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IOOI? MEET. District Association HoIcIh Session ut Horch Church. An announced already our district Sunduy school association met with Morel Baptist church Sunday after? noon at 4 p. m. with W. H. Freeman In the chair. Alt the churches save three (there are ten In the district). McLeod's Chapel. New Hope and the Church of the Ascension, were repre? sented. There is an organised school a*, all of them save the last two named. Three of the schools show advance? ment since last session. J. C. Dunbar made the opening ad? dress, his subjeot i?eu?g "The Needs of the Rural School." He was followed ry Rev. T. E. Derrick on "How to Get the Children to Attend. One time we heard or read of two itinerating, probably permabuUiting, atound who at one place so impress? ed the people that they were mistaken for certain deities. One time two. itinerating, motoring around so im? pressed the people at a little country church that had they, the people, not known better these two gentlemen mleht have been mistaken for distin? guished gentlemen of the cloth. P. G. Bowman followed Mr. Derrick, talking on the duty of parents to the suhool. Ha was followed by C. M Hurst on Adult Class Work. Each man seemed at his best, handling his subject so as to Impress, entertain, in? struct, please the audience. We have heard and heard of cut aid dried speeches; as a rule they are very dry but these were not. We had a good meeting in which all expressed themselves as well pleased. The next gathering will be with Pwgsh church, an all-day sesiion. Let every one turn out at that meeting as Plsgah does nothing by halves. The date of that meeting will be announc? ed later. "Hagood." Rembert. April 2. 1918. N T %NDAHR OF GASOLINE. Lowered for Use Stale by Dr. Sum Colombia. April 1.?The standard of gasoline to be sold in South Caro? lina was Towered today by Dr. A. C. Summers, State commissioner of ag? riculture, commerce and industries. The new standard takes effect today and will prevail during the continu? ance of the war. When peace is de? clared the old Standard will main? tain^ slated, thh nnmmlsstsnir Th* commissioner said that tho need of the government for high grade gaeoMne Is Impelling and, an South Caro laa'a standard is the highest of any of the States, he thought that It should be lowered in order that the government. In its hour of need, should have the first call. Also the Stetes orders for tho lower grade could be more easily filled than if the blghrr standard remained operative. Dollars or lltulwl*. (By Roger W. Baboon.) Secretary Houston, of the depart? ment of agriculture, has called my at? tention to how we all are fooling our? selves today. The newspapers are boasting that the corn crop is tie greatest In history, when In bushels It Is leas than In 10IS. The South think they are rolling ih wealth, when la bales Its cotton crop kt less than in 1913. Paper prices are no good. It's more bushels and balee that we need It order to reduce the cost of l.vlng. see Some people pretend that our na? tional debt le email by comparing It to the crops. ' What is $20,000,000,000," they nay. "wh>. that la less than th' v.-lue of one single crop of the farms of Ainerlcii'" This in true; 1 ut we eat up most of these c -ops In a year. wMIc the debt remains with us?$200 for every man. woman, and child in the I'ntted States. see As the farmers are fooling them? selves by thinking of prices and dol? lars iMlaad of bushels and )>ales, so nWheshrjf ih fooling itself by looking to pmtus end wsges Instead of i m ! i tlon and saving. The ending of thin war and our fu? rore prosperity after the war depends upon producing more and wanting leas Only in this wny can Kaiser Hill h? put out of business ind will the work? er** mi America come t'> their own. RECEPTION IN I N <? I. \ND -truerIran Troo|>* Given Cordial Wel iihip b> English in Historic Town. Somewhere in England. April 3.? rictn troops were given a etvk a historic center of Kng I ui l \esterdsy The American ting flew over the townball, refreshment* were nerved by the women, headed h> f lo< r.? i J SgAj wife Wxt Melon's gown** are to have elaborate backs," says u fashion note. Huh. last season's didn't have ?mv hnrke nt all ?Memphis Coni? ne r< htl-Appeul. 3,500,000 rounds are Brought Bach by Arkansas Consumers. Washington, April 1.?Two and a half million pounds of flour have been returned to retailers by the consum? ers of forty-two Arkansas counties in response to the food administration's appeal against hoarding. Sebastian county alone reported the return of 2.360 barrels. Two weeks ago the food adminis tiation, urging that consumers hold no more wheat flour in the present crisis than their ordinary needs re? quired, said city families holding more than twenty-four pounds, or country families holding more than forty eight pounds would be unpatriotic and would hinder the prosecution of the war. Arkansas' response apparently has been the result of concerted action there. . STOOD OPERATION TO GET IN THE NAVY. J. D. Joye, Jr., a Plucky Young Lud, Anxious to Serve His Country. ? Mr. J. D. Joye, Jr., formerly wif*h the Bell Telephone Co. of Marion, S. C, came over to Florence about two weeks ago to volunteer his services to the navy, but the officers told him that it would first be necessary to have an operation, after which they would take him. He, therefore, went immediately to the infirmary and was operated on the same day, and is now out and well again, and has been received in the navy, and will leave Florence for Columbia and other points Saturday night, where he will take up his new duties. Joe is nothing but a boy barely 21 years old and is brother of Mrs. Dr. Z. F. Highsmith.?Florence Times. Lieut. Wllllford Writes Interestingly There is very little I can write, as all 1 see Is soldiers and fighting, and then we cannot mention the scraps the Infantry hau and then our (the heavy artillery 165's) going to their assistance. But we have done some extra good shooting and have won the confidence of the infantry. You do not realize how straight one of these large guns can shoot, for in? stance throwing a 100 pound long steel shell eleven kilometers (over 7 miles) and hitting anything you want to. The finest thing I have seen* yet was when we fired into a German sup? ply train and you could see parts of men. horses and wagons all in the air when we got a direct hit. I have gotten so I do not mind be? ing under shell fire for it is bang, br.ng all the time, but being in gas attacks is the only thing that worries you; for it is very little you can do. The Mustard Gas, which is a favorite with the Germans, not only kills but when you get it on any part of your body it burns and is impossible to get off. The dough boys certainly fixed n German raid a few mornings ago. i When they came over the top at the American trenches we cut them oft with a 76 millimeter and 155 (the 75 millimeter is about a three inch and the 165 about a six inch gun) bar? rage and the few that were captured wcie sights by time they got to the trenches It would be Impossible to describe them. Everything is in a hurry, and the only thing that you can see is armies of men. You dream of figuring ttr 'llf data. The mud is awful?knee deep everywher?and if wo are ever in the support ;rgain 1 don't believe I wlU get all of the mud off of me. It is in your hair and eyebrows. It Flanders is worse than this part of Fiance I would hate to see it. Feing up night after night and having no fires, only occasionally, is hard, but the whole thing is so inter? esting and exciting I would hate to leave it. We have had snow on the ground tor three days now. i sent Quay u few fragments of a shell that knocked me off of my feet by tin* explosion and covered me with mud and rocks, but having on a steel heISSOl saved me from being hurt. W slli I have started on my third month toward getting my first gold service Stripe, For every six months Hint >ou gores nt the front the r. I government has passed a bill to give us a gold stripe for our left sleeve and a gold stripe to be worn on your right llOOYS for each wound. Tog would hardly recognise an a < rlcan soldier If he were to oome from France to America, for we have t" wear Sam Drown belts and then the Stetson service hat is not worn Si rill here now. Wnde H Williford First Lieut, ftth F A . A R, V Whit makes us madder than am thing else is the person who stands by his country In this crisis all rifiht but arts nn if be grers making a greal < ..tu ession.?Ohio State Journal. From France. Every One Reooired to Work at Least Thirty-six Hours Per Week, i i Camden, N. J., April 2.?They are going after the idlers in New Jersey. AH over the State the police and peace officers are planning to round up j the indolent ones under the Anti-Loalfing law recently passed by the legislature. There will be no distinction. Hoboes and millionaire?, if they do not wprk, will be put in the same class. All are required to put in at least thirty-six hours each week at work of some aprt. If any one refuses to obey the law it means a fine of $100, three months in jail, or both. Plans for carrying out the provis? ions of the new law were discussed at a recent meeting of police officials and sheriffs from all parts of New Jersey. Sheriff Carson of Camden county said after the conference that idlers, with? out regard to their station in life will be seized and will be allowed one week to go to work or else face prosecu? tion. The State Commissioner of Labor submitted the following plan for the deforcement of the .aw. Whenever an officer of the law sees an Idler he will take him to the nearest police station. There the man must fill out a form card, which will indicate the kind of work he is beet fitted for. He will then le directed to hunt for work. The card will be turned over to one of the public employment offices. If the man cannot find work the employment bureau will offer him a choice of jobs. If he should reject this offer, a speci? fic job will be picked out for him. If he still refuses to go to work he will be prosecuted. Large posters announcing%the pro? visions of the law and warning idlers that it will be enforced will be sent to all sheriffs with instructions to dis? play them prominently. MRS. HIRSCH GOES Pit EE. II um I at ml Pays Reduced Fine in Atlan? ta. Atlanta, Ga., April 2.?Mrs. Mar? garet A. Hirsch, convicted with J. W. Cook of attempting to extort $500, 000 from Mayor Asa G. Candler of At? lanta by blackmail, was released from jail this afternoon, Judge Ben HMI of the superior court having reduced her $1,000 to fine to $300 and removed the 12 months imprisonment sen? tence at the State farm at MUledge vllle. Her husband , Herman H Hirsch, immediately paid the finejs'' Judge Hill, In commuting the efUfc. inal sentence, declared that he woe ac? tuated by the fact that Mrs. Hlrsch's health was impaired by her long con? finement in the tower and her reputa? tion and character ruined. RELEASE THE CADDIES. Golfers Asked to Garry Their Own Clubs and Let the Boys Go to Work. Chicago, April 2.?A plan for golfers to release caddies for farm work and contribute the usual caddy fees to war funds is under way, having been started by a coterie of Chicago men, headed by Perley H. Boone of the Calumet Country Club. During the first year of America's participation in the war, golfers contributed thou? sands of dollars to the Red Cross. Liberty Loans and other war funds, used parts of hundreds of links for gardens and furnished many promi? nent players to the army and nary. With the spring cry for youths to help on farms, the campaign to in duce golfers to carry their own club? has gained many supporters oven j.1 though the golfer is invited to make his usual call at the desk of the caddv nuiMer; hut In stead of demanding i youth to lug his clubs, he is, to proffer 50 cents, the average fee foi caddying 18 holes, and request two thr?fl stamps. The purchase of the sinmps is made secondary, however, a.-* the main ohect of the campaigners is to release the caddies for farms. It is figured that there are about a thousand1 golf clubs of first class size, whose average number of caddies dally is 25 each. This would make n total of 2*?,000 hoys. MAY TAKE PACKING PLANTS. Resolution Looking to Government Operation Introduced in Senate. Washington. April 3.?A resolution providing for the taking over and op? eration hy tin- government of the packing plants was introduced In the senate today and referred to the ag? riculture committee. NEWPORT NEWS STRIKE SET? TLE!). Newport News, April 8,?The strikt of the carpenters on government Work In the Hampton Roads district has been settled, end they return i< aork ;?t noon today, having ecooptc< an Increase <?i six cents an hour, ? Loot, the great hurmoniser, ha> temporarily silenced all protest n Germany and all antagonism botweor Germany and Austria-Hungary, Chicago Herald. < PROIIIBITION FOR MASSAp.r SETTS. Federal Amendment Ratified by state Senate?Favorable Adieu Previous ly Taken by Houae. Boston, April 2.?Masachusetts swung into line with the States sup? porting the federal prohibition move? ment when thfc senate today ratified the prohibitory amendment by a roll call vote of 27 to 12. Similiar indorse? ment was voted a week ago by the house, 145 to 91. By this action Massachusetts be? comes the first of the Northeastern States to ratify the amendment and the 11th in the entire country to car? ry the amendment, 25 other States must vote in its favor. Before adopting the measure today the senate by a roll call vote of 25 to 14 rejected a proposal for a Statewide referendum on the question. By a viva voce vote it defeated also an amend? ment providing that the question be referred to all those qualified to vote for school committees including wo? men. _ FORMAL PROTEST ENTERED Netherlands Government Objects to Seizure of Ships. Washington, April 2.?Formal pro? test against the taking over of the Dutch ships was made to the State Department today by the Netherlands minister, August Phillips, acting un? der instructions from The Hague. The note of protest is similar to that re? cently published in the official Ga i sette. WILL NOT BE TAKEN OVER. Inited States Will Only Use Those That Were Idle in Ports. Washington, April 2.?The Ameri? can government has decided that Dutch ships en route to the United States from Holland at the time the Dutch shipping In American ports was requisitioned will not be taken over on arrival here. The war trade board announced to t.ight that inasmuch as the requisi? tioning had been done, according to President Wilson's proclamation, to restore the ships laid up in Ameri ; can harbors to their normal activity, it was not intended to take the uso 0 fthose which were in service from Holland when the proclamation was issued. The American government is ex? pected soon to reply to Holland's for? mal proteef against the requisitioning'. It is expected that the reply will go more fully Into the legal phases of the question and will cite additional 1 reasons why the action was justifiable. COLLEGE GIRLS FOR FARMS. Scores of College Girls to Do Agricul? tural Work. Boston. April 2.?Hundreds of New England college girls \eager to help Uncle Sam win the war ,are organ I izing agricultural units to aid in cul? tivating and harvesting the record I crops that are planned for this section I of the country this year. The move? ment is in charge of the Farm Asso? ciation in co-operation with the State Board of Agriculture. At Wellesley College squads of young women, twenty to a squad, will see through the crops on an adjacent farm from planting to harvesting time'. Miss Catherine Hughes, daugh? ter of Charles E. Hughes, Republican candidate for president in the last na? tional election ,is a memjger ' of one sound. The land which the Wellesley girls will till comprises about seventy acres and is located near the college. From the volunteers for farm service work a number of young women will be selected to maintain one of tho smaller buildings on the college grounds where they and the tillers of Ihe soil will live during the summer. Smith College has organized a large farm unit, under the direction of Miss Josephine A. Clarke, head li? brarian. Fifty undergraduates and alumnae of the last three classes will maKe up the unit. It will be named after the "Hill Top" Miss Clarke's fifty acre place at Chesterfield, where the crops will be raised. Radcliffe College too will have a farm unit. A commit'ee on student volunteers, of which Miss Prlscilla King is chairman, is working out or? ganization plans. These include the leasing of a nearby farm. In prepara? tion for the summer's work many of the Radcliffe students are taking a free course on vegetable raising. Scores of young women students in other New England institutions ot learning are making ready to lead the i advance guard of women back to the ; farms, many of them to take the place of men called to the colors. All these ? prospective girl-farmers are taking emergency war courses on agriculture. The Kaiser must be little une;is\ , about the ethics of the Russian raid since he is willing to put the respon i slbllly for its overwhelming success up to God.--?Philadelphia North American. FATAL AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT. Oi?o Negro Woman Killed and Two Others Seriously Injured on Trip to Darlington. Yesterday afternoon Ed. Garner, a local auto hackman left this city to take a party of negroes composed of James Funchus, Thomasina Kirvin, Viola Kirvin and Amelia Jefferson to Darlington to attend the carnival that is being held there this week. Some? where between this city and Darling? ton the car was overturned ar.d Viola Kirvin was killed. Thomasina Kirvin and Viola Jefferson were so seriously injured that they had to be taken to the Florence hospital. Thomasina Kirvin was very badly injured, It is said, and even if she recovers will lose sight of one or both eyes. James Funchus was net hurt, and as to Ed Garner no reliable information has been obtained, but it is said that he wes not injured. No particulars as to the cause of the accident have been obtainable as all of those concerned are in Florence, and the information reaching here is meagre and frag? mentary. TWO SCHOLARSHIPS OPEN. Peabody Scholarships for Teachers at The University of South Carolina. The Peabody Board has given to the University $6,000 to be used as the nucleus of a fund for an Education Building. Until the remainder of the fund is obtained, the interest on this gift is to be spent for Peabody Schol? arships in the School of Education. Two scholarships of $180 each will be conferred on two young men, grad? uates of any recognized college or university, preference being given to those who have had at least one year of successful experience in teaching. A condition of the appointment will be the rendering of certain service in practice-teaching or in the library of the School of Education. The appointment will be made by the Committee on Normal Scholar, j ships, on the nomination of the Fac- j ulty of the School of Education. ( For information apply to Patterson Wardlaw, Secretary of Committee on Scholarships. SAYS SUPPORT MR. WILSON. Overman Make?? Impassioned Plea Before the Senate. Washington, April 3.?An impas? sioned plea for support of and trust in President Wilson was made In the senate today by Senator Overman of North Carolina in concluding the opening argument for his bill, which would give the executive general au? thority to reorganize government agencies in prosecuting the war. Confusion existing in certain de? partments, the senator said, makes re? organization essential. "Senators have asserted that the president does not confer with them," he added. "Now the president comes here and takes congress into his confidence and they will give him what he asks." Senator Overman deplored what he termod "ham-stringing" the executive, and to senators who proposed amend? ments specifically limiting acts of co? ordination to certain government bu? reaus, declared such limitations would be an insult to the president and the public. Senator Cummins of Iowa inter? rupted to suggest that the North Car? olina senator was under a misappre? hension that if all war powers were not exercised by the president the war would fail. The Overman bill was laid aside af? ter brief consideration to pass the lib? erty bond loan bill. BOMBARD AMERICAN LINE. The Germans Use Minnewerfers Northwest of Toul. With the American Army in France, April 3.?(By the Associated Press).?The Germans energetically shelled the American line and batter? ies northwest of Toul last night and this morning, employing minnen werfers at some places. In view of the intensity of the bombardment it is surprising what little damage was done. Gorman airplanes which attempted to cross the American lines today, brought a thousand shells bursting around them and retired hastily. Mr. Henry J. McLaurin, Jr., chair? man of the Sunder County Liberty Loan Committee received today a telephone message from State Chair? man B. W, Robertson, of Columbia, stating that he had secured a condi? tional promise from the Camp Jack? son authorities to send a military ham! to Sumter Baturdi y to assist in mak? ing the Liberty bond mass meeting a big boost for the Game Cock Liberty Loan campaign. It is practically cer? tain, although no: guaranteed, that the band will be here Saturday and . the people o| all sections of the COtW 1 ty should turn out in lull force. mi LENROOT ELECTED FIWW WIS? CONSIN. ? .< ? rV V Republican Candidate Defeats Da vies, Demoerut for Seat or Late Senator Hurting. Milwaukee, April 3.?Congressman Irvine L, Ler-root, Republican, of Su? perior, has been elected United States senator to succeed the late Paul O. Rusting, ha-'ng defeated Joseph E. Davies, Democrat, in yesterday's elec? tion, accorc mg to incomplete returns by a majorit / estimated at more than 10,000 vote ft, Victor L. Berger. So? cialist, ran ihird, approximately 35, 000 behind levies from the figures at hand. Simi'ar returns indicate the election of Marvin B. Rosenberry, present incu nbent, justice of the su? preme r ourt, over Charles H. Crown hart, a .jOl Follette leader. BIG SUBSCRIPTION LIKELY. Third Liberty Loan Campaign Opens TText Saturday. Washington, April 3.?Tremendous subscription 7or the third liberty loan bonds* Saturday, the opening day of the campaign , are forecast by all loan organization reports reaching head? quarters here. Although officially the campaign grill not open until 9 o'clock Saturday moaning, local time, actua'ily it already is under way, with workers soliciting pledges for subscriptions to be recorded when the books open. The first hour thus may he the rec? ord-breaking hour of the whole cam? paign. The first complete bonds will be' turned out b thfe government Bureau T of Engraving within a half day after the bond bi II is Anally enacted, and ? a limited supply will be available next week. They will be finished at the rate of 500,0<0 a day. Already 19,000,- i 000 bonds have been engraved with omission of nly the text bearing the rate of interest and maturity t*?rms. The length of the campaign, the dates for installment payments and the bonds' maturity will be announced by Secretary McAdoo as soon as the bond legislation is completed, which1 probably will be tomorrow or Fri? day. To help clear the investment field of the third loan the Federal Reserve Board's capital issues committee an*1 nounced teday it 1 ad adopted a reso? lution "to recommend the postpone-'Q ment whenever possible of the issue of' ' public offering' of securities of eve?y<! kind during the pending campaign for'' the liberty loan. This recommenda? tion not applying to cases where se? curities mus be sold or offered to provide for lJiaturities." The comnvr.tee further explained that "in case - of issues already passed upon by the capital issues committee, but not as yet made or offered for sale, it is honed that such issues; wherever practicable, also may bo postponed ar.d that the sub-commit tee will use their influence to that end." The sub-committees are located in each federal reserve district. AUSTRIANS MAKING READY. Major Gen. Maurice Expects Battle In **4Uy Soon. London, April 3.?"There are indi? cations that .; a Austrian attack on Italy is in preparation and we shall not be surprieed if it develops before long," said Ma;. Gen. F. B. Maurice, chief director of military operations at the war office, in his weekly talk today. f A few cents spent now for Water Glass will bring big returns next winter vehen eggs are high in price, and hard to get at any price. April and May eggs keep best. Start Now. We hav? Water Glass I in one quart packages I with full directions fcr preparing. HEARONS PHARMACY PHONE 36 GET IT QUICK