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Cfcr 03laUJ}m.in aiti ^out^ron. PubUshcd Wnlncsdaj and Saturday _ ?BY? OtCVKKX PVBLIKIIINO COMPAW M'MTKH, 8. 0. ? lVriii,: $1.50 per annum--in advance. Advertisements, One Square first insertion .. . $1.00 sTvery subsequent insertion.&u Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates All communications which sub. serve private interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. The Bumter Watchman was found sjm .a 1160 and the True 8outhron in ??if. The Watchman and Bouthror. now has the combined circulation and Influence of bo*h of the old papers and is manifestly the best advertisin. medium in Sl|!^*^__^_ Till: C'tlA.MIIFIt OK (OMMKIU K. The Sumter Chamber of Commerce will begin this week a cam ass for funds for 1918, volunteer teams doing the work. The directors have worked carefully over the list or the business sen of Sumter and will ask for sup? port In measure of th? ability of the party, firm or corporation, to pay. No sum that will be a hardship on anyone will be asked. The Chamber of Commerce has dons good work during the last twelve months, and has done it quiet? ly. There haw hern no tooting of horns, but the Chamber has been the center of every public eettvtty Oairlod 0*1 In Sum . ! Wr ,ir?- living now In an age where all must coordinate their efforts, where the hope of suc? cess of the country lies In pulling together, n. all non cooperating to? ward common ends. The men ?of I Sumter county have done that; thev must continue to do it. The Chamber huH been very much .kandlcappet in the past by the con tifhjous debt that has hung over it year In snd year out. The direction hope that the response to the appeal the volunteer committees will make this week will be liberal enough to wipe out this debt The Chamber has been conducted economically; as a matter of fact, there was nothing in the treasury to be extravagant with; snd >f late the lack of funds has cut down the efficiency of the work, for I* hat been Impossible to give Secre? tary fleardon any help, and the of? fice %'as without service whenever his dutlett took htm elsewhere, as thex frequently 1o. Some business men of Sumter have from time to time be? come disgruntled oTei some particu? lar set snd have withdrawn from the f'hairber It is time now to forget personal hucts and grievances lor all to resume their member? ship. The business men of both the county and the city have paused through a prosperous year, and they cun well afford to maintain an edi? ct en t Chamber of Commerce. , The men who will work for the Oh'aaaher this week are of the city's bufqg men. They ore giving their tlnaa, at a sacrifice; when they come If foil deal with them promptly and Cisjytaously. It will greatly con VM^sce. tha directors. If you can, If yiJSf'giv* the committee then and | Miete, your check for your year's con-! s Food Saving a I>_ty. FOod aaving in a progressive game. Most people assumed that their duty to the nation in this matter had been done when they signed th" food pledge for one wheat leas and one meatless meal, dally and the clean plate. Hut tu this scheme were quickly added the bee fleas day. which was soon made meotlsss and the wheatless day. and next year there will probably be the pork lese day and a definite program op sugar designed to conserve the year's supply 10 or IS per COn% When congresn passed the dr?ff low that was only tin beginning of oUr army. The men had to go to oamp and train, and thev must he kept In strenuous training until thev ( reach the western front So with ships and munitions Passing the law aad laying out the plan was merelv the beginning in dealing with prob? lems that wo shall have with us until pSS.Qs comes again?and perhaps af? ter Wwrds. And it is so with food saving. This to a volunteer movement. It is an educational movement. As n the American people enlist and learn to save by the elimination of waste and the use of substitute tood staples, greater requirements will be made of the-n. Food saving is not somethtm. that you merely assent to and observe in s passive way. It Is a positive movement; it is going gemoo her? HSd K will go as fast as the Amorlopn people learn and QOppcratC It is a movement that calls fee lOOmUrOrM aad leadership ?letter Sow. "When I was a bog I was glad enough to SOl dry bread for or. dinner." said father, at tue head or the table "Well, daddy." piped up his small daughter, "you are having a much better time now you ur* living with us"?Life. SlFYFNSON AND THK FA It MS. ongrcssinnn From the Fifth I'phoUU Fiirni Loan. When the proposition for the gov irnmcnt purchase of $100,000,000 iorm loan homls came up for consid? eration in the house last week, it met with vigorous* opposition at the hands of representatives of mortgage companies who do not like the idea of having their 8 per cent loans fall off with loans hearing a lower rate of i merest. In the course of his argument against the appropriation, Represent? ative Campbell of Kansas, said that not a single one of his farmer con? stituents had asked him to support the appropriation; and he read the following extract from a letter in opposition: "The farmers are not asking this appi op -iation of $100,000,000 to buy farm-loan bonds. It Is a device of the leral Farm Loan Hoard to help get themselves out of their embarrassing financial difficulty. The farmers thioughout the country never were In a more prosperous and better finan? cial condiion than now. All kinds of fgrm lands are in demand and selling at increased prices, the legitimate wants of tre farmer are being taken (.ire of now and will be in the future as they have heen in the past, without borrowing from the United State* government." Congressman Stevenson of the Fifth District of South Carolina, a member of the committee on banking and cur? rency, spoke in favor of the appro? priation as follows: Mr. Stevenson. Mr. Chairman, the gentleman from Kansas (Mr. Camp* I I) closed his remarks by reading a statement from somebody who does not seem to have been a farmer, stat? ing that the farmerH were not asking Tor this and did not need it. The farmers are asking to the extent of noo.OOO.OO* for loans with which to relieve themselves from encumbrances that tbey can not relieve themselves of otherwise, unless, as his corres? pondent suggests, they sell their farms; and when they sell their farms the correspondent says that the farm lands are bringing a good price; tbtrefore when he attempts to con t ?.ue to farm by buying unother he finds the price of the farm that he wants to buy put up so high that he In squeezed out of the farming busi? ness; and now they are asking that loans be provided In order that they may have funds with which to liqui? date these debts and enable them to go on. This statement of his corres? pondent that the farmers are in n good and prosperous condition is part? ly true, but as to the section of the Fnited States from which I come, It is keM beginning to recover from the enormous loss, which congress said it could not. help them to avoid, brought about by this war. when in 1914 they murketed the crop of cotton a losa >f $480,000,000 and many a farm was mortgaged as a result, and they have not had a prosperous tims sufficient to rehabilitate thernselves. They mado 16.000.000 bales of coton In 1914, and it cost the average farmer at least 1~ cents a pound to make It?$60 to the bale?and the people got, on an aver? age, $30 for it. They have never re coverd, and they are today facing de? mands from England and elsewhere, from the mortgage companies, that they liquidate their mortgages, und they have got to do It In this way or not at all. Now, are these bonds safe? If they are not, who Is responsible? This congress enacted this act, and in the 27th section It provided the Fed? eral reserve hanks should have the right to buy and deal in them. Well, if they are not a safe security, why al? low the great financial institution* handing the commercial credits of this country to deal kg them as assets on which our currency should be l..used. Not only that but is- it jus*, that we should do something for ? hem, and is it propitious now0 We have got to do one of two thingV to allow these farm-loan bonds put up? on the market in competition with the United States loans that are being made and aaJfced tat for the purpose of helping until this war is over?we have got either to do that or we have got to take It out of the treasury of the United States. SJt4 I say we should not put the farm loan board in compeition with the treasury of the Fnited States, and the president this morning in this apt language ex? pressed exactly the principle that should govern us now when he said: "No borrowing should run athwart the borowing of the Federal tre is ury." Mr Platt: Will the gentleman Meld? Mr Stevenson. I will. Mr TMatf How is this $ 100.0tH?,n00 gafaaj to be raised if we do not borrow 't SSI the credit of the Fnited States Ml Stevenson Wc borrow it on the rredlt el the United States, along with the billions that we grs borrowing la loan to France, Rngtand, and other countrb / We hear na protest against that We hear no protest when we find that the government is preparing! to Joan money to keep Che railroads running; and I submit that if wo arc going to loan money to the railroads to keep them running, it is high time we began to take care of the man who produces that which we nunc upon the railroads and which is absolutely necessary to maintajn the railroads, the people, and the army at the front. Mr. Platt; Will the gentleman yield again? Mr. Stevenson: Yes. Mr. Platt; Does the gentleman agree to have the government seize the farms and run them for the benn etlt of the people as it has- the rail? roads? Mr. Stevenson: The government has not found that necessary because the farmers have shown their capa? city, if given proper credit and given the proper facilities, to run their farms so as to support this great gov? ernment; and they responded last year in a way that has far exceeded the ability of the railroad&r or anybody else to demonstrate their patriotism in this country. Mr. Moore of Pennsylvania: Could not the railroads do that, too, if they had that much credit from the gov? ernment? Mr. Stevenson: They have had much more than the farmers have had. They have had their credit in the money center of New York, and when in 1907 s/e had a panic, pre? ceded by speculation in securities in New York, the farmers of the south paid for it in the prices of their cot? ton, and the money that we had in New York we could not get, for the treasury of the United States put $100,000,000 there in order to main? tain the values of the stocks of the railroads and of the bonds of the great corporations. (Applause.) Why, Mr. Chairman, coming to that, I was president of a bank at that time. We had money In* New York, and could not get lt. I had a reighbor who had $100,000 on deposit in a bank in New York, and it took him three weeks to get $10,000 of it. and we were having cotton forced on the maret and were taking certifi? cates of indebtedness for it.\ If it comes down to a question of aiding the farmers as a special class. I want to call your attention to one other thing. The great commercial centers, such as New York, have had their heart and center in the Federal reserve banks. What have we done? There has been on deposit in those banks by the government not less than $50, 000,000 practically, ever since they have been established, upon which they do business every day in th: year. Not only that, but we passed last spring here a bill amending the pro? vision for Federal reserves, so as to require 7 per cent of all deposits of all banks of the reserve system to be maintained in those banks, and thnt meant on the average deposits last year $668,000,000 of reserves, put there for the Federal reserve banks to do business upon. And yet they say that the Federal farm-loan banks- can not have a credit of $100.000.000 from the government in this way; when it is absolutely secured, which it is given the right to control until the loan is paid off; and it Is pre? sumed to be secure, because the very basis of these bonds is the land of the farmers of this country, and land is the basis and the foundation stone Ol all credit, and everything that maintains credit is grown for the sup? port of this country, of its armies, and of its institutions, and upon its shoulders rests the conclusion and succe??srful termination of this war. And they are doing their duty and using their best endeavors to provide the means with which to prevent the people from starvation. It would b> I) tardy act of justice not to give them | at least an opportunity to look in on the treasury of the United States and feel that Cnele Ham is a father to the farmer as .veil as to the other inter? ests ol* this country, (Applause.) Soldler und Sailor Insurance. The insurance offered by the Unit* Sd States government to members of its military and naval forces has been called the most just and humane pro | vision ever made by any nation to its soldiers and sailors. That its value ami advantages nr appreciated by the army and navy is evidenced by the extent which it has been availed of. Secretary of the Treasure McAdoo officially announc? ed on December 14 that 238.921 ap? plications had already been received, representing |2,O7S,72?,Bft0 of In? surance. The average amount for appli? cants is $8,670, which is very little '??ss than the maximum of $10,000, The American forces in Frame were prompt in availing themselves of the Insurance, Gen. Perching himself subscribing to the maximum of $10, 000. Besides leaving a very large en late there is no doubt about the late Col. .lim Smith's leaving a tremen? dous numbei of heirs, -Oreenwool Journal _ S> rtORltIBL? WA1I RTORY. Drunken Itusslan Soldiers Commit Itrutal Murders and Destroy Price? less: Historical Treasures. ,j h'tl London. Dec. ;;i (Correspondence of The Associated Press)?a graphh story of tli** murder by drunken iius sian soldiers of Prince Sangushko, : Polish noble, and of his two daugh? ters, the Countesses Kzyzezwski, is re lated by the Petrograd correspomleni of Lloyd's Xows. "Before the war the tragedy latsl} enacted at Slavuta would have sent a thrill of horror throughout Europe," says the correspondent. "As it is. the bare fact that the venerable Prince Sangushko, UO years old, had been murdered, has been announced but the ghastly details of the crime have only just been revealed. "The castle of Slavuta, built when the district of Southwestern Russia, where it stands, belonged to the King of Poland, lies on the outskirts of a little manufacturing town of the same name. Owing to the unsettled state of the country, which is infested by deserters from the army, the mili? tary authorities had sent a guard of dragoons to the castle, which contains priceless historical treasures accumu? lated by the Sangushko family in the course of the centuries. "One of these dragoons caught a soldier from a neighboring village cutting down a tree in the forest sur? rounding the castle and tackled him. The thief was slightly wounded, but not severely enough to prevent his running to the neighboring village, where his regiment was stationed, shrieking that the guard at the cas? tle was trying to murder him. The soldier's comrades at once seized their rifles and surrounded the castle of Prince Sangushko. They began to tire, and the dragoons on guard re? turned their fire. All the time the of? ficers and the members of the regi? mental committee were appealing to the insurgent soldiers to obey orders and to cease firing. "Suddenly they gave way, only stipulating that a deputation from the regimental committee should search the castle, as they were convinced that the old Prince had stored ma? chine guns for use in the cause of the oounter-revolution. Of course, there were no machine guns, and all that was found was a few sporting guns and revolvers. "Just as suddenly as the crowd of soldiers, standing in the courtyard of I the castle, had yielded to the appeal Of their officers, came a new uproar, and, in an instant, they had over? powered the guard, and rushed into the castle. Neither threats nor ap? peals had the slightest effect on them* They destroyed, in a fit of maniacal fury, everything that they could lay hands on. Pictures, furni tu re, statues, draperies were destroy? ed blindly, ruthlessly. The venerable Polish magnate and his two nieces, the young and beautiful Countesses Rzyszczwsk:. fled to one of the at? tics, hoping that, if their home was to he ruined, at least their lives -might be saved. Frdm early in the morning, when the marauders began thei:r at? tack, until five o'clock in the after? noon, the sacking of the castle went on. Then the soldiers retired to the courtyard. i "'What about the Prince?* cried one of them. " 'And the lovely Countesses?* add? ed another. "Back into the castle rushied a band of soldiers, and began to search for the owner. At last he was found, and dragged into the courtyard among the derisive yells of the soldiers wait? ing for their victim. They decided to take him to the village where they were stationed, and dragged the obi man along, for he was too old to walle at the pacO they desired. I ?n the way they finally lost the las shied of self-control, let the Prince drop, half senseless on the ground and then a score of men thrust their bayonets into his body. So died Prince San Wood's Seeds I??Fop 1918 The patriotic duty of farmers r?nd Hardeners everywhere is to increu ?c crop and food production. Imei t sivc farming and jjardeninjr, an ! the liberal use of fertilizers, tOgetho - j with proper rotation of crops, rk> \ aO to increase and improve the Ter I L*'ty and productiveness of the laud, arc all vital and neceffcry considerations at the preset t ti tr ~. Wood's Descriptive CataEcg For 1918 gives t!:c fullest and rrost up-to-date information In report: to nil Farm and Gardes* Seeds And tells about the best crops to gyoW| be *h tor profit ami home use. "Write for Catalog and prices of Gross and Clover Se eds, Seed Potatoes. Seed Oa*s, or any F&rm Seeds Required. Catalog Mailed Tree On Request. T. W. WOOD & SONS, j SEEDSMEN, Richmond, Va. SUshkO. His murderer*, like savagej roast* tore his body in pieces. ' The t?te ol his nieees. the two <'ountes<es Rsyscscwski was more ter? rible than thai of the Prince. They had managed to escape by a back way and had got to the market-place of the town. There they were recog? nised, and SOldlerS at once seized them. Those two youthful eo-intess es. whose exquisite loveliness had made them the centre of all eyes in the salons of the p:1laeos of Warsaw and whose goodness and sweetness had made them beloved by the peo- I pie of Slavuta, were defended for a time by Catholic priest of Slavuta, who had known them from childhood and prepared them for Hfrst Communion. Put the soldiers refused to he de? prived of their victims and showered blows with the butt ends of their rilles on the courageous priest, who fell and was beaten to death, it is perhaps wall that the sufferings o; the two countesses ended in death. "The day ended w ith the soldu rS running amuk in the town, murder? ing and maltreating peaceful in? habitants, while the scene was lit up by the flames of the blazing castle of the Sangushko." GEORGIAN DIES IN I'R.WCF. Member of Knsjhseers Victim of Pneu? monia Washington, Jan. 17.?Gen. Per shing today reported the death of Private Isaac Jordan. Jr., of the en? gineers, on January 1-lth, of pneu? monia. His home ft is at Valdosta, I la. Germany has accumulated about $30,000,000,000 of war debt on which it has premised to pay interest. The promise is likely to pr VC much easier than the performance.?Buffalo Cou? rier. Mrs. Rose Bennett Skii and Scalp Specia'ist BEAUTY PARLOR Room No 11 Nat'l Bank Of Sumter Bldg. Sumter, S C. r' The National Bank of South Carolina OF SUMTER Resources over $1,600,000 This Bank owes its growth to the loyal support and hoaty cooperation of its 25Q0 patrons. A hai k is a COMMUNITY INTER? EST. Its mission is SERVICE. Us life is the Loyalty of its Patrons. We appreciate your business and are Ikitter prepared than ever before to gerve von. CG ROWLAND, President. F. E. HINNANT. Cashier. ? J YOUR INVITATION If you rnvc. never had any dealings with us, please consider this an invitation to give us a trial. The First National Bank SUMTER, S a All unmarried individuals with annual incomes over $1,000.00 and all married persons with annual incomes of $2.000 00 or more Should see this officer, if thay nre uncertain as to the amount of ihe tax they will have to pay to the Gov? ernment. This officer will be prepared to adv se all who call on him. See Us For Further Information P. Booth, President. W. j. Crov sod, Jr. Cashier. ff Everything in the Building Urn? All Kinds ol Feed BOOTH & McLEOD, Inc. EVERYTHING AT ONE PLACE PHONES: LO and 631