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I ijr <?c!lat(Jjm:in aid ?*oiiJ|jto?. l'nMlshoJ Wednesday and Saturd.u ?HY? ?>STI l \ Ft IVl |sll|\(. (OMI'WA BUMTKIt, S. C. IVrins: It.SO per annum?in advance. Adu i ti-cmcnts. One Square first insertion .. , .fl.tO Every subsequent insertion.. .. Contracts for three months, or longer wtll bo made at reduced rates All couiminm ations win, n mi > serve private interests will bo charged for as udvertisemwnu. Obituaries und tributes of rcapect ?sill be charged for. The riumter Wutchman was found (m -a 1*60 and the Trus Soulhion in The Watchman and Southron now has the rmnluned circulation and inet nonce of beta or tho old papers, Und is manifestly the best ad-, ertis.n, medium in Sunder. Hun. John L Mc!,aurin, Of Marl? boro. Is keeping hinuelf before the public by means of open letters and authorised interviews, prepared and cucuhaed by himself. Whut his mo< live Is lp conducting this propaganda at this time no one knows, unless he himself possesses this knowledge; but be that uk it may, he is writing Interesting and readable lettets and! the newspapers will cunt in ie to pub? lish them as long ns he makes them Interesting. If he is using the news? papers to pull his chestnuts out of the fire, he Is doing it very adroitly. Kg u> Itter ?tu' OfBce he l as his eye on at thin mom* in. Iii i plan oi rani* paign is nhi.v.,1 aiM >? u i > t le, i <>i' h?- is keeping himself more or l'ss in the lime light and is creating the impres? sion by constant repetition and sug? gestion that he Is the i eg ! and ad? vocate and defender of the dear peo? ple. HIk authorised interview today on the subject of fixing the price of cotton by governmental regulation is not only interesting, but is a for? cible presentation in a brief space ol facts that i innot bo disproved. Foi tho government to underake to ll\ the price of cotton this year would be to do Injusticn to the South ai eventually bring down disaster upon the entire country. Cotton oannol sell for more than it is worth, ac? cording to the law of supply and de-! mund. for the producers of cotton bavg no machinery for controlling the nhurketing of their crop, and without this machinery they are helpless to override the law of supply and de? mand. When cotton is In greater supply than the -'eiaand ( 11 abaorb quickly, the speculators b ve been able to manipulate the price, so that they obtained all the profits und the farmers seldom received cost of pro? duction. Now that the supply is shon and the market Is hungry for cotton the speculators are shorn of some of their power and tho producers are coming- Into closer tou :h with tie consumers, and thereby are receiving the real market price and the geoflt *I hin la what hurts both the specula- j tors and the manufacturers. For-j tumitely the manufacturers are nOl being damaged by the high price Ol j cotton, for the world Is hungry fm cotton and the mills have advance I their prices for ? loth to >u<). an extent that they iro now making I greater profits th in ever before. It J the farmer can obtain a price for his cotton that is bus. .. upon the price the I mills receive for cloth there Will be n<? complaint. ? as Another *e< gfjgg of the John L McLstUtln propaganda i printed The author of this article Is Senator Hanks, of r.ilhoun county. a dos.? (tiend anil ardent edmlrcf at Mi Mrlaturin. Mr. Danks welds a ia r.lo pen, when his sjghfloot Is the eitaesmanship and trans* endent ?t:es of his beau ideal: and. as newspaper readers have noted. Mr. 1 mik). h is let no opportunity to Sin? Mr. McLaurin's praises slip by unim? proved In recent years. The next contributor to tho symposium o." McUturinism Is unknown to tin writer, but the signs are that tie end is not yet -not by a long eight There will he more of the same sort between this time and the May con ventlon. Mr. Mcl^urtn is feeling tie political pulse of the State, and If the symptoms are found to be right he will he In the race for soi M S rice?either the governorship or fo Senator Tillmans seat As thing! stand now, personally we do not car a copper cent which oili- I hi runs for or whom he runs against. If be Is in the race against 1110000) III will not enjoy the proceeding an;. more than he did the e\p. i.n In had with Jennings and Pollock; If he lx arilli.il Peoples. Stiie e.V. Itlehatd <. t'ooper and any other oflh-e-hunting statesmen, who want to be governor, the county to county caiiva.w will bo mor* interesting than gggul The lan.p.iign that M 1-iurin is conduct ing Intrigues our curios.ly. Whit is he up to. and why is he going at it in the way he Is" The National Itank of Sutntor h i* | limited supply of Income lai report blanks on hand, and individuals vdn tuny need them cjiii obtain blanks by applying at the bank. Mil 4? uri Ii Protests AgalUHl Prfou Filling for ( ?tlon. Your correspondent called on Bei atoi- AI? Uvuriu today t<> .s >Q ii' hu ha i any political aiinoiuuM'iiK'iit to make. He said no, Unit hiH position Wiu* 'made Hour by his recent public. -1 a tontcnt Mid ho had, nothing to ad : I to or subtract Irani thorn." 1 O&ItO I 1 him to give me an interview on the j cotton situation. as ho probahly com?is ai near voicing the sentiments ol' th pfclfltofl M any man in the South. I The establishment ol' the State ware? house system ami Iiis knowledge of i'.nance makes him a recognized au? thority in the cotton world. A3 to cot? ton he said: "If \<m could le'l me when the war Mill tad, i could answer you defi? nitely, I am sure that the end of the u ir wili Bud the world facing a cot-1 ton famine, and that for several yean i Often Will !><? relatively much higher in price than food, tor the reason thai 0 l is of world wide production and ton is restricted by soil and oll? matt to certain limited areas. Cot- j ton has lncr??ascd about 100 per cent [ I in price, while lion, steel, wheat ami other standard products have in? et eased around 200 per cent.' It ll ? vident that cotton must go higher in lor to maintain its proper commcr-l tl ralatlaa to these other articles." ? 'S? na tor, what about price fixing?" "Interested persons are determined, j i eoeeiblc, to have the government? thwart by price fixing this natural ef? fort on ti>e pari ?>f cotton. Thiy even advocate a price below 20 cents a pound, Which is an absurdity, be aanaCi andCI present conditions, cot? ton will cost over 20 cents to produce Ifl Iv IS. The cost of merely feeding mulct !wn BCarly doubled since thiSj war, und where we paid SO cents per hundred for picking, It is now $1. Fertilizer Is practically double In price and) of Inferior grade, i do not think this priee fixing movement Ih } engineered by the spinne re, but by I> pe< ulat.oi s who formed u pool in 1 s? pterobcf to put the price of cotton bach to II cents, buy it up and reap a huge profit ag they did in 191ft, 1 wa in i'h'cago in September with W. I? ?It ist and we were In one of the lariv est brokerage houses in the United tes. I tallied very bearish to draw them out, and the head of the firm told us that they expected cotton to go dOWfl to I eonts a pound. What do; yon i binl: Of that ? A most det?M inin? 1 effort was made, Millions of bales WCr? ?Old ihoii ami huge er??j. est i -1 matce broadcabtcd ;>n over tie- land] Th? mills bought their eotton ahead, and iheae greedy gamblore ere now boggj 'ff the government t?> fix tin priee and let them OUl of the hok that their avarteC dug for tbten. it i ,i nfttCfl ngj blood boil to hear the] -ani -ti.nonious whine some of their pa per? put up about the 'patriotism ol the South.' I am glad the mills bOUghl their eotton from the greedy gam Mere who conflaoatcd our crop oi 1914, The high price is not affootlni nulls. Which bOUght ahead. nor the public, it is being paid largely from lb ? ill fJOtten gains of 1 !>!",. We went to Washington in If] I to bog the gOV-| eminent for help, and what a how Iheae men ralgCd, The government let klone then and Wf want them to trout cotton gamblers the same wa\ they did cotton planten In 1114, This crowd catlaiatod last October thai thi crop would t??';il 14,0t 0,000 bales .imi eold mllllonfl of balea knowing 1 heir ?tatement was ? lie. The pur poae wai to gobblo up the spots. <>u people rcfuacd to be stampede1, and \ hen ti e mills call for ootton thi ? . ..in', lore have to pug the losses, cot? < n la not as high as the other arti s. I is the cry of the buet< gagjthlar ateking to evadt the res. Of his own cupidity an 1 rcokltBCmoa." 1 naked him what he wanted the Xovernnient to do. He replied: "It lot cotton alone in 1914, and we lo?l |400,e0e,0#e, I war.t it let alone now, i want this H#M#0,000 back with compound Intereet, i alao wani ome 'mental angulah' damage e, en-! the financial ecalp of every one of the buceaneers of IM I." "What do you think of the pi i ? Axing next fall?" He wild: "H?>re is the situation. The I" ?pot houses an busing on eery d, j 'ebne ut constantly advancing prlcvK I They arc doing this becauee they no j in inii ?ui the largest acreage avt 1 planted a crop of ::.2..o.uuu be le ? und.u the average for the live ye.: prO'.*edlnfi the war. Tiny OOtTCCtl; Interpret tins to menn th.it. until n mal condltlonc returUi the ootto nrOp taust BCadlly grOW smaller. Tin ooneumptlon of cotton is less in Ru ropo th ?ii before the war. but it is no loenuse of the price. They cannot ir?-t the raw material on account of war conditions. This Is at the an pconM af itockf and >?? od. The cen trui poweis. wore Ihe war to end ni once, would conaumt 10,009,000 bale i) the next year If they could gel d mi: rdlcm of price Poniumptton i" I'len.e and relgium m y !??? !?\ss on DCOOIint ??f iiiU'm and th<? removal ?r ir.aehlnery, This machinery, how? ever, is in Qerajietiy and the Qarmnri ? ?!? I Rngilah miiiH will ooneumc ? i ..u?Ii to utonu for the decrease In France and Belgium, kmglund Is bare of raw material und tho good arc comiumod as last a; they can b< made, i regard the stab ruent in cer? tain Wail street journals about tlu deereuae of consumption tb com* from th - stopplige or war .orders aa roti emanating from the same source that was giving out 14,000,000 hales crop eetlmate leat fall, 'Vroni this small crop a consider? able amout of cotton, which le more than half rotten, is now in the Heidt/, Labor and fertiliser conditions will further curtail the crop in in is. The necessity for food crops is the most important factor in production. 'Heatless Mondays' are a powerful object lesson and have made us real-1 lie the Seriousness Ot the situation. The restriction.-) about purchases 01 dour and oilier food is giving the all cotton farmer a real shock. These are better educators than tons of ht erature. in mis the South will he more nearly self-Supporting than ev? er in her history. ' I feel that 1 dare not depend on Western meat, Hour, hay and corn. 1 am planting wheat, hay. corn and rals.ng hogs with a view to supply for both man and beast on my plan? tation. It is the first time that 1 have ever done t/iis. It will take at leatft one-half of my cotton land, hut I am afraid not to do so. This feel? ing ]S growing and if the government lakes another turn of the screws il would not surprise me by 1920, In? stead of focal campaigns to BOO one urging us to plant cotton. 1 feel re? sponsible for the ignorant people on my land and it is my duty to see that they are led. When you can't buy food of what use is money? Inereas ?>< food production is necessarily at the expense of cotton production, which is now dungerously low. I re? gard the Manufacturers Record of Baltimore as the ablest and most con? servative publication of its charnctei in the United States and I would like to road you an extract from it. in a recent issue it loudly calls attention tc the fact that we are confronted with t cotton famine. It says: 'While ev? erything that can be done to increase ; food production must be done, we should not lose sight of the fact that otton is essential to civilization. It I Is absolutely necessary for clothing, | for tenting, and a thousand and one I 'hinv,s for which there is no substl-j tuts available. Another small crop I would bo a world's disaster- und y..-t ;t will be very difficult for the South ;?? plant, cultivate and pick a large Drop than the average of the last twt yea rs.' " "Senator, what WOUld be the offed fixing the price of cotton?" 11 - - i replied! "Well, that dependa on what price I a fixed, if the maximum price was Loo low us compared with othe j Itandard articles it would defeat th .cry object it had in view and pro 4 pi t?te a cotton laicise and within' . years cotton would ?;o higher than t will ever go naturally. 1 think that; cotton, considering the small crop nid the expense attach< d, ought to b ? ? n cents a pound now. If we ar ' forced to go into food production ! believe that we can beat the West in raising hogs and corn. I want to say his in conclusion, that 1 have no US for any man who in an effort to force price fixing sneers at tiie 'patriotism of the South.' It is nothing but jus tice that we should make enough profit to reimburse us for the losses StWOen 1111 and 1916. The oottoi plan!"::; were practically bankrupt '!.?? beginning of 1918, i have aa goj I j land as Miorc is in the world and 1 j lost money every year during the pe? riod named. It would lake live years at the present profit for me to got even. It is natural that 1 Should want to sop the gravy until my jaws are greas.. 1 have been smelling the gravy seven years while Others that had no part in frying out the! fat revelled in its richness. I think | this is about the way the South feels."1 stMlFH r<>TT<>\ MAltHKl ?* ., |4? ? \\ MAN POM on ?luv? orr... t.,? Unity St \'i O Clock Noon i Qood Middling 81. Btrlct Middling 80 3*4, Moll ting 80 1*8. tricl Lew Middling 89 8-4. ?,ow M ddllng 88 ? v i<iHfc isr|*l?saj HAU KUH .I. i i .... <?..-. . *?.... Men . . ;o T?i 31,03 80,00 30.90 30.7 May . .::o. to ao.78 80,40 30.58 30.4. July . . 80.04 80.80 -'.??'.? *?' 80.10 JH. in. (lot . .88.90 89.00 38.78 88.90 -h. ,i; |>ea . .88,78 88.73 88,63 88 ??* 88.6 5 \\ e boiler e in music In the ?thoole; not the music teaching that :,lni^ on!.\ at laboriously instructing o u'v' * led pupllH how t'? pei form on th piano, but rather tin* Attention to 1,1,1 tint means Joyous swif-expitcaloii or everybody; ihe slng'ug of "son ?hat ?he soul i: spire." Bti i? slnghi ? t: long ii ei .t prominent part in the ihool system of Denmark, and no t d) erho has ever heard ;> group o ' an Kb hoys and girls singing i? eve Mitely to forgrl Ihe thHH at Tb-? ProgrcsglVf 1'ainmr. Tuilgicd Uli PcjIUIx'm. I :!)'.(' !y no public man in Boulh Caroline hau quite as powerful uii< uicile u pen ua Joan i... .McLaurin Kin letters more clfectlve than ... s.>>.'.?(?.u> < i libillty on the lump it| well known. A nuuiber <Ji taia ago lie wroto a letter that put to nn ny :tln::s into the political am? bitions of John Gary Evans tiiat he i iiai in /er boon able to get them all out. in that letter, referring to the effort of Kvana to be a socond Tin? man, he dubbed ii the "aqueak of the squeedunk attempting tim masque rade as the blast of the bugle." That letter made political history in South Carolina. Kvans has never yet been able to net over its effect. Reel ntly McLaurin lias been in? dulging in some more epistolary con? tribution! to the ? politics of South Carolina. The letters have at leas boon very readable, but it is too early yi l to gauge their effect The ob? vious Intent of those "letters was to Influence the Democrats of the state to believe that neither TUlman nor 131ea.se ought to be given the nomi? nation for United States senator thi summer. That purpose was stated.! Of course, a politician is always be? lieved to have an ulterior as well as an expressed motive and there has naturally been speculation as t what selllsh purpose McLaurin had to serve In the writing of the lettei that have recently appeared in the newspapers of the State over his sig? nature. By the writing of that "squeak of the squeedunk" letter he made politi? cal as well as personal enemies, but there were those who thought M Served a nood purpose and so he j made political friends that were of value to him in his senatorial candi? dacy in lS'JT. By hia rocent letters he has lost; friends am? made enemies. That it undoubtedly true, it is also true that he lu.s lost on em lea und made frlOndS. H cannot be said now on which side of the ledger the balance stands. He says that his only object in writing the letters was to swerve the State and that he has no personal desire to hold oflice unless it be clear that by holding ofllee he can serve ihe mate and that there is a real de i mand for him to hold oflice. The only lest as to BUch demand would be ca ndldacy. But, for what should he be a can? didate? There are not a few who idmlt bis shortcomings and yet think that there iv no man In the State better qualified than he for ser? vice ;:h governor at the prosent time. A'hon taxes are soaring and there is -?"?ii liar need for constructive states? manship and real leadership. Yet among these are not a few who would :*cel under obligations to vote for i looper this aummer because they have the idea that he saved Man? ning's bacon two years ago. Alter h iving denied the ntnesa of Bletiee to be United state.? senator, he could hardly win the gubernatorial nomi? nation unlesa he got in the first pri? mary o majority of the votes of did:-" who do not want to see Bleaue In the United states s< nate. But the question would be, can he take those votes away from Cooper? Among those who would fee] unde obligations to support Cooper for governor and who are opposed to blease and not very friendly to Tin? man there is a growing desire the .McLaurin should i nter the senatorial race. They admit that he could give better Wr/iCO as governor than as L'nltod States senator at thla time when all that is asked of a senator In Washington is his vote. Tut. they arc afraid that If the aenatorrlal race be confined to TUlman and Bleaae, the former being admittedly unable to take the stump, that Blease will wan out. They say that McLaurin is amply qualified to meet Blease on the stump. It is a tangled up situation, very interesting tO a student of politics who lins no blinding partisan feeling lo make him see no possibility of any outcome contrary to hia partisan de? sires. The probability is that Mo i uurln will not be a candidate for ny o lice this aummer and the likeli? hood l< that he will remain a privat" Itilcn OVCn lbOUgh he should become candidate, I ut the campaign this summer la going to be largely ahaped l?5 those letteru he wrote recently. Not oa a prophecy, but merely as n : t;;foment of Ita slse-up of the altua lion ua It new stands, the Piedmont ventured the opinion thai the mar. who defeats Hleaae will auoceed Till lorn and that the man Who defeats III hards will succeed Manning. Of course, conditions n ay mater? ially change b< fore the campaign i(tally opens, iut thai look* to be the In;.' of ihe land a? present. And the men who defeat llleaso and rtlehardi >ie not t-'o'ee ;,, have n Walk-over. ?; reenvtllo piedi mnt, Mr McAd o th n! r he la busy, but u I w until he begins to get com? plaints i>r ihe old white mutes and the i;. n -!iacl'ed hoes tpe ?aivernincn' trains pun over.' commercial Appeal. M AY COTTON EXCHANGE. cm*cru Backed Chiefly hy Southern Capital Open* in New Vork on May 1. New Vork, Tob. 19.?a . new e*> hungi :or dealing In cotton, Untere, !Otton oil, grain, sugar, coffee, wool, silks and provisions to be known as the American Cotton and Grain Ex? change backed chiefly by Southern capital, Will be opened here May 1, it became known today. The exchange incorporated under the laws of New York, has taken title to a modern of fice building in the financial district The dealings of the new institution will be upon a "spot" basis, with "rea? sonable brokerage charges,' accord ing to its president, Joseph C. Cooper. or Atlanta. Members and customers Will he enabled to buy in small quan? tities, Cotton, which will he one o' the principal commodities i inrketed. will be dealt in in 25 and 50 bale lot ami upward, and deliveries made bonded warehouses in the cotton licit, the seller having the option of naming the point of delivery. "This," said Mr. Cooper today, "wilt make a uniform price, less or plus ti e difference in freight rates- to New York, which will stop manipulation and supply and demand will control the price." Bimilnr arrangements have been made for other commodities. The ex? change has about 4,500 members, mostly bankers and manufacturers in cotton growing States. WILL SPEAK IX CHICAGO?, Gor. Maiming Leaves Today to At? tend Congress of National service. Columbia, Feb. 19.?dev. Manning haves Columbia tomorrow morning for Chicago, where he will deliver an address before the Congress of Nat? ional Service on Friday, February 22. Iiis subject will be "Maintenance of the Spirit of the People the Founda? tion of Victory." Among the other widely known men who will speak at the conference will be ex-President William Howard Taft, tiov. Charles '?\ Whitman, of New Y'ork; Elihu Root, former secretary of State: Charles Edward Russell, of New York; Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Leland Stanford University; John Bradley Wlnslow, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin; Charles P. Nelll, former commissioner of la? bor, and John M. Parker, of New Or? leans, Progressive candidate for Uk vice presidency in the last campaign. Fhere is one woman speaker en the general program?Virginia C c ilder eleeve, dean of Barnard College, New Vork. Qov. Manning will re? main in Chicago for two days, and return by way of Washington He expecis to be out of the State for a \ week or more, j Judge (.ary's Recipe for Success. In the January American Magazine fudge Gary gives his recipe for suc? cess, tie says about a young man: "i. He should*be honest, truthful, sincere and serious. "2. He should believe in and preach and practice the Golden Rule. "3. He should be strong and healthy, physically and morally. "4. His habits and mode of living should be temperate and clean and his companions selected with regard to their character and reputation. lie should possess ?OOd m.tur il ability and a determination con? stantly to improve his mind and memory, "??. He should possess a good ed? ucation, Including particularly ihe fundamentals, such as mathematics grammer, spelling, writing, geo? graphy and history; and also a tech? nical education concerning the lines he proposes to follow. "7. He should be studious and thoughtful, keeping his mind upon a subject until it is mastered. "8, He should be conscientious, modest but courageous, energetic, persistent, even-tempered, economi? cal, faithful and loyal to his friends and the interests he represents." ESvery school should have some oally good pictures hanging on it-. walls. For a few cents apiece re? productions of famous masterpieces may be had such pictures as are gen? uine works of art and yet simple enough to appeal to the child mind iletter hive a few such really good pictures from the Peris Picture Co. Maiden, Mass., or Rlson AH Co., liel utont, Mass. tacked on the walls un framed than have elaborately fram? ed pictures' that are not good art. The Progressive Farmer. Columbia, Feb. 19.?-The Stall hlghwav department has Issued ap proxlmately 36.000 license tags fo: motor-driven vehicles tip to date, II s esttmnted that the total will run u to between 40,000 end 16,00g. The highway department expects to move Its office in the near future f?oni Its present quortors on the fifth Root o" the Union National Bank building o the building occupied1 by the Commer? cial Lank on l'JCu block Main sU'OCl WHAT Will. KI/SSI \ DO .' Charles l.dward Reuaeel Rue* IVom Slav Republic Vi ill* gcartliisj l?c?w? latiniis. \ "What the new ilussian republic does, whether it continues in the war or makes a separate peace with Ger? many, may mean one million Ameri? can Uvea and twenty billion Ameri? can dollars," says Mr. Charles Ed? ward Russell, who has just returned from his trip as special investigator for President V" ison on conditions in the new Slav republic. "What Rus? sia will do," ho coninues, ' is there? fore one of the most interesting '.uestions that now confronts the American people." Mr. Russell hiaiself is very hOpefat, lie does not be ieve that the new Russia will deeert her allies. The fact that EOme t *ln?9 go poorly ia the I government doe not surprise him half so much, he says, as the fact that anything go ?s well. This is par? ticularly true, he thinks, of condition I in the army; and he continues to show in his article in Hearst'^ Mag? azine, which tine ?r the circumstances amounts almost to an official report on these matter., why the breaking down of army discipline was inevi? table, an 1 why i spite of the loss of Galtcia and Rig. and a general de? moralization in other sections of the line, the Russian lighting force will come through stronger and better than ever and play a dominant part in the great general offensive which, it is an open seciet the allies will un? dertake next spi ng. These opinions have the value o' having been reach d through the f ersonal observations of not only a tri ined student, but o? one who by te iperament and ex? perience is particularly fitted to judge nd appreciate t ie spirit of the new Russian social democracy. Milk Prices. Charleston Post. It is to be hOp*d that the food ad? ministration of South Carolina will not rest content with pointing out that the prices charged for milk In this State are too high. In a statement pubPshed Saturday, the administra? tion pointed out that the average prico in South Caroline higher than the average price in either of the neigh? boring States The prices in Char U ston ar e not SO high as in other parts of th" State, Columbia, for ev ample, but they have been showing a climbing tendon y for month.',- ami dairymen ere looking for another rls> shortly. While ell will admit that It costs more to feed cows now. than It did a year ago. there is serious ground on which to question thej r.e casslty for a c int'.nued raising of the prices. Mi '< producers and hi -.<"eri- should be content with a fair profit in there strenuous times just as ether food producers. And the food admit. \ ration should see to it that there 1 no profiteering in dairy products j\ st as it Is endeav? oring to prevent It in the grocery 1 usJncsa. There would be no problem of milk prices, of course i: the s-upply were greater, and everything should be done to increase the number of milk cows in the State and nothing done to retard the dairy industry, but this does not mean that producers or handlers should be allowed to band toge*her and cha go prices not war? ranted by the eost of production. Milk is one of the c sential food pro* ducts-, and thousands of children must have it every do The State food Administration oould render a valu? able servier 1 y thoroughly Investi? gating the milk situation in the State, and thus ftud out what would be a fair price to all concei led. Producers and distributors shou; I be got together, their expenses ascertained and a price which would guarantee fair pro tits to all agreed upon. If it is the belief of the retail division of th?i food administration "that milk prices in South Car) ina shouid be material? ly reduced at an early date." it should get busy on the problem at once. Amsterdam, Feb. 20.?"\\> can no longer believe ir. the pacific inten I ona of Russia and must see that peace ami gocd order prevail in the* occupied regio OS ?f adjoining coun tries," German r< reign Minister von Kuehtmann deelai-ed in addressing the Reichstag main committee yc.ter biy. - liven t oda we are prepared to conclude peice corresponding with - ur interests." he added. Public Her? ice Itcnutvt\ For the Information or those con erned, registration rani* for thtX Ship Building Department, United rtatec Public Rarvlee Rseonsj. have bean received, and applicants'des:, mg san e r.,n sei ure them by nail? ing upon air. R. \. ucardon. at tV* ???um> cmollint nice. Chamber *c < lommeroo, v- i. rkaroox Vsalatani RnrolUng Agent, sumter County. Tnomaa g. ItcUeesl, nn<1 ,MMtor ro(>- M or rishop nllC spent Tue&daj in tUe caty.