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Tfe Health Survey ?? ? . Secy. Reardon Reports Brighter Outlook for Raising the Necessary Fund. . Mr. W. W. Green of Shiloh has sent nis' check for $'25 to Chairman Phclps the Council of Defense for the county health survey, and he express es the hope that the necessary $3,>00 will he raised for campaign of edu cation'and the visiting rural nur;e to enl^hten-the people regarding the ?Necessity for taking steps to avoid un necessary sickness and premature deaths. Mr. W. W. Green as one of the reading farmers and country mer chants of the county of Sumter, a school .trustee and a staunch support er? JSt the rural school system, is con vinced- that education of the masses about preventive medicine, health an? Sanitation is of the greatest import ance from an economic and a social point of view. -v"Iff. C H. ?Wilson, a well known ?nd successful as well as public-spirit ed' life insurance agent of this city lias sent his check for $5 for the health survey, and he concurs hearti ly with what Mr. Green says about ,;?fe proposed rural health work. > Dr. C. W. Birnie. or Sumter, one of the most successful and well known colored physicians of this State, and a itnan who always can be found ever ready to subscribe and work for the gplift of the community and county, has sent his check to the Chamber of Commerce for $25 for the health sur vey. Dr. Birnie is excellently quali fied to form an- opinion of the value of teaching sanitation to the masses of the people, and his contribution is .a professional endorsement of the movement. s Attorney M. J. Frederick, another Successful colored citizen has sent his check, for $5, and he is besides work ing; "like Dr. Birnie, among the col . ored citizens to collect money to help educate the majority to protect their personal and the public health. Con trfljutions from the country and the city in substantial form from indi vScteal citizens within the past few ^ditys show that public sentiment fa vors the health survey and the rural nurse features of the proposed health campaign of education. ; *That the $3,300 can be readily rais ed by popular- subscription with a little systematized effort in each com munity of the county is easily seen. But will it go over the top by Jan nary 1st. 1919 when the final show down has to be rr ade in order to se cure State, federal and Rockefeller F^onnaatibn supplemental support of ^The State Board of Health writes that it wants to start work early in January 1919 so as to take in as many schools as possible during the fi&t 1919 sessions of the rural schools, sftfid before the summer holidays com mence. If Sumter county is not pre pared in January to put up the $3,300, why-mother counties are and some county will'be awarded the $6,500 and Sumter county will again lose an ex cellent opportunity to show that, we {Stand for a higher order of sanitary intelligence, and for increasing the ef ficiency of our citizenship. Beautiful Song in Memory of Major Manning. A beautiful song has been compos ed in honor of the late Major William Manning who gave his life in France for Democracy. The name of the song is "Major Manning's Reply to Carolina's Sigh," and it is intended to perpetuate the memory cf one of Carolina's brave sons. A copy will be sent free to any one upon request. Address W. M. Caldwell, P. O. Box 471, Sumter, S. C.?Advt, Troops From France Twenty Thousand Assigned for Early Home Coming. i ^^^^^^^^^ Washingon, Dec. 26.?Lists of units of the expeditionary forces assigned for early convoy which were cabled today by Gen. Pershing ocmprised si>3 hundred officers and nearly twenty thousand men. They included the 44th, 60th, 64th coast artillery regi ments, and the 49th and 331st infan try. READY TO COME HOME. Letter from William Brogdon Says He is Homeward Bound. Mr. William Brogdon, a son of Mr. W. TV Brogdon, writes to his sister as follows: Dear Kate: Well, I suppose this is the last let ter that I will write, and I guess it is useless for you to write any more for we are going to move in the next few days and I imagine it is towards home. I am in an aviation field just a short ways out of Paris and my company was the ones that built it. We ar rived Easter Sunday afternoon in trucks from Tours, France. I drove the first truck to town the next day for supplies: it was a 1 1-2 ton Ital ian Fiat. I have be<"-n to several towns in France, the most historic ones are Versailles and Orleans, the latter is where Joan de Arc's monument is. The boat T came over on was the big German ship "The Fatherland." It is certainly a floating: city?only took about 8 or 9 days from Hob ok en to Liverpool. Th?" first night we landed in the field there was an air raid on Paris and we all thought t^at the Boche had our number, but they did not know we were in the land of the living. We could not distinguish !:he Boche bombs from the French aircraft guns, although it was only a few nights before that became old. ! On account of being the first ones] on the field we are the first to leave, j Have been relieved from all work and nothing to do now but get ready to ride, and. believe me, too, I am finish ed with aeroplanes. I will not think it is long if I never see another one. because we had to be right with them] day and night when the big drivesi were on, but I did not mind it at the time. Hope to be home in few] Weeks; v_ Lovingly, William. Gibbons Doesn't Fear Socialism Cardinal Issues Statement on Peace and Reconstruction. Baltimore, Md., Dec. 24.?Cardinal Gibbons, in a statement today, said I that he had no fear that socialism ! would become an issue to be dreaded I in the period of reconstruction, and I that the good sense of the American j working people would cheek any so cial upheaval. He said: j "We ought to rejoice particularly on this Christmas Occasion, because lit is the first Christmas festival in ! five years that we have had the happi i ness of celebrating in the midst of un iversal peace, either actually attained !or dawning upon us. I "And I think, too, that the ex | ample of energy we spent in the pros ; ecuticn of the war is a matter for re [joicihg, for it has shown the world jthe capacity of America and Ameri cans. We have sent to the fighting j forces pr~risions and munitions of !war in enormous quantities, we have [Sent billions; of money and millions of <men, and for this tremendous erf ort j on the part of America we ask, so far as I can learn, no compensation. We i ask neither an - inch of territory nor la dollar in money. Our only reward ; is to be the consciousness of having 'done our duty, of having helped to make^the world free and having help ed to win a just and glorious peace. I "I earnestly hope that this peace has come to stay . . . and for all fu jture generations disputes between j peoples will be settled by the voice I and pen of conciliation, which are ; mightier than the sword, j "As for the outcome of the negotia i tions about to begin in Paris, it is hard to express an opinion. We can j only hope that they will be directed jby wisdom and justice . . .' and fair [dealing may prevail over the interests iof individual nation's, and that the j peace negotiations may be ended at ? an early date. i "I feel no anxiety with regard to j the future of our country, I feel that '??we will go on, that we will make J progress toward a far better under i standing among all our people . . ;' Much concern seems to be felt about 'the labor situation throughout the .'country, and there are fears as to the |outcome of the readjustment period. (I feel little troubled about that. I am !sure the working people of the coun try are men of intelligence and com jmon sense . . . They know that any j social upheaval would bear more 1 heavily upon them than upon any j other class and would hurt them (more than it would hurt any other class. ! "As for the spread of socialism in 'America, which some dread, I feel no ; apprehension whatever. and feel j there is no reason for the apprehen sion. No man or set of men can raise a storm in this country- without some real grievances, and every Socialist in the land, <Jownin his heart, knows there is no actual grievance about J which he can justly complain, cer tainly no grievance that would war rant the overturning of the social ?structure and the ruin, industrial, and ! of every other sort that would ensure. [And the working people of the coun jtry know this as well, and I have no ^ear that they will be led astray by (the specious doctrines of socialism to j their own undoing. I "Ftars as to the labor situation. I fears about spread of socialism and j kindred doctrines do not trouble me. The only apprehension I might have would be with regard to the consoli dation of control of the great public 'interests of the country in the auth orities of the government itself. I These interests are vast and wide j reaching ana control the well being of 'millions of men, such interests as the railroads and the telegraphs as 'well as others. I should be sorry to ; see these things put under the direc Ition of any federal administration. {The men employed in these industries I and utilities would form the prepond erating interest in any administration land would tend to a perpetuation of I power. I believe in a division of ?power and think it best for the coun jtr \ I should be sorry to see any in 'vasion by the administrative depart ment of the government upon the I rights of other departments. The i builders of our government provided ifor a government of check and bal jances, a government in which the j executive, the legislative and the jjudical departments were kept sepa rate and distinct and each depart ment was made independent of the I other." I_ j BELGIAN WOMEN PUNISHED. Those Who Were Too Friendly With Huns arc Shome of Their Hair. Bruges. Dec. 1.?(Corresponence j of The Associated Press)?An an [cient form of punishment in favo. in j the Middle Ages has been adopted in j Belgium for Belgian women who were too friendly toward the German in vaders or who listened to their love I making. They have been shorn of } their hair. In Bruges several women j have suffered this form of retribu j tion and either must remain indoors j or patronize the wig makers. It is I known that this method has bee n ap ! plied in at h-ast one other place. Th<" I scenes attending the application of I this punishment have been rather ; boisterous. , Corporal punishment is visited j upon the pro-German among the Bel [gian men but few of th'-se awaited j the wrath of the Belgian avengers, j They decamped before the Belgian I troops reoccupied the cities and ! towns which had beer, held under ? German domination. I Such cases as these have been re : markably few. The wonder is that ! there have not been more. The pro I portion of renegades is so small as to [reflect greater glory on poor ;::i!; Belgium. As a whole the civil population ofj Belgium has remained wonderfully j loyal while the German was dclud-! ing himself that he was ruling. It ! enabled them to endure physical pri vations, suffer death and resist the ! insidious propaganda <>f the d> rman . governors. V<>ti Missing, and his sue- j cessor Von Falkenhausen who at-j tempted to separate the Walloons] from the Flemish and to poison ihe j wells of Belgium's patriotism. 1 Hun Banker Out President of German Imperial Bank Has Resigned. London, Dec. 26.?Rudolph Haven stein, president of the Imperial bank ipf Germany, has resigned, according j to a Copenhagen dispatch. He has ibeen a supporter of the Pan-Ger | mans. * j Lesson From Siberia I Farmers of Darkest Russia } Practice More Progressive and Enlightened Meth ods ITian Amer icans. ?? I New York, Dec. 22.?Cooperative j combinations of both producers and j consumers have reached a high stage of development in Siberia. There are cooperative consumers societies, bank ing organizations, and farming and j producing combinations, and even a j Union of Siberian Cooperative Un ; ions. j This advance in ' the cooperative movement in both Russia and Siberia ! is so significant as to indictae that it ! may become a dominant factor during {the period of Russian reconstruction, according to information received ihere by the American-Russian Cham j ber of Commerce from its represen I tatives in Vladivostok. The Union of Siberian Cooperative I Unions represents 8,262 cooperative I consumers stores with a total capital j of 7,000,000 rubles. It has agencies in Petrograd, Moscow, Samarkand, Harbin, and Vladivostok. Besides supplying its own members with merchandise which it purchases on their account, this union is develop : ing industrial enterprises for its mem j bers and includes factories for the j manufacture of wool, leather, soap, i flour, and candy. It is developing its j own fisheries on the Amur and Ob J rivers, and operating steamers and barges. The extent to which this union has developed is Indicated by the fact i that in IS 16 it handled merchandise worth 3,500,000 rubles. In 1917 the turnover of merchandise was worth 43,000,000 rubles. During the first four months of 1918 its turnover of business was 23,000,000 rubles. These j figures include only the. operation of j the central union and do not comprise j the turnover of the various local co operative societies composing the un ion. Another important combination is the Union of Siberian Creamery Associations. This is both a produc ers and a consumers organization. It controls 1,410 creamery associations, and operates 1.167 cooperative stores. This association, according to the in ; formtaion received here, has played jan important part in the development I of the diary and provision business ir western Siberia. It is estimated that its members produced 60 per cent of the 100,000 tons of butter j which annually were produced in Si i beria before the war. Its business has I grown from 2,300,000 rubles in 1907 to 160.000/000 rubles in 1917. This orgnaization controls in addition to creameries, several steam flour mills, two printing establishments, and rope and soap factories, and' estab lishments for repairing agricultural machinery, dairy machinery, and similar equipment. The Union of Siberian Banking As sociations consists of 28 banking un ions made up of 4J.000 loan and sav ings associations. It plans to act as a purchasing agent for local cooper taive societies in obtaining farming implements for the peasants. This banking association is reported to be especially interested in the develop ment of business relations with the United States. It is pointed out by the American Russian Chamber of Commerce that American business interests should be interested in the development or i the cooperative movement in Russia, land in developing close relationships with "these important economic and I commercial organiaztions." The Soldier Boys Return. -- j Well, loved ones, we've fared us forth where war's red tide, j Leaped and laughed in lurid glee or. every side. We've plunged in amid the flame of war's wild hell, Some of us live to tell the tale, while others bravely fell. -?. I It matters not if we "went west," or back to home and life, We, each of us, have done our best to win amid the strife. Our comrades out on "Flanders Field" are sleeping 'neath the dust. We bring you back the message that they died to keep their trust. And if we too had paid the price, and with our comrades slept, j You'd sing our praise as you sing theirs, because we our trust had kept. j But whether from wild war's grim ,' grip we live to tell the tale, i Or whether we were wrecked and lost amid the fury of the gale. J Out there where once war's wild fires swept in maddening glee. I Old Glory floats above the storm, her folds unharmed and free. And we come back, the remnant of a! holy cause and just, ! To tell you, that with our comrades j sleeping there beneath the dust, j I We've kept our plighted faith whenj off we went to join the fray. And told you that the hope that bu: n- ! ed would bear its fruit some d ? y. And that day now is dawning to bless the men of earth. And to glorify His holy name w'.ioj gave tills day its birth. So, make ready for our coming wh ;n ; the wild war's storm shall re:;s ?. For we are coming back and bring toj you "the golden dawn of peace."j And throughout the endless ages long ! o'er mountain side and glen. The angel choir with rapture will singj the natal song again. ?Rev. E. W. Reynolds. Sumter, Nov. 17, 191S. 1 A Letter Poll of Sound Advice. (Rock Hill Record) It is against a rule of The Record I to print an anonymous letter. We do not know who wrote the one herewith printed, but it is so full of sound advice to our business men that we feel obliged to print it. ''Somewhere in Texas," December 4, 1918. j To the Editor of The Record: I am not a native of Rock Hill norl even a citizen but as your town is as j ru-ar home to me as any a vagabond j may claim, I want to put the people,; especially business1! men with the fu ture of your town at heart, next to a mighty good tip. The army is discharging daily men and officers who feel like slink ing home with their tail between their legs because It fell net to their lot to fight in France or Italy. When we see a man or woman with a serv ice pin, we cross the street. I at tended D. W. Griffith's "Hearts of the World" with a group of brother officers. These men sat through the entire play. They kept a stony si lence until the end, when there flashed upon fhe screen the pictures of American troops marching to the rescue of the French, and every I man broke down and alternately j cried and cursed ? because of their I great disappointment at not being I able to serve abroad. In that party I was a York county boy, an aviator, i and, in our opinion, an excellent pi i lot. Because his own reports were painfully correct, handed in on time I to the minute, he was put in an of j fice early in the war, and since that ! time he has flown a fiat-topped desk and done tanks, loops and tail-spins in a swivel chair. There was Pilot instructor B., who has been in the army since this season's century j plants were saplings. He was kept j instructing because he was a good 1 one, and watched his students, one by one, get overseas orders while he I stuck to the same old grind. : Well, these boys will be home soon. They are not any too proud of the service they have seen, for you civilians cannot understand the army. Then, too, they have the su per-sensitiveness of their extreme youth (most pilots are very young) and they feel as if they can't bear tc be at home when the boys frorr overseas arrive. I have heard thret York county boys say they did noi intend to return home. Now, the Chambers of Commerce of this section are making every ef fort to persuade them to remain ir the West. They try to put even discharged officer and soldier ir touch with employers needing men j Recently there has been great deyel ! opment in the new oil fields oi I Texas. They promise to give env ployment to thousands of men Right there is where York County South Carolina, and any other sec j ticn or State is going to lose a lot o: j fine youngsters, and that mights qui?k, unless you get busy. ? Mr. Editor, unless the busines; men of your community wake ui real quick and individually oi through the Chamber of Commerci find a job, and a good job, for tha boy, he isn't coming home at all Those from overseas will returr mostly from homesickness bui largely to blow out any shining light veteran of Texas service whe may be hanging around. Now, il won't do to offer them a job at the wages you used to allow him. Army life is ageing and that boy who left Rock Hill a year ago is a man now. The last remembrance most of you have of him was when you made him stop playing ball on your va cant lot because it injured the turf. When you last saw B. he was all puffed up with pride because he had moved up the school house clock and school let out ten minutes early. You still have a grudge against that I A. boy because he blacked your son's eye in a wonderful fist fight. Your wife won't let you forget, either, the time he shaved her poodle all but head, legs and tail, or when he dyed her canary a flaming crimson, but yesterday I overhead a group of men say that if all officers were like H. they would as soon ^go to the army when they died as Heaven... B. was presented with a box of cigars by the men under him and they were of a brand that you haven't been able to afford since sugar was six cents a pound. That A. boy is doing stunts in a ship that are so spectacular and daring that the Col j onel forbade him to fly in order to I save his life. Seriously, I would advise the [newspapers, business men, Chamber of Commerce and any employers to , get busy and get these lads back I home, for with oil booming, busi j ness brisk, jobs plentiful and sal j aries ample in this section, they will I think twice before going back to j South. Carolina. Here they are men ! and treated as such, but they know j that back home they are still I thought of as boys. The Westerner j values them at what they are worth I and doesn't care whether his father j was a, "saint or a convict. Better get busy, Rock Hill, get busy! A "BUCK" PRIVATE, 2nd Lieut. Air Service. Plant at Least Six Varieties of Grapes. By all means put in several grapes. The following varieties are suita ble to this section and are named in (he Older of ripening: Lutie, Moores Early, Concord, Delaware, White Niagara, Catawba. All of these are bunch grapes, and two or three plans of the Muscadine grape should be set. The leading va riety of this class is of course the Scuppernong, hut both the. Thomas and Flowers will be found satisfac tory. The Flowers is a black grape and the Thomas what might be term ed purple. The Flowers variety is very desirable because it ripens three or four weeks later than the Scup pernong?coming in at a time when all other grapes are gone.?L. A. Niv en. in The Progressive Farmer. Montevido. Dec. 2G.?T he govern nvent has ordered the mobilisation of several units of the Uruguyan army in the face of threatened labor trou-j bles throughout the republic. I "It Measures Up To Your Claims," Says Sumter Man. Has Suffered From Constipation For a Long Time But Noth ing Did for Him What Dreco Has Done?Advises All to Try It. j Constipation is at the bottom of. j many different ailments from which | humanity suffers. Sometimes it is very, hard to get to as in the case of this man of Sumter, S. C, Mr. J. R. Baird, the well known and popular traveling ' .salesman. He says: "For a long time : I have suffer d from an obstinate ? case of constipation which nothing i seemed to reach even though I have tried many different medicines. One | bottle cf Dreco has done me world's of good and made me feel like a dif- j ferent person. I gladly recommend j this splendid remedy." When the bowels refuse to act the body becomes like a furnace wlh an ! ash-pit door that won't open. The ' system becomes clogged with putfify- i ing matter of a highly poisonous na- j ture, which was intended to be quickly removed, and its retention in- i variably1 results in diseased intes tines, stomach and liver and the long train of ills arising from the derange ment of these organs. A foul breath, coated tongue, vile taste in the mouth, dizzy spells, head aches and a loss of appetite are all indications of constipation and to these may be added all the symptoms that follow derangement of the stom ach, liver and kidneys. Dreco is made from the juices and extracts of twelve different herbal plans which have a dircc? action on the vital organs of the human body. The action is pleasant and quick and leaves no bad after effects, but gives tone to the organs. Dreco is sold by most all good drug gists everywhere and is especially recommended in Sumter by Sibert's Drug Store.?Advt. Geo. H. Hurst, Undertaker and Emoalmer Prompt Attentfn to Dr and Night Calls At 1. 0. CRAIG Old Stand, M. Main LlOIieS. ?iaht 201 Zeppelin Merchant Fleet For Germany Huns Plan to Use Baby Killers to Trade With New York. Paris, Dec. 2C?The disarmed Ger man Zeppelins will be converted int aerial merchantmen, to ply betwe New York and Hamburg, according to The Echo de Paris, which says it received the information from a re liable source. : ' - The Soldier's Christmas Neufchatel, Dec. 2ff.-^hristmas was celebrated by five \thousand. American soldiers here yesterday Miss Margaret Wilson, daughHer ?^ the president, participated. Gifts Vere given the children in the vicinity. Neutrals Not Admitted Paris, Dec. 26.?The allied repre sentatives have decided that neutral nations shall not; be admitted to the peace conference, according to papers here. m 1 * * 9 We Grind Lenses, examine the eyes scientifically and fit eye glasses perfectly. Let us work for you. We have all prescriptions on file. Broken lenses replac ed promptly. Graduate Opto metrist and Optician in charge. W. A. Thompson, JEWELE & < OPTOMETRIST. Farm Land For Sale In Sumter, Lee and Clarendon Counties C.P.OSTEEN, :: Sumter, S. C. BANK. SFH and.you'can BANK 1 The First National Bank SUMTER, S. C. t 7 ttlMMtMMIMMMM>MIMM>HMMIM*MMMMtMj ^mmm The Goddess of Liberty ? TNC SUM ? i At Our Door Welcomes you to the Eank that has purchased for itself and its cus tomers over a half million dollars of Liberty Bonds and Certificates, ?AND- - Has given six of her young men to the service of her country. Resources Over $2.000.000. The National Bank of South Carolina I C. 6. ROWLAND, F E. HINNANT, J President Cashier. + I Building Material and Feed Stuffs I o Kough and Dressed Lumber, Lime, Cement, Plaster, ! t Brick, Shingles, Mouldings, Etc. J \ All kinds of Feed for Forses, Cows, Hogs and Poultry. We solicit your patronage. 1 I Booth & McLeOfJ, Inc. Phones 10 & 631