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"My Country 'Tin cf Theo. Sweet Land 1,1
of Liberty." th
TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1918.
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awVTPvre ceuMnvc I sli
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Common sense is very uncommon.?Horace
Greeley. wi
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Are not the mountains, waves anil lo
skies a part bf
Of me and of my soul, as I of them?
?Byron. ?
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Certain people are so taken up '
with their" theories about the reform
of man that they have totally forgot w'
his nature and his rights.?Edmund th
Burke. . be
Our sole privileges within our tiny
confines is tu struggle towards that as
which appears to us the best and to th
remain heroically persuaded that no pa
part of that we do within those con- ^
fines can ever be wholly lost.?
Maeterlinck. av
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God knows I am not the thing I mi
snouid t>e, j w]
Nor am I even (he thins I could be, I .
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Rut twenty times I rather would be;
An atheist clean.
Than under gospel colors hid he. [so
Just for a screen. th
?Robert Burns, j rp,
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Yet would I not forego the doom, the i
place, .'ni
"Whither my poets and my heroe ?h
went i stt
Before me; warriors that with deed jn|
forlorn
Saddened my youth, yet made it
great to live; ve
Lonely antagonists of destiny, is
That went down scornful before .-tr
many spears. ;to
?Stephen I'hillips.
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EIHTOIU ALETTES.
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Buy bonds or wear them! ce]
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Buy stamps or he stamped upon! |Q?
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The next red line this paper earto
ries we hope will be "Lancaster lias
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Gone Over the Top."
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Hindenburg. it mav be noted, is1
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of others round-about him.
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The Germans walked light in and
turned around and walked right out a
again. The Yanks were there! PJ
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One condition prohibition hasjw
brought about is that a man never ai
knocks over the hall tree and wakes ei
up his wife. w
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The Liberty loan is about half- hi
subscribed, but half-subscribed Pi
doesn't sound as good in No Man's tl
Land as "over-subscribed.''
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We don't know how many people
ere aware of it, but John Madra had I
put in a day's work on that celehra- i"
1 jji
tion before he sprained his back and
knocked off. isl
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Joseph us Daniels may never l?e K
puesident of the United States hut
there are lots of people who have "
found that he is a bigger man than 0
they thought. s1
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Whether or not the German long- v
range gun has any military import- if
ance. It carries out beautifully the
German Idea of killing as many wo- P
men and children as possible. ti
INEFFICIENCY OR BONEHEADEDNESS.
The News suspects the source ol
le "empty envelopes" about which
le Spartanburg Journal writes, beuise
the same thing has happened
t this office on more than one occas>n,
both envelopes, however, havig
the same origin. "In our mail
asterday among the several dozen
immunications from different deirtments
of the government." the
jurnal says, "we came across two
ivelopes, one addressed to The
)urnal and the other to The Caro
aa Spartan, (the Spartan has been
baorbed by The Journal), and
hen we opened the envelopes we
iseovered that they contained not
le word.'' One explanation of the
:currence is that there was a ball
ime in town that day and less time
as required of the clerks to mall
le empty envelopes than to fold
ie usual circulars intended for
lem. The clerk, we suppose, was
tent upon being seen on his way
the postolllce along in the afterion
with an armful of letters,
lowing, unmistakably, that he had
*en hard at work all day. The
ews received an empty envelope a
eek or so ago. and a few days ago
lother from the same olTlce. Alwing
a reasonable margin for
>nest mistakes, we thought nothing
it, but there is a vast difference
tween an honest mistake and
?one-headedness." Others seem to
ive received the empty envelopes,
liich leads us to the conclusion
at the national league must have
en playing that day.
It would be foolish on our part to
sert that all of the matter sent to
e newspapers by government dertments
is worthless. True, some
it is, perhaps a majority, but the
erage newspaper man does not
id time to go through the various
utter and pick out what is worth
hile. If he did he would have
ne for nothing else. "If the govnnient
will make an effort to keep
me of the worthless matter out of
e mails," the Journal says, "it may
suit in the mail service of the
lited States being very materially
proved." At least, other matter
at is really worth while would
md far better chance of Retting
to the newspapers. The Journal
bs the incident of the empty enlopes
"stupid inefficiency," which
very charitable under the circumtnces.
The newspapers are willing
be used in this war without limit,
t the newspaper man is usually the
siest man in any town.
Another evil of the publicity burns
is duplication. We often reive
circular letters from the natnal
food or fuel administrator
ying, "the following telegram has
en sent to all state administrar;"
the next day a letter is received
am the state administrator quoting
e telegram, and often on the
ird day the local administrator
nds down the same telegram
hich he has received from the state
Iministrator. The newspapers arc
;erally swamped with such matter,
lot of It is printed, but for the most
irt. for lack of time to investigate
s worth, it is consigned to the
aste-basket. A lot of this worry
id work could be avoided at both
ids of the line, and If only really
orth while matter were acnt out
arhaps the clerks, even between
ill amen, might find time to enose
the circulars in the envelopes
ley mail,
C'AKELRSS DRIVING.
No leas than three times in as
inr.y weeks a dog has been run over
nd killed by an automobile on Main
treet, which demonstrates to a eerlin
extent that many people art
uilty of careless driving- The la*st
was Sunday afteinoon when a
ttle Fox-terrier was killed in froni
f Hotel Royal in a wide and smooth
treet when there was no congestion
f traffic. The killing of a dog la u
ery small matter to some, but the
icident Sunday afternoon waa ol
ifficient interest to draw a crowd o(
erhaps 50 people to the scene,
rough the driver of the car made no
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stop, even Increasing his speed, | P
which was probably in excess ot the '
, limit allowed by law, according to
those who saw the accident. By
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reason of the interest shown by the
crowd which gathered, one is to assume
that the driver of the car went
on his way because he knew he had
done something that might make
trouble for him if he met the owner ?
of the dog. tl
Rllf Bllf.il llf.lflo.1*- ? ? '
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, or are attributable to reckless drlv,
lug. There are many who have p.
driven cars for years who have never
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hit anything, and the reason Is that ^
they drive carefully. Many do not w
care if they run over and kill a dog w
and it Is this class that is led into
accidents more serious, because they in
.
.become more and more reckless. We 01
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are not so much a friend to the dog m
as we are a friend to man. jEvery ot
dog has a master who thinks more ol
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or less of that dog and the automobilist
will lose nothing by turning a til
little to avoid a collision with a dog, j"
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even though the dog itself is no j
more lit an lie seems to the stranger Pi
who knows neither the dog or his
pa
master. Fact is somebody is going Sn
to get into trouble about running 0,1
ar
over dogs and the fact that at the cfl
time they were execeeding the speed
limit will work very much in their ^
disfavor. There is entirely too
much careless driving of motor cars,
both in the city and out in the coun- ^
try, and the city has been fortunate
in not having been the scene of se- w
rious consequences.
A CHEAT DAY. 1,0
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Lancaster was glad to have the ty,
county people here Saturday for a U8'
In
great demonstration of loyalty and; a
support to the government and of j coi
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the Liberty loan. Many more would I
wi
have been here had not the weather co,
prevented, but those who came and br<
those who were prevented from comwa
ins alike are backing the government
in every undertaking looking coi
to the winning of the war. There i
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were hundreds of visitors here and po
Lancaster was glad to welcome them. ^ Al
Likewise, Lancaster was glad to . ,
he
entertain the distinguished gentle-1 ne
men who delivered the addresses of, Ne
the day. Col. A. L. Gaston, of Ches-| ^
ter; Lieut. Dael, of the French army,!
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and Hon. Whitehead Kluttz, of
Washington. Those gentlemen are f
able speakers and made addresses!*
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that were instructive and greatly enjoyed.
The News trusts they car- >|
ried away with them good impres-j
slons of Lancaster as they left here (
of themselves.
SCISSORS AND PASTE.
Tlie German Spy. ?
(Chester News.) | p|
t We have all been reading about
the German spy in the United States,
j especially of late. That these1
"Kaiser Lovers" are destroying tnil-i
lions of dollars worth of property
and snwintr t\ iouont(n? * 1
, ? b ?.uuvu t uu, niieic possible,
is a matter of common knowledge.
It Is true that our government has
been especially busy with them but j
the public is of the opinion that the i
sentences passed by the courts have Ft
been entirely too light. The public!
Is of the opinion that these "ene-1
mies within our pates" should be
placed against a brick wall and a
I volley of hot lead poured into their
systems. ^
Carnivals.
(Newberry Observer.) _
Columbia is to have a carnival for
two weeks In mine -
9? -- , aviiv/ ?ui oiiiir:
1 worthy purpofe. This is a case
where "that pernicious doctrine" m
prevaila that one may do evil that fn
' good may result; for If a carnival Is ar
not an evil, what in the world Is? I
The ordinary carnival Is the most. (>f]
dangerous thing for young men and !
hoys of a town that could he devised; fn
this is not supposition?It has been fr
' proved right here in this town,
i! Columbia is too big a town for
'carnivals. One of our neighbor
| towns- which shall be nameless
here?Is too small. In fact, there
1 is no town in the State, or any other ?
k State, of the right size to have a car!
nival.
> Cut 'em out!
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American women's hospitals are vc
1 to 'be established In Serbia, Mace- ar
1 donia, France and Italy this summer.
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u LANCASTER, S. C.
OTATOES THE CHEAPEST
FOOD TO BE BOUGHT
lato Food Administration Appeals
to People to Consume Surplus
and Avoid Waste. N
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Columbia. 8. C.?In a letter sent
ut by William Elliott. Food Adminitrator
for South Carolina, to the reLil
grocers throughout the State,* atjntion
is called to the big surplus in
'lsh potatoes, and thp retailers are
rged to push their sales. The apmm
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? ui>u? oy tn? food Admlnls- I
ation to the people of the State that
ley eat more potatoes and consume
le big surplus during the next few
eekj in order that a tremendous
aste may be avoided. *
There are in South Carolina at the
resent time 40,000 bags of potatoes
t hands of the wholesalers and 10,000
%gs in the hands of the retailers. It
estimated by the Federal Food Adlnistratl"n
that the surplus this year
rer normal times is 110.000,000 bushs.
The new crop will be coming in
a few weeks to add to this surplus.
"It woul dbe a crying shame in this
me of food shortage for this surplus
potatoes to go to waste," sa/s Mr.
Iliott in his letter to the retailers.
Farmers were last year urged to
ant big potato crops in order to reive
the food situation, and did so
itriotically, and at present prices,
,ys Mr. Elliott, Irish potatoes are not
ily the most plentiful food, but they
e the cheapest food that consumers
n buy.
Wholesalers at different points in
e State are felling potatoes at from
e dollar to two dollars a bag less
an they cost then..
HOLE TEXAS COUNTY
QUITS EATING WHEAT
ill Use No More Wheat Flour Until
After Noxt Harvest In Grimes
County, Texas.
Columbia*?The FViod Adminlstra
m has received advices and assur- j aboi
ce from the citizens of Grimes coun- ? .
_ .... who ni
Texas, that no wheat flour will bo ur)D]i<
ed by them until the next harvest.
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Grimes county every day will be an<j*^
wheatless day until the next crop jta]jan
rues in. |
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In the same fine spirit of patriotism ! flrjaj ,
th which the citizens of this Texas i
snty refrain from eating wheat j rematr
ad in order that the Aaierican sol- j
srs of the Allies and the people of
.r-stricken Europe may be ted. they !
ve turned over to the government at ip**
Jt one car of wheat flour and will hcbe
liver others now in transit. These
rs are being diverted to an Atlantic 1
rt for immediate shipment to the
lies.
The food situation is still far f'om
Ing satisfactory. The most urgent
ed now in Europe is for wheat. 1 |
ws dispatches received from Italy, t.
Heating that a powerful offensive ft
BUSINESS NOTICES I
I 1. I. Kit <iKAH-1X>-TIIK-ltOAl)
Tires, also the J. &. I>. Tires, Get fcfl
them here. Bennett-Terry Co.
Bl-tf.
>K SALF- -Fodder, Vetch, Hay ?_ ? ?*
baled and straw baled. E. B. |U||{
Llngle at the Long Place, Lanras- S* -
ter, S. C. 53-2t. I jj
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XF LAKGF early Wakefield and 1
Flat Dutch Cabbage Plants 25c per t ?
100. $1.75 per I,u00 delivered by LZ
mail. J. B. Mackorell. 51-tf. J
;Y THAT HOY or that hand a ? I
Bicycle. You will find it cheaper f ]
than letting them ride your stock - J
just when you need your horse or |
mule, and let him pay while he I ?
rides. J. B. Mackorell. 4 8-tf. ? ,
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IK HALF?200 bUBhels VVhipporwill
peas slightly mixed with Clay. ? 3
Phone or write u s for prices. 3
Twltty & Williams, Heath Serines. 31
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NY THING In Engraving. Litho- I t
grahing, Printing or Ruling. The | ?
Lancaster News. [
NOTICE. j 1
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All local Democratic clubs will T
eet on Saturday, April 27th, 1918, r ]
r the purpose of electing officers ? J
id delegates to the county conven- 5 1
>n which will convene at Lancaster ^ l
>urt house on iMay 6th. I <
Each club Is allowed one delegate | '
r every 26 members or majority [
action thereof. r 1
It. S. STEWART, - J
County Chairman. ? 1
Lancaster, S. C., April 16, 1918. 9]
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CAIU> OF Tlf.XXKH. C j
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1 highly appreciate and thank both L ?
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iniu itihi I'uiureu ior me many ra- I I
>rs shown us during the sickness I "^1 i
id at the death of my wife. ||Q
James Robinson. UU
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TUI
ONE MILLION I
RESOURCE
It Payj
To Be Iden
With
A Strong 1
THE BANK OF LA
LANCASTER, S
it to be begun by the Austrians Pc
ave received great quantities of
is from Russia, says that the
s are in desperate need of food,
lat only about one-third of the The
army of 3,000,000 men is being raster
lined on the battle line, the of- nijj| Sf
explanation being that there is
rlent food to provide for the " '
ider.
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Insurance
The Federal Reserve Bankin
likened to a vast billion dollar
fund which we and 7,600 other
all times to give us the currer
need to stand back of us in tim
and to enable us to give better
service in many ways.
Every one of our depositor;
without any additional cost, p
protection and benefits of this
If you would like to have thii
back of you, come in and depos
us.
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?litical Advertisements.
Notice. ?
Democratic club of the Lancotton
mills will mn??? nt ?h.?
hool house Saturday, April
two o'clock p. ra.
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Notice.
Carnes school house Democlub
will meet at Buford
house Saturday, April 27, at
o'clock.
Jno. A. Carnes, Chairman.
Notice.
Pleasant Hty Democratic club
net at Heath Springs Saturday,
!7, at three o'clock p. m., for
lrpose of organizing for the
; campaign.
W. 11. Bruce, Presidont.