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_4 ' TheLancasterNews (SEMI-WEKKLV.) WATSON BKIX Editor. Publishe' Tuesdays and Fridays I Lancaster, S. C.. by The Lancaster News Company, successors toj The Ledger, established 1852; Tho Review, established 1878; The Enter-j orise, established 1891, and entered: ft second-class matter Oct. 7, 1905.; I the postofhce at Lancaster, S. C.,1 nder Act of Congress of March 3, 879. avosuHiri'iUN fitiUK: (In Advance.) One Year 11.60 Six Months 75c The News is not responsible for the lews of Correspondents. Short and rational articles on topics of general Interest will be gladly received. Friday, April 6, 1917. "My Country 'Tis of Thee, Sweot Land of Liberty." Ever notice that warm friends are ' more plentiful in summer than in1 winter? ?.? What has became of the old-fash- ! toned man who used to know howl pot-licker tasted? o We won't have many weeks to' wait now for the appearance of the! June college graduates?and the, June brides. The smile that won't come off isn't ttwiiu nil uucn. n is me smile you pass along to others that is of real .value to humanity. o The farmer equipped with hog and hominy is not going to suffer from the war like his less fortunate irothers. ?o A semi-weekly newspaper hardly dares to write an editorial dealing with the war situation. Refore the time arrives for printing it the sit-1 ation has usually changed entirely j n Gaffney and Cherokee county have discovered that the Revolutionary war is concluded and will today unveil a monument to a Revolutionary1 i hero. We never felt any great admiration for Col. Theodore Roosevelt but If the doughty warrior is allowed to get into the war we expect to hear from him. o One thing we want to see after the National Guard is called out is Col. "Wigfall Cheatham mounted on a fiery steed and riding at the head of his command. o Its about time for us to begin saving every possible penny if we are going to eat one meal at that new Spartanburg hotel during the May Music Festival. If there is any danger of a German submarine appearing off the South Carolina coast any time soon, we favor moving the June meeting of the Press Association away from Beaufort. o - The York News make.s the statement that many people don't like newspaper editors. The average editor makes that discovery about the second day that he stays in the business, but if everybody liked him he would be a miserable excuse for ^ :?n editor or anything else. * We received an invitation the other day to make a short visit to a friend in a neighboring town and we meant to go until we found out that Harold Booker was to be pres THE LANCASTER NE^ ~ A WISE PRECAUTION We wish to very heartily commend the municipal authorities o ! Lancaster for their action in placing a traffic policeman at the cor ner of Main and Gay streets. The city authorities have givei sufficient warning to the people of the city and county that the: must regard the traffic laws of Lancaster and we believe that fron now the matter will be better managed. Automobile owners driv ing cars with a reckless disregard for human life and safety de serve to be punished as severely as the law will permit. Man: people appear to be almost indifferent as to the rights of a pedes trian and some appear even anxious to run down a man. We understand that the city authorities will hereafter see to ii that all those disregarding the speed laws and those disregardinf the "drive to the right" provision will be arrested. While we have no desire to see any innocent people persecuted, we believe if thi laws are strictly enforced that there will be numerous arrests with in the next few weeks. (:o:) SOUTH CAROLINA'S DAY. Governor Richard I. Manning has designed next Wednesday April 11, as Naval Recruiting Day for South Carolina. In a leltei to tl * local postmaster the Governor urges that every effort be put forth to secure recruits on that day, so as to bring the South Carolina naval force up to full strength. The Governor says thai Lancaster county's share of the recruits is only 15. It is confidently predicted that it will be comparatively easy to secure thai number from all the county. f :o THE NEGRO AND THE WAR. We have heard considerable talk about what will be the attitude of the negro when the call comes for volunteers to th2 Unitec States. Some white people appear to think that this will be qi it* a problem, but in our opinion the matter will be settled by the negro going to war along with the white men. When the cal comes, the negro will be eligible for duty just the same as the white man and when conscription comes, if it ever does, the negre will also be conscripted. As a matter of fact a good many negroes in South Carolina are willing to go decidedly quicker than a number of white men anc we have heard that the hundreds of negroes in the United States army during the war with Spain did some splendid fighting. We hardly think that the negro problem will be a serious one. <:o:) FOR SOIL IMPROVEMENT. Those in charge of the meeting held here last Saturday to dis cuss the soy bean were keenly disappointed over the fact thai Lancaster county planters did not appear to be interested. Pos sibly the farmer does not believe that the soy bean is of any greal \alue in this section, and not being a farmer ourselves, we are nol prepared to say that it is, but if we are take the advice of the de monstration agents and the farm experts, then we must conclude that the bean would be a wonderful thing for Lancaster county i1 our farmers would take hold of it. When properly used, soy beans have great value for soil improv ing purposes. Of course, it is necessary for the beans to be inocu lated if they are to gather nitrogen from the air to store it in th< soil when the crop is plowed under. If the crop is grown anc everything is skinned oir the soil, as is sometimes done with thii crop and other leguminous crops, it cannot be expected that then will be any improvement from the growing of soy beans on th< land. The bean vines, ton for ton, turned back into the soil wil add about the same amount of humus and nitrogen.that is adde< by such other leguminous crops as cowpeas, vetch and clovers. It has been estimated that the fertilizing value contained in i crop of soy beans plowed into the soil, in the green state, woul< add to the soil fertilizing constituents to the value of about $2.5' per ton. As 6 to 10 tons of this green material should be produce* per acre, it can be appreciated what value a good crop turned bad into the soil would have. No phosphoric acid or potash would be added, when the crop i turned, other than what was taken from the soil by the crop. Th only materials added would be organic matter and nitrogenou compounds which will decompose in the soil and provide nitroge in available form for the crops that are to follow the soy beans. It is of interest to know that approximately 80 per cent of th total fertilizing value of a crop of soy beans plowed into the so would be due to the nitrogen which they contain. When soy bear are properly inoculated with suitable bacteria to form nodules o the roots of the plants it would be expected that about 2-3 to 3of the nitrogen contained in the plants would have been taken froi the atmosphere by the bacteria operating in these nodules. '_^^Jx;ans s^ rational system of croP rs FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1917 ] 1 EE | What Others Say | Bi | We Make a How. I Watson Bell is ringing the bull's eye with almost every shot he makes In The Lancaster News these days.? 1 Uaffney Ledger. Y You Are Learning Something. 1 We see where a guard has been t jked for some property 1n Lancaster during the war. We didn't know - there was anything In Lancaster worth guarding.?Spartanburg Jour^ ral. ? * The Same Here. If any man sees fit to fall out with t us because of our good, old-fashioned j genuine, dyed-in-the-wool American' ism he is entitled to all the satlsfac5 tion he can get out of his anger or hard feelings.?Aiken Standard. a And Not Triplets? The Greenrille Piedmont publishes a headline, "Household Blessed With Twins Twice." Where do you get that "blessed?"?Lancaster I News. The 'blessing is that it was the other fellow's household.? jGreenville Piedmont. / t Unusually Modest. Roosevelt is unusually modest. He has only asked for authority to raise and lead a division. Still it is pretty generally understood that he is peri fectly willing to relieve Wilson of his t job as commander-in-chief of this '(republic's land and naval forces.? . IGreenville Piedmont. w Taxes For Fducatlon. Sometimes we are tomntori in ?hini? that maybe the state and the counIties and the school districts are taxling themselves too high. and that the 1,legislature is appropriating too muc: money for the education of the peepie. Then we turn to that great poem * written by Edwin Markham nearry ? thirty years ago. "The Man with the Hoe." and read it again?and are * iready to vote more money for popu? lar education.?Newberry Observer. Astounding; Figures, j ; In The Hancaster News we saw the astounding statement that crime inJjcreaseH at the rate of 30ft per cent every ten years. We figured it out that, if this were trxie and there were # only one criminal in the world today, at the end of two centuries there -iwould be 4.215.784.401 criminals.? J [Greenville Piedmont. * I j Safety First. The Supreme Court is to be asked j to decide whether women are people. Fere's a question in answering which the learned justice had better be ? | pretty circumspect. -News and Cou Irier. ? . True of Any Stute. . ' The Macon News is of the opinion jthat if Alabama could get a legislature in which every man pledges - himself not to be a candidate for ^ public office for the next six years, it \vould have the best legislature in its t history. That is true of Georgia, or . Souf\ Carolina or any other State ;in the union. -Greenville Piedmont. * t t f ' Nor Can We. I We can't bring ourselves to believe that Kaiser William was not jthe inspiration of the great war In I Kurope?that he planned and built ?'with feverish industry until he got , Germany on a military footing far superior to that of her antagonists, 3 and then deliberately let loose the ? cataclysm?and hope that in thi< final wind-up he and his coadjutors 5 will get their full dues.?Chester ReJ porter. | * * 1 i Itabbit Tobacco For t'.s. It Is reported that Germany is a short on tobacco and that the cigars ^ on sale are filled with substitutes I which do not appeal to the Teutonic 0 taste. Of course. Germany cannot use cabbage leaves, neither could we in America at the present price of * that imperial vegetable, but there .! ufli m- pufiu*- oki Rrapc* vinos lort in s'the kaiser's dominion and rabbit to|bacco also grows there.?Spartane ,burg Herald. si n I Teil the Reason Why? "The Cheraw Chronicle prints an '.editorial, 'What Do You Think of g Our Town.' Ed DeCamp spent a day .. there once and we are very anxious to know Just what Old Man Ed does IS think of 'Charming Cheraw.' n I^ancaster News. Charming place, my dear Watson, charming place. 4 You must hoar in mind the congressYi man from the Fifth IMstrlct resides In Cheraw. and if he Is as loyal to hl? own homo town as he ought to he n, it's unfair In you to insinuate that we would say aught concerning 11 Our Scrap Basket | i"| p How easy It is to tell others it's no use to worry! bol soi Even a good physician may go me trout bad to worse. hit Sufferers who attempt to drown Wa sorrow merely irrigate it. ?? th? fit- i ** ?v s ueuer to nave a poor, opinion ' than to have none at all. 1 bol The charitable man never has to , wait long for a chance to get busy. No woman with a diamond neck- P?( lace is afraid of getting a sore throat. 'ar In the various walks of life some people have a walkover and others } are walked upon. or There's one peculiarity about d*e women?the more a man knows about them the more he has to learn. ma " wel A little truth goes a long ways? flU( but it needn't be stretched. lag ' wel During the big February snow yoi storm in the northwestern states, an tha Iowa paper said: "It is reported that of a Northwestern train arrived on the ime, but it was pulled in by a Ford." anc wit A woman this.week was heard to remark that while there was not much poultry on the market there is 1 plenty of dear meat. of _____ the Thomas A. Edison defines genius ('rc as two per cent, inspiration and son ninety-eight per cent, perspiration. ,afl ha^ of 1 j Never court a girl whose father 9Ur is a pessimist, for he always has a H ( kick coming. fou ter No matter how loose the ring may and be. the diamond never slips around ,out of sight on a girl's finger. ? ^ Any time you want to buy an an- Rea tique?something that was in vogue i,ut fifty years ago. just visit the non- the advertiser and no doubt you will find t>U(i the very urticle you want. Nothing j preserves a merchant's stock so well aa us the non-use of printer's ink. ! V? cx, 1 I Unique Grocery. the A news dispatch from Iola, Kans., ' ide says: The successful operation here(ado of a grocery and provision market on 'l,c a new plan has resulted in reducing > . the high cost of living for its pa- pre Itrons. The market is called the!"t?< ."Basket Store," and there is neither mo clerk, cashier, nor delivery man. The he proprietor alone conducts the place, he Patrons are furnished a market Pol basket free and are admitted to spa- ' clous aisles which wind along be- ten 'tween rows of shelves and tables the loaded with provisions through a J turnstile. All goods are priced in i 'plain figuers and as the patron Impasses along he selects the article he I desires to purchase. All aisles lead to the exit turn- , stile, where the proprietor, presiding!, lea at the cash register, cheeks the ar- j tides in the patron's basket, collects ' I "H tin; amount due, and releases the patron. u 8 By eliminating the credit and do- j > livery system, clerks and cashiers, sm, the owner reduces his selling cost, wh and passes the saving on to the pub- i lie. !lk< Not only does the proprietor save tak In cost of operation, but he declares I i he does a greater volume of business' (|(>< dally than under the old method. jon< "People know from experience ^ and advertising just what they eye want," he says, "and wait on them-|o^ selves much more rapidly than I . clerks." 11,1 Pennsylvania employs almoBt 70,-|*'lf 000 women In the clothing Industry.! The petroleum market In the 1,31 United States In 1915 amounted to!,,u 1281,104,104 barrels. '* u |" Chicken a la King. of Melt a tablespoonful of butter In a pan, add a pepper chopped In squares ?.<j, and one or more mushrooms. Stlrj and cook four minutes, add two level | tablespoonfuls of flour and one-half l"1' Ifjt iteaspoonful of salt. Cook until frothy, j then add one pint of cream and Btlr,,,y until it thickens. Set over hot water. Add three cups of cooked chicken and let stand to be very hot. In the (meantlme cream the fifth of a cup of kn butter, beat Into It the yolks of throe | eggs, a tablespoonful of lemon Juice ' ^ and a teaspoonful of paprika. Stir this mixture Into the hot chicken un1 til the egg thickens. This will serve ffl 1 six people liberally. re' do This Is a Joke. be "And when you threatened to no scream did he atop kissing you?" [an r i ^ Here and There* IB ^ The doctor told him he needed carhydrates, protelds and, above all, nothing nitrogenoue. The doctor ntioned a long list of foods for n to eat. He Btaggered out and bbled into a restaurant. "How about beefsteak?" he asked > waiter. "Is that nitrogenous?" The waiter didn't know. "Are fried potatoes rich in carlydrates or. not?" The waiter couldn't say. "Well, I'll fix it." declared the ir man in Hnnnnir ? ge plate of hash." Power of The Press. Vo public speaker, be he preacher political orator, can draw an aunce of one-tenth that which greets i average newspaper today, and is the tone of the press becomes a tter of vital Importance to the Ifare of the camnrantty. The ln>nce Is wide-spread and Is also ting. Therefore, we say, study II the contents of the newspaper l are taking and If it. contains ,t which tends to lower the scale morality and humanity and not to i elevation of that which Is good 1 right better off you are by far hout 1t.?Exchange. Cornish Cutlets. Tr'm slices of cold lamb into pieces the same shape and size; sprinkle m with salt, pepper and a few ips of tomato catsup. Have ready ne well-seasoned, hot. mashed pones into which two yolks of egg re been beaten. Cover each sllco neat with the potato and make the face smooth with a knife. Dip In jeaten egg. liuted with three or r tablespoonfuls of milk and wa; cover with sifted bread crumbs I fry in deop fat. Service. fou don't make money "in busies" today (in business merely), in business plus "service," and service is the chief element oIL ^ dness, to growing degree. t is everywhere being recognized a necessity of life and growth lord success. The nrlnter seomo >-> ...? vw uc auiuilK tail-enders in getting thi8 service a through his head, and In the iption of auch modern methods as lude it as a central principle. 'Any old thing" won't do. "The re to fit the customer" won't do. ?t the money anyway" isn't a wise tto. Give the customer Just what wants; at the right price for what gets. Nothing else of buslucSS icy is good policy. Take care of the customer's inest and the seller's Interest will reby also be taken care of. \ 11 widows are sweet. They get t way from the necessity they re been under to develop an anic disposition. k'oung folks going to school may rn altogether too much about le things. Plie good die young?and most of prefer to be live ones. V person who is a leader in a all town is awful'y disappointed en he moves to a big one. When girls see a man who looks 0 a sure thing, they are willing to e a gambler's chance. When you find a man who prac?b what he preaches, he usually i? i who doesn't waste words. If a person can't look you In the ) you have him going, but be sure your own eye before you start <myng. A salted mine Is fixed up to catch > fresh ones. A man seldom notices that wifey % cleaned the house all up, washed ? windows and waxed the floors, t you're darn whistling he notices if she doesn't. It's hard for a man to play a game "cinch" with the children with ? same zest that he does a game of raw" at the club. If in heaven we can know everyng that is going on down here, a of us are going to be made unhapto notice how little w Mow foolish we would'feel some-' lies if we only knew that those > are telling something to really ew the truth of the whole business. The time to be sorry about someing you've done la before you do Telephones are a nuisance la some tys. It isn't as easy to explain diet to wifey why you are detained wn town an it 1s to send a note-sides when you get home you are it. certain that she hasn't called up d has found out that you weren't