The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, September 26, 1916, Page 4, Image 4
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(SEMI-WEEKLY.)
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^ 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.
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"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
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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
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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
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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!
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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. *
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