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?~ ?ljr Canraatpr'lNptti0 (SEMI-WEEKLY.) WBMSHKKS' A N NOV NCEMKNT ^ Published Tuesdays and Fridays at Lancaster. S. C., by The Lancaster Publishing Company, successors to The Ledger, established 1862; The Review, i establ'shed 1878; The Enterprise, established 1891, and entered as second-class matter Oct. 7, 1906, at tne postofflce at Lancaster, S. C., under Act of Congress of March 8, 1879. TTTTHKR KI.T.ISON Rriitnr. SUBSCRIPTION P' ICS: (In AdTancc. One Year $1.50 Six Months 75c "Let reverence fo laws be 1 breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that i prattles on her lap; let it be taught In schools, 11 seminaries and eolleges; let It be written In primers, spelling books and almanacs; let It be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed In | legislative halls, and enforced in court# of Jnst'ce. And In short, let It become the poltlcal rellg- 1 (on of the nation; and let the old and the yonng, the rich and th poor, the grave and the gay ( of all sexes and tongues and colors and conditions, sacrifice unceasingly upon Its altars." TUESDAY. SEPT. 2fi. 191f> i Clean back yards indicate healthy j minis in the house. How is yours? t o 1 When you think you have reached 1 the point of human perfection it is f tim*1 to back up and take a fresh t start. ( o 1 Whenever you hear a town spoken j xveli of you may know that its citi t sens are on the same plane as its r reputation. t o I (j-ood roads are the best Index to 1 modern progress and community do- 1 ve^opment. Let us build more of < them in Lancaster county. I 1 Kvery live town has many boos- i tera. People who find a place good < to live in like to tell others about its i man vadvantages. Are you a Lan- i caater Booster? i o ' It pays to keep your eyes on two npots:?the advertising pages of this 1 f>aper and the stores of the raor- ' chants who advertise. ' Between dying gloriously on the field of battle and perishing miserbly in the pursuit of peace we infinitely prefer to do neither. \ o Why all of this hue and cry over the latest band of blackmailers? Millionaires who dance should not yejj) when they nave to pay the j fiddler. < It will interest you to read the annual 'pport of Supt. Lingle, to be i found in this issue, as to the edu- | cational progress made in Laneas ter county during the past year. This i is the R.v:AL WORK, and Should be , ,'iven proper encouragement by every ( one. < o At rare intervals, nerhans u e i nn across a fellow who is really and j truly Rood?just like preachers, and ' doctors, and lawyers, and merchants. ; and carpenters, and blacksmiths, and 'arraers. and laborers, AN'D EDITOItS. and?but no, we can't include ? politicians. Sorry, but we simply can't. 1 o I The people of the 1'nited States ' air asked to contribute a million dollars a month toward feeding the i destitute and starving Belgians. If ; needed it will be done, of course. But < contributions in large chunks should! fte extracted from those who hip'i piling up millions in wealth from i war orders. The poor man has his own mouths to feed. i o 1 Week after week, one wagon load i of wheat after another Is carried i elsewhere to be ground; yet, we continually advise the farmer to sow i more wheat in order to make his bread at home. It seems to us, the construction of a flour mil1 in Ban- i caster would he in keeping with the 1 timely advice given the farmer, i Won't some one get busy on (his proposition? 1 o < As a general rule, your choice of i reading matter Is an index to your i character. Literature worth while make men and women who count for i Homething in this world. Good i books are easily accessible if there is a desire for them, and a modern up-to-date library is the proper chan-,1 net through which they should be provided to the public. How many people in Lancaster really want a < sure enough library? ,i T| DISCIPLINE OVERLOOKED. 1 i There is a theory abroad amonK ed-j 1 ucators that needs basic amendment.| I if we are not to have a gen*, ration of men and women in time, who demand ; paths of slight resistance throughout 1 life in a world where such do not ex- 1 ist. The idea is that education in < the past has been too unnatural, too 1 much given to forcing children's 1 minds along harsh and difficult ways. I while too little given to considering ' the children's own spontaneous im-jj pulses and interests. So the thing i to do is to make the process of education a lively, interesting and pleasing business. What it means to accomplish this magic in the average schoolroom let the teachers tell you. Anyway the dictum runs that any i subject truly useful in life can bei, made interesting throughout. Any ] \ subject than can not be made so isii Ipso facto unfit and shauld beM thrown out?Latin, for instance. Aem spontaneous Interest in child nature < leads, so much the educational pro- t cess follow, from kindergarten up. ( So child ought ever to find anything ji In his school work merely dull and, i drudgellke. If so, then the method j is at fault or the teacher. I This sounds very enticing. It looks t veil to many people, especially in thisjc lay of domestic democracy, wherein \ :he children have a ioud and efTec-ij :ive voice in family government. It|f las captured numerous educators and r lominates their thinking, if not theirji >rocedure. }v Tttit it will not do. Following the ? ead of childish preferences, impulses a ind spontaneous interests to a cer- t ain degree may be sound enough. <! >ut it may very easily lie overlooked, v f our lives never brought us face to i; ace with duties anything f>ut "in- a cresting." never imposed sheer a irudgery upon us.'never challenged ]i is with knotty problems to be solved iroperlv only hv plain old-time hard hinking, then possibly the new the>ry would work. Hut the children of c oday. we well know, are going to ' un against endless things to do that equire disciplined will power and a one ingrained habit of attacking and jverconving the dullest, most pesky . forbidding sort of everyday problems n life. What preparation for this is P t to ease them along in their young lavs, let them side step drudgery in studies, fill them full of the notion lhat it is the world's imtinouo a interesting in all it assigns thorn to io? J It takes power, grit, tough fibre ( ?s well as developed perceptions, am- ^ pie information and unflagging joy In ( life to put us throfigh our three score vears and ten with credit. Keep some rough places in school life, repuire more or less straight hardi. work nn<l thus develop self-driving . power. It will surely be needed.? The State. (loon IlO\DS A l'KKSOXAI* t It KSPOXSI 1(1 IjITV. < Perhaps no other feature of civic t reform or improvement of recent a rears has attracted so much atten- l tion as has that of road building. 1 \11 over our broad land, from ocean to ocean, from the lakes to the gulf, the wave of enthusiasm is rolling. v The people are realizing that they must have better roads, and the ma hinery of government in its taxing r apacity is being ever more and more trained to meet this demand. Rut while there is a certain re- ( sponsibility resting upon the State 11 the maintenance oi our highways, we are in danger of forgetting that \ in even greater responsibility rests ^ upon us. individually, as citizens. . i he reason why we sometimes lose cght of this responsibility is that we J Americans have gotten Into the hah- . it of working out all such matters * c through the mod in 111 of taxation. If ( we want a now road oponod. wo lovv a tax. If we want an old road macadamized, we tax some more. Is i bridge to no ouilt? Wo imposo anv other tax. We tax and we keep on taxing, and this regardless of the fact that wo all know that the hard- | est money to give up is that which I is paid in taxes. Many a man will 1 r-onie to town and spend in a day j enough money to pay his yearly taxes J and think nothing of it. But ho will sweat drops of blood, an it were, when the tax gatherer rounds him up. Wo depend too much upon taxes.ji Wo should depend more upon in-: 1 dividual and personal elTort. A , lively neighborhood interest in good roads is worth all of the taxes you can wring from unwilling pocket- | books. A determination by a unit-1 p?d citizenship of a county that their roads shall excel Is worth more than ail of the road commissioners in existence. Road commissioners work through devious ways to reach their object. The united sentiment of a people works direct to the object.' It determines what is wanted and then takes the most direct route to,l accomplish Its ends. I Do you favor better roads in this community? Then go to work and ?| arouse a healthy community sentl ??? IE LANCASTER NEW8TUE ment that will demand them. When that is accomplished good roads will 5e the result. And just a few words more. Realize your own responsibility. Say to yourself, "the roads of this community belong partly to me. and I awe a duty to them.' Don't depend upon a benevolent government, national, State, county or township, :uit shoulder your own responsibility. Then you will be in a fair way to get four neighbor to do likewise. Try it! ? AS THK EDITOR SEES IT. It was but a comparatively few rears ago when the Whole country was talking of the "billion dollar congress." Now a "two billion dolnr pnnp,ro(ia" hoa <not J w.?* ! umo juov Viworu auu UUl ittle Is heard of the enormous expenlitures. From it would seem that uoney is so plentiful in the United * States that even the colossal sum of wo billion dollars is viewed with inlifference. As a matter of fact, noney is plentiful in this country. )ut it is not well proportioned as to >opulation. We are rapidly approachnix the European status of collecting he wealth of the nation in the hands ?f a comparatively few of the people, vhile the groat mass are daily apiroaching nearer to a hand to mouth xistence. It is true that a certain lass of employees are well paid, hut t is equally true that other classes of corking people, themselves quite necssarv to the existence of a well balnced country, receive hardly enough n keep soul and body together. Some ay the congress of the United States J rill have to enact readjusting legisiition, curtail the size of individual nd collective tortunes and Incomes, nd see that the under dog has at east a fighting chance to live. o No, sir, we don't want the job ol eing president of these United Itates. It isn't half as soft a berth s editing this paper. Germany has grouch at us; Austria. Turkey and lulgaria are ditto; Mexico is a thorn n our already festering flesh; Japan s opening her cavernous mouth to ;obble up China and is thereby menicing our commercial interests In hat country: Central and South Vmerica are suspicious of us because ve have an army in Mexico; England ind her allies are boarding our ships; ifling our mails, ana stealing our rade secrets for their own use; the -onflict between labor and capital las brought us almost to the brink of I ivil war; votes, powerful financial nterests and foreign lobbies keep ..i.m hi a perpetual state or ter-11 | or and the Lord only known what III t will be next. No. alr-ee! Take the I | oh?we're not in the running. ? o Have you aired your viewn yet on he result of the primaries through- pi >ut the country? Of course every- 8j( >odv knows just how it happened. 8li ind everybody Is trying to tell every>odv else what everybody already mows. Let's talk about the weather. o M One great trouble with us is our n wastefulness in our daily lives, in our an lomes, in our business occupations. t!< \'e have never learned the lesson of cii conomy. Money conies easy with is. and it flows out just as easily. V'here other people in other counries stop to count the pennies, we I fa inly count the dollars. If we as a ?eople could only acquire the habit J if systematically slicing off a penny ^ icre, another there, and keep it up n every avenue of our existence, the <8 American people in the course of a ? ew years would bo literally rolling ? n wealth, whereas now a majority Ja if us labor right up to the brink of J be grave in order to live and support oir families in comparative comfort. ^ Vnv intelligent person can make ? noney in this country, but only a <fa. wise one can save it. * ? ,11 PROFESSIONAL CARDS 1 j Dr. M. R. Campbell | Registered Optometrist and Manufacturing Optician. 4 ANDERSON, S. C. 4 Standard Drug Co.. local repre ^ sentatlves. Take your broken lenses J ind repatra to tbem for prompt and tee urate work ^ DR. O. B. PRATT, 4 Dentist. *' flours from 8:30 A. M. to 13:80; 1:30 to 8:30. jl Office Phone 286. 1 Residence Phone 398. '* Office Over Lancaster Pharmacy. *<j DR. J. J. POLLARD 4 VETERINARY SURGEON 4 Treatment of Sick, Lame and 4 Disabled Horses, Mules and Cat* 4 5le. J Office: J Gregory-Hood Lire Stock Co. i \ Telephone *226 lencaster, H. C. I Residence Telephone 119 ^ SPAY, SEPT. 26, 1916 THERE IS EVER\ Why Does Our Businc ASK/ A????????????? $6.00 TO OUR CAS) EVERY SATUR GET SOME OF OUi others are doing "the yours fo midway w p pi y BUUSTEKS" IT. U I Lit "MIDWAY HE/ If your child Is pale and sickly, SHAFT TO Ml cks at the nose, starts in the ?ep and grinds the teeth while Little Rock, A jeplng, it is a sure sign of worms. KranitP monument remedy for these parasites will be m< mory ?' soldier und In WHITE'S CREAM VER- Mlnnosota- who dl IFUQE. 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