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I?min .awBrTaaMiJuiLi-aiiJi Muehlon predicts New Government ; Ehest U%gim& m Bad Way Says Krupp Director ''Gumlingen. Switz.. Friday. April 11 ?fjj&'ithe- Associated Press)?"I do not behove the present German majority government, of Ebert and Schiede miift of., the Independent Republican governments in Germany will exist i'?" much - longer," said Dr. William ^f&ehion, former Krupp director, to , tfea? Associated Press correspondent today. "The reason is that the So ?' cialist parties which voted war funds in 1914 are too closely attached to the ? ? imperialist pan-German and junker regimes and an* discredited abroad." On th?% question of the present po sition and^ the future of the former German emperor. Dr. Muehlon said: "It would be far better for us for the allies to keep the former kaiser than to return him t<* us because we should not know what to do with him. We do not desire his return to Germany. "Rather than discuss the question of the destiny of the kaiser, the allied conference at Paris should hasten to make favorable peace terms as soon as* possible, because our women and children are starving. We need, first j of all, food, and as quickly as pos- ; slble otherwise Spartacanism and j Bolshevism will spread, involving the i rain of our peoples." WThen asked whether in his opinion j tJhe former emperor was responsible j for the war. Dr. Muehlon replied: j "Yes. he was. If the kaiser had rais- j ed a finger against Vienna, war would ? never have come." j Dr. Muehlon thought large indem - i nities should be paid by Germany to Belgium and devastated France buJ considered that a sum as large as s 51>0?0<r0i000.000 francs, which he had heard mentioned^as an indemnity. wofttW cripple Germany for centuries j and- would make slaves of the Oer- j man people. "If the allies insist on such severe ; conditions," he continued, "we can j offer no resistance except a passive one. All our industries would die out j gradually as a consequence." - Referring to the position of the Krupp works, the former director of this munition plant said: "The Krupp factory>was built sole -4y for the manufacture of guns and ammunition a-nd for other war pur poses; An effort is being, made there to; constructr. locomotives, automo biles and plows." He added that lack of experience would cause the plant to lose money-in . competition with; American and British plants. ir1? ? The ?Girl and a Slacker. \(Jt Private's Poetic Revenge.) 7*hore are: times when I pause and | - icok- for a cause '.'To ponder and wonder and dream,! ??f* the- girl back there whom ij : . thought would care, , BuW-Pm wrong, dead wrong, it J ^would seem. ''Mr ?' ? I Xfith vows well meant and hours well i ? ? spent, I-left her *jjrd kissed her farewell.: Twas the kiss of a traitor and God j . how I hate her. This tongue, it alone, can tell. A curse on the cur and a curse on j her, ?--For the act of the Judas of old; i She let me go for the sham slacker j beau. For his car, his home and his gold, j She knew that my love was blessed j t from above. And sincere and honest and clean, j But the' slacker's sweet tongue with bis work well done ' Has tarnished my jewel serene. \ j At night-on my post I have seen her; >h't\ ghost, : When-she beckons me come kiss her j * r .-hand-; She languishly sneered at my woman j ?v ??ly*-tears. . AS I looked at a golden strand. i i 'Tis-then thaM feel a sorrow so real.! ' My heart brings well night burst. And I crave-for the day when I know I'll repay - The slacker, whom I have cursed, j I Jeft aH at my country's call. . To- conqjier the murderous IIun: And tti? bullets may scream, even j then shall I dream. Of the girl that a slacker has won. I ?W. R. Strange, i Medical Department. Marfa, Tex. j Pax vi He Items. Paxville. April 15.? Miss Leila CjOrbett spent the past week-end in | Sumter visiting M?*s. Elma Tisdale. | Soldiers Manly Geddings and Mon-j tague Brown are at home, after spending several months overseas. j Dr: Thos. W. Guntei- went to Flor ence Ttiesday to attend the State meeting of the Medical Association. Mr. T. It. Owen has recently open ed a grocery store adjoining Mr. L. We inberg. Mrs. C. G. Hodges and baby boy, <>r Samlersville. Ga.. visited her brother. Mr. O. H. Broadway last week. . Mrs. Bascombe Lannair has re turned to her hone* at Scenboro, ?"ra.. after a short visit to her sister. Mrs. J. C. Bryant. Mrs. Henry Curtis went to th< Tourney Hospital Tuesday for a few days' treatment. Misses Hattie and Fannie Hodge have gone to Charleston to catch a glimps? of the spring-time beauty of Magnolia Gardens. They will spend a few days in the city before return ing. , Several members from the Baptist Church spent Tuesday at Mayesville. attending, a Sunday School Conven tion of that denomination. Mrs. Edrm McPhvrson held ;>. meet -fng.: ftf the Home Demonstration Club at the school building on lost Friday afternoon. Mr. W. R Keels has about com pleted the repairs, repainting, etc. of his residence near town. i Mrs Marion Cox and children from fb.renee are visiting'at the home of her' mother, .Mrs. Mary A. McLeoU. ; Victory Loan Quotas j Figures Fur Below Those of Fourth Loan j Columbia, April ID.?South Caro jlina will fc?o expected to raise $24. I'HS.OO in the Victory loan, which can ivass is to begir next Monday. The 'Stale's quota in the Fourth Liberty ;loan was $32,425,000, or one-third in excess of the present quota, j Five counties will be expected to j raise amounts in excess of $1,000,000. I Charleston holds first place by a wide, imargin with a quota of $4;.$ 91.4 00?. .; Riehland stands next with $3,507,000. !To Greenville will be apportioned s!. j-7-15,000; Spartanburg. $1.35$.x(?fl. ami i Anderson. $1.062,000. The following is the apportionment by counties as .civ en out by C. II. Gerald, secretary of the Stale Liberty Loan committee: Abbeville.$ 225.000 Aiken. 307.5.00 j AHendale.: .... 1 22.too j Anderson . 1,062.600 : Hamberg. 283,S00 ! Ram we! I. 183,S50 j Beaufort. 225.000 'Berkeley. 172.500 Calhoun. 1S6,099 ! Charleston. i.v.it.lO" j Cherokee. 293.000 I Chester. 348.100 j ?"hestertield. 355.050 (Clarendon. 240.000 iColleton. 14$.00-? Darlington . 487.450 Dillon... .. 269.700 Dorchester. 162.30t! Kd^efieW. 235.259 Fairfield. 202.700 Florence. 7451650 Georgetown .. .. .. f.' 227,000 Greenville .. .. . 1,715.450 Greenwood. 655.600 Hampton. 155.000 Horry. IS 7.50" Jasper. 30;000 Kersfeaw. 225.000 Lancaster. 303,550 Laurens . .. 124.456 Lee. . .... 25:i.MOO Lexington. 310.S00 Marlboro. 44 7.250 McConniok. 132.10 0 Xewherry .. 456.900 Oconee .. 295.500 Orangoburg. 9G0.55O Pickens. 291.400 Richland ., . . 3.507.4*10 Saluda.' .. IS7.500 Spartanburg. 1.358.S0O Sumter. 745.65!' 'Union. 2S6,05u Williamsburg . 292.500 York. SO 6.15 0 Total.$21.94X>000 "The Price of Peace." Columbia, April 11.?The high ten sion under which our people existed during the days when the daily bul letins from the front kept us in sus pense; and dread on account of our loved ones being exposed to all of the hardships and dangers of war. gave way to a complete relaxation of ner vous energy which for a time caused a condition of almost apathy. Tin people ha'l become so accustomed t-? the daily thrill that they missed their regular news stimulant apd. when their minds were tilled with the near er sorrow caused by the dread In fluenza the war came very near tak ing a second place in the attention of the public. Xow that the boys have commenc ed to come home the people are learn ing in a way what the newspapers were not permitted to tell, of the gi eat fortitude and endurance of our soldiers, and the public is becom ing more and more interested in the success of the Victory Liberty Lpnn Campaign. Several new features arc betog introduced into ihis campaign. One oi them is "The'Price of Peace,'" the wonderful and thrilling picture oi Americans in the Groat War. "Tbt Price of Peace" is a 5.000 feet film which shows every phase of the sol diers' activity in the war. Tue story takes th** recruit from the anus of his mother to the royal welcome of the "kitchen police" and shows his progress from "rookie" t<. the da:: he boards ship for some place "over there." Passed by censor. The picture records the progress of the gi cat convoys and the transports with the freight which the kaiser wished he could send -to the bottom uf the sea. The scenes grow in interest as they approach the froril line trenches. Lit"! in the trenches is portrayed more vividly than any writing can tell. Tin- calm composure of the sol diers as they fix bayonets and pre pare Jo co over the top would makt it appear thai this was a posed pro duction, but that is just the way our dear old boys got ready for the job. This is declared to be the greatest picture ever made, and the .thril1 that it brings 's but a recognition oi the fact that it is life which the film [presents, life?and death. For while the picture shows the brave Ameri : can troops swinging leisurely into action in their advance on the mouth of Reil, ii also shows the work of the bullets -"nid the shrapnel of the Hun. as our hoys fall, but the waves that ; are carrying Old Glory cannot be ! stopped. In short- ibis is the. story of tin ! American "doughboy." It is the pic I turiug of the job that he undertook. I and tin- job that he finished. ft makes an appeal to every patriotic American to finish tin- job as the boys I linished theirs?to leave nothing un ? lone to pay the debts of Uncle Sam. Tin- South Carolina headquarter* j of the Victory Liberty Loan has re ! ceived two of these wonderful pic tures and they are being routed over the State by Henry S. Cathcart. State I Director of Films. Columbia. S. C. Silas debated long as to whethei rn- should buy the pair of big m'u!?*> for $500 or the pair of liill?- inyie* for $2.50. Finally lon&-headed Si.'a (paid the $500, because, as he put it the big team would pull 500 pounds . mere to the load. The day beforv tin deai Silas refused to vote for a 'good road past his farm which would have cost him $10 a year and ore; which either team would have pulle?! 2.000 pounds more than they eoule pull over the -"' road?Silas was $B \\ ist- and $15 'dish. And y ?' th< . ? may be many of his kind. How Germany is Preparing For World Trade (Manufacturers Record.) i W-JtHe America dUty-da Hies with j peace terms and delays tin: final con 'sumniatiou of Germany's punishment? ? Germany on the other hand, camou flages the whole situation with riots, [real and imaginary, in order that un observed it may make iis plans for capturing the world's trade. Present ? defeat do**s not alter the nature oi' ; tlie Hun nor make that nation of ; criminals any less eager to achieve, some time in the future, its world - ? looting project. Indeed, a leading j German has recently boasted that !the German army would enter Paris by 19-25. and we are quite sure that .millions of Germans believe this to be 1 true. ; The United States Trade Commis sioner. Norman l>. Anderson of Stock holm. Sweden. i> a recent report to the department of commerce, shows how Germans are busy working out j their plans for extending their trade 'and commerce into foreign lands. The ? facts given are well worthy of study jby Americans, and especially by those j who are bemoaning with sickly senti ; mentality the "poor Germans," and j who are seeking to save these fiends I incarnate from some fair measure of i punishment. Jn his report Mr. An j derson sa id: f "German^business circles fully real jize that the signing of peace will only ! mean the beginning of a new and ev len harder commercial war. and that all the resources of business will be required to put industrial Germany j on a sound defensive basis. The Ger j man press announces several large measures which are either partly carried through or projected-, and which involve the effort of various lines of trade to bulwark themselves for the coming struggle. A veritable network of organization is growing up, which may be divided into two {groups, those which are eonimer i cial-scienthic and those which are j purely commercial, j "The Technikische Messe a. m. b. j H. (Technical Fair) recently floated in Leipzig will undertake to promote i the trade interests of manufacturers of machinery, electrical apparatus, j tools, chemicals, factory equipment. I railway rolling stock, etc. It expects j to develop and encourage the Ger ! man inventive genius, and, through la sub-organization known as the brokers' bureau, will advertise new technical ideas and attempt to make commercial applications of all kinds of technical inventions. The Tech nical Fair will also obtain licenses to promote and organize industrial ?. " hi bits and expositions. "Mention has been made from time to time in the past of the Company for Home and Foreign Undertakings, Mamburg, which, with a capital of $5, 950.(?00. is planning a series of broad scope measures for the revival of trade und the placing of German ! goods. Special attention is being giv jen io the development of commercial i relations with the Balkans, the Cau I casus and Persia. German boards of j trade already existing or to bo es tablished in the principal centers of these regions wi! co-operate with the home organization. The Austro-Cer man eastern group of this organiza tion has in view the opening of sev eral large commercial and agricul tural enterprises in Turkey, but prac tical difficulties, including the con tinual fluctuation of Turkish1 ex charge, have so far very effectively interfered with the execution off the plans. "The Germans believe that one of the requisites for increasing commer cial relations with foreign countries is the dissemination of information* eon corning business opportunities abroad, and the cultivation of a broad and thorough study of conditions in for cgin markets. To' this end the Prus sian Minister of Public Instruction sonn* time ago ordered the organiza tion of special commissions attached to the universities for the study of foreign countries, and also proposed for the ensuing year an increase in ih*? appropriations to the universities for financing scientific expeditions. The Ministries of Bavaria and Wur tcmberg are working along the same lines. Baden and Hamburg have also assigned large sums for similar pur poses. The Institute of Navigation and World -Business (Institut fur See werke und Wcltwirtshaft >. whose membership grew from 2.500 to 4,300 during II? 1.x, js busily gathering trade information, and after the war <-x pects to (rente a comprehensive net work of information-gathering or gans in various p:irts of the world. The information bureau of the Un.it <-d League (De vereinigeten Verberde) is also to be reorganized on a basis for larger scab- operations in collect ing business and political information. The information so gathered will be sent out publicly by the bureau. "'Tin- views and proposals of the Board of Trade of Plauen, a center largely interested in export, will be interesting in this connection. This organization regards as of prime importance the establishment of Ger man boards of trade in foreign coun tries, which shall be independent of the Government and . free from gov ernment influence, sine- official Ger many is likely to l>e under suspicion for sonn- time following the conclusion of peace. Equally indispensable, the board holds, is the publication of a ?periodical similar to the English journal. Economist, whose special /unction should be to create foreign interest in German methods of manu facture and industry, keeping the business circles of the world inform ed as to German improvements in technique, etc. Liberal use of the cinematograph is also urged as an ?-ducat ive measure." And yet some peopb- vainly imag ine that Germany has been crushed and impoverished! # \ircn ? t Development. Loud'- , -March 20.?Aircraft de velop' ent during the las! few years thrown open to ih<- moving-pic ture man an entirely new field. It may be some years yet In-fore flying come within tl ? means of the ordi nary person as a mode of tmvolbui Ihrongh the film he may experience some of the artistic joys o? aviation. A Monster Wheat Crop. j The government forecast of th.? ; winter wheat crop of the United Statics indicates the greatest produc tion in Lhc history of American! plaining, the enormous bulk of eight] hundred thirty-seven million bushels of the grain. This, it is pointed out. is two hundred forty-eight million; bushels more than was produce I in the winter crop of last year and one, hundred fifty-two million bushels more than in the winter crop of; 1!?14V which -was the previous If ii record. In the one case if repio-j scuts an increase of forty-four and j in the other of twenty-two per cent inj volume. Considering the incentive to; production last year and the stimu-; ius which was given to tin; planting! <>f food crops, the record of nearly j one-half again brought forth this; year- is remark-ably impressive; This great production of an essen tial grain cannot but give cheer to a hungry world. The food supplies of Europe ore. of. course, running low. for there has been practically no op portunity yet Cor production since the period of the war. Central and. per haps. Eastern Europe, have probably planted less than during war years, because of Lhc general breakdown of organiazliou and the unrest and de moralization consequent upon the mil-j itary collapse. It has been stated un-| til quite recently that the grain pro-j duction of America, and other parts i of the earth over which the war has j not trampled would make a large) aurplus this year, assuring susten ance to the hungry peoples/but lately liiere has been an expression of doubt as to this and estimates have indi cated ;i rather close margin between demand and supply. Tim forecast of the American wheat crop must re store confidence in the sufficiency of! bread material for the world's ne-j cessitics. It is a strange commentary and an unhappy circumstances that the coun try whose rich soil and human energy have, brought forth such am abundant food supply should still have to pay for wheat a price nearly double that at which it may be bought in coun tries of Europe which have, for four years depended and still depend upon the yield of our fields for food. The law of supply ami demand, which would operate to give the people cheap Hour, in view of this immense crop of wheat coming- into sight, is effectively suspended by the govern ment's guarantee of $2.25 a bushel to the growers of grain. That the i t guarantee should bo kept as far as j the producer is concerned is well enough, since it was largely under this that the great crop was grown and produced, but that the consumer should get no advantage from the condition is not merely unfortunate but inexcusable. The government, while guaranteeing the war price of wheat to the producer should like wise guarantee the peace price to the consumer, liquidating the difference over the whole body of the popula-l tion by the process of buying at the price it fixed last year all the Amer ican wheat ;md selling it at the j world's market price to the Ameri can people, accounting the loss a part, of the eost of the war. Not only is i this important of itself in the saving} it would constitute in the cost of} bread to the people of the United I Stales. |?m ii would be tie* most ef fective measure possible to take to ward inducing a downward course in the whole range of living cost, espe cially in the item of food. A correspondent of the New York Times, in a long discussion of endi tions in Central Europe, state that "in the opinion of the la!. ? ,xperts, the high rate of unemployment pay and strikes for higher wages .are due much more to the high cost of food than to any definite working class movement. If food were cheapened these questions would settle them - , serves." This conclusion may well be taken as a general law. applicable to j over-prosperous and highly victorious; nations as well as to the defeated and] suffering. Til ere is no lack* of food inj the United Stales and certainly no j lack of money, yei th^ problem of| paying for food and other necessities] of living may lie operating as surely; in Germany. The problem is morel i real than apparent but it is bound j to become visible am1 sensible at the! first recession from .resent ex-1 travagant measure of prosperity. Tu! the .face of this condition, it is re markable thai there should be lack ing the prescience of statesmanship] to move employment] of the opportun-, iiy presented by the wheat situation to begin the downward trend of food prices which would inevitably follow ;i suspension of the prevail ing immunity to the law of supply and demand which alone keeps up the whole structure.?Charleston I'ost. Appeal to The Oil Mills} To Give Relief lo Farmers andj Seed Buvers i Columbia. April v.*.? Because of [ the large sales of crude oil yesterday ;jnd today which have relieved the j pressure on the oil mills of the State. j the industry, in an open letter from William Elliott. Stale food adminis-| irator. is urged to give a correspond ing measure of relief lo the farmers I and seed buyers who have cotton seed on hand. There is much seed in the 'southern, southeastern and southwes-1 tern .sections of South Carolina, said] the letter, which follows: "Columbia. S. C., April 19. lulu, i I '"To the on Mills of South Caro lina: Your sales of crude oil yes-j terday and today have been so heavy! as to relieve all pressure on you with ; respect to oil. '"The food administration urges the! mills to give ;it once ;i corresponding! measure of relief to farmers and seed! j buyers who still have seed oil hand. I "From reports which reach the! ! food administration, it appears that there is much seed in the southern, j southeastern and southwestern sec tions of the State. We have conipil-j ed an extended list of seed holders] which we will send to mills on re quest. "yours va-ry it uly. (Signed) "William Elliott. "Food Administrator for Smith Carolina.. i Japanese %ualit? Not Recognized Effort to Incorporate Amend ment in League of Nations Covenant Fails Paris, April 12.?The league of na-j lions commission has rejected the; ?Japanese amendment on racial equal- j ity, according to an authoritative! statement issued tonight. Some of ? the members of the commission voted against the specific inclusion of this! amendment in the covenant and, as! unanimous approval of the commis sion was necessary the amendment.' which was strongly urged by the! Japanese delegates, failed of adop-: tion. The statement follows: "At a meeting of the league of na-! tions commission on Friday. April 11.: the Japanese delegation proposed an! amendment to the preamble of the; covenant as ioIIows: To insert after! the words "by the prescription of j open, just and honorable relations be tween nations' an additional clause to road: 'By the indorsement of the principle of equality of nations and j just treatment of their nationals." | "The amendment was admirably! presented by Baron Makino. In the J course of his speech he emphasized the great desire of the Japanese? gov ernment and of the Japanese people that such a principle be recognized in the covenant. His argument was supported with great force by Vis- j count Chinda. "A discussion followed, in which j practically all of the members of the i commission participated. The dis cussion was marked by breadth of thought, free and sympathetic ex change of opinion and a complete ap preciation by the members .of the commission of the difficulties which lay in the way of either accepting or rejecting the amendment. "The commission was impressed byj the justice of the Japanese claim and j by the spirit in which it was pre sented. Mention was frequently made in the course of the discussion of the fact that the covenant provided for the representation of Japan on the executive council as one of the five great powers, and that a rejection of the proposed amendment could, not. therefore. l>e construed as diminish ing the prestige of Japan. '?Various members of the commis sion, however, felt that they could not vote for its specific inclusion in the covenant. Therefore, the com mission was reluctantly unable to give to the amendment that unani mous approval which is necessary for its adoption." The preamble of th" covenant of the league of nations, in which the Japanese so ght the inclusion of their amendment reads as follows: "In order to promote international! cooperation and to secure interna tional peace and security by the ac ceptance of obligations not to resort t<i war. by the prescription of open, just and honorable relations between nations, by the firm establishment of rhe understandings of international law as the actual rule of cone act. among government, and by the main tenance of a just and scrupulous re spect for all treaty obligations in the dealings of organized people with one another, the powers signatory to this covenant adopt this constitution of the league of nations." Motives Of Amieric Misinterpreted ?? i Paris, April. 15?(By the Associated Press).?Dr. Fridjof Nausen, head of the commission to feed Russia, is hav ing difficulty in getting in touch with Nikolai Lcnine. Russian Bolshevik pre mier, concerning the rcvictualing of Russia, on condition that the' Bolshe vik cease hostilities. The wireless ser vice of the Entent countries apparent ly are not available and a messenger will be sent to Norway to communi cate Dr. Nansen's message to Moscow. Consequently.-Lcnine's reply probably will not be available for several days. The French press is showing a hos tile attitude toward the rcvictualing plan. Oiic. newspaper describes it as "another prinkipos." and several charge that it is an attempt by the Americans to Ingratiate th"insclves to obtain concessions and scout the sug gestion of humane, rather than politi cal motives. ? ?-, \ Although the American peace* dele gation mis repeatedly stated (hat Wm. C. Bullit and Lincoln Steffens were not empowered to negotiate with the Bolsheviki when they recently visited Russia, the fact that they were ac companied by Capt. W. W. Pettit. of tin- United States army lent such of ficial coloring to the party that both the French and English 'newspapers arc inclined to regard the delegation as official and credit the revietualling plan to its report. Capt. Pettit did not remain in Mos-j cow to continue as liaison officer be tween the Bolsheviki and the Ameri can peace delegaton as reported in ; Stockholm, having come out of Russia I with Steffens and Bullit. Before- the! United States entered the war Capt.} Pettit was in Russia looking after the relief of German prisoners. He is con nected with the Russian information} section of the American peace delega tion. ANOTHER TI i^E? Greenville, April 17.?Greenville may be the headquarters of an addi tional temple of the Mystic Shrine inj South Carolina. Petitions are being I circuited in this city and Spartan-I burg, asking the creation of an ad ditional temple and both cities aril competing for the location. The rule of the national shrine is that a new temple is admissible to the domain upon petition of 100 members of an established shrine pointing out the necessity of the addition. There is I spirited rivalry between Spartanburg and Greeuville in the contest. The j present headquarters are in Charles-1 toil and there is said to lie opposition in the lower part of the State, in-j omding- < 'otU(Ml??v^*.tu tatth?>? ^siiibUsb,-^. rui-nt of another t??ruple. j ^thdti^ht I kail In My 3tjg?mach^ .: : ' .- -?3C IF Declared a Spartanburg, & C. Man. He Was, Constipated, Nervous, Hai Paths ? His Baefc, Ha? Duzy Spells, ?re co Ended it All for Him. "I often felt like I had a paving brick in my stomach," says this well known man who has resided at 181' Park Avenue, Spartanburg*, .& C, for the past fourteen, years, Mr., P. A. Harman. "My stomach went on a strike I think, for nothing I ate seemed to-di gest, but just laid there . I'was badly constipated; my liver was inactive; I got so nervous I couldn't sleep, and dizzy spells would hit me, and I'd have to sit down right where I was. Dreco started my bowels moving at once, and all my troubles seerhed to fade away,'and now 1 am as Well, as I ever was in my life. I eat anything I crave, and it never hurts me one bit. I sleep line?in fact, I'm well again." To those who suffer from stomach disorders and their attendant trou bles?constipation, sluggish liver, etc., you are warned to profit by the ex perience of others. Don't let these troubles sap your comfort, health, and vitality away. They wear the victim down until he grows weaker every day. laying him open to disease of a serious nature. Every one should know about Dreco, the great herbal remedy, which has no peer as a stom ach remedy, and relief for constipa? tion. Go today to your nearest drug store ?they all sell Dreco and start the treatment without delay. Dreco is especially recommended in Sumter by Sibert's .Drug Store.?Advt. r.? A City of DeattJ i - _ /. Petrograd Made into a Place of ? .? ? - ...fr-. Horror by Bolshevism !-_ 1 London, March 20 (Correspond ence of The Associated Press|?Ap palling incidents of the tragedy of starvation in Petrograd are revealed by a writer in the Rusko;ie-S^t>vo, a newspaper published at Li bau .y "Is life at Petrograd really as ter rible as people and as the newspapers describe it?" he asks. "It is difficult for me to answer this question.; dif ficult to return to the excitifjEg and fantastic moods evoked by ^ungry, abandoned Petrograd. , T "Educated people beg for ajms in the streets and hang around ^public eating houses gazing piteous?r into the eyes of those who eat an$ wait ing greedily in ca'se anyone Jshould leave some morsel behind. 5 "Children rummage in the^refuse pits and ravenously devour heads of herring and all the things despised even by the hungry Pctrograd^house wife. all the things undiscovered even by the lean, enfeebled Petrogrid Cats. "I will not tell of the terriffle ju dicial proceedings where ten-j?sar-old dehumanized boys admit wtUf sullen cynicism that they deliberately killed a little brother or sister who^embit tered their lives and devoured.;all the ' bread rations. All these things, made up the chronicle of daily happenings when we still had a press. "How do they live who have-not be come wild beasts? They are all hun gry and hunger tortures them all. But each knows that all the* others . are hungry and that is why .ho .one speaks- of his hunger. Human suf fering has lost its individuality*. Who will pity me if I nearly die of..hunger when everyone is hungry himself? Everyone will turn away and say in a surly voice: T, too. am dying.'? "Men and women cease to com plain. They drop in the streets through sheer starvation but you seldom hear anyone complain about hisr hunger, his own torturing ener vating hunger. They all pretend to be busy with their wonted affairs as though they had come to an unspoken^ agreement, as though their customary existence were still going On and nothing had altered. "A school girl is running- along with her bundle of books to catch an electric car. Her dress is hanging from her body, her little face has drawn together so that it ; is .now about the size of a fist. She is- a?** surcdiy hungry', but she runs as she used-to run in days long ago to catch the car as though she must run on and on. "On. a garden path a little boy . ijj playing. His mother calls him and gives him a piece of bread of some doubtful flour substitute. He eats it very carefully and coliects all tho crumbs and returns to his game. Nor does his mother groan or sigh but hurriedly takes from her little bas ket a worn stocking and mends it. As suredly she has forgotten the re membrance of food, yet she hurries on with her work. "You can feel a strain, an inhuman effort in the present daily life ^>f Pe trograd. You feel that everything >s only held together by the power of imagination that may cease at any moment. "Petrograd, the doomed- city, a city sick to death." Flies 727 Mites . 1 Making No Stop Mineola. X. Y.. April 19.-?Flying at an average speed of 106.38 miles an hour for six hours and fifty min utes. Captain E. F. White, a-n army aviator, completed the first non-stop flight between Chicago-and Xe-w York* at r.,10 o'clock this afternoon, land ing at Hazelhurst field. . The distance covered was 727 mlies. Most of the flight. Captain White sard, was made at an altitude of 12, 000 feet. Captain White, who was accom* ponied by his mechanician, .said tho trip was without incident. He will remain at Hazelhurst field for a- few" days and then will fly to Washington. Ik- said he would_ not ?tterofh a non stop ti'srru tSs#c8??5^^<P5g<?'