The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, January 01, 1918, Page 4, Image 4
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LancMter, 8. C.
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My Country Tig of Th?o, Sweet Land aQ(j t
of Liborty/*
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Published Tuesday and Friday a ve,
BY THE
LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY. t0
Established 1H52. to th'
- newsj
GEORGE BULLA CRAVEN the c|
Editor and Manager
denyi
Entered as Second Class Matter v ho
)otober 7, 1905, at the Postofflce at facts.
Lancaster, S. C., under act of Con- .
iresB of March 3, 1879.
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Tuesday, Jan7T~i918. _ otio* 1
?? these
SENTENCE SERMONS. condit
? starte
It is better to make a mistake in . (jvan
humor forge invincible armor.?Beth
Bradford Gilchrist. Mat"
newsp
Ignorance is not innonce, but sin. the b
?R. Browning. for fr
A habit of prayer and a sense of quent
trying to tell the truth than never PaPer
to tell the truth for fear of making swami
a mistake.?Anonymous. "copy'
bureai
It is a maxim of old that among
themselves all things are common to coP*~'
friends.?Terrence. basket
The c<
"Heartily knows, been 1
When half-gods go,
, niattei
The gods arrive.
?Emerson. cf ?n'
tempt
What boots it at one gate to make to gra
defense. |tg
And at another let in the foe?
..... do soi
?Miiton.
4, The 11
EDITOR IAI .ETTES. public
*?0? J war tl
So long as the yams last we're, (ho f()
safe- to oth
+
The
Old General Debility also has
. . , return
been taken prisoner.
ing. '
A ?
The man who talks loudest is not ,n ,ts
always the man who says the most.
blame;
What we want to know is where paper,
does the eoal go that is being ship g'ins i
ped. Con,
4* espooh
Now that the holidays have passed
per. tl
the natural consequence is to pav for
v mark
\ the fun.
\
General Byng's tanks are not like P'a'nl>
V. those 'hat ~et heir fuel through the t'01'*01
\ express oti ce. time i
\ - * ,hese
I5f telling the truth about war soribei
preparations the administration may fonntr
get into Y ' lass by itself. cfflce t
\ + curate
And toda*>' the day for the reso- ed on
lutions to be Apade even though to- force
morrow they be broken. has si
v
?? ?compli
Next acquittals on" ,the docket: 0|
Claude J. Piersol, Dr. Asa W. Cham- p!0mp
berlaine. Dr. Lemuel J. Johnson'. > tt^o f
~ * " tountf
Of course it is quite possible to ^y^en
salvage some of the neckties and tjjey a
cigars and pay for the presents you cjass ,
eavft.
cais?
* mail ti
We have with us today?Mayor
mastei
Stewart, of Lancaster, South Caroniake
Una. Our hat la off to you, Mayor
reveni
Stewart.
rever
_ be, ha
If congress passes the suffrage
amendment watch some bachelor- t*ie f)<
.. .. ... n,Rn R
editor take a census to determine
how many of the law-makers are r'romF
of the
married.
^ anxiot
Mr. Baker didn't, hut he might K<!t
as well have said that he pins lit- "Th
tie faith to peace talk coming from in mj
Germany. other
merin
If the government would bar the eon fc
Congressional Record from the result
malls, if serving no other purpose it Landc
would conserve print paper. that A
mm mm > ? I..** *.r
"jtirs. '
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THE LANC
[\G THE NE^bPAPERS AND! and give service
THE POSTAL SERVICE. J He has saved m
ople who do not know that the j recor<i in that
... . mail service is ba
papers have been heavily taxed ;
I not getting what
ie government since the begin-1 department has
of the war are not conversant money to tran?p
the facts. Lots of people are j fail to transporl
> learn the value of advertising regularly.
idvertising space in newspapers "Subscribers w
or the benefit of those we quote the Landmark ret
y upt though old illustration, are asked to con1
L: advertising space is the same office. Hut they
e newspaper company or the | the Landmark, a
japer man as suits of clothes to and the country
lothing merchant. There is no jff every time thej
ng that assertion by anybody after satisfying tl
approaches a knowledge of js not in the ofli
Therefore, to ask a newspa- they will tile a coi
ompany to give space in its office department.
>aper for the publicity of any the postmaster gi
r is the same as to ask the you are a subscrl
ng merchant to give you a suit pers or periodical
allies. In further substantia- livered promptly t
if the assertion ttiat advertising on writing the cai
is the newspaper's stock in sand such complai
every inch of newspaper ad- office department
ing space has a production cost months, they migl
; newspaper. sion. The postm
vspapers. however, are patri- not read the cai
i be rally patriotic. Not only in j plaints will make
war times, but under ordinary time if they are a
ions. Every movement that is service warrants
d looking to the betterment or Tho t *r
cement of the community and subscribers is a go
is Riven free publicity by the I Landmark says, ]
aper, willingly, freely. Since daily reach the
eginning of the war requests ment they might
ee publicity have been so fre- sion. Neither is I
and so heavy that the news- class to Itself. T
man has been literally is likewise afTect<
jed under an avalanche of to this office are
" from this bureau and that some remedy app<
j until his desk is covered, his j ?
looks over-filled and his waste-1 WIMj KXI*KI)
L likewise works over-time.! The taking ove
damns of the newspapers have (j,e r;ij|roads by tl
teavlly taxed with all kinds of i . . ..
have the eftect ol
r, much of it to the exclusion |
ness anil The New
er and better news in the at-,
diction that no i
on the part of the newspaper j
felt. The movent
nl the requests upon it and to
is, was found ne
"bit" to win the war and to
dent Wilson in
ne service to the government.
more effectively w
ewspapers have given wide
ol transportation
ity to the liberty loans, the
ciency and exped
t'ift campaign, the lied Cross,
porta lion of war i
od and fuel conservation and
t- rials will be givi
er and numerous causes.
all other classes
newspaper asks nothing in ... .
' 1 will not mean tha
for its service and gets uoth- . .. . . ..
ulation and civil
The delivery of the newspaper . ,
ue ignored or siue
subscribers is seriously lacking , . .
pose, stated siinpl
lieiency and the subscriber , usiness nf tran
? and complains to the news- Uni(ed States w,t,
The newspaper generally A? the railroad8
and beats it. ! co-ordinated as o
iplaining of the postal service, tation system iind
illy as it afletds the newspa-'ned so that much
he Statesville, N. Land- cation may lie elin
says: I This act of the
e Landmark has more coin- cf history, the 1
i front subscribers about the ; rarely been knowr
y of the paper than at any known in the fut
n its history. Practically all crcise of a great
complaints come from sub- gravest crisis t
s in distant parts of the known. Secretarj
y. (Ireat care is taken in the a constructive nii
:o get names and addresses ac- gineered successfi
and the paper is always mail- and industrial pi
time. While the Landmark's, the support and *
is not infallible, investigation experts which t
lowii, in per cent of 1h? i usiness has pi
iiints, that the fault is not in heads of the railr
[flee. The paper is mailed out compose the wai
tly, ith the address given byjtinue In that capa
mbscriber. The trouble isjretary of the tre
to be in the postal service. | general, and this
the malls are congested. as railroad men as t
re now and have been, second (>f the railroads.
mail?newspapers and periodi
are neglected if any of the PIT THK
tan to be neglected. The post- Conditions in t
r general, in his efforts to no shape to tole
the postofflce department a ness, as "armed
te producer, something It was jn fact, "armed r?
intended to be and should not no leas nor more
,s practiced economy beyond may be conslate
junds of reason. Not enough revolution. In
re employed to handle the mail formed people, w
?tly and efficiently. Kven many the Industrial
> soldiers in the army camps, World or membe
is to get the home paper, can't association. cann<
with any regularity. fort to hinder 01
e Landmark finds no pleasure ment in the proae<
iking this complaint. While the great war, ar
newspapers have been ham- be guilty of such
g Postmaster General Burle- put in Jail until t
>r his management, which has informed and tl
ed in Inefficient service, the zens.
oark has kept silent, hoping The governmer
dr. Burleson could save money lenient, should
'-A ; V * " a v
ASTER KBW8 TUESDAY,
at the same time, j further than Is
oney?made a fine j the law, in hand
direction?but the guilty in the hug
id. The people are throw social ord
they pay for. The They should be .
no right to take respect to who
ort mail and then and their punishn
t* it promptly and and severe. The
: porting of arms
ho fail to receive copt in the servie
jularly and on time should not be pe
tinue to notify this the government
will do themselves, "d, the better it
11 other publishers are none short
generally a service j traitors they sho
r fail to got papers, ! position to gover
icmselves the fault pylng on the war
Ice of publication,' may call it by >
nplaint at the post- Piease, but the m
Write a card to ant* soul with the
eneral, telling him conflict is a trai
iber to certain pa- j according to rub
Is that are not de- 'deserves to be sh
>r regularly. Keep! There should I
ds. If a few thou~!w'th any man w
nts reach the post- unarmed resistan
dally for a few '
it make an inipres
aster general may + SCISSORS
rds. but the ccm-|4*
an impression in <* + + + + + + +
,s numerous as the Thicks of
and are kept up." (New Yc
s suggestion to the As the house
>od one, and, as the VV11S about to ad
if a few thousand da>'8 U *ave a *
1 of its sensitivene
postoffice depart-,,.
H v the war revenue
make an itnpres- special session, <
the Landmark in a supertax of 8 per
he Lancaster News! *n excess of $6,0
, . . public officers, r
?d and complaints i
i Pretending now
so numerous that thlg fayor thc m
?ars necessary. j 54 to apply the
I public service, ii
ITK BUSINESS. dent and judges.
,? of the United Sta
r and operation of
the compensatioi
le government will shaI1 "nejther b<
stabilizing busi- minished during
! which he shall 1
s hazards the pre- ftnd that the (.om
iepresston will be al jU(iKes "shall
ent, gigantic as it during their con
icessary by Presi- of course, the 111
. for this bill knew
order to grapple
that it would ther
ith the titanic task no morp (hnn fo
with greater cffi- judges. If the e
itlon. The trans- est. in the first p
iccessities and ma- snid of ,h<>
peats the offense
en precedence over .
' trick?
of traffic, but this
it the civilian pop- ( Portugal I?
ian businesss will (Rrookl;
tracked. The pur- Apprehensions
y. is to handle the OVPr ,hfi robel
which accomplish
sportatlon in the ||irow|nK the c
\ greater efficiency, subsided, ai
of the country are formal announce
no Pnoa " '
the operation uni- saya there waH
behind what vvn'
routine and dupli- ,, . , ....
Portugal still i
uinated. stand with the
President is a page wafi minister of
ike of which has !,et formpd Marcl
been promoted to
i and may never be ? , ,
' affairs and prrmi
ure. It is the ex- , The president is
power to meet the rest of his term
his country has course, al
.... , . , military power
r McAdoo, being of
less than 6.000.0
nd and having en- ,no,udlllg the \
illy great financial scription-militia ;
oblems, will have operation in Afr!
o-operation of the mi,?h to the nllic
Angola and in M
he transportation
2 5 per rent mor
induced. Present Portugal, and a
oads, five of whom *700,000 square m
- board, will eon- <ler her flag. Hei
city, under the sec-' ^onf> a Kreat deal
! fierman grip on 1
asury as director-: . . ...
i a Job which is n
s insures practical , compllshed.
he operative treads
niSPONTINrATl
m
* IN JAIU The
his country are In ment announces i
rate such lawless-i aPec'al wl1' he
. . . , ? I tween Ashevllle i
resistance of law," i _ ?
' effective Sunday
instance of law" is count of condlu
than rebellion and by the war.
ntly classed as a The last sleep]
itelllgent, well-in- will leave Cinc.In
hether members of 2-'th. and the
... , . 4. northbound will
Workers of the a .
Saturday. Dec. 21
irs of no order or Thig traJn wU
?t conceive an ef- Charleston and
hurt the govern- present schedule,
mtion of Its part in baggage
dining car. Th
id othei-s who may _ .
carry a parlor c?
attempt should be ^on and Ashevlll
they become better the Pullman ?U
lereby better citl- he ellminat
ing as much com
the traveling put
it should not be gou^j,ern
how no mercy, tinue Its throu*t
.yywjyr *;w- ^ ^ v ^jrr,
JAN, 1, 1918.
contemplated under ? ?. ??
iling those who are
e campaign to over- MEMBE
ers the world over.
singled out without II
?r .t ,rrInKlj 1 IY1/
aent should be swift
> carrying or transor
ammunition ox- CoiM HI
e of the government
rmitted. The ooonor! IS I
clamps down the
will be. Agitators Single WOIHC
of traitors and as ?
uld be treated. Op- Offl Cflfl JOttt*
nment plans in car- -"
Yo? married me
vhatever name yon youths can join.
an who Is not heart ( of age.
' government in this &
[tor, and a traitor, ~ ... , . , ,
lOc Weekly 25c Weeklj
38 long established, yor 50 Weeks For 50 Weeks
ot- yoITwill you w 1 ii i
be no dilly-dallying HAVE HAVE
ho offer, armed or ?5 QQ ,$12.50
ce to the law.
-
Think, how
am. 1-astk. effort is require
+++++ +++
ConmrssiiuMi. Come in and as
irk World.) of
representatives takes a moment
Innrn r... ??-- *- - ?
v..?. .1 i .11 ni? noil-'
ondorful exhibition I ??.
s8 to criticism. In i
law passed at the! Till
congress imposed a 1 III
cent on all salaries !
00 expep, tho?e ?f| -Koa7, & W
lationil and Stntp. If You Save."
to deny themselves
embers voted. 9 5 to "
1 act to all in the * ~
iduding the Presi- nintj car service on trains 9
The Constitution between Columbia and Cir
.tes provides that over the Carolina Special ro
l of the President the following schedule:
1 increased nor ill- No. 9, northbound, leaving
t the period for bia 7:05 a. m., arriving Cin
lave been elected." 8:10 a. m.
pensation of Fe'er- No. 10, southbound, leavii
not be diminished cinnatl 8:10 p. m., arriving
tinnnnee in office." bia 11:40 p. m.
nety-five who voted S. II. Mcl
it was invalid and
efore nnply to .hem 4.<t4>4?4..|..|..|..|..|.4. + + .|i
the President and +
v ision was dlshon- + State Comity or llost i 1 it
dace, what shall be 4.
ortnance wh >h reunder
cover of a
(Columbia State.)
"It strikes the Courant tl
i l>e|ictidalde. desired discrimination betwe
i n Fagle.) courts and the mob is not sc
in entente capitals drawn." That is an expressio
lion in Portugal, |our intelligent contemporn
ed its end of over- Hartford. Conn., that wot
osta niiristry and 1 worthy of its elucidation.
re sot at rest by a! imagine for example that th
mont from Major North Carolina should ad
ho movement. lie view as the principle of pr<
no pro Germanism with relation to South C<
i done and that j Were North Carolina to assut
stands, and mhst;a<'ro88 the imaginary lino divl
allies. Costa, who! from this State the mobs a
finance in the cabi- courts were identical it wo
i 1 5. 1916. and had 1 tantamount to assumption
minister of foreign | courts and law had no exist*
er, is under arrest ' South Carolina. It would th<
to he exiled for the itself as a haven for all Soutl
of ot'lee. Portugal | Una's criminals, whereupo
most neglible as a i South Carolina mobs, perceivi
in Kurope, having the return of a criminal ?r<
db fopulation, even | border State was impossible,
/.or s, and a con- exert themselves to take time
army. Hut her co- forelock and prevent the cri
!ca has meant very escape. The supporters of t
s. In Guinea, in and the courts in South Ci
[o/ambique she has compelled to admit that the
e subjects than in tence was not recognized acr
t'dal of more than border, could make but feebl
lies of territory un- to the contention of the m<
r native troops have short. If South Carolina's e:
to break down the as a civilized State is to be
[he Dark Continent, by the other 47 States of the
iow pretty well ac- can republic, the task of thos
in the State to maintain a c
order is thereby rendered
ON OP THE almost to the point of impos
LROUKA MfCClAL " the BUH>ort- ,e*al and m<
all the other States be wit
Railway manage- from one. is not that eqwlva
that the Carolina condemning that State to
discontinued be- |?rn, presupposing that th*
ind Oakdaie, Tenn., forces sympathetic with mob
December 30th, ac- hnrhnrlmn u/lthln in
one brought about! Practically It would be wit
power of Georgia and Nort!
Ing car southbound Una, the two States bordering
natl Saturday, Dec. riously to impair the integ
last aleeplng car South Carolina as a commo:
leave Charleaton, established in law by the slm|
8th. cess of severing legal relatioi
1 continue between i It and that precisely is the t
Ashevllle on the elusion to which hy pitiles
consisting of mall, Governor McCall's course <
i cars coaches and West Virginia would lead,
lis train will also We repeat that the escap
ir between Charles- criminal is in itself not a
e to take place of matter, provided the commoi
>eplng cars, which be forever relieved of him. I
ed thereby, afford- same thing as the old punlshi
fort as possible for exile or transportation. Wer
die. our criminal class to depart
Railway will con- ly upon the commission of th
i Pullman and din- crime, conditions would ?
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RSHIP IN OUR
IS SAVINGS CLUB
? .v
asb about it.
cost to join. h.
n, married women, young
n, single men, boys and
Everybody, irrespective
i
r fM>c Weekly $1.00 Weekly $2.50 Weekly
For ISO Weeks For 50 Weeks For 50 Weeks
< YOU W I 17 Ti YOU W 1 li I. YOU WILL
HAVE HAVE HAVE
$25.00 $50.00 $125.00
m mi ? ? - - - '
y it is. lhink, how little . ^
\d. Think, of the reward. I
;k about the plans, it only K
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E BANK OF LANCASTER
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and 10 ideal in South Carolina and an inicinnati
Hatiable appetite for revenge would
iute on not trouble even the mob for long.
Meanwhile, the suppression of
Colum- mob law in the South, or in Illinois
icinnati and West Virginia, for that matter,
will be delivered so long as those in
lg Cin- Massachusetts, Connecticut and othColum
er States emphatic in their detestation
of it set themselves in hostile
-oan. array against the courts and the es?
tnhlished State governments.
> 4* 4* 4* Massachusetts and Connecticut
4* can not make the world or even the
V? 4* United Stales safe for democracy by
4* claiming that it is to be found only
. 4. 4. 4. 1 within their boundaries. I
I
Prohibition in Dillon.
lat the
en the (From the Dillon ?
? easily Lots of us in Dillon remember
in from Saturday afternoons in the fall
iry of months when the old dispensary sysiId
be tem was in operation. The same old 1
Let it week-end drunks were pulled off aB <J
e State regularly as the day followed the
lopt its night. I
icedure Ladies did their shopping in the 4 1
irolina. other week days and mothers warn- !*
lie that , ,??l their children against going on
iding it | Main street Saturday afternoons,
nd the j)0jjce iiarl their hands full,
uhl be there were numerous flat ftgl^s and
,,1af every now and then another murder |&
snce In was a(j<je^ to the town's long list of
>n offer tragedies. H
(l Caro
n TilK WOMAN'S PAKT. H
ng that
om the
would To tho Kditor of The News:
by the ^ Our men are beginning to march
minal's j away As the months go by more
lie law nn(] more 0f our families will miss &
arolina. X
ir exis- sons' brothers and fathers from their ff
oss the (lccustomed places. In a few more
e reply months or weeks we shall be read- Bj
ib. In lug in casualty lists the names of
tistence those who will not march back to us,
denied or who when they return, will come K
Ameri- with halting steps or empty sleeve. |
.. nlOi. TTnAn ~ "
,v ? ,vu mo iucu ma hoock or Dattio 3
ivllizqd will fall, tiut upon the women rests 1
difficult the equally hard and important task 1
sibllity. of looking out for the comfort of our 1
>rul, of fighters in sickness and health, and j
hdrawn of easing the sufferings of the <1
dent to maimed. 1
barbar- Only an exceedingly small nutn- I
ere are ber of our women folks can be Red 1
law or Cross nurses, or can be active in |
hospital or field, caring for those |
bin the who fight for us. The others must. i
i Caro- serve as they can at home. Thelr's
c it, se- is the hurder job of being cheerful
rity of in waiting and in working. ;
lwealth These are the women who have f
t?le pro- responded so nobly to the request 1
ns with from the Red Cross for hospital i
he con- supplies and for knitted articles for . ?
s logic soldiers and sailors.
towards Many earnest women through- ?
out the country are giving W
?e of a all the time they can to this work, - A
serious but there is much yet to be done,
nwealth The Red Cross furnishes the matet
is the rial, and we believe that the women J 9
ment of of the United States will do all their <V|
e all of duty by doing this work and doing ll j
Instant- it now.
elr first Mary Inez Sistare. 9
loon be Riverside, 8. C. W