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LITTLE CI Need Careful Fe< Them T See us for LITTLE C MEAT and BONE S1 OYSTER SHELL, PE/ CHICK MASH. CHICK other things for succes THE MANNING THE MANNII I. I. APPELT.--. F. M. SHOPE--......... I'UBLISHED EVERY MANNING, S. C., ) OUR OBLI( The speech of Premier Llo House of Commons on the qu Bill now pending, should be reE read carefully. There is much serious thought. Mr. Lloyd George practically is making little if any headwa3 a.nd that England is nearing th men. The bill proposed to call The speaker is careful to state will be sent to the front, but th the places of younger men w fighting. In this emergency America' longer-sit back and wait for the hordes, We are as vitally inter great. a stake in the final outco ropearr nations. Certafnly no person of averai for;4,. mment that the fate of A jialted; with that of the allies. tMat an allied defeat would pr Ameinan progress and America very;-existence as a free nation. merica must win t.he war. add'ed force that shall turn the eause. To that end all her im erted'. President Wilson has a armies will be rushed to Europ possible to put them there. But while our fighting men there is also a herculean task f< and girl who remains at home. save-. We must feed our trool all the necessaries of war. And the allied world. There is no The cause is our own, and the rn 'forever bear the brand of the sl --W-S Von Hin the Hun seems to h; -W-S .Up to date no enterprising niewed von Hindlenburg to learn Uncle Carranza must be g waiting for Germ any to keel) he as to him. Ireland is untrue to herself. ''Irishman" has stood for' all tha and. true. That she should r'efu: great world conflict, when the her history has been one long et the balance, is inexplicable. It that she will not accept the hoi land, submit to the same rigorol poCs on1 herself, and forever ek that must attach to it if her p further, .e.. Food Sug Sun Dried Apples -- California Peaches -- lisvaporatedl Apples Strin~gBeans----. --- Okra and Tornatoes Tomatoes, fancy quality, Engliah, Prs, all kinds, Corn, Finest Maine Sugar, tiima Beans, fresh as new, Sweet Potatoes, Seeded Raisins, a good food. Gallavant or Lady Peas - Seasonable Fresh Vegetables ping Phone No. 8.--1 Manning Gi -ji hi ICKENS eding to Make 'hrive. HICK GRAIN FEED, RAP, CHARCOAL, NUT MEAL. BABY EN REMEDIES and S. GROCERY CO. \G TIMES ------------ --Editor .-..--.-.---. Business Manager WEDNESDAY. PRIL 24, 1918 CATION yd George in the British estion of the Man Power Ld by every American, and in this speech to give us admits that Great Britain toward winning the war, e limit of her resources in men of 50 and boys of 18. that not all the older men At they are needed to take 1o can participate in the s duty is plain. We can no allies to stop the German ested as they, and have as me as any one of the Eu re intelligence could doubt merica is now indissolubly Certainly none can doubt ove a staggering blow to m prosperity, if not to her Her power must be the scale in favor of the allied mense power must be ex ssured our allies that our e as fast as it is humanly re hastening to the fray, >r every man, woman, boy We must work-work and )s and provide them with we must practically feed escaping the obligation. an who shrinks now must acker and the coward. .s-. we struck a stone wall Paris reporter has inter yhow he likes the city. ~etting mighty impatient r promise and deliver Tex For centuries the term t was gallant, brave, loyal se to bear her share in the iery principles for which ntention are trembling in is sincerely to be hoped ne rule tendered by Fag as condlitions England im 'a her name of the odlium aist cour'se is puirsued any gestions ! lb. 20c lb. 20c ----------Pkg. 20c ----------Can 12e ----Can 15 and 20c Can 8c., 15c. and 20c ----Can 20e to 25c ----Can 20e and 25c ---Can 20c and 25c -----large Cane 16e - - - - Ib. 18c Quart 25c ,Etc. Vle'll do the Rest. rocery Co. SPEECH OF EX-SEN. JOHN L. MclAURIN DELIVERED Al SUMTER ON MOND (Continued from Page One) failed of its immediate purpose, 1 cause of the lack of some concentra ed power to protect the weak agair the strong. When this war is over will find a great army commanded Gen. Foch which will represent the nations; it will find the council Versailles composed of the wise statesmen from all the nations. It w the supreme wisdom of Woodr< Wilson which gave us this coun with an armed force to back it. He is the machinery developed by r cessity to hold a fretful realm awe. The time has come when the r tions "shall meet in the parliam( of man the federation of the work In one hundred years from tod when the history of this war is bei: written and the eyes of men are r dimmed by the carnage and smo of battle, it will be realized that ti action of President Wilson is t most important in its effect on the f ture of mankind of any one thii that has occurred since the crucif tion of Christ. It was an inspirati from on high, as much so, as any me sage ever delivered to the children Israel through the mouth of Moses Samuel. I look with dread on the c the mdist of this great crisis will d prive us of the wisdom of our grey est prophet. We have with wonderf adaptability broken the political do ma embraced in Washington's far well address and the Monroe doctrir If this war goes on the wisest this that the people of the United Stat can do is, for the time at least, to r fuse to be hampered by the custom not electing an executive for a thi term. Woodrow Wilson was elect, the last time not by the Democrat party but by the uprising of the pe ple which' carried nearly every Stal I believe that if the Democratic par will meet in its national conventii and adopt a platform with just o1 single plank in it, Woodrow Wilso that the common sense of the peop ofthis country will assert itself as did in 1916 .There is a great deal truth in the saying "never swap hor es crossing a stream." Conscription becoming popular in this governmer President Wilson is conscripting 01 boys to fight the Germans and I thir we ought to conscript him to tell the how to do it. This war can only be won by great statesman, combining the idea ism of a Kerensky, with the pra tical wisdom ' of a Bismarck. O school teacher president is filling th role. He is something more th president of these United States; I is spokesman for Democracy tl world over. He is the only man whom all the nations listen. Ile wi be needed when the terms of pea< are to be settlcd, and we owe a dui to the balance of the world. In eve1 great movement, the ideal of man always embodied in human form. Woodrow Wilson is the embod ment of Democracy, the Kaiser militarism, just as was Washingt< of the revolution and Luther of tl reformation. There is no middle ground. Tl eyes of the world are turned on Wi son as the exponent of Democrac No man is to be trusted who tall patriotism and in his heart hat Wilson. le cannot strike Wilson at not strike the cause for which I stands. My friends, I say let us mal the test in South Carolina. I a willing to stand or fall with Wcodro Wilson. There has come down tie ages ti spectacle of Nero fiddling while Ron was burning. Our men are (lying< the battle fields of France; the wor is on fire with a fever of lust at hate. What (10 our petty personal at factional polities amount to compar< with the great issues at stake. would rather die than remain safe, home to take advantage of the situ tion to make money or win cheap p litical glory out of the blood of 01 youth and the sorrow of our land. ? man has a right to be governed I personal hate or political ambition. times like these a true man will ri; above it.-Sumter Item. ALL, EMBARGOES LIFTED ON SEE Field1 and gardlen seed will be u c'ondlitionally e'xemptedl from all er ba rgoes, accord ing to -an announc ment from the U~nite~d States Depar me'nt of Agriculture, following a co ference between Edward Chambers, rector of traffic for the United Stat Railroad Administration; Claren Ousley, Assistant Secretary of Aga culture ;andl other members of the D) partment of Agriculture. British and [rcnlch Raid Submaril Basis at O8tcnd lcchruggc (Continued from Page 1) "'rhe results thus far are known he that two block ships wvere r1 ashore andl blowvn up at Ostend. is too early to say dlefinitel y wheth they accomplished their object, bI so far as the officers could see in t dlarkness they were slightly off t course. At Zeebrugge two of th( block ships attained their objecti' being sunk and blown up at the trance of the canal. Trho third grour ed while passing it. Enemy Craft D~amaged "A certain amount of dlamage,t extent at present unknown, was de by gunfire andl torpedlo attack on enemy dlestroyer and other craft ing at the mole. Coastal motor bot report having torpedloedl an enemy< stroyeor. "0Ono of the two 01(1 submarir gaied tsobjective andr destroy th piigapproach to the mole. "Sorig parties from the V dictive and the ferry boats attaci under an extremely heavy fire a fought with the greatest gallant maintaining thae noaitaan aing. Why i- IYo0 iSt all' ERE are sc >w H cause. all . rel i; cotton and woc a holds its shapE and stays styli Because of clothes save I and money; anc needs those thi That's why and why you sl best for you ar is best for us. ad is Hart Schaffner & e. they're made anc clothes values t( n, le you get such val it Prices Range it Ik a The D. 1 Clothin Home of Hart Schaffner & ;y -y is the mole for an hour and causing, it is believed, much damage to the ene ., my and inflicting considerable losses. m The objectives for the storming and 1 demolition parties on the mole were the enemy forces holding it and the battery upon it, and the large sea 1C plane base Vessels Withdraw Y- "After reembarking their landing cs parties the aforesaid three vessels -s withdrew. This attack primarily was "d intended to engage the attention of 1C the garrison on the mole, thereby al Ce lowing the block ship to enter the ml harbor. w "The casualties to the personnel, as we had expected in a hazardous ad ie venture of the kind, were heavy in ie proportion to the number of men cn mn gagedl. Up to today the British loss Id Cs reported 'e one destroyer sunk by I 1(d gunfire and two coastal motor boats 1(d andl two launches missing. =: ad "We have sufficient information to I show that the entrance to the Brugge at canal probably wvas effectively block- I a- edl and that material damage was dlone o- and that the greatest credlit is dlue to ir all ranks for their gallantry." lo Trhe ports of Ostend and Zeebrugge I >y on the Belgian coast, are the p)rinci. [n le bases of the operations of subma se rinies in their campaign against ship ping in the North sea and the English I channel. They are of great import ance to the Germans for this purp~ose, andl it has been recognized by the Al 1) lies that to (deprive the eaemy of them would he one of the most effective I a- means dealing with the submarin. a- An attack on these ports by the e- British fleet has been urged, but the I t- British naval authorities regardedl the a- land defenses as too strong to make i. this practicable. Various measures as hav~e been adlopted to, (destroy German : sub~marimes on enaterimg or leaving .i- 'these ports. Field Marshal Ilaig's of e- fensive in Flanders last summer was generally believed to have had as one of its main objectives the bending hack of the German northern flank Cso as to (deprive the enemy of these IThe Buges canal i" abhout six miles I long, nuaning f romi the city of that name to the North Sea at Zeebrugge. Tlhis canal is of great value to the German9, because the principal base tof submarines operating from Zee-1 tobrugge is at Bruges, where there are ex'tensive dock endi shipbuilding yards5. er Unification and Else he - he' Intelligent Methodist people every re where will want first-hand information I ,e about the G;eneral Conference of the n' Southern Methodist Church convening d-.n Atlanta, Ga., (luring the month of Thdaiie there assure me they wiledavor to give complete endl ac he curate reports. Rates are for 4 weeks: ne The Advocate (official) $1.26; The an Constitution, and the Journal, each 60 ycents. The Christian Advocata (32 Lti pp), issuedl every week at Na'shvi lle, e- Tenn., will also contain very 4!ull re portsa$2.00 a year, 6 mos. $1.00. ies I am a superannuate p reacher and ed1 get a small commission if the ordlers come ~trug e.i Thanking each in n-avnefrterpatronags herein ndl Fraternallyv rOlt, 8 . W. A.BETTS, IdOanaS.. All Woo ur Cloti me of the re ool wears lo 1 mixtures;1 better; tail sh. these thing ime, labor, [right now oi ngs. we sell all w< .ould buy the td what's be Marx Clothes are al priced to give you ti r be had. If you don ue, you get your mont from $25.00 J. Chandl g CompaE Marx Clothes, High Cattk Accomp High Beef If consumers are I beef, live-stock raiseri receive less for cattle. If farmers are pail stock, consumers will more for meat. Swift & Company approximately 90 per c received for beef ar The remaining 10 pea dressing, freight to mi of distributing houses cases, delivery to the profits also have to c< 10 per cent. This margin cannc arbitrarily without dan the only effective mear Ithe complex service cattle into meat and meat to the fighting Iconsumers. Swift & Company' I beef during 1917 wa Icent per pound. On was a little less than each dollar of sales. nation of these profits a appreciably retail pri farm prices of live stoc Swift & Company co-operate inA devising will improve conditioi and live stock industry. 1918 Year Book of i instructive facts sent Address Swift & 4 Union Stock Yards, C Swift & Co U.s. A lililili -MIlll I> ies asons--be nger than because it )rs better s, all-wool materials ur country of clothes m; they're st for you 1l wool; he best 't think y back. I to $45.00 er SUMTER. S. C. Prices I any Prices _ o pay less for Snaturally will 2 I more for live = necessarily pay = pays for cattle ent of the price Ld by-products. r cent pays for arket, operation and in mostU retailer. Net me out of this it be squeezed ger of crippling s of performing. of converting - distributing this I forces and to = s net profit on s only / of a all products, it E four cents on Complete elimi vould not affect :es of meat, or will be glad to methods that is in the meat Iteresting arnd on request. ompany, hicago, Illinois mpany lililillllllillli