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APANEMH NAVY. Haurinil Thirty Million to Be Spout oa New Ship*. -1 Tokio, May (Correspondence of the Associated piess)?Credits totall log sbaut $130.320.850 will bo asked for.w?r?hlp construction nt the com ing a#*ciul session of the Diet In Joae. according to the forccust of thS/sem I-official press. who appropriation Includes credits rSf the naval repletion program which PRls for H. super-dtendnoughts and the maintenance of four fast battle cruisers. The warcrnft to be newly constructed, according; to the pending program, are one 32,000-ton buttle ship, two cruisers of 7,200 and 3,600 tona respectively, two destroyers of 1.100 and N700 tons respectively, two submarines of 700 tons each, and u special commission ship of about 10, toafee tons. The battleship, or super-dread [ht will be built In accordance Iths (Suggestion* .furnished by the'Ihn; open it war. The question as to whether k will mount twelve 14 inch or* twelve 15-Inch guns is still unsettled. Japan finds it difficult to build the largest size guns in its own yards, and It Is Impossible at the present time tw Import them from Knrlanrf. as In the past. Fixing the displacement of the new submarines at 700 tons, presumably has been decided upon In view of the difficult) of building submarines of larger type at the domestic yards un? der the conditions obtaining at pres? ent The navy appropriations to be In? troduced in the coming special diet session sre thus limited to the claim for the fulfillment of the aoeady set? tled repletion program on the basis of the eight battleship and four cruiser unit. But in view of the recent ten? dency In European countries and the United mates, which are steadily in? creasing or expanding their naval strength, the Imperial navy may In? troduce a new appropriation bill at the winter session of the diet provid? ing for the more speedy completion of the eicht bsttleships and four cruisers. Among high* officers of the navy the opinion Is growing that Japan should save a first 11..e battle fleet of eight super- dread noughts and eight battle cruisers In order to avoid falling tool fltr behind in sea armament. The re? pletion amount which It Is proposed to expend In the pending fiscal year is If.ftt.tee. Naval authorities have pointed to the rapid Increase In American naval strength as a reason for more speedy Japanese expansion. 1 ? ? > ? i ST. JOSKPII'S AM MNAK. fourth Annual Meeting of Association. The fourth annual alumna meeting held last night in the hulls of old Ht Joseph's, many women re? turning. If only to spend an hour or twoNand feel aguln that old-young frettng of care free days. The June rosse and garlands of cedar that link one's memory to commencement days, tenfght were replaced by "Old tilory." Praen every vantage the red, white and blue proudly waved above a scene that was royal and stately. The meeting was well attended, yet there should he many more as St. Joseph counts her daughters by hundreds? let as be more loyal in the years to eome. since there is no pleasure like the meeting of old friends. The minutes of 1915 were read and approved. 1116 no meeting wns held, the year was saddened by the pass? ing rut Into the "Great Beyond" of r*ur loved Bishop, Bishop Northrop, whom South Carolina loved and re ?wacted. The plans for 1917 are good; arrangements for n business scholarship wilt be completed In a ?bert time, we hope to be able each year to educate a deserving young woman, thereby making our alumnae meeting mean more than Just a social afEUr. Vleotion of officers for 19*1$ was held. Mrs Hood, our retiring pres ideat. wss succeeded by Mrs Neill O* Don net I; the secretary, Miss Katie Ky%n. cheerfully vacated her otliee to re. W. Bultman. We consider it best that this othce be held by a Sumtor graduate as she ran always he in touch With the school Mm. I* Y. King was reappolnted correspondent. Business over, we put all serious thoughts be? hind us and turned with pleasure Into the flower laden path of music, laugh? ter and song. The Misses Teh her. Beetham and Mrs. J. A Schwerin. Jr., charmed us with many musical selections, both pleasing und artistic, after which re? freshments were nerved. In full ehnrue we sang "My Country 'Tis of Thea." beneath the waiving stars and StllpSS we passed OUt Into 'The ,mer night, where th? misty stars biding and mo once again we 'good night' to friend both old sew." Agner K. King. TIIK '.'HOIIt INVISIBLE. "My aoul, thou art receiving a mu alc lesson from thy father. Thou art being educated for the choir Invis? ible. There aro parts of the symphony that nono can take but thee. .There are chords too mlnon for the angels. There may be heights in the symphony which are beyond thy scale? heights which the angels alone can reach. Put there are depths which belong to thee, and can only be touched by thee. Thy Father is train? ing thee for thy part the angels can? not sing, and the school Is sorrow. I have heard men say that he sends thy sorrow to prove thee; nay,'he sends thy sorrow to educate thee, to train thee for the choir invisible. In the night Ho is preparing thy song. In the valley He is tuning thy voice. In the cloud He is deepening thy cords. In the storm He is enriching thy pathos. In the rain He is sweet? ening thy melancholy. In the cold He is moulding thy expression. In the transition from hope to fear He is perfecting thy lights and shades." "Despise not thy school of sorrow Oh my soul! It will give theo a unique part in the universal song." The Pint eleu Case. (From the Springfield Republican.) Capt. Franz von Rl telen very can? didly admits that he had a "/air and Just trial," the Jury that convicted him along with David Lamar and H. B. Martin certainly showed a desire to be fair by disagreeing in the cases of the four renaming defendants. Rintelen had able lawyers and every? thing possible was done In his de? fense. The outcome of his trial in the Federal District Court of New York confirms the belief that the Qerman government Itself promoted criminal conspiracies In flagrant vio? lation of our laws, while this country was at peace with the German em? pire, in order.to check commercial ac? tivities which were admitted by the German government, through its foreign office, to be perfectly legiti? mate. Capt. von Hinte en'a conviction es? tablishes satisfactorily the following facta: That he, a German naval officer, came to this com try authorized to use large funds, furnished by the Ger? man government, In ways essentially unfriendly to this country. That he hired David Lamar to cause strikes in American munitions factories and to tie up their business. That he sought to engineer popu? lar boycotts of American banks that bought the bonds of the Entente bel? ligerents. That he plotted a new revolution in Mexico, with Gen. I inert a as the head of It, in order to make trouble for the United States. That he fled from this country to Europe, Immediately following Gen. Huerta's arrest and the investigation by the secret service of Gen. Huerta's connection with the projected Mexi? can uprising. The German government was di? rectly responsible for Capt. von Rin telen's criminal operations in the Unit? ed States, and, being so, it deliber? ately violated its obligations as laid down by treaties and the rules of civilized Intercourse between nations professing to be at peaco with one another. The Rintelen case is a dem? onstration of the perfidious character of Prussian autocracy. Is This Treason? We regret that we have no means of securing an exact copy of Just what Hon. John P. Grace, of Charleston, editor of the Charleston American, said before the reformers when that purty met in Columbia Monday night. If we had his address in its entirety, we could then see whether or not he said the things credited to him by certain of the daily newspapers. One paper quotes him as having attacked congress and President Wilson for declaring war after "the implied pre? election preSS)SN" and other worda to that effect. If Mr. Orucc said the things he is Credited with, every one of his subscribers should discontinue the subscription to the newspaper published in Charleston and should hope that the I'nited States govern? ment will take action. As Sfe understand it, the meeting i? Columbia was held to protest against the action of Qoverhor Manning in refusing to rates a third regiment of 11m National fluard for South Caro? lina, Personally we were very much in hopes that the govsmor would see nt to ardor I he regimoni created, but if he haS seen tit to do otherwise, then w. will he IRS last to eriticl/e him We knew thai the "reform" party in South Caroline was far from dead, hut we did think that a majority of the Bleoaeites In this country were Americans first ami Bleaseltles next If the meeting in <'olumbia Monday night is Indicative of tho Pleaseite party as u whole, then we were very HorloUHly mistaken. They are llleas Ites first and nothing at all there after.?Lencaater Newa. What Shall I I>o With My Daughter? J (By Hose Weston Bull.) The question "Whut shall 1 do with mv son" huH, through nil the ages, presented a most important parental problem. With the increasing inva? sion by women of fields monopolized by the now less dominant sex the question "What shall I do with my daughter?" has become fully as im? portant as the earlier query. It is to some extent an academic question. Your daughter will have a large part in answering it, if indeed, she is not the chief factor in framing the decis? ion. In this series of articles I will at? tempt to help parents of daughters i and the daughters themselves answer this all-important question. I can 1 not attempt to h<Mp you find employ? ment. I cannot give advice as to par? ticular business concerns. I can, however, answer questions as to cer? tain lines of work in general. Ques? tions addressed to me in care of this newspaper will be answered in con? nection with these articles or by let? ter. In chosing "nursing" and its va? rious phases as the subject for the llrst few articles in the series I have been actuated by two motives: First: it is the profession in which woman h practically without competition. Second: it is about the most ihisun lerstood and underestimated of all the professions ppen to women. K. W. P 1. Nursing. Those who know the nursing field, and who are trying to fill the ever in? creasing demand for graduate nurses which pours in from all parts of the country, say there is a dearth of capa? ble, well instructed women. Institu? tions are looking for superintendents and supervisors; physicians are seek? ing competent nurses, graduates of schools of nursing of high standard to care for their private patients', the de? mand for social service nurses was never greater. Municipalities aYe re? alizing the value of the nurse, as a member of the staff of health work? ers. School nursing is offering In? creasing opportunitJes. The great in? surance companies and industrial cor? porations nrej making health con? servation a part of their business pro gi ins, and are demanding nurses for This branch of their work. With all these constantly widening opportunities women are slow to ta'ite advantage of them, and to (It them? selves for this one field in which they do not come into competition with men, and in which their latent talents and characteristics would make them the udmltted superior of men, even if such competition were to be es? tablished. What if War Comes? If America cannot supply her need of graduate nurses during normal peace times how is she going to an? swer the pressing and insistent call for efficient hospital workers if the war clouds which now hang over her head break into a storm? The high school graduate, or the young woman who has finished her college education, and Is scanning the voca? tional horizon with a view to select? ing a career, should not make her choice before she has examined the fields of endeavor that nursing holds out to her. Naturally the war thought is uppermost In all minds at present, and the desire to ho of service to the country nnd to humanity prevails above all other desires. Hut the young woman who takes up nursing as a profession Is equipping herself to serve her country and humanity In times of peace as well as of strife, and she is fitting herself for an occupa? tion that is practically unlimited in its scope and its opportunity for ad? vancement as well as for service. More Than Bedside Care. The idea that nursing is confined to tho bedside, and that the graduate nurse's chief occupation is to take her patient's temperature and fill out a chart Is, needless to say, an antiquat? ed one. In place of this picture of limited activities and circumscribed usefulness we have today a picture of the graduate nurse filling import? ant positions in city, state and nat? ional government. We see her in the Bed Cross Service taking oath of al? legiance to the United States, ami serving her country In time pf war just as indispensably as the soldier serves his country. We see her in an executive capacity at the head of in? stitutions; we see her doing preven? tive work in industrial organisations safeguarding the human machinery against breakdown. We see her in her capacity of public servant at? tending to the most important branch of municipal housekeeping and mak? ing herself responsible for the en? forcement of sanitary laws. As a Visiting or District nurse we see her earing lor tie sick in their homes, making a house to house visitation in the Interest of infant welfare and acting as a bulwark against the tide of Infant mortality. Uncle Sam has not been backward In recognising the nursing profession as an asset to his governmental plans, ami the United titutew Army and Navy both offer opportunities for the young woman who would like to enlist as an integral part of the country's defense organ? ization. fascinating Opportunities. The opportunities for the graduate nurse are as fascinating as they are varied, and they give scope for de? velopment along many different lines. The woman with executive ability finds her field in hospital manage? ment, as superintendent or supervis? or. The girl with a latent ability for organization can have as her goal the secretaryship of one of the increas? ing number of* public health agencies. If constructive philanthropy is the ul? timate ideal of the nurse she can fit herself for welfare work, and her hospital training will give her an in? sight into the causes and effects of poverty, the treatment of occupation? al diseases, and into all those things which will make her work effective. If on the other hand she craves ex? pression for her maternal instinct in the care of children she can find thousands of little ones to mother in the children's hospitals, in schools and In settlement clinics, and in institu? tions where child-saving work is an important factor. The object of these articles is to show the unlimited possibilties for service that open up to the registered ntirse immediately she completes her training, and to emphasize the fact that these opportunities call for thoughtful, capable women who have high school or college education and whose mental attainments are of a high order. The day when nursing education involves chiefly long hours of physical drudgery is rapidly pass? ing. Colleges and universities are giv? ing preparatory courses in nursing and are affiliating with the best known hospitals, while medical and educational authorities are agreed that nursing is a profession which calls for brains as woll as brawn, for education as well as endurance. School Commencements and the War. Approaching commencement exer? cises in American high schools will be memorable for their emphasis up? on America's place in the world war, if the suggestion of the United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, is adopted. In a letter to the 15,000 high schools throughout the United States, approving the recom? mendation of the Committee of Pub? lic Information nnd the National Board for Historical Service, Com? missioner Claxton declares: "The approaching commencement exercises of the high schools find the American people entering on a great world war. Before another com? mencement the nation will be tried by standards more searching and tests more severe than any to which this great democratic experiment has e\er been subjected. No proper occasion should be neglected to give our people In every community, however isolated or apathetic, a firm grasp of the rea? sons that have moved a great nation to see that the Issues of this struggle are vital to our own safety and to the preservation of democracy against the triumphs of autocracy. WTe are now engaged in otir first great tasks of military preiKiration and the press? ing task of preparing to feed and finance our own people and govern? ment and the peoples and governments now in the heat of a struggle that has become ours. Every one who clear? ly comprehends Is thus fortified in spirit to play his or her part in times that will try men's souls. "Can the commencement exercis? es in every high school be better di? rected than towards an elevated and enlightening discussion of the faith in popular government now on trial for its life, a discussion which makes clear the passionless purposes defined by the president in his war address to congress? The nation must be held steadily to those high purposes de? spite the passions aroused by war. The American people must he made to seo clearly that the world which is made over by this war Is one in which we must take our place to co? operate with those who share out ideals of democracy and a world i freed from the dangers of wars dic tated by dynastic ambition or nation? al policies based on a philosophy of war. if a world rent by war and its heritage of hatred is to be pointed to wards the paths of permanent peace, tlm American people must he ready to touch hands with all peoples who see, in a sane ami safe world, a goal worth some sacrifice of national self interest." The commissioner's letter closes with the suggestion that the com? mencement speakers consider the pos? sibility of dlSCUSSlng vigorously and clearly the issues at stake from the American point of view. If no spe elal speaker is to be engaged, It |i urged that the essential passages from President Wilson's address on the war be read. Aid for Surgeons. Apparatus that enables one surgeon to perform the operation of blood | transfusion without assistance has | been invented by a New York doctor. ' MAIL CARRIERS' MEETING. Association Transacted Considerable Business of imopt rance ami Bant* ed Oflloata. i Tho South Carolina Division of the National Mail Carriers' Association wound up its 1917 meeting in Sumter yesterday, after transacting consider? able business of importance and prac? tically reorganized the State Associa? tion at this meeting. It is evident that the South Carolina Carriers' As? sociation is now on the road to a progressive and effective organization. Sumter and Sumter's popular mail carriers were delighted to have the carriers of other cities with us, and they will be given a cordial welcome to this city in 191S. There is talk of making Sumter the permanent meet? ing place of the State Association as suggested to the association by Presi? dent A. C. Phelps of the Sumter Chamber of Commerce. Post office Inspector C. A. Brady, a guest of the association, local and State, at the fish fry, being called on said that inspectors are for the pur? pose of assisting and not injuring pos? tal employees and that inspectors are not enemies to loyal postal employees, carriers or others. There should be cooperation be? tween inspectors and all postal em? ployees, not antagonism, friendly and loyal feelings should prevail. Mail carriers and all other postal employees should seek information and cooperation from postoflice In? spectors, who desire to be friendly and cooperate instead of antagonistic. He was loudly and enthusiastically ap? plauded by carriers and their guests. Mr. W. L. Isom, of Hock Hill and Mr. Henry H. Carter of Charleston said they desired to express in behalf of the visitors the sentiment that the 1917 meeting of the carriers in Sum? ter, largely a reorganization meetinj.;, was a complete success and due large? ly to the efforts of Postmaster George W. Dick, the local carriers' associa? tion, and the Sumter Chamber of Commerce, all three contributing to the success of the meeting. Sumter was unanimously selected as the place of the 1918 meeting, ertlich the visitors promised will be largely attended. Election of officers resulted as fol? lows: State President?H. H. Carter, Char? leston. . Secretary and Treasurer?J. L. Jones, Sumter. Executive Committee?J. A. Schwer? in, Jr., Sumter, J. D. Hardy, Colum? bia; F. P. Byrnes, Charleston. Sergeant at Arms?J. D. Smith, Co? lumbia. State National Vice President?M. B. Henrlkson, Charleston. Delegate to National Convention at Dallas, September 3, 1917?Charlton P. Winn, of Clinton. Resolutions were adopted by the Sumter Carriers' Association and the State Carriers' Association thanking the Sumter Chamber of Commerce and its president and managing sec? retary, the people of Sumter and Postmaster George W. Dick for the courteous reception, cooperation and hospitable entertainment of the visi? tors. DON'T STOP SCHOOL. United States Commissioner of Edu? cation Urges Pupils to Continue in School Next Fall. An urgent appeal to pupils to re? main in high school ncx. fall as a patriotic duty has been issued by Dr. P. P. Claxton, United States Commis? sioner of Education. Dr. Claxton points out that there are in the high schools of the United States this year more than one and one-half millions of boys and frills, and somtwhat more than 200,000 of them will graduate, this month and next. In an ordinary year 00,000 or more of these would next fall enter college, normal school or technical school to be prpeared for such servil e to society, State and na? tion as can be rendered only by those who have received education beyond that which the high schools can give. He says "Many college presidents and others fear that on account of our en? trance into the war few boys and ^iiis will enter college next fall and that the total college attendance will be Very small. The number ought, how? ever, to be much larger than usual. "The inoic mature young men arc, the more serviceable they are in the army. The selective draft will take only those between twenty-one and thirty. In the total of 00,000,000 peo? ple of productive age in the United States the 360,000 students in oollegee ami normal schooIs and technical and vocational schools of hinh grade con? stitute only about one-half of one per cent. More than half of these live In cities and cannot be employed in ag? ricultural production except as a few of them may find work on the farms during the summer. Their going to college will not lower the productive capacity of the country as a whole in irYiy appreciable degree. The colleges, normal schools, and technical achools will all be open with undiminished In? come from publa funds and endow? ments, and the expense of their main? tenance will continue. It is quite probable that many of the older stu? dents will not return next fall and the higher ( lasses will be smaller than usual. The graduates from the high schools should see to it that the low? er classes more than make up for this deficiency. "This appeal is made on the basis of patriotic duty. If the war should be long the conutry will need all the trained men and women it can get many more than it now has. There will he men in abundance to fight in the trenches but there will be a dearth of officers, engineers, and men of scientific knowledge and skill in all the industries, in transportation, and in many other places where skill and daring are just as necessary for suc? cess as in the trenches. The first call of the allies is for 12,000 engineers and skilled men to repair the rail? roads of France and England; and other thousands will be needed later* Russia will probably want thou thousands of men to repair and build her railroads. The increase in trans? portation and the tax on our own roads will call for large numl*ers of men of the same kind. New Indus? trial plants, shipyards, and our armies abroad will call for highly trained men beyond all possible supply unless our colleges and technical schools re? main open and increase, their at? tendance and output. "When the war is over there will be made upon us such demands for men and women of knowledge and training as have never before come to any country. There will be equal need for a much higher average of general intelligence for citizenship than has been necessary until now. The world will have to be rebuilt and American college men and women] must assume a large part of the task. In all international affairs we must play a more important part than we have in the past. For years we must feed our own industrial population, and a large part of the population of Western and Central Europe. We must readjust our industrial and so ical and civic life and institutions. We must extend our foreign commerce. We must increase our production to pjay our large war debts and to car? ry on all the enterprises for the gen* oral welfare which have been begun hut many of which will be retarded as the war continues. China and Russia with their new democracies and their new developments which will come as a result will need and ask your help in many ways. England, France, Italy, and the Central Powers will all be going through a process of reconstruction and we should be ready to give them generously every pos? sible help. Their colleges and uni? versities are now almost empty. Their older students, their recent gradu? ates, and their younger professors are fighting and dying in the trenches, or are already dead; as are many of their older scientific and literary men, ar? tists and others whose work is nec? essary for the enlargement of the cultural and spiritual life and for all that makes for higher civilization. For many years after the war is over some of these countries will be unable to support their colleges and universities as they have supported them in the past. America must come |r the res? cue. We must he ready to assume all the responsibilities and perform thoioughly and well all the duties that will come to us in the new and more clbsely related world which will rise out of the ruins of the old world which is now passing away in the destruction of the war. To what ex? tent and how well we may be able to do this will depend upon you young men and women who are this year graduating from our high schools and upon those who will follow in the next few years to a larger degree than upon any other like number of peo* pie." If the capitalists and men who have a competency would buy Liberty bonds to the extent of their ability without cramping tiiemselves there would he few bonds left to be taken by the poor people and wage earners who find it so difficult to make ends meet that they can buy bonds only on the installment plan. A tremendous appeal is being made to the patrio? tism of the poor people of the -coun? try to show their patriotism by buying Liberty bonds, and it is but light that every man, woman and child should do his or her part, but the rich and well-to-do should loosen up on patriotism and cash in the same proportion. This is a time that calls for patriotism in full measure from all the people. An Bussrt. d Idver. A few days ago a hen that was ap-? pa rent ly in perfect health was killed on Mr. S. It. Kolh's place in Privateer, and when it was being dressed it was found that its liver was most extra* ordinary in size. The liver filled the greater part of the cavity of the bodjf and weighed almost a pound.