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QUOTAS FIXED FOR FALL Y.M.C. A. DRIVE National Goal of $112,000,000 Includes $15,000,000 For War Work Of Y. W. C. A.?Southeast Asked For $5,000,000 The quotas for the seven states of the Southeastern Department for the next financial drive of the National War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A. for $112,000,000, which will take place late in the fall were decided upon last week by delegates from each of the states. Seven hundred delegates from the seven states of thu Southeastern Department recently met with the nation's leading Y. M. C. A. workers at the Capital City Club of Atlanta, Ga. The quotas for the Southeastern states, totaling approximately $5,000,000, were decided upon aa follows: Florida, $577,584; Georgia, $1,043,784; Mississippi, $280,000; North Carolina, $680,288; South Carolina, $844,896; Tennessee, $1,095,920; Alabama, 1504,000. $15,000,000 to the Y. W. C. A. Of the total amount $15,000,000 -will be turned over to the Young Women's Christian Association in order that they'may carry on the many war activities that they have undertaken. Every town and community of ^ Southeast was represented by Its leading citizens at the conference. Chief among the international figures were Dr. John R. Mott, General Secretary of the National War Work Council, Geo. W. Perkins, former leader of the Bull Moose party, a member Of the executive board of the United States Steel Corporation and now chairman of the Army and Navy Y. M. C. A. bureau of finance. Others in the party were A. H. Whitford and Chas. S. Ward, directors ol the national campaign, and A. M. Cotton of the Boys' Earn and Give Campaign. Tha "V" Han Ara Tn Da mu i itiuii mu iu uu Found Where Battle Is Hot ? - "If you want to know what the Y. C. A. njeans to the soldiers, go where the lighting is hot," is the regular reply of the American soldiers in Prance, according to a cablegram re* ceived recently by the National War Work Council telling of more secretaries who. have been under liquid fire attacks, as well as gas and shell fire. The American Expeditionary officers have sent scores of letters to the Paris headquarters of the T praising the work of the Red Triangle workers, declaring them to be indispensable. More than a thousand "Y" secretaries are in advanced positions and dugouts under constant shell fire. There; are no quitters and they refuse to be relieved, saying that where the troops go the Y. M. C. A. will stick. i Our Mr. W. P. Jones is now in the West, where he went to purchase three carloads of mules and horses, which will begin to arrive next Monday, Sept. 16th. All who comtemplate purchasing will do well to wait and see these fine animals.?adv. FIRST PRIMARY RESULTS. Official Vote for United States Senator, Long Term. x County Blease ; Dial Rice AhhAirillo 898- 47 Aiken 1,932 1,594 141 v Andersonx 2,735 2,848 137 Bamberg 222 782 112 Barnwell 516 1,350 120 Beaufort j 3,18 354 174 Berkeley 275 591 80 Calhoun 158 574 38 Charleston 1,678 2,895 122 Cherokee 1,419 1,255 116 Chester 494 1,24 6 63 Chesterfield .. .. 652 1,420 201 f Clarendon 865 877 57 Colleton 446 1,548 127 Darlington .. ..1,003 1,522 89 Dillon .. ~ .. .. 423 950 85 Dorchester 403 659 63 Edgefield .. .. .. 306 984 40 Fairfield 366 727 43 Florence 1,192 1,997 165 Georgetown .... 247 752 26 Greenville .. ..2*443 4,320 334 Greenwood .... 985 1,502 96 .Hampton 220 1,192 123 Horry 576 1,357 180 Jasper 59 312 74 Kershaw 826 1,363 115 Lancaster 742 1,428 85 Laurens 1,274 1,908 119 Lee 720 800 57 i - Lexington 1,756 1,952 152 Marion 396 990 100 Marlboro 446 1,202 72 McCormick .... 218 534 57 Newberry 1,346 1,387 71 Oconee 1,146 1,281 272 Orangeburg .... 721 2,428 180 Pickens 1,313 1,293 169 \ Richland 1,879 3,104 213 Saluda 1,028 925 71 Spartanburg .. ..2,980 4,340 386 Sumter .. ...... 411 1,412 63 Union 1,077 1,394 156 Williamsburg .. 468 1,222 91 York 1,229 1,593 135 Total 40,456 65,064 5,317 Our Mr. W. P. Jones is now in the West, where h$ went to purchase three carloads of mules and horses, which will begin to arrive next Monday, Sept. 16th. All who comtemplate purchasing will do well to wait and see these fine animals.?adv. 0 THREE WAR MEDALS BESTOWED ONT'HERO Red Triangle Worker Wounded by Hun Machine Gun at 6oiasons, Toul and Chateau Thierry New York, August 25.?Flat on hi? back in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, W. A. Roberts, who has been awarded three French war medals for bravery in the fighting zones, is enjoying a well-earned rest, and is talking freely of almost anything but why the French government showered honors upon him. j Mr. Roberts, a Y. M. C. A. worker in France, had bestowed upon him the Croix ae Guerre, the badge of the Legion of Honor, and the Medal Militaire. He won them all in three Ill U11 wild. Roberts was assistant auditor of the Michigan Central railroad before he j was selected to be auditor of disburse-1 ments for the Y. M. C. A. in France, and to handle more than a quarter of ! a million dollars a day. He left for j overseas service February 12, was j wounded by a Hun machine gun at j Soissons, rescued a "Y" secretary amid a ball of bullets in the Toul sector and was touched up by German marksmanship again at Chateau Thierry. Y.M.C.A.NEEDS MEN IN SOUTHERN CAMPS While Red Triangle Continues to Call for Overseas Workers, 1,000 Are Wanted for Home Service Atlanta, Ga., August 25.?Men endowed with the element of leadership are needed by the Army and Navy Y. M. C. A. to serve in the camps of the Southeast Dr. W. W. Alexander, general recruiting secretary for the War Personnel Board of the Y. M. C. A. War Work Council, declares that there Is a pressing need for home service, and that this affords a splendid opportunity to the man of middle age who Is not able to go abroad under the Red Triangle. "The Y. M. C. A. needs men for - IV. overseas service, or course, dui mw j home camps must not be* forgotten," explained Dr. Alexander. "From now on until the first of the year the Southeast must recruit 1,000 men for the home camps. This means that each state will he called upon to furnish 25* men per month per state to serve the soldiers in camps such as Gordon, Jackson, Wheeler and the j others. The constant growth of the i home cantonments and the growing j demand for the T. M. C. A. work! makes it necessary to recruit "Y" workers for this side." BIG-SOULED MEN NEEDEOJNY. M.C.A. For Overseas Work With Red Triangle ; Forces ? 500 Recruits Asked For Out Of Southeast During July "Pass the word on, and pass it quickly, that 500 of the most capable,! earnest and big souled Christian business men are needed immediately out of the Southeastern Department for overseas work with the Red Triangle Forces," according to Dr. W~ W. Alex- j ander, director of the War Personnel Bureau, Army and Navy Y. M. C. A.,' for the Southeastern Department. The j quota of 500 for the department for the > >??* . ~ - A ? j 1 too I ynoi was Mtccueu uy xco oulistments. The call now cornea for executives, of much business experience and spe-; cialists in all lines. No man in Amer-; ica is too big for the smallest Y. M.' C. A. job "Over There." Today the leading men of the nation are volun- j teering for the work: Bank presidents, college presidents, office holders, political leaders, religious leaders 8nd hundreds of corporation heads are giving all time to the work with America's Sons in France. j State recruiting committees are operating in the seven Southeastern states. Information as to the opportunities and the work can be secured through the statek recruiting secretar ries, as follows: ; Chas. M. Norfleet, Y. M. C. A., Winston-Salem, N. C. j Heath Bartow, Y. M. O. A., Colum-, bia, S. C. W. E. Hearon, Y. M. C. A., Atlanta, j Ga. i O. E. Maple, Y. M. C. A., Jackson-; ville, Fla. Truman L. McGill, Y. M. C. A., Birmingham, Ala. Dr. J. Watt Raine, Edwards Hotel, Jackson, Miss. F. M. Massey, Y. M. C. A., Nashville, Tenn. CROIX DE GUERRE GIVEN ta u ii n i uinni/rn iu t. m. b. a. nunntif; Taking his Croix de Guerre trom his own breast, a French army cap-! tain, by orders of his general, pinned it on the coat of Edwin Ely, of No. 73 West Eighty-eighth street, Newr York.' according to a cablegram just received j from overseas. Mr. Ely is a Y. M. C.; A. secretary of a Foyer du Soldat. Ely was later invited to dinner by j the Commanding General. When he' entered all the officers stood at salute j until he was seated at the side of the! General. The General made an ad- j dress thanking Ely and the Y. M. C. | A. tvr their work in France and ex-1 pressed regret that he was not able > I to confer an official decoration. I What the Kaiser Forgot. It would take columns to tell; j what the Kaiser remembered in get- i ] ting ready for this war?all the1 j items of military equipment, store- ' rooms of information collected by 1 his spies, order forms in blank for I the destruction of Belgian cities, I etc.?but there was one thing the 1 Kaiser forgot. He thought it was I perfectly safe to risk the coming oi < the United States into the war be- I cause he believed we could not raise i an effective army in time. He knew we had the men and that I we could make the munitions, but he 1 knew further that men and muni- t tions without competent trained offi-1 , cers are not an army, but a mob, and ( the Kaiser was sure we did not have I the officers and could not get them.1 j Jk a/nd 1 So it | The "Boss" knows thai |[ money in the bank is nol it. He must be on tne jo his job and his time?he knows time is money?he When he gets it he pu safe there. It helps to ha Have one. BANK W I We pay four per c pounded quarterly t I Farmers & Me I EHRHARL mmmrnmmmmmmmmm WRK ? Fl l| V # We wi win Nothing else really m I The Flavc .. . What the Kaiser forgot was the American college hoy.?. Probably he :lid not know much about him. He had seen the American post-graduate . in his German universities, the boo*ivorm, the scientist, the artist, the writer, the jurist, the schclar-type, but the American undergraduate that goes to football matches, baseball games, athletic events of all kinds who lives largely in the outloors and yet keeps up his studies? .his type the Kaiser knew nothing ibout.?Rutland Herald. Our Mr. W. P. Jones is now in the ATest, where he went to purchase :hree carloads of mules and horses, which will begin to arrive nsxt Monlav. Sept. 16th. 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