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THE MANNING TIMES . I. APPELT---------------------------------------------Editor F. M. SHOPE-----------..------------------------Business Manager PUBLISH ED EVERY, WEDNESDAY. MANNING, S. C., FEBRUARY 20, 1918. If there is a real need to conserve fuel, why not go after the joyriders? There's a fartile field for conservation, Doc. Perhap Hindenburg was merely springing a premature April Fool's joke when he fixed April 1 as the date he would occupy Paris. The one redeeming feature of the Russian muddle is that, when the daily papers are short of "feature" news they can always find "another crisis in the Russian situa tion." The Indianapolis Star says: "When we get to heaven we shall understand the Russian situation and probably not until then." We don't believe any of that Russian mix-up originated up there. In olden times there was a saying that "when thieves fall out, honest men get their due." Now, instead of fall ing out they divide the "territory" and honest men don't stand the ghost of a chance. Germany says President Wilson is slandering that country. He would have to acquire some yet unknown language before he could do that. The English language is woefully inadequate for the task. Chancellor Von Hertling says that Germany must be thoroughly whipped before she will agree to the terms on which a just and lasting peace can be secured. For once the Chancellor is thoroughly in accord with his foes. The Washington Post would have Dr. Garfield withhold fuel from Congress when next those hot debates are pulled off, on the ground that the Capitol is already sufficiently heated by hot air. But hot air is their food, not their fuel. Between the task of keeping the outside world ignorant of the true situation of Germany, and keeping the German people ignorant of the true situation in the outside world, the kaiser is about as busy as a man with a basket of eels. Senator Jim Ham Lewis of Illinois intimates that he could tell many things about the outcome of the war, but will not. If he will just give us a little dope on the Russian riddle we will enter his name with those of the major prophets. The American flag is at half mast for the brave boys who went down with the Tuscania. But American anger is at white heat and American courage at one hundred per cent efficiency, and when the day of reckoning comes the full price will be exacted. An Illinois soldier whipped twenty-five men in order to get the man who called him a liar. That soldier is right in line for the scrap over in France where the Allies ex pect to whip five million men in order to get the man who keeps calling them liars--Kaiser Bill. .In a sp~eech to his soldiers the kaiser is quoted as say mig: "The gigantic battles which raged from spring to fall on Belgum and French soil were decided in favor of your glorious arms." He is evidently of the same school as the general who characterized his retreat as a "master ly advance to the rear." It was the irony of fate that while Chamberlain, Hitch cock, Wadsworth and other Senators were telling the Seni ate how poorly prepared our soldiers were, the boys "over t here" were siling into the Germans in true American fashion and winmge warm praises from the Allies. CUT OUT POLITICS Conservative citizens everywhere will depl re the ait tempt on the part of some of our misguliided statesmen to reopen the liarty fights that have been our custom in years past. Nothing at this time couldl be worse for the1 (amntry than a bitter political fight thr'oughout the land. Every imterest of the country demandls unity of sentiment an 1011o. Repuldblican p~oliticians cou1ld not hope for ad vantage except at the expense5 of great harm to their country, andl such action on the part of IDemocrats could be nothimg but suicidal. Doubtless there have been mistakes made and blunders commi tted--what administration has been free from them ? PBut these mistakes have not been such as to call for a p)olitical up~heaval. We are not ready to admit to our ene my that our leaders are unequal to the task reqluiredl of them. If the malcontents will lay asidle p~ersonal ambi tions and put their shoulders to the wheel in an honest en dleavor to achieve the great task before us, they will find t heir ambitions much surer of attainment than by insti.. gating a fight that could have no other effect than' to em barass the adlministration. If Republican leaders will take Ex-Secretary Root's ad vice andl forget that they have any political bias, and if the administration will remember that the patriotism of the Republicans is just as deep1 and fervid as their own, we will win through to a glorious victory. Nothing could give our enemy more comfort at this time than for Americans to revive old political contests and reopen old political sores. Ch In order to mai advance the price $5 verniment is taking o Model 4-90 get: Car( J. F. BROCKINTOP DAVIS X ROADS. U The following is the honor roll for the Davis X Roads School: Primary-Clifton Brunson, John Eliott Rowe. Second Grade-Mary Esther Mc Knight, Irene Billups, William Brun son, Clare Marguerite Rowe. Third Grade-Olin Rowe. Fifth Grade-Claud Rowe. Sixth Grade-Carl Rowe. Eighth Grade-Willie Rowe (Miss) Dale Boyce, Teacher. On Friday afternoon Mesdames J. M. and W. B. Davis delightfully en tertained the Fancy Work Club from three o'clock until five-thirty. Music was furnished during the afternoon on the Victrola, while the members en gaged in fancy work and knitting. A salad course with hot chocolate and nabiscoes were served by Mesdames W. B. Davis, Stuckey and Cockrey. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Rowe and Ed die Rowe spent Sunday in Turbeville. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Smith and little daughter Marjorie are visiting in Bishopville, S. C. Miss Dale Boyce spent last week end in Sumter, S. C., the guest of Miss Tiny Rogan. W. B. Davis of the Naval Reserve, stationed at Charleston, spent Satur day and Sunday with home folks. Private T. S. Rogan, of Camp Jack son, was a vistor for a few hours at the X Roads Sunday. Mr. Clifton Lettingham of Bishop ville was a recent visitor at the Cross Roads. Mrs. I. M. Boundis of Bennettsville, S. C. is visiting her (laughter, Mrs. A. W. Billups. -. "Violet." BILLIONS FOR DEFENSE Sec retary of the reasury Mc Adoo will offer for subscription every two weeks betwveen nowv and the opening of th next Liberty Loan Treasury Cer tificates of Indlebtedness in amounts of five hundred million dollars or more. If all the banks of the country 'lo their share, and it is contemplated that they~ will, three billion dollars of the certificates will be taken by them between now and the flotatibn of the next Liberty Loan. The raising of five hundred million loliars every two weeks seems a tre mendlous task, yet in relation to the. sinking resources of the United states it seems easy of accomplish mlent. The resources of the National banks >f the United States on November 2(0 mnlf billion dollars and the resources last were more than eighteen and a )f state banks and trust companies 'n .June 20, 1917 were practically Lwenty-one billion. The resources of bo0th have in reased since the dates named when the latest repiorts wvere made. The three biillion expected b~y the Secre tary of the Trreasury is less than 10 pr ent of th banking resources of the Nation. Tlhe banking powver of the world in 18~90 was estimated at fifteen andl a half billion dollars; the banking power of the Unaited States is now two and a half times as great as the banking. power of the world as late as that year. The United States is just beginning to demonstrate its unexampled power and~ might. Ic is called upon to dIefend tho liberty of the world, to preserve civiliztation andl humanity. It is an swering in a way o demonstrate that it is equal to the task in courage, in genius, in men andl in money. [For indigestIon, Constipation or Biliousness Just try one 50-cent bottle of LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN. A LiquId Digestive Laxative pleas~nt to take. Made and recommended to the public by Paris Medi, clne Co., manufacturers of Laxative Bromo Quinine and Grove's .Tastnlens chili Tonic. evrolet Price Advanc ntain the High Quality of the Chevrolet Model 4+9( 0.00. If you contemplate owning a Chevrolet, bud ver much automobile material. from 25 to 28 miles per gallon gasoline. )lina. Machinery Comp SUMTER, S. C. 4, Local Dealer, - - AMERICAN RED CROSS TO ENROLL 24,000,000 SCHOOL CHILDREN IN JUNIOR AUXILIARIES To the School Children of the United States: A Proclamation The President of the United States is also President of the American Red Cross. It is from these offices joined in one that I write you a word of greeting at this time when so many of you are beginning the school year. The American Red Cross has just prepared a Junior Membership with School Activities in which every pupil in the United States can find a chance to serve our country. The school is the natural center of your life. Through it you can best work in the great cause of freedom to whidh we have all pledged ourselves. - Our Junior Red Cross will bring to you opportunities of service to your community and to other communities all over the world and guide your service with high and religious ideals. It will teach you how to save in order that suffer ing children elsewhere may have the chance to live. It will teach you how to prepare some of the supplies which wound ed soldiers and homeless families lack. It will send to you through the Red Cross Bulletins the thrilling stories of re lief and rescue. And best of all, more perfectly than through any of your other school lessons, you will learn by doing those kind things under your teacher's direction to be the future good citizens of this great country which we all love. And I commend to all school teachers in the country the simple plan which the American Red Cross has worked out to provide for your co-opei-ation, knowing as I do that school children will give their best service under the direct guidance and instruction of their teachers. Is not this perhaps the chance for which you have been looking to give your time and efforts in some measure to meet our national needs? (Signed) WOODROW WILSON, President September 15, 1917. Of the Junior Membership of the Red Cross, Mr. Henry P. Davison, Chairman of the War Council of the American Red Cross, said:.-. "I believe a program has been made out here which is the most important single movement that was ever started in America for the protec~tion of the American public and the future of the people. "When I was talking with the President about the pro gram I then said that I believed that nothing in the Red Cross was as important as the Junior Membership work, and that alone from the standpoint of our own people." Red Cross To Enter a omni hsdvso h r New Field uf Servicen Army Camps Of America iss ncryn u ertr At the suggest ion of Secretary of Th ircosfthwrknteRd War liaker, the Ameriean Red CrossCrshossvilhunetea is ab~out to enter a new flelditr ntevriu apwoi of service in the army camps tmnaeui~e h uevso fZ of the U~nited States, a field iienntPhldetoofmiar which they are already working inreiforteSuhndvio. IFrance, the Bureau of Communication Scrty akmsysihilee: between the men in the hospital and "Snete mria ReCos their families at home. This will ne- a led salse nFaci cossitate building a Red Cross house colncwihaaryoirao in every army camp) in the country vc oke aii' nAeiai and securing for each house a manpeonltuhwhteibyii who will keep in personal touch with o onldi h ili ssget every man whW is admitted to the camp dtathseriebexnedo hospital, as wdll as a sufficient steno- h ap nteUie tts mn graphio force to handle the letters die-can- dCosrpeettvsa h tated by these men and to keel) theircmshrainPnewudav families constantly informed as toacestdillssofdmsonan their condlition and progress. eautosfo h optlad Col. William Lawson Peel, Generalsofraits codwthne manager of the Southern division, has nr eia uewudb loe just received letters from W. R. Cas- otl ihnc e.Te ol tie, Jr., director of the Bureau of Coinm eepce-okepfmle osat munications, and from Ifarry B. Wal- yifre st h odto n lace, assistant director-general of mill.-rgeso h o ntehsias tar reief e~planig ~eertar~ as. toA me nths dvrsin wh ae t 'S es!. . it was necessary to it NOW. as the gov. any Manning, S. C. write themselves, and- in gindrat to fulfill that clause of the 'Red Cross charter which designated the society as "a medium ,of communication be tween troops in the field and their families at home." BIG CORN CROP IS NOWMOVING. More Than 3,000 Million Bushels Raised in 1917-Gives Big Surplus. SAVES WORLD FOOD SITUATION America Beginning Greatest Corn Con sumption in History, Using Cereal In Many Delicious Dishes. Corn, America's greatest cereal crop, is now moving rapidly to market. More than 3,000 million bushels R0 bushels for every man, woman and child in America-were raised in 1017. It was a enighty crop. The actual in crease is about 500 million bushels. And this extra store of grain is com lng on to the market in the nick of time, since the American wheat sur plus has been sent to help feed famine threatened Europe. Just as it happiened in the Colonial days, the WVar of the Revolution, and the Civii War, corn has actually be come the nation's mainstay. In the entire iist of atrerica's food commodities there is no Item that is better than corn. In ipuddings, bread, corn pone, and as homniny combined with meat or eggs, corn is without a p~eer. H~ousewvives are fast learning the large number of delicious dishes that may be made with corn and their families are benefiting b~y an increas ed uso of the cereal. Corn, more than any other cereal, contains all- of the elements essential to maintaining life Rnd henlth. In order that the fighting men abroad and in the army campas at home may be fed, andl in order that actual famine may be kept from the nations assocIated with America in the war, the citizens of America are finding corn products (elelcous and palatable on "wheatless days" and glory in the fact that "wheatless (lays" here mean more wheat for 'the war worn allied nations in Europe. England, France andl Italy must be fed from America's great storehouse. Th~ey will get some corn-especially Italy--but most of their grain ship ments must h~e wheat. Their ability to use corn is small compared to the facilities they have for using wheat. And it is the opinion of officials in Washington that the present is no time to try and change the eating habits of Europe. America's greatest use of corn will be in the form of corn bread and corn meal, mIxed with wheat in the making Of leavened bread. Mixed wvith 80 per cent, wheat flour, corn meal cnn be used in bread mak ing, producing a loaf more nutritious than bread baked with wheat alone. It is a fact corn millers will verify that dlozens of the large American bak ers have been successfully using a corn flour in bread making for several years. Homniny grits, served at breakfast with a poached egg, or eaten at any other meal with meats or gravy, is an other use of corn that will become un usually popular durIng the war. Corn syrup to sweeten corn eakes, and corn oil for use in all kinds of cooking, are two more products that are already welcomed in thousands of American homes. _ ADVERTISE IN THEt TIMES,