Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PAGE FOUR TheLancaster N ew! (SEMI-WKKKLY.) Es>(ublUlied 1852. Publbhod Tuesday and Friday BY TH1E LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY. Lancaster, 8. C. UEOltGE BULLA CRAVEN Editor and Manager SUBSCRIPTION PKICK: On? Year $2.0 *?ix Months 1-0 v.l nn Cn/ww.,i PIqoj \I a f f C IJUIOI CU A 3 OVV.UUU Vtajj iUl?v wv October 7, 19 05, at the Postoffice a Lancaster, S. C.# under act of Coi gross of March 5, 1879. The News is not responsible for th Yiews of Correspondents. Short an rational articles on topics of genera Interest will be gladly received. "My Country 'Tie of Th#?, Sweat Len of Liberty." FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1918. SENTENCE SERMONS. The blue of heaven is larger tha: the cloud.?Browning. Beware of "chewing the cud" o past wrong doing.?Damton. Do not gaze backward, nor paus< to contemplate anxiously what is ii front, but move,?Frothingham. Defer not till tomorrow to be wise. Tomorrow's sun to thee may nevei rise. ?Congreve. There is no wiser use that thos* who have great possessions can makt ??i iiit ui man wisely 10 pui mem line character, day by day, while tliej live.?Trieve. Only he shall be loved of God and honored of men who is found to have accomplished something for humar happiness and human good. K. I) Hitchcock. The thoroughly great men are those who have done everything thoroughly, and who have nevei despised anything, however, small of God's making.?Ituskin. The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us. and we see nothing but sand; the angels come tc visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.-?George Kliot Your manners will depend verj mum upon me quality 01 what von fieqeuntly think on. for the soul i? tinged and colored with the com plexion of thought.?Marcus Aure litis. + EDITOHIA LETTES. Every Liberty bond you buy will whip a Hun. The spelling of this word, Ypres. looks like a linotype error. * A hull-dog has nothing on the British when it comes to holding on. + And besides, before calling it a vic tory the Germans must hold what they take. + Try this on your piano in G: "Il you can't dig in the trenches, dig it your pockets." + Don't figure 011 whether you wll boy a Liberty bond?figure on hov many you will buy. 4r The "great offensive" is offensive all tight, but not so great from tlv viewpoint of results. * The average press agent could no do quite so well as the one employe* by Hill Hohenzollern. + The only place where our oppc Bitlon to capital punishment receive a jolt is the German spy. * Comes Watson Hell of the Spai tanburg Journal, who deposeth an aaith thusly: "In every well-regi lated household, there must he 'boss.' The sooner after marrine the 'boss-ship' is established o thoroughly understood grounds, th less friction there will be in the fi ture." And Watson Hell has nevf been married a single time In h life. > ???????gr~ SHOULD 1H> BETTER. s South Carolina is at the bottom of the list in the matter of per capita - sales of War Savings stamps, according to a statement showing total and per capita sales by states to the end _ of February. South Carolina oversubscribed its allotment of Liberty . bonds, and the fact that it has fal^ I en behind in War Savings stamps is 0 attributable, in a large measure, to - tack of realization of the importance lt|of the little stamps. True it is that l_ the 25-cent thrift stamp is a very _ small matter, and, individually, a e 2 5-cent loan can help the governd nient but little. It is likewise true that the thrift stamp leads up to the f War Savings stamp, the value of ! which now is $4.12, and the War Savings stamp to a Liberty bond, or its equivalent in stamps. Then too, even on the basis of the 2 5-cent stamp, wipe out the individuality, let every one buy only a few stamps, ~ and you have a neat little sum that would be of considerable benefit to the government. In the total sales, only Nevada JI shows less than South Carolina, a though Nevada's per capita sales are nearly eight times as large as that of this state. In Louisiana, it is said, f the children of the public schools have bought and sold $342,000 worth of stamps, while all the peo? pie of South Carolina have invested 1 only $190,869.20 in this form of government securities. It may be said in explanation of \ the situation in this state, so far as this section is concerned, that there has been little enthusiasm in the ( 1 matter of selling War Savings i j ' stamps. And by reason of that fact, | ' l the people have not come to a full f realization that the government is,, 'appealing to every one alike fori, i small loans, both "to raise money to \ build ships to win the war" and to 1 encourage "thrift" among the peo' pie. It is an investment, not exi pense. and the money loaned to the j government will come back with in.; tei*est added. I * j THK NKXT liOAX. j Master will be over and there will j : be nothing to distract the mind or cause one to forget that the one task 'j ahead is to win the war. Many of jus are "on the other side." over : there fighting shoulder-to-shoulder r with the French and British. They 1 are staying the enemy and preventing ! a break in the lines. Others are en- 5 jgaged in the building of ships, niak- ( ling of guns and ammunition. Still 1 others are only called upon for finan-t1 rial and moral backing. We are all 11 ! 1 soldiers together. A slacker is one i who does not do what he is able to 1 do. The man who can and does not j 1 buy a Liberty bond is a slacker. Justi* 1 / as a soldier who can and won't tight i I. lis a slacker. The Liberty bond is an investment, not expense?-you merely ji loan the money to your government | at a good rate of interest. The first j and second Liberty loans were sue-j c?tfcs; the third will be a success j' j because the people of this nation are I I. back of the government?they are t Ww sovm anient. it takes billions of dollars to| i finance our soldiers in France and) those in training here for a year; six billions were raised by the pre 1 vious Liberty loans and three billions are to dp raised i>y tne intra, neginring April 6, that is, a week from tomorrow. The News is not advised |a-. to South Carolina's allotment in ,the coming loan, but it is reasonable ! to expect that it will be nearly, if not the same as in the last one. t i ; Whatever it i?. South Carolina will rl ' measure up to it, and Lancaster county will disappoint no one. ,s The country needs three billions of dollars. Which is to say the people of the country are going to buy r- Liberty bonds to that amount. <1 ? ? >- j Because spring is here add the ona ions have begun to bloom is no reu:e! son why you should let up in the n saving of wheat and meat. le j + i-' Bill w ires back home that bis ?r victorious troops have crossed the is Somme, but he doesn't say what it cost to do it. ' * fi THE LANCASTER NEW GERMAN A T 1(4 M'IT IKS. William M. l<ewis, of the United States treasury department, who also " is a widely-known writer and lecturer. speaking in Columbia Wednesday in the interest of the^third Liberty ( loan, pointed a glowing picture of t what may be expected if the Germans c win. He told of the atrocities of the Germans in Turkey, in Italy and in Belgium. "Don't say to yourselves that these things are too horrible to , think about, but say they are the 1 truth and God helping us. I will do c everything in my power so that they * may never be repeated in the United States." That's a "motto," a "slogan" that ought to be pinned in the hat of every American citizen. ^ If it would help matters not to be- a lieve the truth, we might refuse to a believe it, but it makes matters v worse. The Germans are guilty of * the most atrocious crimes against humanity, but not too horrible to think about because it is the truth. Mr. Lewis says: "We have heard of men going " along the streets of Warsaw and c scraping the snow from mounds to u find beneath them the bodies of lit- d tie children?Germany is in control P there. A school teacher in Turkey n tells us that the number of hands cut ^ from children would have naved the , road along which they lay?Germany r is in control there. In the recent " Italian advance. Germany forced ^ Italian women and children to 01 march before German regiments as m 1 screen. In Belgium women have been outraged before the eyes of 111 heir husbands and fathers and then hese husbands and fathers have! (?; jeeu marched off into slavery. Don't tai say to yourselves that these things I" ire too horrible to think about, but say "they are the truth and God ( jelping us, I will do everything in i ny power so that they may never be -epeated in the United States." Ger-j many must be beaten where sh< ^ stands." "Germany must be beaten where' i T she stands." And until then every' resource, every means, every ounce I if energy of every Artierieau citizen ^ must be put Into this war. There! must be no let-up, there must be 110 ; "ailing-back, either in actual fighting 11 >r backing up those who are doing he fighting. ^ | ^ THK DAY'S WAIl NKWS. The line is being held firm. That seems to be about all there is in the I T lay's news from the front, though! he battle still races in all its fierce-1 I T less and with a toll of human life i inparalleled in history. The line uts bene bent on a front of some fifty N niles but not yet to the point of ; eleasing the territo^' taken from the Jernians in the spnng of 1917. The j German strength is diminishing, the ' lispatehes say, and the fighting is j sanguinary. The enemy has taken | the town of Albert, while the Ilrit- ^ ish have retaken Marlancourt and Chipilly. The British and French lire being reinforced with fresh f troops, and the Germans have failed in their attempt to drive a wedge be- j ^ lween the forces of the llritish and j French in order to tight thein sep-j arately. American troops are fighting! 1 shoulder-to-shoulder with the Llrit-: ( ish and French, though to what ex- , lent is not known. Official advices % have only confirmed the statement 1 that a few units of engineers from I I this country are on the front. The force of the offensive evidently has | heen spent and counter-drives by the 1 allied forces are now expected mo- 1 mentality. The French, already ' have made a thrust into the German I lines and have retaken three vil- | lages, and there is every indication that the Germans will not he permitted to gain any more ground, if. |perchance, they are permitted to hold that which they have already taken. Though all of the ground taken by the enemy was occupied by them and driven 01T last year. ? Physical achievement scores in a gun that will shoot seventy miles but military results are lacking. These spring drives are becoming ! numerous. F'rlnstance, there'* the| drive for the awlmmln' hole. T3, LANCASTER S. C. SCISSORS AND PASTE. Anyway, They Don't. (Spartanburg Journal.) An advertisement says "Girl ould scarcely bear for clothes to ouch her." Well, some of them lon't have to bear very much. Tulra *i ? m tmv AMIR lllinniMliy. (Fountain Inn Tribune.) If you have an enemy In town, all the florist right now and send lim a dozen white roses?with your ard. An e^emy is a man you do not 'ully understand. Quite Likely. (Greensboro Daily News.) Down in South Carolina they robably consider Governor Bickett i humorist in view of his suggestion inent elections sans politics, for it vere easier for a camel to go through he eye of a needle than to divorce >olitics from the Palmetto state. The State Campaign. (Columbia Record.) - There is some talk of discontining the county to county campaign, "his is a torture to the flesh of the andidates and has ever appealed to is as being unnecessary. Yet we ?uui iui- propriety 01 matting mis articular campaign year the time to :ake the change. It would afford too good an opportunity for mischievious persons 3 sneak into the minds of the peole seeds of suspicion and discord Jat would be of harm to our rouny. All candidates can not be atchcd all of the time, by their pponents who are loyal to the govicnt and are supporting the ndmintration. In that way we consider that the iserable old style of campaigning ? ight do good if it would force a ,|... indidate to remain on the stand to ~ll tiswer any questions'that might be it by opponents. ASHKS OF IIOPK. *e sat by the light of the glowing = coals. == In the chill October gloaming; he world forgetting, by it forgot. Our thoughts and our fancies horn- ?1 IllP" he world was our own for a blissful hour, 25 An hour of delirious dreaming: ? iir hearts expressed truly in silence = or speech. ?= What each of us knew was no ? seeming. = er face was suffered by the firelight ?plow. And a tenderness shone in her == eyes == nd softer tlie tone of her rhythmlcal voice, With just a suggestion of sighs. hen into the darkness and storm I = went. == Away from her prqfence and lipht, he flickering firelight fading fast. As the gloaming deepened to night. ow dull, dead and gray are the eni- SSS hers. And haunted and lonely the place I E5 or joy died too with the dying =E coals ?And the sight of her vanished face = rav ashes of hopes in my heart re-J = main. ? Tl\e light of their joy gone out. i Ty liour of dear dreams is a mem-| ??ory now, And grim shadows hover about. ? A. H. T. == i 1ERMAN? i- \n TO BREAK THE LINES || (Continued from Cage 1.) EEE ines by the German thrust. J Berlin admits that the losses have| ?een very heavy. The oasuaitiea are eferred to as ''normal," which, in ss dew of the magnitude of the battle ZZZ nay mean that the Germans have -EE paid heavily for the ground they == lave won. EE: It is admitted that at certain EE: mints the losses have been greater. EE jut it is pointed out that the pro- EE: lortion of slightly wounded is very EE high. Americans Cruised. :r_ mn*-i u nun iiarr uccii I n in*: iiftm- mJmm Ing and have acquitted themselves SEE nobly. Dispatches front Paris state ~ that they have won the praise of the -EE French officers for their conduct in the midst of the mighty battle. It is = said that American divisions are EE among the units forming the "strat"- =: gic reserve" of the allied armies. If ~ that is the case, it is probable they EE were in the fighting near \ovon yes- = terday and shared with the French EE the burden of breaking Into the (}er- ? man lines. ~ There has l?een nothing from th?? EE other sector In Belgium, France 01 =E Italy to indicate that a new drive in ~ any of them is imminent. There have ==: been artillery duels at various ~ points, but no infantry fighting is EE noted in official reports. FRIDAY, MARCH 29 1918. I ONE MILLION DOLLARS i . RESOURCES 1 . It Pays To Be Identified With A Strong Bank f THE BANK OF LANCASTER LANCASTER, S. C. " t % iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim EASTER SPECIALS I ALL BARGAINS | Ladies'Ready-to- Wear j $2.00 and $2.50 Skirts at. . . .' $1.39 ^ $3.00 and $3.50 Skirts at $1.98 = $6.00 and $7.00 Skirts at $4.98 ^ Silk Skirts and Dresses at ee $6.49, $9.98 up to $14.98 ee $1.50 and $2.00 Ladies' Waists 98c EE Silk Waists $2.49 up to $3.98 : Ladies' Dresses $2.49 to $2.98 EE Children's Drosses 75c, 98c, $1.98 EE ^ Middv Minuses 49c, 98c $1.49 ee Ladies', Misses' and Children's tlats at EE 49c, 98c, $1.49, $1.98, $2.49 up to $7.50 ee SHOES I SHOES ! j " I 4-*.. .....J / -J ? liHiiit n , vii'iii iiim \ iiimreu s vjxtorris, Pumps, High Heel, Low Heel, Pattent ^ Leather, (Sun Metal, Tan, White at 75c, $1.25, $1.98, $2.50, $3.50 up to $6.50 : a pair. Men and Boys Clothing j Men's Suits at $7.50, $9.98, $12.50, $17.50 up to $22.50 : " Boys' Suits, sizes, to 20 at 98c, $1.49, $2.98, $4.98 up to $12.50 .Men's Pants? $1.49, $1.98, $2.98, $3.50 up to $6.50 ' Bovs' Pants, 5 to 20 at ^ 50c, 75c, 98c, $1.49, $2.98 p .Men's, Boys' Hats and Caps at AC. CA. d> 1 r A dll AA Aa AA znjiSf u\jist iDi.Du, $i.yo, up to ^>4.50 ? Men's and Hoys' Overalls at EE 98c, $1.49, $2.00 a pair ee Work and Dress Shirts at . .76c, 98c, $1.50 EE Ladies' and dent's Underwear? EE 15c, 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.25 per garment eee DRY GOODS | Light Percale Shirting 15c per Yd. EE Hleaohing 15c, 20c, 25c per Yd. EE Silk Striped Voile at 48c Yd. E lUi-ineh Taffeta Hlaek, Navy, Royal Blue E 42-ineh White Lawn at ?S ^ 171 2c, 20c, 25c per Yd. 55 f ^ _ i ? / < / "*t rnpims and * lima Silks, figured and striped Lawn at . . . .12 1 2c, 20c, 26c, 75c per Yd. _ Shepherd I'laids at . ... .15c, 25c per Yd. =x ^ Best Grade Dress and Apron Ginghams, E: Galatea (Moth 20c Yd. =5 M. 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