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YOUNG MEN TO DO FIGHTING FOR THE NATION IN FUTURE ? WiiHhlnKt'Hi. Jan. ?*? ? All men for the war armlen wtill to bo rained by tho IJnltod Htaten win come from Class 1 wilder tho new selective aer vlee plan. That means the nation's tiKhti?K Is U> Im? doue t>y young wen vylthout families deixmdent ui>on their labor for support ami unskilled liv necessary Industrial or agricultural work. Provost Marwhal General Crowder announces the new policy in an ex haust Ive report u]>un tho oi>erailon of the selective druft law submitted to day to H<rretary IJaker and sent to OongiVMH. He says flans 1 should provide men for it 1 1 military *nceds of the country, And to nwvmpllMh that object urges amendment of the draft law ho as to provide that all men who have reaehed their twenty UrNt birthdays since June ftth, 1017, shall he required to register for elas sltleutloi). Also in the Interest of fair distribution of the military burden, he propose* that the quotas of states or districts be determined hereafter on the basis of number of men In (Mass 1 and not upon population. A valllable figures Indicate, the rej>ort says, that there arc 1.000,000 physical ly and otherwise qualified men under tho present regulation who will he found In ( 'lass l when all question naires have heen returned and the classification period ends February 1 rs. To this the extension of registration to iihm) turning Ul since .lunh f> of last year and thereafter will add 7<M),(X>0 effective men a year. Class l comprises: Single men without dependent rela tives, married men who have habit ually failed to support their families, who are dependent upon wives for sup port or not usefully engaged. and whose famlHcs are supi>orted hy in comes Independent of their labor; un skilled farm laborers, unskilled Indus trial laborers, registrants by or in res pect of whom no deferred classifica tion Is claimed or made, registrants who fail to submit questionnaire and in respect of whom no deferred classi fication Is claimed Or made, and all registrants not Included In any other division of the schedule. N'a r rowed down under the analysis of I he lirst drafi made in the report, the plan places upon unattached sin gle men and married men wltli Inde pendent Incomes most of the weight of military duty, fur the aggregate num-l ber of men in the oilier divisions of ' 'la I is- v rr,\ Small. | Ccp.-r.;! rr.mdi-r finds that the first' draft surpass,., | i } t? ? expectation of the' friends ol* t be -elective service idea.' Ife pays high tribute, not only to the thousands of civilians who have given | ?Migrudgiii:: service in making the plan ' a success, inn al<o t<? the hgh patriot ism of the \merican |>eople as a whop-. "At the Prt'HklfiU'M call," lie say*, ?'all ranks of the mm Hon, reluctantly enuring the war nevertheless respoud ed to the first call of the nation wkh a vigorous nut! uiwelllsh cooperation that subtiiericed all Individual Interest in a single endeavor toward tho 000* summation of tho national ta?k. 1 take It that no groat national project wan ever attempted with ho complete a reliance U|H>n the voluntary co-opera linn of citizens for lt? execution. Ctjr talnly no hiu'Ii burdensome and sacrl tidal Htatute hatl ever before been ex ecuted without a grout hierarnhy of olllclil Is. - " This law has ?eeu administered by civilians whose otUelal relation lie* only In necessary powers with which they lire vested by the President's des ignation of them to perform the ddtlos that are laid ujM?n them. They have, accomplished the task. Tliey have matle some mistakes. The Kj'stoui of fers room for Improvement. "Hut the Kis*at thing they were call nl upon to do they have done. The vaunted efficiency of absolution of which the (icrmnn empire stands as the avater can offer nothing to com pare with it. It remains that ultimate lest and proof of tho intensh: political Idea upon which American Institu tions of democracy find self-government have* been based." Analyvdnu the first draft, (Jeneral Crowder shows that 9,580,508 men Isv tween the ages of 21 and ?'U years registered themselves. I'p to late In becember only 5.N70 arrests had been made of those who had sought to evade registration and that number, 12. were released after having reg istered and there remain only 2,005 cases to l>e prosecuted. The roj>ort de clares that in the llnal analysis It will he shown that only 0.2(1 ]>er cent of the men within draft a^e evaded res ist ration. A rough figure of 8.2 per cent Is given as | he number of registrants who failed to ap|>ear when called l>? their local boards for examination, but (Jeneral Crowder hastens to explain that most of these men already are in Kurope in the American, Ilrltisli and French armies. They did not await i lie draft processes in their eagerness to get Into action. "The final data will undoubtedly show," (Jeneral Crowder adds, "that the number of those who willfully fail ed t?> ap|K>ar for examination when called is inslgnflcant." Of the total registration of 9,586, ?".os, r ho number called and examined was 3.0S2.040 and of these 1,057,303 were certified by the boards for mlll tar.v service. Since the tirst call was for only 0K7.<MX> men, there now remain 370. .'503 men awaiting summons to mob ilization camps. of all men examined 730,750 or 23.7 Lobster Sardines Pickles Sausage Oysters Spaghetti Swiss Cheese Goulash Raviola Chile-Con -Came These make up the usual Dutch lunch ? but what will you serve to drink? For years the host and hostess have been asking themselves that same question? > es pecially whenever the occasion hsppens to be one of those cozy little after-theatre or ?'in-between-times'* parties. Now, there is a ready answer ? >T4 wit q>t Thii distinctively new creation in toft brinks it sparkling? snappy ? delicious. It is healthful with the wholes om ens sa of the choicest cereals ? appetizing with the bou Set and agreeable bitter tang which only oice hops can impart. It is sure to "hit the spot"? sure to encounter no prejudices. Bcro ? the all -year* 'round soft drink Guard Against Substitute* have tbe bottle opened In your pr?a??e?. flr?t mlm tbat the ?\ h*? not been broken. and that the crown to? bear* the Fox. Bevo U ?oid in bottle* only? and to bottled exclusively by ? anhkusrr uusca t rr. louis BI SCH DISTRIBUTING CO. Wholesale Dealers COLUMBIA, 8. C. WORKMAN GROCERY CO. i/ocal Dealers CAMDLN, S. C. per were rejected for physical iwnoum. That, it Im pointed out, Hhowa an encouraging improvement In the pbyakil condition Of tho young men ot our nation aim** civil war day*, for at tiiut time the draft autbo|itle? re jected 32 P*r 00111 ot flli ^nou oil physical grounds. Alxuit one half of all men called or 1 .."^10,570 claimed exemption. Tho claims of 78 /per cent of itH*e WW grunted,1 showing, in tho opinion of otlirlala, that very few fraudulent claims were Med. of those exempted, 74 i>er cent were re leaned becaurte of dependent iflatlvoa, 90 \h ?r cent because they claimed alien birth aud nationality ; upd only alx per eeut on vocational grounds. I'ahni than 1 iK?r cent of the exemption* were granted to religious objeetora or ti> those morally unttt. Moat of the lat ter were convict# now in prison. The total cost of the first draft, ex clusive <<f the oost of the provost martial genera 1*h ofllce here, waa $5, 311,005. Thin amount has been re funded to the states by the federal government. It represents an average eoat <?f $4.03 I*'r man accepted for mil' Italy service and with the provoat mar slml general's expenses Included $5 i>or man, agalnKt a coat of $24.48 per voluntary recruit In 1014: $10.14 in 1015 and $28.05 In the fihd nine months of 1017. Prior to the draft act dur ing the civil war, the cost per man waa about $34, and after the draft was enforced, about $0.84. lit discussing the future of the draft General Orowder said the first duty Is to provide an adequate army. Eco iiomlc considerations must l>e regared ?n selecting men, he rays, but not at tljc ex|>pnso of an efficient lighting force. Viewed beside the efforts Ger many and Austria have put forth to olaee man power In the field, he adds, "It little becomes us to emphasize above i whisper as a substantial national nroblem anything we have yet been failed upon to do." Tables accompanying the report show many striking results of the draft. Taking the total of 1.243,801 aliens reg istered It is shown that of the 457, tl3 called up for examination 70,545 were certified for military service having voluntarily waived their right to ex emption as aliens and In effect volun teer Tor the battle for democracy. Even of the 281,108 exempted, 40 per cent' went out on other grounds than their alien status. There was evident some variation of nractlce among the states on the ques tion of exempting married men. A total 103.115 married men hfttc been "ertlflcd f'>r service. In Mississippi the boards held 38 i>er cent of all married men called for service; in Wisconsin ?ind North Dakota only eight per cent were held. After further study of I he results It Is expected efforts will '?e made to unify the practice of boards more closely In this regard. Montana led among the states In -he number of men called who filed mo claim for exemption. Figures for that state show that 80 per cent of tneq called up were ready to go to the front. Kentucky had the greatest number of exemption claims 52 per cent filing affidavits. The average num ber of claims was 40 per cent. His Sentiments on Questionnaire. Now Haven, Conn., Jan. 4. ? Mnrl iu 11 Ian von Hoegon, a lawyer who has if times attracted notice by pro-Ger man utterances, returned his draft Hiestlonnalre to the draft hoard here, it was learned today, with "Deutsch land uber alles" written across it and bating that he lias "an t>ver\tfhelm ing desire to see Germany victorious !n the war." At one time he claimed to bea n agent of the German govern ment and a representative of the for mer German ambassador to Wshing ton, Count von Bemstorflf. Secretry Eliot Wat rous of the hoard said the paper had been turned over to ? the federal authorities. Compelled to Make Retraction. New Haven, Conn., Jan. 5. ? Maxi milian Von Iloegen, a young lawyer of this city, who returned his question naire to the draft board here endorsed "Deutschland Uber Alles," was com pelled tonight by a self-appointed com mittee of citizens to make a public retraction. He was arso compelled to kiss the American flag, to sing the Star spangled Banner and to declare that it was "America first, last and always." I/ater Von Hoegen made complaint to the police alleging that he had been severely beaten. No arrests were made. To Withdraw Many Passenger Trains. Washington, Jan. H. ? Hundreds of passenger trans on railroads east of the Mississippi will be withdrawn from > service under orders soon to be issued by Director General McAdoo, based upon recommendations made today by a committee of Eastern passenger traf fic officers. The committee was divided b\H to the advisability of withdrawing most parlor and sleeping cars, leaving ally those considered most necessary ; fir important travel routes. IfJenrpe K. I.andesdale. a prominent] cftiron of Wlnnsboro died Wednesday n\ornlng. j A Night in a Metropolis Bf ALAN hinsdale; (Cvpjrrtefet, 111?* W?tU?Q Union.) - - . , v --?. ?^ .In tha-grcat ?Atauof New. York there la no night.' . Ti^uru tH darkness in spota; (hero It} artificial illumination ; but tlie great living current does uot cease to flow. One night I lay awake listening a clock In u church tower strike the houra. There wan a I ho a confusion of Bounds, the principal oue beiug the passing of elevated tralna aome dls tauc* from me at Intervals of a few minutes. When the clock Htruck two 1 robe, dressed myself aud went out on the street. The ongoing was the same as At noonday. In my wanderings I reached an embankment of the Hudson river that bad been made Into a park. Sitting on a bench I gave myself up to meditation. Yeara ago savages ' had looked down on the black Htream an I was now doing. A time would come when not one of those who made up the stream of life behind me would be alive. And yet the human current would roll on. Where? Who knows? The day may come when the waves of an ocean may roll over Manhattan Is land as It rolled uges ago. I was conscious of someone sitting at the other end of the bench on which ?I rested, and turning my head saw a woman. Thore was lamplight enough for me to tell that she was a girl, somewhoro between seventeen ttttd twenty years old. I did not close proximity with a woman at That hour and was about to arise and move on when she addressed me. "Don't go," she said. "I haven't a friend In the world. I hnvo coino from the center of thnt city of sin and sor row, of good and evil, to find rest from suffering. I find you here alone, and you fear me." She bent her head down, concealed her face with her hands and moaned. There was no acting In what she did or said. Such grief as hers was not to be counterfeited. I asked her to tell mo her troubles. She said that she was one of the many tributaries to tho great human stream ever moving on the island. The flow of country girls to the city like the current It feeds never ceases, despite the count less wrecks. She had wandered all day looking for work and found none. She was tired and hungry and when night came she had no money with which to buy food or a place to sleep. She had come to the river fuis.from the mad throng, where she cofild at least suffer alone, "You mean,'' I said shuddering, "thnt yon have come to the park embank ment where you may find a bench to rest on." She made no other reply than moans and tears. I took money from my pocket and handed It to her. She re fused it. "It will avnil nothing now," she said. "It would hnvo availed nothing hnd it come sooner. When day comes I would hnve been doomed to go from store to store, from factory to fnotorv, looking for work. I nm not nblo to continue the dreadful tramp. Resides. I have reached a polrtt where anything seems more merciful than that merci less flow of humanity." With this she lenned bnek on the bench nnd wns silent, motionless. It occurred to me that the most practica ble thing to do would be to go for one of tho city's men appointed for such work. Rising I told her to remain where she was and I would return with someone who would take care of her during the night, and on the mor row I would interest myself on her be half. I left her and going a short distance found a policeman whom I told that I had found a despairing woman who needed the city's care. "The town's full of 'em." he said. "I wouldn't advise you to get mixed up with ono of them. You'll only get yourself in trouble." ?Til lookout for that," I replied. "It's your duty as a policeman when I call upon you for aid In such a case to give it." He reluctantly came with me. We had not far to go. I had kept my eye on the figure on the bench, and when we started for it I saw It plainly. But as we advanced It seemed less distinct instead of clearer. "Where are you going?" asked the policeman. ? "To that bench," pointing. *1 thought you were taking me to a woman." ' "80 I am, don't you see her leaning ?gainst the back of the bench?" "There's no womnn there." I looked sgaln. The policeman was right; the bench was vacant. I was too astonished to reply. I 'stood staring at the point where I had left the girl. "She's given you the slip," said tho cop. "It's the old story. As soon as she saw you come for me. she lit out. Tou're not the first young Innocent that has been fooled that way." I had nothing to say, but I was not Influenced by his words. I went to my room. Daylight was pouring In at the windows. Throwing myself on the bed I tried to snatch a little sleep, but failed. All that day I tried to banish my ex perience of the night, but it would not be banished. On the elevated train In the afternoon I took up an evening pa per. One of the first Items that caught my eye wes n statement that a young girl hid irowned herself the night be fore. at the point where 1 had nvea? what? I??. ? I I From HrtlW* <? I Enjoy IleflrtWa lOP^f ^ I J?"- 4""Tt" ,,v- ?,,, Infortnullon If1?* ,1,, ??, I chlr< I on rules governing ' r I of A merle, h jim HorVlu# wil j foree* to tl)i> Americau M I their present wtatiM wjl J turbed except in mjkvIi whore the tritnsfvr "I* 1 infer, .*t of the rnited State*." J This decision, If Is nakl. was reachefl Ion the follow l uk grounds: I h-sf That Amerlcaus who ?J liMod With the NritUh forow Oil* J haw been [?romi?to<l by p? t riotic W0> I lives t" do arxt that therefore it Idol's not matter whether they re??tj| British or an' transferred to Ihoif | own tl.t;'. .since they would bo flgktinj for the same cause. I s? - ?? oid lo some oases, particularly I >\ i ! h the Canadians, many of who? I are Amerieans, transfers might w?f|. ousl> disorganize units. While ii. > official statistics an? aralfr ?tide, if is believed then* are from 25, (xh.i t.? !U ),000 Americans in the Oanafl. Ian foivos alone and perhaps half aa many more scattered through other I Hriii-h contingents in France, ilQffr: | pofainia. Palestine and olsewborR j Hundreds of letters have been sent to, 'Me American authorities in London begging for transfer hut the author^, j tics say they an* unabJo to niujftl concessions to any special number of; men without taking over the men u a whole. . In many cases, it is j>oIntot! ont, the desires for transfers are not prompted l?y patriotism but because of (to chance to enjoy greater hene/itii and the higher pay of the American /oropi1 1'ottavUle, Pa., Has Coal Famine*, j Potfsville. Pa.. Jan. ?!.? This built on top of one of the richest cml I basin s in the wprid, surrounded by anthracite mines working full time and with one of the largest coal clasailS' eat ion yards, faces a fuel fanilue. The retail dealers are unable to obtain a sufficient supply of coal to meet the demand. The railroad yards on the j outskirts of t he city are crowded with j loaded coal ears waiting for move I mcnt to uther points. *:Pt h tl?? 11,11 rmy t?y *W< I Dj - - #1 1 oriog huI America J till with a m ThU Is n be, for |] With oul; the ft Camejn t wurfa ?t watei [ loa?J^ ?uihIh. ?? v ~ ^ ? Brit itf Kxlaj urmy leU for ?ccnf The fight is half won To the young busiVess portance as It may be small a large, but it should payment should be It's helpful? it's This bank \v small. Uncle Sam It isn't at all The principal Ket the right qUa Wheatless, lose their bruits and v Come in and ln groceries.