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/ ??? Tf VOL. 23. NO. 29. SEMI- WEI AMmCANPEOPLl WAR BREAD DIE o ? RATIONING SYSTEM ~ TO CONSERVE FOODi" don'l Meatless and Wheatless Days' ^ Are Increased By Proclama- ^ tion of the President. WILL SAVE GREAT AMOUNT 0 Mr. Hoover Estimates That Ob- ? servance of Regulations Will Save 15,000,000 Bushels of use. Wheat a Month. good what good Washington. Jan. 28.?The rattl American people go on a war bread twin diet today as a part of a war ra- wint tioning system prescribed by Presi- gotti dent Wilson and the food admin- prov istratlon. The reduced rations are sitio asked for the purpose of creating a prop larger export surplus of food for the Whe allies. Curtailment of consumption the will be accomplished largely by vol- they untary effort, but force will be em- what ployed wherever permitted unde; to y the food control act. good The rationing system, as pre- kood sented by the president in a procla- to tl matlon and by the food administra- auto tor, Herbert Hoover, in a list of reg- that' ulatlons, forms the food admlnis- road tration's 1918 food conservation top program of which the chief features Pr?tl are: lotta A baker's bread of mixed flours, wa8t beginning Monday with 5 per cent try ' substitution of other cereals for wheat until a 20 per cent substitu- 1 oa(' tion is reached February 24. way. tor; Sale by retailers to householders of an equal amount of substitute flours for every pound of wheat flour rtnrchnned nt Iho timo tho uhoul * ~' hous Four is bought. corr Sale by millers to wholesalers and wholesalers to retailers of only 7 0 per cent of the amount of wheat flour sold last year. Two wheatless days a week? Monday and Wednesday?and one wheatless meal a day. Hep, One meatless day a week Tues- I day and one meatless meal a day. Two porkless days a week ? Tuesday and Saturday. "Manufacturers of macaroni, spaghettl, noodles, crackers and break- rom fast foods, pie. cake and pastry will ,.om be permitted to buy only 7 0 per cent K j of their last year's purchases. Flour ej,a| will be sold in such a manner that nrov each community will receive its pje equivalent slyi re- elect The food administration will pur- fjie chase for the army and for the al- (>ar( lies, as announced recently 30 per men cent of the flour output. to t Wheat millers are required to n(Kl) produce one barrel of 264 pounds <p| of wheat, which represents a 74 per cent flour. No patent or special the flours may be manufactured, al- arte though whole wheat flour may be J(Ut made as usual. 5 Hotels and restaurants will be f()r classed as bakeries and will be re- (jon quired to serve the new victory bread. rent State food administrators will be 8j(le permitted to designate the wheat- |jom less meal In each State. vide The president's proclamation be- lng Hides calling on the public for a fur- (jje ther reduction in consumption an(1 makes a renewed appeal to the l couf housewife to save the waste of food. r|pg There is no forcible limitation of ^njv purchased by householders and In (firo this connection the food administrator says: ^ "The effectiveness of these rules ' Is dependent solely upon the good will of and the willingness of the ** American people to sacrifice." rase Of the nearly 20,000,000 house- here holders In the United States, about 13,000,000 have signed food administratlon pledges to follow its connervation plans. ^nnc Mr. Hoover estimates that ob to h servance of the regulations will save ronn about 15,000,000 bushels of wheat t the < month for shipment abroad. This ,al<l will enable the allies to subsist, although their ration will be short. Engl Most of the allies are mixing brea about 40 per cent of corn meal and "I other substitutes with wheat flour In tern 11 baked bread and all of Europe Is Mr. milling a large amount of the whole We wheat grain. Both France and'comi iE LA EKLY. L \ PUT ON T= T YESTERDAY r BUD BIGGS SAYS? lr. Editor, it seems as how folks t realize how bad are the roads until old Col. Winter VvAm gets In his work," said / Hud Biggs as he began '-21 _L cleaning his jimmy-pipe l^|n with our solid-gold let ter-opener. "It's sort naj^p o' like shingling the Louse, Mr. -Editor. When *1 1 lt 8 ra'n'D > nobody can j J go up on the roof to shingle it, and when it's not rainin', there's no All summer the roads are ?that is to say, passable?and :'s the use o' spendin' time and money on 'em when a Ford es right along as smooth as a -six; then again, Mr. Editor, in ertime, when they get bad, you i wait until the weather iines to tix 'em. It's a bad propon. Mr. Editor, this good roads La aganda, or words to that effect, n the roads don't need it, what's rapt use o' workin' 'em, and when ed J do need it, it can't be did. Hut _ t this country needs most, next ams and food conservation, is n|Ml 1 roads?good roads that Btay 1; not just draggin' the sides up le middle and leavin' it for the mobiles to smooth out, tho' s better than doin' nothin', but b with a bottom in and then a put on that bottom. I get it ty straight, Mr. Editor, that a Th , perfectly good money has been ed on road buildin' in this counbecause they weren't built right ? o WIUJ in w iu UUllU lUZ^l] s. the right way and the wrong We'd oughta do it, Mr. Kdiit'll cost a lotta money, hut it's Sale h SO -and Bud went up to the court le to see if they'd swept out the of idor since the Fourth of July. * IERS OF STATE MAY J<^ PASS ON BOND ISSUE 'tenth' murd wi . , . ? , the ti . Seahrook Heads Sul>-< oiiimitele? ti tee in Charge of Itesojution heing for Itefereiiduin. noun* u ent inur. nlumbia, S. C.. Jan. 28.?A sub- man mittee of the ways and means ecutic mittee of the house, headed by confe M. Seahrook, of Charleston, as that 1 rman, is preparing a resolution which iding for submission to the peoof the State in a referendum Th< Lion the question of increasing induli bonded indebtedness of South point* Una by $4,000,000, as recom- again ded by Governor Manning, read Alfrei he general assembly Wednesday Hams t. house he resolution would provide $1.- Cown 000 for permanent bridges over woult streams of the State connecting sessio rial highways; $1,500,000 to On m the State on a cash basis, and Chest 00.000 for permanent buildings comni State institutions and the erecof an offlce hujlding to house Wi various State departments now tor ft ing in the city of Columbia, out- ed th of the State Capitol. This last for t would be so divided as to pro- Thon: $400,000 for the offlce build- Gyles and $1,100,000 for structures at Charl Institution for the Deaf, Dumb Gaffn Blind at Cedar Springs, negro F. VN iges at Orangeburg; reformato- Vtsey for white and for negro youths, Greer rersity of South Carolina, Win- way; p college and others. W, D ? Blsho 1. .1 .lOIIV'hlOV TO IIL' i nettsi EXAMINED ON FEBHAJAIIY 4 1:010,1 Ichmond. Va.. Jan. 28.?The ? Fee of Dr. Lemuel J. Johnson, held on a charge of having poisoned . f bride of a few weeks, will he nitted to a grand Jury for con- Hr>|fj ration February 4, It has been , dry g >unoed. Lorn1 detectives claim } ppe(j ave secured additional evidence lectlng the young dentist with jeath of the girl and this will be before the grand Jury. at si have land have recently cut down the (1 ration by almost half. soldlc 1 the voluntary rationing sys- high falls In this country It then," the i Hoover said, "is up to congress, which have no powers and no law to make >el people to eat less." face. _ **u JMCAST1 ANCASTER, S. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF CAPTURE! This photograph shows the first American soldiers ors in a German pomp. It was published in a Ge Vnterica through British official sources. VS OF INTEREST WITH THE OVER THE STATE DURING' t Items Picked Up Here, I^incaster Repr tere and Everywhere for troduces Hill Busy Readers. Local Grad< ;ro is electrocuted increase in of "Monshine" Liquor to "Bone-Dry" Hi! fdiers at Cantonments Johnstone Pas lusing Officers Great Deal For Automoh Trouble. bodied in Sen;i tn Gardiner, a negro, paid the Columbia. S. (\. me penalty at the State peni- following are some try Friday morning lor the | introduced in the 1 or of a Beaufort merchant t?y Kershaw Delega tamo of Schein. Gardiner was j resolution to einpo ocuted at 11:20, three shocks, trU8teG8 Rethur given him before he was pro- District No. 22 K< ed dead. The condemned man borrow money to ri to the chair without a ntur- .\i,,ore- A t A brother of the murdered faxa(,'on ()f p.opert who was a witness at the ex- crea8od HXrept by >n stated that Gardiner had rounlv board ,)f a ssed to him some time ago Saluda Delegatic Ite was guilty of the murder of an RCt enlitIed ..A| 1 hc was charged. section fi of an ac to provide for a li p State senate granted further an(| a ponaltv for I gence to the committee ap- same . .. approved ] Bd to investigate the charges aR (o ino,ude th,, , st Former Chief Game Warden jn th(> prov,8lon8 t 1 A. Richardson. Senator Wil- ,er Pa!rfield> Ed made a statement to the upper) \ewberry Bambf to the effect that Senator Me-, Kershaw,,orry. , continued unwell and that it derson Abbeville. 1 he Tuesday before the first ,U(|a and by prf)V|d m of the inquiry could be held. bl,tjon of ,hf> fee, ,otion of Senator Laney of ?a|d an(, ,)v ( erfield the senate granted the persons from tho , littee further indulgence. ftC( |n (he conntie luda and Lexingtoi llfatn Elliott, food administra- ,uda oounfy >r South Carolina, has appoint- M,. Wim/ard an( e following food administrators furlhor p,.ovlde fo] he following counties: S. (1. ponsJons to ronf, .son, Abbeville; Herbert K. nnd (he|r wj(,owH . Aiken; George W. Williams. eston; Nathan S. Littlejohn. n?. i ii Mr. Long. Tc r. Risher, Walterboro; W. IF. coun*y board ol . St. George; F. F. Beattle. ronn,y supervisors iville; D. V. Richardson, Con commission, or olh J. H. Witherspoon, Lancaster; '^Ps charged with i. Byrd, I^aurens; C. B. Ruffln. ma'ntftnance, surfa pville; Josiah J. Rvans, Ben- county highways, /llle; J. Lowndes Browning. 'a'n property for p l_ with the construct surfacing and repa leral. military, county and city wayis have launched a sweeping Mr- Berry: To ligation in an effective crusade of the crlmin p the Illicit sale of whiskey to contained in Volun rs at Camp Sevier In this bone of laws of South itate. The Investigation is acts amendatory t) on reports that moonshine the commitment t ey manufactured by stills in white boys to and y mountains is being sold to Carolina Industrial vldiers In large quantities and Mr. MoCants: 1 itortlonate prices. Instances 4040 of the code i been reported to the deputy Carolina of 1912, tor of Internal revenue where viding for advance rs have been known to pay as party demanding Ji as $10 and $12 per quart for nines- To 10-called "white Lightning." 160fi ' code of ,aw| is said to be mean enough to ?na 1912 Volum< a rabbit spit in a bull dog's (Contlnned o ER NE! , 29, 1918. > AMERICANS IN GERMAN CAMP. taken prisoner in France being questioned b rnian propaganda organ, "Weld im Bild," and SOLONS GERMANY HOSTI IKE WEEK TO PEACE Tl esentative In- President Wilson's Air Relating to Acceptable to Teuto ?d Schools. Authorities. SCHOOL TAX MAY BE STARTING II of Senator Exrhn nirp of Poll ro Vioi ises?Protection! tiring Conciliatory Do ile Tires Em-' Amonp All States Not ite Kill. Peace Negotiations. Jan. Uij. The (lerntany. through hoi of the new bills chancellor, Count von llertl House: Austria-Hungary. through lion: A joint eign minister. Count Czern iwer the schoo" made replies to the peace ie High School the allies and the I'nited t ushaw county, to tecently enunciated hy Davi in school. Ceorge and President Wils >ill providing that j though both affect to see tl y shall not he in-, hility ol coining into agreem the consent of! their enemies on minor po ssessors. j concrete bases essential to f in: To amend I declared to be unacceptabh n act to amend The German spokesman t entitled 'An act compromisingly hostile ti cense for hunters jortiy of the peace aims as failure to procure ward hy President Wilson, March fi. 1 ! 15. so seriatim in his address the "ollowing counties which Germany would not c >f said act: Sum- accord. Count Czernin w gefleld, Richland, moderate in his treatment ' irg, Spartanburg, dent Wilson's ideas, decla Jickens, Gee. An- President's viewpoint, expr Union and Sa- his latest address to congres ing for the distri-ed that there was less inco a 0<\l I Aoi O/l iin.lnw I U * * , ........... iiiuin ny Deiween Ausiria-ttunf exempting certain the Fnited States than ha<l provisions of said to be the case, s of Chester, Sa- Front the German standp n. relating to Sa- cordng to Von Ilertling, th at ion to France of Alsace1 S. E. Smith: To js beyond the realm of di r the payment of Regarding Belgium, he ederate veterans that its restoration could b up to the year only in peace negotiations, Germany never had demur i authorize the incorporation of Belgian r commissioners, "by violence." Likewise. . county highway of procedure in the evacu er county author- Northern France must take the construction of Germany's vital interests cing or repair of, agreed upon between Germ to condemn cer-? France. urposes connected As to Poland and Hall ion, maintenance. chancellor said the ir of such high Poland and the Balkans readjustment of the Italian amend Section ]|eB with Austria, while the al code of 1012. tion of Russian territory ae II of the code only Russia and the central Carolina, and all Germany, he added, considc lereof relating to the Integrity of Turkey ind discharge of safety of its capital wer from the South connected with the questio I School. Dardanelles, which was of To amend Section terest to Germany, of laws of South With regard to Russia Volume 1, pro- Czernln said Austria-Hun; ment of costs by B;ped no annexation or ln<! ?*T. ?"not a metre of territor; amend Section kreutzer of Indemnity"?I t of South Caro- Russia could have peace > I. to provide a maintained the same stand] n Page 8.) (Continued on Page I ws SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR ~BUILD POSTOFFICE 11 AFTER WAR CLOSES Sec. McAdoo Writes Congressman Stevenson Explaining The Delay. -1 rs/vm/r* XXKiKIiS KKSOUKCES H Work Will He Progressed and Pi the Huilding Completed as Rapidly as Possible After Return of Peace, Secretary Says. i (Lancaster will have no new postoflice building until after the war. The fact that the government needs all the resources of the nation in the prosecution of the war is responsible for the delay. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo has written a letter to Congressman W. F. Stevenson, of this district, explaining the fcSj | I matter and stating that the erection ; of the building will be progressed as S I I rapidly as possible after the return of peace. > theii Mr. McAdoo's letter is as follows: reach- Washington. Jan. 21, 1918. My Dear Mr. Stevenson: Because of the pressing demands I |? which are being made upon the flLLi nanciul. industrial, labor, and trans_ ___ portation resources of the nation for MlrMV war purposes, I have directed that Ullit**/ the construction of public buildings be postponed, except where the neceHsity is so urgent that the public r*S iMOl interests would suffer by such postinic ponement. Among the buildings authorized is the postoffice at Lancaster. S. C., which is in your district and which POINT I know you and the people of that town desire constructed at the earliest possible date, but here is the tVS May situation. SCUSsion We are engaged in a great war, Now in a war in which tho very safety of America is seriously imperilled. We cannot win this war unless every resource of the nation is carefully . , husbanded anil used with the utiniperial . A ,,, , most intelligence. The great finanling, and cial operations of the government, its for- , , . greater than any ever undertaken in. have , by a government in the historv of terms ot . , ... civilization, make it essential that dates as , , , . every unnecessary expenditure by <1 Lloyd- . * the government, by the States and on. Al- , , municipalities, and by private corhe possi. , potations and individuals be avoided ent with ' ., while the war is in .progress. Unlnts, the .... , , less this is done it will be impossiteaoe are ble for tli opeople of the United States to furnish the money which was un I ( vi iimcm IIit \K* 1(1 8UDo a ma- t # # r port the soldiers and sailors who are pat forshedding their Mood for us upon the treating battlefields. In my annual report to >se upon . . congress I stated that it would be onie into necessary for the government to abras more e . . sorb, if needed, all the available of rresiring the caP'ta* an<* savings of the country if the requirements of the army and essed in ' . navy and of the other branches of is, show.. the government were to be met. I am in pat*. 011. advising cities and towns throughtar v and * . . out the country not to erect public seented buildings while the war is in progress. I cannot, while giving them oint. ac- . this advice, consent to the construce restor, . lion by the government of the llnitLorraine eil States of public buildings which scussio n. , , are under the control of the treasdeclared ... , tit v department. In other words, e settled , . .. . we must set an example for the but that * ,<!?.,1 ,h.- ??"?' ? territorv ' am certain there is not a patrimethods vitizen who is not willing to ation of sul>niit to inconveniences to help account w'n war- an(' I am sure that the i and he people of Lancaster, when they anv and know the facts, will be more than willing to have the construction of their public building deferred a tans. . , . . short time so that the money which fate of wouj(j otherwise be put into it, may and the ^ usetJ (o l)Uy foo,j an(j clothing frontier an(j animunition for the gallant sons cvacua- south Carolina and other States concerns W|,0 are g0jng out to fight and per haps to die for their eountry. (red that and the 1 am askinK lf y?u wil1 bo ?ood e closely enou^h to ,ot ,,ie PeoP'e of Lancas, .. ter understand the situation, and be n of the .... assured had the war not come to in America, there would have been no unnecessary delay in the construcOount t|on tjjj8 huilding. It will be Katy de- progreBafifj as rapidly as possible aflemnities tf>r the ret?rn 0f peace, y nor a tnd that Sincerely yours. |f flhp W. G. McAdoo, point, as Secretary. Hon. William F. Stevenson, I.) House of Representatives U. S.