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B PERSONAL. Mr. J. G. Johnson of Charlotte is a visitor in the city today. Mr. and Mrs. R. H .Jennings have returned to their home in Orange burg after visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Phelps here for some time. Mr. W. B. Foster, of Charleston is a ?business visitor here today. Mrs. Marion Zemp of Columbia was a recent visitor in the city. Mr. W. K. Thompson of'Camden was a business visitor here on Wed nesday. Mr. Martin Ludecke of New York is in ihe city for the wrestling bout on Friday. Mr. Tinker of Mt. Pleasant is spend ing some time in the city. . Mr. Howard Jones of the University of South Carolina is spending the day in the city with his parents. ^ Mr. M. E; Hughes was in the city on Monday in the interest of the Rad cliffe Chautauqua, Mr. W. O. Y'oung was a visitor here ] ? Monday from Columbia. Miss Dorothy Brown left last night} for an extended visit to friends and ! relatives in Columbia and Charles- j ton. Mr. Paul McXally of Union is spend- j ing the day in Sumter. Dr. E. M. Cudworth, of Charleston was a visitor here Monday on bus iness. Mrs. M. L. Parier of Wedgefield and Misses Alice Moses and Edith De Lorme leave today for Cheraw to at tend .the State D. A. R. Convention as t*re Sumter chapter delega^s. - Mr. George S. JacksoJi of Charles - ton is spending a short time in the city. j ?Mr. and Mrs. Ray Williford have J returned to their home in Union after) a few hours spent here. ? i Messrs. Arthur Bell and George ; Bultman have retruned from a visit 1 to Rock Hill and Charlotte. ' Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Arthur are visitors here today from Columbia. Mr. ,D. Cj Shaw left last night for a business trip to Colombia. Mr. ,C, N. Roberts of Columbia j spent Tuesday and today in Sumter on i! a business trip. Mr. W. E. Arnold of Charlotte has;! returned to his home- after 'a few! days spent here. Miss Rhetta Morgan of Greenwood ! was In Sumter on Tuesday for a short j; time en route to Charleston to visit I, friends and relatives. - jj , Mr. Ruskin Anderson of Seneca isi visiting here today. V Mr. Hal . Harby left this morning i] to attend a convention in Charles- ? ton. |3 ' Mr. A. C. Arnold of Davidson Col- j* lege was a visitor in the city on j1 Tuesday. |* Mrs. Alex Burton has returned top her home"~in Columbia after a short :; stay in Sumter,. - Mr. W. S. Manning of Spartanburg i1 was a recent visitor j here^. 11 Mr.. A.. C. Norris of Florence spent :] veral. days here on business. j Miss Mayo Reese of Columbia I spent the week end with Mrs. Johr/R. j Sumter on W. Hampton Avenue. j Mr. W. L. Williams was a recent j ] .visitor here from Florence. Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Ralph of Char- j iotte spent Tuesday in the city, j: where Mr. Ralph came on business. J They were accompanied by Mrs. M. i S. Gentry of Richmond, Va. Mr. P. K. Griffith of St. Matthews has returned to his home after a brief stay in the city. Mr. C. H. Webb is a business visitor here today from Charleston. Mrs. Ben Bonham of Anderson was I a recent visitor here for a few hours, j !? Private Samuel Maxwell of the U. ! S. Army was in the city on Tuesday. I Mr. J. H. Earle of Anderson is vis- ! fting relatives in the city. j Mrs. Florence Shaw has gone to j TVastrfngtoii, d. C to spend a couple of weeks. DeWitt Brunsen, who was recently graduated from the Business College at Poughkeepsie. N. Y.. has returned home. Mrs. W. C Wolfe and son have re turned from a visit to Charlotte. Miss Omera Clyde Lee, who has been the guest of Miss Ainslie Felder, on NotTh Washington street, has re turned to her home in Columbia. Miss Constance Bultman has return ed to Hood College, Fredrick, Md. Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Folley have re turned from New Y'ork. Mr. J. R. Lawson went to Orange burg this morning to attend the Clem son-Citadei football game. Rev. J. S. Beasley. one of the vet erans of the South Carolina Methodist Confe^'mce. who is now on the super annuated list, has returned to Sumter to make hf^ home here. Mr. Beasley was Presiding Elder of th^ Sumter j District from 1897 to 1900 and resided j here during that period. His many j friends in the city, and county will j welcome him back to Sumter. Cotton Market j (Corrected daily at 12 o'clock by Chamber of Commerce.) Good middling. 38c. Strict middling. 37 1-4. Middling, 36 1-2. Strict Low Middling. 34 1-2." Low Middling; 31 1-2. NEW YORK COTTON A3 A It RET. T?a'td'y8 Op?n High Low How Ol ob* Jan. . . .35.05 3>;.f>8 34.9.5 36.50 35.16 Mch. ...33.75 :Tr.02 33.60 35.02 34.Ox May ...32.60 34.07 32.50 34.05 33.16 July ...31.95 3::.45 31.95 33.45 32.48 Dec. ...36.00 ::7.45 35.SO 37.45 36.20 New Orleans. Jan. ...35.30 36.40 35.09 36.35 35.49 .Mch. ...33.90 35,15 13.70 35.15 34.20 May ...32.90 34.22 32.69 34.18 33.20 July ...32.00 3-?:25 31.S3 33.25 32.331 Dec. . .36.20 3^.75 35.20 37.75 36.63; Show your pride in your Sumter County Chapter. .loin the Red Cross. The Red Cross job is an American? job. Are you an American? Firm Reply to Be Sent to Rou manian Government as a Warning GERMAN AFFAIRS ALSO DISCUSSED i Berlin Warned Not to Sell Avi ation Material in Violation of Armistice Paris. France. Nov. 13.?The Su preme Council today discussed the note sent to Rumania in response to Rumania's recent note. The allied re ply, it is forecast, will be firm, the Rumanian note being regarded as evasive and unsatisfactory. Another subject considered was the! elections recently held in Silesia. A! note to Germany was framed advising; it to disregard these elections. A not? j was also sent to Germany warning the! Berlin government that the sale ofj German aviation material is a viola- j tion of the armistice and will not be j tolerated. ! TALK ON NATION WIDE CAMPAIGN ^?? > j Prof. J. Nelson Frierson, of Co-; lumbia, Addressed Meeting of Members of Episcopal Church 1 Prof. J. Nelson Frierson, of Colum- j bia, was the principal speaker last j night at a meeting of the congregation ; of the Church of the Holy Comforter.! held in the interest of the Nation Wide j Campaign that the Episcopal church \ has inaugurated to raise a fund for i the purpose of extending and enlarg ing the activities of ;n * church both at home and^ in the for. .gn fields. Prof. Frierson explained the pur- | poses and the scope of the work that j has been planned to increase useful- i ness of the church. He spoke of the i responsibilities and the opportunities I that the church must meet if it per- I forms its full luty to Christianity and ; civilization under the changing condi- j tions of this momentous period; and ' said that the leaders of the church ! organization fully realized their re- : sponsibility and that they through this;; Nation Wide Campaign are appealing; to 'the laity of the church to place in their hands the means to do the work i :hat the church has been called to do. j News From Wedgefield. i Tour correspondent h:r: not used ' his allotted space in your columns of late, but these ate unusual times and the mania, or whatever it is, has seemed to affec: all alike. Folks do: not have time to read much, nor write and seldom leave home. The j <?nu.se. though. 1 think, in the rural1 district, is the unprecedented good; weather for harvesting crops; no rain to cause any let-up at all during the whole fall. With corn and potatoes all harvested and gins running on half time, it is a sign that the farm ers' trials are almost over for the year. Very little wheat is being planted.; Some kind of weevil got in his work : on the crop last spring, after being harvested, and practically destroyed ' it. This put a black eye on the wheat production in thSs section. Our community was saddened on two occasions this month: First, on Sunday, November 1st, when it be came known one of our widest known and most reputed citizens, James Bai ley Grouch, after a long illness had j passed into the beyond. Mr. Crouch was born in Edgefield county August Sth, 1S45. and answered the call of! his country to arms, enlisting at the age of 16. He was wounded in battle' early in the war and never saw active] duty again, but was connected with j hospital work until the close of the war. Soon after the war he was mar-: ried to Miss, Matilda Carter .varfield,i of Richland Co. After her deatn be was married the second time to Miss Annie Burkett, of Sumter. who sur vives him. Mr. Crouch was a consist- \ ent member of the Baptist church., His funeral was preached at the! church by his pastor. Rev. William j Haynsworth, and the interment was in the Sumter cemetery. He will be, missed in the community as a sue-! cessful farmer, a kind, honest and con-1 genial neighbor. The ether was the tragic culmina-i tion by acidental death of the bright' future of W. Harrison Saunders, only ; son of Mr. and Mrs. VV. L. Saunders. j of Stateburg. Though -only 2? yearsj of age he was a major in the aerial j forces of the l\ S. A.- After a sue-' cessful flight and a perfect landing.: the gasoline tank of the machine ex- j ploded and injured him to such an ex-: tent before he could be removed, that death followed in a few days. Mr. F. (>. Chaplin has begun the enctioo of a residence on the lot re cently purchased on South Main! street. The dreaded boll weevil has not made i s appearance in our midst yet. but guess he will if the warm weather continues. It is hard luck just al the time when i our farmers have begun to realize :i profit from the efforts of toil to have their prospects blasted by the arrival] of the weevil: but guess we can live through it as the other folks have done, and continue to farm al :i profit. Tulcan, Ecuador. Nov. 12.?A plot] has been discovered here to over throw the government. The hcadnuar ters of the conspiracy is believed to be in Colombia. A BEAUTIFUL i CEREMONIAL ! Trinity Church Demobilizes f Flags?Soldiers Assist Boy Scouts _ The exercises demobilizing the Hags , at Trinity Methodist church Tuesday ' evening were much enjoyed by the j good assembly present to honor the soldiers. Dr. MeUeod presided and Drs. Edmunds and Rice made ad-, dresses. Miss Mabel Bowman was i dressed as Columbia and acted her part well, taking down the Service Klag first, furling it and handing it to a soldier, who in -urn passed it to j two Boy Scouts 10 he taken to the archives of the church. Mr. Julius [Chandler represented the Navy, 'Messrsi Dan Allen and Carlton IX Humphries the army, two of them standing guard while the third hand led the flag. The L\ S. dag was then j unfurled and displayed. Six. Boy! Scouts. Harry Rettenberg. Edward Buck, Frank Hark. Harrell YVhilden, Henry Bruner and Caiiton Whilden, acted as guard of honor standing in line In front of the pulpit. They also ushered. As the U. s. Fing was un furled the Scouts came to attention, and the choir struck up the Star Spangled Banner, the audience rising and joining. A pleasant reception-was held under, the auspices of the recreation depart-.' mem at the close. Dr. Rice had re-' quested that we get together as a sort of symbolic act. This, he said, was one of the lessons of the war. Na tion.- is well as individuals, must get closer to each other: must know eaeh* other in order thai they might like; eaeh other better. The war would mean little if we are to go oh in our same old way of cxelusiveness and in difference. The McLeod "Wesley Bible Class rat in a body. Reserved seats were oc cupied by the families of the soldiers. APPROPRIATE EXERCISES AT ALL SCHOOLS. In honor of the anniversary of the signing of the armistice the public schools of the city had appropriate exercises at noon in all of the school buildings on yesterday and adjourn ed for the day immediately upon the (dose of these exercises. The two high schools had a joint session in the auditorium of the Girl's High School building. The following was the program: America. Invocation, Song by gods of the high school. The American Patrol, High School Orchestra. Address by Mr. McLeod Rice. The National Anthem of France, Address by Mr. L. C. Moise. War songs by the boys of the high i school. i Reading the names of the boys of ; of high school who had given their ;i lives in the Great War. The National Anthem of America. March?High School Orchestra. These were brief and were very en joyable in every way and the puplis, were led. to feel why the day should i be observed. SLOSS-MOSES On Wednesday afternoon at 5:30 Miss Nettie Sloss of New York was married to Mr. Herbert A. Mos^s of ibis city. The marriage took piace ;it tlie home of the bride's mother. Mrs. Hugo Sloss. in New York with , only close relatives of both parties in attendance. After the ceremony the couple left for a ten-day trip to points in Canada and upon their return they will make their home in Sumter at 14 S. Wash ington street. Mrs. Moses has visited here several times and has made many friends. She is a Southern girl, having lived ir. EuXala, Ala., until a few years ago. She is a graduate of Shorter College. ; Ca.. and after her family moved to New York she studied kindergarten : methods, graduating from the Ethical Culture School. She has also done, graduate work at Colunmbia Univer sity. For some years she has done settlement work in New York and has ; b? en a teacher of primary classes in ; the Robert Louis Stevenson School. ? Sh'? was greatly interested in war , work, helping especially to entertain convalescent soldiers in the big New 'fork hospitals. Mr. Moses is a well known business man of Sumter. taking an active in- , teivst in whatever concerns the wel- j Care of his native town. After grad uating from the University of South Carolina, he lived for some time in Columbia, and later returned there as private secretary to Governor Man- j nihg. He served with the 2nd South Carolina Regiment during the Span ish-American war. and in the World War, was interested in all war uc-j tivities. giving much of his time to this work and acting as county chair man for War Savings Stamps. Married. Mr. Donald i: McLeod and Miss-j Alice Hudson, of Mayepville, were] married at tlv^ Presbyterian mansej at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon by\ Kev. J. P. Marion. j A young negro named Curtis Shaw' was arrested by authorities Wednes day for stealing. It appears that the ; negro has on previous occasions been convicted of the offense, but. sine? bis re'urn from the army, he has been working for Ducker and . Bultmah. This morning the author ities were notified and the young negro was watched. The officer j caught Ford in the act of talcing two. boxes of tobacco and several thous and cigarettes from the concern's! store room. The thief was arrested and will b<- tried in circuit rourt. MEN'S MASS MEETING SUNDAY AFTERNOON! Dr. S. J. Derrick, president of New berry College, will speak to the men and bovs of Sumter Sunday afternoon i at 3:If. o'clock at Y. M. C. A. build-; ing. Special music Ins been arranged and those in charge look for a good attendance. Eveiy young man in thc; city is cordially invited to attend thh< MUST ' NOT DEFACE MOTOR Criminal Offense to Cut Number From Motor For Conceal ment i - Jt is not generally known to the' public that an act passed by the leg islature at its ISIS session making it a misdemeanor to erase the motor numbers from cars is in force in this State. This act. as given, will ho of inter est to many: Section 1. Handling, etc., of cer tain motor vehicles a misdemeanor, penalty. Be it enacted by the Gen eral Assembly of the State of South Carolina, whoevei knowingly, buys sells, receives, disposes of, conceals, or has in possession any motor ve hicle from which the manufactur er's serial number or any other dis tinguishing number or indentifica tion mark has been removed, defac ed, covered, altered or destroyed, for the purpose of concealment or mis representing the identity of the said motor vehicle, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and. on conviction, shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.?Ap proved the 9th Day of March, i\. D., 191S. COUNTY COMMIS SIONERS' MEETING Position of County Engineer Filled Temporarily * On Tuesday. November 11th. the County Board of Commissioners held a special nutting at the court house at 10 a. m., with all members pres ent. Chairman McL?urin reporting foi rh<- committee appointed at the- last monthly meeting of the hoard to temporarily till the place of County Engineer Jones, resigned, stated that this committee had placed Mr. A. D. Thompson in charge of the chain gang forces and road work on a thir ty day trial. The action of the com mittee was approved by the board. The board directed 'that ail pur chases for the maintenance of the chain gang and alms house should h< made by Supt. Thompson and the clerk, but that all purchases of equip ment must come before the board. SALARIES RAISED Employes of Sumter Post Omcf Receive Advance The salaries of the employees a' the local postoffice have been increas ed by a recent order issued at Wash ington. This increase is to go intc effect at once. Those whose salariei were between $1,000 and $1,200 wil receive an increase of $200 per year those between SI,200 and $1,600'wil receive $150 increase, while $125 wil be added to those salaries betweer and including $1,600 and $2,000. Sub Stitutes will receive a salary of 60< per hour instead of 40c as heretofore It is the hope of the authoritier that this increase in salary will tent to get more and better equipped met to" stand the examination for eligi bles. /This salary increase will also tern", trf make the present service more effi cient, if that is possible. SPKCIAL COMMUNICATION. Of Hollywood (amp to Meet Hear Consul .J. M. Daniel, of Greenville and lion. F, H. McMastor. The member ?? of The "Woodmen o' the World are cordially invited tc attend a meeting of the Camp Wed nesday, November 19. at 7:30 p. m. for the purpose of meeting Head Con sul J. M. Daniel of Greenville, ant Hon. F. H. McMaster, former insur ance commissioner, of Columbia These gentlemen have been invited tr meet with. us. so that they may ex plain the situation that we now lint ourselves in. as we have to compl> \-.:".t the law of South Carolina. Do not allow the Old Bine ager.1 to confuse you for they have onl\ their own selfish interests at heart COme to this meeting and find out 'just what is going to take place, tha1 your rates are not going to be raised jso much that you eanr.ot pay them. That when you understand the situa tion you will find that the W. O. W. is not only the strongest fraternal so ciety, but after January it will he one 'of the strongest insurance companie> in the entire world. Fraternally yours, R. S. HOOD. Clerk. Marriage Licenses White?Dr. R. McLeod, Sumter. and Alice Hudson. Mayesvile. Colored?Hazel Genrette, Sumter and Emma Jane Brand; Sumter. James McEIveen, Sumter and Re becca Nelson, Sumter. Proceedings of Court In court on Monday the case of F .V Ream es vs. T. 1>. Lawrence was completed just as c?urt adjourned. The plaintiff sued the defendant for a verdict Tor the full amount. Tin a verdict f- r the ful amount. The plaintiff was represented by L. D. Jennings, while the defendant was represented by J. II. Clifton. Today the case of B. L. Beck vs Deleware Underwriters, is being tried. The store of Me. Heck was destroyed by fire some lime ago, but he was noi paid his fir" insurance. The suit is for $i.oa(t. Mr. Beck is represented in counsel by Woods and Duffie and Senator Epps. while tin- insurance company has secured the services of .Messrs. <;? <>. i). Levy and Jno. 11. Clif ton. CONCORD BOX PARTY The Concord school will give a box parly Monday night. November 17 ;i! 7:30 o'clock. The boxes will be auc tioned off. After supper there will 1> games ami music. The public is cor dially invited to attend. j POSTAL DISTRTB ! UTING CENTER Sumter Selected One of Two Supply Depots The government at Washington has j decided to try a new plan in the dis tribution of all supplies to the third [and fourth class post offices In South [Carolina. These supplies consist of 'blanks, forms, ink. stationery? etc.. j In this state there are 69 post of fices of the third class and 550 of the j fourth class. i An inspector was sent to this state! from Washington to visit the various; (first class post offices and determine! which two were managed and equip- ! perl to render this service. Sum-er has been selected as one of j the distributing points, the other has j noi been determined. This honor; means that 46 third class and 275 j fourth class post offices in the state | will receive their supplies from Sum-} ter. What offices this number will in- j elude has not been decided. The ar- j rangement goes into effect at an i early date. This is a distinct honor for the! city and especially so for the authdri-j ties in charge at the local post office ! Our "boys" did not quit until they; had won. Neither will we. - VIENNA POVER TY STRICKEN; - j No Prospect of Fuel and Prices; of Necessities Prohibitive . -_ i Vienna. Oct. 10?Outwardly, Vienna; is the same as before the war, but! actually this great city is stricken.j Dozens of theatres and operas are open, cafes and music halls are crowd-! ed, but a very large part of the popu-i lation is in poverty, lacking not onl^a food and clothing, but a place to live.1 The streets are thronged, shops open-j ed. shop windows filled with the ar-j tides of luxury for which Vienna is: famous, but the better part of the I steck is to be found in the windows, j Virtually everything is priced in; hundreds of crowns. Austrian money! paper only and unbacked by precious; metal, goes steadily down. Even the vwarms of beggars that infest the j streets look reproachfully at anything; less than the pink piece Of paper that; indicates two crowns. Ii: costs a huh-; fired crowns to go a few blocks by' carriage, taxicabs being few and al- i most prohibitive even in the depre-! ciated money, while the street porters, old men who act as messengers and; carriers, will noi cross the street for. less than twenty crowns. Once the best dressed town in the world, Vienna is plain to the point of shabbines's. Most of the women wear unmistakable homemade gowns and the men's clothing shows the mark j of wear, the cleaner, the mender and | )ften the tailors who turn the unwear" j able inside out. "It would cost me four months' sal- j ary to buy a hew suit of clothes now," j remarked a foieign office official, as' he smiled at hi-i fiv^-year-old serge, 'and I most eat ocasjonally." The other day there was a great demonstration of state pensioners be? fore the Mouse of Parliament and j <ome of the cases cited by the deputa-! tion to the government were pitiful, j These pensioner.-; said they were starving. Meantime the press openly charges! ?hat back door or illicit trade in food , applies and other commodities sup- ! ?osedly under government control; s widely prevalent. Vienna is suffering from lack of 'musing facilities The population is stimated at 200.000 to 4OO.O'OO more| ban in normal times. The city gov- \ >rnme::t lately has taken a -few half- ; 1 carted steps in an effort to bring re- ? ?iof.- A largre number of so-called ho-j reis of rather evil reputation are to be cleaned out of their present occu- j pants and turned over as lodgings for : 'lie poor. The same order expels "rom their premises, often nearly pal- j itial. and confiscates for public hous-1 ?ng purposes, ihe homes of the rich \ lemi-mondc. Also it is contemplated j o make use of some of the splendid: and practically unoccupied private' palaces. ; The papers and the more spirited; ind farseeing men are sounding the j ilarm of a fueHess winter. The Inter- j Allied Coal Commission has been try-; ing to provide at least a modicum of i fuel for city utilities, but they admit j it will be only a pittance of the nor- j mal supply. All around the city the j beautiful forests are boincr cut down j lor firewood and fuel is the cne de-1 mand. The hotels answer the query of ev-j *ry guest or prospective guest, "No. I we do not hope to have heat or hot j water, only fire for cooking." All through the months since thej Peace Conference began the Vienesse. i high and low. have said with simple j faith. "When the peace is signed; things will mend." They cannot ex-! plain exactly why or how. but theyj have ?.-.injured themselves with the! idea that some sort of miracle will] occur. But the peace has been sign-; ed and nevertheless the crown goes; down day by day and prices go up j and everything is as bad as ever. Now; they say. "The preparations commis-j sion. Ah. yes. the commission. They, will fix things." _I_ SALARY OF GER- j MAN PRESIDENT Ebert to Have One Hundred; Thousand Marks Berlin. Oct. 17.?President Ebert'sj salary has been fixed al 1OO.OO0 marks by the Budget Commission, which also] placed a similar sum at his disposal' for incidentals for which he is to give: ;i strict accounting. SENATOR MARTIN PASSES AWAY Charlottesville. Va.. Nov. 12.?Sen-| ator Martin di-W today. CONVENTION OF LUTHERANS [ New York, Nov. 6.?A program, to [mobilize a million Lutheran men fof 'peace time service was presented to j the opening session of the after-war ?convention of the Lutheran Brother ihood of America today. The eon jvention is being held in the Cameo iRoom of the Hotel Morrison,,-Chicago. [Twelve hundred delegates from every j part of the country, representing, lo cal brotherhoods, are in at: mdance. j The Convention was opened by the I Pn-sident of the Brotherhood, Dr. J. A. O. Stub of Minneapolis. 1 Dr. Stub summarized the war work of the Brotherhood. He pointed out that the Brotherhood was an emergency organization called into being by the emergency of the war. At its first meeting in 1917 it had thirty mem bers. Today it has* more than sixty thousand. Dr. Stub then pointed to the question what shall be the task " <>f the Brotherhood in times of peace. He said, "Our Lutheran church's man-power is today an undeveloped fact or of incalculable possibilities. It is the aim of the Brotherhood to or ganize this force and make it avail able for church, home, and country." ' There- are three things especially which I have in mind for the Broth erhood to do. In the first place it will, of course, continue a good deal of its war work in such places wher? our boys will be in the army and^ na vy. {* \ ..' ' ... There is a great peace, task before us now though which we must do for our young men; that is the establish ment, of Lutheran social centers in . every one of the larger cities. It is necessary that we have such centers as rallying points to which the many thousands of young men of our church... that come to the cities cap be directed. The losses to the church, through lack of such provision now, is incal culable. Our'main interest is not in retaining church membership. It is the obligation of protective care which ate have for those young men and it is the larger view of service for our country which we have learned dur ing the war. We want to serve them, not for the church as an organization but for our church as a living pow<_., for everything that a.s worth while in our nation. "A similar service we must render at the state universities. Especially in the middle west a large percentage of the students at the state universi ties are Lutherans. The Brotherhood aims to establish Lutheran centers S at these universities that can serve as gathering points and can bring the service of the church to the boys that are preparing for larger usefulness." ? Dr. A. B. Learner, of Des Moines, ? Iowa. Secretary of the Brotherhood ? reported on the war work done by the Brotherhood. He pointed out that the Brotherhood hadv buildings for eleven Student Army Training Corps, that it spent more than a quarter of a million dollars in taking the church to the boys in the army and navy." The officers of the Brotherhood are: President Dr. J. A. O. Stubb, Pas tor Ceneral Lutheran Church, Minne apolis, Minn., former Executive Sec retary National Lutheran Comrois- v sion. ' Vice President. R. V. A. Norrbom, Roaster First Swedish Lutheran, Church. Des Moines, Iowa. Vice President, Mr. N. $. Nielsen, General Manager Randall L-unrffcer Co.. Des Moines, Iowa. , Vice President, - Rev. Emil Rausch, Pastor Lutheran Church, Waverly, Iowa. Vice President, Rev. P. O. Bersell, Pastor First Lutheran Church, Ot tumwa, Iowa. Vice President, Rev. Otto Mees, President Capitol University, Colum bus. Ohio. Secretary, Dr. A. B. Learner, Pastor St. John's Lutheran Church, Des Moines, iowa. Treasurer, Hon. A. O. Hague, Mem ber of Iowa Legislature, President of Iowa Trust and Savings Bank, Des Moines. Iowa. In the evening a banquet was he]d in the Morrison Hotel at which nearly 2.000 delegates and guests were pres ent. Dr. J. A. O. Stub presided at the banquet. Dr. W. A. Granville, Presi dent of Gettysburg College, was the toastmaster. The addresses of the evening were given by Dr. Frederick H. Knubel, President of tfce United Lutheran Church and by Hon. Clar ence .Magney, Mayor of the city of Duluth. Dr. Knubel spoke on the theme. ' Mobilizing the TLutheran men for Country and Church." His ad dress was received with great enthu siasm. He said. "The' war found the Lutheran church divided, not know ing its strength nor its possibilities. ?In a few months the war necessities compelled united action in a manner as was conceived impossible only shortly before. The Lutheran church took a commanding position in es tablishing the church of Christ as a, factor in bringin gassistance and re lief as well as ministering spiritually to the soldiers and sailors. The end of th% war found the Lutheran Church strong, a national force and factor for good. ' Great tasks have developed for the church out of the war. The great est of them is the obligation of the Lutheran Church of America to the Lutherans of the rest of the world. The war has made the Lutheran church an international force. Al ready closer ties through service and helpfulness are being formed with the Lutherans across the water, whose cry for help has been unanswered in a large and generous measure by the Lutherans of America, and when the debris of the war is finally cleared up, there will emerge, no doubt, a Lu theran Federation embracing the Lu therans of the world based on a unity of faith and of heart. "To this groat international task which marks an epoch in the history of the church, it is our duty to bring the m"st eareful preparation. That preparation will mainly consist in de veloping the teaching function of our church. Only as we keep alive the thorough knowledge of oun. Lutheran faith in every one of our members and strengthen it by a fuller appli cation to our duty, will we be abl? to do the duties that are resting upon us." Madrid, Spain. Nov. 12.?It is re ported here that Portugal will acquire some small warships in the United States.