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THE MANNING TIMES L I." APPELT-..------------------------------------------ - Editor F. M. SHOPE----------------------------------Business Manager PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1917. Down with the food hog! Put him in the pen with the rest of the swine. It is not necessary to be stingy or resort to parsimony in your personal or household expenditures, but it is highly essential that every person refrain from extrava gance or waste of any nature while we are at wai' with a powerful foreign country. Foreign missions continue to pour into the United States, and as a result, AmeL. an gold continues to pour out--or rather, it is loaned to the allies and spent in this country for supplies that are to be sent abroad to win the war. There is no bottom to the American purse when the cause of humanity is at stake. The government will avoid a lot of future trouble if it clamps the price regulation lid onto every article of home consumption. The farmer, the manufacturer and ' the laborer should be guaranteed a reasonable and just price for his toil, the consumer should be amply protected against gouging, and the speculator and price booster should be kicked to hides, where he belongs. A few United States senators and congressmen an nounce their intention to enlist in the navy or the marine corps. This is interesting and commendable. It would, however, be more interesting and more commendable if they were to enlist in the army and go to the trenches, where shells will be thicker and death more frequent. But as a sound and patriotic proposition, their place is right in congress, where they can be of greater benefit to their country. CONSCRIPT INCOMES. Is our congress going to say that it is only the lives of our boys that are owing to their country in this crisis? Is there something yet more precious that must not be laid on the altar? Is the wealth of our money lords too sacred to be touched without gilt-edged notes, bonds and usury? Perish the thought! Will red blooded Americans who are ready to give their lives for their country consent to give those lives in defense of the money bags of the Shylocks? Not unless those bags are opened wide to the country's needs. Two thousand years ago a poor woman dropped into the contribution chest her "mite"-but it was her all. At the same time the rich and powerful gave princely sums, yet the Master Teacher declared her gift to be greater than theirs. Many a sorrowing mother will be called upon in the days to come for her "mite"-her brave young son. Fath ers are asked to surrender the sons upon whom they hoped to lean in the helplessness of age. Are these sac rifices to be made that the miser's hoard may be safe? .Conscript incomes! Conscript wealth wherever found, if necessary, to the prosecution of the wvar. In God's name, are the plutocrats who have fattened on the public for generations to still be regarded as a "privileged class" when the life of our nation and its people are at stake? Conscript the incomes! Let the Shylocks lay their wealth where the poor1 man lays his life. LET UTILITY RUN THE FAIRS. .In the preparations for the various state and county fairs to be held this fall, it will be well if we all stop and consider the question of exhibits. Heretofore exhibitors at these fairs have been inspired by the controlling ambition-to have the best p~ossible specimen on exhibition, frequently regardless of the cost. This year the item of cost should receive careful at texht. Especially is this true in the case of live stock If there wer e any means of ascertaining the amount of feed consumed in this country annually by "show" stock, with little if any return in actual market value, we would doubtless be amazed at the quantity. Stock of all kinds~ -horses, cattle, sheep, hogs and poultry-are fed upI, petted and p)amp~eredl, with no p~urplose of real efficiency or actual market value, but p)urely for show. And fre .quently the cost of .producing the specimen is out of all proportion to the real value. Such a piractice should be dliscouraged this year. No person should lavish feed and care upon any animal with any other object in view save to get a bona fide return in dollars and cents-that is, in actual value that could be converted into money, and that at a p~rofit. For instance, the average hog reaches the maximum of profitable growth at from 400 to 500 pounds. Fre quently any additional weight is procured not only with out profit, but at a loss. The same holds good in other lines. *The object to be aimed at this year is to see that every dollar's worth of feed consumed shall yield more than a dollar's worth of the animal to which it is fed. Any other course is waste, which is inexcusable while our country is at war and sorely in need of every ounce of farm production. Let the prize stock pass for this year. Feed for re turns in ACTUAL VALUE. PROMOTIONSIN ARMY 'AND .NAVY Pershing Will be Made a Lieutepant General and Sims a Vice Admiral. FOR REASONS OF DIGNITY Otiferwise They Would be Outranked by Practically Every Foreign Commander. Washinigton, May 27.-Announce ment that iPresident Wilson will con fer upon Major Gen. Pershing the rank of lieutenant general, during the service of this distinguished sol dier at the head of the American troops soon to go to France, has been followed almost immediately by the 'information that Rear Admiral W. S. Sinis'has been named as vice admiral while in command of this country's warships in European waters. The reason for this is not merely that the men entrusted with the most serious military and naval jobs we have on hand shall be ranked and paid in accordance with the, import ance of these responsibilities. In ad dition to the obligation of right and justice towards the officers themselves in that respect, there is the national dignity to maintain. If the respective ranks of lieutenant general and vice admiral had not been given to Per shing and Sims for the period Qf their service in the foreign fields of war fare, each would have been outranked by practically every foreign com mander of a division or a flotilla. Navy Ahead in Standardizing. Our navy has made much more progress during the past few years in getting its titles into harmony with the mdderh standard than has the army. Of course, the thing has to be done by Congress, in the shape of changes in the laws establishing the various grades, their authority, and their compensation; but the congres sional action necessary to make these changes usually reflects the amount of energy with which they have been urged by the war and navy experts and by the civilian secretaries of those departments. In the navy the fine old title of commodore was dropped some years ago and was replaced with the rank of rear admiral of the lower grade The first nine rear admirals receive approximately $8,000 a year; those below the first nine, including the officers who would under the former system have been active commodores, receive approximately $6,000. Great Britain is the only other naval power of importance retaining the title of commodore in active service. There are no brigadier generals, ex cept by honorary and temporary des ignation, in any army in the world but ours. Where we give active officers the title of brigadier general, the British and the other great nations give the title of major general or something similar; but they have two, grades under the major general head, just as wve have two grades under the rear admiral head, and those of the lower grade correspondl to our b~rigadliers, just as those below the first nine rear admirals correspond to the former commodores. One of the first things we should do, military non hold, if wve would avoid embar ~assment over amy titles .behind the imes, is to abolish brigadier general ~hips and make all the~ men nowv hold hat ra'nk major generals of the lower >rdler. Some Other Comparisons. When Admiral Dewecy dIied, his rank >f "Admiral of the Navy" dliedl with uim, and could be restored only by ict of Congress. , That rank carries ay of $13,500 per annum. It corre plonds to the non-existent rank' of ~eneral in the army. The rank of PRETTY LINE OF FPANS 5c. to $1.50 One of our. admoniti bi * C( Cool Cloth and al Palm Beach $6.00 to $8.50. M The O'Doi 18 So How a pure and noble Russian girl c protected herself against her enemies I by obtaining one of the licenses is- a sued in that country to "women of s the night," is told in "The Badge of t Shame," the new five-part feature in c which Clara Kimball Young at t The Pastime Theatre on next Friday - night will be seen. vice admiral .in the navy offsets that of lieutenant general in the army. That rank does not exist in the active c service of the army. In our navy's e active service it exists only tempo rarily, as in cases like that of Vice t Admiral Sims. t Our rear admirals while in com mand of the Atlantic, Pacific and Asiatic fleets, hold the rank of ad miral andl draw salaries of $10,000 a year; and the officers next in com mand of their fleets have, the titles of vice admirals during such sevc, i wvith salaries of $9,000 a year. Generals in Great Britain get $14,600 a year; in France, $5,558; in Germany, $4,284. Lieutenant gener als in Great Britain get $10,950; in Germany, $3,318; this grade does not exist in France. Our major generals a get $8,000; while Britain's get $6,300; France's $3,600 and Germany's $3,200. h Lest unjustifired ierences be drawn from the comparatively low pay of the German and French dflicers, it should be explained that in Germany 'I an officer of the army or navy must show the government, before being I allowved to marry, thnt he or his in tended wife has sufficient private in- C come to maintain a household "in ac- I SStyle AT POPULAI Stylish Kid Pumps, ait ... _ $00, $3.51 Stylish Pat Pumps, at $2.50, $3.00, $3.51 White Kid Pumps, at White Canvas Slippers for Ladies, at White Canvas Slippers for Children, at McCollu: . 25 Dozen Mother's Frieni 50c. --While 14 South Main, 41 P., d itors gives Don't be extrE iy the things lothing, !Hou g, Shoes,, Etc all Game, ' Cb ht when your Te add only t For great va oods, and p )urteous tention, re ember mell Dry uth Main St., SUMTER. ordance with his position;' and in 'rance many allowances of additional nd special 'pay are made-for in tance, the pay is greater in propor ion to the number of children the ficer has, 'and also in proportion to he number of honors conferred on im for meritorious service. In Japan the salaries of $3,000 and 2,000 a year given to admirals and ,ice admirals, and of $2,500 to major enerals, are probably accurate indi ations of the different standards of xpense in living in occidental coun ries and in Nippon. It is interesting D observe that in the Turkish army he officer corresponding to our ma 3r general receives $5,280 a year. 'his shows that the Turkish cost of ving is much higher than the Jap nese. Driven from Russia by the inexor ble enmity of a leader of the dread Black Hundred" and Secret Police. onia, the heroine of "The Badge of htdme," in which Clara Kimball ~oung will appear ath'he Pastime heatre on next Friday night, comes y America only to find that the long rmn of her foe stretched across the ea in: a final fierce effort to destroy or life's happiriess. --o CITATION. 'he State of South Carolina, County of Clarendon. y .J. M. 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