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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.