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Published Wednesday and Saturday ?BY? OSTEEX PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMTER, S. C. Terms: $1.50 per annum?in advance. Advertisements. One Square first insertion .. ..$1.00 Every subsequent insertion.50 Contracts lor three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub serve private interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found *-? In 1850 and the True Southron in 1566. The Watchman and Southron now has the combined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is manifestly the best advertism; medium in Sumter. Ha good Has a Hot Time in the Hills. 1 do think Tuesday night, August 6th, the hottest I ever experienced. Lay awake bathed in sweat all night, sleeping but little, and yet I was in Spartanburg at the foot of the moun tains. Election day may be an eye opener. Mr. Blease is posing as a martyr be fore the people. He does not dare, he .has not the courag^ to face the charges against him, but he goes alone and appears before the people a much abused man. That is the way he is dodging the issue. Sentiment in the Piedmont is quite strong for him, and the Bleaseites-are confident. We left Anderson Tuesday, August! 6, spending that hot night in Spar- j tanburg, whence the next day prompt ly at 11 a. m. boarded the train for Altapass. Above Chapin. country of magnificent distances, looking out to ward the mountains we saw the clouds, and recalled our illusion on first trip to land of the sky. How we stated it never rained hard but show ered every day, only to find on our next trip that a cloud burst had wrought great havoc just across the lidge. We found little pleasure in viewing the country with field glass from car window and laid it aside, not to look at the pretty girl who sat just in front of us, who absorbed in her book, spoke to us only in monosyl lables. Above Harris the mountain come into view in the distance, and we sing "There is a happy land far. far away.v The porter calls "Forest City," when we look to-see the name on the end of a car, no city in sight. When we seek information of the beautiful young lady she does not know and returns to her book. We sing "I am growing old," etc. The little brook at T?te gives no hint today of the mad and rushing river of two years ago. And now. amid the mighty handiwork of God. the great mountains piled one on the other against the sky line, we recall *T will look away to the hills from whence cometh my help." Along here for miles and miles the. Southern and C. C. & O. Railroad race side by side tili we conre to Marion. Without a moment's warning we rush into a tun nel and it is dark. We recall the ex / perience of another young man with a beautiful young lady and her negro maid. No he did not kiss the beau- j tiful young lady. You see she had swapped places with the maid. He got off I think at the next station. There are nineteen tunnels between Spartanburg and Altapass, which we reach near 3 p. m., We are safe and sound in the summer home of P. A. j Emanuel, Esq., of Aiken. Crops al' along the road are looking well, and rains have been plentiful of late. Hagood. j Altapass, N. C, Aug. 8. Discveries of Ancient Art. Rome, July 30.?Excavators in Cyrene have recently made a number of valuable discoveries of ancient art! dating from the Greco-Roman period. The latest include two magnificent statues which were found in Beda? one the likeness of a Roman matron of th-? second century, and the other a "Winged Victory" which will be placed in the museum of Benghazi. At Cyrene the exploration is par ticularly active or" late, and has brought to light a number of busts and statues. The latest is a temple with a colossal statue of Demeter and a long inscription from the third century B. C. Married. William D. Raffield. now stationed at Camp Dix, X. J., arrived home on" last Sunday morning on few days' furlough. On Monday morning he went to Orangeburg and at 4 o'clock that afternoon was married to Miss Jessie Andrae. the ceremony being performed by Rev. Massabeau at the Methodist church in Orangeburg in the presence of a large number of rel atives and friends. The ceremony was very pretty, there being among other attendants twenty-four young ladies with United States flags, who formed a circle around the altar. The patriotic colors, red. white and blue, formed the color scheme. V After the ceremony Mr. and .Mrs flarfield came to Sumter and stayed until last night when they returned north. They will stop at Baltimore for a day to visit, relatives of Mrs. Raffield, after which Mrs. Raffield will go to Pemberton, X. J., which is near Camp Dix. Mr. Raffield is at tached to the Camp Medical Detach ment at Camp Dix. The county campaign opened a: Wedgefield Friday afternoon with a small attendance of voters and can didate.^. All told there were about a dozen voters present. Mr. Clifton, candidate for the senate did not at tend, nor did Mr. Moise and Mr. Bel ser, candidates for the house. Messrs Stuckey, Jackson and Giilis, candi dates for the house made briel speeches. Mr. A. G. Warren and .Mr Jos. R, Singleton, candidates for judg< of probate were present and an nounced their candidacy. Judg* Richardson did not attend the meet fng. Superintendent of Education J H. Haynsworth was present1 und mad. a brief speech. The meeting laste? ordv a short time and was withou interest. Tbc War Department's Emphasis oa College Training. J Early in the war President Wilson j said, "It would seriously impair Amer ica's prospects of success in this war if the supply of highly trained men were unnecessarily diminished, i have, therefore, no hesitation in urg j ing colleges and technical schools to j endeavor to maintain their courses as far as possible on the usual basis.'' Mr. Balfour, of the English Commis sion, "made it clear that he regretted : as the greatest error on the part of j Engiand and France that they had al lowed students of their institutions for ; higher education to volunteer in such } large numbers at the opening of the war." In view of the importance of these statements the Committee on Education and Special Training of the War Department has started a cam paign for the enlistment in the United States' Army of the male students in our colleges and universities. The ob ject of this campaign is to induce as i many young men as possible to attend 3 various colleges in their respective j States. If eighteen to twenty-one j they are urged to enlist, if under i eighteen, to enroll, in the Student's ?Army Training Corps (S. A. T. c.) ! Enlisted students will also be mem j bers of the army of the United States j Students so enlisted and enrolled will be provided, as far as practicable, with uniforms and equipment, in cluding hats, shoes and overcoats?all i furnished by the government. ?tu ! dents neither enlisted nor enrolled I will not be entitled to enter the train ing units or receive the military in struction offered by the War Depart ment. The members of the S. A. T. C. will have the opportunity to attend a six weeks camp in the summer for rigid and -intensive military . instruc- j tion with private's pay. Mileage each way will be paid. These stu dents will not be caller into active service except in cases of special emergency. The policy of the gov ernment will be to keep members of; the S. A. T. C. in college until their draft age is reached. The War De partment may permit such men V continue in college even after their draft age is reached whenever they are taking medical, technical, seien i tific or other courses important t< the prosecution of the war. j Competent officers and non-com missioned officers will be assigned to the various institutions to carry nh the work of military instruction. Ev ery enlisted student must register '< with his local board after he has reached the draft, age. Upon stating in his questionnaire that he is in the S. A. T. C, and, therefore, .already in the military service of the United States, he will be placed automatical I ly by the local draft board in Class r> D. The draft board will not call him into service as long as he remains a j member of the S. A. T. C. However when he does reach the draft a?? [the president of the college and th' commanding orficer of the S. jA. T. C will report to the committee of edu cation and special-, training of ?*h' War Department the form of war ser vice for which t?e drafted student i: best qualified. ^He may. be called; into service as a private just as hi would be if he were not in the S. A T. C, but will more likely be sent t? an officer's training camp or allowed to continue in college until he ha* finished his education. If congres' should lower the draft age men of thr new ages not already enlisted in co? j lege training units, will be abl^ to en ter military service only as private and through the local draft board, ft is. therefore, highly important for a? many young men as possible to attend college and enlist or enroll in the S. A. T. C. College education at the prose a crisis has become not only a personV privilege, but a patriotic duty. If tic war closes before a member of the S A. T. C. reaches the draft age no on< can accuse him of being a slacker because he will have the status of r United States soldier. Never in th' whole history of our country has then been such an urgent demand for train ed minds, trained muscles and, fore most of all. for men trained in in stant, implicit and cheerful obedienct to lawful constituted authority. For the solution of the many prob lems that will arise during the recon struction period following peace th' demand for college trained men will be even more urgent. We, therefor 2 call upon all members of the Stav Council of National Defense and upon all other organizations in the State to carry out the request of the War De partment and fill our colleges wlt'r young men who wiil render the most important service to their country within the college walls. In this ap peal it is not the interest of the col leges, but the nation that are at stake. W. S. CURRELD. State Director for the Campaign of Student Enlistment. W. M. RICOS. Member of the State Council of Nat ional Defense. S. IT. EDMUNDS. Federal State Director of the U. ? i Boys' Working Reserve. PRISON FOR ENEMY. ! Orth to Re Resentenoed by Judge Smith Today. Charleston. Aug. 9.?The mandates I in the Orth cases have arrived from ! the circuit court of appeals and the I defendants will be resentenced tomor 1 row by Judge H. A. M. Smith. in j the Fay case, while the sentence in 'the Knoebeloch case of $100 fine plus j costs and two months stands. th< j higher court holding th.:t the defend ; ant should not have been fount! guilty of the charge ol helping Lieut ! Fay and William Knobelbch to es cape from federal authorities, but i the verdict as to Iiis guill in aidin' j them after they escaped is upheld i 'both cases. Tin- sentence of*one yea' i and $1.000 plus eosts in the Fay ens ; is held to l.e too heavy, ia view of lie Lfaet that tie- verdict in the first cour [was not sustained. Orth appeare? ! in court todav to he resentenced, bu Judge Smith postponed imposing sen I tence until tomorrow. Meanwhile h is oat ou bond. Orth was found guilt; in the district court in both cases am : app< aled. limr to the Sumter Dry Goods Cc for y in knitting wools.?Ad.t. ONLY DANGER XO\V LIES IX OVER CONFIDENCE. ' ; Benet. Pollock and Dial Warmly Re ceived by Five Hundred Patriotic i Voters of Greenwood. I Greenwood, Aug. 9.?Boast of j Bleaseites and Blease organs, of the [State that Senator Christie Benet and 1 \V. P. Pollcck would trim in cam : paign methods and lift the merciless shell lire on Blease's disloyal utter ances as published in Blease newspa pers is oeing answrored daily as most ! South Carolinians predicted it would i be answered. j Senator Benet today told the 500 i voters here that it had been whisper j ed around if he would "trim," if he ? would change his course, it would help him in this race. "But I have taken a j solemn pledge that I would put the i question of loyalty squarely before the people of South Carolina and I ex pect to keep my word, let the votes j fall where they may." And the vol i ume of applause wh;ch came from the J crowded court room was an eloquent ( tribute to the unanimity of sentiment j in this community. If W. P. Pollock I has been importuned to tack to other j breezes, the caution has been as reck : iessly disregarded. There is considerable variance in the methods employed by the two speakers, both equally effective.- Benet is more of the reasoning, diplomatic type in his appeal. Pollock, explosive and dramatic, is more of the shell shock orator and each day drags the i soul of Blease and Bleaseites with a ! spike toothed harrow to the tumultu | ous delight of the crowds that come i j to hear. That the candidates are] tearing off segments of the Blease | I forces can not be disputed. If the i people make this their own fight as I they did four years ago and two years ! ago. there can be no question as to ! the outcome. ' The great danger lies in over confidence. The opposition tc Blease seems so formidable that the people may be lulled into indifference, fn several counties recently visited by the campaign party the people have taken the initiative and are making it "the people's fight." as Senator Till man said it-should be, and are not leaving the brunt of the battle to,fall on the shoulders of "Dial, Benet and Pollock. Greenwood county is one of these and the rhajority here, the lead erV. say. will be greater than for a number of years. Blease never ha* carried Greenwood county. W. P. Pollock was the first speak er today. The crowd was one bf the most, responsive the party has come before and Mr. Pollock gojkpbursts of spontaneous applause throughout his vigorous speech. Blease is coming to Greenwood tomorrow and Mx. Pollock advised the 500 or more voters to call upon him to admit or deny the truth fulness of the Pomaria and Filbert speeches as published in the..Charles ton American. They w^ere also told tc dare Blease to repeat again^the sen .timent as .expressed in the ^speeches, -made four months after waf;bad been] declared, but before the passage of the espionage act. "He can't repeat then, and remain at large," the Cheraw can didate told his enthusiastic aud ience. " Mr. Pollock said he was disqualified by age to go to France to fight, but he had five nephews and 40 cousins in ? France and by the eternal gods ho j expected to fight "pro-Germans in j South Carolina as long as'they arc over there." vote in South Carolina for a disloyal man would hearten the German forces and would be c vote possibly for ?. continuation of th war one month or six months, j Senator Benet read today a letter from Newton D. Baker, in which the. secretary of war expressed his grati fication over the appointment of Mr. Benet. "I do not see how Governor Manning could have done a finer thing and I have so written him," Secretary Baker said. "My own satisfaction and happiness are perhaps greater than your own," the letter continued. Th? letter war. written soon after the ap pointment had been made. Mr. Benet was sorry that Tom Pee ples was not here. "But I can't make him come and it seems the Demo cratic party can't make him come." Should Mr. Peeples ever come back into the r .mpaign. he would have to face the same questions which anni hilated him at Florence, the only meeting Mr. Peeples has attended. Tssues of other campaigns are noth ing in comparison with that of this and it was the duty of Mr. Peeples to (et the people know where he stood. Senator Benet said. He was also ap plauded much during his speech. James Francis Rice says Bleasr eliminated himself by his Pomaria and Filbert speehes and that N. B. Dial debarred from the senate because of his wealth and he alone is left. The Anderson county candidate, whom one *f the Anderson paper's commends to the people as "Nut" Rice and a "loan sharp." is daily bitterly attacking The State because it commended Dial las a man fitted by cha^cter and ability ! for a place in the United States sen j ate. Approximately one-third of his j time daily is given to an excoriation ! of the Columbia paper. He is al*!l offended because members of the campaign party had the frankness to ; tell him thai he would not receive j 1.000 votes throughout the State. He [says he has been told Greenville coun ty is for him. j Greenwood gave a warm reception to VTr. Dial today and applauded him generously when he was introduced i and at numerous times during his ' speech. In answer to the Charleston American's campaign of falsehood and I misrepresentation Mr. Dial told tlvj 1 '?..(:; i ?. what they already knew, that ? he did not support Judge Haskell ' when he ran on the independent tick ; "' a number of years aero. Tie advis i ed against the movement and telo I granbed tb;s advice to Judge Haskell in Columbia and told him then thai he <? iiiM not support him. Bloase himself had threatened 1,1 I boll the party two years affo. said j Mr. Dial. Iiis name was placed on ar ; indenendenl ticket and after govern or Manning had been declared upm.? ri.ee. Please ha<i advised his !* - I lowers thai they were not 'bound r< support the nominees of the P'^rty I GOVERNMENT MAY SELECT MEN WANTED FOR MILIT?RS DUTY. i Bakca Discloses Flan Considered?I Tells Senate Committee That Men Who Register in Future May Not' Dave to Claim Exemption But Have; Status Fixed. Washington. Aug 9.?New draft regulations under which the govern ment would do the selecting rather than leaving it to the registrant are under consideration by the war de partment This was disclosed today by Secretary Baker after he had ap peared before the senate military com mittee to urge prompt enactment of the new selective service act extend ing the age limit to include all men between the ages of 18 and 45. The war secretary made it plain that he is not satisfied 'with the pres ent system under which the registrant must claim deferred classification, as many men with dependents hesitate for patriotic reasons to make such claims, in this connection. Mr. Baker said, he was inclined to the opinion that the marriage relation will in it self constitute deferred classification. What Mr. Baker has in mind is to I lay down a set of questions which the registrant would answer and then have rules which would take care of the classification. He is understood to regard this as the fair and equitable system. The discussion on the draft ages be fore the senate committee. Mr. Baker said, followed much the lines taken by General March, chief of staff, and ! Provost Marshal General Crowder. The committee, he added, did not in dicate any disposition to question the necessity for the change, which is urged so that the war department can quickly get the men necessary to win the war. "There was some discussion," Mr. Paker said, "as to whether it was the intention of the department to extend the work or fight order to include classes of persons in various preferen tial occupations. I toid them there was no present change of the work or fight order in contemplation. I said that when I decided the baseball case I thought perhaps other forms of amusement and entertainment might require an extension of the or oer to be on a parity with the base ball situation. But that was not in their mind. "They had heard from outside sources that the department was con sidering bringing preferential classes, like lawyers, newspaper men and others who were, not actually engaged in producing war supplies, under the order." The committee. Mr. Baker continu ed, was especially interested in the effect of the extension of the draft age on colleges and also in the ques tion as to whether young men from i IS up would be drawn indiscriminate ly in Class 1 or placed in a deferred class by age and drawn later, giving them some added months to come to maturity. "I told the committee," said the war secretary, "that no fixed policy hasj been determined upon by the depart ment, \but that the purpose was to al low the president to defer in Class 1 the call of the youngest men. I have always considered, as you perhaps re I member, that 10 was the proper mini mum, and I have come to the IS min imum only because it secerns neces sary to get the men." Because of the committee's visit to the war council, Chairman Chamber lain announced no meeting of the committee will be held tomorrow, but one will be held next Monday when an effort will be made to reach a fa vorable report on the bill. Letters urging the prompt enact ment of the bill were received today by Senator Chamberlain and also by Ch: ;rmen Dent of the house coznmit tee "rom Governor Manning of ?outh Carolina: "Permit me to urge calling togeth er your committee and urge prompt pasage of draft amendment" Govern or Manning said. "The country de mands the speeding up of the war. In South Carolina we have exhausted class one. I suppose other States have similar conditions. Calls for Septem ber and later months can not be filled without changes in law. I desire my State to fulfill every call. Delay means greater and prolonged sacrifice. The soner we throw greatly increased forces into the struggle the sooner we will win. The country demands of congress provision for force without lin.it. Man power is the demand now. Respect fully request prompt action." Truth Suppresed by German Papers New York. Aug. S.?The press ir Germany was accused during a de bate in the Reichstag of spreading false reports regarding Allied : ? raids on German cities, according to German newspapers ireceived here. Th" case in question was the air raid on Cologne'on May IS. Deputy Jvuckoff of the Centre Party said there had been no timely warning of the population by the military au - thorities. Deputy Meerfield, Socialist, said I that, although, every chCd in Cologne j knew hat '27> persons ha/1 been killed. I the newspapers on thai day were forced to say '"that unfortunately there have boon some casualties." "What will be the reputation of tin1 press if they are forced to spread such false reports." he ask ?d. Meerfeld ?said that the methods of the general 'command reminded him c lie sayins .that "under martial law e ekass ! can rule." Get Your Knitting Wools! Get your knitting wools while you 'can. The Sumter Dry Goods Co. ar? showing the novelty si i ad es in Ger manfown for the popular sleeve less sweater. Also the heavy ya.rm for socks, sweaters, etc.?Advt. When a man has pluck his frieridi arc apt to drop the "p" and call i: luck. After the war there will hi* mi kind <> "ism." either Bleas?dsm or Tillmarr ism, but only Americanism. I GERMANS ABANDON GUNS, AM I MUNITION AND STORES IN I RETREAT J _ Rattle in Picardy Thus Tar Has Been a Great Victory for Allies Who Ad vance Rapidly Over Wide Front. With the Britsh .Army in France, Aug. 9 (4 p. m.) By Associated Press. ?The British and French divisions have gained more ground in the great battle raging on the Amiens-Somme district. The latest reports appear to show that the Germans are retiring in great haste. The scenes on the battle ground over which the allies already have passed give evidence of this haste in abandoning guns, stores and even reg imental and artillery maps and pa : pers. Aerial observers report large streams of transports and men hurry- j ing eastward in full retreat. Beaucourt fell to the Allied forces i this morning and Lequosnel also was taken after hot allnight fighting. The cavalry is working far back toward the Somme and is still rounding up| villages while tanks and armored cars are running over the country clearing a way for the troops or killing horses drawing enemy supplies. The drivers of motor trucks and lorries are chasing parties of Ger mans here and there, scattering them, or running them to earth. The details of some of the work of these armored cars show that they have performed valiant service. One of them ran into a German-held town yesterday while the German corps! stationed there was having lunch. It turned '*s guns through the quarters' windows, killed some of the staff and the chased others, who escaped from the nouse. At Rosieres an army train was set on fire. A group of cars met, far inside the enemy lines, a German supply column and halted it. Four ! mounted German officers came up to see wh. t the trouble was. and were shot from the cars, which then pro-1 ceded to make quick work of thei column. At Framerville the cars engaged a train loaded with the enemy and final-! ly set it afire. Tanks entered this, town soon afterward, helped the ar mored cars clean it up and then hoist ed flags on the roof the building which had been German corps head | quarters. One car met a German of j ficer riding in an automobile along the road. The officer was killed and his machine captured. All along the line this afternoon snipers and isolated machine gun bil lets were extremely busy but these were being silenced one by one as the advance proceeded. It is reported that two regimental commanders have been captured in one sector. Since day break the Ger mans have been making an extraor dinary effort to blow up with field gun fire ammunition and other dumps which they had to leave so hastily. The aim was exceedingly poor. ' The-"scene- at Bayonvillers. is typical of the rest of the battle area. Broad field of crops fringe the town and spread for miles over the flat sur rounding country. Abandoned German field guns are here with little piles of empty shell cases under the bodies of Germans lying here and there telling the story of what happened. Lying off on the side of the road are enemy motor trucks one with a trailer piled with artillery maps some of which the headquarters staff could not save. The guns abandoned here, as else where, are in shallow pits three feet deep. Little holes nearby covered, with curved iron slabs show where the German gunners lived before they were killed or ran to save them selves. j Further southward the ground here land there had been ploughed by the shells and the bodies of men and horses were lying where they fell. In some places machine gun nests were found which had been put out of ac tion either by the artillery, tanks, in fantry or armored cars. Tr ne a machine gun which had been put out of business was ly* .g over on its side, while scattered around were the I bodies of the Germans who attended it. Apparently they had tried to es cape hut were prevented by a tank. In the wheat field of course the bodies the dead could not be seen but in many places the ground was lit erally dotted with German corpses. The Allies inflicted, severe punish ment as they advanced. In some sec tions this morning burial parties had already passed through, but in others the de.ad are yet untouched. The Al lied casualties, according to the re ports which have come in, were ex tremely light. For instance, one bat talion in the thickest of the fighting j bad only six men killed and four offi j eers and CO men wounded during ? i advance of n miles. These men v tfred when they finished the task be fore them but today they have pushed forward again. In the north it appeared the stout est resistance developed, the Germans firing a great number of shells, espe l cially across the Somme in the region of Chipilly. However. Warfusee Abancburt, Payonvillers and Sarbon nieres are in the control of the Brit ish. The German trenches throughout the whole of the front were extreme ly narrow and poorly constructed, This was not caused by lack of ma terial. Aside from the loss of ground and men this large abandonment ol ! material is certainly the most serious (to the enemy. The Allied aircraft to I day heavily bombarded the Germar J rear and carried out a great numbei i of other lights, observing the cue my*s movement ami keeping his ma ' chines within the German lines. Thi: forenoon the absence of Germar planes was especially marked. The Brit??h and French guns bann mored away at the enemy all day moving forward whenever required bin few German shells were eomhu in. A drouth in Texas ami victory it France are together boosting the cot ten market in healthy manner. Hurry to (he Sumter Pry Goods Cfl for your knitting wools.?Advt. VICTORY AND PUNISHMENT A Great Danger to World Morality and to Civilization Would be a Peace Without Punishment. (Manufacturers Record.) The glorious aews which comes from France, telling of how our troops and those of our Allies have beaten back the army of invaders who have cursed every foot of ground over which they have trod, may well give heart to the nation and to alb civiliza tion. It would, however, be a serious mistake for us to imagine that this means the ending of the war, for it does not. We are a long way from Berlin, and until the American flag flies over Berlin as a conquered city, and the terms of peace are written there, and the Hohenzollerns, the Hapsburgs and their leaders in this world horror have p id with their own lives the penalty for their un^B speakable crimes, it would be premaMf tu re to do much shouting. \^ The fight is yet a long and desper ate one. We may rest assured that before our troops cross the Rhine and break down the barriers ahead of us there will be fearful losses, and we shall have to steel our hearts to a full realization of the magnitude of the task. Germany, the blackest criminal in the world's history, will, through ev ery influence which it can exert in this and every other country, seek to se cure peace whenever its military lead ers lind that they are doomed. We shall have peace talk from some weak-minded ministers of the Gospel but thank God! their number is few. We shall have peace talk from many j papers?some moved by pro-German influence, some by sickly neurotic sen timent against punishment of crime ?and wherever pro-German deviltry can carry on its work we may rest assured it will be done, for many mei claiming the livery of Heaven, will be engaged in the work of the devil. Many will seek to create an impres sion that Germany must not be pun ished and that its people are different from its military leaders, when ev ery intelligent man who has studied the situation now knows that the peo ple and the military leaders are one and the same in the support of this war. The unspeakable individual crimes which marked the movement < of the German army through Belgium and France, crimes which blacken the pages of human history as they were never blackened in the past; crimes, to recount which Secretary Lansing recently said "would sicken a tiger," were not committed individually by the Kaiser or the military leaders, but by the people themselves in the armies of Germany, encouraged there- : to by the military leaders as a. part of Germany's Campaign of Frightfulness-v. These people must be made to real- . ize that sin must be punished and ; that crime must be atoned for, or . else the blood of the millions of sol- . diers who have died will have been ? shed in vain, and the broken-hearted'j women, who have suffered-as> no oth- : I<ei wonien-irj-:a?ll Jbuhs3na;3iistfpT? -will go unavenged. The great danger which faces this<rj country today is that there will be a persistent effort to bring about a J premature peace: a peace , without ; punishment, which, if ever made,. ! would be a deep stain on the honor i and chivalry of this nation. ? The notion which condones interna tional crime is akin to the" criminal, ? as the individual who condones crime becomes in effect a participator in the I immorality. of the criminal. It behooves every honest-hearted ; man and woman in this country 'to ; make certain that neither in the pul- j pit nor in the press nor in private con versation shall there be the. lightest word said in favor of peace until that '} peace is written in Perlin, after the criminals have paid the full measure of penalty for their crimes. "On to Berlin!" should be the un ceasing demand of every honest-heart ed man and woman, and he who does not take that view of the' situation is false Lo all civilization, it matters not who he may be, or what his position in life. Richard H. Edmonds. SELL ALIEN PROPERTY. Four Enemy Owned Concern^ Seized. New York, Aug. 9.?Seizure of four r ore enemy owned corporations with a total capitalization in excess of $2, OdO.000 was announced here today by A. Mitchell Palmer, alien property custodian, after a conference with the Washington advisory committee of the selling branch of this department. The corporations which will be SQk^ under the supervision of Joseph tt Guffey. sales manager, at public auc tion" with the approval of the advis- . ory committee are: The Berger and Wirth Company of Brooklyn, manufatcurers of printers' and lithographers' inks, organized about 1909 and owned by Emil Wort lizer of Leipzig. Germany. The G. Zief of Rosebank. S. L, man ufacturers and importers of colors and chemicals, organized here April 4, 1904, with a capital stock of $250, 000. all owned by G. Zeigler Company of Stuttgart, Germany. A. W. Faber of Newark. N. J.. man ufacturers of lead pencils and sta tioners* supplies, trade name of busi ness, which has been in existence since 1761, with its principal office at Stein, Bavaria, owned by Alexander, Count of Faber-Castel and his wife Otil?e. countess of Faber-Castel, res idents of Stein. Bavaria. George Benda of Boonton. N. J.. manufacturers of bronze powders, a branch of the concern of the same name in Fuertha. Bavaria, established in LS24, business here conducted by Adolph Neubaur. on behalf of him self and partner. Eugene K. Kichbaum now in Germany. The new draft will call Into servict many of the young-old bachelors be tween thirty-one and forty-five years Attcnion Knitters. Khaki and gray knitting wools fo: socks, sea it's, sweaters, helmets, wrist let*, ote. now on sale at The Stj?lte Dry Goods Co.?Advt. ^pt