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TRAITOR AND nr\ CAPTURED. i Mux lit Spying on Americans In *Yance-?Wore Uniform of Ameri? can ??tii? ? i. With Amern an Army In France. May 8 (By the Associated Press).? The first German-American to be taught spying on the Americans is safely in custody. Behind the characterization of traitor to his country contained in the report 'of his arrest is the story that he aided a German prisoner to es? cape. Both men donned American officers' uniforms and entered the line from the rear in the late afternoon. Th?-> naid they were studying the ground between the lines with a view to using tanks and asked to be al? lowed to cross the hues. The officer to whom they made the request soon discovered the ruse und ordered them escorted to the rear. There it was 'ound that one of them was a Ger? man and that the German-American was his accomplice. HOUR MORE BIG BUYERS Ol STAMPS. Sales Gradually ( limbing, But Sumtcr Not Yet st To|>?Sales Not Wide Enough Spread Out. Add to Big Buyers: K. S. Booth.$100.00 T. I* McLean, through Ingram school.100.00 Everybody known that Dr. Booth is a progressive man so his name looks quite natural in the Big Buyers' list. The doctor knows that the govern? ment needs a part of his mone'>\ and he Is letting it have It, and he is mak? ing a nice saving to be cashed in la? ter when possibly times are hard. Mr. McLean Is a lumber man get? ting out timber in the country. He knows that war conditions have boost? ed the lumber business, so he Is let? ting part of the money he has earn? ed go back to tho government to help prosecute the war. Could Mr. Mc? Lean do better with It? o o e Miss Eleanor Koll. ?>? 1'eve.s hi Wot Having* and believes in making oth? ers believe In them. She Is teach:r of Ingram school, and under her in? spiration that little school has sold $151.25 worth of stamps, all the mon? ey from the same going to help fight the war. Would that there were more like her. see The ladies' committees on the streit and at the big tent have been doing tint- work and many dollars have gone their route to the treasury In Washington. The sales at the tables Saturday and at Ghuutauqua that night and the orders taken there for deli\?ii?M of stamps amounted to near six hundred dollars. To do all this and to handle the stamps for it takes a lot of tin e If a man wanted $5.000 In bonds he would probably take five one thousand dollar bonds. But in War Savings the largest unit Is the li.fi stamp. Much time there? fore is sahOO to handle it. The work? ers of the War Savings forces how? ever, give of their time cheerfully, be gj*j th-?y are helping Uncle Sam. Bight here the committee wants to thank the Boy Scouts for taking out the stamps to till the orders and col? lecting for them e e o The report of the director of War Havings for April ^7th gives Sumter IJth BOOOl gfttll ? sale of $24,81 1.75, ami i soi soosts ot |te Los, Count) Is ahead of Sumter. Now, what do you know about that'.' All you Tip Topp.-r-m you will have to get a hustle on. or your name will be a Joke. War lni?s ind Thrift Stamps are not sold in < impulKns and drives, but it is a work that goes steadily on and must Mow smoothly and steadily us long as the war lasts. Everybody must come in mii I must h'fid a hand 0000001 no one person buys in big lots. In the lost LiterG loan campaign there was mm taking of bonds by one man that was greater than tin w hole sale of War stamps so far. No one Is allowed to buy over $1.000 worth of stamm they are meant to t?e held by every? body. In this county many of to* communities are slow to take hod. and It Is bciause of this condition thut the county's sales are small, see Wayman's Chapel, a colored church at Stateburg organized six War Hav? ings Societies in less than an hour * Sunday afternoon. That's setting OS example The Wur Savings Committee N planning district War Savings meet Irs** In different parts of the county Thes* meetings ure to be strict:;. Wit Savings, ami nothing else, on ? trouble now Is thut the War Savings has always been a aide issue aloni; with something else. These meeting a ill have nothing else. Meine Mav V Kmp-ror William has returned to Potsdam owing to the political crisis arising from the re Jectlon of suffrage reform by the Bins slsn diet Chancellor von Bertling b i* been summoned to Potsdam |o , epsjt t on the situation. FOOD ADMINISTRATION NEWS. Hotels nml lies aiimnt8, Grocers ami Consumer* to Ho Required ti? <>!*?> Rules. County Food Administrator 1?. A. LtPliaOII. and his assistant E. 1. Rear don have had four conferences i)i the Past three days with the proprietors of public eating places, commercial bakers, and merchants of this city who sell bakers' bread brought into Sumter from other places. The objects of the meetings and discussions arc two fold in character. The first to explain to hotels, restau? rants, boarding houses, lunch rooms apd all other places serving meals the new regulations of the United States Food Adn inistration regarding! the conservation of wheat, and to have public eating place proprietors sign an agreement to abide by the regulations which are now compulsory with public eating places. Most of the proprietors of public I eating places attended the meeting for white proprietors of these places last Saturday afternoon, and practical-' ly every coloied proprietor attended the meeting last Monday afternoon, both meetings being held at Chamber of Commerce, and all who attended the two meetings signed the agree? ment. County Food Administrator G. A. Lemmon has Instructed his assist? ant food administrator to wait until n?xt Monday for those who did not attend the meetings or who refused to sign the agreement, and if at that time delinquents do not respond his assistant was ordered to call upon t ic delinquents at their places of busi? ness and ask the question d'rect whether these delinquents are with or against government and the food ad? ministration nnd to ieport to Mr. Lem? mon just what each delinquent has to say in 'order that the results of the interview and the names of those re? fusing to cooperate may be fo. ward? ed to Columbia to State Food Admin? istrator William Elliott and by him to the United States Food Administra? tion in Washington. The two local commercial bakeries, the Sumter Bakery and the New York Bakery, of Sumter, had repre? sentatives at both meetings and ex? plained to the proprietors of the eat? ing places what quick bread, victory bread, brown bread or rye are com-| posed of. nnd offered to bake bread in any form required by the govern? ment for the public eating places, and for sale to the general public through Sumter merchants. The local food administrators de? sire that the people of Sumter ami Sumter county and the merchants thereof will buy and eat Sumter bak? ed bread, and sell no other, and that public eating place.* will serve none but Sumter made bread. If Sumter people will eat only Sum? ter baked bread, and will sell only Sumter baked bread they will help the government to win the war by releas? ing the railroads from hauling many thousands of baskets of bread Into Sumter and hauling the empty bas? kets back to where they came from. By eating Sumter h iked bread, which Is just as good and as wholesome, and as cheap, and much fresher. Sumter city and county people help to keep thousands of dollars of Sum? ter and Sumter county money in this city and county for redistribution among business establishments and to furnish Sumter people with jobs, and besides there is no patriotism in buying from or patronizing bakeries of ether towns and cities when the government is pleading with the peo pit to help out by doing away with unnecessary shipping of food and feedstuff* which can be produced on home farms and i lanufaetured at home. Every hotel and restaurant of the RlVt class in Sumter has agreed ?o serve none but Sumter made bread from Sumter's two commercial baker? ies. North Main W. S. S. List Tuesday afternoon the North Mam Street War Savings Club held Its drat regular meeting at the home of Mrs. Henry Barnett. on Warren Street. Twenty-two members we?.' present, and a total purchase of thrill and war savings stamps to the amount of $MK.5<i was reported. Af lei the business, which consisted of tire el.ation of Miss Claudia Fra.-.e i ' \ i? ?? president of the club and the MftH Of stamps by the secretary of the Huh. a violin solo by Miss Fra M>|, accompanied by Miss Mamie Ed? munds, was enjoyed. Mrs. Warren ihcn rr id .i most interesting and iv id letter from her brother. Of i itrgeea, who i* at present dolna preparatory war hospital work in England before going to the front In Franco, a notlee of the next meet ieir, which Is to be the last Thursdav la May, will appear later. Birmingham, May 7 About on*1 bundled and fifty white robed men attired In regulation ku uiuv klan uni? form with the American Hag and I? tit i v cross in the lead rode through the streets laat night warning idler to iind work and do it. M'LEOD FOR CONGRESS. il Ion. T. G. lioLeodi Of Lee County. Make* Formal Announcement of Candidacy. In entering the race for congress from the seventh congressional dis? trict, I do so because I feel that in tills capacity I can render effective service to my country; and for the fur? ther reason that I appreciate the fact that it will be a distinguished honor to be the representative of this dis? trict. An oltlce is honorable and creditable just to the extent that it is honorably and creditably lilled. I wish to state that I am in hearty accord and sympathy with the present administration, and consider that wc are all providentially favored in hav? ing at the head of this great govern? ment in this crucial time, a president, honest, sincere and with an intel? lect which seems capable of overcom? ing the greatest dirticulties, and the solving of the most difficult problems. The entrance of this country into the war met with my hearty approval for the reason that, briefly stated, as a self-respecting nation we could no longer remain neutral. As a citizen, 1 have tried in every way to do my bit and uphold the hands of our president and representatives in congress. I propose to carry into this cam? paign, and if electee1, into congress the motive which has been the domi? nant one in my own life since the be? ginning of this war, and that is, win the war. All else is subservient to this and dependent upon it. I have no difficulty in pledging myself to this and to heartily support the ad? ministration in every way both as a citizen and officially, if elected. We are living in a time when the current of the world's history is being changed. The resources of the country in men and substance must be conserved to every extent con? sistent with the dominant purpose ol winning the war. Should the wat close soon, and It will not and must not close until a righteous and en? during peace has been secured, condi tions more or less chaotic are bound to follow, hence, both during the wai j and after, our country will need the] very best of its brain and character both in our State Legislative body and in the national, and a man with the ability and character to properly rep? resent a people, and who can render the most etliclert service is the cne who should be chosen. Should I ap? peal to my fellow citizens as measur? ing up to this standard their support would bo most gratifying to me in? deed, and I would endeavor to show my appreciation by placing at their service my experience in public af- j fairs, all the ability I possess, and Utyilig aside all other interests to de? vote myself entirely to their service. During the campaign and upon the stump I hope to have something to say that will Interest the people, con? firm their faith in the righteousness of our cause and strengthen their hope in the ultimate victory of out armies, the triumph of democracy over autocracy and the winning of a righteous and lasting peace. A Good Fight Well Fought. To Banks and Trust Companies, Lib? erty Loan Committees and Work? ers of The Fifth Federal Reserve District: Reports received up to 3.00 p. m. today show total subscriptions ol j $1:15,814,450.00 for the district. J It is now certain that every State In j the district will oversubscribe, and indications are that the grand total will approximate 1150,000,000.00 against our allotment of $130,000,000, 00. We are writing now in the first j flush of victory to pay honor to all the Liberty Loan workers, men and WOfnOHi to whose labors, sacrifices and devotion this wonderful result is due. We regard this as a greater financial achievement, considering the time of the year, than raising $200, 000.000 at the time of the Second Liberty Loan. We acknowledge with warmest ap? preciation! the help given us with un measured liberality in the conduct ol our own labors, and for whatever shortcoming! WO may have been guilty in the performance of our part, we ask indulgence and kindly forget - fulness. There has been only one purpose on the part of all. We have done our best under Innumerable dlf fieulties to respond to till demands made upon us. A full report of the reaull of the campaign will be made In due course. All honor to the Liberty Loan workers of the Fifth District, and to that vast army Of subscribers who have shown by their magnificent sup? port that they will back the armies of America with all their resources in a [ tight to the death for liberty and t ighteouaneaa. 1 Respectfully, (leo, J, Seay. Governor, and Chairman War Loan 1 < Organization Fifth Federal Reserve District. - . Richmond, Va., May 4th. I'm>nrnin for Sumter District Mooting at Lyncliburg, May 10-12. Friday Evening. Devotional service, Kev. F. M Glennan. Greetings from Adult Society?Mrs. J. W. Farrant. Greetings from Junior Society. Greetings from Baptist Society? Mrs. Potts. Greetings from Presbyterian Soci? ety?Mrs. McNeil. Music. Response?Miss Leatha Edwards. Magic lantern views and lecture by Dr. J. W. W?lling. Announcements. Benediction. Saturday Morning. Devotional exercises. ''Enrollment of delegates. Appointment of Committees. Introductions. Report of District Secretary. Music. ? Talk by Mrs. R. R. Harris. Demonstration of Literature?Miss ?Leatha Edwards. Reports from Societies. Talk by Mrs. C. E. Exum. Quiet hour of prayer led by Mrs Harris. Announcements. Saturday Afternoon. Devotional service led by Mrs. C. E. Exum. Minutes of the evening and morn? ing sessions. Reports from societies continued. Message to the young people from Mrs. Emerson Ford. Music. Paper on Junior work by Mrs. Cho? rine Sprott. i Unfinished business. Prayer for God's blessings upon the work of the conference. Adjournment. Saturday Evening. Opening service by the pastor. Song service, fifteen minutes. Paper, "Missions in the Sunday School." Short talk by Mrs. Harris. Minutes of afternoon and evening sessions. Benediction. Reception to delegates. Sunday Morning. Opening service by pastor. Offering for conference. Missionary address, Mrs. S. S. Har? ri?. Sunday Afternoon. Opening service. Exercise by Junior Society. Address by Rev. G. P. Watson. Sunday Evening. Sermon by Rev. S. M. Glennan. (Miss) Jessie Curtis, District Secretary. Puxvlllc News Items. The closing exercises of the Pax vi lie graded school will be held here on the 13th and 14th of this month. The first evening will be given over to the intermediate and primary grades. The second evening will be taken up by the annual address to the graduating class and presentation of diplomas. Senator Epps, of Sum? ter, will deliver the address. The fol? lowing will complete the high school course. Pou Herring, Vcrnon Hodge, Eugene Brown, Misses Jessie Brum and Minnie Geddings. The Women's Christian Temper? ance Union held a medal contest on loot Friday evening at the school auditorium. There were eleven con? testants and all did well, in fact the judges debated long before they an? nounced the winner, Miss Vivian Geddings. Her selection was entitled "A Cigarette." The other contestants^ were presented with little contest badges. Delightful music was given at intervals of the program. Miss! Vivian Curtis handled her violin ex? traordinarily well. Claude Corbett. j Faxvillo's young orator, delivered an oration entitled "Patriotic Ameri? ca," which was soul stirring. Misses .Jessie Curtis and Lenthe Ed? wards will leave Friday for Lynch burg to attend the annual district missionary meeting. Mrs. Maggie Garvin has returned to her home at Sharon, after spending I tie winter with her niece, Mrs. J. YV. Minis, Jr. Misses Etta Corbett and Sudie Cut? ler went to Sumter Friday where they have accepted positions. Mr. Friendly Geddings left a short While ago for duty at Camp Jack? son. Mr. .1 W. Minis, Jr.. has returned from Gaffne.y, where he went to at? tend the piano recital of his sister. Miss Sadie, at Limestone College. The Woman 8 Missionary Society of the Methodist Church was pleasantly entertained at the last monthly meet? ing at the home of Mrs. L. Weinberg After a well rendered program, de? lightful refreshments were served. We are very glad that Mr. Hoover was not present on this occasion) else it might not have been well with us Washington. May 2. The Shah Of Persia has applied for $100,000 of liberty bonds. The request reached the State department today from Minister Ca Id well at Teheran. GERMAN SPY CAPTURED. Man Landed in Ireland From Ger? man Submarine Will be Court martialed. London, May 9.?A German sub-! marine recently landed a man on the Irish coast where he was arrested by government officials. The man is now in the tower of London, and he will be courtmartialed, it was an? nounced In the house of commons to? day. Slackers Old and New. (By Cyrus Townsend Brady of The Vigilantes.) The papers chronicle day by day the steady advance^ of the British soldiers northward through Palestine. Their lines extend from the Jordan to the sea and they are slowly but surely driving the Turks before them in this latest, greatest and most de? cisive crusade. If the followers of Mahomet can make any stand against the followers of Christ it will surely be in the plain of Esdraelon, one of the natural bat? tlefields of the world. It is singular how some places lend themselves in? evitably to conflict. The plain of Jezreel, to give it another name, is one of these. It has been fought over continually since Thothmes there defeated the Hittites in the dawn of recorded history. Jew and Gentile; Canaanite, Assyrian, Baby? lonian, Scythian, Persian, Greek and Roman contested for its mastery in the past; English, French, Italian, German, Arabian, and Turk from Godfrey and Richard and Saladln to Napoleon drenched its fertile soil with blood in more modern times. May the forcoming be the last of its many battles, and Allenby the last of the long line of Crusaders. One of the most decisive of the conflicts upon that plain occurred in 129? B. C. when Barak, the Ligh' ning, Inspired by Deborah led ten thousand men down the slopes of Mount Tabor in a. successful nigTit onfall and surprise of the army of the oppressor, Jabln of Hazor, un<vr the command of Sisera. The Haz zorltes were disastrously defeated, driven In panic terror down tie nar? row pass cut by thv? Kishon, then m full Hood, and killed or drowned fn large numbers. Deborah made a great song about the triumph- One stanza runs this way: "Curse ye Meroz, said the Angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the in? habitants thereof; because they came not to the help or the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty." No one knows where Meroz lay. No ruined vestiges remain to identify it. There is no other mention of it in the pages of history. There is ro ground even for speculation about it. Yet for over thirty-two centuries it has been pilloried in its infamy in that immortal song. Whatever its prosperity and its works, whatever its hopes and achievements, the loves and hates ,the successes or failures, of its people?they are all forgotten in the blistering, withering condemnation of the singer. It stands as a place ac CUreed foi >ver. Perhaps its utter oblivion is the result of the merited condemnation. ' Shall there be written against our city, against our land, the curse of Meroz? Shall we apply to these and to ourselves this slackers' text? Or shall we come to the help of the Lord today, tomorrow and forever, in the great conflict, and at all times, be? ing waged in Europe and everywhere against sin and the devil? Curse ye Meroz? Non nobis. Do mine?Not unto us, Oh Lord! Red Cross Notes. The following stores have pur? chased the "Carry Your Own Parcel" stamps and are ready to seal the packages that you carry yourself: Schwartz Bros., Levi Bros., Phelps' Grocery, D. J. Chandler Clothing Co., Stubbs Bros.. Levy & Moses. Sumter Railway & Mill Supply Co. McCollum Bros., O'Donnell & Co., Cuttino & McKnight, Moran & Co, Sibert's Drug Store, Zemp's Phar? macy, Carolina Grocery Co., Wreck Store, Ladies' Shop, DeLorme's Drug Store, Hearon's Pharmacy, Cash Dry Goods, Sumter Dry Goods, Kingman's Grocery, Citizen's Meat Market, Sum? ter Clothing Co., Moses Green, AI? pert Dry Goods, Burns Hardware, Bultman Shoe Store, Mitchell's Drug Store, Folsom Dry Goods, Hurst's Gro? cery Store, Ducker & Bultman, Sbav A McCollum. Dr. Watson's DrUJ Store. DuRant Hardware Store. Spann's Gash Grocery, It is hoped that in the very near future every merchant In the city will realize the need of these stamps, and will order same, which they can , do by phoning 2~'2. New York. May 7. Tammany Hall established a precedent today when It admitted women as members of the exeeotlve committee. After the foil primaries there will he an equ il number of men and women chosen. The County Medical Association and the Public. There is no title in the United States more abused and belittled than that of M. D. It is misapplied times without number and unfor? tunately the public at large makes no differentiation; the reputable doctor of medicine is given the same title as the corner quack who waits to make his stealthy spring on the guile? less sucker. The public at large is be? ing now educated in many profession? al ways, for there should be nothing mysterious nor secretive in the prac? tice of medicine. The public should know that the County Medical Association is the doorway that the quack, the shyster and the man who got his M. D. from some illiterate school of the past, can? not enter. So great is the abuse of the medi? cal title that not only graduates of pharmacy, but soda jerkers, illiterate veterinary men, without any degree, and dentists are called doctors, yes, even colored chauffeurs who drive for physicians, are all called doctors. Party because of this abuse of title, England does not allow our M. D.'s to practice in that country without a special examination; and the English surgeons are always called Mr. ' Membership in the State Associa? tion can only come through being a member of the County Association and a physician cannot be a Fellow of the American Medical Association without being a member of his Stato and County Associations. Why should not the public at large know, that while the medical title in our country has been belittled, that the county society stands as its guardian, and to be a member, means the practitioner has graduated at a reputable college, that he has com? plied with the legal requirements of his State with regard to the practice of medicine, and that morally his character and methods entitle him te association with his fellow practition? er. Again, we know that the mem? ber of the County Society is the man who keeps up his knowledge of the new methods and ihe advances in the science of medicine which come to us every month; and every mentf>er of a live county society knows that he carries awa> some new thought or some ideas he can develop later, at every meeting. It is a fact also that the county and the State meetings are attended by the men who are the busiest men in the profession. I can give personal testimony that since 1892 I have al? ways been a member of a county society and I believe it has been the one continuous inducement to study, equip myself, and keep up with an ever advancing profession. As your president both to show our patriotism and to preserve the integrity of our society I recommended that all dues of the members of our association, in the military or naval service of the United States, be kept up and paid by our society as a boc'ly. * WALTER CIIEYNE, M. D., President Sumter Ccunty Medical As? sociation. The fruit crop prospect is unusually fine this year and early peaches will be on the market within the next ten days or two weeks from Sumter coun? ty orchards. mn??nntnn?i???in?niM?i?i???? We Grind Lenses, examine the eyes scientifically and fit eye? glasses perfectly. Let us work for you. We have all prescriptions on file. Broken lenses replac? ed promptly. Graduate Opto? metrist and Optician in charge. W. A. Thompson, I JEWELE & OPTOMETRIST, jj inminuinMimMiiinmmnmnnuuaga Geo. H. Hurst, Undertaker and Embatmer Prempt Attentin to Day and Night Calls At J 0. CROG Old Stand. RtfMi Phones: S&&,