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Sowing Evil Seed Discharged Soldiery and Sailors In Association With Social ists Demand Government Jobs. Ne*w York. Jan. 2?.?Police reserves & naval guard put a prompt end to a meeting of discharged soliier*. sailors and marines temght at which speakers criticised organized govern ment The meeting was held in the Rand School of Social Science under the :*iuspices of the "Soldiers, Sailors and. "Marines' Protective Association" to discuss the question of. unemployment. Members of the board of aldermen participated in the discussion. ? OVfen "and women who filled the hall tailed to applaud over heartily when Aldermen Collins. Squires and Faulk ner assured men in uniform that the federal and municipal authorities weald assist them in obtaining new positions at good pay. Then Alder snan Becker man, Socialist, took tho j fipor, denying mu<m of what his ?;ol-i leagues had said. He had hardly started his address! before the other aldermen ros*> and vjharged.-frora the-floor that he had! ?lade deliberate misstate m ears eon- i ceraing. efforts of the nation and cita to find employment for ei.-soldiers. At this point a man in uniform be gan reading a resolution which stated ti*at "no plans have been made to ^secure permanent employment for men discharged from the army and navy." He did not complete the reso lution, for Alderman Collins, springing to his feet, threatened to have him ar rested. Before the meeting came to its sudden end a resolution had been adopted which said: ''"We demand from the national. State and city government decent wages under decent conditions for every discharged member of the arm ed forces of the United States and we ?Jemand that such jobs shall r? *t be ?cured by the discharge of working people now employed and dependent upon, their employment for a living. And we demand that such jobs shail be secured by the increase of public wcrlcs, by the shortening of the work ing day throughout industry and by such other measures as will not throw others out of work." Post Bellum Women English Women Will Not Relin quish Independence Won Dur ing World War. * London, Dec. 20 (Correspondence of The Associated Press)?Independ ence won by women during the war ie not going to be relinquished in a hurry, .says newspapers in coinmeat ing on manner which thousands ol London women, lining the streets dur "ing the reception to Field Marsh?.! Sir Douglas Haig, commander of the British armies in France, cheered him to the echo. "They were vitally changed from the-women who used to be carefull": escorted to pre-war pageants in the j London streets,* Ohsen-es one paper.: "It was evident these women had i learned the right to cheer. Genteel | fluttering of scrappy handkerchiefs Is ! ho longer good enough for the women j who have worked and waited through the grey days of sorrow, when war j heroes come home/* ?Crowds needed no urging to make way for women in uniform. They soon found line places, and were among the most insistent in calling for Field Marshal Haig while the o j ficia! party was lunching in Bucking- j ham Palace with the King. High ! and shrill rang their voices, "We want Haig. we want Haig" and when that failed to bring the commander of the British armies in France to the bal cony, they led the refrain "Haig. Haig, Haig." As this did not get the desired re sult, they finally gave it up and ]&: the great crowd in singing "Rule Britannia." They were here, there everywhere, and were as much the spirit of the occasion as were the soldiers of whom great numbers turn ed out to welcome their chief. Useful. An ounce or pulverized borax pni Into a quart of boiling water and bot tled for use will be found useful for taking grease spots from woolen goods. My Case Was a Bad One But I Am Well Again Greenville Man Had Aggravated Somach Trouble and Other Disorders. Dreco Brought Re lief. "I had suffered for three years with my" stomach and found no re lief, although I had taken everything 1 could find that was recommended to .help. The first bottle of Dre?o helped me, ancf after taking rh.re^* bottles I could eat anything I wanted, without, any pain or discomfort what ever. I have gained ten pounds since taking Dreco: my constipation is. re lieved: biliousness never bother.: me and my jr^neral health is better than in years, therefore. I heartily endorse Dreco to all who suffer as 1 did." This is the signed statement of Mr. J. C. Miller, a well known book keeper, wh resides at 'ill ftlamptoi | Ave., (Jreenville. S. C. When the stomach set<* out of or der it seems the whole system feeh ! it. The bowels get clogped up: the! liver won't act, an.I biliousness ha , you in its grip: the kidneys become j deranged, and your back fee's like V | will break in two: that tired, no-no- i count, draggy feeling ha? you. For these trouble? there is no ho\ j ter remedy than Dreco. mad" from I nature's own roots, herbs, barks r>nd berries, which act on all th<- vit d or- j gans. Dreco is now sold by all good drug gists throughout ^the country ;.? 1 ; highly recommended in Sum' ? ??? , gibertfs Drug Store.?Advt. * Demand Short Day 1 Move^ni Comprises Half New Sngland Textile Industry. j Boston, Jan. 27.?The movement1 among textile workers for the inaugu- i ration of a universal eight hour fry \ in the industry beginning next Men-' day was extended today to comprise approximately one-half the mill in-1 dustry in New England. Workers in Fall River, the textile center ?f i Rhode Island and of Ine Blackstone] Valley in Massachusetts, Salem and; Bicblcford and Saco, Me., joined inj tiie demand previously made by oper atives at Lawrence, Lowell and Man chester, N. H. Th? mills in these cities employ cn aggregate of up-, wards of 120,000 persons. Iiv. addition announcement wasj. madfc that other centers of the mill! industry will be asked to join the' movement at meetings to be held dur-; ing the week. r .. j . The success of the movement, as i inaugrurated by the United Textile j Workers of America, would mean, ac-j cording to a statement by President| John Golden of Fall River, an eight! hour day for textile plants in all j parts of the country. Its adoption in' the Southern States would reduce ..he! working time from 60 to 48 hours and' in most of the Northern States from} 54 hours. President Golden today said i the employees wanted the same pay | for 48 hours they had received for the i longer work. ! Mill owners in some instances have; made no answer to the demand but ! wherever there has been a reply it? has been a refusal. W. Frank Shove, i president of the National Association . of Cotton Manufacturers, announced j a few days ago that representatives j of that organization, of the National ( Association of Wool Manufacturers, and of the Silk Association of Am er- ( ica were agreed that the demand; should be rejected and it was stated . today that this announcement cover-i sd the present position of the organ-. izations which, represent the manu?; facturers in New England. A representative of the cotton mail-! ufacturing interests in this city said today that the mill owners felt cer tain" there would be no strike. He I would not say what action was being I considered to meet the. announced ; plan of the textile operatives to 'leave their places after .eight hours j work each day. j Praises the Monroe Doctrine _ j Finds Favor With the British Authority. -? [ ? London, Jan. 29 (British Wireless1), j ?Lord Robert Cecil, the British au ;thority on a league of nations, prais-, j ff\ the Monroe doctrine in an inter- ! view today regarding the interest of: neutral countries, especially Latin ?/unenca, in a ioaguo of riat.on-. "Neutral countries can net. or course, take part in deliberations di rectly concerning war problems." he said.-, 'but so far as a league of na tions is concerned, if neutral coun- j tries prepare a practical plan for sub- ? mission to the conference the repre- j sentatives of the great powers will be' glad to consider it. although it must: be a plan containing concrete issues; and not theoretical solutions drawn j upon paper. "The Monroe doctrine has given j satisfactory-results in practice which justifies, its further application as a! model of operation. The league of i nations could appoint the American j nations themselves as the mandatories j Tor the execution of its principles re- i garding territorial integrity so far asj these principles affect American coun- i tries. In this manner the United: States and the Latin American re- ] publics could act in conformity with j their policy already established." j Lord Robert added that if the Eu- j ropean action were excluded in the i American continent the occasion i might unjustly damage the European i interest. To avoid this it would be ? advisable that a court or similar in-! stitution be formed by the American! countries themselves to consider and I [decide the sanctions applicable in: each case. i ! ? I -._ ( Deficiency Bill Adopted! Action Taken, Without Dissent- i ing Vote. ! ! i - I Washington; Jan. 25?.?Without a| I dissenting vote, the honse tonight j j passed the emergency deficiency bid j ; with its rider repealing appropria- j j Uons of $7.1 TD.1 Of,.000 and authorizar lions of S8.221.029.2S0 made- tiering! (the war for the army and navy do-! partments. The house adopted an amendm u j by Represer' rtive Dyer of Missouri,! ^Republican, prohibiting expenditure! of any part of the deficiency ;ippro-j i priation of $290.200.000 until alii former government employees now in! 'military service are restored to their! j old positions in the various govern-! m'ent departments. After passing the deficiency bill, j the house again took up the.-.'annual j agricultural appropriation measure] and by holding a night session com-! pleted general debate. The house! will mod an hour earlier than usual j tomorrow for consideration of! amendments under the. five minute i rule and leaders expect to pass the! bill before adjournment. - Riots in Marburg Laibach, .Ian. 2:?.? Reports from Marburg state that quite a serums j disturbance broke out there on the ar rival of the American "debarkation" .j commission under the command of Col. Mi'es. It i." reported that five persons were kilWl and thirty injur <1. Th<* Jugo-SIav army is reported to have restored order. Marburg Is in Stvric. Austria. Noth ing in recent dispatches explains that presence of an American commission there, j The continued mild weather is c.uis i ?ng apprehensit-n lhal the UryV. <?-?> ? | yrill be j failure this year. " ? A Remarkable Man Col. T. E. Lawrence of British; Army, Who Worked Among j Arabs Against Turks. - ! London. Dec. 25 (Correspondence-; of The Associated Press)?Col. T. E j Lawrence of the British army who; recently arrived in London with a son of the Sherif of Mecca to give in-; formation concerning the Arabs' ra=-J pirations for independence is chafac- j torized by some London newspapers as "one of the mo3t remarkable rften j produced by the war." A fair-haired young Englishman of] 29, smallish of stature. Colonel Law- j rence gave such services to the Arab j cause that he was treated as a "sherif ! and given the additional rank of] emir, which is equivalent to that of. prince. No other European or Chris- i tinn. according to the London Daily : Mail, has ever received such a die- j linction at the hands of the ..royal j family which is the senior descend- j ant of Mohammed. Before the war Colonel Lawrence' wrs a student of history at Oxford, j As he was abb- to speak two A<*a bfan dialects, ho was sent by the war ) ofHcc in 1914 to do intelligence work i in Egypt. Later he was ass?gned to aid in the negotiations with the Kins j of the Hedjas who revolted against! the Turks at Medina in June, 1916, af- j tcrward joining .the Sherif's military | service. He adopted the full Arab! field kit of Mowing robe, headpiece j and golden dagger. I With Sherif Felseul. he planned the ? Mowing up of troop and munition | trains on the Hedjaz line, and so sue-' ccsful were their operations that the j Turks put a price on their heads of j $35,000 each if taken alive, and $35,-1 000 dead.. - . i They blew up seventeen trains, one a great troop train which ? contained Pjeraal Pasha, commander in chief of the Turkish army, and his staff. For this train Colonel Lawrence iay in wait for nearly three days, -and rilghts. Several trains were . permitted to pass in safety. Then came the big one and Colonel Lawrence pressed " a button that set off 'a mine. The two huge engines were toppled into a ra v'ne and the train was wrecked. Djemal Pasha's car near the end was derailed, and the commander in chief was launched into space. Uninjured. ; h^ picked himself up from the sand land fled for life, tearing off as he ran hs medals, decorations and epau lettes. These were found later and given to Colonel Lawrence. j Hun Murder Traps Some of the Schemes Fleeing i Germans Devised to Siaugh | tcr Allies. f ?? London. Dec. 20 (Correspondence of the Associated Press)?Detection by Br-'tish army investigators of. Ger man- ?*'*booby-traj>s" saved the lives of manyJ<an officer or man of the British armies* during the period when '-the Germans were retreating from Franc*. "J am convinced," says one officer, "that we nipped many of the' Hun's favorite plans by capturing near Bray a little factory where he made his booby-traps. When we occupied, it we learned much from the partly com pleted traps we found lying about the place?.: "One of them was an Iron plate. This the wily Hun dropped in a road way so that it would likely be trod upon by soldier or horse of our ad vancing troops. The plate was in two parts, with a spring inside, and usually contained a detonator con necting with a heavy charge of explo sive. When the weight of the foot was removed, the spring sprang into place and exploded the detonator, and the damage was done. "These spring detonators were the German's specialty. They consisted of a tube containing a little spring with a hook at one end. Attached to the hook was a .string or wire con necting with the explosive charge. Any arrangement by which the spring could be distended and then sud denly contracted served to jerk the string, and the charge was exploded. "One night I received ? call* from our lieutenant colonel who had spent "the day directing movements from a recently captured German* dugout. He told me he was nervous, and be lieved lie was associating with a 'booby.* and asked me to send him a souad of engineers to look it over. \ went myself. j "The colonH sat in the dugout, about ten fee? down, on a chair by a table. Directly in front of the chair j was a petrol can and it was the can he feared. He had noticed it early1 in the morning when the dugout wasj first occupied, but had been so busy j during the day he hud had no time to examine it until evening. Then hol found nothing, but ho had a 'hunch' i that it was o trap and wanted expert i assistan.ee. ! "1 dug a little trench around thej can. but could ;; ?-l no wires, and; then tapped it. but received no sound j other than that which might come; from uny old. empty can. There was! nothing to do but open it. and bb'r-j rowing the coi?rietTs can opener Tj went at it as gingerly as I could. j "It was partly idled with about; eight pounds of one of the most dead- | ly powder explosives known to set- * once. This I removed very carefully, i and in tho bottom of the can found ? the spring detonator. It had been] fastened to the bottom of the enn in j such a way that if the can had b"en lifteil from the Moor of the dugout! the charge would have exploded and! the colonel and his party would have been blown to hits. i "The colonel paled a little when I showed him just what he had b' ?>i> ] associating with all day. and very t >r- j vently thanked himself for ob^vngj his 'hunch' to let that can alone " Pretty Middy Suits for Mi*vo*. The Sumter Dry Goods fo. have I just put on display in ' heir ready-v?.-j wear department a very attractive j Tin" of middy suits for misses. The? colors ?!?<? pink. e???en. h'dio. "<>"d ', iv>se. V>:rnerv r.nd while. Pr'ees s1.:>(> j and $10.00.- 'Advt. I Labor Situation Serio?is Legislation Needed on War Contracts.' _. . Washington, Jan. 29.?Early action! on legislation to adjust war contract controversies was urged today by the department of labor, in a statement showing that the labor surplus fit many industrial centers had increas ed rapidly in the past ten days. Plants heretofore engaged in war work were said not to be changing back to peace activities rapidly enough to hold their proper propor tion of labor; The cancelling of war contracts, with no provision for an early financial adjustment of the manufacturer's investment in war machinery, materials and partly com pleted contracts, was blamed for plunging ;:ome concerns into a state bordering on stagnation. "The department of labor's investi gations of waj's and means to stimu late building and improvements and augment the absorption of labor in industry, disclosed these two import ant ways of getting results," the state ment says: "One?Legislation enabling the building and loan associations of the country to use their, real estate mort gages for collateral in a -system of federal home loan banks. "Two?Legislation to authorize im mediate adjustment and payment by the government of reasonable claims growing out of the summary rescind ing of war contracts. ?The former would permit home builders to avail themselves of al most $2,000,000,000 in loans; the lat ter would provide most needed imme i diate capital for manufacturing." j The. statement acfo^d that a pro I posed law on the first recommenda I tion soon would be introduced in con j gress. Legislation on the latter now |is pending. } Washington. Jan. 29.?Prolonged i discussion of amendments and of the ! Hitchcock substitute prevented the j senate today from reaching a final ; vote on the military committee's bill , to validate and permit the settle ment of informal war contracts ag gregating $2,750,000,000. In moving ; a recess, Senator Chamberlain of Oregon, in charge of the measure, an nounced that he would endeavor to keep the senate in session tomorrow until the legislation had been enacted, j During consideration of the bill to 1 day. the senate tentatively adopted an amendment by Senator Henderson of jlCeypifl?, authorizing the secretary of ' the interior to adjust claims growing . out of the stimulation by the govern j ment of the production of minerals j needed in the prosecution of the war. j Another amendment by Senator Mc i Kellar of Tennessee, requiring the ,war department to furnish congress j the names of the contractors whose j claims were adjusted and the amount." involved, was adopted '4T to 12. j .Under the Hitchcock substitute, ; which it is planned to 'dispose of soon ; after the senate meets tomorrow, 'claims growing out of the: cancellation j of war contracts would be adjusted by hptn commission composed of a repre 1 sehtative of the war department, the j department of Justice and the busl . ncss interests of the country. Senator Chamberlain denied that ! the measure would permit of such a j procedure and declared* that if a sec retary of.war or any of his subordi nates did such a thing they should be ; impeached. " j ? -:?: j Order for Ships Are Cancelled j Washington, Jan. 28.?Orders to j shipyards not to begin work on ships j aggregating from 1,000,000 to 1,250, 000 deadweight tons, the keels for I which ordinarily would not have been j laid before next August 1. are now ! boing sent out by the shipping board. Charles Piez, director general of the ; Emergency Fleet Corporation, said to ! day that yards on both the Atlantic i and Pacific coasts were affected. "The steel for the suspended ships has'not yet been rolled in most cases," said Mr. Pies, "and the order does not affect immediately the operation of any yards. It is not to be assumed that the ships contemplated will not eventually be. built. "The reason for the order is that j types of ships which it will be found I advisable to construct unde\ peace j conditions are being determined by i the committee of experts which is now |at work. Their report , is not yet (available and will not be available for Jsome time but it is fairly certain that [it will not be advisable to start the construction of some vessels that were contracted for during the war emer gency. Contracts are therefore beinj? ' suspended. ! "Ships now tmder construction are ! not affected by the suspension orders, j nor dors it affect any ships for which j keels will be ?aM in the yard under j normal pressure .np to August 1." !Soldiers Xot Overcharged In Germany] With the American Army of Occu-' ration. Doc. 30' (Correspondence of; The Associated Press)?Analysis of price, reports fron" the entire area oc- j oupied by the. Americans shows that; the prices current prior to the sign-j ing of the armistice have remained J substantially unchanged. Although ??ertain isolated individual cases have j beeh' reported of attempts to over-j charge Anierican soldiers there--has ! been no general tendency among the. Germans to increase the prices on j goods in the stores. Tu some shops in (Toblenr where prices have advanced since the Americans arrived the mer chants contend that this has been necessary because ?f an increase of from twenty to forty per cent in the price of certain articles from the fac-j Tory. And to bea*" out their state-j rncnts the merchants show letters j ffor.M factory managements in Ber- i 'in and other manufacturing points. j Coblenz has had as much difficulty; in procuring food supplies as any part j of the America area, and .yet outside | of serious shortage in some essentials such as fats, the general feeling inj the city is one <<f hopefulness in re-j gard to the food situation. This; hopefulness extends only to this area, i ?ml not to the districts of interior, sermnnv vhi'h. according to reports, ^ji worse oh. ] Burns oil or gasoline without # wicks or asbestos wings. Cooking starts when the match is applied. Sim ple, safe, convenient, clean, odorless. Saves 1-4 on fuel. Gives wonderful results. Two burners in oven assure complete control of baking. Durability built throu?flV;: out. See how quickly this stove gives intense heat. THE CHERRY C?. The Reliable Furniture Dealers. 18 N. MAIN STREET S?MTER, S. C. Food Prices Decline But Consumers Wonder When; Retail Dealers Will Follow Suit. A marked decline in the wholesale prices of staple commodities has tak- 1 cn place within the last three weeks, and is just beginning- to be reflected ! in retail prices, says The New York j Evening- Post. Despite the fact that in the wholesale market foodstuffs are now at a lower level of prices than at any time since the United States entered the war, the opinion has been expressed in various quarters that the consumer is not profiting by this j decline, because the retailer refuses I to follow the slump in the markot. J Inquiry in various markets revealed ja scale of charges to the consumer ! in which some cuts had been hiade, but they were not commensurate with the corresponding decrease in whole sale prices. In the Washington Mar ket veal sold for from 22 to 26 cents a pound, as against a price ranging j from 28 to 30 cents a week ago; pork j brought 38 cents, as against 44; lamb, 38 cents. as against 42; geese, 43 cents, both this week and last, and beef still hovers about last weeks' price of 40 cents. No change in these prices occurred this morning. Butter is selling today for from 49 to 56 cents, whereas, a week ago it brought from ?1 to 67 cents a pound. "The housewife is not benefiting to! j any great extent by this abnorm*? 1 j ecline in values," said P. Q. Foy.1 publisher of the Market Report, "as! the dealers and distributors of food- ' stuffs that cater to the consuming; element are treating with the good i housewife at the regular war-rime! prices. This was proved by an extend- j ed trip to the various markets in the j uptown and 'Bronx districts, where*] the dealers 'refused to share with their patrons' the benefits they are; realizing from the lower wholesale j values. A decline of 40 per cent has been recorded in pork in the past ten days, and yet deaiers are practical ly'ail, with a few exceptions, charg ing old prices. Finest country pigs are now wholesaling at 16 to 18 cents, i against 23 to 2A cents a week ago. "Lamb has declined 5 to 6 cents per j pound, and the finest leg of lamb, should not cost over 38 to 40 cents j per pound, aftd the cheaper cuts 2* j to 2G cents, whiie loin chops should retail at 36 to 38 cents. The whole-1 sale market is glutted with all grades} of beef, with cattle selling at from 18 I to 25 cents per pound, against 28" top I 32 cents a week ago. The finest sir- i 'loin steak can be sold at a profit a.ti< ! 3? to 40 cents, and rib roast at about j: I the same price, while desirable cheap) I meats used 'by most butchers make a J1 I profit on roasts at 35 to 38 cents, re- ? i tail." ' ?.!? "Without doubt the local buteh^-.j shops are holding out on tlmir pnc?\V j said a local official of the fleoart-h m^nt of agriculture. '-The one .^reJiti'] corrective that buyers of meat musi I < be taught is that they should rnt.'j order over the phone. Most butchers 1 will handle that sort of business un- \: scrupulously, and send the customer a j ] cheap piece of meat. Every one should if learn to go rht to the shop and do : i his oM'n selecting." The position of the retailer was ex- fi plained by W. O. Saxton. a whole-jt saler of butter and eggs, who said: It "The retailer has a lot of goods on j t hand that he paid high prices for.it The effect of a decrease in prices j t doesn't afTeet him for some time after Is it has occurred. When he has paid! sixty-five cents for a supply of eggs I r he is reluctant to make o cut in his 11( prices because th*t market price has j a dropped to fifty-five cents. is "I can't see ??thing ahead." Mr. Jt Saxton continueu. "but a tremendous jt decrease in prices, even to the pre-'t ivnr standards. Industrial renditions -? b do not warrant the present Inflation.: Wt have . a higher egg and. fcniter. market now than we had a year .ago,, when wages were infinitely Detter, as well as genera] conditions. The/farni-t' er is receiving 75 cents for iratter..fat; right on his farm. Never hefbre dfct' he receive such prices; never to ..th* history of the country, not even; durr i ing the civil war. We have; leoni* j butter here that we are wholesaling; ;at 80 cents a pound. Customers fnm* i ply cannot continue to pay . 'such j prices. ! There ia tremendous pro?Vcs?signt (going on in this country. Extrem?1 j prices have encouraged the raising ot everything. There' is a bumper/cro? jOf wheat and .corn. Therefore, cows jand hens will be well fed, ;ahd; they I will be productive. In the Unit?I States there is today $575,000,000 worth of cattle more than there was a year ago. There are large holding* iof poultry all over the country. There j are such tremendous quantities - of j food that I don't know what we're j going to do with it. Schwab has j warned us that the export trade 1? I going to be very disappointing. A1-* [ready England has canceled meat I contracts. And the United States government, formerly the largest purchaser in the market of every commodity, has withdrawn from com petition. Last year the government comman deered 40 per cent, of the butter for the soldiers, and corresponding quan tities of other products. Imagine the effect the withdrawal: of this factor will have. With this outlook in sup ply prices will go down xnevitably/* Dr. Jonathan C. Day, Commissioner: of Foods and Markets, gave the opinion today that there would be ho rebound from the fall in the market. He said: "There may be an increase of 25 per cent of the decline, but not more than that. Butter and' eggs are going down because the w?rm winter has been favorable to their production. And there .is a tremendous supply of meats for foreign shipment that will be held because the demand S .from overseas will not be so: great as was expected. I look for a big decline in the prices of meats, but ifwtH ' be" more gradual than it has been ?among other commodities." ...... Next Loan Drive WAEiiiryfton, Jan. 29.?Because the Lenten season this year does hotic?d until April 20, the treasury is consid er iag postponing the opening of., next Liberty Loan Campaign from April 6 as tentatively planned to April 21. A. decision has not been reached. No attempt has been made a* yet by Secretary Glass or his advisers to' aettl? on the interest rate or; other i ,Arn?.<i ni loan, it was. stated" ofdfl [icially tod;<y. Whatever the tern^K may be. they will accord with gk principle of maintaining the marSj price of preceding issues, officials cS blared. This is one factor tending {PH induce the treasury- to keep the in-V terest rate on the Fifth loan as low ? is possible, since it is felt a rate as 1 high as G per cent, would work out * is a depreciating influence on preced ng issues. Further lax exemptions on bonds ilready outstanding. accepta.nce of hem i)i payment of certain forms of axes in future years or conversion of hem into securities bearing high fri erest rates are means which might he aken to maintain the prices of out tandinpr bonds. j Bankers are urging the treasury to nahe the interest rate on the next oan 4^-4 or 5 per cent., but officials ? i.re inclined to keep it lower if pos ihle. They rely strongly on the pa riotic impulses of small bond "buyers o "brinsr the boys home" and "finish he job." These phrases probably will e a'dopt-?*! as cHtn-vui;j*ii r:t?>2a-ns.