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s man WOWnSH HATOTMA*, Mabltehcd April, 1840. *?Bo Juts and Fror not?Dot on tbo endo Thon Almot nc bo thy Country'*, Thy God's Tmtfc't.' THM TR?B SOUTHRON, OoBSOUdattd Aug. 2,1881. STJMTER, S. 0M WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1917. Vol. XLV. mv ei vom na wiuroir DowufT like idea of POMOnrO MARRIED WOMEN TO MAKE OWN LIVING. Free Per Oral? First Increment of Men Celled to Coi? fs, 4* Per cent. It, to October a?Others Week ragten. Aug. 25.?At the dl< tlon of President Wilson. Pis tent Marshal Oenernl Crowder %slSBs"BPh>d to all governors tonight a saawleaieataJ explanation of regula Haraa governing the statue of married ssea under the selective service law. No change fa made, aad ths purpose mi the aesr statement la to clear mis understandings which have srisen In what General Crowder dsscribee as Ma row Instsaeea." 4m a letter to Secretary Biker. tH said sat Wilson states his opinion that the regulation requiring local to establish "the fact of de? in addition to the fact of eoght not to be abrogated Tim leaves the regulations as they ?aw ajtd the saaaiemeatary statement h) ttfgjfhit merely to nwke the ap gHaiiliin of the rales uniform among e* ttmrde the statemeal regarding mat ten waa In preparation, orders ?banging entirely the g#agj|g*Mtk>9 arrangemeaU previously nUien of rail traffic and ofVaking better pro w the reception of the m?n eantonments dictated ths r the new orders & per cent white men, preferably those salutary experience, from each leant gr*% will be startsd to the September 5 instead of 30 per They will go In five dally do*l ef equal site and from .company organ tuitions, i next 40 per cent, will go for geptember It when the second cant, originally was sehsdnled to go; a second 40 per oent. will go October t lastend el the third it aad ths remaining IS per 4Mb? will be called up as soon therwjl gJafjf as practicable Local boards are directed to disre? gard order of liability numbers to aeeae extent In selecting the first G per coat, as men experienced, such as See ha aad former soldiers, are desir? ed. Warning le given. however, sgataet getting Into this levy by rea? son of his experience ary man who might sot otherwise have been In eroded In the first Increment of the district at all. Following is ths text of the mes? sage sent to the governors, dealing with the status o mied men. pre? nt a conference late today bc fleeretary Baker and Gon. Ctwerder. "A feeling has been expressed that, la passing on claims for dis Shaigi on the ground ef dependents, local beards oaght. in no case, to re faee a discharge to a married man go to the heed of u family. The law Which loc * boards act requires before such a discharge can be I, dependey as well as relation must be ?stahltaped The mat having been presented to the it. ths following are hlu or? ders thereon: " *We eaght as far ae practicable to raise ths? sew national army with? out creating the hardships neeensarl ry entailed When the head of a fam? ily is taken, and I hope that for the most part those accepted on the cat! will be found to be men Who had not yet assumed such re? lations. " The selective service lew makes the fdet of dependents.* rsther than the fact of marriage, the basis for ayaasttloa and there are undoubted!* meny cases within the sgs limit*. rWed try law of men who are married aad yet whose accumulations or oth er eeonomb surroundings are such that no dependence of the wife ex I tat* In fact Plainly the law door not contemplate exemption for this eise? of men. The resolution promuglated oi June 4. 1917. should be regarded e controlling In these eases, and th orders Issued under that regul ttio* directing exemption boar In to e?tub llsh the fact of dependents in %ddl tlon to the faet of marriage, ougb not to be abrogated/ ?The attention of this office hai been Invited to the fact that In a few Instance* Iocs! boards have certified Bp to district boards as held for mi I Its r service men whose families ar? ac? tually dependent Upon them for se?? pnft on th* thcorv that the wife I r?-'#? |o work and should be put lo th nrc** tv of going to work to support BOLD HEW POSITIONS. FRENCH CANNOT BE DRIVEN FROM RECENTLY CAPTURED POSITIONS. , Germans Making Strong Attacks on Verdun end Atone Fronts?All Fighter* Busy. The French are holding their gains mado on the Verdun front against formidable counter attacks. The French commandor reports tho repulse of strong attacks last night | against the newly won positions. In j the fighting yesterday the French j took eleven hundred prisoners when they advanced two-thirds of a mile on a two and a-half mllo front. The Germans are striking against the Aisne front, but with no better suc? cess than previously. The Brittoh sre continuing system? atic aviation tactics agalr A aviation and other bases behind the German's Belgian lino. The British Infantry ac? tivities art< confined to trench raids. is stressed in the finding of the dis? trict board of New York City in which opinion tMs office concurs, with the understanding that the phrase 'sup? port available from relative* Is sup? port partial or total previously ex? tended to the applicant himself. "We dont' concur in the view sug? gested in some quarters that, in case of wife and children actually depend? ent on applicant's labor for support, and whore there are no other means of support, the wife should be put to the necessity of going to work to sup? port herself and children. Bona Ado dopendem y of wife and children on labor of applicant, where in his ab? sence, they would be left without reasonably adequate support, after duly taking Into consideration sol dler's wage and support available from relatives, as stated In the rulings of the provost marshal general, is ground ol* discharge. "This opinion clearly and adequate? ly expressed :he Intent of the law in this regard. ."Besagtaph B. oamptted ruling* of this office No. 6, addressed a state of affairs where the parents or othjr relatives of the wife or husband arc able, ready and willing adequately to support the wife and children, if any, during the absence of the hus? band. This ruling was responsive to a class of cases that had been brought to the attention of this of? fice, where claims of discharge had been made on the ground of depend? ency on a husband, who, as a mat ter of fact was not dependent upon himself. The ruling directed the at tention of local boards to the fact that scrutiny of cases of this kind might dis' los.? that no discharge was advisable. "It was not intended that Para? graph B of the complied rulings should apply to the case of the hoad of a family whose family at the time of his summons and prior theret' were and had been mainly dependen' upon his labor for support. "Instances in which local hoards have 'neon In error In respect to these two classes of cases are rare. It was to be expected that with some 4,500 local boards there would be some un unlformtty of decision in this regard. To provide against this ununlformity. Section 27 of the regulations provides for the automatic appeal of all do pendency cases to the district boards. District boards should scan the de? cisions of local boards on questions of dependency and wherever it ap? pears that such decisions are illegal (as In tho two cases just mentioned or otherwise) or where those decis? ions seem to he so far ununlfor:m as to result in sn unequal operation or the law, the district board should re? verse or -nodlfy the decisions of the local board." In his message to governors re? specting now mobilization orders Gen. Crowder said In part: "The ongresa of traffic that will be entailed In the early part of Sep ter.iber by the movement of the Na? tional Guard into trnlning camps mnkes It Inadvisable to attempt |0] move any large percentage of the National Army on September I, "The object of calling ? per cent Is to place In the camps enough IhSfl to form a skeleton organization t' assist in receiving and assimilating th< large contingent*. For this reason |1 Is required thnt local hoards send only white men and so far as i rae tlcable that men with some mllit.tr experience or cooks. In making thl?? selection order numbers are not con trolling but great care must be taker not to send nun wbose order of rail Is so late thnt thev will not be Within I the quota of tbe board. "In order that It may not be nee-! essary to mak? any special railway1 WILL SEIZE TERRITORY. PREMIER OF BULGARIA SAYS Iii'LGAlls WANT MACEDONIA, 1H>HHUDJA AND AEGEAN LITTORAL. Declares Entente Miles Will Rue l>uy ? They Do Not Accept Peace Now. Copenhagen, Aug. 26.?Annexation of large amounts of territory will be insisted upon by Bulgaria, according to an interview with Premier Rado slavoff as published in a Budapest newspaper. The premier also is quoted as saying that the formation of a great Imperial federation of middle Europe might soon bo expect? ed. Each of tho Central Powers will return separate answers to the peace proposals of Popo Benedict, giving its standpoint in concrete form, the prb mer says. Turkey also will stalte its case, which will be agreed to by all its allies. Premier Radoslavoli Indicated Bul? garia will demand the acquisition oi Macedonia, the Dobrudja and Aegean littoral, saying that this is in ac cord with the proposal for settle ment of the Balkan problem on th* basis of right and justice, as made by the Pope. The Bulgarians, he say: have freed their brothers on the Ac 1 gean coast, at Kavala, Drama and Seres, in Serbian Macedonia and in tho Moravia region of northern Ser bla. The liberated people, the pre? mier asserts, desire union with Bul? garia. There is no need of sayln a word, he adds, in regard to Dob* rudaja, wrested by Bulgaria's sons from mighty Russia. The Central Powers, the premier declares are the victors and with? out doubt will soon be united in' a gigantic imperial federation of mid? dle Europe. The entente will rue day, .he says, if it does not accept peace and will soon be seeking a me? diator. -* BELGIUM IS DIVIDED. * _ ?* Germans Redbitrict Country and Give It Two Capitals. Havre, Aug. 26.?The Belgian gov? ernment has addressed a long and earnest protest to the entente allies and the neutral governments against German violations of Internationa' and moral law in the redistrlcting of Belgium so that it will have two gov? ernments and two capitals instead o1 ono, and in deporting or arresting Belgian officials who resigned their positions rathor than continue in of? fice under the new regime. The protest begins by the citation of Article 43 of the fourth Hague con ventlon. according to which an oc? cupying power must in so far as it is possible govern occupied ter? ritory In conformity with xtho terri? tory's own law. "The measures," says the protest, "have only the goal of serving Ger? man Interest to the detriment of Bel glum and creating a schism between the Belgians." % MONEY FOR DESTROYERS. Secretary Daniels to Ask for $350, 000,000. Washington. Aug. 27.?Sccretar> Daniels expects to submit to congress this week estimates of three hundred and fifty million dollars for a grea; number of destroyers, which wouh' make the United States the leadei In this type of vessel. The money will no spent in extending ship building plants and now boiler and engim plants. The country is now working to its capacity on the present pro? gram. ASK WITHDRAWAL OF NEROES. Petition from Texas Congressmen Laid Before President. Washington, Aug. 27.?A petition asking the withdrawal of all negro troops from Texas, signed by all mem ners of *he Texas congressional dele? gation, has been laid before the pros ident. White Mouse officials did not Indicate what action is expected. AUSTRIAN'S FALL RACK. Have Retired from North of Gorlzia. Ix>ndon, Aug. 27.?It is reported from Austrian army headquarters that the Austrlans have retired from North Gorizia on the Italian fiont, says a Central News dispatch from Home. arrangements and to prevent ? con? gestion of normal railway traffic lo? cal boards' should be Instructed to send approximately i per cent, of their quotas on each of five succes? sive days beginning September f>." PUN FOOD SURVEY. STOCKS IN RETAIL STORES OF j FORTY-THREE COUNTIES WILL BE INVENTORIED. Trade Organizations Throughout Country Have Promised to Lend As? sistance. Washington, Aug. 26.?Food stocks held in retail stores of city and rural portions of forty-three counties in va? rious parts of the country will be in? ventoried on August 31 to furnish the basis for an estimate by the Depart? ment of Agriculture's bureau of mar? kets of the amount of food products in the hands of retail dealers. A de? tailed survey also will be made in New York city, which is to be han? dled a3 a separate problem. The survey in retail stocks, the plan for which was made public tonight, is one of four branches of the great task of estimating the country's entire stock of food. Oth? er surveys will cover stocks on farms, in wholesale commercial establish? ments and storages and in the homes of the consumers. Local work will be directed for the bureau by agents of the bureau of chemistry and of the State's rela? tions service. Boards of trade, cham? bers of commerce, retail grocers' as? sociations and farm bureau agents and other State, county and city offi? cials have promised their assistance. Blanks for detailed reporting of stocks on hand are being distributed locally in cities by local health and police officials. Aside from New York, the largest city selected is Cleveland, Ohio. Its county, Cuyahoga, was chosen as centrally located with reference to large industrial centers and as a typi? cal manufacturing and commercial center. The second group includes the cities of Syracuse, N Y., Dallas, Tex? as, and Altoona, Pa., with Its outlyinp towns of Tyronne and Juanita. These three are thought to represent con? ditions as they exist in a city which depends on manufacturing, in one which has a big agricultural back country, and in one which depends on the mining industry. The grouping, as a whole, is in ac? cordance with population. The' first group, represented by Cleveland, is for metropolitan districts with a popula? tion of 200,000 or more, the second includes counties with cities of a pop? ulation of 50,000 to 200,000. The third takes counties with cities 25,000 to 50,000; the fourth from 10,000 to 25, 000 and so on down to 2,500, and then cortuir counties having no city or village of 2,500 population. In the third group are the cities of Montgomery, Ala., Topeka, Kansas j Binghampton, N. Y., and Sacramento, Cal., and fifth includes Amerlcus, Ga. Group 6 includes ten counties with cities of from 2,500 to 5,000. The< final group in counties having no towns as large as 2,500 population, Includes fifteen towns, among them Eatonton, Ga., and Carthage, N. C. SHIPARD STRIKE CONFERENCE. Government Will ho Represented on Hoard. Washington, Aug. 25.?The wage Increase dispute at shipyards will be handled by a board on which will lx represented the government, the American Federation of Labor and the shipbuilders. An early and peaceable adjust? ment of labor disputes in the ship yards is expected to result from tht creation of the board. REPLY TO POPE. America's Answer to Peace Proposa! Expected Soon. i j Washington, Aug. 27.?The reply t? the Pope's peace message may b< made by the United States this week Secretary Irnsing said It will be made soon. He declined to indicnb the character or time of its dispatch Reports from entente powers indicate that they might be waiting on tht United States to reply first. SUPPORT FOR RUSSIA. President Wilson lends Assurance Of Strong Hncking. Washington, Aug. 27.?President Wilson sent to the National Confer? ence at Moscow assurance that this government Is willing to extend "ev? ery material and moral assistance" to the new Russian government. OMiela comment is lacking on Premier Ker ensky's speech, but it Is Known however, that his declarations tha' the government will use a llrm hand aroused confidence. TRAIN YOUNG MEN. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING PROPOSES THIS POLICY. Would Have Men Between 19 and 22 Use Cantonments in Future. Washington. Aug. 26.?Military training of the young men of the country between the ages of nineteen and twenty-one at the national army cantonments, as a continuing and | permanent policy for the protection of the republic, is advocated in a statement made public today by Lieut. Gen. S. B. M. Young, retired, who is president of the National As? sociation for Universal Military Train? ing. Gen. Young gives statistics show? ing that the civil war, producing the greatest armies the world had ever known up to that time, was fought by men the majority of wht m were under twenty-one years of age, "ex? actly that class which has been omit? ted in the otherwise very compre? hensive provisions of the draft law." Noting the fact that the draft law makes no provision for the registra? tion of men who reach the age of twenty-one after its enactment, the general continues: "After the first and second drafts are made there will be approximate? ly 626,000 men available for purely military service who will not have been included in the first two drafts. Since the first and second drafts will total about 1,37 1,000, and experience shows that three men are required in reserve for each man on the firing line, the 626.000 left over from the first registration will not be ade? quate for even a reserve force for the men actually on the firing line, but will fall short of the number which experience has proved necessary by some 3,496,000." To meet this situation, Gen. Young proposes that the draft law be amended so as to require the regis? tration of all male persons in the United States who are nineteen years of age and not more than thirty one when amendment goes into ef? fect, and who were not registered previously under the draft act; with the proviso that none of those affect? ed by the law so amended shall be called for active military service be? fore reaching twenty-one. "There have been provided at an outlay of approximately $100,000, 000," Gen. Young argues, "sixteen cantonments with light, heat, water and all necessary sanitary equipment installed. Each of these canton? ments accommodate 4 0,000 men, and with a very small outlay can be made into permanent training cantonments suitable for use throughout the year. It will be observed that the sixteen cantonments will completely provide for the 640,000 men who would he available for training for the mill lory service each year. "These men could be called into the cantonments for training as rap? idly as the cantonments were evacu? ated by the final increments of the i new national army. By utilizing these splendid camps as permanent train? ing quarters for our young men from nineteen to twenty-one years of age we would not only conserve our young manhood, but would profit by the immense equipment provided at such an enormous initial outlay. It Is the rational, the obvious thing to do! "Of course, the logic of the fore? going points with unerring accuracy to universal military training as the fundamental principle of a perma? nent, continuing military policy. The draft law is the first great stride to? wards this goal, and the amendment above suggested, when realized, will form the second. "The potentiality of a nation is feared by no prepared adversary. It is the actual power it can exert at a given moment that compels, through fear, respect for Its sover? eignty. The hour has struck when our citizens must unflinchingly ac? knowledge the burden of responsibil? ity which Is theirs. A large share of our regular army is now on for? eign soil; the National Guard and the National Guard Reserves have been drafted into the military service of the United States under the provis? ion! that when they are discharged from the service they are discharged directly Into civil life; and therefore we have already witnessed the pass? ing of the National Guard, The con elusion is Inescapable that having used all of our available trained forces and prepared to call into .ser? vice our male cttlxens of the ages of twenty-one t<> thirty Inclusive, it is a vital need and duty of the na? tion to avail Itself of thai class of cltlxens comprehended in the above proposed amendment." NEUTRALS 10 BE SUPPLIED. GRAIN LADEN SHIPS TO SAIL FOR HOME AT ONCE, Dutch Agree to Let Belgians Have Two-thirds of Their Food Products Cargoes. Washington, Aug. 24.?Belgians will get food quickly and neutrals will have some of their wants supplied, through an arrangement entered into today by the food committee and the neutral countries. It was decided to let 30 or more Dutch ships sail at once from an Atlantic port earning grain owned by The Netherlands government on condition that the greater part of the cargo shall be used for the relief of the Belgians. It woa also announced that tho Swedish mission has sold at cost 562, 000 bushels of rye in this country to the Belgian commission. The rye was bought by tho Swedish govern? ment last January and has been held in elevators ever since. This will go 1 forward immediately in ships to be secured by the Belgian relief commis? sion and will take the cargo space of .several large freighters. The Swedish government will do ' allowed to ship 225,000 bushels of > rye of the new American crop which will be available la September. Conferences between American food administration officials and neu? tral countries' representatives have been underway for several weeks. Sweden is understood to need grain badly and in return for this com j modity proposed to allow the United States use of its tonnage. It is understood that this offer In part has been accepted. One of the propositions made by Holland was to turn over to the U3e of the trade of the entente allies a large share of her merchant fleet, on condition that the ships were not be sent into the danger zone. Nor? way would let her ships go without any such proviso. Holland maintain? ed it would be almost commercial suicide to risk her ships, as it might cut off her immediate colonial trade. Chevalier Vanrappard, the Neth? erlands minister, presented the claims nnd needs of his country and negotiat? ed until the proposition finally gave him by Mr. Hoover was of jsuch a nature that he advised The Nether? lands government to accept it. There ' has been delay until there was danger that the wheat in the ships would , rot. The agreement is understood te provide that one-third of the grain is for Holland's own use and the re? mainder for the Belgians. It is understood also that the use of the ships will be given this coun? try by both Norway and Holland for such trade as does not conflict with United States laws, thus releasing much American and allied tonnage for the carrying of munitions and trt>ops. Congress probably will be asked to make it legal for ships under : a foreign flag, but with American charter, to engage in the coastwise trade. What arrangement is to be made to , meet the needs of Switzerland and Denmark could not be learned today [but the general understanding is that a certain amount of the old crop of wheat, with some fats, will be allow? ed to these countries. SS well as to 'Norway, Sweden and Holland. STATE FOOD ADMINISTRATOR. David R. Osker Takes Oath of Of? fice Under Food Administration. Washington, Aug. . 25.?David R. ;<'okor today took the oath of office ns food administrator of South Car? olina, according to food administra? tion announcement. He will admin? ister the food laws as applied to in? ternational and State matters without pay. - ! PAPER MAKERS INDICTED. Conspiracy to Increase Prices Charged by Grand Jury. Washington. Aug. IS.?Charges of concerted action to raise booh paper prices is made by the Federal Trade Commission In complaints filed against twenty-three manufacturers and the head of their bureau of sta t ist l CS. Drafted Men Called. Thirty per cent, of the men drafted for s.-rvice in the new National Army have been railed to report for duty at Camp Jackaon, Columbls on Sep? tember 5th. Righty men from Sum ter county are Included In this call. Thirty per cent, will be required to report on September I'Mh. thirty per cent, on October Srd and the remain? ing ten per cent, later.