The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, July 13, 1915, Page 3, Image 3
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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
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?*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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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