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>YOitK OF WAR CONHKESS Senator 3Iartin S;:nisn:ir!/es the Achiyemeiits oi the National Lawmakers in the Social Session About l?> Adjourn j Washington, Oct. 5.?Senator Alar- { tin, of Virginia, tiie Democratic ead- j er of the senate, answered criticism: ot the work of congress today by ac-1 counting what has been accomplished -during this session. "Congress was convened in special session by proclamation of the president April 2 and has been in session i including today. The senate leader called attention! to the various measures passed congress, including: The declaration of war. An appropriation of ?6S,020 for con-' jgressional expenses. The general deficiency appropriation act totalling $163,841,400, of whicn $100,000,000 was ior all national defenses x / The first bond issue of $3,007,0b5,odtnhlishinsr credits here for tjlxj IVi w foreign governments by purchasing' -allied bonds; of $3,000,000,000 for the) allied loans; of $2,000,000,000 for cry-! mestic expenditures, and of $63,945,-! 460 to redeem the 3 per cent loan ina-1 luring August, 1917, and of $2,000,000,-j 000 for certificates of indebtedness. I Authorizing one additional midship-! man for each senator and represen- j tative. | nic 590 TY>r the : letLlli.^2 i u?vivju-- *. -? army. The selective draft law;. Authorizing the president to take, over enemy ships. Increasing the navy from 87,000 to 150,000 and the marine corps from IT,-: 400 to 30,000. Appropriating $1,344,S96 for West Point. _ j Appropriating $45,150,000 for war i risk insurance, for- lives of merchant i crews. ; Appropriating $147,363,928 for the' .sundry civil expenses. Issuing rifles to the home guards, | Appropriating $3,251,094,541 for the: ' army and navy, including $405,000,?00 for the American merchant fleet, j The espionage lawj. Amending the federal reserve act. * . | Appropriating $tj4u,uuu,vuu j.ux ^air fleet. The rivers and harbors bill of $27,X326J50. Enlarging the interstate commerce errommission and authorizing priority cshipment^. Appropriating $11,346,400 for the !>fcod census and stimulat'ng food r.ro-; Election. The food control bill with an appropriation of $162,500,000. ' The new "eleven and a half billion-, dollar" bond bill, which loans the al-1 lies $4,000,000,000, takes up the first ! Liberty loan, and issues $2,000,000,000; each of war savings certificates and; \-certificates of indebtedness. Appropriating $1,250,000 for a new -treasury annex. The general deficiency bill of $5,"356,666.016 (cash) and $,401,158,393 Xcontracts), which makes new appro-' priations of $635,000,000 for the ship-' ;plng board. The trading-with-the-enemy act -with an appropriation of $450,000. The war revenue bill which raises ?;nn nnn non i Y?tvvv;vvv)vw The soldiers' and sailors' insurance bill with an appropriation of $176.000.-; mo. "This record of achievement speaks for itself," said Senator Martirj. CANDY TABOO. ^Columbia, Oct. 5.?Mif. Herbert -Hoover, through David R. Coker, fooc administrator, has appealed to patriotic South Carolinans to preserve the j sugar supply. In a telegram to Mr.! <?oker the food administration says: j "We understanding that patriotic - and civic organizations in certain sections of the sou:n are holding bazaars -at which candies and other sweets -requiring large amounts of sugar are i?eing sold, the National Confectioners' association has extensively advertised October 6 as candy day. ai 1 1 T.J ArvTn?. -.earnest request ui nci uci i nuu?, the association has patriotically changed candy boosters into candy conservation in order to conserve supply of sugar now on hand that we may eftxport sugar to France and the allies igivmg men in the trenches who are -maiding our fight sufficient of this ;mGSt necessary food product to pr* " i-aerve ?heir nerve and stamina in the arduous task they are doing for civilization. Will the good people of .South Carolina join in this most rmI>ortant work of conservation?" I m j ?NO *SM3N ONY GTVHHH SHX j oSlt TTOviT : i ?- i ^SUBSCRIBE TO THE HERALD ANI wJEWS. L ' LIST OF ADOPTED BOOKS Tne list or' books below has been! | adopted by the State Board of Edu-; cation. The Ccu-.ty Board suggests j llie following course for all Rural CIaViaa^ in r\ r fJor that- thprp mav be OWH-'ViO Ui W ?~v.- ~ ? -uniformity with books always on Land at the Book Stores. First Grade. Basal: Halfburtofci Primer. Hill's First Reader. Supplementary: The Child's World 1st Reader. Practical Writing No. 1. Practical Drawing No. 1,. Second Grade. Basal: Hill's Second Reader. Supplementary: The Child's World Second Reader. Stepping Stones To Literature, 2nd Basal: j Practical Writing No. 2. Ark+inri o 1 \jy livuax Practical Drawing Xo. 2. Third Grade. Easal: Hill's Third Reader. Supplementary: The Child's World Third Reader. Art Literature Book Xq. 3. Wn-t'c PrnerpsqivA Courses in Spelling, Part 1, Section 1. Robbins & Row's Work & Play With Language. Smith's Modern Primary Arithmetic (To Page 126). Fairbanks Home Geography. Basal: Practical Writing Xo. 3. (Applied Arts Drawing' Ndj. 3. Optional: Practical Drawing .no. .5. Fourth Grade. Basal: Hill's Fourth Reader. Supplementary: The Child's World Third Reader. Art Literature, Book IV. Arnold's The Mastery of 'Words, Section IT. _~ Kinard-Withers', The English Language Book T. to Page 130. Smith's Modern Primary Arithmetic, Completed. * - /-I ~T aiaury s .\ew uompieie ueosrayuy (to Page 49). Basal: Ritchie-Caldwell's Primer of Hygiene. Practical Writing Xo. 4j. Optional: Practical Drawing Xo. 4. Fifth Gradew jaasai: Hill's Fifth Reader. Supplementary: Art Literature, Book V|. Arnold's The Mastery of Words Section 2. Kinards-Withers' English Lan guage, Book I Completed. Smith's Modern Advanced Arithmetice (to Page 165). White's Beginners History of the United States. Maury's New Elements Georgraphy. Completed. Practical Writing Xo. 5. Supplementary: Agriculture?Grimes' Field Lore for Young Farmers. Optional: Practical Drawing Xo. 5. Basal: Elson's Sixth Reader. Supplementary: Howe's Sixth Reader. (Airnoid's, The Mastery of Words, Section 2j. Kinards-Withers' Language Book, (Book 2 to Page S6). Smith Modern. Advanced Arithmetic (to Page 313). History of South Carolina*?Simms Elementarv Civics. Maury's New Complete Geography. Ritchie's Primer of Sanitation and Physiology). Optional: Agriculture for School and Farm. Vol. 1 Napier?Barton Stewart. Seventh Grade. Basal: Elson's Seventh Reader: Supplementary: Howe's Seventh Reader. Arnold's Mastery of Words. Kinard-Withers' The English Language, Book 2, Completedf. Smith's Modern Advanced Arithmetic, Completed). Thompsan's History of the Unite? State. Wallace's Civil Government of South Carolina. Kitcnie s Fnmer or sanitation ana Physiology, Completed. Practical Writing No. 7. Optioual: Agriculture for School and Farm Napier?Barton Stewart. Practical Drawing No. 7. I PAY CASH I Esgs per dozen 40 cents Hens per pound 15 cents Young chickens per pound.. IS cents Roosters per pound 8 cents. Jag. 4 Quattlebaum, Prosperity, 5 C. 10-2-2t. NEW WAR PLANES TO GARRY 18 H O 11~ f/%n Britain okiius us nans 101 Giants of Air to Be Buiit Here. WILL PARALYZE THE ENEMY i Great Number of These Craft to Make Impossible Re-enforcement of German Lines?Engines Very Powerful. London.?American airplane manu j facturers are In possession of worKing j models and blueprints of aero motors ! developed by England and France durj Ing three years of warfare. The Uniti ed States airplane- factories have rej celved gratis the secrets of new alloys j and Improvements in construction | which previous to America's entry into i the war could not be bought at any ' price?secrets that were guarded with I men's lives and were never mentioned j beyond the doors of certain olfices. Personal messengers nave J err tin^iana | by every departing steamship; mail , bags have been filled with priceless j blueprints and cable lines have been ; Jammed with messages, all bearing on j the development of the America i air | squadron. j The governments of France and ! Great Britain know that upon tie ef| forts made on the other side of the At | lantic within the next six months cie| pends the fate of the armies i field. | Important above everything else in the | struggle for victory Is the airplane, j which must be produced in myriads, j and the task now falls squarely to ! Uncle Sam. Doubters Are in Minority. There are doubting Thomases on ! this side of the water who sneer at the 1 grandiose statements coming from New ; York and Washington and who assert that even if the United States organizes for the aerial construction proi gram the product will be so inferior that It will be useless for actual fighting. Fortunately these doubters are in the minority. Officials and men in . a position to know what already has been done are highly optimistic. They believe that American methods applied to thA mnnufncture of air craft will re j suit in just as good a product as is now coming from factories organized i here shortly after the war started. | Despite all the lurid prophecies rej garding the great fieet of airplanes j that eventually will lay waste tho prin: cipal German cities, the experienced j airmen on this side only hope for ; thousands of machines with which to fight the German armies in the f eld. The success which America's efforts are to insure will come only wh?n the allied armies in France have suiftcient airplanes to retain mastery of the air 'and to patrol every mile of the territory immediately behind the German lines. When the day finally arrives, Germany will not be able to move a train back of the lines and to move reserves will be impossible. She will be unable to feed th_ men who are iu ; the first lines. Her heavy artillery will be silenced and in the end her en tire fighting forces made useless. Tne way will then become one of movement, with the chances for victory altogether on the side of the allies. ' There are various types of aii planes which will be manufactured in America that are already being usied in France. Engines of unbelievable power are being put into the newest type of plane. The average American is more or less familiar with autc mobile engines and has some idea o:l what weight of engine will develop 100 horsepower, lr rnis average Aincm.au were to look at some of the newest air motors he probably would judge them to be ten or 15-horsepower. In fact, he could lift some of the engines unaided and would probably be astounded to learn that such a machiae was capable of developing not 100, tut 150horsepower. Every newspaper reader in tte United States has been well informed of the plans for building airplanes, but it Is doubtful if one in a thousand can picture the size of some of the planes Hoi- ovontnfliiv wfll he loaded on trans liiUb w r .. ? ? ? ? __ _ ports at the Atlantic piers. The correspondent has had an opportunity in the last few weeks of inspecting the newest type of aircraft; the type that will be turned out in vast numbers by America, and tt is bigger in evory way and more powerful than laymen imagine. To begin with, the body of the new machine resembles in many waps a big motor launch. Its under ;part is and hpnnrtfullv constructed * VUUU^U uuu v of finely grained wood. It is so big that to enter it one must clamber up a ladder and go down through n hatchway as big as the cabin door of a motor yacht. It is of the bipk.ne type and from tip to tip of each wing there Is room enough for a dozen men to lie out full length. Its two motors will develop 600 horsepower and their combined weight Is so little compared to the power that the actual figures would look untruthful In print. Where the old tvnes could carry hundredweights, tills machine carries tons. Can Carry Nineteen Men. This new plane is manned by a pilot, two or three observers, a forward gunner, a bomb-dropper, a mechanic and, if necessary, a dozen passengers. It has an electrical-lighted passageway leading from one compartmert to another. The flooring ^ one compartk ment is a strongly constructed grating f through which the occupants can view ^ "he earth below. The sides of two of r the compartments are built to open and ^ afford a view of the surrounding ^ clouds, or, in case of combat, of the j | enemy planes. When the leviathan j . cfirfoH thair rrwr ic n\VP- 1 UlVlViO ?lt cc<ii cvvt * v?i? ? .. ? ? inspiring, and the wind from the propellers sends backward a blast in front i of which a strong man would find diffi-1 jf culty in remaining erect. This is a picture which must be im- * pressed upon the public mind if the | great mass of the people is to realize k what the United States is going to ? do. The task set for the American ^ workers is not that of turning out light, c hurriedly built scouting machines to *3 the number of tens of thousands, but to j $ " " HI 11- 1 M- J. I ^ construct careiuny wun rne msi ue-; y gree of ingenuity the highly developed ! ' war craft needed in modern battles, j [i That is what England expects of her j ?] newest ally and what she has striven j \? valiantly to teach authorities across; II the Atlantic. The vast technical detail j \\ developed by continuous fighting in the J $ air has been turned over entire so that ? V.Q TTntfoH Stntoc hpp-inS thp work with : & V>Ull,VU kJtUbW ? w .. the most favorable chances of success. ? The invention of some new fighting & machine after the manner of the tank j | is what all Europe expects of America, j 2 and they ex~oect to see the new ma- j g chines, airplanes or walking seaplanes p or flying torpedo boats come to France ' fully manned, nicknamed and prepared ! i to throw new terrors into the heart - | of an enemy who invented terrorism.? I \New York Sun. I f i L UNCLE SAM AT PEACE TABLE I I h ^ * \A/;n Da Ir* DAcition > ; i nis uuvci iiiiiciu <t in uw vu, to Dictate Terms When Time for j U i 1 Negotiation Comes. , ^ i "Washington.?President Wilson's re- V: ply to Pope Benedict's peace proposal ^ has temporarily halted the widespread demand for a definite statement'of the war aims of the United States. j ; "The purposes of the United States ^ in this war are known to the whole ^ world?to every people to whom the : < truth has been permitted to come,", the president said in his reply to the '; pope. "They do not need to be stated } again." i H In his Flag day address the presi- U dent said the reasons for America's ^ entrance into the war must be appar- ? ent to every thinking man. Still, there ^ is confusion in the minds of many | Americans. The attemnt of the com mittee on public information to clear K up this confusion with its pamphlet, | "How the War Came to America," waa d only partly successful. | g "I shall not discuss here how Amer- I ica came fnto this war," Secretary of f War Baker told the Fort Myer reserve | officers on the day of their graduation. "That issue is settled for the Arneri- i can people. Our task now is to plan for victory." i I In these words Secretary Baker summed up the attitude of all Wash- | ington officials. There are others, how- E ever, who believe the reasons for Amer- | ica's entrance into the war have a very | important bearing on peace and on the f iuture msrory 01 me wonu. s Just as there were underlying causes | of the European conflict that never \ have been mentioned in the official doc- \ uments, so there were causes for Amer- ? lea's entrance into the wur that were P slighted in the president's address. One of these causes is generally believed to have been that France was I "bled white" and that the allies were in danger of defeat. Many Americans find the best justification for America's entering into the conflict in the statement that "we went in to save France." ' This notion was given a severe jolt ? when Andre Tardieu, the Frencn purchasing commissioner in the United. States, made public his letter to Secretary Baker giving statistics on the present military strength of the French republic. With facts and fig- 1& xire3 supplied by the French war of- '9 fice, Tardieu disproved the theory that Fro nee was "bled white." 1 in One of the highest officials of the -n United States government said it was ?r not true that the allies were in danger _ of defeat just before America entered !o the war. France and England both ^ could have held out for years and it be was very doubtful, lie said, that tnc German war machine could ever have tli achieved a military decision over the m aliies. ar The United States, the president believed, would be in no position t*> assert its views at the peace conference ce if it remained a neutral. It was the ^ avowed intention of leaving matters such as disarmament and an interna- st tional organization to prevent futura Pl. wars to a congress that would follow the peace conference. The president believed that guar antees for the future wouia De tne only results that would make the three Oi years of fighting worth whil$, and R( that they should be made an integral part of the peace treaties. By the entrance of the United States, President R( Wilson became the world leader. It Oi was made certain that by the aid ren- c< dered the allies the United States p. would be In a position to dominate the peace conference and to force that convention to accept its views. Thus It would seem to be established that the real underlying cause for America's entrance into the war w] was not to succor an alliance in dan- 1)e ger of defeat, but to insure and to dictate if necessary a just and lasting peace. There is reason to believe tfcot the allies will be forced to accept ^ ivrms of peace that they never would have considered but for the influence nf the United States. And by the 4_ same token there is ground for hoping ^ that through the United States the 'e world will, in fact, be ."made safe for democracy." "i_ '.zr \ * Mail Order i | August Offers tt fsk in F?*k H j Bar|ain. A bi| ! saving in this woi man's fins Rain | coal. Now only...... 3 ^ Kress' Waif Order Store Augusta, Ga. 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