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Save Your S OUNG Man this: You will more than a dal as you depend pay to keep yoi Saving is I Our banking highest standa security and c( of saving. Our depoc up interest eve you? A dollar wi then your owr will keep you g * Home Ban I Farm M We are agent for one of the of Farm M I United States, RTHE AVE SWeA H ave All Kinds PLOWS, CULTI VA' i STALK C COTTON ] GRAIN DI In fact, almost Farm Machin See t ~Coffey Pay aving Pays ! ---Let us tell you never be worth t r's wages as long >n the next day's A going. he Solution. system is of the rd. It offers you )nvenient means %itors are piling ryday. Why not 11 start you---and i. good judgment oing. & Trust Co. I :chinery! s in this county 4 very best lines Lchinery in the R Y L INjE! i V 17rORSr h ' FTTRS, ?LANTERS, UILLS, Etc anything in the e line. is first. &. R igby.i Stock Dealers I EXPENSES [XCE[D TOTAL REY[NUE Government Runs Behind $200,000,000 in Few Months CUTS MUST BE MADE Chairman Mondell Says Treasury Of ficials Handle Trying Situation Well. O Washington, April 4.-Government expenditures have exceeded the rev- A enues 'from'all sources' by more than V $200,000,000 during the first nine r months of this fiscal year, and the reductions of $706,000,000 in the float- r ing debt last month is only a "tempor- E ary" condition, Representative Mondell Wyoming, Republican leader, declar- U ed today in a statement. Economy v alone, he said, could avert a "calamit- a ous crisis." Immediately upon the ( "temporary reduction' in the floating I debt, Mr. Mondell declared the treas- 1 ury was in the market for further loans and this month must <Iispose of I a further large volume of temporary t certificates. Government financing by short term notes, he added, is such as 'may bring a a te-nendous increase the very next I day. veek or month,' after an appar et, reduction for a comparative pe riod. f Citing the $2,500,000,000 war deficit t as 'not covered by bonds or provided a T for by current revenues,' the Republ- f can leader said that such a sum to be i carried by short term notes was "a seioi;us menace at any time,' and par ticularly when the country was trying 9 to recover from the war. t 'The increasing gravity of the diffi culties arising out of this enormous v volume of indebtedness that must be N renewed from time to time," said Mr. f Mondell, "is indicated by the fact b htat while all of these certificates that tl were offered sold readily in the spring t and summer of 1917 bearing an inter- c est rate of 3 per cent, less than 1) $200,000,000 of a recent treasury of- a fering of certificates at 4 1-2 per cent. c were sold and the treasury q will be in the market in the ti very near future for loans on short P time certificates at 4 3-4 per cent., with the probabilities that the rate will have to he still further advanced and may go to six per cent., or twice the interest rate of three years ago." Treasury oflicials the statement con- 11 tinued, 'have handled a trying situa- t< tion most admirably,' but they "cal not avert disaster unless we keel) pub lic eX)CllditurejS within our income." An actual reduction of public debt, Mr. Mondell added is nececeasry dur ing tile next fiscal year, begilnie, July 1, "to sustain national credit." Congress, Mr. Mondell predicted, would grant appropriations for the next year of $1,250,000,000 less than estimated by government departments which asked for approximat'ly $5,000 000,000 for all purposes. "Further bond issues," concluded the statement, "could only be floated at greatly increasedl interest ratcs, at. the cost of a consideralIe reduction i inl thle imrket value of outstalnding ~ gover-nment securities withl the grave: dalnge'r of wreck ir the spif~ ic basis f of our currency, with the certainty of incereas ing the price of comnmod it ies and further enhla icing the cost of liv ing. Under these conditions a further bondl issue is unthinkable."' GoOD IIOAIDS The country is enterinlg a periodl of road- building. Projects which were pl an ned (luring thle war are being Put[ into effect. The Federal Government has mlade large apprl~opriations, to be 4 spent conljointly with repropria tions U b~y the various states. Goodl roadls have become a watchwoirdI of post-war priogress5. There is occasion for re flection ini I the faict that thle greate(sI, of ancient empires was conspicuous for its road-[ bu ildIing. The IRomanE roadls were thle railwvays andl telegraph of an age that (lid not know steamn andu electrici tv. I They were the pathwl~ays of the im perial couriers and~ the i mperial leg- L ions. These roadls were t he girders that held tile empi re togethler. It is customarty, todlay, to admniire the Ito mansfl for their practical sagacity, now here better exempl)iftied than inl thei r r oad(-buildling. lIn ai manner, ''11ist ory repeats it self" inl our newly bestIl-red zeal for constructing goodl highways. What t otheO Ronmans wasm a natIonal neces-L sity, has becomle for us an urgent needl ;and this lby virtue of a modern L invention--the motor ear. I look for much advancement to growv out ofC the "motor age,'' and~ I am certainc that this advancenment wvill be contin-c CH IH ETERS PILLS ' TIlE DIAMOND BIRAND. Pi'lls in ied and GJold rneulc\Vj' h~oxes, seaterd w'itb fiuo Rib~bon. J T~ake no othe,. of on ND R E FILl, fr35 aJ S yearsknownes~est, sft,Atways~eliable t SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE f FAMILY MEDICINE a Her Mother's Home Sa!s This Georgia Lady, Re arkig Black Draught. Relief Irom Head ache, Malaria, Chills, Etc. Vinggold, Ga.- Mrs. Chas. Gaston, f thi place, writes: "I am a user f Thedford's Black-Draught; in fact, ' was one of our family medicines. Iso in my mother's home, when I t as a child. When any of us child 3n complained of headache, usually aused by constipation, she gave us dose of Black-Draught, which would i ectify the trouble. Often in the pring, we would have malaria and hills, or troubles of this kind, we t 'ould take Black-Draught pretty reg lar until the liver acted well, and re would soon be up and around gain. We would not be without it, )r it certainly has saved us lots of octor bills. Just a dose of Black )raught when not so well saves a )t of days In bed." Thedford's Black-Draught has been s use for many years In the treat- I lent of stomach, liver and bowel roubles, and the popularity which it ow enjoys is proof of its merit. It your liver is not doing Its duty, ou will suffer from such disagree ble symptoms as headache, bilious ess, constipation, indigestion. etc., nd unless something is done, serious rouble may result. Thedford's B'ack-Draught has been ound a valuable remedy for these roubles. It Is purely vegetable, and ] cts in a prompt and natural way, egulating the liver to its proper unctlons and cleansing the bowels of mpurities. Try it. Insist on Thod Drd's, the original and genuine. E 78 ent upon the attention we give to le imiprovement of our roads. Those of us who have made obser ations for two decades have seen 'ondrous changes resulting directly rim1 the use of the pleasure automo ile. Once the city wast the city, and le country was the country. Today ley mierge into one another. The ity man knows the country as enver efore-is glad to have acces sto it n'd to live in it when possible. The )untry man knowv2 the city and fre tient it often. Small villages of yes -day have become the rural metro .lises that one finds here and there, .erywhere. This is all good, for it well that a nation be knit together the spirit of mutual understanding Id in a reciprocity of advantages. But there are better arguments for ood roads than those which apply erely to the pleasure car. We are >d, on. the authority of the Govern ent, that farmers lose $300,000,000 Sumter Marble Sumter J. P. Comr We design, build and mental work in marble or Also carry the large and grates in the State, wvill call. Doubi' Seaol Piston Ri Are Gua We Guarantee D~oule Seal Rings a FU LL SjETi is properiy installe chase, the user shoul become di I refund the money we receive for andl the original invoice showing~ returnedl through the channels reec D)OWN." COLUMI~' iA SUP 823 WVest Glervais St. SOUR BANEi 3THEY AREy -INSEPARABLE A good future without doe()sn't often happen, yo) 3 Ourii institution is a p) 3and inv'esting hank. We solicit the patronlag -al attributes are likewise ly desire to become such. 3You never regret mor 1use to regret when it is g The Bankoa 3 JOSEPH SP) T. M. MOU2~ ,early in marketing their, crops, be 'ause of bad roads. That is too much o waste. We should contemplate this igure in connection with the.high cost if living. There is no more serious problem >efore us today than the matter of educin gthe cost of getting the pro lucts of the farm to the table of the onsumer. One step, at least, in the olution is plain-better roads. As an instrument of economy the notor truck has not yet come into its own. Efficient servant as it is in cer ain restricted realms, it now awaits he further development of interurban mld country highways to reach the neasure of its full attainment. It has >ower and speed that put it outside he class of the horse-drawn vehicle, m1(d a nimbleness and flexibility which ,ives it a certain advantage over the 'ailways. It is my expectation to see t assume more and more the function if the "short haul" as its own peculiar irovince; in part, relieving the rail vays of those duties which they are east able to perform; and in part, ex annding the field of our national ransportation system. I say, therefore, all speed to the ,ood road movement! It will cheapen >ir methods of distribution and help .0 bring the people of our country 'loser to each other. I commend its :onmion sense an( practical wisdom. Ft may be less spectacular than some )f our other national issues, but it ;trikes deep into the roots of funda iental progress. Bland Cars of Character SUMTER, S. C, & Mantle Co. aander Prog. S. C. erect all kinds of monu granite. st stock of mantels, tile write and our salesman ings for Al Mi: m; o'biles ranteed. to give entire y aet. n. When 1. If, within (.. . :-. *or pur satisfied with th s . , wa will them uponl recej1. af mie rings, purchase. The rings should be *iv'ed. Ask for "IK EEP U PK EEP PLY COMP~ANY Columbia, 5. C. and our Future~ saving is, something that a know. 'ogressive money saving ~f 'c of these whose person -and those who earnest ey saved1. There is no one. f Manning ROTT, President ON, Cashier