The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, April 09, 1915, Page 2, Image 2
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playgroun1
an:
lly W. It. Lunk, Supervisor of Play
grounds, in Sunday News.
The idea of playgrounds being :
part of the educational system of (
city has only found credence withil
the past few years. It is by no meam
universal yet, but is fast hading fa
vor even among the most conserva
tive. That we may view the questior
fairlv and arrive at our conclusion II
is necessary to study the part eacli
pla ys In the well-rounded development
of our young people.
Education has not always beer
deemed so necessary as it is today
Practically every large corporation
now demands that those who fill its
important positions shall have the
best training obtainable through
special school courses along their par
ticular lines of work. The same rule
holds good in all other walks of life,
for we find over 55 per cent of the ex
ecutive positions in the country filled
from the very few (in comparison to
our population) who graduate from
our public schools and colleges.
Thus without fear of contradication
we can say that the function of our
great educational system . is to fit
the youth of the nation to best take
their places in the community life,
well equipped to carry on its activities.
We are backed in this assertion by
soute of the earlier educators, l'estalozzi
advanced the theory that education
nift-ant the development of the
sense perception in the pupil and
that the schools should give every
chance for this development. Froebel
goefc farther and says "Education
means the development of the selfJipfi
vitv of 1 n ..
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this self-activity," he says, "the child
unfolds his will power quite as much
as his sense perception and by this
arrives in the surest way at thinking
reason, which is the culmination of
self-activity."
In the playground we find an insituat'.on
which has been fostered as
such for only a few years. It is the
working out of a desire on the part
of many thinking men and women to
utilize the natural instinct of play;
to give it guidance and direction thus
making it a force in developing useful
citizens. Man has played since the
earliest dawn of history, and will
continue to do so until the world is
no more. The institution which fails
to take this fact into consideraion
fails in one of its fundamentals.
i< c ua<v kii'uh'ii iiiui iiit* developopment
of self-activity should be the
ultimate goal of every public scliool
system. We further assert that the
proper utilization of this natural inI
etinct to play is a wonderful aid toward
attaining this goal, when combined
with the training and directing
of the mind along educational channels.
The loss from our schoo's lias
been almost beyond comprehension
but where the p'ay life of the child
has b?? n direr ed and coupled with
il.?# student life < h's losi has been
x ?: v materially diminished. Nowhere
has this prinLpl? been better tested
and proven than at Gary, Indiana
v.-^ere for certain period every school
Cay the child is given training in
play tvecordillK to a rarefnllv
out programme.
The discipline of our schools diffreeT
ABSOLUTEL
And no Str
I AM GOING TO GIVE
DOLLAR FLORENCE AUTi
first of May, to the one holdir
number will not cost you ar
part of it. Every lady enter
to May 1, will receive a tick
etfch time you come, so conr
buy a thing to get a tickeetentitle
you to it.
WATCH THE DATE & CC
Remember it don't cost yoi
and each time you enter you
is going to get the lucky one.
tickeet will get a Twenty-Fi\
Oil Cook Stove, without cost
Automatic Stove it will be w
Come any time and we will 1
one.
REMEMBER THE DAT
Hoping you will have a coo
Stove in your kitchen, I am, i
J. B. MA<
DS
D EDUCATION
- fers materially from that of the playground.
In the school the discipline
3 must be made to conform to the eni
tire student body, and each child
i give way to a certain degree in or3
der that the mass be served. This ar.
rangeraent does not give the fullest
. chance for self-expression, but there
, are many methods the teacher may
I adopt \vh'< h give to the individual
play and all-round activity of the
playground, and we have a combination
which cannot be excelled for the ,
development of well rounded citizenship.
i
White Man With lllack Liver.
The Liver is a blood purifier. It .
was thought at one time it was the ]
seat of the passions. The trouble ,
with most people is that their Liver
becomes black because of impurities '
in the blood due to bad physical <
states, causing biliousness, head- i
ache, dizziness and constipation. Dr. .
King's New Life Pills will clean up
the Liver, and give you new life. '
25c at your druggist. 1
t
Whole Family Dc|?endont.
Mr. E. Williams, Hamilton, Ohio, 1
writes: "Our whole family depend c
on Pine-Tar-Honey." Maybe some >
one in your family has a severe Cold .
?perhaps it is the baby. The original
Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey is an '
ever ready household remedy?it 1
gives immediate relief. Pine-Tar- \
Honey penetrates the lining of the (
throat and lungs, destroys the germs
and allows nature to act. At your
druggist, 25c. I
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f
FREE! I
Y free:
ings to This
AWAY A TWENTY-FIVE
[)MATIC OIL STOVE on the
lg the lucky number, and the
lything. That is the pretty i
ing my store, from April 15
et, and you will receive one
le often. You don't have to
?your visit to the store will
IME & GET A TICKET
11 anything to enter my store
get a ticket free. Some one
And the holder of the lucky
e Dollar Florence Automatic
If you haven't a Florence
orth your trouble to see one.
>e glad to show you through
E, APRIL 15 TO MAY 1.
I summer with a Florence Oil
fours truly,
:korell
i
I nuiu, iu ? vvi tiu txi>*TU cnauce
. to carry his own idea into effect. On
the playground the teacher with any
l 'ingenunity whatever will find that un.
t.er much fio;r dieclplln this chance
L fcr self nxprepaion may be given uat
i uially and ni"st benellc.ally to the
, pupil.
That school which maintains a
high feeling of esprit de corps among
its pupils is exerting a most valuable
influence in their lives. This it; often
most difficult to obtain. As our boys
and girls approach maturity they are
'apt to be thinking of what they can
| get out of the world than of what
j they can put into it. The co-operation
spirit is sometimes established
through medium of various school
clubs and societies, but with the play
ground as an adjunct and the proper
use of the competitive spirit a teacher
may build up a school feeling that
will be felt throiieh all the sehnnl m>
tivities. Furthermore after a season
of self-denial, when the pupil as a
member of a group must lay aside
his own desires for the ultimate
success of his team, co-operation bet
ween himself and teacher is more
easily obtained.
Few playground games fall to
give full opportunity for the develop
ments of the will. Not many boys or
girls pass through a season of basketball,
baseball, volleyball, football, or
any other of the team games without
acquiring a greater amount of selfcontrol.
The phvsicial development
is not the only benefit derived from
these various gam< s. but great good
comes from the far that each player
fits into a scheme for the entire
team.
Add, then, to the educational system
with its discipline, organization
equipment and big-hearted teachers
the freedom. si'lf.nvnr?uciAn ? ">I
TPE LANCASTER NEW
EPOCH-MAKING WARS.
Fifty years ago this country was
just just closing a factional war in
which thousands of young men laid
down their lives in a quarrel that, it
seems now, could have been so easily
settled by judgment and reason and
a little?comparatively little, considering
the interest involved?concession
on either side. The country has
made great strides since the spring
of 1865; but It is no doubt far behind
what it would have been had
there been no "War Between the
States." Most of tjiose who took part
in me war woura nave passed away
ere this time even it there had been
no war; but there still remain broken-down
men and crippled men and
descendants of men who had lost
some of their physical force and
vigor and robustness in the exposure
and hardship in camp or In
prison and on the battlefield. But
for the war of the sixties there would
have been a much larger and more
vigorous population today in the
United States, especially in the South
?where so large a proportion of the
male population were soldiers.
The opinion prevails to some extent
that soldiers are strong and
vigorous men. So they are in ordinary
circumsances; but they are
strong not because they are soldiers
but soldiers because they are strong
?no other kind is wanted so long as
there is enough of that kind.
This country has not recovered yet
from the war of fifty years ago.
France has not recovered from the
war of one hundred yeears ago. Her
people are smaller. The war itself
destroyed the pick of the men. They
wore themselves out following the
armies of Napoleon in the Inn? wnra
that carried them into Italy and
Austria and into the snows of Russia,
and those who survived the wars had
lost much of the robustness and vigor
that formerly characterized the
Franks?and the nation has never
recovered it.
We speak of the present European
war as the greatest the world
has ever known. In point of numbers
engaged it is, but in point of hard- i
ships and fighting and in proportion i
to the number killed, comparing the i
population then with that of today,
the present war has not yet reached
the horrors of the war that closed
with the defeat of Napolean a hundred
years ago and his banishment |
to the island of St. Helena. The four |
hundred thousand men who lost
ther lives in that war was a tremen- ,
clous drain 011 all the populations of 1
Europe that were engaged in it?and
nearly all of them were.
What a warrior Napoleon was!
g
And what a great man history makes
itim out to be! Reallv and tmlv
what an immense butcher he was! '
t
Hut he pot liis own at last. He conluered
nearly every nation of Europe
jut it was at tremendous sacrifice to
lis county and it would have been a
housands of men whose lives went 1
le had never been born. Besides the '
hoursands of men whose lives went
>ut on battlefields and in camps and
lospitals, and other thousands who
sked out a maimed life when the war r
vas over, transmitting a weakened r
josterity to the nation, France lost
ler greatest possessions by war. In a
1804. to raise money to carry on the 0
var. Napoleon sold Louisiana to this e
;ountry for the pitiful sum of $15,- a
)00,000?a magnificent area, com- ^
irising two million square miles, B
jmbracing the present state of Loul- ^
liana and all the country included t
low In Arkansas, Missouri Iowa, a
Kansas, Nebravtn Indian Territory. a
Morth art Lout n L akot*. a* d a large a
par? of M ?* ? c
A great rn'i indeed' A gToat ?
curse to the world, Including hie own j
country! t
And. speaking generally, war li a ^
great curse. It is great to be brave,
but there aie other ways to be brave I
ban by shooting one's fellow-men and |
being shot by them. "It is sweet and
honorable to die for one's country";
but it is sweeter and as honorable to
live for one's country.
War is a relic of barbarism. It Is
xn anachronism. It is wholesale murder.
Not much better could be expected
of the greaser* of Mexico, but that the
people of enlightened and Christian
Plurope should be engaged In this
twentieth century In wholesale manslaughter?it
is horrible.
There is without doubt a great
deal of individual nobility and personal
patriotism and high sense of
duty engaged In war; but war Itself
Is out of time, out of place, out of
the pale of the world's civilisation.
?Newberry Observer.
Whole Family Dependent.
Mr. E. Williams, Hamilton, Ohio,
writes: "Our whole family depend
on fine-Tar Honey." Maybe Rome- ,
one In your family has a severe cold |
?perhaps It is the baby. The orlg- ,
inal Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar Honey is an ,
ever ready household remedy. PineTar
Honey penetrates the linings of j
the throat and lungs, destroys the ?
germs, and allows nature to act. At j
vour druggist, 2 Be.?Advt. I
i
I
rS, APRIL 9, 1915 .
WILSON.
Since the beginning of government
among men there has not been a sovereign
government head who pleased
all subjects or citizens.
Wilson is not an exception. Men
all parties regard him as an able,
conscientious and thorough president,
but no one of any party hesitates
to criticise him.
Our constitution guarantees each
nitlxAn tho rich* J " *
?>iuva,iaLU lb in
a privilege of which we all make
generous use. Perhaps it is well wo
have the unabridged right to criticise,
for word-of-mouth blows are a
sort of safety valve for the emotions.
Men who stop to talk will seldr^n
fight. Men who are permitted to
cuss the government openly will seldom
conspire to rebel.
Our universal criticism of Wilson
is more habit than anything else.
None of us know his plans, his strugles,
his sorrows, his ambitions. We
only know that he has not, with a
magic wand, set the world to rights,
and because he performs for us no
miracles we scold. For what are
we paying him a great salary if not
to regulate the affairs of nations
and tickle our vanity with our own
greatness? v
Wo are a childish people, somewhat
drunk 011 democracy.
When affairs in Mexico became
poignant through newspaper publicity.
we all scolded because Wilson
would not send the navy and the
army to kill off the greasers. Not
that we had any business in Mexico,
and not that any of us knew what
course should be taken; but we all
felt that something needed to be
done, and we scolded Wilson for not
doiug it.
When Germany forgot a treaty
and tore up the rules of warfare, we
scolded because Wilson would not
spill the blood of United States boys
to teach Germany the expediency of
national honor.
When England subtly repeated her
old boast of owning the waters upon
the earth, and manifested a fine
contempt for such an absurd thing
as the right of American ships to use
salt water, we all scolded?and are
Friendships, meaning to enjoy them
tome day, bat what If we should
wake up some day and find that one
>f us bas gone beyond the need of
our best. Enjoy the things that you
have while you may, and if there is
to be any doing without, let It be
ifter you have enjoyed them."
Csree Old tores. Other Oeawdbs ?Ne't Cera.
rhe worst esse* so matter of how long tUadtii,
ir? cured by the wonderful, old reliable Dr.
Porter's Antiseptic Healing Oil. It relieves
Pain and Heals at the same time. 23c. 90c. f 1.00
still scolding, because Wilson thinks
it wiser to accept affront than to invite
war.
Now that Germauy's ally, the unspeakable
Turk, has begun his old
Same of butchering Christians, with
i preference for missionaries, rve
ivill scold still more if Wilson does
not take measures of revenge.
~ I am one of the scolders. I coness
it; for I am the same sort of
iuperficial ass that other men are.
And yet I realise full well that any
talf-baked fool could lead his coun- J
ry into war, while only a great and !
;ood man can keep it long at peace.
War and strife are bestial.
Only in peace does man approach ;
he God in whose image he was
ashioned.?Fountain Inn Tribune.
The Sermon He Preaches.
It is so easy to float with the curent
and do things as others do. The
eal test -of manhood comes when
ne stands alone, or in a minority on
,ny proposition, and bears the brunt
>f being different from others. It is
asv, though, to swim down the
tream?to float?but this does not
levelop muscle. Too many young
uen are failures in the world because
hey are content to float with the
airrent, and as a consequence they
re thrown out on the side of the |
tream in some little eddy or pool of
till water, while the man who kicks
>ut and tries to do something grows
trong from the exercise and accom- I
>lishes Anally what could not have ;
teen accomplished otherwise.?An- j
lerson Intelligencer.
A Small Boy's Philosophy.
"I am practicing a new kind of
tconomy" the little mother Mid merly.
" Ihave always saved and Mved.
Svon the best things for the table
were saved for special occasions.
)ne day my small son begged for
>reserved strawberries of which he
vas very fond, and I said: "We have
>nly a few cans left, and If we uso
hose up we will have to do without.,;
tie was unusually quiet for a few monente,
then he said, "Mother, I'd
nuch rather do without after they
ire gone than before they are cone,
ind besides, one of us might die."
Well, of course we had the berries.
Since that time, I have practiced bis
philosophy along a good many lines
ind I believe It pays. Too many are
loldtng In reserve their beet things,
>ur money, even our nieasnr* ??<i
Trade Week I
%
Don't forget we are in the s
: Hons far next week. We c
for DOLLAR DAY nexi
i
\ ^mm
, 16 lbs Granulated Sugar .. ..$1.00
8 lbs Good Parched Coffee .. $1.00
9 lbs Green Coffee $1.00
20 lbs Rice $1.00
40 lbs Grits . .$1.00
4 Gallons Good Molases . . . . $1.00
1 Bushel Meal $1.00
' 18 Plugs Red J. Tobacco ....$1.00
12 3-lb Cans Best Tomatoes . .$1.00
12 2-lb Cans best Corn $1.00
6 2-lb Cans Grated Pineapple $1.00
10 Cans Pink Alaska Salmon. .$1.00
10 Cans Spanish Peppers ....$1.00
5 3-lb Cans Desert Peachos. .. .$1.00
Bennett-1
SOLD SEVEN OF the nice White I
TWENTY-FIVE DOLLAR propositlo
Bright for the I-iinnnr
In spite of the depression and the
hard times of the past six months,
the farmers of Vance county, and of
j the whole state for that matter, have
good cause to relegate their worry
and depressed spirits to the garret
' for all time. The future is bright for
the farmer, and if he is made of the
| right sort of stuff (he has no reason
to possess himself of the old, wornout
idea that the country is going
to the dogs, and is going to carry
his holdings along with It.
None of us can tell what the future
holds in store; we do not know
what sort of a crop year 1916 will
finally turn out to be, but certainly
it has started out in favor of the
farmer. The conditions at this season
of the year have seldom been
more favorable to the early truck
crop, and, with the proper curtailment
of the cotton and tobacco crops
and the growing of more food products,
any reasonable amount of favorable
crop weather is going to put
the farmer back in the saddle.
The war is not going to last always.
It is not even going to last
through this year, unless ail signs
I at the present fail, and the ending
of tlie great conflict is going to bring
1 unheard of prosperity to tills country,
and tlio farmer is going to be in
the bout along with the rest of them.
The farmer who gets down to business,
and who.thinks more of his
own affairs, and of looking after the
good of his family, forgetting all
about the war, is going to be well
tr.ken care of when the harvest time
comes next tall.?Henderson Gold
Leaf.
m
FOURTEEN
I surrendered all cl
known in printer's parlar
tive," having obtained mj
Ledger office in ye good c
?long before the introdu
chines or other labor-sav
Thus it is seen that c
years, ill health intervenir
avenues for a livelihood, 1
Our banner in a bus
the breezes despite the a<
for five months just past
Since 1901 we have 1
ciative in returning thank
but now we are trebly so.
From an "original" e
the test of time in "Deai
As this is the first of
creasing patronage.
Ve
A. W.
u
For Lancaster
V
wim. Many Special attracall
attention to special offers
t Saturday 17th. Instant.
.5 large Bottles Heinz Catsup. .$1.00
xv uar|(? v hms ur.Koa Dram. . fi.uu,
5 dozen Good Oranges .. ..$1.00
2 Pecks Winesap Apples ... . $1.00^.
16 Grape Fruit $1.0(P*
5 lbs Pure Croara Cheese .. . .$1.00
10-lb Pall Snowdrift Lard $1.00
25 Bars Octagon Soap $1.00
5 Pint Bottles Welch's Grape Juice
for $1.00.
We have many other BAKGAIN8
for this occasion space wil$ not allow.
Cash must accompany the purchases.
ferry Co.
Sewing Machines last week on the
n. Did YOU get one?
. . ^
Swish! Corns Gone!
We Use "GETS-IT!"
2 Seconds, 2 Drops ? Corns Vanish !
For everybody with corns, thero la In
every druir store In the land ouo of the
real wonders of tho world, and that's
"GETS-IT" for corns I It's tho first and
only corn-euro over known that removes
firl
Favw t?~s ilj* 11- u/l_?o r
~Gon? ? Y?, flW 'StS IT.Vm """"
any and every corn or callus without (all.
without fussing with thick bandages, toe
harnesses, corn-swelling salves, Irritating
ointments. It's kpplled In 2 seconds ?
blng, blng?2 drops, tbo work Is done, the
corn shrivels up, your corn agony ends
and tho corn leaves forever I All the
limping, tho pains that dart to your
heart's core, tho crucifixion of having tQd
wear shoes over screaming corns, the'
danger of blood poison from making them
bleed by using knives, razors and scissors
?are gono at last I "(SETS-IT'- Is tho new
way, tho sure, simple, painless way. Try
It for corns, calluses, warts and bunions,
#"OKT8-IT" Is sold by druggists every*
where, 25o a bottle, or sent direct by B.
Lawrence A Co., Chicago.
Sold in Lancaster by J. F. Mackey
Co. and Lancaster Pharmacy
Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly
The Old Standard general strengthening tonic,
GROVK'8 TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives out
Malaria.enricher the blood .and builda up the ay atern.
A true tonic. For adults and children. 50c
YEARS AGO
aims to "my first love,"
ice as the "art preservaf
earliest training in The
Id ante-bellum days long
ction of type-setting maing
appliances.
ifter the accumulation of
?g, I borrowed from other
hence you find me.
tiness way still floats to
^claims of mud and slush
thought ourselves appres
for each season's trade.
itandooint w?
... ..MTV OIVAM I I
Old Lancaster." J l
' a series we solicit an in- | 1
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