Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PAGE FOUR TheLanoasterNew (SK.MI-WKKK.LV.) Established 1852. Published Tuesday luid Friday BY THE LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY liBncwttor, 8. C. GEOItUE BULLA CRAVEN Editor und Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year $2.< Six Months l.( Entered as Second Class Matt October 7, l'JOo, at the Postottice ; Lancaster, S. C., under act of (Jo gress of March 3, 187'J. The News is not responsible for tl views of Correspondents. Short at rational articles on topics ot geuer interest will be gladly received. "My Country 'Ti* of The?, Sweat L?r of L'barty." FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1918. SENTENCE SERMONS. When any calamity has been sul fered the first thing to be remen bered is how much has been escai ed.?Johnson. New customs 1U... 1.^ M ..1 J 1 i iioukii uiey ue never so riuucuiuui Nay. let them be unmanly, yet ar followed. ?Shakespear. There's nothing so kindly as kind ness, And nothing so royal as truth. ?Alice Carey. For malice will with joy the lie re ceive, Iteport. and what it wishes true be lieve. ?Yalden. A man should never be ashamei to own he has been in the wrong which is but saying, in other words that he is wiser today than he wa yesterday.?Pope. Life is put together considerably like a set of harness. There an traces of care, lines of trouble, bit of good fortune, breaches of gooi manners, bridled tongues, and every body has to tug to pull through. Selected. 4> KIHTOKIA LKTTEs. A lot of people would be million aires but for the tear of being black mailed. + Mr. von Hertling, as a matter ol fact, should not be taken too seri ously. * What has become of the old-tinx pessimist who talked about the fue shortage. + It is to be taken for granted tha the lynchers will be prosecuted "i f?n it t " 1 Of course it wouldn't have hap pened to Atlanta's mayor if hi: llradstreets rating had been differ ent. + The lied Cross is to undertake tli< raising of a hundred million dollar in a week, May <> to 13. Sounds big but watch 'em. + The American troops in Franc were accused of drinking too niucl and now of fighting too much Verily it is hard to please. + There is always something to loo] forward to besides the end nt th war?f'rinstance, watermelontim and the ol* awimmin' hole. + The editor of the Gaffney Ledge was reported to have $:?0,000 on day and the very next week it wa announced that the press meetin would bo held in Gaffney. + A writer in the Charleston New and Courier thinks he has found a antidote for lynching. About th best cure in our knowledge is to pu some of the lynchers in jail. Mr. McAdoo has promised to mov the peach crop, one of the dnlly pa pera tells us, blit Mr. McAdoo. bein a wise man. will hardly attempt t dictate to the peaches. O LKT'S HAVE A HIGHWAY " ASSOCIATION. Now that the spring weather is tl ? beginning automobile owners will ii begin to turn their attention to busi- tl neas and pleasure trips. They will ir ? begin to take note of the jolts in the u roads and will look back occasion- p ? ally to remark about the condition ji of a certain stretch which might tl )0 have been better if attention had si ~r been given it at the proper time, tl at Until such time as permanent roads r< n- . ... can be built throughout the south, aj ? we should make the best of what tl l(l we hare. A county highway asso- a: al ciation will serve to bring together o| the good-roads efforts hereabouts it: f and to make the roads throughout n the county uniform in traveling pos- is sibilities. le The News believes, without as- rt sutning the role of "flatterer," that J the farmers are today more interest- a _ ed iu good roads than the town peo- rc l>le. Many farmers are owners of w ? automobiles, but whether owner of su n motor car or mule team, they re- o\ aHzO (ho Vnlilo r\f tr4ww1 rnurlc find fo would become active members of a dc county highway association, the sole dc l~ purpose of which would be educa- ro )tional and constructive work leading ?v to improvement of the county's highways. 1 Automobilists derive more benefit e from good roads than any one else, and are generally willing to pay for th it. It should be borne in mind that ho good roads cost good money but are a worth it. However, a county high- dh way association, with a large mem- ad - bershiD amonc the nennlf* hnth r>f <11: the town and country districts in rel Lancaster county, could possibly do- trs \ ise means of improving roads to a 11h 1 great extent at little individual cost, ha . The ever-present necessity of prompt of action at certain places could lie met i.s s by a live association and repairs Mi made before being allowed to be- pi" z come expensive and such association 8 "on the job" all duiing the summer nu s would do work that will be felt next Th ' winter at the time when roads us ,.x ually become almost, and in some in- mi ; stances, impassable. l,o The country residents, the farm- nu cms, would likely be the most active re; < members of the association and a Th | county-wide membership would c.I J provide an easy, almost automatic, ist I source of information as to condi- na 11ions of roads in all parts of the wi f county. 10very automobile owner of . in the county should likewise become if a member, and. with the farmers, res I there would be a strong force work- tin 1 ing in the interests of good roads. Ob ' The kplit-log drag, the best piece l)a of road machinery ever devised for ol our present system of roads, has 'nl 1 been used in the county to a conf jsiderable extent during the past sev- on leral weeks, according to our various 8" correspondents over the county, and ? is now being used on an extensive sa s scale on several roads. The drag "b i should be put on the roads after ! every rain and in this way prevent , the road being ettt up by heavilyj leaded vehicles. Through organiza- 8,1 , ! tion means for dragging all roads in jthe county may be provided at nom- ua inal cost and in such cases as this, e ttie organization of a county high- er h way would prove worth many times tr l. its cost. tt The News would like to encour- P{ age a general discussion of the sub- th k ject in the paper, especially among a* e the farmers and residents of the 8P e rural districts. Those whose views 81 are favorable to the organization of re su? h association and those who are opposed will be treated with equal e consideration by the paper and m views should be expressed freely, ni g whether favorable or unfavorable, fc I 1 I The News would also encourage let- rs tern from the farmers giving auggestions as to other methods for imn It proving the roads. ? w t The Hon. G. Hog is to he congratulated on his admirable showing P (hiring the past week. sc i g And still it can be said of that o wreck that it was not duo to broken ta rails or rotten ties. ai 1 THE LANCASTER NE? SUKINU THE KAILKOADS. Indecision has been general as to le probability or possibility of sueig the railroads for injury or for. le death of a relative under governlent control. The terrible wreck ear Columbia Monday when twelve ersons were killed and many inlred caused some speculation on le subject but it has been definitely tated by Director-General McAdoo lat government control of the railtads does not bar recovery of dam?es, and this is taken to mean that i? railroads may sue and be sued i before the government assumed perntion. the only difference being i the manner of collecting judglents secured. Executions cannot sue. and a judgment will be colcted as in the case of one against municipal corporation. I As a result of the wreck at Frost number of suits against the railtad will likely be filed and they ill go into the courts just as did ilts before the government took rer control. There will be no difrence. In fact, when brought >wn to details in most any inci nt, government control of the ads is hardly seen or felt by the crage patron. 1 HIE KAlL.ltO.VDH AND NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING. The Charlotte Observer advances 1 e idea that "those of the papers, 1 wover, that are talking of making j. campaign 01 reprisal?who are tposed to make threats against the ministration?ought to be Imineately gagged." Tlie Observer is Ferring to the cancellation of conicts for newspaper advertising by e railroads on mileage exchange sis. and suggests that the printing J the schedules in the newspapers of such benefit to the public that . McAdoo will probably find it "a iiper matter for reconsideration." The News is disposed to treat thej itter as a business proposition.' e newspapers would profit by an i change of real money with th lroads; that is pay for the trans-' rtation used like other business! ti pay, and let the railroads pay il money for their advertising. | ere is no Ihl'AIJt III "ll fnninoiuii - ?? I reprisal"?or "against tin- admin- ' ' ;1 ration 111 that. However, it is the r tnral consequence that newspapers ^ r II feel in a lesser degree the call < the government for "free space" | ' the government is charged with | iponsibility in the matter of cut-1 g oft the exchange mileage. The I server, evidently considers news-! per mileage as bearing ear-marks I a "free pass," while there is noth-1 I i free about it. During the past ar most railroads put the exchange a "cash basis," agreeing to use many inches at so much per inch regular rates?but to pay for me in mileage at so much per ile. Many newspaper men felt at unless they used the mileage. | ey were not netting ?alue receiv. wliile the railroads fn some iniinces got their advertising in exange for mileage which was never ed. The railroads, either under govninent control or by direct conol. would be willing to pay for leir advertising and the newspa>rs should be willing to pay for eir transportation, while the niilete exchange may be, as the Obrver says, "an entirely legitimate irangement." There Is no more ason for a general custom to that feet than one providing for the exlange of the clothes the newspaper an wears for the advertising the erchant uses. Publicity in one irin or another, is necessary to the lilroads, even under government >ntrol and while the necessity for may be little felt now, after the ar is over and perhaps before, the itrons of the railroads will demand le publication, at least, of the hedules. + It come in like a lamb and detils as to how it is to go out will be waited with much interest. rS, LANCASTER, S. C. SCISSOItS AND PASTE. The Citing. (OafTney Ledger.) The only thing we hate about the Press Association meeting here this summer is that we will have to "put up" with Watson Bell, Kion McKlsslck, dairy Hiott and Jim Hammel for a few days, and we certainly detest that gang. On n Narrow Margin. (Cleveland Plain ealer.) 'A newspaper friend of ours, whose duties keep him up o' nights, entered a downtown restaurant at a, late hour Tuesday evening. He gianceu ai ine ciock, tnen at the calendar, then at the menu, from which he ordered a frugal repast Then he waited nervously. At the end of ten minutes he succeeded in catching his waiter's eye. "Look here, how long am I going to have to wait for that grub I ordered?" he inquired. "Oh. I guess it won't be long, now," yawned the waiter. "In a hurry?" "In a hurry? Say. I ordered a meal without meat because it is meatless day. And if I have to wait live minutes longer it will be wheatless day, and I won't get a darned '< thing!" < Watch Him. (Greenville Piedmont.) ? It was Dr. Samuel Johnson who said patriotism is the last refuge of ? scoundrel. Lots of scoundrels use patriotism in the same way that the \ *olf undertook to use the sheepskin. J rwo men in this town once had an J altercation. One. with much heat, > said to the other. "I'd have you un- ? lerstaml. sir, that I am a pentlo- J nan." The other smiled sweetly 1 ind quietly replied: "I have lived * n this world more than forty years ? ind have never yet felt that the oc- ci asion demanded that I inform any- it jody that I was a pentleman." He s? jad the right idea and a patriotism it nai rias to advertise itself needs bt etching. The human hops that in- tl .estimation has caught with their eet and their snouts in the govern- in nent swill trough at Hog Island are (>t ill self-announced patriotis. They is ave widely and loudly proclaimed ij heir patriotism. Some of them m lave made much capital out of the |( act that they are working for the al tovei nil ent at the salary of one do!- o| ar a year. They were not worth <) lint salary. They could afford it in I r( iew of the enormous profits it is disposed that some of them were makng. In short, it is well to watch ~ lie man who is vociferous in pro-(~ laiming his patriotism. He may be! aniontinging the treason of secret| amity to this country or the equal)-1 reason of "profiteering or grafting. i~ The Weekly Press. ? (Spartanburg Journal.) (] Not long ago a South Carolina lewspaper contained an editorial in vhlrh it was stated that the day of he weekly press Is a thing of the j iast; that times and conditions n liange too rapidly for the weekly to ^ ippeal to the public and that nothng less than a daily publication will j satisfy the public in any section, url?an or otherwise. In that editorial ;he writer demonstrated that he is ^ not familiar with the public; most "ertainly not familiar with the publie of South Carolina. It goes without the saying that those engaged in publishing a daily newspaper wish to have ns many subscribers as possible, but it does hot follow that we wish to rob the e weekly publisher in an effort to se- " cure these subscribers. If a man ' fails to realize the importance of a " weekly or semi-weekly newspaper In a small town he has overlooked a N very important factor. To present p the matter honestly we believe that S the weekly newapnper published in o a town of four or Ave thousand pop- fl ulation. has a greater editorial Influence than the dally published in a town of possibly fifty thousand In- ? habitants. The people reading the l> editorials in a country newspaper vi know the editor by name; they sa- g lute him as ".Tim" nw whatever else his first name may be s when they meet him on the street, and they know that their good friend is telling the truth as he sees it. a They realize that he has more op- e portunlty to read and digest than I they have and they understand that a he is better acquainted with conditions. If they read in his editorial that a certain condition exists, they K are ready to believe that It Is so. hecnuse they know that their good t friend would not willingly misstate (] n fact to them. They are willing to ( nccept liis word for what ii is worth Tills is not true of the subscriber " end the editor in a city. Unfortu- H nately, city people believe that the v F IATTEIS BO1 SEE MR. GRAEBER, FARM JOIN T1 I "PIG C : IF YOU DON'T GET IN NOW I THE OPPORTUN1 I THE BANK OF 9 I Lancastei I ? 9 I 9 9 i >f ft t # ## ? it ?? if t? ty folk know it all themselves and the any newspaper editor tries to pre- we nt a new feature, he is presenting \ in an effort to make his readers Son dleve as lie believes, regardless of dai le right. pos We are not prepared to say what an<l itluence the weekly press exerts in her states, but we do know that it a powerful factor in South Carona. Ninety per cent, (possibly . ore) of the weekly newspaper edi>rs in South Carolina are men of . sal ?ility and they are doing service ^ ' incalculable benflt and worth to , less leir communities. There are few. , Ion litors of weekly newspapers in this jiai ate who could be "bought" if Ne\ I nOKIMf^ RA - ? I rithin the town's history. The Are cer tarted in rear of the mammoth ' ales stables of Gregory-Hood Live tnr tock rompany on Gay and Cataw- 'iar a streets. The harness shop was tha lso destroyed and the flames leap- j d across Gay street and set on Are >r. J. F. Mackey's resWlence. and Ma cross Catawba street on the west on nd ignited the old Lancaster Led- "u VVa er office and from tlie latter biuld- .. t he ng the Are was communicated to iy,p he Methodist church, a few feet pri tstant all of which buildings wefe no1 onsumed. The elegant residence ''ol era if Col. Springs. Just across the treet, was In imminent danger, but for k-as saved by hard work. mu 0 TKX YEARS ACM) THIS I I ' MONTH. I Prom the Files of This Paper (Fi February 29, 1908.) The First National Hank and the ( avings Hank and Trust company, of ancaster's second and third flnan- er al institutions in the order of their der dablishment, moved Thursday into Mo leir respective new quarters in the ? c' andsome new Mackey building at inK le corner of Main and Gay streets, ?e former into the spacious apart- ' icnts especially constructed for the tor urpose facing on both streets and me le latter into the rooms on the "v< est fronting on Gay street. I l'10 faster conies this year on April ( on 9. tlie third Sunday in' the month. the The county board of commissionrs have let the contract to fill the ^ ig gully near Fork Hill church to j ames F. Roberson at $120, he being tie lowest bidder. The C'harlesboro school, taught by for Ir. Theron Gregory, will have a the icnlc at the Forty Acre Rock next ms aturdny, March 7. The public Is gee ordlally invited to attend with well- Hah lied baskets. I After enjoying immunity from a sen erious fire for some time, Lancaster Wa as on last Saturday night visited ^ Jor y the most disastrous conflagration the RIDAY, MARCH 1, 1918. ~jjfl ^Hafl ^Efl itionII ITS! II DEMONSTRATOR, AND H LUB" I , YOU MAY NOT HAVE ? I f rrn\r * a Li I LA1LK. |*1H Lancaster] :| r, S. C. 11 ; I re is a single one. Personally, I I do not believe that there Ib. | Ve are proud of the fuct that 1 I ith Carolina has so many splendid I 1 ly newspapers, hut wo do not pro- I j e to see the value of the weekly I I 1 the semi-weekly discounted. I Never Doubt That. r, I (Clreenwood Index.) I 'Will the Russian collapse make I I war last longer?" This univer-fl I question would seejn to require 1 answer that It will. Neverthe- 1 i the end is certain. It will take I ger, perhaps, than if it had not I tpened, but the allies will win. I I er doubt that. wCKWARD |1 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO | * inn Jiu^ni. | I rom the Files of This Paper March 1. 1893.) Jen. P. G. T. Beauregard, the hero j Hull Hun and the gallant defend- I of Charleston harbor, died sud- I kly at his home in New Orleans i nday night. February 20 at 10:30 lock. His death marks the pass- 1 away of the last full general of Confederate armies, lev. C. W. Humphreys left yesday for Chester, where he will H et with the Presbyterial execus committee, which convened re. lanai-ol \l'? ,1Il? l l ......... ....... I... Ill .MI iiitn uefll dered the position of Register of Treasury and has accepted the re. The position is a responsible 1 honorable one and the salary is tut six thousand dollars. I fudge Si in on ton in the United 1 tes court refused the application a postponement of the sale of South Carolina railway. As the e will be appealed, however, there ma to be no probability of the p taking place in April next. Messrs. I). A. Williams, L. C. Payr and E. O. Secrest leave for ishlngton today, and Hon. Ira B. ies will leave the latter part of week to attend the inaugural enionles. Vttorney General TownHend rened from Washington where ho I been to look after the State's e of the railroad cases. He said I Mr T I>.. .. .1 ? I - L .v ..... >. iii>iiuui|)u i iicrht nan ;n retained as counsel for the ^ te. Mr. Townsend stated that rch 6 has been fixed as the date which they will appear before United States supreme court In shrlnKton to ask for a hearing on A. i habeas corpus proceedings for release of the sheriffs from 1msonment. The Stnte's counsel, as v composed, is. Messrs. Tucker, rd, Jones and the attorney genI. lohn A. Itlrd, who has been sick some time, has improved so ch as to be able to ait up.