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TVJRJt* ABM KVTF.KMlVATINl? IN >Pl LATION OF ASIA The Latest MMNMtf In Fully as Hot rib** as That of The Butchery of the Armenian*. New York. Oct lt.?Not sated by the slaughter of hundreds of thou? sands of Armenians and Syrians, tha Turk has also turned against ?vt, Greek Christiana In his dominions and more than 700,000 have fallen a vic? tim to persecution In the form of death, suffering or deportation, It was declared here today by Frank W. Jtokson. of this city, chairman of the Belief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor. He said the real details of tksse new Turkish atrocities were juit beginning to leak out. "The story of the Greek deporta? tion Is not yet generally known." said Mr. Jackson. "Quietly and gradually the same treatment Is being meted out to the Greeks as to the Armen Isns. Although closely guarded, cer? tain echoes of these horrors come out from time to time. '?ftiere were some two or three mil? lion Oreeks In Asia Minor at the ou - fcrsak of the war In 1114, subject to Turkish rule. According to the lii? erst reliable and authoritative an* counts some seven to eight hun? dred thousand have been deportsi, mainly from ths coast regions into (tie.interior of Asia Minor. 'The Greeks of Asia Minor have always been law-abiding and perfect? ly loyal to the Turkish govern inert. Undo* Atdul Hamid they were well rreatod. t>ut his successors adopted a program to crush them. "At the declaration of the press it war all persecutions were stopped but, ths spring of ltll brought to the stags a teagte, novel drama unique In ths history of tho world as to its hor? rors and destructlveness, that is the Armenian deportation; under that In? nocent name the extermination of a Christian race was started. "Along with the Armenians most of the Greeks of the Marmora regions and Thr* os have been deported on t le pretext that they gave Information to .he enemy. Along the Aegean coast Alvalik stands out as tho worst suf? ferer. According to one report some '.?.eeo Greeks there have been de? parted toward Koria and beyond. At Waat 7.000 have been slaughtered. The Greek Hlshop of A'vallk commit? ted suicide In despair. "Tho latest account from Trebisond Sbowe the towns along the Black Soa ars being emptied of their Greok population. From Lyndon 8. Craw? ford, missionary of the Apicrlcan Board at Treblsond we have a letter dated July 24, HIT. In which he says the following order came from Turk? ish Army headquarters at Shelshehle: 'By IS.IS July let no Greek man over If and under 60 be found In Ordou. ?tad all ouch on Into the Interior. As for the families, we will send further orders later ' "Mr. Crawford also /wrote: 'First lot us express once more our thank? fulness to God for the deliverance He has sent us by tho great, grand Kas? sian army and people. We are more and more appreciating what the Rus? sians have done for t us region. Im? mediately after the Russian occupa? tion of this province in April, 19 16, hundreds of Armenians began to corns out of their hiding places. "From the Greek Minister to the lUnitsd States. Georges Rousssa, 1 hare a letter September 21. 1017 in which he says: " 'Backed by the Germans, tho Turks have put into execution and even organised thoir mildness. They hars decided to exterminate the Oreek element which Is the most Im? portant and most numerous In Asia Minor. " 'Under pretext of necessities of war ontlre populations have been deport'd. Members o:' families have been separated. The old, the men unfit fDr military service and the wo? men, were sent into the interior of the country, abandoned without the slightest help and exposed to all torts of deprivations. The men fit for mil? itary fervice were taken by 1'orce Into the srmy despite the fact of hav? ing paid for exemption; some o" the wealthiest have even be??n called on to pay this exemption fee three times over." The Relief Committee for Greeks of Ala Minor. Mr. Jackson said, has been organised for non-political and purel" humanitarian pUrpOOSS and alms at securing means to aid thOOS Greeks reduced by sudden persecu? tions to a state of want. Kerensky's Inspiring speeches In? spire everybody except the Itutsi.ms ?News and Courier. You couldn't i urn in< v l'ri\ ite ? iould Colonel Vsnderbtlt that this- isn't ? rich man's war.?Boston Transcript Germany regrets, but not M much as she In going to Bastes. Trnn sj rlpt. How Long Will cturer t- ^ ^Manufacturers Record.)' il?j , Jd.inV American/ people pannot yet make Up their Ainda to understand that ' i'-rmany W an unbeaten nation, and that a la/S part of all the re? ports put out au)out disorganization In the Oerinan navy and army and the danger of revolution and food .short? age aro put out by the German gov? ernment for the exptesa purpore of playing us for suckers and causing us to halt in our preparedness cam? paign. Many of our people do not seem to comprehend the dangerous un? broken strength of Germany nor ap? preciate the fact that Prussian mil? itarism will stake all upon this war, knowing that if it should loee, mili? tarism and Prussian autocracy would bo swept out of existence, and these people are constantly counting upon peace with Russia, or the overrun? ning of Russia and the opening of its enormous food supplies to the Ger? man army, as possible ways of win? ning-the war or of bringing aoout p?ace on Germany's ttrms. The Waco Daily Times-Herald, commenting on the war, aays: Our own Judgment is that the American soldiers will never have to Are a gun. When the Kaiser sees that Uncle Sam Is in dead earnest, he is going to got cold feet. And if he doesn't, if he persists in binding. Fritz and the boys are going to call him down. * The Kaiser promised great things, and Fritz? ?tul the boys put their trust in him and went confidently to the front. The fourth winter is now here, and all the advantage is with the allies. The Prussian military machine is hopelessly mired, which fact is known to the Kaiser and is beginning to per? colate to the people. It looks very much as though the American soldiers will never have to fire a gun. But that's no excuse for letting up In our preparations. The more and the better Uncle Sam prepares, the quicker the inevi? table surrender of the Kaiser and the Prussian military machine. The views expressed by the Times Herald are held by too many people, and these very views make the people of the country less awake to the situ? ation. Instead of look'ng as though American soldiers would never have to fire a gun. the Manufacturers Rae? ord makes the prediction that hun? dreds of thousands of American sol? diers will have to.be In the thick of the fight, possibly millions: that tens of thousands, and perhaps hundreds of thousands, of American soldiers will be killed or wounded; that the war will last for i.t least another twelve months, wlta a strong proba? bility of its lasting- two years or more; that it will take the utmost power of Amercan men and money, united with the men and money of the allies, to win. We shall see some dark days before we win. There will be days, as in the Civil War, when men will feel that the struggle is hardly worth the uwful cost, and President Wib?on will be begged to make peace on Germany's terms, as Lincoln was begged to make peace on the South's terms. We should dismiss from our mind every thought to the effect that Ger? many is beaten or that it will not be able to maintain u long and desper? ate war. We are apt to forget that Germany dominates a compact coun? try of nearly one-half the area of the United States, with a population of from 175,000,000 to 200,000,000, and that if it can get possession of Rus? sia, or a large portion of Russia, it will open up a region whose an nual wheat production nearly equals the bumper wheat crop of the United States In till, when we raised a bil? lion bushels of wheat. If. through sedition in Russia, Ger? many should be able to offer that country an opportunity to join with Germany and Austria against the al? lies, no human pen can picture the years of unspeakable horror which will be ahead of us. Even if Russia tands firm and continues to fight, as we believe It will do, we have entered upon ;i struggle likely to surpass In magnitude and in loss to us In human life the total loss of lifo in the Civil War. and as to the cost in money, all that wns expended in the Civil War will be tritlingly small as compared to the money we will ha\e to put into this w,u\ A few days ago the writer was dis? cussing this subject WtHl a prominent fOTgfSlWtsnl ottlci il who bad for wet ks beetl pumping dry the Kngllsh and Kreuch ofbeers who had recently BOSS in this country as to tie- war sltua-. tlon. ' llnw long will the war bud?" Was the uucstton put to this ofuYl&'t. "If fought to ;i finish by victory for lha United Mates and tha allies, foui \t ?ts more." was his reply, Mi** Louisa smith entertained ds> llnhtfully Tuesday night .it her home. 117 I Hands at rest ihe nurses of tha Tuomey Hospital. it 5 ?; * tin* (By Harvey O'Hlggins.) J?J He had been drafted. He had been refused exemption. He was a youfitf hack' driver, with no one dependent on him. But he was not eager to fight; he had been reading The Mass? es. "What 've I got to light for?" he argued, "it's a rich man's war." It is. But not in the sehso that he meant. As long as this country, at peace, wjum supplying Europe with food and munitions the rich man gained. The munition makers drew enormous divi? dends. The Rteel Trust, the doar Trust, the Meat Trust, the railroad and the shipping magnates charged all that the' war-time traffic would bear, and had no war ta>:es to pay. It was to their interest to keep this ha tion out of the conflict In order 1 to' preserve their gains. With our en? trance upon hostilities, the govern? ment obtained the power to tax pro? fits, to fjx prices, to control the food supply, to protect the poor fronTex-' ploltattion and deprive the rich of the fruits of exploitation. That power haS' been sought, for how many decades, in times of peace, by how muny social reformers?, The war won it. If it is I a rich man's war, the rich have been | singularly deluded in procuring it. And, in the matter of the draft, they have been equally blind. JThe first conscription act of our civil war al? lowed the rich man to buy exemption by paying $300 for it. There is no such clause in the present law. In the later days of the Civil War the rich man could buy exemption by paying a substitute to take his place. He can not do so in this war. The only exemptions allowed today are al? lowed to tho poor man who has de? pendents or to the workers in the in? dustries and professions that are nec? essary to the life and efficiency of a modern nation in war time. It is a rich man's war, therefore, in the sense that the sons of the rich are the most liable to die in it. It is a rich man's war in the sense that the rich are chiefly paying for it with their lives, with their money, with their time and service, and with the loss of their special privileges, while the workingman, the small farmer, the producer, the productive laborer and the poor are everywhere corVl paratively exempt. For tho first time in the history of tho world a war is being waged that falls most heavily upon the classes who, In times past, have most profited by war. In this country, as yet, the results of that new aspect of the conflict are not glaringly evident. But in Eng? land they are so striking that they " o* amount to a revolution. There, it i: the poorer classes that have raided in material comfort, in political pow? er, in control of their conditions of life, in happiness and in freedom. It id not merely that wages have been raised, that the cost of living has been controlled, that the people have takon over the direction of the rail? roads, and of the coal mines, and of the food supply, and of the organised industries of the nation. It is ,iifjt merely that the workingman has been given a larger place in the govern? ment councils and the idle rich man a smaller place?his Income taxed to the bone and his profits redue'ed to extinction. It is, above all, that industry itself has obtained a demo? cratic government of its own, so that the workingman now sits with the employer at the board of business management and helps to make the rules under which he works and to regulate the conditions of his labor. The reforms for which British socialists have been struggling for' 50 years have been obtained overnight. A revolution that could not have been effected in a century of peace has been forced by three years of war. The conditions which forwarded that revolution are the conditions that are so rapidly advancing a similar revolution here. Our socialists, who cry "This is a rich man's war; let the workingman oppose it," are as blind as those socialists in Great Britain who originally raised the same cry and similarly opposed their own ad? vantage. We have already obtained, in this country, measures of BtatC socialism that looked as far away as the millen ium to our socialists three years ago. We shall have to carry the still more Incredible reforms that have carried In England if we are to defend our? selves as well as the English are de? fending themselves. We. too. shall have to "democratize industry.'* OS the phrase is. if we expect our work? ingman to reinforce our battle line as the British workingman has rein? forced the British front. And not only ?that. After the war is over, our in? dustry and our commerce will nut be able to live in the same world .is Brit? ish industry and commerce to say nothing of the French ami German? if our workingman is not as loyal and satisfied and happy and efficient as theirs. nur revolution will have to continue, because the life Of the na? tion in peace, as in war, Will depend upon continuing it. A rich man's war! A war that has exterminated half the evils of opoggs^, sion of which the predatory rich have been accused! A war 'that has re? duced their power, curtailed their" .privileges, confiscated their profit^! A war that has made England, in three years, a radical democracy, not only politically, but industrially! If any socialist thinks that such a war is a rich man's war, he thinks so be? cause his mind has ceased to func? tion?because he has- reduced thought to a dogma and bleats a mechanical utterance like a toy lamb?because he has taken his stand on the eco nomio formula, like the lamb on its bellows, unable to change its note un? der the pressure of any circumstances baaing its invariable answer to any cofrontation of fact. Entertainment for Bride-Elect. One of the most enjoyable events of i the season was the miscellaneous i shower given by Mrs. Jno. D. Lemmon Saturday morning in honor of one of Sumter's most popular young ladies. Miss Belle Brinkley, whose wedding is to take place Wednesday evening to Mr. Hoyt Heldon Grant, of McHee, S. C. The house was tastily decorated in pot plants and yellow Rowers, this being the color scheme. The rooms were all thrown together and live tables Were arranged for heart dice. The guests were met at the door by the hostess and ushered to the tables, where the game-was enjoyed for two hours. Music was furnished during the morning by Miss Susie McKin ney. Dainty hand painted score cards were used. Mrs. W. I. Whitehead won first prize, a beautiful lace boudoir ^cap, and the booby, a box of fine hand kerchiefs, fell to Miss Aline Bradham. The hqstess was assisted in serving a delightful salad course .by Misses Liela Mao Newman and Susie Mc Kinney. At the strains of Mendels shon's Wedding March, Little Eliza? beth Lemmon and Master Leland Crouch, a miniature bride and groom entered, bearing a snow white bas? ket laden with beautiful and useful presents for the bride-elect. After congratulations and best wishes to the bride every one left feeling that they had srjent a very enjoyable morning. Those enjoying Mrs. Lemmon's hos? pitality were Mesdames: G. A. Mc Kinney, H. L. Crouch, E^ P. Du Rant, D. J. McKiever, .Henry Britton, .W. L Whitehead, J. S. Rice, Walter Cheyne, J. D. manning, J. A. Brown, J. P. Maurer, C. J. Lemmon, Robt. M. Warren and Misses Bcllq Brinkley, Heinrich, Antonia Gibson, Mattie Benson and Aline Bradham . REVOLUTION IX IfgOEICO. -?/ (?in, Felix Diaz Issues Another Manifesto. El Paso, Texas, Oct ,( 29.?Reports that have been reaching,.the border for more than a month of a new rev? olutionary movement in, [Mexico, head? ed by Gen. Felix Diaz, were followed today by "receipt of what purported to be a copy of a manifesto Issued by General Diaz, calling-for the sup .port of all who are in sympathy of a rnew-movement, the .purpose of which is said to be the overthrow of the so called "Carranzista party" and the restoration of the constitution of 1S57. Tlje manifesto is dated Camp Bucna vista, State of Vera Cruz, September 8, 11? 17. It calls especially for ih<" support of members of the old fed? eral army. "I do not come to offer anything which 1 can not fulfill, neither have 1 any personal aspiration," Gen. j Dia? stated in the preamble to the mani? festo. "But my name having been used in former occurrences. I be? lieve I am an emblem to combat the Caranzista party and that it is so has been proved by the recognition by a majority of the citizens who have risen up in arms \n many of Van States of the Mexican union." Charges are made in the manifesto that the right of suffrage has been ridiculed, that lands have been appor? tioned among a few "Carranzistas," and that the constitution of 1857 has been annulled and a new one promul? gated "carelessly framed by two or three men of no worth and sanctioned by a mob of illiterate people." The movement is said to have the backing of the old Diaz federal or "clentifico" element and the old cleri? cal party leaders. Rumors of German influence behind this movement haw not been confirmed. cd to 1k? Incendiary. Baltimore, <>ct. 81.?Firs wrecked two of the finest of the Baltimore & Ohio .piers at Locust Point. It re? sulted In the destruction of a British ship which had just docked, and caused probably aeven deaths ami a financial loss of between three and tour million. Baltimore A < Ullo otll cals believe it was of incendiary ori? gin. The ateamer had on board eighty anti-submarine shells from ? British port. These exploded when the ship took Are. she \x;is towed into shallow water and scuttled t<> extin? guish the lire. Among the mlaslng are two of the ship's offlcera and the chief gunner of the naval crew. One arrest has been made. I_ -gg A Stick in CivMzaaoi&s Wheel. '(By Ida M. Tarbell of The Vigijantes.) "Playing cuttle fish," as Lincoln called it, is one of the commonest tricks in polemics. In attack, in de? fense, in escape, your partisan cuttle? fish can throw out its black fluid, darkening facts until the straight lino of reasoning is in a hopeless tangle. A favorite form of this sort of pole mie trickery is,obscuring tho issue by declaring your opponent has "no pol? icy." Lincoln, the oponest of rcasoners. he who at every point in an argument took almost Quixotic pains to make his meaning and policy clear, was forced always to keep an eye open for this particular cuttle-fish trick. It was played on him constantly in the Civil War by the Northern pacifists. They wanted his terms!?He had stated them repeatedly from the ?tart ?the Union? that, was hi1- object and that alone. Whatever ho did or said he did and said because he believed it. would help the Union. What ho did not say or do he did not say or. do because he did not believe the .doing and saying would help save the Un? ion. But the North was sprinkled with people who were not satisfied' with that one clear aim. They warded hi:n to set down in writing what he meant to do with the Confederates should they be defeated, what kind of gov? ernment he proposed to establish in the revolting States; whether or no he would give the negro a vote; that is, they were busy from morning un? til night obscuring the end?the sav? ing of the Union. Every great contest breeds a school of this pestiferous cuttle-fish. We have them now-r?darkening our troubled waters with their "We-don't know-why-we-are-fighting" ink. They want "terms" and threaten to hinder the war in every way possible until they get them. There are two ways of explaining the people who today declare that we. have been "hurried'' into this war and that we don't know what we are fighting for?one is that intellectual blindness?that ability to think what you want to think, to see no more than you want to see?engendered by fanatical devotion to a particular for? mula or scheme?often very good in itself;?the other is plain intellectual dishonesty. . If ever the reason foi a war was clear, if ever a people came to a war by solid if slow argument, it is now. If ever the aim of a conflict was stat? ed fully and unanswerably it was so stated by the president of the United States in his message of April 2, de Claring war. That mesage is and moot rsmalg our Justification and our aim. We are in war because the wheel of civilization is blocked by a stick of such prodigious and hideous toughness that it never again will re? volve in the path of free democratic progress unless that part of the world which has chosen that path frees the wheel. Three years of experience In which every opportunity was given the Im? perial government of Germany to clear itself of the charges of being at war with freedom, with la*, and with humanity itself, have proved beyond a question that it is upon these deep? est aspirations of the world that ! does war. PrussianisnO as we have come to call the doctrine on which Germany bases its attack on the world, be? lieves In itself and its superiority to the rest of us. D> believes itself call? ed to spread itself over the rest of us In spite of our liking it or not. It believes in war as the divinely ap? pointed instrument for our conver? sion. Believing this, it made good and ready for Its great crusade. It developed'a great, '??healthy, busy, trained, obedient peoph?people who, for the sake of tire security they en? joyed in the perfectly adjusted ma 0 chine, were willing to accept war which was to make them richer, more powerful, ruTers of the earth. This war is but the Aral campaign In the series which was to Prussian? ize the earth. Study Germany's own teachings, follow tho patient, inteli gent worming into every nook and cranny of the earth and you cannot escape her intention, fatastie as it seems, hard as it has been to believe it. Germany struck a group of nations groping- towards an entirely different ideal?nations only hall-heartedly military and that half SO pnly by their sense of necessity. These nations wanted only their own. They were coining more and more tc feel that every little land should have its chance. They wanted above all peace that the visions of the possibilities for peoples who livid and worked honestly, \isions Still dim bul yet un? mistakable -might be realized. With every month of this three years of war it has become clearei that either Prusslanlsm or Democ? racy must go down. What was true of slavery In this country slaty rear ago "We must become all one thing or the other'* is true today. We must become all Prussian or all Democrat.J) There is no peace in the world Wltll|' both. The ?tick p "aLTiiln1f> out of the wheel or we mtust take the road to a world Imperialist j What folly to ilk ofr boundaries now, to prate of .ndemnities and an? nexations. They are , not the ques? tion, nor can they be antil the one qqestipn is settled. Free the wheel, and all these matters will be adustcd by a world free to be Just, free so to arrange things that each shall get the chanee and that all nations?Ger? many Itself included?shall have a free play for peaceful democratic ambition. To talk of tern now is to play the game of autocr, cy. What greater help within Gern ?ny??with the Ger? man people?could this autocracy ask than propositions from the allies? It would ??nable it to say to them? "You see they m. st sue for peace. They're beaten?As '.always, we are omnipotent Got4 mit uns." And with that CUriOOS mental obtuseness which goes with a belief in autoc racy , the people tVquJd believe, though the terms the -gViva^mient accepted were as sevet e f?L 0$,< most intolerant aily mijEfht name. : The German people have believed their government impregnable. They, still believe it so The only possible way'to break the suptrstition is to break autocracy i i Germany. Break it unti'. it is on i?s .knees suing for peace. Then and only then will that great and wonderful people come to itself. And then only will civilization, as those of us who now call ourselves democrats ?h?ers-tand it, have a chance. Some Timely Dont's. Don't fail .to iseiect. your planting seed this fall. Corn, soya beans, vel? vet beans. pea$ artd peanuts should bo selected and. .euro."uliy stored. Seed may be scarce ne ct spring. Don't fail to. plunt cabbages?while the fall crop is large, it is thought there will be a heavy demand for the spring crop. Don't fail to nuke your arrange? ments for seed potatoes. . If Maine seed are used, have them shipped as early as safety will permit, so as to avoid possible transportation conges? tion. ?'. i Don't, fail to t arefully. dig and properly cure ana* store ? your sweet potato crop. As. Drage house will save heavy loss. . Don't fail toa plant a few acres in wheat, and then idant other cover crops such <iS"clov r, rye and vetch. Don't fail to lav up stock feed for winter use. Fill ihe silos, cut sor? ghum ami peuvino huy, cut the les pedeza for hay ard seed. Don't sell-.your work stock. They are necessary for operating farms. Don't fail' to' look over your live, stock carefully. Pe'ect those Ani? mals which are producTrTe-Jt^m which ought to be kept, and sell those which are unproductive. Prepare the cull animals for early market, and save the room and fee I for good stock. Don't sell brooe sows. Since tho beginning of the war the number of swine in all countries has decreased. In France, for example, in the three years just before January 1. 1917, the number of swine i dereased ?8.12 per cent; during 1915 the number in Ger? many! decreased 31.47 per cent. Breeding stocks are being depleted ami the situation Is already critical. The possible increase from one sow i3 1,002 pigs in fou- years, on the Supposition that all litters consist of six pigs, that all bve that half aro females, and tha each gilt should farrow at one yt r und every six months thereafter Don't sell any heifer calves for slaughter; there ;.-> ROing to be a world shortage of cattle, and this country will have to supply the world's needs after the war. Don't fail .to wri.o me if you think we can be of service. We are inter? ested In everything that has a ten? dency to develop- and improve our agricultural production and market? ing systems. <:. A. Card well. Agricultural & In migration Agent, Atlantic Coast Line Bailroad Co., Wilmington, X. C.. The Handicraft Club. The Handicraft t ub was pleasantly entertained by Mrs. Genie Wilder Fri? day afternoon. The time was whiled away with conversation and fancy work. At the com lusion of which an elaborate salad course eras served. Those enjoying Mrs. Wilder*! hos? pitality were: |fe< lames J. D. Lem? mon, Kinard, K. \ Dultunt, D. J. Atild. IT. L. Crom.i. J. M. Causley, Gantt and John. Bi >wn. What did S w.-.i. 1 think was being sent to Berlin in her diplomatic code, the baseball scores??Boston Trans script. ? Senator LaFollette claims the rteht to say what he tbiaks. but what his critics object to is his thinking what he says.- Ja? ksonv; !?? 'J inn s-l'nion. 11" pre could see onrselws as others nee us we would m>t be half aa happy as if we Couldn't, J aeksonville Times-Union?