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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.
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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.
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LENROOT ELECTED FIWW WIS?
CONSIN.
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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.
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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.
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