a IUI pulsory system is a highly conti v^rsial proposal, not suitable for <1 mission in these columns. | A VOLUNTARY SYSTEM. But it is worth pointing out tli this country ?s the one and only bi ligerent country in Europe which c > still manufacture freely, that its I dustry is largely supplying the al ance and that a voluntary system f in an exact and elastic manner t . demand for labor. Under the alterative system i compulsion you would have to t range arbitrarily and mechanical what men were to be drawn for s< vice and what were to be left behii !for industry?let alone for shl building and tor communications, f mining and for agriculture, and f commerce, and for seamanship, tn< cp.ntile and naval; and you wou probab'y get worse material, too. At any rate, it is the peculiar co dition of the English coefficiei which we have set at 3, that is a ( I tential quite able to become actuality. We have no necessa reason to scale it down. There is another point about t British contingent attached to tl last point, which is that all the m it concerns are so far (or much t greater part) first class material. \ have no deductions to make for a; inefficiency or civilian employmei for the volunteers are recruited , definition, only between the ag where men are best suited for t ? ,1.1 AM1?. ... U ^ U. lit'Ki, uuw uiiiy 11 uiii mou m uti un passed the doctor . Let us set down our English ma mum "actual figure," then, at 3. FRANCE. The French potential coefficient 7 is in a very different situation, is a situation necessarily impos upon every conscript nation, tow that you must deduct from its "j tential" maximum all those who o Pnot efficient for military servicet a all those who must be kept back f the absolutely necessary civilian e ployment connected with cornmui cations and supply. In point of fact, this French < efficient of 7 shrinks under such test to something a little less than The inefficients even among t young men in any nation are mc than a fifth, and it is with dlfflcul they can be kept much below quarter. It must be remembered that t word "inefficient" does not me broken down in health, or sup< ft,, mL,. 1 , TH ? C1 a >1 : against mum strength <"?> ? ] three. e Warring Nations ?.o? Z r'torial ill- ncially and obviously weak, or dis| iused, or malformed. The inclti- j In | dents are these, and very much more 111 ** ? 1L , much t ir? than these. ; scripts rni THE "INEFFICI^NTS." ] yearg ln They are the young recruits who, , pa8>" Ui for a quantity of other less apparent active i reasons?for cuch trifles as varicose thia .-z, veins, or a weak heart, or 20 other the age things which would be Insignificant part Qf in civilian life?are not apt for ser- for this V*ce* I Ilussi If this is true of the first and mo(ie 0j youngest batches of recruits, it is, of mie th? course, more and more true of the gtands 1 reserves as their age increases. When | for aji we get toward tho last batches of the trained, so-called "military age" to the men J train th approaching 4 0 and past 4 0, the pro- 8eeing i ?# nnrtlnn 1-1 1 uk k?- "?u nuuiu uo oiuy a weaK- has ey ness to an army If called up from what lGr their ordinary civilian occupations foj. G.i becomes very large indeed. ^ .. .. 4. , able?c< ho To these we add the men who . ? .he prodi as must, as a matter of prime necessity. ye> ,n. be kept back for the furnishing of'. 8 >se communications and supplies of a 8< iii . . . , , of Septt 3lr every kind. andf as I have said, wo scale down our 7 to 4, and indeed, 1 That is an outside limit. to " >n GERMANY. ! s,n' 11,ul ju- 'of three Exactly the same thing applies to ig a , presume 1 . a conscript country such as Gerici * of traint many. We are quite safe in saving ., re* . ? ? . . . . , that ap| that if Germany had trained everv , ,, in Burooea ... one of her adult males her proper- , an r ' leave oi . , tion would be at least what the , lie lms to l .... French is, and for her 12,000,000 we I n> ' ... j ? well, must write down 7. ... 2 N a-. i. . . . ,We ma The number has been given in ^ oau,, these very columns as high as 7 Va by , ' , B8. eel and, making every allowance in favor of I , P- . for one the enemy and deliberately over-! ou(sot 0 ( a estimating his strength. But in prac-i thj (ljr tice and as f.n eventuality it is cer- , a'- . . ... ed men .. tain as anything can be that the GeriiB seven. man 12 becomes 7, Just as the by * most ce French 7 became 4. We write down, TA , ay . It is r then for Germany the actual figure >n. > ' ? very poi a narhona AUSTRIA. *7" "7*7 n- tho first Upon exactly the same calculation la . . ? . now sef , we may decide, without fear of putcn , . no wset , ting too small a number, to write i . 1 . ? of thesi down Austria at 5'^ instead of 9. . a- UVSSIA. ! rirkt'o With Russia we approach the only ^ to tl indeterminate factor In this ealcula-! !,P ? ai ber: ,e_ tion of actualities. We know that tn_ Russia, after eight months of war, i w has not in the Polish field anything (,r< like her total number of men who 1 r* f > 11 have received training, let alone any ,vu (o additions from her untrained re?erve.. . To some extent this is due to slowness of equipment, from the fact that Gei the supply for these very large num- Aui bers was not stored in time of peace, t and can only (precisely as in our own case, and to some extent that of the An<1 Frenchbe provided after anxious figures. n delay in time of war. jj_ It must always be remembered in lt8 this connection that a nation desiring Central to make aggressive war upon its The s neighbors, and planning to force war in it at of o 4 1 ?* -? ?1,1 - * * v. iw.iivuiai nine, win aiwaj'8 nave' sKy muj an immense advantage in equipment be liidd Uy and supply. If you do not want to storm n }r_ make war; if, still more, you had little li? n(j never planned war for a particular pest ma moment of your own choosing, it what of or would be folly to lock up, or rather | the exp< or to waste, economic energy in vast of all tl useless stores, most of which deter-1 But a 1(j iorate or are superseded in a few the cloi years. blue d n_ As a fact, no civilized nation has heaven, dreamed of doing such a thing ex- promise |G^ cept Germany. Germajiy did not be- Father. ftn gin to do it until about three years things I ry ago, and Germany was only able to poral. do so because she intended to make temporn he war at one chosen and particular1 ly thing 1j8 moment to which this vast accumula- j maketh en tion of equipment corresponded. i not be he aljL/, BU I u.nk, UNREADY. I there Ve It is significant that even Austria, | clouds t her close ally, has found herself is ever Qt' short of equipment and has had to , have a j by borrow it from Germany?a million to thy rifles among other things. , dark ai be If, indeed, the other nations had ; this woi vp known that Germany would really j push calculations so far as to force There i a universal war at her own moment. That* then they might have provided ' f against that moment; but no one did There ii 0j. this because everyone except Ger- 5 lt many?knew that to force war sim- That^ e(j ply at your moment and without There U lt grave reason save the desire for ag- i )()_ gression, means, in the European That ir, comity of nations, ultimate crippling Tllore b n(j and decay, and, therefore, no one I -or thought that Germany would be so That m. foolish. nj_ At any rate, the matter stands Mnu Ta thus: That even of possible trained ,D. men from the Russian dominions the cjn^^ a number at present equipped and corta{^ 4 fighting in the European field is far pie wh< less than the total, and that this is covery f tre in part due to delay in equipment. . " Uv But there was very much more: jbr0ft(p( a than this. In the first place, the Huh- Way foi sian forces are divided into three destroy ho quite distinct bodies?the Asiatic, mont ; an the Caucasian and the European J/'hotVle er_ armies. In the Polish field, as today. '"- l-*"-..,: , , .-mi,.... E LANCASTER NEWS MAY 7, 1915. Aiutrn-flormnnw * ""***" " , ?u alC . i\ UJUilit WAK' ncerned with the lust of tliese The arrival of hot wet brings with it an increa e second placef the Russians, : mortauty sely, do not use their last ter- ; Thc typhold fly aiul otl reserves of trained men. . .... riers breed and multiply ASIA'S ORGANIZATION. waste matter and ret us 10 Russian European service every ^ind he greater part of the con- , ,, , , . The city council has serve, I believe, for three ? . .. , , _ , , ,. . . ,. .... May 3rd, 4th and 5th f< They then pass into the "Za- ,, , , _ ? . . ,, , , up campaign in Gattney r classes to be called up for , . , . meantime, England ex service in case of war, and , , man to do his duty, am ipas only covers men up to .... ? t . . zen of the town ought i of about 37. The greater t. . , . .... thing in his power to trained men are not called up ? .. ..... cess of the movement, war after that age. Clean up and save a has, of course, upon tho uveB ! Germany, her "Opoiehenie," _. . .. . . _ , . . ... These deadly insests j 5 German Landsturm, which ... * ... , ....... , lighting on the babies* or the older trained men and .. ties and foods. They are the efficients among the un- . , ... ...... f'-r thousands of deaths She will certainly begin to .. . . .. _ . stroy their breeding pla< e untrained young men first, .... ... . . . . . . . will be abiding in a gr vhat vast stores of men she cause. number shall be set down fattens flies and 1 e untrained reserves as avail- . U,aby need.8 pure air snsidering the equipment to 00 ta" 1 ^ 1 uced in the time?during the I aroun 8 ,omc< ir of uctive operations on a j " your back yard litter ale, up to, say, the beginning ^Ish? Clean it out so ba smber, 1915? there, is the "actuality" as opposed If your stairway or hall potential" in the case of Rus- ! rja'<e a place for ba we may suggest a maximum . Don't throw things in > and one-half millions. We 1 Daby plays tlmre. s three and one-half millions Don't throw garbage si men out or the five millions think no one will see i pear, lirst and last, in th" will find it. 11 11 el 1 alone; for Russia will I)on>t loaVQ (Urt ,n V(J it the oldest categories and nmy get in bftbv.H fo()(,' provide for the Caucasian as Don.t )eave dirty rag3 , . . . .1 cans around for baby to y add one untrained man to _ ? . , .... . <H ?Gaffney Ledger, d up and trained and olHcer- ! in such a delay, equipped. trainer man available at the ^'lHt Kyes May f hostilities. So we may turn 1 Nation, ee an l one-half million train- Journal of American M< present in the Polish field to elation. Not necessarily less?but Many people think b rtainlv not more. tbe consequences of bad 1 high maximum, I know, and blindness, or very sor Bsibly it will not be reached. .1 . > -- | iiueuieiifu or present", not even nearly reached, in tlons are terrible, but 1 year. Still it is a possible : threaten the people or st down our table, in millions, ; cs nt|u,r pyg diseases t down our table, in millions. ; apparntlv pitiable. 8 actualities, finally, as fol- le whQ afe b,in) r the first full year of active | oye8 are hopele88ly di ns on a large scale, that is. ^ taRen care Qf Jn ?e beginning of next Septem-1 and dQ nQt becQme a m< public. But school chll ALLIES. eyes look all right, but ?at Britain 3 certain diseases or defec ulce der study and education ss*a 1 i may become a danger tc pie. A school child, be rotal 14 undetected cataract, or OfEUMAN KOKCES. sighted, so that he can rmany 7 blackboard^ soon falls stria class and becomes discoi his school life. A chil fotal 12^4 {sight, or astigmatism, or these should be our final , cujar defect of the eyes i when he studies his eyes suffers froh headache w The Sky is Blue. a dislike for books, stuc Christian Advocate. cation, and will perhaps ky is always blue and always ed or kept after school fo e the steadfast stars. The for which he is really nt / be overcast, the stars may Such children, their educ en by the thick cloud. The , press embarrassed or aln aay sweep up until there is | bv reason of uncorreoteil ;ht and the road of the tem fects, soon acquire a 1 y be full of portents. Well, education and all that that? It is of the earth, an 1 represents, and, the seeds ?rienc3 of earth; it is the lot and irresponsibility bein?; liings mundane, even of life, develop into criminals igain, what or that? Above dents. No flight of fane ids is still the sky, still the ed to transform such cl eeps, still the stars, still the non-supporting "ne'e still the rich and unfailing the wandering and mena s and presence of God our or the idle pleasure-seeki It is only the low hanging ery-finding prostitute. B Lhat are seen that are tem- hinder education mean a The things of God are not school. Idleness .truanc ,1; the experiences of heaven- oiates and habits, drlnl 8( peace, joy, faith, hope that ling, stealing, murder, not ashamed because it can- the gallows may follow, broken off, these things are fancy picture. It can bi all the time. Above the. observation and statistic! here is peace. There the sky criminal courts, the re blue. There even the clouds the jails and prisons, an diver lining. Rise then, soul, do you find lawbreaken fellowship there beyond the ranks of the educated, ltd threatening troubles of true, are natural crlmni rid. spring of criminal paren here must have been a s never a day so misty and proceeding 80mo general *the blue is not somewhere P^haps from some ances move it; I deprived of proper trail s never a mountain-top quite [ tion, possibly by bad eyes 10 bleak mass of criminals, howe some little flower does not I , _ ove jt. ! born offenders, but i never a night so dreary and through associations an lark | cultivating and ennobltn the stars are not somewhere | which ,g of course> practl ihining; | ... . % never a cloud so heavy and K,ble 1 bad eyea or other jlack vent a suitable educatii it has not a silver lining. tion is one of the great ???? to crjmo an(j poverty. It ken His Own Medicine is an | ef,8ential that our childr. Optimist. lnR generationg should 1 is absolute faith in his medi- ! . , , ... . , e knows when he takes it for , rate<^? an(1 ,hat bad e> ailments he gets relief. Peo- other physical or menl ) take Dr. King's New Dis- should be detected and < or an irritating cold are optl- . order that the acquireme they know this cough remedy ; .. ., uietrate the linings of the ,,oatlon ma> become kill the germs, and open the agreeable as possible. r nature to act. You can't , a cold by superficial treat- j ? . ... . _ you must go to the cause of Prevent lilood Pi able, lie an optimist. Get of Dr. King s New Discovery f Hue tinie. Net Usimcn*.. i i i * ??*--- ? - - - ? ' VINO. :;::! Red Devil Lve V i niuKes rain-water of thehr: ter germ car; and your clothes let i,o ...e .. "vr?l SAVES CLOI HL-r e of almost , u<,VKed Devil Lye is powdered, and dit.t>olvtJ in- V>|4', stantly. Is in siftinK-tcp c.ns r.-:d you con i c vil* much or little without wnsto. It is the up-t?.-dotc / designated j I iye. No cutting of cans, no waiting. / tY jr a "clean- , | You wilt never use the out-of-date hard or I A ; but in the 1 ball lye again, once you try Kcd Devil. / / J pects every I Cet a can ? prove it to yourself. . 1 every citi- J Ihe babies' kills babies, j and clean I What M here Is dirt I atj I "Bee Dee" on the label means HEAL VALUE r I Inside the package, and RESULTS and SATIS- I ed with rub g FACTION alter the contents have been used. I oy can piav Hiways asic tor ,tsee Dee" when you buy a stock I or poultry remedy. "Bee Dee" remedies are pre1 pared from pure, medicinal Ingredients, in a scienway is dirty tific way, and are genuine medicines tnat you can by I depend on. the street. I Qgg JW STOCK^POULTRY _ | LINIMENT?DIP wlier? \ on I Bee Dee Healing Powder?Bee Dee Colic Remedy t. The f.ics >ur sink it edm # > i |j Lured?no cutting, no pain, n< I 1 from business. Testimonials I ot i ts an l | | YOU know. Call on or w rite i play witn. information regarding my advan ; Piles, Nerve, Blood, Skin and s j and women. 25 years' experience. Consultation Mean to a Rixusi i n, 5(|t) I nion National Bank Building, C? cdical Asso-! Hill Sixty. j Richmond Virginian. THE 1 ut little of Bunker Hill, San Juan Hill, 203 ' eyes, unless Meter Hill, and now Hill Sixty take LU2 e ey are tj,eir places as summit points of war- I Such condi- .... ,\ dmn , . . like endeavor. On such spots and i muu -.hey do not, 8ays that ate as much Points as these the lives of men go ] Luzjanne ( hat are not I out and records of ' - " .- " .-in an- cently ho ; Kindled by their dying. Americans part of tj ;1 or whose and British at Bunker Hill; Anieri- cervman 1 seased are! cans and Spaniards at San Juan liat* no Linstitutions! RuMiang and Japs at 20;t him bulk mace to the1 .. 1 place. Idren whose Meter H11,; Brl,ish and Germans at IIo Bavg who have I,u Sixty. have carved their names fa(t lll U , ts that ren- on the records of military history. ! month wa a haidslrin, While tliere are records of peace as 1 than who: > other peo- onorable, those of war are not to aml w >rn with an , be dispised. Tliere t very nearnot see the Gill Sixty's name is not euphon K your ( behind his ious; it is not romantic; it is the j jraged with simplest designation that could lie d with far- given any rjBjnR of the Kroun(i for some mus- . f.. by" which purpose8 of identification. Hill pain and he Sixty saw the closing eyes; heard the ill contract dying prayers; shuddered under the ly and edu- groaning bodies of thousands of * he punish- brave men. Hill Sixty has become a jjJ* r something pojnt pame around which will be it to blame. ...... ational pro- partly Wr,tten the h,8tory of the tost stopped world's greatest war. Surely Hill physical de- Sixty has no cause for complaint with oathing for the extent of its fame?although education i great cause for sorrow that death i of idleness | and not life makes it famous. Man lakes 1 ; sown, may tl is always so?the insignificant, and depen-1 the seemingly tritiing. is picked out He has abf v is requir- the bright shining spotlight of hi Id ren into world-wide notority. A day makes pie nho |ak ;r do well," it as familiar to the people of the covery for an .clng tramp, world as is the garden gate or the mists?they I ng and mis- country road before them. Ten *,U Pt"f,tr; .. , . _ _ _ throat, kill t ad eyes that thousand men charged up and down way for nat distaste for Hill Sixty. Hundreds gave their destroy a co y, bad asso- lives?tthe greatest sacrifice they j nient?you n ting, gamb- could make?to hold Hill Sixty. She I "l? trouble. prison and | may mourn for their deaths?their <l bottle of This is no deaths make her great. . , .\()1 l( K Or e proved by 9. Visit the formatories ? Notice of Discharge. i . f. ' Notice is hereby given that the STATE OF S undersigned will, as surviving ex- County i from the ecutrix of the estate of Mrs. H. P. Notice is Some, it is. Crockett, deceased, on the 29th day suant to an ( als, the off- ?' May, 1915, make her final return J. E. Stewmt ts but even aft such executrix an<l apply to the the county o ' probate court of Lancaster county tinted April beginning, or letters Uismissory. at public aue lions back, MRS. NANIE S. CROCKETT MIL- the late T. > tor who was LEN, Surviving Executrix Estate situated in ,in? of the said Deceased. aforesaid, on ung. enu<a- A n 2? m5 of M ]!(15 The Kreat of 8aie> to t, ver, are not ~~ ~ " Cash, the fo become so CITATION. erty: d lack of a . Four he*<\ harness, 3 1 g education, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, cows. 3 year ically Impos- County of Lancaster. farming imi defects pre- Ry J. E. Stewman, Judge of Probate, eluding mow I...I Whorona T 1 ir povva O*" I'll. u,?- .. ?. ijaui^riic l\CC <111(1 W. """* olVl J horrior; Robinson have made suit to me accounts. ' to grant them letters of administra- (Signed) Is therefore ?jon nf the estate and effects of R. MRS. 0AT1 en, the com- Frances Kee, deceased. Administratr he well edu- These are, therefore, to cite and Mosler, I)i _ nv admonish all and singular the kind- Dated, La '* "| rod and creditors of the said deceas- 1916. tal defects, e(^ that the be and appear before corrected, in me, in the court of probate, to be nt of an ed- eld at Lancaster on the 8th day of ojwv in.i May. 1915, next, after publication To Drive Out y thereof, at 11 o'clock in the fore- A noon, to show cause, if any thev Take the O have, why the said administration TASTELESS iisnnino should not be granted. what you are Given under my hand, this 23rd printed on e nee Am (l?y of April Anno Domini 19 15. Quinine and lu itiu htJ- E. STEWMAN, The Quinine , ;ic. ?v." Probate Judge. Iron builds i ~~~ ~ i ' '' -n - 1_ T1 Kif > ES3H lEL/ [eans 1 ! After using the Bee Dee j Remedies generally for sometime, we take pleasure in saying that they arc giving entire satisfaction, and we cheerfully recommend thetu. McMillen Stock Farm, Waco, Texas. You can set them at your dealer's. P P fi 1 OHBHMBM ? danirer, n<> detention furnished from people me for particulars and Ced method of treating pecial diseases of men i rrce. UR. w . K. >lumbia, S. C. FRUTH ABOUT FIAN N E lmer out of Atlanta J lie lias been using "ohop for ft years. Removed to another ic City and the gro- J :ie traded with there uzianne and he sent roasted coffee in its that it is an absolute lis coffee bill for that \ s TURKIC times more 11 he used Luziann", asn't satisfied either, s the testininy; now awn verdict. ggggj ? I lis Own Medicine is an Optimist. lolute faith in his mediws when he takes it for nts he gets relief. Peoe Dr. King's New Dis- j irritating cold are optitnow this cough remedy ite the linings of the he germs, and open the lire to act. You can't Id by superficial treatlust go to the cause of Be an optimist. Get r. King's New Discovery i SALE OP PERSON AT, ?ROPERTl . ^r" ' j lO'JTIT CAROLINA, of Lancaster. i hereby ^tven that, purjrder of sale granted by in, judge of probate for if Lancaster, said state, 23rd, 1915, I will sell lion at the residence of I. C. Mosier, deceased, the county and state i Monday, the 10th day within the legal hours he highest bidder for iiowmg nesoriDe'i propof mules, 2 wagons and juggles and harness, 7 lings, 7 hogs, a lot of dements and tools, iners and rakes, disc harMso a lot of notes and -IER1NB A. MOSIER, * lx of Estate of T. M. C. eceased. ncaster, S. C., April 22, ltaw-2t t Malaria md Hulld Up The System 'Id Standard GROVE'S chill TONIC. You know taking, as the formula is very label, showing it is Iron in a tasteless form, drives out malaria, the up the cystem. 50 cents J >