Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ATTACK Off BOTH O? Mfi?J?K. I la Be Tlie la-ginning of An Operation?tier ma as Try to B>eak np Attack?Italians At iarattsg on Wile Prout?iii-tUsh (J Advance at Ypr - Tue French thla morning began an offensive oa the Verdun front along a eoctor eleven miles wide on both aide? of the Heute. The first reports give few details, but the battle Is developing favorable conditions to the Froneh. Whether It Is major opera? tion or not Is not stated, but It is In? dicated that It is an Important one. The Germans have been attacking on this front recently probably with the knowledge that the French were planning an Important operation and wHh the Intention of breaklg It up. The Freeh bomltarded this front heavily daring the past few days. The British lines around Yprex advanced slightly. There Is heavy fghtlng on tho Ital front where the Itsllans are at? tempting to move forward on a thirty - seven mile front. Tho British dropped several tony of bombs In Relgrjm In a great a:r raid Saturday night. TWO TRAITOR N 8ENTENCFI>. Exemption Hoard Scut to Prison. Now York, Aug 20 ?Dr. 8. J. Bernfsldt and Louis Chorey, forun r mem**-* of the draft exemption board, who were charged with con? spiracy to obstruct the druft law. pleaded guilty Just before tho trial was to start. They were sentenced to two years each. Kaiman Gruher. the alleged "go between" elected to stand trial. What Hnkes Cooperotkai a Success. Clemson College Aug. 16.?In or? der to make cooperation successful there must be some real service to perform and then there must bo as serance of efficient management. When marketing facilities are lack? ing, wren there is dishonesty among local buyers, when farmers or plant ssrs can save by buying and selling ooordlnately. then ther? Is a distinct need for cooperation, then a fanner* economic association should be call? ed Into existence. Mr. Harold G. Powell, general managt r of the California Fruit Growers' Exchange, and author of "Cooper ation In Agriculture," says that cooperation must be born of necessity but according to L. II. 1) Weld In his "Ths Marketing of Farm Products." this is going a lit Us too far. It would bo better to say that "some tangible economical sav? ing or Improvement must result in order to mnko cooperation success ful The ' truth of the matter Is thst the "Cooperative spirit" that ws hear so much about, is the re suit ra her than tho cause of sue eesrful economic endeavor. In other words, if farmers, planters or grow ers find thst it "pays" to cooperate they will cooperate. HELP THE KIDNEYS. Samlet Header* Arc learning the Wuy. It's the little kidney Ills? The lame, weak or aching back? The unnotkod bladder disorders? That may lead to dropsy und Blight's disc one. When the Kidneys are weak. Help them with Loan's Kidney Pills, i A remedy especially far weak kid? neys. Loan's have been u <cd In kldnc) troubles for 5" > < ?? rs. Endorsed kg 50,000 people?endots ed at home. l'roof In tbl i Su inter woman's state ment: Mm ?' II. Waddell. I 17 Kcnlrlck Ft.. Sumtcr. soys: "I bad dull gejga In tho small of my back, h ad. aches and dlssy spoils. My kid? ney secretions passed too freely, caus? ing me great annoyance. When 1 I hesrd about Loan's Kidney l'llls. 1 used them and they relieved all the sllments." Price tOc.. at all dealers. Don't simply ssk for a kidney remedy -get Doan's Kidney Fills?tho samo that Mrs. Waddoll had. Foster-Mllburn. Co., I'ropb.. Duffalo, N. Y. (?8) (Advsrtisement) Geo. H. Hurst, gsjjjds af Esniaer. froi' p' Attention to Oay and MmjsI Citii. ill p \ CMie Old Stand. H Main. Dss^asaa ? ,lB* **M ] fl 'fit * . Si|Stj(it ?4H-L,.J-XJ,-L-?il-L I IWRRAL LAND HANK. Flfty-fles Associations Have Been Or Kantwd Since February 21 anil Nearly Two Millions In Loan* Granted. Columbia, Aug. 18 ?The federal land hunk last night issued a state? ment showing the number of asso? ciations chartered up to August 15. The grand total shows that 55 char? ters have thus far been granted since the institution started on February II and loans granted amount to $1, ? 16,308. Eleven other charters have been asked for since this statement was prepared, and will no doubt be granted. If this is done tho total number of charters will number 66 and the money loaned will bo ap? proximately $2,500,000. Tho bank is dally receiving many requests for loans. It wishes, how? ever, to make plain that it docs not loan money for current requirements, such as purchasing of fertilisers, supply bdls and money for operating expenses. Money is loaned only for constructive farm work and farm Improvements. Tho bank now has 18 hank apprais? ers in tie Third District, which em? braces the State of South Carolina, North Carolina. Georgia and Florida. Lee county has one rssociation, the Pooples of Hlshopville, with loans of $68,900. Sumter county has no as? sociation chartered as yet. KILLED IN ALTO WRECK. Southern Train Smashes Into Truck at Darn well. Barnwcll, Aug. 16.?Two men were killed and eight others more or less seriously Injured at tho Main Street crossing of the Southern railway hero this morning when Southern train No 35 crashed into an automobil truck owned by the county. Tho uend are: T. W. Black, foreman of the county chalngang. and Willie Rasor, negro convict, both of whom died while boing taken to Columbia for medical attention. The injured are: B. R. "loss, white, driver of the truck, broken arm; Zckc Mathis, white chakngang guard, hip injure); Jack Oroene, white, chaingan^ guard, in? jured about head andi body; Charlie Taylor of Sycamore, negro convict, injured about hend and body; Incll Johnson of Allendalc, negro convict, broken collarbone; Wlllio Bradley of Ulmer, negro convict, Injured about face and neck; Quince Halt of Wil Uston. negro convict, injured on the head; Isadore Jones of Willlston, in? jured on leg. Jim Miller, Sam Tay? lor and Hey ward Wicker, all negro convicts, of Blaekwcll escaped with out Injury. Tho big two ton truck wag damaged considerably as was the cowcatcher on the locomotive. The train, which was running be? tween Columbia and Savannah, was In charge of Conductor Blanton, with Engineer U. M. Hicks of Columbia at tho throttle. Tho crossing where tho accident occurred is particular^ dangerous, the vision of both engi? neer and driver being obscured for considerable distance. After hitthu the truck, which was turned com nletely around and headed in the on pjoslte direction, the engineer brougl: his train to a stop a few hundred foot from the crossing. Physician* were summoned and first aid wa> given to tho injured men, thos< who were most seriously hurt holm taken to Columbia on the north bound train that passes hero at o'clock. Sheriff J. It. Morris, who arrived Ol tho scene shortly after tho acehlent placed Engineer Hicks under arrest pending tho outcome of tho men's In juries, his train being hold hero unt> mother engineer was brought fron llackvillc. No attempt has hem mad< yet to determine who Is responsihb for the accident. It is undersloo that there is a division of opinion b] those in a position to know as t< whether or not tho engineer blew hi whistle and sounded his bell befor? approaching the crossing. To The (.eiicral Public. The fJhmt annual picnic of the Dlacl Hirer Missionary Union will be held at ohl Salem "lt. K." Church, Wed? nesday. August If, The lolowing churches make uj UM l'nion: Salem "II. II.," Concord, New Harmony, Sardinia, Al id way and Ihewington. The committee has pre? pared a tine program. Dr. Wllklnt and John I'.radley of China. Hev Luther Mcfutchcn, of Korea, and l?r 1, (>. IJevls of Columbia, are expect* id to speak, with I to* I* L Lcgtors of Hlshopvdlc as utility man. Fiery one is Invited to come and bring well tilled basket, as we o\ pant to give them value received for their time and all else that they pu! In it. Mount Airy, da., Aug. 11?In de? aiding tho questions raised by Thon. R Watson and others as to the con? stitutionality of Mm draft law, Feder? ul Judge Spec; h' Id ItlC law to I' constitutional. ? ? ? ? -r-j South Slandered. ^ i. . Greenville Piedmont. I Despite the federal department of ' agriculture's foolish assertions to tho contrary, the South not only feeds itself but helps feed the balance of the nation, This lias been demon strated by the government's own ligures. And yet the agricultural de? partment persists in promuglatlng falsehoods as to this section'' For I instance its weekly news let ~*r of July 14 contains this paragraph: "As eaeh person, it is calculated, 'consumes about three-fourths of a j barrel of Hour a year, and as the I population of the Southern States is approximately 10,000,000, it is obvious that the general use of these wheat flour substitutes would result In a marked reduction In the total quantity of wheat flour consumed in the South. I On the basis of a total flour consump? tion in the Southern States of over 22,000,000 barrels, it has been esti? mated that if the practice became universal the use of 25 per cent of flour substitutes grown in the South would save over 5,500,000 barrels of Hour. As a matter of fact, how? ever, the saving would be far greater 'than this, because a much larger prd | portion of flour substitutes can be J used in the preparation of biscuits than In bread. In view of this fact the total saving might amount to 10,000,000 barrels of white flour. All this flour, it must be remembered, is imported into the South from other sections, and the consumer must pay freight rates on it." Head that last sentence again. It is rankly false. The Manufacturers Record resented that misrepresenta? tion of the South and asked the de? partment of agriculture for an cx plantation as to what States it classed as Southern and on what basis of computation it reached Its conclusion us to the Hour consumption of the South. The reply contained the fol? lowing paragraphs: "According to the World Almanac for 1912, tho population of the PQUth Atlantic States in 1910 was a UtUS over 12,000,000; that of the East South Central states somewhat over fc,000,000, and that of the west South Central States was 8,500,000, making a total population for those Southern States mentioned a little over 29,000, 000. "The average annual consumption of flour in this country is about one barrel per capita. It was assumed that tho Southern people did not eat so much wheat bread as the rest of the country, and because of that fact it was also assumed that about threo <iuarters of a barrel of Hour per capita would approximate the amount of dour consumed. These are mere as? sumptions, and If they are not correct and you have any Information which will give more correct data, we shall be very glad inded, to receive the .amc." There is some very effective satire in the Manufacturers Record's com? ment upon that letter. It says: "Tho Census Department of tin United States issues annually an es? timate of the population of the coun? try, but an official of the department of agriculture has to turn to the World Almanac of 1912 for the statis? tics of the South's population of 1910 n order to get the figures! Surely, i school of statistics should be estab? lished in Washington for tho benefit >f men who undertake to handle the government's figures. This Is 1917, tut a government official churgod with :hc responsibility of issuing state? ments about the consumption of flour in the South finds nothing later than 'he figures of 1910, seven years ago. published in the World Almanac foi 1912, live years ago. Xo wonder th Department of Agriculture is con itantly putting forth the veriest trash! There are some bureaus in the Department of Agriculture which <cnd out Information of much value, but evidently there arc Other bureaus which need a radical overhauling. "But even if wo should take the fig? ures of 1910 instead of the IlgUrCS o! 1910, the absurdity of the statement that all of the Hour med in tin dOUth is 'brought from elsewhere' is Strikingly illustrated. For in 1010 the production of wheat in the South Atlantic States, the lOast South Cen? tral States and the West South Cen? tral States, c lassed broadly under the term of Southern States in this re pert, was 111,902,000 bushels. "In 1011 the production of wheat in these States was 186,642,000 bushel-. OF equal to 16,000,000 barrels of Hour. Thus when wo take Into account lh> winde South as covered in the Agri? cultural Department's estimate, this than the Department o!' AgrlOUltUlC section actually produces more flour estimates its consumption to be, "There are some Slates in the Cen? tral South which produce much less wheat than tholr consumpti ., n few which produce little or none, but there ore other States where the pro? duction of Wheat Is in excess of loc al demands. "Just a little n. re intelligence in the handling of statistics hearing on the South, and, indeed, for tint mat tor, on the country, is greatly needed j in some bureaus in the Department of agr iculture. "In thin case the Official statement lias gone to the world that every j barrel of Hour of the 22,000,000 as |sumeil to he used in the South Is brought in from other sections, a di? rect slander against this section without the shadow of a fotinduloil." Why Aic We at War? (By William English Walling of The Vigilantes.) Why should this question he asked'. The greatest war of history has been waged for throe years. The United States has boon at war for foul months. We have the largest num? ber of newspapers and are the best informed people in the world. Tin war begun to affect our pocket books, on the whole unfavorably, from the ?r8t day it began. \V< were almost immediately involved in the most critical disputes with all the belligerents. Yet we are still told, even by such Influential leaders at Senator Borah, that wc do not know why w i are at war "Why arc we at war?" Why slibuld such a humiliating question be asked among a great democratic peo? ple? There is but one answer. Fe: three long years the ceaseless Ger man propaganda has been penetrat? ing every day to the most reniot corners of the land, and it still con tinuep under Uta pseudonym of "pacifism." These mountains oi lies thus persistently and systemati? cally spread over a thousand daily issues of a large part of our press during a period of three years can not be removed within a few months Indeed, it may be doubted if this dev il's work by which so many Ameri? cans have been intellectually pervert? ed and morally corrupted can be un done even by an equally long cam paign of sound logic and of facts. Were it not for this vile and bloody propaganda not one American man. woman or child would now need te ask the question, "Why are wc at war?" We arc at war because "the arch devils of despotism," having com pletely dominated one nation and successfully inoculated it witli its in telectual and moral virus, having spread their mastery and system of lies to the subjeet-peoplea they euphe mistically call Allies, now seek a largo if not a controling voice over the high-seas, and in all parts of the earth where t'here is the slightest prospect of obtaining control? either through their plots and propa? ganda or through the butchery of a sutlicicnt part of their inhabitants. And as long as this program sue eccds or promises to succeed it has the fanatical support of too over? whelming majority of the German people, which for half a century the arch-devils have trained, pervert? ed, and dehumanized for this pur? pose. We are fighting to rid the world of despotism, which, driven from nearly every ot'her country the earth, aside from Germany and her Allies, now menaces the liberties o! all mankind. They All Mean Well. "What's Ute matterr asked the young doctor of a patient who seemed extremely pessimistic regarding his chances. "Oh, I tlou't know, doctor; but I feel that I shall never pull through hero." "Nonsense, my hoy nonsense. Why, your case is absolute? ly the Same ns an illness I had years ago. Yet look nt tue?strong and hearty ns ever*!' "Yes," replied the patient, "but then I expect you had a good doctor i" That Was Long Enough. Henry, nged live, hod been sent to n store to purchase 0 pair ?f stockings. "How long do you want them?" asked the clerk. "I don't want to borrow them." replied Henry. "1 want 'cm to knerV URSE FARMS WANTED Wc can turn your plan? tation into casli and in? terest bearing notes by our method of selling land at auction. Satisfy yourself as to our reli? ability, then write us what you have to sell. No proposition too large ?wc are responsible and reliable. Wiite us to-day. ATLANTIC COAST REALTY CO. "The mmc tint justifies your confidence" ( rFICES : PETERSBUUG, VIRGINIA And Greenville. N. C jisssian^nsMmsissMOTennaMani^wansns ESCAPED TEUTONS CA?GHT. lte< ognlzed by Woman Lawyer in t.eorgla Town. Chattanooga, Aug. 16.?William Wagner, Robert Auer ami tluatav Hartwig, three Hermans who escaped from the detention camp at Port Oglethorpe, near here yesterday, won captured at Trenton, tla., late today. rrhoy were recognised by Miss Klinorc Coonrad, a woman lawyer, of this city. The fugitives wore returned here and again imprisoned in the deten? tion camp. FIND WIRELESS PLANT, Argentine Inquirers FiOcnte Secret Station. P?uonos Ayres, Aug. 16.?A secret wireless station lias been discovered on the coast of Uta Territory of. but by the Argent Uta navy d? meat. The authorities believe station was to be used in conin. eating with suspicious vessels in South Atlantie. AFTER THE sl.ACKElts. Klghl Men Taken Before Conimissioi er at Omngoburg. Orangeburg, Aue;. IC.?The author ities are hot in bebind the ulackcra of Orange burs a,1,i nearby countlc . Already eight men have been brought before J. Leroy Dukes, United State? commissioner, at < Mangeburg, whiU numerous slaekeis have been report J In Orangeburg, Bom well, Aiken an' Dorchester counties. These penr i ?[. will be arrested and brought before^ the commissioner. tmttttmttttiitmi:mmtimtnaimaaita:miii i mummt mnnmwtnTmmmmwM Evei ytliing in the Building line All Kinds of Feed BOOTH & McLEOD, Inc. EVERYTHING AT ONE PLACE jj Phones 10 ? 631 IN TO WIN All hats are off to xhc men on the firing line who are defending our country's honor with their lives. All hands are outstretched to those at home who are enlisted in the great cause of increased production and greater thrift. Our complete facilities are at the command of the business men of this community. We invite conference. the National Bank of wSumter. SUMTER. S. C. SERVICE WITH THE LARGEST RECOURCES OF ANY BANK !N THIS SECTION : WITH A FORCE OF EIGHT MEN TO DO THE WORK : WITH A STRONG DIRECTORATE PER SONALLY SUPERVISING ITS AF? FAIRS: This Bank is prepared to offer you the BEST SERVICE KNOWN TO THE BUSINESS. The national Bank 01 South Garolina C. G ROWLAND. President. F. E. HINS?NT. Cashier < ? < ? A Convenience. A checking-account with a bank is a great convenience; not only to the business and profes? sional man, but to the farmer as well. More peo? ple would keep such accounts if they knew just how to go iibout it. We gladly assist those who need help in getting started. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK The Oldest Banking Institution in the County