The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, February 08, 1918, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4
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TheLancaster N ew
( s K MI - VV KKKLY.)
Established 1852.
Published Tuesday and Priduy
BY TUG
LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY
Lancaster, H. C.
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rational articles on topics of gener;
interest will be gladly received.
Country 'Tib of Thee. Sw?ot Lar
of Libert v."
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 191
SENTENCE SERMONS.
Man, without religion, is a ere
ture of circumstances.?J. C. Har
The human heart finds nowhe
shelter hut in human kind.?Georj
Eliot.
He that is choice of his time wi
also be choice of his company.Jeremy
Taylor.
It is admirable to die the victi
of one's faith; it is said to die tl
dupe of one's ambition.?Lamartin
There is no dispute manage
without passion, and yet there
scarce a dispute worth a passion.Sherlock.
We view the world with our ow
eyes, each of us. and we make fro
within us the world we see. A weai
heart gets no gladness out of su
shine; a selfish man is skeptic
about friendship, as a man with i
ear doesn't care for music.?Ma
"U,VJ
1
EDITOR I.ALETTES.
Add to list already printed?Cli
bert M. Hitchcock, of Omaha, Ni
braska.
.
Doc. Garfield and Herbert Hoov?
are the worst-known men in tli
country.
The biggest mistake the Unite
States senate has ever made is Sei
ator Chamberlain.
With Mr. Hitchcock on one sici
and Secretary Baker the othe
we'll stake our money on Baker i
leas; or < .
+
Hindenburg says he's going in)
Paris by April. But we hard]
think the war will be over and fo
gotten so soon.
+
Of course if the legislature r
fuses to niake that appropriation f<
law enforcement it will leave op<
an excuse for non-enforcement.
+
"The Congressional Record thei
days is positively sensational," sa;
the Atlanta Journal. It may be b
there will be few to try to find on
"'York roads suffer," the 'steemi
State says in a headline. Not
great, however, as the folks wl
t'avel over them.
The wounded American w
wanted a steak and onions and
German was evidently bent on g<
tins two extremes?the best and t
worst.
+
According our training, to s
that a man "exaggerated wildly"
to say that he lied freely, but ma
be Mr. Hitchcock wouldn't put
that way.
About the only thing the autht
ftles are certain of in the Pitts-He
nessee tragedy In Western Nor
Carolina Is that Dr. Hennessee w
killed.
oj AUTOMOBILE HORSKPOWKK. M
^ ; Attorney-General Thomas H. Peeples
has addressed a letter to the a
? State highway department In which pi
he says that owners of automobiles th
who have forwarded to the depart- lei
ment prior to February 1, appllca- so
tion and remittances will not be pr
prosecuted for driving their cars pr
- from that time until the license- lal
plate is received without license, co
10 The attorney-general expresses the be
hope also that the State highway do
9i' department will employ sufficient wc
^'clerical aid to issue the licenses ap- th<
plied for without delay. The de- Je<
partment has made complaint that sa
. ... I
iu ; owners or automobiles waited until th<
al I
the last moment and then during the lai
? last days of January flooded the of^
flee with applications which could aft
not be filled in the allotted time. sio
The office of the State highway hei
department has probably been over- cit
worked but a great deal of the work cai
has been brought on by the depart- no
? tnent, itself, if The News is cor- tht
rc-ctly informed. Many applications me
= have been returned to the owners uo
]with the request that an additional be
horse-power be added and an addi- nin
tional twenty-five cents Included in a i
a~ the remittance. The S. A. E. does lot
e.
not deal with fractions in computing kir
the horse-power of a motor car, and be
re
owners whose cars were rated at art
twenty-five horse-power by the S. A. ful
E. made out their applications and Ne
U made remittances accordingly. If pla
? a car has twenty-five and a fourth tov
horse-power by careful computation, ir.f
the State highway department disre- ica
m gards the S. A. E. rating, returns the trr
1G
application and remittance and asks cit;
e.
for twenty-five cents additional, me
>,1 which doubtless the clerical work coi
is and delays the issuance of license. fiv<
Several instances of this kind have me
occurred in Lancaster. ag?
,n The News has not before it a | un
m copy of the automobile law and is of
ry not familiar with its wording. It
11" probably provides for a fee of b.v
"ll twenty-five cents "per horse-power be
10
c_ or fraction thereof." in which event <iu
the State highway department is en- Th
tirely within its rights In exacting is
]the additional twenty-five cents, butjthi
J the S. A. E. rating is generally ac- the
I cepted as officially correct, and in sin
view of the overworked condition of tin
ethe
State highway department's of- boi
fice, it would appear that the de- Sts
^ partment is "stopping up the spigot
( and opening the bung."
'i'
ADVERTISING. ovi
1(j A citizen of Lancaster saw the ad- dei
vertisement of an automobile paint leg
in a magazine, wrote the manufac- cot
turer for prices and was advised a
|e that the product he wished was on the
r, sale by a certain Lancaster mer- nr<
it chant in various colors and at mi
stated prices. That is, putting it un
plainly, it was necessary to read a thi
oj magazine published in New York hil
ly city and write to a manufacturer in f?1
> Buffalo, N. Y., to learn what a Lan- en
j caster merchant has for sale. An tin
"inch" of advertising in the local inj
f> newspapers can he bought under oil
>r I fifteen cents; the big magazines, m<
!n the Saturday Evening. Post, for in- th
I stance, charges $8.00 per agate line, eo
fourteen agate lines to the inch, or m<
$112.00 per Inch. We take it for ah
ys
granted that it is understood that sti
I the Saturday /Evening Post has a pe
' larger circulation than the local fo
. papers. th
ed
A local merchant can carry an fr<
so.
^ ad. in The Lancaster News 102 ir.
times for $25.50, twice every week tl<
for a whole year. He can advertise ar
h(> his automobile paint one week and It
a some other item in his stock the hi
,t_ next, and a citizen will not have to aj
ht. inquire in Buffalo or New Orleans sa
to learn what he has for sale. hi
1 The old saying that a merchant
ay has been here so long that every- al
is body knows where to find him, and hi
iv- 1 that therefore he dnes not need to tii
it advertlRe, has been dissipated ro often
that it sounds foolish. "
4
>r- Dispatches from the front indi- qi
m- cate that newspaper men are per- ef
th mltted to the zone of fire but It Is ui
as not recorded Just how many take tt
advantage tf the privilege. fc
I NEWS, LANCAS
'ATK8.; tors.' Whothei
ieea in this time to ap
isissip-1 for that purpo
ion of . ince of The N<
th the | the law-makeri
t may j to the situatb
eakish situations whic
le bill the future, Bhc
legis- in the enforce
ard or laws in South
uen to diligence is
>usand charged with
i who laws, prohibit!)
course made a laughi
>11 re- flciency reduce)
ournal
i that
SCISSOR
; such
BKINCJ, ]
llonod . . . .
To be, indeed
mmis- l,e'>
i have Is to be true
s and It ,s the test o
r and That 8,and8
heaven fa
)8t. If >T|s Truth th(?
ire of Tlie Qodlikei
ivern- man;
inder- The quality soi
iy can Tis truth lh
narrow sp
un A great reulit
let, is great,
ugh a As lack of it
what fame,
would De8P?8e<i. 'twill
'wait,
itures . , . .,
And, at the 1:
s use- shame.
The 'This that for v
nager men give;
small With"?t which
live.
usand
unomminis
Sad Days
m of (Charleston T
large- These are sail
i. the ,iC8' Coun,y P
the country, an
ng of partg ajHO ma(j
epart- while back. T
man- al" magazines
man, now- The con
. difficulty by c
harge
into bi-weeklv
; that the prohibition law d
no greater effort toward er
jnt tlint any other law am
ere were officers galore in
unty charged with law er
nt. That position Is unqui
ly well-taken, though c
ances render it expedient 1
trhaps more diligence in tl
rceinent of prohibition lawi
at of other laws by reason
equency of violation, and. in
stances, by people ordinari
s suspected of breaking law
ty rate, the Rev. J. Sidney
asking the present 'eglslat
s State to increase his salar
>proprlate a "cool" hundred
nd dollars annually for the
s department.
The South Carolina legislai
>out to kill, if it has not t
lied a bill carrying an app
on of $25,000 for law enforc
jed chiefly In running down
gors and bootleggers and
ho have been violating th
jart law. The News fears I
flciency of the prohibition
nless due diligence is exerci
le part of all officers and ex
>rt put forth to capture the
THE LANCASTR1
AN AC 3R PLAN?FOR 81
The Spartanburg Journal a
bill Introduced in the Mit
legislature a possible solut
e question of what to do wl
gislature itself and thinks i
uud like another bit of fr
opostttons, but "ain't." T1
ovides the abolition of the
Lure and would create a boi
mmission composed of ten d
paid salaries of four the
liars each per year, an<
tuld "run the State." "Of <
b Mississippi legislature wl
:t the measure," the J(
ys. "but we firmly believe
e time will come when some
v will be passed."
The plan, doubtless. Is fasl
er the city manager or co
n form of government which
en adopted by many towni
ies throughout the countr:
"ried out successfully In me
I all. cases. The architecti
t*se forms of municipal gc
nt, however, will have to i
many alterations before the
iitted to "running a State."
ig a State, as a matter of ft
rather big undertaking, thoi
of people, if they knew
id of a substitute to offer,
willing to admit that legisl:
the most expensive and les
part of State government,
ws is strong for the city ma
n of government for the
vn, say, of two to six tho
militants. It is the only eci
Uy efficient municipal adi
ition. The commission foi
y government is only an en
nt of the city manager plai
nmission generally consistii
b men. each the head of a d
mt. differing with the city
Br system only insofar as one
der the latter system, has c
all the town's affairs.
Whether a system may be d
which the affairs of a Stat?
handled in like manner
est ion deserving of great
e great trouble with legisli
that their laws are so const)
it the layman cannot undei
'in, and were court procedun
uplifted to the understand!
; average man, a commissi
urd might be able to ru
ite.
LAW KNFOItCKMKNT.
When Virginia went "dry"
srwhelming vote of the peop
r the "enabling act" passed 1
[islature, the oflice of prohi
nmissioner was created, ca
fat salary, and the sum ol
msand dollars in addition w
ipriated to be used by the
ssioner during the first two
dor prohibition toward enT
i law. Of course, the Job o
bition commissioner nat
1 to one of the prohibition
the Itev. J. Sidney Peten
ere were those to criticize.
pome fairly fti
e one- smooth.
for the It would ma
laws I?rence 'n ,he
tion in using
sed on _ . . .
People have I
:tra ef- |onK that they
i viola- biding at horn
llcations. It r
evised what the "nut
s may do.
is a There was a
study. ,y magazine I
America. It is i
atures . , ,,
that any daily
ucted COUntry like ou
rstand ,?nce such as is
5 once 'he newspapei
ng of Harls and Rerli
paper, however
on or . ,
this. That ch
n t'1R disappeared. I
a zone system
it. It is the
world is chanj;
. things are hapj
by an
low a puhlicati
le un- a weej{ (o fcePp
>y the tion. much les
bition ship.
rrying Here, for exi
. ... azine loaded d
f fifty
of the revoluti
as ap~ government in
com- railroads. "Hi
years subscriber. "Wl
ore in ir Clent history?
in is this Oarfii
f proweeks
later thi
urally t^e or(
work- render's though
i. and the war cabin
hold- ,,1P magazine
meantime Mr.
leservnbout
which th
iforce- .
ing. has sath
1 that doubts ami al
every Prance when P
iforce- arft getting int
cation- , So ,he story
for the magaz
ircum- j,no(, Iot a
to use Icsaly provincln
he en- realize, howevt
? than their occupatio
- .. some of them
?f the .
when the ner
many 0yPr_
ly lits.
At I*t
Peters (Oreenabo
It would ind
ure of
if everybody \
y, and ?and-clay and
thou- day or two.
use of moat probable
ful paaRlng of
is to be a spell
ture is .. V, ,
weather. Sui
ilready already been
ropria- shiny day tor
ement, drying west w
blind- fhHt' and ,f tr
them, the sof
I thnsA
rrait, s. c
r it is expedient m* |
iproprlate a large sum I
Be is not in the pror- MEME
9wg to determine, but
i should look well in??
a?d thfe ~ tnKljilf
h may confront us in
>uld there be a laxity ~ #
ment of prohibition (s0f71 lit Ctl
Carolina. Unless due .
exercised by those mere is n
enforcement of the
jn legislation will be Single won
"tock, and ,ta ef or old can joi
1 to a minimum. +
Married n
s and paste. youths canjoi
NOT HKKM1NG. of age.
, ami nut tu seem to *
lOc Weekly 25c W?
to God. to self, to all. For Weok8 Por 50 w,
f that fidelity YOU WILLYOU W I
^ unshaken tho the HAVK HAVE
great, eternal verity, $5.00 j .$12.5
less exemplified in
ne call sincerity. Thillk, koU) Cl
at makes life tho' a
.ha, makes ,,.e? ^ffoH is TeqUi
doth bar the way to Come in and
its own vindication tttkeS 0 mOmt
est, will triumph over
tiiie.h their very lives ^
they may never truly'
?A. H. Tavlor. "You'll Be Happy
If You Save."
i for Weeklies.
<ews and Courier.)
il times for the week- ~
apers in this part of n,ore n?t h?
id doubtless in other The general sus]
e the* discovery some business yesterday no doi
he so-called "nation? cd considerable necessity
are findinir it out aD(' hauling that would
mty papern met the have existed; and every c
onverting themselves oan a* a" manage to ke
and tri-weekly pub- aand-clay roads today a
emains to be seen row will be thereby in
tonal" weeklies will NV'1 h the general welfare 1
tent.
day wht n the week- AI1 this assuming
lad a real field in ,nantle <>r i(,e is not again
impossible, of course. <lown: a seasonable assun
paper can attain in a '' " should be, the thing
irs a national domin- horne hi mind for the ne
i enjoyed by some of
rs of London and I Strange Itcd-Fcllows N<
n. The weekly news- (Charlotte Observe
, had a chance to do ?. .
a nee seem, to have Th" II"k"'!' Recora '
t Is not the threat of operation of
which has flout i-nynil i ?^^?
fact that today the
;ing too rapidly and j.
jening too fast to al- L?V^ V^I^Vl
on nri nf #>H nnlv nnnn 1
i up with the proces
8 pretend to leader- TKN YKARH ACJO
MONTH.
imple, eoines a man- ~~
own with dlsouRnion l From the Files of T
lonary action of the February 8, 190i
taking control of the A London news agency
imph!" grunts the a dispatch from Tangl
iio wants to read an- there has been a battle b
What I'm interested French anil the Moors n
>ld coal order." Two Morocco, in which 10,
3 magazine is full of were killed or wounded an
ler. Hut by then theiibe French losses amount
its have passed on to i men, including four olfl
et bill. Next week Moors, with intrepid
has this; but In the charged right up to the
Maker's great speech, the guns until their corpsi
e magazine has noth- in piles on the ground,
sfled the country's It is reported that then
1 eyes are fixed on I cases of grip in Chariot
ershing's men at last are quite a number of ca
o action. community,
goes. We are sorry Ex-Chief of Police I.
line people, a pretty who has had a severe
wnoie, mougn hope-jgrip, was out on the strt
il. They may as well day.
sr. that, like Othello, I^aneaster's new counc
m's gone. Probably to work In earnest to li
will not be sorry condition of the town's i
ve-racklng agony is sidewalks. A committe*
ell, composed of Alderr
- Paysuer, E. W. Sistare
Them Dry. Davis, went to the South*
ro Dally News.) company's works at N
eed be excellent sense Wednesday and made a
vould keep off the the president, Mr. 8. W
top-soil roads for a nearly 900 tons of crushe
It is possible and al- be URed In street and si
that with the success- provement. The commit
groundhog day there President Heath the t<
of a different sort of rock crusher for $1.25<J
Tering humanity has to be paid for in crushed
vouchsafed one sun- Lancaster's rural ma
a change, and with a will compare favorably w
rltwl A 0 A -
iiiu. /* M-w nays or uny otner county In the
afflc could be kept off of the "boy?," Carrier V
t-type roads will be- Lancaster No. 4, has Ind
rm and comparatively the record. The other daj
weather was Intensely c<
ke a great deal of dlf- roads frozen hard, M
comfort and satlsfac- shouldered his mall sacki
the roads this spring, his trip afoot, returning
>een frozen In for so ter by four o'clock iiv th?
have become used to Cotton 11 1-2 cents;
ie, and a few days cents.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8. 1918.
IERSHIP IN OUR
IAS SAVINGS CLUB
ad ask about it
o cost to join.
nen, married women, young
in. I
ten, single men, boys and
in. Everybody, irrespective
pkly W)c Weekly $1.00 Weekly $2.50 Weekly
seks For 50 Weeks For 50 Weeks For 50 Weeks
Li YOU W ILL YOU W I L L YOU WILL
HAVK HAVK HAVE
0 $25.00 $ 50.00 $125.00
asy it is. Think, how little
red. Think, of the reward.
ask about the plans, it only
nt.
HE BANK OF LANCASTER
unendura- roads will help its town and that
pension of part of the State through the linkibt
obviat- up caroiina & Northfor
travel
.. . Western business with that of the
otherwise
itizen who Seaboard at Idncolnton. It will do
ep off the that very thing and it will work to
nd tomor- (he good of the people over a much
hatmony |arRer aroa of country in the same
to that ex- ? , , .
way. For one thing, the Seaboard
. .? <*nd the Cllnchfleld will be brought
that the
to be flung t)J*ck to the original basis of opera.
, tinn t "* *
iiiiiuu, imi .iiv nam uciwckii inese two
should bo roads at Bostic being taken down,
xt thaw. Through co-operative management
of these roads much relief in the
coal situation might be secured,
? 1/ongei. wj,en trains are running freely
again, to all sections of the State
hinks that between Rostic and the Atlantic
the rail-j Ocean at Southport.
G BACKWARD
THIS TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
! THIS MONTH.
his Paper (From the Files of This Paper
1.) February 8, 1893.)
published The governor yesterday appointed
ler, saying Hon. J. E. Breazeale, of Anderson,
etween the! "a commissioner to complete the
ear Settal wo?k contemplated and provided by
000 Moors, an act to provide for the revision, dld
in which gest and arrangement of the State
ted to 160 laws of the State of South Carocers.
The Una," approved December 23, 1889.
bravery, Columbia is to have a hosnitnl in
mouths of the near future.
as lay dead Chicken pox and niumps are making
their usual periodical rounds In
? are 'J.500 ^e town and county,
te. There There was quite an enjoydble
ses in this dance given at the residence of Mrs.
J. S. Gladneys by the young men
T. Hunter, iaBt Monday night.
attack of Governor Tillman appointed as
?ets yeBter- school examiners Prof. F. J. Smith,
of this place, and Prof. W. S. L.
11 is going Porter, of Heath Springs,
nprove the The Columbia Journal, an evening
ntreetR and paper, made Its first appearance on
s of coun- last Wednesday, the 1st. It Is a
nen L. O. bright and newsy sheet and we wish
and W. P. it much success
irn Granite Messrs. P. C. McDow and W. H.
!a?lll last Crockett left Tuesday morning on
trade' with the seven o'clock train for Dallas,
Heath, for Texas, where they expect to make
id rocks, to their future home,
dewalk 1m- Hon. T. J. Strait, who was retee
sold to cently elected to congress from this
awn's large district. fr?ru/nrHoH ?'
, icniKllHllon
i, which is a? State Henator for thin county to
rock. the lieutenant-governor on last
II carriers Thursday. The governor will order
Ith those of an election to fill the vacancy oausState.
One ed by the doctor's resignation,
filliams, on John Mackey. a section hand unleed
broken dor Mr. H. T>. Smith of the Riverside
/, when the section of the 3C'a. died Friday a.
>ld and the m. about four o'clock from the efr.
Williams frets of a dose of morphine taken
s and made through mistake for quinine. A few
to I/ancas- days ago his wife found a little
? afternoon, package on the streets of Lancasseed
27 ter which she supposed was quinine,
and It. was this that John took. I