The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, July 13, 1915, Page 6, Image 6
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Augusta Chronicle.
Months ago. when The Chronich
?first of all the newspaoers of th<
South?entered its protest agains
Great Britain s unwarranted inter
ference with trade be)ween neutra
countries, and advocated an embargi
upon the sale of war munitions to tin
allies unless Great Britain recede*
from this position, we were, at once
accused of expressing pro-Germai
sentiments.
But it would seem that The Chron
icle is not now alone in this view
for, as the result of some vigorous
prodding by Senator Hoke Smith ant
about; for we clearly recognize that
unless our, heretofore, unquestioned
right to trade freely with neutral nations
is established and maintained
before another cotton crop is marketed,
the South is in a fair way to
be bankrupted by this unlawful English
"blockade"?no matter how
much money the munition manufacturers
of the East are making out of
the European war.
In this connection, we are publishing
elsewhere on this page an editorial
from The New York World, which
states the case pointedly and emphatically;
and yet, we think, nobody
will accuse The New York World of
being pro-German in its sympathies.
On the same line, but going more
cieuny aim iuuv into ueiaii as regards
the situation with the Southern
cotton grower, we qote herewith
from a letter sent out a few days ago
by the well-known New Orleans cotton
firm of Atkinson & Lowrey, calling
upon Southern cotton growers to
make themselves heard in their own
interests. It seems to us that it
would be well for Augusta cotton
factors to address a letter to their
own customers along the same line.
We quote from this able letter as
follows:
"The I'nited States government
will be compelled to take immediate
steps to allow the cotton crop to be
marketed to neutral countries without
dictation from any warring nation.
As cotton has never been declared
contraband, it is simply ridiculous
that the South cannot export a
crop to neutral countries without the
consent of a <01111 try that has no interest
whatever in our welfare. Kvery
wiember of Congress, every man in
public life ~nd every newspaper in
the South should enter such protest
as will cause the government at
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tt (ininn^iuii |U UfV isr in illH 'A IHTO|
by the South will not b< bankrupt by
having to sell the growing erop for
bargain-counter prices as they did
last fall, and just as sure as the English
government is allowed to say
that cargoes shipped on neutral ships,
under neutral llags to neutral countries
are liable to seizure, just so
sure win ine marketing of our cotton
rrop be made ?liftlcult and at cheap
price*, and the Southern farmer,
merchant and banker has no disposition
to carry the burden that the
warring nations of Europe have
brought on themselves.
"Whose business is it if Norway.
Sweden, Denmark and Holland buy
two or three times the amount of
cotton from us they usually consume'
They are a neutral people and we
have tlie right to soli them our goods
without consulting the English government
or anyone else, and unlese
the United States can protect tho
shipments of cotton that will insure,
the producer living prices, it will he
wise to notify these foreign governments
that other supplies of which
other clear-headed statesmen, th?
Washington administration madi
certain representations in connectiot
with the British orders in council
while newspapers, legislators am;
commercial bodies all over the country?but,
particularly, throughout
the South?are beginning to wake up
to the vital importance of insisting
upon the unrestricted right of neutrals
to trade one with the other.
On Monday, for instance, both
branches of the Georgia legislature
passed a resolution in which this language
was used:
"This disregard of the plain Tights
of citizens of the United States has
greatly injured our entire country,
and especially has it injured the producers
of cotton in Georgia, and the
other Southern states, by depriving
them. contrary to the laws of nations,
of a certain market for 3,000,000
bales, or more, annually, of their
cotton crop."
Whereupon the same resolution
called upon the President of the
United States:
"To take such steps, as he may
deem necessary and proper, either
through diplomacy or retaliatory
means, to induce or compel Great
Britain to withdraw her illegal
blockade of neutral ports."
This is just what The Chronicle
has been contending for all along,
and it is just what Senator Hoke
Smith has been working so vigorous?
ly, and is still working, to bring
they are in dire need can be used in j
^ the United States to better advantage !
* j then we can sell to them and it
y would be marvelous the quickness ,
j with which a change would take >
j place.
? t "We are not at war with anyone.
i f?Ve don't want to go to war with anyt
one, but what we want is to protect
- our Southern |>eo|?le who have borne ;
1 the burden of this conflict up to now |
3 > and who will be bankrupt unless
2 their government has enough back1
bone to insist u|H>n the right of free
markets for our cotton crop vviih
i neutral nations. Urge your congressmen,
your senators, your public men
- and your newspapers to make an iin;
| mediate fight to have the restrictions
s ion cotton shipments to neutral counl
, tries lifted at once."
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j Tree Planting.
i Greenwood Journal.
, "Tree planting," says The LouisI
ville Courier-Journal, "is a matter
far too important to be left to indit
vidual initiative, or left undone [
i where individuals do not care to as- j
; sume the expense involved." To this
point of view, alert municipalities I
are fast coming. A number of Amer- I
j icans citizens have established for- |
estry departments which not only at- i
tend to the planting of trees on tlior- |
oughfares and in parks, but also supervise
the pruning and general care
of trees throughout the community.
The expenditures required for this
service are returned a thousand fold <
I in benefits to the common interest. 1
Trees are a public blessing, almost 1
as much so as sunlight r.nd air. They '
contribute to the community's pleas- I
ure and well-being as surely as to '
that of their owners. They incre;Ve '
| property values, they make for 1
: health and comfort, and in their '
' beauty alone are of priceless civic I '
| value. The city, therefore, cannot '
> afford to trust so vital an asset to (
: Ignorance and indifference. Certain- '
| lv. it should not neglect to provide
I skilled and constant care for the ^
trees along thoroughfares and on I
other publ'c places. No province of i t
natural conservation is more import- | '
ant than this, and forward-looking 1 1
cities are giving it more and more 1 <
, generous attention." '
; The above comes to us through ^
The Atlanta Journal. The idea is a J
j capital one and among other reasons '
may be mentioned the fact that it i& f
j often the case that municipalities cut I
down trees planted by Individuals be- ! 1
cause they are in the way of im- |
provements that must be made. Were j ,
tree planting in the hands of the ,
i public this might be avoided. The | j
i individual is often puzzled to know i .
I . ... : 1
| wnere 10 plant so as to assure him I {
that liis work will not he undone just ,
! at the time when it has reached the j j
point where it is valuable. I t
Jewish Ambition.
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Spartanburg Journal.
A dispatch from New York says (
the possession of Palestine after the .
close of the European war and its
organization as a Jewish state with
ancient Jerusalem as the capital is ,
an ambition which will be seriously
; considerel at a great conference of
Jewish organizations of the United
I t
States which will open in Boston Frl- ,
day and continue for a week.
1 1 (
Palestine, it is estimated, can aci
commodate a population of 6,000,000.
With the establishment of new
i i
i political control of the Holy Land it
is purposed that Jews shall migrate
. there from Russia, Germany, Aus- .
tria and other European states. Thus,
iiie iea?ers or ine movement argue,
a solution will have been found for
' the race-old Jewish problem. Not '
only will Jewdom have its own land,
but an end will be brought to the tlis- .
crimination against its children in
many existing countries.
Tartly as a result of the Zionist
movement, initiated several years
ago, many wealthy American Jews |
have already made investments in
Palestine. Jews in this city own a
large tract of land in the neighbor- i
hern' of Haiti. St. Louis Jews have
h ; s'/it 8<L acres near the shores of
the Sea of Galilee. Chicago capitalists
control territory adjacent to
C'ana, where the ancient religious
feast formerly was held. A vast
tract in the vicinity of Joppa is in the
hands of Jews living in Winnipeg,
while Jews of Pittsburg and Cleve 1
land own 1,800 acres near Armageddon.
The investment of foreign capital
has resulted in a marked improvement,
in the physicial features of
Palestine. Until a few years ago the
country was a treeless region, with
much desert land. The ground has
been rendered productive ,with soil
formerly considered barren yielding
great whect crops. It is argued that
nearly every acre from the sea on
the west to the river Enphrates on
the east, including the whole of
Syria, and a portion of .Mesopotamia
may be made to blossom.
Cares Ota Sores, Other Remedies Wot t Cuts
The womt canes, no matter of howlonsr^tasdins
sre cored by the wonderful, old re! able I'i
CoT'er ? Antiser'ic Heating <>4 J' retire . ?
fain sod st .he art me time. ?c. .X 1. f
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THE LANCASTER NEWS
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Greenville News.
In another column on this page ii
reproduced an article from Th<
Union Times which is worthy of con
sideration. It deals with the abus:
of capital, a practice begun man]
years ago, and continued now ever
though most of the c-.uses which let
to the abuse hava been eradicated
Today, this thing of abusing capital
per se. is without its exuse. Capital
if the word may be used to designate
the larger businesses, has been har<
pressed. The fight made by big in
dustries has been a fight against dis
tressing odds. But the industries
have continued; they have won out
and so millions of men and woraer
are drawing their salaries, which the)
would not be doing If the industriet
did not exist.
In this state one of the chief weapons
of the cheaper class of politician
is a senseless denouncement of capi
tal. Many an honest man in South
Carolina has come to believe that all
men of wealth are working with insidious
and ulterior motives. This
opinion is incorrect. There is nn
sense in continuing indiscriminate
attacks upon men in important positions.
There is no sense in fighting
forever the power of capital.
The laborer should get his due,
*nd if he does not get it, the'e is none
to blame him lor making the welkin
ring with his protests. But we need
* new spirit, a new means of adjusting
wrongs. A spirit of reasoning
:ogemer. ana oi co-opcration win <lo
more than the spirit of antagonism,
ivhich is kept alive by men who prey
jpon the prejudices of people for
heir own personal aggrandizement.
Capital baiting is bad business. Most
if us welcome the influx of new captal.
We want new blood, new inlustries
and the like. When the
.vealth of a community increases, the
jrosperity is shared by the conimuniy
as a whole. Why then should we
lambast the money when it gets
ier< ? Ass 11 mine that we want new
apital, and if we have enough brains
o measure, we do want it. why are
ve sometimes so foolish as to inveigh
igainst large industries and against
lie.i who have the ability to conduct
>u(h industries? Certainly this is a
>oor means to increase the wealth of
my community.
There was a day, no doubt, when
anital was arrogant. The feeling
gainst big business would scarcely
lave gained such momentum had
h-re been no cause for it. But that
lay is past. A man who observes
s n very easily discern a new spirit
n business. There is an increasing
etidency toward a mutual unt'eritanding
between the masses and the
'ew who lead in financial matters,
.ach is beginning to understand the
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niiri ? ? irv. iMMiil, UUt'll IB BIKIV
ng more and more a willingness, as
should be, to adjust matters aecordng
to reason and amity, rather than
iy means of garish outbursts on the
>art of politicians and othc~s who
>an profit by an unfair attack upon
he few.
I;et us all be fair. He reasonable,
lot the other man's viewpoint and
tive hint yours. Then if he still apjears
to be in error, insist upon a
hange. Hut the abuse of everything
iot coming under the political head
>f the "po' man," is without reason.
Today is a time for reason, for calmless
and for settlement of difficulties
n a sensible manner. Prejudice canlot
solve any question. An extreme
.'iow will aggravate an evil. A false
sttack may get a few votes, but if all
he people would really think, such a
futmient would cost a man many
more votes than it would get for him
There should be reasonable regulation,
but no nagging; there should
lie sane discussions, but no heckling.
Unnatural.
Christian Register.
"Mark Twain was visiting H. H.
Rogers," said a New York editor.
"Mr. Rogers led the humorist into
Ills library.
"There," he said, as he pointed tc
a bust of white marble. "What do
you think of that?" It was a bust
of a young woman coiling her hair?
a graceful exnmple of Italian sculp
ture. Mr. Clemens looked and then
he said:
" 'It isn't true to nature.'
" 'Why not?' Mr. Rogers asked.
" 'She ought to have her moutb
lull of hairpins,' said the humorist.'
\ Doctor's Proscription for Cough ai
Kffertlve Cough Treatment.
One-fourth to one teaspoonful ol
Dr. King's New Discovery, taken a:
needed, will soothe and clieck coughs
colds and the more dangerous bron
chinl and lung ailments. You can'i
cfford to take the risk of seriotis ill
ness, when so cheap and simple i
remedy as Dr. King's New Discover}
is obtainable. Co to your druggls
today, get a bottle of Dr. King s Nom
Discovery, start the treatment a
once. You will be gratified for th?
relief and cure obtained. 1
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i, JULY 13, 1915.
IriAKfc 10 U R PLANS
! FOR THAT VACATION
K I liCt Kvery Member of the Family
l?e Included in the Plans
5 > Tills Summer.
? The Progressive Farmer.
How about a few days off for youri
| self and your family this summer,
r Mr. Progressive Farmer? In short,
i how about a real vacation for you,
1 your wife, your boys and girls?
. "Oh, we can't afford it," we hear
, you say. The truth is. you can't af,
ford not to afTord it. You can't af?
ford, however fine your farm may be.
1 to stick by it day in and day out for
- ! 365 dayB in the year. If you do
- | you're going to dry up the wells of
) good will and human fellowship in
. ! your heart. Mrs. Progressive Farmer
Is going to feel, and rightly so, that
' something is lacking in her life; and
* the boys and girls, as soon as they
get old enough, will likely voice
their protests by leaving the farm
i forever.
Hard work with a liberal amount
i of. thought behind it is unquestlonI
ably the first essential to success; but
if one farmer clears two thousand
t dollars a year by driving himself and
i his family month after month an 1
; year after year, with never a Satur
I day off for a game of ball, a picnic
or a fishing trip, while his neighbor,
though making less perhaps financially,
joins with his family :n their 1
games and outings as well as in their
work, instilling in them an undying
love for the open country and for
farm life, we should call the latter
far the more successful and richer (
man. (
So it's settled, and we're going on
that outing! Where? Oh, anywhere,
just so we travel over new roads, see
new scenes, breathe fresh air, and
take it all with a spirit of fun and
play that will bring as back home i
feeling twenty years younger.
Maybe there's a cool brook back in 1
the hills, where the Ash bite and the
cool air is like a tonic; where, after
a day of strenuous fun, you can lie j
and look up at the stars and make :
plans for the old farm, for the boys
and girls, for mother, that would
never have come amid your every-day
surroundings. Or maybe off in another
corner of the county, or even
in an adjoining county, fhere is a particularly
enterprising neighborhood
that you have wanted to visit but
somehow never found the time. Hitch
up and go! Take as much time as
may be necessary?camping or
j spending the nights with friends?
I nihi get ;i line on now oiner ioiks no
! things. Or you might go on a trip |
to see some kinsfolk of your own or 1
your wife's or some loved old neighbors
who have moved to a distant
section?friends you know really
want to see you.
Or If you find it simply impossible
to go on p several days outing, why
not make it a rule during the next
two months to have Saturdays as vacation
days, the whole family to
! break away and go fishing, on a picj
nlc, or to a neighborhood ball game?
Whatever form your vacation takes
be sure that you and your family do ,
not deny yourselves the Joys of a
few days off. However fine our work j
may be. however we mav love It. if
our minds lire to be kept keen and
clear and our bodies fit, it is good
to get away from it a few days in the
year. It is well not to forget that
only as we make our lives well round- ;
ed and balanced, giving due emphasis ;
to play and recreation as well as to
work, can we make farm life perma- j
nent and satisfying. "Keep the boys j
on the farm by letting them off the j
farm occasionally," very truly says !
The Dakota Farmer, and the same
truth applies as well to the rest of
The family. Make the joy of play, of
social intercourse, a part of our farm
life. By so doiug we will plant in the
heart of every child a love for the
country that will never be forgotten;
we will create a tie that will hold
through all the after years against
the city's call.
Bight now is the time to plan for
, that vacation, after crops are laid
by, and don't make a single plan that
( doesn't include every one in the family,
from mother and dad down to
1 the tiniest little tot.
With Provisos.
"Well, we'll tell you, George, frank1
ly. You can marry on $500 a year,
yea. Provided you have saved your
last year's salary, and likewise proi
elded yon can get your next year's sal,
ary tn advance."
I LUNG DISEASEI
f "After four in our family had died P
i of consumption 1 v.'as taken with I
a frightful cough and lung trouble.
hut my life was saved and I gained I
l HI pounds through using M
or. king's c
:' new
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Jjw R. <* i gton,To.I
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To the Business
Men of Lancaster
Business fights shy of dead towns. A sure t
pride. People who live in a live, prosperous tc
. . V, Dtivvfco V.ic?n, U1C1I IJUIUtO MI C WITH
Nothing shows a lack of pride, a lack of proi
Let's paint up. As the roost durable uijd ec
Dutch Boy Lon
and pure lin6eed oil, mixed right on the job, t
tint it any color you wish.
We carry all other paint necessaries also,
you have in mind. Today's the day.
FOR SALE
BENNETT TERR
The
THREE-IN
Stor
WHEN YOU'l
You'll enjoy the dainty Drinks
that are served at our fountain
fountain boys are "right on the
WHEN YOU'
And when the doctor prescrib
ciate the careful handling of y
pharmacists, and the high quality
ALL THE
You will find the choicest line
hold Goods at this store, and the
The J. F.
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Buy Your Smi
If you are ill you perhaps come U
want you to come to us when you are
from ua. We carry not a large but
tobacco. You are sure to find some bi
that will suit you right down to th
and see.
LANCASTER ,
Spi'lnK* Block. *
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WEIGHT F=
N?. question about Hon
butcher shop. We gi
worth. Our business repu
to us, and you can be pos:
vdeight. You also get hit
price. Ask our pleased ci
City Meat
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:iprn of a dead one is the lack of local
>wn show it. Their stores are attract
UI1IVU.
sperity, like paint-hungry buildings.
onomical paint, wc recommend
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White Lead
0 suit the jcb. Have your painter
Consult us on that job of painting
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>es for you, you'll appreour
prescription by our
v of drugs that we"use.
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of Furniture and Houseprices
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3 see us for medicine. We
well and buy your smokes
; a fine line of cigars and
rand of smoke among them
e ground. Try it anyway
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ive you your money's
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