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lel Friday, Oct, 12, 1917. ?
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nu No, no, Geraldine, the fact that ^
you bought a Liberty Bond in the ^
p,torst issue will not bar you from par- ; w
ticipation now. ai
*b Our idea of the meanest man is '
d(the one who will charge more than
reasonable profit on what he sells st
to the soldiers. j ti
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And yet, even the Senate investi- <
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Kates La Follette, judging from re-(
tl suits of investigations in the past,! ^
o that gentleman has little to fear. S5
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? It really means that if you will
f not voluntarily save food in every d
( conceivable manner, your uncle ;
Samuel is going to make vou do it. ,
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If it finds it possible to collect the
three million inheritance (tax, ithe
State of Kentucky will at least be 11
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glad that Mrs. Bingham once lived
there. "
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Of course, the fact of Charlotte Q
Ueing but twenty miles or there- Pi
abouts from Concord gave the for- r
?ner city some notoriety when b
\Tpd no OAt in thp no nu.. ,i I h
-.WWMW O^v i?i v.m*> FUfCIO.
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We admit profound ignorance as '8
to the actual guilt of Mr. La Fol-jvl
lettc, but if he is guilty of uttering S(
ttreuaonable words, we know what la
ought to be coming to him.
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PreHitlejut Wilson has declared at
that nothing short of complete vic_
(tory over CJermany will suffice, and
in this President Wilson as in
many, many other things, is right. ei
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That press dispatch from Ok la- nl
homa relating whereas wheat is being
fed to livestock has perhaps al- ,
ready received the attention of one tl
Hub Hoover, who will be interested. a
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It has been said that Mrs. Vernos
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Castle is the best dressed woman on ,
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the stage, and a reprehensible ac-1
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quaintanee is inclined to think that
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the word "least" should be inserted !
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instead of "best."
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The buying of liberty Bonds is|a
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one thing in which speed limits are
forgotten; in fact, officials of the
treasury department say that a lit- f
tie speed right now is the thing most |''
wanted.
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Columbia club women have dis-j?
pensed with elaborate refreshments.11
at their meetings in an effort to con- i **
aerve the food supply, but who i"
knows hut that that will eliminate '
all the competition. '
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The Columbia States remarks: i
"In choosing ft wife select the girl.v
who can manage with the smallest^
"food budget and not the one who ?
can do with the minimum of c
clothes," the which being referred r
herewith without recourse to the ?
editor of the Norfolk Virginian- 1
Pilot. r
THE Li
BUY A BOND. the issuance
It is not ouly a voluntary act of tor road build
itriotisw but a duty owed to the the propositio
jvernment to buy a Liberty Bond. pie. The pe
he troops which go from this having been ^
>untry to the battle fronts of Eu- ever, we belh
>pe go to fight a battle for all of us, lng to forgive
rid those who remain at home can movers in the
i. no better way show their appre- islatlve act a
ation of that fact than by buying the bill passe
ands and helping the government ing a board
nance the war. It is by no means for Davidson
question of expense, either, but a Good roads
ife investment with dividends essity and th<
ire. more benefit
The issue must be successful and Observer remi
ill be successful and no one should the greatest
elay purchasing the bonds for any evident prev
?ason. If over-subscribed and be- spirit of com
>re the end of the time set for the will build a j
tmpaign, as was the first issue, so joining count;
iuch the better. That would be a ing a finer r<
emonstration of the fact that the end will dot
eople of this nation are behind the roads all aboi
^ministration, which is desired, manency is n
rid which is true. roads in the
South Carolina's allotment of the we save mom
resent issue is $15,000,000, an,d tion.
ancaster county will measure up to
V nftpt fl Hi^nu It, Inltlnn An - A P 24m ^
>|/vv>vutivuo 4u tuning * UIC V/l Itnj^
iare, which Is $232,080. This 4 PROM
mount has been allotted to the
inks of Lancaster county and their 444444
ustomers, and while It Is by no T,M>
leans an easy task, the bai.ks feel Occoquan
lat the farmers and the townfolk very much ii
ill measure up to all expectations A ^ew days
i they did in the first issue. appealed to
half of her s
there for pic
"iTILL THE LIVLOIt PROBLEM. . . .
^ and neglect
Spartanourg was treated to some ( been exposed
u ious consequences of the viola- J far worse ths
on of the liquor laws Sunday night | have been ca
hen a member of the military po-, U88'a"
Eighteen v
ce was shot down by an alleged
:party are 1
iolator and in turn, after falling to charge of
te ground, shot five times at his as- against the o
illant, every shot taking effect. The stitution. A
tidier was not badly injured, but women h
1 badly, in a 111
le suspected "tiger" is expected | in(lvliko ma
'e- | Tweedale is
It has been ever thus. Many peo- Against him,
le have doubted the wisdom of thej,ron anc* dive
rohihition laws 011 the ground that kit* hen, 1
in the attem
ley cannot be enforced. The same movai nf thc
as true of North Carolina and is whom he. in
ue of Virginia, as well as South heart was be
arolina. In Virginia, it was said 'n a hospital
lai enforcement of the law would ! rer<
j sorely needed
e impossible, and a legislator is The e|ghte?
uoted as saying that in certain made the foil
arts of his county the law could First. Tha
ever be enforced. However, that keen buit, wj
. , .. ... to be placed
as not been the case, and the law
. and water,
as been enforced with perhaps as _ .
v Second. T
iw violations as any other law. The VjOUBiy been
lw against murder is constantly | her own doct
iolated; that against theft and ar- C(' her.
in is violated, and the prohibition Third. Th
, , , . been refused
iw will be violated. tA. , . ,
within her rij
Hut this will not affect the sentf- Fourth. T
lent that is strongly against liquor ; asked Mr. T<
ad prohibition is here to stay. \ taking their
i that it was n
ABOUT BOADS. Fifth. Th
negro women
"If there is one thing the Observ- them.
" loves to talk about." says the Then they
harlotte Observer, "more than an-'cue their cor
ther, it is 'roads.'" high-spirited
I A few words
And the most of us are to bo,,. ?
they requlrei
jund in the same list. In fact, them.
tere are few people nowadays not ' We may n<
fleeted, in one way or another by entire sympal
ood or bad roads. Those who do '"r sweet
cause of vote
ot travel in high-powered automo- that fo
lies, in many instances, use the at least, wo
Dads in other ways, and practically 1 from annoyii
11 people are benefitted by good K?vernnient 1
think the p
oads. __ .
House, unde
The Observer says that road talk Grange devU
nd road building have become the young womai
opular fad in North Carolina and I"K them at
hat there is now more permanent Occoquan.
Doesn't thi
oad construction under way or be- ,, .
neps. sound
fig arranged for in that State than in state.
ny other Southern commonwealth.
"hat is an accomplishment, perhaps, Appro
f which the people may justl) bo any ra
roud, and yet, by lack of proper (nation of th
rovislon for maintenance, more klnfl 'or th?
, , . , , , throws down
noney has been wasted on roads in
ing restraint
he South than on any other one tarJ,y |mpos<
tern. Not alone In North Carolina, assertion of
ut in other States. the Germans
We take it for granted that Da- a 'ra>,|nK ?'
idson county has the best roads In ?' ex,rem't'<
extent a fui
forth Carolina, although we can re- rom|nc colla
nemher when Mecklenburg county hie business.
lalmed that distinction. These of thing goi
oads came about through a special 8.uror "
.. fatuity of fo
>ci or me legislature, gotten I k
I ment be rea
hrough, we have been told in a i will come fli
IMP ASTER NEWS FRIDAY, OCT. 12, 1917.
of $300,000 of bondsj Names of State Towns,
ling without submitting; To the Editor of The State:
n to a vote of the peo-, j Hke very much editorials of the ,
;ople of that county, kind you write in The Sunday State,
given good roads, how- You cover a variety of subjects and
sve they are now will- none are trite and commonplace. In
i Varner and the other today's State in the editorial under
movement for the leg- the caption, "South Carolina Map
nd are forgetting that Study," in the last paragraph you
d under a title "Creat- say: "Of names borrowed from
of road commissioners modern cities of the world South
county." Carolina has a good number. It
have come to be a nec- may boast its Moscow, Camden,
e better the roads, the Florence, etc." In this you are in
to the people, and the error for the city of Camden was'
irks that what it places named in honor of Lord Camden,
dependence on is the whom the Colonials regarded very
alence of the county highly, and the city of Florence was
petition. One county named for Miss Florence Harlee, a
good road and the ad_ daughter of General Harlee. Miss
it ur (11 n Knti* kit lis* PlnronoA T-T o la * * ? IImImm '" A V? ?.
j t* in o^v auvut uunu" ? ivivuvq ftlui ivt ao uv" 11 1115 in inc
Dad. This spirit in the city of Florence.
ibtless result in gooa B. F. Peguee.
at, and the sooner per- Cheraw, Oct. 7.
lade the foundation of
The State would have been more
South, the sooner will . , , ?
accurate had it said that South Oar?y
on road construcollna
has a good number of names
of towns identical with those of Eu-|
ropean cities. It was not intended |
to convey the notion that these
OTHER PENS. ! names were taken directly from Eu-|
) ropean cities. For instance. South
.......... . I Carolina towns could be mentioned
Wild Woman. I which were named for other Ameri-I
. . . can towns and they in turn were!
workhouse has been
named for European cities. The
a the limelight lately. countie8 and towns of York> Lancaa.
ago a Russian woman , ter and Chester were In large part
her ambassador in be-1 aettled by immigrants from the collator
who was detained 1 ony Qf Pennsylvania, where those
keting. The hardships | names had already been given to
to which the girl had [towns or districts. Tiie point which'
were in her opinion The state wished to emphasize was
in anything she would tjie general one that these names
lied upon to endure in j were of European origin. Camden.
N. J., is a much older settlement
roinen or the suffrage fhan Camden. S. C.. but the name
low being held on a Camden" was given to it later,
rioting and mutiny |)od) towns were named in honor of
fflcials of the same In. , Lord chancellor Camden.?Columiceordlng
to the latter j)ja
live behaved very, very! _____
ost uncivilized and un- Forcing Economy,
nner. Superintendent Thfl government evidently intends
the principal plaintilT. jjiat the people of this country are;
three guards, the ma- going to practice economy whether
rs colored women from thpy care to do 8() or nol. The next'
they waged bloody war war tax measure provides for such) pt
to prevent the re- taxation of luxuries and things peo
ir leader, Mrs. Johns, pje arR nf)t forced to have that soon
the kindness of his j, will ouj Qj die question for any
nt upon placing safely onft worth less than a million dollars
where she would have {n buy a plate of ice cream or take)
attention that she a sof( drink.
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Dealers in these articles say that
sn women on their part all present indications point to *
owing statement: drinks increasing to ten cents peri''
,t Mrs. Johns, who had K,aHS and when that happens the'?
is, they believed, about i)U8|ness at the average soda foun.
in duresse upon bread tain is going to be cut in half or^*
I more. uncle sam evidently knows
hat when she had pre-^^at he can make the people of this o
ill and had demanded country be economical if the/ will Is
or. he had been refus- no( fjp n nf their own free will.? a
; Spartanburg Journal. 8I
at the information had ;
her whether she was cierman IntriRue in Japan.
ulits in asking for him.; ,
. . We shudder to look around us
hat when they had . ,
, , . at the menace we so narrowly es
weedale where he was J >
friend, he had replied ' a^.' ' , !
. , . , , The words are those of Viscount
one of their business. ........ . ,
........ Ishii, of the Japanese mission to the '
at he had incited the ? . I 1
.1 nited States. He was speaking ofi
to a race riot . ,
th<. long-continued German int.. ue
, . ... to foment ill feeling between his
had proceeded to res- . . .
, . . country and ours with a view to
nrade just as a lot of ... .
.... , provoking them to war. Long bemen
might have done' ' ...
... .. fore the outbreak of the present
of explanation was all I ... ^ .1
. . . .. . world-struggle Germany was seek-1
rl but they never got . 7 L .
I ing to poison the Japanese mind
. . . . . 'against America, and the American
it be ready to give our 1
,. . ... mind against Japan. Pretending to
thy and our reputation 1 " , . 7 .
.. . .. be the friend of both, she tried by
reasonableness to the, .. . . .
t?r i. a" t'ie means known to her un-1
for wnnipn Wp ho-l
.. , .. [scrupulous diplomacy to align them' <
r the apace of the war1 ' * (
?io,. , against each other. In the light of ,
men may well refrain ... . . i
ig a heavily burdened ^i8COUnt Ish11 8 disclosure.. many j
vith their clamor. We th,n*a once P^P1**" ?nd disquietavement
of the White I in* to Washington and to Tokio
r a banner hearing a 8,a?d out ? 80 many transparent
e. no place for a nice webs of the Kalaer'a chicane.
a. We prefer vlsualiz- We are dumbfounded at the revehome
rather than in ,fttlon of thft z,mmermann plot toi
And yet league Japan with Mexico for a1
at. "none of your busl- Prussian-piloted Invasion of the
convincing??Colum- Un,ted State" Hut that waa no
means the first scheme of the kind.
For years and years, as it now turns
out. the Kaiser's agents carried on
'itching the Knd. the malicious propaganda by which
te, the belated determ- he hoped to make deadly foes of na.
e Rrltish to retaliate in tlons that should be trusting friends.
> raids against Ixtndon As he plotted with the Russian Czar
one of the last remain- to isolate and destroy England, as]
s upon warfare, volun- he plotted with the Turk to domln-i
'd by the Rrltish as an ate the Eevante and the lands bemoral
superiority over yond, as he plotted to secure the]
In a sense It marks Danish West Indies for a naval base]
moral fibre, an approach and to lay the foundation of a future
>s of rage and to that 1 German empire In South America, as!
rther Indication of the, he plotted In every country and
pse of the whole horrl-1 aeainnt almost everv nennle of the
for the farther this sort wide world, so he plotted against
?s, the sooner and the the United States. Not until his
eactlon set In and the perfidious regime Is crushed and
rce as a convincing ele- blotted out will the nations be seillzed.
The realization eure either within themselves or in
rst, too, to Germany.? their Interrelations.?Atlanta Jour'ost.
nal.
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Junior Order.
The DiHtrict Council Junior Or<
nited American Mechanics held
rand public rally last night in 1
unior Order building over the pc
fllce. The Order is composed
le counties of Chester and Lane
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The meeting commenced at
'clock by Hon. R. S. Stewart w
i a popular orator, delivering
ddress and introduced .the mi
peaker of the evening, Mr. J.
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The interest rat
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: CHAS. D. JONES
E. M. CROXTON
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With the land forces
and with the fleet
WRIGLEYS
dives solace in the
long watch. It freshens
and refreshens,
steadies nerves,
allays thirst, helps appetite
and digestion.
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r every meal"
lavor Lasts
> i Wilson, followed by Hon. Zeb V.
. L?ong of Statesvllle, N. C.. a prominent
member of the Junior Order
and one of the best orators of the
ier State of North Carolina.
ai The Junior Order here Is one of
the the largest In the State, and is still
st- j increasing its membership.
of Messrs. J. S. Wilson, W. F. Ksas~
tridge and J. H. Hammel of Ker.
shaw, have put forth their active ef8
forts to make this the largest Junho
! lor Order in the State. The meetan
lng closed last night and it was the
ain | best and most pleasant rally that the
b. ! Junior order has had in i^ncaBter.
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