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THE HEALTH SURVEY. State and County Councils of De Tense Endorse the Movement. Mr. A. C. Phelps, -president of th Sumter Chamber of Commerce, and Chairman of the Sumter County Council of Defense, has sent out sev eral hundred letters calling for the immediate and combined moral and financial support of these two organ izations in raising the necessary $2, 500 for- the proposed county health survey and continuous twelve months campaign of education in Sumte: county. The letter published below from the South Carolina State Council of . Defense calling upon the Sumtei County Council of Defense to imme diately back up this movement has been forwarded by Mr. Phelps to the entire membership of the Chamber or j Commerce and Council of Defense, j The Woman's Division of the County Council has already started a move ment to raise this money, and a ruimber of the officers of the Color ed County. Council of Defense have guaranteed that a minimum of $600 will be provided, and perhaps more, as the contribution from the negroes of this county. Mr. Phelps sincerely trusts that the white citizens of this county will rush their contributions in to the Sumter Chamber of Com merce, so that this matter can be clos ed up and the International Health Board and State Board assured thai Sumter is prepared to accept th* splendid offer of $5.000 offered by these two boards. The time is limited in which the International and State Health Board's offer of the $5,000 may be accepted as other counties have their money ($2,500) ready tc put up for this proposition. Sumter, Oct. 21, 1918. Dear Sir: I am addressing this letter to you personally because I want your care - fa! consideration of the attached very Kgnrpbrtant letter from the South Car olina Council of Defense. Unless the leading men of influence and finan cial mtsans take the lead in the mat * ter of the much needed county health survey and twelve months campaign of education which the war and navy ; departments, tire national and State ? Councils of Defense are backing up for Sumter county, we are going tc lose'the opportunity to secure the $5, 000 offered by the International Health Board and the State Board oi Health, together with a very desir able . educational campaign which we are very fortunate in having offered ~"S-.u'Sv - . I am appealing to you personally, v , as a leader and one who appreciates -?(?: the value of saving human lives and ?%: conserving human health, as an eco nomic as well as a humane and pa triotic measure, to stir up interest in your community in this important movement. Give it your moral and financial support at once. Many thousands of dollars are an nually lost to the farmers because of deficient labor due to malaria, hook worm and other communicable dis eases' which will be prevented by this health narvey. The fact that the National and State Councils of De fense and .the United States govern ment recommended this health sur vey and numbers of health institutes, sanitary inspections of premises' and illustrated health lectures, together Tsdih the very high smd scientific edu cational sources from which the $5, 000 come, are sufficient guarantees ^.-that we, the representatives of the government as members of the Sum ter County Council, should see thai the $2,500 asked for are immediately provided. Mr. E. I. Reardon, our secretary, will serve as financial sec retary for this drive for the $2,500 Wont you let me hear from you? Back up the committees of ladies of the Woman's Council of Defense in your township, and if they are inac ,; tive help to get them started on their drive for the money Yours truly, A. C. Phelps, Chairman, Sumter County Council of Defense. Officers and Members, Sumter County Council of Defense: The State Council of Defense learns with deep interest of the movement in Sumter county to raise $2,500 to sup> plement the offer of $5,000 from tfa? International Health Board and/the South Carolina State Board of>Sealth for a complete county san^ary sur very and a continuous tsfvelve month health campaign. j Such a step is emphatically in line with the most conjunctive and pro gressive 'plans off the war and the navy departmenJfsand the Council of National Jm?ense. The war has taught?ajHrfg t'iaching?-many im ^ortantLj^lsons. but none more vital tSan^hat of the bed-rock necessity for increased activity in public health measures. Last August our State Council ini tiated a- State-wide health campaign j which attracted national attention. The Council of National Defease sent a special representative to South Car olina to attend the Health Institute and make a report on its success, j Sumter county was select' .1 as the i model county in which typical follow-; up methods could be seen in action. ! This new program of Sumter j county is the most effective means possible of advancing and safegua*~d ing public health. Knowing the Sum ter county council and citizenship as we do, we feel there is no need to point out its advantages or urge it? support. It is mainly a matter of letting the people know what is ex pected of them. We are already accustomed to see ing Sumter county put over whatever it undertakes and are only waiting to offer our congratulations on your success in this splendid new under taking. Yours faithfully. Reed Smith. Executive Secretary. Amsterdam, Oct. 23.?Austrian authorities, in that part of Poland oc cupied by the Austrian armies, have "formally handed over the admin istration to the Polish authorities fays a Vienna dispatch to the Berlin Vosissche Zeitung. WJEDGEF1 ELI) MAKES PROTEST. Statement Printed in Columbia State in Reference to Liberty Loan Sub scriptions Unjust to Wedgfefield and Other Sections of County. The Daily Item: If the author of the contribution to yesterday's State voices the senti ment of the committee on raising Sumter county's quota of the fourth issue of Liberty Loan bonds, it deals a death blow to cooperation between county and city. In the past in raising funds for Rea Cross, Y. M. C. A., etc. Sumter has claimed the credit and nothing was said though other committees re ported what the smaller towns con tributed. In an issue of the State of this week mention made of Eastover,! Richland county, going over the top with a contribution of $12,000; thej population of Eastover. I would say. j is two or three times that of our lit- j tie town, but they were comp?mened. j What do the rural communities of Sumter county get? Xothing but slurs and false accusations. The correspondent from Sumter, I who is supposed to be speaking for j the committee, says "the country dis tricts only purchased after persistent) efforts by town committees." Wedge field bought $25,000 of bonds and they were sold by a local committee. I think an effort was made to have a meeting here on last Sunday, but our j folks are accustomed to worship on J that day, but on account of influenza were denied that privilege, but they refused to assemble for this purpose on Sunday. The writer is going to make an ef fort to find out what we have con tributed to Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. Also amount of the four issues of liberty bonds purchased and War Sav. ings Stamps, and if the amount per capita does not exceed the amount pe; capita of the citizens of Sumter, I will make a public apology. There is no one in the county that has longed for a closer coperatioi: between country and city, and it is an unpleasant task to have to write this but when such an accusation as this, appears in print, misrepresenting] facts, certainly as applied to Wedge field, and attacking the patriotism of our community, I am forced to rise in protest, W. H. Ramsey. (In this particular instance Mr. Ramsey is justified in entering a vig orous protest, but his. assertion that the city of Sumter has claimed credit for what other sections of the county have done for previous Liberty Loans, Red Cross, War Savings Stamps, Y. Y C. A., etc., is not founded on fact. In all former war work campaigns, the lists of subscribers and contribu tors have been published and each community and each individual has Ihus received full recognition and ;redit for what has been done.?Ed.) BOOZE NOT OUTLAWED. Texas Appeal Court Decides Against Prohibition. Austin, Texas, Oct. 23.?The court )f appeals, in a majority opinion to lay held that State-wide prohibition [aw is unconstitutional in that it is in conflict with the local option fea :ure of the State constitution. ?GERMAN STATE OF AUSTRIA." Germans in Austria iForm Assembly for Conducting Their Affair?. Basel Oct. 23.?The German and Austrian deputies in the Austrian reichstage have formed an assembly Cor the purpose of conducting the af fairs of the German people in Aus tria and have issued a declaration announcing the creation of the "Ger man State of .Austria" H AUSTRIA FREES HUNGARY. Independence of Hungary to be Made Effective. -H Paris, Oct. 23.?Measures are being ta^en to make effective Emperoi Cnarles' proclamation conferring in dependence on Hungary, says a Zu rich dispatch to Y?he Petit Parisian. r Soi&rt-r's Life in France. I am sitting here and thinking of th things I left behind, And I hate to put on paper what is running in my mind. We've dug a million trenches, anc cleared ten miles of ground, And a meaner place this side of hell has never yet been found. But there is still one consolation, Iis ten closely while I tell, When we die we're bound for Heaven for we've done our bit in Hell. We've built ? hundred kitchens fo. the cooks to stew our beans, We've stood a hundred guard-mounts at least that's how it seems. We've washed a hundred mess-kit and peeled ten million spuds We've rolled a million blanket roli and woshed a million duds. The number of parades we've stood would sure be hard to tell j And I am sure v\e'll parade in Heav en, for we've done our bit in Hell. We've killed a million rattle snake. that hid behind our cots, And picked a million sand fleas fro? out our army socks. We've marched a hundred millior miles and made' a million camp And pulled a hundred needle thorn. from out our army pants. I But when our work on earth is don5 our friends on earth will te'.l j How we died and went to Heaven for we've done our bit in Hell. ! But when final taps is sounded and we lay as;do life's cares. And we do our last parading m Heaven's golden stairs. I And the angels bid us welcome, and the harps begin to play, FAnd we give u)> all our cigarettes anc bid farewell to booze, [it's then you'll hear Saint Peter tel: us loudly with a yell. Take a front seat in Heaven, yc Soldiers, for all the SLACKER /go to Hell. ?-From JLL Phelps, at The Front PATRIOTIC PRIEST? : Father Biskup of Chicago is Serving as a Private in the Czccho-Slovak j Legion. j Paris, Sept. 12 (.Correspondence1* ! To Rew Father Alphone Biskup, cu rate of Marie Celle Church, Chicago, has fallen the honor of being prob ably the first Catholic priest from the United States to serve in the ranks of the allies as a private. The Rev. Father Biskup is now '"Private Biskup of the Czecho-Slovak Legion and has taken part in several engagements with the Boche. When the United States entered the war the Rev. Father Biskup tried to enlist in the United States army as a regular chaplain and when he fail ed in that effort he enrolled as a volunteer with the Knights of Co lumbus and landed in France as a volunteer chaplain. As his parent? are of Czech nativity, although Amer ican citizens, he tried to get in the Czecho-Slovak Region here but found he could not do so as a Knights of Columbus chaplain, because the Czechs are serving as part of the French forces. He obtained permis sion from the Knights to enlist in the Czech Legion and at once did so. "Private" Biskup. when he visited the headquarters of the Knights of Columbus in this city the other day to obtain supplies for the men of his j regiment, told of the joy with which the Czecho-Slovaks received the newsj that the United States had recognized their independence. "It gave those] men new spirit. I have been with them in several engagements and they have proved fine lighters, but they are going to be even better now, for they are fighting for something very dear to all men of the Czech race," he said. * NEW OFFICERS' CAMP. Two Months' Training for Civilians to Become Second Lieutenants. Columbia, Oct. 23.?Capt A. W. Chairsell, commanding officer of the University of South Carolina, receiv ed orders yesterday to take applica tions for the civilian officers' training 1 camp to be held at Camp Fremont, i California, beginning December 1 and lasting until February 1. The quota from South Carolina is about" -280 men, out of the 20,000 to be trained i at this camp. It is desired to have the highest type of men to apply for admission. The time is very short and candi dates should present their credentials : and applications promptly as possible. ; Applicants will use the usual form I for application into this camp if prac ticable; if not, a letter setting forth their qualifications should be.sent to I the commanding officer where the ap- i plicant desires to enter from. A cer- i tified physical examination and rec- i ommendations are also required. , These will be examined by the com manding officer end the candidate will i be summoned for a personal inter- ??; view to make the final selection. Af- < ter the quota has been chosen some 30 additional men will be appointed as alternates in case the principals fail to meet the requirements at the camp. Applications may be sent to the commanding officer of the University of South Carolina or to any other col lege which is a member of the S. A. T. C. Boy Who Scored Only Points on Tech in 1917, Strapper's Suc cessor. (By Fred Digby, New Orleans Times Picayune.) Georgia Tech has lost Everett Strupper. but Coach Heisman didn'1 waste any time getting a half-back to replace the player who Atlantans raved about for two seasons. And who do you think Heisman went af ter and corralled? No other than Ralph Flowers, last year with David son, and selected by many scribes on the mythical All-Star eleven. Flowers made his debut with the Yellow Jackets in their Saturday game with Furman and he shorn brilliantly, scoring a couple of touch downs and kicking three fields goals This is a pretty fair beginning for the youngster. Followers of football down hert probably haven't heard much, if any :hing, about Flowers. We got our first impression of him when the reports; of the Davidson-Tech game came in last season. Flowers was the stah of this game and scored all ten o.' the points registered against the Jackets. This lone little chap scored mort points against Tech than the comoin ed forces of Pennsylvania, Washing con and Lee, Yanderbilt, Tulane. Car lisle and Auburn. He made the At Iantans sit up and take notice, and when the Tech eleven came here it play Tulane all they could talk ibout was Flowers. It isn't any wonder then that Heis man should grab Flowers for his 1917 eleven. He has need for just such a player as the ex-Davidson star. And before this season is out football fans will hear a lot of Flowers, for he is only budding and developing into a star. Flowers is a better all-around play er now than was Struppen The hit ter's speed and broken field running! were his chief qualities. Guyon fur-1 wished the interference and mad' most of Everett's gains possible Fiowers didn't have any such heli> when he scored those ten points igainst Tech last season. Flowers has speed, is a good brok en field runner, a deadly tackier anrl a kicker of class. He proved this to the fans up the line time and time igain. for Flowers didn't shine in the Tech game alone. He was in every fixture on the Davidson schedule and this included the leading Southern teams with the exception of Tulane. Indications are that Flowers will Sear the brunt of the work that Heis man will hand the Tech backfiejdjj this season. With an experienced iround player like Guyon to len>[ ?s distance and advice, the riam^Q o' Ralph Flowers will be knowiy as vvel as that of Strapper or anjT of tn( other superbacks that havm carriec thepigskin .across a goal fine. ABILITY" TO SING. A System of Head Measurements Used by California Musician to Discover One's Ability. Los Angeles, Oct. 23.?A method of testing the ability of any person to sing, without seeing him or even hearing him, has been devised by Theophilus Fitz of this city, recently director of music in the State Teach ers' College of Colorado. This meth od, which Prof. Fitz says is his "con tribution to science," is based upon a series of measurements Of the head cavities that he declares he has work ed down to exact mathematics. He does not find it necessary to see, touch or hear the subject, as his work, which he terms "voice diagnosis," has become as definite to him as mathe matics. All he asks is that certain measurements of the head be taken correctly. After learning these measurements and the sex of the subject, he makes bis own calculation as to the size and shape of the head cavities and an nounces whether the subject, if a girl, is a soprano or contralto, and if a youth, whether he should sing the role of a basso or of a tenor robusto. "Mamie often sings soprano just because Susie does, although she ought to be singing contralto," says Prof. Fitz. "And Bill insists upon singing bass, because he thinks it is manly, when he really ought to be a tenor." Persons with round heads make the best singers, he says, because their head cavities are the most symme trical; those with long heads come next and those with oval cranium i rank last. "It's nonsense." he says, "for peo ple to pass four or five years studying ' music, to ascertain whether they cart sing and if so, what part, when by > this method, they can obtain such a lecision immediately." EXTENDS FLU QUARANTINE. Restrictions in Force Until November 3?Taking No Chances. Columbia, Oct. 24.?Quarantine re strictions, now in force over South Carolina on account of the influenza Epidemic, will not be raised util No vember 3, according to a telegram sent out yesterday by Dr. James A. rlayne, secretary of the State board >t health. The telegram was directed to all county sheriffs over the State and vas as follows: ?"A careful analysis of the influenza situation throughout South Carolina ndicates the necessity of continuing he present quarantine regulations in "orce for at least ten days longer. Under authority of paragraph 1614, South Carolina code of laws, you are lirected to maintain present quaran ine status in the area under your con :rol as regards closure of schools, churches, picture shows and all places )f public meeting until November 3, jnless otherwise instructed by this of ice. No exception modifying this or ler will be made. (Signed) "James A. Hayne. "State Health Officer." The sheriffs jver the Stat-s have Tully cooperated with the health de partment in carrying out quarantine orders, and the instructions in the tel egram quoted above will meet with a [ike response. The schools and churches and picture shows were or dered closed over the entire State, Oc tober 7, and the order issued yester day continues the quarantine until November 3. The health department S taking no chances with the epidem c and is of the opinion that the safest plan is to continue the quarantine at present in force. Dr. C. V. Akin, passed assistant ;urgeon of the United States public health service, who is in charge of influenza control work in the State yesterday said that all reports receiv ed indicate a continued improvement in the general situation over the State. An increasing number of towns have advised the office that the local spidemic is coming under control, and others report a complete subsidence with the exceptions of York, Union. Spartanburg, Greenville, Abbeville. Anderson and Lancaster. The dis ease is regarded as being practically under control throughout the Pied mont. The general trend of the reports received was encouraging. The great est severity of the epidemic yester day was expressed in Marlboro, Dil lon, Darlington, Williamsburg, Clar endon and Charleston counties. The public health service is now concen trating its medical and nursing re sources in two sections of the State. Physicians and nurses, together with volunteer nurse?, are cooperating in Dillon, Darlington and Marlboro counties. The other area of concen tration of medical forces is compris ed in Clarendon, Williarosburg. Georgetown and Berkeley Counties. Winter Has Begiui in Alaska. Fairbanks, Alaska, Sept. 28?Most of Alaska is about to enter its long half-light winter semi-hibernation when ice and snow lock almost every thing in their grip with a wintry clamp. Already last steamboats making connections for the outside world are' leaving the northern inland river towns. In a short time, Alaska's big inland summer water highway, the Yukon River, will be sealedj tight with seven months' ice. Throughout the country .prepara tions for the winter are be/ng made. Supplies are being laid im for pro hibitive freight rate-; prcvi.il on the stage lines which server the country In the winter. ^ Fairbanks. Nome. /St. Michael, Rtitovv Eagle, Anchorage. Tanana, Ne nana and Fort Yukton are the largest points in the sec^fon of Alaska lock ed by winter^/ Se.ward, Cordova, Vald.ez. Juncrylr Skngway, Ketchikan Graijg' j^vrfu other southern points *re jf-ri" open water the year, round, year Anchorage, for the first will be in touch with the outside world by railr oad, the govenment lihf from Seward having been completed x short time ago. Getting Square. Now the British can make tl German prisoners work those 31 coal mines. m MAKING CAMOUFLAGE SCREENS French Women are Employed in Making Nets for Disguising Gnu Positions. Behind American Lines in France, Sept. 30 (Correspondence of The As sociated Press i?Seven hundred French women aie employed in the American Camourlage station here making nets to screen from observa tion American batteries and machine gun sections. There was a burst of patriotic song as The Associated Press correspondent entered the large build ing where they work, for many of them sing as they sew. The screening of artillery is the most imporant work of camouflage, as it is the main reliance in deceiving the aerial observer and camera and in preventing the enemy from locating our batteries. For this purpose huge camouflage nets are provided, of wire and fish-net, which cover the guns like a great hor izontal tent. In the netting are tied bunches of green burlap, of the same color as the surrounding grass or foliage. And thus viewed from above, the overhanging green net merges the battery into the landscape of trees and turf. Hundreds of these nets were being made by the women workers. The 75 millimeter gun takes an overhang ing net, 30 feet squar* the 165 milli meter gun has a 37 foot net, and the American machine gun gets an 18 foot net. The nets are graded in ten col ors of green and earth-brown, so that the shield may have the exact tint of the surrounding trees. The nets are shipped to the front in huge bundles, one for each gun. It has been a problem to get the 700 women required lor this deft work on the nets, and one of the chief means of drawing them is a Red Cross home for the babies of the married wo men, and a Y. M. C. A. kitchen which gives them a good meal for 60 cen times (12 cents). Camouflage gar lands are also made by the women. These garlands of green burlap are strung between the trees, in order to break up lines and diffuse edges so that the location of a convoy or bat tery will not show on an aerial photo graph. In the carpenter shop huge frames for green umbrellas were being made The umbrellas open like an ordinary sun-shade, and camouflage a machine gun. In the blacksmith shop the men were turning out steel "cabins" which are sunk below the ground, for an observer. They have a front of bullet proof steel and are about as strong as a small safe. In one of these an observer is safe in the midst of a shower of shrapnel. Laying on paint much as a scrub woman wields a mop, an artist was walking about on a gigantic camou flage screen for an airplane hangar. The great piece of painting was spread on a field and covered an area of 1, :^00 square yards. The artist was using a brush as big as a broom. "Camouflage is making a constant battle against the aerial camera." said the escort, "for with photographs made from airplanes the enemy gets a complete view of our positions un less they are obscured by some de vice of camouflage." INFLUENZA CASES DECREASE. Improvement in Camps and Some States?Much Better in South. Washington, Oct. 23.?Continued improvement in the influenza situa tion in army camps and in a number of States was shown by reports receiv ed today by the surgeon general of the army and the public health ser vice. New cases in army camps to taled only 2,733 with 327 deaths. The disease now is epidemic at only three camps, McCIellan, Ala., Kearney, Cal., and Lewis, Wash. States where the number of new cases reported show a decrease in clude South Carolina. North Caro lina, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Connecti cut, Delaware. Indiana, Maryland, Missouri Nevada, Oregon and Wiscon sin. In portions of other States im provement has been shown and for the country at large the peak of the epi demic apparently has been reached. Conditions are still serious in some States particularly Kentucky, Texas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio and New Mexico. It is estimated that there are 125,000 cases in Ohio, with 23,000 at Cincin nati. In Minnesota, bad outbreaks have been reported. The railroad administration's week ly report of traffic conditions brought out that illness of railroad men inter fered seriously with freight move ment and unloading. Repair work at railroad shops also has been hamp ered while a decrease in passenger traffic was noted. Reports that the influenza germs may have been brought to the United I States and spread by enemy agents, j possibly landed on American shores from submarines, have been investi gated by government agents, but no basis for them has been found. In vestigators of several government de partments declared today that they were convinced after an inquiry that the dissease was brought to this coun try through the natural channels of affected seamen, travelers or imports and not by malicious methods. EARNS COMMISSION. H. M. Aull, of Newberry, Promoted on Field of Battle. Newberry, Oct. 23.?News has been j received in Newberry of the promotion I of Sergt. Humbert M. Aull, who is j now with the American expeditionary forces in France, to a second lieuten j ancy, the promotion having come tc I this popular young soldier on the field t of battle. Lieut. Aull is the young sor j of Col. Flbert II. Aull, editor of the i Newberry Herald and News. He saw ! service on the border for about si> j weeks and has been in France for th? ! past eight months. BRITISH CABINET MEETS. l^Ai! Session Held to Discuss Wil ?<>!)?> Reply to Germany. If. ... Oct. 24.?The British cab ?t this morning presumably t< SffiSH President Wilson's reply t< Hi- , 1 _ _ KIDNEY TROUBLE GONE GREENSBORO MAN WILL ENTER U. S. SERVICE. W. R. Bolden Makes Public Statement How He Wiped Out Painful Disease :uid Developed Good Physical Con dition to Get Government Job. GIVES ALL CREDIT TO NEW HERB MEDICINE. "Fin sure no man has had a worse case of kidney trouble than mine was," declares W. R. Bolden, the prominent resident of R. F. D. No. 4, Box 180, Grennsboro, in a signed statement which he has just given to the newspapers for publication. "I suffered terribly with pains in the back, nervousness, loss of sleep and my appetite was always poor. This all came from the kidney trouble. "After my urine stood a while there would be a deep settlement in it, a very offensive odor, hot and feverish; and I've had to get up every hour of the night. "A very good friend of mine told, me about the new herb medicine, Dreco, that so many Greensboro peo ple were taking for kidney disorder and I decided to give it a trial. I have taken four bottles of Dreco and now no settlement occurs in the urine, the odor is gone and there is no fever with it. I don't have to get up one time from night till morning and the pains have about gone from my back. "I am taking one more bottle of Dreco to get good and well for I am going to work for the government soon and I want to be in good physi cal condition. "I take great pleasure in recom mending Dreco to all my friends who are troubled the same as I was. I feel sure it can do for anyone what it has so quickly done for me." Here is a practical le^on for sick men and women who are dragging through life feeling miserable?a bur den to themselves, a care to their rel atives, and a bore to their friends. There is no need go:lng another day feeling the way you do. This won derful herb medicine Dreco -is doing wonderful work in quickly wiping out not only kidney disease, but also indigestion, gas liver trouble, rheu matism, constipation, nervous disor ders and a score of other common sicknesses which do not yield readily to the ordinary method of treatment Dreco. is inexpensive, . pleasant to. take, contains absolutely no harm ful mineral chemicals, and is dispens ed by almost all modern drug stores. It is particularly recommended in Sumter by Sibert's Drug Store.? Advt. NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CRED ITORS. Estate of Miss Musidora I. Colclough, Deceased. All- persons having demands of any sort against said estate will present .tham duly attested, and all- rh~ any way indebted to said estate will pleasa? settle with ** Mrs. Gertrude E. Richardson, Qualified Executrix. Oswego P. O., S. C, R. F. D. 1, Box 58. Sumter, S. C., Oct. 22, 1918. SERBS MOVE FORWARD. More Than Fifteen Hundred Prison ers Taken. London, Oct. 23.?A Serbian semi official statement of Monday: "Our troops continue to advance, fighting their way forward. Sunday they cleared the regions of Ipek, Novibasar and Pachka, of the enemy. More than 1,500 prisoners and a quantity of war material were cap tured." RUMANIAN PORTS CLOSED. According to eGrman Wireless Dis patches From Moscow. London, Oct. 23.?The British ad miralty reports that German wire less dispatches picked up at Moscow are to the effect that the Rumanian government has declared all Ruman ian ports on the Black sea and on the Danube closed. Y. M. C. A. in South America. Buenos Aires; Oct. 21.?South America is to be organized for T. M. C. A. war work along the same lines, as the European countries. The War Work Council of the Youag Men's Christian Association in New York has appointed Jay- C. Field of the Buenos Aires Y. M. C. A. to act as Field Secretary in South America in which capacity he will look after the entertainment of United States sailors whenever they land at any South American port It is proposed to have permanent organizations in all the South Ameri can ports, under the direction of the Y. M. C. A. Fleet Secretary, which can on a moment's notice prepare themselves to entertain any number of sailors who may be sent ashore on leave. One night recently when an Ameri can cruiser was in the port of Buenos Aires, the Y. M. C. A. arranged for the entertainment of 120 sailors in the homes of American and English families. As Buenos Aires has the only Y. M. C. A. building in South America large enough to look after a large number of sailors, the first work of the Y. M. C. A. committees will be to provide buildings in each port which will be turned into permanent homes for American sailors during their shore leave. American families will be call ed upon to entertain large numbers of them at their homes. Stumped. A correspondent writes to the Phil adelphia Inquirer to ask, "How long a man and a woman must live together before their marriage can be consid ered illegitimate?" The Tnqulrcr rid htits its stumped. So are we.