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and tributes of respect charged for. Watchman was ami the True Southron iWr- The Watchman and Southron Has the combined circulation and both of the old papers, and manifestly the best advertising medium in Sumter. Tatings We Should Ever Remember. (Richard H. Edmonds, Editor Man.

ufacturers Record, Baltimore.) We should remember that we are not engaged in war as wars have been Known in the past. This War bears no resemblance tc Revolutionary War, to the war of J812, to the Civil War or the Spanish War. It is not a war in the sense! i that 'they were wars. They were rtfes tor great principles, waged by civilized human beings. tn Europe we are fighting not a war as wars have been known.

We are as- a community trying to stop a gang of assassins, of cutthroats, of rapists and rooters from carrying into effect the. destruction which for half a century they had been planning. We are not fighting soldiers as soldiejrs; 'we are trying to overcome a of assassins. and rapists who started-out to destroy civilization and our community and all the lh order to murder, to enslave and to loot all other people. let us for one moment think of Germany and of its armies from any other point of view, because unless we see the situation in tfee true we shall riot fully understand that' peace with an uncrushed Germany would be peace with a gang of riturderers and outragers and and.

would be a disgrace to all Does community which has been attacked a gang of murderers and rapists accept their offer of peace terms in order not to punish criminals and not to make the lamilie's of these criminals suffer? Does a community when it has caught the red-handed murderer or say, must not punish him "because his wife and children a when its policemen and its citizens summoned to their help have been done to death by a of cutthroats and robbers accept-from- these criminals an offer of they, return a part of them free to wreak vengeance, upon the same la the future, and count the merely as pusillanimous, or as plain lacking moral courage to pnifjsit the evil-doer? Know that they will be pumShed' if caught; they know that which would forbid their is contrary to the law? the experience ot They. enter upon theirs scheme murder and robbery with taking the chance of the hope of loot. is ffc this know that they are murderers, "highwaymen, robbers and outragers.vwho took the chance, hoping and- fully expecting to bring home the They entered joyously, hilariously upon the campaign. They not how much suffering other people had to endure; they cared not how millions they murdered. These things moved them not Arth ey were after was robbery, individual national, and no crime war great enough to shock them if them nearer to their of robbery and world dominion.

ShalFjj they not be punished in order civilization may be preserved th centuries to come? In baying Liberty Bonds are helping to suppress and punish these criminals and helping to our country from being turndf into a 'made in Germany" into a in hell" The terms are synonymous. you bought Liberty Bonds utmost extent power? Southern Sgrclopment Conference. C. Phelps. of the imber of Commerce has Neill 0'Donnell: Harby, C.

Strauss, C. G. and H. J. McLaurin, as ites to the Conference on SouthDevelopment and Trade Expansion Gulf and Atlantic States.

to held at the Atlanta Chamber of at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning, October 22nd. AttV-he instance of Gov. Hugh 'Dorsey, of Georgia, the Southern Commercial Congress has called this conference because it is believed that the war has brought about conditions which offer a favorable opportunity for direct trade between the South and West Indies, South America, and other countries. This matter took shape several months ago in Washington at a banquet tendered by the Southern Commercial Congress to Gov. Dorsey and the committee on the St.

Mary's Canal project, of which Gov. Dorsey is the author. The construction of the St. Marys Canal would shorten the rente from Gulf to Atlantic ports by 450 miles and wouldv overcome obstacles which the Gulf stream offers to the export of grain through Gulf ports to Europe. Gov.

Dorsey thinks the time has come to push this project to consummation. Where to Go. "To whom shall I go to get advice on bow to succeed in life?" "Go to someone who has failed: the successful people are too busy to talk." RECEIVES NEW FORMULA IN TREATMENT OF PNEUMONIA. Cotton Balls Saturated With Alcohol Held in Mouth Effective. Wilmington Star, Oct.

17. The epidemic of influenza that now exists in practically every State in the union, especially those east of the Mississippi river, has brought forth many formulae for treatmc.it of the disease, the latest being received yesterday by Mayor P. Q. Moore in a telegram from Maj. Earl B.

Brown, of Washington, and is as follows: "Owing to the need of doctors and nurses and for the benefit of suffering, humanity, please publish in your daily papers and elsewhere, the following for pneumonia taken from the Washington Star: 'Saturate with alcohol a ball of common cotton the size of a oneinch marble; add three drops of chloroform to each ball of cotton; place! between patient's teeth and let him inhale the fumes for 15 minutes. Then rest 15 minutes or longer if needed, and inhale again for 15 minutes and repeat this operation as directed 2 4 times, changing cotton twice every 15 "As a result the lungs of the patient will expand to normal. In 24 hours the patient will be out of danger. "For those in the last stages use a lamp or any heating apparatus with a porcelain cup as a container. Make a one-inch cover for the cup, bore a hole in the" middle and insert a halfinch tube to reach patient's mouth.

Boil the alcohol, no chloroform being needed in this method. Let the patient take the tube in the mouth and inhale the alcohol fumes and follow as directed." This telegram was signed by Annie Thomson Brown and Earl B. Brown. It will be remembered that Major Brown was at one time in charge of the United States engineers office in this city Mrs. Brown, before marriage was Miss Annie Thomson, of Southport, both being well known in this city.

CLOSING OF SCHOOLS SENDS BOiS TO HELP ON FARMS. Influenza Epidemic Being: Met by Setting! Schoolboys Out Into Clean Fresh of- Country Where They are Assisting; With Crops. Washington, Oct. headqaaaters of the United States' Boys'" "Working Reserve announces that the closing of the schools ir many sections of the country on ac count of the prevelance of influenza has resulted in thousands of boys the Reserve being made available for work upon farms. From many States reports have been received which indicate that patriotic boys released from school arc taking up work in the fields where the clean, fresh air and healthy exercise keeps them free from the prevailing epidemic.

Richard Hatton, Director of Publicity, U. S. Boys' Working Reserve. (On the morning after the closing yf the schools this work was started Sumter, arrangements having been perfected on the day that the order for the closing of the schools. Sditor Item.) BOYS OF WORKING RESERVE EARN ATTRACTIVE REWARD.

Wecks Spent in Productive i Work Result in Bank Accounts and Bonds for Many High School Boys. Washington, Oct. depart nent of labor has received a report the work of 144 high school boys nembers of the United States Boys1 5Vorking Reserve in Sioux Falls, S. which indicates that these boys during the past summer A normal boy under formal conditions, will produce in food valje amount of his wages. A conservative estimate places the value the food added to country's by these boys at something over American Casualty List.

Washington. Oct. casualties reported bv the commanding general of the American Expeditionary Forces are as follows: Killed in action. 9 Missing in action. 98 Wounded severely.

369 Diod from 49 Died of 68 Died from accident. 8 Wounded slightly. 309 995 The casualties reported by the Commanding General of the A. E. F.

forces for today are as follows: Killed in action. 11? Missing in action. 69 Wounded severely. 364 Died from wounds. 62 Died from accident and other causes.

5 Died of disease 52 Died from aeroplane 1 Wounded undetermined 173 Wpunded slightly. 1 Total. 837 Ernest L. Clinton of York, S. is reported to have died of disease.

Washington. Oct. following casualties were announced by the commanding general of the American expeditionary forces for today: Killed in action 7T? Missing in action. 16 Wounded severely. 128 Died of disease.

39 Died from accident and other causes. 3 Wounded degree undetermined 147 Died of wounds II Prisoners. 10 Total. 429 Died of disease, James M. Bagwell.

S. wounded, degree undetermined. James G. Cowart, Westminster. S.

C. Totally Deserted. Was 0n the beach this morning alone with my thoughts. She- What perfect solitude! MOBILIZES AGAINST PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE HAS: ADDITIONAL HEADQUARTERS. New Cases Reported at Army Camps for the Past 48 Hours, 15,152.

Washington, Oct. public health service announced tonight that it now is mobilizing for a national campaign afcainst the epidemic of Spanish influt.iza which has swept the country. Additional headquarters for State-wide efforts to control the disease will be established in coI operation with State and local health authorities at Columbia, S. Richmond, Baltimore, and Columbus, Ohio. While the epidemic continues unabated in mcst sections of the country the number of new cases at army camps showed a decrease both Sunday and today, the total for the forty-eight hour period ending at noon today being 15,152 New cases of pneumonia also decreas ed as did the number of deaths.

Pneumonia cases for the two days were 4, 780 and the deaths 2. Since beginning of the epidemic in army camps, the total cases of influenza reported is pneumonia 35,465, and deaths 10,741. In announcing today that it wai mobilized for a national campaign among civilians, the public health service said Surgeon Gen. Blue had telegraphed all State health authorities, suggesting that they organize in an effective manner as possible locally available resources, especially nursing personnel. Dr.

Blue also suggested that all possible use be made of women who have not had regular training in order to diminish to some extent the demands made on the doctors and nurses of the country, who are badly overworked. GOVERNOR BUYS BONDS. Subscribes for Each of his Eight I Children and Ten Grandchildren. Chairman H. J.

McLaurin, of the Sumter Liberty Loan Committee this morning received from Gov. R. I. Manning a subscription for each of his eight children and ten grand- children, which is in addition to his present subscription for $5,000 in this city and $5,000 in Columbia. The subscriptions for the children and grandchildren are as follows: i Children: Mrs.

S. M. Berkely $50.00 W. S. Manning, Jr.

50.00 V. M. Manning.L. 50.00 Bernard Manning. 50.00 W.

M. Manning. 50.00 B. D. Manning.

50.00 J. A. Manning. 50.00 P. C.

Manning. 50.00 Grandchildren: Edmund Berkeley 50.00 LeJia M. Berkeley. 50.00 Alfred Berkeley, Jr. 50.00 Barbara M.

Manning. 50.00 W. S. 3rd. 50.00 Meredith Manning.

50.00 Mc33owell 50.00 R. Manning, Jr. 50.0C Chas. Stevens Manning 50.00 Elizabeth A. Manning.

50.00 Labor Investigation in Porto Rico. San Juan, Porto Rico, Oct. National War Labor Board at. Washington is taking steps to investigate the charges made by Samuel Gonipers, president of the American Federation of Labor, in May last, that Governor Yager, of Porto Rico, had interfered with the efforts of Porto Rican workers to improve their conditions. Santiago Iglesias, Porto Rican organizer for the American Federation of Labor has written to the Executive Council of the local organization hero to set a date for an investigation to be conducted by a commission appointed by the War Labor Board.

Members of the Executive Council favor an investigation but the actinr president of the local federation Martinez, advises postponing it until January or February when the wages of the Porto Rican cigar makers are to be revised and when work in the cane fields and factories will be at its height. NOTICE. Patrons of Sumter Telephone Company Requested to Limit Calls to Necessary and Urgent Business. The Sumter Telephone Exchange is being operated with a greatly reduced force, fully one-half of the regular operators being off duty on account of illness, and the service is therefore limited. In the circumstances all patrons are earnestly requested to confine their calls to absolutely necessary business.

Robert Shelor, Manager. County Health Survey. Among the recent substantial cash subscriptons received for the proposed county health survey and twelve months campaign of education, with numerous health institutes and illustrated health lectures, may be mentioned the following: Mr. D. V.

Keels. $25.00. Mr. E. E.

Rembert. 10.00. both of Rembert. in Rafting Creek township. Mrs.

Nina M. Solomons, Sumter. $5.00. Complete reports of individual subscriptions, large and small will be published later on. The Sumter Chamber of Commerce is serving as financial headquarters to which all financial reports or subscriptions should be sent where there are no township committee work being carried Strictly Practical.

The flowers fade, bare grow the trefes, Yet why this loss deplore? We've taters, corn and and these We need a great deal mf "FLU" EPIDEMIC EVERYWHERE. DEATH TOLL HIGH IN PAKTS OF COUNTRY. In Coast States From Maine to Florida Conditions are Serious. Washington, Oct. influenza now has reached epidemic proportions in practically every State and in only three has it been reported as stationary with some improvement in the situation in Massachusetts.

In spite of all efforts by federal. State, and local authorities, the disease has spread rapidly and the death toll has been high in most parts of the nation. In army camps the epidemic is subsiding although a decrease in new ses being noted today at the office ci the surgeon general of the army. The total of cases reported was 0,498, a decrease of 773, from yesterday. Pneumonia cases were 1,916 against 2,523 the day before but the number of deaths increased, being fcS9 against 716 yesterday.

Reports made public tonight by the public health service show that outside of the Massachusetts, the epidemic is severe throughout New England. Not a single State east of the Mississippi is clear of the disease and in most of the coast States from Maine to Florida conditions are serious. The numbe: of cases reported also is- increasing in Oregon. Washington and Californin, while the malady has appeared in all mountain States and is epidemic in most of them. Minnesota is the only West Central Statrreporting the disease stationary, while influenza is epidemic in Ohio, Mich-1 igan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Illinois It also is epidemic in all the Sov States as well as in Oklahoma and Arkansas.

In the war crowded District of Columbia, the epidemic continues unabated. As a further precaution, the Treasury and Interior Departments issued orders that no new employe of those departments be brought to Washington until further notice. Similar action is expected by other government departments which still are in need of additional help. The fuel administration, at the suggestion of the public health service also announced today that as far as possible all engagements and appointments for conferences with- out of town persons during the next two weeks will be cancelled. THE RELIEF C03fMITTEE.

Report of Work Being Done by Civic League Relief Committee. It is fitting that the Sumter people should know who the Florence Nightingales among them are. Here are some of those who are risking their health and comfort to administer to the sick in the city: Miss E. W. McLean, Miss L.

C. McLaurin, Miss Katherine Moses, Miss Cora Anderson, Miss Mary McCauley, Miss Charlie Cassell, Miss Elizabeth McNabb, Miss Florence Obenschain and Miss F. Miller of the city schools; Miss Alice Martin, assistant home demonstrator; Mrs. J. B.

Ryan, and Miss Bess Ryan of Wedgefield; Miss Cornelia McLaurin, Mrs. Nina Solomons Mrs. R. L. Edmunds, Mrs.

Alex Dick Mrs. Allen Baker, Miss Hassie Parrott. Mrts. T. D.

McMahon, Mrs. C. H. Barnum. Mrs.

C. L. Tisdale, Miss Naida Mrs. C. D.

DesCham ps, Miss Theo Gregg, Miss Alpha Barnum, and Dr. Bragg Anthony, supervisor of colored schools. C. C. Moore has today offered the services of-his daughters and they will be placed at once.

There is an imperative need for more workers however, for these need some hours off for rest and they are not getting it. There are probably many others in town who are helping nurse their neighbors but whose names have not been reported to us. The committee earnestly begs that those who have the services of train- ed nurses in their homes release: them.as soon as possible. One should1 not keep a nurse just to be a comfort; or to help run the house. Where a nurse is released we can send an inexperienced helper.

The pneumonia cases are the ones that need the trained experienced nursing, and the conscience of one who unecessarily detains a nurse will not feel easy when he learns of pneumoia patients dying for lack of nurses. The assistance given us in the way of nourishment is very gratifying and we are sending all that is offered! where it is most need. Space does not; permit that all their names be mentioned. Some financial assistance has also been forthcoming and we acknowledge -with thanks the following contributions: Mrs. Harvin DesChamps Mr.

Perry Moses. $5. Those who will furnish nourishment will please notify Mrs. Ansley D. Harby, phone No.

947 or Mrs. Ferd Levi, phone No. 265. Those who wish to offer their services for nursing will please notify Mrs. Horace Harby, phone No.

721 or Miss Armida Moses, phone No. 103. For information or assistance communicate with any of the other members of the committee: Mrs. E. W.

McCallum, Mrs. I. A. Ryttenberg, Mrs. Walter Cheyne.

Yours to help to our limit, The Civic League Relief Committee. APPEAL FROM PORTO RICO. Thousands Without Food, shelter or Clothing. New York, Oct. more than a hundred dead and thousands without food, shelter or clothing as the result of the earthquake which shook island last Friday, the government of Porto Rico today appealed congress and the American Red Cross for aid.

ATTENTION. Company Additional Battalion First Regiment S. C. R. On account of present health conditions, all drills of the company an ordered suspended until further no lice.

A. C. Phelps, Captain. W. H.

Yates, 1st Sergeant. Fair PriGe List for Week Ending October 221 Commodity Wholesale RetaiL Plain to 12.50 24 basis to 1.70 Self-rising flour $11.75 to 12.50 24 lb. to 1.70 Corn Meal to $4.50, 100lb sack.5 to 5 l-2c lb to 5.50, 100 lb to 6 3-4c lb Blue Rose rice .10.00 to 11.50 100 To sack.12 to 14c Tb to to 11.40 Dried Beans.16 to Jb to 30c 1-2 to 33 l-3c 3-4 to 24 l-2c. 27 to 30c Evaporated Milk (small) to 4.00.5 1-2 to 7c Evaporated milk (large to 6.25.. .12 1-2 to 15c Canned Corn No.

2 $1.75 to $2.50 (different grades) .20 to 25c Canned tomatoes No. 2.. to 1.70..,. ..15 to 20c Canned tomatoes No. 3 to $2.25..20 to 25c Canned Peas No.

2 to grades) to 30c Canned pork beans No. 2.. 1.75 to $2.00.17 1-2 to 20c Canned to $6.50 to 1.15 gaL Cheese.34 to 37c lb .40 to 42 l-2c lb Butter.60 to 66ctb.65 to Hams.35 to 37 l-2c lb.37 1-2 to 40c Bacon sides.28 30c lb.30 to 33 l-3c lb All dealers should sell flour, grits, meal and rice by the pound. ICE. 7 pounds .5 15 cents 25 pounds.15 cents 50 pounds.

.30 cents 100 cents 200 pounds. 80 cents FRESH FISH. Varieties Wholesale Retail Mullet.10 to 13c lb. 15c lb. Salt Water Trout.17c lb.

20c lb. Salt Water Bass ..16 to 17c lb. 20c lb. Salt Water Sheep Head.16c lb. 20c lb.

Salt Water Brim ..12 to 13c lb. 20c lb. Salt Water Flounders.12c lb. 15c lb. to 16c lb.

15 to 20c lb. Snappers.12c lb. 15c lb. Spanish Mackerel.22c.25c lb. APPROVED: Abe representing wholesale dealers.

D. F. Bultman, representing di; retail dealers. Mrs. i.

A. Ryttenberg, representing the consumers. Mrs. H. Osteen, Mrs.

E. H. Moses1, statisticians. U. S.

Food Administration; E. i. Reardon, Assistant Food Administrator, Charimaa, Sumter Price Interpreting Board. U. S.

Food Administration. Rice and grits are not substitutes for flour. r' Bulk sugar should not be sold for over 11c per pound. Carton sugaris about l-2c per higher. MIXES UNDER CATHEDRAL.

INDORSED BY ALLIES, Allied Troops Found Every Pillar Ex- cavatcd. I Churchill in Favor of Wilson's Reply. Paris, Oct. allied troops entered St. Quentin they found that every pillar in the cathedral there had been excavated at the level of the ground preparatory to placing explosives under them, according to The Liberte.

The rapidity of the advance. prevented the Germans from destroying the edifice. Siberian Wheat Grown in Alaska. Manchester, Oct. Spencer Churchill, British min-, ister of munitions, in a speech here today said that President Wilson's stern and formidable answer is wholeheartedly indorsed by all the allied countries.

The answer, Mr. Churchill declared, has tended to prolong the conflict, but there should be no relaxation of the allied war effort. Fairbanks, Alaska. Oct. ian wheat in Alaska may soon be milled in Fairbanks.

Thomas Riggs, governor of Alaska, recently conferred with the officials of the United States Agricultural Experiment Station here regarding the establishment of a mill to grind the crops of Siberian wheat interior Alaska is expected to yield during the seasons to come. Two hundred and fifty bushels of I Siberian wheat from the Fairbanks region were sent to the States a short time ago for a test run in a flour mill. A definite conclusion regarding the mill will be based on the outcome of the tests. If the wheat meets the expectation hejd regarding it, the mill will be built and Alaska farmers will plant Siberian wheat extensively next year. Siberian wheat matures in the com-j parativeiy brief period of about fourj months from the time the is put into the ground.

This quic Towthl makes the wheat adaptab" to the I Alaska short summers. According to reports from Siberia, the home of the Siberian wheat, it mills into good flour. Lafayette Was Buried Soil. in American Paris, Oct. many Americans know that Lafayette was buried' in American soil! General Thiebault writes in his Memoirs: (Lafayette's) tomb is at Picpus It was in this spot that he had had.

placed a dozen, barrels of earth taken from some battlefield in America, which he himself had brought back." Call for White Men Postponed. The Local Board for the County of Sumter. S. received the following telegram from State Headquarters I early yesterday afternoon: "Call No. A-1461-G suspended until! October 30th.

Entrain men on that' date. (Signed) Carwile." In compliance with the foregoing men summoned under this call to report for entrainment on October! 22nd, are to consider orders to thatj effect as cancelled. The men designated will, however, hold in readiness to respond to a call for entrainment on October 30th. They will be informed in due season of the place at which they are to i report. I John H.

Clifton, Chairman Local Board for the Coun- ty of Sumter. BETTERS THAJT A CUBE FOE Spanish. Influenza. PREVENT IT! Notice to the Public An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Save yourself and your family from the ravages of this dread plague.

Avoid the crowds! Get plcuty of fresh air and exercise! Keep the bowels moving naturally! Keep cheerful! Thousands are protecting themselves against Spanish Influenza and keeping themselves weil and happy, they say, with DFLECO Nature's Great Preventative Cet some right have It Ir the house SOLD BY 6000 DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE RECEIVED TO-DAY All this shipment of Books are the very latest, and are by the best authors. The Sumter Book Store, I 26 N. MAIN STREET SUMTER, S.C..