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NO MORE NAVAL WARFARE i Five Great Powers are , Agreed in Principle and Spirit to Reduc tion of Naval Arma ment Washington, Nov. 15. ? The spokesmen of Great Britian, | France. Italy and Japan, accepted f the American proposals for the i Minitation of naval armament in "spirit and principle," making only preservations for suggesting some itxfgbdification of details. I- Arthur Half our for Britain, Bar ton Admiral Kato for Japan, Senator I Schanzer. for Italy, Premier Briand f:. for-Erance, in order, praised the ! plan and program suggested by the American- government and gave the adherence of their governments to I the general terms. ?, Secretary Hughes, thanking them t'- tot .their cordial expressions, de clared the conference could pro ceed ?with consideration of the de tails of * the proposed agreement with the assurance of "appropriate agreement to the end that there shall he no more offensive naval war-are." . Conference adjourned at 12:44 o'clock, subject to the call of Sec retary Hughes. Peace With Germany President Harding Issues . Proclamation of Formal ^ Peace .' c ? ? ________ '. ' ? Washington, Nov. 14.?Peace be tween the United States and Ger xoany'was formally proclaimed to day by President Harding. The president in a proclamation signed at 3:52 p. m. today declared the state of war between the United States and Germany, existing from April 6, 1917,* to have terminated July 2, 1921, when the* joint peace resolution of congress was appro v e^LTby the executive. Issuance of the proclamation, which followed an exchange of ratifications of the treaty at Ber lin effected Armistice day in the '"finnan capital, was considered the first-.of a series of three steps which, when completed, will return the United States to a complete peace status. The second step probably will be the promulgation of a proclamation declaring the war with Austria to be at an end, and the issuance q~ similar proclamation with re spect to Hungary. Until the third ? and" final step is taken, the purpose of the .formal proclamation will not be achieved, in the opinion of offi cials. These purposes are stated to be to put an end without doubt to': certain war laws unaffected by the congressional resolution of re . peal approved last March 3. No table among these wartime laws are sections of the espionage acr, the Liberty bond act and trading with the enemy act. Portions of the last named statute are preserv ed, however, through the treaty. Disposition of the cases of Eu-. gene Y. Debs and others, convicted i>Z violation of war laws, likewise WiS await the third and final step. Attorney General Daugherty has! prepared an opinion for the presi dent, suggesting a method of dis posing of the Debs case and. it is understood, proposing definite treatment of the case of others, convicted of similar offenses. This opinion, however, has not yet been presented to the president, and Mr. Daugherty has indicated there may be 3ast minute changes before its submission: The proclamation issued today has no bearing on the resumption of diplomatic relations between the United States and Germany, state department officials asserting that the exchange of ratifications in it self restored such diplomatic rela tions. Just when Germany will resume her old diplomatic status in Washington is not known to offi cials here, but it is expected that Baron Thermann, former counsell or of the German legation at Bu dapest, will arrive in Washington shortly to arrange for a technical installation of a German embassy. Press dispatches from Germany -have indicated that the Ebert gov jemment was having difficulty in "finding a suitable appointee to the ?Washington ambassadorship in view of the expense through dif ference in exchange rates. It has been- suggested that Germany might for a time be content with a charge d'affaires, but such sugges tion has not been officially com municated to th*^ American sta.e department. President Harding for some time has had under consideration the names of several possibilities as ambassadors to Germany and it is "understood that Representative Alanson H. Houghton of New York is first:in the president's mind in that connection. INVESTIGATION OF WATSON'S CHARGES DELAYED Washingt onN.ov. if>.?The mem bers of the special senate commit tee appointed to investigate tin charges by Senator Watson, of -Georgia, of hanging soldiers in Trance without trial, state that the ino.uiry will probably not be gin until after the regular session of congress begins next month. Topeka. Nov. 17.?Charles S. Barrett, of Union City, Ga.. was unanimously re-elected president of the National Farmers' Union at the annual convention. MORE SECRET DIPLOMACY AT CONFERENCE Disarmament Confer ence Adopts Plan of Committees Meet ing in Secret Session Washington, Nov. 14.?The real work of the armament negotiations was transferred *oday from the open conference to the more se cluded precincts of the committee room. After a debate which developed widely separated views on the ad visability of giving publicity to the negotiations, the big five, compris ing the chief delegates of the Unit ed States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan, settled on the committee rlan as the only ac ceptable solution. To one committee, -whose mem bership will be identical with that of the full conference itself, was ; assigned the task of working out a solution for the Far Eastern ques S tions. Another, composed of all the delegates of the five great pow ers, was created to take over the negotiations on the main topic of armament limitation. Since only the delegates of the five powers are qualified to act on armament limitation in the conference, the result in each case will be to re solve the delegates into a "commit tee of the whole." j Although no,official would make j a prediction prior to the assembl ing of the new "committees," the presumption everywhere tonight was that the meetings would be held behind closed doors and that j the public would get a glimpse of I the proceedings only when, in I their capacity as committeemen. 1 the delegates have an important decision to report to the conference i as a whole. The committee plan was said to have been agreed to as the- most direct method of attack on the j problems before the conference, since it would permit greater lib erty of confidential expression be tween the representatives of the various governments and would be necessary should the sessions continue entirely in the open. Strike Talk ' Renewed by Unions General Chairmen of Railroad Brotherhoods Meet in Chicago? I Chicago, Nov. 14.?Six hundred fifty general chairmen and officers ! of the Brotherhood of Locomotive j Engineers and Brotherhood of Lo ! comotive Firemen and Enginemen opened a three-day meeting here today to consider their officials' ac j tion in calling off the threatened railroad strike and to plan their future course of action. [ Warren S. Stone, grand chief j of the engineers, and William S. Carter, president of the firemen and enginemen. announced at the ! end of the first session that they I would have nothing to say before j tomorrow night, when a statement probably will be made. Although T. C. Cassen, president of the Switchmen's Union of North I America, was reported to be in the j city with several of his executive j officers, he did not attend the meet ing, and Mr. Stone said he was not expected. Neither W. G. Lee. president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, nor I. E. Shep pard, president of the Order of Railway Conductors, was present or represented. Union officials explained that the general chairmen in attendance I were those who did not respond to I the United States Railway Labor ! Board's order to attend the hearing j here two weeks ago, which culmi nated in the calling off of the threatened strike. Following an explanation by Mr. Stone and Mr. Carter of the rea ' sons which actuated the unions in '. canceling the strike order, several j committees were appointed to con sider problems of future action, j and directed to report at 9 o'clock i tomorrow morning. Mr. Stone said I the officials expected to complete I their work by Wednesday night, j The grand chief of the engineers denied that today's session had any connection with the announcement made at Cleveland last week that j the unions would revive the strike j vote if the Labor Board failed to make ?,'ood on the unofficial prom i ise that no further wage cuts would be considered until all pending [rules and working conditions on ; the lines involved are settled, j All the union officials were re ticent when asked to discuss the subjects considered at the meeting, but united in saying that only , routine problems of future opera tions were discussed. Mills Are Using More Cotton Washington. Xov. 15.?Tin- Oc tober cotton consumption amount ed to almost 41*5,000 bales of lint and G1-.000 linters, compared with 401.000 bales of lint, and 48.O0U , bales of linters in October, preced ing tie- census bureau anouneed ! today. <? j Churches Are Only Hope of Civilization Detroit, Xov. 15. ? if tin- churches fail, there is small hope for civiliza tion. President Harding told the national conference of the Method ist Episcopal church in a message read at the opening session bv Bishop William F. McDowell, of Washington. Formal Acceptance of Hughes' Limitation Proposals Laid Be fore Conference by Balfour Washington. Xov. 15. ? The second plenary session of the armament conference began at 11 o'clock under an agreement pro viding for opportunity for any na tion to express its views on the American plan for the limitation of naval armaments. In view of the decision of the two conference committees on procedure yesterday to establish two committees to take over the armament negotia tions and Far Eastern questions, it is considered possible that no more open sessions will be held before the period of actual decisions. Columbia Street Railway Loses Money During Ten Months of This Year Expenses Exceeded Income $91,055 Columbia. Xov. 15.?The Colum bia Street railway is up against a crisis, and if Columbia is to con tinue to have street era- service, something must be done, according to a statement issued today by offi cers of the Columbia Railway, Gas 6c Electric Co. For the first ten months of the year the street railway took in $373.701 and its expenses totaled $467,710, showing a loss for the ten months of $91,055. "This can't go any longer," state the officials to day. The company is calling on the people of the city to help remedy the situation. A' conference has been held with Mayor Blalock, and it is intimated that municipal own ership may result. The company states that it docs not want to have to reduce wages, but this may come, to an extent. It does not, says the statement, want to increase fares: that would do no good. Reduction of expenses is the remedy, but where to reduce is the problem. The suggestion has been made that one-man cars would reduce expenses. But what are wc to do with the big two-men cars we now own. asks the com pany; we can't afford to hold them and by new cars, and they are too big for one man each to operate. Officers of the company state frankly that they do not know what ! to do. but the next few weeks will probably bring some announce ment. The street railway here is suffer ing from automobile competition, as are ail street railways of the country. ? ? ? Burley Tobacco Growers Organizing ! Farmers Getting Together to Market Their Crops Co J operatively Lexington, Ky? Xov. 16.?The or ganization committee of the pro jected Burley Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Marketing Association met here today to receive reports from the county chairmen in Ken tucky, Indiana, Ohio and West Vir ginia on the amounts of tobacco pledged to the association. o o ? The moonshine industry must be picking up by the number of still that are being captured. There is no wonder that lawless men are jtempted to go into the manufact | ure of liquor when they arc so ten derly treated by courts and judges. A fine of S1UU if convicted is no I deterrent to a moonshiner, in fact $100 is not a reasonable license tax. Until the penalty for making j or peddling liquor is fixed at not j less than one year on the chain j gang at hard labor, with no al ternative of a fine, the moonshine land bootlegging industry will con j tinue to flourish. ? ?? ?-. A well informed merchant is au thority for the statement that up wards of $300,000 worth of flour is sold in Sumter annually, more than half being purchased by farmers. The wheat to produce all this flour could be grown in Sum ter county as a surplus crop on the land that cannot bo planted in cot ton next year, and the money that j goes out of the county would be I kept at home. Wheat should be planted before December 1st or >at latest before Christmas, to in sure a good crop. One way to i beat the boll weevil is to plant at least one acre of wheat for every plow on every farm. ? <? ? Money is scarce. Times nie hard. Collections are poor and the out look is discouraging, but there feu surface indications of this con dition. There are just ;is many pleasure cars running and just, as many joy riders cavorting around the country, few ]>.?<,deny them selves any of the luxuries and pleasures thai cost money. About eighty per cent <>f the economy and curtailment that is being practised is in the payment of debts. There can be no return : < normal until a policy ?>!' debt paying 1.ohxes :!:?? rule instead of the exception. ?-?> ? o Mary Garden wants a man. She will make him a good husband. Yon can't tell whether money makes fools or fools make mon >v. i JAPAN WILL i BUILD MANY WARSHIPS Under Ten Year Nav al Holiday Plan Building of Auxili ary War Craft Would Continue i Washington, Nov. 15.?Japan j would face a rather e -tensive na i val building program even during j the ten year holiday, should the ; American plan be accepted. Japan i has built the full proportion of aux I iliary craft, such as destroyers and light cruisers, which will be allow ed under the replacement pro ; visions, it said. The proposal in ; eludes permission to continue build ' ing up to those schedules, amount ? lng to fifty thousand tons for Japan. ? ? ?? I Religious Census of College Students - Most of Clemson Men Are Church Members, Half Are From Farms i - Clemson College, Nov. 14.?A ? census now being compiled of ! stud' ts of Clemson College shows Ith?; approximately So per cent are j church members, with the Baptists, M ethodist s. and Presbyterians 1 leading, in the order named. The census, which is taken dur I ing the first two months of each i college year, shows that more than I half the students come from farm j homes as the census gives the oc : eupation of the parent, of the; I 990 students enrolled. 493 are from j I farm homes. The Baptists and Methodists lead i ; in church membership, the Bap- 1 ! tist students numbering 2:?<j. while ; j the Methodists are a (dose second ; ' with 285. The Presbyterians come i third with 143. tvhile Episcopalians, | , Lutherans, Catholics. Associate Re- j formed Presbyterians, Jews and : Christian church fellow in the or- , 1 e'er named. Sixty-live students not church . ; members give the Baptist chureu ? as their preference, while 32 give ! the Methodist church as the church of their preference. A to- | j tal of 2.> give the Presbyterian as j , the church of their preference, j The total number of church j members, giving the branch of the j church with which they are affiliat- : ed follows: Baptist. 290: Meth odist, 2S5; Presbyterian, 143: Epis-| J copal. 43: Lutheran. 35: Catholic, I j 17: Associate Reformed Presby- J ! terian, 15: Jewish. 4; Christian; : church. 3: total 835. I By occupation the students gave ; j the following information concern- j * ing their parents: Farming, 493: I merchants, dealers and salesmen, i i 1S1; physicians, druggists and den-; I tists. 24; lawyers, 16; bankers, 11; j ministers, 14; teachers. 10; city) j county or state officials, 3S; manu-j I facturing of all kinds, 58; trades- i j men. carpenters, printers, etc., 28; : railroad, telephone and telegraph j j workers. 3S: clerical workers, 13: j ? civil engineers. architects, and ? chemists, 1": miscellaneous or oc cupation not given, 56. Tin- present enrollment is 990; ! being the largest in the history of | the college and exactly 226 larger : than on the same date last year, J according to the registrar. .1. C. 1 Littlejohn. it is expected that the I enrollment will pass the 1,U00 mark ' ] before Christmas. Mrs. George Gould Dies Suddenly j _ ! Succumbs to Heart Attack on Golf Links Lakewood. X. J., Nov. 13.?Mrs. ! George -lay Gould, wife of the cap : italist. dropped dead today while j playing golf with her husband on ' the private links at Georgian Court, j their country home. She had just finished a drive at tlx- fifth tee and with her husband ; was watching the flight of the ball j when she collapsed without a word. ! : Mr. Gould turned to speak to her I and wiis astonished to see her lying across the tee. Thinking his wife merely had stumbled. Mr. Gould , hastened to assist her to her feet, but when sin- failed t<? speak to him. he sent the caddie on hurry call for physicians. Drs. George W. Lawrence- and Irwin P. Hanee reached tin- links : quickly. A brief examination con vinced them that Mrs. Could was j dead and that heart disease had been the cause. Common Plea Court. In tin- case of .1. A. Warren "t al. executors, vs. .1. II. Warren and .1. \\. Warren the court directed verdicts in favor of plaintiffs for the amounts sued for. The case of Rufus James vs. John Richardson, a suit for com missions on the sale of real cstat?\ has been disposed of. The jury if tins case rendered verdict in fav or of the plaint iff for tie* sum of ?3 no. The property upon which tie* sales commission was awarded is in Manchester Township. Case n<>v\ being tried:: Waller .1. Jennings vs. Walker I >. nines. Di rector' General. L. I >. Jennings: Reynolds and Ry\ mdds. P. Me ? Lay. j -? o ? ? '."ravel teaches shrewdness no doubt: but a man who can rrmke money enough t<> travel is shrewd enough. Still, we wouldn't have believed ir ii" the author had said D'Artag nan jumjed around tin- way Doug JOHN BULL APPROVES NAVALHOLIDAY Second Plenary Ses sion Began This Morning?No More Open Sessions Soon Washington, Nov. "l?. ? Great Britain's acceptance in principal of the American armaments proposals for the limitation of naval arma ments was formally laid before the conference today by Arthur Bal four, who is heading the British delegation, shortly after the second session was called to order by Sec retary Hughes. Baron Admiral Kato's accept ance in the asme sense for Japan is to follow. Before hearing in? statement the delegates adopted unanimously the committee of the whole plan work ed ou; by the big five for consider ing the armaments and Far East ern problems. ? <3> ? Remember the Orphans on Thanks giving Day Work-Day Thanksgiving Ap peal is Made For the Or phan Boys and Girls in the Four Church Or phanages As your thoughts turn towards Thanksgiving, think of the orphan boys and girls of the state, and through your contribution help tr make their lives happy on this oc casion, remembering the words of the Master. "It is more blessed to give than to receive." There ar<> in the four church or phanages of the state. 988 father less children, who must be cared for. They are divided as follows: inn in the Church Home. Episcopal, York, S. C, 23 in Epworth Or phanage, Methodist. Columbia: 300 in Connie Maxwell, Baptist. Greenwood. S. C. and 315 in Thorn well Orphanage, Presbyterian. Clinton. S. C. These bright, sweet children must be fed. clothed, trained and educated. The support for their maintenance must be pro vided entirely by the church and in dividual gifts. All of the institu tions, due to the financial depres sion of the past few months, have suffered from a lack of funds and their needs at present are urgent. A state-wide appeal is therefore being made for a Work-Day Thanksgiving offering in their be half. You are asked to contribute at least one day's wages, or the proceeds therefrom, to the or phanage of your preference. This is a small request we are making for these orphan children, and one day donated to the "homes of the fath erless" will work a hardship upon no one. Each of the institutions hopes to share richly from this Work-Day Thanksgiving Appeal. The Methodists in South Carolina are asked to turn their help to Hp worth Orphanage, the Baptists to Connie Maxwell, the Episcopal ians to the Church Home, while the Presbyterans will give their aid to the Thornwell Orphanage. The appeal is urgent. The or phans must be remembered. Send in your contribution, thereby to provide for the care of these boys .and girls and bringing happiness and joy into their lives. "Pure religion and undefiled bo fore God and the Father is this. To visit the fatherless and widows in their afflictions, and to keep him self unspotted from the world." All contributions should be sent to: Thos. P. Noe. Church Home. York. S. C: W. D. Roberts. Ep worth Orphanage, Columbia. S. C; A. T. Jamison. Connie .Maxwell Or phanage, Greenwood. S. C: L. Ross Lynn. Thornwell Orphanage, Clin ton, s. c. -? ? ? Cabinet Crisis in Buda-Pest Washington. Nov. lfi.?A cabinet crisis in Budapest is delaying the exchange of treaty ratifications, be tween the United States and Hun gary, the state department is advis ed by Vance Smith, the American commissioner ;;t Budapest. Strike Tremble"" in Iowa Ottumwa. Iowa. Nov. HI.?Nat ional Guardsmen today took charge of the situation resulting from the .lohn Morrell Packing Company workers' strike which began on October 13th. after an attack on twenty-live work -rs yesterday by several hundred picketers. No one w as seriously in. ured. Gardner?Brad ha m Miss Salic- Gardner and Mr. H?>rry Bradham were nuited in marriage Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock; at the Salem, Baptist parsonage Rev. K. W. Reynolds; pastor dt" ib.- groom, officating. Immediately after tin- cerembnv Mr :< iul Mrs; Bradham were tend ered a reception at .'he home of Mr. Willi.- Gardner, brother of the bride. Mr. and Mrs. Bradham .ire both of Sumter county, and will make their home with the father of the groom, Mr. .1. I>. Bradham. May tie- sunshine of abundant peace and prosperity light the pathway of this splendid young pair as they journey on their way. California's raisin crop sold for $2.f?00.000. which might be called raisin' jack. i Armament Confer ence in Execu tive Session _ I The Real Work of the Meeting Started in the Committee of the Whole i _ Washington, Nov. 16.?With the j arms reduction proposal referred ! to a committee of the naval advis ! ers of the five great powers, the ! delegates to the armament limita tion and Far Kastern conference held an executive session as a committee of the whole to consid ed the Far Eastern questions, which none was apparently ready to present a comprehensive plan for settlement. The naval advisers committee began conferences, taking up the modifications in the American pro posals desired by Great Britain and Japan. The advisers also will con sider the naval status of France and Italy. The representatives of the pow ers went into the Far Eastern ses sion apparcnlty waiting for one an other to speak first about the in tricate questions. The general pre diction was that the task of draft ing a method of procedure would he entrusted to a committee com prised of the representatives of all nine nations taking part in the con ference. ? ? ? Farming Under Boll Weevil Conditions Important New Publication by the Extension Service Clemson College. Nov. 12. ? "Farming Under Boll Weevil Con ditions" is the title of Extension Bulletin 4 8. prepared by the Ex tension Service of Clemson College and now ready for distribution. The publication is being issued to help meet the present conditions and is full of information, instruc tion, and suggestion for farmers in regard to best farm practices in the presence of the boll weevil. Calling attention to the fact that South Carolina is now having to face the same conditions which other southern states have faced one after another in the onward march of the boll weevil, the pub lication stresses, first of all, the im portance of learning thoroughly the j new methods and practices for suc 1 cessful farming under new condi tions; and urges that since there j is no single new crop which prom i ises to take the place of cotton as our main money crop and no com bination of crops which can be recommended to all alike, our farmers must expect to continue to grow cotton and should undertake the growing of new money crops I on a conservative scale, as plunging ; in new untried crops will bring on ! proh'lems as hard to solve as are i the problems of growing cotton un 1 der boll weevil conditions. I The first section of the bulletin : is given to a discussion of recom mendations for cotton production. ! with attention to such important I matters as stalk destruction and : other clean-up work, thorough ! preparation >i the land, planting of I improved varieties, judicious fer tilizing, rapid cultivation, collection of weevils and punctured squares, ; and the use of winter cover crops. ! These various subjects are discuss ; ed in the light of the experience of ; cotton farmers in other weevil-in ! fested states. The second section discusses the i question of making the farm self | supporting in order that the cotton I grown may be in the nature of a ; surplus money crop. Stress is laid I upon the production of staple food j and feed crops for landlord, tenant. : and livestock; provision for a good I all-year home garden and a good I ho me orchard; provision for I enough dairy cows and poultry to I supply all the families on the I farm: and the conservative de velopment of the hog. dairying, and ; beef cattle industries to fit into a I well balanced diversified farming., j The third section, devoted to j systematic soil-building, discusses 1 crop rotations with specific rec | ommendations for the several sec I tions of the state, summer legumes, j winter cover crops, drainage and I terracing, and the judicious use of ; lime, livestock manures and com I mercial fertilizers. Brief suggestions are made in 1 the latter part of tue bulletin con cerning the adjustment of contracts between landlords and tenants to meet new conditions; co-operative effort in production. sta.ndradiza I tion, and marketing of farm crops ! and the need of specific county pro [ grams of safe farming by each j county in the state. ! Florida Fruit and Vegetables at Less Than Wholesale. Th<> Sumter Produce Co.. of which .Mi. Louis c. Bryan is the active promoter, announces that it ! will supply tin- people of Sumter with Florida fruit and vegetables 'at the lowest possible prices, the I middlemen's and retailer's profits I being eliminated by purchasing in I car load lots direct from the "ran.;.'" and grape fruit orchards and truck farms. The sales will be made on the cash and carry plan from ware i house located on the railroad tracks, near Manning Avenue, and , overhead expenses will 1m- thus re duced to ;? minimum. Mr. Pryan expects to deal in local produce, i also, and by handling in large lots I will be able to save the house ? keepers of Sumter much money. 'Tin- first car load of oranges, grap ? ! fruit and seasonable vegetables is expected to arrive tomorrow. At tention is directed to the adver ! tisement of this new enterprise. Washington, .\'ov. 15.?-The ten j tative valuation of the Charleston i and Western Carolina Railroad has I been tixed by the interstate com merce commission nt over ten and ; a half million dollars. Japan Wants Larger Navy Feels Jhat Her Ratio of War ship Tonnage is Not High Enough?Will Suggest That She Be Allowed an Increase Washington. Nov. 15.? (By the Associated Press.)?-Japan feels that her ratio of warship tonnage is not high enough under the American proposals, it was said to night by members of the Japanese delegation. "During Baron Kato's speech at the plenary session of the arma I ment conference today, hta state ' ment that Japanese would sug gest some modification in the ton nage basis for replacement caused some speculation as to whether it referred to regulating the capacity of shipyards so that new warships could be built regularly or whether it means that. Japan favored a ; higher ratio of tonnage compared j with the United States and Great . Britain. j Tonight's statement clears u;; ; the point and shows that Japan j will later put forth the factors I which lead her to believe that : some increase of tonnage should I be afforded her. How much in j crease it desired was not explained ! tonight, but emphasis was laid up : on the special conditions surround i ipg Japan as an insular power in ! need of an adequate defensive fleet. Practical conditions are said to ! be behind the altitude of Japan , whose representatives reiterated tonight that she has no ambition whatsoever to equal the navy of . England or the United States. The probable developments of science : in increasing the mobilization pow ! er of a fleet to distant waters in an offensive, the presence of naval j bases near the shores of Japan, and the augmented mobilization power of an adversary's fleet when j reduced in units all enter into the j Japanese mind as indicating the I wisdom of a higher ratio than six \ to ten. The suggested increase will prob: bly affect all classes, includ j ing submarines. The Japanese ex ! pressed confidence that the com mittee of experts would under ' stand their case and that a ratio ! adjustment would not in any way materially affect Japan's blanket j acceptance fo the American pro ? posal. m fm m \ Shoplifters Visit Columbia Store I Columbia. Nov. 16.?Two well ! dressed white women were hailed ! into city court here this morning, i and were bound over to the circuit I court on a charge of theft. They j were arrested as shop lifters. They 1 are Mrs. P. H. Kearlin and Mrs. j Murphy, both said to be from New j York. They went into a fashion i able ladies' store Monday and while j one was making a purchase the : other got away with a squirrel skin : coat valued at $425. They were arrested by detectives as they came : out of a cafe Tuesday afternoon. ! They admitted taking the coat and ; led officers to a handsome roadster I near the curb, where the coat was ' found. Lest We Forget. I You and I have settled back into ! the complacent current of every j day life. We are congratulating ' ourselves that the war is over, that an ear of "normalcy" has arriv I ed: that the days and months of i horror are buried in the irreparable ? past. We have schooled ourselves I to forget the poppy fields of Flan I ders and the bloody trenches of the j Argonne. We can even pass an ex ; service man on the street without ! seeing in him a perpetual remind - I er, a continual reproach. We are I liable to forget that today three 1 years after the war is over, there ; are over 26.000 ex-service men in 'the hospitals of the United States. '? The roll call of the incapacitated is growing every day. The blind and the tubercular, the shell-shock ? cd and the crippled, did not cease : with the tiring- of the cannon. ! There are no more uniforms now. no drums and regiments and can 1 teens and cakes and flying flags. Soldiers are not soldiers an*, more j?only weary, homesick boys, dying i in the hospitals, too shattered to fit i into the routine of normal life, too i sick to work, unable to support their families, made old before their time with more than a gen ] oration's share of sorrow. The Red : Cross, which has been with them : since the day they went away to j war. is asking us to help. The Roll ! Call starts on Armistice Day and j a doliar given to our sick ex-ser ; vice men will serve them better j than victory arches raised in every town or parades that stretch across the continent from the Rockies to the sea. Xothing we can do will ever pay these valiant men for what they gave for us. To speak of compen ? sation is to travesty the values on which all life is built. There is no ?compensation for health and hu ? man relationships, for love and marriage and the illusions that war kills. For these boys there is no return to ??normalcy." There will never be any turning back. They represent our youth, the na tion's youth?that we once flunc so lavishly to glory and are now so ready to forget. Red Cross Call?Armistice Day to Thanksgiving Day. There is a market for all the cream that can be produced in Sumter county. The Sumter Creamery is equipped to make but ter of standard quality and its ca pa i:y greatly exceeds the supply of . ream. Every milk cow in Sum ter county should be put to work as a cash income producer. A good *ow will produce $8 to $10 worth of cream a month and some cows are doing better than that as money makers. France to Discuss Land Armcments Premier Briand to Go into Matter at Open Session Washington, Nov. 15. ? France j took the first step today toward j bringing the question of land ! armaments, of armies, before the j Washington conference. In concurring for France in the i essential principles of the Ameri I can proposals regarding naval es ; tablishments. Premier Briand ? touched upon the army problem i as far more vital to France. By agreement. M. Briand probably at ! a public session of the conference later this week, will present "most j fully" as Secretary Hughes stated, j "the views of France with regard 1 to the subject of land armaments ; which we must discuss, j There was no intimation in the i remarks of M. Briand that he had a definite plan for reduction of j armaments to suggest. He did ' say, however, that he was satis i tied that the conferees would be ; convinced "that France, after the ; necessities of safety and life have been adequately secured, harbors j no thought whatever of disturbing '? the peace of the world." M. Briand's statements were con ! strued generally as showing his : purpose to explain fully why j France regards it necessary to re I tain the iTeat force in her armies. ! As the nation with the largest j army, the premier pointed out to ? day, it was appropriate for her to ; take that question up, but neither ! at the conference nor in any other \ quarter is there suggestion that any ! such sweeping proposal for reduc i tion of armies is to be expected as i the naval plan put forward by the I United States. ^* So far as the United States Is ; concerned, the army question is \ largely academic. The American 1 army, now far below its used | strength of 150.000 men, is cut to I the bone. Further reduction would { be opposed by both civil and mili ? tary chiefs of the war department. ! No American plan of army reduc | tion will be presented and it may , be that there will be only nominal discussion of the subject. As it now stands, the American army is looked upon by its leaders ; as no more than the national po ; lice force for which there is al ; ways need. Records of the war j department show that prior to 1903 ' through the twenty-five preceding I years, the army was called into ac j tion in some quarters for non | military work, duty that had j nothing to do with war, more than 1 500 times. In 1908, it was used j to quell more troubles in the Phil ippines and to aid citizens during i San Francisco earthquake and fire; in 1907 the army went to pacify Cu ba and dealt with a Ute Indian up rising; in 1908 it made a second I movement to Cuba; 1910, forest I fires in Montana, Idaho, Washing I ton and California; 19JJ^l??~}an j border protection and police" wor" in Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 1912. relief for Mississippi Valley flood sufferers; 1913 border patrol ! and flood work in the Ohio and j Mississippi valley; Carmel Valley, j California; fires on Mount Tamal j pias, California; Omaha tornado, I lower peach tree. Alabama, cyclone; ! forest fires in the Adirondack*; 11914, Vera Cruz occupation and ' Colorado mine disturbances; 1915. ! border duty and Colorado disturb i ances: 1916, Columbus raid and ; Mexican punitive expenit^on. ? In 1917 came the world war, and j with the absorption of the regulars \ and national guard in war, it be | came necessary to organize a mili ; tary police force to take their I places home. The force was the I United States guards which watch i ed over property where local po , lice protection was inadequate to j the task. In 1919 the army was used to deal with Industrial Workers of the j World troubles in Arizona; race ! riots in Nebraska and Arkansas; : flood relief in Texas: steel strike ! situation in Indiana and Tennes ?see: coal strike duty in West Vir \ ginia. Pennsylvania, Utah, Wyom i ing. New Mexico. Kansas. Okla j homa and Washington; strikes : Louisiana, more race troubles in Arkansas and in Kentucky, preserv i ing order at trials of alleged agi : tators in Washington and strike I duty in Montana. There have been many similar employments for the army since 1 then from stopping a coal strike ; civil war in West Virginia to guard ing mail from bandits and it is to ; be noted, officials say. that no sec ! tion of the country is wholly im ; mune from possible need and quick I need, of a federal police force of I such discipline that it can be de pended upon to function in any ? kind of an emergency. With less than 100.000 soldiers 1 of the regular establishment in the United States, the distribution by ? orps area provides some ele ments of the troops within quick reach of any possible scene of in ternal emergency. Yet they are so far scattered that it would be a dif ficult matter to get together in any one area overnight as much as 5 - 000 men and if 10.000 were needed : m some grave crisis, it must take several days at best to mobilize them. It is for these reasons as well as tor the necessity of having a force j sufficient for quick expansion in case of war. that any proposal at the arms conference which would reduce further American army strength would be opposed by army officials. J Charles Sent into Exile Former Emperor of Austria Arrives at Madeira : Funchal Island of Maderia, Nov. : ^-?Former Emperor Charles of ;; Austria-Hungary and his wife who were exiled to Madeira by the al lies after his recent attempt to re ? *am tn* Hungarian throne have ?jamved on the British cruiser Car