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f 1 ====== The Lancaster N ews Lancaster, S. C. ( SUM 1-WEEKLY.) "My Country "Tn of Thee, Swtut Land of Liberty." Published Tuesday and Friday BY THE LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY. Established 1852. Entered as Second Class Matter Yatoher 7. 1905. at the Postofflce at Lancaster, S. C., under act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: (In Advance.) One Year 12.00 Bl*. Months 1.00 The News is not responsible for the views of Correspondents. Short and rational articles on topics of general interest will be gladly received. Friday, Sept. 21. 1917. The chicken thief and the possum referred to in the last issue got lost the silo. + Oh! for a lyrical, marching battle hymn, worthy of this great nation and its lofty aims. + It seems that Russian armies are stiffening their resistance to further advances of the Germans. + Lancaster county's share of the insurance license fees for the six months ending June 30. amounts to *4.-1 55. Gen. Haig, after battering down *ith cannon German defences, lias maJe further progress with capture <?>f prisoners on the Belgian front. . Secretary McAdoo says that delivery of the first Liberty bonds to subscribers will begin on September 26 through the Federal Reserve Bank. o The large, attendance at the various openings of schools and colleges throughout the State is most gratifying. The republic is safe -when its youth are rightly trained. o It is stated in an Associated Press dispatch from the American Training Camp in France that American -engineers have taken over an important section of French strategic railway. . The Argentine senate by a vote of' 23 to- 1 on yesterday favored breaking off relations with Germany,, which will probably be supported by toe Chamber of Deputies, as there, t\ a strong public feeling in Its favor. The depravity of German ma-, chinations makes the world indig^ nant. * | After the organization of the Southern Labor Congress at its sixth annual session now holding in Charleston, S. C., one of the first things done was the passing of resolutions indorsing the President's war policies and the action of the Minneapolis convention. The true voice of labor is full of loyalty and patriotism. + At this country's call more than three hunderd thousand strong young men are moving into the training camps to form a part of the great new national army. With the regular army and the national guards and the marines more than i million men follow the flag today. And there are more to tome! + liaron Rhonda, Mntlsh rood controller. states that if voluntary efforts fail the nation will be put on compulsory ration. That the minimum food requirements from the (Jolted States and Canada would he more than 10,000,000 tons. It is manifest that the United States must stress the need of food conservation in order to help supply the mormous needs of the Allies. FRIDA The President endorses and urges the war is the organization of school children those who into a Junior Red Cross. This those who would afford a tine opportunity for every enei teachers and school children to do ajand conip I great service, wituuut impairing me regular school work. The orga-niza- "L.YEAYE tlou and its work would have edu- When G cational advantages of great value, tomb of Li 4, said in th It is stated that arrangements are Fayette, w j being made for the publication of a France wi weekly newspaper at each of the ant| classl soldier camps. The soldiers in camp three won should have plenty of good reading ancient fr matter. Why can not Lancaster gratitude, people help in the movement to sup- to the cotr ply this need by sending books, America < > magazines, etc., as soon as read to ing, heroi the soldiers in camp? need, and with the It is hoped that the efforts now "March or being made to settle the Pacific death." . coast shipyard strikes will be sue| icessful. The government offers to pay half of any wage increases for (Oli' companies making not more than 10 The land per cent profit on commandeered Her nai 'ships. This is a bad time to have To her tin I the slightest interruption to the Whose j building of ships. The dynamic wine wi nmviu au fiiersy snouia oe : uur irusi] , put into the building of ships and j Througl | more ships. ? v ' chanc 0 "" j so, flu y< Mr. Hoover says: "The Gerf..ans I give j are trying to starve the Allies by j sinking the food ships and all gov- Above our ernments are fared with reduction: The sell ; of consumption, stimulation of pro- Where Va jduction control of prices and read- The blu justment of wages. The winning of Alike eacl the war is largely a problem of who Reflects | | can organize this weapon. Real Twin eagl conservation lies in the equitable! One mo distribution of the least necessary ? amount, and In this country we can ' only hope to obtain that by volun- ' !5>' r tary self-denial and voluntary re-;'11 ,'1' (<M .. .. " courst Auction of waste. | A mercilet ^ swell If the Catawba river bridge doesn't To suns a wash away we will probably get last trol? week's edition of the Lancaster i Aml ,)erau News about the middle of week af- S? The storm ter next. Anderson claims that she (i,je has the poorest mail service in the And only c world but Piece Brown never lived ' Ku' ; in Lancaster.?Spartanburg Jour- 1,1 n , , , . Still I triti nal. Glad to know Watson Bell is 4 And strive . so anxious to read The Lancaster mote ina? ne complains of the ex- For the i , cellent mail service here. The last thwarts, 1 I itsfilf C i time we were in Spartanburg the How: | automobile carrying us got stuck in Vnfj what 5 ! the red mud on Main street and we of the sta 1 had to call for help to prize us out. compli If it be ^ sea, A dispatch from the State inform? ] . Let me sir that Miss Natalie Camp will soon free: start for the Russian front for am. | it land I n bulance service. It requires a bright, jit 's tot I brave and beautiful soul to be eager i Hut happei for such unselfish work for sick ami 1 . ,, , book t suffering strangers. I)o you ima?- That I <Pi<1 ine sdie could be safely entrusted to shell, vote? Military service is not the *n logical concomitant of the right to vote. Young men have been and niav be drafted into service before 1 William they attain the voting age, and old j hjs fiamj ;i men vote whether subject to inili- i proverbs o tary service or not. And military before the service is not limited to the actual he aa'1' ( bearing of arms. The most effectual quoted 'a the evil an service for the army is to feed and foou8h pa* clothe It, and to minister to the sick jj js a Krf and wounded. l)o not women hold expressed, up the military arm even more ef- in Pf i .. .v. u . i . ? condensed fectually than if they should takt . . . rort I have a place in the battle line? upon a pr ? improveme THE HOLD IKK BOYS. densatlon. Lancaster's second quota of sol- Solomon s . , - . . remer.ibere diers for the war, seventy-eight Jthing in a strong, upstanding, eager young men ) wjgt, man left yesterday on the Southern head, the I morning Columbia train for Camp neck.' "?( Jackson, where with the comrades already there, they will train for ser- RE.I vice in Fiance. The business places Hooker Li . it UII i a in Lancaster wore closed a while beof the gre fore the arrival of the train and a fjjSpOHjtjon great throng of men, women and der any a children accompanied them to the asserted tl | station and witnessed their depart-]'''' nr>' '? ' 1J SOl i'MH i fl tire, with hand-shakings and God By way c bless yous, with tears of love mlng- j?up|jr led with thrills of pride for these Times, he worthy men who are ready to make was good i the supreme sacrifice for their be- General that the i loved country in this great crisis. ment jn Follow citizens, let us realize that when on e Y, SEPT. 21, 1917. on, and that it behooves fondness for passln stay at home alike with sons through the 1 rtlilcro ? K go to the front, to bend . certain if this were rgy to make victory sure hlmse|f one night l?te. tried to get past t After the "Who gi TTK, WE ARE HERE." "A 'riend," and friend, and give t ien. Pershing stood at the had b<?en exchange( aFayette the other day and plied: le French language: "La- "Roxbury!" re are here!" the heart of "Xo sah! was .. ... . ... . . . firm response, is thrilled with his crisp .... .. Medford! ic eloquence, speaking in ..No sahi? is a volume of history, "Charleston!" Sh< iendship, undying national "No sah! No sah and unbreakable devotion K'? determinedly. , ... . v "Now see aheah, yo imon cause of liberty. Yes, . , , . whole blamed jogg an not forget libety.lov- Sherman ho done c France in her time of! can get pas' me wif America's valiant sons , bridge!' brave sons of France will 1 , w , . , . ] WHO STARTED i! March on! to victory or . The Crpwn Princ , nice little chat witl Butcher of Potsdai five La France! of nothing, said: ver Wendell Holmes.) started the war?" , . . , . , "I know" said th of sunshine and of song! won t tell. aie your heart's divine; ?n. , ? ' Did Cousin Geo e banquet's vows belong persisted the youth breasts have poured its "No." said papa. "Did Cousin Nic) , . , . ,, "No," said the f / friend, our true ally ? Did Frances Jo: i varied change and ?No? said the Q e: "Won uhn ,11,1 I w >ur flashing goblets high, >'ou S01 rou. Vive La France! I ber Teddy ^ooseve . - ? __ Central Africa sever called on us, and 1 hosts in triple folds magnificent army: I fsame colors spread, great and glorious lor's faithful arm upholds ,l'nl zepps and .. ... .. . and the gas bags: a e, the white, the red; , _ ' on the back and sai i nation's glittering crest you oan ,jrk |he w| the morning's glance, like a damned fool es soaring east and west: -?________ re. then, Vive La France! -S,:K \ \ TIIIKWAV. n 1 r harles Henry W-dib. i l/OUSluS I j irst- of ;i tide that my j ^ "DOWN TO" Til K STAi; nd moons I do not con- Admission ."?< - se I can not would wreck ill: ??_ -tossed toy of a turbulent >ne star through the night wa w eshell on its cr? st afloat,; W the sails of my boat. I J Bj to steer by that star re-' JL w w ide that threatens and know ontrolled in its ebb and ^ IJJL1, mi I. a speck on the main, rs that sway the Sea to lin? in the plan that I sink at | B rnr m M. M. v ik as I sail, with ponnon ] lake. as a sailor should, j am great. hut that OneJ Beauti i what may, lot the lop-j Shepherd my best with nw cockle. 3 38c, 48c, the August McClure's, I 38c vq km:\\ now it w.\s' Dresses, iumskm. colors. Jennings Bryan has tried _ it condensing one of the! (j3l3tG3 f Solomon. In a speech ! I .? T * legislature of Oklahoma J S 16Cl iTOIHj Dne proverb 1 have often #_ "The wise man foreseeth DC3Utlfu d hideth himself, but the tyr i is on and are punished." [ Z3C V3IU6S, at truth, and beautifully i but I found it did not 1 ZUC V3lU lople's minds, and so I i A | . it, and it is the only ef- i UDC lOt ever made to improve llrirP P 3 overb and this is not an |II1IX ?.Vl, C nt, it is merely a con- OA* TflS' It is not as beautiful a3 # IVI proverb, but more easily Plaids and d. It means the same' condensed form. 'The. Red Rot gets the Idea into his foolish man gets it in the 1l 1^ ,M,V VKCKSSAHV. 'l T. Washington recently tering of negroes that one at faults of his race is a ^E to . xh11 >11 knowledge un \ n<i ail circumstances. ami lat until the negro learn-,I display his vanity he wan I <WUHI* any confidential capacity. | >f illustration. says The """"???? edger and Philadelphia told a story whirh he said Iwf enough to be true. Sherman had been told j Boldlers of a negro regi-| la command were very lax , (entry duty, and showed a wmmmmmmmmmmmmmm |Mf? rman next tried i!'' said the ne- ^ Then he added: i* can go fru th* J ^ rafy, but Massa , yjy say dat nobody |HJK out savin' Tarn- g^Bm THE WAR. IKS * e was having a L3 'w t his father, thej yj e father, "but I f rge start it?" ] I Aftgr without a chin. J 1 V eve iolas?" ather. seph?" r. Id man. UVl^L % n. You temem. ^Hk \ it came out of! al years ago and showed him our, - ^ showed him ourl S fjg navy; I showed I **' tiie submarines, | w*A??to nci T.-ddy was so ivymj rt: "Hill my boy. f? hole world. .in-1 *, cJJJJJ I believed him." 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