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MAUHI TS mit GRAIN. Comments mim! Soggestions l?j um K.\ periomvd Miller. The following letters from Statt' Food Administrator William Klliott to Bscretary Reardon of the Chamber of Commerce In reference to the prob I? m of developing I market for South Carolinu grain crops will be found in? teresting and enlightening. As h is been stated many times before, the ejMof difficulty lion in the fact that South Carolina furniere have not yet come to regard grain uh a staple mon? ey crop and have not been able to leallse that corn, oats and wheat must be sold on the same busts as cot? ton and tobacco?that Is, at the pre? vailing market prae according to Standard commercial grades. It is possible to sell corn or outs in small quantities locally to other farmers ai d consumers in towns at retail prices, but when it comes to selling lurge quantities as a commercial propo? rtion ruling prices on the market must govern all transactions, Just us the ruling prices on the great cot? ton markets fix the price of cotton. Mr. K. I. Reunion. Managing Secre tar\ ?'hamber of Commerce. Sum ter. 8. C. Deaf Mr. Reardon: In connection with the letter of Mr. 11 J. McUiurin. sent out by the Sumter Cbamhei ot Commerce. I outlined the situation set forth in Mr. McUiurin's letter to a reliable miller in this State for his comments und suggestions. 1 en Hoasj you a copy of his reply which 1 hop* may throw some light on the sit? uation. Yours very truly, Win. Klliott. Food Administrator for South Caro? lina. Columbia. June 19. Mr William Klliott, Federal Food Administrator, Columbia, S. c. I>ear Sir: I have read letters to you from Mr. K. I. Reurdon. Also htter to Mr Reardon from Mr. II. J McDaurin, Jr. These letters huve ref? erence to the difficulties that the farmers of South Carolina ure having In selling their grain. The writer has been In the whole? sale business in Columbia for ;i num? ber of years and. for the past four years has operated the Adluh Milling Company, a plant tb it consumes, on an average, fifteen hundred bushels of corn and about the same number of bushels of other grain per day. We have spent approximately $10,000 ad verlstng in local and county papers and. we have met with very little co? operation from the farmer, so far as bis willingness to allow us to sell his products. The principal difficulty in this mat? ter Is that the average farmer expects to get for his surplus grain what his neighbor has to pay for same from some retail store, lie fails to recog? nise the Importance of listing these products with thoHe wh<? have the fa? tties and established trade for quick and economic movement of same. Thev fail Is rOOOSjnist 'he difference in ipialhs. that is. the merchantable condition that is required. The most Important of whi< h is the moisture contents at the time the goods are of? fered for sole. This latter trouble makes it almost Imperativs for a ereil established con rn to concentrate products from farmers In order to condition them for market. The primary trouble. however, Is due to the fuel that the farmer sel dor i evrr knows what Im wants for his stuff. He will ask what you will give and. probably two or three weeks afterwards, if It goes down, he is rcudy to make delivery. We note thut Mr. Reardon luys stresa on the fact thut he bus solicit? ed sales of South Carolina grain, corn and outs und feed stuffs, to the Quar? termaster's Department of the t'nlteo Stuten army. As to this, as you know. It Is then eiiMtom to buy on bids and. there nie ?ueh speclti? ntions required in these bids that then- would not be one farmer in ten that could comply und. for this reason alone, It Is proof conclusive that, In onset 1st the farm? er to move his surplus grain, it In neeeMMaiv that he sell it to a regular grain denier, one who makes that bis business, or better still, register 'he number of bushels of corn or otha r products that be has. naming bis prloo so that this party can net as sei 11 n ; spent for them. To handle on either i i-is it amounts to the same think, except, that the farmer would get the benefit of the cost which the dealer would be entitb d to in case he inves* ed his monev in the product. There Is considerable surplus corn In South Carolina, at least there should I.e. and It seems to the writer that your department could facilitate tie movement of this surplus (ton by it leas' letting It be known union* farm . SJ of the SUite who have surplus corn. oats. hay. etc. that you will at? tempt to Und a market for same In this way. if POSJ will woi u Ottl I deH alts plan, 1 fssl that the results among the ftinncis of the State would be em-out auiUK. We as Rillleif have no desire to par? ticipate In speculation on coin, or other grain. We prefer only a legi? timate profit fol the services we cm Milder. There is no dependence, however, to be put in our ability to draw our products from the farmers when they fail to register same with us. We are selling corn products ev? ery day and the prices we name on our products depend on what the pro? ducts cost us and, if Mr. Farmer fall! to quote us we cannot in turn mill it and turn it over to the consumer. There Is no one to blame except him? self. We naturally turn to the w - 11 established market to buy the raw material which we are supposed to furnish to our customers. We are in the grain business; we sell grain as well as mill it. Just to give you an idea of how little cooperation we receive from the farmers, we have Just recently built a feed mill which, If we do say it ourselves, Is a great credit to the State and a great bene llt to the farmer If he will take advan? tage of it. This mill was built pri? marily for grinding velvet beans. WS advertised last season for farmers to list what beans they might have for sale with us and ninety per cent of them wanted to know what we were going to pay. The results were that these farmers sold to merchants and in turn the merchants sold to us. For a farmer to register his pro dm ts with us, or any dealer, does not constitute a sale. He is simply em? ploying us to sell the products for elm. We are in a position to handle a Very large volume of thin product and V/e ran frankly state that, since we gave bOOH in the milling business, It has been a great surprise to us that the farmers seemed not to appreciate *hat facilities we had to offer him. Columbia. June 17, Hi 18. A L S A C' K -1 <4 > 111 < AIN K. Herman* Discuss Disposal of Provl Inees After the War. French Front, May 8 (Correspond? ence of the Associated Press)?In marly every newspaper printed In c.ormany at the present moment there If presented some kind of a scheme for the solution of the question of Al? sace-Lorraine. What the Hermans cannot understand is fact that virtual? ly every real Alsatian and Ixirrain re? jects in totality any scheme for join? ing his native land either to the Her? man empire or any of Its component federal states. The latest method of disposing of the two provinces discussed in the Herman Imperial Parliament pro? poses their division between Prus? sia and Bavaria, Lorraine to be tak? en by the former and Alsace by the latter. This proposition not only is h jected by the inhabitants of the provinces themselves, but has arous? ed protests from several of the Her? man States, and especially from Wuerttemherg. Consequently for the time being it has been allowed to drop in favor of two other schemes both unsatisfactory to some of the Herman parties. The lirst of them looks to the for? mation of an Independent state of A Is.ice- Lorraine under the rulo of a duke, while the second formulates the foundation of a republic of Alsace Lorraine attached to the Herman em pit e. Both of them have been wide ly discussed but without bringing about am conclusion, ami, should either of them be accepted by the Germane it is believed the people of the two provinces would have noth? ing to do with it. As the correspondent of The Asso Blated I'r ss has found In discussing the matter with Alsatians and Lor ralM Of all classes .the only desire of IhOM people is to bo reunited to I i im e. with which they have remain . d, in si |te Of the Herman annexation. . losely allied in all their Ideal nnd in ail their souls They recall frecjuently in Hm coo res of their conversation! the words altered by President Wilson. '"The wrong caused by Prussia to France Ig 1171 must be redressed In order that peace may be established in t he interest of all, TINTS HFINH I SI D. Have Itecomo Necessity lloouuse of Wasahf is of soldiers. Famp Jackson has assumed n rath .1 hybrid appearance during the last s/eek when large numbers of tents have made Ihelr dehui into camp life. These tents have given ths camp n more military air. making it resemble more and more Ihe temporary camps ai Oreenvtlte and Bpartannurg. The tents arc arranged in neat rows and in many cases serve as a mere addi? tion Ihe permanent barracks They win Inei ? nas I he ca paclty of I he camp to ? large estenl and are practically equivalent to the const i action of new bariasks Yours Very truly, Adluh Milling Company, B, it. Cooner, President. IN TRANSPORT SERVICE. stirring Story ot Trip Across Atlantic With American Overseas Army. The following letter was received a few days ago by Wads Reynolds from Bmlh Burton who is doing his bit in the transport service of the U. S. navy: Dear Wade: We left an Atlantic port 7.30 a. m. Tuesday ? for-to get in convoy for France. We anchor? ed there 0.20 a. m., Friday - Made liberty there and like the city well. We left ? ? 5.4 0 u. m. Sunday, -, with 4 2 ships, the largest convoy ever left America for France. On wc ran into a heavy fog which lasted 24 hours. Whistles kept continuous Slowing to keep from ramming other ships. On - we got into a storm that lasted about 14 hours. Saturday a. m. eight destroyers came over the horizon to convoy us in. A little la? ter on in the day 3 more came up. Ifiarly In the morning, we began pass? ing boxes, crates and crates of or? anges, so we suspicioned there must have been a ship sunk somewhere, sometime recently. 1 hl d midnight watch so I turned in. I heard a ship behind us blowing. It was distress signal. 1 jumped into my shoes and manned my station. She had sighted a ?Ubmarine. Ship off our starboard quarter began bring at the subma? rine. Six or seven men who had glasses could see the periscope, but I could not see it with my naked eye. (Juess that ship tired about seven shots and then the-began tiring at the wake of the submarine just as she submerged. They could hardly ?SS it at all for the after gun. Didn't get but Ihres shots at it. After the submarine submerges if you hit near you can put it out of commission. Seemed as if all the destroyers wer ? way to the port and starboard side, but just as soon as they heard guns tiring 3 or 4 left their position making full speed toward! where the subma? rine was sighted and started dropping depth bombs. There was a destroyer way in front of us, when she heard the whistles blowing, and the. guns tiring you ought to have seen her come across our bow. she was malting be? tween SO and 32 knots. It looked like sin- was Hying on the water. She was the first one to reach the place where the submarine was sighted, then she began dropping depth bombs. I don't know exactly how far they claim to sink a submarine, but it is <iuite a distance. We bad lots of T. N. T. dynamite and powder. If we had got torpedoed every ship in convoy would have been disabled. It wouldn't have been any chance for us, because it would have taken an aeroplane to find us we'd have been blown so high. The submarine tired a couple of tor? pedoes at the other ship that was br? ing but missed the ship quite a dis? tance. When a depth bomb explodes it sends the water away up in the shape of an umbrella. The ship that sighted the submarine first didn't here a gun on her. But next ship to her hail the guns. At 1 p. m. the subma? rine attacked convoy again off port Hide, but wasn't near us. The first at? tack was starboard, and then port. Destroy em began tiring at the subma? rine with guns and she submerged, and then they began dropping mo.e depth bombs. They think they got it. At 2 p. m.i an hour later, convoy divid? ed, half of them going to England the other half to France. We took the France convoy. Submarine re? potted otY stahoard quarter again at vir? p. m.i just about dark, but didn't gel to fire at it on aoeounl of ship in the way. At 10 p. m. - WS saw light? houses off the coast of France, then Wfl knew WS were about safe from submarines, We anchored outside of nets about midnight and next morn? ing we pulled into- and anchored 10.66 a. m.-. There we heard that submarines attacked the convoy thai went to England, also, and that a destroyer rammed the submarine and made the crew prisoners, Thins that WS Were pretty lucky. Left Francs 3.4a a, m.? for-in eon VOy, Anchored - hay 8 p. m. Tues? day just OUl from-. <',ot un? derway early Wednesday a. m. An? chored Wednesday p, m. ? mouth of-river. Left there 5.30 a. m. -quite a distance up the-riv? er at a point they call-to get or? ders. So many ships In that there was not room for US, so we had 10 Wall a couple of days before we could go on up. We left-9 a. in. We got to . the port we were at llrsl trip, near . about noon the ?. I min t know that small town had a name before, It is about one-half mile to ? The American engl neera have made lots of improvements since we were here the first time. Multl many mote docks and ware? houses The French gave a big day while we were here All the people who wanted to could come and see the progress it took the French years ami years to build the dock, while the Americans built us many and bet? tor ones in nine months. We got all I the liberty we wanted to go to-\ Thousands and thousands of soldiers there now. i had a great time while we were here. We got unloaded Sun? day and started taking on gravel for ballast. Tuesday morning finished taking on ballast and pulled away Crom dock about 7 a. in. Hot to and anchored about 11 a. ni.-On -got rated from electrician 3rd (lass to electrician 2nd class (R). Left-for the States with-ships counting escorts. Monday our escorts left us and went back to France, ev? ery man for himself. Sunday copied preee from Washington, wfc ich is about 2,200 miles by wireless, saying that submarines are off Nantucket and Cape Hatteras. (Jot press again say? ing ship was sunk off North Carolina. Heard President Lincoln, big trans? port, was torpedoed off France, but don't know whether she reached port or not. - pulled into Atlaniic Port and tied up to docks and started loading up right away. Huess we will be gone away from here in little more than week for France again. Write me soon. Your friend, Smith Burton. GUN FIGHTERS WANTED. Hand to Hand Fighting in No Man's Land I (rings Heina nd for Anicrlcjiii Revolver. Washington, June 20.?Hand to band fighting between patrols In No Man's Land has made necessary a < hange in equipment of the American army that will call for increased out? put of the 45 calibre automatic pistol. Manufacturers were urged by the war department today to speed up produc? tion although the output now |l about 3,000 pistols daily. The Hermans are said to have a wholesome respect for American pis? tol fighters, one bullet from an Amer? ican "forty-five" invariably putting an enemy completely out of business. Men hit by shots from the smaller pistols used by the Hermans frequently con? tinue in aetion. Dark Corner Items. Dark Corner, June 21.?Farmers are pushing ahead with their work in these parts, planting their stubble and in corn, peas, etc. Cotton seems to be doing line, putting on squares and blooming. Corn Is rather small and some of it is yellow and seems to be needing rain, of which we have not had much since the big May rains. Politics are still cool in those oasts, but then we never did get warmed up over a political cam? paign until It struck the magis ratial part and not much then, since the death of John Ingram. We used to have warm times though when he was alive. I see from The Item that Dial is shelling the masked batteries of Blease and Tillman with large gauge guns. And that Rice is thinking he will advance by being the son of a Confederate soldier. That is just what I am and one better, I am a Confed? erate soldier myself. Rut I should hate to accept an office on the merits of being a son of a veteran or being one myself. Not that 1 have night against Mr. Rice or any other of the candidates. All 1 have got to say is I hope we may get the right man in the right place all the way through. And 1 sure hope that the campaign may be carried through without any friction which I very much fear as Men Tillman and Cole Ricas?' are In it. For they generally stir up strife whenever they come along. Yet 1 have been with the Reform party since 1890 but let him that wins gold wear it. Though I had better hush, Uncle Ren will soon be shouting, to 11? with all such fools. L. B. Wood and E. 1 Reardon of Bumter made good talks at Blwell's chapel last Sunday night to a large audience. Come again, Leu and Em mett. Dr. M. lt. Parier of Wedgelield was here yesterday attending old man W. J, A rails, w ho keeps very feeble, He has been confined to his bed ami house for the last week and is but lit? tle better tliis morning. Mr. Jackson's baby is better of its cough. We had a light sprinkle of rain here this morning. Well, 1 will have to ring off here, as the mulatto gang is with us again in full force for this year. Hard Times. Washington. June 22.?The house today adopted a resolution calling on the president to inform the house it an order had been issued by the I' u?* I administration curtailing the supply of coal to liquor manufacturers. Rlmira. June 2..? Lew Long well ami Hector Bordeau, foremen in Hui ris' airplane factory at Hammondspori were arrested yesterday by special government agents on the charge of violating the net against willful iniai^ or destruction of war materials. Washington. June 22. A ten pel cent Increase in express rates was up proved today by Ihe Inter state Coi ? mores Commission. SUMTER TOBACCO WAREHOUSE MOORE BROS., Prop.. IS NOW OPEN AND READY TO RECEIVE ANY TOBACCO THAT FARMERS MAY WANT TO STORE. Date of Opening of Market Will be Announced Later. BOOTH & McLEOD SAY: Buy Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps ? ??FIRST ?ae ? Send us an order next, and first, last and all the time t ??Swat the Kaiser" ????????4 44444 4>4 ?M> 4~f4>4 e>+4~44+ 4* V++4 4+44 HHH444444 ????????t*++444++++444+44+4 0 Here Every Thrift or War Savings Stamp you buy is a lick at the Kaiser ? and J what he stands for. As an INVESTMENT they cannot be beat. Buy YOUR quota?and then some more. ESTABLISH ED iSSn J. P. BOOTH, Pres. W. J. CROWSON, Jr., Cashier 11 M H I ?????????? ?rfeeteit I III 111 >???#????? ' ?.hW* .w Thrift Stamps. Buy One Each _ Day! The First National Bank SUMTER, S. C. ?????????????????????????????????? Ml im Milium B6# NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH CAROLINA OF SUMTER THR fastest growing hank in this section I [>ree now accounts a dav for the rest ol the year, is the pace *e set-and are getting them. ana we We wan! your business and hare the ??r vice you need. OI" The National Bank ol South Carolina C. G. ROWLANO, President. f* 1. NINNANT. Ctthltr. +++++++++++++++ m?mw?iuu "'ttttllMtu