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>. ;-2| * M Abbeville Press and Banner t Established 1844 $1.50 the Year ABBEVILLE, S. C., Wednesday, July 11, 1917. Single Copies, Five Cents 76th Year MEN 10 BE DRAWNj BY NUMBERS ONLY Method of Selecting New Army Will Closely Resemble Jury Wheel System. Washington, July 5.?Arrangements for the next step toward mobilization of the new national army ?the exercise of the selection for draft?were taken up to-night at a conference between Secretary Baker; and Provost Marshal Gen. Crowder. Mr. Baker said later he had no announcement to make as to the date of the drawing. It has been announced that the drawing will be held in Washington, and it is said a statement covering the method to be followed will be made tomorrow or the next day. Organization of the local and district exemption boards, the arrangement of the registration lists in serial numbers and other preliminary work must be completed before the selection machinery can be set in motion. A statement by the public infr>T-TTint-ion committee savs this may be done Saturday, though there is no certainty about it. Numbering the Cards. Reports current to-day that selections had already been made probably arose from the fact that mr.ny boards have numbered their registration cards and in some cases proba bly already are publishing the lists required by regulations. The last district will have to com-j plete this work, however, before selection can begin, as the administration is determined to leave no 'oop-j hole for juggling of the sern-J num-l Lers. It i*. for that'Heason thf.t pub-J lie posting of the list and the filing! of duplicate copies with the provost marshal general has been required in advance of selection. The care with wh'ch the numbering of the registration cards is being carried out makes it certain that the drawing will be based entirely upon numbers. No names w;'l be involved in the actual process of selec tion, which will cicely approximate, it is understood, the jury whtrei system. % District No. 2 ?nd District Ni. 32, both of Philadelphia, arj riv&ls for the honor of being the ti)st to send the provost marshal general t^fcK complete registration 'ihey v:ero ltceived today in the same mail. SELLECK'S SISTER. Mrs. E. M. Edmondson, of Jefferson, Ga., accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Holder of that city, their two children and Mr. W. J. Bell, visited Abbeville last Sunday. They drove from Jefferson to Abbeville in an automobile, returning the same day. The people of Abbeville will be interested in Mrs. Edmondson when they are told that she is a sister of ' Lieutenant Frederick W. Selleck, the hero of Garita De Belen. His body lies buried in Long Cane cemetery. Lieutenant Selleck came to Abbeville from Augusta for the purpose of engaging in business. At the! outbreak of the Mexican war hej joined the Palmetto Regiment. He; was in the company commanded by. J. Foster Marshall, and distinguished himself in the battles around Mexico City. I After his return to Abbeville he was elected Judge of Probate and served in that office for a number of years. Mrs. Emondson is now seventy nine years old but she moves around as if she were only fifty. The fact that she can make a two hundred mile automobile trip in one day is evidence of her extreme youth despite her years. Mr. Holder is a brother of the Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives. He farms near Jefferson and is a man of standing in his community. His handsome wife is a daughter of Mrs. Edmondson. A VISITOR FROM GREENVILLE. Miss Bob Mallard is in the city on a visit to her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Allen. Miss Mallard has visited here before and her friends and acquaintances are glad to see her again. ENORMOUS COST OF KEEPING UP ARMY Appropriation Estimates for This Year Reach Grand Total of $133,000,000. Washington, July 5.?An idea of the enormous cost to maintain America's fighting forces is given in a statement issued by the committee on public information today showing the relative amounts expenaea in 1915, when the country was at peace and to be expended this year. Subsistence, for instance, which in 1915 was supplies at the modest cost of $9,800,000, this year has been provided for in the appropriaation estimates at $133,000,000. Clothing and camp garrison equipr age, which two years ago were had for $6,500,000 ,will cost this year $231,000,000. Ordinance stores and supplies which in 1915 were furnished for only $700,000, this year will cost more than $106,000,000. Manufacture of arms which in 1915 cost $450,000, this year will cost more than $55,000,000. Ammunition for small arms which in 1915 was had at $875,000, this year will cost $148,000,000. Transportation, which in 1915 was furnished at $13,000,000, this year will cost $222,000,000. Regular supplies, which in 1915 cost $10,000,000, this year will cost $110,000,000. For aeronautics $450,000 was appropriated for this year. This does not include, of course, the administration's big aircraft program which calls for an initial appropriation of $639,000,000. Among the items already purchased are: 5,000,000 blankets; 37,000,000 yards of bobbinette; 2,000,00^) cots, 45,500,000 yards of cotton cloth; 21,300,000 of unbleached drilling; 6,000,000 pairs of shoes and 11,191,000 pairs of light woolen socks. DEATH OF S. H. COCHRAN. I Mr. Samuel H. Cochran, of Means Chapel section, died suddenly on the morning of July 4th, 1917, at his residence. His death was due to heart failure. Mr. Cochran was seventy-four years of age at the time of his death. He was born and reared in Abbevilla A f or* orvo Via 111V VVUUV^i Wil VU1 Ug V? llv enlisted in the war between the States and fought on the side of the Southern Confederacy until he was wounded, causing the loss of a leg. After the war he took up the business of farming and he was one of the most successful farmers of his day. By good judgment and habits of industry he brought together a competence for his old age. Mr. Cochran was a man of the highest integrity, and he was greatly beloved in his. community and by every one who knew him. He was a member of Upper Long Cane Presbyterian church, and was an officer and leading member of the church for many years before his death. The funeral services were held at the church on Thursday morning at 11:30 o'clock, conducted by his pasfor Pav W Fl pArKotf QQQl'cfoH Kv Rev. H. W. Pratt, Dr. J. L. Martin, and Rev. Mr. Clotfelder of Lowndesville. The church was filled with his friends from the surrounding country, from the city of Abbeville, and from other sections of the county who came to pay their last respects to the memory of a good man. Mr. Cochran was twice married. His first wife was Miss Ermie MCKee, a daughter of the late Jackson McKee of this county. By his first marriage he had one daughter, Mrs. M. Brown Syfan of this city. Some years after the death of his first wife he married Miss Mary Nickles, also of this county. Of this union there were nine boys and three girls. All of his children lived to maturity and survived him. They have taken their places in the several communities in which they live as men and women worthy of their father. A good man, a good citizen, and a Christian gentleman has gone to his reward. He fought a good fight and he won a great victory in life. SPENDING THE SUMMER AWAY. Miss Ina Veitch is leaving tonight for an extended stay with relatives in New York, Massachusetts and Canada. Master Stanford Thomas accompanies her as far as Lowell, Mass., where he will spend the summer with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Thomas. They will return to Abbeville in September. (EDITOR THE TRUTH In one editorial the Medium says thi issue will be increased only three mills bond issue will require a levy of six an The bond money will not build over i less than ten per cent of the present m How then will we hate a reduction in t the Medium, to at to reduce the increi Doet the Medium and do the bond ownert around Abbeville, who are intei high priced land, which it now "pinchin to tell, propote to quit working the ot theie patriots propose to spend $29,25( mills will bring in) of the people's mom years in paying for and keeping up on while only two mills (or nine thousam the other roads in Abbeville county? Read the editorials in its Friday's issue, A POOR 1 The Press and Banner is not responi of the Medium to see the difference bet\ ing to the Red Cross fund and in subsc by a few politicians and "rubbertire" I Abbeville county with public debt. The Medium seems to evade the ret lieve that the city of Abbeville lias the bond issue campaign? Let it answer tl or No? If it it not right to contribute monej city council only adds to it* wrong-doin No man can escape responsibility for mitted another. The city council cannot justify one i has made another, if it has. Let the city attorney say whether the paign is legal. If he says it is, we wil that it is not. If he says that the city should hot su city should not pay a cent to that fund, questions. A UNIQUE SUMMER SERVICE T AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH The entire service given to the following programme?the songs tl being the work of Mr. Bliss. e Organ prelude. tl Invocation. o Hymn 34, in New Evangel?Con- T gregation. n Scripture reading and prayer. Short statement of Bliss's remark- g able life, by pastor. Male quartette?"It is Well With My -$oul," Allan King, R. C. Burts, Leslie Swope, Geo. Williams., C Solo?"What Shall the Harvest H Be?" Mrs. Walton Stevens, assisted ? by choir. t< Announcements and offering. Hymn 190, in Baptist Hymnal? ii Congregation. w Duet?"What Hast'Thou Done for e Me?" Misses Ruth and Vic Howie. ft Statement of last meeting between ft Mr. and Mr. Bliss, by pastor. 1< Mixed quartette?"Are Your Win- ft dows Open Toward Jerusalem" Miss L Elizabeth Edmunds, Mrs. E. C. Hor- B ton, Mr. Allan King and Mr. Saunders. Soprano solo?"Hold the Fort for; I am Coming," (This song especially made Bliss immortal)?Miss Fannie . Stark, assisted by choir. Duet?"Let the Lower Lights Be ' Burning," 'Miss Fannie Stark and Mrs. Swope. Soprano solo?"Light in the Dark- ^ ness, Sailor," Miss Fannie Stark, as- ^ sisted by choir. Hymn 155, in New Evangel?Con- ^ gregation. Chant. ? Benediction. Organ Postlude. Mrs. Lorena Johnson?Organist. 1 , s HOME FROM SPARTANBURG. Misses Thelma Seal and Lydia Owen are at home after a pleasant a visit to their aunt, Mrs. I. A. Harris, n These young ladies are so bright and attractive that they have a good t time wherever they go. I s TAKING CARE OF THE BABY. J t Mrs. S. C. Seal went down to Mc- 1 Cormick last Thursday and stayed f until Saturday. When she returned a she brought with her Lewis Neel Morrow, the month old baby of Mr. Frank Morrow, and will take care of the little fellow from now on. The baby could not have fallen into bet- i ter hands and the friends of the 1 family rejoice in his good luck and 1 hope he will grow to be a fine young s man in the course of time. \ IAL.) > IS COMING it taxes in th*i coup by the bond and in anothor, it itatei that tho d one-half mill*. >ne hundred and fifty miles of road, d ileafte of roadt in Abbeville county, a he general county levy at stated in e ?ed levy to three milli? issue politicians and the big land rested in boosting ths price of their ig" and which land they would like ( her roads of Abbeville county? Do ), (that ii what si:c and one-half sy each yeitr for a period of twenty le hundred and fifty miles of road,' d dollars) are levied to work all That is what the Medium argues, and see if we *re not correct. DEFENSE tible for the inability of the editor veen the cily of Abbeville contribute ribing to a campaign now being; run farmers in the endeavor to swamp il question. Does the Mediiuui be right: to appropriate money for the le question, ancl not evade it Yes? r to the Red Cross, by so doing: the Stone wrong by iiaying that he corallegal expenditure by saying that it contribution to the bond issue camI undertake to prove in the courts' ibtcribe to the Fled Cross fund, the Let us have Ibis opinion on both ' -#? ?1? ?.?. . ?O ORGANIZE CHAPTER OF RED CROSS SOCIETY There will be a mass-meeting of J le citizens of Abbeville Thursday' vening at 8:30 o'clock, to consider le matter of organizing a chapter f the American fted Cross Society, 'he place of meeting will be anounced later. 1NTERTAIN1ING THEIR CLASSES o v Mrs. R. N. Tiddy and Miss Lilly Hark gave a pleasant party to the ttle folks who mtike up their classes ^ 1 the Associate Reformed Presby- ^ jrian church Sabbath school. The t ttle fellows had a good time play- ^ ig and eating -the "party" which ias ice cream and cake. Those presnt were, Martha Calvert, Rachel ^ linshall, Sarah and Ann Cowan, lary Renwick Bradley, Mabel Brad- j iy, Julia Owen, Sarah Tiddy, Susan t linshall, Jenrose Pressly, Estelle ^ iyon, Annie ,Rogers and Charles j Iruce. PRETTY VISITORS. a Many of the people in town are I aving pleasure this week in enter- t aining the young ladies who are ere taking the Short Course in can- * ing and preserving going on now c t the High School. Our visitors are 2 lisses Jean and Mary Moffatt and * sabelle Reid, of Due West, three t oung ladies who take their good * joks from their handsome mothers, ? nd their bright minds from their i istinguished ftahers. Miss Isabe'Jle t rought down a sample of her fine omatoes, the best we have seen this ummer. ? r VISITING FT. OGLETHORPE. t \ Joel S. Morse, Misses Oney, Caro nd Janie Morse and W. Joel Smith lake up an auto-party that will save Thursday for Atlanta, where hey will spend a day, then go on to ^ort Oglethorpe, where they will pend several days with Albert A. dorse. From there they will go to Cnoxville and return via Asheville. rhey will be away a week. Their riends hope that a pleasant trip .waits them. HERE FROM HARTSVILLE. A /^owwaII nn 4 iur. Annui x aic uonuu k?m? , rom Hartsville Sunday and visited 1 lis friends here for a day or two..! ifr. Carroll is assistant postmaster j it Hartsville and is a young jnan s vho has many friends. i ^RMY SELECTION DAY IN THE NEAR FUTURE 'rocess of Choosing Men to Fight Battle* of Freedom Will Soon Begin. Washington, July 7.?Selection lay for the new Nationa! army is | pproaching rapidly as tho local e* mption boards in the various States omplete their organization, give seial numbers to the registration ards and forward certified copies to 'rovost Marshal Gen. Crowler. In-1 ^ ligations are that the drawing will ^ 'p held next week, but no official , tatement has been made as to the 3 /ar department's plans. } Administration officials are mainaining strict silence as to the mehod to be followed. With th? re- ; ent statement by Secretary Baker , hat the drawing would l>e held ' in , Washington, however, co"pled with he stress laid upon the serial num- ( >ering 6f registration cards, the^-gen- 1 sral outline of the plan Is clearly in- , I'cated. 1 It is understood that it, is proposed o place in a single jury wheel in . Washington one complete set of ! lumbers. When a number is taken ' Tom the wheel, the man ir. each ex- . smption district whose card bears . hat serial number will be drafted. . Thus as each numbejr is drawn, ap- . jroximately 30,000 Will be drafted . >r one in each exemption district. ! f 1,200,000 men are to be called 1 >efore the exemption boards in the . irst selection, which seems highly j lobable, only 40 numbers would * AArl +A Ka /Ironm haArtfini O itvu IV UV U1 A ^ U) IV ^ nen from each of 30,000 exemption } listricts. Many Knotty Points. There are numerous complications , vhich must arise, however, and the , nethod of solving them can be , :nown only when the admin istra- , ion makes known its plan in detail, rhe number of individuals register- 1 >d in each district who are liable for , nilitary service will not be the 1 ;ame. Aliens are registered but not ( iable for duty. In some districts ' he proportion of physically disquali- ( ied will run higher than in others, j U1 this must be considered in framng the regulations. Provision must. >e made also to balance, a.T far as jossible, the chances of military luty between the men in each disrict, so that disqualification of a . arge number in any particular disrict for any reason will not put up- ^ in those qualified additional likeli- j lood of being sent to the front. Men for Reaerve. | While the first contingent of the lew army under the bill is limited . o 500,000 men, an additional 125,100 or 150,000 will be needed for J he reserve battalions. Reserve bat- j alions are being recruited for all ^ egular regiments and will be' re- ^ ruited for the National uuara vhen it is drafted into the federal j ervice. The organization of the National army will be on the same >asis. It may be necessary also to Iraft enough men to fill up the regu- 1 ars and National Guard to war trength although no decision to this snd has been reached. The regulars ire close to war strength and the ruard units are recruiting rapidly. 5 f possible they will be completed by. j he present war volunteer system. There is one other consideration vhich will affect the total number if men to be drawn. Opinion varies ' is to the number of exemptions J vhich must be made under regulaions. An estimate of at least 50 ' < (xemptions for physical or other ' :auses has been generally employed j n commuting the probable size ofi he task before the exemption boards May Call Double Quota. It is not known whether the gov- * srnment plans to call double the 1 lumber of men actually needed on ;he first selection in order to pro- ' ride against these exemptions. Prob- 1 ibly a smaller number will be taken ;o be filled out by later selections 1 intil the ranks are full. If the ex- ! jmption factor is allowed for in the irst drawing, however, it seems likey that a million or million and a lalf names would be provided for at ;he time, the men to appear for ex- J l imination in the order in which they 1 ;vere drawn and the cards of those ' lot reached in $ny district where the 1 juota was filled before they came up sefore the board to the returned to J ;he registration lists. 1 Another factor being worned out inji :he selection re^u'.ati??n3 is the provision of the law requiring ihat each i State be given credit at the drawings for the numbers of m$n it has supplied as volunteers in the regular irmy or the Nalonul Guard. i fHOUSANDS OF SPIES ! ANH PLOTTERS BUSK I , / Uncle Sam'a Secret Service Men Ha*e Information That Would Startle World. Washington, July 5.?More complete and efficient cooperation of United States secret service agents svith those of its European allies is recognized as the great problem that nust be met in stamping out the spy. svil. ' ' While it Was stated today that representativei Of the State, War, Navy and Justice departments ace cooperating with good results in running down actice alien enemies, it was strongly indicated' that much remaind to be accomplished in cooperation with the services of foreign countries. Representatives of the Allies already are in this country, it is understood, And are working to bring about the desired cooperative action. This work, for obvious reasons, could not even be considered seriously before the United States entered the war, and the working outof the ramifications of a coordination / scheme require unusual discussion as well as time for setting the actual machinery in motion. Great precautions are necessary to prevent enemy agents from hprnminc cnomiant nf tVio no ture of the work or methods of com- N munication. Stupendous Task. The secret service of the United States wan confronted at the entrnce of America into the war with a program of discouraging magnitude. The machinery of tftiT department, built up almost entirely for the handling of domestic problems/ was suddenly required to shoulder the big burden of coping with thousands of plotters and spies. The recovery of the system from the first shock, officials declare, was excellent. Visiting missions have expresssd surprise and admiration at the progress made. ^Schemes Thwarted. Many schemes set on foot by enemy plotters have been hwarted and, it is said, that the archives of the department contain records of activities, which would, if made known, oe of startling nature. That the attacks upon American transports were the result of the work of spies is accepted generally in Washington without surprise. The sailing of transports, although not ' mentioned by the newspapers, was cnown to a large number of persons, who witnessed the transfer of troops from mobilization points in the Unifc;d States to their departure aboard the ships. Sending Messages. The ease of transmission of information to the enemy is apparent in the fact that commercial messages to neutral nations have suffered lit-1 o pnrfoilmenfQ frnTYl S11TIP1* /ision. An innocent looking cable to i Dutch merchant might easily carrynews of invaluable importance to the Germans. Officials are inclined to discount :heories of spies working in the government departments. Information if direct value is known to only a few trusted officials. Suspected iniividuals have been subjected to strict surveillance and discharges from public service among this class lave been frequent. Denials were general today that svork of United States secret service operatives had caused dissension in ;he Cabinet. Officials, who for obvious reasons :annot be quoted, declared today if the government's activities against German spies in the United States :ould be published, the news would startle the world. THE PICTURES. The series of picture lectures eiven by Mr. Pratt for the Library, came to a close last Thursday night with a lecture on Constantinople, which was enjoyed by all present. This series contained five lectures and all were on subjects pertaining to the great war. They were instructive and gave a great insight to the countries engaged in the struggle. Mr.. Pratt has been most helpful to the library, the sum realized for these lectures being nearly a hundred dollars. S