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PERSONAL.
Mr. L. D. Jennings left this morn
ing for New Orleans to attend a meet
ing of the directors of the Southern
Cotton Corporation. He was accom
panied by Mrs. Jennings and Misses
Isabel and Augusta Jennings.
Mr. J. A. Schwerin, Jr., of Char
leston; is in the city for a few days.
Capt. H. C. Rauton and Sergt. Geo.
Bauton, of the 81st division, are visit
4ng their father, Mr. H. P. Ban ton.
Miss Annie McKee, who has been
Visiting friends here has returned to
her home in Moultrie, Ga,
Mr. F. W. Renneker, manager of
Bist?street** Charleston office, was in
tito'city Tfenrtdar.
Mrs. H. A- Noble left this morning
to' spend the^ week-end in Columbia.
j Mrs. N. S. Jones left for Jackson
ville, Fia.; this morning on a profes
sional call. Witt "be out of ciry about
two weeks.
'Lieut; David Doar, who has been
stationed in Kentucky for the past
K year, has received his discharge and
is again at his desk in the First Nat
ional Bank.
Ca.pt Joe Chandler, who recently
returned from France, is at home.
Lieut Irvine Richardson has been
?jbwmacged from, the army and is at
home..
Lieut"W. H. Bowman and Mrs.
ISorwman .and . daughter arrived this
morning from Newport News, "Va.
Mrs. Geo. W. Dick has returned
from. a visit to Newport News, Va.
Mrs. Alice E\ Lowry left this morn
ing- for Atlanta, Ga., where she will
visit some time before going to
AJabama Where she will make her
home in future with her son, Mr.
Clarence LoWry.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Booth, Jr., have
returned from their wedding trip to
points "North:
\pr. S, H. Edmunds has returned to
"fi^.'city from Winthrop College where
he delivered a series of lectures before
*v:i:j?a? summer school
Mr. C C. Beck left Saturday for St
Lotnsi,'"Mo.", ..on a business trip.
... Dr. and Mrs. H. M. Stuckey have
returned frbm. Boston, Mass.
'v Mr. S. Cherry left yesterday on a
business trip to Baltimore where hei
?ipects to spend several days.
Accept Without Change,
it Wilson Urges
Washington, June 28.?President
Wilson in an address to the American
people on the occasion of the signing'
-oi the pease treaty, made a plea for
the. acceptance, of the treaty and the;
covenant of the League of Nations;
without -change or reservation.
His message, given out here by Sec
retary Tumulty, said: '
_uMy Fellow Countrymen: ~The.
treaty'".bit peace has been signed. If it
is ratified and acted upon in ful! and
sincere execution of its terms, it will
furnish the charter for a new order
of affairs in the world. It is a severe
treaty in the duties and .penalties it
Imposes upon Germany, hut it is se
vere only because great wrongs done
hy Germany are to be righted and re
paired; it hnposes nothing that Ger
many cannot do; and she can regain
her rightful standing in the world
by the prompt and honorable, fulfill
ment 6f its terms.
"And it is much more than a treaty
of peace with Germany. It liberates
great peoples who have never before
been "able to find the way to liberty.
Tt ends, once for all, an old and Intol
Serahle order under which small
groups of selfish men could use the
'peoples of great empires to serve their
?ambition for power and dominion. It
associates the free governments of the
world in a permanent league in which
they are pledged to use their united
power to maintain peace by main
taining right -and justice. It makes
international law a reality, supported
by imperative sanctions. It does away
with the right of conquest and rejects
the policy of annexation and substi
tutes a hew order which backward
nations?populations which have not
yet come to political consciousness
stnd peoples who are -ready for inde
!>eisdence hut not yet quite prepared
"to dispense With protection and guid
iahce-^hjall "no more be subjected to
the dominion and exploitation of a
stronger nation, but shall be put un
der the friendly direction and afford
ed the helpful assistance of govern
ments which undertake to he respon
sible to the opinion of mankind in the
execution of their task by accepting
the direction of %he Le-ague of Nations
It recognizes the inalienable rights of
nationality; the rights of minorities
and the sanctity of religious belief and
practice. It lays the basis for conven
tions which shall free the commer
cial intercourse of the world from un
just and vexations restrictions and for
every sort of international co-opera
tion that will serve and cleanse th'
life of the world and facilitate its
common, action in beneficent service
of every kind. It furnishes guarantees
such as were never given or even con
templated for the fair treatment of nil
who labor at the daily tasks of the
world.
"Is is for this reason that I have
spoken of it is a great charter for a
new order of affairs. There is ground
here for deep satisfaction, universa
reassurance and confident hope.
(Signed) "Woodrow Wilson."
To Send American
Delegation to Poland
Paris, June 30.?Henry Mergen
thau, former ambassador to Turkey.
Brig. Gen. Jagin and Homer H. Jjhr.-|
son of Cleveland, it was announce.l to- j
d3y, will compose the commission
which the American delegation will
send to Poland to investigate thi re
ported programs.
; Marriages.
White?W. D. McCoy of Mayesville
to Miss Asile Meilette of Sumter.
Samuel L. Smith of Florence to
"Miss Mary E. Browder of Sumter.
Colored?Sam Gary of Sumter to
i".ibel Hutchinson of Sumter.
i $50,000 Salary
Not Enough
London. May 26, (Correspondence
of The Associated Press.)?The Bis
hop of London, Dr. Ingram, with a
salary of $^0,000, finds that he ean
not keep up both of the residences
which go with his position, and pro
poses to rent or sell his town house,
the Bishop's town house is situated in
St. James* Square, about the most
iaristocratic area of London. It was"
once the home of the Earle of War
wick and the church bought it some
two centuries ago.
The other residence is Pulham Pal
ace, which is across nhe Thames from
the suburb of Putney, where the Ox
ford-Cambridge boat races start.
The Bishop explained to a dio
cesan conference* that $32,500 of his
income went for income tax, super
tax, municipal taxes and insurance.
That left him only $17,500 to -main
tain these two establishments, and to
keep a motor, Sand the minimum of
ren servants ?bs?hitery ' needed for
;Fulham Palace '-alone.
I "You must see,*' he said, "it cannot
be done. You ask your wives. Pessi
mists have told me' I would net be
able even to keep Pulham Palace;
going, but I intend to make a great
effort before parting with a historic
possesssion of the church for 1300
years."
The Bishop is in the same boat
with numerous others of the. clergy.
They are appointed to a position with
a certain. <salary, "and living". The
"living" is a residence, often larger
than they can maintain on the salary, j
so that it constitutes a liability rather
than an asset. Several important
church officials have closed their
houses during the war, and lived in
less expensive quarters.
IMMIGRATION SHOULD BE RE
STRICTED
Manufacturers Record,
Writing from Monroe, La., Mrs. G
3. Singhor sends the manufacturers
Record a clipping containing a dis
patch from Coblenz to the effect that
many Germans are eager to make a
rush for America. - This dispatch
States that many men, women and
girls, having heard that German lab
orers were needed in America, ap
plied to the officials of the American
army > learn as to the correctness,
of t! . statements. It has been r^
heatedly reported that as soon as the:
Treaty of Peace is signed a vast
crowd of. Germans will emigrate,
some to this country* and some to
South America. In her letter Mrs.
Singhor writes:
"This country and all the Allied;
countries should pas? laws prohibit
ing any German, Austrian or -Prus
sian to come into them under any
pretert. They are seething with an
archy, socialism and every other mis-,
[piided idea of destroying the remain
ing civilization of the world. Believ .
ing your journal to be one of the;
sountry*s best *watch-dogs,' I am;
sending you this clipping."
We fully agree with the position
taken by Mrs. Singhor that immigra
tion from Germany and Austria, ana
to that we would ac'id Bulgaria and
Turkey, should be absolutely prohib- ;
ited for years to come. We do n< ;
want any more Germans than we have I
In this country, for it will be a long
time before we can assimilate am.
make genuine Americans of the mil- i
lions of foreigners already here. Our i
peace and safety are endangered by 1
the Bolshevistic teachings of foreign
ers now in this country, who pre
sume to undertake to say what shall
be the policy of America. Many of i
these aliens are greater enemies to ,
the nation than were the alien ene- ,
mies whom we interned and some of
whom we are deporting. It is all very
well to talk about freedom of speech,
but the line should be drawn some
where, and when any man in this
country advocates the overturning oi
the Government he should be deport
ed and never again permitted to put
his foot on American soil. This land
dedicated to liberty,, is not dedicated
to license. ThSs government, the most
important test ever made by man
kind for human liberty, is not to be
overthrown by the disreputable,
iack-hearted scoundrels of other lands
who have sought a refuge, here for the
purpose of carrying on .in America
the work of hell.
"When in a recent address in Xew
York Victor Berger, the Socialist who
was elected to our Congress, but no4
permitted to take his seat, spoke to
6000 "of the long-haired, wild-eyed
radicals who were seeking to overturn
the world, the more radical his state
ments the wilder was the . cheering.
In reporting his speech the New York
Sun said:
"Finally, when he shouted, 'I can
carry the red flag to the prison door;
it is for you young fellew3 to pick it
up and carry it on to victory, the so
cialists, anarchists and that body of
radicals who cannot just make up
their minds what sect they belong to
stood up and roared for many min
utes.
That is in keeping with the work of
that accursed element which sought
to do the work of Germany in Amer
ica and of the same element which to
day is seeking to wreck the American
Government. We need not shut our
eye? to the fact that there is today
real, aggressive Bolshevistic work un
der way in America, and that tl?ir
issue must be met with an absolute
determination that those who advo
cate the overthrowing of the Gov
ernment shall not be permitted to live
in America, if they are not satisfied
with this country, then compel them
to go back to the country from which
they came or to the region to which
they are headed at the end of their
earthly journey.
Even though the shutting off of im
migration from these enemy coun
tries may less-n the supply of much
needed labor in America, we believ?
that there should be a rigid restric
tion of immigration, even if in bring
ing this about we delay to some ex
tent the carrying out of the fullest
development of our vast resoun es
It will be better to have safety and j
sanity than t<? have rapidity of devel
opment if this can only come through !
endangering the future of our coun
try.
It is well for the women of the
land to take up the fight.
NOTICE
News for Discharged Soldiers, Sailors,
Marines and Other Personnel Ben
eficiaries of the Bureau of War
Risk Insurance and : United State*
Public Health Service.
All persons discharged from the
military or naval forces residing in
and about this city, can now receive
medical attention and medical exami
nation for the filing cf applications
for compensation. The United States
Public Health Service, tlie medical ad
visors to the Bureau of War Risk In
surance, have established offices in
Sumter and Dr. H. M. Stuckey, whose
address is Sumter, S. C, has been ap
I pointed "as local government examin
[er. All persons desiring to obtain in
surance or filing application for com
pensation under the Bureau cf War
Risk Act, must furnish a medical cer
tificate of their present physical con
dition. These persons, by applying to
Dr. H. M. Stuckey at Sumter, may be
examined and all necessary papers fill- J
ed out free of charge. Such persons
will also receive, at the expense of the
government, ,medical relief, or be sent
to a. government hospital or institu
tion, should this be necessary.
The headquarters for the 5th Dis
trict, which comprises the States of j
l\'orth and South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida and Tennessee, have been, es
tablished in Atlanta. Persons desiring
further information should write to
Dr. J. A. Watkins, 5th Floor Chamber;
cf Commerce Building, Atlanta, Ga.
Second Jury last
L. H. Mellette.
Furman Oxindine,
A. J. Ard, A
H. G. Hill.
C. E. Hurst.
T. L. Strange.
E. C. White.
J. R. Terry.
T. L. Moye,
F. H. Kolb.
Dainey D. Kirby,
A. Rytenberg
J. J. Hatfield.
A. A. .Bradham.
H. L. Tisdale.
R. S. Fowler
Barnes M?ntalbano
J. W. Weldon.
J. R. Netties
E. D. Boyette.
W. F. Baker.
J. J. Phillips,
L. W; Scott,
T. B. Suber,'
W. E. DuRant.
H. D. Warren,
J. E. Truluck,
R. T. Holiday,
M. K. McLeod,
W. Bultman,
W. G. Pierson.
M. E. Truluck,
R. M. Sanders,
Robert Shelor,
R. C. Watts,.
F. O. Xawson,
D. A. R.
A very pleasant meeting of Sumter's j
Kome Chapter D. A. R. was held at
the home of Mrs. M. ii. Parier ' of
Wedgeneld Tuesday afternoon. In
spite of the inclement weather quite
i number of members drove out from
town to enjoy the occasion with Mrs
Parier and her guests.
The chapter donated $25 to th
mountain school for girls at Tamasee;
the needs of the Georgetown school
were discussed and also, a gift for tht
French orphan supported by the
chapter, but it was decided to wait
until autumn to take action on these
two matters. The names of seven la
dies were presented and voted upon
as future members.
Election of officers for the ensuing
year followed, all present incumbents
being re-elected except Mrs. A. C.
Phelps, who declined to continue as']
treasurer. Miss Sophia Brunson was
elected in her place, and Mrs. Parier
was made vice regent, this office hav
ing been vacant since the death or
Mrs. Thomas Childs. Other officers
are: Regent, Miss Katherine Moses;
Secretary, Mrs. Wm. Moran; Histor
ian., Mrs. W. L. Saunders; Registrar.
Mrs.. Perry Moses.
After the business meeting refresh
ments were served by Mrs. Parier, as
sisted by Misses Thomas, Chandler,
and Weinberg. Mrs. R. I. Manning
then made an interesting little talk.
In an 'informal way she told of hev
impressions of France and visit to the
famous battlefields, the personal touch
making her narrative all the more de
lightful.
Fall Back Before Mob
Troops Retire at Hamburg to
Avoid Bloodshed
Berlin, June 29.?The government
troops of Gen. Von Lettowyorbeck at
tempted to enter Hamburg today but
retired when they were met by a large
mob, including many women. The
Communists in control at Hamburg
had, it is said, promised they would
offer no opposition to the entry of the
government troops. When the troops
were met by the mob, however, it
was decided to retire temporarily to
avoid possible bloodshed.
The date for a definite advance on
Hamburg is uncertain. The govern
ment forces include Schleswig, Bran
denburg. Bavarian, Saxon and naval
detachments.
Cotton Market |
I/OCAJD.
P. G. BOWMAN, Cotton Buyer.
(Corrected Daily .at 12 o'clock Noon)
Good Middling 33 1-4.
Strict Middling 32 3-4.
Middling 32 1-4.
Strict Middling 20 1-4.
NEW YORK COTTON MA H& 1P*\
Ye* td'y8
Open High Low Close Close
Oct . .33.50 33.72 33.IF. 33 63 33.3:
I>c . . 33.33 33.5 7 33.03 33.53 33.20
Men . .33.12 33.25 32.72 33.18 3.2.SS
Blockade to End
Ratification of Treaty to Termi
nate Trade Boycot of Ger
many
Washington, June 29.?The super
ior blockade council has been instruct
ed to be prepared to raise the eco
nomic blockade of Germany imme
diately upon ratification by the Ger
man national assembly of the peace
treaty.
This announcement was made to
night in a dispatch to the state de
partment from Paris, reading as fol
lows:
"At a meeting Thursday, June 26,
the council "of the principal allied and
I associated powers adopted the follow
ing resolutions in regard to the rais
ing of the blockade on Germany:
"The superior blockade council is
instructed to ba^ its arrangements
of rescinding restrictions upon trade
with Germany on the assumption that
the allied and associated powers will
not ask it to raise the blockade Until
the completion of th* ratification as
provided for at the end of the treaty
of peace with Germany, but that it is
to be raised immediately on the re-'
ceipt of information that the' treaty
of peace has been ratified by Ger
many."
The action of the council, officials
here explained, means that upon rati
fication of the treaty by Germany all
restrictions on trade with Germany
may be removed. Without requiring
'ndividual ratification by the allied
and associated poweus all of the na
tions arrayed against Germany in the
?var may have an equal start in the
race for German trade.
Raising of the blockade without
awaiting individual ratification was j
said by official to mean more to the
hecause final approval of the treaty,
owing to governmental machinery,
probably will require longer in the
United States than in the other coun
tries.
One result of the decision, if car
ried out, will be . to give the senate
unlimited time for consideration of
the treaty.
Shoe Prices Go Up
Tanners' Council Forecasts In
crease at New York Meeting
New Tork, June 29.?Still higher
nrices for shoes was forecast in a
-tatement issued today by the Tan
ners' Council of the United States af
er meeting here. Responsibility was
placed by Fred A. Vogel, president of
the council, at the door of the "good
Id rule of supply and demand." Not i
only is there a larg* demand Cor feath- j
er in this country European na-j
tions arc "anxious buyers." .i* ? ?
prices, according to the statenicnl
and that is to increase transportation
facilities.
than any other nation.
said.
There * is onlj one
Destitution and Distress in Petrograd.
London, May 20 (Correspondence of
the Associated Press)?Physically
normal persons no longer arc 10 he
found in Petrograd nor in all Rus
sia, says T. Hessen, a we'll known
Moscow journalist and member of cheUhe seller who looks for a buyer' but
treating him to some coffee, giving
him the place of honor and so on.
Money does not tempt him. He can
always get money. He needs it only
in order to continue his trade, of to
buy luxuries such as sable fur coats;
gold ornaments or gems.' It is-not
second Duma who has arrived in Cop
enhagen after a ion--, stay in Petro
grad. The mental produced hv
just the contrary. ? :: .
"Not rarely mothers are seen (who
have left at home their underfe"1 sick
starvafio; , disease and nervous strain, jehildren) pleading with a milkwoman
ho says, forces Russians to los?, their to yieia up naif a bottle of milk at
mental balance. |quite a shameless sum and it may
"Their mental condition so changes j happen that the milkwoman suddenly
their appearance that often one can-1 becomes eapricious.and does not even,
net recognize one'.4: nearest friend. I [answer the unhappy applicant. .. ..
remember the impression I had when! "Add to this the terrible typhus.
I met the well known lawyer, Rajeff- j and smallpox epidemics, ag?rhst
ski. At first I did not recognize i which there is not the slightest pos
him. Soon afterward I learned that! sibiiity of protection. Remarkably
he had hanged himself. ! enough the cholera epidemic that
"Similar things happen daily. I; nourished last summer Ceased sud
think it is to be wondered that such J denly as if b ya whim of; .nature." But
suicides do not become general Inj now the >y i/hus' .-nu! sin all pox. ??-??}>.:
all the streets one -.;:e?:u. still wetffdexuics deVeJ.Qjj*ng ~?o: u. and moV'v
dressed people, tncih and" women, beg- jseriousfy. To* ?-gorceHinierM:--has --no
ging. There, they stand some Of thenvj means to check 'them: ? The goy^C!
with, their heads down, dumb as if j ment cannot even procure ?wood
turned to stone; others tonelessly re-j enough fov coffins "nor transport--to
peating "I am dying. Give me some-1 the cemeteries. The ' survivors must
thing to eat.' watt days before they can bury the
"Even if one has sufficient money'dead. . ......
to pay the enormous prices one may I "It is obvious that people under
make acquaintance with starvation," j such conditions with such superhu
wrote Mr.. Hessen to the Copenhagen j.man efforts of energy demanded of
Politiken. "One has to get hold of a j them cannot continue 'to keep their
seller and persuade him to sell by \ mental balance." - * . . ,: -
Boys! There's a Bunch of live Wires* %
Who Sell 'Green Flag' Motor 0U inThis Coonty
They're right "up-to-the-minute" in everything they
do, and that's whv they're agents for "GREEN
FLAG" MOTOR OIL. I have been using "GREEN
FLAG" MOTOR OIL for more tha* a year, and
nothing else, and more than that, 111
drive ten miles out of my way if it?*
necessary, to get it. i found their ad
vertising honest.
Now Pm doiej some honest advertising" for "GREEN FLAG"
Oiyseii, by telling yon *>oys where you can "gel si"?;
Ciafr&iioiit Filling Station
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CHALMERS CARS Win Practically Everything
in Races Recently Held in Orangehiirg
and Darlington, Sooth Carolina
In Orangeburg Chalmers won first prizes
in ten and twenty mile race.
In Darlington they won four prizes, first
in five, fifteen and twenty mile races, and
second in fifteen mile race. They took
$575.00 out of $750.C0 offered.
J ust received a shipment of one seven and
two five passenger Chalmers. Can deliver
you a five immediately if you see us at once
before they are all gone.
Sumte r Motor Company