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Brand Explains Slump <^f o^; Bpreau of Markets J^j^L^^^?n Mies Result of Peace. ^Washington, Dec. 6.?Replying to ' criUcisms leveled at the committee from many sources during the last tew days because of the ' ."bearish" condition of t^e cotton market, with trouble threatened unless .light could ^?ro*r? U**)I? the situation, and the ehGf? cotton world on the anxious blench, a Brand, chariman of the .cpttQn_distribution committee, recently a^ppointedl^by President Wilson, -today issgect-the following statement: "The signing of the armistice auto matically cut.?n?any further demand ? for cotton goods on the part of the ' government;-m^ct, some orders were ^cancelled.-...This lsft mills long? of ^ cpttojt-bought ' to make government, got>ds or In * anticipation of receiving -fr&fi orders. To avoid speculation, which would, otherwise have resulted -from this condition, some mills sold futures as a hedge against cotton in stock "or noanufactured' goods which they had not sold. ? "The period of transition from z war basis to a peace basis being short j and'abrupt, the mills did not ?havei time to_arrauge for immediate civilian , trade to take the place of government orders, which they lost. Still due' to unsettled "conditions, orders for civilian trade have- been"corning in slowly. It may* also be said that popularly the -* goyernra'ent was supposed to be tak ii?gi?t least twice ?s great a propor tion of cotton fabrics as was actual ly^eVcase.; While this information . was erroneous, "its temporary effect upon the' trade was almost as great asT if it had been true. Mills in Eu rope have "held* off buying, awaiting r the^determinati?h of credits and ton nage "that will be allocated to cotton ?.'and other. Questions directly affecting , their operation Under peace condi ^tfpnsV ? ^Siere was a general feeling that all c?mmodity prices, upon the ending of "the "war, would rapidly drop, and lv<<3hte. cotton, business; along with other "fines br business, has shared this feel -in^g and the -consequent uncertainty ' prevailing has ;served as a limitation upon the volume of business. For ? caasiderable period before the sign inff^?f the armistice, there was a large vomme of selling on the American ^"f^ture markets from foreign coun fr^eA "foth as a speculation as as a straddle.", between the American and * l^erp^i; markets. Such foreign sell : Whether it was in reality a s^ ^culatiTe short ..sale, or whether it . wasL st ipa^.'of" a saddle as Indicat edt .operatedyttf help depress prices. V **TJiese cbtfdrtions among others re sulted* Jnl weak and jerratic miirket ^S^e^.^gradu?l^ 'sought lower levels. .There is " ho, doubt as to the mtrrrisic "^^ue^^d'as to the uttimate increase '^*t)&?ig$;j-requirements-- of. cotton r ^?bj^^^'^.tutU* teinpoxary prices ap .$tvi^^ feyels^wr?ch - -would have ^ jic^a^; less to^roducert. The ^te^nycottbri distribirtiun, tjec j^^isrfactr took steps to stahi ^Jthe :martret, and to that end con '?"fi^hfalK .i?r^efe^tiv?-*a^nciea of the" result that, in cooperation war trade board, the removal .fifeense restrictions' to England, i^fcce'/Italy and Japan and the ma :j:e^t'^la^tion of resections in the ;*S^^r}j?T'of. licenses to/Spam and other "netitr?l countries has followed, '.v^jbie committee was"also in consul ^&tfp?iw;kh the railroad administration ;;arfd\secui*ed the resumption of the .is :suance of through export bills of lad ing; for cotton. ~ irKe committee has taken steps to counteract trio effects of false and misleading information, which' was ? calculated to "depress cotton, by se <.curing the facts and authentic de .nia?s- ot false reports attributed to va ricnis governmental agencies. "The conditions existing: at the signing of the armistice, as outlined above, .having rendered the market very weak and nervous, the commit tee in order to prevent merely specu lative selling on the future exchanges from taking advantage of temporary conditions by depressing the price of -<?tt?n- to a point where it would be entirely out of line with its real val ;.* ue, issued an order on November 13 I prohibiting speculative short selling " on American' future exchanges. The |jday before this order was issued, prices had dropped two cents per pound on the American exchanges, this being the limit of fluctuations'in any one day, according to exchange rulings. Since this order has been in effect, prices have fluctuated within a range of about three cents per pound, and the market now appear? to be in a more healthy condition; than at any time since the signing of; ??f?he armistice. "'While the conditions at the sign tig of the armistice, as outlined above, resent*a temporary bearish situation, a matter of fact a long range view of cotton presents some exceedingly bullish aspects. if^Four short crops have been grown, a result, in spite of smaller con niption than before the war, the ks of cotton in the world, of all rids, have declined from 8,300,000 ?lies; July 31, 1915, to 3,800,000 bales, jjily 31, 1918. This however, does not ?teil the complete story, as stocks of cotton goods in America are grealy depleted and in all other parts of the world have been reduced to the low -est -figures since the Civil War. "As an example of improved condi [ tions which have almost immediately followed the conclusion of hostilities it is interesting to note the situation "with respect to Great Britain, which country consumes normally about 3,000,000 bales of American cotton. TJp to the signing of the armistice, tonnage allotted for transportation of cotton.to England was sufficient to c&rry*only about 180,000 bales per mOhth. However, for the month ol December, tonnage was allotted for 3,300,000 bales of American cotton. That -the allotment of tonnage for January forWardings .will take care of about 330,000 bales. At this rate of forwarding Great Britain will take 'dtinrfg vthe current season, in. exce^ -of 3,000.000 bales as against 2.275.00C bales in the past season. "The committee on cotton distribu tion shortly after the signing of the armistice stated that reports made to them indicated that the exportation of "American cotton for the current sea son under peace conditions would be 2,000;000 bales in excess of the ex ports of the past season. This , would Dring the exports for the current sea son to a total of about 6,500,000 bales, which does not seem unreason able to expect when it is considered that this figure is still much under normal and is even 2,000,000 bales less than was exported in the first year of the war. "Another factor not popularly known or appreciated. is the-shortage in the Indian crop, the effect of which has been to force Japan to enor mously increase her normal purchases of American cotton, so that this coun try is expected to take 900,000 bales of American cotton during the cur rent season as against a normal tak ing of 400,000 bales." ? _,_ The Madness of Roosevelt. Not a few people at Washington hold seriously to the opinion that Theodore Roosevelt is insane on the subject of Woodrow Wilson. They are right as far they go, but they do not go far enough. The fact is that Roosevelt is possessed on the subject of the presidency. He is firmly per suaded that of all .the men who have held the highest office in the Ameri can government but three were fitted for it, Washington, Lincoln and him self. All others before him were in competent, and all since have been pretenders. Of Washington he is not entirely certain, perhaps, and it might be said that to Lincoln alone does he accord full tribute, which is but nat ural, as he. clearly regards himself not merely as the successor but ac tually the reincarnation of the Eman cipator. His rabid disposition to ward Wilson is due to the same rea son as his hatred of Taft, whom he himself put into the presidency. It would be the same no matter who occupied the White House. The bare fact that a man dases to be president makes him detestable in Roosevelt's eyes. The office is and of right ought to be his, to have and to hold for his natural life. It is not hard, then, to understand the Colonel's latest o?tgiymg, in which, to support his contention that President Wilson's fourteen points have not been adopted as the hasis for the world peace, he demands that the United States accord primacy of the. seas to Great Britain and de clares that the part of America in the great war was hardly more than, negligible and that we should ?o noth-" ng more at ihe peace, conference than* support the 'allies in all thefr.demands uid.contentions, .because."they/saved, is from th,e Germans. . In spite, of the essential Prussian cast of his mind, Roosevelt is, perhaps, a good Amer ican, and it would, not be fair to con clude from his latest utterance that he does not take pride in the great achievement of his countrymen. ,in the war,. It .is pot.. because,it. was an America:!. achievement yEnat he belit tles . the ;][>erfoxmance and recommends political vassalage to the allies, but - because .the perforjn?nce was rend ered under the. leadership of Mr. Wilson. ;.Col. Roosevelt has been plainly seditious in some of his ut terances during the war, and it is not, therefore,: surprising to find him con temptuous and disloyal after the war to. the. men who'won it,, and false to the future they, made for their coun try. .It, is, all -due to Wilsonphobia. .The .Colonel has, . however,, at last gone-the limit. It was all very well, while the war was in progress, to call . for more and more of effort and insist that enough was . not being, done to achieve victory. That was well calcu lated to charm the mass and. marshal a. following against the . administra tion. But when, in order to score against Mr. Wilson, the Colonel lays it down that the American army play ed only an inconspicuous part in the wax, he is fairly plunged into a. whirl pool he can never come out from whole. He has overreached himself at last. In 1920 when he runs for the presidency again against all com ers, let him go before the country, in which those two million gallant men who carried the flag to France, are again in civic status and armed with the ballot, and maintain his thesis that they did a very inconsequential thing, and that their achievements won for their country the privilege only of holding the allies' stirrup, and let him see what will happen to him and his political ambitions. He may be left in all confidence to the mer cies of those splendid me.i who fought at Thierry, at Cantigny, at Belleau, at Kemmel. at Buzancau. and in the Argonne. Let him make his lamenj to the army; let him tell it to the Marines.?Charleston Post. FRENCH WHEAT HARVEST. More Than Hundred Thousand Acres Recovered From Germans. New York, Dec. 6.?More than 137, 500 acres of wheat were recovered from German occupied *^rritory ."n France by the British and French armies in the great offensive that ended the war, says the New York j Federal Food Board. This is believ-; ed by the food officials to have ma I terialy contributed to the food crisis which helped to bring Germany to her knees. This wheat was harvest ed chiefly by the French. The work of nearly 17,000 men was required in the harvesting. The binding ma chines and threshing machines were supplied by the French office of Ag ricultural Reconstruction and when the harvesting was completed the machines were sold at reduced prices to farmers or groups of farmers who had been victims of the war. EX-RULERS CAN'T ESCAPE. Must Come to Trial, Says Lloyd George. London, Dec. 5.?David Lloyd George the British prime minister to night in the election campaign, gave a restatement of his policy. In it he declares that the men responsible for the war cannot escape because their heads were crowned, but that they must be tried by an international court. Mr. Lloyd George also declar ed himself in favor of the expulsion and exclusion of all enemy aliens. British Tonnage Losses 9,031,828 Tons From Beginnine of War to November, 1918. , London, Dec. 5.?British merchant tonnage losses were 9,031,828 gross tons from the beginning of the wai to October 31, 1918, according to an official statement issued tonight. New construction in the United Kingdom in the same period was 4,342,296; purchases abroad were 630, 000 tons, and enemy tonnage cap tured was 716,6120. The net loss wa> 3,443,012 tons. Official-announcement made in Lon don Thursday night placed the losses in world's merchant tonnage by ene my action' and marine risk from the beginning of the war to the end of October, 191?, at 15,053,786 grosi tons. In the same period 10,849,527 tons were constructed and 2,392,675 tons of enemy vessels were captured. This made the net loss of tonnage during the war 1,811,584 tons. A. C. L. TRAIN WRECKED. Engine and Cars Derailed; Two Re ported Injured. Florence, Dec. 6.?Train 89, the through passenger and express from the North, was badly wrecked at El rod, N. C, late this evening, blocking the main line of the Atlantic Coast [Line, which will necessitate a de ! touring of all trains to and from the 'North via Parkton, Bennettsville. Dar lingon and Florence for at least the next twelve hours, The big engine, three express cars, mail and baggage cars were derailed and are broadside in the ditch. It is stated that the fireman and one wo womarf passenger were the only ones injured aboard the wrecked train, and these not ;5eriously, yet a hurry call for physicians, nurses and first aid remedies were ordered dispatched at the earliest possible moment, which was done from this city. The wrecking train and crews, un der the supervision of Wrecking Mas ter Alexander L. Sessoms, left here j about 7 o'clock for the scene,'and the! Rocky Mount, N. C., wrecking train and crew are or; the way to the wreck also. The monster locomotive, the "440," was in charge of Engineer H. R. Bar bo ur, of this city, and Conductor James Simpson, of Richmond, Va.. neither of whom were reported as be ing injured. The wreck occurred at about 6 o'clock this afternoon at the switch at the north -end of the side track at Elrod, 'which is about forty six miles north of Florence, on what is known as the "Short Cut" division of the Coast Line. This makes the fourth bad wreck of passenger trains on the Atlantic Coast Line within the last ten days, all of which were unavoidable. Stop Them Now! Clemson College, Dec. 6.?To wait until thje_cottqn becomes infested with the red" spider next summer arid then attempt to fight it is like locking the crib after the corn has been stolen. At this time of the year the food plants of the red spider are becom ing scarcer every day, arid there are only very few plants on which this , pest can spend the winter. Among the ' most important are common violet," poke weed arid blackberry bushes on , the. terraces and edges of the fields These plants form the red spider's winter hotels and where there is no efforts made at clean farming, one must not expect to escape the rav ages of this pest and other pests next season. This is the best time of the year to t fight most of our worst field crop insect pests. All poke weed, blackberry, Jeru salem oak, jimson weed, and violets that are to be found along the ter races, ditch banks, fence corners and other places in the vicinitjr of the cotton fields should be destroyed and burned." The red spider spends the winter on the roots of some of these plants. Dig them up. Not only is the red spider depriv ed of its most fortified position but the boll weevil, the cinch bug, the hessian fly and other farm pests can be effectively controlled or prevent ed. But allowing rubbish to remain on the farm is the best way to help these pests to accomplish their de structive work next season. As to Planting Wheat. Clemson College, Dec. 6.?"Several 1 farmers were talking over the ques tion of planting wheat a day or two ago, and from the general trend of their conversation it appeared that they were not very enthusiastic. One said he had planted several acres last year, and according to his tabula tion of the results, he had come out a little over five dollars short. This, he said, was quite discouraging. But, I when asked what effect the grain sowing had upon the land, he admit ted that, by such method the fev# acres had enhanced in value about! $1,000. It had been aadly disfigured by gullies and was poor, but now was productive and the gullies had disap peared. We think he had answered his own argument against wheat sow ing." "It may not pay in .actual dollars and cents for the specific year the planting is done. But, if the land I is thus built up, if the value increas 1 es upon a few acres to the amount [of $1,000 in a few years?we think, ! in this case, the argument ia all on j the side of wheat planting." The above is taken from tho Un- i ion Times of a recent date and isj sound reasoning and wholesome nd-J vice. America must feed the world j for several years to come, and farm-' era in South Carolina will do well to raise all the wheat they can for their own sake as well as for the land's sake, [f you have not already planted, plant now. London. Dec. 7.?An extraordinary meeting of the German cabinet was {summoned at Berlin Thursday evejj | i g to discuss the possibility of the j allies occupying Berlin, owing to Germany's alleged inability to carry out the terms of the. armistice, ac cording to Amsterdam ad vices to the i J Express. To Disband S. A. T. C. Clemson Follows Instructions of War Department. Clemson College, Dec. 6.?Dr. ,W. M. Riggs, .president of Clemson College, announces that, following orders from the war department, the student army training corps unit will be demobilized by December 21. The S. A. T. C. was a war measure and now that the ne cesity is past the war department has ordered all S. A. T. C. units demobi lized and discharged. This means that after the Christ mas holidays Clemson College will go back to the former organization, in which authority is lodged with the president and faculty and not solely with the military representatives of the war department. Clemson will maintain a military department but military duty and drill will be re duced to comparatively small pro portions and will not interfere with collegiate work. Strict discipline in the student body will however, be maintained to teach promptness, neatness and obedience as during pre war times. Examinations for the first term will ! be held December 13 to 20 and all students who expect to return will be required to take the examinations. It is hoped that the reserve offi cers' training corps may be reestab lished and if so juniors and seniors who enter the advanced course of the R. O. T. C. will get commutation for subsistence, 33 cents per day or more. Announcement is also made that scholarships which were lost by en trance intot he S. A. T. C. will be re-| stored. ' j CANADIAN DEMOBILIZATION. Division Perfecting Plans to Bring Troops From Overseas. Winnipeg, Canada, Dec. 6.?Plans for the demobilization of Canada's 286,304 overseas troops under a sys tem intended to meet economic and industrial conditions have been com pleted and will he put into operation when withdrawal of the forces is con sented to by the high command After considering available shipping facilities and rolling 6tock in Canada, the Imperial Ministry of Shipping and the Canadian War Board have con cluded that the rate of return can ap proximate 20,000 men a month. Close study of the military and eco nomic phases of demobilization result ed in a decision to first return men whose trade classification showed there was immediate use for them in Industry. Preference is to be given .married men, the order of their return to be determined by the length of time in overseas service. Then single men will be returned along the same general lines. Classification of the troops into oc cupational groups by the Militia De partment was deemed advisable to I meet the requirements of the labor market in the various districts. To return the men regardless of their occupation in civil life and demands of the labor market in their respec tive districts wouid work a hardship upon them as well as upon industry, officials decided. Latest figures list 286,304 as the number of Canadian troops overseas. An estimate of how these men will be distributed among the various prov inces, based on the ratio of enlist ment in each province, follows: Ontario, 121,500; Quebec, 33,500; New Brunswick, 12,500; Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, 15,500; Manitoba, 33,500; Saskatchewan, 18, 500; Alberta, 21,500; British Colum bia, 25,500. The problem of bringing back from England the wives and families of Ca- ? nadian soldiers, estimated at 35,000 persons, has been placed with the De partment of Immigration. They will be returned to Canada as quickly as possible, as the government desires to have the soldiers' homes re-establish ed before their arrival. RESTRICTIONS ON COTTON SOON OFF. Senator Smith Talks With Officials as to Charleston. Washington, Dec. 5.?The outlook for still further removal of restrictions from the cotton rade is improving. Senator E. D. Smith, following his talk with the president, Tuesday night, has had conferences on the sub-ject with all the principal of ficials who have to do with cotton here and believes that all restrictions will soon be off except those on short selling. Tomorrow the senator will see the secretary of war in connection with the suggestion that through bills of lading for exportation of cotton and oher commodities to Europe through Charleston and other Southern ports may be reestablished if the govern ment will fix definite schedules for the arrival of ships bringing our sol diers home through these ports, the same ships to carry cotton, etc., as cargoes to Europe on the way back. The senator has already discussed the matter with. Gen. Goethals who will agree if the seer tary of war does, j What is Electricity. Ever since this rorce was first Iso-1 lated, there has been constant effort to define just what electricity actual ly is. Good Housekeeping for De cember contains a very interesting article on the subject. To quote: The word itself is taken from the Latin for amber (electrum). as amber under certain conditions will exhibit ' electrical effects. Many theories con-, cerning the nature of electricity have j j been advanced, but the latest, the elec- j , tron hypothesis, furnishes the mosti! i plausible explanation of electrical j [phenomena. This theory supposes' jail matter, gaseous or solid. In the; ? universe to be composed of electrons; I consisting of an inconceivable suhdi- j {vision of molecules and atoms, and - that a certain arrangement and move-1 I ment of these electrons constitute! ! that subtle something which we cal!-| , electricity. For practical purposes it j j matters little what it really Is. By! 1 experiment and study the laws that J govern its actions have l>een deter- \ I mined. It will develop light, heat,! land power as we will it: the tiny fnn| land the ponderous train alike move tin response to its influence. j [Carter Glass Confirmed j Senate Approves Appointment as Secretary of Treasury. Washington, Dec. 6.?The nomina tion of Representative Carter Glass of Virginia, to be secretary of the treas ury to succeed William G. McAdoo was confirmed tonight by the senate without objection. Mr. Glass immediately will resign from congress, in which he has served 16 years, and will take up his new duties on December 16. Mr. Mc Adoo will continue as director general of, railroads until his successor for that position is appointed. Representative Glass said today he had every reason to believe that the future policies of the treasury would not be different from those being pur sued except as varying circumstances may suggest. . "There is no further statement that I could make at this time which would either interest or enlighten the public," said Mr. Glass. "I would readily , wish that I may succeed even approximately as well in administer ing the affairs of the treasury as has the distinguished man whose retire ment so distresses the country, it is my judgment that 'his retirement is a national misfortune." ! __ WILL IMPROVE WILSON. A Canadian View of the President*? 3Cssion to Europe. The Mail and Empire of Toronto says of President Wilson's mission to Europe: It will be a good thing for Presl dent Wilson to attend the peatfb con ference in France and the benefit ought to react upon his party and upon the United States. He will corne into close touch with men like Poin care, Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Bat four, and others, and he will be dealing with them as equals. Presi dent Wilson seldom meets men on that footing. The tradition which has so long kept the chief magistrate in the United States has kept him rrom personal contact with the .chiefs of State in other countries. Th.li tends to fix his -mind . too much on the things that, are desirable,, and too lit tle on the things that are practicable. President Wilson's advisers have been his personal appointees, most of them apparently. attached to .Taim by strong personal ties, and some by a sense of admiration that -rendered them useles as candid critica The on4 man by whom it is generally be lieved the president is influenced is Colonel House, and nobody but the president has any data on which to form an opinion of the practical value of Colonel House's advice. In going to Europe and talking with the statesmen and military lead ers who have borne the burden of four years of war, who have been grappling with the most momentous problems that ever arose, and in see-j ing some of the effects of the war, President Wilson will come to close quarters with realities. He is not more likely to instruct and inform those men than they are to instruct and inform him. They are hla peers. Their experience of the matters in hand is greater than his. Their good will is as little likely to be questioned. Sensible of the great debt they owe to the United States, there will be ev ery disposition on the part of the rep resentatives of the allies to defer to the president, and on his part an ap preciation of what the Unied States owes to the allies will forbid any suggestion of dictation. The confer ence cannot fail to be highly Instruc tive to all who take part in it and to no one more than to the president of the United States. ANOTHER FRENCH LETTER. The Mother of an Orphan Adopted by the Boys' High School. IS80Udun, 28 Octobre, 1918. Monsieur: Jai le grande honneur de vous ac cuser reception d'un mandat de 45 francs, le montant de votre grande generosite et bonte d'avolr adopte moh petit Pierre pour Tan. Je vous prie, monsieur, de recevoir tous mes sinceres remerciments. J'aurais ete heureuse de pouvoir joindre a ma lettre la Photographie de mon petit Pierre: je vais la faire faire. Je vous en ferai l'envoi assuitot qu'elle sera termlnee. Mon petit Pierre addresse a son bien faiteur tous ses remerciments avec ses bons baisers. Agreez, Monsieur, je vous prie, tous mes remerciments et mes re spectueuses salutations. Mme. Veuce Calippe, Issoudun, Indre. 5 rue de la Montee, evacuee de Compeigne. Issoudun, Oct. 28, 1918. Monsieur: I have the great honor to acknowl edge receipt of your check for nine dollars, evidence of your great gen erosity and kindness in adopting my little Pierre for the year. I beg, Mon sieur, that you will accept my most sincere thanks. I should like to be able to enclose in my letter a photograph of my little Pierre. I will have one made tor you and forward it as soon as it is finished. My little Pierre sends his thanks and many kisses to his benefactor. Please accept, Monsieur, all my thanks and my most respectful greet ings. Madame (Widow) Canppe, Issoudun, Indre. 5 rue de la Montee, Evacuee de Compiegne. Xote?Issoudun is a city In the province of Indre in the center of France, directly south of Paris. It has 11.000 inhabitants. Many of the evacuees have been sent here because of its convenient location. SHOT AT DR. PAES. Unsuccessful Attempt to Assassinate President of Portugal. Lisbon. Friday. Dec. :>.?An uniden tified man fired at Dr. Sidohio Paes, president of Portugal, in the. street here today. The shot missed the mark. The president's assailant was arrested. j CALOMEL ROBBED Of NAUSEA AND DANGER Medicinal Virtues Retained and Improved ? Unpleasant and Dangerous Qualities Removed ?New Variety Called "Calo* tabs." The latest triumph of medical sci ence is a purified calomel known as "Calotabs." The old-style calomel, as all doctors know, was the best and most generally useful of all medi cines. The new variety, known as Caltoabs, is purified and refined from all objectionable qualities, and is most delightful in effect One Caltab on the tongue at bed time, , a swallow of water?that's all. No taste, no griping, no nausea, no danger. Next morning you awake feeling fine, with a clean liver, -a purified system and a hearty appetite for breakfast. Eat what you please. There is no restriction of habit or diet Calotabs are sold only in orig al, sealed packages; price, thirty-five cents. Your druggist recommends Calotabs, and will refund your mon ey if you are not delighted with them. ?Advt-_ ?'? kT^BiBp Baruch and Davidson President Wilson Calls Upon Them for Services at the Peace Conference. Washington, Dec. 7.?Chairman Ba ruch, of the war industries board abd Chairman Henry P. Davison, of the American Red Cross war council have been asked by . President Wilson to hold themselves in readiness to re spond to a call for services, with the peace delegation in Europe. COUNTT HEALTH SURVEY. Mrs. Ruth Dodd Addresses Women's Council of Defense. <- > Mrs. Ruth Dodd, State superintend ent of rural nurses, delighted the la dies of the Woman's Council of De fense at Chamber of Commerce yester day by her interesting discussion of the duties and the value of a visiting nurse for the rural districts. The meeting went on record unanimously favoring the Launching of a campaign to raise eight hundred dollars .for the employment of a visiting "trained nurse for the rural districts of/ Sumter county, and invited Mrs. Dodd. to return to Sumter next Tuesday night to address the people of Sumter and Sumter county during the annual meeting of the Sumter Red Cross Chapter under arrangements made with President L D. Jennings of the local Red Cross immediately follow ing the meeting-of the woman's-coun cil yesterday. The public is invited *o hear Mrs. Dodd next Tuesday nighv rural citizens particularly being urg ed to attend. N. Mrs. Dodd has been urged ; to ad dress public health meetings at State burg No. 10 school and at Rembert school on December 19th if that date is convenient for her. The explanation of just what the visiting nurse accomplishes for the children in the schools and the wo men 'in the homes was so; compre hensive and convincing that the ladies ef the rural districts-and of the city of Sumter who Heard' Mrs. Dodd were so favorably impressed thai they immediately decided to unite the women of city, town, and rural dis tricts in a campaign to raise eight hundred dollars, tfcfs being the amount required by the Sta?e 6oard of health for which the State "board will provide such a nurse and ?ay her salary and all expenses for a -period of twelve months during the coun ty health survey and campaign of health education to begin in thfe coun ty on January 1st, 1919 provided that $2,500 is raised by December 20th^ At Hagood School public health meeting at 4 o'clock yesterday Secre tary E. I. Reardon had_to substitute for Mrs. Dodd who was indisposed. This meeting was largely attended by ladies and gentlemen from Rafting Creek and Stateburg townships and af ter the speaker concluded it was re solved that a campaign would imme diately be started to raise funds for the county health survey and1 the visiting rural nurse. The Cmamber of Commerce was requested to arrange for meetings at Stateburg No. 10 arid at Rembert School on December 18th. and to have Mrs. Dodd as" one of the speakers. This request will b% eom plied with. Interest in the county health survey in Rafting Creek and Stateburg townships has increased since yesterday's meeting because there was a misunderstanding among many of the farmers as "to the objects of the survey and educational'-''cam paign. When the speaker. explained and in reply to a number of questions propounded that there will be: abso lutely nothing compulsory but ;that the campaign wiU be purely^ educa tional and in the shape of investiga tions it was predicted that what lit tle opposition there was would" be withdrawn. Secretary Reardon fol lowed as best he could Mrs. Dodd's explanation of the visiting nurse work, and it seemed from the en dorsements of the survey and the nurse idea by the meeting that Mrs. Dodd's message delivered "second hand." was satisfactory. The secre tary felt considerably "puffed up," he said, when he was invited to address the Stateburg and Rembert public health meetings on* December 19tlv with Mrs. Dodd, Washington, Dec. 6.?The abandon* ment of construction work.on fourteen projects was announced today >by the war department, including^ hospital construction at North Camp Jackson. S. C. Orders have been .givefc- for the completion- of central .officers', train ing school* at Camps Gordon and Hancock, Ga. ?_ . ,.: