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THE MANNING TIMES I. I. APPELT---------------------------------------------Editor F. M. SHOPE-----------------------------------Business Manage'r PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1918. FACING THE NEW YEAR. The clock struck 12 on December 31, and we are usher ed a New Year--with how many plans for the future new resolves, many alas! that are made to be broken. But let us welcome the untrodden paths and grasp the new conditions with a firm hand, grateful for the bless ings the old year has brought to us. If the old year has brought sorrow and desolation, and hung crepe on our doors, the new year will bring us the leaves of healing, and we are glad to part with the one and welcome the other. If, on the contrary, the old year has brought us only joy and comfort, we part from him sorrowfully, but meet his successor with the ardent hope, that he, too, comes with blessing. The sober, jollity of New Year's day is like standing for one brief moment on the threshold between time and eternity.. Here is the world we know-yonder the world that is new and un tried. The pessimist delights in derision of the good resolu tions which mark the celebration of New Year in the minds of many people. Shame upon the man or woman who would dull the bright ambitions and desires for the better of any human being! But there is little time to give to habitual mourners and augurs of evil. The new year will be what we make it, so far as our individual lives are concerned, and the man or woman who resolves to be happy in a healthful, unselfish way, is taking the first road toward happiness. We can wish no better thing for all our readers than that they begin the new year animated by a firm resolve to turn all its experience into profit for themselves, men tally, morally, socially and materially, and then to faith fully carry out the resolution. A new year is here. It is a time for invoice. Business men take an invoice of their stock. Wouldn't it be busi ness for you to take one of yourself. Life, 'each life, is a business. Have you gained or lost last year? Have you used the talents that have been given you so as to gain other talents? Is there any prospect of your being placed over ten cities or fil cities or one city? Have you de clared any dividends in the way of loving and helping others, and have you added anything to the capital stock of your character? These are pertinent questions that press us all for an answer. SPECIAL Lowland Ferti U We have a limited qu Calcined 1N Analyzing as follows: Carbonate of Lime - Bone Phosphate of Lime We bought this very much under the market on same basis. We have sold qutite a lot of this r isfactory results. Some of our patrons used it L with other fertilizer under cotton and they tell u was no evidcile of rust, whereas land on whichi badly. Where it has been used in connection with for grain using 2000 lbs. per acre the result v~ showing more than double. Our prices will not< $8.00 Per Ton Delivere4 O'Donnell. & Co: SUMTER. S. C PROIIIT SALE LIQUOR TO ' AMERICAN Aft1hY IN FRANC: General. Pershing Says That Matter of Keeping Intoxicating Drink Away From Troops Is Being Dis cussed With the French Govern ment. With the American Army in France, Dec. 29.-Gen. Pershing, in an interview with correspondents to day, said the question of prohibiting the sale of all intoxicating liquors to American troops, which he favors, is being discussed with the French gov ernment. He explained leis recent order prohibiting the sale of all in toxicants except light wines and beer and the conditions prevailing in France which caused it to be drawn as it was. "The question of prohibiting the sale of all intoxicants to American troops is under discussion with the French Government," said Gen. Per shing, "but, of course, there are difi culties here in France that do not ex ist in the United States. The gefi oral order issued December 18 was a long step toward the prevention of 'drinking among our men. "It was not by any means intended to convey an injunction to the Ameri 'can troops to drink light wine and beer, but quite the reverse. It was tirawn to' conform to French regula tions on the subject. "It stated only that light wine and beer would be permitted , and pro hibited the purchase of and accept ance of gifts of whiskey, brandy, champagne or similar beverages. It ordered that all drinking places where such articles are sold be forbidden American soldiers. It is the same' regulation made in France by the British army and by the French. "Although I am heartily in favor of prohibition for the American expe ditionary force, the situation in .France and the United Statcs is not the same. Comparatively few French people drink water as we do; they drink wine instead. This is partly be cause the French water supply is not as pure a$ ours. French wine is light and much less intoxicating than is, generally supposed. An intoxicated Frenchman is a rare sight, indeed. French beer also is by no means strong. The French government is sues to its soldiers . regular win': ration. Obviously there are obstacles to forbidding wine shops in the zone of the army to do business at all, which practically is what the French would have to do. Local sentiment (1 t ti iL1ZerS.Ib t Entity of ; lar - 74.40 - 5.40 and will dispose of it aiaterial with very sat ist year in connection s where they did, therer t was not used rusted a complete fertilizer 'as very satisfactory, Xceed I, Sacked. rnpany, For You! E are now selling Suitsan Overcoats and Boy's Cloth ing at prices that you will be un able to duplicate for years to come. It will pay you well to buy next winter's supply now if you can, Underwear is going at less than the wholesale price of the same goods to day. Don't miss this opportunity, it' . will'be the last time that you ca get goods at these prices for som time to come. The D. J. Chandler Clothing Co.. Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes. 14 South Main St. - SUMTER, S. C. rill play a large part in the determi- and by our own men must be added speeding up our production to the ation of the question. the extraordinary demand made u limit. The American peoplc are go "The same order which forbade sol. this country to supply the armies of ing to (1 all that they know to be iers taking s'trong drink contained our allies and to a great extent their necessary to win this war-to shorten ie most rigid regulations to prevent population with food and other ma- this var. They have only to realize ia spread of the social diseases. The terial. the imperative duty of economy 'in ,vo questions are connected closely. We must meet the condition that saving and, they will economize and 'hus far the record of the army in confronts us in two ways-by 'the save. oth respects has been most excellent. strictest economy in consumption, for is highly gratifying to me and is a mstimonial to the high character of every pound we refrain from using toadds a pound to be devoted to the Childre r ie American soldier. 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