Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I ;|\ !' : PAGE FOUR == TheLancasterNew (SEMl-WEEKLV.) Established 1832. Published Tuesday and Friday BY THE LANCASTER NEWS COMPAN'l lilUlCKHUM-, 8. C. GEORGE BULJLA CRAVEN Editor and Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICK: One Year $2. *iix Months 1. Entered as Second Class Mat October 7, 1905, at the Postotbce Lancaster, S. C., under act of Ct gross of March 3, 1879. The News is not responsible for t views of Correspondents. Short a rational articles on topics of genei interest will be gladly received. "IHy Country *T.? of Thoo. Sw??t Lai o' L'^erty." FRIDAY, APRIL 5. 1918. SENTENCE SERMONS. llppe against hope and ask till 3 receive.?'Montgomery. One thorn of experience is wort a whole wilderness of warning.Liowell. Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rool ?Br yon. Gratitude is a fruit of great cu tivation; you do not find it anion pross people.?Johnson. The heart can ne'er a transpor knowThat never feels a pain. ?Lord Lyttleton. How dull it is to pause to make ai end. To rust unburnish'd, not to shine ii use? As tho' to breathe were life! ?Tennyson. It people always knew what wa pood for them, and acted according ly, this world would be a very diffei ent world, though not nearly so in Investing.?Samuel McChord Crotli , ers. + KDITOItl A IiETTES. Hindenburg probably meant sorn other April first. * The man who advertises his pa triotism violates the law governint truthful advertising. 1 jEven that long-range gun migh not be able to get some folks up ear i Jier than is their custom. f There is really not any shortag* of teachers. The trouble is th< teachers' salaries are short. * It is really hard to determim "whether the recent orders are i tightning or a loosening of th< censorship regulations. Our scouts report that as far a they could determine Mr. 1 linden burg was not registered at any I'a risian hotel on April first. Admitting that it is a tittle han to get up at the usual hour thes ' days one has the privilege of goin to bed whenever it suits him. , The nine billions a year, howevei i Is only a small part the war's cos SnniP at'h triulnnr *?-?*>!.. 1J ??- * * _ Iifrs. riit V 1 you bought a Liberty bond? - They say that whiskey sells for $2 ? gallon in North Carolina, whic causes one to wonder why It sells i all in a state that has, been dry sine JftOO, or thereabouts. It will be really funny ten yeai form now to read In the Chariot! Observer's "Looking Backward" thf Charlotte thought it was going t lose Camp Greene. +. Bill says that It was the ha weather and not the allies thf (topped his offensive. Which woul < seem to indicate on reflection ths there is possibly aome doubt as t C.od being "mit him." _ THE WAR. ^ A year ago tomorrow?April the United States declared the e ? tence of a state of war with the perial government of Germa If- Then thing* began to happen i have been happening fast ever sii though America's part in the fight is just now beginning. We are to living in a country much changed 00 ^ its entrance into the war. Ev ? phase of life, every business has ter at dergone changes that no other fc >n* could have wrought. The people the nation, regardless of polit be faith, church affiliation or color nd ral solidly behind the administration ,the prosecution of the war, thov ^ |there may be heard rumblings of < [loyalty now and then, induced by activities of German agents, sf and sympathizers. The people, g erally, are with the administrati . i with money, service and life. 1 nd : : success of the first two Libe | loans, the success of every otl ! movement undertaken by the g I ernment is the best proof of I I InviiHv nf thp Amorinun niH-mn J J What has been done during tl fe first year of America's part in t war is well-known to most eve reader of newspapers. A vast ari h has been trained and equipp< ~ ships have been built, airplanes cc strueted and aviators trained; t ?> navy has been put upon a mu higher percentage of efficiency; o soldiers, well-equipped and we I-[trained, our aviators, well-equippi g and well-trained, are at the battl ffronts ready, and the Atnericj spirit in them makes them anxioi 1 to enter the fray. In all of this va undertaking of putting an army jthe field thousands of miles away the shortest possible time, there hi " been a minimum of fatalities fro disease and accidents. n I The results of America's efforts equip and train an army are a seri< of wonderful. If not marvelou achievements. There have been hi idrances unnumbered; there has be? . this and that man throwing obstarl in the way of successful culminatir i- of war plans, by criticism and othe wise. 15ut the work has gone o The men who promulgated the plai ]'were too big to be thwarted by peti |bickerings and arguments, e ' The war is going on to a succes ful conclusion. America and her a sociates in the war must win. T1 -1 third Liberty loan will be launchf sltomorrow?Apiil 6?the first ann versary of America's entrance ini the war?and will be a success. Th; 1 it will be a success does not mea success without effort. It is a huf unr!**rtnlrin<r * u ~ ; ~ , vmiiiu^ n/i ilic tllllC I busy men to bring home to tt | masses the necessity of its succes ?1 ilt will require work and a lot < I work to "put it over." hut it will I | "put ower." Every citizen should a ^ those in charge of the campaign, an i then huv a bond besides. s i l*AYlJtillT MAVINti. * Thore is no use referring to tl " time o' dav as "new time." There "l but one legal, general time and th is the time that stores, factories at railroads are running by. Ever ' body's complying with the new re ' ulations. There are not a half-dozi ' people in any town who are "stic } ling out" for the old order of thin and in doing so they are not on uot keeping up with the processii but are throwing briek-bats ai o | monkey-wrenches in the machine of the national adminintratic although the obstruction is so smi > . that the machinery will hard h ' know it?like throwing a bit lt I gravel in a huge cog-wheel; it m e do some invisible damage but t big wheel continues to revolve. "3 Tl?e News has not been able to s e any simon-pure objection to the ds light saving plan. It certainly i 0 fers no possibility of working hardship upon any one, and the or confusion possible under the law d by reason of a none too general c 1 t anetroh/iA Tk -? *- - --? i bvi iauvc. i nvsr who experien <1 rucIi confusion can only blame the it selves and those with whom they i o sociate and do business in the sai 'section. i i . . .. ' A Hli THE LANCASTER NE BUYING GO id) BRICKS. 6? The people up in North Carolina xis- have never come to realize that "all im- is not gold that glitters." Albeit, iny. South Carolina, Virginia, and many and other section* of this grand union ice, sometimes suffer a lapse of memory ing of the last man who passed along day victimizing unsuspecting investors, by and they go ahead investing in gold ery bricks just as if they were not even on- Hlinnnswrt fn nrnfit hv Uia r> r r. w<?V V/ VUV <JA|/Ui ICU'vC >rce of others. The latest is the "estabf of llshment" of a great steel plant at ical Raleigh, the seat of government of a aro great state, and the people who in "took stock" cannot be said to have xg'j been guided by a lack of intelligence, lis- for some mighty good people were theigoing to become stockholders in this >ies | great enterprise, promoted by one en- W. W. Jordan, but the establishment on, of the big plant was delayed wheu The Mr. Jordan was arrested and put in rty jail for violating the "blue-eky" ier law. which is jealously guarded by or- the insurance commissioner of the the Old North State, who is himself a i sort of electrified barb-wire fence to h[3 evil-doors whose operations come he within the jurisdiction of his office. ,ry The promoter saved himself of the uy consequences of the specific indictments by paying back the money >n_ he had collected and then he was rejie leased only to be immediately re^ arrested on charges of similar operaur tions in Brunswick county. Virginia. In these cases, too. he paid back the P(j money and under some peculiar law, e_ 11hat released him of responsibllity injand he was allowed to go free. j Sometimes we think it is good for ? I st,a man to buy a gold brick. He j jn ought to know better. Anil if he I jn cannot learn except by actual expe,J.rience, the experience will be of lvalue to him in the future. , SWKF.P OUT TIIK CKI-U. to Q81 The Charlotte Observer is sweepins out cell No. . for one Mr. ' Hugh Durigan. "who writes on the I n>n stationery of the Pittsburg Press." j land who "f?*els sure that our readers will be deeply interested in a ; n startling new and seemingly con< vincing interpretation of the 13th n. chapter of Revelations, in which he (v finds proof that William von Hohenzollern is the 'beast' w hose forthcoming as a scourge of the earth, was sforetold in the Hible. He sidetracks sithe beloved interpretation of the' le | | figure 6. which has had exploitation! ?d I 1 I even in religious papers, anil having i-1 resort to a much more elaborate anil to I complicated system of figuring. it proves beyond question, through the n application of three 6's instead of >e one. the production of the 'six hun:>f died, three score and six' of the Rile , hie. The Pittsburg seer indicates the s. time allotted the beast Hohenzollern if to reign in the quotation: 'And there >e was given unto him a mouth speakiil I ing great things and blasphemies: in land power was given unto him to speak forty and two months.' " And then the Observer begins to ' look for the next one, and says: j ?e "They lire interesting, to say the Is least, and are doing no harm, except at! to make fools here and there of id otherwise sensible men." y- + g- Weather, tireat I toad Kuilder. ?n (Chester Reporter.) jj. The chorus of disapproval in connection with the road situation. gs which was so pronounced and so vooiforous a few l>?"I' >?- -u * UM\ n, nan n UUUV j [>n subsided with the advent of pretty' nd weather and the return of the roads' ry td their former condition. It win perfectly natural, with the roads in ' miserable condition, for the people to be discontented and resentful, and lly the people of this county would have of been unlike those anywhere else If they had been otherwise: hut. as we remarked that is now past and gone, and from now on let's every one ot us give the county highway com,ee mission our staunch and undivided support. These men are working without remuneration, giving of their time and energies freely and a unsparingly. ami they ran be greatjly ly assisted If given the loyal support is of the public. The work on the ( roads la as yet in the swaddling clothes state, with the exception of lf'? a short stretch on the Hoxsville road, m- but enough has been done to indiiR. rate great improvement already, and when the roads are completed there lie is no reason to believe they will not give perfect satisfaction. WS, LANCASTER, 8. C BUD BIGGS SAYS? "Mr. Editor. I have observed th< passing of the custom among motor fists, automobtiists am drivers of Fords to sto] when seeing a fellov motorist. automobilist or otherwise, as afore said, in trouble on th< highway." said Bui Biggs as he seated him self on our solid ivorj davenport. "It is wltk misgivings and pain Mr. Editor, that I ?n serve, for off times, a little piece ol tape, or wire, or a bolt, and in the case of a tin-flivver, a can opener, loaned, may send the depressed on his way rejoicing. But there is a reason. like in the use of a well-known . breakfast beverage, Mr. Kditor. F'riustance. one day not so long ago I came across a fellow who was trying to make a Ford go up hill with a dry gasoline tank?It was so dry, Mr. Kditor, that a match wouldn't have exploded it. I loaned him a gallon or so of gasoline; he thanked me kindly and said it was mighty nice of me. And I haven't seen or hoard of him since. The other day 1 was traveling and came up just as the smoke was clearing away from a blow-out. I loaned the fellow an inner-tube and he said it was very nice of me. And it was. Mr. Kditor. for that tube cost me three rmmH teons. That's why the custom is passing, and I'm now a member of the order which is known as th?* t'lub-oi-Autorists-Who - Press-Downthe - Gas - When - They - See-a-Fellow Under." and my dues are paid. Mr. Kditor; I'm in good standing." ?and Hud drove on remarking that human nature is a areat and glorious study. _ I SAMl'KI. MrGOW.W OF SOI Til <\\KOI.I\A. (By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.) Perhaps the most effective officer of the national government in this war. and certainly the most tiniver sally popular, is Samuel McGowan. Thenty-two years ago an ensign, and now at the aire of 4 4 the senior rear admiral and by common consent the best paymaster general the American navy has ever known, he is the ideal of the navy and a most brilliant and promising figure in our empire of the seas. lie has fired the navy with one immortal epigram for heroic service. He accepts no hesitation in obeying orders or in essaying service. The McGowan motto that will live in the American navy is: "It can't be done, but here it is!" Iron discipline enforced with the velvet glove is the spirit of his department. The gentlest and politest man in Washington?a very Chesterfield of courtesy and grace and kindliness?-he is beloved by every subaltern and subordinate. And yet no sterner disciplinarian ever imposed and inspired obedience and duty. His otlices are areas of sunshine. happiness, spotlessness and efficiency. The paymaster admiral is of the I b?'st b'ood of South Carolina. There! never was a braver, gallanter. gentler rare of lighting Irishmen than the chivalrous McGowans of South Carolina. They fought for tlie Confed-I erary like heroes and fought for thej restored Union as bravwly awl well. I Our admirable admiral is a Chris-) Man gentleman, bearing a noble part with Dr. Charles Wood in the Church of the Covenant. He is the most popular figure in Washington society?handsome, eloquent, witty nnd of charming graciousness of manner. At 44 he remains a bachelor. carrying always next his heart the miniature of a gray-'iaired and beautiful old aristocrat who was his mother. If the war continues Samuel McOtwan will rise to higher usefulness and even greater fame. * <J.\MK WARDEN'S NAMED BY WADK H. OlltRRH Columbia. April 4.?Wade Hampton Gibbes. chief game warden, has appointed the following game wardens: J. H. Crenshaw, of Van j Wyok, for Lancaster; J. Crum iSr.ioak. of Hranchville, for llerkeley county, and I>. C. Kogera. of i Johnsonville. for Williamsburg. MVHTKItlOCH KPIDKMIC AT THK POItl) I'L.WT Detroit, Mich., April 4.-?Oflicials of the Ford Motor company have confirmed a report that more than foo men have been affected daily by a mysterious* epidemic resembling grippe which has been prevalent in the plant. It was estimated that about 2.00t) employes have be*?n ill thus far. v ' 1 J 4 | ONE MILLIO : RESOl i i r 1 ItP To Be Ic Wi A Stron THE BANK OF LANCASTi 1 Brave and content his journey on. While Self In sorrow sought in vain The joy that ne'er would come again. ?A. H. T. HEAVY ATTACKS BY TEUTONS RESUMED i gTout in tied from Page 1.) the extreme western tip of the Fin1 uish peninsula. There has so far been no official i reply to the "peace kite" sent up by Count Czernin. the Austro-IIungarian foreign minister. Newspaper comment, which may be considered as knowing me ireno or opinion in enten.e allied chancellories, Is unanimous in rejecting the idea of peace under the conditions and It is probable that they forecast the replies which will be enunciated by government spokesmen In allied countries. I SCHEDULE OF THE T1 Opening The campaign will open on J The campaign will clone at c Individual subscriptions mi hank or trust company before Installment An initial or first installmer be made upon all subscription: Second Installment?Payabl Third Installment?Payable Fourth Installment- ? Payab fc liOVE AM) SKIjF. Love and self upon Life's way Met one bright and sunny day And journeyed in the genial weather Upon a flow'sy road together. Love poured itself in homage out. Nor asked return, but went without That Self might share his little store And grieved that he could give no more. He gave his all and yet was filled And w ith the joy of giving thrilled, While Self in sullen discontent Unhappy 'pon her journey went, Tho blest with Love's great largess, , Which, valued not, a burden grew. I.ove's pathway rang with joyous ( song And fragrant was with flowers along. Self's road grew rougher day by day. And stones, now flowers, marked her way. Love found delight in all things good. The flowery mead, the shadowy wood. The verdant fields, the rippling river. And grateful felt unto the Giver. ] Self's path was solitude and gloom? For love beside there was not room, Until at last with many a sigh She wished indeed, that Love were nigh. But vainly wished, for Love was crrvrto FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1918, j N DOLLARS ? IRCES L. ays lentified ith I ig Bank * \ j ' LANCASTER R, S.C. Sl'FFKAfilSTS AC'TIVK Fxecutive Hoard Plans Several Patriotic Undertaking (Columbia State.) The executive board of the South Carolina .Equal Suffrage Association, meeting in Columbia planned constructive work along two lines? food conservation and production and the raising of a State contribution to the suffrage overseas hospital I und. The former work will he something entirely new and altogether practical and is being planned under the woman's committee of the Council of Defense. Mrs., \V. E. Taylor of Lancaster was made chairman of the undertaking. The overseas hospital which the national suffrage association is financing is located in the Aisne section and is conducted entirely by women. a number of the prominent New York women doctors composing its staff. The French government has ? accepted the hospital and the suffragists of this country are raising the money to support it. New York gave $50,000. Pennsylvania S2K Oftft South Carolina has been asked for $1,000 but Mrs. Lynch, president of the State suffrage association, dares not hope for more than half that amount. The members of the board present werb interested in South Carolina's entrance into the contest for the State premium of $50 offered for subscriptions to The Woman Citizen, the national suffrage orgaa. Mrs. OUtman is chairman of tho subscription committee. (iOVKIiN'MKNT BUYS WHOLE OUTPUT OF BULL DURHAM New York, April 4.?The government has taken over the entire output of "Bull Durham" cigarette tobacco manufactured by the American Tobacco company at the company's / factories at Durham. N P -?? ' devote it to the needs of the Ameri? can troops abroad, it wao announced here today. HIRD LIBERTY LOAN. of Campaign. Saturday, April 6th. 4* lose of business May 4th. ust reach some incorporated close of business May 4th. Payments. ^ it payment of 5 per cent must 3. e May 28th?20 per cent. July 18th?35 per cent. !e August 15th?40 per cent. % . .