The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, October 06, 1916, Page 4, Image 4
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(SK.MI-WEEKLY.)
rUBI.ISHRKS' A VNOUNC'KMKNl
Published Tuesdays and Fridays
at Lancaster, S. C.. by The
Lancaster Publishing Company,
successors to The Ledger, established
1852; The Review,
established 1878; The Knterprise,
established 1891, and entered
as second-class matter
Oct. 7, 1906, at ttie postofflce
at Lancaster, S. C., under Act
of Congress of March 3, 1879
LUTHER ELLISON, Editor.
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"Let reverence fo laws be
breathe<? by every American
mother to the lisping babe that
prattles on her lao; let It be
taught In schools, 1 i seminaries
and colleges; let It be written
In primers, spelling books and
almanacs; let It be preached
from the pnlptt, proclaimed In
legislative halls, and enforced lu
courts of Juet'ce. And In short,
lot It become the poltlcal religion
of the nation; and lot the
aid and the young, the rich and
th poor, the grave and the ga>
of all sexes and tonguea an 1
olors and conditions, sacrifice
unceasingly upon Its altars."
FRIDAY. OCT. G, 1010.
A B"Ston scientist predicts 7
rent- s. lw>r't like 'em. nnywa
o
Begin today arranging your e
hibit fi r- the fair. It will bo tl
bi^g-v-t and best yet.
o
Knocking does a fellow no goo
does ti > town a lot of harm, and di
gusts neatly everybody who h<\i
It.
Carranza will and he won't at
he won't and he will, and darned
even Carranza knows what he wi
do. ?
o
That new diamond mine discovt
ed In the Transvaal is eighteen mil
from Pretoria and a million mil
from this office.
o
Of the people who buy goods <
credit 4 0 per cent pay in full, 7 p
cert never pay at all, and we dm
kn h"w many wish they could g
out of paying.
o
They say the boll weevil is cm
ing this way. Ciood thing th
didn't arrive in Lancaster coua
this y^ar for some of them won
have died from starvation. ,
o
We have advocated the buildii
of a flour mill so long and so ear
estly until the subject haunts us
our dreams. Build that mill imna
diately and let us rest in peace.
o .
It has been wisely said that pr
crast[nation is the thief of tint
therefore, those behind the mov
ment for a modern library shou
bestir themselves without turtle
dela y.
o
A prominent business man i
f'harlotte while in Lancaster recent
Mtat.?*d tliat we possessed the he
roads of any county in South Car
lina over which he had travelei
Let the good work continue.
o
The Chester News recently inl
mated that In all probability tt
next big street railway strike wo.t
occur in Rock Hill. Let lis urge tl
hoys to postpone the walkout unt
at'te York County Fair week.
o
Lancaster has achieved the di
tinction of bpdng the best cotto
market to be found in this sectic
of the State. Mr. Farmer, briti
your cotton to the "leading town
and get tiie top price for your fan
prod u cts.
Many severe accidents have o<
cured in Lancaster from varlot
causes recently, vei we continue t
defer the building of that needc
hospital. Isn't it about time for tl
to give the subject our serious cot
sideration?
o
From all reports daily coming t
this Office, the third flnnim I I
or County Fair, to be held in Urt
raster November L'O to 2.">, is eertair
ly going to be a Rood ongS Th
fhiriR is, what have you done 8
fur to help this Rood work along
o
The man who does not take hi
home paper misses three-fourths o
what is going on in his home com
munlty. He must either borrow th
paper from his neighbor and he con
sidered a tight-wad and a nuisance
or he must be content to learn i
little and know less. This pape
costs but $1.50 a year, and Is wortl
ten times that amount to any person
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SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST. j 0
Of recent years volumes havo.j
been written In defense of thejc
scheme of life de'inod in the above't
phrase. lis advocates refer us to na-j1
ture in ull her wondroiis workings? , <
jthe manner in which she accurately,'
fulfills the Biblical promise that "to;1
him that hath shall be given; but|1
from him that hath not. shall be ta j
ken away even that he hath."
Perhaps no scheme of life half so J
pernicious has ever been promul- '
vated I v sane men in any age of the
world. True, nature, in the person I
of the brute, works strictly along'
~ this line. It is absolutely necessary j'
there. It is necessary from the fact
unless every energy of the brute were I
given to the task of preserving self, i
then self, as represented by the,'
? brute, would soon eease to exist>. j(
Scientists define the difference]1
bet wren man and the brute thuslv: 1
The brute knows, A>ut knows not that
It knows. Man knows, and knowsj1
(hat he knows. And In these truths 1
lie the ui"at danger to humanity 1
of the "survival of the fittest" th<>. <
' ory. The brute, knowing not that]'
it knows, recognizes absolutely no 1
rights but its own. For it the
question of right does not e\ -t. .N;>- '
ture has equipped it to make of selfj
the very best specimen possible, '
even to the absorbing in many in- '
-tunc' - ot the rights and very per- '
? sons of all others. That is its first 1
instinct, and were any oth?o course 1
followed it would be fatal to the life'
' f tie brrb* eieation
Put when, through the faithful'P
: dherance to this primal instinct. ](
the brute has rei?*hcd 'brute rerfer-j
tion well, it's nothing ;but a bruteI1
iinywiy. A magnificent brute :r ntayj
he,' hut merely a brute! |
With man. however, the reverse
true. Knowing, and knowing that!'
In- knows, he consequently must '
rs know that he has rights. That being
the rase, he is compelled to know
that all others (who are in every
1-1 way as essential as himselfi must !
1' have rights coequal with his own. 1
1,1 Therein lies his utter futility of attempting
to usurp any of the rights
of others without aoing violence toj
his own character. In brief, the
moment lie attempts to survive at
"s the expense of the weaker brother,
just that moment he becomes most
emphatically the "unfittest" in every
1,1 sense of the brute sense. He beOT
i r?nin< nc flto Kftito
So much for "the survival of the.
fittest."
Hut what about the survival of
the "unfittegt?"
? i That is a subject that might well
&y] engage the attention of the advoty
fates of eugenics and other wouldld
|>e "uplifters." of the human race.
Go after the man who has never
had a chance and give him a eharag
acter. Lift up the brother who has
n- fallen by the way and start him on
in the road again. Encourage the dee_
spondent. Help the weak. Strive to
equalize the burdens of life. If all (
Iwould act thus there soon would be
n_ no unfit. All vfifiuld he fit.
"The survival of the fittest," as
p applied to man. means a race of ,
li( splendid brutes.
Pr The "revival of the unfittest," as (
applied to man. means an ultimate .
approach to the grand ideal conceiv- ,
ed in his creation: "In the image ?
of his maker."
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THE Hoi.I. \VKE\IL. I
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I Press dispatches the other day an- I
pounced that the boll ?weevil had I
reac hed Iturke county, Ga. Kurk > i
Ij. county adjoins Richmond county, in I
,f. vh'ch Augusta is situate), and hor- '
In ders on Savannah river. It is prob- i
,o ably not more than 12f? miles in an i
il air line from the city of Anderson to it
the nearest point of Burke county. j<
This brings the boll weevil quite 11
s. close to us, much (loser than it has
n been before.' At the rate of progress ;
,n inai 11 nas made in years past, it is <
entirely possible for the boll weevil
[" to make its appearance in Anderson t
m county next summer. |1
What are we going to do about :
it? I
r- There are a Rood many thingft*that
m we can do. but the obvious thing to
o do is to begin to plan to get along .
id without cotton, or at least without as
is much of it as we have been accusi-'toaiPd
to. And the time to do that
la tight now. We will suffer great- .
Jy if we defer our preparations until t
p the boll weevil gets here. <
f. Now is the timer to begin planning f
). next year's farming operations. 1
I. (Jrain and legume crops can he sown i
e now, arrangements made for cattle,
o hogs, poultry, on a larger scale. It <
? will be too late to do this next spring
ior summer. '.?
8 A farm that produces its own food v
if stuffs can pull through if the cotton
crop is a failure, but the farm that c
e depends on cotton alone is doomed, e
i_ There is one thing that ought to f
)f be remembered in connecton with t
n the boll weevil and that Is that It is i<
r certain and thorough. It makes a F
[i complete Job, and when it comes it t
lt stays. It doesn't come oue year ?
tE LANCASTER ISTEWS FR
ind miss the next, and it does n^t do "
ust partial damage to^ a cotton
rop. It comes every year and coton
can not live on the same 'and
(vith it. One just cannot take
hanoes with it, and that is the
hing that should be kept 111 mind in
[ guring on next year's farming.?
Vnderson Mail.
WHAT AUK VOl DOI\<;?
What are you doing for this
,
own?
What are you doing to justify
four citizenship in this town?
You can not sit down, criticise, let
others dq the \\ork that makes a
town or community, and still call
iroursclf a good citizen.
The good citizen never thinks only
of self. He must necessarily think
of self or he would not survive, but
irood citizenship requires more than
that?much more.
It rquircs that you keep in mind
hit there are others who have
ights and are entitled to have those
ights respected by others?by you.
>n the same basis you are entitled
> have your rights equally respected
?y them.
That is good citizenship?parially.
In addition, the good citizens renumbers
that his town Is entitled to
lis bestA'fforts In its behalf, to the
mil*,that the interests of the 00111minlty
may !?.* advanced bv all legiti-l
nate means.
This means, too. that in ndvnnong
the interests you are advancing
our own. which is the ultimate aim
>f the human race. j
What. then, are you doing to constitute
yourself a good citizen?
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knots i;mk)Iisi:mknt
1 ?r. ('has. W. Kliot has come oil>
for Wilson and in doing so gave to'
the country some of the strongest
Wilson arguments vet advanced.
Kliot sums it up eloquently in the
statement that "the Democratic
party has done such an extraordinary
amount of good work during the
present administration that the period
from 1H12 to 1 f? 1 > will he'
memorable in the ' history of the
1'nited States; and. secondly, that
the man chietly responsible for this
consummate service to the American
people should be again made
their chief servant." 11? goes so far
as to say that "in three years and a
half the Democratic party, led by
Woodrow Wilson, has done much
more for the country than the Republican
party accomplished in five
times as many years." That is going
it rather strong, but who wants to
argue the case with Doctor .*01 iot? J
Ret him step to the front.?Charlotte
Observer.
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'* t Of ( (tTTONvSKKI)
Mighty few of us are good mathematicians,
and so whenever cotton
seed are quoted at 40 or $50 a ton,'h
the average person has to figure with (j
pencil what the price is per bushel. {
The following rule is so simple and
0
so easy that we reproduce "it. Clip
It out for reference. ^
"When the price of ton is given, in j"
dollars, take half the price of a ton w
ind ifdd it to itself and the result tl
will bo the price of a bushel in cents.
Thus, if seed are worth $20 a ton.
take half of 2n and add it to 2o and
con get 30 cents as the price of a| t
bushel. If seed are $3n a ton, take'^
bait' of to which is 15 and add if j
to 3o and von gcT 4 5 cents as tho|*
price of a bushel of seed. Now to ^
lind the price of a ton. in dollars, <
when the price of a bushel in rents 1<
s known, you subtract one-third ofL
be price a bushel In cents from itself I
iixl you have the price of a ton In | \
lollars. Thus suppose tin* price of a <
lushel is 60 rents the third of 60
s L'n whirh taken from 60 leaves $40 4>
is the price of a ton. The rule is so 4
?asy that any one who knows the j
uultiplieation table can pass from the \
011 to the bushel, or from the bushel '
to the ton as fast as he <jan talk."?- <
siler City (Irit.
"LINK I I* TIIK WOMF.V" 4
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'Mother" Jones' Advice to Striking 4
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New York t'ilrinen. 4
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New York. Oct. 4 -"Mother" J 4j
(ones, widely known :is a labor ora- 4
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or. addressed a meeting here today ^
>f unionized carmen who went on <
drike September 6. urged those who 1
leard her to "line up the women"
vith them. <
"You're lighting for them." she do- 4$
dared. "Let tin m help you fight." 4
She asserted that the carmen ^
hould insist on only seven hours j
vork a day for $5 pay. ^
According to officials of the transit *5i
ompanles, service on subways and 48
leva ted lines is normal and on sur- #
ace lines nearly normal. Out of a J
otal of 6 13 arrests during the strike, j
was said tonight by Interborough }
tnpid Transit Company officials, ^
here have been 43 2 convictions,
rhile forty-two cases are pending.
IDAY, OCT. ft, 1916.
DO YOU UK
If You Do We Can H.
HOY
By Selling Jutf A Little Che;
?
WH
Because We Sell for <
No Loss In Delinq
If you Don't believe we can
don't you try it, ancrtha
ASK THE M/I
NOWTRADINt
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Remember ? Every (?/? A A ]
Saturday at 4 P. M. ?pU?Uv' i
''THE YOURS FOR
Minu/ A V IVT VX V\T ITf '
BOOSTERS" W. rLYLi
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( ItRKK CABINET FALLS. | t'OST MOKK
London. Oct. 4.?KlngC'onstantinoI Washington, Oct. 4.as
accepted the resignation of thejstructural steel for nei
ireek cabinet, says a Reuter dispatch J were awarded today
rom Athens. It is believed in Ath- department at prices
ns, the dispatch adds, that Nicolas <c<>nt bighei than wore
. ilar material last I)<
>im tracopulos, former minister of! ... #
% j steel is for a hospit
istice, will form a new cabinet.. bullt at fhe Pi,i|adelp
hlch will include three members of J and a fuel ship at th
le Venizelos party. j yard.
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: No town or city can make its indi
C make a town or city great. A live <
business enterprise. If this commu
? will have to be by the enterprise of s
[ We are ready to co-operate in ei
C safer, better and bigger. We any
dividual service to every depositorAi
[? count. Talk your plans and business
may be able to make helpful sugges
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aper lhan Anybody fclse.
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Cash, Which Means uent
Accounts.
do what we say, why ,
n yon will be Wise.
^VWHO IS
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CD17C To Those Who Trade
L ilLLi Cash At Our Store
1 SERVICE -WE
PH fi r*4\ nivinr
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QUARTERS."
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Contracts for Richmond. Va.t Oct. 4.?'Rover, a
Newfoundland dog owned by' Joe
k\ naval vessels
Gianotti, a river boatman, last night .
by the navy 8ave(j the nfe Qf Elmer Godwin, of
about >53 per \orfolk. who slipped off a launch
Pa'd 'or 8'm" from which the men were angling for
?ceniber. The night fish. Ryver dived In, seized
al ship being tj)e sinking man's collar and pushed
hia navy yard, ^tm up against the boat where Gia- **
e Boston navy j nottl could help him aboard. Godjwln
can not swim. *
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eater urowtn |
istries great, but industries can ?|
immunity is the manifestation of %
inity is to grow in importance it >
table business interests.
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Fery way to make local business ?*
sincerely interested in giving in- %
regardless of the size of his ac- "Y
Nnroblems over with ?c -
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