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European Plan I'sed?Company t" \
Consist of 2."i0 Men and Six Dili- j
eers; Division of 1 9,000
Washington. iAug. 16.?Complete reorganization
of all branches of the i
American army to conform with En- j
ropean countries, as reeumweuucu ;
-Major General Pershing, is provide-!?
for in army orders revealin? that the!
recently announced divisional' reor- j
ganization plan is to be carried down!
into the regiments and companies.
The administrative unit of the infantry
arm hereafter will be a company
with 250 enlisted men and six
commissioned officers, in place of
something over 100 men and three officers.
The company will be divided j
*? niotnntis par.h in command j
v "1HIO Il'UI piaiuuuu, ? ?
of a lieutenant. There will be tw^
captains as first and second in command.
one first lieutenant and three
-second lieutenants. Reports of the
Teview of American troops in France
yesterday show that this plan already '
lias been carried out in General Per-,
shing's forces. j
The object of assigning two cap- j
tains to each company, it 13 under-;
stood, is to provide against disor-1
ganization of the unit through the loss
of its commander. The second cap-j
,,-ndor the "EuroDean system, does
KtGLXJLXy U^MV- ?
not go into battle line with the company,
if his senior is present. He is
"held as a reserve to reorganize the
company if necessary. Under the new
plan each regiment will have three
"battalions of four companies, making
_ a total of 3,000 men. Supplemented
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ply and machine gun organizations,
the strength of the new regiments Till
"be br&ught up to approximately 3.600
men as against little more than 2.000
1n exisiting war strength regiments.
Other Arms Unchanged
"Tie unit organization of the field
artillery and other arms of the service
has not been changed.
As a result of reducing the number
of regiments in a division, the division
instead of 2^000/ men will total hereafter
about 19,000 men, 15,000 of them
infantry.
The advantages of the system In addition
to the better adaptation of the
divisional unit to trench warfare lies
chiefly in the reduction in overhead
expense. One colonel and his rezi
mental staff, including his tnree oat.talion
commanders, now will handle
3,600 men instead of a little more*
^ than 2,000.
Today's orders show that provision
has been made for organization of 32
new infantry divisions in addition to
the regular divisions out of troops already
called to the colors, including
the first increment of 687,000 drafted
a cv.cstpm of numerical desi?
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nations has been worked out under
which any division number below 26
will be regulars; between 26 and 75
National Guard and 76 and above National
Army. Regular infantry brigades
will be numbered from 1 to 50,
inclusive; National Guard from 51 to
150 and. National Army from 151 up.
Regular regiments wiij^e numuer-su
from 1 to 100, National "Guard from
101 to 300 and National Army from 301
up.
Will Show Whole Thing
Assignment of brigade, regimental
or other numerical designation wij]
"be in accordance with the numerical
order of divisions with the result that
any person familiar with the system
will know that the three hundred
and thirty-fifth infantry, for instance,
is attached to the one hundred
and sixty-seventh brigade of
+V10 oiVhtv.fmirtb -Jnfnntrv division
and that it is composed of National
Army troops, while the three hundredth
infantry regiment, by the same
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process wouia oe m tue one uuuareu
and fiftieth brigade and the seventyfifth
division, composed of National
Guard troops.
The department approved today collar
signia to designate the three ele^
ments of the army. Regulars will
wear the standard U. S., aaoaogram;
"National Guardsmen will wear a aim
liar monogram witn me initials ?. u.
superimposed and National Army men
will have the initials X. A. superimposed
on ths U. S.
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Fine air and pure water?all the
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A Ch-^au atmosphere an'', positive
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Moderate terms in order to place
these advantages within the rea^h. ot
as many as possible.
Next session oegin September 20th.
Catalogue furnished on ar plication.
Inquiries should be addressed to
KEY. P. E. MONKOK, President.
Leesville, S. C.
[ REGARDING FARM
LABOR CONDITIONS
C?mini^i<?nAr General of National
Department and Co!. >yatson K\<franco
Y-ows
Columbia. Ar.?. 1".? The following
telegraphic correspondence between
the commissioner general of the national
department of immigration am
Commissioner Watson, of the state department
of agriculture, commerce
and industries, with regards to farm
labor conditions, will be of general interest:
"Washington. D. C., Aug. 14. 1917.
"E. J. Watson, Commissioner of Agriculture.
Columbia. S. C.
"Please v/ire collect government
rates status farm labor conditions
your state. Can United States employment
service be of aid?
"A. CAMINETTT,
"Commissioner General of Immigration."
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| Columbia, S. C., Aug. 15, 1917.
1 "Hnn \ raminetti. Commissioner
| General of Immigration, Washington,
D. C.
"Answering yours . fourteenth there
is some complaint as to shortness of
farm labor and labor in textiles due
to movement of negroes north, to construction
cantonments and draft, but
not very general. Will investigate
thoroughly and advise if your kind offer
can he of use.
"E. J. WATSOX,
Commissioner.
Prof. Hand's Inquiry
tAlong this same line Prof. W. H.
Hand, st^te high school inspector, has
addressed a letter to various officials
j and others conversant with industrial
j conditions asking their opinion as to
the advisability of the public schools
oi the state not opening this year until
October 1, in order to give children
old enough an opportunity during the
I month of September to aid in harvesting
the crop. Commissioner Watson
j in reply to Mr. Hand, has agreed with
| the suggestion. Prof. Hand's letter is
! as follows:
"Dear 'Sir: It is highly desirable
that every possible pupil be put into
I
I school and kept there during the conij
mg school year. To do so is going to
j be difficult. Army enlistment, arm/
| draft, the unprecedented demand for
labor, and the volume of the growing
crops will all make against a full at!
tendance. Farmers especially are go|
ing to need the labor of their own
children above 12 years of age to
j house their crops. Parents are not
going to send their children to school
i while their crops are wasting in th?
fields.
"In your opinion would rt be a wis*
thing to suggest to the people of the
state to defer the opening of the
schools until Monday, October 1? TMs
would give the entire month of Sep
I tember toward gathering the early
crops
"?WV)uld it avail anything if the people
would open the daily sessions of
the schools for six weeks at 8 a. m.
and close them at 1 p. m. ? This would
give an unbroken period of three to
four hours each day for suet work.
"Many farmers would gladly give
profitable employment to unemployed
boys and girls in nearly all towns,
j Would these unemployed give up joyriding
and moving pictures for such
! employment.
| 'Please write me frankly any sug!
gestion you have to make.
"Cordially.
i "W. H. HAND."
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OBEY THE LAW
SATS BLEASE
Columbia, Aug. 15.?Former Governor
Blease is receiving numerous invitations
to make addresses in thia
j and other states along the line of his
i Pomaria, Filbert and Anderson
1 1 * ? ~ .?!.
syeecaes. nis engagements are ?uuj
that he bas not been able to accept
a good many of these invitations.
In answering an invitation today tc
address a mass meeting at winch it
has heretofore been hinted by some
/
that there mieht be a test of the draft
law proposed, Mr. Blease made it plain
'that whfle he was opposed to the wai
and was opposed to the principles oi
conscription, that yet since the country
was now in war, aud the draft law
has been enacted, he was squarely o*
the opinion that it was up to every
man to do his duty and to obey the
law.
He said: "I was and am opposed to
the war. I was and am opposed to
conscription, but since our nation is In
the war we must not discourage, but
on the contrary we must encourage
every man to do his full duty and tc
obey to the letter the law of Ms state
and his nation and only along this
line have I spoten or can I speak. All
i' men have the right to petition con
gress upon any line that they please
as is beinff done, but no one should
'J eooarasre any man not to obey the
| lairs of his country and his God."
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WHEAT PKOI5LE
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Names (omniiftees to Fix Prices an
Diiict Distribution t?> Bring Down
Costs
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Washington, Aug. 1 >. -Authori!
for putting into effect Herbert <
j Hoover's food control program, as ai
l iiaH m srrain. was given today in
y: >clamat'on issued by President Wi
| son. Predicated on the food and fu<
| act. the proclamation of Mr. Wilsc
i gives the food administration the pov
! er to license the storage and distribi
i tion of wheat and rye and the mam
; facture, storage and distribution of a
| products derived therefrom.
The proclamation, after reciting tt
authority under which the presidei
acts declaring that the existence '
the war makes it necessary, reads:
Proclamation
"Now therefore. I, Woodrow Wilso;
i president of the United States <
; America, by virtue of the powers coi
ferred upon me by said act of coi
gress, hereby find and determine ar
; by this proclamation do announce th;
It is essential in order to carry ini
effect the purpose of said act, to 1
c^nse the storage and distribution ?
wheat and rye and the manufactur
storage and distribution of all proi
ucts derived the/efrom to the extei
hereinafter specified.
"An nprsnns. firms, corporatioi
! and associations engaged in the bus
: ness of either storing or distributir
. wheat or rye, as owners., lessees <
. operators of warehouses or elevato:
and all persons, firms, eorporatioi
and associations engaged in the bus
ness of manufacturing any product d
rived from wheat or rye (except tho
" operating mills and manufacturii
plants of a daily capacity of 100 ba
| rels or less, and farmers and co-op
rative associations of farmers) a
hereby required to secure on or b
; fore September 1. 1917, a licens
! which license will be issued undi
such rules and regulations governii
' the conduct of the business as may 1
j prescribed.
j "Applications for license must 1
made to the United States food admi
istrator, Washington, D. C. upon fora
prepared by him for that purpose.
; Penalties
I "Any person, firm, corporation <
i association other than those hereinb
I fore excepted, who shall engage in, <
| carry on the business of either sto
! ing or distributing wheat or rye ;
' owners, lessees or operators of war
houses or elevators or manufacturi]
: anj products derived from wheat <
i rye after September 1. 1917, witho
I first securing such license will be li
1 ble to the penalties prescribed 1
J said act of congress."
The Board
j Prior to issuance of the proclam
i tion, announcement was made at t
i food adminstration headquarters
, \
j the personnel of the board which wi
fix the prices and attend to the pu
chase of grains, the determination
form a $50,000,000 food administr
tion grain corporation to purcha
i trie enure iy?< crop, 11 neea oe,
i ...
j maintain fair prices also was a
nounced. Incoporation papers will
j applied for tomorrow in Delaware
j Simultaneously with these a
i nouncements, representatives of t
, |
| grain and elevator trades of the con
j try met at the offices of the food a
j m:nsiraiion ana aaopiea resoiuuo
pledging their aid and support to a
rules laid down by Mr. Hoover. T
action of the grain men was chara
! terized by Mr. HooVer as the "mc
j wonderful piece of patriotism" he h
! yet seen demonstrated.
The Buying /
The price-fixing committee contai
in its personnel representatives of t
i producers and the consumers.
| The wheat purchasing division
i the food administration, which w
hare control of the great grain corp
, ration, is composed of the followin
Chairman, Herbert C. Hoover; pre!
( dent, Julius Barnes, Duluth, Min
. Treasurer, Gates W. McGarrah, pre
, dent of the Mechanics and Met*
. j bank, New York city; rice pres:.dei
LI P G. Crowell, Kansas City, Mo.; trar
.: oortation director, "Edward Chambe:
?: Chicago, rice president of the Sac
? i
Fe railway; counsel. Judge Curtis
p Lindley, San Frascisco, and secretai
: J <Wl Short hill, York, Neb.
[ B. R. COJDOSSIOSEK
INSISTS ON SCREE1
1 Columbia, Aug. lS^The state ra
' road commission, at its regular me*
1 j ing today, unanimously refused to i
' | scind its former action requiri'
'! otpniri rai'wava in Smith Parnlma OV
' \ 4$ miles 4n length to provide th(
i '
' i passenger coaches during the next
months with screens to protect passe
grers from cinders. In reply to h
t W. L. Stanley, assistant to the pre:
'' dent of the Seaboard Air Line ra
way, Chairman John G. Richards,
I
', the commissfon wrote this aiternoo
<rWe have given your letter carei
consideration. While we agree wi
i
f ' I
. you fully that the requirements of t;ie '
M government upon the railroads of the
= country are particularly great at this
>4 time, we can not consent to the discontinuance
of necessary improve- ?
ments. It must be evident to you, os
' J
ro every one. that one of the greatest, j
-v inconveniences that the traveling pub-!
~ - I
; lie lias been called upon to suffer is in 1
^"jthe matter of cinders being thrown;*
a into passenger coaches of trains 1
]. i > ,
; Numbers have been called upon <
r*l
' ; to suffer from cinders getting into 1
Ml( their eyes; the coaches are made aD!
solutely filthy, and the wearing ap- c
parel. especially of our ladies and chi-- ?
1-i dren. have suffered outrageously. The
11 r f
wonder to the South Carolina com- 1
i .
' mission is that the rialroads in the i
'e south have not taken steps themselves 1
, to relieve this situation, not only on
^ account of the damage to their pat-;1
! rons. hut as a matter of nreservation *
! of their own property. Tire commis-,1
f
a, sion has waited Ions: and patiently for
ji some relief, and as this relief has not,c
* - 1 ?A -1? ?- ? ~
1- i:ppti voluntarily Kivtju. uiev ate
i- strained to unanimously demand that *
d circular No. 230 he complied with to ?
at the letter." : i
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I-, WILSON ONLY MAN WHO
dC CAN COMMAND WAR'S END 1
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i-. By Karl H. Von Wiegand
it New York, Aug. 15.?"The pope can-!
i not make peace. With all due respect
]
is to his statesmanship, to his great J
;i- moral and religious influence, the pope
ig alone cannot bring a mad worm w us
Dr senses. He can aid greatly, indeed
rs liis assistance cannot be overestimat-1
is ed. He can a^elerate peace. As he
ii- J very sagely told you two ears ago. :
e-! 'Peace will not come until all the!'
s?? world talks peace.' The pope can 1
ig force discussion of peace. Throughi
r-1 his religious and moral appeals to the 1
peoples of the different countries he '
re can bring pressure to bear on govern- j
l . j i
e- ments and force the disclosure of
;e, motives for continuing the war. But.
"" T--,;?? "' "Tirtf nnmr.ol rvhsHnatfi '
51* U1S IlOllJieSb CaailVl, kum^v
1 I :
12; governments to listen or force sinis-j
be ter spirits in every country to hesitate*
I in their work of human destruction, j'
be There has been but one man during
n- j the entire war who could do that, '
as there is but one man today who can
_j ck^that?that man is not the pope ?j
( that man is Mr. Woodrow Wilson, :>
or' president of the United States. When
e-| Mr. Wilson raises his hand and says j
or I 'it has gone far enough. I command j
ir-j peace!' the slaughter will cease. The |
a3 j war will end. There is not a govern- j l
eminent which could say no. There Is : |
3s? not one which would dare say no! j
or. The war will end when President Wil-1
?jt1 son gives the signal for it to end or i i
a-' go to utter exhaustion or the point of
by revulsion is reached by the peoples "jj
| Wilson's Friend
J This is the statement made to me
j by Maximilian Harden in the last talfc j
be j I had with him before leaving Ger- i
many. Harden is both famed and ex-'
coriated in Germany as "Wilson's
tr friend." There is today not even in I
t01 the United States a man. who has j
a" quite the exalted opinion of President!
ae Wilson or the unshakable belief in the j
t0 role -:hat "destiny has designed for j
n"jyour president.*' than Maximilian!
De j Harden has.''
nJ ROOT URGES FIRING SQUAD
he | FOR TRAITORS IX AMERICA j
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j i j New York, Aug. 15.?"There are
,u- |
I15 { men walking about the streets of this;
nv ' city tonight that "ought to fc- taken out j
he at sunrise tomorrow and shot for
LC_ treason." j
>s* | His face flaming, his muscles tense, \
Elihu Root, former secretary of state,
and of war, and head of the Ameri- j
can mission to Russia, came back to
n3 his home city tonight and told his real j
! views of America and the war.
j After a weary day of receptions and
0f, honors, Mr. Root spoke tonight at a
-jlj! Union League club dinner given in
^' honor of himself and his fellow-mem^g.
| hers of the mission. He said:
3j. J "There are men doing their work
n. mnder false pretense. They are profes|
sing: to be for the country and their
tig 1 are lying every (lay ana ib every
Bt> word.
ls_ "They are covering themselves with
r<; i the cloak of pretended Americanism
t+e I and if we are competent for o*r 11bjj
| erty we will find them out and get at
ryf j them. And every one of us can help,
not by talking to each other about
"What we fear, but by carrying to th-2
authorities charged with the pursuit
VS and detection of traitors all the inI
formation we can gather.
H-| "And understand, and I hope they
Bt-! will understand, it is only a question
'9' of time. We are only a democracy,
ng we have not the swift decision and
sr competent action of military autocraKnt
-atp /^nnot be fooled and played |
I w, ~
12 with too long."
lNo~666 |
il- This it a prescription prepared especially
of MALARIA or CHILLS &, FEVER.
R. Five or six dotes will -break any case, and
if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not i
return. It sets on the liver better than j
th Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. 25c '
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[WRDIXAL GIBB(?S
SILEM 0> PEACE
Ky Karl H. Von Wieeand
staff (orresjinndoiiit of the International
>ews Service
Ueal Beach, N. Y., Aug. 15?"His
I
mliness unquestionably is expressing
he yearning and longing that is ;n
he hearts of millions of people." saidj
.'ardinal Gibbons when he received!
lie here tonight.
"Aside from that." declared the aged j
cardinal, who is remarkably hearty, j
ilert and keen for a man of 84. "Ii
vould deem it premature to give any
ormal expression of opinion regard
ng the holy lather s document or
^eace until I see the text.
"Every rational citizen will ac-!
cnowledge that the pope is actuate;? i
)y lofty, humane and disinterested'
notives, and therefore, his sugges-1
.ions deserve to re received with the
attention and respect due them.
"Consequently, I have no doubt thatj
he United States government will i
;ive to them the profound consider-1
ition which they deserve, whatever'
nay be one's individual opinion."
i
His eminence showed the keenest i
nterest in the pope's action.
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RUSSIA SENDS
CZAR TO SIBERIA
Former Monarch, German Wife and
Family, Go on Mysterious Mis- ?
sion i
Petrograd, Aug. 15.?Through the
va?tness of the Russian steppes
northward. ?\ train speeds tonight!
carrying Nicholas Romanoff, his Ger- ;
man wife, four daughters and the lit- (
tie czarevitch. The former is head-j
ed for Tobolsk, Siberia. Just beforedawn
the former czar and his family
were taken from the prison palace at
Tsarkoe-Selo to the railway station
by order of the provisional government.
It was an exceedingly mysterious
affair, and the mystery is not yet
lifted. Until the destination is reached
nothing definite will be said. The
statement that Tobolsk is to be the
new prison comes from the semi-official
new* agency. Others say he is
being taken to Kostroma, on the Yolfro
9A/1 mi'Jfla T*nrthA3<at nf Moscow, the
original seat of the Romanoff family.
Out of the Way
"We decided to get Nicholas oat of |
I Ground Limestoi
Your Fert
/
We have been made
over this section for a Lir
finely ground and this mi
It releases the potash and
corrects the acidity and p
makes the soil very mucl
makes it easy to get an
corn and grain by putting
condition.
Order Early?
Anderson Pli
Oil r^1
(V/ll VVJ
, Anderso
W. F. FARMI
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An Ambition 3D
jf L rJ*HE needs of the South arc it
f It of (be Soothers lUtanqr: tkc BMW
| . j: tbe optxakSof of tbe other. ?
Vf * Tbe Soothera Hxlhnj uka m tm
11 - ' p Tbe aabtooe of tb? Sodbcn Ul
. V t unhj of interest that it bora of co-eft*
* / ' the rail roads; to ?ee perfected that fur m
J sent of railroads which iari? tbe
1 < arcades; to realize that Bbenfitj of tx
to obtain the additional capital arrded |o
J eatvred facilities toridTU lo the des
1 jcrrioc; and. finally?
J ^ To take itt nicbc Jo the hoiy l?*
[ other pat industries with no uett, c
(J aif^g mkd equal opportunity** _ ~
" The Southern Sen
Southern Rat1
m
i':e w^y beiore circumstances might
arise which would make this difficult."
said Vice Premier XekrasoiT.
"Secrecy was dictated by considerations
of absolute necessity."
Every one knows that the chief
consideration is one figuring with a
counter revolution. There have been
more than one sign of late that the
'sinister forces' are hard at work
planning for a coup as sudden as the
March revolution itself. General Gurko
in his intercepted letter to the
ex-emperor plainly said he was merely
'lying low,' waiting for the proper moment
to prove his 'undying loyalty/
kerensky is a very sick man. lie
himself said only two days ago that
hp had not Ions to live. What may
happen when he is claimed by death
no one dares to contemplate. But the
former autocrat's presence so near tho
capital was a menace.
Last Walk
Just before leaving t.Iie palace
Nicholas had taken a last walk
through the palace garden, where he
has been planting potatoes and
vating rhe flowers since his imprisonment.
The thought that he was 10
1 ?/! AM r*r*r* m QA TYlArp
ICclVe IUSS S^dlUCll OCCIliw.il ~
den'n^ to the ex-monarch than the
mystery and uncertainty of his in voluntas
journey. J
A>* OLD PAPER OWNED
BY A TMOX LADY
Union Times.
Mrs. Jno. A. Fant. while locking
through an old "commentary" belonging
to lier grandfatter, Major John
Saunder a native of Chester county,
name acro.-s an old Hon fed orate States
Eond in the sum of $ 100. carrying
coupons ar the rate of 8 per cent per
annum and payable every six months;
The bond was issued at Richmond,
Va.. and is dated 11 day of Nov.,
1862, and expired on Feb. 1. 1881. It
ic"o onj hr? attached
15 UUmuciLu i v ->?/, ui.M ..?
36 coupons, each of $4.
These bonds were "authorized by an
Act of Congress appearei Aug. 19,
1861, entitled. '.An Act to authorize
the issue of Treasury Notes a:id to
provide a War Tax for their redemption.'"
The bond with the attached
coupons, measures 16x17 inches, and
is quite a curiosity to the younger
generation.
If Mrs. Fant could e be induced to
part with this paper, it would look
- *
Quite nice framed ana n?ng m uic
Carnegie library.
le Will Reduce \|
ilizer Bill. |
the distributing agents
nestone that is unusually
ikes it quickly available.
I plant food in the soil,
uiverizes the hard spots, I
I ^
h more productive and
early stand of cotton,
j the soil in first class
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mpany I
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