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NO FUEL FAMINE IF PEOPLE AOl INDIVIDUALS AND CORPORATION MUST CO.OPERATE, SAYS THE COMMITTEE. DISPATCHES FROM COLUMBI Doings and Happenings That Mark th Progress of South Carolina Peopi Gathered Around the State Capita Columbia. If there is co-operation by indiv duals and corporations and no hoarc ing of coal, and if the people will e; ert themselves to lay in supplies < wood during good weather, there wi be no fuel famine and no suffering o account of lack of fuel in South Car lina this winter. This is the opinion expressed by th federal comm. "ter and the advi ory committee ich met in Colun bia. But thorough co-operation mum be had and every family should exei itself to lay in a supply of wood I take the place of coal. There met in Columbia B. B. Go sett, federal fuel commissioner fc South Carolina; H. H. Watkins of A: derson, chairman of the advisory con mittee; B. E. Geer, deputy fuel con missioner and member of the advi ory committee for cotton mills; Ru sell Acres of Darlington, member c the advisory committee of distributic to oil mills; Leland Moore, member c advisory committee in charge of di tribution to public utilities. Oth members of the advisory committee r the meeting were: I. C. Straus Sumter; Ivy M. Mauldin, Columbit John H. Cope, Bamberg; L. B. Meikl john, Cheraw, The committee reviewed the report which have been sent in from the var ous county. and city committees an from dealers, as well as reports fror cotton mills, oil mills and other indu tries. These reports had been tabs lated in order to present results i concrete form. The reports were nc complete because of the failure of ce tan dealers to make detailed report However, sufficient information we had to show the general situatio From this it is known that the situ tion is still acute and it will take sont time and a great deal of co-operatic to give full and permanent relief. It is necessary that all consumer conserve coal and to as great an e tent as popossible substitute wood. However, the situation is more e couraging than when the committi met two weeks ago. Coal is movii into the State more freely than fo merly and is being more systematica ly and equitaby distributed so as t afford relief. The fuel administrat< thinks that actual suffering will : prevented provided the people genera ly will show a spirit of co-operatioi The encouraging part of the situatic is that the administration has assu ances from certain jobbera and di tributors that they will co-operate I the utmost to relieve the situation. Unfortunately certain dealers of tl1 State have neglected to make out an send in their reports. Some of theE dealers seem to think tbat all that necessary is for them to telegraph tb federal fuel commission for a carloa of coal and it will come. Such wi not do. If any communities sufft from failure to receive coal the .r sponsibility will be on the dealers I that community who should have c operated with the administration at1 sent in prompt reports, so that the a ministration may know how ~to di tribute the coal. Medical Advisory Board. Dr. Robert S. Cathcart of Charle ton has been designated by the fel eral government to co-operate wviI a medical advisory board in this stat Dr. Cathcart's duties are to aid I dividing the State into convenient di tricts, select headquarters for advisoi medical councils, aid in selecting pe sonnel of such councils and supervli their activities. He will also make report on the character of the medic work of the local exemption board Dr. Robert Cathcart has also bec appointed by the American College< Surgeons a member of the general ho pital committee of that body. Th committee, composed of seven di tinguished American surgeons, wil Dr. Mayo of Rochester, Minn., at I head, is charged with the duty standardizing the hospitals of ti United States and of Canada and wI pursue a plan parallel to that carrit out in the standardization of the me ical colleges of the country. Its woi will probably extend over a period eight or ten years. This recognitic of Dr. Cathcart's ability is most gra ifying to his friends in Columbia. National Saving a National Need. Fi. A. Vanderlip, chairman nation; war savings committee, is making a appeal to 3. E0. Swearingen, state - a perintendent of education, to imprel upon the school children and throug 'them upon the families of the counti the present national need of econoni and saving. The work among thi school children in this state is to I directed by R. G. Rhett of Chraleste and the co-operation of 3. E0. Swearii gen, superintendent of education, solicted a nd o cm..,.e will be given What to Serve on Meatless Days. Miss. Edith I. Parrott, home eco. nomic director for South Carolina, act. ing in the special capacity of homo economics director of the food admin. istration, has the following to say on what to serve on meatless days in this state: "Thousands of women in South Car olina have signed the food conserva tion pledge cards. In as many homes at least one wheatless and one meat. less day will be observed each week. The question comes, what may we constantly serve on our meatless day? On no account must we eat too little food to keep each and everybody in perfect health. The food served on the meatless day may be just as nu tritious as that on any other day. If some other kind of food is to take the place of meat, this food must contain the same power to furnish needed ma terial to the body. "Meat is an essentially protein food; that means it gives nitrogen for body growth. It is true that nitrogen is as necessary for growing bodies as it is for growing plants. If the use n of meat is restrited, other nitrogen food must be supplied. Those nitro gen foods are milk, eggs, fish, poultry, cheese, dried beans and peas , and e nuts. We are not asked to conserve these products and an increasing use of sruch materials will render our diets .t both more varied and more wholesome. "Of all the growing foods, milk is the best. A child's weight is gener ally increased three fold during the first year of his life, and his normal r food during this growth period is milk. Milk is also rich in niinerals 1- mnrl so necessary for strong bones and pure blood. Iron is not found in large quantities in milk, and must be sup B plied by other feeds. Too much em n phasis can not he placed on the im portance of a liberal use of milk and milk products. Where there are chil dren in the family milk is almost a it necessity, and even where its price is highest milk should be bought and economy practiced along other lines if - necessary. "Cottage cheese is an excellent sub s stitute for meat dishes; so is other i" cheese, both American and foreign d makes. A liberal use of cheese would n reduce the consumption of meat. s- "Too many of us know very little 1- of fish. It is not available in many n districts, except dried or salted, or >t canned. Fish furnishes, pound for r- pound, the same amount of protein as 3. meat. Every housekeeper can save s many pounds of meat if she will plan 1. to use more fish on her table. "This year peanuts are very plenti. e ful in our state. Peanuts are ex n cellent sources of fat as well as pro. tein and there are a variety of ways '3 of using these nuts. Cookies and nut - broads as well as nut-loaf and peanut butter are always popular with school l- children and can well be used in place e of meat in lunches. "For years the Chinese, as a nation, r- have depended on soy beans to furn - ish protein to their diet and we may o consider beans and peas in our study r of meat substances. There are so 0 many ways of preparing and serving 1- beans that one need not tire of them - though they become o of the staple n foods on our American tables. Baked r- beans, soup, stewed beans, ijean loaf, and bean bread ase only a few of the 0 delicious dishes that may be prepared from this excellent meat substitute." d e National Council for Coordination. 5 The South Carolina State Council e of Defense is in receipt of a resolu d tion adopted by the national council at iits meeting of November 2 ,urging the r coodnto of the work of volun tary patriotic organizations and com n mittees and the county councils under the guidance of the state council of d defense so that the state council of defense may be the central agency for a all voluntary patriotic work within the state directed toward assisting in the prosecution of the war. The resolu tion follows: "Whereas, it appears that there are h1 many voluntary organizations and committees engaged in patriotic nor vice throughout the country, and s- "Whereas, the opinion of the Coun y cil of National Defense, such organi r- zations and committees can rendler the e most effective service if properly co a ordinated, and al "Whereas, a state council of do 5- fense has been organized in each state fl to coordinate the war activities with. >1 in the state and to co-operate with s- the Council of National Defense, there a fore " Be it resolved, 'that the Conen of National Defense strongly utges lst wherever practicable, voluntary patri. otic organizations and committees in each state work through and under the dguidance of the State Council of Do tense so -that the State Council of Do kfense may be the central, coerdinating agency for all voluntary patriotic nwork within the state directed toward t- assisting in the prosecution of the war." Reason Why of Higher Priose. D. C. Heyward, collector of internal revenue, has received instructions " from the internal revenue department F in Washington to report all cases is .which came to his notice of dleliberate h misrepresentation on the part of thea y ters, picture shows and others in at y tempting to jusify increased prices of e admissions on -the ground that the in e prices were necessary to defray the a war tax, j. The tax placed on theater admis [5 sions is one cent for each ten cents ora fratnal patthereof l0AVES CAMP JACKSON FOR ANOTHER COMMAND MIII Major General Francis H. French FEW SICK AT CAMP JACKSO? Epidemic of Measles Being Circumi scribed-Dixie Division i-tolds High Place in Health Conditions. Columbia--Camp Jackson stands a the peak among Southern cantonmenti when the health status of the divisioi is analyzed. Barring the two recent ly imported epidemics of measles, the number of sick boys in camp now il practically negligible. The divisio3 expects no such condition to develoi as is said to prevail at Camp Wheele: or Camp Sevier. On October 18 there was net a sin gle case of infectious disease in th< cantonment. Immediately thereafte detachments of -troops were transfer red from Camp Gordon to the Eighty first division and 60 cases of measlei developed among the Gordonites with in the next few days. Another invasion of measles was in ciden-t to the transfer within the las week of 2,500 troops from Camp Pike Little Rock, Arkansas. Of 'the approxi mately 400 cases of rieasles now en gaging the attenion of the medica staff of the division, about 200 of thes were imported from Arkansas. From the beginning of the organiza tion of the Dixie Division, the medi cal staff set up a thorough system o checking and~ dissomnbing. which di much to divert the temporarily unf into direct channels for immediat treatment. At the chief mustering o flee ,a staff of ten or 12 physician made a casual inspection of each pc tential soldier on his arrival at thi camp. Data thus collected was thu considered in a succeeding conferen< between the division medical staff an< the regimental surgeons. The plai it upon was that no rejections wer to be made by regimental staffs be cause of physical condition. Follow ing this procedure all diseased sol diers were mobilized at one center where the division staff direoted its entire effort. Here under the imme diate attention of skilled specialist those only temporarily disabled wer hurriedly brought into condition an those whose health had been perma nently impaired were summarily re jected. Rejections for the 1,000 mci brought from North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida approximated i1 per cent. There are now 18,00 men i the camp. Florence Poultry Men Unite. Florence.-Leadiig poultry raiser of Florence county have formed th Florence County Poultry Associatioi with the following officers, all breed ers of chickens of pure strain: Presi dent, John A. Zeigler; vice president W. HI. Commander; secretary an< treasurer, Charles M. McCurry. Th object of the association is to encour ago the raising of pure bred poultr3 and to stimulate more interest along this line generally in Florence county A special effort will be made to pro mote the children's poultry clubs. Th< association will hold a fair early ii December and expects to have a fine exhibit. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS ITEMS That the next annual meeting of thei State Teachers' Association will meet in Columbia March 14, 15, 16, 1918 was announced by Dr James P. 1(1 nard president of the association, and R. C. Burts, secretary of the associa tion. Florence had extended an in vitation for the association to be held there but after considering all phases of the work, it was decided to hold the meeting in Columbia. Baptists at Liberty have just dledi cated a new church building. Several South Carolina hotels have already inauguirated meatless Tues. days andl wheatless Wednesdays. Tlhe movement has become nation wide ini hotels, restaurants and dining cars, Ninety per cent of the flri. class hotels in the country havc enlisted with the conservation hosts and the smaller establishments are being rap. idly swung into line. In South Care lina about 70 per cent of the hotels have signed the pledge card of the food administration, and those who have not signed are again being called upon. John J. Cain has been appoint. ed hotel fonr1 mana..e.. 41 ~OODb ROAD BUILDING LARGE TASK 4 President of National Highways Asso ciation Tells How a Great Sys tern Can Be Built. Thanks to the pushful, pervasive motor car, American road building has "got a move on" at last. There is ev erywl're the cry for roads. The draw back has been that, as yet, there has been no co-og'dination of these multi tudinous ('nt'rprises. The president of the National highways association. Charles Henry Davis, in a recent paper stated that we spent last year $240, D55,907, or more than two-thirds the total of money expended so far on the construction of the Panam canial for road improvements throughout the country. Mr. Davis' contention is that good roads, roads that run for thou sands of miles through state after state, are, properly, not the responsi bility of the state, bat of the nation. lIe would have the federal government build a system of national roads join ing the \Vest with the East, the North and the South, connecting every part of the country, as is tile case with the national highways of Europe, and, as history shows, such as was the essen tial equipment of every first-class power of the past, according to the Boston Evening Transcript. How would such an enormous con struction be paid for and kept up? J "Suppose," ake this eminant engi neer, "the government built 100,000 a miles of properly planned roads, adl at the same time purchased, say, 800 al h 11 ' I s A Good Road Needed. feet of landl on eithler side? Thlis land would so contInually increase in value anl In deaind for easinig on long rental, that thg cost of the road and t the land(1 purchaso would~ soon be paid. A rental rate of $0.66 per acre would pay the interest on the cost of con struction. But such would rent at vast ly higher rates in cities and towns, high enough to give the nation an in come equal to its total annual expendi tures, from these national highways alone I"t GOOD HIGHWAYS IN ONTARIO 9 Approximately 55,000 MIles of Road a In Province-43,000 Miles In Fairly Good Condition. r L The province of Ontario has ap proxImately 55,000 miles of road. More thaln -43,000 milles have been treated and are in fairly good condi, tIon. About 20.000 miles are wvell- y gradi~ed ('niril rondis ; abhout 8,000 niules are- sur-facedl with br'oken stonle and1( abloult -10,(00 are surfacedl withi gra1vel. Ini the city or Toronuto there 1s 0one 1 motorcar to every twenty4\ive inhiab- t ituints-. INCREASED VALUE OF FARMS Influence of Road Improvement on Ru ral Property Is Described by Bal timnore Financier. The infi lence of i-and Iiprovleents onl thle viau ofi rurult proiperty was deC serilhed ini a let ter, recently3 sent to thie Manufne-t ur'rs' Riecord b~y the presIdent oif the ]B:.. ..ore Commiieil ban11k, whio wrote: A.\rounid 1my3 hiome town in Vilrginha jproerty could he bought three' years ago for $00 to $80 anl acre. We put a fino road sever-al miles throuight that county, andui today you cannnot b)uy3 aniything for less thanii sloop and some is held at $150 per- acre." Net-Work of Good Roads. ThIs wh'lole country will some of these day3s he0 a net-work of good roadsH, wichl will have a place on the maps1) aloing wvith the raIlroads. Thell LIncoln hIghway linking the East and thle WVest, the JTeftferson highway, link-. Inig thle lakes and thle gulf, anmd thie DIxie Overland highwvay', are a begin ning. Georgia's Good Roads. Between the years 1000 and 1914, Geor-gia surfaced 0,3041 miles of stato roads. inzii , DUUTMx UAR~OLINA NES bF THE WEElK FROlM CAMVP SEVIER CONSTRUCTION OF TRENCHES IS NOW UNDER WAY-MUCil WORK FOR INFANTRY. FOOD CONSERVED IN CAMP Every Effort Made by Uncle Sam's Fighting Forces to Conserve Food and Prevent Waste. Camp Sevier, Greenville. - Actual construction of trenches on a large scale has begun at Camp Sevier un der tle direction of Colonel Fergu son, comm attdinig officer of the One Ilundred and Fifth Engineers, with the advice of Cne. Rousseau, French expert on field fortifications, the first battalion of the One Hundred and Nineteenth Infantry taking part. The next day the Second Battalien and the next day the 'Third Battalion of - the same regiment participated, and I next day the First Battalion of the One Ilundred and Eighteenth Infan try, ono battalion a (lay being detail . ed te this wo ark for instruction pur poses. Further details will be an nounceed from time to time. The trenihes are being laid out in an area set apart for this purpose secured recently along with that for the rifle range and large enough to contain several miles of trenches. For tthe present iust ruction will be limited to rifle companies, but headquarters companies, mlachiinre gun companies and battalions, sanitary units, and the r field signal lattalion will be specially detailed from time to time as the work progresses, and the location of ma chine guns, one pounder gun, and r Stokes howitzer emplacements, of dressing stations. of ammunition and supply dumps and of observation sta. tions, and the installation of the sig. nal system becomes desirable. The trench digging maciine. capable of ligging a trench four feet wide and 12 deep, will be used whenever it is not desired to have the man do a particu lar bit of work for instruction pur poses. In the effort to conserve in every way possible thc nation's food sup ply, the army camps perhaps lead al otitar institution or organizations. Con . stant inspections of the kitcihens anl garbage cans are made by the medi cal and sanitary authorities, and whe1 t these indicate wastefulness in th e preparation or handling of food, th fact is promptly called to the attel tion of those concerned. As an ir stance of what is being done, a num I ber of principles of economy whici have proved useful in cutting down the cost of operating the school fo. bakers and cooks, at Camp Custer Mich., have been tabulated and pub lished throughout every division. Th< keynote of tile attitude of tile arml toward food conservation is struck ir tile first line. "The rationl is not suffi cient to feed tile men and wvaste al tile same time," andl thle whlole is 01 such general inlterest thlat a siumar) of it is worthl whlile. More or less extensive changes iT the men, as well as regulations pre scribing tile proper insignia for or ganlizations whiichl have been evolvec since tile war began, are no0w in prep aration in tile war department, ac cording to advance information ani are soon to be announced, suiplant ing those now in use. Perhlaps the( most notab~le change is that for thE first time tihe medalion worn on the right side of the collar will bear be side the letters U. S., tile nuimber 01 tile man's division or separate brigade regiment, battalion, trainl or battery. H-ot water heaters and reservoirt have been distributed to all the com lpaiis and are being rapidliy installed Tile heaters have a capacit of 301 gallons each and tile reservoirs hioh ,bet ween 500 and (100 gallons apiece The bathl houses0 of each company wil be equiippeCd withb a heater and( reser voir. Construction of the comlpany sta bles and regimental infirmaries is be ing pulshled, these having been start dinalout fits e(xcept tile engineer: and1( tile ammunition train. Six small radio outfits, whtichl may ho takecn dlown and packed oil th<i backs of mules, wvere received las week b~y the radio company of th<( Field Signal Blat talion andl werec teste< out at shlort distances about the camp When firing begine, on the artiller3 range, about 20 mile1s8 distant., an of fort will be ma1~de to maintain (0om mnintiton with the range by mleans( of these small sets. Beside these t h( radio company is to be eqiuinped witt a larger apparatus mounted onl a mto tot- truck, used for sending curret geiner-ated by tho truck's motor. Vai rious technical schools arec iln progresi Wheat Campaign in Sumter. Sumter.-The Sumter- Counity Coun cii of D~efense has started wor-k imme diately following tile request of th' Stat coucilto incrlease the when: acreage in the county. It was dlecidedl that each township chairman make .a house-to-house canvass at~once to urge tile far-mers to plant more wheat and~ to secure pledges from all far-mers as to the acreage they will plant. Thie mlemb~ers present at the6 last council meeting plledged themselves, to the' nount of 270 acres of wheat for this Based On Cost Per ' u Tablet It. Saves 9% c. ASCARA QUININE No advance in rice for this 20-year. old remedy - 25c for 24 tablets-Bome cold tablet'a now 30c for 21 table -- Figured on proportionate cost ier tablet, you save 9%c when you buy Hill's-Cures Cold in 3 days--Money , In 24 hours--grip back if it fails. 24 Tablets for 25e. At any Drug Store " s R A THEP nedE . w Essue , ND F il5 TS THAdS - stp SpvnLmssaly an 3ay p tTE t A.B R B Reduces Bursal Enlargements, Thickened, Swollen Tissues, Curbs, Filled Tendons, Sore ness from Bruises or Stralnsj stops Spavin Lameness, allay. pain. Does not blister, remove the hair or lay up the horse. $2.00 a bottle tdruggists or delivered. Book 1 M free. ABSORBI NE, JR., for mankind--an atiseptic liniment for bruises, cuts wounds, rains, painful, swollen vein. or giands. I't eala and soths $1.00 a bottle at drug ists or postpaid. Will tell you more if you rrite. Made in the U. S. A. by . F.YOUNG, P. O. F..3lOTsmps $t..Sprlngfield. Mass. DROPSY TREATMENT. Gives quick relief. breah N ee s g and short Try 1l. Trial treatment sent R EU. by sa ' Write to GR. THOMAS L GREEN Bank Bs., lax so, ONATSWORTH, A. 1ICE-TRANSPARENTablely non-detect !rite for prices. L. N. ANI), Nast Spencer, N. 8. Poor Men. "You say this young actress has been narrled six times?" "Her press ugent can give you the lames and (ates." "She doesn't look it." "Probably not. Most of the wear amd tear. wns sunffered by her six hus bands." KIDNEY TROUBLE NOT EASILY RECOGNIZED Applicants for Insurance Often -Rejected -An. examining .physician for one of the roininent life insurance companies, in an aterview of the subject, made the as onishing statement that one reason whzy o many applicants for insurance aro re ected is because kidney trouble is so corn non to the American people, and the large' mjr,rity of those whose applications are echined do not even suspect that they ave the disease. Judging from reports from druggist. rho are constantly in direct touch with he public, there is one p reparation that as been very successful in overcoming heso conditions. Thie mild and healing afluence of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root Is son realized. It sdtnds the highest for ~ is remarkable record of success. We find that Swamp-Root Is strictly n herbal compound and we would ad ise our readers who feel in need of such a emnedy to give it a trial. It is on sale t all drug stores in bottles of two sizes, 1ediuma andi large. However, if you wish first to test this rent preparation send ten cents to Dr. ilmcr & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a imple bottle. When writing be sure and wention this paper.--Adv. Typical Housecleaning. A wVomani wouldn'lt thin1k she wvas ousciIej lnig If slhe idnli't get all the ri leles her husband neede'd most In le miost Iinnecessible 1inees ihe very trt day. BRIGHT, CLEAR COMPLEXION n ailwayvs ti rd, iinel it 1s thle laiuda d~e iniilou of eve'ry womani to do all lie enni to Sinnke11 herselfI i attractlye. dany13 of ouri souitherni woeie ha~ve 0outu( that Te termaIne isnvaluablle for l earling sup bilotes, Iti(hy patches, tc,i mi nildntg the skin soft and 'elvety. The worst enses~ of' eczema nd( oflier torturn skin dliseasesyn l oTeltert:in. sol b duggstgo syeld >y Inall for 50e. by Shusptrlne Co., 0. (4. Daielsonl of Ifnrdlin, Col., lea red $50 10an nre this year on 18 teres of rns; expienses' dedulicted. ako LA XATI IitnOM QU0INI Table , r,,gasrund money if It fis to ure. H. IV. New South WVales ellts unrIpe wheat or hay. A.t Mrrine Is for Tired Eyes, i Movies Red Eyes - Sore Eyes -- RGranutedr Ilia Fess * Treatmentfror is at fehel drr Iand smart. E ais your ess nn t your luovrg ar ICAR E FOR THEM. YOUD CANNOT BUY NEW EVI Sold at Oruig and Optical storen or by Ma.I Ask Murine Eye Remedy Co. Chiesto, for Free Book unnuunununmmmnummnnmununu