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OFF Foil FRANCE.
Opportunity to Enlist In Regiment
that Will <.o Over at Once.
Do sou want to enlist In a regi?
ment hit h Is going to France Just aa
soon as possible? If you are n b?rge?
man. teamster, saddler, snllmaker,
rigger, blacksmith, ship carpenter,
steersman, hoisting engineer, marine
gasoline engineer or machinist or a
clerk or stenographer, you may do so,
provided you are eligible and quali?
fied. A new regiment, the 57th En?
gineers, Is now being formed to main?
tain and operate the boats and barges
on the rivers and canals of France,
which form probably the most highly
developed Inland waterway system In
the world. Men of these qualifications
are needed Immediately for the regi?
ment, which Is forming at Camp
Ijsursl. Maryland, and any who wish
to join may make application to the
nearest army recruiting station. Lieut.
H. H Kllpatrlek. of the 67th Engi?
neers, |a now at the main station fo *
this district In Bavannah recruiting
for the new regiment, and all men
accepted will be sent In to him at Sa?
vannah Any dealrlous of enlisting
must make application without delay,
as there Is no assurance as to how
long recruiting for the regiment will
continue.
Men enlisting in the regiment will
have opportunity not only to travel
abroad on these rivers and canals, but
also to continue at their own t:*ade.
st the same time rendering patiiotlc
and valuable se-vice to their country.
The chances of promotion are excel?
lent and the ra> is good. Living con?
ditions are splendid.
The requirements for enlistments
are ihe same ns for recruits In gener?
al with the added requirement that 1
men must have experience as outlined
above. The recruiting officials state
that any qualified for service In the '
57th Engineers would do well to lose
no time in mnklng application at the ?
nearest army recruiting station for en?
listment 1
Opportunities such as this do not <
come often, as It is expected that |
many from this section will answer |
the call for volunteers In the 57th <
GOVERNOR'S SON A PRIVATE.
Vtvlsn Manning. Prosperous Broker
of Grecmlllc. Enlists.
Columbia. April 30?Vivian M
Manning, son of South Carolina's gov?
ernor oad a prosperous broker of
Greenville, a C. enlisted In the army
ut ('amp Jackson today as a private.
This in the sixth son of Governor Man?
ning to enter the service. Private
Manning gave up all bis business af?
fairs in Greenville, bade his fi.mlly
good-bye and came to Columbia.
VON i:\i.U kl \ REMOVED
No Doubt of His Loyalty But Clrcum
?tiinn v Made ('h.mgv Neccssury.
Washington, April 30.?President
Von Kngelken ras been removed from
his position at the head of the Fed?
eral Parin Loan Bank at Columbia.
nllng to Information received to?
day by Senator Til I man. Treasurer
Houston <?r the name bank has been
promoted to the presidency.
It in explained in official quartets
that there is no doubt of Mr. von En
gelken's loyalty, but because of cir
OOBnstances his usefulness at the bead
of the bank was regarded as ended.
PtrTVrOEs I OR FOOD.
farmers t need to |*hint Large Acre?
ages In Sweet Potatoes.
Columbia. April ::??.? The Food Ad-1
inmiM'i ation is urging the farmers oi
Mouth Carol hoe to pleat liberal iy and
plentifully in sweet potatoes. Sweet
potatoes, easily and profitably grown
in th ?? State, will help solve the food
problem, ltoth Irish and sweet po?
tatoes must be substituted lurgely for
bread If America Is going to be able
to fulfill the obligation made to send
wheat to the people of the Allied]
< outline* flgh'lng German militarism
In order that the best results may
? htaincd by thoso who plant sweet
pgllllOee i he consei ? ation and pro
duction division has had printed a
circular of valuable information, pre?
pared b\ Ceorgc P. Hoff man. exten?
sion horticulturist of i'lemson College,
a copy of whirh will be mailed to any
person who will write a letter or post?
er rd request to the Food Administra?
tion. i?t Columbia.
Dark i MM News.
Dark Corner April 10. I Sill Sun?
day night a wildcat caught a line
tui key gobbler from Mr. L. K. Avin
and vesterdny Mr. Avin and Mr. Joe
Johnson set a trap by Ihe remains or
the turkey which the cat left, so this
morning when MOOOTJ Aviu and John?
son w-nl to Ihe trap Mr Cat was sit
ting up by his supper which he
(bought to enlov last nlsht. A load
Of shot from Mr. Johnson s gun soon
dlOpntched his ratshlp
II. T.
lAPTlREI) (iKHM AN WEAPONS. I
American Divisional Iiitclligviieo Of
N<t* is a Regular Museum of Hun
War Tool?.
With American Army in France.
April 26 (Correspondence of The As?
sociated Pres?).?An American divis?
ional intelligence office in the rear of
our Toul front, one day recently, re?
sembled a museum in an American
police headquarters. The only dif?
ference was that in the intelligence
office there were a wider variety of
more deadly weapons than any police
department ever gathered. In one
corner there was a captured Ocrmnrl
machine gun on its tripod. A rolled
belt of cartridges was near It. In an?
other corner there were a number of
flame projectors?the German flam
enwerfers?which had been brought
In from No Man's Land. On one
table there was a small automatic
pistol taken from a German killed in
our trenches during a raid. On an?
other table laid out in an orderly row
was a collection of other automatic
pistols, large and small. One had a
stock that could be fitted to the pistol
handle, forming a weapon that might
be fired from the shoulder like a rifle.
Another was packed away in a
leather holster so constructed that
three spare loaded magazines could
be carried in it. Both were of make."
well known throughout the world and
both were, from tie German point ol
view, the last words in the pistol
makers' art. There were still other
pistols, a club, a wicked-looking
trench knife equally good for chop?
ping fire wood or slashing a throat.
There was a short bayonet with a
blade as sharp as a razor and a point
as sharp as a nee He. The blade was
hardly more than six inches long and
the weapon, fitted on the end of a
rifle was designed for close work.
Bunches of grenades were sprlnkl- ,
ed here and there. By a table leg ,
itood a German "ud" shell. Nearby ,
part of an aerial torpedo rested. Clips- |
>f enemy cartridges both for rifles and ,
pistols were everywhere. 'A German ,
mlper's rifle was standing in a corn- ,
?r. There was a telescope sight foi ,
inlping. one "tool" used for ellmlnat- .
ing the flash on the end of a spitting ,
machine gun. another for silencing ,
the report from f?. rifle. ,
Added to all this .there were hang?
ing around the wall on various nails ,
big American automatic pistols on
belts- ?the property of officers and
men In the office, hung up in a place ,
within easy reach.
All the weapons except these last
had been the property of the German
government until American soldiers
on line captured them. Some of th<
articles had tied to them little tag*
upon which was written the name!
and organization of the American who
secured them. Each tag signified that
some "doughboy" wanted his trophy
returned to him, provided It was of
no use to the army.. But as a soldier
In the line has no place to keep such
things, which would simply add to
his already heavy load, all that in?
telligence officers did not desire for
their own official purposes were put
away for the men who wanted them.
If American troops yet to take
their places in t ie line, obtain as
many trophies as their predecessors,
many a home in the United States will
have in it after the war a weapon
' made in Germany." And every
weapon will have attached to it a per?
sonal story of how it was captured on
our front in France.
CHINESE IN FIGHT.
sending Troops to Stand by Allies.
An Atlantic Port. / April ?AK?Capt.
Ting Chla Chen, military counsellor
to tho president of China and also to
the Chinese minister of war, arrived
here today on a French steamship. He
said that China now is sending troops
to France to fight for the allies.
"China is preparing to do her part
in making the world safe for detnoc
.'? he said tonight. "It is true that
China has troops now on the way to
the battle front and it is the calcula?
tion of tin' Peking government to
have gg fewer than lo.oim fighting
nu n with the French by early sum?
mer. I have Just left France and
Ihert remained behind me ten otlm<
Chinees officers whose duty it win he
10 s.d.-et training camps in Trance for
?'hinese troops.'
Stockholm. April 30 ? The Catholic
International Press agency announces.
lecordtag to ;< Paecl dlapateh that
Rmperor Charles, of Austria, is niaK
inr I total pSaCS Offer, appealing to
Itul) |0 Consider it in her own intei
est*.
Washington, April 80.?Today*)
eaanalty h*t contains II names. Ki"
ad hi action, iwoj died of accident
two. died Ol disease, six. wound*'
seveich. live; wounded slightly 19
nuking in action, fine. Captain Rich
nrdfl Laurence Jet( is reported Itlllai
.in action
WILL BVV HO WHEAT FLOUR.
Club Women or Booth Carolina
Adopt Patriotic Resolution, But
They Could Have Made it Stronger
by Pledging Themselves to Eat Hp
Wheat BrtJML
Columbia, April 29.?In u splendid I
spirit of patriotism, the club women
of South Carolina will buy no more
wheat flour until another harvest.
The soldiers of America and the peo?
ple of Allied European countries and
their soldiers will have the flour sav?
ed through the South Carolina club
women and their families going on
wheatless ration.
At the final session of the twentieth
annual convention of the South Car?
olina Federation of Women's Clubs,
held in Aiken this week, this action
was unanimously taken, and the adop?
tion of a resolution, which, in effect,
pledges the club women to such a
far-reaching program of flour saving,
was greeted with patriotic applause.
There are in South Carolina more
than one hundred and twenty-five
.ederated clubs, comprising a mem?
bership of upwards of 5,000 women.
Perhaps the larger proportion of those
ire married women, controlling the
family purchases and directing the
households over which they preside.
B is believed by the Food Administra?
tion, however, that even more far
reaching will be the effect of this ac?
tion of the club women in setting the
example for the whole people of the
State to follow.
William Elliott, food administrator)
for South Carolina, sent a telegram
to the club wome^n, in convention at
Aiken, Thursday, setting forth the
urgent need of cutting down the con?
sumption of wheat flour so that Amer?
ica may fulfill her obligation to the
t
Allies and requesting that, in view of
the desperate need of the Allies for
wheat, the club women of South Car?
olina blty no more wheat flour until
the r.ext harvest. In his address be?
fore tho convention Thursday night,
Gov. Manning urged that Mr. Elliott's
suggesion be acted upon, and it was
with eagerness that the delegates
waited until the final session Friday
ifternoon so that they might, by their
vote, pledge themselves and their in?
dividual organization memberships to
this program. This action is in line j
with the program of the Total Ab- j
Htainers Clubs formed in Ohio and in
Texas and in other parts of the
country. At Montgomery, Ala., tb?
Chamber of Commerce recently
pledged six hundred homes of that
city to a wheatless program until the
next harvest. But so far as is known,
the action just taken by the club wo?
men of South Carolina is the biggest
wheat-saving plan yet determined up?
on, with the possible exception of the
action of patriotic hotel proprietors in
many of the largest cities of the coun?
try who recently pledged themselves
to Herbert Hoover to serve no more
wheat bread on their menus until the
shortage in wheat for the comrades of
Americans in Europe has been reliev?
ed by the new crops.
TUICHOMA IN LEXINGTON.
Forty Coses or Disease Found Amoii,;
Children of County by Specialist.
Lexington, April 29.?That there
are more than forty cases of tricho
mu among the school children of Lex?
ington, is the discovery of Miss A.
J. Hill, registered nurse and Rod
Cross specialist, in charge of the chil?
dren's welfare work of the Lexington
county health department. Accotd
ing to a recent statement made by
Miss Hill, trichoma is spreading al!
over the United States, and way
brought to this country by the foreign
element. It Is said to be one of the
most dangerous and contagious ttUb
eases known to science. It is an af?
fection of the eye, and unless th<^
trouble is checked many patients will
lose their eyesight completely.
In addition to the discovery of the
new disease, Miss Hill states that she
was surprised to find so many cases
of tonsilitis and adenoids among the
children.
Miss Hill joined the county health
department about two weeks ago. hav
ing come here from Savannah, where
she has been engaged in child wel?
fare and Red CrOSl work for the past
live years. She is a woman of Strong
personality, devoted to her work, and
xhe is going to wage an educational
campaign in every section of the
county. It is the purpose of tho coun?
ty health deportment to visit every
school as well as every home in the
counts and endeavor to teach th?
people the importance of sanitation as
a means of stamping out disease*.
London, April :?<?. The White
luards or Finnish government forces
have captured VlborOi seventy-live
i
mllei northwest ol Petrograd, after!
killing nearly the entire force of six
thousand Red Quurds, according le
the official announcement at Vasa and
transmitted from Copenhagen,
MAIL HATES QUESTION.
Senate rostofliec Uomnilttee Hears
Delegation Eroin American Newa
paper Publishcrfc' Association.
Washington, April 29.?The ques?
tion of second class mail rates will be
reopened tomorrow by the senate post
office committee. A delegation from
the American Newspaper Publishers'
Association will appear to oppose the
postage proposed in the war tax law
which goes into effect July 1.
Frank P. Glass of Birmingham,
president of the organization and
others will ask the committee to modi?
fy or repeal the increases. Some of
the publishers say congress will be
asked to suspend the rate increases
during the war, deferring legislation
until conditions, including print paper
costs become normal.
South Carolina Cotton Conference.
To the Cotton Farmers of South Car?
olina:
I hereby invite to a conference to
be held in Columbia on Tuesday, May
11, 1918, at 3 o'clock P. M., all the
cotton producers of South Carolina
and all others interested in the gin?
ning and the warehousing, in the
financing and the distribution, In the
transportation, and the marketing of
cotton.
These are some of the purposes of
the proposed conference:
(1) To formulate workable plans
for the State-wide organization of the
cotton farmers of South Carolina: for
their own protection and benefit.
(2) To provide for the formation
of community marketing clubs in each
county of the State?these community
clubs to effect a county association
and then all the county associations
to combine in the formation of the
South Carolina Cotton Marketing Or?
ganization.
(3) To establish in the office of
State Warehouse Commissioner a Bu?
reau of Information on Cotton?this
State bureau to be in constant touch
with a similar bureau at the county
seat of each county and each county
bureau ir. dally communication with
the several community centres of the
county. A complete chain of infor?
mation is to be formed so that every
farmer will be kept fully advised
what is being proposed and done by
the farmers in all the counties of
South Carolina.
(4) To arrange for the grading
and the stapling of all cotton on stor?
age by government experts connect?
ed with the office of State Warehouse
Commissioner?and without cost to
the owners and holders of the cot?
ton. This will enable farmers to sell
their cotton on certified grades and
direct to consuming plants, and al?
ways at highest market prices.
(5) To promote the development
by the farmers themselves of the
South Carolina System of Cotton
Marketing.
This will not be a meeting for
speech-making, but a business con?
ference of farmers, for farmers, and
by farmers, and of all others who are
Interested In the 1918 cotton crop.
Let every one who can attend, notify
me at once.
You are especially Invited to attend.
W. G. Smith,
State Warehouse Commissioner.
Columbia.
MEN WANTED
To Serve in Tank Corps Overseas.
(Men may be either inducted or en
hsted). Quotas for South Carolina:
1 Buzzer operators (Men who
have had experience as telegraphers,
either wire or wireless.)
4 Cooks.
1 Stokekeeper, country
20 Machine gun mechanics (men
v/ho have had experience as general
Mechanists in machine shops).
1 Auto engine mechanic. I
8 Tractor drivers (men who have
had experience as drivers of tractors
used on farms, etc. There really is
not much difference between the men
Wanted us tractor drivers and as
heavy auto truck drivers.
4 Heavy auto truck drivers.
1 Storekeeper, country.
1 Topographer.
1 Telephone operator.
1 Automobile electrician.
1 Blacksmith.
1 < >xy-ai etplene welder.
1 Bench machinist.
1 Lathe hand.
1 Machine designer.
The induction will be through the
army with regular army pay. Men
enlist as privatea and promotion is
.(?cording to fitness and abllty, Ap?
plication should be made by letter,
stating age, etc. to A. C. Phelps, Pub?
lic Service Reeerve, B West Liberty
St., Butnter, s. C, or iu person at any
IT, S. Army Recruiting Station.
B1 Paso, May 1.?Font sticks of
dynamite, thirty teat fuee and s quan<
tlty of detonating caps were discov?
ered by an officer yesterday under the
base of the steel wireless tower at
Tort Bliss.
i
?'The People's Voice.*'
f Darling, when I am far away
From you?somewhere in France,
I ask you to always think of me
And pray that I have a chance.
To leave you, dear, was hard,
The hardest thing of all
But I am no slacker,
When I hear my country call.
To he at home with you, little girl,
Is happiness that is true,
But I cannot see the enemy
Down the Red, White and Blue!
I used to be with you often
Those beautiful happy days,
But it makes me blue to think
That we are so far away.
Some day in the near future
This great conflict will end.
And the soldier boy who loves you
Will come back to you.
1 told you when I kissed
Those lips of yours so sweet,
That I was going to leave you
And again we may never meet
Don't give up, my darling,
If you love me you will wait,
If we dont' meet on earth again
We will meet at the Golden Gates.
Some girls are not patient
Who will not wait so long.
Will go and love a slacker.
When their soldier boy has gone.
When he goes to fight the battle,
For his country and for you
His thoughts are always resting
On the one he thinks is true.
When he returns in years to come,
And finds you false
His whole life will be ruined
And his happiness lost.
Don't bear this stain, little girl.
Make your love be true;
Greet the boy in khaki
When he comes marching back to
you.
Do not respect a slacker;
They deserve not even a chance.
The boys whom you should honor,
Are the boys who go to France.
I will close this letter, hoping
You will be mine some day,
As I bid you good-bye for this hour,
And good-bye for the day.
If it is good-bye for a month,
He loves you true as ever,
And perhaps forever.
?Claude K. Wingate.
Co. K. 118th Inf., Camp Sevier, S. C.
DEATH PENALTY FOR NEGRO.
Will Ferguson Convicted of Attempt?
ed Criminal Assault.
Columbia, April 29.?Will Fergu?
son, the negro charged with attempt?
ed criminal assault on a young whit;
woman at Allendale April 16, was
convicted of the offense before Judg?
Ernest Moore at a special term of j
court at Barnwell today and sen?
tenced for electrocution on May 1C.
The jury was out four minutes. So?
licitor Gunter, of the Second judicial
circuit, was assisted in the prosecu?
tion by Attorney General Peebleti,
and Assistant Attorney General Sapp.
The negro was brought to the State
penitentiary following his sentence.
Shortly after the offense for which
the negro was convicted he was ap?
prehended by citizens of Allendale
and taken to Barnwell, where Sher?
iff Morris, of Barnwell county, was
notified that unless a speedy trial was
granted the negro would be lynched.
After communicating with the attorn?
ey general's office and the governor
this request was acceded to and the
negro was turned over to the sheriff.
IT. S. TRANSPORTS COLLIDE.
Both Vessels Damaged?Government
Orders Inquiry.
Washington, April 29.?Two Ameri?
can transports which were in collis?
ion at sea several days ago have re?
turned safely to an Atlantic port, the
navy department announced today.
Secretary Daniele authorized the
following statement:
"Two transports, which were dam?
aged in a collision at sea several days
ago, have arrived safely at an At?
lantic port. The two vessels were in
a convoy and were running without
lights when the accident occurred.
Neither was seriously damaged, but
both were ordered to return to port
for repairs. No lives ate reported
lost.
"A hoard of Inquiry will be ap?
pointed to make a thorough investiga?
tion of the accident."
Columbia? April 30.?More than
eight thousand selectmen have arriv
id at Camp Jackson within the past
four days as part of the ten thousand
scheduled for this camp.
Ilagood News and Views.
Hcnibert. April 27.?By invitation
of Thomas B. Wright, a hustling
farmer and wide-awake colored citi?
zen of our community I went to Rant?
ing Creek colored Baptist church Sat?
urday afternon, April 27 to attend the
? losing exercises of a private school
which for years without any outside
help they have kept up. This is the
same church where five Sundays ago
they made up a purse of a hundred
dollars for their faithful and aged
pastor. Rev. Theodore Diggs.
Some Sumter people were there in
the persons of P. G. Bowman, Mr3.
Solomons, E. I. Keardon and A. C.
Phelps. I was late in arriving and
heard only the last named make a
ringing speech, but heard good re?
ports of the others. Mr. Phelps was
followed by our own C. J. Jackson.
At the close they sold quite a number
of Liberty bonds the gleanings, this
country having been well reaped
through the efforts of Messrs. Jack?
son (white) Westberry and Tom
Wright (Colored). Just how many
bonds were taken we have not learn?
ed, but several hundred dollars worth
we know.
This man, Tom Wright, master of
ceremonies for the occasion does
things. There being no colored school
anywhere in reach of the many, very
many children he organized a pay
school several years ago which has
been kept up to this date. He has no
children save the several he has adopt?
ed, one of whom is in Morris College.
The war is making us understand
that: united we stand, divided we
fail. The spirit of cooperation is good
at all times, in all places and circum?
stances.
A lot of folks saw the spent meteor,
some being excited over it, thinking it
an omen of something to come, a sort
of handwriting on the wall. Some
years ago while teaching school be?
low Lynchburg, we with Mr. Dan?
iel Kirby witnesed one such, only we
saw the meteor when it blazed, mak?
ing a noise similar to a rocket. Like
this last, it left a trace of cloud or
whatever you might call it. Had we
been disposed, our futile imagination
might have conjured up some fear*
ful omen in that.
Capt. Bell of West Kershaw told
the writer that on one occasion, riding
along through Alabama near to Selma
one evening, he heard a roaring as of
a train of cars, and looking in the di?
rection of the noise, he saw a huge
meteor, which fell forty miles away
with a report as of a heavy cannon.
Years and years ago, before you and
I discovered America, there was a
great metoric shower, when people
went wild with fright.
In the morning of the last cen?
tury there was a dark day, so dark
that the writer's father got lost in the
yard.
Court was in session in a certain
town, and when one cried out excited?
ly that the judgment was come the
presiding officer ordered lights, saying
"If it is judgment I want to be found
at my post."
Dont' let us get excited. We can
see signs, omens every day if we look
for them. WTe can easily become liko
the boy who ground at a hand mill
till a late hour at night never think?
ing of burglars till he had finished,
when he discovered he was surround?
ed by them with no one near to help.
Investigation proved them to be bush?
es, stumps, etc.
Miss Eloise Sanders is quite sick.
Ed McEachern, one of our fine vol?
unteers, was at home from Camp
Sevier the other day, a splendid speci?
men of young manhood. Ed is a
good fellow, who when at home did
not spend his time fishing and loiter?
ing, but at hard manual labor.
How many of us realize what Mr.
Goldberg said to us the other day,
that we may count ourselves fortu?
nate if we can come out of this war
with what we now have? It is to be
hoped the war will not be an unmix?
ed evil to all of us. Many useful les?
sons are being brought home to us by
it, and we will be.the poorer if we
do not profit by them.
The stands of cotton are not so
good this year, due to the unusual
cold.
If the rains continue to come there
will be a war with General Green.
Small grain never looked more
promising, especially wheat and rye.
David said: "But I am fearfully and
wonderfully made." if it had been
written of some people you know you
would think it was a misprint of what
should have read "I am fearfully and
wonderfully mad."
"Hagood.*
LIBERTY UaAM TOTALS.
Washington. Apri; 30.?The Liberty
loan total reported today was two
billion, four hundred three millions,
four hundred forty-two thousand,
four hundred. The increase cov?ts
only part of yesterday's business. Thrt
Atlanta district, which stood lowes*.
showed a sudden increase of about
twenty millions.