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I r. MM",",",""" , ARE CORPORATIONS DOOMED? XIII M"? ** ' ' H4 Lewie M. Rice, in Union Tiroes. I do not feel shivers up and down the spine because of the manifest injustice too often done to legitimate, invested capital; for I believe that such injustice will prove their own folly, and thus work out a better condition. I feel sure that the great mo4AfUv 1 1 *?A 4 ?*vj VI IUC ptrvpic uceu uui 10 understand the facts, and under* standing them will deal fairly. The trouble has been that for some thirty years now, newspapers, magazines, politicians and would-be reformers ' have so persistently cried out against corporations that the average man haj come to think that a corporation ts worse than a "highland moccassln," and should be smitten to death. The very word "corporation" has become a "stench in the nostrils" of the vast majority of our people. This hatred is manifested at every political gathering; it is most clearly shown in almost every court. The corporation has become the easy mark of the "damage suit" law. J^. yer. One has but to attend civil court anywhere in the state to bo convinced of this attitude towards the corporation. Cases, that if brought against an individual would be thrown out of court, are seriously considered when the defendant is a corporation, and frequently the corporation is mercilessly bled. I am not questioning the right to make the corporation pay when the case is just. But it often happens that justice is violated. I have reached the deliberate conclusion that a man is quite much of a fool to, at this time, Invest money in a corporation; and that many others have reached the same conclusion is, I believe, at the bottom of the abnormal stringency in money matters. I believe this attitude of the public mind ha3 more to do with "hard times" than does the low price of cotton. Men are becom ins mute auu uiui c an a ill lu mvcsi In Incorporated enterprises. This naturally causes "tight money." We have few individuals who have capital sufficient to launch an enterprise. To have many individuals put they money together is often the only possible way to launch an enterprise. When auch an enterprise is started it Is too often mercilessly bled. That is the reason that the "small man," the man with limited capital, has come to be slow to invest. I do not blame him. There is another phase of this subject that frequently escapes notice. Incorporated capital is open to inspection. It is held to strict accountability. Laws have been multiplied regulating invested capital. It cannot escape taxation. It has come to be a fact that such working capital, eapitnl involved in carrying on the industries of the country, comes in for a larger share of taxes than is just. Take our banks for an illustration. They are constantly held to strict accountability by state and federal governments. They are harassed by required reports, they are taxed heavily. So soon as the state tax commission is created for the purpose of equalizing taxation, the commission makes a dive for the banks. They were already required under the federal laws to pay income tax, not only upon net earnings, but upon every dollar of dividends paid to stockholders. And they are now the very first mark of the tax commission. Not one movement to get at the man^ ifest injustice in returns made by large landed estates. Not one move to get at the private capital often loaned at 10 or 12 per cent. The corporation, the legitimate prey of all reformers and of the public in general, must nee<fs be attacked first thing. ' / I may be mistaken, but I have come to the conclusion that legitimate. invested capital in this state is well-nigh doomed. The present oppression put upon honestly invested money puts it in an impossible competition with private capital. It may not be the popular thing to write an Article like the nhnvo hut when an editor reaches an honest conclusion. he is a coward If he does not express it. What this country needs is less "taffy" and more sane thinking. The newspaper owes a debt to its constituents. One obligation is that of being honest. I shall write more along this line. In the meanrime, our columns are wide open to one and all, provided the writer is willing to sign his article. * The Fishing Banks. Newfoundland would be nothing without the great submarine plateau known as the "banks," on which all W the fishing is done. At a small station within the edges of the great hank that the cod loves so well the ica is quite smooth. It is usual for vessel* Ashing on the banks to inquire from those that have arrived from the open sea aa to what sort of wea'.ii.T it la. ?Exchange. ^^ ADDITIONS TO THE LANGUAGE Virile Terms Mostly Crested in the Workshop and the Msrket Place, Says Writer. Language can be made in the library. no doubt, and in the laboratory j also, but it is moat often and most effectively created in the workshop and in the market place, where the imaginative energy of our race expresses ' itself spontaneously In swiftly creating the lacking term in response to the unexpected demand, says brander Mathews in Hamer's Marailnp Noth. ing could be better, each in Its own way, than picturesque vocables lik6 scarehead and loan shark, windjammer and henmlnded. all of them American contributions to the English lan: guage and all of them examples of the purest English. Henminded is an adjective devised by Mr. Howells to describe thofe women who are so oomj mon in all walks of life and who are made up of only one aim at a time, and of manifold anxieties at all times. Scarehead and loan shark are the products of the newspaper ofilce, while windjammer was put together by some down East sailor man. inheritor of the word-forming gift of his island ances ore u-Ka 4 * - ? n?v uciijcu iu unity itif Armuua. "Windjammer," remarked Professor Gllder8leeve, trained by 'tiis intimate knowledge of Greek ' to appreciate verbal vigor as well aB verbal deli- | cacy, "Windjammer is a fine word. I grant, and so is every Anglo-Saxon compound that grows and is not made." But all new words are not of necessity good words. Ben Jonson, who was himself a frequent maker of new i words, displayed his shrewdness when he declared that "Custom is the most certain mistress of language as the 1 publlcke stampe makes the current money," adding as a caution, "But wee must not be too frequent with the mint, every day coyning." HONESTY IN SMALL THINGS Petty Graft. Considered of Small Matter, t: Srvnething the Conscientious Will Avoid. An order forbidding the girls to make personal calls on the office phones was recently issued by a large corporation, and the girls were very indignant, says the Pittsburgh Dispatch. Put these are stringent times, and if those girls had looked over the books of the company and seen how large an ' item of expense the telephone was, they might not have felt so ill-used. Just ask yourself frankly how much graft you expect to get from your place of business. Many girls make a practice of taking paper and pens and pencils, blotters, rubbers, even stamps. They do all their telephoning over the company's wires. They use the company's time , for their personal correspondence. And these are only the most obvious and common of the forms graft takes in offices. I.ook over your ideas on this subject and see how much of it you have fallen for. And then ask yourself why you should graft on the company any more than on uny special member of It. You would hardly take stamps out of the boss' pocketbook, in case he dropped it within reach. Yet what'B the difference, except in appearance? Petter cut it out, girls. Most offices are pretty free and easy about grafting of that sort, and it 1b a matter for your own choice. Put the habit is a bad one; it lacks dignity, and it isn't fair. It's on a par with cheating the car companies by stealing a ride when the | opportunity offers instead of paying j your nickel for value received. Being nonest when an eye is on you, in fact. InctpnH of iiio# hnnoo# A w\ A ! w? juuv mwuvov. nitu iv uucoti v pay. It takes the fine edge off your feelings and perceptions. St, Bride of Ireland. St. Rride. the patroness of Ireland and of Fleet street, whose feast falls 1 in February, was the beautiful daughter of a bard who became the religious disciple of St. Patrick and abbess of Kildare. The story of St. Pride, or Bridget, tired tne Celtic imagination, and In Ireland about twenty parishes bear the name of Kilbride. The Hpire of her church in Fleet street has been twice struck by lightning and much reduced from the original height, but is still om of the tallest steeples in LondoF. It is supposed to hnve been designed by Wren'a young; daughter.-* Pall Mall * i nc naa >(. In honor of a visit to his plant by the governor of the state an automobile manufacturer once had a com- j , plete car assembled In something like seven minutes. Some .weeks later, after this feat was heralded In the duily papers, the phone rang vigori ously. "Is It true that you assembled a car in seven minutes at your factory?" the voice asked. "Yes." came ; the reply. . "Why?" "Oh, nothing," said the calm inQuirer, "only I ve got the car." The Submarine. To get a submarine ready for diving water Is admitted into the "ballast" tanks. To keep the vessel on an oven I keel water Is taken Into the "trimming tanks." Ily means of these tanks the vessel is made to sink or 1 rise, and to preserve the right posii tlon. A THE LANCASTER NE FUNNY, ISN'T IT? Money Makes a lx>t of Difference With Some People. Monroe Journal. Many persons have gone from this I scvtii.? to work for the Da Pont Powder Plant at City Point, Va., which i has been extraordinarily active since! the European wt.r broke out. An old j farmer at that place has been made j rich by the expansion of the powder I works. His name is G. H. Buren. , Lately he found himself with i new bank roll of $15,000 an additional income of more than $500 a month, and 30 acres of level land in the heart of a community of 17,000 peo-1 pie. For 37 years Buren has eked out I a living on a farm of 114 acres near! City Point. He was there at the time of the Civil War, and as a boy received a stray bullet from the federals. He secured his little farm some years after the war, and has been able to earn a small . veliliood from it. Then came the big DuPont powder plant a quarter of a mile from his farm. The Burens early benefited from this Activity, as two of the Buren boys went to work in the con struction department at $5 a day, nnd have kept steadily at their employment. The Burens had no further thought that opportunity was still hanging around. The plant units gradually wfnt up, and the army of men at work was gradually increased. A month ago, a starnger dropped in at the Buren farm and asked its price. Buren said he wanted to keep the house and a few acres of land, but would sell .10 acres. A bargain was immediatly closed at $110 an acre. Two days later another stranger dropped in, seeking more land. He tempted Buren with an offer of $200 an acre for 54 acres of the tract, and this bargain was also closed. Today this tract is selling in lot subdivisions at the rate of from $1,000 to $5,000 an acre. Streets, sidewalks and sewers are being put in, and a modern city is spring up. Aruwnd Iluren's home other land. owners sold tracts. These were laid out in city divisions, and within the | past week more than $500,000 has changed hands in realty sales. Buren's 30 acres, with the farm house in the center, now stands in the heart of the city building activity. Offers to buy this tract do not tempt him? yet. Last Wednesday he was offered $1,000 an acre spot cash for the 30 acres. The offer did not move him The next day the offer was increased to $1,500 an acre, but Buren clung to his land. | "Why should I sell?" said the old I man. "If the land is good enough j j for others, it is good enough for me ' tor awhile. I always wanted to live ' ! in a city, anyhow, and here I am ; right in the midst of one without ! having to move. "I am renting tent space on the I farm and making $100 a month out' of that, with space going ewry day, my two boys are working at the plant and I am renting my teams out I for $15 a day. I am making more | | money than 1 ever saw in all my life, j so why should I he in a hurry to make more? Maybe when things get I 1 little too crowded around me I will sell everything but the house. I like jthis city just as much as I liked the I old farm and 1 am going to stick here." Huren's luck has not changed him , any. He takes a philosophical view of the good things which have so unexpectedly come his way, and is In no hurry to start spending his newly j found wealth. "There Is only one difference that I notice," he said whimsically a few days after his payment on his tracts. People never used to bother about me, but now they cross the road to talk to me. Funny, what a little money does, ain't it?" Danger in Waiting. Just because an Oregon scientist de-tf clares that old men do the best work is no reason, of course, why young fellows should put off contemplated achievements until the arrival of declining years. It may be that the mftn who accomplishes little in his early maturity will make up for the lack when he starts down the western slope of life. It doesn't sound reasonable, however. WMrtnn Will/it*, The weeping willows, so-called (scientific name S. babylonlcai, is a native of China, from which country it has been taken over most of the civilized earth. It varies in height an 1 dimensions, according to climate and soil, and Invariably maintains itt, drooping habit, the chief cause of its attractiveness. Whenever You Need General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well know n tonic properties of QUININE I and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives ont Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. -10 cents. WS JULY 13, 1915. LITTLE TIME FOR COURTING Mr. Dobbs Altogether Too Busy to Attend to the Minor Matter of Getting a Wife. Mrs. O'Shaugbnessy and Mr. Dobbe got on famously. After Bupper, while ahe and Elizabeth washed the dishes, she asked him why he didn't get married and have someone to look after him and his cabin. "I don't have time," he answered. "1 came West 18 years ago to make a start and a home for Jennie and me. but 1 can't find time to go back and get ber. In the summer I have to hustle to make the hay and grain, and I have to stay and feed the stock all the re6t of the time." "You write her once in a while, don't WA11?" * - ,vu. nonru .MIQ. U OUttUgOUeBBy. "Yes," he said. "I wrote her two years ago come April; then I was so busy 1 didn't go to towD till I went for my year's supplies. 1 went to the post office, and sure enough there was a letter for me?been waitin' for me for Bix months. You see the postmaster knows me and never would send a letter back. I set down there right in the office and answered it. 1 told her how it was. told her 1 was coming after her soon as 1 could find time. You see, she refuses to come to me 'cause 1 am so far from the railroad, and 6he is afraid of Indians aud wild animals." "Have you got your answer?" asked Elizabeth. "So," he said, "I ain't had time yet to go, but I kind of wish somebody would think to bring the mail. Not many people pass here, only when the open season takes hunters to the > mountains. When you people come back will you stop and ask for the mail for me?" We promised.?The Woman Homesteader, in the Atlantic. NEW IDEA IN GOVERNMENT Hard to Raise Objection to the Latest Phase. Which Is Practical Benevolence. ?ere at last Is a form of governmental benevolence against which no possible objection can be urged: Petroleum has been made to yield gasoline suitable for fuel, and toluol and benzol 'necessary for dy.esiufTs and high explosives; yet the process Is to be given to the public for the benefit of all. The discoveries are important and they must be practical or the announcement would not have been made so definitely by the government. But the really notable feature is that they are not to be commercialized for individual or corporate profit on the one hand, nor are they to be monopolized by the government on the other. We have grown accustomed to federal co-operation in agriculture, and the seeding of the continent no longer elicits comment; for the government to make distinct contributions to the processes of manufacture is newer, and it opens a field of possibilities in which it can render vast service. Hitherto individual investigators have made our discoveries, and financiers have exploited them for private gain. If, in the future, our government shall be able to point the way to new developments in scientific industry, there will be a frank recognition that the government really "c-rists for the peOile." I IllL'.fl. lull ill I'llhlio 1 Ailoor ? - - ?M??V wvugvt Warns of Leaks. An automatic leak indicator for ships consists of a number of small in;.--. iiu?i notes screwed to the bulkiitho of each compartment and set at predetet mined distances, one above another In each box there is an electrical cautrivauce connected with an indicator-board either on the bridge or in some other convenient place. The board is fitted with a number of ..mall glow lamps of different colors, and is connected with an alarm bell. When the \v;??r rises to the level of the lowest uox, it makes an electric;.! contact by which the lamp corresponding to the height In tho bulkhead that the box indicates is lighted, and so remains until the next box is reached by the water, when the second lamp is lighted. Meanwhile, the boll rings continuously until switched off. Things That Have Been Condemned. If we banished from our tables all the commodities which ? like potatoes?have been condemned In print, our diet would be decidedly monotonous. "Food faddists are most aggressive persons," Henry Labouchere onco complained. "In my time I have known them preach that we should give up meat, tobacco, alcohol, soup, starch (including bread and potatoes), salt, tomatoes, bananas, strawberries and bath buns. I have also witnessed movements for giving up boots, waistcoats, hats, overcoats, carpets, feather beds, spring mattresses, cold baths, linen clothes, woolen clothes, sleeping more than six hours, sleeping less than nine hours and lighting fires at the bottom." Not a Full Explanation, Tim manifestation called heat If arlth humans and most other animals a sensation Indescribable. From the time of Democrttus nd Epicurus, nd far back of that, the mystery of th?source of hcvat was hotly discussed. As time flew on and on the mystery was segregated into learned words, and Sir Humphry Davy explained it all by saying that heat was merely the vibration of corpuscles of the body. He did not tell of the origin of the corpuscles or why they vibrated. I % COURTESY ON TELEPHONE: No Reason Why It Should Be Forgotten Because One May Be in a Hurry. "I tin tbt the telerbone was a most informal instrument," objected one girl to another who had spoken of telephone etiquette. "Etiquette," said the other, "Is sim- ' ply courtesy, and naturally one can be as courteous over the telephone as j anywhere else, but how many of us are?" It certainly is exasperating to be given a wrong number; but to speak In a sharp, angry tone to the person who answers the phone under such ' circumstances is as untunt it in im. polite. Instead of rudely requesting him to "ring off," you should say, "1 [ beg your pardon," as If you really , meant it. Many women have an exasperating ! way of a6kiug, "JYho is this?" when ; someone answers their call whose: voice they do not recognize. Always ask for the person you want to speak to, and mention who wants her. In talking to business people be brief as possible, for their time is valuable. Girls who have the telephone habit should be made to realize that it is most embarrassing for em- ' J ployees to be called to the phone during business hours unless the message is very important, and that an employer is not pleased, to say the least, when he sees his clerks wasting his . time talking social matters over the telephone. Don't impose upon your friends' good nature by telephoning from j iiuum' or omce wunout offering to pay for the call. Above all else, when you phone "cut it short." It is difficult to realize that pleasure can be had from ; gossiping into a hole in the wall, but it is a temptation to many. Say what 1 you have to say and get through with ' it. Don't keep the wire occupied with 1 aimless chatter when, perhaps, it is urgently needed for an important mes sage. Helpful Suggestion. The costumier came forward to attend to the nervous old beau who was ] mopping his bald and shining poll with , a big silk handkerchief. "And what can 1 do for you?" he asked. i "I want a little help In the way of a ; suggestion." said the old fellow. "I ! Intend going to the French students' masquerade ball tonight, and I want a distinctly original costume ? something I may be sure no one else will wear. What would you suggest?" The costumier looked him over at, tentively. bestowing special notice on the gleaming noh. "Well, I'll tell you," he said then. iiiuugiiuuuy, wny (ion t you sugar your head and go as a pill?"?Tid-Blts. Gastronomical -suggestions. The New York Sun, which enjoys controversies on gastronomic and culinary topics, prints the following from a correspondent: "At the table d'hote, Chesapeake line. Norfolk to Baltimore, they serve flannel cakes with the fish. Why not? | The chef at the Emerson, Baltimore, j cooks watercress like spinach; he likewise fries thickly sliced apples, calling ; them 'pyple wheels.' We-all like them | right much. Did you ever try celery sausages?" CHICHESTER SPILLS DIAMOND 3P.AN0 ji**? .%* T7 m ^tt *? ** Jfe ? IAPIFR I Ilk for CnKHF? TT!R R A iu Ion ind/A Cold metallic * re?. sealed with EiuefC// Ribbon Taku ko o;nsa. Uny of ycsf v/ MrujrnNl en?l nk f-r < 1IZ-C 111 S-TtU ? DIAMOND HllAMl PI M.S. for twrrtr-fire years rerarded r& A'.wuy* Reliable. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS I Sag, EVERYWHERE I fATAWRA Ml 1 I * A ?T?J 3_ BEST RECREATION RECUPERATION Summer Tourist Fares TO Western North Carolina VIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY Premier Carrier of the South. May 15 to September 30, tinal return limit October 31, 1015. ? ? auiacuve resorts reached by the Southern Railway. Let us help you plan your summer trip. W. H. CAFFEY, Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, S. C. Lancaster & Chester Ry. Co. Schedule in Effect Dec. 27. 1914. Eastern Time. WESTBOUND. Lv. Lancaster ...6:00am?230pm Lv. Fort Lawn ..6:30am?4:08pm Lv. Bascomville .6:47am?4:28pm Lv. Richburg ....6:58am?4:43pm Ar. Chester 7:40am?5:25pm EASTBOUND. Lv. Chester .... 9:00am?6:45pm. Lv. Richburg ... 9:45am?7:27pm Lv. Bascomville .10:00am?7:38pm Lv. Fort Lawn ..10:30am?7:55pmAr. Lancaster ...11:00am?8:25pm Connections?Chester with Southern. Seaboard and Carolina & Northwestern Railways. Fort Lawn, with Seaboard Air u ten Railway. Lancaster ,wth Southern Railway. A. P. McLURE. Supt. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Premier Carrier of the South. PASSENGER TRAIN SCHEDULES. T-ains arrive Lancaster from: *o. 118?Yorkvllle. Rock Hill and intermediate stations 8:31 a. m. No. 113?Charleston, Columbia and intermediate stations lo:06 a. m. No. 114?Marion, Blacksburg, Charlotte and intermediate stations, 1:35 p. m. No. 117?Columbia, Kingsville and intermediate stations, 7:41 p. m. Train* leave Lancaster for: No. 118?Kingsville, Co! imbia and intermediate stations. 8:31 a. m. No. 113?Rock Hill, Blacksbur?,. Marion, Charlotte and inter-* mediate stations, 10:05 a. m. N*0. 114?Kingsville, Columbia. Charleston a^d Intermediate stations 1:35 P- n. No. 117?Rock Hill, Yorkv'lle and' intermediate stations, 7:41 p. m. Schedule figures are published as information only, not guaranteed. For information as to passenger fr.res, etc.. call on W. B. CA.UTHEN, "tgent ICE CREAM?The very best :n town at the New Kandy Kitchen. Orders delivered anywhere, any time. Quart 40c, half-gallon 75c, gallon $1.25. Better than you can make at home. Phone 95. 69 ...TAKE ..NOTICE. \ Have some bargains in Real? Estate. Can't I show you an< get up a trade? Have a number of nice dark lots in town of Lancaster, wh^ I will sell at a sacrifice?$60^ to $100.00 a lot. These a) dandy lots, and will sell for cas^ or on terms. See me if interested in an> kind of Real Estate. There will never be any more land?buy while you can. T. M. BELK I I How About Sausage? As we make our sausage, we know what goes into it. Yon Hon't toVo ar>*7 Aoiim mVinw ? ?-? w???v ??*j vuuuvv wava jrwtt buy sausage from us. Link sausages are tasty and wholesome. This butcher shop is serving an increasing number of people in this community, and there must be a reason for it. Why don't you find out for yourself? EAT MARKET