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Tuesday, Oct. 2, 1917. I?f 1
England expects the United States! p.irt
to outbuild the submarine destruc- .
for
tlon. Some ship building that.
* * poss
The Dutch Prophet renews his tjiat
prediction for killing frost on Octo- tje]jj
ber 7th for the Piedmont section. n?e
* who
United States Supreme Court con- an(j
vened yesterday with 711 cases on
?
the docket, many of them of large 1 T1
public Interest. the
^ Jon t
The rejections at the camp approx- oam
imate lo per cent on account of hold
physical disqualifications.. This is as
surprising. Already about 800 have the
been sent back. supj
1 . , t he
The thrilling account of recent .
activities against the U-boats gives jojn
encouragement that the submarine, worj
menace will finally be successfully
; men
met. The
* inati
Camp Jackson is eagerly anticipating
the football game between
Camp Jackson and Camp Wadsworth I ^.e r
or Camp Sevier during Fair Week. tt, p
Col. Graham says it will be "some Hon
cloud and thunder affair." succ
^ dair;
It is stated that the war depart- .
Iter I
ment will probably consolidate Na- !
tional Guard regiments in different
I Thei
States in anticipation of an early dis1
succ
patch of National Guard divisions to .
| dair;
France. I,
I few
i ?^
orga
The Sunday News and Courier,
-contains a pathetic and harrowing
story of the wrongs and ravages
heaped upon unfortunate Serbia by I)(
the Austrians and Germans. There ni|1^
will be a day of reckoning. fpior
+
to vi
The South Carolina Council of Deare
fense will soon Issue a hand-book
visit
designed to collect information for
speakers and workers in spreading
knowledge and arousing zeal in the
cause and work of National Def#nae
eral
* Truf
Theredore H. Price informs the
largt
Charlotte Observer that notwith!
mad
standing the allurements of newspa. ?
Rest
per life he is still at work trying to
taliz
perfect a cotton picker. A perfect |
posil
cotton picker for Lancaster is the,
I I'OHn
farmer who promptly subscribes fori
000.
The News.
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A correspondent of the Associated ; s< rv
Press from Athens states that the!11 h<
working people In some sections of|Vl8lt
Greece are asking that their wages 'n,G
be paid in bread, not in money, as ,ipp'
a result of bread scarcity?due to;'oni
the war and the effects of the block- ,eta
ade. ter
+ syst
The minimum amount of the sec- 000
ond Liberty Loan of $3,000,000,000 l,av<
which is expected to be raised in the syst
Richmond District including this
State is $120,000,000, and South of 1
Carolina's share of this sum is $15,_ an(1
000,000. Announcement has been a" (
made of a meeting of bankers at the behi
Jefferson Hotel, Columbia, 8. C., tomorrow
to formulate plans for the "tlti
loan campaign in this State. sorv
t
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THE LANCA
he new wireless station opened | CONGRJ
Pearl Harbor Hawaii last Satur- It Is expected and
is said to be the most powerful extraordinary war
he world. This Is one of a chain gress will close witb
radio stations which Is designed gress has done w<
ceep American ships everywhere considering all th<
ouch with the navy department, but the business w
^ know just what the
a order that the United States as to adjust itself 1
' be prepared for the peace con- When Congress sup
nee when ever the time arrives, aary sinews of war
E. M. House, with the aid of ex- every branch of the
s, is charged with the duty of concentrate its ener
lering all information necessary tion for the strugg
ill the points that may arise for will gird itself foi
ussion. This is an immense co-operation when I
* certainty to block e
+ prise.
here will be a national assembly ? +..
tie Jews of America In New York THE ORIENTAL 5
on October 2 8 under the call TRIN1
i'elix W. Warburg, chairman of Viscount Ishil, h?
Joint distribution committee of anese Mission, speak
American fund for Jewish war in honor of his vis;
?rers, to oonsider means of rals- York on Saturday,
the $10,000,000 fund set for policy of Japan wit
7. It is expected that this will China, which was
he largest and most representa- Japanese protectorat
assembly of Jews in the history with a warning to th
he United States. world that Japan wo
aggressions against
There seems to be small excuse, independence of Chii
icularly in these stirring times, gurance that Japan
leading an empty life. There are similar aggressions, i
lany forms of service which it is be no ciosed door to
ible to render with fine results cntal Monroe doctr
it is, Indeed, only the man who ^
aerately refuses to take advant- nvv umv tw* mm
ivcnoi ?c iMmru ine uuaranty oneciea and It is hoj
it Company of New York, the citizens will give hea
ust institution of its kind, has operation,
e application to Join the Federal The central comm
irve. This company has a eapi- cd of W. J, Cormac
ation of $25,000,000 with de- I' Brown, Brian
ts in excess of $500,000,000 and Banks, John K. Au
urces of more than $600,000,- Mazyck, all of Colui
%
The main objections of this Jhon M. Madra hi
pany to Joining the Federal Re- ed chairman of the
e have been removed now since committee and will
is been made clear that the pro- publicity end of the
>n of the Clayton Act forbidding .The following <
rlocking directorates have no Food Conservation
ication to State banks and trust pointed by Dr. Mur
panies and that such institutions J- H. Witherspooi
in their State charter powers af- C.
entering the Federal Reserve Dr. W. S. Moore,
em. Less than 100 of the 20,- W. L. Croxton, K
State banks and trust companies J. M. Yoder, Van 1
s Joined the Federal Reserve These captains wl
em. but the absence of the re- three lieutenants.
:tlons named and thet example v.ill appoint ten woi
he Guaranty Trust Company, The general worl
the patriotic Impulse to throw will be to make a
the power of the banking system vase of Lancaster co
nd the government at this time, I help of every house
no doubt cause many State in-lztn In the Importax
itlOnS tO loin the T?o_l ?ervln?r tin tr\t\A -
I tion of foods and tl
of the opportunities offered him -yye wjsh imprt
se life does not soon become rich peop]e Gf Gaffney th
full."?News and Courier. glving the glad han
+ who come to our tow
he food administration has set . . . ... .
dial treatment will d
week in this month beginning . ..
people away than a
he 21st for the completion of the . . .
f 1 which we can imagi
paign to enable all the house- . . . .
cost anything to be
ers, restaurants and hotels .... . .
lite to people who c
volunteer members in ... ...
and the right sort c
conservation of the food ... , .
corded to people wh
dy. Mr. Hoover appeals to ... . - ,
ney with a view of bi
churches, schools and all agen- . .... . ,
11 likely to bear frui
commercial, social and civic to ,, . . . . ... ,
if not just at this t
the administration in this . . , ,,
stranger cheerfully.
c, which he regards as funda- .... ,
the advantages- of
tal for the safety of the nation. .... , . ,
' dwelling place, and i
time to begin the work of ellm- .. . . , , .
the right place, he
ing waste is right now. . .
your courtesy, and
" away his impression
tie Horry County Guernsey Cat
be most pleasant, am
}lub has been recently organized
become one of us hi:
romote the dairy industry in
ble to tell some otl
v. We noticed recently the
how nice and clevei
ess of Lee County farmers in the
Gaffney are, and this
ying business. This is a matbringing
others to oi
that should receive much attenI*
every citizen in (
from South Carolina farmers.
his duty bv the tow
v is no kgog reason wny a great
believe that within
ess may not be made in the
years our population
ring business in this State in a
ly increased, and 01
years through systematic and
portunities will be
nized effort.
enlarged and expi
CAMP JACKSON NOTES. Ledger.
(The State.) The on,y araendtl
wring the State Fair week begin- ?^er lo a'mve 8*
A , . 00 ... . Kditor DeCamp Is tc
October 2 2 many relatives and 1
. , ... . . ter along with Gaffn
ids of the soldiers are expected q
isit the camp, and arrangements *
being made to facilitate such *XT\ OKGAX1
s FOOD OONSEKV
Pl'BLICITY CV
VTF HANKS ANI) THE FKI). A thorough orga
Klt.M, KKSKIIYK. and county, of our
uch to the pelasure of the Fed- food conservation ac
.STER NEWS TUESDAY,
KSH. thereof and the prev<
1 hoped that the and in extending use
session of Con- in connection with s
iin a week. Con- The organization t
onderfully well the Council of Defen
b circumstances, Murchison is county
orld wants to Murchison and Mr. ft
law is to be so Columbia next wee
to the situation, meeting and when i
plies the ueces- county campaign will
and adjourns, est.
government will ?+?
gies In prepara- ItBACHINQ EOR S
le and business CAN TR^
most effective Arrangements are
there is no un- establishment tt
>ffort and enter- new line of ships wh
tween New York i
Chile, going throug
'lONROE DOC- Canal. It is stated
E. Vlng Board has assl
iad of the Jap- now building, one ne
:ing at a dinner tor the Durnoim vit
It, held Id New Ac Co. in charge. W?
disclosed the effort of this kind of
th reference to portance, for the
substantially a present for securing
te over China, portion of South Ai
ie nations of the Closer trade relatioi
?uld not tolerate American Republics
the territory or closer relation in i
ua, but with as- South America f
would not make the finest fields for t
and there would lean ocean comnien
China?an ori- come as one of the
ine. war.
-
?>VE A TOWN". THK MRAXIXG OF ]
;ss upon all the 1 *
President Woodrc
e importance of ,,lint>eton told a b<)
d to strangers the other day that "<
11. I^ack of cor- the meaning of educa
o more to drive t'T'ng to teach a littl
.. he asserted, "and ii
,ny other cause
teaching anything of
ne. It will not hjs yjew we haye ?d
cordial and po- nlus for everything
some among us, tion." And in order
if treatment ac- ?? us seems to him
o come to. Gaff- Ke,s thttt we "'educe
small hodv of gr
ecoming citizens , ." ..
I hese somber retlecti
t in the tuture, \*(>w York Times to o
ime. Greet the is hardly old enough
Tell him of '?d to talk in that t
Gaffney as a ,n* w'sdom." In its
it reports are of wh
f his heart is in . . , , ., ,
said before the Asso
will appreciate ]Cges and Preparator
when he goes their annual conve
of Gaffney will xpvv York November
A if he does net have been P
a period of dissolutio
mself, he is lia- ards of educat|on
ier man about irying a spries of r
p the people of ments upon the lad
might result in and maidens 01
. ,, Instead of educating
ur town to live.
children of the last ti
Uaffney will do ra(jea have not been
rn, we honestly pupils of our colleges
the next ten decades have not b
will have vast- Wlth al! our educatii
, structed nobody, and
LA i uuniursH U|?instructing
we have
correspondingly bf)dy
anded.?Gaffney "i have been toao
twenty years?that ii
neat we would conducting classroom
>od advice from 1 do not th,nk ,hal
teaching any apprec
' ,nsert Lancaa- that time. I have t
ey* lectures, sometimes a
which I knew, but in<
5SATION FOIt thinKS ot which I ha
result has been that
AT ION AND . . .
remembered my storl
IMI'AKi.N. jrn ,?y lectures,
nization, State "We must rememl
people In their mation is not educati*
? u i Pr oart of the work t
tlvities is being
ing In our colleges t
?ed that all our part lnrormatlon y
irty aid and co- una a man uhn nan
English. once said. 'T
a protlx gut to be fit
Ittee i? compos- ^ prlnripa, obJpct,
k. chairman. A. ahoulrt be enllghtenm
Bell, William iCRding from the ml
11 and Pierre plls of the mlfilformi
mbla. have received.
"Instead, we are c
19 been aPP?int* thelr minds with an
county publicity of lrreievant facts,
look after the Ree one thin* than to
campaign. dred. It in better to
captains on the d*nt to the inner cl
have been ap- fact than to take hin
Ing greater knowledg
n: "Another importar
3, Lancaster, S. establishment In the
the relation between
Heath Springs. impart to him.
ershaw. contended that ev
should have a Profe
^yck" in General. Then t
111 each appoint line. There Is nothi
Each lieutenant physical dlsclplir
rkers. slum. The student \
. .. ing his body to mee
t or these men . . ... .
cles of life. It shou
thorough can- with the mind.
unty, secure the "Any course of stt
holder and citi- llne8 the mind is bi
it work of con. fltudent- Anything t
not beneficial to h'
P y, n the crea- jg eagy joes no
?e economic use would advocate glvli
/
OCT. 2, 1917.
ention of waste, ! tasks that are hardest for then
>ful Information'(i<)' and then, when they begli
luch subjects. get easy' *iv,ng them 9omet'
else."
tarmonlzes with President Wilson thinks tha
se of which Dr. preparatory school a boy should
chairman. Dr. dy mathematics, Latlif, and one
ladra will go to er l**?guaga. In college he is
k to attend ommended to study one of
sciences correlated with mathei
. ey return the lcs_ continue his one language i
I begin in earn- he can read, write and speak it
ently, and study history. The F
ident then broke a bomb shell
OUTH AMRRi. taking the English view that we
not teach English literature. Y<
ago the same p'lea was advocatec
being made for prof^ Churton Collins; but Ame
lis month of a has supposed she has proven
ich will ply be- contrary. Dr. Wilson pricks
and Valparaiso, bubb,?- "We must give up the
. .. _ of teaching English literature,"
h the Panama . "7_. . .. .
asserts. The appreciation of
that the Ship- giish can no more be pedagogic
gned Ave ships imparted than the apprectatlor
arly completed. of tbe BOn* of a bird." Conceri
h W R Grace Prealdent Wilson's strictures on
ucation The Times remarks ed
> consider every rially.
the highest im- "I^ark of concentration is una
opportunity is tlonably a modern tendency, an
\ a very large tendency strong In our country,
uierlcan trade cou,d not be otherwise with the
. . mense variety of- interesting, stl
is between the i *, ,,, ui .
lating, compelling subjects presi
will tend to a on the attention of this genera
ither respects, which were practically unknown
urnishes one of our Krandfathers. Our minds
he great Amer- from ?ne po,nt to anothPr aa awl
and with as little chance for ste
-e that must application as our bodies go f<
results of the j place to place by steam and elect
I ity. We do things superficially
cause we are tempted or forced
j do so many. This tendency can
TIOX MISSED sonip extent, be controlled and gi
>w- Wilson of " ran no* hp suppressed,
dy of teachers Iwou,d u bp we,) to suppress it.
ive have missed!must ,)0 rOP?Kn,J!ed and dealt v
tlon." We are I *? *bp b,'st advantage. We can
e of everything 1 pof ri<' of by attempting to ret
ustead are not ,0 tbp niodps of our fathers. In
anything In',ask ">a* Presents Itself nature
leveloped a ge- help us. A certain half-uneonscl
but simpliflea-isp,pr,ion Kopa on a" t,lp w hile,
to correct what substantially good results artamiss
he coun- ' have not really quite 'missed
education to a m?aning of education." In a <
eat subjects" | we have added to that meaning,
ons lead the wp have made of education a sot
bserve that "he benefit and inspiration to mi
to be permit '"any thousands, who, a couple
one of despair- eonern,,ons aK?' hardly dreamed
news columns and attained it even imperfe
at Dr. Wilson j w,th ,raKlc
elation of Col-' ?Literary Digest. 1<
y Schools in ??
ntion held in THE DEVIL HESI(*NS.
2!1. We quote: ; The devil sat by a lake of fire
assiug through a pile of sulphur kegs, his head '
n of the stand-, bowed upon his breast, his tail
We have been tween his legs; a look of shame '
eckless experi- cn his face, the sparks dripped fi
8 and youths, ; Ms eyes?he had sent up hts re
f this country.. nation to the throne up In the sk
them. The I "I'm down nnH out" the a
vo or three de-!said?he said It with a sob?"th
educated. The! are others that outclass me an
of the last few j want to quit the Job. Hell isn't
een educated, it with the land along the Rhl
ig we have in- I'm a has been and a, piker. th?
I with all our fore I resign; one ammunition m
educated no- er with his bloody shot and si
knows more about damnation t
hing for some all the imps of hell. Give my
s, I have been to Kaiser William, the author of I
exercises, but War; he understands it bette
t I have been, million times by far. I Jiate
iable part of (leave the old home, the spot I 1
>een delivering | so well. h"t I feel that I'm not
bout things of, to-d.tt. .a <art of running he
>re often about j ?Becknell News Herald.
id heard. The
my pupils have IN Ills NEIGH nOlt'M KYKN
lea and forgot "I have been reflecting." said
oldtlmer, "upon the case of the
?er tnai inror-|erage man. as his neighbors
in. The great- him.
hat we are do- "If he is poor, he is a bad m
oday is to 1m- ager. If he is prosperous every
iy father, who .wants to do him a favor.
.d very precise! "If he's in politics. It's for pi
'he mind is not If he is not in politics, one c
ufTed.' One of place him, and he's no good for
* of education country.
ent, or the un. "If he gives not to charity, t
nds of the pu- he's a stingy dog. If he does g
ition that they it's for show.
"If he's active In religion, he
laily cramming hypocrite. If he evinces no inte
enormous mass In matters spiritual, he's a harde
It Is better to sinner.
look at a hun- "If he shows affection, he's a
conduct a stu-' sentimentalist. If he seems to i
I
hamber of one for no one, he's cold-blooded.
? on a trip see- "If he dies young, there wa
re. great future ahead of him. If he
it thing is the tains old age, he has missed
pupil's mind of calling."?The Lamb.
the facts that
I have always TOO NICK FOR COMFORT.
ai?\r imf irAroltv r1 o nn/?e'n WT 1 ?/
/ uni t?i oifc/ w|'|/vi n ?? con 1/ ,
ssor of Things 'Hiawatha has a saving old 0011
here Is dlscip- and as a result they have a bet
ng practical in fully furnished house,
le of a gymna- One day the old lady missed
Is simply train- husband.
t the emergen- "Joseph, where are you?"
Id be the same called.
"I'm restln' In the parlor."
idy that dlscip- "Not on the sofy?" she guspoi
eneflcial to the horror,
hat does not Is "No, on the floor."
Im. Anything "Not on that grand carpet?" c
it. discipline. I back In tones of anguish.
ig children Jhel "No, I rolled it up."
V
l to I WOMAN'S GIFTS
i to TO MTKRATI RB
hing i The appearance women as leading
figures in the literary world is
* 'n quite a recent thing. Not a single
stu- book of the Bible is ascribed to a
oth- woman. It is possible the Song of
rec- Deborah and Barak, if it belongs to
the that period may have been written
nat- by the former. But this Is at least \
intil Greek literature there flourished no
f'u- name of mark excepting that of
're8- Sappho, though doubtless she was
by but one of a school of women lyrican
cists. Roman literature has no woears
men enrolled among the literary ar1
by tists of the Golden Age, and there
ir'CR are no women found among great
th? patristic writers. France and Italy
our produced before the end of the
Idea eighteenth century some women
poets and romanticists of great powKn*
er, but It Is the nineteenth and
a,,y twentieth centuries that have seen
' ?' women tak* up the pen in the RrCat*'n*
est numbers. It has been stated
e<*~ that womon today are perhaps the
Uto- most numerous contributors to the
literature of romance and poetry,
ues" and an author who adopts the pend
R name of "Aurel." writipK In the
^ Censeur (Paris), the somewhat rad'm~
leal yet very attractive weekly conmu"
ducted by Ernest Charles, sets out
'lnR answer the question why modern
tion Women write so much and write so
1 to well. She attributes Jt to the fact
K?ithnt modern life has released women
from slavery and left their
hearts free and fresh; that they are
rom pneourafced to write because It 1s
r'c" that their work has a certain femlbe"
nlnity in It, distinct from the work
to of the opposite sex. which renders It
. tO 1 _ I 1. .. .1
' ('oilkl'inai lu wuiucii auu av>ii*o
to men. Women, moreover, live
nor nearer to nature from the intensity
^ of their love and their ties of raaternity.
Even when they imitate
n?' the method and style of men they
urn do not lose the particular stamp of
"1<> their own sex, and indeed the become
more attractive still from the
ous 0||arlll 0f a double character. This
an(l j Writer remarks:
iVO I
'I "If in art freshness and navieto,
t ho
j and by this I by no means refer to
kNaV|mere novelty, alone are permanent
'?r i oualities, and have a riirht to live.
i roo i
I then woman is certainly well equipm*'
ped for any art. If integrity of na.
? ture, if the interior aloofness, the
sense of melancholy, and absolute {.
ct 1V
sincerity are necessary in art. then
in every woman we see an artist,
107. , ,
for the heart of a woman never ceases
bo be as it were aloof, separated,
and sincere. And of the arts liton
erature is almost the only one fawas
miliar to'the modern woman. The
be- pen is so light to lift! It Is indeed
was women who are best adapted to
om write the sentimental romance, as
slg- it will be allowed by all who have
ies. analyzed the feminine book, a work
evil which, if it is genuine, by no means
lere conforms to the standard of the masd
I cullne production."
: ln Yet some women have found that
ne they can in some senses Imitate the
0re" style and method of men in literaiak"
ture. and that, too, without loss to
their own style. "If it be charghan
.v. ? i. ? . .... .
I in, hi*- w rii?5i k*j?5h on 10 say, mai
Job we have in these times women who
Ihis are excessive in their imitation of
r 11 men the men receive it as a welcome
t?jand an exquisite flattery. Thus we
ovo have the phllospher In muslin, as
up- ! well as the novelist, and the human>N-"
Itarlan socialist." It is, in the view
of "Aurel," the Improved education
and travelling facilities accorded to
women that enable so many of them
an to escape from their narrow enviav
ronment and by imagination launch
?ee int0 the ocean of past events, liut
at the heart of the matter lies the
'an. fa(.t that woman nowadays enjoys a
onP flehl for the spontaneous expressIon
of the feelings that go so far in
the combination of the soul which
an't haa no 8ex. And as she has been
kla without "an audience for so many
ages," she Is now "hailed by the
hen world as enriching literature and
;lve. helping life. "?Translation made
for the Literary Digest.
is a
rest
,ned DIDN'T WANT IT.
"You won't make any mistake in
soft buying this car, Mr. Juggins," said
the agent. "It is the best In the
market. There isn't any comeback
a to our output."
at- "Then I don't want It," retorted
his Juggins. "There wasn't any comeback
to the last car I had, and I had
to walk back. Haven't you anything
you can show me with a few return
attachments."?Hnrn?r'? Wnokiir
pi?. t
LUtlTOO
KASY.
"A tradition," explained the
teacher, "la something that haa
ahe been handed down from father to A
aon. Can you mention Rome famll- ^
iar tradition?"
A in "Yea'm," promptly anawered little
Tommy Ooodman; "my clothes are
traditions."
ame "That's too threadbare. Tommy;
I you will remain half an hour aftar
(school is dismissed."?C. W. T.