The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, June 05, 1918, Image 3
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
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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
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