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r*f,? ii : Tl \ db. '* ' ' 555=?=^=9B99aB VOL. 23. NO. 83. SEM1-W&I I TIME TO CONSERVE; ?BORROWING POWER ** Fee Banks Are Told By Federal Reserve Board to Curtail Credits. IP? UNLESS FOR ESSENTIALS y thoi Rigid Check Necessary on Cred- labc its if War Requirements of v,ey the Government Are to Be iht8 Financed. pari "ari for * Lancaster banks af% In receipt of the following statement from the (hjs Federal Reserve Bo?rd and it has ,, L-. been given out for publication as of ^oj>( very general interest and import* , wor ance' goii "The Federal ) Reserve Board Jse L thinks it the appropriate time to Issue a statement expressing its views ^ri B, A upon the principles which should guide the action of the banks in the Qr curtailment of unnecessary credltB. sho i "It is clear that If the war require- fror A t mentB of the government are to.be ' \ S^nanced without undue expansion of ^ I \ inking credits, but there will have tjv( t \ be applied a rigid check upon the brji \ \ Ather expansion of credit In. direci \<1ons not clearly essential for the | \ 'josecutlon of the war, and for the ( ^n, V \ necessary "'comfort- of the c|t / iref^le. ^ la no more possible to | superimpose upon the volume of ' prewa* credits the Immense volume can of addltlon&l credit required by the l . government for war purposes than to ^rj ? V* < ?uPerimpose upon the volume of pre- e{j ( rl ^ war production of Roods the immense ^ , volume or additional goods required (Q ( by* the government to prosecute the jorf war. Our problem is to convert less- oJ. ( essential Into more essential credit. BOD< and to convert less essential tdr inore essential production and distribution of goods. The saving of credit and f})n( money goes hand in hand with the r| saving of labor and materials in the|(|)0 ^ program of adjusting the business ?'|the | the nation to m>war basis, and our j t best hope of avoiding competition jinp between the government and its citi- j-QO( zens for credit, money, labor and ma- {. terials. which can only result in ^elj rredit and price inflation and higher costs of living, is saving. wj(] "As trustees of the Individual js t< hanking credit of the country., the S(?lf bankers are charged with the duty bon of studying and understanding the ;?^ program in order that each and every _ one Ilinv In turn pilnrnld hlo hniTAu-. I Bel. , ... ? era and the people of his community to the necessity of saving credit as w well as food and other materials, and | may thereby conserve the credit of i his bank for the use of the govern1f ment as far as may be practicable. Oc< "It is not the purpose of the board j , to suggest the specific ways in which ,t credit should be conserved, or uni necessary expenditures curtailed; A each banker must determine this for himself. The board can only discuss ' the^subject In general terms, with emphasis on the necessity that while He; credit conservation should be under- t taken promptly It should be carried out gradually, with reasonable dis- J cretion and with the least possible ^ avoidable embarrassment to the business of individuals and industries. Proper education of borrowers anu ' customers to the needs of the situa- on tion will accomplish far more than mih abrupt discrimination or pressure. kijJl "In the absence of any official on classification of the more essential abo and the less essential things and en-1 a p terprlses It will he necessary for each twh banker in determining how he mav Jim do his share In the conservation of cur rredlt to use his own Judgment. pla< "there seems to be, however, two 1 clearly deflned groups of loans: the "(a) Loans to facilitate produc- All* tlon or distribution. eus< "(b) Loans for nonproduct've or oth nondisti ihutive purposes. Sin l/ouns for NonpriKluctlve or Nomlls- plai tributlve Purposes. hon ' "Loans for nonproductive or non- pur distributive purposes are usually roa< loans for nonessential purposes. The his following are types of this class of and Jloans: of t "I^oans for purchasing or carry- gun Ing property, whether real estate or J froi personal securities. I Wh "Loans for additions to. or lm-|the provements of property not used In con ^production or distribution. ' 1 VLoans to st?t?s or munlcipallti*;'t?d ' J tf ' JE. il M l I SKLY. 4JJVEST IS BEING COh leral Authorities W Southern States T1 Licks o! ! Washington, Aug. 5.?F? ities are considering th >r situation in the soul ir to helping it. United States farm hel for the southern states Lment. of agriculture i 9 trying to assure suffic the gathering of the l>i( on, and corn and other fall. To do this they are goi ens of methods that aln ked well this year, and lg to try some new ones They will try to convi ner that this is the bes best licks in doing his i in showing others how uld not only be ready a his neighbor help but > his neighbor; that he ly to go into intelligent schemes nf hnvln? mui >ging labor; that he s make farm life attract! kers, so that they wil le back; that any tend people who go to the < ) harvest should be gh nee at least to show \ do, and If they make uld be paid the wages i u hands, and should be to keep tip the good wo 'he farm labor men ar he towns and cities for :ements that will win or he battle iine. They wil d out occasional volun y will get stores, some ories to close at critica t their men, many of ienced in farming, can f soil. One noticeable tf labor shortage is that i the resf of the country ortant the farms ar | production fails we how the city and cou ) each other out. The first thing for tl 1 a harvest labor prob o find out if he can ham or with the help of ] s. If he must have oul .... * 10WN SIMPS01 ULV ^BY A f :urred Sunday >, 'or Farm a Few Ml 1 Lancastek IGRO KILLS AI> at h Springs Scene ol Saturday Afternoor ack Hilton Shoots Vatts. Jrown Simpson, a whi the Graig plantation a es from Lancaster, was pd by Jim Allen, a nejs the same farm, Sunda> ut ten o'clock. The n istol and is said to r*e. I^ater Allen and his i, Jr., and Will, were t tody by Sheriff IIui *ed in Jail. 'lis* trruihlo liotwoon C2i r* negro is'said to have b Jn's children, who Sii "d of killing his to erwise bothering his ipson and his wife we station and the latter w tP of a negro nearby pose while Simpson wai d. While she was gone two sons came up in the (|unrrel was renei he boys is said to have 1 and the older Aden tot n him and la d it on tt en Simpson's wife ret story goes, she to'd S te on away and not to ipany negroes. As h?' di ks he had in his hand to walk away, the o (Continued on Page mm. A LIVE PAPER LANCASTER, S. C? TUE m situation in south 'sidered by governmen3 I 'ill Try to Convince the Farmers i nai ixow is nest Time to Hit Own r Show Others?View of ielping Conditions. jderal au-|he should pet in touch with hi ie harvest I county agent, state farm help spi h with aciaiist, chamber of commerce or otl |er civic organizations, state agricu p special-1 tural college, extension director, til ," the de-j nearest office of the United Stat* innounces employment service, or the Unit* lent labor States department of agriculture. ? crops of "Business men of the cotto foodstuffs states should n^ed no demonstri tion of their duty in preserving tt ng to use groat crop about to be harvester eady have stated George A. Maloney, supervi I they are ing federal farm help specialist f< i of prom- the southern states. "Every community in the south nee every said Mr. Maloney, "needs at th t time for time the vitalizing and directln own work force of a well-manned and stror ; that he organization for the protection of I to accept interests and for controlling the I t serve to bor situation, seeing to it that a should be labor is kept constantly employ* co-opera-I and necessary man-power provide 'hinery or for its industries, none of which hould try more Important than agriculture. Ive to his j "Where loafing and idling 1 stay or known to exist it is the duty of evei er-handed citizen having knowledge of it to s< country to that the constituted authorities u 'en a fair their official power for its elimin vhat thev t inn A no.loMnJ ! - , . ?vniv>ivu JMIUIM' IJIIIl'llll IS 1 pood they gross an offender a8|is the loafer, of regular. "The farmers of the south gene encourag-i ally deaprve the highest praise f. rk. | the almost superhuman efforts th< e looking have put forth to make their arr the rein- produce the maximum. During tl i this part1 last month. I have visited practical II not only | every southern state and am kept i teers, butjtormed weekly of conditions in f mines ani^i of them, and know that in pener 1 times so no crop that ever has been produc them ex- here has been so carefully tend* Co back to and have been in such good conditii ling about at this period as those now grow in t is show- With shortage of man-power alrnc just how universal this has meant extra hou e?that if for the farmer and his family in tl all fail ? field, expenditure of money for ii ntry must proved machinery and many oth personal sacrifices. io farmer "The situation must be met lem to do home, and we know that it can lie it him- met if each state will provide t his neigh- means to take care of its ov tside help, needs." N IS AMERICANS TAKE IECR0 TOWN OF FISME ninjj on Supported By French Froo| from Sammies Capture German ' Main Base. I. ...? ?uinr,K Ar ifiK MtKlK F1GHTIN ' Murder Enemy Put lTp Strong Resis i When a nee But the Allied Trooi Andrew Conquered and Drove Hii Out. Ite tenant With the American Army on tl bout nine Aisne-Marne Front, Aug. 5.?Tl shot and town of Flames waa taken late ye :ro tenant terday by the American troops, au r morning ported by the French, egro used The French are across the Vos have fired ?' several points to the eastward ar two sons 'he line has been extended nort aken into west of Rhelms to LnXeuvillett nter and The Germans are resisting sharp from Mul/.on to Champigny. ipson and Flames waa taken after a hea> egun over artillery fight that began in the mi< npaon ac- ?"f' ?f 'he afternoon. A few Amei ^<eys and eans entered the town Saturday a premises, 'ernnon and remniued there a re on the I'ght. They were-driven out ear ont to the este day. The Germans threw g: for some -hells and shrapnel into the southei ted In the Par' ?f 'he town, making it inadvi Allen and ahle for the little party to renin a bugftv longer. ved. TaPe' Preparation Made, had. a shot Their ^ reconnaissance ^utd t>o? )k It away completed and they wore ordered le ground. ??H back.? Information th?|i brouy ;urned, sn ' n<k mnfer'nily aided the staff of impson to planning the attack, fuss with The Germans had placed guns < obi-'d the the crest-of the hills one or two k.l and turn- meters to the north, in posltio; fle Al!en from which they could pour in flanking Are. By this time tl & )' American and French artillery hi IN A LIVE TOWN SDAY, AUGUST 6, 1918. 1)RAFT AGES TO BE f ClYirn AT 1C TA AiiiLit/ m 10 iu ti n Leastwise, That is Secretar Baker's Recommendation to the Congress. IT IS PURELY MILITARY Is ei War Secretary Says the Depral ment Has in Mind Simplv t ie >8 Get Number Men Necessar to Defeat Germany. m Washington, Aug. 5.?Draft ag< ie of from 18 to 4 5 years will be rei j cmmended to congress in the hi g_ embodying the war department Jr new man power program which wi be introduced in both houses of coi .. gress today and expedited by con jg mittees with a view to prompt coi sideration when regular sessions < the senate and house are resume ts late this month. After formally announcing tt I, new draft ages. Secretary Baker sai J(| all the possible combinations of af limits were carefully studied and ls was found that in order to get tti men Into class one for the prograi j8 proposed, 18 to 4 5 was necessar rv He said, however, that the bill ? recommended to con m ess will c#n ae lain a provision authorizing tt a_ President to call men out of clai as one by classes according to ages, s that if it is found possible the m< >r_ between 18 and 1 ! will be called 01 or later than the older men who ai found eligible to class one. PS The war department program, tt war secretary said, is purely a mil ly tary one and cannot be called a co n- script ion of labor, although it na l(] urallv will have the effect of puttir aj at useful labor or in the army t e(j able bodied men within the age 1 ir p,j !ts as they finally will be fixed 1 congress. K In recommending this extensh ist of the age limits, Mr. Ilaker conti rs tied, the department had it in mil l10 simply to get for the army the nut her of m u which it believed neci or sarv to defeat Germany. The si retary was not prepared to say he many that would be nor to give ai Pp estimate a sto the proportion males between the ages of 18 to 1 inclusive, which would be foui eligible. ? In making up the list and classi the same rule will he followed th has governed in the first draft, wi the same exceptions from the fir Scall of married men with depen ents and those engaged in essenti industries. Mr. Baker gave It as his opinic that so far about 1,600,000 ha1 been drafted out of class one fro the existing list. There has been considerable o position in congress to lowering tl q minimum age, many members beir reluctant to draft youths before th< attain their majority and come in t- full citizenship. Senator Chambe Ban. chairman of the senate milita committee, said that he expected o m position on that score, but express* the opinion that there would not 1 unusual delay in passing the bill Some members of congress b k A ! I lieve that the man power bill will : h? taken up immediately after coi is- gress resumes regular sessions ar p- disposed of before the new wj revenue legislation is considered le Chl'dren'ti Day at Douglas. Children's day exercises will 1 e. I held at Douglas church next Rund.i night. August 11, at eight o'cloc old time. Everybody invited to a /y , tend, il I ? o? j War Savings Stamps. ii The total amount of YVa. jy.^sfampH sold in Lancaster county 1 ,s July 27. ip $83.311.25. For t> rn week ending July 27. $1,537.75. T1 s_ total |?or capita is $2.25. * In ?? b?on brought up and placed in por tion. ?n The Germans had been droppii to shells about the town intermittent ht since daylight When the America lb decided to advance it was after careful preparation and under >n sweeping barrlage of shrapnel ai o- gas the infantry advanced, na There was opposition also frc a' machine guns to the south and en he of the town but the Americans ontc ndjiy silenced them. . NF ALLIESHAVI ) FISM( y n?>WI>KI{ SU<J<?KSTS Sill. AS RnCKTIMTUtV Washington, Aug. 5.?W urgent recommendation fror vost Marshal Gen. Crowde if it be enacted without delay suggestion that Septembi might be fixed as registrati* for approximately 13,0 O nien throughout the count administration's man powi requiring the registration f( itary service of all men b< the ages of 18 and 45 yea introduced today in the and house. II Unless immediate steps i 8 ken to provide additiona II Gen. Crowder said the week , istration of men as they att . years of age will be necess fill the draft quotas after S her 1, when only 100,000 ((j 1018 registrants will be avi aidIorrussia 5 is decided i rn y IS America and Japan Wi i- Send "a Few Thousand to Vladivostok. as \?n TO SAFEGUARD THE nt re Agreement is Largely R< Personal Efforts of Pr 10 Wilson to Bring the I n- Together. t 'P Washington, Aug. 3.?Th 1,1 lean and Japanese govevumi n* mally announced here that t by tor extending military aid b and Siberia would be underi in the United Stales and Japa n* with the other allied co-bel assenting in principle. n* The I'nited States and Ja >s" each send a "few thousand Vladivostok to act as a ,vv force in occupying and sat'oi ,u the city and piote ting the the westward moving r>- Slovak army. The numbers of the troops from where they will >s- when, may not be disrusst a* While the United States 'h pan are extending aid to the Slovak army in Siberia th< d" States will continue to ct a' with the allies operating fr< mansk and Archangel. To < )n tent and in what nature is nounced. m The only present objects Japanese-American force wi p-jgive such aid and protecti* ie ; possible to the Czecho-Slova ig against the armed body of and Austrian prisoners of wa to steady any efforts at self gov r- and self defense in which t ry sians themselves may be w p accept assistance. >d Later the United States w je a commission of merchants, tural experts, labor advise e- Cross representatives and a, i? the Young Men's Christian n- lion, to organize in some id meet the economic necessitie ir stricken Russian people. Roth the United States am in the official announcement the most specific pledges of tion agreed upon being whol )0 out thought of interference sovereignty of Russia or ar u ' ference whatever in her int< fairs. The Japanese government same time pledges Itself th the objects of the mission ar fa plished it will withdraw e to panose and leave the severe 16 Russia unimpaired in all it< ,e j This agreement, to whict | allies assent, is largely the ? | the personal efforts of I il* Wilson, who has been at most unceasingly for weeks the nations together in the ly fert:ve plan which at the s,i ns will convince the Russian a j that the aims will be pure!; a| them preserve and develop t id | found democracy. I The text of the Japanr >m ment as given out here cor ist to the decision publisher^ in k- flclal Oazette at Tokyo Fri cabled to tbia country via L> WS " 4 r \ i SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR : TAKEN TOWN OF | GERMAN MAIN BASE ^TROOPSOFCROWN ' k :? PRINCE CONTINUE | IN FULL RETREAT >n day ftO.OOO ry the (;ain 0f More Thar. Six Miles at ar bill _ _ , __ I 7K >r mil- Some Points Made By i / etweeii/ Allies Saturday. r rs was j yS apn 11 f p ' '" * ' ? ENEMY BURNING MANY 1 are ta- VILLAGES AS HE IJLEES l men, ly regain 21 Number of Prisoners Captured tary to jjy Allies, Unofficial'.^Report o^Vhe From Paris Says, Will Thrill uiiabie. J1 Allied World When Made ? Public. * (Sunday.) The German retreat continues un? fMIIN abated, with the allies everywhere in hot pursuit. . Apparently the situation now has II Each resolved itself into a race for the ? northern bank of the Aisne river by; the Germans, who have been evicted./ from strategic positions along the Vesle river, in the center of Wxp line CITY and directly east of Rheims, which. seemingly renders necessary that 'SUlt of they *^'sne between themselves and their pursurers as quick-esioeni Jy as posnible in order to escape fur- y Nations ther large losses of men made pris. oners. | Just how large this bag of capIt ives is at present cannot be reek* ' n" 1 '- ned, but unofficial advices from n,!" 01 I'aris assert that when tie figures * l>1 n are made public they will thrill the o Russi.i world. General Pershirg in " '*' '' ili.s communique says the Americans/*' L < 1 al,,lu !a'oin' have taken 8.4(1') prisoner*1/ V lig?r? ts an(| jn addition, 233 guns. 1 pan w 11 Tmvn of '?*?"<?* Taken. / men'" t.?f Al'tei hard fighting the Amori/ J ( 0111:110 . ai,d French have succeed* d in f nuardie ,:ng from tii*? Germans the itnpo/ % , / rear of,,ow" of Fisines, once Gerni.L ' C'zeeho- great ammunition and supply dry* ( midwav on the railway betwo\ ^ Une"i Soissons and Rhoims. while to t^ I go and ''asi at a number of places along tlio Mj Vesle river the French have ere'se<i and Ja-j1'11' stream, driving the enemy nf * - j. (' /.echo- eastward. ,Kast of Soissons" r .^"J i United ,ro?Ps have negotiated the pit ^ >-opcrate ?f the Aisne to the northern \ ' " j* mi Mur- of that stream, where they are "in a ' what ex- position to harass the enemy as ho C not an- endeavors to straighten^ut his lino in conformity with that running of the northwestward. II be to 1 So fast has been the retreat of tho in as is Germans in the center that already k forces some elements of their forces have German i succeeded in reaching the northern r and to I hank of fh? Aluno or,a - UUU ftCUIHK u II IIIernment bers of their big guns across with he Rus- them. All through the salient towns illing to are still ablaze behind the retreating * Germans, and even corn fields hav? - ill send been set afire in order to prevent the agricul- allied troops from garnering the rU (?. srs. Red pened crop. ^ ' gents to The fighting along the Vesle fciver 1 associa- was of a sanguinary character as ?|. way to long as it lasted. , *A s of the Didn't "Gross" the Vesle. *f' V I With the river at freshet and th? ? il Japan, Germans unable to ford it. (/ s, make stood with their backs to it ani^gay? y the no- battle for their lives. A majority / ly with- of them were killed and the remain-/ v.ith the der were made prisoners. One of ly inter- the niost important maneuvers north u nal af- of the Vesle was the penetr.ition by the French to the village of Lat at the 1 Neuvillette whioh roioa.oo c.? at when mnn hold on the northern outskirts r a room 0f Kheims and seemingly delivers very Ja- the cathedral city from the G^xnflLh signty of menace. * * phases. With the Germans now t. loroughly i all the vanquished thus far on the Sols^onsresult of Rheims salient, eyes are being turnpresident p(i to the regions in the northwest work al- on both sides of Amiens. Here th# to bring French and British are keeping up most ef- their hard pressure against the ar? ime time nties of Crown Prince Uupprerht ot people Bavaria and have forced them on ! to help two highly important sectors to ?* heir new treat. Ketreat Across the Avre. se state- Southeast of Amiens on tpe< old* responos Montdidier sector, the Germans have . i the t)r- fallen b*ck across the Avre river day, anoL . .. ?? ondon. | (Continued ou Page 8.)