FBRST BAY'S REPORTS SHOW! THAT PEOPLE ARE SUP PORTING- WAR. Xo-wa Claims Honor of Being First . State to Raise Fall Quota?Good ; Rei>orts From all Sections. V Washington, "Sept, treasury., department made no attempt to total the 2??Although officials today sales ? on the opening; d,ay of the Fourth ?liberty Loan campaign yesterday, all; iiidieations were. that . the loan had . got. away. to a good start, v Only one district committee, New J ;-Yot-k, liad ?attempted to estimates its ?yy sales^ Saturday, placing them at $200, c:'900,000. ory one-eighth of the. $1,800, 400f0G& allotted^ the New York feder al, reserve- district, v v.vfpia Atlanta, Ga., where, sales to the third . .loan lagged somewhat, j ; came word .today that. the - campaign j . had started"in great shape".with a \ better selling organization to . push ?;he work than was bad for the last 3oap. In the San Francisco district many already were claiming honor liags for having oversubscribed their o^btas. " "'ghe; spirit of the loan," said a treasury department statement, "is exemplified, in a telegram from Wor cester; Mass.^ a city which achieved its quota .yesterday. An elaborate yoting plan for putting over the city's quota had been worked out there, but it had to be abandoned at ? the last minute because of an epidemic of Spanish inS.uenza. v Without a mo ment's hesitation the sales committee adopted a new plan of selling and j ^15,000,000 was raised. -"Other telegrams from New Eng-i land indicated that the. spirit of Wor- f icester is that of the entire Northeast, f Up there they are calling this the; 'Fighting Fourth' loan and- they are j going to fight it through regardless of j Spanish *fiu.r" j Three communities reporting over- j subscriptions included Rockdale county, Georgia. cities IOWA CLAIMS LEAD. Unofficial Reports Indicate Loan A!-1 lotxnent Secured. Chicago, Sept. 29.?The honor of "being the first State to complete its quota of the Fourth Liberty Loan was claimed for Iowa tonight, when i unofficial' reports from each of her ; 99 counties indicated that the allot-j ment of $147,000,000 had been sub^-j scribed. I The Handicraft Club Meets. The Handicraft Club reorganized k. for another year with Mrs. Ralph Loyns a> her home on Chestnut street Friday* afternoon. The time was busily, spent in con versation and fancy work. After which business was discussed. The " same.officers were unanimously elect ed to serve by all present. It was also voted to invite all new neighbors to _ join, and to give the moiey on hand to charity. The hostess served a delicious ice course. The meeting adjourned to meet with Mrs. CW. Smith next time. . Those present were Mesdames J. M. Causley, Claude Gainey, J. D. iLemmon, E. C- Kinard, E. P. DuRant, S. F. Weeks, D. J. Auld, J. A. Brown, C. W. Smith, Joel E. Brunson, E. R. Taylor^red Nicholson,. D. E. Wil Huggins. 3JMLE. LEITZEL. NOTED PERFOR BR "What will gentle women not dare to do next?" This is the question constantly ask ed by spectators at the Ringiin?, Bros/ circus as they watch daint.v Lily Leitzel turn and twist and per form her astonishing, continuous rev olutions while danjrbng from a single rope suspended in mid-air. One slip of the wrist or turn of the toe would be fatal, but the daring little ludy is no_ afraid. Lily, who shamefacedly confesses to 19 years, a dimpled little creature weighing scarcely 90 pounds and pos sessing saucy brown curls, which fall in confusion around a pair of dan cing eyes. She was born in Prague. Bohemia. Miss .Leitzel is an accomplished musician, having studied under some fiLinriE?; ASKS SENATE TO PASS SUFFRAGE amendment; Woman Suffrage Measure Classed as a "War 2deasure and Preident Urges Senate t? A he is eliminated there will not be much distress. The same as to the manipulator, who is after serving his own selfish purposes., I am not greatly agitated about the interest of the spinners, foreign and domestic. Their main idea is to get the staple as cheap as possible.' "I do, however, sympathize with and wish exceedingly to help the man who makes the raw. cotton; tak ing, all the chances of seasons, bou weevil, high prices of material, fer tilizer and labor, and by his toil and efforts actually produces the raw cot ton. The man who is toiling twelve hours a day and Knows nothing of any union rules, and whose children and women-folks are actually in the fields picking the cotton from the open bolls?he is the chap my heart goes out to, and I want 'to do what is best for v him. "We need uot spend much time in seeking interviews with the president of the War Industries Board as to whether it is advisable or not to in stitute a movement which will lead ultimately to the fixing of prices. That step has already been taken. It is unfortunate that it produces, as was inevitable, a depression of pres ent market prices of cotton. I have not been an advocate of price-fixing generally. I can well see the differ ence between the need of fixing the price of wool, steel, copper and' the like. I realize that people do not consume raw. cotton and the need 01 our government for cotton does not exceed one-third of the croppbut we need not take time to trhesh that out in the present circumstances. "It is important, I think, for youi body to create a strong committee which will lay the facts before the two'committees, which have been ap pointed by the president and present reasons in forceful terms, showing what prices should be, fixed to the grower of cotton, both short staple and sea island or long staple cotton. "I am not so certain but what 1 disagree with those who denounce the action heretofore taken by the department as ruinous or greatly harmful to the producers in the long run. At any rate, I think we are per fectly justified in viewing the situa tion from a philosophical standpoint, accepting it without whining or threatening or denouncing, drawing this comfort from it: j "(1) The farmer never has receiv ed for cotton its real value. When ever the price went to a point ap proaching what was fair and reason able, the cotton has passed from the jfiands of the producer. Whenever he mad it ready for market, manipula tion,, buyers, foreign interests and every devilish agency was at work to bear the market and lower prices, and he always had to sell under these conditions. After he parted with the crop, the price went up to somewhere hear a fair and reasonable figure. I This means that the producer never was able to fix the price of cot ton, that the price was fixed by,some-I body else, and by agencies and in fluences antagonistic to the grower. Is not this true? If it is true then we come to? "(2) We have no reason to be lieve that the government of the United States will be disposed to crush, oppress or discourage the pro ducer of cotton. In nil the price fixing which the government has thus far done it has been not only fair, but even generous. Why should the government be harsh, unreasonable, unjust or even ungenerous to the cot ton grower? I do not believe it will be, and therefore we come to? "(3). That the price which the government will eventually fix for cotton will be more favorable than the price which the various antagon istic interests would fix as they have done in the past, and when the grow er knows exactly what that price is. he will be prepared to govern him self accordingly, and be able to re sist the methods, importunities and demands of those who wish to force him to sell his cotton and he will he able to hold it, because he will be abk? to finance it on a definite basis until he can sell at the price so deter mined. "If I am correct in this view, then it is obvious that the sooner the price is fixed by the government the better for the grower. Accordingly I would urge as your work of first importance acquiescence in the orders which have been made, appoaranc? before the committee, with a viev to furnishing accurate information which will enable the committee t< fix this price on a fair and just basis and getting them to do it as quickl: as possible." "My advice to the cotton grow-' i:1 said Senator Fletcher, "is to hold hi cotton until the market becomes sta ble, and not to yield to alarms 6 threats." i By fractional distillation inid^rrol atively low pressure an l?piTm ha found a way to re.vi <>\ i i'/^ho' froi wine without otherwise so/itering it. BENET A?liST SMfil. SENATOR DISAPPOINTS ADVO CATES OF "VOTES FOR WOMEN." Intense Iiitercst Displayed as Hei. ExplainsWhy He Cannot Support} Measure. Washington, Sept, 28,?Senator Christie Benet this afternoon dashed the hopes of the women suffrage ad vocates. The situation was hanging by a hair and it is probaWe that if the South Carolinian had done as the suffragettes expected that he would do, and had sided with them because -of administration pressure, they could have mustered enough votes' to car ry their resolution. As the matter stands now, it is generally regarded as certain that the suffrage amend ment, has beenfeated for the presr ent, if not for some time. It is well known here that for the past month, and particularly for the past week, Senator Benet has been subjected to a "barrage fire" from both sides of the suffrage question. He has been visited by hundreds of emissaries and has received 'thousands of letters and telegrams. The pro-suffragists had assumed very confidently that the known attitude of President Wilson, together with the fact that the jun ior senator from South Carolina had been frequently in conference with the president at the White House and had been asked by the executive tc I support the resolution, would settle the matter as they wished. There was intense interest in Sen ator Benet's speech, which was like a bombshell in its effect. The foliow | ing extracts give the substantial pur port of the senator's remarks: *5_r. President, coming here ?s an appointee to succeed a senator who was against suffrage, coming from a State the senior senator of which is opposed to the suffrage amendment and all the representatives of which voted against the suffrage amend ment in the house, a situation pre sented itself to me which was un usual and, at .he same time, most far-reaching. "We have heacd statements made about the attitude of the president : the leader of my party. I have heard statements made by senators to the effect that the suffrage resolution is a war measure and I have listened to their enlightenment on that par ticular point. "I say here and now that, were I ? convinced that suffrage was an es sential war measure, or if suffrage ; under this amendment was to last only for the period of the war, 1 would unhesitatingly vote for it, but, Mr. President, feeling as I do that a measure which in this identi cal form has been before congress since 1875, five years before I was born, cannot be a war measure, and having reached that conclusion, and ' further knowing that this is a mat ter which, once written into our con stitution, never will be taken out oi ?t, and therefore, unlike the wire control bill, the railroad control bill the selective service, etc., and the other war measures which my party, in conjunction with the Republican party, has put into effect. in this country, all of which measures will terminate at the end of the war, or r shortly thereafter, I -feel that it h J my duty, representing the constituen- ' icy that I do, and with the views that I have, to vote against the resolutions It is a hard position for a man to take I who supported the president prior to the Baltimore convention, who sup ported him in his campaign prior to that convention and ever since, who took the stump in his behalf in South j Carolina this past summer and who has done everything in his power to uphold his hands in this war. "I have heard senators here pay great tribute to the way the women of America and the women of the Al lied countries have done their work I in this war. I echo every word that j they have said, but I wish to say. senators, that in the Confederate war j the women of the North did, I am told, their full quota of work which was necessary, on that side, and 1 here state that no women of any | country, at any time, in any way. j i have ever done more than the wo- j men of the South did to sustain the ^ause of the Confederacy. Women have always borne their full share of war duties. If you are going to put j it on that ground, then two thoughts! present themselves?first, either that! this resolution must pass to give suf frage to women as a reward for what they haye done, or. second, in fear , of what they may do.-if the resolu tion does not pass. I for one do not feel that the women of my State want any reward for wh't they have done! in this war, and I for one would not ' vote for this resolution if I thought { any question of thrert had to do with its passage. ? I? "Mr. President, South Carolina, < along with Virginia North Carolina, | Georgia Florida, Alabama and, per- ; haps, one or two other States have a peculiar burden. It would be a piece of impertinence and presumption on my part to say to the people of Utah ? or to the people of California how they should manage their affairs. T reply that it is a piece of imperti nence on their part to. say to the peo ple of South Carolina how they shall manage their internal affairs. We be lieve in my State, and I subscribe to that doctrine, that one of the funda mental rights of the sovereignty of our State is involved in this resolu tion, the right to prescribe the qual ifications of our electors. We be i lieve that we know better than any ! one else what sort of a civilization we i have got to worlt out there, and far i better than anyone else how that civ ilization shall be worked out." The advancing price of cotton and ; the good^iews from all the battle U-nuij^o( the great war should to gether inspire every farmer and ev I cry business man in the South to buy ' Liberty Bonds and to buy more lib | erally than they had intended here tofore. With cotton selling at more ; than thirty-two cents a pound today j Sumter county should go over the top in the Fourth Liberty Loan drive by a big margin. The Game Cock j-County should not Call short o? a I Million Dollars in this drive. FARMER'S SPECIAL Because of their '?triple-heated" gas, FULTON Motor Trucks are averaging 12 to 14 miles a gallon?in ? over three , hundred different lines of business. FULTONS are being used, by FarjnV ers, Merchants, Contractors and^ Expressmen. . . The Standard Oil Company, Texas Company, John Wanamak sr and other big fleet operators are usmg'FITLTONS. 'Whir?'. We are the largest exclusive manufacturers of 11-2 ton trucks in the country. Although the FULTON has a 1. 1-2 ton- capacity, this truck made a remarkable two weeks' test rumirom Suniter to.. Oranjge>., burg and then uo through, the Piedmont section, loaded wifea. concrete test block weighing 4,260 pounds, L2<>0 pounds over weight of the truck's capacity, .driven by Mr. Sr K. Rowland and Mr. W. W .Fickling, factory representative. ... ,. MORE THAN 16 1-5 MILES ON ONE GALLON OF GASOLINE Fulton Truck With "3500 Pounds Travels 114 Miles: oh "7 GaBswp of Gasoline Aceordlng to Sworn Statement.; EAST TRANSFER COMPANY, Herrin, 111. ? ? ? ? - ? ?.? ? - ? , ? ' ? * ? August 12, 1918. Martin Motor Truck Company* 3314 Pine Street, St. Louis, Missouri. Gentlemen:? Referring to the trip-1 made with my FULTON-1 1-2 ton Truck on July 31st, 1918, from St. Louis,; Missouri; to Herrin* Illinois,." ! beg to report the following: I had my FULTON loaded with about 3500; pounds of house hold goods and left St. Louis, going over the Free^Bridge to_;E^st St. Louis,, Illinois. From here had.. four, miles- of very bad cobble, st^-e pavements, then about "four miles more of poor diri: road and eight miles of good pavement into Belleville^ niinois.. I left Belleville for Freehnrg, a distance of eight miles over the main road which is very bad dirt and sandy, then on 7*0. New Athens, six miles further, of which three miles, is heavy sand, and. 4 quite hilly," and from there I drove thru Lenburg, Marissa, T5iden^ and, Coulterville, a distance of about twenty-four miks over a fair dirt road. From here to Pinkeville, the next town sixteien perts with him for his exhibitions un do canvas. He concludes his per formance by frustrating the combin I ed attack made upon him by a. trio armed with knives, clubs and. r.eyoly ers. . vt :. ...- ? The athletic numbers form but one of scores of features that make this., season's the most remarkable show the Ringlings have ever, placed on tour. The colossal spectacle of cl\iv onstrate the wonders of their art. !airy and knighthood, "In Days', of These companies are composed of thejQid," is said to be the most magnifl Otawaga and the Tamaki champions They will demonstrate, during the course of exciting contests and ex hibition bouts, the Japanese art of yell-defense, broad-sword and lance combats and giving amazing ex hibitions in wrestling and strangling. The part played by Miss Ai Kishi, a 15-year-old girl with the Tamaki troupe, has keenly interested Ameri can women. She repulses masculine! attacks with knife, fist and club, j demonstrating that a knowledge of | jiu-jitsu secures feminine immunity from harm by masher or marauder, j The early Norseman's method of J self-defense will be illustrated by a company of powerful Icelanders: headed by the giant champion, Johannes. He and his followers have j come out of the North to display his, championship prowess at "glima," the national sport of the Icelanders. "Glima" is a form of wrestling and j self-defense practically unknown in : this and many other I has been a sport in Iceland since the eleventh century. While similar to tin Japanese method of self-defense, known as jiu-jitsu, it is considered vastly superior to the latt.er. Johannes, cent ever devised. A cast of more than 1,200 characters tell the story of days "when knights were bold." There is a ballet of hundreds, of beau tiful girls. The circus act3. promise a thousand arenic sensations. Ming ling wtih these will be the antics of 80 clowns..?Advt. DEMAND HIGHER WAGES. Longshoremen Insist on Wage of Dol lar an Hour. . New York, Sept. 30.?The demand for an eight hour day and a wage of. a dollar an hour, with two dollars an hour for overtime, waa presented to. the national labor adjustment "com mittee today in behalf of seventy-five ! thousand longshoremen working at ports from Boston to Norfolk. BATTLESHIP MINNESOTA SAFE countries, yet j Damaged by Mine Off Atlantic Coast But Reaches Port. Washington, Sept. 30.?The battle ship Minnesota, which struck a mine off the Atlantic coast yesterday, has arrived safely at a naval station and lug won the championship of Iceland * is now in drydock.