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SOUTHERN PUBLICITY COMMIT / TEE. Mrs. Jesse D. Hammond, Secretary of Organization, Spends Day in Sum ter. Mrs. Jesse D. Hammond, of Dalton. ? Ga? the secretary of the Southern Publicity Committee spent yesterday in Sumter and was engaged in seek ing information about the manner in which the Sumter Chamber of Com merce, the Sumter County Council of Defense, the Woman's Division of the Council of Defense. Liberty Loan, War Savings, and Red Cross commit tees, the Home Demonstration Agents and other official and semi official' organizations carry on inten sive-organization work for agricul tural,'public health, and industrial work of all-kinds, working together *" in a cooperative manner not only to better the social, financial, physical, and'moral aspects of the county, but also-to get first hand information about'how Sumter and Sumter coun ty do these things. Mrs. Hammond said that she was attracted to Sumter' by a copy of a report of the acivities of the Sumter Chamber of Commerce and the Sum ? ter -County Council of Defense in war*-work, and the description in this report particularly of how the white and the negro population of this ccr?n ty worked so splendidly together in Liberty Loan, War Savings and Red Cross work. This report had been sent?* to the South Carolina State Council of Defense by Secretary- Rear don- by request of Dr. Reed Smith, the executive secretary of that coun Copies, of ..this report had been sent "to the Council of National De fense in Washington, and then dis tributed to the various State Councils of ?efense throughout the country as a model- plan of organization and co operation, and hundreds of the lead ing papers of this country had print ed a^id-vcommented favorably on the report. The^work of the Sumter County Council of Defense, and the Woman's Divisipn thereof; the organization among the negroes of the county, the splendid responses of the white and negro? farmers to the appeal of the government for extraordinary produc tion ?nd conservation of foodstuffs, and the general loyalty and patriotism of the people of this county attracted widespread nation-wide attention. The Southern Publicity Committee is an''Organization of leading and in fluential ladies and gentlemen organ ized: :for the purpose "of making known the constructive aspects of race relations in the South." Among the .distinguished Southern^ men on the -committee may be mentioned President-W.- S. Currell, of the Uni versity of South Carolina. Editor >-/>?lark Howell, of the Atlanta Consti tution, James H. Dillard of Char lottsville, Va., Charles J. Crow, of the :Statfe University of Florida, Thomas Jesse- Jones of the Bureau of Educa ^^cn^iWa^ngtop, D, C-> Jackson _DaT vis of the Chamber of Commerce, Richmond, Va., Edward D. Britton, of the-Kavy Department, Washington, Arthur, S. Krock, of the Courier Journal, Louisville, Ky.. Mrs. Percy B. Pennybacker, Austin, Texas, D. P. Toomey of the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas, and other noted Southern men and. women. x Mrs. Hammond was interested in the work of the negroes in this coun ty, their industrial traits, their re sponses to the war calls and pur chases by them of Liberty Loan bonds, War Savings, contributions to the' Red Cross, their educational in stitutions, patriotism, ownership of homes and farms, the effect prohibi tion,, has had on their habits, pros perity, and physical and moral condi tions, also as to what prohibition had done for the white citizens of South Carolina, s She said that the Southern Pub licity Committee is not an advocate of social equality between the races, but.that this committee seeks to bring about a proper understanding between the white and colored races along industrial, lines ;n order to avoid misunderstandings and to ' create friendly relations between the races r by -showing that the white and ne gro .races can. get along together in the South if the negroes are fairly treated as they appear to be in Sum ter county. This committee thinks the South is the logical home of the negro, and that they can live here side by side and?-- work with the white people to the^dvanvage of both races, and that there is no reason why the social problems should be injected into the constructive aspects of the situation. The' negroes, do not. she thinks, care for 'social equality, that is not to any extent, but that this phase of the re lations need not produce prejudice against the negro because a com paratively few of them may harbor such aspirations which cannot and never will be realized m the South. Mrs. Hammond met Mrs. Nina M. Solomons. Chairman of the Woman's Division of the Council of Defense] and'talked over the work of the Wo man's Council, the Baby Welfare! Werk, War Nurse work, and Civic ?'" r ' League activities. She was taken by Miss Alice Martin and Secretary! Reardon to the Lincoin School where! an institute is being held for colored teachers by Principal C. A. Lawton J and Dr. L. Bragg Anthony. Supervis- j or of Negro Schools of this county. She was shown the work of the insti tute, and the colored school building. ' Misses Keels and Martin explained] the home demonstration department] as Conducted by them. Mus. Hammond was very favorably impressed with the natural beauty of Sumter as she was driven around the; city by Miss Martin in her c; r. and thought Sumter's many miles of pav ed streets and sidewalks, churches school buildings, residences, :tnd lawns wonderful indications of eul-j tore and progress. Mrs. Hammond came especially with the idea of learning first hand of the way "Sum ter does things" r<s she put it. Sum ter feels highly honored in having this*lady pay us a visit. She met \ nurrrber of Sumter citizens at the Chamber? of Commerce during the day.. Dr. and Mrs. J. O. DeLorme have retur^d-fs-om. ? Murreli-'s v?nk-t. THE GREAT REO CHOSS. ! What Was Done in Italy During the Austrian Defeat in June. I _ j Italian Front. July 4.?The full j story of the work of.^ the American j Red Cross in Italy during the Aus I trian defeat of June 14-21 will never ! be written. Some of it lies in the I experience of young American volun teers in canteens at advanced posts who cooked for every combatant who appeared until ordered to fall back out of fire. More is in the memories ! of Red Cross ambulance men who '. for ten days and nights drove their I freight through continuous shell-fire ; and occasional machine gun attack. ; The remainder is buried in columns ? of f;_ 'res at headquarters in Rome j from which, within, a few hours of I the first warning, supplies were pour I ed along every road to the front, i Before dawn- on the night of June j 14, the first Austrian' shock came, j Behind the waiting- Italian army were i four sections of American Red Cross j ambulances. Many of the Americans i on duty were new to Italy, and to war. j The others weir veteran drivers from ! the French front, some, of whom be i gan their service long before the Unit i ed States declared war. The curious ! fact is that between the records of the j veterans and the amateurs there : stands today little difference. Cool I headedness under fire is soon learned ; if it can be learned a", all; and to bal jance the veteran's experience the new i man is frequently the more eager, in ia career in which the value of eager j ness runs a clcse second to exterity and common sense, j A report made to the Italian Su j preme Command by the Commander of American Red Cross Ambulance j Section No. 2, the largest of the fou:; sections, takes special notice of the ?acts of a volunteer, Goldphwaite H ! Dorr, of Nutley, N. J., on the night j of June 14. He was on duty at an ad ! vanccd post whfch was hit by an j enemy shell, which demolished part of the house, and completely covered ! his ambulance. Returning to the j headquarters o*f the section, he there I took charge of another axnbu j lance and returned to the field of bat | tie in order that he might continue ! his work of pity. The report of Section Xo. 2 is full of similar instances of bravery: 'John Walter Miller, Jr., of Kenora, On tario. Canada, and Frederic J. Agate i of Scarsdale, New York, were order j ed to a front post. Arriving at a cross ! road they found it covered with barb I ed wire obstacles and two machine J guns in place.- With the help of the I machine gun operators, they tore ? down and opened the barbed wire, 'and advanced 300 metres further, and j reached a house where the wounded j were being cared for while bullets j of the two armies were raining all {around them. Having loaded their j automobile with wounded, they re j turned to the stations where the in jured received first-aid treatment. , At 3 o'clock on the morning of the 15th, the Commander of the section ? judged by the intensity of 1 the bdm ; bardment that a certain advanced post required a reinforcement of am j bulances. Four volunteers were de I tailed for this duty. They were Clar ence F. Roe. of Chicago, 111.. Dudley IF. Wolf, of Irvington-on-Hudso'i I New York. Lucius H. Davidson of j Great Village, Nova Scotia, and John j A. Gordon, of Barre. Vermont. They ! advanced to this post, i" spite of a I violent enemy bombardment of shells j and tear-gas bombs. (One of these I men ^s now in Milan, being treated for a serious condition of the eyes j due to'gas.) This medical post he ; came sc- dangerous during their work ; there that it had to be abandoned but j they continued to carry wounded. I gathering them from the road. And ! this task was continued and accom I plished by them day and night during j the entire offensive. { On the night of the 17th, two of the j new volunteers who had just joined I the section distinguished themselves, j Walter J. Feder cf C'incinnati, Ohio land Robert C. Cory, of Newark. N. J.. j went to a front post where fighting i was very tierce, and were stopped by a colonel, who told them it was im possible to proceed. At this very mo j mc-nt. the'colonel was struck and se j rlously injured by a piece of shell, j They carried him immediately to a j surgical station: on their return they ! were stopped at a bridge or military police, who said it was fatal to go further: but taking advantage of a moment's inattention on the part of the guards, they went on in spite of this warning, and .r-ueceoded in car rying a great number of wounded I from this area." r j Not long after the first ambulance {moved. American Reel Cross canteens j sprang up at favorable sites just be hind the lines. Ten canteens had been in operation under the Depart ment of Military Affair- for months; j seven more were added immediately, j The emergency group were placed, equipped and directed by B. Harvey Carroll, American consul in Venice. Out of a long experience in lied Cross relief in that besieged city. Mi-. Car roll was able within twenty-four hours to gather and --hip through the j teeming zcfne of operations enough I coffe e, cigarettes and chocolate to [supply stations where the daily av f crage of men served was sometimes as high as 3.000-. Each post was direct ed by two American Red Cross men < foj that purpose. S Early in. the offensive, a death oc curred in ti e American Red Cross forces. Lieutenant Edward M. Ma Key of New? York city, who had taken the first American canteen to, the Italian front last winter and who had lately moved to a site on the r-iave front too hazardous to be en trusted to younger men. was instant ly killed by ;i shell on the morning of June 17. Lieut. MeKey was buried the next day. his grave marked by a ; lain wooden croj*s. inscribed with his I:name and rank; like the row:*,of Ital ian dead beside him. A small Amer ican tlag has been placed beside the i cross, and throughout the battle his ! Italian friends !.< pi fresh flowers on 1 the grave. I Besides these canteens in th? very : center of the busiest fire, there were [ other and usually busy Red Cross rest Ihouses at tine railway stations ia the j rear. At these junclio?s. tired col ! umnS of men on their way t<? a short time repose encountered fresh troops marching: toward the- battle. At one important junction, where the troops of three allied armies emerged and separated for their various sectors, an American Red Cross canteen had been hastily perched under a spread ing tree opposite the station en trance, looking for ail the world like a youngster's lemonade stand on a ! circus day. Here an American woman volunteer worked day and night. The most difficult moments of that job were the times of passage of j hospital trains, when steaming cauld t drons were transported to the sta tion platform and cups of hot colTee held to the lips of men too seriously hurt to move. Otherwise, the daily ana nightly vista there, ;>s elsewhere, was one long succession of dust-cov ered columns, brown faces and hun gry mouths. On the shoulders of the officials at headquarters in Rome rested, chieliy, the problem of transportation. Supplies that had been stored at some distance from the lines h:ul to be moved to the front, and the vacancies ailed from below. - Already, northern Italy had been covered with a network of stores at strategic points, and emergency com-j munications marked out. When thc attack came, within three hours alter the early news reached Rome, the emergency mechanism was at work. By railroad, by automobile, occasion ally by boat and frequently as the handbaggage of Red ' oss officers hurrying- to the front, supplies mov ed forward. A procession of laden camions started from centers in northern Italy. Thus every department of the Red Gros* worked as a unit during these days of excessive stress: each Amer ican working in harmony with his Italian comrades toward the victory which was uppermost in the hearts of all. TBE FUTURE OF AVIATION. May Be Largely Used in [Exploration and Preliminary Surveys. London, Aug. 20 (Correspondence of The Associated Press)?Airplanes will be widely used, after the war for purposes of exploration and sur rey, said Harold Prighouse. of the Royal Geographical Society, to a representtaive of The Associated Press, commenting on the announce ment that' Captain Amundsen's arc tic expedition, which has just sailed, has taken three airplanes as part of its equipment. "Captain Amundsen will use these airplanes for geographical and me teorological research in the Arctic," said Mr. Brighhouse, "and they should prove very useful in this connection. With peace will come a large exten sion of the use of the airplane in ex ploration. ?'There is no reason why the 're motest partes of Africa or the upper waters of the Amazon should remain unmapped.- Aerial photography has reached a stage when all that is necessary, for exact map-drawing is a continuous series' of air photographs. Tracts of Portuguese East Africa, which had never before been charted, were, in fact mapped by means of the air photography of British aviators. "The undiscovered natural re sources of a new country can be ob served from airplanes. The eye of the observer reveals much; the air cam era, even now is an excellent guide in indicating the kind o. wood growing in a forest, and will be of greater utility still as the development of ae rial color photography progresses. Railway survey through savage iand?, wh eh, both in life and money, has been a tremendously costly pre liminary to construction, will become safe and so cheap/ as'to present no financial obstacles whatever, to a sur very which uses aerial photography." "Not only can the course of rivers be traced, but their navigable chan nels can be ascertained, and the com bined discovery made of valuable natural products together with the best means, of transporting them by river. "Water, then as now, will probably be the explore s chief guide and his machine is more likely to be of the seaplane type, with floats than the airplane type, with wheels. He will fly high, and should he have to make a forced landing, will steer for lake and river rather than for th< rare open spaces of a tropical forest. "For the air explorer, the romance of flying will persist; the value of the work he will do is obvious: and there are many idiots in the allied armies today who will find in 'aerirfl explora tion play for the typically British spirit of adventure. "In the future of aviation there is elbow room for all. the sportsman pilot will find in exploration by air an enterprise made to his taste." NO PEACE IN SIGHT. Go many and Austria to Save Breath. Washington, Sept. 6.?Germany and Austria have agreed that the present is no tinia to start a peace of [Tensive, according '.<> ;i dispatch from Switzerland today ? mnienting on the ' recent conference at Vienna between Admiral von Ginlze and Count Eu ! rian. This message said :ho Teutonic for eign ministers agreed that the cn ' tente must be made to realize that I Marshal Foeh ?-'in not break ih< I German front and that years would !?<? required i<> defeat Germany. An official French dispatch com menting on the report notes that the ministers did not speak as in the pr st of ;i victorious Germany dictating ; face terms. American CasuaUj List. Washingcon, Sept -The army! casualty list Ted::." !a1;i!~ 75" .as fol-~ lows: Killed. IVO; missing, ] '.".': i wounded severely. 2 GS; died of i wounds, 20; di'-d of nccilent and other causes. ": wounded, degree un-1 determined. 2??-t; di<-<; of disease, S.'j Clarence C Bonde. Georgetown. S. C. Charlie I). Brantley, Laurens. S. Richard <;. White. Charleston. S. ('.. Clarence F Freeman, Green ville, s. ('. wounded, degree und termined. George C. McClevy. Mt! carniel. S. C. Frank Rtheridge, Lees vTle S C. Dewey (1. Reaves, Green-; wood.. S. C. . _^L^a I I ! AMERICAN TRANSPORT TORPE I ? -- DOED. _ j Mount Vciiion Attacked on Return ! j Voyage?ship Returns to French j Port. i Washington. Sept. G.?The United I States army transport Mount Version, i formerly the North German Lloyd ! liner - Kronprinzessin Cecilie. wasj ! torpedoed by an enemy 'submarine ! yesterday 200 miles from the coast o:' j France while homeward bound, but jwasnable to return to port. The re ; port of- the navy department today ; made no mention of any casualty and I it was assumed that no cue was in j jured by the explosion. No military units were on board, j but the big liner probably was carry j ing some sick and wounded Ameri can soldiers in addition to her crew of probably 600 or 700 navy men. The extent of the damage was not given in the department's advices, but from the fact that the vessel was able to return to Franc"1 at a speed of 14 knots, officials conclude that she was not badly damaged. The Mt. Vernon is the second of the great German liners taken over when this country went to war to be torpedoed. The first was the Presi ! dent Lincoln, which was sunk re cently off the coast of France. Before the war the Kronprinzes sin Cecilie plied 'between New York and European ports and when' the war began she was on the high seas bound for Cerbourg and Plymouth with '$12,000.000 in'gold bullion in addition to many passengers. In structions were sent to her from Germany by radio to return to this country and the liner immediately put back. Suit was brought against the North German Lloyd, line by banks in New York for failure of the vessel _o deliver the gold and the case finally came before the supreme .court which decided against the banks. Later the vessel was seized for the shipping board, which had her put in sea going condition, the crew having damaged the engines. I The navy finally took the ship over and: she was converted into a trans port to carry American troops to France. The Mount Vernon is of 19,? ?Oi-gross tons and before conversion had a passenger carrying capacity of about 2,000. Her speed is 23 and a half knots an hour. . WAR UP-TO-DATE. Americans Place Machine (Huns in Motor Cars to Chase II uns. With the American Forces on the Aisne^Front, Thursday, Sept. 5 yl'.y the Associated Press).?In their en deavor to keep up with the Germans who-are retreating beyond the River Aisne, the Americans have organized automobile machine gun detachments with three men to .each car. More than/ 30 cars were operating north of the-Vesle River c\arly today. As not much German infantry had been sighted the automobil* machine gun nerjjiterere uncertain: just where their 1 advafice might lead them. The out fit had supplies of food and equipment ?to enable them to keep after the Ger mans for four days. As the Ameri cans pressed forward it was a differ ent sight'than that which had greet ed them in their advance from the Marrte to the Vesle. From the Vesle northward over the plateau the Ger mans had cleaned up virtually every thing and were burning that which they^'co?ld not move northward or which might be of use to the French and Americans. Between the Marne and the Vesle the Germans had left great stores of supplies because of their hasty withdrawal. The roads on the plateau north of the Vet *. were in fairly good con dition, although in some places over a.vines the Germans had endeavored to destroy small bridges. The plateau for every few miles was dotted with frames of German airdromes from some of which the Americans say the German raiders who bombed Paris evidently operated. The American officers believe that hi:- plateau must have been the prin cipal German aviation .site for oper ating against Paris and the districts '.n between. Before the advancing Americans ?n the desolate valley of the Vesle be tween Bazoches and Fismette the Germans burned the freight cars along the railroad and the twisted skeletons of the ears are standing on :he tracks. The trees along the road ?vay between Bazoches and Fismette had 'been cut down by Carman saws ind German shells, The stone houses in Fismette have shell holes in their sides and roofs and some were smash ed by German bombers who vainly endeavored to drive out the Ameri cans. For motor fire apparatus a nonskid cushion tire has been invented that resembles two round tires set close together an:l with the sides of the groove marked .with, staggered inden tations. Wood's Seeds j ' Crimson Clover t j Increases crop produ j tion, improves the land j and makes an excellent grazing and forage crop. WOOD'S FALL CATALOG Just Issued Tells A!! About Crimson Clover, Alfalfa, Fulghurn Oats, Abbruzzi Rye and all other Farm and Garden Seeds FOR FALL SOWING. Catalog mailed free. Write fo rt, and prices of any Sect's re quired. _ T. W. WOOD & SONS, Seedsmen - Richmond, Va., i CHAMBER OF COMMERCE NOTES] The Early Closing of Stores is Really j a War Measure to Save h'HeL j Not a little unfavorable comment} is being made about a few Sumter merchants who fail to c-loso their stores at G o'clock every evening, for five days of each week, and at 0 j o'clock on Saturday night. The closing early movement was' inaugurated as a war measure, and is a patriotic movement to save fuel! to help win the war. There can be no doubt that the thousands of con sumers who have to buy groceries and other supplies will gladly co operate with the merchants to save fuel. The merchants who fail to com ply with the big majority of their fellow business establishments will no doubt lo<e more in the long run than they will gain, because public senti ment is a strong factor to buej* against, especially during war when everybody is worked up to a high pitch of enthusiasm and patriotism. Of course, it is conceded that every man has the right to run his own business to suit himself provided he [ violates no law ot the kind, and docs I a legitimate business. However, the question of saving | fuel is a public matter of more than j ordinary interest, and while any mer chant may reserve the right to go contrar * to the opinions and actions of an overwhelming number of his fellow merchants, nevertheless pub lic sentiment enjoys the .same unre stricted right to prevail as has the private opinion of any merchant who bucks public sentiment. It is after all a matter of choice. Those who seek to conserve fuel as requested by the United* Slates gov ernment are seking to furnish the boys who are righting and dying with means of transportation, and food to eat, because cutting down of unneces sary lights means using of less coal right now to generate steam to cre ate electricity, and later on the six o'clock closing will save thousands of tons of coal used in heating business places. SECOND GAME TODAY. World's Scries Not Attracting Usual Crowd. Chicago, Sept. 6.?With the Red Sox one game in the lead, the Nat ional .Leaguers are confident the Americans will not be able to repeat this afternoon. There were only be tween fifty and seventy-five early applicants for bleacher seats. The scarcity of policemen was noted. The fellows who have had safe.and soft jobs in Washington and else where will be convinced that war is hell when they read Secretary -of War Baker's latest order. There are no bomb proof jobs for husky heroes who enjoy campaigning on Pennsyl vania Avenue. m Enough to be absolutely ?safe. Enough to satisfy all test . sonable people. The National Bank of The "Old Reliable" Since 1889 J. P. BOOTH, President W. J. CROWSON, Jr., Cashier BUY WAR. SAVINGS STAMPS Ihn Buy One Each Day! The First Notional Bank SU.VSTER. S. C. * ? _ "* ?8? <?* ?2? * * ?J. * * * ? AT108AL BANK OF SOOTB CAROLINA OF SUMTER. THE LARGEST AND MOST ANXIOUS TO PLEASE Our policy is to care for the interest of our friends, and" that we do this is evidenced by the large number of oM patrons that we have, and new friends \vc are making. If you are not a pa.ron we want you to become one. The National Bank of South Carolina 1 * * frfrfrg-frfrfrfrfrfrfr* ************ C. G. ROWLAND, President. F E. HINNANT, Cashier. * I Building Material and Feed Stuffs f * * * * * * * Konzil ami Dressed Lumber, Lime, Cement, Plaster, Brick, Shingles, Mouldings, Ktc. All kinds of Feed for Horses, Cows, Hogs and Poultry. We solicit your patronage. Booth &. McLeod, InC. Phones 10&631 ?I ?' ?? <? it ??