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? R)n Reduction IP Having Effect ^HRhem Papers Make Outcry W Against Farmers Qv'A very intcsesting symposium of JB?-v views of the newspapers of the IBountry on the cotton acreage reduc iMftion movement in the South appeared |Win the last issue of the Literary Digest iff and has attracted a great deal of at w tention hereabouts. The views vary f very greatly, the press of the South r tacking the movement solidly while : the papers, of the New England sec tion lambast it severely. The Lowell (Mass.) Courier-Citizen calls, the movement "high handed in vfce extreme" and a deliberate ma nipulation of prices by cornering the supply." ft admits that "instead of . the pleading of Southerners for every one to 'buy a bale of cotton,' which we heard a few years ago that soon the begging will come from the North ern manufacturer for the Southern . planter to* 'sell a bale of cotton." The Boston Post thinks the cotton movement is '?obviously one for the department of justice to watch closely and if it is, to be found a conspiracy to extort abnormal prices, action should be taken." To The Post "thir ty cents for cotton, which in normal times sells for around 12 to 14 cents, looks like extortion." The Toledo Blade declares that the cotton farmers are "hurting the en -tire world for the sake of a few extra dollars in their pockets." It admits that "the growers have us by the nape of our cotton neck and they propose to twist it".. I The Southern papers are strong in 1 their advocacy of the acreage reduc-j iicn movement. * j The Birming> am Progressive Farmer declares that "If the South j is rto show the world, once for all, that it win ne\-er again make cotton on the old cheap wages basis while ; men in all other lines get high wages' then it.should 'go on a strike' against present prices by cutting acreage to a'minmium and make spinners in Eu rope and America beg for a 9,000,000 or 10,000,000 bale crop next season." "Papers, like the Meridian Star, in Mississippi, and the New Orleans I Times-Picayune and Item and Shreve-; port Times, in Louisiana, are strong; backers of the cotton growers' cam- j paign. The Shreveport daily insists - ' that "the South merely is endeavoring j to insure to its farmers a fair and hvfag return on their labors and crop." Modern Farming (New Or leans)., an agricultural weekly, circu lating In Mississippi and Louisiana, strongly backs up the statements of the daily papers in these two States and makes much of the crop rotation' argument It. is said that practical- j ly every cotton farmer in Texas has! signed a written pledge for the re- j duction of, cotton acreage by one- J third and we naturally find the move-' merit supported by dailies like the! Austin American, Dallas Times-Her ald and'Houston Southland Farmer.? The Dallas semi-weekly Farm News j declares that: "Another large cotton crop heaped) upon the present undigested half of' ?be 181S crop would, without any ?ruestlon or shadow of doubt, demoral ize prices to such an extent that cot ton farmers would be reduced to the lowest economical level they have ex perienced-'in years. . . To keep the price up. the supply must be kept dowtf. It's as simple as shoe strings," ?-.- j " ^ ? [? Do It Now! 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The members of the Junior Red Cross auxiliary are soliciting sub-i scriptior.s to the magazine. When a solicitor comes to you do not send her! away, but try the magazine for aj year anyway. To members the price is $1 per year. To others $2.00. Discharged Soldiers. The following Sum tor county sol diers have been discharged at Camp Jackson: White: Johnson. Arthur. Sumter, farmer; Benny. Thos.. Brogdon. cler ical. Colored: Lindsay, Mat., Horatio; Vinson, Sam, Sumter. express driver; King, Andrew. Sumter. farmer; New man, Ash by. Sumter, boiler RreuwH-i: ;.ecii."oor??jfi. i^.n-.s, sumter. I 'Arizs Government to j Buy Cotton Oil 'Manning Tells of Conditions in the South New York Sun. I Richard I. .Manning, retired gover inor of South Carolina, sailed yester ! day, with his wife, on the steamship . : Adriatic of the White Star line for! ! England on a two fold mission. He: iwent as the last representative of the' j committee under Oscar S. Strauss as] j chairman, which has been sent by the j League to Enforce Peace to the peace | j conference. In addition, while in \ Paris, Governor Manning, on behalf; j of the cotton. growers of the South, I ; plans to confer with Food Adminis-1 trator Hoover with regard to stabil- i ; izing the price of cotton seed by hav-1 i ing the food administration export it. ? j "During the war," said ex-Gover-1 ;'nor Manning before he left, 'cotton' growers had conferences with the! : food administration as a result of j i which cotton seed, which had been; j quoted at $80 a ton, was put at $68 j to $71 by- the government. ; "The farmers and seed crushers all i . accepted these figures with the under- j i standing that the prices were to be ? j stabilized at them and the cotton seed i ;products were to be sold according to: [this rate. ' With the signing of the armistice, i Oriental oils and peanut oils came i into competition with the cotton seed j product. ^The cotton mills of the: South couldn't sell the oil. on the one '? side, nor take the seed off the hands | of the farmers on the other. But I they have felt that the government i had assumed a moral obligation to j dispose of their products. "The bill which has been signed by! the president for the food administra- j tion places in the hands of Mr. Hoov- i er $100,000.000 as an emergency fund, j The cotton seed producers of The' South feel that with part of that fund j he can take over the cotton oils and j export them to foreign countries. I This is necessary, not only to fulfill the government's moral obligation, j but in order to prevent the loss of d0 per cent, of the cotton seed in the! hands of the farmers. "This stock is perishable, and its: loss would be not only a pecuniary j but also a food loss, since the oil ia J used in compounds of lard and simi- j lar products. Mr. Hoover has spoken of the necessity of conserving oils; and fats for the sake of their food values during the next two years, and!, I expect to see him about this as soon ! as r arrive in Paris." Mr. Manning also touched upon the '?: surplus of cotton and the reduction of: acreage planted with this staple for j, next summer. "The whole South," he declared, "isj effecting an organization from Vir- j ginia to Texas to insure the reduction j of acreage. They are adopting a sys- I tern similar to that used in the Lib- j erty loan campaigns and going to j the schools and the individual farm-; ers with the object of obtaining from j the farmers signed returns showing] the number of acres planted in cot- j ton in 1918 and the number intend-! ed for 1919. j "In this way they will get exact figures on the reduction, and they j aim to make this reduction 33 1-2 peri cent, of the total acreage. I hare 3ust J received a telegram from the cotton \ growers of my State informing me!, that the organization is proceeding I successfully and that the farmers are-' showing a lively interest. Such a raising of the price of cotton is neces- ; sary by lowering the supply because j last season the cotton growers had to sell cotton at less than cost. "There was moreover a large sur- i plus left over, and uniess this stabil:iz-! ing takes place this year it would j be necessary to lower the price of cot-! ton still further below the cost of| production. This would be necessi tated, moreover, by two other impo'r- j tant factors?the increased cost of j fertilizers and of labor. "The telegram I received from the! cotton growers also states that the returned negro soldiers arc no longer willing to work on the cotton farms j at the eld wage scale and under the j poor housing conditions that prevail- ! ed before the war. The message; stated that the negroes were being stirred up by agitations to move to j other States." Mr. Manning, however, did not ex- j pect any Bolshevism or revolutionary j sabotage in the South from this un- i rest, principally because the percen-J tage of foreigners there was very small Before going he wrote a let- j ter of regret to Ma:. Gen. John F. j O'Ryah at being unable to review the! Twenty-seventh Division before de parting, as he had been invited to do. }> commended the division highly inj h"s letter, having taken a personal in- ; terest from the fact that it trained in ! South Carolina while he was gover- j nor of that State and also because it| fought alongside the Thirtieth Divis-j ion, which came from South Carolina, j Doctors Form Union Learned Professors Organize j To Secure Rights London. March 1 (Corespo.ndoneel j ?Men and women doctors in London I have set about to secure what they I deem to be their rights through the organization of a trade in :m. Tue "Union" which is being form-j cd under the direction of the Medico- j political T'nion. is for the purpose ofi der^ling with the government through! the latter's proposed Ministry of j Health. It in the purpose of the un-! ion to become affiliated with the La bor Party and tho Trade I nicn Con- ; gress. Jobs for Soldiers. Rev. A. J. Andrews; who was chair-1 man of the Colored Section of the ! Sumter County Council of Defense : and is now giving his services in thr effort to find jobs for all returnee soldiers, has requested the Daily itctr. to announce that he has a call fin 1 men for immediate employment The jobs pay $3 a day and the worl will be steady. All discharged .soi diers who have not obtained employ ment and are willing to work i< good pay should communicate \v\t'.i Rev, A. .1. Andrews, 207 S. Sumf-. I General Now a Clerk British Private Who Rose to I Command of Brigade Returns to Pre-War Job. .London. "March 3 (Correspondence) ?W. M. Ablewhite entered the war as a private in the British army, wen the Military Cross and rose to the. rank of brigadier-general. Demobil ized, he has returned to his pre-war ! job with the City of London Board of Guardians as "third assistant! clerk." This, after having held the"! command of thousands of men. -.? ? j Jews Slain in Buenos Aires Statement Issued by Zionist Organization j Xew York, March 2G.?Thousands i of Jews were slaughtered in a pbjo grom conducted in Buenos Aires on January 9, according to a statement issued here tonight by the Zionist Organization of America, quoting a report it had received from the Ar- j gentine capital. j According to this report, a "white j guard" was organized there follow-j ing a rumor that strikes in that city J was the beginning of a Bolshevist j revolution incited by Jews. The re-; port charged that, with cooperation of; the police the "white guard" raided j the Jewish quarters, "killing a num-j i>er that can not be estimated be cause all the bodies were buried in a j common grave." Jews and persons; who resembled Jews were stopped on j the street, it was said, and even syaa- j gogues were raided. The Argentine branch of the Zion- i ist Organization, the report contin-j ued, finally succeeded in getting the police to end the "pogrom" after it' had asserted there were no Bolsheviki ' among Argentine Jews. j Cable dispatches received from i Buenos Aires during the progress of the riots in that city made no refer-' ences to a pogrom and one received two weeks after the "pogrom" is al- 1 leged to h ive occurred did not men tion any slaughter of Jews, but re- i ported that an ^Israelite delegation had waited cn President Irigoyen :.o | protest against "unjust atrocities and ? inexcusable insults." Although for more than two years j disorder has been rife in the Argon-j tine capital, the most serious riot oc- ' curred last January about the time Of the alleged Jewish "pogrom" when 1 in trouble growing out of the harbor j strike which later led to nationalisa tion of the port 80 persons were kill-! ed and Sf'O wounded on the streets. Steady growth of "Bolshevism" was.' reported and following word tha.t a; Bolshevist army was invading Argen-j Una after a battle with frontier police; hl Fort Xatal.is. Chile. 1,400 reds wore] rounded up and put on a cruiser for deportation. .Mot hoi-: The woman, who in the dawning of; a new life, midst pain, weakness,, faint?less is filled with a real, a holy joy because "I have got me a m tn j from Jehovah." With all her heart; she believes, hopes it. and religiously sets herself to the task of its realiza tion. Talk about idealists.' Who can j compare with mother, the woman of strong mind and character. Who j knows the scope, the sweep, the lim-! it of her influence and power? Longj after all others have passetl away, are I buried and forgotten hers has come | forth in holy array to wrest a despair- ; ing outcast from shame, ruin, hell. When all other has fallen away, lan guished, died, mother's love has still J clung to the object of its devotion, like the vir. ? to the lightning riven ; tree. When all others are gone mem-' ories that of mother lingers, and the; last dying thought is of her, whose! name ashen lips fail to whisper. What a halo of glory crowns the gen- ; nine mother! May we not say in passing that wo-! man's true sphere of action, sacred, ; God-given, undimmed by time, is in j the home? Here she may reform,! right wrongs, adjust grievances, and i none may say her nay. With what patient, painstaking care may she lay! the foundations of a splendid-struc- j ture, lofty and sublime, without a j shadow, a pillar of light of incre??- I ing effulgence as the ages go by. The true mother's heart is a. h'eav- j en, a real haven cf refuge, because of its beauties,, the tilings of intrinsic j' woith. tha.t snake earth habitable, and heaven desirable because of the ut- ; ter absence of all things else. Mother, will you suffer a word of j exhortation from one bereft, of chil dren by one who knows best? Bei natural, sincere, without pretense.: The thin veneer of affectation can't! hide the hypocrisy from discerningj eyes. You can't afford to be held in i contempt by your own offspring. Let| net your life lie an acted lie to those j nearest you, else what must the hur- J ?vest be? One such dame said "li is the ambition of my life, it amounts' to a passion, that my daughters be ? graceful dancers." Another, ac custom cd to exaggerate, for effect,; show, when her son was brought in, j not hopelessly, but sadly mutilated in honest, honorable endeavor, gasped to j her husband, and as she thought outj of the boy's hearing: "1 would rath-! er he had died," a remark more pain ful, hurtful than his injuries. Your child is going to be tried,; and doubtless in manifold ways, more; devilish it may be than w<- can con-' ceive of. Do not deplore it. nor invite ! temptation. <':m there bo real char-j acter without trial? Therefore, moth er, stuff your boy. as only mothers: can. with genuine stuff, enough twi last, and then some more. Fortify; him to the utmost of your ability and skill. It is know i to all the wise th:it the great, the conquering, the irre-j sistible forces are in the quiet and si-j lence of life. Mother, what a field of action, of genuine achievement, is yours. Not (?n the hustings, amid the rabble, a spectacle to the world; but in the secret recesses, the sacred privacy of the home. This h:;s been God's plan, and ??>?' that has been, was so, achiev ed, is is a late, ! believe it will be an ?-vP day i<? devise otherwise. "I fagood 1 L:embert, .March 22. j Money For Roads What Sumter County Can Obtain j From Federal Government By Meeting Conditions Columbia. March 25.?Sumter coun j ty'.s apportionment of federal money I for building roads amounts to $68, i 804.16. LTudcr present conditions ; this money will become available [when Sumter county covers it dollar i f or dollar. When this is done, the j county will have for road building I the sum of $.l?-7r?0$.32. which it can; ! use on projects approved by the sec ; rctary of the United State department I of agriculture. With its apportionment of federal I funds plus the funds which it must I provide before the federal money is; available, Sumter county can build. [ 6.3 miles of concrete road or about j 39.3 miles of top-soil or sand-clay ! road. The figures, on mileage, arc i Ibased on the assumption that grad ing, culverts, etc., will cost $2,000 per; mile; top-soil or sand-clay surfacing will cost $1,500 per mile; and con-J crcte surfacing will cost $20,000' per j mile. These estimates are based on averages and will not hold good for all cases. Therefore, the figures on mileage stated above are approxima tions only and are given for purposes of comparison. . The above named types are used becru.se they are typical. It is not meant that federal aid will be given to building only these types or that only these three type are recom mended. Sumter county apportionment of federal funds for road building does not include the funds from this source j which can be had for bridge building, j The State highway commission now j has at its disposal for building bridges enough money to build prac tically all the important bridges needed in the State. This money will; be .available when the counties serv- j ed by the bridges cover it dollar for j dollar and the secretary of the de partment of agriculture approves; the project. Cotton Ginnings To^ai Number of Bales, Crop8 of 1918 and 1917 in S. C. Director Sam L. Rogers, of the Bu reau of the Census Department of Commerce, announces the preliminary report of cotton ginned by counties in South Carolina for the crops of 191$ and 1917. The report was made public for the State at 10 a. m. on Thursday. March 20. 1919: (Quantities are in running bales, counting round as half bales. . Linters are not included.) 1918 1917 ?bbcviie. 23,341 23,246 Aiken . 52.385 -12.528 Anderson . 67.385 66,193 Bamberg . 35,329 26.639 Parnwcll . 70,052 5$.221 Beaufort . 9,745 6,785 Berkeley . 16,135 11.233 Cathoun:..,. 45,695 31,386 Charleston . 17,448 12.0S7 Cherokee . . 15.415 11,719 Chester . 31,512 23,482 Chesterfield . 32,34 4 25.097 Clarendon . 41,201 34,834 Cblleton . 23,336 19,032 Darlington . 4 4.227 35,057 Diilon . 38,176 J1.097 Dorchester . 20.865 15,72;. Edgefield . 29.008 26,689 Fan-field . 26.746 19.750 Florence . 4 0.304 . 35,204 Georgetown . 5,739 4,202 Greenville . 44,568 36,339 Greenwood . 37.74;" 31.84 7 Hampton . 25,870 22,i02 Horry . 5,965 8,135 Jasper. 7.296 5. fj 2 2 Kershaw . 31,497 18.143 Lancaster . 2.",30-8 18,169 Laurens . 43,177 38,359 Lee . 44.005 33.537 Lexington . 36,380 30.362 McCormick . 17.356 13.813 Marion . 19,79fi 14,846 Marlboro . 70,550 "?".788 N'ewberry . 4 0.431 35.."?33 Oconee . 25,:1502 .20.571 ?Jrangcburg . 112.004 85.2N3 Pickens . 22,707 17.735 Rich-ana . 26.972 19.206 Saluda . 27.644 2 s.071 Spar'anburg . 7'?.65:{ 58.771 Sumter .'_. 56,74 3 3&;'S96 Union . 20.636 ? 15.989 Williamsburg _ 327246 26>36 .-York . 11.281 31.288 The State .'.. .1,573,569 1,267,: Airolarse Without Pilot ci?tojnatic Control Has Been Successful Fort Werth Texas. March 24.?Un der automatic control, an airt>3ane ca pable of carrying a heavy load and without any human being aboard to guide it. has made a tri)? of more ? than lue miles and landed within aj very short distance of the point it was sent to reach. Invention of the automatic guide, which has been kept secret until now, j was mentioned by Secretary Baker in a speech here today, while he and Gen. Peyton <'. March, chief of staff, were in Fort Worth to inspect Camp Bowi?'. Secretary Baker referred to,1 the invention to impress on his hear-i e: s the possiole horrors in future j wars if there is to be no league ofj nations. The invention was made in America! according to Mr. Raker. In the test,) ;. ; described by Mr. Baker, an. air plane was first sent out under control of piiot without making a landing, re turning to its point of origin after locating the distant objective. Then another airplane was sent out j under automatic control set to land at the designated point and it effected j tin- landing so close, said Mr. Baker, that had it been a shell it would have boon considered a good shot. { Secretary Baker did not explain the exact nature of the Invention, but he] made it clear that the war depart-1 mept considers it one of the most; wonderful pieces oi destructive mech atrisui ever contrived, i i Camden Horse Show i - ! Camden, March 26.?The first day's j attendance at the 11th annual horse J show broke all records for attend ' ance this afternoon, the crowd being [estimtaed at 2,000 with the parking I spaces all tilled by out of town cars, j nearby towns being fully represented, j The show was pronounced the best I ever held in this city. The weather jwas ideal and the track in fine shape I and the animals all showed to their j best advantage. Chief interest cen I tered in the free for all trot or pace I for South Carolina owned houses. It brought out some of the fastejt ani ! mals in the State and the races at the j finish in each heat were exciting. The j same class Thursday promises even I better amusement as this will be open J to the world and will bring out the j fact racers now wintering here. In t the saddle horse class the handsome i black. Blue Gra. -? Duke, owned by j Wienges Bros, of St. Matthews was i the favorite with the grand stand be- j ing pronounced by all as the prettiest-) show horse ever exhibited here. The i free for all trot or pace tomorrow will ; be the big feature, but the other i ! classes will be better than the first; day's show by great odds and the at- j tendance on the last day is expected j to break the record made yesterday. ! Following is a Iis; of winners for the ; j first day: j Colt class?Sallie Todd. owned by j ' David Todd, Youngstown, Ohio, first; j Nobleman, .lohn R. Todd. New York,! j second: Rochelle Maid, H. C. S. Cross- j j man. Monroe, X. Y., third, j Fine harness horse?Emperor, j 'George T. Little, Camden, first; Hein- j j zendorrf, George D. Shore, Sumter, i [second; Budora, Planters Mule Co., I Sumter. third. j Three gaited saddle horse?Roscoe, I I George T. Little, Camden. first; Balfe Lady, Ashley Sparks. Soyossett, L. I.. \ second; Glenn Maid, Miss Amy j i Sparks, Soyossett. L. L, third. Ladies' single harness horse?j Frank, Miss Martha Tickner. Camden, j first; Native Chief, H. S. Grossman. I Monroe, X. Y.. second; Daphne, John j T. Nettles, Camden, third. Single roadster?Harry K., Hear- I on's Stable, Bishopville, first; Whis pering Pins, Planters Mule Co.. Sum j tor. second: Arris, H. H. Crossman, j Monroe. X. Y., third. j Saddle Horse?Heinzendorff, Geo. ! D. Shore. Sumter, first; Jack Mc | Donald. George T. Little, Camden. second; Blue Grass Du-te, Wienges Bros.. St. Matthews, third. Ladies' saddie horse?Never Tell, C. S. Lee, Camden. first: Rosemary, .Miss Jane S. White. Syracuse, N. Y\, second; Airdale, Miss Jane S- White, third. Half mile race?Kid Nelson. Mrs. j P. C. Thomas. Pinehurst. N. C, first; | Coon. Harry Sanders; Hagood, sec- j ond: Arizona, George T. Little, third, j ' Single heavy harness horse? Prince John. Planters Mule Co., Sum ter, first; Frank, George T. LitLle, second. ' ? Polo mounts?Mynora. P. Hauck. | Jr.. East Orange, N. J..r first; Merry | Horn. Walter C. White, Cleveland, j Ohio, second: Freckles. H. H. Cro^s- j man, Monroe, N. Y., third. Free for aii trot and pace. South! Carolina owned?Patty, Wienges t Bros., St. Matthews, first, $60; Ral-j eigh, Jake Wilds, Camden, second, $30; Thelma Patch, George T. Little, Camden third, $10. Photographers Make Money ! Coblenz, Feb. 24 (Correspondence) j ?German photographers in Coblenz j recently have been doing the largest j business in their careers, their prin- j cipal customers being American sol- j diers. From two to five thousand j Americans of units in districts be- j yond the Rhine and other parts of Lhe occupied area visit Coblenz daily, j the soldiers being allowed one day in; the city every few weeks. Hundreds i of these men have their photographs j taken. j In their display windows the pho- j tographers have arranged /the pic- i tures of Americans on one side and ! the likenesses of German civilians' and soldiers on the other, always! with a dividing line of some kind in j between. 1 i Whole Family Takes Drec? Sumter, S. C. Family Rely on the New Remedy Since it Did So Much for Them. It is iiot a new thing to hear of an entire family taking- Dreco, the new ? root and herb medicine; when one gets relief it is natural to give it' td the others. \\ ; "My wife and daughter are both taking Dreco now. since' it did me so much good," says Mr. t? F. Jenkin son of 212 W. Liberty St., Sumter, S. C. '*I had severe backache and my arms and limbs ached, often felt "diz zy ami had a bad taste in my mouth. My stomach would fill up with gas which made me very unconfortable, and my nerves were shaky; sleep was almost unknown to me. Dreco put a stop to my troubles on short notice. On the second day I could feel the ef fect, and now, after taking two bot tles, 1 never have a dizzy spell; pains are gone from my back and limbs; I sleep sound every night, and it has also dried up some eczema I had. Tell them ah that Drecc is great." Dreco acts on the blood and drives out the poisons and impurities there by relieving rheumatism, catarrh, eczema, pimples and bcils. It stim ulates the liver and' rouses a tired sluggish liver. All good druggists now sell DrecO and it is highly recommended in Sum" ter by Sibert's Drug Store.?Advt. Persecution of Jews London, Feb. 20 (Correspondence of The Associated Press)?"The Jewish situation in Poland and Lith uania is so tragic that thousands are starving and tens of thousands clam oring for permission to join their rel jatives in the United States," 'says a j report just received by the London I bureau of the Zionist Organization ! from its special commissioner, Israel Cohen. The question of reuniting families, the bureau announces, lias been presented to the State Depart ment at "Washington. At Lemberg, Mr. Cohen says, he' made an inspection of the districts damaged during the pogroms 'and spoke with numerous victims as' well' as with Jewish representatives and with Colonel Wade of the British mission to Poland. j "There is abundant circumstantial evidence proving," his report 'con tinues, "that the pogrom was organ ized by the local military authorities who supplied machine guns, hand grenades, automobiles and motor lor ries. There are sworn protocols of 500 cases in which officer patrols took part and 2,000 cases in which ordinary soidiers took part ?? The names are known of 18 officers and" 72 soldiers who were guilty of participa tion in assaults and plunder. "The Polish military command at Lemberg is making desperate efforts to obtain evidence of Jewish 'attaoks-r on Polish soldiers as a justification fo rthe pogrom. Members of the. Jewish militia previously released for lack of any real charge were rear- - rested and are still imprisoned by the order of the military commander, de spite the decision of the examining judge that they should be liberated." Damage done to personal property during the pogrom is estimated at 100,000,000 crowns. This does-"not include, however,- the loss sustained by the destruction of synagogues. The Jewish Relief Committee in Lemberg had expended up to the time of M Cohen's report. 1,300.000 crowns o feeding, clothing and lodging 5,000 families. "After my return from Lemberg.'* Mr. Cohen narrates, "I visited Cawie cim where a few days ago a band of rowdies attacked the Jews during worship in several houses of prayer. They broke the windows, tore up' the books and also committed consider able damage in the Jewish oemetery, overturning and smashing tomb stones. The Jews at Cawiecim pay 6G.000 crowns monthly for the up-^ keep-of the militia/* "_ f Ik Raliesal hi of South Carolina of Suroter . ? wm?m CAPITAL .$ a00,e00.00 SURPLUS .175.000.00 RESOURCES .2.000,000.00 A bank big enough, strong enough, and liberal enough to take care of the legitimate needs of all its custo mers. G. ROW LA KD, Preside t. F E. HINNANT. Cashier. BANK us and you can BANK i The First National Bank SUMTER, S. C.