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m X . ?hr Sanraatrr Sfarna (HBMI-WEEKLV.) [ r? fVKLlBIIRfl' ANNOUNCEMENT ^ Puhllahed Tuesdays and Fridays at Lancastor, S. C.. by The '' Lancaster Publishing Company. in successors to The Ledger, ph- e, tabllshed 1852; The Review, established 1878: The Enterprise, established 1891, and entered as second-class matter it Oct. 7, 1905, at the postofflce sj at Lancaster, S. C.. under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. s' tl! SUBSCRIPTION P ICE: (In Advance One Year $1.50 81* Months 75c ^ _ in "Let reverence fc laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that Tt prattles on her lan; let It be i . taught In schools. ' i seminaries i? and colleges; let It be written V( tn primers, spelling books and almanacs; Ibt It be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed tn '1 legislative halls, and enforced 1.. II ourts of Just'ce. Aud In short. let It become the poltlcal rellgIon of the uatlou; and let the old and the young, the rtcb and th poor, the grave and the ga. 1?> of all sexes and tongues an \ olo-s and condltlous, sacrifice v aneeaslngiy upon Its altars " TUESDAY, DEO. 19. 191<> [J at If you haven't done your shopping u early, do it now. th i a I ? Ith Use Red Cross seals on your Christmas packages, and thus make a small contribution to the fund for s. lighting tuberculosis. tJl ? jdc "The next thing you know farm- sp ers will be bringing their eggs to the at hanks to deposit them," predicts th The Newberry Observer. th - ' o | to J We hape that every little Santa i i- > Claus letter writer will get every (,< #fift asked for and that every one will 1 be happy at Christmas time. o pc _ ta It is within the power of all of usij,e to make this Christinas the best we have ever cnnnl T f i. i. . I ? v. u|/v.Iiw. *1 nc nocn LU lIltlKP others happy we will find ourselves gt happier. a o With sleet yesterday, a heavy frost, ot resembling snow last night, and the m thermometer registering 22 this morning, it is already "cold as n< Christmas." b> - m T1 Again let us congratulate the nierchants of Lancaster on their Christmas window decorations. which 01 would do credit to a city many times' * 1 |Of as large as ours. 1 0 jT] Headers of The Lancaster News jj ?re urged to do their Christmas shop- ?..] ing with advertisers in this paper, By so doing you will help them, this jj paper and yourself. o With the great war raging in K11 ,ce rope, there is no "Peace on earth, good will toward men," over there m and for that reason there is ail the,vn more need of our giving the Christ mas message a very real meaning in s, this country, at peace w ith all tin (V\ world. * ]sa o CO The progressive farmer is lie who n< reads, that lie may gain breadth o( si< mind and receive new ideas. There s< should be a supply of good magazines or in every farm home, for the young se people should cultivate the reading co habit, which will result in good to Ci them. It seems now that we are to have m no community tree, nor even the carol-singing, so appropriate hi ,:i Christmas, time. What the cominun-,w' ity has neglected to do, may we as ar individuals take upon ourselves and 01 thus kouw something of the joy oT ; f si rvlce. ; In Nobody would have known, except 1,1 lor the story on the front page of The Charlotte Observer Sunday morning. n ' Ol that the print shop of that paper had been visited Saturday by a destruc- v tlve fire. The Sunday issue of The ** Observer, consisting of twenty pages, appeared as usuai Sunday morning, In spite of the many difficulties at- "J tending its publication. We wish to extend congratulations to The Ob- ^ server upon its resourceful achievement. o The following quotation from The c Progressive Farmer is so t>ood that l we pass it on for the consideration u Of our readers: b "The finest thing that any com p munlty, any county can have is the p vision of its best opportunities and g< possibilities, and the ambition and p determination to make them come it true?and a community that hasn't a a vision is in a rut. And there is no |T difforence between a rut and a grave b j. ?-except the size." tl TE WHKIIK THF TAX MONEY GOKS."jt< Many of our readers have doubtless d uid the following editorial in The n tate of yesterday but for the benefit j r those who have not we are pub-is sh it here in full because to our,'J ind it is the best answer we have 11 irer seen, to the opponents of taxa- p on: v " Were the General Assembly to re- v ise to appropriate $250,000 to as- ( st public schools, would money be 'V ived to the laboring man? Ilowj? ueh would the rich man, able to "' md his children to a private school jv id pay tuition for them, be hurt? jv Were the General Asseinblj to re- ( ise to appropriate a quarter of a til ion dollars to needy Confederate f tcrans. wofthl the railroads, cot- 1 >it mills, banks and oil mills that I ly one-third of all the State taxes } hurt thereby? Do the wealthy 'tenuis receive pensions? Were the General Assembly to rei e to appropriate some hundreds of tousands of dollars for the support' 1 Winthrop, the I'niversity, the t'ltn-! d and the school at Cedar Springs; ould the rich man who can send his u >y or girl to the I'niversity of.n orth Carolina, to I . inceton. Yale, ^ assar or Converse he hurt? Were the General Vssembly to reise to maintain the State Hospital le reformatory for boys at Florence f id the State board of charities, I j( ould the wealthy man. able to send lj ic afflicted member of his family to e 1 institution beyond the borders of Si ie State be the poorer? jc The larger part of the State tax venues go to public-education, pen-1 ons, charitable institutions and to e payment of interest on the State ig] jbt. The money, nearly all of it, ie'ii cut for the benetit of persons who p e not rich. It would be money in v e pockets of the rich to abolish all ? ese institutions and leave the poof D take care of themselves. What say the demagogues? Why > they go a bo ik the land wailing foi lie poor taxpayer?" About one-half of all the white k 'ople of South Carolina pay a poll w x devoted to education and little n sides. About one-half of the white T ople own not a foot of land. v; A big cotton mill company pays gj ate taxes amounting to. say. $4,000,]] year. |n i iit- ouu lamwies mat worK tor il. tl itside ol' the poll tax, pay?how i< uch? jei Cut out the appropriation for pub-:J, ! education and reduce the tax levy r a mill and a half and the cotton ill company saves about $1,000. le cotton mill president may sendjci s daughter to a school in Georgia ,0 his son to Yale. In What becomes of the cotton mill j 11 lerative's son and daughter? ] s< IT IS THROUGH TAXATION f( HAT THE POOR MAN'S FAMILY w ECEIVES A RETURN FROM THE a PATE, GETS BENEFITS THAI R E COULD NOT OTHERWISE a AVE. IS GIVEN A CHANCE TOd 1SE IN THE WORLD. jti But the "poor man's friends" in- p, ssantly shriek about high taxes. t>( The shriekers are not the poot tr an's friends. They dupe the pooi ' \> iter for the sake of the rich. ei State taxes could be reduced in ti >uth Carolina from seven mills to tc o or three mills and the miserable y< laries of State otticers and judges \\ aid still be paid. There would be ^ > hospitals, reformatories and pen?ns and only backward and inferior hools. The rich would be the rieh; they would take care of them- m Ives; they would send their boys to tl ! 'egos beyond the borders of South|ni irolina. |w The sincere Triend of the poor man si mts the State to establish ami di air.tain public institutions. I) The everlasting howler about high n xes is the man who cares not a rap h hether the poor grow up in ignor- u\ ire or not. The more ignorant the? ;r e the easier will he fool them and c st their votes. w To starve the school and public (* stitutions is to stuff the pockets of f e rich. (i There has never been a demagogue ( < South Carolina who did not ery o it against high taxes for the reason p at the demagogue is usually the a ?ent in disguise of the selfish, the r, rdid rich. |w So long as the money is wisely lent and none is stolen the higher le taxes the better for the laboring ian and the poor man in South C! arollna. ti BUY ItKD CROSS SK.\1?S. ji( For several years past Hod Cross e hristmas seals have been sent to's ancaster to be sold but never has aelr sale been what It should have ti com Every year we have tried to h xplain the good work to which the o roceeds from the sale of these little w eals is applied and have urged our t eople to buy them. No other char- tl y, perhaps, makes the same sort of ppeal as this for every cent invested ti i the stamps goes to help fight tu ? erculosls. Those who buy and r.r.c. ie seals bear testimony to their In- n % EE LANCASTER NEWS Tt erest in suffering humanity ami their 1 esire to prevent the spreatl of tl.e i rent white plague. So many people use little seals or i tickers on thier Christmas parcels, i 'lien why not buy those whose sale neans the healing of the sick. Kv- ; ry child is able to buy a few pen- i lies' worth and any man or wotnnr i'ho can give a present can attach hereto a Red Cross seal. An.I will ou not do so this year? In the name f those who are dying of the dread isease. in the name of some dear one 'lio has fallen a victim to it, in the ery name of humanity, buy U * '. 'ross seals and help a worthy cause. * ?F1 j From Other Papers | "Shop Karly." Now Is tho time for all good peole to come to the aid of the clerks. Ireenwood Journal. Calls For Speeding. Congress will have to exceed its sual speed limit if it gets through 11 the work before it by the?4th or larch. Newberry Observer. ' i \ Ileal Task Set. If President Wilson and the Deiuo-: ratio congress can get to the hot-] am of the cause of the high cost of ving, and reguh.te it. they will have arned the rfcht of perpetual posession of the reins of power. -Ficnnce Times. "Do It Now." Are you doing your Christmas hopping early? If not you are maklg a mistake for lots of other peo- , le are and the stocks of goc^Js ar^ ery rapidly being picked over. Yon re going to wait unail Christmas 'ay and find nearly everything gone. ?Spartanburg Journal. Christmas What Wo Make It. Christmas is what we make It. We now many homes where the gifts ould seem poor enough if it were ot for the love that goes with them, rifling toys would seem almost ulueless; but look at the love and rcrifice they represented, and all the 1-gotten wealth in the world could ot buy them. ^The poorer the giver he greater the gift?have we not sad how the widow's mite outweigh[1 the whole treasury??Gaffney edger. nninncN or ifucnent. WaRes go up. and earnings in- ( rease. Rut what about tlfc salaries f teachers? It is a fnot. long recog- | ized. that the teachers of this coun- ^ y are under paid The cost of esantial things, such as clothes and ^ lod. has gone up for teachers, as ell as for others. Hut the teachers re not receiving adequate incomes, enerally speaking. The teachers do ] 11 invaluable work. They have un- ( er thir care the youth of the coun- , y. To them we look to develop the , otentialities of the girls and the ^ ays. Surely there is no work more nportant than that of teaching, r'liv, then, should we pay the teach- . rs. the holders of important posions. relatively small salaries. A mcher must give up a number or ?ars in preparation, years that those ho follow other vocations turn into ainful times. Greenville News. Want Ku Klu\ Monument. The Fort Mill Chamber of Com icrce is making an effort to secure le location here of the proposed lonument to the Ku Klux Klan hich Thomas Dixon has under conderation, the secretary having been irccted to get in touch with Mr. ixon and*, ascertain what induceents would locate the monument ere. Fort Mill has probably the ost unique collection of monuments i ihe South comprising one to the onfederate veterans, one to the omen of the Confederacy, one to the atawha Indians, and one to the 'hful slaves, the hitter being the i.-t of its kind erected. To this dlection the addition of Mr. Dix n's monument would be moat ap- , ropriate aa following the later times nd commemorating the daya of re'mstruction 1n the South.?Fort I ill Times. TIIK fiOliDKN Kl'LK. Marty people have the idea that the , mlden Rule is taught only by Chrlsnn religion. This ia a mlatake, as It i found in practically all the relig ?us and moral codes of the world, xpressed In different terms, but sub- 1 tnntially the same. , Aa will be ncen from the quota- ( Ions below the Jewish, Orecian, Moammedan and Chinese expressions ? this law take the negative form, ' hile that from the Roman ia similar 1 o Christ's "Love thy neighbor as ? hyself." , "All things whatsoever ye would hat men should do to you, do ye ven so to them."?Christian. "Whatsoever von do not wt?h voUi ' ci.-' bor to do to you, do not unto < FESDAY. DEC. 19. him. This is the whole law, the rest Jis a mere exposition of it."?Jewish. "'The law imprinted on the hearts of all men is to love the members of society as themselves."?Roman. "Do not that to a neighbor which you would take ill from him."?Grecian. "Let none of you treat his brother in a way he himself would dislike to be treated."?Mohammedan. "What you would not wish done to yourself do not unto others."?Cu. ncse. HKSPKCT I OK AI THOHITY. There is no divinity that hedges ruiers in mis repuoncan Rnvernmeni: hut. because there is not, /liorefore the respect for official position and for constituted authority is so much the more important. The divinity that doth hed.ee a king can enforce at least a show of respect, and save him from open insults from the base-minded and lawless, while in j this country of "free speech" no) penalty is attached to insults and slanders against an officer - unless it may he the contempt of sensible and law-abiding men and women for the person who utters them. Here, for instance, is' a Northern labor agitator that comes down into South Carolina and incites a lot of. misguided citizens to take possession of the property of other people and hold it; to shut up their mills and refuse to allow the owners even to i liter the buildings; to hold possession of the mill and all the dwelling houses belonging thereto for three months?until the owners are com polled to apply to the courts to get possession of their own property. And when the court issues its orders, the sheriff refuses to execute them; when urged by the governor to do his duty, he snvs lie will attend to the business when he gets ready, telling the chief executive of the state to attend to his own business; that if the governor is not satisfied with the way he was handling the warrants he could come up and do it himself?all because of the teachings of this man from the North, aided it may he by the fact that the sheriff I'd not belong to the same "political faction" as the governor. an The next thing this Northern agt- nu tator does is to go down to the cap- ?'v ital of the state and gather members of. labor unions together and make them a public speech, in which he attacks the governor in a coarse and ag savage manner, and say's he is "a thi disgrace to South Carolina." and that ag he wishes he had the opportunity to no tell him so to his face?and all that Th sort of thing: and South Carolina thi men, instead of hissing him, yell ap- vei proval. ret That is a nice spectacle! It is a wo plea for lawlessness. It is a crime th< figainst decency; but there is no int punishment for it. la* We are glad there are very few to men of the kind of this Northern agl- of lator in South Carolina: and we upl would be glad to think that there are wo very few men in the state who would les listen to or cheer his utterances tht ihout the governor of the state; who. ere every thinking person knows, is a go< integrity?one who has done as tai much, to say the least, for South ex! Carolina, including the very men am | Fifty Do 1 Best Yield of W ' T V rl<> encourage the Fan V offer for the season of 1910 V Yield of Wheat of TIIKEI? t Wheat: *** First Prize: For Jar Y Second Prize: Second Y . Third Prize: Third 1 Y Fourth Prize: Fourth t t The prizes will he aw j made bv a committee of d % Farmers desiring to ei ? March 1st, 1917. 7 Nov. 15, 1916. I FARMERS BA t v i ' 1 OUR L CHRISTMAS % D A MFlMr ? I TO V.L1UD IS NOW OPEN Everybody Invited to Join L You can begin with 5 cents the lirst week, 10 cents the second week and so on increasing your deposit ONLY A NICKEL a week and in'50 : weeks yon have $(>2.75. We also have clubs where you begin with 1 or 2 cents or 10 cents or $ 1.1)0, $2.00 or $5.00 and in 50 weeks have coining to you fmni $12.75 to $250. Have EVERY member of your family join the club. It means saving MONEY and making a SUCCESS. With your lirst deposit we issue you a nice little ! pass book. It' ymi don't understand about the Christmas Bankinir Club ask us to explain it to you. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK LANCASTER, S. C. "The Home of Systematic Savers." Under United States Government Supervision. 10 cheered the abuse of him, as ticularly speaking evil against magy governor the state has ever had. istrates and ministers." St. Paul >n of the highest honor and in- taught the same thing when he iding the very men who cheered horted Titus to "put them in miJR.. b abuse of him. as any governor to be subject to principalities and j i state has ever had. powers, to obey magistrates," and so Some say there ought to be a law on. And St. Peter exhorts: "Subainst this sort of thing, just as m,t yourself to every ordinance of By say there ought to be a law nian f?r the Lord's sake, whether it ainst anything they think ought be unto the kin8- aa supreme, or unt to be done. We do not think so. governors." e punishment for that sort ot Precept and example will work a ng will come in time?it comes cure, and the next generation of ry quick to most men in the loss of South Carolina will respect law and ipect of men whose respect is authority.?Newberry Observer. rth having. So, it is safe to leave ~?? ? cure to the advance of higher How's This? elligence, to the example of the w# offer One Hundred Dollars Reward v-abiding and thoughtful people, fcr any case of Catarrh that cannot be .. . ? , . ., . .. cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine, the influence of better teachings Hall's Catarrh Medicine has been taken good men and women?to moral catarrh sufferers for the past thlrty.... .. ., . , , five years, and has become known as the lift rather than physical torce. VS e most reliable remedy for Catarrh. 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Toledo, Ohio. :1 unprofitable conversation, par-, sold by all Druggists. c. < > > > >* *> > ?> liars In Prizes I OFFERED FOR? | heat on Three Acres of Land f % iikm's of Lancaster County to raise more Wheat we -1<)17 the following CASH P.KIZES for the Largest 'f ] A<1!IKS on measured land in one bodv sown in 't4 ? x irouf tnnl'l $20.00 Y l largest yield $15.00 Y largest yield;. $10.00 *? i largest yield $ 5.00 ^ aided after July 1st, 1917, and the award will be ? isinterested fanners to be selected. Tl iter the contest will kindly notify us not later than ? NK & TRUST COMPANY i i. II. MILLTN, Cashier. X