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Selective Draft Law Passed.

Act authorizing the President to in
crease temporarily the military estab-
lishment of the United States. This act
authorized a selective draft of l 200. 900
men and contains other important legis-
Resolution authorizing the President
to take over for the United States any
vessel owned in whole or in part by any
nation with which the United States
may be at war.
Resolution authorizing the American
Red Cross to erect certain temporary
buildings in Washington, d. c.
Act to temporarily increase the COM
missioned and warrant and enlisted
strength of the Navy and Marine Corps
from $1,000 to 100000 men. in the first
instance. and from Ii, 400 to 10000 in the
second.
Act appropriating s1.344,S96. for the
support of the Military Academy for the
fiscal year 1918. and for other purposes.
Act amending an act entitled An act
to regulate commerce." as amended. In
respect of car service.
act and appropriating s45.150,000 to in
sure vessels and their cargoes and ex-
penses connected Herewith.
Act appropriating S147.363,92S.17 for
the sundry civil expenses of the gov
ernment for the fiscal year 1918.
Act authorizing the issue to states
and territories and the District of CO.
lumbia of rifles and other property for
the equipment of organizations of home
gurds.
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Increase in Navy Personnel.

These appropriations enabled the de-
partment to increase the personnel of the
navy from 81, coo to more than 200, 000
now in all of its branches. 1t provided
ample munitions and guns to properly
arm these and also our merchant marine
1t appropriated money sufficient to con-
struct all the submarine destroyers and
chasers that the facilities of the country
would permit within the fiscal year Con-
gress appropriated also for submarines
battieships and battle cruisers all that
the shipbuilding industry of the country
could handle during the fiscal year.
The appropriation includes sufficient to
provide for aircraft needed by the Navy,
covering all that the manufacturing facil-
ities OF this country were able to fur
nish within the fiscal year
In every line OF naval activity Congress
has furnished all the money needed to
equip the Navy during this year
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Summary of Public Acts.

The public acts of the session, sum-
married. as to provisions, were these:
Public resolution numbered !, declar-
ing state of war exists between the
imperial German government and the
government of the people Of the United
States and making provision to prose-
cute the same. April the German war
resolution was introduced in the House.
and April 6, or four days after assem-
bling of Congress. the President at
tached his signature to that measure.
No delay was involved in the passage
Of this resolution, perhaps the most
important ever offered, either in this
or any other Congress.
Act appropriating s6s.020 for ex-
penses incident to the first session of
the Sixtyfifth Congress.
General deficiency appropriation act,
appropriating $163,s41. .400.52. of which
$100.000.000 was for the national Sc
curity anud defense and for each and
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For Great Merchant Fleet.

Act appropriating ss,2s1.os4.541.s for
the military and naval establishments
on account of war expenses. Among
other things it appropriates $405,000,000
for an emergency shipping fund with
which to begin construction of the
greatest merchant fleet the world has
ever known.
Act to punish acts of interference
with foreign relations, the neutrality
and the foreign commerce of the United
States, to punish espionage. and better
enforce the criminal laws of the United
States, and for other purposes.
Act amending the federal reserve
act
Act authorizing condemnation pro-
ceedings of lands for military pur-
poses.
Act appropriating $40, 100000 to in
craase temporarily the Signal Corps of
tiN Army and to purchase. manufac-
turS maintain. repair. and operate air
ships
Act authorizing the United States to
take possession Of a site for use for
permanent aviation stations of the
Army and Navy for school purposes
Act appropriatfng $27.S26.15o for the
construction. repair and preservation
of certain public works on rivers and
harbors.
Acts enlarging the membership of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
and amending the act to regulate COM
merce, by authorizing priority ship
ments by any common carrier. and SO
forth.
Act appropriating $11,346,40 400 to pro-
vide further for the national security
and defense by stimulating agriculture
and facilitating the distribution of
agricultural products.
Act appropriating $162, 100000 to
provide further for the national secur-
ity and defense by encouraging the
production. conserving the supply and
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Control of Liquor Traffic.

One of the most far-reaching features
! OF legisla ton, enacted with an ease and
speediness little short of marvellous. when
one considers the violent diversity of
opinion on the subject in this country, was
the control placed by Congress upon the
| liquor traffic. The manufacture and i'm
! portation OF distilled liquors is forbidden
and the President Is empowered. in his
| Judgment, to seize every gallon OF spirits
already manufactured. He may also pro-
hibit the brewing of beer, or modify 1t.
or lessen the alcoholic strength
Governmental control Of business in
all lines of supplies is provided In the
legislation of the session and, more
over. such control is centered in the
gree that is only describable as abso-
lutte. He can prohibit Importation
and exDortation: he can regulate to
the extension of inhibition. domestic
production. He can take over and op-
crate under governmental regulation
not only mines. oil lands and ores. but
manufactures in all essential lines of
, production.
The President is authorized to fix
prices to the producers of certain prime
| necessaries of life and to regulate re-
tail prices to protect the ultimate con-
sumner. Speaking broadly. there Is no
real limitation of the power over the
productive enterprise of the country
which the President may exercise
For the period of the war control
or public speech and the press is drawn
WITHIN strict limitation. and even also
the daily life of the citizen to a de-
gree The Postmaster General has wide
discretion to forbid the use of the mails
TO disloyal publications. Newspapers
pupIished in foreign languages are re-
CURED to print translations in English
Oh all news and comments upon the
governments course in the war.
Loans to the Allies,
Loans of the money of the American
people to foreign governments in great
sums was authorized. 1t is expected
that this money will be returned in
the course of time and the bonds of
the borrowing governments were taken
as security
Military development upon a large scale
naturally was authorized One important
or aviation and it's application to military
uses. A billion dollars will be used in this
one branch alone
development of the American merchant
marine upon an unprecedented scale,
tnrough direct government control, is au-
thorized and follows a thirty-year fight in
congress for the upbuilding OF this serv-
ice This feature Of war legislation will
live in the future.
One should not refrain from a word of
comment upon the spirit of Congress in
sIantihg appropriations and enacting leg
lsiatlon requested by the executive bra nch
of the government Congress responded
in full to every demand. Fundamentally.
ungrudgingly. Toward the end, when the
appropriations outreached the vision of
imagination, Congress gasped but never
faltered. The accounting for expenditures
will be demanded later.
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Revised Proverbs.

The man who knows not and knows
not hs knows not. he IL frequent-you
can't do anything with him.
The man who knows not and knows
he knows not, he will, listen to you
with awe-cultivate him.
The man who knows and knows not
he knows-shun him. He may wake
up and become wise to you.
The man who knows and knows hs
knows, he 10 q bore-blackball him.
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Hollow Pretense.
From rudn.

1tod 1ud8o.
How hollow Is all our pretension to
progress, when We have never devised
punishment for the human trip.ham.
mer who always thinks II 10 necessary
to smite one on the shoulder In greet
ing. or the human wise who puts forth
every ounce o9 his strength In shaking
hau6as
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"People Will Support Action"

That the country will sustain the ac-
tion of their representatives here as
the latter have sought to sustain the
President and to uphold his good right
arm l have no question. Whatever op-
position there may be to the action of
Congress will be sporadic and confined
to certain grouns whose sv~'na'h'"s "s
opposed and will ooatinur +. ~.
The entrance of America into this world
conflict.
In brief statement 1t would be i'm
possible to present in terms what has
been accomplished in the way of leg
islation. 1t is sufficient to say in a
general way that the Army has been
completely organized and increased and
method had been adopted for raising it
before America really entered upon the
scene of action, which would have render
ed the armies of the allies very much
stronger and more efficient il the same
method had been adopted by them in the
first DAYS of the war
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Nothing New.

From Judge.
Reader-Have you any modern nos
tionf
Librarian-No, madam; our book buzz
er has been on a six months trip.
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Paradox.

From Judge.
There is only one way that people
can live happily-that's together"
Yes. and there is only one way that
people can live at peace-and that's
apart"
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Navy to Be One of Strongest.

The Navy has practically been reor-
sanized and increased to its full force.
and a navy composed for construction
which will make the American Navy
one of the strongest in the world, while
money has been appropriated and plans
are in course of formulation which
will in the end make up for the losses
of vessels engaged in the merchant
marine which are being destroyed by
he ruthless submarine warfare being
waged by Germany.
To meet all of these things, moneys
have been appropriated and methods
adopted for raising the necessary
funds. and in my opinion the American
Army and Navy as we'll as the country
itself, fndustrially and commercially.
Will arise to the necessities of the oc-
casion which has precipitated us in the
war and make themselves felt In the
conduct thereof
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WORLD HISTORY MADE, MIGHTY
FORCES SET AT WORK, RECORD
OF CONGRESS DURING SESSION
By SENATOR WILLARD SALISBURY.
President Pro Tempore of the Senate.

President Pro Tempore of the Senate.
A place in history will be filled with
the record of the important actions OF
| the first session of the Sixty-hfth
Congress Our .tional life will be
affected for a genera lion by some OF
| the legislation we have passed. Forces
have been loosed which may operate
| for centuries to come. The interfer-
ence of the federal government
| through commissions with the indivld-
| ual effort of those who are prominent
! in industrial life will furnish texts for
| the speeches of statesmen hereafter
, as to the industrial organization of
our country.
The session now closing has chiefly
had to do with the effective prosecu-
tion of the war by this representative
alton, and, has been necessard nuet
powers have been vested in the Eixecu
tive for the purpose of efficient ana
CO. -ordinated action. All the resources
of the country have been pledged to
bring the world war to succeSsful
termination. and there has been no
case where Congress has failed to
grant the power asked by the Execu-
tive to wage the war. whether by TAX
ing the men or the wealth of the
country.
attempts to Handicap Failed"
Such attempts as have been made to
handicap our national effort, no mat
ter to what they may be attributed,
have been wholly unsuccessful. The
President has had all power given to
him that he has asked. save only the
extreme power of censorship, which
this Congress refused only that the
people of the country may have all the
Information available consistent with
our military operations: and Congress
has given these great powers and has
taxed the people for billions of dollars
ungrudgingly and in an absolutely pa
triotic spirit. Senators from New
England, senators from the south and
senators from the west have found in
measures for the prosecution of the
war absolutely no differences of opin-
ion among themselves.
Ignorant critics may find fault with
Congress or the President that other
things have not been done or that the
things done could have been better
done in other ways. l do not believe
any such criticism is justified. Mill
tary, naval and financial men, the
representa- tives here of the allies
against Germany in Europe, have
freely commented to me without re-
serve and have universally commended
the vast amount of work which has
already been done and the method by
which Congress has accomplished it.
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CIRCULATION OF THE STAR
INCREASES "A PER CENT
Statement Filed With Post Office De
partment Showing Ownership
and Circulation. ..

The Star has n I'D with the Post Of
flee Department. as required by the act
Of Congress Of August "a. 1912. state
ment showing the ownership. manage
ment, circulation. etc, Of The Evening
Star and The Sunday Star. for the six
months ended September 80, 1917.
The Star has served for years as the
barometer of the growth of the Ma
tional Capital. The circulation figures
in the statement just filed reflect the
recent specially noticeable increase in
the number of residents of the District,
due largely to wartime activities.
Average for Six Months.
This statement. when compared with
that filed one year ago, shows that the
Star for the six months ending Septem-
ber 30, 1917. was S9.l90. as against
1882 for the corresponding six months
In 19l6,-an average increase OF 1853
per day or than y
Sunday Star In the Same two given Pc
riods has increased from b6.S5A to 64.-
874, Q gain Of 1870. or NOR than l3 per
cent The statement follows:
Editors and Owners.
Editor. Theodore W. Noyes. Washing
S.S
Kaufmann, Washington. D. c.; business
manager; Fleming Newbold. Washing
ton, D. c.: publisher. The Evening Star
Newspaper Company, Frank B. Noyes.
DFes.asns ~asnsoss9a' ThaodeGe v " Noyes and
Frank B. Noyes, trustees for tho heirs
Of tho late Crosby 8. Noyes; Frank A.
Richardson, trustee for Mary B. Adams;
Rudolph Kaufman. Victor Kaufman.
Beals r. Howard. Fleming Newbold.
Grace Adams Howard Louise K. Simp-
son, John Crayke Simpson, Jessie K.
Kaufman and Miranda Noyes Boyd.
Miranda N Boyd. at Philadelphia, Pa
Known bondholders. mortgages and
other security holders. holding l per
cent or more of total amount Of bonds,
mortgages or other securities, mono.
Circulation Figures.
sue Of the publication sold or distrib-
| uted through tho mails or otherwise. to
paid subscribers during the six months
ended September 80, 1917:
Average
Net Circulation.
Daily. Sunday
Net Paid Circulation. s8.757 es,7s7
Net Unpaid Circulation
(made up of copies
given for service. ex.
changes and advertis-
ing ageucies) ....... 73S 6s1
l
Total Average Net Cir
| culatfon. ............. ee,490 64,374
| (Signed) FLEMING NEWBoLD.
| Business Manager.
| Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 81 day Of October, 1917.
| (Seal) CORNELIUS ECKHARDT,
| Notary Public.
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CONGRESS SESSION
!. ENDED YESTERDAY
MAKER OF HISTORY
henceforth during the period Of the wa
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railroad facilities, the Long Island
railroad has been required to take up
rails from sidings along its line to
build the spur tracks required at the
cantonment. To bring the construc-
ton materials to Camp Meade, which
is some distance from an electric rail-
road and not on any steam railroad,
it was necessary to rebuild the elec-
trio railroad to make it of sufficient
strength for steam transportation. In
addition, the Pennsylvania railroad
built a spur several miles in length
into the cantonment site. In order
to build this spur the government had
to condemn a right of way. AS lum-
Der and building supplies had been
ordered for the other fifteen canton
ments ahead of Camp Meade, greater
difficulty was experienced in getting
delivery of it's requirements in sup
plies.
At every cantonment, approximate
ly 1000 officers and enlisted men
have already arrived and are being
cared for.
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lege, of South Carolina.

lege, of South Carolina.
In 1871 DR.. Jacobs established the
"True Witness" which become the
monthly publication of the orphan
age. At one time he was pastor of
the Clinton Presbyterian church,
pastor of the Orphanage church,
president of the orphanage, editor of
the orphanage monthly paper and
treasurer of the orphanage. He serv-
ed for a number of years as chap
lain, of the South Carolina Press
association.
He frequently remarked to init
mate friends that, should a monu-
ment ever be erected to his memory,
he wanted it to bear only the words,
"The Child" to the development of
which he devoted so much of his life.
The Atlanta Journal.
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GOVERNOR MANNING
ADDRESSES SOLDIERS

Columbia, Sept. 7.-Before leav-
ing yesterday afternoon in the inter-
est partly of military matters Gov
ernor Manning issued the following
address and welcome to the National
Army as represented by the contin-
gent which arrived at Camp Jackson
Wednesday and Thursday:
"The brief address of the presi-
dent to the $4,000 men in the first
draft is so comprehensive that little
need be added. My deep interest and
prize in your welfare and the task
you are undertaking impels me to
say a few words to you.
"September s will hereafter be a
notable day. It marks the beginning
of the end of German militarism.
And this new National Army, which
is composed of men carefully select
ed by a uniform machinery through
out our country, will be the new and
efficient safeguard for the liberty
and freedom of our people.
GAS the protectors of our homes,
our lives and our honor, you may be
certain that our hearts 60 out to you
with a profound sense of affection
and pride. There are many of us
who can not be with you on the fir
ing line but you may rest assured
that we will gladly give you our sup
port and, do all in our power to see
that everything that medical skill and
money can do to mitigate the hard
ships of wa will be earnestly done.
Your loved ones at home will have
our sympathy and our help.
"You are a picked army, called to
the colors by the most democratic
system yet evolved for military SER
vice. After training you will be
the finest and most effective army the
world has ever seen. 1t is true that
YOU prefer civil to military life, but
you are resolved to protect our coun-
try and our people without regard to
sacrifice, and I know that through
YOU this war will be brought to a
victorious end for our country and
for our allies"
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ON THE JOB.

At recent meeting of the Board
of Trustees of the city schools, Mr..
VIM. M. Barnwell was elected chair
man of the Board. He has been
looking after the work for the past
few weeks with great deal of care
and we are informed by Col. Lewis
Perrin that he thinks of resigning his
Office as vestryman in the church in
order that he may give all his time
to "chairmaning."
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CALHOUN FALLS TO HOLD
A COMMUNITY FAIR

Another meeting concerning the
organization of a Community Fair
for Calhoun Falls and the surround
ing communities, was held Saturday
afternoon, and the people decided
definitely that they would hold a
Community Fair in October.
The following officers were elected
and committees appointed:
Officers-Mr. L. M. Parker, Presi-
dent; DR.. j. Hicks, Secretary; Mr..
H. W. Lawson, Treasurer.
Executive Committee-Mr. J. F.
Gilbert, Chairman; Mr.. Monroe Bur-
riss, Mr.. H. H. Hester.
Finance Committee-Dr. Fairer,
Chairman; Mrs. Sara Weinraub, Mr..
CHI. Taylor.
Farm Products-Mr. S. J. Hester,
Chairman; Mr.. A. B. Milford, Mr.. A.
o. Grant.
Horses and Mules-Mr. ]. w. Nor
rah, Chairman; R. o. Bell, H. W.
Boyd. .,.
Cattle-Mr. C. G. McAllister,
Chairman; Mr.. J. J. George, Mr.. A.
A. Edge.
Swine-Mr. J. M. Bell, Chairman
Mr.. B. F. Manning, Mr.. S. F. Wake
field.
Poultry-Mr. S. J. Hester, Chair
man; DR.. J. v. Tate, Mrs. E. M.
Lander.
Grounds and Buildings-Mr. G. o.
Hall, Chairman; Mr.. U. S. Burford,
Mr.. F. M. Nance, Mr.. W. B. Ed
monds, Mr.. Clyde Wilson.
General Superintendent-Mr. Fur
man Milford.
Household Department-Mrs. R. S
B. Martin, Chairman; Mrs. Oscar
Lanier, Mrs. J. B. Tate, Mrs. S. C.
Nance.
Floral Department-Mrs. Henry
Hester, Chairman; Mrs. Monroe Bur-
riss, Miss Lizzie Grant.
Canning and Preserving g-Mrs. F.
B. Milford, Chairman; Mrs. Norwood
Calhoun, Mrs. R. O. Bell. ..
Needle Work-Mrs. q. w. Boyd,
Chairman; Mrs. C. H. Taylor, Mrs.
E. B. Gossett.
Antique Relics-Mrs. Joseph Hicks
Chairman; Mrs. Fairer, Mrs. J. F.
Gilbert.
Another meeting is to be held
Saturday afternoon at $3.50 at Cal
houn Falls, to make final arrange
ments for this fair. The officers all
members of the Executive and FL
nance committee and the chairmans
of all other committees are urged to
be present at this meeting, Sept. Is.
Don't fail to be there as all plans
and arrangements will be completed
and your presence is needed.
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WILL YOU GIVE TO RED CROSS!

The committee which has in hand
the furnishing of the Red Cross head
quarters for Abbeville asks that
some interested persons contribute
presses and trunks with good locks.
These articles of furniture will be
we'll cared for and will be returned
to the owners when the Red Cross
has finished with them. Any one
having articles to loan should phone
to Mrs. G.. C.. Gambrell.
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PLEASED WITH THE NAVY.

Benton Welch, one of Abbeville's
recent recruits for the Navy, is at
home on a vacation. In telling of
his varied experiences he expresses
himself as pleased with the Navy.