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PERSONAL MENTION. People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. ?J. F. Carter, /Esq., speni Monday in Columbia. ?Miss Cora Connor spent a few days in Branchville last week. ?Miss May Bowman spent a few days last week in Orangeburg. ?Mrs. F. B. McCrackin has gone to Millen, Ga., for a two weeks visit. ?Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Heard spent Sunday in Orangeburg with relatives. ?Miss Mary Livingston, of Columbia, was in the city for several days last week. ?Miss Mamie Hartzog visited her Mater, Mrs. D. C. Murph, in Orangefcnrg this week. ?Mrs. J. Gary Black, of Charleston, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Price. ?Mrs. S. A. Hand left S"uday afternoon for a Charleston hospital to nndergo treatment. ?Misses Edith White and Lucile Hunter, of Coker college, Hartsville, ere at home this week. ?Misses L^lla Byrd and Ottawa Easterling spent a few days at home from Columbia last week. ?Mr. Pinckney Smoak, of Woflege, Spartanburg, was at home this eek for a short vacation. ?Mrs. J. Gordon Ellison, of Millen, Ga., was the guest of Mrs. - George S. Smith last week. ?Prof. W. H. Hodges has returned to the city from Charleston, here he spent a few days with reli atives. ?Mrs. H. N. Folk and children tiave returned from Orangeburg, here they spent two weeks with relatives. ?-Misses Mary Williams and Jean Price, of Columbia college, spent a few days in the city last week. ?Misses Vista and Evelyn Brabham, \ Mildred Jones and Leona \ . Brabham, of Converse college, Spartanburg, spent a few days at their homes in the city this week. . ?Col. and Mrs. J. R. Owens left Taesday for Charleston, where Col. . * Owens is to be under treatment. Col. Owens has been ill for several weeks, and it is likely that he will have to undergo an operation. His many friends trust that he will soon return home recovered in health. The Great Clock of Strasburg. ' * Sr. - > The great clock of the cathedral has been for nearly six centuries an object of public curiosity and amusement. The astronomical clock was hrst built by the Bishop Bercthold, of Birchegg, in 1352, and was completed two years later by the Bishop John, of Lichtenberg. The clock originally occupied the space facing that j which it occupies at present in the southern transept. Besides various astronomical devices indicating the true solar time, it has a great plane tarium in which the revolution of the planets is represented, so that the relative position of each at any time can be seen at a glance. Then, on an elevated platform, are moving figures representing the four ages of man. On a still higher platform is a natural-sized figure of Jesus and at noon the twelve apostles pass bev fore the feetvof their master, bowing low. As Peter passes a large and marvelously lifelike cock flaps fcls wings, ruffles his feathers and crows three times very loudly and naturally. The clock was definitelycompleted in 1574, to be destroyed during the revolution of 1789. But In 1842, a Strashurg artist named Cchwielgue built the clock which still exists and is a faithful copy of the Old timepiece. , *-t Airplane Regulations. President Wilson, in submitting ? to the house recentlv recommends tions of the national advisory committee for aeronautics for legislation placing the licensing and regulation of aerial navigation in charge of the department of commerce, declared "he fully approved the suggested legislation." Secretaries Baker Daniels and Redfield also have indorsed the proposal. The legislation would give the'department of commerce authority to Issue licenses for civilian operation of air craft and provide an appropna tion of $25,000 for the necessary expenses. A letter from C. D. Walcoti, chairman of the executive committee, said the legislation should be passed at once. Mr. Walcott pointed out the absence of any federal authority for establishing rules and regulations governing civilian operation, said if the war department sold its surplus machines many ama teurs would attempt fljing with many accidents resulting. Operation of "unlicensed and irresponsible aircraft," he added would cause proba.bly complications from smuggling from Mexico and Canada. > STICK TO 1 (In interest of the Je Stick to the Jews, for the Grand in their strength Thousands of graves tell Who have done more tl Stick to the Jews?blesse True in their honor as Saving with blo^d Frecdc: Giving their all that 01 Stick to the Jews?they a They who were happy t Never betraying that ban Brothers forever in Lil 1 Stick to the Jews, for the Grand in their strength Thousands of graves tell Who have gone further Aiken, S. C. FIGURES OF THE DRAFT. At End of War United States Forces Numbered 4,791,172 Men. The United States was ready to increase its fighting force to 7,131,172 men during 1919 if the war had continued. Provost Marshal General I Crowder stated in his annual report to Congress. A reserve of 2,340,000 class 1 men ! was waiting to be mobilized when I the armistice was signed, the report stated, the armed strength of the nation then being 4,791,172 men. When war was declared the armed strength ' was 378,619 men. i Two out of every three men in unij form were raised through the draft, j Crowder stated, the total number in ductad during the war being 2,810,296. Every one was taken from class 1. Only 18 per cent, of the men of I military age, 18 to 45, were in the ! service, the report stated, while Eng1 ' J CO tin* ziant nf hor lailU CUUUIUUICU U4 pci vx uv. available fighters. In all 24,234,021 men were registered by the great draft system for military service. Seven per cent, was the maximum percentage of men taken from any any one industry. The farmers were treated better 4 than any other workers, 69 per cent, of those registered being granted deferred classification. Comparatively few married men were taken, the records showing that 89 per cent, of them were deferred. Physically the nation is 70 per cent, perfect, according to the draft .examiners. This is the percentage of the men found fit. This does not include the limited service of men or those whose defects could be remedied. The highest percentages of physical fitness come from the middle west. Oklahoma led the nation with 82 per cent,, closely followed by Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming. Texas and North Dakota. Rhode Island and Arizona show the largest percentage of physically unfit with Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New York and Washington close. Rhode Island had only 53 per cent, fit and New York 60 per cent. Heart troubles, eyes, tuberculosis and mental defects brought the largest number of rejections, each claiming more than 19 per cent, of the total disqualified. Flat feet took only 1.3 per cent. General Crowder's "work or figl)t" order forced 120,000 men either into the army or useful work and his drive on the slacker marriages added 123,000 men to class 1. Eighteen thousand waiters alone changed their More than 295,000 are still classed work, as did 17,000 clerical workers, as deserters by the provost marshal general's office, having failed to answer calls or register. About 67,000 have been apprehended. Eight thousand convicts or exprisoners were inducted and their records show they made fine fighting men. General Crowder closes his report with a tribute to all who helped make the draft a success. The total cost of the draft was only $16,000,000 and General Crowder had S3S.000,000 appropriations waiting to go back to the treasury. The per capita cost of the inductments was $6.52, as compared with $217 in the '60s. The cost of enlisting a volunteer was $28.95 during the operation of the draft. ? A Tip for the League of Nations. Paderewski is going to be the president of Poland. Then why not place John McCormack, the Irish sweet sin?cr at the head of the population of the Emerald Isle, and elect Caruso president of Italy? Thus ^irrht harmonv be established in Europe?New York Globe. 0 I ~'l > c " Read The Herald, only $2.00 year. THE JEWS. swish Welfare Drive.) y stuck to Old Glory! to the last dying breath; the eloquent story; ian to battle to death! d race of the Master, heroes of old? sn's Flag from disaster? ir Nation might hold! re ours and we love them, o battle and bleed; ner above them? mrty's Creed! y stuck to Old Glory! to the last dying breath; the eloquent story; than to battle to death! JAMES EDWIN KERR. BUSINESS OF THE FARMER. 1 Cannot Pay Good Wages Because It Does Not Control Product Prices. , "An employment agency in one of ; the largest cities of Texas states that i out of 1,000 applicants for employment not one asked to be sent to i work on a farm." B. Harris, comi missioner of agriculture, says in an | interview just given out. What does J that mean? Merely that farm life is I not remunerative enough and not at1 tractive enough for the young men ! of our country. Why should not our I young men on the farm be paid as | much as cotton mill operatives or the man at the forge? The only answer that I can see is that the man on the farm is not allowed to fix the price of what he produces. "We are now engaged in a fight to the finish, a fight which means that the South must forever submit to accept with the submission of beggars the price that may be fixed by individuals that have never worked, or the South will now emerge master of the situation and able to place upon its own commodity the price which the South sees fit. The coal miners of England and the diamond mines of Africa do not say that they wrill accept any price that may be offered them?they tell the world what it must give. "Now, with regard to the cotton, I wish to call attention to some singular facts. The largest cotton crop ever grown in the United States yielded less to the producer than one of the smallest. That doesn't appear reasonable, but it is a fact. The great crop of 1912 which was 16,184,930 bales brought in cash to the producers but $810,000,000, while the small crop of two years ago, 11,302,375 bales brought in cash to the producer. $1,667,000,000. In other words we grew in 1912 for nothing 4,832,555 bales. "This should be the very strongest evidence possible to convince the farmer that the right thing and the best thing for him to do is to take warning and to do what the^ best informed people are urging him to ao?curtail ? ?????? ? nnd tVlrt 35 1-3 tilt? clCi cage auu iuc vAjiiuvi vw v per cent. "The farmer should not raise a large crop this year and thereby should sell it for a profit and not merely for the cost of production or less. It is much better to raise five bales to the horse and make a profit on them than it is to raise ten bales at a loss to the farmer. As surely as the cotton farmers grow a big crop this year, just that surely they will grow it at a loss. "What will the farmers gain by growing a 14,000,000 bale crop this ; year that will cost them at least 25 | cents per pound with high priced j fertilizer and high priced labor? Now, just stop and think and remember : that you farmers can make the crop I profitable or unprofitable. Which | shall it be?" I Commissioner Harris is no convert ! to the new idea of mixed farming, , for he has ^een trying it for 3V I years. The first year that he began | to farm, he failed because he planted ! all cotton. But since that time he has been engaged in what is now known as diversified farming, and he is a living example that it pays. | Deliverable Grades of Cotton. I - * T ~ C C~> * Kepresemauve bever, ui ouum l , Carolina, chairman of the agriculi ture committee, has introduced in the I house a hill amending the cotton future act so as to reduce the number of deliverable grades of cotton from 20 to 10 and to provide for govern; ment classification of the certificated ! stock of the cotton exchanges to be i delivered on contract to middling ! fair, strict good middling, strict mid! dling, middling, strict low middling, i and low middling, and the grades of yellow tinged to good middling and strict middling. Good middling, yellow stained cotton, is also included. ART WORKS RECOVERED. French Get Back Many Masterpieces t That Germans Carried Away. Great anxiety, writes a Paris correspondent, has been felt during the whole course of the great conflict for the invaluable artistic treasures which for four long years were exposed in the north of France to the devastation or war. r or tne museums of northern France were amongst the richest of the couatry even of Europe, and were consequently a tempting prey for German official connoisseurs. The museum of Lille was, perhaps, most badly treated by the Germans. It contained masterpieces signed by Rubens, Frans Hals, Van Dyck, Jordaens, Garard David, Goya, Chardin, Fragonard. All these works were transported to Valenciennes, as well as several hundred drawings by Mantegna, Giotto, Poussin, Corregio, Anna, Giotto, Poussin, Corregio, Andrea del Sarto and Michael Angelo. These deported masterpieces were soon rejoined by the pictures which had been the pride of the museum of Douai; works by van der Weyden, Rubens, Holbein van der Goss, Antonio Moro, followed by the rare MSS. of the archives of Loan, were soon stored near the artistic spoils of Lille. Happily they have now been discov ered; at the approach of the British troops, the Germans had hastily sent them on to Brussels in barges which were abandoned by the army of the former kaiser at La Capelle-au-Bois. Fortunately the Germans had intrusted the safety of these master| pieces to M. Plevet, of Valenciennes, J who had also undertaken to watch ; over the art treasures of his native I city during their forced journey to j Brussels. With much difficulty he i succeeded in getting the barges safely towed, to Brussels, with their precious contents, in spite of the intense disorganization of the retreating German army; and it is characI teristic of the Germans that on sev! eral of the largest cases was inscribed the name and address of Prince Ruprecht of Bavaria. The art treasures of the north are safe. Even the celebrated pastels of j Latour, which were the glory of the j museum of St. Quentin, have been j recovered, whilst the Quentin Matsvs * ? ? ] of Bruges were rouna in a seurei cellar in which they had been hia den. The French government is taking the necessary measures for returning the vagrant work of art to , their original museums ? and it is j hoped that the magnificent works of : Shongauer which belonged to the I Colmar museum will soon be resored i by Bavaria, where they are, it is said, j one of the finest ornaments of the I Munich museum! | American Ships Again Sail the Seven Seas. For the first time since the days of : the famous "Clipper" ships, says a ! Washington dispatch, American merj chant craft now are plying the seven i seas, carrying products of the United I States to the farthest corners of j the earth and bringing home both j essentials and luxuries, j The shipping board announced re j centlv that the American merchant j marine fleet, built up under the spur of war's necessity, now represented nearly one-fifth of the entire seagoing tonnage of the worl'd and comprised 46 per cent, of all ships clearing from United States ports, as compared with 9.7 per cent, of the great war. Trade routes not traversed by *?. PA American craft for more inan ou years once more are invaded, with new routes established to China, Australia, New Zealand, India, the Dutch East Indies, the west coast of Africa and ports on the Mediterranean, j Ships flying the Stars and Stripes ! also are running regularly to South America, Great Britain and continental Europe, as well as Canada and Mexico. The fleet now engaged in overseas commerce consists of 351 freighters. 48 freight and passenger vessels, 71 j oil tankers, 230 sailing vessels, and | 16 miscellaneous ships, aggregating i 1,961,239 gross tons. Of this total, j 406,528 gross tons are employed in i A tlonttn frodo 215.925 tons of j U aiiOTiuiaativ^ ^ , ! South American trade, 761,252 tons j Carribean and Mexican trade, and ! 76,014 tons in Alaskan and Canadian trade. When the army and navy return to the shipping board the 353 ships with which they are operating the commercial fleet under the American flag, the tonnage will be increased by 1,873.251 gross tons m; king the total 3,834,750 gross tons, wich many hundreds of thousands of tons building or under contract. An Infallible Recipe. Little Eunice was attending her first class in domestic science and was asked to tell briefly the surest j way to keep milk from souring. And Eunice, who was an exceedingly practical child, gave this recipe: "Leave it in the cow." V. REFUSES TO GIVE UP JOB. Augusta Postmaster Ousted for Alleged Incompetency. Augusta, Ga., April 1.?On telegraphic orders from Washington removing Postmaster John W. Clark, of this city, for alleged incompetency, and appointing J. C. McAuliffe acting postmaster, Postoffice Inspector 0. C. Cole today offered to install McAuliffe. Clark for hours refused to vacate. Late in the afternoon Clark left the office, when Cole posted notices in the building that employes must only obey orders from McAuliffe. Late tonight Clark asserted he was still postmaster a"d that he expected orders in the next twelve hours which would reinstate him beyond dispute. ?a Now in the Bread Line. Baron Von der Lancken, formerly German civil governor of Belgium, writes an Asociated Press correspondent from The Hague, sought refuge in Holland when the Germans retreated from Belgium. Von der Lancken was the man to whom the American minister, Brand Whitlock, delivered his vain appeal to spare the life of Edith Cavell, the English nurse who was executed by the Germans in October, 1915, for aiding the British, French and Belgian soldiers to escape from Belgium. Von der Lancken then told Hugh Gibson, fipprptnrv nf fhp AmpriVan Ipg'ntinn that the sentence imposed by the military governor on Miss Cavell was final and that civil governor covla not overrule it. When Von der Lancken arrived I ! here he'went to the German legation, but in order to obtain food cards, he j had to apply to the police station where he failed miserably in his efforts to obtain preferential treatment as a "distinguished visitor." A chance caller there found him in line with a group of unwashed refugees, his well-groomed figure out of keeping with his surroundings. He was compelled to stand in line for two hours before his wants were attended to. v To one who remembers the time wThen to get a word from Von der Lancken in Brussels it was necessary to give two days' notice, after which one had to struggle through a bodyguard of haughty, suspicious underlings, the spectacle of this exquisite specimen of Prussian junkerdom waiting his turn in the file amid the grimy proletariat afforded an excellent illustration of "the times that are changed." Hungry for Hdrse Meat. Eight hundred condemned army horses and mules were sold at auction to a German butcher near Coblenz last week, writes a correspondent, with the understanding that all the animals must be killed to help relieve the meat shortage within the occupied area. All the animals sold had been inspected and found unfit for military use, owing age or because they had been infected by gas during the war. Captain Joseph Kittell, of Pikeville, Tenn., remount officer of the quartermaster corps, acted auctioneer, and butchers from all parts of the occupied zone attended the sale. One horse brought $1,175. Before the war, first-class Belgian horses in this district were worth about $500 each. The sale was advertised in German newspapers, and as a result many inquiries are pouring into Coblenz from other cities asking when the next sale takes place. A great many letters inquire especially regarding mules, as the mule is said to find a better market than the horse. IAcacemy ORANC /.THURSDAY PRICES: 50c,! Mail orders when accon 8 stamped envelope j THE PLAY THAT IS TRY WITH M LAUGHS EVERY ME ^ > SCR] M The Same Great New "S p that only plays t! REDUCTION EXCEEDS THIRD. Cotton Association Gets Reports From Many States. i ! | Columbia, April 1.?The central committee of the South Carolina i Cotton association, leaders in the ! cotton reduction movement, today v | received telegrams from practically [ all States in the South and in every i case the reports, which were from official records, show that the entire ' I South is awake to cotton reduction ! movement and is reducing by more I t_ ~ vV?j I than one-third. In some cases the ' percentage goes as high as 4 0 per 1 cent. The central committee meets tomorrow to tabulate these reports ; for the State cotton convention on Thursday, which promises to be the largest agricultural gathering ever held in the State. A sentiment has been built up in this State which / makes it impossible for a farmer to plant his last year's acreage. i? m Lincoln Said. . . rl Well, as to education, the newspapers are correct. I never went to school more than six months in my life. I can say this: That among my earliest recollections I remember .1 v_ ... T * ~ 'JLiuw, wueu n xiicro cniiu, 1 uacu iu get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way that I could not understand. I can remember going to my little bedroom, after hearing the neighbors talk of an evening with my father, and spending no small part of the time trying to make out '-ga what was the exact meaning of some | of their, to me, dark sayings. I could not sleep, although I tried to, when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; and when I thought I had got it I was not satisfied until I had repeated it over and over again and had put it in language plain enough, as I thought, for any boy I knew to comprehend. This was a kind of passion with me, and it was stuck with me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, until I have bounded it north and bounded it south and Dounuea u east ana Dounaea it west. ? A New Sensation. i "Well, after next July we won't be able to take a drink except on the ^ sly." "That's no hardship. I've led an open life so long now under govern ment inspection that it will be a pleasure to practice deceit in ^ny form." ' # Read The Herald, $2.00 per year. TO OUR FRIENDS. . ' Not being able to see each one personally, we wish to take this means r to thank our neighbors and friends, both white and colored, for their v ' nmany expressions of sympathy in the loss of our home by fire. Especially do we thank those who so Generously divided their means, their cash, their clothing, their provisions, their feedstuff*, and their laoor with us. From the depth of our hearts we thank you; we can never hope to live to partially repay you, but we commend you to the great Ruler of the universe, Who doeth all things for the best, Who giveth and Who taheth away. Think for a moment of a home, not even left with an emntv bottle, empty jug, or hen nest box; neighbors and friends, this is for a purpose, that purpose we do not know; your gifts takes out minds back to our Sunday school lesson of a few weeks ago, "Who is ' our neighbor?" Friends, if we can | ever be of service to any of you, in 1 any capacity, command us. Again we thank you. Gratefully and sincerely, G. B. CLAYTON, MRS. G. B. CLAYTON, WILMA CLAYTON. j Ehrhardt, S. C., March 31, 1919. nf Mucin 1 UI IfAUUAV ^ iEBURG 1 r, APRIL 10':. 1 $1.00 AND $1.50. 3 lpanied by self addressed S >romptly attended to. f | ROCKING THE COUN- R LAUGHTER. y ffUTE GROWING INTO 9 BAMS. || fork Cast and Production p te prominent cities. j|g