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ALL DOING GOOD WORK. Report on The Activities and Ser ^vlce~Bentfered by Ncm Military Or eanizatioiis. ?V;?-^._ Ney York, Oct. 17.?Raymond B. Fosolck,' -chairman of the Commis ffifit v&ir"Training Camp Activities of the War Department, has just issued a statement containing informa tion--of tire non-military organiza tions engaged in relief and recre ational work with * the American trockps\in France. Mr. Fosdick, who made his investi gation under the direction of General Pfsrshingr and at the request of Sec ^ ijetary Baker, declares that Y. M. C. A. is doing an astonishing piece of work and that the reports to the ef fect .that it is making money out of its--canteens is absolutely without foundation. 1 He goes on to state that four or Kpganizations have been recognized by thev&merxcan Expeditionary Forces for service with the troops: the Red Cross; Y.- M. C. A., Knights of Co lumbus and Salvation Army. The Jewish Welfare Board operates in France as a branch of the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. has contact watft the army through its connection with' the Y. M. C. A. v '- "I saw the work of these organiza tions both in the zone of the armies and: in the rear with the service sup ply;" said Mr. Fosdick. ^The Y. M. C. A. is doing wonder- j ful work and I should like to take ; this opportunity to remove a misap prehension that the Red Trie igle is making money out of the canteens it operates at the request of General Persbing. I went into this matter thoroughly and the report is absolute ly without foundation. ?tThe Salvation Army is immensely popular with the soldiers; it performs a ample, homely service that touches the' hearts of the boys, ? rfThe aim of this organization is to put a ^worker and his wife in a can teen, or center. The woman spends h^'time making doughnuts and pies aafii sow's' on buttons. The man makes himself generally useful in any way ?ttt' O'rese I saw such place? in-duigouts way up at the front, where the German shells screamed over Our-heads with the sound of a freight i tinin passing over a bridge. *"The Knights of Columbus has not o^eioped its organization in France ^*?~^he; degree attained by the other agencies; because the time has not. b^eitt given to complete this work, but iisr-Workers are arriving in increas ing"- numbers and effective service is be^a^' rendered. The Knights of Co "IttBSbus not serving Catholics ex cl?sively, of course, any more than ^tJ^-Y.' M. C. A. is serving Protes tsaflfe exclusively. great war work organizations are accomplishing a wonderful work fm^ ?e" American soldiers in France work that will only be fully real ized when * the boys come back and tejff: the American people about it." Near Sedition* - ' As a matter of course Col. ? Roose velt is opposed to the president's treatment of the German peace pro posal,^ as he is to every other thing ?jCrV' Wilson has done, especially his dfe^atfon of the Colonel's offer to ifrjgtrnze and cemmand an American aimy, on the obvious ground that this war, being a sericus military enter prise, would need to be conducted by corirpetent soldiers. K is not- surpris ing, then, to find the Colonel denounc ing not only the method of the pres ^Mt*s dealing witn the German pro posal, but the fact 0? his dealing with it at all, and, besides, the fourteen principles of peace which constitute theT basis of Mr. Wilson's program and that of all the nation's warring algainst Germany. In addition, Col. Roosevelt wants congress to declare w?T on Turkey immediately and re gards it as "deeply discreditable" to ?s" that Bulgaria should have been permitted to surrender without the .United States having had a whack at her. Finally?that is, for the mo nfeot?-the colonel exhorts us to "re J?efhbeT hereafter that we and our aiiies should all act in concert and with the fullest knowledge in ad vance of any important step by any of us (for to do as the president has done in this case is much worse than any of the things of secret diplomacy, because it becomes dangerously neafr to being treacherous diplomaon." That the president has acted hpfcon pj?rt with and* in the fullest^cnowl edgo of the nations associated with Vie United States in theVwar, that he was in close communication with tn? governments of Gr?Tt Britain and France and Italy durirfg the pre para-! tion of his repliesJ^ the German notes, that his afJwers were approv ed in advance^and have been ap plauded sin^cefflhey were made public are m<^^Hr of no interets to the "fon^?p-need they be cited against ^Hrney are nothing but facts and l^olonel has never permitted him ftf. to be hampered by facts when "/set out on a strafing excursion, isrepresentation of the president's aft-iUfde was to have been expected and: is a perfectly normal Roosevelt performance. A good deal of latitude is 1 :jftBgmissible in that sort of thing, and to the colonel some longitude, as. well. Also in violence of expres sion the utterance is merely char acteristic and not, therefore, senea jtfonal. Unless the colonel is to be completely muzzled he will have to belftllowed to speak the language of violence. And in ordinary times his eruptions amuse most people and de light many, and should be as untram melled as vaudeville. But it may well t>e considered seriously whether, in the most critical period of the war into which we have now passed, even a former* president should have the license to speak of the head of the nation as conducting its affairs in a manner which "becomes dangerously near to being treacherous diplomacy." That such language is a flagrant vio lation of the espionage act passed b> congress' to prevent abuse of the president during the war is plair enough. The question is whether it; author should not be brought to ac count for it as a lesser person woulr be.' There ought to be some limit sei even <? Colonel Roosevelt's verba assaults on the president of th< United Sttaes.?Charleston Post. 1 WORK OF ALLIED AIR FORCE. Munition Works aud Factories are Destroyed and Civil Population Ter. rified and Panic-stricken. . London, Sept. 25 (Correspondence of the Associated Presc)?A belt of the Rhine Valley, roughly 250 miles long, from Cologne in the north to the Grand Duchy of Baden in the South, a region crowded with war industries and intersected by a rail way system of vital strategic import ance to the German army in France, is now a definite part of the war zone. This is one of the most striking and significant developments of the allied campaign, and how big are its pos sibilities may be gauged by the vast damage, both physical and moral, already inflicted upon the enemy. It is the achievement of the Royal Air Force. Over that region in the last three months the airmen, operating day anc night, have made 249 raids, dropping 207 tons of bombs upon enemy rail way centers, munition works, poison gas factories, electrical and engineer ing plants, blast furnaces, aerodromes and other important military objec tives. The effects of these raids have been of incalculable benefit to the al lies. One of the first was the com pjlsory withdrawal by the Germans of a large number of their airplanes from the fighting front for the de fense of the Rhine. But a greater gain has been the profound and widespread depression j caused to the German people, tin ; "home front," to use the phrase o Ludendorff. Captured letters from I places as widely separated as Mann heim and Cologne testify to the terro: and panic inspired by the raids among the civil population. Well-to-do fam ilies, in increasing numbers, are j seeking the temporary security or j more distant inland towns. There are I indications that the flight of tht I wealthy is causing* intense resentmen; among the working population who being - for the most part engaged in war industries, are exposed to al most nightly danger from the raiders But the terror of the Germar populace is not confined to the ter ritory actually added to the war zone. It exists throughout the country, par ticularly in far-distant Berlin where preparations already have been made to defend the city against raids. WHERE WILL THE GERMAN ARMY STAND? They Have Several Other Fortified Lines Back of the Hindenburg Line. With the American Forces in France, Sept. 25 (Correspondence o: The Associated Press)?Where the German army will endeavor to make its next stand once the whole Hinden burg line is definitely abandoned i now a big question in the minds of the intelligence officers of the Amer ican army. Information has reachec them showing that the Hindenburg line is but one element of a multiple system of defense works which tht Germans have constructed across Northern France. The cities of Lille and Metz constitute the pillars ol these great lines of resistance. ? The two cities are enormous entrenched camps and are the extremities of a series of curved lines one inside the other. The first of these lines was: the Hindenburg system now crumbling before the allied attacks. Back ol this is a second German line of re sistance which is called here tht Hunding line. Possibly the Germans may endeavor to stem the tide of de feat by standing upon that line. I. starts from south of Lille, extends from jthe western outskirts of Douai. passes east of Le Cateiet to Fresnoy. skirts the left bank, of the Oise and the righc bank oythe Serre, bends back toward Sissonne, follows the northern bank olJkxe Aisne to south east of Vouziers.^ Thence it extends southeast along the base of the sinuous Saint Mihiel salient. Behind the Hunding line is a third system known as the Metz-Lille line. It starts at tht Scarpe river about eight mil<4s east of Douai, crosses the Escaut river, passes through Le Cai^au/-4md west of Avesnes and Hir ^on, covers Meizieres-Ccharleville and Sedan, follows the right bank of the Meuse, defends Briey and Conflans Jarny and virt lly' rejoins the Hin denburg line at Pagny-sur-Mosslle. j Finally, the elements of a fourth line of retreat exists, running from Valenciennes to Givet, on which the Germans also were reported recent ly as being hard at work. These principal lines are. naturally, joined up by auxiliary lines, or "braces." There is or was one on the left bank of the Escaut between Ca;abrai and Valenciennes, another between Hirson and Vervins, and oth ers between the second and third lines along the Serre. between the first and second lines to the south ;and still Others possibly now in the course of construction. TURN BACK CLOCKS OCT. 27. Daylight Saving Effort to Be Discon tinued After That Date. Washington, Oct. 17.?Xo further effort will be made by congress to continue the existing daylight saving law and the hands of the clocks will be turned back an hour at 2 a. m. October 27 as originally planned. This decision was reached today at a conference between congressional leaders and Chairman Baruch, of the war industries board, who had recom mended that the law remain in force for the period of the war. GERMANS SUPPRESS NEWS. People are Not Allowed to Learn ol Defeats on Western Front. Zurich. Oct. 18.?Official state ments issued by the entente war of fice are no longer published in Ger many. Rumors reaching here saj there have been outbreaks among tht soldiers at the front. Abusive pla cards concerning the emperor, crowr prince. Hindenburg and Ludendorf have been posted at various railroa< stations In Germany. DISLIKE WILSON'S TONE. Reported That German Reply Will Make it Clearly Understood Thai j They Don't Like Wilson's Note. Berne. Thursday. Oct. 17.?Presi dent Wilson's reply to the German I note has created a new state of af I fairs in the diplomatic discussions relative to peace, it is reported here from German sources, and the Ger man reply it is said will make it clearly understood that the tone em ployed by President Wilson is open to objections. The presence of Gen. von Hinden burg in Berlin, it ? is believed fore shadows the drafting of the reply to President Wilson. B. B. GOSSETT RESIGNS. State Fuel Administrator to Be Suc ceeded by B. E. Geer of Greenville. Greenville. Oct. 17.?B. B. Gossstt, State fuel administrator, has resigned that office to accept a commission as captain in the army and his resigna tion has been accepted by Fuel Ad ministrator Garfield, who has been sc reluctant to part with Mr. Gossel.t's service that for the last six months Mr. Gossett has in vain sought re lease from his work to go to the army. He enters the gas and flame division and will report for duty within a week. It is understood that Mr. Gosseti has also resigned the presidency of the cotton mills with which he was connected. He will be succeeded as fuel administrator by B. E. Geer ol Greenville, who has been serving at deputy fuel administrator in chargt j of cotton mills. Mr. Greer has been ! notified of his appointment by Dr. I Garfield and will take up his work ai I once. EMERGENCY RATIONS. Bars of Chocolate, Nuts, etc for Tht Soldiers. London, Oct. 16.?Chocolate bars containing three other highly nutri tions foods?wheat, huts and raisin? ?the first consignment of an order for 1,100,000 similar cakes for the use of the American Red Cross in Eng land, have just arrived here from an American factory. The confection will be distributed gratis to the sol diers. Each bar is enclosed in a wrappei decorated witii the American flag and the Red Cross emblem. A small card inside says the package is a well bal anced emergency ration, equal in food value to any one of the following: Two lamb chops, two eggs, two plate: of clam chowder, one big glass ol milk, two baked potatoes, three ap ples two ordinary cups of custard or two helpings of beans" BOLLIVER NOT TO DIE. Governor Commutes Death Penalty for White Man. Columbia, Oct. 18.?Gov. Manning yesterday commuted to life imprison ment the death sentence imposed on Norman C. Bolliver, young white man from Orangeburg, convicted early in the summer of criminal assault. The victim was a little nine year old girl. Bolliver is 24 years old, married and has one or two children. A specia* term of court was ordered for the trial and notice of appeal immediate- j ly served, which stayed sentence. The defendant was placed in the peniten tiary for safekeeping a few weeks before trial and has also been de tained at the penitentiary since con viction. The jury which tried the case al. signed the petition for commutation of sentence, the practical effect ol which was a recommendation U mercy. Solicitor Mann, who prose cuted the case, concurred in the re ! (tuest of the jury, and Judge Mem 1 minger, the trial judge, recommended that the death sentence be commut ed to life imprisonment. These re quests and recommendations were laid before the pardoi board, togeth er with the statement of Dr. J. W. Babcock, who testified that after careful examination and observation of Bolliever, the prisoner was, in his opinion, mentally deficient, which opinion was concurred in by Capt. Lin C. Shecut, M. D., U. S. A. Pe titions were signed also by many of the leading citizens of Orangeburg. ?The pardon board recommended com mutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment. BRITISH CAPTURE TUROOING. Important City Northeast of Lille On eupied. London. Oct. IS.?Turcoing. a city six miles northeast of Lille, has been entered by the British, according to The Evening News. FOUR THOUSAND PRISONERS. British Made Big Bag of Huns Yes terday. London. Oct. 18.?More than four thousand prisoners were captur ed by Gen. Haig's forces yesterday in le offensive in the Bohain-Le Cateau region, it is ofiicially announced. Between the Sensee Canal and Lys River the British are continuing their advance on the whole front. Gen. Haig*s forces north of Cambrai cap tured a number of villages and cross ; ed the Douai-Denai road. _ j COFFEE SPECULATION STOPPED j Trading in Futures Suspended on Nev York Exchange. New York, Oct. 18.?All trading ir j coffee futures were suspended todaj 1 by order of the board of manager: I of the Coffee and Sugar Exchange "pending the result of negotiation: ; with the federal food administratioi i at Washington." i SEA WOLVES RECALLED. ? Rumor Thai Beast of Berlin n JB dered Murder of Women tojM Amsterdam. Oct. 1 <-~Th(^B?HM hlad publishes with rrrervrBHHB that the German admiralt ? B sued wireless instructions I I marines to return to tlieiJ I I HUNS BLAME WILSON. Propaganda Being Spread to Make People Believe That America Alone Stands in The Way of Peace. Amsterdam, Oct. 17.?Dispatches from Berlin tonight indicate a strong anti-Wilson tendency not only in mili tary Quarters but also in those which have favored peace.' For example Herr Gothein, a mem ber of the reichstag, writing in the Zeitung am Mittag, declared Presi dent Wilson has given a death blow to the idea of league of nations. His position, the writer asserts, is one of brute force rather than equal rights and Germany would enter a league under such conditions with feelings of' "indescribable bitterness." Gothein asserts that the idea, of surrendering at the discretion of the allies makes the blood of even the most confirmed pacifist boil and adds jthat although he has always opposed unrestricted submarine warfare its re Iinquishment means an extraordinary weakening of the German military po sition. The Cologne Gazette publishes a manifesto of the conservative party signed by Count Friedrich von West arp and other members of the party, declaring that after President Wil son's reply the contest of arms must be fought out to a finish. It paints a terrible picture of the fate that would befall an invaded fatherland. A dispatch to the Cologne Volks Zeitung from Berlin states that there will be exhaustive deliberations be tween the reichstag, the federal coun cil and the supreme command as well as the leaders of all parties before a decision is reached concerning a re ply to Mr. Wilson's note. It is said to be probable that the reichstag will not reassemble until next week. It is announced that Chancellor Maximilian has appointed State Sec ?retary Groeber as his representative in connection with the civil admin-1 istration of martial law. "Sermon." During the ages of the past nations, have been tried by trial and adver . sities and souls thus tested have been brought nearer to God. The virtues of our life are made resplendent not by joy but sorrow. The one great im pulse of the" Christian life is our hope for imortality. To attain it we have j but to look to an example divine and| follow the ' adage "if you wish to j come after Me, come take up the crostj and follow Me." Christ has not lived in, vain and hearts no matter how| hardened can but be touched by Hi& sorrows. We have lived to witness an epoch of which our frail intellect had nev [,er dreamed. The scholar of the past has 'taught us his lesson of ereaition. The genius with his invention has made us marvel at his wonders and yet in the midst of nature's gifts, sc many and so indescribable, we have been brought with other nations nearer and nearer to the portal 01 sadness. Our cup has i?ot been filled like others to the brim, yet why not pause as men of God, to a.sk why is it thus: In our temperalities we seek- the cause of failure, ir our illness we probe to the root of disease, in out sorrows why not strive to learn theii origin and their rerredy? Life with iti uncertain pleasure and its^ temporal gain, will if we permit it. make us its slave. Shall its bonds but fetter us while a God tries us all in vain. Men must pause and think. In all the liberty, amid which, as American citizens we have lived, re gardless of the worldly freedom foi which we long, and for which ou'i fathers fought and sons now bleed and die, we yet are not free, nor shal" we ever be, for God has made us Hi; servants. He is Father of us all sand every creature is our brother. When then sorrow comes to us when the clouds of warfare gathers so densly about us, when the at mosphere is ladened with sadness and cur loved ones are borne, as of late, by death from our household, we know it is God who permits it all. He has taught us to pray "Thy will be done."* Let our hearts then be moved by the lessons, which He inculcates, . as God doe* all well. He knows the weakness of our nature and bows down His ear in pity upon His ser vants upon whom He places the bur den of sorrow. From our hearts then let us remove the spirit of rebellion and let us see the good and gracious purpose work ing in all the trials which God sends upon us. The true hero dies, if needs be, at the post of duty. A sincere Chris tian does not forget to cherish true confidence in God. In a heavenly Father, then let us place our trust while we redouble our prayers for a true and lasting peace. We shall pass away as generations have come and gone. To our country and to our God we owe duty which is more sacred. These are to be ac complished not by others but by you and me. Pray then for the needs of our na tion, our city, our home, and share with those of our midst in sorrow, a heart that feels their pain. May Goc grant rest to the. departed ar-.d tc those of our midst, who weep. th< grace to look meekly through theii tears to the Go/" of consolation. To all in sorrow our prayars anc our sympathy and to the nat/ron, ol God, grant peace which shjUi be tru and lasten]?. 0 Joseph FVi Mahoney, Pastor, St. Anne's C^molic Church Red Cross Helping/Returned Frenci ^^ugees. -The American Re gB?&Sr-'aided 5.000 refugees re Bgto their homes in the recon jfd Aisne and Marne districts, i ImoVith's time. Supplies hnv ^?ent to Chateau-Thierry. Es Rpormas. Troissy. Verneuil an BBj'otteret. Motor trucks know ??Lg grocery stores make tb ^ the districts to supply til Ok homeeomers in plao< g^ps have yet opened. EXPLAINS COTTON SEED PRICES, Food Administrator Elliott Issues statement How Price is Ratio of Value of Products. The following statement has been issued by William Elliott, State food administrator, in explanation of the recent change of $1 in the price of j cottonseed: The food administration fixed the price of cotton seed in accordance with request of the producers made to the food administration early in August. This request was that the price of| cotton seed should be stabilized on a basis of $70 per ton, carload lots for[ seed containing 41 gallons of oiL Price of Seed. The price of seed is based upon the value of the products consisting of oil, meal, hulls and lint. When the amount of these products in the seed is de termined and the value of them ar rived seed is then worth the total of these figures after deducting the cost of crushing including the profit Oil. The best price that the food ad ministrator could get for oil was| $1.31 1-4 per gallon. The price of cot ton seed oil is to a large degree regu lated by other oils, and there was no way of getting a higher price. The seed in South Carolina last year contained 42.6 gallons of oil and the price was fixed on that basis. Had the seed contained the amount of oil that it did last year there would have been no necessity for the change of price. Meal. The price of meal was arrived at upon a national basis, since if the meal is put too low it is an injustice to the farmer, and if it is put too high there will be no market there for. The food administration set a price of $53 f. o. b. mills with the provision that that price should pre vail for any quantity of meal. Last year the seed contained 940 pounds of meal, and that figure was used as a basis for the yield this year. The quantity of meal in seed increases! when the oil is less and decreases when j the oil content is high. lint. The price of lint is fixed by the war industries board, since all of the] lint is used in the manufacture of am munition. The price fixed by the war industries board is $.0467 (or four cents and 6.7 mills) per pound. The food administration has done all in its power to haye the price of lint in creased, but so far it has not been successful. In former years the mills j produced about 112 pounds of lint toj a ton of seed, but this year the war industries board required the mills toj get 145 pounds of lint, as all the lint obtainable, was needed for the manu facture of munitions. This Increased production of lint has increased the cost of crushing seed. Hulls. Hulls are used . largely for cattle1 feed but also in the manufacture of I munitions. The food administra tion put a price of $20 per ton f. o. b. mills in any quantity. The amount of hulls in seed varies as the other con tents vary, but last year the seed in South Carolina produced 490 pounds of hulls. Spread Allowed. In regulating the cotton seed in dustry the food administration has, decided upon the cost to be allowed the mills for crushing, the freight and the profit. Cost of Crushing. After making exhaustive examina tions on its account and examining the report of the federal trade com mission, which examined the books of the oil mills, the food administration decided that the proper cost of crush ing a ton of cotton seed is $15.50. The mills are allowed a profit of $3 pei ton of cotton seed and the average freight which they pay, which is $2 per ton. From the above it will be seen that the price of seed was arrived at ai follows: 42.60 gallons of oil at $1.31 1-4 .. $55.91 1-4 940 pounds meal at $53 per ton.24.91 490 pounds hulls at $20 per ton.... ?. 4.90 145 lbs lint at .0467 per pound.. .. .>, 6.77 -$92.4& Deduct: Working cost.. .. ... -.$15.50 Profit. .. .. 3.00 Freight .. .. .. .. _ 2.00 -? 20.50 $71.99 New Price. In order to ascertain officially the contents of seed this year, on October 1, the State food administrator asked each county food administrator to obtain and send properly sealed a sample of cotton seed from his coun ty. These samples were turned over, the seals intact, to the Sttae chemist who works under the State depart in ent of agriculture, commerce and industries. The result of this exami nation shows that the. seed contains 41 gallons of . oil, but since the meal increases as the oil decreases, there was more meai in the seed than last year. The worth of ':eed based on this analysis is therefore as follows: 41 gals, of oil at $ -1 1-4 $53.81 9S2 tbs. of meal at $53 per ton. 26.02 145 lbs of lint at $.0467 6.77 460 lbs. of hulls at $20 per ton., .. .. 4.66 -$91.26 Working cost.$15.50 Profit. 3.00 Freight. -.00 - 20.5C $70.7* Upon these facts being reporter tc I the food administration in Washing ' ton it authorized the price of seed ir ! South Carolina to be changed to $7: ! for carload lots and $68 fo- less thai I carload lots or wagon seed. ! Considerable complaint has beei j made that the mills have not beei buying seed, but the latest report o l the purchase of seed shows that oi ! October 5, 1918. the mills reportini I for South Carolina purchased 56, '930 tons whereas on the same dat ! last year, they had purchased 22. I5C6 tons. One of the factors causin; the slow food movement of seed is the slow food movement of seed is the lack of labor. The governor, the la bor board and the food administra tion have done all in their power to get the necessary labor for the mills and are still exercising every effort so to do. Cotton seed in South Carolina will be examined periodically by the State chemist, and any change in prices re sulting therefrom will be announced CIVIC LEAGUE RELIEF WORK. The Crisis of the Influenza Epidemic Has Not Passed and More Nurses Are Needed. The Relief Committee of the Civic League has heard that no more peo ple have offered their services to nurse as the impression had gone out that there were more than enough volunteers for all cases. This is most emphtaically not the case. There are not enough nurses, lay or trained, to go round much less relieve those on duty. Many untrained volunteers are on duty, day after day, from early morning until late at night, and oth ers from early evening until late morning. Men and women are urg ently needed to help wait oh the stricken families. Many of the wo men on duty are housekeepers and have little children to care for at home and so can give only a part of their time. Some of the women who sit up all night with sick neighbors go home in the morning to cook breakfast for their families and take care of their children. Men are needed to nurse cases Women are needed to nurse cases. It has been said that the epidemic is on the wane in Sumter, that there are not so many new cases reported daily. If that is true it is good news. It is not news, however, that would warrant a cessation of relief work in any way, for homes already strick en must be cared for and every day new pneumonia cases develop from those who have been, sick some days.. Every day more cases of homes where ? there is no one to do any service for the sick are reported to the Relief Committee. The Magneto works have a relieft committee also visiting in town., call ing on the homes in which their em ployes are laid up. Mr. Warren of this committee has stated that the .. Splitdorf people are glad to turn over - all funds for the relief of thefr em-, ployes to the Civic League Relief Committee for everywhere he goes he finds this committee visiting and car- . rying necessities and every case he has reported has received prompt at= tention. Remember, men and women are needed to help nur.se. ' A Request of the Pastors' Union. All places of public worship are closed until the ravages of influenza: are past. But private worship can . never be barred. If ever personal, as well as national humility, with pray er and supplication, are .to .be .?"wac^ cised, it is in the midst of war; and ' pestilence. These are upon us. Many- . a time of old, God's people called up on Him and he heard them ?na^tieliv- \ ered them out of all their trouoles>^ His ear is still open to the cry of the broken heart and the contrite spirit Let us remember the hour of prayer on His day. . > At 11.30 each Sunday morning while our places "of public worship are closed, let all of us, each of us, who believe in a prayer answering God, humble ourselves in prayer, to Al mighty God. If .we are. at home,, gath er the household around the family, altar. If we are out with a circle of friends, let us pray together. There is great power where two or three are gathered and agree as touching- any thing. There is courage in the touch of hearts in prayer as well as the touch of elbows in the trenches. If we must be alone, let us pray, if it is only the burden of a sigh or th? up ward giancing of an eye, God: will hear. Let us pray: 1. For a clean heart and a right spirit, that pur prayers may be ac cepted. 7 2. That God will stay the pesti lence, that we may praise him for the I help of his countenance and serve him with joy. and gladness. 3. For peace and salvation \ to. all. . the nations of the earth, for the sake, of righteousness, .humanity, and the glory of God. ? In all our supplications, let us ask God to give us faith to receive hi* blessings. This is the earnest request of th?: Pastors* Union of Sumter to all who fear God. J. H. WTilson, President. Are You Prayingr. Are you praying together daily. Are you pleading with God in prayer Or going on still in the old way' As you've done year after year. Do you thank Him for all of His mercies, , . Do you irc*>iore Him for His care'. But. oh, ar6 you earnestly praying? We are needing so much, more PRATER! Notice. Attention Members of First Baptist Church and Congregation: The need for nurses is imperative. Any gentleman or ladies of our church and congregation who are willing to offer their services in this trying hour of dire distress and great need will please report to me as soon as possible. You can reach me by calling No. 434. This need is urgent It is sincerely desired that any and all who can give their services at this critical time shall do so without delay. W. E. Thayer, Pastor First Baptist Church. A Oall to Members of Trinity Meth odist Church. If any member of Trinity Methodist Church, male or female, can help with the sick in Sumter during Sat urday night and Sunday, please let me know, and I can place any such person where the need is greatest. R. S. Truesdale. You are asked to read the an nouncement of pastors' Union In this issue.