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Fy " * , ? ii i ji >. | 4 <5ljr Kaurastrr Nrn? ( g?Ml?WEBKLY.) JUANITA WYLIE Edltoi J. C. 8HEPARD. . .Business Managei PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT Published Tuesdays and Fridays at Lancaster, S. C., by The Lancaster Publishing Company, successors to The Ledger, established 1852; The Review, (established 1878; The Enterprise, established 1891, and entered as second-class matter Oct. 7, 1905, at tne postoffice at Lancaster, S. C., under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: (In Advance.) On? Year $1.3C 3Lv Months 75< "Let reverence for laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles ou her lap; let it be taught in schools, i 1 seminaries and colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books and almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of just'ce. And in short, let it become the poltical religion of the nation; and let the old and the young, the rich and tho poor, the grave and the gay of all sexes and tongues and colors and conditions, sacrifice unceasingly upon its altars." Weather forecast for South Carolina: Increasing cloudiness Tuesday, probably followed by rain by night. Wednesday rain and colder. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1015. How did you celebrate? _ Was your Christmas a merry one? Here's hoping it was. + The best kind of preparedness is that against the boll weevil. + May we have no erookers and knockers during the coming year. + Begin to shape up those new year's resolutions and resolve to keep them. * After all is it to be a Kilkenny cat tight in Furope without a greasy spot being left. + To all the Christmas home corners we say we want you to come again next Christmas. + Farewell, Jolihn Barleycorn. May your leavetaking on January 1. lb 16. be long and lasting. The Green\ille Piedmont says the weather forecast for January 1st is very dry. So mote it be. + All of our business men, especially those who advertise in The News had a good holiday trade. + What has become of those noisy .fellows who stood on the streets and said Lancaster wouldn't lead? + Gentlemen of the incoming city "council, keep Lancaster in the lead. Much is expected of you in this regard. + One of our wishes for the NewYear is that the G. O. P. may merit the same disastrous defeat they ran up against in lb 12. Mr. Ilusinses Man, start the newyear by letting the people know that you are still in the game. The News offers you the happy medium through which to do it. + Whatever may be said about it, it can't be gainsaid that Henry For.l was animated by a laudable purpose to bring about a cessation of the terrible war in Europe. + Gentlemen of the General Assembly, grant dear old South Carolina the boon of an out-and-out state-wide compulsory education law with no strings to it. Neither Santa C.laus nor Andrew Carnegie gave Lancaster a public library for a Christmas present. Both old gentlemen prefer to help those who hfelp themselves. If we want a library for Lancaster we must work for it. "There are hundreds of people, we are 89,rry to say, who love whiskey more than law," says The Newberry Observer, and we dare not dispute the statement when we consider the numner 01 recenc nomiciaes iu aouin Carolina. * ? "What has become of the oldfashioned man who used to aay "onct';and> 'twlct?' asks The State He probably waded Into the swamp with "Mr. Harris' wife" iustead ol taking the footlog with "Cousin -Sally Dillard" and "Moee." <? Thef News is not taking holiday, at are most of the semi-weeklies and -even the dailies, and has not missed a single issue. Rut again this' week as last, we are going to press Thursday afternoon Instead of Friday in order that the paper will reach all ol our readers this week. *- * "? > uu ? W - . - ?i V ^ ^ . . . i? u I. .. ,?? ?7i. 1 if; i-. DENOMINATIONAL AND rl -:- STATE COLLEGES. ; r -: r -~~.T-.rh-.--iT.-,-Ir.r.-.r.j In order that our readers may better understand the communication of n?.. * o A* ~ * * *j?- * - ? i\ev. u. o. .muikik, presiueiu 01 fcrskine College which appears elsewhere in this Issue, we reproduce the following editorial to which Dr. Moffatt takes exception, leaving it to them to judge whether it is "unkind in spirit and even offensive to the friends and supporters of these (de nominational) colleges." This is the editorial: > "Some papers In the state are now 5 agitating the old matter of the state - and denominational colleges. This agitation will do no good, but on the contrary, is calculated to do harm. "Why should the friends of the denominational colleges entertain any jealousy of the state colleges? They can hardly deny that there should be state colleges which are bound to be supported by taxes paid by the peo i?i*. . i(i inn" uiiuu 011 iy muse smucius w !io are not able to pay the tuition hould pot the benefit of the scholarships. Too often there are admitted into the college students whose parents are able to pay for them, yet do not, but this 1.- the fault either of tin law or its administration. "The denominational colleges hould stand or fall upon their own merits and their friends will not add to the strength, of these institutions by periodically whining and whimpering because Clemson, Winthrop. the ('it adel and South Carolina University get large appropriations from the state. We want to see these institutions which are doing such a good work kept up to the standard, provided this is not done to the injury | of the common schools of the state, j The denominational colleges are like- j wise doing in their several spheres a great work and will continue to do so in spite of the ill-advised carping at the state institutions by some of their misguided friends and supporters." We do not think any fair-minded person can gather from this editorial: anything "unkind in spirit" or "even j offensive to the friends and suppor-[ ters of denominational colleges." If, as I)r. Moffatt says, there are indications that measures are being contemplated to "put a knife into the vitals" of the denominational col-! leges we have never heard of them.i and if such intention exists The News j would certainly resent it. Our pur-1 pose in writing the above editorial i was to sound a warning note against any agitation by the friends and sup-i porters of the denominational colleges, against the state colleges. The i secular and religious institutions have been and are now doing a splendid work. Why should any move-j inent be started calculated to injure either of them? No friend of a denominational institution should be--^ grudge the state appropriating every dollar of money needed to educate j every poor noy ana girl in South j Carolina, especially in view of the fact that South Carolina stands next to the bottom in the list of states in j the matter of education. The state cannot make appropriations to de-1 nominational institutions and if the| pall of ignorance that envelops it is to he dispelled it has to be done by appropriations to the com-j mon schools and state institutions. { Today hundreds of poor girls and boys are not receiving higher education because of the inadequacy of the appropriations to the state colleges. Why should not all of our colleges in their several spheres continue without friction among their friends, lie splendid work of educating the young men and women of South Carolina? Jm "Mr. Thomas W. Lovless, editor of The Augusta Chronicle, one of th?-? | most independent and fearless dailies i of the South, has come out for na-1 tional prohibition. Mr. Loyless frankly admits that he has changed his views and wants everybody to know he has changed. It is indeed refreshing, in these days of timeserving. for a man to admit his error and right about face, lending tire whole force of his powerful pen to the cause he believes to be right. None who read the editorial announcement of his change of heart can doubt the sinceiity of Thomas W. Loyless. The same brave'stand for law and order made by Mr. iioyleas when he challenged the inflammatory writings of Tom Watson. , marked him as a man nnafraid. | When other Influential Georgia dallies dared not meet the demagogue in debate, Mr. Loyless, in The Chronicle, proved himself more than a . match for Watson and did much to wards counteracting his baneful influence. j , , J, 1 ? ? 1 The issue appears to be squarely drawn between the United States and Austria-Hungary over the sinking of i the Ancona. The dual government I admits that their submarine sanl^the 1 vessel after her engines had stopped : and the passengers were being put . into life boats. The argument is at i an ana. Ausina-xiungary win nave ' to make amends or suffer the consequences of failure to do so. I' II I -.1 THE LANCASTER NEWS. 1 HE HOLL WEEVIL MENACE. -v i-i-l-i-l-l-l-irl-lrlrlf!?Irlrlrl-rlrlrlrlr!^!* From time to time we have been urging our farmers to prepare for the coming'of the'boll weevil. Yesi terday we lia.il an interesting talk I with Mr. Lewis H. Elliott of Carroll I dQUhtX. Mississippi..QU tile subject of | tilts p"CSt. ~MT. Elliott left Lancaster i many years ago and is now engaged in farming and stock raising. He a mc weevil SirUCK 1118 SeCUOll about five years ago and is still operating there. He says if the farmers of Lancaster are wise they will commence at once to prepare for his coming by cutting down the acreage in cotton and planting the land in grain, grasses and clover crops. Many farmers in Mississippi failed to heed the warnings sent out, and before they realized it the boll weevil was upon them and left tlieni practicallv bankrupt. Before the weevil arrived Mr. Llliott says, he attended a meeting of farmers, who were addressed y a government expert on the subject of the destruction wrought by the insect. The speaker urged tlum to take warning and make preparations for its coming. He told them that lie felt sure that lie was looking : into the faces of men who would be ?' literally ruined in a short time. To ! many the warning fell upon deaf ears j and the prediction was fulfilled. s Mr. Elliott says he took the advice offered and began by cutting down bis cotton acreage, as well as by raising stock, but notwithstanding. , be was hit hard, but by reason of his f change in his methods of farming he I was able to overcome what was a ( serious blow. He says he now plants very little cotton, but is making money from his cattle and horses and mules, ( which he is raising on the farm. An- < other thing Mr. Elliott says, when ' the weevil comes he comes to stay, * but that he can do no harm to any- ^ thing except cotton. We wish every farmer in the county could have heard Mr. Elliott on the subject of the boll weevil. He says that in ' four or five years at the fartherest > he will strike this section. The low- < er part of the state may expect him * in a much shorter time. Mr. Elliott declares there is no time like the present to make preparation, by crop fl i vrrsi tii-ji t irm nml ctnfb *-? - i.t.lt OIV/1 H ini^llic, UFI his appearance. + l>K.\'OMI N ATIONAL COLLKOKS. I)r. Molfntt of Krskiuc College Takes , exception Jo editorial in The News. ^ To the Kditor of The News: In a roc- nt issue of The News there was an editorial in reference to de- < ' noniihntional colleges which was un- ' kind in spriit. and even offensive to ' the friends and supporters of these colleges. The .denominational colleges are not whining and whimpering about what the state colleges get. nor are < they making war upon the state col- ' leges. They are asking only that 1 they may not be unjustly discriminated against, and be subjected to such s competition as will seriously cripple ' their operation. The denominational 1 colleges have done and are doing a good work for the citizenship of the < vt:?tp nrtin oi<ni,i.i ~. .. ..j auuuiu uic amic n nil IIS : great resources turn upon these institutions which are promoting its < welfare and put a knife into their vitals? And there are indications that measures which will tend to such undesirable results are in content- 1 i piation. : And when these institute ] Mch. with difficulty and sacr < | have been and are ministering to th 1 I educational needs of the state, dart t lift up their voice for tuvr right < live, they are scornfully eluded v , i hlning and whimpering. I S. MOFFATT. i | SHOWERED GLASS ON BABIES Mother end Children at New York Deluged With Shattered Panes When Trains Crash. | While shunting an empty train to the center track for storago at Third avenue -fitad One , Hundred and Fifth ( street a ihotorman, who gave his name ; aa .Tohn Doe, twenty-el*, of 348 Powera arenue, Bronx, rammed another egnpty train ahead of him. The craah fyp uosi u iv? kuaii/ viwm, ?wi broken glSss showered to the street. Sbmeone turned tn s Are alarm, and ao ambulance was al*0 gammoned from' Harlem < bospltat Motormen "Doe" was tMghtly cot on the neck, but refused medical afd.,2fr* Peter-Corey of tit East One Hundred xUd Ttwty-flrtrd street, who true PAsstag below the structure with her #re children, received S shower at gftMe, which Mled (he beby carriage. She fainted from the shock, hut was a hi* to |o borne. Neither she nor the children recetred A wound. ?N?r Yhrfe world. * ', . - .. i .j.i .i , f. ^ .. _ . Uueky English Angler. A lucky angler, on the first enerV eoce of Aehlng, has cdoght at Stinnea, r England, * golden teofch. stated to he the first caught in the Thfimes for the 20 faare. It was If,Inches long I and weighed one pound and fourteen ounces. -v. . . , t > r. ** t ' / r ' * t Optimistic Thought. Today tor money, tomorrow for | nothing. I mm ?? i DECEMBER 28, 1915, ? I * FROM OTHER PAPERS. * ? hi milium Wax He (iOO<l to You? Well, what did he bring you?? Spartanburg Herald. /%nu so mm)ii i tie realtor. Who wants to read editorials so close to Christmas anyway??Greenwood Index, The Aftermath. Even Christmas has its hy in the ointment. The bills must be paid.? Barnwell Sentinel. Good Advice. Xext year will be leap year, and we advise the girls to look before they leap.?Anderson Mail. "As the Twig is llont." Give a little boy a little pistol and when he becomes a big man he will ' want a hig pistol.?Edgefield Adver- i User. One Pnnigraplier Satisfied. Christmas comes but once a year With all its happiness and cheer: ' \nd though it may sound grouchy, suh. That once is quite enough for muh. ?The State. , Municipal Tree a Success. The municipal Christmas tree was i beautiful least for the eyes of both he little people and the older ones. Hie success of the tirst endeavor will ikely lead to still better tilings next, season.?Charlotte Observer. A Word in Season. In those cold days and nights be ,ery carefnl of the little ones, who vill he much around the fire. A fire screen costs very little, and ought to je in every home where there are ! diildren.?Newberry Observer. Likewise Lancaster. 'If Valdosta accomplishes nothing dse next year but solves the problem >f a local market for all sorts of farm n'oducts, it will do great things. It vill add to itB own resources and help onditions throughout this section.? t'aldosta (Ga.) Times. How Often We Hear It. Very frequently people request ' hat an article be given a prominent >lace in The Chronicle. One page is just as prominent as another and if ] ou want to get all the news, local j is well as general, you must read ,vnrv .... it.. Tl.. rM.? : _ ' ' - 1 v . ui I IIIT V IIIUIIIL'ie. ?l IS I ill home-print and articles are placed i without regard to their importance. | ?Camden Chronicle. Wo Took No Holiday. The country newspapers of South , 'arolina are making their annual an-, oouncementi ot the holiday vacation.! rhe weeklies will miss one issue ( while most of the semi-weeklies will miss two issues. Few of the dailies will miss as much as one issue. The jl Herald will not be published on i 'hristmas Day, but may be expected j to appear again on Monday.?Rock Hill Herald. i "Two Young Men." I Take note of two young men: One of them is ignorant, undisciplined. without trained habits of , thinking or acting but has a fortune )f $100,000. The other has a first rate all- ' ground education and is thoroughly , 'fit" in mind, morals and muscle but riasn't a dollar. Y.'hich of the two has the best hence in the " irlrl ' Whteh uHll hoot I ?erve the state? In the answer 'the argument for education.?The State. The Christmas Fve Candle. Theere is an old custom and a i beautiful one, too. originating prob:iI?1 >' with the French pioneers, of placing a single, tali, white wax can-, rile in a window on Christmas eve, | letting it burn all through the night to "light the Christ-child coming flown to earth." The custom, we tin-j rlerstand, is kept up in some parts of j the country, and there appears to be s growing sentiment to encourage the practice In parts of the country! where it has been unknown. We would like to see the old cus-j torn revived and the observance of it I made general. It would help the { children to remember that Christmas j is not all getting and giving of ma-1 terial presents, but that it is the' birthday of one who loved them, one whose sweetness of spirit they may well try to learn.?Anderson Intelligencer. Why Santa Olaus Ltvm. Was there ever a wider or more loving conspiracy than that which keeps the venerable figure of B?nta Claus frOm slipping dway, with r 11 the other old time myths, into the forsaken wonderland of the past?'Cf all the personages whose, marvelous doings once filled1 the minds he alone survive#. He has oatlfved all the great gods, and all the"'impressive' and poetic conceptions which once flitted between heaven and earth?these have' gone, bnt Banta Claus remains by virtue of a eorrimon understanding that childhood shall hot be despoiled of one of It# most cherished beliefs, either by the mythologlst, with his sun myth theory, or the scientist, ?'th hi# hswtleoB dUtrfbe against superstition: ' ' ,v There ts a good deal more to be said on this subject If this were the plate to say It.' ' "Brett superstition haw its uses and sometime# iti sound heart of ttoth! He who does not see in the legend of Santa Clans a beauttfal faith on one aide and the naive embodiment of a divine fart on the other is not fit to have a place at the Christmas board!' For him there shoald be neither carol nor holly nor ntlrftletoe. They only shall lreep the feast to whom all theke things are hut the outward"and visible signs of an inward and spiritual grace.? P.ock Hill Record. V &fEvery life has its Decembe ward to a comfortable old ag ADVERSITY come, we wish trouble. Old age must come is a very DISMAL PROSPEi to be comfortably cared foi f'JUMlltr fof vnnrcfllf C now" Do YOUR Bar We pay 4 per cent intere: compound the interest every The First N; Under Control of Unit lancas1 "THE CLINK OF HOLD BEHIND THE VOICE." WnohlnotAo /Pn \ Tl * ? iiuouiiifiiuii i via.; ivtyui lt'l, We recently read an editorial under the above caption that impressed us. It was not such an impression, however, as the writer intended that the article should convey, for instead of revealing to our mind the selfishness in the clamor for military preparedness that it was designed lo show the editor's own bid for the approval of a certain "class" of readers hail so clearly the "clink of gold" behind his pen that any force the article might have had was lost; and right at this point a sermon is needed to be preached. Reformers are slow to learn that their influeuce and strength depends upon thoir ability to subordinate every-thing that is selfish to the good of the cause they espouse. That once the element of selfishness crops out in a reformer that exactly to this extent has he become Importent. Alas! the "clink of gold" behind the "voice," and behind the pen is one of the most alarming symptoms confronting the world today. It is not always in the form of "gold" that the temptation appears, being often patronage, influence. position, public favor, but all of which are redeemable in gold. So great is the demand for men of ability, and so great the resources for their employment that clever and resourceful men find it difficult to resist the insidious overtures that are made them by designing interests, or to refuse, on their own account. to become mere tools of unscrupulous cunning and clever mendacity. This is all the more difficult to escape for the further reason that failing in their purpose to bribe you. for this Is what it means, they will carefully plan to oppose everything you undertake, because you would not be bribed. In other words, runA r., is m? Hiogan 01 our moaern civilization, and it injects its cowardly form into matters social, political, religious and material. We see capitalists making war upon capitalists. politicians denouncing politicians of the same ..political faith, reformers attempting to reform reformers, prohibitionists denouncing temperance advocates. Christians berating Christians, and all of these things in spite of the fact that people generally are striving for the same ends. Why. then such conflict, such rivalry, such bind ranee? It Is b?aWM'.'o*" "the mad scramble to cat?V> tli^ r^lco 6f the "clink of fold." We lorgV t*V*t wo are brothers, bad the, oanje origin and must eventually accept the democracy of death- Ueaally between those pursuing a common journey there Is a feeling of fellowship, of comradeship, of mutual helpfulness, but on the Journey from the "cradle to the grave" the vast horde of humanity travel together in bitter turmoil and strife, each proclaiming his own individuality and purpose as though the whole world was created for his exclusive passage through it. Alas! alas, for the hlpocracy, inconsistency and insincerity of people! And what r. Every man is looking fori; for when the STORMS OF to feel that we are in. out of !, and old age with adversity FT for anyone. If you want r when you grow old, begin tart a Dank account with us iking with US. at 011 Savings accounts a->d three months. ational Bank od States Government. rER, s. c. is the disturbing factor? "The clink of gold." God pity and help us, is the plea of one as guilty as the rest, but who is constantly striving to got some just concention of Ufo n?rt i*o purposes. Preparedness. ltaleigh News ami Observer. The "preparedness" which President Wilson seeks to have for this country is a prepardness which will make for peace. It is not that the United States should gird up its loins for war, but that it should be in that position of prepardness which will be for peace. The present war in Europe is going to end some day, and when that day comes the nations which are no-* in arms must of necessity make . program for the future for themselves. And in that program there will be concerned the rights of the neutral nation as well as the present belligerents. Who, of all nations except the United States should speak out for the conservation of the rights nf all Hio noutfrtio') ? ? -- %mv ucuiiato . Big questions wait on the future for settlement. The freedom of the seas, the rights of commerce, the binding force of peace pacts, the the observance of international law. these and others are to be met. And as spokesman for Itself and other neutrals in the present war, the United States should be prepared to speak with that authority which comes from preparedness to take care of itself, to protect its own rights and ^ the rights of its citizens. If we would be in a position to hold to "a strict accountability" any nation we must be prepared to compel respect for our own rights. If we correctly interpret the sen,timent of this country it is with the greatest unanimity giving support to the program of President Wilson for national preparedness. Into the vor tex of war there has been drawn nation after nation of Europe. In the questions which have arisen between this country, Germany, Austria-Hungary. and England, the United States has had to speak not alone for itself, but for other neutrals, and the occurrences have been such as to tell us hat we must rely apon ourselves. And there can be no better reliance than to be prepared for any and all eventualities. ! Itriforttkc to tbm Palo sad Sickly i TV. Old Standard mtrtl atmutbsahw Mak ! GROVES TAjrrSLBM chill TONIC. drives oct I Malaria, rttrichea the hlood.and build tip the ay*lata. A Urn* tonic. For adults and children, m Administratrix Ante. By rlrtara of so order from the judge of probate at Lancaster comity, I will sell at public outcry at the late restdence of William A. IfcCorkle, deceased, on Tueeday, January 4th. 1916, within the legal hours of sale, the followln* nnr*r??ai property, "belonging to said estate, to-wlt: One male, one cow, tirfo hogs, one baggy end hirceu, half In- , terest In one wagon, farm toola and ,4k. shop toola, com and fodder, house- . hold goods. Terms of sale cash. J. R. EVERALL, Administratrix Estate of William A. MeCorkle, Deceased. i Lancaster, S. C., Dec. 21, 1915.