Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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in MU*r wntut. Moe4si Itesjutar Mor*/ Grant** ?o fanes ff?? Profile From start .1. New Tern, Jana SC.?"May we coun upon ona hundred thouaand dollars ithiy for next four months? Mis all oeallttes safe, wall, and relief Institutions Constantinople. Bel rsjt. working as before. Important Sean* for material aiding relief work ge Turkey through helpers from Swish iSSlttee. KaWlrur favorable action gall request (fox money) work must gnfetng withdrawal all lonarlss." This messsgs has Just been cabled try a relief worker arsons the Arme? nian* and gyn ans of Asia Minor. Mr. C. V. Vtoltrey, who directs ths efforts in America for retains* funds for this ?n ting on the message to 'Requests of this nature, and many corns to us, reveal the mont ?rptealng problem confronting relief itions today. How can w? our work? What promises, cov? ering months In advance, are we Just Sgbd in making, eepectally when tho trensuiy is empty? That there ie ne fer Planning ahead Is obvious, cannot father thousands of 1 efugeee, open orphanages and under? take relief operatloas on a large scale without eosssfls finite assurance*. OS the other hand people are starving by the hundreds and thousands. The com? mittee M* therefore constantly moved lay conflicting smotlons. What is greatly needed is a steady flow of funds thai will make close plsnning possible end thus insure greater econ? omy In distribution." Yesterday the American committee tor Armenian and Syrian Relief ap lieo.OOO for various ceu haust! ng the available cash in the treasury, though providing less than half of what Was called for. ONLY TWENTY TUOL'KAND VOJL . 17NTKER. South Carolina's Quota Only Twenty Washington, June 27.?With re? cruiting week half gone the war de? partment officials have estimated that the regular army is n^ore than fifty thousand men short of its war strength. Apparently there has been no genera] response to the president's call for seventy thousand volunteers by Friday night. Officials, however, hope for greater activity during the next three days. Nine States have a quota of eight below seventy-five per cent; twenty below fifty per cent; six below twenty-five psr cent. Georgia has fifty-nine per cent. Florida, 65 per cent and South Carolina only 22. GREAT WORK FOR LEE. County More Than Makes its Appor Mishopvile. June 26.?Lee county has oversubscribed Its allotment of the Red Cross fund. Asked for 13,000.. the county at his hour has reported $3,?00 and still more to come. This is due not alone to the fact that the cause appeals to the people but also to the splendid manner and seal with which the campaign committee here, headed by W. R. Scarborough, cash? ier of the Bishopviile National bank, worked. London, June 27.?The American sailing vessel Galena, of 1,000 tons, was sunk by a bomb on June 25, off the Fi euch coast. There were no casualties, f * Two Per Cent. tionment. National Rank of Huniter, Carotins, at the Close of CONDITION or I- Reserve District No. 5 at fiua ter, la Ute Stale of So alb on June 20, lt!7. 7.000.00 4,000.00 RBJSOURCKS. 1. e Loans and discount* (except those ab own on b and c).$628,280.11 Total loan*. 628,280.61 Deduct d Noten and hills rediaoounted (other than hank ac? ceptance* told) (see Item 65a). 44,000.00 I. Overdrafts, secured, none; unsecured. I D. S. bonds (ether than Liberty Bonds of 1917): a U. 8, bonds deposited to secure circulation (par value). 60,000.00 "b U. 8. bonds pledged to secure U. 8. deposits (par b \ 8 bonds and certificates of indebtedness pledged to secure U. 8. deposits (par value) .. Total V. R bonds (other than Liberty Bonds) and certificates of indebtedness . T. Bonds, securities, etc : b Bonds other than U. 8. bonds pledged to secure postal savings deposits. a Ssooritles other than U. 8. bonds (not Includ? ing stock?) owned unpledged. 6,226.00 Total bonds, securities, ete. Bloche, other than Federal Reservebank stock. . Stock it Federal Reserve Bank (60 per cent, of ?ubsrr ptfon). a Vnlue of banking house. 48,000.00 Equity In Banking House. Real estate owned other than 1 anklng house). ? a Net amount due from approve reserve agents In New York, Chicago, and St. Louis. 26,290.09 b Net amount due from approved reserve agents In other reserve cities. 20,171.36 Net amount due from bunks ard bankers (oth? er than Included In 13 or 21). Other checks on banks in the rams city or town as reporting bank. b Fractional currency, nickels, and cents. Notes of other national banks. Lawful reserve In vault and not amount due from Federal Reserve Hank. Redemption fund with U. 8. Treasurer and du* from U 8. Treasurer. 584,280.61 234.84 17,000.00 t. t. It. b II. II. 1?. 16. 17. 18. ff. 9,225.00 2,000.00 6,000.00 48,000.00 250.00 46,461.4:. 10.345.Di 3,066.27 1,164.10 10,155.00 33,302.0? 1,600.00 Total 1813.984.61 I 4. tm ft. LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid In. Surplus fund. a Undivided profits .$60.172.03 b Less current expense*. Interest and taxes paid 11,678.14 Circulating notes outstanding. Demand deposits subject to Resetve: 14. Individual deposits subject to (heck. ' 36. Certified checks. ft. Cashier's cheeks outstanding. Total demand deposit* subject to I eserve. Items 34, It. It. 17. It. 19. and 40. 118,606.93 Tissa deposits subjsct to Reserve (i aysble after 30 day*, or subject to 30 dsy* or mot* notice): 11. Other time deposit*. fatal of tins* deposits subject to Reeserve, Items 41, ?4% and 41. 341,420.99 Catted State* deposits, not subject to Reserve: Vn)t*d States deposits, Including deposits of U. 8. disbursing officers. Postal navlng* deposits. Total of U. S deposits not subject to Reserve 6,263.80 1100,000.00 $100,000.00 48,593.89 49,200.00 168,212.OS 226.00 68.8.' 141,420.99 4,194.30 2.069.50 at Liabilities for rediscounts, Including those with Federal Reserve Rank (see Item Id). $813,984.61 44.000.00 PAYR OP SOUTH CAROLINA. County of Bumter. as. * *. O. L. Yates, Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear Ifta? the above statement Is true to the beet of my knowledge and be.lef. O. L YATES. Cashier. ' Snbssrfbed aad sworn to be/or* me this 27th day of June, 1917. R. L Edmunds, Notary Public. Correct?Attest: H. N. FORESTER, W. B. UPSHUR. OBO. D. SHORE, Directors ? ONCE POWERFUL CITY. Farts About City Whore Belgians arc Doing Starved to Death. Wajhington, June 23.?L?beck, the North-German city in whose camp for df ported Belgians 500 out of 2,000 unfor.unntes are reported to have starved to death within the last three months, is the subject of the following war geography bulletin of tho Nat? ional Geographic Society: "Probably no other municipality of middle Kurope ever wielded as much power as did the city of L?beck for a period of one hundred years during medieval times. Today it is a moder ately prosperous town of 110,000 In? habitants, not comparing, however, in any respect, save in its distinguished past, with such thriving centers of trade and population as Bremen, Hamburg. Berlin, and Stettin. "Situated on the banks of the Trave river, ten miles from the Pay of L?beck, an arm of the Baltic, L?beck was founded during the first half oi the twelfth century a few miles above an earlier city of the same name. Its r rosperlty began when it became ; part of the domain of Henry the Lion of Saxony, who manifested an especial partiality for it. offering to r&mlt all tolls and customs usually exacted from visiting traders of other seaports pro? vided their cities would grant the same privilege to L?beck merchants. In 1226 the city was declared a free imperial city and in the following year Its people won distinction on the field of Bornkoved where in alliance with the Hc')8teiners, they utterly defeago? the Danes and freed their territory of the Danish yoke. "Posnesslng an excellent harbor, safe from the Inroads of Baltic pirates, L?beck rapidly grew in commercial power during the 13th century and when the Hanseatie league (Hansa meaning association) was formed its citizens were among the prime mov? ers, eventually assuming the leader? ship ol* the more than eighty eitles which practically controlled the com? merce of western and northern Ku? rope from the middle of the four? teenth to the end of the fifteenth cen? tury. The league virtually dictated the affairs of Denmark, exercised vast in? fluence throughout Scandinavia, was Instrumental In checking piracy and In curbing the predatory operations of robber knights. In fostering com? merce factories were established in Bergen, in Novgorod, in Bruges, and in Lon Ion. And in all these activities Lubecl was the dominant factor. "With the rise to power of Russia, of Poland and of Burgundy during the closing years of the 15th century, how? ever, and with the development of commerce in the newly discovered land of America as well as the in? creased trade with India, controlled by Holland and Kngland, the power of the Hanseatie League began to wane, and the association was finally dissolved in the middle of the seven? teenth century. "Following the defeat of the Prus? sians at Jena, Blucher retired to L?? beck Ii 1806 where he was again de? feated by Napoleon's marshals Ber nadott \ Soult, and Murat. Four years later Napoleon incorporated tho city in his empire, but It wns declared a free Hanseatie town by the act of Vienna, In 1815. *) "Today L?beck controls the state of the same name having an area of 119 square miles and occupying the lower valley of the Trave, whose waters empty Into the Day of L?beck. The river channel Is kept well dredged so that ships having a draft of 25 feet can discharge their cargoes on the quays of L?beck. The recently com? pleted F.lbe-Trave canal, 4 2 miles long, ias served to give new impetus to the city's trade which theretofore had been confined in large measure for a number of years to Scandinavia and ltUSSUK. "Lubeck's chief Imports are coal, grain, timber, steel and copper, while Us exports are largely manufactured goods. Tho Industrial activities of the community include shipbuilding, brew? eries, machinery, brick, resin, pre? serves, tin goods, and furniture. "The city presents a highly pic? turesque apearance with its many gabled buildings. Its numerous me? dieval brick churches, including the cathedral founded in 1173 by Henry the Lion, and Its fortified gateways. "Hamburg lies to the southwest of Lubec'<, 40 miles distant by rail." AMERICAN WOODMEN IN ENG? LAND. London, June 27.?Ten units of American woodmen who were sent by the New England States and (organ? izations to turn many forests of Kng? land Into lumber have arrived on Hngllfh soil. Washington, June 27.?Six stiffrn gettes "harged with unlawfully pick? eting Lhv> White House and displaying banners were convicted In the police court. They were given the alterna? tive of $25 line cm 'i or serve three days. They have not yet decided I which they will do. DOLL WEEVIL TOUR. Co<Mlttli?wlOM of Farmers 1? Visit Holl Weevil states Being oiguniml. At a semi-monthly meeting of the directors of the Bumter Chamber of Commerce held Monday, after state? ment by Mr. J. Frank Williams, local* farm demonstrator in charge of the tour of the Sumter county boll weevil commission In August to inspect wee? vil sections, the directors went on record unanimously as favoring the plan to have fifty farmers and busi? ness men make this trip. President A. C. Phelps, First Vice President K. S. Booth, and Second Vice President W. Perry Smith, of the Chamber of Commerce were appointed a special committee of the Chamber of Commerce to cooperate with Mr. Williams, who is ako a director of the Sumter Chamber to induce a goodly number of Sumter merchants, bank? ers, and professional men to join In with the farmers from each township on this tour so that every profession, trade, and occupation will be repre? sented to see just how much damage the cotton boll weevil does to every branch of business. This committee was also instructed to arrange for the advertising matter of Sumter city and county needed for distribution by the publicity manager of the commis? sion. By request of Chairman Williams, unanimous consent was given for managing secretary B. t, Heardon to serve the boll weevil commission as its secretary and publicity manager, and leave of absence was granted the secretary to accompany the commis? sion on its tour. About thirty-five farmers have so far Indicated their intention of mak? ing this automobile trip which will last about ten days and will cost each man about fifty dollars actual expenses including cost of gasoline, oil, board, etc. Prof. W. W. Long, of Clemson College has been requested to ar? range the itinerary of the commis? sion. Those desiring to go should see Mr. J. F. Williams, or Secretary Rear don. The tour will start about August Hth. WILL BE GOOD. Promise to Fix Fair Prices for Pro- j duct. j Washington, June 2fi.?Four hun? dred coal operators representing the great fields of both bituminous and anthracite pledged themselves here today to sell their proruct at a fair and reasonable price to be fixed with the approval of the defense council's coal committee by special commit? tees of seven producers from each coal mining State. These special committees also are authorized to confer with the defense council's committee "to the end that production be stimulated and plans be perfected to provide adequate means of distribution." The operators' action in the form of a formal resolution came at tho close of an all day conference which opened with addresses by Secretaries Lane and Daniels, John T. Fort of the federal trade commission and Assistant Attorney (Jeneral Lewis, all of whom frankly warned the pro? ducers that unless they themselves established a fair selling price am: proper regulation of the Industry, their output would be taken over by the government. The meeting was called by the de. fenso council's committee for a ?Iis cussion of methods of reducing the price of coal both to the government and the general public. While It was in progress the senate interstate commerce committee, beginning ai. inquiry into the cost of production o raw materials, was holding its first hearing with coal operators ami miners as witnesses. Roth at the operators' meeting and before the committee the solution of the gr ater production problem was declare*. fo be more railroad cars. Sessions of the operators will be con? tinued tomorrow. XO RED CROSS DISCRLU1NATION. Catholic Sisterhoods Allowed to Wear Their Particular (larh. Baltimore, June 27.?To offset the malicious rumor circulated that the American Hed Cross was discriminat? ing against nursing sisterhoods of the Catholic church, Cardinal Gibbon? took up the matter with the Red Cross In a pointed letter to Cardinal Ritt Wadsworth, acting chairman of the Red Cross, who stated there was no discrimination, said the siterhoods we,e allowed to wear their particular garb during the Spanish-American war and quoted lied Cross, showing that the aid of the sisterhood was de? sired. N?^K;Sjxty:Six t This Is S prescription prepared especially for MALARIA or CHILLS dv FEVER. Five or six doses will break any cste, and if tsken then ss n tonic the Fever will not return. It acts on the liver better thsn Catane) and dees sot grips or sicken. 25e THE FIRST CRVSARE. More Than 800 Years Since Christians IMrst Attempted Capture of Jerusa . lake all great movements of man? kind, the Crusaders must be traced to the coincidence of many causes which influenced men of various nations and discordant feelings at the same period ol" time to pursue one common end with their whole heart. For many j centuries pilgrimages hud been under? taken to the Holy Land by people from all parts of Europe. In the year 107? the Seljouk Turks took posses? sion of Jerusalem, and immediately commenced harrassing the pilgrims with unheard-of exactions. The rich ware plundered and the poor insulted. | The cry of vengeance rose through OUt all Europe, and men's minds were fully prepared for an attempt to eon uuer Palestine when Peter the Her? mit began to preach that it was a sa? cred duty to deliver the tomb of Christ from the hands of the infidels. This led up to the council of Clere mond, held in 109 4, at which Pope Urban II presided and delivered his eloquent appeal, which stirred the country to activity and started the i agitation which led to the Crusaders. The first army of Crusaders to set | out on the inarch to Jerusalem was a mob of men, women and children, which had not patience to wait for the organized movement of the military leaders. They gathered In vast num? bers on the banks of the Mozelle and the Mouse in the spring of 1096, with Peter the Hermit their chosen chief. The march was finally started on June 4, with nine knights only in the swarm, and but few who had horses to ride or efficient arms to bear or provisions to feed upon. Knowing nothing and, therefore fearing nothing, they marched away through France, Germany, Hungary, and beyond, begging food where they could, and subsisting by pillage where they found it necessary. A knight called Walter the Penniless, led the van and Peter followed with his sec? ond division by another route. The line of both was strewn with the hones of thousands who perished of hunger, of exposure or by disease and by the swords of Hungarians and Bul? garians. Walter the Penniless and Peter the lern. . ^?^-r?-; Hermit reached Constantinople With 100,000 followers, It is said, in spite of the great number who had fallen by the way. They passed on into Asia Minor, where they attacked the Turk*, were beaten, routed, scattered and slaughtered until barely 3,9?d of the great host escaped. "Of the, first Crusade," Gibbons said, "three hundred thousand had already perished before a single city was* cap? tured from the infidels, before bffcer graver and more noble brethren had completed the preparations of their enterprise." Meanwhile the knights and princes of the Crusade had gathered their ar? mies and were now in the .summer ot^ 109C, beginning to move eastward by different routes. The organized body fared little better than the rabble un? der the Hermit. The leaders fought among themselves and it was until June 1099 that they saw the Holy * City and assailed its formidable walls. Their number was reduced to 40,000, but their devotion and their ardor rose to a frenzy and after a siege of little more than a month they forced an entrance by storm. Gibbons, the historian, says: "Then they spared neither age or sex Until they had killed all who denied the Savior of Mankind." The second Crusade occurred tu 1147-49; the third, 1189-91; the fourth 1128-29; sixth, 1248-54, and'the sev? enth and last started in 1270-, but was abandoned. The Crusaders were a great benefit to Europe, in spite of their many objectionable features and disastrous results.?Washington Post. ARGENTINA'S INVITATION AC? CEPTED. Latin-American Countries to Act In Concert. Mexico City, June 27.?A Latin - American diplomat said today that all Latin-American countries except Cuba and Panama had accepted Argentina's invitation to hold a congress at Bu? enos Aires, at which the stand of Lat? in-American countries toward- the war would be determined. The invi? tation was extended a month ago. Petrograd, June 27.?A resolution rejecting any move for separate peace between Germany and Russia was adopted by the congress of workmen's and soldiers' deputies of alt Russia. REPORT OF THE CONDITION No. 10070. - Reserve District No. 5 or the Notional Dank of Sumtcr, at Sumtes*, In the State of South Caro? lina, at the Close of Business, on June 20th, 1017. . RESOURCES. 1. a Loans and discounts (except those shown on b and c).1633.177.23 Total loans. 633,177.23 Deduct: <1 Notes and hills rediscounted (other than bank ac? ceptances sold) (see Item 55a). . . 21,900.00 611,277.28 2. Overdrafts, secured, none; unsecured. 398.76 7. Bonds, securities, etc.: e Securities other than U. S. bonds (not Includ? ing- stocks) owned unpledged. 3,500.00 Total bonds, securities, etc. 3,500.00 I, Stock of Federal Reserve Bank (50 per cent, of subscription. 7,600.00 10. a Value of banking house. 75,000.00 b Equity In banking house. 76,000.00 II. Furniture and fixtures. 12,000.00 12. Real estate owned other than banking house .. 32,210.00 13. a Net amount due from approved reserve agents in New York, Chicago, and St Louis. 11,114.81 b Net amount due from approved reserve agents in other reservo cities... 11,066.66 22,181.37 14. Net amount due from banks and b&.nkers (oth? er than included in 13 or 21). 13,082.34 15. Exchanges for clearing house. 894.68 17. a Outside checks and other cash items. 478.14 b Fractional currency, nickels and cents. 326.10 803.24 18. Notes of other national banks. 3,210.00 21. Lawful reserve in vault and net amount due from Federal Reserve Bank. 35,604.96 Total. $.817,612.47 LIABILITIES. 24. Capital stock paid in.$200,000.60 25. Surplus fund. 60,04)0.06 26. a Undivided profits . $41,56L87 b Less current expenses, Interest, and taxes paid ..14,167.81 27,394.06 Demand deposits subject to Resetve: 34. Individual deposits subject to (heck. 173,9o\7.01 35. Certificates of deposit due in less than 30 days (other than for money borrowed).. ?. 14,263.7* If. Certified checks.-. 2.60 37. Cashier's cheeks outstanding. 66.70 Total demand deposits subject to reserve, Items 34, 35, 36, 37. 38, 39. and 40.188,230.25 Time deposits subject to Reserve doyable after 30 da,ys, or subject to 30 days or more notice): 41. Certificates of deposit (other than for money borrowed). 209,636.07 13. Other time deposits. 142,352.09 Total of time deposits subject to Reeserve, Items 41, 42, and 43 .*. . 351,888.16 Total. $817,612.47 65 a Liabilities for rediscounts, inch ding those with Federal Reserve Bank (see Item Id). 21,900.00 Total contingent liabilities. 21,900.00 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Sumter, ss. 1, W. .1. Crowson, Jr., Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement Is true to the beat of my knowledge and belief. W. J. CROWSON, JR., CaslUsr. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 27th day of June, 1917. A. M. BroUghten, Notary Public. ? Correct Attest: DAVIS D. MOISE, 1 HENRY P. MOSES, BARTOW WALSH, Direst era,