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TheLancasterNe1
Lancaster, S. C.
(SEMI-WEEKLY.)
WATSON BELL, Editor,
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Published Tuesday and Frld
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SLANC A3TE R NEWS COMPA1
Established 1852.
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October 7, 1905, at the PoatofBc
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Friday, August 17, 191'
*"My Country 'Ti? of Thoo, Swoot I
of Liborty.*
BADGK FOR FOOD MAKER*
A headline Bays "Mexico \
Find Herself Short of Cash." V
we HAVE found ourselves.
One line we could just keep sti
ire in the composing room is "I
jsians Are Retreating."
o
nnfrt n.A a- u-?? '
>i c aic icu iu ueiievu mat e^
apart of South Carolina must now
interested in Red Cross work, s
<even Winnsboro has organized.
A Spartanburg man recommi
*"that we treat the soldier in unif
"with courtesy." What treatn
'does he recommend for the sold
mot in uniform?
o
In all probability sickness will
crease at a terrible rate in S<
"Carolina along about next L)e<
'ber.
o
No matter how much food we 1
raised, our efforts are all wasted
"less we conserve the perishable
ducts.
o
We haven't thus far been abl
reconcile ourselves to meatless <
but we arc strong for the heat
ones.
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Its easy to tell when a man's
goes away. The poor fellow 1
gets a chance to come up tow
might.
Lots of folks who never knew
what the stuff tasted like are be
Ming to make the acqualntanc
grape-juice and buttermilk.
If the government can't or w
handle disloyal citizens South C
lina can very easily form an<
Kit Klux Klan and then the job
he promptly done.
T I???
Advertising special rates in So
ern newspapers for the trip to
Grand Army of the Republic r
- ion is our idea of love's labor
??ri the part of the railroads.
o
The Spartanburg Herald speak
what "a white gentleman" said
"colored gentleman." If we
anything to do with that paper
*wonld have one reporter up on
carpet.
THE LAN CASTE
WS PALMETTO BOYS GOING.
According to a recent official announcement of the 1
partment, the South Carolina Engineers will be include
next force sent to France. This announcement will bring
to many homes, yet on the other hand it will certainly s
feeling of pride. The Engineering companies in this ?
my. made up of the flower of young manhood of South Cart
most every member of the three companies comes fro
tter tured home and practically all the young men in our enj
e at corps are well educated. They have sacrificed lucrative
Con" sponsible positions to answer their country's call. All Soi
lina will expect these boys to make a name for themse
they will not be disappointed. We salute the South Can
gineers.
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the COLLEGE ATHLETICS.
Probably the heads of the colleges in this part of the
on |
be know more about how to conduct their institutions than
of us engaged in other occupations, but at the same time
?? to us that all this talk about dropping college athletics be
' I the war is nothing but plain foolishness. Most certainly 1
| of young men will go to college this fall, just as they have
^ gone by, and they will need the athletics to keep them in
| appears to us that baseball, football i>nd tennis, along wi
college games, will do much to train the young men in a
way and when they are called for army service later on t
- nd already be able to stand up under more severe work than w
who have had no such training. We fail to see why anj
4 should abandon athletic pursuits this year.
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IT WASN'T IN LANCASTER.
y There was an old geezer and he had a lot of sense. He
11 ; up a business on a dollar eighty cents. The dollar for st
j) | the eighty for an ad brought him three lovely dollars in a
I ' dad.
Well, he bought more goods and a little more spac<\
played that system with a smile on his face.
The customers flocked to his two-by-four, and soon h<
hustle for a regular store. Up on the square, where th
pass, he gobbled up a corner that was all plate glass. He
fAY the windows with the best that he had and told them all
fell, in a half page ad.
He soon had 'em coming and he never, never quit,
wouldn't cut down on his ads one jit. And he's kept thin
md- rning in the town ever since, and everybody calls him t
lU9" chant Prince.
Some say it's luck, but that's all bunk?why, he w;
i business when the times were punk.
rery | People have to purchase, and Geezer was wise?for 1
r be the way. to get 'em was to advertise.
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THE WORKERS AT HOME.
?nds
That the winning of the present war is largely depend*
the efforts of the people at home is the statement mad*
Hers .
National Service Handbook, just issued by the United Sty
ernment. The volume points out that the efforts of tl
will go for naught if the army of workers at home fail to
.v. duty.
DUth
Perhaps the most important military lesson we can lea
the allies' three years of warfare is that the battles of 1
will be won, in a large part, behind the lines. However w*
ed mav bo nrmv in L-Vmlri itu ...:n ?
iavM */ ... ivo ciiCVUVCilCOS W HI UC ill
un_ dependent upon the effectiveness of the civilian army u
pro. The ununiformed divisions of education, industry, agricult
social service, although their duties are less spectacular
less pivotally important than the divisions on the fields of
e to Kven a million men in the field will mean little with a
lays 1)9,000,000 at home. With an organized country behind tl
Lk'H.s we are literally mobilizing a force of a hundred million for
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u,r" PUNY EXCUSES WON'T DO.
The news coming from Washington that there is to h
oral tightening up as regards exemptions from military
t will be pleasing to most people in the country. It became
a few days after the Selective Conscription act was pas
(Kin- '
f there would be many attempts on the part of young me
cape army service and for a time it appeared that so me
holes had been left that many of them would succeed.
,on-t recent rulings of the Provost Marshal, however, these 1
iaro_ in many instances hive been closed. The mere fact tha
ithor has a wife will not excuse him and if the njiri?ntM r*f ihn
wj,i or wife agree to support the wife during the duration of
then that man will havQ to go and this is as it should
mere fact that a man is engaged in agricultural pursuits,
ujth- be others to take up his work, will not excuse him. The :
the a business can be conducted by only one man, unless this
oun- is necessary to the government, will not excuse that m
lost sevice.
As pointed out by Provost Marshal General Crowder,
emption law is framed for the good of the government am
of the good of an individual. If we are to win this war, tl
to ? rule will have to prevail throughout and the good of the
had ual cannot be considered until after the good of the gov
' we has been given first place. The slacker is beginning to
the that he not only owes allegiance to his country, but must
allegiance.
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:R NEWS FRIDAY, AUG. 17, 1917.
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I WHAT OTHERS SAY. Wh
War + + I \)
d in the! I
Need "Get-Up-nnd-Oet." N
sadness ^ Many men would be bossing other ||
iwaken a men today If they only had energy
,. . enough to spur up the ability they _
,tate are hav,._R<)ck H111 Record One of
>lina. Al- .unusual prev
m a cul- ?ne 'tea*on. lation; and o
The principal objection to the i'nat nor
fineenng pjan to staudarize woman's dress is have
> and re- that the thing can't be done and ?
a,,u 1 . _ a . .. lous persona
we re too busy now to waste time on ?
ar<>" the impossible.?News and Courier. *** ^ prote
lives and dous physic*]
)lina En- Long-SufTering People. ameliorated
The country has passed through development
the ordeal of the food bill discussion elation of f
and now faces the wrangle on the . ..
.... _ , . the existing i
war tax bill. Truly we are a long t|. Y,
j suffering people.?Spartanburg Jour- ith th
1 nal. decimate.Fra
j Russia, Italy
country Cherokee Celebrates. and England
rt The neXt big thlnR ?n the Pr?" culosis an en
CIO tnose ?ram. so far as Cherokee is con- -p
it seems cerned. jg, as Watson Hell calls it, ranee l
the "She Talker." Well, we ex- P^P1* crippl
'Cause O peot there will be a lot of it next from active
lundreds week.?Gaffney Ledger. actively tube
in years 15,000 sanati
A Skimpy Living. tive8 B(?1 j
trim, it \ married man who is within the , , 1An
,, ,. . ,, , between 100
th other ace limit has a slim chance of es,
. . ! raping service if his wife has any w
p > Sical yjgjhie means of support. And it losis hopeless
;hey will looks like they will soon figure that do to meet 1
ill those a man can sen<i back 125 per month
which will be sufficient for her to live ?
7 college on?Greenwood Journal.
Would Attract Notice. 1====
A lynching bee with the Kaiser,
???? the Crown Prince and four or five 'Midst gle
! United States Congressmen and Sen- You hear
| ators as the principal attraction Of One mc
would be something that we would Buzzing F
i started crawl from here to Washington to
ock and aee-?Lancaster News. The road No swarm
would be full of would-be specta- But one lc
da> , by tors?Camden Chronicle. Who feels
- - i lme to e
and he ' Not For the Fr,TatesAt
any rate it is to be hoped that Your teetl
j by association with the French army | And breat
i had to ,he American soldiers will learn de- To wit: '
e neoDle mocracy in P*ace the anobocracy Get you y<
| that was borrowed from the British, j
fixed UP |?Florida Times-Union. That is not You sit UJ.
about it a lesson needed by the American And light
I soldiers but by the officers in the But no m<
and he American regular army.?Greenville Is in sigh
Piedmont.
gs hum-, ... o
So you as
.he Mer-j Chester Making Progress. That furt
The campaign of sidewalk build- Will lure
as doing in* that the city council has been To his dot
carrying on for the past three years,
he knew which is now at its height, is, You douse
one of the best things ever under- And in th
taken in Chester?most fruitful of; And velvt
results to the eniire community?j Wait for 1
_and we trust there shall be no let-up
until every street in Chester has a Again the
permanent sidewalk on one side at Of his rel
??? least.?Chester Reporter. About yoil
jnt upon; Shrills cle
a l)y the And Why Not This?
t Often enough in the Berlin com- You swat
ts g()\ munlques one reads a sentence' But he is
ie army ; somewhat like this: "Lieutenant Alighting
do their Kippellmann brought down his Swatted S
(fourteenth enemy airplane today.";
i 1
irn from "ut 9omo^ow one t,aa omitted to no,
. tire, if it ever appeared, some such
hm wur i
statement as this after an air raid
-11 train- on London: "Lieutenant Schertimately
-ternhorst killed his thirteenth child
it home. an<' ',is nineteenth woman today, in
ure "ind ,f> destroying a school ? ? ??
house with a well plaecd bomb."? f
, are no Columbia state. = ?France.
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aiugKisil ??' i iiiiiih on, r.u.
1C -irinv Watson Boll, who has been eon- T .
' ' <1 net inn the Lancaster News for
Nil Ol > . n|)OUt ejKht months, has accepted
the position of editor of the Spartan- ?
l>urn Journal. Mr. Bell is no stranger
to journalism In the "City of .v
Success," having served as sporting ???????
editor of The Journal and city editor x
e a of The Herald. The fact that he is
' service ,() K? back as editor of The Journal ==
' evident i,s ev't^'nce l,is ability. The Led- ^
d th* t K?r rf>Ka,('s ^'atson as one of the . .
' best equipped newspaper men in J - - vj
in to es- South Carolina. The Ledger is es- * *
iny loop- perially proud of tlie young man, be-l
Under eause it was in this establishment he Kr^mfrr-j?Jrf;
oopholes rooe've^ Bis first journalistic leg- ij.
sons. C.affney Ledger. I
it a man '
husband Pretty t#ood Authority.
the war, There are two other men in this |3
be. The f?antry besides Woodrow Wilson I iCS^
if there W'10 have 'Be office of presi-:
dent of the United States?both of |
I act that political parp- opposed to Wil
business son -Wm. H. Taft, one of the kind- .
an from 'lest oj men In the world and withal ?
a man of exalted patriotism and ,
iuj great ability, and notoriously of a , on(]e^
' ^ Judicial mind; tho other Theodore hour in histc
not for I loosest, who, whatever else may After cc
lat same he said of him. Is one of the ablest and festival <
iiimvi<i~ ??"? iniH country nas ever pro- the gol<5
ernment ('uood and ,8 w?thout question a true f , .,
find nut f)a,rlot- ??th of these men are V me cai
heart and soul for the war, because 'ee^a the hoi
pay that (hey believe It Is a Just and right- Canada,
eous war.?Newberry Observer. chised woraai
rwii. . a
at Will United States Do to Mee
Wartime Tuberculosis Problem?
B7 DR. GEORGE T. PALMER
Dliaoii TdbvoJoM AModidn
the tragic conditions in Europe at the present tim<
alence of tuberculosis among the soldiers and the cir
ne of the signal mistakes on the part of the warring
le of them foresaw or made preparations for this o
been prevented to a large extent bj the exclusion ol 1
from the army through more careful examinations of
cting persons with tuberculous tendencies from the
I and mental stress of modern warfares It could ha
by the provision of hospital and sanatorium facilit
of an extensive dispensary and visiting-nurse serv
arm colonies and by keeping intact, instead of diss
igencies for fighting this important modern war disei
ese things neglected, tuberculosis now actually threi
nee. Its ravages in Belgium are horrible. Austria-H
and Germany are feeling the acute sting of the white
, although better prepared than all the rest ,is findin]
lormous wartime problem.
is now struggling under the burden of a half-millior
cd by the wounds of battle and another half-million s
tuberculosis. Of her soldiers, 100,000 have been r
rcular, and France, now working frantically, hopes
arium beds by the end of the year to care for these cc
mn has seen her actively tuberculous population ii
and 200 per cent in the past two years,
ill the United States, with facilities for the care of 1
ily inadequate in times of peace?what will the Unitei
ler wartime tuberculosis problem?
WG OF A SUMMER NIGHT
>om profound But when you doze
the sound To your repose
tsquito He sinks his fangs
ound. Into your nose.
i or fieet, Or finds a patch
>ne skeet, Upon your thatch
that it is That's very hard to
at- Reach and scratch.
i you set You wake and swear
he a threat And swat the air,
'Old top, I 11 But the mosquito
Is not there.
>right And so all night,
the light, Bite after bite,
osquito He gluts his horrid
t- Appetite.
sume Until the gray
her gloom Dull dawn of day.
the scoundrel When, filled and calm,
>m. ?? u;
iic gucs ins way.
i the glim Wise men maintain
e dim That it is plain
;t darkness That the mosquito
Has no brain.
; strain for our sizej
rain Were we as wise
ir ears And half as wide
ar and plain. Between the eyes
and swat, We au wouid be
n?t As keen, would we,
on the As Bonaparte or
P?t. Old John D.
?New York W
EMPTY
snt Hour Is the Greatest in Histoi
For Women of the World
Br MRS. RAYMOND ROBINS
President of National Women's Trade Union League of America
ful as this hour is for democracy and lal>or, it is the
>ry for the women of the world.
mturies of discrimination women are coming into tl
>f life on equal terms with men. Woman's labor in I
Hers on the firing line. Woman's labor in factories ai
nnon in the trenches. Woman's labor in shops am
nes of Europe.
Russia, America, and even England will have an
ihood when this war is over.
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il popunations
alamity. -ss.
tubercurecruita
tremen,re
bean
lies, the
ice, the
ipating,
ase.
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ungary,
plague,
5 tuberi
of her
uffering
eturned
to have
>nsumpicreased
tubercu-t
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id mills
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