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When Jack C'iiim* thick From Over There. (By Anna Htcose Richardson.) .ek'e mother und I went to school tog. ther. ?>ur friendship hau sur? vived the intervening years. Ho you will understand that from this hour In which her youngest boy slipped away from their Maine camp, in his gay red runabout, to turn up <mly the other day in a British uniform, with a dull little cross whi ?h he shows only on d maud. she und I ha'c talked of little except her hoy some? where In France. 8he is the sort of woman who can maintain a town and a country es? tablishment without friction, enter tain her husband's friends suavely, dispense personal charities gracious? ly snd pray noontimes In quiet ehurcheti unostentatiously. I imagine that most of her petitions for the past fleteen years have been for Jack. For I will not try to gloss the truth about Jack. All the wildness an 1 spirit of misrule on both sides of the family seemed to crop up in turn. He holds a record for suspension I in good schools. The unspoken qjea t t n on his mother's Hps no matter at what hour the house was closed, was always?"I wonder where Jack Is?" But whatever his sins of omis? sion or of commission, he has al? ways been truthful. brutally truth? ful, tils teachers may have expelled him from school In the cause of dis? cipline, but they believed every word he eald. And he lived up to this record dur? ing hie three years, somewhere in France. Three times he w;is made an officer and three times he fell back ; Into the ranks for defying military regulations. Three times he landed m t hospital and the third time in the hospital at Bath. England, the doc- i tors decided that Jack could never again go over the top, never avrain i shoulder a ride. After that came i Kin* George, the little cross?and I p.lMMKe for America. I Now you can picture the mother und the home to which Jack return? ed, and the Jack who rose stiffly and ?rlnned cheerfully as I entered his | mother's morning room. His kha!;i uniform struck an alien note among | the cretonne fixings, all gay flowers I and paraquettes, the luxurious frlp- ] pe**les of a woman-made home. But i the boy snuggled among pillows as if ] the touch of them filled a long exist- < Ing void. t "You must And New York a bit ( dull after camp life," I suggested, i ' I low do you spend the time?" c He J-nrabM a -sewing trinket and 1 grinned again. i I'm the busiest man in town. I see < two shows a day. I have seen all the l beat cabarets and eaten at all my old i restaurants. And when there's noth-jl Ing better, I sit at the window in h Dad's club and watch the girls trail i up and down the Avenue. My word, you don't know what stunners Amerl- < can girls are?till you live In the \ trenches! Look at mother?the sleek- ' nees of her hair?like satin, isn' It? And her cheek?like the Inside of a ; rose petal. And that lacy stuff at her ; throat. That's what you think of in < the trenches. Just of tine woman's stuff?something sweet and clean ami , kissable. Vou remember the Scot in Barrie s The Old LAdy Shows Her Medals?' Chiffons that's what we think of?not Frits, not glory?chif? fons I could look at em for a year?" He laughed ehortly. Perhaps my face showed surprise. Chiffons?from a man with a cross under his coat! He rose and made a restless tour cf the room. <>h f$M\ Jack walks?with a limp Him right leg was saved by one of ?hose marvelous operations which military surgeons In IVaJMi perform as frequently aw civilian surgeons In America remove appendixes. But they could not put his right arm hack Into commission because a bit of shrapnel struck a spot In the aplne which set that arm into per? petual motion. A small piece of his Jaw Is missing and his mother In? formed me prhatelv that between all the pleasuring*! which ho named above, bi is having a sad time with the dentist. 80 we talked about the efficiency of Frits, the marvelous method < which Kngland unprepared had mob? ilised her munition makers until she could tire three shells to Germany's one, life in the trenches nnd the bil? lets, the terrific task of re-habllltatlng devastated France, war relief, arid what is most wanted by men at the front. To us. women. It wan a new story, hreathlewdy absorbing. To him It was old. hut he answered patient? ly "f'y the way. did you see much of the Y. M. C. A. work in France'.'" Indifference died in pose and fare He leaned forward eagerly. His cheeks flushed and Ids eyes bright? ened. "Now you're nuking. The Y. M. C. A.? Hay. you can t understand It? no woman could, it's a man's work, done In a man s way?for men. The Y. M. C. A. My God-tho Y. M. C. A but |m the only home the hoys from the Mtates will know f.om the time ilu v enter France till they come out. What's a billet? A burn without a roof. A cellar without a light. A a ;;r.house alive with rats ami vermin. What's7 blight> ? A few days in Paris or London that make you half mad with dread of fOtaf back to tilth, and WOt and mud and the smell of dead men who have gone before you7 But the Y. M. C. A. hut?that's honu?il you can get in! "I've sat in my billet, without a light with cobble stones and a blank? et lor my bed when I was too tired to sit up?and thanked (Jod for the hut th.at my pals could get in even if I had been too late. "In that hut jammed to the door there would be lights?and men writ? ing home. !t there was no man at the piano and the hoys around him singing, the phonograph would be go* ing and the boys smoking and listen? ing. And in winter llres?always llres. I used to wonder where the Y. M. C. A. men got the wood. Hut they always had it?that's the way the Y. M. c. A. men have. "The other day at the elub a man let out a joke about Y. If. C. A. sec? retaries dodging the draft. 1 had a mind to knock him down. Dodgimg danger? Let me tell you that to: three years, the Y. M. ('. A. workers have marched light alone; with me. Their list of casualties in proportion to their number was as large as OBI** ?sometimes I didnt' wonder that Frits calls Qod his own pers-onal property. Can you imagine what it means to l I sent from billets to the trenches? Iiom ocmparatlve safety, however dirty, to almost certain death or In Jury?and trench filth? Well the las* thing you pass as you march Into the reserve trenches, is a Y. M. C. A. cof i- ' Stand? It's the last touch with civilization, the last hand to feel and befriend you. And when you come out again, whole or wounded, there it Stands waiting for you. coffee steam? ing, bread sliced. ? And if you have to stop first at the advance dressing sta? tion, well, some one will bring you a cup of coffee from the stall, or you'll find it there when the doctors get through with you. And Sunday in the trenches?in billets you parade on a Sunday morn? ing. Then you're tolled off?the C. of H. men - Church of England march to iervlce by Episcopal chaplains. The ! u. c.'s, Catholics, hare their pa? tres. Hut you can't parade in the Tenches?gad there comes your Y. M J. A, secretary?right in the trenches, nlnd you, where Fritz may land one my minute and send Mr. Secretny to clngdom como along w th the rest of 3 is?and he goes from dugout to dug- t mt, a kind word, a real word, to each < ittle group of men. He doesn't car? ry a Bible?he lives it, and the sul- < enest looking fellow, the man who < ias about decided that there is no Qod 1 n the trenches, listens. 1 "And he comes again between Sun- i la\s. 'Jack.' he'd say, 'have you j written your mother this week 7 No'.' 1 Well, you write tonight/ "And you do?because if you sa> you have no paper, he hands it to you. No stamps? He'll take your lettei ailt. "in hiiP ts. where the big huts are during those dayi when you come out of tho trenches for ? rest?ah, that's S/hen you live. YOU stand in line to get into the hut. There's nothing! within reason you can't get at the hut, from a man's welcome to creature comforts. There's- a cafeteria with food that doesn't taste like army ra? tions. If you have the price you pay, If you're broke, you get it just the same. And no man lies to a Y. M. C A. eh ip - you'd feel like a gad if you did. and >our pals would send you to . ovi ntry If they caught you at the trick. "If you're worried about your peo? ple and you won't have time to heai before you go back to the trenches, you tell the Y. M. C. A. chap and he writes to find out why your wife or your sister has rot written. Is any? body sick? Do they neeil help? If they do. he notlh-s the Y. M. C. A. bmach |g your own town. Why, a V M. C. A. man helped me to get n y passage home. The hospital people are driven l0 death. When they turn yosj 1+000, thsrO'S another poor devil waiting to take jour place. The city whirls around you?you can't find your way. (letting peerage home looks like u gigantic task. Money means nothing to vom- shell-shocked brain, but there's always a Y. M. C. A. man, sound of body and brain, honest and ready to send VOW <?n your way, If your mother, wife or your beet girl comes to you In a hurry I mein when you're in the hospital, It V C A. man who mOOtl her ami gets her to you >traight. "Ohl what's the nee I i cant' tell you what they ?i? lot "a But l re? member Oneg 1 I'd worn one pair of aoeka for Urent)-eight days, i d left my t>* st pal In No Man's Land) his Sightless eyes Staring up to a sky SI cold as the water in our Ironchoa My | nostrils were n led with the stem h Of I those who had died before we came to the front line. 1 sat In dark that W;,.; thiekei than a black London and lute our dugout, short twwnten! came a ST, M. C. A. man carrying an electric torch. He Muck a piece of candle into the empty hole in ottl table, and said, 'Jack, this is just the night for you 10 write home? nothing else doing.' Then he went on. 11? bad to?A lot of other men wen cursing in their dllgOtltl In that street And I swear that as he went out, 1 caught the gleam of a halo around his head. I wrote to mother- hut J didn't tell her about the day's job the upturned face of * my pal?the blackness in my dugout and soul. Von can't whine when you write by a x. If. C. A. candle." I had gone to see Jack because 1 thought he could tell me the right siz< for socks, the best things to send In comfort kits. I came away to write to you abou' Y. M. c. A. its secretaries are stand? ing next to our boys, In billets and ii trenches. They are marching with our brothers and sons, the men wa love?straight into the face of Frits They cm give what neither surgeon nor lied Cross nurses, comfort kit! nor Christmas boxes can give?fel? lowship with man and God. What are you doing to send more Y. ICi C. A. secretaries to France, to build more Y. If. C. A. huts In the camps at home and abroad? What are you giving that your son may have a sure, unfailing tie betweei the trenches and you? If you have not done your bit for the V. M. C. A. do it now. Go to your local branch and say- -"Here am I What can I do- what can I give for your men and your huts at tin front?" The local men will organize you men or women, for the work. And if you have no local branch, i: your town is too small to support ? Y. M. C. A. and you cannot go to the nearest town write a little note, to th National War Work Council of the Y If. C. A.. 114 Bant i-'Nth street. New York City; tell them you have a Jack a Jimmy, a Harry in camp, and hen is your mite for the Y. M. C. A/l care of him. Jack, or Jim or Harry may not he of your blood, but is he not your brother?your son in arms? fighting for the safety of your coun? try, for your own liberty?for the fu? ture of the children you may bear to freedom or to Prussian slavery sl l.my an PENALTY TOO LIGHT. Wadsworih Commander Scores Cap? tain Convicted of Having Private Whipped. Camp Wads worth i Rpartanburg, I Nov. 20.?While the verdict of lie L'ourtmartial sitting in the case ol 'apf. 'Howard Sullivan, of Battery* D. 105th FlOld Artillery, charged With ordering and witnessing the whlpplni of Private Otto Qottachalk, of hit command, is that be be suspended t'r?A? his command ;h? days, restri?teu to the cam!) for a like period of tinu ind1 administered a reprimand tvY ma commanding officer, the sharp note that Brig. Gen. Charles L. Phillips, temporary commander of the Twen? ty-seventh Division, handed down in connection with the announcement of the verdict is regarded as the mos1, ?OVere feature Of Capt. BuliVUn'l pun? ishment. The finding of the court, as re? ported tO Brig. Gen. Phillips sonn dayi AgO was disapproved by him. and returned for revision, but the court maintained its position and the finding was finally announced today, ? Jen. Phillips approving it In terms oi" ihe most positive disapproval, it which he said that Oapt. Sullivan, in his opinion, should have been con? victed of a violation Of the 95th ar? ticle of war, causing dismissal from the service. Capt. Sullivan appealed from the rerdlct Of conviction by the court martial, on the technical ground that he was personally absent at one ses? sion of the court, after all the evi? dence had beep taken. When the ad vice of the judge advocate was asked as to legal poihts in the case, but his appeal was overruled. If You Want I lour Brood, Plant Sonic Wheat. "If you want Hour bread, plant some wheat," is the good advice The Danbury Reporter gives al farmers In the wheat-growing area. As it says: "FlOUr Will be distressingly high again this Winter and next spring, and the farmers who neglect to sow fall grain crops will he sorry. Make th? preparations for double the USUal yield. ii\ the Heids twice as good as you commonly do, and use plenty of good fertiliser, You will be glad of l( nexl summer. The u-boats will sink many a cargo of grain before nexl July, and we already are facing shortage of wheat in the nation. All other PrOpS are the largest cvci known. Corn is ahead by many mil? lions of bushels. <>ats, potatoes, am! other things are bumper crops, nnd tobacco is said to be the largest cr >p ever known in the nation. Bui wheat is tremendously short, and wo are go? ing to Dnd it OUi before another hat v i t The progi'e< sive Farnrer White Cross Relief. This article, clipped from the Baltimore and Richmond Christian Advocate" was published also In the Christian Herald ol a recent date under the caption, "Tin- Deadly Per? il to <>ur t;iris." The author has long bOen one of the Purity workers in the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union and is also State president of the Oregon Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Wc arc glad to help her pass along the warn? ing to the parents of young men in this, one of the chosen States for : many army encampments. We would not limit one lota of hospitality to? ward our gallant soldier hoys, neith? er would we allow one snare of temp tation placed in their path that are could hinder, and he heg that Mrs. [Jnruh's article shall be read in the auxiliary meetings and our mission? ary mothers he urge d to warn, not only their own, hut their neighbors' daughters of the need of ladylike, circumspect conduct along this line. Ignorance is not defense. "Evil Is wrought, by want of thought as well SJ want of heart." Forewarned is forearmed. Moth" era of South Carolina, wake up. and save yourselves and loved ones the hearatches that may otherwise await you and them. Invite the soldiers to your homes, treat them In every way as you would other friends, hut let it be when they come properly accredited, which surely may he easily affected through the many means being used to help make their stay in our midst both proll table and pleasant. The male members of your family, the Y. M. C. A. workers, the pas? tors of your churches, are all enlist? ing in this hospitality campaign and nf course the mothers and daughter will and (Should do their share, but ? I will just use my department mot? to In the Woman's Christian Temper? ance Union and say, "Let all things be done decently and in order." The White Cross Relief article follows: Amid the enthusiastic activity for Red Cross, Liberty bonds, War Relief Df various character which Is absorb? ing our thought and energies, In our efforts to do all possible and Impos? sible for "Our Hoys." there Is dan? ger that we lose sight of the welfare jf our girls which is strangely men? aced these days. It is well for us to realize that if i stain is cast, upon the potential motherhood of our land, if In an\ way our girls become loss worthy to be the mothers of a clean, virile ra< e Columbia, will have lost ju? iliia war, no matter what brilliant..victory shall have come to us in the "far-Hung bat? tle line." Where is the menace and danger'.' The lure of the uniforjjnj. has spread; its net for the unwary feet of our untaught girls, and thejjt arc being swept from their moOJtjngs by the hundreds, aye, by the thousands; and the mother's boys who should also b< protected from theso dangers ar< being hurled into the VOrtex. The camps of the guards are ev b very where: the soldier in his artistic khaki uniform is on every street. In traveling several hundred miles re? cently scores of the camps came un? der my observation. Scarce one wat passed where groups of girls of high school age were not seen standing at a greater or less distance, inviting' attention or chatting on familiar terms with the men. Parents were, for the most part, apathetic or igno? rant of the danger. Only a few se rloue-minded, Inexperienced men and women were terrorized as they real? ized the aftermath. The older and Christian soldiers de? precate these things; others, less thoughtful, welcome* the girls openly but sneer behind their backs, while the greater number loedc upon their presence as a diversion to break the monotony of camp life with its hours Of dally drill, Its watching of bridges and tunnels. The established posts and regular training camps offer better protection while the men arc on eluty. but when on leave of absence girls are seen hanging em the arms eif soldiers as they walk the stre-t, chatting on cor ners, engaged In Innocent <v> flirta? tions in |cc cream parlors, sitting on benches In the parks, making clan? destine acquaintances with men and boys of whose antecedents they know absolutely nothing, and by the Same token soldier boys are making acquaintances with girls of whose antecedents they are Ignorant, under j circumstances and conditions which I WOUld not be possible wore they in civilian elothes. Elimin it-- the .sex problem and 11 would be an Innocent flirtation (11 sucii are <wer Innocent) no harm done save 'the bloom brushed off tin grape" for the girl, a loss of rever? ence for womanhood for the young man ;either of which make the life Immeasurably poorer. But the sex problem e;c? never be eliminated in Our study of and dealing with [).* nlations of young people. It is the essence of the situation, it becomeH the nmst beautiful, or the most awful problem just as it is approach ell from the normal or from the perverted side. Those arc approaching it from the wrong Bide and both will suffer, even though it be only in the loss of fineness of character. The familiarities we see indulged between these acquaintances of a day arc fraught with serious danger when the meeting has been through regu? lar channels, and often result In Ir? regular marriages, blighted lives ami namelesf children. But when easy acquaintance has let down the bars Of respect the average young man feels at liberty to take advantage of every opportunity and the risk be? comes Infinitely greater. Remember that both the boy and the girl are at the danger age?the years of stress* and storm?with un? developed judgment; that the girl Is swayed by the glamour of that which bids fair to prove the "yellow peril" to many, the lure of the uniform; and the romance of war service is in her eyes. To the hoy intoxicated by the ad? venture of a life whose next day lies in uncertainty, the dangerous oppor? tunity comes, and ere either realise) it the Rubicon of a woman's peace and a man's honor has been crossed. Had enough for the soldier boy, who should have been protected from BUCb dangers; but a tragedy for the girl, who must bear a burden which involves the innocent life of a tiny baby who must carry the lifelong stain of Illegitimacy. This is no false alarm. Unless we awaken very soon the tragedy o: South England and the war babies at the mobilization camps will be re? pealed in America. The danger is grave; the remedy must he swift and sure. Bet fathers* and mothers awake.?Southern Christian Advo < rate. What the War .Means to I s. (Contributed by Bmerson Hough to the .National Security League's* cam? paign of Patriotism Through Educa? tion.) The victory of Cern*ny In this war ?and she has won the war and ac? complished her dream of a German Mittel Buropa If her peace terms be < admitted?means that Germany will , ] have carried out the program of war which she had fully prepared before] she was "forced'' to begin the war. It means that war Itself Is to justify ev? erything for every nation in the fu? ture, provided that war of however unscrupulous sort shall prove suc? cessful, it means that might is to be right forever; that efficiency, no mat? ter how ruthless, is to be the touch? stone of human success hereafter; that dishonesty is to be the best pol ' icy. The success of Germany means that hundreds of thousands and mil? lions of our boys?many of whom go grudged or grudging into this war now?will be forced to go into anoth? er war, yet more bloody, within a quarter of a century from this date. It means that America, left alone, will have at a future time to light a Ger? many yet more high-blown, yet more arrogant in military preparedness and military organisation, it means* that America will have to pay the expense not only of that war kut of this war ?which, it is a perfectly oi>en secret, has been the intention of Germany ever since we sided with the allies and perhaps c\en before tha: date. <>n the other hand, the defeat of Germany today means that we shall pot be oldiged to light her at a later day. it means a better world for all the nations of the world. It means that the nightmare of fear may be re placed by the dream of peace for all the nations of the world, it means that the high seas, always open to all the world, shall yet again be open ami free, as was always the plan of all the peoples, The defeat of Germany today means that In the future our women and girls shall not need to lie down In nameless dread of what may b their fate. It means that our prop? erty, our savings, our accumulations shall be safe for our own uses andl for the uses of society ami humanity.] It means that human ambition in this and all the nations of the earth shall ^ be allowed to follow its natural . working out ami not be crushed in in fancy. Why should we defeat Germany now?why must we defeat her'.' In the first pi ne, because it is cheaper j and easier. In the second place, and far more Important, we must defeat her because it is right to do so. Delendn esl Germanial Thrice ^ armed, she has not had her quarrel just, and has lost. She has had her chance and sh< has lost it. The na- ( lions of the world will breathe easier , when all is now filially that she has lost that chance forexcr- that un? just, ruthless, selfish, unscrupulous, destructive opportunity which she so long has sought. Home, Nov. 21. The influence of I President Wilson, says Glornale i d'ltalia, will be fell energetically at i the allied conference "where his ad- i Vice will he followed, especially ivftorlj (!.*? roceul hit tor evporienee." t will SP ABB VENICE. flMtfjfciUl 1 ?ron. sc Fol* Not to De? stroy City. Pari?, Nov. 23.?The Matin says the Austriaca have agreed to spare Ven? ice in reeponee to an appeal from the Vatican. ? - ? f 11 1 I >. patriot^ and Suicidal. Editor Bumter i)aily Item. Your editorial, with reference to those f i1" Intend to turn their entire att< otlon to raising cot ton ? .? season, with tin- expectation ot making fortunes at the expense of the I ue patriots! who arc going to help their country win the war by raising more wheat, corn, peas- and vegetables, is very timely and emi? nently logical and I wish every farmer in Sumter county couki have read it. It is not <?nly unpatriotic and un manly, in tins, nur country's greatest crisis, to des it u- government and the people for t ? sake of a few ex? tra dollars that the farmer may see in cotton next year, after the govern? ment has bent < very possible energy at its command to place the Southern farmer in the position he finds him? self now, by furnishing every means of information, issistance by farm tors Si I the extensive pro te< tiVO laws for SO farmer, but it is absolutely suicidal from a financial and supportive point. if the productivity and yield of foodstuff's is ( in t ailed by inadequate planting the prices of funds will rise to such a high level that it will great? ly outweigh any prices that cotton n a ttain, and in the end the farm? er '.vho will depend On the proceeds of cotton to bUy 1 I foodstuffs will find hims If in the biggest hole he ever ilug for himself. Besides, we must re member that tin pries of cotton de pends on the guantity that is produc? ed so that a lar pe supply of cotton Will decrease is ariee, as we have learned from bitter practical expe? rience. Then, loo. yon must rem ember that we are living no v. in the midst of the greatest war th; t has ever been fought on the earth, and our govern i < ii has been clothed with the pow? er of regulating t aings on a war foot? ing, if need be, every necessity in life, ^i that if the farmers do not listen to the advice and i OUnSel of those who are competent lo know and advise, they are liable to the same rules as the merchants- and manufacturers who will try to make extra dollars at the expense of the needy?they will simply put him out of business by not i : ig his demands, Just as wo are now trying to sur>e^t^te4^^ru> ily with sugar according to their needs, and no mo e. so, if need be, the farmer who coul 1 have raised wheat, corn, etc will be rofueed the corn, oats and other feeds* in larger quantities than he would have used had he planted what is txnected of him and what his duty as i true' American, cit Isen and moral man would do. J am not an alarmist or pessimist, I have full faith lu the future and our country. I know the farmers of Sum? ter county are i urn of the kind to he proud of. They are men of good judgment, sound reasoning and of the highest patriotic tendencies, as the past li .s shown, ! ut among the farm? ers, just as well s any other class of 1" ople th( re arc I mie black sheep and It is Incumbent On their neighbors to look upon those fellows with scorn ami contempt, and themselves set the i sample, for those of lesser knowledge to he guided by. , l> : e has shown, so I am told b men familiar with farming and 1 tiers, that a one-crop Cnrm is th ? poore t payer, it makes no difference if it I? cotton, wheat, po? tatoes or peas; that the most pros p roue farmer is he who plants the greatest variety. Then why be so fool? ish and u i . . net your own int er? es;'.' 1) it is n d. then it must be ignorance. There arc the best prospects next year in tobacco. Why not plant a few ac es oi* tobacco and get in some . arly money bef< re your cotton is ready for the market. Even thirty cents cotton has not been as profi? table to the fanner as last year's to bacco crop, ran t you farmers grasp the opportunity and make yourself nore independent than you are now? (Vre you waiting f r BOOM one to force rou to prosperity or will you grab it voluntarily? The opportunities are before you. riant more gra n, more food, more vegetables, some tobaeoo and then Potion, in that way you will havo plenty to eat, remly cash in the dull eason and mone> to put in the bank when your eottoa is ready for the market, and it' t' e prices gon*t suit you, you will no have to sell until rou get your price. S. L. Krasnoff. New Yor\. Nov. 21.?Coo. P. Law euee. a former OOngreOBlUSU from Massachusetts, whose home is at Vorth Adams, Ma s . jumped to death todhj from the eighth story of the Hotel Belmont. lie had been suffer* from a nerv< is break down. He left a note Sftylnp he COllId nOl stand lie i>re: u re any I iWf.et*.