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JEWS OF. PALESTINE REJOICE. Sacred Parchment Rolls That Ii;: 1 Been Carried With Them in Exile Are Restored to Their Synagogues. ?Jerusalem, July 20 (Correspond ence ot* The Associated Press) Resto ration of the Parchment Scrolls of the Law to thi* various synagogues in Tel Aviv and Jaffa was one of the interesting ceremonies which. follow ed" the British occupation. These scrolls of the Law of Moses which are all written by hand and are preserved in magnificently orna mented cases, some of them in solid silver are the most sacred and holy possessions of every Jewish commun ity. So when Djemal Pasha in his hostility to the Zionists, carried out the tyrannical evacuation of the bulk of the Jewish population of Jaffa in April 19J7, the Jews carried with them these sacred To rah into exile, lest they should fall into the hands of the Turks. . These sacred Scrolls had been care fully guarded by the Jews at Petach Tikvah- (Mulebbis) and were brought back in solemn procession 10 Jaffa. A'triumphal arch was erec ted at the northern confines of Tel Aviv, every t house was decorated with flowers and bUnting and the whole of the Jewish population turned out en f? te to meet the return of their sacred possessions. Jews came not merely from Jaffa but also from Richnn-le-Zicn and the other neighboring colonies. The young.men-and the girls oi th Maccabee Athletic Association dress ed; in white clothes.- with blue sashes and ties maintained order and kept a pathway clear for the procession through the crowds. The procession wais headed by the Australian Military Bafed and the ceremony at the Trium phal Arch Was attended by officers representing the Military Governor anS by Dr. Weizmann and the mcm befe and officers of the Zionist Com mission. |"he Haham Bashi (Chief Rabbi) of^Jaffa mounted a small dais near th$ Triumphal Arch and delivered an eloquent Hebrew address in which he recounted the hardships of the evacu ation. He thanked and invoked bless ings upon the British government and th? Briiish Army and expresses! the hojpe that/Success would crown the ef forts of the ^Zionist Commissioners. Th*e Jews desired, to regenerate and bujld up Palestine, not merely for th$ir own benefit, but for that of all its- inhabitants whose friendship and hejp he invited. The re-establishment of j,the Jewish people in their ancient home in Palestine, he said, would bo fo? the good of all humanity. Then the Shofar or Ram's horn was blown and the scrolls were carried under caponies by the Chief Rabbi, Di? Weizmann and others to the va rious synagogues, to which they be longed. In the afternoon the town of Tel A\fiv remained en-fete. Ihere were precessions of school children crown . edy and decorated with flowers, -the X^feoenites^ carrying small Iambs and goats on their shoulders and bearing pafms-in their hands. Children sold flo|tvers and confetti in the streets the proceeds of which go to a fund start ed: recently by the Zionist teachers for translating into Hebrew and publish ing; in Hebrew. English books and. lit erature. In the evening the Macca bees gave an athletic demonstrati'm irrt the Public Hardens, and the pro ceedrngs closed at sunset with the sieging of "Cod Save the Kiner" and thj> Zionist National Anthen "ilatik vajh." the Song of Hope. --?HEAVY SUNDAY FIGHTING. British Forces Repulse Attacks of I- Enemy. i-ondon. Aug. 11.?Strong German o,tj?icks delivered with fresh reserves ag&inst the British at LiStons and north and south of that village were repuLed today and in the fighting; the Germans suffered great losses, ac cording to the official statement from! Fi^ld Marshal Haig. The-text of the communication., fofiows: ^This morning the enemy delivered strong attacks with fresh division: brought up from his reserves against the British positions at Lihons and to th> south and north of that place. .J'All these attacks have been re pulsed after severe fighting in which our troops inflicted great losses upon thi^ enemy's advancing line. <TAt one point, immediately to the north of Lihons, . German assault troops broke into our positions and penetrated to the west side of the village. They were then c?unterat tajfcked with determination by our trjpops. and in the course of fierce fighting over the difficult ground wire driven back to the east and nJrth of the village. f'Hur line was completely restored. i"??n the right of the British troops Fxench forces acting in cooperation wish them have made progress south west and south of Rove. *"f>n the remainder cf the British fr|>nt a few prisoners have been cap tired by our patrols during the flay.",' Botulism?A Sloping Disease Affict-j ing Soldiers. /With the American Army in Eng land, Aug. S.?-A few cases of botul is&a have been discovered in :Ii j Aaierican army uut none has resulted! frially and the medical corps ha \ eaco?htered no difficulty in checking th^- spread of the disease. jA greater number of cases b^eii found in the_J2ritish for<: . bu the percentage is not much larger! there and. while deeply inl 'rest d ini the character of this latest of war dis- j eajjkes. physicians, both British and American, profess conviction '>.:' il it! w?ll not become so prevalent to become a menace. <>n<- of the vie-1 tims in the American armv haa be : an? officei .it headquarters. He r'-eov eripd. only a. slight drooping t i. e\*slyids remaining some days :?f,< r h< was discharged, as a reminder of hi: i I tries.-;. (Little regarding the cases <>' tr& disease has yel been ]<?: ;? 1 syjnptoms include an inordinate tic sine to sleej). supplemented <? '.< >> as?ight rash and a tendem de li&um. The patient sometime: I I in-a partly, paralyzed state- J;? ..i ?'-.. cased only has it proved fatal. SINKS FISHING BOATS. Auxiliary Scheooners Leave Massa chusetts (.'oast to Rescue Members of Crews. Nantucket, Mass.. Auer. 11.?Nine j fishing schooners were sun:; off i George's Banks today by a t< Jerman j submarine, a naval scout boat which ; put in here tonight reported, j The scout boat picked up word of ! the raid from the auxiliary fishing j schooner Fielen Murley, which hau rescued four survivors and was taking I them to an Atlantic port. Six auxiliary fishing sch >oners and sother craft sailed, at once from this : port to pick up survivors. George's Banks are 60 miles off this island. The statement issued by the navy department, which it was said, eon tains all the information that could be furnished at ibis time, follows: "The fishing schooner Helen Murley has reached an Atlantic port with four survivors from the crew of the (ishin?; schooner Slate Palmer who reports that a German submarine came to the surface in the middle of a- fishing fieoi off the Massachusetts coast and. sank 'the Kate Palmer, the Amita May. the Reliance, the/Starouck, the Progrx w and tour others whose names :\y>- an known. The survivors c." th<> Kate ? Palmer were taken aboard the Ger man submarine and held prisoner One I hour-and then set adrift in a dory." I The first reports of tin- attack on ; the fishing.fieet did not mention what ; means the submarin.'-' took to sink the defcnseles? craft. The raid is the first in these waters since the tug Perth Amboy and four barges were shelled by a submarine off ('ape Cod July 21. There was a \\\Y< until August 2. when Canadian waters were invadi ?. In three days at least eight sailing vessels-nnd one tank.steamer, the La Bianca, was attacked. Australian Wheat Purchases by the United States. Sidney, Australia, Aug. S.?Th^ complex subject of Australian wheat and the war-iime purchase of it by the United States has been discussed in recent speeches by Dr. J. T. !>uvei. Crop Technologist in charge of Grain Standardization Investigations of the of the United States Department of Agriculture, who has completed a tour of the wheat-growing States o!' Aus tralia in the interest of Austral-Amer ican war relations. He was sent here by the^JV'ashington authorities, in 'addressing the executive officers o." ?he Royal Agricultural Society o! New South Wales at a complimentary umchecn which this organization tendered him at the Australian Hotel here, Dr: Duvel said: ?'Just what ? ill be the situation ir. the United States without recourse to further purchase of wheat from Aus tralia when the new crop comes in I am not in a position to say, but I be lieve the States will continue to buy wheat to store up some reserve stocks1 against possible failure next year, be cause the indications are that this war is not over and it is likely to continue for some time. ??Much of the wheat in Australia would go into the United States' hard white wheats if wheat were classified in Australia. Hard white wheat:-- are the best American wheats and bring a premium in the market. That is one of the reasons why I am here, z^< advise your men who are handling Yustralian wheat which is going to the United States what our standards are. Here you have been working on the f. a. q. basis but wheat is be ing sold on the basis ot" the Ameri can standards. It is only fair that m Australia you should know what th" American standards arc and what our classification is, and that if the Amer ican growers put hard white wheat >nto a shipment they are entitled to receive a premium. ??There has been some anxiety or. the part of the American people as to the condition of Australian wheat ::s a r.esult of some conditions you hav<- had. and that' is another reason why J am here. I am gla? to v> able to report that those conditions an not a* serious as some people through the press had ted us to *>eli< vc." I The '?conditions" referred to by Dr. ! Duvel were weevils and the mouse? plague of about a year ago. "If Australia had adopted bulk j ! handling *of .vh^at ten years ago,"! added Dr. Duvel/ "? believe that what sh<- would ha\-e saved in the wheat lost during the past three years would have paid '"or the entire in stallation of the elevator system." Dr. Duvel promised the hearty co operation of the United States De partment Of Agriculture in the devel opment of the agricultural industry, in Australia and the efforts to place it on a better and sounder basis. 'a r^spond?i>g to a toast at a lunch eon given him al Sidney by the Mil lions.Club. Dr. Duvel said: "In buying wheat the United States wants to he fair to the Australian producers. My people look on this matter/as a :'am ily affair." it takes three generations to make a gentleman, but the rule fails to work when the third generation is a mi l. Unit of Stenographers to Go to : Vance. : A unit of _'. expert women stenog raphers. who will war a distinctive! uniform, is now being recruited for! overseas service. This group wi!' : ! assigned la the quartermaster corp: j of tie- American K: petitionary Forces; and to the head*:;uartors of the staffa of <'< ::. !'? rshing. Each applicant for.j service must <;?? an experienced sten-j ogiiipher. will >>?? required to own ?a !)??:? '-'iuipinfiit four uniforms (two for winter and two for summer': -<-\ - t ice). She must pass a physical ex :: minat ion. and will !?<? engaged for in?- period of the war. The sa.la.ry bow : t..*!?-?I is ?l.f???<i a year with th>>] additional a\\<>\\ a nee of a day for, tbe tor.; month and a day for the: remainder of the time. j OPINION BY GER3IAN EXPERT, i - j j Newspaper critic Say- Ffaig Him Used Only Restricted Number of Jtc scrves. Amsterdam, Aug. 11.?The military expert of the Frankfurter Zeitung, a ropy af which has been received here. 1 summing up the Allied offensive says ??It is certain that Field .Marshal Haig has employed only a restricted: ! number of his attacking divisions, it aiso is certain that the German su preme command will do all in its power to hold together the main body of his men and the reserves." Those -Big" Crowds. (Columbia Record.) The subscribers io The Charleston American have been seeing in that paper frequent references to the ??enormous" crowd's that Mr. Blease has been speaking Jo. We are told that at Camden he spoke "before a j crowd estimated at between 1,500 and 1,800 people," that he "received an ovation when he was introduced" and ! that "citizens oJ Camden are em phatic in declaring that the reform candidates will carry KTershaw county by a big majority. At Reck Hill, we are told by The Charleston American. Mr. Blease spoke to a crowd estimated at between 2,500 and 3,C?00 people. We have been i reading in that organ lately that Mr. j Blease has beer, speaking in Green ville to enormous crowds. ? ; Now what are the facts? What is I the truth about the attendance upon these meetings? Thai is what the people want to know. They have I learned thai they cannot accept the ; word of The Charleston American on any thing, j The' best information that can be : given as to the attendance on these ? metings is that obtained from papers [ published in the sections in which the j metings are held. Kvcn if these pa j pers were of The American type and ' disposed to distort . le truth?they are [ not?they wouldn't do it because'they I would know that their subscribers j were in a. position to see that they ; were distorting the facts. The esti mates of these papers therefore, are be accepted as approximately cor i rect. I And what do they say? The Cam I den Chronicle first reproduces the ac | count from The Charleston American ?because it knows thai when the peo ple of Camden read that account they nail never believe anything else they see in The American. The American in its report had estimated the crowd u' between 1500 and 1.S?0. The Camden paper then says: j "The above is from The Charleston. American, of Wednesday. We repro duce it simply to show the false claims ! made by this journal and its corre ! Sp?ndents wherever Blease has held a. meeting, in the first place, they would have it appear that the mcet i ing was held at Camden, when as a matter of fact it was held midway be tween the two cotton mills a mile and a half from, the city..; The' editor or The Chronicle had several men to es timate the number in attendance. His own estimate was between 350 .and ?100. Others estimated the attend ance at 500. Granting this there were fully one hundred "rubber necks." as I John Duncan would say. there through ; curiosity. Mr. Blcase's .appearance on the stand fell far shon of an ovation, and the old-time enthusiasm of his back ers was lacking. The American cor respond en: declares that the "reform-' candidates will carry Korshaw coun I ty by a large majority. If Blease gets I ail of the votes he received in lOTfi. according to the enrollment of 101S, lie will lose the county by a great ma jority." Now a.s to the Rock TTill meeting. The American estimated the attend ance at that meeting as betwen 2. -jUQ and 5,000. Here is what The Rock Hill Herald, edited by one of the cleanest men in the State, says ? bout it: ?'The Charleston American, in its j account of the Blease and Richards "peaking here, says that between ?. "?00 and 3.000 people were present. The absurdity of the statement is ap par n; to any intelligent man who at tended the meeting. The Herald re porter, who is an old newspaper man. accustomed to estimating crowds, es timated the attendance at this meet ing at G00. Of course, the matter is not one oi' any consequence, but it may be said in passing that The Char leston American's account of the !.'<>rK Hill meeting is just about as near the truth as that newspaper ever comes." Ami h?w about Greenville county? a county that has never in its history gone for Blease and never will? Why. Mr. Blease had to call off two meet ings there because there was no one on: to hear hint. When you read in The American of Mr. Please speaking to "enormous crowds." "estimated at between 2, "?o0 and 2,000 people?" you can figure thai there were between 300 and 500 people there. It says there were 5.000 p< - a!.- there; you can figure that there were about 700. fJovemntent Factory for Uniforms Operated by Women. Philadelphia. Aug. ?One hundred women workers are being added daily the force at the factory established here by the Quartermastcrs Depart ment lor, tin* manufacture of army uniforms. ft is a "no man factory." not a man being employed there. It now has | about _a""? women a' work. Th ?; force will be increased as rapidly as women can Ix* obtained until 5.<v00 ? :?? employed. Tin- plant is org-mi ???! as a model factory with lunch iOo :s. rest rooms, hospital. rocrealiOi, cen ter and. w< Mare workers. Pay rangesj irom $12 a week ?ip; Ail sewing is by] piece work. Expert operators on ih?ij power-driven machines can <?. ,n; from '<> S3~0 a week. The fac, ? rya will eventually be one of the I tr~ st ; .n the country. It will be in" ope?.-ition j lor several years, n i.; on-dieted, as its) establishment is in line with (>io n -wj policy t\f ill ? ??<>\i i-'iae-itt i.? iiT^nu : rcture its nun atTiij clothing. V t * -?r t - iit< a> ?! liae- in ib; history, t h?? !:>:ti-:. Royal Astronomical society5 has admitted women to membership. PJRAISED BY W1LSOX. Writes Letter of Appreciation of Ac , complishmem -.)'. Council of !>e fense. ; Columbia, August 12.?Apprecia tion of the activities and accomplish ments of the State Councils of Defense is expressed by President Woodrow Wilson in a letter to Newton D. Baker, secretary of war and chairman of tin Council of National Defense, a copy of which has been received by he South Carolina Defense Council. "It is, a notable record, and I shall ; be glad to have you express to the ; State Councils my appreciation of the service they have so usefullv render ; ed," says the president's letter. "I am j particularly struck by the value of e>: , tending our defense organization into! tire smallest communities and by the; truly democratic character of the na-i tiohai system so organized;" In the inter< : of economy and of- i ficioncy, Picsident WRson recbrn-j I mends in his letter to Secretary Da- 1 j ker that such machinery as that pro-; 1 vided by the state Council system for i -cv. the execution of many kinds of war : work should be utilized as far as pos j sable by Federal departments and ad ; ministrations. j "May I suggest, therefore, thai yon ; eOmmnnicatc to the heads of all such j departments and administrations,^ : the president's letter continues, "my j wish that when they are cohsider ! ing extensions of their organizations ' into the States or m-w work to be 1 done in the States, they determine i carefully whether they cannot utilize ? the State Council system, thus rend I ering unnecessary the creation of new j machinery." BUMPER TOBACCO CROP. A Large Yield and High Prices Bring .Millions Into South Carolina. Columbia, Aug. 10.?The tobacco crop of South Carolina will bring a lor of money into the State this summer, i Commisioner A. C. Summers Satur | day gave out an official statement to j the effect that the sales for the month ! of July had reached the astonishing figure $S,125,263.04. This is an in crease of five million pounds and four million dollars over the sales of July of last ye\r. The average price paid for the July. 191S. crop, was 33.86 cents against 21.65 last year. Lake City, Timmonsvilie, Mul?ns. Kingstree, Con way and Darlington showed up handsomely in the*official statement of sales. in Lake City alone the amount of cash released for this summer cash crop was appr?xi jmately $1,055,0:00. This is a substan tial'increase over last year, in fact ! nearly double the amount then paid. Commissioner Summers is elated over the showing made thus far in the reports upon the crop year and thinks that if August holds up in com parison with. August of last year and on .the' present rate of increase in oujjj-pit and in prices,, the total of cash for-the 1018 tobacco crop will ap proximate $20,000.000. When it is considered that a few years ago the cotton crop of this State brought in about -.$00,000,000 the relative im portance of the tobacco crop is read ily seen. I There has been a great revival of i interest in tobacco growing since j 1014 When the average price was I 0.nf*'<?ents per pound and the entire crop brought less than four million dollars. The section of South Carolina That I has produced this tobacco is peculiar j ly fortunate, for the farmers who have I engaged in tobacco planting are also i interested in other crops and they will j have money all the year. Following j are the tables compiled in the de partment of agriculture, commerce and industries and made public today by Commissioner Summers: Sold for producers from first hand ?2:<S70,7S5 pounds for $S,125,262. . ?4 j Sold for dealers?1,071,5S7 pounds : for $350.712.24. I Resold by warehouseman?l',S07, j 2S7 pounds for $591.3-16.34. j Grand total sales?26;S.37,37S lbs. I for $0,076.330.62. ! Comparison lor month of July, 1010 18, Sold for Producers from First Hand: ! Year Pounds Sold. Amt. IM. 1910 l\im;s.:;s:. $ 1 ?5.O82.30 5.12 I 1011 944,301 62,195.38 6.50 \ 1012 5,064.0*5 381.604.95 7.53 [l013 S.731.789 1,094,415.34 12.53 L914 3.S62.346 387.762.31 10.04 1015 :?.::7S.71<; 145,499.23 4.31 ?1916 657,S16 51,833.74 7.8 s 1017 18,954,7.77 4.15L674-.84 21.65 101S 23.S76.7S5 S,125,262.04 23.S6 Sold for Producers From Markets , Pounds Sold Amt. Pd. j Andrews .. .. :'.r.s,<H>L' $112,551.67 Aynor. 4 2:t.770 144,975.57 j Conway. I.392.1S0 457.S53.95 Darlington. . .1^510,66-1 4S2.019.14 Dillon. 801,598 286,952.30 Florence .. .. 726.152 256.451.55 GreeieyvHie . 257.990 79,S7;3.70 flartsville . . 787.958 271.188.68 Hemingway . 7S3.43S 255,693.26 Johnsonville 606.909 216,62 t.3N Kingstree. . . 2.044.207 6X7,811.00 hake City... . 2.9 L 7.35.1 1,003.571.00. Lake View . . 675.06 s? 222.650.06 Lamar. 195.05-1 172,62:".32 a Latfa. 490.902 168.986.60 Loris. SS6.739 294.348.90 .Manning .. .. 1,278.795 120,167.81 Marion ... . ? 015.075 304.822.20 .Mullins .. .. 1.907,106 7 1 <>. 1 ! ?"?. I '?' Nichols .. .. 841.152 294.20S-.6l? ( Manta. 77';.a:: | 259,4 1' Pamplico . . 190,948 62.6<?9.I3 Sumter .. . . 287.622 12S.070.31 Tinimonsyilie 2,414.260 S3l.lS0.0l Total.23.876.785 8,1 25,262.0 i Registration Notice. The Comity Board of Registration I will be in their office at the Court ' [louse, continuously from .Inly 1st to Aliens; 3.1st. excepting .Inly 4th. for; ;he purpose of registering all qualified i-ptcrs of the county of Sumter. as th?* )n\v requii es. ?ij T. D. PUBf>SB. |i .1. M N. WILDER, j . I .1 A. REAM KS. J- ?upci visors of Kegistration.' EUPROVEMEXTS IN MEXICO. Gen, Murguia Colonizing Large Tract: With 1'eople from the Crowded Cities. Juarez, Mex., Aug. S.?General Francisco Murguia, commander 01 the north, has forsaken the ways ol war for more peaceful pursuits. While he has not relinquished his command of the northeastern military zone. General Murguia is devoting practi cally all of his time and attention to reconstructive work in northern Mex ieo. Jn addition lo the agricultural colo nies he has established m Molinar and Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, he has plans for opening large tracts of land which were confiscated from the land holders during the revolution and colonizing on these tracts with Mexi cans i rom the crowded cities of the South and with .Mexican laborers who have been forced to go to the United states to seek employment. When the constitutional ? move ment led by Carranza succeeded, the work of the Madero revolution, which had been left unfinished, was. resum ed. Confiscation decrees were issued against General Luis Terrazas and many other large land holders in th" north. These lands have been under the control of the government since they were seized by the confiscation decree issued hy Francisco Villa while he was commander of the north un der Carranza.' They are well adapt ed to cattle grazing, irrigation farm ing where water is available and in many places cutting high grade tim ber. It is these lands th.at General Murguia plans to colonize and his ex perimental colony at Molinar, north I of Chihuahua City, is receiving prac tically all of his attention at present, rle visits it frequently and assists the i colonists. ! Oregon Penitentiary Furnishes Re j emits for the. Army and Xavy. I Portland. Oregon. Aug. 8.?The ser I vice flag at the Oregon State peniten tiary now con hi ins forty stars, repre ! senting about ten per cent of thb prison population. State Parole Offi cer .Joseph . Keller has announced Each star stands for a man paroled from the prison who has enlisted in the army or the navy, and.nractically every man has been restored to cit izenship by Gbv. James Withycombe. America Must Save the World. Margaret Deland, writing from France, says in the August Woman'; Horn-' Companion: "The French I nation?soldiers ane young housekeepers, and old mother.' ?knowing values, has endured. "Arc we going to endure?" "I haven't the slightest doubt o it! Only, looking back now fron France at American comfort anf character, it does not seem to me a.' if we have quite wakened up yet t* the full meaning of that word 'en durance.' We have risen to the world demand upon us splendidly, i think xic can afford, privately,- jus' between ourselves, to say that tc each other; because we know it isn' just the boasting of which our allie: with cynical good_nature accuse us We are not boasting," we are statin? facts, we really are meeting the sit nation. But all the same, comparec to the French, we were, when w< went into the war. soft, and therefor, we h?Ve got to think out carefully ai to which that word 'endurance' com mits us. /' I "As we learn our lesson, we will say humbly that we have been spoil cd. Then we shall ask ourselves how we can most quickly recover fron that spoiling? Of course, every in dividual will make an individual answer: but we shall agree that, col lectively. we have got to eliminab fuss about inconveniences, and ma> agree to say over to ourselves, ever;> day: 'We are face to face with th< most extraordinary opportunity that ..has ever confronted a nation?the Opportunity to save the world.' "Docs this sound like more Amer ican brag? It is net: I could almos' fmd it in my heart to wish that it were! But X beg you to believe that I it is not. It is the terrible truth. Le" I us fnce it. Germany has got her sec ond wind: Kngland, France, Ita!\ (for Russia is out of it) are winded Unless America comes with ships with food, with men. with ammuni tion, with sacrifice of the superfluous with eVidured hardship, with spiritual suffering, with solemn readiness \< give up whatever is most precious to us. unless we can do this, all that i> worth living for will be lost. W< shall be a conquered people. Can Americans bear that word? "A subject people! We shall hav< to bear it. unless we realize that if we do not save others we cannot save ourselves. Realize that unless we stand shoulder to shoulder with Eng land and France, America will be an enslaved nation. Freedom will per ish from the earth. Civilization wil go under. "America must save the world!" One-piece Steel Ships. Ortce more, here is something new in shipbuilding. We have become accustomed to the miracle of "mono lithic" ships, since concrete came into use as a substitute for wood and steel, j Xow we have what might be called I after the same high-brow word-pat ierns. a "monochalybic' ' ship?in plain English, a vessel consisting of a single plate of Steel. The ship is n . made of cast steel, by tin- pouring process, but made of steel plates as usual, except that the plat.'s instead <>f being riveted togeth er are fused edge to edge, by the electric welding process. The first snip ever built in this way has just been launched in England. The I'nit ? ?<! Stales shipping board, it is said, intends Jo use the process experimen tally on several standard 10,000 ton ships. I f there is a saving of l'O to 21? per cent, in time and material, as reported, the process may soon be used on a big scale. It's (he hill for a woman's stunning] Ea ter gown that shocks her husband.! In a novel automatic cooker MveM ;team is used to distribute the heat : from the electrical unit to the food * rec6ptacles? * TRADE IM)K\'KI>. Drafted Men on Their Way to Tlte Front are Examined as to Former Occupation, and are Assigned to Work Where Needed. With the American Army in Eng land. July 25 (Correspondence of The Associated Press) When a soldier leaves the United States he should not feel certain he is going to win glory on ihe battlefield in France. Wheth er orticer or enlisted man lie is sub jected to further scrutiny in England and in Prance and until a little corps of keen eyed and careful officers have completed the examination no one can tell into just what part of the big army machine he is going to fit. There are in England camps where every man who passes through is "trade indexed." This is especially true of one camp where a large part of'the airmen and motor transport fore* s arrive shortly after debarka tion. The records accompanying them show what the men have been doing in civil life and a further exami nation of them and a scrutiny of the demands often determine the part they are to take, sometimes only ior tem porary duty but in some cases for an ! indefinite period. From this lot are selected the men ; who will go into the big repair shops at once. .Men experienced in electri cal work are sent to stations where their services is most needed. Orders for automobile experts are filled and not infrequently the men in com mand of the station are called upon to supply men for following, for a time at least, exactly the same kind of work they were doing in the Unit ed States before their numbers in the draft were called. A big hospital is being erected at one camp. The money for the mater ial was furnished by the Red Cross. The work is being done by the army. The construction of the buildings is not materially different from that of war hospitals being erected in the United States and the same class of skilled labor is being used. Experts m the use of cement are working there. Plumbers are doing the same sort of work they were paid to do in the United Stales, carpenters are em ployed in doing as high grade labor as could be found anywhere, and the drawing of the plans and specifications was done by architects and engineers. All the men whose work is going into the building have been taken from the rank and file of those who reach ed camp on their way from the ports of debarkation. They will be held there only so long as their work on the structure is required and them they will rejoin their organizations unless detailed for other work. Officers engaged in fixing the trade index of the army have boasted that from the ranks of the National Army there may be found men who can do any class of work required, from grinding a diamond to working on the rifling of a big gun. i PARIS OF TODAY. Newspaper Correspondent Makes Comparison. London, Aug. 8.?The Paris corre spondent of The Daily Express writes that he climbed the hill to the B?tte of Montmartre the other day and looked down over Paris beneath a pall of smoke. . " He trod the paths followed by the pre-war tourists, traversing the Mont martre they knew, with its gilded, mirored night restaurants. "Would you could see these places now," he continues. "The Rat Mort tnd the Abbaye look like dilapidated irish homesteads; the sails of the Moulin Rouge have crumbled to dust. Then I left the Montmartre the tour ists knew, crossed the Place Blanche, ind began a steep climb up the Rue Lepic. There are no signs of panic on the Butte. The Montmartois cannot afford the luxury of flight, so they carry on. "Three quarters of the way up the hill stands the Moulin de Galette, a famous old mill which became a danc ing place where young men took their sweethearts on Saturday night. Now the young men are in the trenches tnd young women in the munition factories, and old mill is forsaken. "dne turns to the left on passing the mill and suddenly plunges into a dif ferent atmosphere. The goatherd shepherds his flock across the cobble stones and makes strange sounds on his flute, and those who would buy come out and purchase goat's milk. "Premier Clemenceau was once mayor of Montmartre, and there are still living on the heights old people who helped to put him there. Today they sit in the sun and smoke and talk quietly?and wait. They are too old to do anything else. 'We have confidence, we of the Butte; trust in ? lemenceau' said an old man to whom I spoke. "That is what everybody is doing; trusting in 'the Tiger' to see that things are done well." An American Father. (Savannah News.) Two months ago. as the story goes, young Starling Hicks took French leave of Camp Wheeler, where he was a soldier, went to the vicinity of his home at Jasper, Ala., and hid out in 1: ? woods. Somebody had just warp ed ideas in his head. Hut his father, Starling Hicks, thinks straight. His mind tuns on American principles. He went searching in the wc/ds for the young man. found him. and then took him to Birmingham and turned him over to the federal authorities as a deserter. Said he: "It nearly breaks my heart to have to arrest my own son and turn him over to the au thorities on so serious a charge, but, even if he is my son, I cannot harbor him as a deserter or even counten ance his act." Here is a real, DM) per cent American father. He deserves honor. His devotion to his duty causes the hope that the son may straighten out the foolish ideas he has acquired und perhaps escape such punishment is would cause added grief to the fine man who is his father. Surely there must be -cod stuff in the son: surely he could not fail to make good if another chance is given him. With such a father there must be a vein of real Americanism hidden in the son. i