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RAVAGES ON GERMANY. BQsrT LATH) N DrXKrMSEK ITVM ??fc.lt CUNT. IN rXH It YI.AItS. Auntria tui*l llungury Suffer Kvcii More Tluiu All>?Gain fur Great Britain. I/ondon. Juno 2 (British Admiralty. p?r Wirelesa 1'ress).?The drain of man power, the fall in th.> numbers of births and the loss of the population through sickness and under feeding is felt more severely by the eeniial pick? ers than by the peoples of the t n-nte. Whereas the annual drain of popula? tion In Germany and in Austria-Hun? gary has given place to a serious loss, the peoples of the entente have suf? fered a very small diminution in com? parison. Oreat Britain's total population has so far remained at about the same figure, gains balancing losses. The rate of Increase in the Tinted States lias not been affected at all At tin war goes on this gtowing disparity in the losses of population between the central powers and the peoples fight? ing them is likely to Im reas.'. if the war goes on Into next year the popu? lation of the German empiie will have loHt 10 per cent, of the l umbers ami \* great proportion of its industrial strength i The German empire, which in June. It 19. should have had 72.eon nun peo? ple will have no more than 64,500. 000 and Germany as a whole will have 6 per cent less population than when the war began, <>:' those who have been killed the greater number were men in the prime of life and energy whom Germany can least ?pare. By deaths in the battle zomt the German empiro has lost at least S.000,000 men. The birth rate has sunk to such a figure that by next year the number of births will have fallen short of what they would have been had there been no war by three am! a third million of children. In the same period the annual number of deaths among the German civilian population has. owing to the stress and anxiety of the war and owing to sickness and disease. Increased by 1. i)0?>.Ouo over the normal. The vitalltv of the peoples of Aus? tria and of Hungary has suffered even more. This perhaps was to be expect*-.! The peoples of Austria will be 11 per cent, poorer In num? bers next year than if tho war had never taken place. Hungary will stil! be wrse off. It will have a population I per cent, lower than before tb*- Wat and I "? per cent, lower than If th? re bad been no war. As the war continues so will these losses Increase. Meanwhile, notwithstanding tin losses which Kngland has suffer* *! in the war sone the British population ha* been growing B> the middle of ltlf this population will b? only | per cent, lower than It wo lid have been without war. Offal Britain in 1919 will have a larger population than ?n IUI? < ommciKvmciit Notes. Tin? first night of the commence? ment exercises will take place In the nuditmium of the G u 1? High School building ton.on*.w evening at i? o'clock. The city bell will sound thirteen times at 8.30 as a warning tell. TIm - \erclscs will begin prompt? ly at ? o'clock. It Is very desirable that the whole au'li* gee .should as ???rnblo by 8.S3. Tho first number of the program tomorrow evening will be the drill h> the three cadets selected by two com? petitive drills from the whole bat? talion. These three boys are well drilled ami this feature should prove a very attractive one to the specta? tors. The three cadets will contest for the medal that is offered annual? ly by Mr. Mitchell Levi. one of the members of the City Board of Ivlu* a tion. After the drill the declalmers will contest for the Bhame licclaimors medal I in* dal that Was oficroi many Mars .*>;*> by Mr. W. K. Ilh.im* and since Ins deav.ht .Min hm m and since his death, by Mr. B. .1 Bhame In honor of his father's mem* ery. This is the third year that th com? mencement exercises have been hold In the auditorium of the Girls Hlgll School. Both evenings of the commence ment should prove interesting and it 1? hoped that the citizens of Sumtei will determine to evince th. Inter est by being present on both oc< isloni Many a beautiful romam I gai been brought t.? an abrupt end by a few thoughtlcsM words spoken by a pi ' . < her Tin- most annoying thing abotll th**e people who always expe. ? the WOTMt U 111*' the. *ee|,| |,q |<' l|| ) thy worst doesn't happen. GREAT SEA RAULE. AMFIUCAX AND MUTISM SHIPS SIDE BY SIDE. Admiral Cleaves .Makes Statement Concerning Peculation for Fight. New York, June 2.?United States now has a large number of first class battleships "preparing bide by side with the best ships of the British navy for an engagement on the high : seas which is expected to occur at any time with the German licet," accord? ing to a statement made in an ad? dress here tonight by Hear Admiral Albert I Heaves. "1 am not going beyond the bordei line of secrecy," declared Admiral Gleaves, "when I say that a few days ago there came an alarm to the heads of the British navy that the German battleships were about to come out for the expected engagement on the high seas. 1 know that the British nav> heads gave the first class American battleships a post of honor in prep aration for the attack." "I do not profess to know much ol what is going on in the arena of wat on the other side of the ocean," Ad? miral Cleaves continued, "because 1 am kept busy with my own part ol the game which is the management of the cruisers and torpedo opera? tions. "Again I am limited to narrow lines in the matter giving information and I would not go into details even if I did know such things . . . "I know that our ships working with the British navy in making ready for this tight are in the prime of con? dition and are fully prepared to win the engagement. We have about 150 vessels over there now and between 35,000 and 40,000 men aboard them." Asserting that it was gratifying to note that the appropriation bill awaiting the signature of President Wilson carries with it 11,100,000,000 to back up this rapidly growing navy of ours, Admiral Cleaves added that "we now have a navy of 19,000 otii cers and more than 400,000 men," Oi "a navy four times greater than it was just before we entered the war." Describing the life of soldiers . aboard transports, the speaker said that the men had "everything that can be furnished them to remind them of life ashore." From 15,000 to 10, 000 meals are prepared each day aboard these transport, he said. In reply to a question as to wheth? er it had boon found possible to carry airplanes on cruisers, Admiral QlOAVei said: "All navies have been experiment? ing along such lines, but the airplanes are so fragile that they are often put out of commission by the discharge of the big guns of a cruiser and it is difficult to take them on and off." Asked if any method had been de? vised to destroy an oncoming torpedo. Admiral Cleaves replied. "Practically non ?." Asked how near to our shores Ger? man submarines had approached, he referred his questioner to the secre? tary ot the navy, "who Knows." In reply to a request to explain the disappearance of the naval OOlllOT i'yclops, he said. "It would take a fortune teller to account for the < 'yclopM." The college ^hls are OOttllng home ? very day, and are being gladly wel BOmod among us. They are coining a 1th fresh, new ideas from all over 11 e OOUntry, and with zeal and energy will take up their share ot the work that the women ami girls art? so glad* ly doni4. There is a broad field for their energies thll summer, and an Important place for everyone to Uli We fiel sure that among them as well as among tin- boys there will be no idlers. There will be ;'? wer dances and frollCS of all kind, hut their hearts are over the water, and with Ked Cros, Wat Savings, Children's Welfare, Community C inning, and it her meetings to attend they will not miss them, but will nive of their Umi ?nd strength to help the boys who will not DO here to danct With them. A small store house and the dwell Ing of u t. .lames, colored, South PtSrdy street, neat the .N orth WCstC' li Railroad were burned Wednesdu: Bight and a dwelling adjacent wa badly damaged, The firemen extln? guishod the second dwelling after the rOOf was in Hann s and prevented t i? spread Of the lire to o'her nearby buildings* The (;?? Iveston News thinki ti little DO] would SnJCi) his piano I lesson more it be were permitted to lump up nnd down on tie keyboard A ml. i son Ma il. There ought to be a divorce law la accommodate the woman whose hU* bund beats her Up became she won't beat him Up ami build tic drei In 'In mot num. He g ho w ould be thoughl a great mat must learn to appear dignified and keep hi* mouth shut. CHILI) LAHOR LAW INVALID. Supreme Court Deelares Federal Law L'nconstitutional. Washington, June 3.?The federal Child labor law of 1H10 forbidding in? ter-State shipments of products of child labor was today declared uncon? stitutional and invalid by the Supreme i'ourt. The injunction restraining the Charlotte, N. C, cotton null from dis? charging children was sustained. Junior Clutrlty League. The girls of the Junior Charity League were entertained by Mrs. H. M. Stuckey at a lawn party Tuesday afternoon from 7 to 8 o'clock. Ilugs. ? hairs and blooming plants were placed under the trees. Punch and little war cakes were served by Misses Elton Virginia Stuckey, Nancy Booth ami Lucile Smoak. At a business meeting held direct? ly aiter the social session, several new members were enrolled and forty girls volunteered their services for the lour departments outlined for their summer's work. The Junior Charity League has done good ami effective service all winter and the purpose in enlarging this Organisation is , the great pa j trlotic need of all available girl pow? er of our town. The four branches of service are all welfare work of one sort or another, in addition to the care of a child each member has un? dertaken for the year: 1. Bed Cross motor corps will de llver and call for sewing Monday and Saturdays of each week. There are j four cars to each ward and two girls besides their driver to each car, mak? ing twelve members on this commit^ tee. Chairman, Miss Ethel Green; Miss Henrietta Boykin, Mrs. Edwin McCallum, Mrs. J. G. DeLorme, Mrs. Forrester, Miss Elizabeth Ustcen, Misses Grace Reynolds, Aline Rey? nolds, Carita B?ndle, Mary Bland, Elizabeth Lesesne, Mrs. L B. Lynam. Julia Reynolds. 2. The surgical dressings committee will go in squads of five each day, making thirty members a week throughout the summer. Each per? son furnishes a substitute in c?se it i is impossible to act on any of these committee?, thereby insuring a per? formance of work undertaken. None of this service requires a member to obligate for more than one day in the week as a welfare worker. All other service is voluntary'. But the day is speclMed and if each member conscientiously does the allotted task on the day named by her chairman, it will not be a hardship for any. Chairman. Miss llassie Parott. A full list of this committee will be publish? ed next week. The volunteer playgrounds assist? ants will go one afternoon week to help the supervisor. Child welfare work is occupying the attention of the most learned people of our age. It has been demonstrated that chil? dren must be wisely directed in their play. Games played with zest teach fairness ol spirit and cultivate strength of body, Story telling en OUrages imagination and love of good literature. Many of our college girls and nor nal graduates are well equipped to assist In this splendid and most important work. Miss Julia Reynolds, a graduate of RadclitTe ' tollegO, is chairman of this commit? tee, ably assisted by Miss Dorothy Phelpd, recently graduated from a North Carolina normal school: Chair? man. Miss Julia Reynolds, Miss Ma? mie Chandler, Mrs. Shephard Nash, Misses Marie Causley, Dorothy Phelps, j Ethel Green, Mary Haynsworth. Many of the returning college girls will aot on this committee. Last is the soldiers' entertainment committee, which provides a social mOOtln gOVOry other Saturday night during the summer for our week-end gUOStli The plan proposed is for this committee to meet the soldiers at the train Saturday afternoon with cars, and take them to Pocalla Springs for a refreshing swim and picnic supper) returning about 10 p. m. Mr. M. H. Beck has patriotically given the use of his resort free of charge. A suitable runni er of chap erones will go along and as many girls las boys will be Invited. If for any reason this plan is not feasible or the weather is bad, DeLorme** Roof Gar? den has been generously offered, and also enough homes with large porchei ami lawns for the six or seven enter? tainments. Tins commltte< lias for Its chairman, Mrs, Bdward McCalU'im; Misses Adele Pitts, Teresa < 'handler i.onise Carson, Marian Gentry. Ethel Green, Mary Bland, Henrietta Boy kin, I >oi othy Phelps, Mabel I ;<> >th Mamie Chandler, Jultu Key n< "ds. i 'laudln Fr?ser, M is. ip uce L> nu The trouble with the higher civili? zation Is that it is always trying to Ihlns Up some way to put more of D I Ick in V lee. in our grand father's time the girls married young, They don'! marry any younger in these da s, but thej murr) oftener, BED GROSS TOTAL NOW SEVENTY MILLIONS OVEH MINIM I'M SOUGHT. South C arolina One of State? Tripling Quota to War Work of Organiza? tion. Washington, June 2.?The Ameri? can Red Crosi second war mercy fund totals $166,439,291, with indica? tions that when all reports from the drive ol a week ago are tabulated a $70,000,000 oversubscription of th? $100,000,000 goal will be shown. In announcing the figures tonight, Hen? ry P. Davison, chairman of the Red Cross war council, said the returns show that more than 4 7,000,000 Americans?nearly half the total population of the eountrv ? con? tributed. Those giving to the first fund last year numbered only about 0,000,000. Not only did every Hod Cross divi? sion In the country oversubscribe, but one, the Gulf, turned in more than three times the amount ot its quota, while live others, the Southern, At? lantic, Mountain, Northwestern and Southwestern, more than doubled their allotments. The insular and foreign divisions quadrupled its quota. Every State attained its goal, five more than tripled it and JC others and the District of Columbia more than loubled theirs. "The supreme feature of this aihievement," said Mr. Davlson'i statement, "is to be found not in the amount of money subscribed, but in that it came from every part of the United States, from its cities, its towns, its farms, its factories, from the rich and the poor, regardless of sect, color or political cred. No American wants thanks because his country has so richly fullUIed her ob? ligation, but I do congratulate every American who has contributed eith? er time or money towards this, the greatest work of mercy, pity and love in the history of mankind." The quotas and subscriptions by divisions announced include the fol? lowing: Quota. Subscription. Southern . . .$2,950,000 $ 5,904,000 Gulf. 1,300,000 4.133.76D Southwestern . 7,250.000 15,564,499 Greater N. Y.. 25.ooo.ooo 53,465,764 New Kngland. 6,650,000 11,100,00)1 Northern. . . 2,200,000 4,217.on< Pennsylvania 12,000,000 18,100,0()<i insuia, foreign 300,000 1,200,000 The States tripling their quota: were: Alabama, Mississippi, Soutr Carolina, Wyoming and Arizona, am those more than doubling their allot? ment were: Louisiana, Tennessee Texas. New Jersey, Connecticut Michigan, Nebraska, Colorado, New Meixco, New Hampshire, North Da? kota, Washington, Idaho, Delaware West Virginia and Kansas. Alaska turned in more than four , times it;. $20,000 quota. Mil. REARDON CALLS MEETING, Wholesale and Retail Merchants Re? quested to Meet at Chamber of Commerce. The wholesale and the retail deal? ers of Bumtor In every line of busi? ness are respectfully invited to meet at the chamber of Commerce, at 6.15 o'clock, tomorrow evening. Tuesday. June 4th for discussion of an import? ant matter of more than ordinary in? terest to the business establishments of Sumter, in connection with the part that commercial organization units will play in the winning of the war. I have been designated as State chairman of the Commercial Organi? zation Division for South Carolina. War Savings Committee, and 1 have a very attractive, and patriotic propo? sition to submit to the business men Of Bumter from the National War Savings Committee. v This proposition by icquest from the national government, has been In? vestigated and heartily endorsed by H. A. Moses, chairman of War Sav? ings for Sumter county, and he and his patriotic local committee will co? operate with the State committee of commercial organizations In this mai? lt r. The members of the Sumter War Ravings Committee are also invited and requested to attend tomorrow evening's meeting. 1 naturally desire and have the light to expect that Sumter, my home < Ity, ami the designated headquar? ters for South Carolina Of this busi? ness men's and women's participa? tion in auch an important war ac? tivity, will be the leader of all oth? er South Carolina towns and edits. I therefore respect fully urge thai n rep? resentative of every retail and whole? sale establishment, In every line of business will meet promptly at 6.16 o'clock tomorrow evening. Reaped fully. R. 1 Reardon, stale Chairman, Commercial Organ i/ations, War Buvingl for S. C. An old bachelor consoles himself With the belief thai all married men are hen-peckedi WHEAT GRINDING REGULA? TIONS. Liberal Treatment Will llO Accorded Raisers of Wheat in South Carolina. Columbia, June 1.?With reference to the grinding; of wheat in South Carolina, Mr. Elliott, the food admln i latrator, has just returned from Wash? ington where he attended a meeting of the food administrators of the country, and makes the announce? ment that the question of grinding wheat in South Carolina was most carefully considered, and Mr. Hoover authorizes the statement that liberal treatment will be given the raisers of wheat in South Carolina with refer? ence to grinding. The exact terms of the instructions to millers have not been decided upon but will be issued in a few days. In the meantime, however, the growers of wheat can rest assured that the present rule concerning the amount that a farmer can have ground will be greatly altered, and that a farmer will he permitted ta have his own wheat ground to a lib? eral extent. As soon as new instruc? tions arc issued they will be publish? ed. TELEGRAPH STRIKE THREATENS Commercial Telegrapliers' Enton May Attempt to Tie Ep Service. Washington, June 3.?S. K. Konen kamPi president of the Commercial Telegraphers' Union, conferred here today V) ith Samuel Gompers on call? ing a strike of the telegraphers as a protest against the Western Union's refusal to leave the settlement of dif? ferences with the employes to the na? tional war labor board. AMERICAN CASUALTY LIST. ; Only Thirty-six Names Mentioned? Eour Killed in Action. Washington, June 3.?The casualty list today contains 36 names, as fol ' low*: Killed in action, 4; died of jv. tunds, 3; died of accident, 2; died ! of disease, 7; wounded in action, It wounded severely, 16; wounded siightly, 1. When the wife's away the man will play havoc with things in tho kitch? en. The highwayman has a lo?v way of getting a living. A Powerful Ally of the modern business man is a dependable financial affiliation. It not only assists him in meeting present de? mands but co-operates with him in planning the future. Armed with this support and assurance, he is able to wage a stronger campaign for growth and progress. This Institution offers a full measure of help? ful co-operation to commercial interests. J. P. BOOTH, President. W. J. CROWSON, JR., Cashier. Z It I'M t H M* H H II It ||?? Thrift Stamps. Buy One Each _ Day! The First National Bank SUMTER, S. C. ....... A.t. JL.T. * M- -?- -*- AA JiJ > lAXi' - - - - ? t ? ri itv E6e NATION/^ BANK 1*1 &A?P> T_WUn rn< . or NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH CAROLIM 1 OF SUMTER. The I argest Bank in Eastern South 1 Carolina offers you its services and t is prepared to serve you. The National Bank ol South Carolina $ C. G. ROWLAND. President. F. E. HINNANT. Cashier. ??^^??^??^?^++++444 MM 44 4 4444<f444 44444444444 BOOTH & McLEOD SAY: Buy Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps ...FIRST... Send os an order next, and first, last and all the time ? 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