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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lar set snd have withdrawn from the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
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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
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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
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Sumter, S C.
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The National Bank of South Carolina
OF SUMTER
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its 25Q0 patrons.
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We appreciate your business and are
Ikitter prepared than ever before to
gerve von.
CG ROWLAND,
President.
F. E. HINNANT.
Cashier.
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