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PAGE FOT'tt TheLancasterNew! (SK)ll-\YEEKIiY.) Established 1&52. Published Tuesday and Fr iday BY THE LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY, lauicastei-, S. C. GEORGE BULLA CRAVEN Editor and MunuKer SUBSCRIPTION PRICK: One Year $2.0 Six Months 1.0 Entered as Second Class Matte October 7, 1905, at the Poatottice i Lancaster, S. C., under act of Coi gross of March 2, 1879. The News is not responsible for tli views of Correspondents. Short an rational articles ou topics of geueii interest will be gladly received. "My Country 'Thi of Thae. Sweat Lar of Liberty." TUESDAY, MARCH 12. 191! SENTENCE SERMONS. Those beings only are fit for sol tude v. ho are like nobody, and at liked by nobody.?Zimmerman. The fellows who claim the war d< partment "has broken down" wi now have to explain how Mr. Bake got to France. Leave the vain, low strife That makes men mad?the tug c wealth and power? The passions and the cares tlui wither life. And waste its little hour. ?Bryant. Most of all the other beautifi things in life come by twos an threes, by dozens and hundreds Plenty of stars, roses, sunsets, rain iju? n, inuuicin ?iuu MUiurs, it mil cousiusr?but only one mother in al the wide world. -Kate Douglas Wig gin. A man must not choose his neigh bor. He must take the neighho that God sends him. In him. wlui over he he. lies hidden or revealei a beautiful brother. The neighho is just the man who is next you a the moment. This love of our neigh bor is the only door out of the dun geon of self.?George .MaeDonald. HDITOItIA l.ETTKs. Trotzky trotzkied. f It there is no shortage in onion and beans the country is sale. + This is the month in which style; can't regulate the length of skirts. + I lieing patriotic, we would tak< great pleasure in paying income tax + A very effective remedy for (Jer man agents in this country is tin firing squad. + Mr. Baker has the right idea he' not taking anybody's word for it bn has gone over to see for himself. And if Mr. Chaplin can interns the people of the South in Libert bonds as well as in other ways, he' . the man for the job. + "There never was a better oni look for a mint crop in South Cart Una," says the Columbia State. Ye; Ito, but what's the use? + The suffragists have begun bon barding the senate and the senal will save trouble in the end by tal ing note now. While it may please the senator I - opio ex'ent we don't know that tl New York World's coming out l champion his re-election will ha\ much to do wiih the result of tli counting of votes. + If we knew who started this part graph we would give him credit, hi we've seen it in at least three diffe ent newspapers: "We had a plot of Victory pie in a downtown restat rant the other day. We know no why it is called Victory pie. W couldn't down it." , \ ' ? WHY OVKHIXK>K FKDKHAL AIO?| C 1 J Lancaster county is not included 1 ! in the list of counties making ap plication for federal aid in the construction of roads. Many couuties ' throughout the state have already _ ! taken advantage of the federal appropriation and have made prepatu. | tious to meet the provisions by which the government furnishes a dollar o ! u | for every dollar put up by the coun- e - | ties. The counties, as The News un- * [,'derstands the proposition, do not i j necessarily have to put up its part 1 _ I in money, but its equivalent In con- ( ie I vict labor, material, etc. Some c ; money, of course, would have to be e appropriated, but not all. The i _ News is not informed as to the t amount available for this county. It 1 is based upon the mileage of roads, t but every thousand dollars that Is i spent in permanent road const rile- t tion counts for that much toward a id system of good roads, and this op- 5 "" portunity should by no means be t ft. overlooked. 1 = , The roads hereabouts, as The ? News has remarked on several oc- c casions. compare favorably with t those of any section of the state, I i- , _ iiiii iimii.i me vn*- i ui*- i a i in-1 | l e than the exception. Doubtless they c are better than many sections, but. even though they were the best in' " 11 the state, there would be no justtflcation in that for delaying further ~ improvements and new construction. ^ And to fail to avail of the opportu- t nity to secure the federal apportion- a >f t meat is to lose not only the amount p . that might be secured from the gov11 fi eminent for the roads, but double that amount. According to the apportionment ' for other counties, twenty to twenty- 11 ll % i live thousand dollars would be avail.1 ! 1 s \* able for Lancaster county on tli^ic; proviso tliat a tike sum be raised by , " s the county, and this is an opportu-l' Hjnity too good to miss. Mlt. LKVKit'S I'KOIt.VllhK <\\\- !, DID.U'V. N i-1 |( .. Senator Tillman's announcement i- that he will seek re-election to the y 1 United States senate and the situul-jo 1 | taneous announcement that Uon-'tl i RK'ssnian Lever "may" make the '' i v . race "if convinced that Senator Tillman cannot win over the two op-Jjr | ponents already in the field" in- n | creases the tanglements ot an al- ? ready tangled political situation. " l 1) , The friends and supporters of Sena-, | lor Tillman will never concede that If. he cannot win. but Mr Lever, on Hi >i 1. ; other hand has a perfect tight toj'( convince himself otherwise, and gen- ? orally a politician seeking ofTice can! s i manage to sec the things he wishes ' p to see, politically. The News would ' c say nothing disparagingly of .Mr. j ' ! Lever, as a congressman; he has s i a t served his state well and occupies a ^ | prominent place in the congress. As t I chairman of the committee on agri- a culture, he is in a position to he of 11 treat set vice not onlv to South C'aro- 1 I v lina. nut to the nation. Senator 'Tillman is chairman of the sen-1 ^jate naval affairs committee. At thisis ' jtime, when agriculture is such an ' j important factor in the conduct of ( * ithe war. these two committees may he regarded as the most important j jot the congress. South Carolina is t S, indeed fortunate in the committee! ! assignments of its senators and re- 1 ( presentatives, but is threatened with ^ the loss of some of this prestige in the problematical announcement of x i, 1 Mr. Lever. Albeit. the state Is ( threatened with loss of Mr. Lever's j services entirely. The News aslf> sumes that should Mr. Lever make the race for senator, he will resign , \ is congressman; and if defeated will; J return to private life at a time when 1 ,, lie could be of great service to the {J l(. state and nation. Or. if elected to < to the senate, the state will lose the sern. vices of Senator Tillman and his itni,. portant committee connections, while ! Mr. I.ever in the senate, a new man, j would he little heard from for some r i- time. it In other words, should Mr. Lever i- make the race and lose. South Oarolina will lose one, and should he win, 1 will lose two very serviceable reprew sentatives in the congress. It would e he indeed unfortunate at this time to lose the services of Mr. Lever and t THE LANCASTER NEWl ioublv unfortunate to lose both his | 1 lervlces and those of Senator Till- N nan. Well-posted men who follow 1 c closely the dial of the political ( dock see no possibility of the bauds j, ?ver pointing to either of the three s tnnounced candidates who oppose a Senator Tillman: in fact, rountim ! '' VIr. Lever as a fifth entry into the p icnatorial arena, they see little pos- ( libility of the defeat of the senior c icnator, and thpugh, were it foreseen 1 vith a degree of certainty that Mr. 1 I L,ever would be defeated and Sena:or Tillman re-elected, the friends v if the latter, and the people of the state generclly would have cause for egret in Mi. Lever becoming a can-] itdate by reason of the sacrifice of! lis usefulness in the position lie now | jccupies, which would be sacrificed I >ither in event of his election or! s hat of his defeat. | I Mr. Lever represents tlie seventh s louth Carolina congressional dis- 1 riet, composed of Calhoun. Lee,,1 .exingto.i, Orangeburg, Itichland and luniter counties. He was a member >f the state legislature from LexingI on county for several terms before j n >eing elected to congress, and has,s ?een re-elected to congress each sue, v ceding term since that time. c a XOT THE TIME TO SWAP HOUSES. u (The following from the Chester-j1' iehi Advertiser voices a sentiment a hat is growing in South Carolina and (( 11 over the nation. The adminis-la ration in Washington needs the sup-i' mrt of all people and Inexperience; w i? * it* ? ai 111 tt i 11111 \ i j n a oe.) | si The patriotism of many a politi-ia ician is being put to the test just , ' ' iow. and as the political season de elops the test will become more'0' evere to those who are standing it M ffl >n the other hand there will appear uany whose patriotic impulse is en- 1 irely subservient to selfish interests.!51! This line of demarkation between " he patriotic and the selfish will not e manifest in the campaign for lo- 1,1 al or county offices, but it will be s' cry evident with relation to nalonal affairs. The present administration at Washington is now in fine working! rder. We have as president one of lie most able men in the world to as. He has surrounded liimself _ ith a competent and trustworthy! \ a hi net. These officers are supported i the main by loyal and competent) jembers of congress and the senate,, ?en who are already familiar with 10 f: ritflc burdens now being borne y administration officials. I It is evident to every voter in the' ?nd that the fine working force now acking the administration ought not | > he disturbed. We believe every j t ne of our readers will agree with s in the assertion, that every conressman who is supporting the administration under these trying cir-j, umstances ought this year to be re-1, lected without opposition. I When a man gets the congrcasion1 "bee in bis bonnet" he must l>e a i rue blue American before his pa-j riotism will rise above his personal mV.tinn. for nothing distorts a jan's perspective quite so much as. It's same congressional bee. It ls! . . ? v #1 i l!i ! !% 11 1*1 ?? JIU'W a it Mito 1* un ? 1 ... hings in their true proportions. aj Wo take groat pleasure in pro- 0 anting to our readers one such pa-jf, lot. In the sixth district, two |, :irs ago, Mr. Julius (\ Mclnnes ran j (j he lion. J. W Kagsdalc a verv close' ^ ace for congress, and Mr. Mclnnes [(| tad intended to make the race again a his year. Mis letter follows: I tl Darlington. S. 0.. Feb. 10, 1018. j, Ion. J. VV. Itagsdale, ^ House of Hepreser.tatives, Washington, I). C. 11 >onr Mr Itagsdale: i a 1 am writing this 'otter to inform i e on of a decision that 1 have recent- i ? v mode and which under the cir umstances you are entitled to know, j V^ tnv vote in the race for congress , 8 II 1 I I) WHS NO Hill INI anuiy lO Illl? I II tail decided that I would again b? i ?j n th?' race In 1 ? 1 R and believed that! . nv chances of success wer?* good. j 1 However, I have always believed > 8 hat personal ambition should be ' | oibservlent to tlie public welfare and ] (| r am now convinced that it 's my lutv not to oppose you for congress j ^ his y?ar. It is mv linlief that those ; I who have supported thP national nd-'i ministration in the oisis through , w hich we have passed and are still i missing should be allowed re-elec-l51 Hon without opposition if possible, j < This is no time for politics and the i t people of the nation do not desire j more of them that thev can pos-i "Ibly avoid. FeelinR this wav I he- j ' I'pvp it my duty to write you frankly j ? >nd to say that I will not oppose you t In the coming primaries. I j Very truly yours. Julius 8. Mclnnes. : ' We believe it will not require the i * insight of a soothsayer to see our point. It is this. Congressman W. t F. Stevenson has been in congress I long enough to get into harness. He <#l Is working very hard and making ' S, LANCASTER, S. C. limself useful to the administration. ^ vhtch he is loyally and patriotically >1 >acklng. For the next two years he an be of more value in Washington *j han a new man. It would be a >1 lardship on all concerned if he >#j hould be compelled to leave his work *] nd come back to his district to fight >1 political campaign. .we nope mis will not be neces- |J ary. It would be a fine thing If hose who hear the buzzing of the V ongressional bee in their bonnets in J he fifth congressional district, would ! ! ake this cue from Mr. Mclnnes' no- V ile conduct and leave our congress- J nau alone to continue his important * kork unhendered. V AltOUT MR. MURCHIHOX. "Drafted" a Man. V (Spartanburg Journal.) V ,The draft is certainly getting some v plemlid men. Itev. Hugh It. . durchison of Ijancaster, has been ' ecured by the State Council of l)e- ?' euse as Held agent and a better J nunc tuuiu uui uau1 uccii uiaut*. |w( ? : Hugh It. Murchison. , (Columbia Record.) The State Council of Defense has < J1 lade a wise selection in getting the ! ! ervlces of Rev. Hugh R. Murchison or field secretary. Mr. Murchison v 1 < .'as pastor of the I'resbyteriau - < hurch at Lancaster and he devoted great deal of his time and energy o organizing the work of the coun- . il of defense in that county. Ilis lethods and his success coiuinaud y tie attention of the State council. *< nd the executive committee arrangil with him to give up his pastorate y nd go into the field for the broader *' ork. >1 In formally accepting Lho com mis- *1 on. Mr. Murchison Thursday made *1 brief statement to the State coun- *1 1 which touched the members very S | eeply and made them proud of the laracter of the man who will repre- ?. ?nt this hip work and the members ^ >el sure that not only has Mr. Mur- evj lison the ability and the enthusian, but he has a way of putting ^ lings that will arouse the people .^j trie State to the necessity of meet- ( ig all questions promptly and re- ^ lonsively. This work sought Mr. Murchison ljn >r it required a man of force and t > has (|ualilled. ,ee his v: i I SOSSOllS AXI) TASTK. yje t wc ( roi-gia View of llie Tillman fandidacy. (savannah .News. i | ""l The whole nation will take a g"n-| Ka' ine interest in the announcement Pe" S natoi Tillman, of South Caroi.a, of his determination to seek ^-election. The llery and pictur>?iue Carolinian has changed his iind since he gave not ire two 01 iiee years ago that he would not aslc *'r< >r another term, and it is likely that *>v jtside of his own state, where oi oor >urse the interests of other can- "pr dates wiil lead to some regret, few 'a'< usons will l,e disposed to <|uestioii ie veteran's right to rescind his for- -s,r ler promise. Whether numbered *'ei inong his admirers or not, all of us ill be inclined to consider with reject the explanation which Senator ',ni illnian offers. His change of mind. (f"f lereover, is undoubtedly attrlbut-1 ^hi l?!e in laige. measure to one thing ''-v hicli, though not assigned by him wo s a reason, has won the admiration a" f everyone who has been fully in- wa e , i Wined of it; that is. his rntnarkn- i ' I*- and successful light for a restora-1 on of health when all except hlm-ja K oli* conceded conquest to the inala-| "lf y that had seized him. The calm j wa nd unshakable resolution and faith i0" liat carried him through to the en-|m,< lyment of "the best health that he;Ka! as had in years" ought t) be held.w^ P as an inspiration to every man - ma nd woman who is too easily crush- mr d by the failure of health or other; w' ilsfortune. '1' Today, in his seventy-first year, an enator Tillman is perhaps the most otable "come-bnek" in America, 'hough not often, if at all, indulging u such outbursts as those which i ;ave him the name of "Pitchfork j ten." lie is attending quite accepts- a dy to the heavy duties of the office tot le holds; and It should not be over- ('a nuked that these duties now include wl he chairmanship of the senate's bo is?val committee. It may be said 'ni ilso that the disappearance of his, ild rendiness to make spirited at-jaf* acks while on the floor of the senate; ih' las been dufc less to enfeebled health han to a gradual softening of his'0' ittltude towards his fellow men nnd a* o a better mutual understanding"1 >etween the north nnd the south of he Issues which most often loosed <Pf tenator Tillman's, withering fire. He efers in his announcement to the at ime vvhen he was ever ready to re- So urn two rocks for every one hurled it the people of the south. Despite he bitterness that marked his re- th I \v*v.v.\\\v.\y*y.WATS77i The Bank o lias boon designated United States Oovern posits in payment for NITR of SC The Hank will not the Nitrate of Soda u plying has received n eminent of the amount the necessary deposit t When the Nitrate < shipped, each applicai and all are urged to < Mich notice is receive! lotincnt out promptly. The Bank o Lancaste >nses anil the criticism that in ( . tably followed, it was indeed sel- g u that his stand was upon other n solid ground, and gradually s fact began to tell in the signs of .11 nHllllnilinn ~ W. ~ ?- 1 - .. > ? Oil IIH- 1141 I I 111 |1 1 M publican colleagues. <] A characteristic Tillman note s gs in that part of bis announce- f nt which declares that he would c 1 like a deserter if he abandoned s duties in Washington now. The ei 1 of his people may force him to t; Id his place to another man, for > men already are in the field 1:11st him and a third is strongly ipted; but the old war horse Is quitting, and for that he will n yet other friends among the iple of his country. Squealing on Their (ins. (Yorkville Enquirer.) 11 The Germans are said to be muk-l overtures through th? Swlua I ' - - V >ss looking to an understanding which both sides will agree to disitinue the use of poisonous gas a use it is in violation of the rules 1 down at the Geneva convention dishing cruel and barbarious in- t< uments of warfare. It was the rnians who first instituted the use poison gas, and thousands of Hritand French went down before the f< rrible stuff at Ypres in lit 15. Kx?t top the heroism of the ('annus on that occasion the Germans, means of their poison, might have n the war. I'oison gas took the ics completely by surprise; but it ? s not a great while before the ul-!., I i bad not only learned how to meet v s form of attack, but had found as that was still more deadly than it of the Germans in that it v s more difficult to distinguish. (. her from color or odor. The Ger- j ins have suffered more from this * than have the allies. As to icther It is really a fact that Geriny has squealed in regard to this itter. we are not prepared to say c til pprtulnlu' Knl I# *w * ... ? . ......... , ..in ii ui<7 nave | uealed. the fart may he taken as exhibition of gall to say the least ( It. a An Idle Threat. t (Charlotte Observer.) I Of course those editors who were little miffed when their transportion was taken away from them by iptaln MoAdoo. did not mean it len they suggested that they would t t help MrAdoo advertise the eom-jf K Liberty Loan. The. New Ynrii isiness Publications Association'sj f tion in volunteering assurances of a most liberal kind of free publicity t r the Liberty campaign is typical' the feeling of the newspaper men I a whole, and we are quite sure i at in the work of helping the gov- | nment keep the loan before the t ople, no newspaper slackers are leg to be developed in the south ? least, not in North Carolina, imo of the brethren might have en a little pouty at first, but when i e time comes they will yield to eir spirit of patriotism, and set < V TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1918. if hiirackr t:i a MtUIVMViVl ] I depository by the imcnt to receive de- Z ^ # ATE )DA y * accept, payment for Z util each farmer ap- > otiee from the Gov- J ; allotted to him, and o lie made. * ! No Chance for Her. (Judge.) > He?Here's a woman suing for Ivorce on the ground that she was i a trance when she got married. His Better Half?Well, if marls ge won't bring her out of it, dl- t oree won't. Believed in Signs. (Presbyterian Standard.) An elderly farmer hitched his earn to a telegraph post. pypluiniPfl thn nAlidamnn you can't hitch there!" "Can't hitch!" shouted the irate miner. "Well, why have you a sign p. 'Fine for hitching?' " Breaking ll to the Heir. (Baltimore American.) The expectant heir to his uncle's ? aillions anxiously asked th doctor, 1 hen his uncle was taken ill, if there /as no hope. "What did the doctor say?" "He told him there was no hope ,'hatever. The chances were his unle would get well enough to marry lis housekeeper!" Have It. (Baltimore American.) 'First Householder?I wish we ould have the Mexican peonage sysem here. Second Ditto?What good would hat do? F. H.?Think of the Joy of being il>le to chain up your cook at night ind find here here the next mornng. D?st Time. (Clipped.) noiner (to Frank.)?How Is It hat you're late home nearly every ifternoon? Frank?'Well, no wonder; we've # :ot such a big clock in our school. Mother?Why, what haH the clock o do with it? Frank?'Cause it'H so big It takes he hands an awful long time to get \ wound it. If we had a clock like nap's little one I'd get home a great leal quicker. Queen This lime. (Brooklyn Citizen.) "If I hadn't drawn that queen I i night have had a straight flush." "That's right, always blame the I women." of Soda has been ; it will be notified, :*ome forward when ( X and take their al f Lancaster i ( !r, S. C. 9 B o work for the Liberty Loan like ood fellows. W'liy the Silent Treatment? (Columbia State.) No eandidate or prospective canidate for United States senator in outh Carolina takes the woman sufrage question so seriously as to dlsuss it. Nevertheless, the woman uffrage amendment hasH>een adoptd by tlie national house of represenili ves. 4, WISH AM) OTHERWISE.