Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GIRLS B?SX WORKERS. W?aatti from Vassar, Welles-1 Shnmons, and Bryn Mawr For eisssroom for Shoe Factory Jollege girls from the University o~ leago, Radcliffe, * Wellesley, Vas Siminons, and Bryn Mawr have / Working. in* New England fao . during their summer vacation, girls. obtained employment v ie In a shoe factory at Man eter, -. N. H., several of these new :ers earned more money during ter than had been previously pa the same work. Miss Flor ^Tnttle> of Mount Solyoke Col ine daughter of the attorney of J*ew Hampshire, was one volunteers who made a good lor efficiency. T35ST MORE GENT. STRIN ppsay Itejectionsat Training Ga*aps, Order Says. aid icaiaps local county board has received KOnn?rlr M, Lynch, M- D:, medi to the governor, a notice to ^enject that, from iccords noW on ?tfcfe v proTOst marshal generals Washington, the State of -C^rolna has sustained a loss rejections at luobiLL The notice also states ^ records show that a large of this number of rejec ?c7are.?rom obvious defects which li^y^ .been easily detected. no?ce further says: "Now, >re, that these errors may be :ind; that the percentage of may be eliminated at once. ^:eye>y registrant while in tue of iorxt^^on upon the day of and inquire into his phy ?n^tiom, andvsho.uld he fail to . io/yoiir Idea cf physical f.t arfcould then and there be from the line of instruction, registrant whose order num next in sequence should take no circumstances send men whose weight is, .less than absott? minimum, 110 pounds, than sixty inches in height, ^^vrcviously have been rejected or men who have obvious! or whose weight and height1 In i^opor?oru The correetione-' in Ulis notice must apply to | r calls as well as all others.'! TO TRAIN NEERS. ENGI IDohisc: for Chemical and Engi- j Students are Given. . I ibia. Sept.' 24.?Dr. W. S.. Resident; of the- University j C&roljha, received the .fA-j ^nimnn^cation from the com- i education had special train- j &;tte$;war department this'morn *eet tbe nation^ nejjjps schools and chemis^vi includ- j y^e?atxs^:'?>cj ted in two. ?' years;';:'' the to - cover eigh t terms, each 12 weeks of instruction: j^?^^U?p^' During the I'i'tefms?^ mil ^^structioa will be 11 hours a thereafter it will be reduced to a week: War issues may be ^i^ilE?^,iiours"-a week during; two terms and be given in} ioa^^rit^ "English composition, j Srov^ curriculum is, being j ?^.3&o^ii>?t as a Prescribed\ :;hut 'as an indication of th- 1 ^.condensation that is deemed; ptr. - ? /. . \ university . will comply with j ? '^^ as'-far. as, possible and'i ; vexceptiona! opportunities] its talcing this line* of work, j S. A. T. C. R^ULATI?NS. ' j He??b?aartet^ deceive Ofli <te Balletin. bia/ Sept 24.?Registered i^Ttterkig the students' arm:; r v corps will receive uniforms. vmu5t .be worn at all times, and rjgven equipment, food, hous :o/emment expense, and, in be. paid the salary of a r. ?30 per month, ac to a bulletin Of the general, the army, received tGday by' -selective service headquar- ? Ail men within the pres-' draft ages, between 18 and 4? Of age, both inclusive, are e - to voluntary induction into1 collegiate section of the students' r training corps, with the excep-' will ^^'?^Of general service, men in class' Mistered before September 12. | 18 yeais of age will be j as much military training as; but . they will not be soldiers : n*ot receive the compensation j as soldier, until thej', havvj 18 years of age and hav:-j with their local boards. Ac j to the bulletin it is expecte ij voluntary - inductions into th , army training corps will j about October 1, .the students toj ^-p^y-'their. owV expenses to that time. I ?_1??????-? j ?3S&l?fcaa for Handling Gil and Ga>*j i v v./ - ? ' -- ^?ashii?gton. Sept. 23.?Regulation %}0&0&itg prepared by the fuel ad ?.*jffia?staration .under authority grante.i fc^s^PT?ftdent Wilson for the licensing" O^ pvw^ms ' or firms engaged in th ^ra^pOrtation and distribution of ci and gas- The licensing plan become ' ^P^ecative October 1, and it was em - ?. j^aRSlzed today that all concerns com - rj^-:.^rithin the provisions of the pro -1 ?Sweat's, ? proclamation must obtain li ; oenses' by that date. ;, .^^'Specifically the persons or firm": ; compelled to obtain licenses are im j \ friers, distributers or marketers an , *' transporters of crude oil. fuel oil. j < gas^gl, kerosene or gasoline. Manu j i r< of fuel oil. gas oil. ga<=:o- ; eiosene, and prodi7cers, dis-; and transporters of natur ! Retailers of natural gar and j its various forms whose bus- J y not exceed - $100.000 an-i not affected. j 5 or firms th^t are required ; r icenses but who foil to.dej c ge in bu5dness after Or - j }? II be iinble to the pen.nltie?-*! ? mder the food^and fuei con - j t TERMS OF FOURTH LOAN. Bonds Dated October 24; Interest Rate 4 1-4 Per Cent?Loan May be lor $6,000,000,000. Washington, Sept. 23.?All terms oC the fourth. liberty loan except the size and the maturity were announced today by the treasury. The amount, probably near $6,000,000,000, was de cided on, but announcement was with held. The interest rate-will be 4 1-4 pet cent, the . same as that of the third loan. Bonds will be dated October 24, five days after the close of the subscription period, and the. first in terest payment will be made next [Arpii 15 and will be for the 173 days intervening. Thereafter semi-annual payments will be October 15 and April yl$. On a $50 bond the first interest coupon will be worth $1.01; on $100, ! $2.02 and higher multiples accord I ingly. Both coupon and registered bonds I Will be issued in denominations o? $50, $100, $500, $1,000, $5,000 and ; $10,000. The $50,000 and and $100, ; 000 bonds will be registered only. .Since the latest maturity periods of ;the first, second and third loans were 30, 25 and 10 years, respectively .it was considered probable that the ma turity of the fourth would be either fifteen or twenty years. \. Ten per 'cent of the subscriptior. 'will be required as the initial pay j ment on. the fourth loan. Twenty per cent will be due as installments No vember 21, December 19 and January j 16 and 30 per cent January 30. i- Terms of the loan were communi -cated today to the Bureau of En graying and Printing* and within a few hours 50,000 finished bonds were ready for shipment. An equal num ber or even more^^ivill be turned out dairy hereafter. The bureau plans to print about 35,000,000 separate bonds ?or the fourtbMoan, with a larger proportion of "baby bonds" of the $50 dengmination than in previous issues, in anticipation of a multitude of sub scriptions from persons of small means. >OLIMPSE OF CIRCUS FROM BE HIND SCENES. Veteran Performer Tallks of Life and Work Amons People of Strange Sawdust World?Tells How Prc ^yie^ioe is Kept Up. To one who has always been ac customed to look at the circus from .the., "outside hi/' a glimpse from the "inside out" brings many surprises. Novelists who have chosen the cir cus life for depiction in stories have found It a fruitful field. Back of the curtain, the glamor and the 'hoop la- of the rings there is a world of very real and very likeable people. Most Of the performers are from families that have followed the circus from the time it first began to be mankind's never tirin&\ amusement. They have preserved the home tie" in spangleland as completely as is the i "2t te Sass; to^make the person--'out side* understand that we have ? real home life, close, sympathetic' and protecting," said a veteran of the read, who is always found Vith: his ^v'ife and children when the big show is over in the afternoon. "Most of us who follow the show business were born to it. Our fathers and mothers were performers and our grandpar ents before them. When we married wc took girls who, like ourselves, were born into the guild. We are training our children during the school vaca tion periods, just as we were trained Th*t is the way the profession is kept Showmen say that all the star per formers who are featured today were taught the essentials when they were children. Ernest ? Clark, the" greatest aerialist who ever lived, asserts that no man or woman who did not train long and well before the age of 15 years can ever become remarkable in the profession. The muscles must be taught before they become set and hardened. To those laymen who hold that children should not be brought up in the profession, the performer points out that there is no life more healthful than the circus life, in that it keeps one out of doors; the majority of performers live to be better than three score and ten, and the fine salaries earned permit the thrifty to cease his laboi-s long, long before that time and to retire in ease and comfort. D?ring his active ca reer the performer lives in a world that understands him thoroughly. Therefore he is likely to be quite con tent and while traveling he, because he is accustomed to it, is quite as comfortable in an eight by ten foot state-room, as he would be in much larger quarters. Starting to tie one's cravat in front of one mirror anJ. finishing before another on the op posite side of a fifteen-foot bed-room is, he will tell you. a waste of energy and a form of nervousness. With the Ringling Brothers' circus coming here Thursday, October 3, there are 400 performers gathered from every part of the world. Nine teen different languages are spoken in the dressing tents. Most of these per formers travel in families. Many have laid aside neat sums which they have Invested in homes where they spend their winters. It is this domestic side of the performer's character that first caused novelists to portray circus life. ; IL is said this season's circus is the: r%t -'he Kinp-ansr^ have ever offered.! The program include the gorgeous! spectacle of love and chivalry. "Inj ^ay - of Old." enlisting more than 200 characters. There are scores i ipo^ ?corc? of ai enic sensations and j suudr'eds of novelties. A big trained i iHhv?atl revue ^.nd the famous five-' - II :ontinent menagerie contribu'e to ihr ! nnrvels.?Advt. CONSUL POOLE? SAFE. Arrives at Helsingfors, Finland, From Moscow. Washington. Sept. 23.?United tates Consul General Poole has nr ived at Helsingfors safely from Mos ow and is due to arrive at Stock Olm tomorrow, according to a mes age received at the State depart - nent from Ilelsingfor:;. dated Sep ember 21st. 1 , SUB SUNK BY AMERICAN SHIP? Believed U. S. Nanscniond Put U-Boat Out of Commission.?Tbirty-l'our j Snots Fired. - ; At Atlantic Port, Sept. 23.?A large ! German submarine, which was lying 1 in wait for transatlantic vessels 500 miles Off the American coast Js be lieved^to have been put out of com ? missijja and perhaps sunk by the Uniteffc Stated shipping board steam ' ship Nansemond. t The encounter, according to the ' Xnnsemond's master, Capt. William ? MacLeod, began at 12.45 p. m., Sep tember l&, and lasted forty-five min : utcs. Thirty-four shots were fired ! by the steamer, one of which, a six '? inch explosive shell, fired at a three [ miie range, was followed by the erup ; tion from the submarine of a cloud - of black smoke mingled with splin '.ters. Immediately after this shot the i submarine made slowly off. Capt. '.MacLeod and his men are of the ?! opinion that they scored a damaging ?.hit. - , I "V, hen the periscope was first i sigh+ed," Capt. Mad^eod said, "the ?j submarine was off our starboard !; quarter and when it was seen I im : mediately ordered full speed ahead ' and changed my course head-on into him, which caused the submarine to shift to get out of our way. Fire was ? opened with our forward guns, but the range was beyond them and we '{ then turned about so as to bring the ' ? six-inch guns into action. I "As the- Nansemoni came about j the oft gunner let go ,one of the ' shells striking so close that a cloud Of black smoke and water in which ? could be easily seen splinters, rose i sixty feet. My men at once set up a : cheer and yelled, 'We got him dead ? center.' I "The submarine, of which we had 1 j only, seen the periscope, bobbed to the surface almost Immediately. It was plainly in distress, and I believe the shot even if it dul not penetrate the hull, bursts one of more of it? (water ballast tanks." The Nonsemond was formerly the German steamship Pennsylvania. An encounter with a submarine in the same vicinity was reported by a British steamship, just arrived, with evidence of damage by shell fire. The gun crew believe that they sank the U-boat after a running fight, durinc which the two vessels exchanged more than 250 shots. The freighter's chart house was demoJ.ijhed and a life coat destroyed. f WOMEN FOR MEN'S JOBS. ._^ , * 1 Will Fill Positions in Various Line:; of Work. ' ' ' ? K- 1 - H. L. Tilghxnan, federal director o. the United' States employment service has received additions! details regard ing the employment of women in po sitiGns now held by men. 'The men thus released are to secure employ ment in industries necessary to thv .carrying on of the war. The war la ^Ct^licV :fb&aAl Mr r\&?'&&$krttaeh. of TitLor,. in a statement received b: Mr. 'Tfighman, has ' also announced the attitude of the government to wards the employment of (women if: J war mdustry. I The labor shortage is to be met b> I introducing women *into occupation ? which can be easily filled* by them ; Clerical and cashier service and ac j counting.positions in manufacturing. ! mercantile and financial establish* i ments and in the offices of transpor i tation companies and other publi. ; utilities, ire to be filled by women. ; Women can fill the position of sale? clerics and floor. walkers im mercan ; tile establishments. They can be em' ! ployed in department stores, specialt? stores, shoe stores, men's furnishing stores, Horists' shops., jewelry' stores, f drug stores and soda water fountains. They should not be employed, ac cording to advices received by Mr Tifghman, where the physical anJ moral conditions are unfit for women, such as bar rooms, saloons, poo! rooms, about mines, smelters, quar ries, furnaces, glass Vyorks and es tablishments of like character. Women -under 21 should not b employed m the public messenger ser vice, on street cars, as elevator oper ators, nor *vs bell boys' in hotels and clubs. The recruiting of mothers o! young children for war industries is : to be discouraged, i The advices also set forth tha1 older men should be more generali} j employed. In the advices received } it is estimate'', that since the war be j gan the maximum age for engagin? I men has advanced some ten years j that is from 38 to 50. It has beer. 1 found that tasks can be graded fo: ? these workers according to theh ! strength, and that worm unsuitable ftr women can be done by them. Their . experience often will offset heir lack j of physical strength. The letter alsc ; sets forth the fact that the needj of the country require the united ef j fort- of all workers in accordanc: : with their capacities. ; The announcement that the war in j dusries board is to issue drastic regu I lations compelling oale citizens of j the United States now outraged in non j essential occupations to go into essen ! tial work or fight created great inter j est and caused -many citizens to I consider their position seriously. Tha j war work Is going to go ahead re j fearer ess of personal convenience >s j evident from the announcement of th* j board, and the development of it I plan:; will be watched closely. SWEDISH GUNBOAT SUNK. Struck German Mine in Slcigcrrak? ; Nineteen. Men Lost. ' Copenhagen, Sept! 25.?The Swed- j ish gunboat Geinhilo has been sun!; ?>y striking a Gorman mine in the! Skejgcrrak, with the loss of the chiefJ oTficer and eighteen men. according! to the correspondent of the Poliken a" 1 Skaw. Frost In Chester. Chester, Sept. 23.?The first frost of the season made its appearance last night on the bottoms hi a num ber of section^ of the county. There! was not enough, however, to do dam age to the crops. i Information With Regard to This Staple hs Received. i The following' has been received ' from Mr. William Elliot, State food administrator, Columbian addressed to : the county foqd administrators and I local representatives: j "The effect-of stabilizing the prico ; of cotton seed has been to create a tremendous rush of seed to xhe mar j ket Many of the oil mills have all : of ?the seed they , can handle and,the ? constant.rush of seed creates t?o-^n ! pression that lihe oil mills are not j buying. * '% "At $72 er .ion. it requires a Very large amount o| money to finance the seed, and the mills are not prepared to pay for such large quantities. "Many ginners are loading seed from their gin houses into cars with out having the seed sold. This is bad and should be stopped. "We urge that; you -use every effort to stop the rus^i of seed to market as otherwise the seed win heat and re sult in injury to the farmer. "Please also urcre the farmers to haul meal back from the mills. Many mills have meal- now whereas in the spring meal will be- short. "The suggestions in this bulletin are most important.' The following copy of a letter sent to cotton spinners and seed dealers by Mr. Elliott has also been received: "I learn that many ginners are not protecting cotton seed. "Rule 1. The licensee shall not re ceive any commodities specified in his license in excess of his . facilities, to store them and-shall not store on the ground, or. in/any building or other place in such a manner that damage or waste will tend to result to such commodities from weather or other* causes." '.Tf this rule is violated ,the offend er's license will certainly be revoked. "Further, seed-should not'be load ed in cars before; seed is sold. The mills are overcrowded with seed ana the cars v/ill be. oh demurrage if not sold. - - "Rather than violate the rules, gin.? ners should stop .ginning. There is much damage. to the seed. because it is being marketed faster than the mills can handle it. "The farmer" must protect his own seed if the ginner cannot. "Please note the . aboye and use every effort to. have, these instructions and requests carried out." , COLUMBn? trp-TO-DATE. Chief of Police Seized an Electric SOU in City. ^ (The .State.) .. Chief Richardson seized an electric still yesterday arid the capture and exhibition of tie apparatus startled the police and,^constables. The still was constructed so as to be operated n any commumty:;wliere electric cury -ent was available^ It is the?xsi'. ?ver seen or he^rd of in this sectiori are that electric stills are prod?cfi^g: oooze in big centers: The chief pulled the still somewhere ?n Columbia, ikwas made to fit in a run::. The carrier Was carted to the station. The ' outfit is composed of our part?, the boiler,, cepper connec tion, condenser -and c-ietrical attach ment. The copper boiler is an attractive 'ooking piece of workmanship. It is .lickel plated! asnd^wili produce about Cour gallons of whiskey a day. The condenser is equipped with a copper worm which shows evidence :f being manufactured by a skillfu' mechanic. The tank Is made of gal 'anized iron: The electrical fixtures trc those usually attached to boilers sold by electrical firms. Constables, .police, government agents and laymen viewed the still yesterday and everyone marveled a' ?'he ingenuity of the apparatus and the nicety of the outfit. It is whaf dsbt be termed a "parlor still." Offi cers said the still could be operated :on a Brussels carpet without injury .o the floor ocvering. The owner and operator of a still like the outfit atN the police station would have a gold mine if the officers'; failed to locate the "factory." Liquor is bringing as much as $40 per gallon \ nd four gallons a day would be a*| snug sum to get in electrically. Ambulance Work Not a Safe Job. Havre,, France, Sept.. 24.?Ambu ;ancc work is not the safest job imag inable during a battle, according to .he report of Lieut E. A. Fish, com manding American Red Cross Sec tion "SS 101,'' to the Red Cross Di rector of Transportation. During the fighting of July 21-27 the section, consisting of 20 anibu ances. worked day and-; night in a "as-r:dden and shell-swept o.rea. Al though it handled 1.2SG wounded dur ing the seven days of fighting, the sec. I tion found time to assist a British j ambulance in evacuating gas cases, j The report mentions L. L. Wen hem, who, after his car had been wrecked, took..|3iat of another driver who had collapsed," and worked both posts. It tells of ambulances being so shot-up that the sides resembled sieves. In onajicase the driver found himself holding only the wheel of his steering apparatus?a shell had scat tered the other.parts to the winds. -I The Sumter Chamber of Commerc?! bas wired Hon.; George J. Seay, gov-1 ernor of. the Fifth Federal Reserve j district Richmond. Va.. and Mr. E.j W. Robertson, of Columbia, chairman \ >'~ the South Carolina fourth Libert'' ?an drive requesting that the famous,1 ? :>r Booty train be ordered to stop i ; t Sumter. Mr. Robertson was also; f cquested to have one of the four! army trucks engaged in Liberty loan! .'rives to visit: Sumter. Tl?' initerary of the War Booty train as published leaves out every te of the more important cities like !'narloston. Columbia. Sumter, Spar enburg, Clreenvillo. Orangeburg, An derson, and other similar sized towns and cities. Should this recfuest be ! granted the Chamber of Commerce will thoroughly advertise the date and hour of the arrival of this train as two splendid speakers accompany eae'a | train. HEALTH INSTITUTE HELD. First off a Series of Monday Afternoon. Tar more in danger." says a woman i who knows, than the soldier in the Lectnres Given I front line, we should listen to the lectures planned to hold out a hand to the mother .and the helpless baby. The first of a series of lectures byjIs there a woman who is not infer tile doctors and Miss Heinrich, head jested? ? ? of the Training School for Nurses at I The lecture tomorrow is by Dr.. , the Tourney Hospital, was given down j Lemmon pn colds, their prevention.4 j stairs. ~* the Girls' High School Mon- 'and care.. Miss Heinrich will talk on day aTtre~-noon. The course is'under!first aid. Everyone is asked to. come . the auspices of the Home Demonstra-' at 4 o/clock to the Girls' High School, Ition club of Sumter, but is open to down stairs, and hear this'last talk., all,, who are interested in such vital Mrs. John Sumter, ' matters as health and the care of chil- Chairman of the Sumter Home Dem ; dren in the home. Dr. H. M. Stuckey; onstration Club addressed the meeting on medical |-?-?;????-? j emergencies, going thoroughly into: ARCHEISIIOP IHELAN1) DEAD. the subject, dwelling on the need of; - knowing how to do the right thing! Aged Prelate Passes Away - After, before the doctor comes. The lecture Long Illness. was a treat few could afford to miss. . - In terse simple language,, a child St. Paul, Sept. 25.?Archbishop could understand and enjoy. Dr. j John Ireland, of the .St PauL diocese Stuckey told how to -treat broken (died at 3.55 this morning after a bones, poisons from snake bite. i. long illness, aged SO years. He had drowning, fainting, ruptured blood vessels, and a number of other ac cidents with which most of us have to deal and few know how -to handle. The only flaw in the, afternoon's pleasure was the regret , that so few heard the fine helpful talk. We who were present enjoyed the hour. very much and extend our thanks to the doctor for his clear, interesting lec ture. The next lecture was this afternoon by Dr/ Sophia Brunson on the mother and child. Now that we ? know how small a -chance the child been in failing health for a long time and- last winter went to Florida, "but-, on his return suffered a breakdown, ANARCHY IN MOSCOW. British and French .Officials Take, Refuge in American Consulate. London,. Sept 2-5.?-French and British officers have taken refuse ire the American consulate at ..-Moscow,., which is under the .protection: of Nc^-^ way, according, to a dispatch from. Copenhagen. The Bolsheviki placed' given, i a gua-rd about tiie bui^ \ Bunding Material and s Rough and Dressed Lumber, Lime, Cement, Plaster, Brick, Shingles, Mouldings, Etc. All kinds of Feed for Horses, Cows, Hogs and Poultry. We solicit your patronage. * ? . ? ...... v . . I Booth & McLeod, Inc. Phones lo&esi i'p ? ? - ? BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS will please call for their Bonds. We will be very glad to file Bonds iii our vaults for saie ing for those who may desire io do so. ? ns Ffae National Bank ?f Sumter, The "Old Reliable" Since 1889 J IV BOOTH, President W. J. CROW SON, Jr., Cashier Your War Savings | Pledge Our boys at the front are making ? good their pledge. How about you ! Buy War Savings Stamps to-day. ^ Wc sell them. The National Bank of South Carolina f C. G. ROWLAND, President F E. HINNANT, Cathlor. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK ?: (K it- j- Mb,: j. Bs t Thrift Stamps. The First National Bank SUMTER. S. C.