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IIOOVKIt SAYS 8P1IK0KLKH ?OHIO. Not {?oing to luke Hrcad from tito Soldiers to Moko (.'andy. Herbert Hoover, Milted States Food Administrator, bas issued a statement from Washington replying to the charges of Claus Spreckles, Independent sugar refiner, to thc ef fect that Hie Food Administration ts responsible for the shortage of sugar in this country. Tho charges by Mr. Spreckles made at a hearing before 1 bo Senate Committee lu Washing? ton recently. Mr. Hoover makes the following Clear-cut statement as to the alms and purposes of the Food Administration: "Anything I have to say to Mr. Spreckles' statement will he said lu ?lue time to thc committee. lt to day rcq ni res no proof from nie to es tablish that Spreckles, a leading ? ligar refiner, ls sore at tho Food Ad ministration and would Uko to see it destroyed. I r?aliste that Mr. Sprech les' balance sheet will not looh no good next year as last, for refiners' profits have been regulated. Fur thermore,, his balance sheet would have looked bette.' this year lr tho price of last August had net been re duced and held Dist in thc face of a partial shortage that promised a fair opportunity for .lO-eent sugar and much increased profits. Mr. Spreck les. therefore, has reason to fcc! badly, There are other citizens who will feel the same way, and no doubt can entertain the public by assault ing tho Food Administration. While many reel badly, still the vast ma jority or men and women of our business community, and or our far mers, are sacrificing their profits .dally to tho nation's necessities with out complaint, for many are sacrific ing more than their money --their sons. y "We have bad two months of par tial sugar shortage-October and No vember-and will also havo Decem ber bet?re relief from the new crop comes. Tho American people have bad live hundred thousand tons of sugar in these two months. This is 70 per cent ol their normal supplies In eacj mouth, and if cora are avail able they will have 70 per cont for December. Owing to car shortages, the shortage lias huon most acute In the Northoast, and about 200 cars are to-day blocked from that region. This 70 per cont is twice the French ration. In the meantime, we havo i gi Von Franco a good pari of lite KO pei coat, and we aro proud ,,; lt?. Ti?i- Supply -riveu LO France ?VHS given deliberately, and iho Ameri can people were loiu UL ii al tho Unto, We havo also agreed to draw ten thousand tons for our friends in . Canada. I have yet t(. meet the American citizen who would have it otherwise. "As io the Food Administration Stopping the sources of supply, the fact thal nil available supplies have boen brought lu-jro that ships and cars could hiing, and that it has already boen eaten, is BU Hielen t answer. Mr. Spreckles knows the bitterness of the ten years' fight between producers ind refiners, and between different refiners, and ii' he looks back over the Inst three months he will ob serve a desire of many of these ele ments to use the Food Administra tion as a duh to settle their long standing bitterness. If Mr. Spreck les will tell us Where there Is any rugar to-day that ships can be obtain ed to carry, or cars can be obtained to deliver, it will bo delivered at once with the same resolution that we hive requisitioned or distributed over sixty million pounds of embar goed sugar since October 1st. In the meantime, the nine hundred thou sand tons of sugar in Java is as re ?r ote as cheese out of the moon-un less we wish to take bread ships from our soldiers and the allies to provide ourselves with candy." French Cruiser is Sunk. Perls, Dec. IS.-The old French1 <-miser Chateau Renault, employed As a transport, was torpedoed and sunk in Ibo Mediterranean on the morling of December l-l and the sub marine which attacked ber was later destroyed, according lo an announce ment made to-night by tho French minister of marine. The passengers on the Chateau Renault, all of whom were either soldiers or officers, were shaved. Ten members of .he crew' wero lost. * (The Chateau Renault was laid down In lS'it;. she was 422 feel long, with a beam Of BB.7 foot and displaced 7,808 tons. Her comple ment before thc war was COO men. Besides being used as a cruiser for merly, tho Chateau Renault had been fitted ns a mino layer.) IT. H. Drooka1 Successor Named. Columbia, Dec. 20.-The Supreme Court yesterday announced the ap pointment of Harry I. McCaw, of York county, as Clerk of the Court, to succeed the late Cen. U. H. Rrooks, who served in that capacity for 2.1 years* / "* S. V. ?Kfi?.gf>l HALI? A ll WAI) roi* HM 7 Ginning Over That of tum to December Int? Director Sam L. Hogers, of thc Hu roan of tho Census, Department of Co m moree, announces the prelim inary report of cotton ginned, by counties, in South Carolina, for the ( l ops of HM 7 an(| 1916. (Quanti ties .ne 111 running hales, counting round as half halos; linters not in ?duded i : County- 1917. IU16. Abbeville. 18,216 18.285 A i hen. ?7,200 38,13*1 Andorsoi: . .' . . 51,675 18,5 1 0 Hamborg. 24,531 2oj?96 l'a rn w (di. 58,152 40,285 Hean fori . 5, o :i 1 ."?,220 Berkeley. 10.008 1,628 Calhoun. 2 ??, 3 S i> 19,780 Charleston . . . . 8,687 3,41 Cherokee. 8,00? 7,619 Chester. 18,727 17,1.". 1 Chesterfield . . . 20,, 102 16,521 Clarendon . . . . 31,915 16,953 Colloton . u . . . . I 7,820 1 2.Ol!? Darlington . ... 29,404 15,569 Dillon. 26,953 20,506 Dorchester .. .. 14,076 7.026 Edgollold. 28,580 22.898 Fairfield. 15,855 1 2,698 Florence. 81,05 2 15,908 Goorgotown . . 8,846 "* 1,005 Greenville. 25,808 20,001 Creen wood . . . . 26,260 2 5,459 Hampton . 20,10 1 15,018 Dorry. 6,548 4,147 .Jasper. 4,873 4,764 Kershaw. 14,578 9,4011 Lancaster. 13,193 12.0 7 0 Laurens. 81,60S 27.207 Lee . .. 20,14 5 15,967 Lexington. 25,100 2 1,868 McCormick .. .. 12,030 10.300 Marlon . 12.9 61 10,3 6!? Marlboro. 47,269 29.658 Newberry.' 29,959 27,026 Oeoneo. in.?lO M,W>5 Orangobnrg . .. 7 1,722 58,836 Picketts. 12,133 13,136 Richland. 11.,629 15,009 Saluda. 23,912 24,100 Spartnnhurg . . . 42,957 44,51 5 Sumter. 34,993 22,370 Union. 13,046 1 0,917 Williamsburg . . 23,584 1 1,076 York. 23,088 19.220 Totals . . . 1,055,651 88 2,060 Ginning by States. Washington, Dee. 20.-Cotton gin ned prior to December 18th, amount ed to 10,142,858 bales, exclusive of Hnti-r.-. ;.'?.?! lu 'ludlau I 3f?,!?.* .> v.Hind hales md s.;.:< >'.. bales nf sea island. tho . i! ns burCait lo -da;, uhhouncod. ii ti : isl.' oi ' ho n ; en i 1.(dildo : A hi bo ma . i .. 1,900 Arizona. 11,000 Arkansas. 832,000 California. J?.OOO Florida. 4 5, ooo Georgia . . . . s.1,719,000 Louisiana... 580,000 Mississippi. 774,001) Missouri. 41,000 .North Carolina . . . . 521 .ooh South Carolina .1,111,000 Tennessee. 1ST.OOo Texas .2,9 I 4,000 Virginia . 15,000 All Other States .... 3,000 Sen Island, Florida.?15,000 South Car?ina . 5,000 Last year to December 18 ginning wore }\0,838,799 running bales, in eluding 184,285 round bales and 110,163 hales of sea island. ROSCHEIDS GERMAN SYRUP will quiet your cough, sootho the in llammation of a sore throat and lungs, stop irritation in the bronchial lubes, insuring a good night's rest, free from coughing and with easy expectoration in the morning. Made lind sold in America for 52 years. A wonderful prescription, assisting nature in building up your general health and throwing off the disease. Especially useful in lung trouble, asthma, croup, bronchitis, etc. For sale by Hell's Drug Store in 80 and 90-eent bottles.-Adv. Fumiers* Nitrates Held Up. Washington^ Dec 20.-Congress man Stevenson to-day denied that he had ?ny idea of going to South Caro lina for the holidays until the ques tion of supplying the farmers with an adequate amount of nitrates at a fair price is fixed. "I v. ?sh you would say for me." Mr. Stevenson . said, "that 1 will re main here during thu entire Christ mas time, if necessary, until this nitrate matter lg definitely settled. There was never a bigger or more Important proposition for our farm ers and 1 shall Insist that no more time bo lost in letting them know what to do. "Iyast week it was given out that a decision had been reached, but now lt appears other things have been en countered. I will slay here until the matter ls settled." --- ---?..?> Engagement A nnouncod. London, Dec. 20-The engagement ls announced of Esther, daughter of (hover ('loveland, to Cnpt. Bosan quet, of tho Coldstream Guards, son of Sir Albert Bosanquet. Miss Cleve land Canif i London in June of last your as a nurse. UH coming of New Yeur't Day naturally suggests th< remarkable cuse ol t? \ Hazard. The mother ol Hnpplzzez Hazard b iii alined to give him ?> Bible nome out of tho ordinary, and her attn was certainly good. It was hurd (? spell, and hurd to pronounce ; and pronounced properly, lt sounded VcV> much like a soda fountain clerk Hulk ing a fizz, But tho boys shortened thia unusual cognomen to "Hap." Tho Hap Hazards were married ii New Year's Day, Hap very happily j suggesting that that would be ?* good ' way to start tho New Year right As Now Year's Day again approa* li ed, May's Aunt Ada, at whose housb lb Columbus the Hazards 'were marri? d, thought lt would be n fine idea ti u?k tho young couple back home to spend their wedding anniversary. Hap and ! May delightfully accepted, and - roto j that they would leave Hometown for ; Columbus on the 29th. It wa^ DOW the 28th, and May decided lt wc - he j well to begin to pack, or at l*nst o | decide what she would wear and whi t ' she would take. It made her rather I proud of her forehandedness. .?And, Hap," she said, "you might . by the depot and get the ticket aug a couple of lowers, and everything ,<> j we shall be all ready to start tomar? row. That will bo easy to do." "Gosh!" exclaimed Hap, his pipe falling from lils mouth, "easy to d?>? Say, do you know I never tb . gs.t about those gol-darned tickets?" Hs shoved both hands into his po , "How much do you suppose they \yi\) be? I don't believe I have eiio igi money. "T know we sp?mt a lc f< Christmas." ? Han bad $3.11. May hnd ?d sh?^ ?ji loft oi.: ol lier Inst Week's money. ] There v>t..- $1 ^ > in rh? , "' drawer Of j the kitchen cabinet, and $12 .ii ?ill?n behind the picture of April Join -! lil j the sitting room. That made $22.01 ; j and Hap knew ho could draw u few j dollars In advance down nt tho shop- - he had done lt before. He lound lt was too late to ge low-; ers, and they missed that train any? way, for the time had been chan ?d, und the train now went through u ? nn hom earlier-when lt was on time : ?-and this timo lt was. He mnmij id to find an upper on the slow train for : May, but he had to sit up in tho sn. i or himself. Hap did not sleep very well, train stopped and started and Je< :. .v and bumped. It must have been near morning, after an unusually henvy Jolt, I that Hap distinctly overheard a fellow? j passenger say : "Yep, lt doesn't look much like we would get Into Columbus before Ni w Year's night." ? "What's tho matter?" he Inquired, | suddenly sitting up, "a wreck?" "Nope," said the passenger, a fut man across the aisle Hap had observed before he fell off to slumber. "Nope, "We're Going to Run on Schedule Af ter This.? it ain't n wreck. On this gosh?dlnged road they can't never have a wreck." "Why not? Is lt so safe?" "No, it ain't so safo. But thej Couldn't have a collision because ul) ^tho trains run east ono day and west the next." "That's funny. What if you ward to get to Columbus on Wednesday? "Then you have to go east to Pitts burgh on Tuesday and come west to Columbus tho next day." Hap tried hard to figure this out, but finally gave it up ns a little deep. "But," he said, "they could havo ? roar-end collision, anyway." "No," said tho strunger, "they couldn't nuther. Y'see," he explained, ". very train on this rond runs so much . :<>vver than every other train, that no train cnn ever overtake any other." "Then, If there isn't auy wreck," asked Hap, "what's the trouble?" 'Well, to begin with," replied the *; ranger, "tho fireman ls to blame. Wheu wo stnrted out he didn't figure on how much coal he was likely to need. Consequence was, we run out of coal right lu the middle of tho ni cht." "What did we do?" r "Wo stopped and got some from a JV.-'mer. Ho was madder than the M "kens, too." "But why didn't the engineer see to ? \ that the fireman had enough coal?" "The eug..ioor hadn't ought to say anything. He didn't have enough wa? "h< s Locking at You* Aunt Ada," Said May. ? ter. It woe a wonder ho didn't have a V:owup. iie was just running ulong, ami never watching the water-gunge, and getting water whenever ho could, bul not knowing very far ahead when ho ;ould get lt." '.Veil, this must be a fine crow on this old milk train. But where was flu conductor all this time?" "Why, the conductor didn't know we was lato until a few minutes ago .. ni told him. You see, he wasn't keeping any particular account of the limo. He figured that we was on the right road and that sooner or-later we would git there." . iome railroad," thought Hap to himself, and in a few moments fell off t'< ?deep again. ? ? * He's looking at you, Aunt Ada," ?*aid May. He's going to be all right," said the m inger. "He's coming out of lt." "Oh, I'm so glad," exclaimed May; ? nd, to the stranger, "I can't thank you though for all your kindness." He must have hit the arm of the pout when that Jolt threw him out," Mild tho doctor. "But it is nothing se rious." tty-this time Hap was wide awake, r*v.lly awake. It took a little time to wntanglo his thoughts for.him. "Everything's all rlgtit, old man," auld the stranger. "You fell out of thc seat-you've got a bump on your lund-und you were a little looney for awhile. But wc got you to your folks ai! right. Well, I guess I'll bo running along." Hut Aunt Ada Insistid that the '.?'unger, who was a traveling ealos mnn unable to get home for tho holi day, should spend New Yenr's Day .Uh them instead of nt tho hotel. Hup was so much better that ho was able to take a little walk that after noon. . In a stationery store he stopped and bought a book. Che next day was New Year's. That morning beforo they went downstairs Hap opened the package. "I've been thinking," he said to May, "that I wasn't so blamed looney, after all, when I got that bump on tho head. Mfybe I've got more sense that way than this way." "Why, how you talk I Aro you-are you feeling bad again?" "No, but I've been thinking that we run our house und our household ex penses about Uko they ran that rail road. We aren't keeping any account of what we spend, and we have Just about enough .coal and water to keep us going, without knowing where we Cnn get more. It's Just good luck that had kept us from having a wreclc. Now, here's an account book, and we're tjoli)g to run on schedule after this." A. SOI,DICKS DYING IX CAMI'S i Prom I ??ck of Clothing mal Helng Overcrowded, Says Gen, (?oi gas. Washington, Dec. 18.-Insufficient j clothing, overcrowding and bad Balli-. lary conditions are held largely re sponsible for disease epidemics at Cami) Howie, Texas; ('amp Ku liston ? i Kansas; Camp Dontphan, Oklahoma, and Camp Sev|er, South Carolina, by . Surgeon General Gorgas lu reports lo Secretary Baker made public to day on the result of his personal In- : gpection of the camps. With the exception of Camp Pun- ' ston, none ol* the camp hase hospitals j have been completed, Cen. Gorgas says, and this is handicapping the medical ?llleers in treating patients. Ile recommends the rushing of this work, particularly the installation of tho necessary plumbing. Gorgas Shows Ugly Conditions. Conditions nt Camp S?rier, Green ville, S. C., where former national guard organizations from Tennessee and North and South Carlolna are in training, are shown in the following letter from Gen. Gorgas to the chief off staff, United States Army, dated November 29,'ia-st: "Sanitary conditions hero are seri ous. Sixty men have died* of pneu monia in the past month. The camp had been exposed to a general epi demic o^ measles, about 2,000 cases having occurred within the last month. During the saine period they have bad 175 cases of pneumo nia and 15 cases of meningitis. The new conscripts of this command are tuen who are non-immune to measles. They come from the neighboring .Southern States where population is pearce and therefore have not bad measles in childhood. Always, with measles, a certain number of cases of pneumonia occur. The mortality of pneumonia from any cause is always high. "The basic unsanitary condition, however, In my opinion is overcrowd ing. In the past, in this camp, the division commander has had to put ll and 12 men in a tent, due to the shortage of tenting. This would give about 20 square feet of .-pace to each man. At present he has to put nine men in a tent, which gives about 28 square feet to the man. I urge that the division commander be directed to furnish at least 50 square feet of floor space to the man, which would give about Ave men to the tent. Observation Camp Urged, "1 also recommend thal an obser vation .-anni be established w'borc resi? meir-can be isolated and kepi, under observation for at least two weeks, or until thc camp Itself shows evidence of being freo from infection. "The division commander tells me that he expects a largo increase in the force at an early date. I urge that no fresh men bo sent to this ] camp until the division commander says that he is able to care for them along the lines of this recommenda tion. "There has been a good deal of discomfort and exposure on account of the men having nothing but their summer clothing. This bas been in great part corrected in the last ten days hy the arrival of woolen clothing and overcoats. The O. D', wool has not yet been issued, but the authori ties are informed that lt is on the way. The whole command lg still in khaki. "Heat and plumbing are badly needed In the hospital. Doth were authorized two weeks ago. I recom mend that the matter be pressed and the hospital be equipped in this re spect nt just as early a date as possi ble. The hospital needs badly more .transportation. I recommend that they be furnished one motor car; one three-ton truck; one one-ami one half-ton truck, and one three-quar tor-toh truck. Tho hospital at pres ent has 7 50 patients." At ('amp Howie, where the 36th Guard Division is training, Gen. Gorr gas reported during the past , month ll deaths from pneumonia out of 409 cases admitted to tho hospital. About 2,000 cases of measles have developed in the same length of time. People Uneasy and Hitter. "There is a grent deal of uneasi ness and criticism among the people with regard to conditions here, which are worse from the snnltary point of view than in any of tho camps I have visited," Gen. Gorgas says. "Th?. base hospital is unfinished, without water, plumbing or sewer age. I recommeiH1 that telegraphic instructions be son! to/the division commander nt once LO put in plumb ing, water and sewer connections and electric cookors in all tho wards. "I think the recommendations I ^ave made will tend to correct the existent sanitary errors, but I can not urge too strongly that they be put Into effect at once. The camp sites and surroundings are all that can he desired. The troopB and gen eral conditions are good with the ex ception of such conditions as relate SHIP LOSSES STILL HEAVY. Slightly Lower Tlum Iioeses of Last Week, However. London, Doc. 19.-Fourteen Brit ish merchantmen ot' more thau 1,699 tons wero sunk by mine or submarine d.irina Toe past week, according to tie admiralty statement to-night. One fishing vessel also wis funk. . Tho shipping losseg by mine or submarine in tho past w?ok are. alighUy under those o: the p.-ev io ns week, when 14 vessels ol more, dun 1,600 tons and seven under that ton nave were destroyed. One French Vessel Sunk. Paris, Dec. 19.-The losses to French shipping by mine or subma rine for tho week ending Docombor 15 were exceedingly light. Only one vessel under 1,000 tons was sunk and none over 1,600 tons. Une ship was attacked, but escaped. No fish ing craft was sunk. Fraud Waining. ^ This statement was made recently by Herbert Hoover, United States Food Administrator: "We have reports from . various parts of tho country of crooks, thieves and confidence operators who are going from house to house pur porting to be authorized by tho Food Administration and other depart ments of the government to collect or commandeer foodstuffs for the government or the army. "I wish to say emphatically that uo department of the government has or will ever make such demands on householders, and that all such peo ple are ?jetty frauds and should be held for tho police. The government cgencles are investigating various cases and information is sought of all such persons by this department."1 As to Cotton Seed. Columbia, Dec. 19.-Special: The legal division of the United States Food Administration has issued the following ruling: "Planters who buy yearly, between August :Ust of one year and Septem ber 1st of the next year, 150 tons, or more of cotton Beed, whether from their tenants or others, are subject, to license and - must conform to the Jaws and regulations of the Food Administration." to the epidemic diseases at prcseat prevailing. / "Ai Camp l'nmuon, in the 39't.ni Vrmy fdvislon, thor-.: >:avo h??en 4% death's rr'o.ni im'?hpioaia^ with jtf.V" cases, and 22 Crom meningitis, wu.* 2 2 cases, . "This indicates tho most serious condition as far as infection from meningitis and pneumonia aro con cerned," Cen. Gorgas says. "As emphasizing the situation. I call attention to the fact that they had 18 deaths from all causes* when the normal death rate of gttch a com marni should be about 12." Meningitis Carriers, The general report that among the 30,000 of drafted men Injected into the cantonment In Otcober were many meningitis carriers, this part of the country being known, he said, to all health officers as having been for\several years the principal epi demic center in the "civil poulatlon for meningitis. Gen. Gorgas recommends observa tion camps, the relieving of over crowded conditions, the oiling of nearby roads to keep down dust and the erecting and heating of ambu lance sheds-to obviate tho present difficulties found in getting the motor ambulances started during the cold weather because of the freezing of tho water in the radiators. During the past month at Camp Doniphan, whore the 35th Guard Di Vision is training, there have been 74 admislsons from pneumonia with 1 1 deaths; 316 cases of measles and one death; 104 cases of diphtheria with one death, and six casos of men ingitis with four deaths. Overcrowd ing is described by the report as the hosie cause. To properly control the spread of these diseases tho general recommends that suspects bo Imme diately removd from the general camp with the appearance of tho first case of communicable diseases and placed in a separate deten'ioS cam) for observation. This ig Iii ad dition to the observation camp rec ommended for incoming m?yi. Only Summer Clothing. Until recently, tho general roporls under date of yesterday, thfe com mand had nothing but summer cloth ing, which, undoubtedly, had Increas ed the tendoncy to pneumonia. Win ter clothing is now being received and lamed to the mon. Many wards in the base hospital now required for patients aro unfin ished and the report says this has caused great embarrassment to the hospital authorities. Installation J of the sewerage systom and neces sary plumbing systems in all bulld . 'ngs were authorized several weftjis ago, but the work'is n|t a standstill now, greatly increasing tho difficul ties in caring for patients.