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4 The Lancaster New Luiiraiilcr, S. C. (SEMI-WEEKLY.) Country 'Tio of Thoo, Swoot Li of Liborty." Published Tuesday and Fridaj BY THE LANCASTER NEWS COMPAN' Established 1H52. GEORGE BULLA CRAVEN Editor and Manager Entered as Second Class Mat lotober 7. 1905, at the Postolhce Lancaster, S. C.. under act of C< ireas of March 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: (In Advance.) One Year $2. Bli Mentha 1. ' The News is not responsible for t views of Correspondents. Short and rational articles topics of general interest will gladly received. Tuesday. 30, 1017. Our idea of a really fine man old Gen. Petaiu. Maybe after the price goes up bi won't be mailed so often. + It is a safe bet right now that n< bond issue will also be sold. + Well, nobody ever expected Sot Carolina to fall down on it. + Are we to suppose that the Sot Carolina quart is to be classed as dry quart? + The women should not lose si* of the fact that suffrage carries duty as well as a privilege. 1 Sign a food pledge card?and 1 up to it. + Twenty-eight thousand over a above Lancaster county's allotm< is the way Lancaster does things, 4 They're still fussing about t Sunday pictures at Columbia a yet the matter has been finally d posed of. 4 The fact that only one dissenti voice was heard in ltrazil agai declaring a state of war leads one believe that Mrazil means busines 4 There is really some doubt as whether "Hig Thursday"* at i State fair was any bigger than pi; circus day. 4 "We suppose that a lot of th< will come to us marked "posta due" on the outside and "please mil" inside. -1 The fact that four people clear $27,000 on six acres of truck ou? to be considered some little arg tnent in favor of yams. + We are inclined to the belief tf this dance in grass dresses is an suit to the Hawaiian maids, who, arfe told, don't look like that. + People who remember "Hub Benton whan he pitched for the < mill team dowu at Darlington kn that he wasn't born in North Co llna. + And now the price of coal whi history regards as naving cauf some worry, is thought of no mo The question is can we get coal any price. + We knew it would come soot or later and it seems to be left Ttev. Baxter F. McLendon to und lake the all but hopeless Job of ct verting Greenville. 4 Sometimes it looks as if a moi tain has been made out of a mo hill in the matter of the whipping that private at Camp Wadswor and then again it looks the otl . . TB 'SUNDAY MOVING PKTl'KKS?! 'S A<?.\1N. ! All We are well ^ a ware that Coluiuhia inore = may be able to take care of itself in food the matter of opening the moving Hoov picture theatres on Sunday for the 'n e> , move benefit of the soldiers camped near-: !sible by; it is nevertheless a fact that pub- j ,g lie sentiment in the capital city very keep ? naturally is reflected throughout the little r State. We do not assume to offer coun \r advice to Columbia, but we do en* [ care iter protest against the policy of de | garb; stroying custom long established, wou| which policy is calculated to spreud so w to other sections and eventually feedi ter i at come home to us and to all of the or F 3n" other communities of the State. dog. The chief argument for the openlag 1 ing of the theatres on Sunday is that w q0 "the presence of the soldiers de- "Kee 00 mands it." The presence of the sol_ the t ? diers demands nothing of the sort, teria ho | I How many of the soldiers at Camp j j) Jackson have been used to moving ,,ijes on pictures on Sunday? j furtli br I The custom of Sunday observance ' |)0tti will not permit such amusements ; const and it would be morally dangerous the I to overthrow that custom. We ad- secoi ? | mire the State for its stand on the ducti is question, which is outlined in the iia.ve following paragraph: ' worh "We shall grant, for the discus- woul ills sion's sake only, that public opinion I about Sunday is old fashioned and anteountcit ill Smith fiipnlinn Thnt t.UU doos not change facts. 'Puritanical' Who! F*X t and 'bigoted' may be applied to it dairy by tboso who wish. The facts re- p( main. Three-fourths of the people ith ! of this State live in rural districts. Five-sixths of the dwellers of the nat'? towns and cities have lately come ducts i from rural districts. The definition 1 for t . of Sunday observance inhering in' prodi ,l this issue is as The State has outlined it. The men that proponents <omp lot opening Sunday theatres would raP'a ;ht j call puritanical are an overwhelm-j of cli a'ing majority of the leaders of more thought, of the principal taxpayers, rre.ls of the shapers of public opinion, 01 j the creators of the moral, political moi< 1V? and social atmosnhere of this com- veget j monwealth. If this he not true. The there (State has not liveil in South Carolina j(?n (j, nd with understanding of South Caro- ^0?s linians. Whether they are right or i world i wrong is apart front the question. (The facts remain." Tli * !? P" he AI.IIKADY RKMAItKABLK. . t) m' That the United States has for .. Unite ''" nearly four months been engaged in n p war and the movement of men ant''every i munitions across the seas which are , ng , be 0 infested with deadly submarines and nst more ' raiders with a loss of but one vessel to sotne is remarkable if not marvelous, and one. the effectiveness of the careful planInt ning and safeguarding of the armv to neces anil navy experts is demonstrated so he ing c clearly that it cannot be mistaken, iIn _ 1 hat other American vessels will s, meet disaster may as well be expected and we should reconcile our- " 5IU selves to such losses. The sinking Lerni ige of the Antilles is only a beginning dollai reof German activity against the ships oul ' of this country. Libeled Upwards of 2,000,000 men will he didn t sent from this country to the battle. Pe<>pl( ,u_ fields of Europe; their equipment. "ie K their munitions, must also brave the '?r G i death-infested seas, and the men 1 . lat must be fed from this side. That 'au 1 in- disaster will overtake some of these succei we is natural and to expert less iR to try secon to "fool yourself." That we will the <*' lose both ships and men Is only the peop' ie" natural result of war and we may Pul ^ >ld expect nothing more. lives dw + ,from ro-j PAYING "!VfVI> TAX." tarlsr | Th Kvery farmer, every man who uses an; ^ lc), the public highways, pays his *hare war , iefj of "mud tax." Hauling cotton to ja wl, rR market can be figured to a cost baniB. ||0ana at Time saved, likewise, means so murh t|lir,| money saved. Improved roads srrj|)( cost considerable in the beginning, ^ ler.hut after once established, there is (;erm to n? further "mud tax" to pay. mora er- Even the roads hereabouts can be ^ >n- materially improved by the use of bjow the split-log ?drag, or any other*lh,. j drag, after each rain. It will lessen tn- the "mud tax," which every one of le* pays. short of subst Why Omit Sorghum? (Columbia State.) ,Pr Slogan for Grand Old South Caro- ' ?' i""1 vams and Hams! ?lve [E LANCASTER NEWS TUESD "KKEP A PIG." ? ong with the policy of raising _ grain and conserving other supplies. Food Administrator I er suggests the idea of starting I mmW rery community a "Keep-a-Pig" intent. This may sound imposto those living in cities, but i not. Even city people may a pig. without trouble and at cost, by arranging with some try friend to take care of it. every suburbanite took to his a pig and fed it on the house age." Mr. Hoover says, "he 1 d increase our fat supply and do I I I itliout call upon our general ng stuffs, and a properly cared >ig Is no more insanitary than a would be well, while consider;he food conservation campaign store under way, to keep in mind this theV p-a-Plg" movement, by which nt?\V lation's food supply may be mally increased. f we are to maintain our supto the allies." Mr. Hoover ' ler says, "we have only one of jg*p-?lirst, we must reduce our . jmption of pork products to jjt:? prewar normal or better: and. 'iKjafli id, we must increase our pro- I on Pork products L.'IHI an influence in this present Btllg 1 situation wider than one IPhHII il ordinarily attribute to them. II 'p human body must have a cer- II F amount of daily intake of fat. 1 tlier this fat is by means of products, by vegetable oil, or >rk products becomes a second juostion in time of complete nal stress, because pork pro. ABO to some decree will substitute he other fats. . . . Increased iction in pork fats can be aclished with a great deal more ity than increased production liry products and on a much Make widely extended scale. An in- 1 it llll\ e in pork fats can also be made llolise rapidly than an increase in sitltTt al)le fats. It appears to me, fore, that we must concentrate 10 increase in the production of if we are to answer the I's craving for fats." us Mr. Hoover outlines \shat is ssing need not in one section ie country but throughout the id States. The "Keep-a-Pig" ment should be started in community. Pig clubs should rganized whereby a dozen or may each raise a pin wlia friendly rivalry tor the largest leased pork production is it slty. the absence of which be- * ertain to cause want. Wmk \l> N'KWS FOIC (iKItMWV. was said a few days ago that J I'1 any had as much as a million M<*t 1\ s to spread the news through- til It' ) hat country in case the second IH'W ty loan had failed. But it l)xl'* V fail. It didn't fail because the , (j .j?) y e of this country are back of <i\19 R overnment. That is sad news "'AJ- u ermany, but not the worst, for JtxlH I' bird Liberty loan, whenever it Jixlli \\ inched, will go through just as ssfully as did the first and the d. Germany will never have onsolation of knowing that tho e of the United States refuse to orth their money and their to wrest democracy and peace the clutch of a ruthless mill- j Ij n. e people of the United States >ehind the government in this vith all that they possess?that ; ? V* 1 iy the first and serond Liberty \ 1 wore over-subscribed, and the KefM , likewise, will be over-sube allies are now hammering i ' -<7 any hard, both on land and sea, * 1 and financial, and the success e recent Liberty loan is another Miltll that falls hard on the head of (aiser. + course, if there should be a age in leather we have as a Itute the Charleston waffles. Jj] patte jn bo open season for the spug. <Ta<l( a Liberty Bond. | m?mmam ? - i i . AY, OCT. 30, 1917. ncaster Departmt The Best Place To Shop After FURNITURE ANNEX New Displays of MPirrc unnirc rim it11 Jjliili IIVITILi 1u11 iture, Rugs, DraperLinoleui fore deciding on the refurnishing of the home fo and at least look at the complete assortments we will give you a good insight as to the new service being sought by the better inform od housefurnisl VE 9 PIECE SOLID MAHOGANY DINING I Distinctive Furniture For Eat your home appear exclusively different by using I distinctive. Here are sets and single pieees fo for the lover of the home beautiful at prices. \vhi< 'd moderately low. n . r i ir n r i 11 Beautiful new Kugs in All '*pyi| jyRuj it i"..-, . .'. . - i jm?? ' r'~~Z7y.7r X v/LM/PJrr'JVULTL. LallnL: . 7-.!:" "T. J' re one may TTihi Hugs of every <le <e?'i??t inii, size, j harmonize with ideas, which have aiitady been ;rade Body Brussels. Axminsters and tapestries designs. And these are their interesting price: xminstcT liufjs $24.75 18x:!(! Axmi el vet Hugs $22.50 27x54 Axmi russels Hugs $18.50 20x72 Axmi lour Kraft Hugs $12.50 9x12 Fibre rool Fibre Hugs $12.50 9x12 Grass Curtains, Draperies and Mi ~^ rjr%r.riA Splendid showing of C ;,,,<1 window hangings that /Vftl?Plji"Jil vJ' 'u m decorating the home Ji | '"-J/N an,V liuml>er patterns it r-: | ^ "|['--jjT Curtains, Draperies and i Ui, 1 - rMt reasonable prices. jS' nl|V|| White Kern and Cream ft? plain . .. .10c, 12 1 2c, .15 Jmslifffy ^arpine Marquisettes, no Crotownes in mostly every \ combination, suitable I color scheme. Priced . . White Self-figured Madras ' - ' "J? ?* long as Curtains, ready to hang, white ground, with j en Madras designs, 2 1-2 yards long High Grade Inlaid these you will find that we have about as line ai rns as you could wish for. And the prices as as ] i Linoleums \ ;nt Store All * ^ >M!CUIMrC uudiunuij ns, Shades, Etc. r Winter, step into this are now displaying for sable fittings which arc lers. a ilk tOOM SUIT $175.00. :h Room Furniture* that is beaur every room in tlie h, at present, are conSizes is >attern and color to exformcd. They arc of in the most effective of lister Rugs $1.50 nster Rugs $2.50 lister lings $4.50 | Rugs $9.75 Rugs $9.50 iterials verything new in door will he found of great for fall. Included are i a broad selection of materials at the most Scrims, bordered and c, 18c, 26c to 35c Yard velty and filet nets 10c to 50c Yard desirable color and for carrying out any 10c to 75c Yard i Curtains, 2 1-2 yards $1.50 Pair )ink, blue, yellow and $2.00 Pair ^ urns ' i assortment of choice low as possible for high 50c Square Yard