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ll. fam1nf in s\\ n /i i:i. \m> H\ to lUUin.nN llcduecd u* an RcUMOOtk'Ml Slop. Herne. Oct. 31 t t 'or i ospondence ffc?i Associated Pres?)?Bwltzer1a.i l It At last attacked the problem of yggsslsing Ha meagre coal ruppiy. fa begun none too noon and appui - non? too strenuously, for Oer? iy*s initial delivery for Septcn >r the new economic agreement fallen many thousands of t >rt of the promised minimum of ID.vO*. It is scant satisfaction for iltaerland that its loan to Germany reduced accordingly In anticipation of having to ptrug? ti> along with Jtio.uoo tons or less of il a month?the Swis , government s cut to the horn the railroad traf? fic raised rates ami made It so dif? ficult and so expensive to travel that oi lv neoeesity is apt to induce a SWis? te move from one part of his tlnv ct untry to another. The governmcn aluo has Inayril drastic regulations governing heating. The sale of Certain 13 pes of electric stoves was forbid? den, while elctini.no w oe forbid 1" , U Install new switches and lines such aa would ???? necessary for lit11 stoves. Hotels and pensions m.i\ hea * o:dy one quarter of their rooms and must close their ?? I i est,i u. .. ,?! at 11 Instead of 1 o'clock. The houi* of opening stores an.lured. The movies, ogiarets and varo tit tat res must close st least twelve dt*ys out of each month. The tent fees tu re of theatres or of hotels must not* exceed a certain des re. Hestau runrsl end cafes have to lop off the beat Swo hours of their business by early closing, and are forbidden to serve warm men I* before nine In the Morning. If coal were Switzerland's only shortage, she would face the win with some degree of equanimity l'a< ?he is running ?hott of food nil ahm . the line. Of flour and breadstuffs she lias Just enough, on the IM grama day for person basis now In force, to lust until late in the winter. I'n! Jtmefica permits the export of wh M ?oiio' measure Switzerland Will foon have to drop to 100 grams a day. The economic department of the government has just Issued a circular calling attention to the fact that. In uddltlon to a shortage of coal and wheat, there Is all too little cooking fata snd oils on hand. In some dls IrhfM the. hive disappeared alto? gether. Foreign potatoes are to be i??ad only In two cantons, Herne and f'asel. and even wood Is scarcer than It ever has been. > SwIt^erlamMs^trimming its ? >m1c sails as* rapidly and as drasti *?H> i? it may. It isn't the easiest task in tbV-World. and it Is the harder be cause there is political opposition to every move made by the government President Schulthess had one of the 4 full days of his political career re? cently when he tried to explain to re? fractory deputies in parliament why It was Impossible to lower prices when foodstuffs and kindred things continued to become scarcer and scarce "ProgrrsN of - lluy a Calf.' Chicago has a "buy a calf" enter? prise organised on corporate lines Shares of stock are sold to the public at |1# i. par value, and for each share purchased the company buys one baby calf. Carload lots of calves are shipped to low-priced land, raised to begy beef age. ami sohl for slaugh? ter w%en 3d months old. A calf farm has also been established near Mil I'a b) the New York Hotel lie view, of New York City, where calves up to the number of Iff will be raised on aw economical ?y>.tt m. This farm comprises 1&0 seres and is within a few hours' nde of New York., Ar? rangements have been made by the Hotel Kevisw to purchase calves for thooe who wish to help In the "buy a calf campaign inaugurated by the hotel men. On WMng given notice that any person desires to buy and home,, t???? rearing ..f un> number of calves they will be purchased from shipment* in the West, sent tg the calf farm, and the purchaser will I?. ch.u-sad the price paid, plus cost of shipping, feeding, etc. Experts wit sdvtse on methods of raising, th owner of the calves under this sys? tem merely stand! is. read' to pay ex >?e* until the i r. linn Is reach bee! age for sa le ami sla U h ter. Supervision of the farm is to b under a calf owner's club, which will ft ?ve a clubhouse on the farm for con V ? !, ,enee of ||s no III lojrS Clement eau. the new French pre m.nr. at 7? is said to be stronger th i m ny men of 60. He rises at I In tlpJ morning, writes until ?'.. when h* breakfasts, then goes through a half hour's Swedish gymnastics before re SUMfdng his writing He retires at in the evening, but does not mind b ing.asetfMod to answer the telephone It f? said he has not drunk a glas of wine in his life and has not smoke I for an years AH this is well, foi Ii phyeicMi stamina will be put to ih te?t by th?? tasks sonCsontlng him Charleston Post X^slST KXEMITION IIOAKDS. (>p|Miriuiiit> for Council* of Defense, Washington. Nov. 20.?County and city councils of iofontO wore urged today by Provost Marshal General t'ru'viltT to assist the local exemption t <> ii (Is in the task of classifying the to arly lo. iOO.OOO men subject to the tOlOOtlVt draft. There is in every city?in every hamlet zone?a council of defense," aald (Jen. Crowder. "These organ | iy.itionat were built to help the nation in its emergency. This is their oppor? tunity. K very where there are men nhn med help in the preparation of their <|U? stionnaires. The legal ad? visory bot i ds will be the central ad? visory committee. They will need men to go into the homes and factories Meetings should he organized, posters should Ik .displayed, lists should he in pared, all looking to the help of tin- men and the i|uickening of the na? tion's ma t power into action. "There are thousands of defense committees and hundreds of thou nds of men. I am confident that as a result < f this call every local board whi?h aided in efforts and every dis itrlct. no matter how i emote, will he rtottod, The twenty days following I . e. jabot lfi should And every patriot < R duty.' Arithmetic in Tim Pppcr tirades. In the elementary grades the chief Ottjoel of the teacher of arithmetic is t<> make the pupil accurate and rapid in calculations. The boy or girl must le n n to UM and subtract, to multiply and divide, whole numbers, decimals and fractions. The emphasis, there forOY is OH the processes. Constant dill, oral and written, is necessary. If a boy should leave school an ex? pert in adding, subtracting, multiply? ing, dividing whole numbers, deciy DlOkl and fractions, he would have lit? tle diduality in any of the number ; l ohlems that would be demanded of 1dm in his private and business life. Wter the mastery of these elementary processes in arithmetic, the object of tlie arithmetic course changes ard the mi then becomes to acquaint the pupil with certain business terms and I ustoms. Take, for instance, the topics of commission, interest, stocks and bonds, it is not the arithmetic or num? ber calculations that present difficul? ties to the pupil, but the meaning of terms and the business usage thut are unfamiliar und make the trouble for him. Here the emphasis is to be put in making clear what commission and interest and dividends are. Am soon as these terms become clear, little Ut? ility is found in determining what arithmetical operations are needed in working particular problems under these topics. Teachers will need to give clear explanations of the rea? sonable customs of paying commis? sions for services of life insurance agents, real estate brokers and archi? tects; of paying for the use of money a certain part of the money borrow? ed; of paying out to shareholders in a corporation a certaiu per cent, of the profits made. In the case of wtocks and bonds, the whole subject of cor J porations, common and preferred stocks will need to be thoroughly dis? cussed. The distinction between ? partnership and a corporation will deserve attention. Teachers themselves are too fre iiiently ignorant "of these matters They will need to broaden their knowledge of the business side o! there topics. In the case of stocks and bonds, the home corporations, i such as banks, cotton mills, buiuling and loan associations, will give op? portunities of making the subject in? teresting and real. The bonds of the home school district or town will offer material for problems. A few Simple problems, using these nearby illus fctlOl if" carefully worked out ami understood, will give all the ander* standing needed. The practice of giv? ing a type example in OtOOks and bonds and. then, working a whole l page of problems has nothing to r?-< amend it The attention of the pu iie.t? id of being directed chief!} to the business side, is given wholly to Oartalfl number pro? esses wit! which h< t. auppoaod to be already familiar. Take a topic like carpeting ami Plastering. If the practical QUCStlOn of carpeting and ptaoterlni the school room could be carefully discussed and, then, after tins discussion, the pupils could be required to give an explana? u of how he would fO about limb ieg the number of yards Of carpet or i umber of yards of carped, or niiin i ?r <)' aqua re yards of plastering, on one of the rOOmS Of his home, the :ov\U?o;e Of tins subject would be DTC complete than If he Worked ! iges of problems in carpeting and plastering taken from a text-book. The pal are of the arlthiw tic lei non therefore, changes In the later years <r the arithmetic course, and ths . it.it ion heeomi more like a raoltfl - in hlstor) or science, Loss calcu* : it loo and more discussion is needed b . Winthrop Weekly News. NUHPKCTKD OF BEING SPY. oiuig (Geilnau Inder Arrest at Camp Sc vier. Greenville, S. C? Nov. 26? A young man giving his name as \V. W. Allman, b German, is under arrest here on suspicion of being a Oernian Spy, He gives Iiis age M only 17, ami claims to have come from Hrooklyn. Nuiflerous blank checks of various banks over the Kast were found on his person. While the oflicers are in? vestigating, a charge of forgery has been made against him. Help the Wounded. (Woman's Companion.) "A most important organization was founded in Paris last May in be? half of the desperately wounded men in the hospitals within the military zone, and christened 'L?e Pienetre du Blesse" (the well-being of the wound? ed). In the capital and in all the provincial towns, groups of ladies provide the convalescents with the dainty food that temps numb appe | title? and may be retained by stom? achs weak from loss of blood and se? vere operations. The government, with Its inexorable military discipline, provides, as In less complicated wars, qnly milk and eggs in the dietary kitchen, and although there are sev? eral hundred hospitals in the war zone there are no ministering angels to supply the deficiency. "Thousands- of men and women have an idiosyncratic distaste for milk and ^ggs when well; to swallow either when ill is a physical impossi? bility. In consequence, so many i valuable officers and soldiers have ?UCCUmbed through sheer inanition, before tlrey could be moved out of the war zone, that the health department of the War Office asked the Coun? tess d'HaUSSOnville, president of the Red Cross, to form an organization by which money and supplies might I e obtained by voluntary subscription. This she did with the aid of a group of the most distinguished women In I reach society, many of whom ar >! American born. "If any one of you who read this page could visit the hospitals in the war zone, all of them situated either : in or close by small towns or villages half In ruins and liable to constant bombardment, or in once important towns, gray, dreary, deserted, visited daily by the bomb-dropping aero? planes, which make a point of search? ing out the Red Cross, and if you I could see these patient men, ?fter with both legs suspended in frame? work, and with open wounds irri? gated by rubber tubing connected With an inverted bottle, still more of j ten with an arm or a leg gone, and if vou could see those long white wards clean but indescribably bare, through SfhOSe windows comes no '.und but the constant roar of cannon that is mowing down their comrades \there is not one of you but would has ! ten to do something for the comfort j of these sufferers or to advance I their recovery." ! Next Year's Campaign. All efforts to get Senator Tillman to make another declaration as to whether or not he intends to run for the senate again next year have prov? ed unsuccessful. There was no spe? cial reason why there should have Leen such a demand for a statement from him, and there was no special rgaaon why he should not have made the statement. As a matter of fact, very few peo? ple have been interested in the matter Old way or the other. There is not Stp li violent opposition to Senator Tillman now as there was a few years ago, and there is not on the other hand such a (Jemand that he remain in the senate. If Senator Tillman is a candidate ? a re-election, as we think he will be Ihe people will make up their minds about voting for him when the time i 0 nta, Tin y may send him back, and Lhey may not. But the issue in next year's- cam? paign Will not be Tillman or anli Tillman, nor Blease or anti-Please. The people of this Stat \ will vote for the man who. in their Judgment, will I < It represent the state in the senate while ths country Is at war. Personal likes and dislikes, party factions and all the petty issues that have char UCterlSCd South Carolina politics for n good many years past, will hi : brushed aside. Next year's campaign, and the re adts of it. are going to be different from any we have had In this State 111 a long time.? Anderson Mail. The Difference. The esteemed Charleston News and Courier says: "Tammany leaders arc celebrating Hylan's victory by giving mgar to the pooi-. in other word-, they are sugar-coating a pill." Out lids of New fork Tammany is Judge 1 by what her enemies say aboul her, but In New York that wonderful po? litical organization is Judged by its human interest not hod.- in making friends of those who cast the most i Dies,?Wilmington star. WILL DEMAND PASSPORTS. If Rhasla Enten into Separate Peace Agreements. Copenhagen, Nov. 26.?If Russia enters into separate peace negotia? tions, the ministen of the allied pow? ers at Petrograd will demand their passports, according to a dispatch from Haparand. PRESIDENT'S Ill'sY DAY. Cabinet Meeting and Numerous Other Engagements. Washington, Nov. 27.?President Wilson had a busy day with cabinet meeting and several other engage? ments. William E. Gonzales, of Co? lumbia. South Carolina, American minister to Cuba also called. Little Acts of Patriotism, (By Hildegarde Hawthorne of The Vigilantes.) It was the millions who took the little bonds, straining a point to do so, buying them on the installment plan when they couldn't buy them ; outright, it was these who gave the country at this great time the best assurance of the patriotism and the d< votion of its people. And it is the many little acts of pa? triotism, by the millions who for many I varying reason cannot make the great sacrifices, it is these who em? phasizes that fact. The little acts of patriotism! We are constantly coming across one of them. Hearing some woman say, as I did this morning, while crowded into i an Office elevator: "You see, I have only two free j hours each evening. Isn't it too bad, ; for of course 1 can't do very much In that time. I knit one evening and I ... make bandages the next?but only two hours-" Or it may he another sopt of sac? rifice, such as this by a young girl: "I counted up and found that 1 averaged fifty-five cents a week on candy, And I just decided that 1 wouldn't eat a single piece this year? or for the duration of the war, as they put it. And I talked with ai: of my best friends, and we've signet a pledge to put our candy money al together?it amounts to seventeer dollars and a few cents each week think of that?into comfort kits foi the soldiers, or wool for sweaters. Ol course, it's silly even to speak of glv ing up such a little thing as candy ii a time like this, but we are all girl without very much spending money and we've been perfectly delighted t< see what getting together accomplish es. Seventeen dollars a week buy <iuite a lot!" The other day I lunched with i friends of, mine who is a secretary li ja downtown office. As we gained th< street I turned toward the restauran we habitually frequented, but sh< pulled me back: "No. 1 don't go there any more,' she said. "Why not? There isnf another s< convenient, nor with better food? and then they inake us feel so a home thers." "Yes, but they arent' complyinj with Hoover's request as to meat am wheat, and I won't go to any restau rant that doesn't. We'll have to g< another block and get into a crowd but it can't be helped." A suggestion there, isn't there, foi those women who can't help the fooi conservation personally, since the? don't keep house. Patronize no res taurant that doesn't comply with tin Hoover requests, and let those tha refuse to do so know just why the] don't get your custom. "Are you planning to save for tht next issue of Liberty Bonds?" sak one girl to another. "The next? Wait till it comes I'm still paying off on the last." "Well, so am I. But I'm workinf OUt a scheme to lay aside a quarter | week In addition, and then I'll havf enough on hand when the new issue comes to start taking one of them.' These are only a few of many in? stances. I know a child who is run? ning errands for two neighbors aftei School hours in order to pay off a bond he is buying. I know of two little girls who have volunteered to go without Christmas presents In or? der to send Christmas bags to the BOldiori abroad. I could go on al? most Indefinitely telling of such lit? re- acts of patriotism, just as the rest of us can. Those who are doing them don't expect any notice, how ever, They are sorry they can't do more, they are full of generous ad? miration for those who are making 11:e big sacrifices, giving everything. Thelr's are just the little acts of pat rlotism. (lut they have their place, haven't they? Ami maybe the place is big. At Once. Members of an English mission \iating this country are reported to have said that there is perfect accord I ( \veen capital ami labor in England, Uncle Sam should secure the recipe ? Wilmington Dispatch. REPORT OP THfE CONDITION OF No. 10600. - Reserve District No. 8 The National Bank of South Carolina, at Sumter, in the S'ate of South Car? olina, at the Close of Business, on November 20, Ifti, RESOURCES. 1. a Loans and discounts (except those shown on b and c). $1,120,949.00 2. Overdrafts secured, $181.95; unsecured, $686.00. 867.95 I. a Customers' liability account of "Acceptances" executed by this bank and now outstanding .... 25,000 00 5. V. s. bonds (other than Liberty Bonds of 1917); a U. S. bonds deposited to secure circulation' (par value). 160,000.00 7. Bonds, securities, etc. (other than U. S.): e Securities other than U. S. bonds (not includ? ing stocks) owned unpledged. 1,000.00 S. Stocks, other than Federal Reserve Bank stock . 4,110.00 !>. Stock of Federal Reserve Bank (50 per cent, of subscription). 9,750.00 10. a Value of banking house. 37,023.64 II. Furniture and fixtures. 4,109.10 12. Real estate owned other than hanking house. .. 8,825.00 18. Lawful reserve with Federal Reserve Bank ... 17.512.53 14. Items with Federal Reserve Bank in process of collection (not available as reserve) . 38,503.03 15. Cash\ in vault and net amounts due from nat? ional banks. 84,166.61 18. Checks on other banks in the samt city or town as reporting bank (other than Item 17) . . . 8,881 25 19. Checks on banks located outside of city or town of reporting bank and oth? r cash items .. 599.81 20. Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due from U. S. Treasurer. 6,250.00 22. Other assets, if any: U. S. Certificates. 75,000.00 Total. $1,615,498.52 LIABILITIES: 23. Capital stock paid in. 200,000.00 24. Surplus fund. 125,000.00 25. a Undivided profits. |l 1,117.03 b Less current expenses, interest, and taxes paid 1 3,421.28 67,695.75 29. Circulating notes outstanding. 150,000.00 82. Net amounts due to banks, bankers, and trust companies (other than included in 30 or 31) .. 59,247. ;i Demand deposits (other than bank deposits) sub? ject to Reserve (deposits payable within 88 days) 33. Individual deposits subject to check. 526,302.yI 34. Certificates of deposit due in less than 30 days (other than for money borrowed). 29,028.50 35. Certified checks. 145.00 36. Cashier's checks outstanding . ... . 25,107.21 88. Dividends unpaid.~.. 44.00 Total demand deposits (other than bank de? posits) subject to Reserve, Items 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, and 40.r;80,627.69 41. Certificates of deposit (other than for money borrowed). 128,691.18 4 4. Other time deposits. 239,258.46 Total of time deposits subject to Reserve, Items 41. 42. 43, and 44.?. 367,949.64 a War loan deposit account. 39,978.00 53. a Acceptances executed for customers. 25,000.00 Total. $1,615,488.52 "STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Sumter, sa, I, F. E. Ilinnant, Cnshtor of the above nam ?d bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and be? lief. F. E. Hi NN ANT, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 26th day of Nov. 1917. A. M. Broughton, Notary Public. Correct Attest: ISAAC SCHWARTZ, If. LEVI, I W. B. BURNS, btrtttt8fii t Act ami Act Quickly. (By Frank H. Simomls in New York Tribune.) This country has been sitting on a ) powder keg and good-naturedly re? senting any suggestion that it could ' blow up. We have permitted our enemy ; aliens to go and come with little or 1 no hindrance. It was certain that they would kill Americans and de '? stroy American property at the pre ? eise point where killing and destruc? tion would most hamper Americans On the firing line. The Baltimore lire ' appears to be another item in their long and ghastly count. They have destroyed shells and food. They have by just so much risked the lives and ? safety of our men In France. The Tribune has, day by day, for weeks, set forth the nature, the ex? tent, the location of this menace. 1 There have been thirty-two suspicious lires along the Brooklyn waterfront I since our entry into the war. That is one item in a long catalogue. Only I a nation grotesquely unsuspicious and blind to the facts of war couid have ignored the warnings which have , come from every quarter. ( The measures which the authori- , ties have taken would he a joke if they did not threaten a tragedy. The reg? istration of enemy aliens begun in thi* ] city was never completed. If com- { pleted. it would he a farce to attempt , to control our SO,000 resident Ger- i mans by any police measures. When ( Mr. Hoover learned of the grave , threat against our food stores, all that ( the local federal authorities could do was to issue an order prohibiting ene? my aliens from working on or visit? ing the waterfront of our city. Who was to enforce the order, how enemy aliens were to be identified, nobody pretends to know. An order issued to the u-boats by President Wilson to keep away from our ships would be J lust about as useful and effective. There is a short and simple remedy for the Whole situation. That is to in-' tern all enemy aliens resident here.! The rules of war authorize this meas- ' lire. It is just and right as well as Obvious necessary common sense. By] sequestrating their property the bur? den of internment would be borne by Um Interned, The Tribune has already urged the 1 ? internment of ill German citizens in America. In vi? w of Mr. Hoover's rev? elation of plots threatening our vital food resources of the apparent con? spiracy at Balt imore, The Tribune re? iterates its demand. Intern all enemy aliens. To on it this measure is not only to hazard the lives of Americans at home and compromise the whole future of our tuso, but to stab in the back day by v.ay our men fighting in the trenches, for whom shells and more shells are the one effective de? fence left in n odern warfare. Those Preo Tuitions. There are a number of people In South Carolin; , which includes Ches? ter county, Who are sending children to college and who are not paying their tuition, although they are able to do so and under the law should be doing so. Lost year, out of 1,100 cases, the State Board of Charities and Corrections recommended that 4 00 be denied iree tuition. This is very good for a tiart but there is still plenty of investigation and more rec? ommendations to be looked after, rin se free tuitions should go to those for wh eh it was intended or else "cut >ut" the whole business.?Chester \e\V8. The knife of Mr. Asquith has again efrained fron exploring Mr. Lloyd George's fifth rib; possibly because it Aas unable V: t nd any joint In the Lloyd George armor at that point.? Ireensboro Neuro. Pays 25c o Month for Pe rfect Health ? For IS yer E. A. Little. Bww. Ala. hat pa* 25c a month to keep ia per* feet health. I >ad what he eaya: "I deeire u> a-" t*f en 1 -winent of Srimii Liter Rerulitor. 1 b?v?i not u?cd nuy other med ?ein* for fifteen K*n, I know it is ?M keMt for mU Urm . complaint*. *>n< will cure nny MM of indirection ' kn<<wn. When firet commenced to take four - Oi enter TJv*r Wn(. ilntor the recrem-rVttoa Prag-Co, 1 ni1 "i>' u? it by lie U-.j< u. Now 1 mi totd tftey bn? it by the |mu I um one hex enrh ai/ctti Md would nut be ?"H out it for anything." Granger Liver Regulator it strictly v? ? otaMe. non-alcoViolic prep*- i ration, and ia '?ifhly recommended for atek beadacho. iel ixeeliott, bilk>uaa?M and ail etomnch an I l! ver eomplainta. YoordrfJ* gfsC can eupv jr you??2Sc a boa. * Greater Mr i?a Co., ftQlaai||r,. Teaa.