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FLEEf! M ST. COMM. GSSE&tAaSS DRIVEN FROM FOR EST STRONGHOLD. They are Evacuating Chemin-des Dames and Converging Attacks West and South of La on Makes : Their Situation Perilous. London, Oct 11, 1 o'clock?Today's advices from, the ba/tle front indi cate that it is virtually certain that the Germans have evacuated St. Go bian forests almost immediately. The Germans are evacuating the Chemin des-Dames under the pressure of converging attacks on the west and south. The Hunding line near Laon. between the Rivers Serre, and Sis sonne has been turned, making the German situation in the Laon area difficult. ^.Da.Champagne the French and Americans joining hands north of Argonne in. Grand Pre-Gap occupied the Grand Pre station while patrols are said to have entered the town itself- On the Meuse, north and west of Verdun the Americans clear ed a little pocket in the direction of Siviy which held them up. HUX AMMUNITION TAKEN. Great Store of Shells and Other Am munition Covered Acres of Ground. With the Anglo-American Forces, on the Valenciennes, Oct. 12.? (By Associated Press).?American and British troops captured in the Bo hain region what was probably the largest enemy ammunition dump ever taken. The shells, piled high, covered *"a large area. This capture will greatly reduce the quantity of ammunition available to the Germans on this section of the front. All the Bohain roads were found to be. mined when the Anglo-Ameri can forces entered the town. When the German sentries discovered that the mines failed to catch they shot at a big one in the center of the place. They made a direct hit and the explo sion blew a hole in the ground big enough to hold a large chateau. Because tire German divisions and xegiments are so mixed up and deci mated, the Germans are now suppos ed to have abandoned numbers on shoulder straps. Instead they are ? wearing different letters on their ? -sleeares designating groups. \ Since the beginning of the present operations the Americans have cap tured 46 officers and 1.900 men and since joining the British fighting iorces. they have secured 3.000 pris oners and more than 60 cannon. Officer prisoners say their orders were to stop fighting with infantry and? to defend themselves solely with artillery and machine guns. They complained there was a great lack of ammunition and guns as a result of the recent enormous captures by the allies and they added that the lack 'of motor transportation was respon sible- for such large numbers of in fantrymen being taken since the of fensive began. Troops from five divisions from Other sections of the front have now appeared in the line opposite the British and Americans. The bulk of them undoubtedly is being used to garrison the .positions known as the Valenciennes line. All, however, are believed to have been engaged in the recent fighting and are in low strength and poor morale. It has now been established that 50 enemy divisions (715,000 men) 'have been engaged on the Cambrai St. Quentin front alone since Septem ber 29. Believed That Strict ficial Effects of Closing Ordei Becoming Apparent. Washington, Oct. 13.-?The epidem- i ic of influenza has subsided somewhat j in Eastern States but continues to spread in the Middle and Far West, j On the basis of meager reports re-1 ce?ved today officials of the public health service bureau were optimistic that the sringent measures taken such as closing schools, churches, theatres and forbidding public gatherings generally, had began to show a bene ficial effect. Health authorities of California today reported the malady to be spreading in that State. Fron?* Utah came a similar report while numbers of new cases were reported in Lou isiana, Mississippi, Arkansas. Minne sota, Iowa, New MffjArJC. and South "Dakota. Information tw; ? the dis ease was abating came rVom Massa chusetts, OhiOoKew York and Mary land, ?jr The ofhjypf the surgeon general of the arnjjflrxnade no statement today as to^e situation in the army camfps; but reports to the public B?Ktlth service told of subsidence at Cbilicotte, .Ohio, the site of Camp Sherman, and at Louisville, Ky.. where Camp Taylor is located. i Miss Benson Goes to Camp Jackson i Base Hospital. j Miss Martha Benson, one of South Carolina's graduate nurses, has been assigned through the American Red Gross, to Camp Jackson base hos pital, and will leave in a few days to assume her work there. Miss Benson was graduated from Dr. Mood's Infirmary, and for a num ber of years did private nursing in the vicinity of Sumter but for th** last year and a-halr" has been con nected with the Columbia Graduate Nurses' Association and registry. Her many friends wish her much success in her new work. Married. . At the home of Mr. and Mrs. W Reynolds. 21H West Hampton Ave Joe at 7.30 o'clock Saturday even in:, their eldest daughter. AIin<\ was mar ried to Lieut. Eugene Sory. Tiev. I: S. Truesdxde performing th<^ cere mony. On account of the illness in the family the marriage was a very cuiet affair, only the immediate ?amily being present. PROHIBITION UV UPHELD. SUPREME TRIBUNAL RENDERS UNANIMOUS DECISION. Case Brought in Sumter County Against Judge of Probate for Not Issuing Permit. Columbia, Oct. 11.?The prohibition law of South Carolina was yester day declared to be constitutional by unanimous opinion of the State su preme court. The opinion was writ ten by D. E. Hydrick, associate jus tice, and concurred in by Chief Jus tice Gary, and Associate Justices Watts, Eraser and Gage. The case was first brought by Sin gleton Bradford, citizen of Sumter county, who made application to Thomas E. Richardson, judgfe of pro bate for a permit with which to order whiskey, the permit being denied by Mr. Richardson to test the. constitu tionality of the law. Arguments in the case were made before Judge Thomas S. Sease of Spartanburg in March. 191S, at which time Judge j Sease overruled both grounds of con- j tention and declared the law constitu tional. From this decision Mr. Rich ardson appealed to the supreme court. In his opinion Judge Hydrick says: "The respondent applied to the probate judge of Sumter county for a permit, and filed the affidavit requir ed, but the probate judge refused to issue the permit, alleging that the act is unconstitutional on two grounds: First, because it violates section 17, which says that every act shall relate to but one subject and that shall be expressed in the : itle. I And second, because it violates sec j tion 19 of article 5, in that it attempts to extend the jurisdiction of the pro j bate court. The circuit court over ruled both grounds and the probate ?udge appealed. "The subject expressed in the title of the original act, which is incor porated into and made a part of tha title ot the amendatory a.ct, is the regulation of the importation of li quors into the State. Under that ti tle it was clearly competent for the legislature to enact any provision having a reasonable relation to the subject, including penalties for viola tions of the provisions of the act, for that is clearly a means to the end proposed . ; . 'Clearly the issuance of permits may be regulated by specifying the conditions upon which they may be issued, and by penalizing the issuance of them, except upon the conditions specified. ... "The duty imposed upon the pro bate judges is not an extension of the jurisdiction of the probate courts While the probate judge is required to exercise judgment and discretion in issuing permits, in that he must be satisfied of the truth of the state ments contained in the affidavit be fore doing so, it by no means fol lows that in doing so he is performing a judicial function. 'It is rather one of a ministerial nature. He is requir ed to exercise -judgment and disore tion in taking' bond.'i, perhaps to a greater exjSrit fnanv^in issuing per mits. Xovertheless, t^e taking of a bond is & ministerial act. . . . There is no difference, so far as the judicial qual?^es of the act are concerned, in grar/tmg licenses to liquor and in issjuing permits to infport liquor. The wer to issue permits 'might have en conferred upos the sheriff, clerk court or any otfer ministerial of 'The legislatur^ in express terms, (imposed the duy on the probate judge and not upn the probate court. .The language ujpd clearly manifests th^ntemTC^n tjtt the duty should be performed oy trie probate judge, per sonally and ministerially, and not by him as the court." LAST LINE OF DEFENSE. German Front Cracked for Many Miles?Pin Faith to Woods. Paris, Oct. 13.?The entire German front from St. Gobian to the Argonne has cracked on a 60 mile front and it now appears that the enemy will be forced to retreat to a depth of some 30 miles before finding a suitable line of defense. At the best, his po sition will be menaced at its flank; on the Oise to Sambre Canal tc Diebmont from Landreois, which lines are very near the Belgian fron tier. There will be nothing here like the enemy's strong defense on the Hindenburg line.. The Germans are expected to cover their retreat, as usual, with the best of natural de fenses the country affords, the prin ciple enemy asset in the present in stance being the forests in the area of the backward movements. Between the Oise and Berry-au-Bae the German army has been forced to abandon the line of the Ailette. retir ing its right in the forest of St. Go bain. In the Champagne Gen. Gou raud is continuing his onsluaghts or. his disorganized adversary. For 17 consecutive days General Gouraud's men have been pounding the German positions and continuing to make inroads on- the defenses. To the north the British armies are pushing their advance almost to the point of liberating Douai which is one of the great objectives on then front. Virtually aH the German line is in movement and there seems now to be no chance for the enemy to re organize his forces for resistance. Japs to Investigate American Schools Tokio. Sept. 2"> (Correspondence) ? The Tokio municipality has decided to send the principals of six municipal elementary schools to the United States on a tour of inspection. The party, headed by Mr. Moriya. chief of the educational section of the To kio Municipal Board, will visit va rious parts of the United States, re turning to Japan after ten months. The group is the first of its kind to be sent abroad by the city of Tokio. Tooth Paste for Soldiers. Clean teeth rank high with the V. M. C. A. overseas management. 36">. ooo tubes of tooth paste having been shfpped to soldiers in France and England during the past ten months. NORTH ?F SEK I BRITISH ADVANCE AT NIGHT FOB J MOKE GAINS. \ _ J Several Towns in The Region Beyond Douai Captured During Night and ] Morning. London, Oct. 12.?The British last night continued their advance north of the Sensee River, it is officially an nounced. The advance in the direc tion of Douai. resulted in the capture of the villages of Hamlet, Brebieres and Cuincy. Further north the Brit ish pushed to the east of Henin-Lit ard. Northwest of Douai, they arc in the environs of Ennay. BEHIND SENSEE CANAL. Germans Withdrawing From Douai Seek Temporary Rest. London, Oct. 12.?German troops in the region of Douai arc retiring behind the Sensee Canal. Then withdrawal across the canal has been j more or less completed. It is believ [ ed Gen. Haig's men will be on the j outskirts of Douai by tomorrow morn- j (ing. IN BITTER STRUGGLE. Gen. Pershing's Men North of Ver dun in Fiercest Battle of War. With Americans Northwest of Ver dun. Oct. 12 .(Noon)?Gen. *Per shing's forces continued their at tacks against the Germans on thi. front today. The opposition proved even more bitter, if possible, than it was yesterday. The fighting this morning was especially violent on the center and on the left center. St Juvin and Cun, both of which are now in No Man's Land, are aflame. RELIEF COMMITTEE ORGANIZ ED. Civic League Creates Committee ii> Relieve Distress. The Civic League this morning organized a committee to try to re lieve some of the distress occasioned by whole families being sick at one time and having no one to wait upon ihem. Already many of the school teachers and other ladies of the city have gone into these homes .und rendered whar asistance they could. The League "realizes there are many who are willing to help take care of these stricken families but do not know where to go or what to do, and so it has made the following arrange- I ments: All those willing to help with nursing will please phone one of the undersigned committee and at the same time state whether she is able to give , her services or needs remuneration for her time. Training is not necessary. Willingness to help in time of need is the only require ment. The nurse will be sent to the home needing her with a trained graduate nurse who will give her in structions as to what to do. Families that are in real need of some one to nurse or care for their well children during the sickness of the parent will please notify the undersigned committee in order that it migh: endeavor to find nurses. Families in need of nourishment will please notify the committee that it might arrange to have nourishment supplied. Any one having milk or eggs for sale please notify the undersigned committee as these things are great ly needed by the sick and they do aot know where to turn to get them. Apply to undersigned committee for information about masks for protection in nursing influenza: Since the formation of the commit tee this morning it has had several cases reported to it and it is doing all it can to give relief in these cases. The committee is working in cooper ation with the Tuomey Hospital. Mis* Gibson and the doctors, it has been able to "communicate with so far. Mrs. Horace Harby, President, Mrs. C. H. McMahon, Mrs. Ferdinand Levi, Mrs. E, W. McCallum, Mrs. WTalter Cheyne, Mrs. I. A. Ryttenherg, Mrs. Ansley Harby, Miss Armida Moses, Civic League Committee on Relief. Would You be a Slacker? Editor Daily Item. There has come a pathetic appeal right to our doors to lend a hand of mercy, to so many suffering just in sound of our own voice. This is the first time our physicians have asked our aid. Anybody with a little com mon sense, and judgment, can follow directions and give medicine. There is not a finer corps of doctors in the State than Sumter has; but the de mand on them is so great and the:. I are powerless to do the nursing, j Woman has longed to be patriotic? now is your chance. Just as you sent the boys over seas to light for what is right, can you sit at home and be content. "We haven't influenza at our house and I hope to the Lord none of our folks will lake it." Women of Sumter. do you know the one that runs from duty is th? one that suffers most? Can you deaf en your ears to this heart-rending appeal. In some cases, it has been contagious, but not half as much as our brave boys on the dring line. Is it in justice to those boys who today are gladly giving their lives, that you can be content and let their loved ones here suffer for. and even die. for want of attention. Can't there be some Florence Nightingales, and brave Joan of Arcs? I know of a ease right here when one of the family has influenza and some of the neighbors are aetua.ll> afraid to phone to the house for fear of inhaling the germs. Notwith standing they never hesitated to asl< help of this very family in different contagious diseases, which this goot vi ma lit an might have carried to hot little children. When a boy refuses, or is rathei slow in enlist in:; how quiek yon class jfy him as a slacker. If we do no respond to this emergency eall whe; we c:in so eo.sily help a day at a tinm then too. we are worse than slnek^f? and "Lo. 1 called, but ye woul?f^ot. one Who is Now H?^,ing. WAR WOT ENDED. BAKER HOME AGAIN SAYS ON WITH DRIVE. Secretary of War Declares Liberty Loan Must "Go Over the Top" Re gardless of Result of Peace Propos als. Way Paved for Fighting on Greater Scale. Washington. Oct. 13.?Secretary j Baker returned from the Western i j front today with the message that j che Liberty Loan "must go over the top," whatever the result of peace proposals. This was the only comment the secretary would make on the peace j overtures. His own explanation of his trip shows that it was taken to pave the way for war on a greater ! scale. "The army has done and is doing J all thai a proud and grateful coun try could ask." Mr. Baker said on reaching Washington tonight, "and the time has come for us to put in ev ery ounce of our strength to assure I its complete victory. The people at! home have a solemn responsibility for their share in the final result. "The Liberty Loan must go over the top. its success is both our mes sage of gratitude to the boys who are i braving war's worst perils in defense I of our liberties and a message to [ Germany that our people at home are as resolute as our soldiers are brave. "Whatever the result of the peace proposals, the war department must proceed at full speed with men and supplies, and the people must sup port the army until the boys are! back with the fruits of victory safe and assured. If every American could have seen our boys in khaki as they stormed the German trenches, assailed with shrapnel, high explo sives and machine guns, he would be .-ager to subscribe his all to the Lib erty Loan, the success of which after ill is the measure of our support of the cause for which these boys are giving their lives." As to the purpose of his six week's visit to Europe, Mr. Baker said: "My trip abroad was principally for Lhe purpose of arranging further co-1 operation in the matter of shipping! ."or troops and supplies. It was en tirely successful and a complete un derstanding was reached which as sures the American army adequate ^argo tonnage for its support. The .natter was taken up with the inter allied maritime transport council and the cooperation of the British, French md Italian governments was hearti ly given. "Many questions involving cooper ation on the part of the several gov ernments were taken up and satis factorily settled." the secretary con tinued. "The attitude of both the governments and peoples of the' Eu ropean allies toward America is cor- \ dial and every question is approach- j ?d from the point of view of uniting our strength in the common cause :nd with the understandings which .lave been reached with regard to shipping, aircraft, ordnance, and oth er parts of the allied program, the contribution which the United States can make is rendered definite and thr. neans of accomplishment are ar ranged. "The American soldier has won his way in Europe and has helped to ce ment for all time the good will and good feeling which unites our coun ties. In England, France and Italy ?-he knightliness of America and her ;oldiers in this war has won the ad miration of the people and in turn the /alor and sacrifice of the European allies and their great armies have ? >een an inspiration to Americans." Of the military situation he said: "The battle of St. Mihiel started he present triumphant advance ot the allied armies. From a fortified hill overlooking the battle field, I ; saw General Pershing's army ad vance into the salient while more than 2.000 big guns silenced the Ger man artillery and pointed the wedge which finally cut off the salient and rescued from German occupation 'rench soil which for four years had been in their possession. "The next day I went into St. Mi hiel and saw the people at the end jf their captivity singing the nation al songs of France and having a fes tival of thanksgiving for their de liverance. The blow was sudden and the victory complete. "For a few days there was a lull. Then by a concerted movement, the French and Americans opened a new attack from the Meuse to the west, covering the Argonne forest, and la ter the battle was taken up on the entire front, snatching to the chan nel. "I witnessed the start from one of ?he forts of Verdun and again saw divisions of American troops pressing forward with irresistible dash through defenses which had for three I years seemed impregnable. The stream of German prisoners and the captured war material told of the sur prise and rout of the enemy. The cheers of our soldiers as they pressed on into the battle, and the brave hap piness of our wounded in the hos pitals back of the line, told the same story. The American army had shown it is irresistible and its spirit is un conquerable." In summarizing his views of the military situation. Secretary Baker said: "The allied armies are now in the full tide of victorious advance. Amer ican divisions are fighting with the British, with the French, and in their own sectors, and everywhere the enemy is in retreat and disorder." Accompanying Mr; Baker on his re tinal trip were Assistant Secretary John D. Ryan, now at the head of the army aviation program in. which connection he, visited France and England. .Frig. Gen. Hines. chief of the embarkation service and Wal ler CWUurf, director of the Council Of N^ti^mal Defense, who has been in France some months in connection wit/T the formation of the interallied anw Amerihan economic council. Sur S^on General Sorgas, who accom : ani"d Mr. Faker to France, will re main abroad for some time. Subscribe to The Daily Item. On!' iOc per week, delivered. MIX HOT POSSIBLE. PRESIDENT HAS NOT INDICATED NATURE OF REPLY TO GER MANY'S LAST NOTE. Unofficial Opinion in Sharp Division ?Indications Found That Germany Having: Failed to Win Victory Seeks to Have Civil Authorities Arrange Peace and That Failing Revolution May be Expected. Washington, Oct. 13.?The govern-" 2nent asks the American people to withhold their judgment on Ger many's note until President Wilson has received the official communica tion and has had opportunity to con sider it. The official document had not been received in Washington tonight when the president returned from New York. It probably will be here to morrow when the president with his advisers, among them Secretary Ba ker, who returned today from the Western battle front undoubtedly prepared to give him some inside in formation on the broken condition of the German military power which the world necessarily does not know at this time. Tonight, as last night, no official of the government felt justified in speaking to guide public opinion in the direction of the views which are being formed. The Associated Press is enabled to say, however, that these views are rapidly crystalizing and the next step will be taken promptly probably sooner than may be expect ed. President Wilson is expected to first decide if Foreign Secretary Solf's reply to the inquiries, addressed to Chancellor Maximilian, warrants him in presenting Germany's original pro posal to the entente allies. It should be borne in mind that the president's inquiry merely was a move ad inter im, in which he proposed nothing, bound himself to nothing, and merely asked some questions which, he de clared, required an answer before he could go further. If the president puts the proposi tion before the entente it probably will draw a quick reply. Dispatches last night from London, quoting the London Express as announcing the British, French and Italian govern ments had reached a unaimous de cision for a line of common action, were regarded as being deeply signi cant. Lacking official guidance on which to base prediction, observers are iorced to record indications. The indications are that there will be no armistice, and that if the en tente allies were disposed to agree to one they probably would demand as guarantees of German faith that such places at Metz, Strasburg, Trieste, and possibly Essen be placed in the hands of entente forces to guarantee ful lillment of Germany's words. If Germany expects that by agreeing to the evacuation of occupied territories she will exact the evacuation of Ger man colonies occupied by entente forces, Germany's statesmen have made another mistake. A reference to President Wilson's inquiry shows that he spoke distinctly in reference to invaded terrtiory occupied by troops of the central powers. When the American capital recov ered its balance after the surprise of Foreign Secretary Solf's note it found its unofficial opinion divided into two distinct lines. One, shared largely by the Repub licans in congress, is inclined to the view that Senator Lodge's prediction of a situation which may threaten the substitution of deliberation of diplo macy for victories at arms has been fulfilled. The other confident in the success of President Wilson's diplomacy and probably forming its conclusions from close knowledge of what the government is planning is very certain that the president has created a sit uation where he now can deliver an other stroke which will bring about unconditional surrender or throw the kaiser and the German militarists completely out of any power they may retain. There is a general feeling that the next move will confront the military party with the choice of such an un conditional surrender as will be ac ceptable to all the allied cobelliger ents or a genuine political revolution in Germany which will bring about one. It has been pointed out that President Wilson's inquiry to Chan cellor Maximilian to develop wheth j er the chancellor merely was speak ing for the German leaders who have ; been conducting the war probably was skillfully framed to pave the way for an opportunity to inform the Ger man people directly that no covenants of peace can be made with the men who have betrayed the world. The present German government which as Secretary Solf says, was supported of the majority of the reich stag. was formed through an im perial decree which permitted it. There is nothing before any of the allied governments, so far as is known to show that there has been any change in the German system which would prevent the autocratic power which uttered that decree from revok ing it. when its purpose had been accomplished! In other words, an al lied diplomat considering the arrange ment of an armistice, or arrangement of the practical details to carry out i lie application of the arms of peace President Wilson has laid down might ask: "What guarantee have we that ihese arrangements will not be re garded as a scrap of paper." A close reading of all of President Wilson's pronouncements on the sub ject, when all else has been eliminat ed, shows him repeatedly laying dowr the fundamental principle that nc peace can be made while the Ger man people endure kaiserism. In hi: reply to the pope's note August 27 1917. the president said: "We can not take the word of th< present rulers of Germany as a guar ;.ntoe of anything that is to en.lure unless explicitly supported by sue; conclusive evidence of the will an< purpose of the German people them selves as other peoples of the WOrP would be jnstilied in accepting." In his subsequent pronouncement finally coming down to his New YorJ mm I AMERICA. LIBERTY LOAX MOVES DESPITE OBSTACLES. German Peace Talk and Spanish In fluenza Make Task of Raising Six Billion Dollars Harder But; Success Will be Registered if People Con tinue Efforts. Washington, Oct. 13.?German peace talk and Spanish influenza, the two great obstacles encountered in' the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign, will not be permitted to defeat plans for obtaining more than the $6,000, 000,000, although h-\lf of that amount must be raised in thO next six days.. Reports from all parts of the coun try tonight indicated that the Amer ican people were fully aroused to the danger of failure through belief that Germany's offer to agree to Presi dent Wilson's peace terms meant an early end of the war. Committees everywhere set out to dispel this feeling among the people while thou sands of other workers met the sit uation created by the influenza epi demic by house to house canvasses. A message to loc? campaign offi cials from leading workers in the Cleveland district reflected the sen timent in respect to the German peace proposals. "The measure of our over subscrip tion," it said, "will be the measure; of our efforts to make the roar of our steam drown out the peace and vic tory shouters." From other districts there came as surances that the people, equal ,to every test heretofore, would respond patriotically and liberally and pro vide the tremendous sum needed to* carry on the war to a successful end. From scattered official returns re ceived here today on subscriptions taken shortly after noon yesterday the treasury announced that approxi mately $2,500,000,000 had been sub scribed through incorporated banks and trust companies. With reports in previous campaigns as a basis it was fair to assume, the announce ment said, that the total was not far short of $3,000,000,000. Thousands of new volunteers will begin work in every district tomorrow and while it is realized here that the task assigned for the closing week is stupendous . there was a hopeful feeling at fcfad ciuarters that the country woultl go over the top. Youth 8 Feet 1 Inch Ready to Go to War. Des Moines, la., Oct. 12.?The. ex treme height of Bernard Coyne, of this city, is expected to keep him out of the army. Bernard, who is just twenty-one is eight feet one inch tall and still growing. He weals a No. 23 shoe. When he registered in August, military men told him because of his extreme height he would not be ac cepted by the army. His parents are of ordinary height. Home Demonstration Worki"v ? Club members are urged to make up their annual reports of work done in gardening, canning, poultry raising, butter making, cooking and the maki* ing of labor-saving devices and turn in at once on blanks already supplied them by the Home Demoristration Agents. The production of food is just as important as the production of mu nitions in the carrying on of the war, and at this time when every man, woman and child must exert every ef 'ort to aid our government in every /ossible way to bring a speedy and notorious peace, no community wants to be branded as a slacker in" any line of service; so send in your reports to the agent in time to prove what the patriotic women, girls and boys are doing. Every pound of food pro duced or saved for home consumption adds a pound to the national supply. In Sumter county the following prizes are offered to home demon stration workers: 1. To the club making the best all-round record, a beautiful silver trophy cup (to be kept by the club for one year). 2. To the club making the best record in conservation of food, $10 given by the county fair association. 3. To the woman making the best individual record, a ten day's scholar ship to short course at Winthrop College. 4. To the woman making the sec ond best individual record, a ten day's scholarship to short course at Winthrop College. 5. To the women making the 3rd, 4th and 5th best individual records each, a ten days' short course at. Winthrop College. 6. To the Poultry Club girl mak ing the best individual record, a ten days' short course at Winthrop Col lege. t 7. To the Canning Club girls making the 1st, 2nd and 3rd best in dividual records each, a ten day short course at Winthrop College. Subscribe to The Daily Item. Only 10c per week, delivered. * speech of September 2$. the president drives home the same point each time with a new emphasis. The conclusion, in the opinion of close observers, would seem to be, that the military party failing to make peace by the sword as it prom ised gives way to a political party. I'pon President Wilson's estimate of how far the present peace party in Germany represents the will of the German people themselves, and of what guarantee there may be that the military autocracy will not be in position to undo at will their work, the nevt step depends. There seems little doubt that un less the German people themselves. ?o use the language of the president, de stroy the autocratic power which of its own choice can disturb the peaca of the world, or at least reduce it to virtual impotence, the allied armies will continue the work of destroying that power on the battlefields of France and Belgium and probably