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_t The Lancaster N Lancaster, S. C. (SKMl-W KKKIil .) "My Country 'Tis of Tht>, Swi of Liborty." -Published Tuesday and F BY THE LANCASTER NEWS COM] Established 18.12. GEORGE BULLA CRA\ Editor and Manager Entered as Second Class October 7. 1905, at the Postt Lancaster, S. C., under act i tress of March 3, 1879. SUBSC RIPTION PRICF (In Advance.) One Year Six Months "The News is not responsible rlews of Correspondents. Short and rational artlc topics of general Interest 1 gladly received. Tuesday, Dee. 4, 19 SENTENCE SERMONS A knave and fool are pi; every soil.?Burns. The great man is he who d lose his child's heart.?Menci Nothing 1s more unjust 01 clous than public opinion.? A little group of wise h( better than a wilderness of I Raskin. Did universal charity earth would be a heaven, and fable.?Colton. It is a harder lot to be a s one's passions than to tyr Pythagoras. Painting is silent poetry, a try is painting with the speech.?Simonides. But no pleasure is compar the standing \ipon the 1 ground of Truth.?Bacon. + F.I)ITOHI Al.KTTKS. 1 Hypothyreosis wins. Now is tlie time for all go to buy war savings stamps. + Mrs. Be Saulles that nigb after her son?and she got w ueitt after. + We can remember when yo buy ham and eggs in a res for a quarter. Every time you buy a ciga aoldler in France to have 01 you?it's easy. Knitting, in a hotel dininp on Sunday, does seem to be c a good thing too far. + The price of coal has gone what difference does it maki you can't get it. anyway. - Allow us to suggest a very prite, useful and valuable Ch present?War Savings Stamp: + Rut if Russia should get 1 mocracy, how Ions would it I something was started to do + The jury didn't say t Saulles ought to have been that wouldn't have been goo< 4. Mr. Baker is probably of til ion that some of them wii avoid actual fighting by s hack and commanding it. + They're telling it on N'at win that his fifth wife is abou Kin suit for a divorce. If Si keep up his record it's about > In view of such handiner Hhooting Irons recently dl over the country It ought to b against the law to carry co weapons. * The fuel administration h dimmers on the white ways li places where coal Is used in g lng current. That's anottu -Lancaster gcoraa. rap [ews "oaiw' j The Automobile Club of America j Uerr iKOfit Mr M WpIU chipf rnaiimun In Ihlc -1" ~ ? I*" ??" for the club, from New York to vicious Asheville on a tour of inspection, or an He jotted down his impressions of againsl the different stretches of good, bad ment. and indifferent roads, and, according ed as i?t Land | to his tinal summary, we find a good tentior I hard-surface road from New York the la rlday jto Philadelphia; a fair road with a will co few bad stretches from Philadelphia this ha PANY to Chambersburg, and ditto )fr? tj Adoo Chambersburg on to Gettysburg and "Am 'EN Washington. Mr. Wells finds the ^|jOUS ' 'roads in the valley of Virginia in Germa Matter 8??d condition as far as Staunton, United maiier money >fflce at then dirt and red clay and hills to surdit> rvf I n i... < . . n , . nn i?c lti v/wu- ivoanoKe; ironi i>aiurai image over "" wholly the mountain to Lynchburg, "al- ably cl though somewhat improved on the r,lt' s j: confisci j Lynchburg end, is still in a poor and | in ban 12.00 dangerous condition, as is also the Anol . 1.00 road from Roanoke to Martinsville, tern Ni which is over a high mountain with the eff< for the |OQg 8teep and stony grades and at Hot should be avoided." From Staun- order las on ton, he reports an excellent mac- tacks i will be a(iam road to within five miles of the de Charlottesville. The old. old story ington is told of the road from Charlottes- such a i vllle to Richmond?"graded clay piatior road which is very slippery in wet ? the r. weather." And he might have said hardly ants of impassible in winter. The same But j story he tells of the road from busy i . Charlottesville to Lynchburg; from stories oes not us. Lynchburg on down through Dan- to tlmi vllle to Greensboro is put down as capriHazlitt S0"8??some improved, some rough ' stretches, which require cautious >arts >s 1 driving in wet weather. He's right. Woo fools.? fuel pr Greensboro to Kernersville and visit Winston-Salem. hard-surfaced and Need r'hen'a i" Rood condition, with slight ex- ,a,jaU Iceptions; good between Winston- coal. U rcc . . Salem and Lexington, and the High yxrnn dave to , w oo ants.? Point-Greensboro highway of con- Ibaili IshortttK Crete and Warrenite surface is ' ,^n f nd poe- j credited as "new macadam road." wood, gift of Davidson county's $300,000 bond issue for roads only gets credit for able to "a fair sand-clay road from High,|jnos c iro nf 'A CO Point through Lexington and Yad- cornjnR ? kin and Spencer," succeeded by ot|j6 fairly good macadam to Salisbury tjiem and a new concrete and macadam i riea seven miles beyond Salisbury, and a lnR est stretch which is not regarded as i may tu o'l men g00(j jnto pjjjna Orove; sand-clay to ^ Kannapolis; good macadam to Con- pj8|0|_ t cord and fairly good on to Char- bad1 lotte. From Charlotte to ueunont, > hat she posstDii | "20 feet wide, half of which is stone mi and somewhat ronah " A f-itr oan/i-l ? u could c'ay roa<l '8 reported fiom Belmont j Mrs. taurant' t*irouK^ McAdenville. Lowell. Gas- tug a tonia. Bessemer City to King's charge* Mountain; graded clay with some We doi r ask a rough stretches to Blacksburg and thing t le with same condition through GafTney, Cowpens and Converse to Spartan- Pros burg. Between Spartanburg and' congrei : room, Greenville, "one or two rough I means arrying stretc hes, also so u. ruction in i i, X X , progress for five miles leading into, Greenville." Mr. Wells pays his1 ^ up but f}rst compliment to the road between + when (ireenville and Hendersonvllle, + + + . which, he says is "one of the finest i mountain roads in the country. It Taki appio- js wj(je enough in all places for two boro > ristmas rara to paS9f an,j the worst grade is publisl less than seven per cent." Between pf,s's ? (lent's Hendersonville and Asheville 10 eal (le- ed Its miles of 20-foot road about com- ,i,.nrini ve until pleted. why in wn il- . -#?? wmrn is 10 say mat Mr. Wells ' ? , for thf imt n? round no really good road on his liat lie ' " const n shot -trip. an(l ?hile much of the road fj,0 n, 1 form cou'd be improved, we would he in- Denioc rlined to say that much of it is good perted tions f ie opin- road from Columbia to Richmond, order. shed to through Lancaster, Charlotte, Salis- no n(k( tandlng bury, Greensboro, Durham and becaus Hoydton, Va., is good road and some inet as lof it extra good. Mr. Wells ought to 'can ts Good- take another trip. States ent fr< t to be circles it is to Railway employes now want m?re|and time. Pay and we don't blame them; In oRgary fact, we don't blame anybody for' countr is with | wanting more pay. Getting it ls|ror(1 h splayed what counts. stumbi advoca e made retary ncealed By the amount of talk you hear on having the subject you might not think this frrAe o town is going to elect some officials Judice as put next week, but It's a fact. AmerR n those ran9 enerat- "There is nothing disloyal in a >r time Turkish bath." the State tells us. they ^ In any other kind? years. i LANCASTER NEWh TUESDAY, DEC. 4, 1917 VICIOUS RUMORS. < i uan agents and sympathizers * 1J3TTKR8 TO THE EDITOR. H $ country have started many * ^ rumors designed in one way other to foment sentiment Serious Times Ahead, t the Washington govern- To the Editor of The News: The reporte are flatly brand- There are many negro readers o .. _ . . your journal?the leaders of th soon as they come to the at- . ? race in soutn Carolina. I refer t I of the authorities. One or the pi.eacher8 and teachers; the test is that the government there are many white readers o mfiscate all bank deposits and your journal who would gladly giv is brought from Secretary Mc- 'n'ormatl?D and Instruction to th , . . . negro people. As I see it there ar the following statement: , . , . . . some serious problems ahead for th ong the many absurd and vi- next 12 months. First, the foo rumors put into circulation .. A. A days, probably through pro- Problem. The chances that th n influences is one that the prices of food will go upward Ir States proposes to confiscate stead of downward. Then there I on deposit in banks. The ab- labor problem. We can't pre ' of the statement is obvious . . .??.*, v. c face. These rumors are dl,ce food without labor. Ever> without foundation and prob- thing possible should be done t irculated for an evil purpose, get our people to sow wheat an overnment has no power to other grain, not only the people wh ate the money of depositors 1|ye ,n thp pmmtry ,)ut those live in the cities should get an acr ther rumor came out of Wes- Qr tWQ of grQUnd an(, 8QW whea, orth Carolina the other day to ry6t oats and plant everything in th ect that the German prisoners line of vegetables that will groi Springs were to be armed in from January to January. I neve . ... . * tell people to do what I am not dc to be in position to meet at- , ... ing myself; somewhere in Sout against the camp. Of course ^aronna i planted wheat last week parimeni or laoor ai wasti- The labor problem will continue t promptly denied that any be serious unless the negro and th bsurd action was in contem- whlte Peop,e can Bet together. Eve: A. A now there is a wood famine, peopl i, one official declaring that ...... ,A , . . in the cities can t get wood to bun eport is so ridiculous that it because there is no one to cut it needs to be denied." there is plenty of wood but the cut the German propagandists are ters and haulers are few. Our pec ind new and equally foolish p'e w^? farmed have plenty o , , " money" and are not dependent 01 will gain currency from time . , . . . . . wood for cash, at least for the pres ent. I found in the last ten day people crying for wood from Con 'IN THE DAYS NEWS." way to Rock Hill; the next cry wil he for meat. White and negroe d as a factor in the national must get together, co-operate am oblem. solve these serious problems; fo s coal field to secure relief. ' what hurts one race hurts the othe I more tugs for coal transpor- (and that which helps one race help ! tho nthnr T am nnt wrUlncr th la or awaits those who "save-up" ! j ticle for prominence nor to appea a use of wood. | a? a leader, but I am in earnest. d prices to be set. am only a preacher of the gospel o roads ^are moving to relieve je8U8 Christ and this is the gospe nte?n8tCv?ea campaign for use of ,httt every P?'e?"*her ?hould pmPhil size. "Children, have ye meat,' ness of cutting wood of se-, "CVather up the fragments that re uoment to men. | main, that nothing be lost." H just a few newspaper head- . who came to save man's soul als< lipped from our exchanges , provided bread and meat and taugh in one mail. There are lots ' eronomy" RICHARD CARROLL | Columbia, S. C. rs; we didn't get nearly all of ^ For instance, there are sto- |1K MKKS THK NEWS. iout municipal woodyards be-' abllshed here and there. We To the Editor of The News: ed one in this town sometime Thp wr,u?r having occupied a po . . . sit ion in public affairs for man future, and like the negros ; . , .... 'years, he appreciates what it mean - when he needs it lie needs j one jn a gjmilur position to knov '?but it may be next to ini- w hether his efforts are meeting w It 1 e then to get in tne wood imu r.ppro*'?? " dUannrnval of the pub lir inicipal woodyard. ^ You having recently assumed th De Saulles was tried for kill- editorship and management of th I>aneaster News, it is now my privi man, Gaston H. Means is jeRe an(j p|eaHUre commend yoi i with killing a woman. Hut most heartily for the noticeable ini n't know that that has any- provement in the news service nov :o do with it. furnished. j. The function of a local count; ident Wilson Is speaking to b?*?PaP*?- primarily, to dissem . , . inate local news of interest from al ss this afternoon?and thati ? , . . . . . . sections of the county in which it i something. located, and when it falls to do tha it Is falling short of its purpose. regret to say. that, until recentlj The News had fallen to the latte l> CRANGK .11 ST NOW. + category. In my judgment, you ar * making a decided improvement am no doubt you will soon be in positloi (Charlotte Observer.) to give us the news from all section ng its cue from The Greens- oi Lancaster and adjoining countic lews. The Union Republican, icgularly. led at Winston-Salem, sug- Wishing for you the best of sur i clean sweep in the Presi- cess in your work, and with kin Cabinet. "France has chang- regards, I am, governing body to meet thei Respectfully, ds of the times," it says, so; q caUTIIFN r>t President Wilson recon-1 Grimn. Oa.. Dec.. 1. 1M7. his Cabinet? We should say! , very good reason that no re-! _ - . - - - ? - ^ - ? ^ iction is needed except in ^ ^ ind of the Republicans. No . .. .. . ... . ' A Matter of History. ratic Cabinet could be ex- ^ ^ to please them and sugges- + + + or a change are at all times in i That President Wilson finds (Columbia Record.) esslty for Cabinet changes is The Anderson Mail undertakes t e he has about as good a Cab- scold the Spartanburg Journal fq i could be selected from Amer- publishing a syndicityted article i ilent. Affairs in the United which a Northern general is credil Kuveriiiiieui are quite timer- ea Wlin giving lien. i'. J. JacKBO im affairs in administration the pet name "Stonewall." Th in both France and England, Anderson paper very properly d? icause changes are found nec- clares that the name was given b there is no reason why this Gen. Barnard E. Bee, but coul y should follow suit. The re- have gone further and have state eing made by the navy Is the that Gen. Bee, the first Confederat ing block the cabinet-change general to fall in the war. Is burle tea cannot get around. Sec- in Anderson county, near Pendletor Daniels has the distinction of and, if we mistake riot, in the sam conquered over a greater de- graveyard with Commodores Shu f vicious and wide-spread pre- brick, Stribling and Stevens. than any other member of an ;an Cabinet. The Republi- She's Patriotic, who would bring about a Said the pretty girl i in the President's family will To her sweetheart, "Son, ome voting to do?more than For goodness sake ave been able to do in recent Don't call me Hun." _ ?Florida Times-Union. AVOID HIGH COST OF LIVING B\ POLIAKOI * SOLID LEATHER S ? We are in the lead to furnish yc n with solid Leather Shoes at prices cheat lf ..Men's and Ladies' Heavy Work Shoe e $3.98 up to $5.50. ? Men's Dress Shoes at $2.98, $3.98 up t e Ladies' Dress Shoes, high top, vici e patent leather at $1.98, $2.98, $3 98 up 1 d Boys' and Children's Shoes, all sizes. BOYS* OVERCOATS AND MA a Sizes 6 to 20, price $1 H MEN'S OVERCOATS AND M^ 0 At $2.49, $3.98, $6 ,i Men's Odd Coats $2.4! o Men's, Ladies' and Children's Raincoats : CLOTHING! CLOT] t. OUR CLOTHING LINE IS LARGER ? GOOD AND CHEAP. v Men's Cashmere and Kersey Suits at.. r Men's Serge Suits at $9.98 Men's Worsted Suits at $9.98 h Men's Pants at $1.25, $1.98, $2.98, $1.50 Boys' Suits, Serges, 3 to 20, at $1.98, $ ? $8.50. ? Roys' Pants, 6 to 20, at . .49c, 75c, 98c ! DRY GOODS Fine Poplin Cloth at 2 Good Serge, black and blue at. .49c, 75c Outings, Dark and Light Colors. Fancy Silks at Good Plaids at Suitings at 17 Percals at 10< White Homespun at " Fine Quality Broadcloth at Pants Cloth j LADIES' READY-TO r All Wool Serge and Poplin Skirts at a to $6.50. Ladies' Suits, Serge and Poplin at $8.5 r to $18.00. 1 Children's Dresses 49c up to $1.0 Ladies' Waists 69c, 98c up to $1.98. 1 Ladies', Misses' and Children's Coats ; I at $1.49, $1.98, $2. 98, $3.98, $4.98 up t Ladies', Misses and Children's Hats i 98c, $1.49, $2.98, $3.98 up to $6.50. 5 HATS AND CA Men's and Boys' Hats 50c, 98c, $1.49, $ Caps 25c, 50c up to $1.00. FURNISHING GO' Ladies', Gents' and Children's Undei Hosiery, Gloves, Corsets, Etc. : HONESTY OUR FOUNDATION, FAII DEALING OUR SUCCES M. PoliaL a NOT CONNECTED WITH ANY 01 r ? :|b^k^Join : I * j IN vf& ? > ir| * Only a little dime, or a nickel and a 1 n V is all you need, to get you $127.50 or $65 L- > Bring the dime or nickel into our R n > Christmas Banking Club. Then each w e Z deposit the same amount. If you ha\ ' 1*1 nickel 2 cents or 1 cent will do. y in so weeks: A 10-CENT CLUB PAYS $117 n I 5-CENT CLUB PAYS M ? * 2-CEHT CLUB PAYS 2fi d i 1-CENT CLUB PAYS 1J '* ; Or if you are "flush" ritfht now begin * payment and decrease your payments < l~ > We also have 50 cent, $1.00 and $5. > where you pay in the same amount ea< We add 4 percent interest. j THE FIRST NATION; > LANCASTER, S. C. '** TRADING AT I FFS SHOES >ur whole family 9 as ever, is at$1.98, $2.49, o $6.50. kid, gun metal, to $6.50. CKINAWS [.98, $3.98, $4.98 CKINAWS .98 up to $12.50 i) and up to $4.98 H1INU! THAN EVER. $8.49 and up to $18.00 and up to $18.50 i and up to $6.50 2.48, $3.98 up to ?1.98 up to $3.50 !5c Yard and Up and up to $1.25 ..98c and $1.50 .10c, 15 and up l-2c, 25c and up 17 l-2c and up .... 10c and up 98c 25c -WEAR $2.98, $3.98 up >0, $12.50 and up and Sport Coats o $18.50. md Caps at 50c, PS >2.98 up to $4.00. ODS rwear, Sweaters, \ AND SQUARE IS. toff I HER STORE. I V.V.V.'JI UAN j WITH I ittle "Stick-to-it" f.75, ank and join our eek increase your ; en't the dime or J .bo : 1.75 : i.60 1.75 . V i with the largest J each week. ji 00 or more clubs ih week. VI. RANK !: HMHHMMMiaai