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COTTOJf MIM* FORCER TO CLOSE! 4>0? Huml.nl and Fifty Plant* In < aroHoas Suspend I'ntll Monday Mornlif. Charlotte. M. C Jun. 3.?Approxl-, nately ISO cotton mills In ths Pied? mont section of North nnd South ? > oHna will be closed down from to i .01 row until Monday morning on ac? count of fuel shortage and low \va *0r In the streams of the sections from which the h dio-elec4no pown arnlshod them by the Southern Pow? er Company is developed, according to announcement from the company here today The company ? own plant will not cloje down nor will sny in? dustry other than cotton nulling be affected, according to the company'* statement, which also says tti.vt there will be no curtailment In the munici? pal lighting systems in the Carolinas which are supplied by the company The mill communities will be supplied with light ss usual. The fact that the streams of the section are frosen Is a factor in the shortage of the water power and it la the hope of the company that ? Uder weather between now ond Monday will relieve the situation to a great extent. hoard wii.i. ijstkx to urn LEY'S APPEAL. Tampa Congressman to Speak for Im? mense Ship Plant to Be Built In .South. Washington, Jan. 4.?An Import? ant step In carrying out the plans of Henry Ford and Chairman Hurley of the Cntted States shipping board to erect a mammoth shipbuilding plant somewhere along the South Atlantic seaboard will be taken here tomor? row, when Congressman Herber; J. Drane. representing the Tampa dis? trict In the house, will appear before Mr. Hurley and make an apeal for Tampa. It seems to be settled here that this plant, to be one of the largest of the kind in the world, will be located either on the coast of South Caro? lina, Oeorgla or Florida, ami what it.i establishment will mean from a finan? cial viewpoint can not even be con? templated at the present time. From Inside Information it is leain ed that not only will millions of dol? lars be expended for steel and other materials, but labor and lumber, the latter from Southern forests, will swell the total to a gigantic amount. It \m also learned that In all prob ahilaw ths plant will be permanent in character and continue In operation after the war Is over. HI MSI A TO BFY COTTON. Home Production Bed need Onc-liall ?Need 1,000,000 Bales. Dallas Journal. So pressing is the need for cotton In Russia that one of the largest frma in that country and leading tankers of Moscow and Petrograd have sent representatives to the Cnit ed States to purchase the staple for ?hipm? nt when conditions becom* normal again. H. Raisbeck Jones and Adam Faterson of the Asiatic Cotton Company, Ld.. arrived in Dal? les yesterday to make purchases in Texas. "Russia will need 1.000.000 bales of cotton from the United States within the next 12 months." Mr. Faterson said. "The suffering from the lack of clothing In Russia this win!' 1 1 terrible. The country usually pro? duces about 1,250.000 bales ami this year only ?00,000 bales were produc? ed." The representatives have establish? ed headquarters In New York and are making a tour of the cotton States for the purpose of getting ac? quainted with cotton merchant and making plans for purchases and hip ment g ARE IM RT IN \I TO WRECK. Practleally Vo IIo|h? for \udcrson Man and Son. Ander*.01. Ian w. Ram Of I'.ry unt. a well known farmer of th" roum Is ii 1 local hoojrttol with his hips crushed. 111 v son, Anool, aged thirteen. Is at the same hospit I with hi* skuii ernohod and smother son. Clarence, nged eight. Is at his home in Pendleton, with both limbs broken between the knees and ankles as a result of the falling of Mr Dryant'i auto from the overhead bildge OVOI the Blue Ridge railway near Pendle? ton. The machine and occupants fell thirty-five feet. Mr. Bryant says the rr.achlne skidded nnd smashed iig.iinst the bannisters of the bridge, which gave wav Ills condition ,nul the < <>u ditlon of Ansel Rrvant are considered extremelv pre. mows and pi no hope Is entertained for their re covery. Norfolk. Jan. I Sixteen inn, a majority of whom were government employes, were in hired when t-% . o 1? he* carry tug gion to the eoncen? nation depot at I'ottloek. ran Into a light engine bi the Norfolk Ar W. 1 em yards at Portloek this morning. THY?L'T GOVERNMENT OWNER SUIP. Lever Not Certain of Success or rinn, However. Washington, ?Jan. 4.?Representa? tive Asbury F. IsWCf of South Caro Una, chairman of the committee on agriculture, stated today that he is not entirely satisfied that war condi tons will furnish an ideal test of the wisdom of government ownership of transportation, but nevertheless wel? comes the opportunity for a tryout ? In my studies of the problems 01 u riculture," said .Mr. I^ever, "I have become more and more convinced that Inadequate, wasteful, uneconomi? cal agencies of distribution of farm products are a vital factor in prices of such products, both to the pro? ducer and the consumer. I have been brought more to the viewpoint that the agencies of distribution to and from the farmer ought to be un? der the direction, control and owner? ship of an impartial government su? pervision?a supervision that has no axe to grind, no purposes to serve, ex? cept the interest of ,both the produc? er and the consumer. "The postoffice department has been authorized to establish and is about to establish what might be called produce routes by the operation of motor trucks. These are to be under government direction and probably will work up to a point where they will be under government ownership as well. This Is the recognition of the thought of public ownership, o! distributing agencies. "I am especially pleased that the president has seen fit to take over tht railroads at this time, because I feel that it will furnish a basis upon which the public mind may form a correct judgment touching the wisdom n of governmental control and owner? ship of the railroads under normal peace conditions. "To my mind it appears that gov ernment ownership of railroads, telo griph, telephone lines and subs:dlary agencies pf distribution will result from the experiment. "Of course, the thought is advanced that the operation by tho government of railroads under war conditions wlii not be a fair test of the wisdom of their operation under peace condi? tions. The suggestion has force, but such operation under war conditton' wlll at least furnish a point from which students may argue and draw conclusions." v WHAT THE GERMANS SAY. That America la In the War to Tukc Their PoUtsh Mines. Amsterdam. Dec. II (Correspond* enOS of The Associated Press) The German people now are being told that the United States went into the war, not to make the world safe for democracy,' but in order that Ameri? can capitalists might acquire the I potash mines of Alsace. Prof. Roth of Greifswaid University, In an article in the VoSUlSOhe Zeitung says: "American troops, we hear, are now occupying a portion of the French front. It is quite possible that they will soon appear along the Rhine-Rhone canal, in order to es? tablish American claims to the pot? ash mines there, seeing that America': peaceful designs on our potnsdi in 1909-10 (by purchase) were defeat? ed by the passage of the German pot? ash law. which prohibits foreign own? ership. "Along with coal .and iron, potash Is Germany's strongest weapon, and If the best of it should be taken away from her, she would be de? prived of the haul seonomlc club eh< can wield against the I'nite.' States Without the ||0,dOI tons- of potash fertilizer which the Americans an nuaiiy import from Germany in peac time, their cotton, tobacco, sugar snd fruit crops would be in perpetual Jeopardy. So it is necessary that our world monopoly in potash should re? main intact. It will enable us to de? mand in exchange certain necessary raw materials from our present foes ' Hir watchword must be. not one Inch Iof potaah*bearlnf soil to tiw eno? YON IIERTLING SPEAKS, Chancellor Appears Again l.cforc RetehstSJfl Committee. ilei im. Jan. 4.? Count von i larl hug, the imperial ohanoellor, spoke again today before the main commit? tee of the relchstag. In referring to his remarks of yesterday in Which he had said tnat Germany hud to deal with Incidents which miff hi change tin* Rtiiao?German position from da) la day. the ehancelloi pro ceeded Id nlHidi to the Russian pro? posai to Iranefcf the peace negotlu? tions to Stockholm as such nn Inci? dent In Ihls connection he declar ed lanri from the fact tint arc are not In ? position to permit tin- Ulis slans prescribe where we should continue the negotiations, the Irans? ferenrs to Mtockholm would lend t<> ?real AIHV ultles." ? SHORT SUPPLY OF SEED. Secretary Houston Tells Congress That Urgent Deficiency Appropria? tion Should In? Passed. Washington, Jan. 8.? If normal production of the nation's food ami feed crops is to be had this yeai prompt action to protect the seed supply is necessary, Secretary Hous? ton warned congress today in ask? ing for an urgent deficiency appro priation for government purchase and sale of seed to farmers at cost. ' There is urgent and immediate need for at least $6,000,000 and it i probable an additional sum will be required in the near future," said tin secretary. "The seed situation pre? sents many difficulties. Two general aroai have suffered severely from drought during the past season?th< Southwest, including a large part ol Texas, and a part of Oklahoma, and a considerable portion of the North? west, including large sections ol North Dakota and eastern Montana. These regions represent a large par; of the grain producing areas of the UnltOd States. The seed corn situa tion in the northern half of the corn belt is more serious than it has been for many years." The secretary said it is important that adequate seed supplies of so\ beam and white or navy beans are I available for the next planting sea 1 son. PUBLIC SCHOOL NEEDS. superintendent Swearlngen Fstimatcs Appropriation Required for System. Columbia, Jan. 4.?The public school system of South Carolina for 191 s will need an appropriation of $501,100. compared with $411,100 appropriated for 1017, according to the estimate given today by John E. Swearingen, State Superintendent of Education, to Comptroller General gawycr. An item in the appropria? tion estimate appearing this year for the first time is $4 0,000 for vocation al training In the schools- of the State. There is an increase in the item for rural graded schools from $187.500 to $200.000; of the equal? izing fund for weak schools levying gn eight-mill tax from $50.000 to ?SHxi,.i, and night schools from $2, RO0 to $1 2,000. Another new item la the bureau for employing and regis tration of teachers, $5,000. The State Superintendent gave out the following statement relative to his estimate of the needs of the public schools: State Superintendent of Education J. B. Swearigen today submitted to the Comptroller General his estimate of public school appropriations from the legislature in 1918. Since South i Carolina has no State tax for schools the legislature has to maJ*e up the de ' ftclency by annual appropriations. The amounts requested by the State Su ? perintendent correspond closely with similar appropriations in preceding years, with two exceptions. To take the place of the State contingent fund , | heretofore disbursed by the State Su ? I perintendent according to his discre? tion, the legislature passed the equal? izing law guaranteeing to each dis? trict n minimum term of seven months if the district should levy an eight mill tax for current expenses and should pay the salary fixed in the act. The response of many districts In raising their taxes to eight mills has made a necessary increase of $50, 000 in this fund. "An entirely new appropriation is the item of $40,000 for vocational edu? cation. This is required if South (Mr? olina is to match the appropriation of congress tinder the Smith-Hughes act. The federal law requires a dollar of State money to cover every dollar of federal money. The recom? mendations follow: Rural graded schools, $200,000. Equalising fund for weak schools, levying an S mill tax. $100,000. High SChOOlS, $75.000. Term extension, $00,000. Public school buildings. $50.000. Vocational education. $40,000. 1 Night Schools, $12.000. Teaching of agriculture under the Rmoak-Rector Act, $10,000. Public school libraries. $5.000. Mureau for employing and reglstra* tion of teachers, $5,000. School Improvement Association, $2.100. I state Board of Education, 82,000. I Total. $501,100. ALLFNBY ADVANCES OWE MILE, British Line North of Jerusalem A&Aln Mo\tal Forward. Say- War Oilier. London. Jan. I. An official <? n munlcntlon Issued by the war oirico lonlghl says General Allenby re ',; a further advance by a part of 'its hue im.ith of Jerusalem over a ?.rs lance of a mile. Hundred Men l.nlomhcd by U\pl< s'.on in Mine. Wllkesbnrre, Pa., Jan. B. An ex? plosion today in the Harum mine, at Plttston, entombed one hundred men. ? OPPOSED TO CHANGE IN DEM? ONSTRATION WORK. Xoii-Subscrlbcr Takes Issue With County Hoard on Discontinuance of Same. The proposed cutting off of the appropriation for home demonstra? tion work in Sumtcr county cannot ut be viewed with serious concern by all those who realize its great ,xnd effective influence. Considering the small amount of Ihc appropriation, it touches in so | many points the economic life of die rural communities, and is direct y in line with the campaign for In? creased production. It may be sa d that the withdrawal of the demonstrators will not affect, the food campaign. It wdll soon be tound that the Withdrawal of train? ed leadership will cause a break down of organization, a loss of in? terest and a disintegration of the .orces now at work with the result that an attempted later resumption jf the work will cost twdce as much money and energy. A number of schools have invested (and this In? cludes one of our local schools) money in necessary plant for in drutcion, and if this is idle it will n each place, breed a spirit of dis? couragement and a feeling that there has been taken out of the school some of the first aids to prac? tical education. In short, our women and girls all over the county, who look to these leaders whom it is now proposed to dismiss from their work, for guid? ance, inspiration and instruction in the most modern phase of education, and the women who as leaders in their respective communities supple? ment the work of the demonstrators, will receive such a blow to their as? piration as will take some years to cvorcome. The withdrawal of the appropria? tion means the stoppage of the work and injustice to those who have given the use of their homes, their time and energy to forward it. The results of the work in the city of Sumter alone are argument enough for it to go forward. The proposed action or legislation ;s extremely short-sighted, unstable, unman-like and unpatriotic. L, H. Hagood, S. Cm Dec. 27, 1917. COMBINATION SALES PROHIBIT? ED. State Food Administrator Gives Warn? ing to Grocers. Columbia, Jan. 4.?Reports* of vio? lations of the sugar combination sale* ruling recently issued by the United States Food Administration have come to the attention of the food adminis? trator for South Carolina. The Food Administration has issued a warning to all grocers that only one combina? tion sale wdth sugar 1p allowed, that , of cornmeal. Grocers are allowed to require a purchaser to buy two pounds of cornmeal to every pound of sugar. Xo other combination is per? mitted. The following telegram was received recently from the United States Food Administration in Wash? ington: "On and after this date all combi? nation sales food commodities are forbidden, wdth exception stated be? low. Sale of one or more food com? modities upon condition that pur? chaser shall buy one or more other food commodities from seller is re garded as combination sale within meaning of this ruling. Combination sales frequently res-ult in sale of more foodstuffs than particular pur? chaser would ordinarily buy and are therefore determined to be wasteful practice within meaning of section 4 of Food Administration act of Au? gust 10, 1917. Exception, pending further notice and as wheat conser? vation measure, dealer may sell su? gar in combination with cornmeal at rate of one pound sugar wdth two of cornmeal. No other combination wdll be permitted, nor wdll any other ratio than that here stated be allow? ed. Dealer shall not sell either su? gar <>r cornmeal at price yielding him profit greater than he has normally enjoyed upon the particular commod? ity. Dealer is not required to make combination sales sugar and cornmeal but may do so at his discretion. Ac tive steps should be taken at once to enforce this decision." AGAIN SEEKS PLACE. Judge Spain a Candidate for Reelec? tion. Darlington. Jan. 4.? Owing to a so rlous operation. Judge T. R. Spain was partially Incnpacitated for hold? ing conti for some time, but had suf llclently recovered at the beginning of 191 7 to no regularly on the circuit and hold all of hi** courts for that year, excepl n small portion or n term In one county, when he was suffer? ins. from an acute attack of tonsllitis. Me returned Jusl before Christmas from (i seven Weeks' term and wdll be h candidate for reelection to succeed himself as judge of Ilm Fou?t rir THE CONQUEROR OF BAG*AD. General Mause, Whose Generalship Was Equalled by His Modesty. London, Dec. 31.? (Correspondence of The Associated Press)?General Maude, the conqueror of Bagdad, who died recently of cholera in an army hospital In Mesopotamia, lies buried In the center of the British cemetery north of Bagdad, adjoining the old Turkish cavalry barracks. A wooden cross marks his grave, and a heap of wreaths, chrysanthemums and marigolds were strewn over the grassless mould of the desert. Among; these floral tributes were ribbons and artilicial (lowers, the tribute of the people of Bagdad, of the Naquib, and of the Jewish school, whose annual dramatic entertainment he attended a few days before his death. The nearest graves to his own are those of privates of the division which he used to command. The British Eye-witness with the armies in Mesopotamia, In an account of a memorial service held in the j citadel at Bagdad, writes of General Maude: "One's first impression of him was of modesty, repose, confidence and strength. Only gradually did one realize his thoroughness, his far vis? ion, and his infinite application to de? tail. He was a master of detail. Supply, transport, intelligence, psycho? logical factors?in every branch of staff work he was the inspirer and director. "Ex-offlcio he will have a niche among the military immortals as the conqueror of Bagdad, but none real? ize better than the army he led how individual his successes were. He was more than the heart and brain of the machine. It is doubtful if in I the whole of British military history there is a parallel instance In which a series of military victories can be more exclusively attributed to the personality of one man. "The retrieving of the situation af? ter the British had failed to relieve Kut, the reconstruction of the fighting machine, and the breaking up of the Turkish force in the Tigris, called fot qualities which when found in com? bination amount to genius. In those dark days Britain prayed for a greal man?and he was on the spot. "The operations which led to th( capture of Bagdad were a series 01 masterly strokes, so brilliant in con ception that the Turks never serious ly contemplated their success. Bui Maude was always confident of break ing through. In the long, costly an< laborious business of evicting the Turl yard by yard from his elaborate i trench system about Kut, he was sat I isfied all the time that things wen going well, and his confidence wai Infectious. "General Maude's modesty was s< pronounced as to be remarkble. H< detested flattery and would have lik? ed to have carried on the whoh campaign anonymously. Xo person i al reference to himself was per? mitted In any public communique. He never gave himself the credit for an> : successful operation or stroke ol genius, or sound piece of organiza? tion. He never listened to congratula? tions without minimizing his own pan in the affair. " Don't congratulate me.' he would say in good-natured impa? tience. "It was the men who did it.' He had probably conceived every de? tail of the operation, even to the handling of single battalions, yet, when the coup was accomplished, he would reflect the whole credit on the subordinate command. He was as disciplined in his routine as a clock. He started work at five o'clock in the morning, breakfast began and was finished at 7.1 f>. The office and a full day's work followed, until his ride in the evening. He traveled light, a valise and small kit-bag containing everything he possessed. " 'Time In war is everything' was his favorite axiom. 'Every officer,' he said, ought to have it inscribed on his shaving-glass.' His work and actions were governed by this maxim. He was never late for an appointment. "He possessed great personal mag? netism, especially for his troops. On the eve of every operation he was ac? customed to send out encouraging messages to the soldiers and he made a point of presenting medals imme diately after any action to those who had distinguished themselves. Delay in this, he maintained, defeat? ed the object aimed at. Only a few days before his death he traveled sixty miles by airplane for this pur? pose." IiOndon, Jan. r?.?A raid which was attempted by the enemy last night in the neighborhood of" Ilollebeke was repulsed without loss by our troops, the war office reports. Another hos? tile raiding party succeeded In rushing one of our posts e.is-t of Zonnebeke. A few of our men are missing. Daytona. Pia., Jan. ... For the fifth time In six days Ice formed here. There was a* heavy frost this morn? ing. Tmek misers have suffered heavily. TOBACCO CROP PR08JFECT9. Applications for * cd Indicate That a Large Acreage H ill be Planted, The Chamber of Commerce tobac co seed distribution book shows that a number of the largest cotton plant? ers of this county, farmers who have never planted toba- co before or have not planted in fifteen or twenty years, have secured seed for considerable acreages on their farms of tobacco for this year, and that they are urging their tenants and share crop pers to plant tob icco also, and will assist their\ tenants to plant tobacco by helping to buii i tobacco barns or allowing tenants to use the landlord'! barns. ^ The record of .obacco seed distri? bution also show? that many farm ers, white and colored, in sections in which practically no tobacco has been pLanted her< tofore, will go into the tobacco busin ;ss, mostly in small acreages of from two to four acres each this year. Inquiry for the reasons of this elicits the inform tion that large and small farmers are thoroughly con? vinced that it is a wise planv to di? versify their cro^s and that tobac? co bringing a profit making price la a good guarantee of extra money should the cotton crop ail or cotton prices decline this fall. Then again th- high cost of every** ' thing the farme.s have to purchase, either in fertilizers, clothing, foods, and other necessities require extra? ordinary cash tutfll after the war. Therefore tobacco as an extra cash crop is going to be generally planted it seems now, unless the hig3i prices of cotton caus? some to change their minds in t< e next thirty days. The undoubte ?>. and inevitable early approach of the cotton boll weevil Is also causing in iny farmers to get ready to learn ,>how to grow tobssj? - co to supplement cotton when tho weevil makes c :>tton growing unprofU table. Tobacci; will unquestionably take the place of thousands of acres of cottdn now being planted. But the fact that for several years tcbac co is expected to bring high prices has a lot to Ad with the number of new tobacco I rowers. Hundreds of tobacco growe s adopted tho plan of saving seed fi om their own fields during the pa. t two years, and In this way the anni il amount of seed dis? tributed by the Chamber of Com? merce has been gradually getting less and less, exce, * to new tobacoo grows ers and some old experienced tobacco growers who Relieve it is best to got seed from :obacco seed housed; through the commercial organization. The extrerr dy cold weatiaer ^ot past few wee cs has prevented farm ets from burning ground for their beds and sowing seed. But as soon as the ground thaws but a rush ig expected for d. The prosp? is for a second tobao* co warehouse are good as Norths Carolina tobr<;co warehousemen have agreed to build another warehouse provided thai as many as three thou? sand acres of tobacco can be shown to have bee/ planted in this county directly tributary to the Sumter to? bacco marke:. Or these out of town tobacco men will take a considerable amount of s':ock, say fifty per cent, or more, and let Sumter county farm? ers and Sumi.er business men havo as much stock as they like. Sumter mer? chants and bankers, and large farm? ers can do : lot of good ^by urging every farmer to plant tobacco in lim? ited acreages, and to plant plenty of eorn, oats, soy and velvet beans, peanuts, vegetables, sugar and sor* gum cane, etc. to raise extra litters of pigs, an* plenty of chickens, and! food crops generally in preparalon for the boll weevil, which might hit this county n two years, and to help win the War by feeding tho soldiers) and the civ 1 population. Madrid, Jan. 5.?A revolutionary movement lias been unearthed by tho government Telephone and tele? graph communications have been sus? pended and other precautions taken. It is announced that the government is master o** the situation. Washington, Jan. fi.?Payment Of the interes on the Russian loan of fifty millions, was announced by .Cpresents "es of the Russian gov? ernment l.cre today. Payment will be made 1 f the National City Bank: ot New Yi rk on January 10th. Washing'on. Jan. 5.?New plants for war material production will bo located en irely in the middle west under the policy of the war depart? ment, which became known today. Sites at load two hundred miles front the Atlant ! seaboard is regarded aS good st rat *cry in case of future wars. So Think We. < fanning; Times.) Thvee-ce t postage is all right, andf we will pny it with a grin if it will help win t e war Still we can't hel0 thinking t iere should be some way to extract t< few dollars from the tons of matter ???nrrled out of Washington under the franking system.