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KNITTING BY HAN!) CHECKED.! War Industries Board Will Lcara it' There is Enough Wool for Cni lornis. Washington. Aug. 12.?II::nd knit ting for the soldiers and sailors is to be cheeked until the war industries board can survey stocks and ascertain whether there is enough woolen and worsted in the country for winter uniforms and overcoats. The board Today directed spinners to discontinue manufacturing woolen and worsted yarns for hand knitting and the ship ment of yarns or wool until further notice. AIRMEN ATTACK GEItMAN CITIES Frankfort Aeroplane and Chemical Works Bombed. -: London. Aug. 12.?An official com munication issued by the air min istry tonight dealing with the bomb ing and raiding operations says that despite the unfavorable weather Brit ish airplanes successfully attacked an, aeroplane and chemical works a1 Frankfort. Other squadrons attacked the railway at Metz and an airdrome at Hagenau, Alsace. The communication follows: "On the afternoon of the 11th, in - addition to the bombing previously reported a few bond's w< re dropped on the triangle of railways at Metz. On the night of the llth-12th in stant our machines attacked two hos tile airdromes and various ground tar gets i with bombs and machine gun lire. .On the day of the 12th inst. one of our squadrons, despite unfa vorable weather "conditions success fully attacked the airplane and chem ical works at Frankfort. "Bursts were observed well in the center-of the objectives. Large num ber of' enemy airplanes attacked and kept up a running light for about 30 minutes. Two enemy airplanes were destroyed. All our machines returned safety. - "Another of our squadrons attack ed the hostile airdrome at Hagenau with excellent results. This squad. ron, just after crosing the lines met large numbers of the enemy airplanes and at once decided to give battle. As the result of "severe fighting four ene my airplanes were destroyed and one other was driven down out o! control. Two of our machines are missing. "The squadron reformed after this fight and proceeded to bomb its ob jectives. A direct hit was obtained on a large hut in the airdrome and a bomb fell among four enemy ma chines on the ground and destroyed them*" Soldiers* Clothes. Behind British Lines in France. July" 30 (Correspondence of The Associated Press)?The soldier has __iittlej or no -choice in clothing., a.nd the condition of campaigning are such that soldiers are seldom ideally dressed. The changes of temperature that/Western Europe can experience! in 4S hours completely baffle anyone who^possesses a restricted wardrobe and .Who obliged to live in the open. Yet the soldier in France must be pro pared for anything in the line o: weather. In the British army, the seasons are regulated by official routine rath er than by any slavish adherence to climate. The first signs of spring are army orders commanding that all "special heavy" winter clothing, such as trench coats, furs and sweaters, shall-be handed in by April 1. And handed in these comforts duly ar< whereupon the weather forwith turns wintry again and the middle of April is perhaps marked by a three days' blizzard and sharp frtrst. Garment by garment the winter clothing disappears into the store houses?sweaters: winter shirts, trench gloves and mittens, leather coats^?all inexorably return to the ordnance cl^partmmt. During the summer this clothing is cleaned, re paired, sterilized and repacked i': bales' ready for the succeeding au tumn and winter issue. The clothes collected are replaced by issues of lighter Stuff, more suit able for warm weather wear, for in the summer, fighting is hot work, and gunners prefer to serve thefr guns in knee-length underwears ancl a shirt. During some battles in th< hottest days the men have stripped even farther than this, and worked bare to the waist, as their grand fathers served the guns in Nelson's day. Wool and flannel seem heavy stufi for summer wear. but the British army is old in experience and knows the best all-round materials. Cotto'n. hough excellent for comfort, is said to/swell the sick-lists rapidly, for when soaked through with perspi ration it dries in such a waj as to chill the wearer, while the heavicj wool, though less pleasant to wear, dries vat pout ill effect. The same standard outer uniform serves the British soldier for : !! sen sons in France, one article that is the same for- British soldiers in a!: parts of the world and in all climate* is the regulation grey array sock. Ex perience has prove.} t?? the satisfac tion of the British authorities that this standard sock is the best "for al conditions of marching, it does n<?' shrink or get hard from repeate? washing, and it is extraordinarly dur able. British army clothing m:ty not lv handsome or even well cut; but it i: hiost'-ea refuIly designed to furnish th< maximum of practical use combined^ with the first hygienic qualities. Th< I best testimony to its excel lenl qua lily and .design is the fact that the sol dier himself acknowledges tha **ra j tion clothes*' are the best that can b< j found for army wear. Ten thousand or so of th al>t< bodied German prisoners thai be ing taken in Prance could be u d to advantage on the roads of South Car olina. They could be shipped over in transports which return empfv tc America after carrying troop: over seas. They could be guarded od fed cheaper in this country than in ' i a and at the same time required to d< useful work. NEW "PEACE OFFENSIVE. Vicuna and tludapest iVc.vand Roman Catholic Bishop Havt Schcr.ie on Foot. Amsterdam, ?ug". 1 l\?a new "peace offensive*' has been started at Munich, according to the Tageblatt of Berlin. Prof. E. L. Quid.de of Vi enna. Prof. Heinrich Lammasch oi Budapest and Bishop Franknei of ih< Roman Catholic church in Hungary are identified with the movement. They have requested the general sec retary of the inter-parliamentary un ion at Chrlstiania to suggest to-the inter-parliamentary groups of bel ligerent countries that three repre sentatives be appointed by a secret ballot front each belligerent for the put-pose of exchanging views of peac* proposals. WORK OF HUN DEVIL. An Unseen Power Working to Poison the Mind and Soul of Our People. (By Richard J f. Edmonds, Editor Ma nufaciurers Record.) Mental suggestion, hypnotism end psychology are all being used by Ger many with a. persistency and power in comprehensible to people who have not understood the campaign by which for years Germany has been poisoning the wells of thought ail over the world. 1-Y?.- some years Germany, in a way that is nothing less than Satanic in its wide sweep throughout hi- world and Us tremendous power for evil, has been utilizing mental suggestion ami hypnotism upon people who do not themselves realize that they are be coming possesed of the devil. Many a. man stands in the pulpit and preaches peace without punish ment, many an editor shapes an edi torial or a headline,?many a man in public and private lil';* makes state ments c?lculat r-d to'weaken the mor ale of America and. of ouc Allies without himself realizjng that ho is under the domination of the work of mental suggestion and the hypnotic power which Germany is exerting. impressions come to iu.ni." oedpX* lessening their hostility to Germany, or lessening their determination thai there shall be no peace with an unbeaten Germany, who have no vi the slightest idea that these thoughts! have been put into their minds by the devil-work of German mental sug-1 gestions or hypnotic activities. The tremendous power of this in jfluence is not grasped at all; men scoff at the power of mental sugges tion or hypnotism without realizing that there is a fearfully dangerous power in the possession of some peo ple tn oontro] the thoughts and acts of others. Germany has developed this power to the fullest extent It is a power from the devil himself. For years Germany has b< en utiliz ing it in order to plant throughout the world its poisoned thoughts and to control men end women who have no conception octhe fact" t-h.at - they are under the domination of sueh an evil infittCnce. and. therefore, yield wil ling obedience to it. We p,re facing a situation where Germany is puttingy/iovth the n\ost tremendous effort in its history to ex tend the influence of this mental con trol, or hypnotic power, over other people, in order to secure peace with out punishment. Men who think that they are talk ing pea.ee from high and holy motives are. in many crises, without realizing it themselves, b^injr used by this Ger man hypnotic work, exerted directly upon thorn through some pro-German skill' ,] in the use of mental sugg- stion orlvypnotism. i German psychologists, through ! American universities, in which they held positions of honor, for ;. - ars sought to bring"American thought un der their control, just as other Ger mans have been engaged in similar work all over the world. If we accept the doctrine that th- | devi* sends out into every corner o:*j the earth, his unseen workers of evil", that he puts into every human hear* suggestions of sin. and dominta.es all the earth where the power of God is ttOt superior, and where men do not look wholly unto God for safety from the wiles of the evil one. then we ! have an exact illustration of the wn-s of the German propaganda of hyp notism and mental suggestion or con trol. The menace is real one of tre mendous import. Watch carefully every surest!on or peace with an un crushed; unrepentr.nl German v. and know that it comes from pro-German hypnotic power, or from German fin ancial operations to influence by mon- j ey. where Romany c:.nn')t control by "mental surrest ion." The Price oi" Snea". To .Ml ro;nrv Food Administrators: Some retail dealers in sever are making excessive profit on this com modity because they have misinter p:-!.-u Me- printed circular, dated July-1 2f?th. addressed "To Wholesale a'""1 Retail Grocers." This cirnV-r said: '"The profit en snjrnr v. id be strictly watched and the retail proa! should not exceed one cent a pound except where the fraction of a cent is involv ed." This means that r< tailers mas: not moke more than one cent a pound on sugar but that in selling this com modity they can figure a fraction of .-: C< nt to tic ir fv. vor. For example, when sugar costs a retailer, delivered :i> h's railway sta tion: ?iah; am! one-fourth cents a pound; la- can :-??!! one pound ol" i! all ten cents :t pound, tigur-ing the Crac ;i< n of three-fbui'ths of ;> cen! in his C?voiC When sells two aoauds of j sugar, he can charge nineletm cents! for ir. figuring the fraction r?f one? half Cent in Ida favor: When he! ^-<!!s it'..- pounds of this suga ?. in- can charge forty-seven <?? -nt figuring tie j fraction of three-fourths of a cent in hi - favor. The i! selling pre-- for sna-n- b j ! a*-' d on the. cost of th'- su^ir deliver- \ ? d at th<- railway station of the retail-! ? r. The gross n.tftximum profit or .-near sohl at retn.il. must not ?? ?:.-a oile cent a pound, except ;!*?? frac-j tion.d part of a cent may ho. figured i in favor oi tie- ret tiler as outlined above. Yours v> ry 1 ruly. William Rlli ;t. j Food Administrator lor .South Car olina, 1 Food Crop Mass Meeiia At :.? meeting of the Sumter County Council of Defense, held July 30th, it was resolved: '.'That :i joint meeting of the Sumter County Council of De fense and the farmers of Sumter County be held al the Court House .:i 11 o'clock. Tuesday. August 20 th, id IS'; thai all farmers be invited and urged t<> attend in order that a definite plan as to the percentage of food crops to be planted for 1919 be agreed upon, and tin- percentage of acreage of cotton be settled by this mass meeting. That the f*umter County Council of Defense, assisted by nil loy al and patriotic farmers, then proceed to appoint township and community committees to have pledges signed carrying out the plans agreed upon by this meeting; and that provision be made for represntative colored farmers to'attend this meeting and par ticipate in the patriotic movement to produce food to help win the war.*' In accordance with the above. ;. mass meeting of the farmers of Sumter county has been called to meet at the Court House on Tuesday, August 2,0th, at 11 o'clock. The County Pood Administra tion is also cooperating in this movement, as this is a movement to help win the war. Notices of this meeting ace being sent to 23 Pood Administrators in this ecunty, who are also expected to be present at this meeting. The Council of Defense lias received in tin- list, few days letters from the Pood Administration urging that the matter of food production and conservation be taken up vigorously arid that no efforts be spared to make the food produc ers of this county realize that this war is not won. and that we v. ill be compelled to furnish, enormous quantities of foodstuffs to our Allies ami to our army abroad. Therefore, it is the patriotic and loyal duty of everyone to re spond to the government's call. "We want every member of the Council of Defense, and Food Administration representatives, to talk this meeting up; we also want each Food Administrator and member of the Council of Defense to invite three, four or five leading colored farmers in their communities to be present at this meeting. A separate section will "be reserved for them. Ulis is a movement which will have a far-reaching effect and will be in our judgment of inestimable value to the food producer as well as to tin- cotton grower of the south. By increasing our food crops we will be carrying out the wishes of our government, and .-it the same time cut down the cotton acreage to a point where over-production will riot he a nightmare to the cotton planter. v So turn out and help make this a great big patriotic, loyal, food growing and cotton-acreage-reducion mass meeting A. C. PHELPS. Chairman County Council of Defense. G. A. LEMMON, County Poo<] Administrator. E. 1. REARDON, Assistant County Food Administrator. (?cki. Doyen's Marines. < From Sen, Power.) Brig. Con. Charles A. Doyen, or ganizer, drill-master and fighting ?commander' of our marines, wh/oso daring victories on the Marne have thrilled the nation, has been invalid ed home just as fame crowned him and his men. The tactics and success of his brigade', have been the admi ration of the allied nations, and it will not be unprofitable to inquire whether their training or leadership have been along special lines offer dig helpful hints for preparing future troops. While cur army forces abroad ar? dialed and commanded by West Pointers, or by those whose tactics and inspirations are of military acad emy origin and, whose jives have been spent on shore, the higher ma rine officers wer.' trained at the na val academy and have been sailor men for years. General Doyen, the actual field commander, is :i mem ber of tin- naval academy's famouJ class of 1SS1; so are Major General Barnett, commander in chief of the Marine corps, and Brig. Gen. Lauch heimer, who. practically speaking, i. t.he chief of staff of the corps. Brig adier General Lejeune?who has gone over to relieve Doyen?and the two regimental commanders, the gallant Colonel Catlin. severely wounded in b-ading ids regiment, and Colonel Neville?whom Vera Cruz will long remember?are all Annapolis men sailors by education and practice. Conditions in the army are so dif ferent from those in the navy that tra ditions ami drill methods arc not the same in the two services. Life on shipboard and work in small boats tend to develop individual initiative more than does the barrack' system of squad control. For trench prepa ration the array system has obviou: advantages, bur we should, neverthe less, expect tin- individual marina to handle himself somewhat better than ;t soldier in the special case of an attack across broken ground. Then, aboard ship" .tar.net practice?Indivi dual target practh-Is almost a sub-| ject oi' worship. The records of iu tiorial and Internationa] rifle matches are witness to the ability of our small marine coins or pre-war da.y? to wr< sj target laurels from tin- large service. It may he noticed too thai Major Hbicomb- the spent of miirme corps target practice ?has been efj fectively busy with, the marines v. im are in France; Tic developments of trench lighting have led the'arm- lb ? w ? . - , ' . i the use (,, 1,1, n;ino grenade, tnc machine gun. etc., ??haps to the im?.| avoidable slighting >;?' rifle instruc-1 Li.n. I lue navv has watciied with inter- i ?at the wording out of these tw< | systems in our training camps in! Prance. We }nv<- seen Genera! i'ar-l Suings sokuers ret - :\:ng tie* !;.-s! : American army system of training j mod hied by lessons learned from oui j allies. At the same lime we h.;vc! seen Genera! !rcrshing approving and! ncourat drills instituted by Doyen for his i ta - j l ines. Ii; Dove::*s camps Lb i .- .1.;- i been ride practice everv dav Cor -v-! eryl.y. Conventional ' targets . nd j i-rowued with tin cans to r e r : hti German helmets; tall posts and . . Ort ! ;omc posts in the open, some in) trenches, some in shell hobsi. :'ait j .-very post had iis can. ThrOnghj these Stage nijuies of Huns the ma.-j lines have advauc d dallv- -and ; nightly- in sunshine and rain : mi !..-? and snow. Sometimes tin-- ran. I 4gain they walked or crawled 01 ? Wriggled snake-like on their bellies, hut every tin can was punctured re peatedly as soon .as soon and between shots posts were bayonexted or I smashed with rifle b?1t or barrel. I ' Broadly speaking:, the army train ! ed for trench or open field worit, with J the emphasis on the trench, and the I marines trained for the open or the | trench, with emphasis on the open. I Then, -after a preliminary try-out ! in the trenches ihr? marines were ? rushed to the neighborhood of Cha I teaiT^Thierry. where they were given j their chance. They knew their su i periority in the open and wore lucky | in finding the Germans just digging into temporary trenches. -\nd tie marines went forward, chucked th< Huns out of the ditches and "mixed it up" in' the open. Every Fritz was a post and every helmet a tin can and even the seasoned French ana British were amazed to see men equally expert in the use of the bayo netv the butt and the sight. For the i\v^i time in about three years the rifle came into its own in tin- hands of experts who handled it as a fowling piece or pig sticker or a shillaloh. Against permanent trenches the army training methods leave little t< be desired, but between here and Ber lin there will bo much fighting in the open, and our 7">.!oiii marines will furnish many wafcos. To every officer and man in tin army a.s well as in tin' na' v it is a matter of regret that just at the hour of victory General Doyen's health failed under the strain of arduous work abundantly well done. But. whoever gave the order "forward." Doyen was the man who builded vic tory ami his is tin- triumph. At this all who know him greatly rejoice. H< is a man of most lQvable dualities. For example, parents and friends oi his men wrote him hundreds of let ters inquiring as to those under ids command. There was a standing or der that the adjutant should answer all letters shewing signs that the writers were \. dl-to-do. hut that ev ery letter showing poverty, distress or brief should bo brought to tin general to be answered by him per sonally, at night, when drills wen over and others might rest. His absence from the front is a dirtinct loss to the nation. But there will be compensations. Iiis strong will and vigorous patriotism will j largely ignore his physical condition j and his disappointment at leaving his men. Within two w*eks he will nrob ahly Ik- reauy tai:e charge 01 a great training camp where his talents, and experience v.di; prepare a new and bigger host of marines to be th' I navy's representatives on the fields of France. it is gratifying to know thai Gen-) oral Harbord of the army, who rook | temporary command of the Marines-, and General Pershing, as well as the French general commanding the di vision, have officially placed en rec ord high tribute to General Doyen's oerscnal and official worth, to the I with which his men were train-! 1} and to th-- valor and slrength with which they struck when their chance and actively against Bloase is pos-j sibiy for him and does not des?.*rvo ill,- support oi" militant Americans. 1 vVhx'e our country is .-a war there i--: no roam for bajf-way measures, j only truly loyal Americans should 1? :,lac6d in positions ol ??. : poaaibi-ily. 1 Gotten is beginning to open in a!-: most all sections oi" the county and j picking will fie in 1?regress wit!:in ten days. Th* re was almost an i<!- famine in! this city Saturday :i f tor noon, and j many people had to send to the fac-; tory Ro obtain a supply. 1 ? (MERMAN PRESS ASKS QUESTIONS j Pointed Enquiries Made Concerning! Reserve:?People (iron Anxious. I The Hague, Aug. 12.?German newspapers are asking pointed ques tions concerning reserves in the west j and are caustic in their comment A 1 erlin dispatch to the post of Munich.j complains of the attempts of certain Cemian official circles to conceal the? truth from the people. It says that has done incalculable harm and is largely responsible for the public bit terness. The dispatch adds: "The same day that General Luden dorff confessed our strategic plans had faded. Prince Henry of Prussia, in a speech at llai.nbur.ee said the Turkish, attache had just told him he considered the battle on the Marne a German victory. So the German public may choose between Ludendorfl and the Turkish attache. It is pain ful to see private persons in promi nent positions iike Prince Henry try ing to represent facts in a manner at I variance with the truth?it is ridicu uloUs to suppose ihat the importance of events can be concealed ultimately from the people." The Deustches Zeitung, of Berlin, decla res: j ?"The events between the Somme and the Avre constitute the first se rious defeat of the war." The newspaper attributes the de feat to the weak morale of the troops of Crown Prince Rupprecht, due to the hast Reichstag speech of former Foreign Secretary von Kuehlmann. The Socialist Vorwaerts of Herlin calls on the1 government to tell the j people the truth about the war. saying I the expectations of those "who wish to lead the nation through the war like an ignorant child, with the stereo typed assurance that everything was doing splendidly; are unfulfilled." j NEW NIAGARA DEVELOPMENT. A Canadian Company Will Have a 3(W),00u Horsepower Plant. Buffalo. N. Y.. July 31.?One of the greatest water development project: of the many centering about Niagara Pails has been launched on the Ca nadian side of the river. It contem plates an im me.bate production O? 300,000 electrical horsepower, o equal to approximately one-half the present total development on both sides of the river,'and it may expand to 1,000,000 horse power. Actual work on the new channel was begun recently by the Ontario Hydro Commission. There were n< ceremonies and the launching of th< work was virtually unknown to tin. general public; The channel will en circle the city of Niagara Falls, Ont.. one running from the Weiland .River a tributary of the Niagara above th< cataract, to the escarpment below Queenston heights. The power hous< will be located on the river level al most at the foot of Brock's monu ment. "SThe channel is the first one planned to get the full benefit of the differ ence in level between I^akes Erie and Ontario, approximately 30,0 feet. Tin old compauies, with penstocks locateo close to the foot of the cataract, ge. a head of about 200 feet. The addi tional 100 feet head, it is estimated wiil make it possible to develop tin 300,000 horsepower with the samt flow of water required to develoj 100,000 horsepower at the falls. Whale the units under construction for the power house are planned t< produce only 300,000 horsepower. th< canal itself will be built to allow a further flow of water capable of trebl ing this volume. The Ontario Hydro Commission b a Provincial body, appointed by th? Ontario government. It distributes power to Ontario municipalities within a radius of 200 miles of the Falls at low cost. A large part of the current generated on the Canadian side, for merly exported and distributed by at; American corporation, has been cut off. Canadian power for Canadian in dustries has been 'the motto of Sh Adam Beck, chairman of the com mission, arul war conditions hav< brought a speedier application of the policy than had been expected. To replace the Canadian current thus lost, a steam generating plant has been built here with an ultimate capacity of 140,000 horsepower. Steam plants and water power plants far down the State have been drawn up on to keep Buffalo factories going Part of the current from the new hydro plant will be available for Amer ican industries, but only those engag ed in war work, Sir Adam has an nounced. Under the treaty between Canada, Great Britain and the United States the diversion of water on the Cana di:in side is limited to 36.000 cubit feel a second. The limit on the American side is 20.000 feet. Canada already has authorised the diversion of all but 6,00.0 cubic feet oi her allotment. Under special war per mits the American companies are also within a few hundred feet of t/ieir limit. The new channel will carry oft about LO.??0 cubic feet of water a sec end. This will necessitate some re adjustment of the allowances to tin otiier Canadian companies unless tb< treaty is modified. This 1ms led f< suggestions of consolidation of all the Canadian companies .and the 1,000, uuu horsepower development. To Wed in Japan. Marion. Aug. 10. Miss Claudia !'row ii of Marion left August f! for Vancouver, il. <".. where she will sail for .Japan. Her dance. Henry '.. Heaves, who is engaged in mission work in Soochow. China, will meet her in Japan, where they will be mar ried and proceed to their home in Soochow. Mr. Heaves is from Clar endon county and was pastor of sev eral churches in that county prior to taking up wer!-, in China in February. 11? 17. As ii is impossible for him to secure sufilcicnl leave of absence to et urn to this e.otmtrj under ;ix years; hi ; bride j:-. going out '" ban. Chiefly Cor women's shoes is a new rubber heel that clings to a leather | ieel ever which it is slipped. PRrSSIAXTSM. As Explained by a Prussia:!. London, July 1 (Correspondence of the AssociaK-d Press;?Despite their 'our years of fighting, some of the j German prisoners of war still are obsessed by the German idea of con quering the world. That unadulter ated Prussianism still exists in the I German ranks is the conclusion of one I British officer who has interviewed a i , . , . _ ji:ujio;! r ci the German prisoners. One Lof them lie describes as "an intell igent university man." The British I oiiu e> quotes their conversation as fol I lows: J *'I do not wish to insult you," said l the German, "hut you English are j w< Li-intended fools. We who govern I in Germany are not like you. We gov ern the fools; the fools govern you." "Your principles are sweeping," re plied the Briton. "To come down to practice, what have you to say aboat the guilt of beginning the war?" "Guilt?" demanded the German; it was a glory. I claim it for Ger many." "That is hardly your official view." "The official view is for the fools." "i.ut you believe in the Prussian purpose behind all' this," asked the British officer. \ "I do, as in nothing else," replied the German. "The Prussian purpose is God. There is no other. Prussia will rend the'veil of the temple, but ?he will "destroy to create. Against Prussian might the world as it exist3 today will fall in ruins, but Prussia will build a better and more virile world in its place. "Strength only will survive. The life of men is naturally a tight. The strongest in force and cunning will live." "It will be going back to the Flood,''" said the Briton. "Prussia is the Flood." "And when the old world is drown ed, virtue and all such weaknesses will go with it? "The old virtue was womanish," said the' prisoner. "The new virtue is strength." "In that blessed future will war reign triumphant? "Life is war?all of life that is healthy. Peace is only" striving for mastery with other weapons. That is ;he law of nature." "So everyone will fight till everyone :s dead?" "The weakest will go under. They are the disease. The stronger will live; and after that the stronger and Wronger, till there is perfect health. "But it may be that Prussia will keep a few slaves?" "Certainly," said the German. ?These who care not to fight that they may rule are in their nature -laves. "I had had enough of it," the of ficer concluded. "It was nauseating. But the man was genuine in his be hufs and so obsessed by his elemen tary notion of virility that it was a waste of time to argue with him. His acneeptions were quite definite and not a doubt assailed him. The hid eous world of his vision seemed to him a natural and a glorious world." German Camouflage. London, June 25 (Correspondence of the Associated Press)?A British air officer writing from the western front says that the Germans have this spring brought camouflage to a state of artistic perfection that is almost incredible. "The most expert and highly experienced airmen are often deceived even when flying low," he writes. "As a first step, the Ger man military authorities sought sug gestions from the most distinguished German artists in color. As a next step, every available man was turn ed on to the business of carrying out the artists' ideas. "Miles of canvas painted to look like roads were constructed, under which regiments could march with out being seen. \ Paper encampments were improvised, and aerodromes, woods, villages and factories of a purely fictitious character, were set up merely to distract observers and to cover the movements of troops and guns. Nothing on so vast a scale has ever been attempted before." Price for Ginning1 in South Carolina. To a.-... - <?f Sumter County, and feed Administration Representa tives: The following bulletin has been re ceived from Mr. William Elliott. Food Administrator for South Carolina: The price for ginning in South Car olina is fixed by the Food Administra tion as follows: For ginning a bale of 500 pounds of lint cotton or less. $:;.."?(? per bale. For each additional 100 pounds of lint cotton, at the rate of seventy cents per 100 pounds. When bagging and ti?s are furnished by ginner, $1.50 additional. The farmer shall have tic privilege of furnishing his own bagging and ties. Yours very truly, William Elliott, Food Administrator for South Caro lina. Published by order of Mr. G. A. hemmon. Countj Food Administrator. For lubricating automobile springs a tool has been invented to spread the leaves and insert grease.