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PAGE FOUR TheLancasterNew; (8EMI.WEEKLY.) Established 1852. Published Tuesday and Friday BY T1IK LiANCASTEK NEWS COMPANY I ... < r GEORGE BULLA CRAVEN Editor and Manager : SUBSCRIPTION PRICK: Cash in Advance. . One -Year $2.0 Six Months 1.0 Entered as Second Class Matt< October 7, 1905. at the Postofllce < Lancaster, S. C., under act of Coi gress of March 3, 1873. The News is not responsible for tl views of Correspondents. Short as rational articles on topics of gener: interest will be gladly received. "My Country 'Ti? or Theo, Sweet Lan of Liberty." FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1918. SENTENCE SERMONS. It takes a great many shovelful earth to bury the truth.?Sws Proverb. The high-bred fear of giving ol fense is of all fears the noblest.? Plaekmore. The more intellectual people art the more originality they see in oth er men. To commonplace people al men are much alike.?Pascal. it manes tne nnna very free whei we give up wishing, and only thinl of bearing what is laid upon us, am doing what is given us to do.? George. Eliot. Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fif "To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name! ?Sir Water Scott. One impulse from a vernal wood ?day teach you more of man, Of moral evil, and of good, Than all the sages can. ?Wordsworth. We how to the government of God but we turn against the despot. Xc man likes to share in the shipwreck of a vessel in which he has been em barked by violence, and which ha? been steered contrary to his wist and opinion. And yet such is perpetually the case in life. In the affairs of government we all of us pa> for the faults of the few.?Amiel. + EDITOR I.ALETTES. And now is the time when all good men should buy a fly-swatter. What has become of the old-fashioned man who made appointments by "new time." ? Columbia is to have a second election for mayor. This electing of mayors seems to be a difficult task. + Of course, if Holland has somethin? that Germany wants, thepe h going to be trouble between thos< countries. + Several towns in the State havi Tpported seeing things in the skies which ought to cause the revenu< officers to get busy. + The reports that come front thi Americans on the battlefront ough to be sufficient stimulus to main folks buy liberty bonds. + If the law against carrying con cealed weapons were enforced mor diligently truly the hip-pocket wouli lose favor in these arid times. * Mr Ma Af1rw\ oova ..... ... V? * xi 1/v/ oHjn null I CI I V.J when the quota reached." Fact It Mr. McAdoo will be surprised i that loan is not over-subscribed. 1 v.iiiiruHit; nas nan a "ciean-u week." which the Observer says wa attended with excellent results. W didn't think Charlotte could be mad to admit the necessity of a clean-u week, but the Obesrver frankly say that every week in the year shoul< be observed as clean-up week. It. it THE HONOR ROLIa !R? ^ The first "honor roll" of Liberty inl bond purchasers appears in this pa-'to _ per. It is not exactly an honor roll, jalt hut rntht>r n "rtutv mil.'' It in iimt tn as much our duty?we who are not so called to the front?to buy Liberty ri* bonds as it is the duty of those who ,wl are "Ovor There" or on .their way, va to answer their country's call for defenders of the Flag.- It Is the part *0 in the winning of the war that is 0 delegated to those of us who remain th 3r at home. Many of the men who are a- In training, or already at the front Up have made many sacrifices?sacri- nn !e Aces much greater than we make j when we lend our money to the gov- gcj ernment in order that they may be properly equipped for fighting, t inj clothed and fed. If they are willing sci to fight the Hun for defense of i American rights and privileges, for defense of our homes, it is the least ar< we can do to furnish them with the npcpasarips nf Hf? sml war in nhiind- i ? ance. It would still be the least we qu could do wore we to get no returns ? _ Sp for our money, but your very liberal , Rn government, for the principles of ^ which we are now fighting, does not , ? do ask a contribution, but a loan?a . s to |g loan bearing interest, and the in- ^ terest and principal will be paid. i w o Thus, the honor roll is not an , , fro honor roll, at all, but a "duty roll." , wb It contains the names of those paom triotic citizens of Lancaster county .. the !. who have answered the call from . hei " "No Man's Land,'' and there are 1 a 1 others, many others, whose names pai will appear in this "duty roll," be1 hi 1 cause they have not yet been ap- ^ k. proached or have not had the opi i ft i ^ 1 portunity to subscribe. go ? THKY 1>IE FIGHTING. ? "Overwhelmned by Germans, he cou accounted for seven of the enemy loa before he was killed. one That s the story of how a brave one son of South Carolina died in "No no\ Man's Land.'' His name was David. I a son of Dr. David, of Dillon, and "he ' fought like a tiger," writes Lieut. 'Daniel C. Roper, Jr., son of Inter, I ^nal Revenue Commissioner Roper, to his father. "He accounted for seven I i )jboches with his pistol and then was , on( 'I fighting with an empty rifle when urd " struck from behind.'' , *>e' 'i Mi Commissioner Roper sent an ex-1 * 1 i not . I cept of the letter to young David's -j father, and Dr. David, in acknowl- ne, ' edging the letter, shows the name I fine spirit that was shown by his ^ son. "Your son's account of my 1 I Ma; I tlnnr Iiav'o /InotR " 4' ? I ..wv.. ww.T n viuuiii I lie n I UlC, WUH I I the best that we have had and as he | states, it was glorious, an(i i focl quite sure that if he had had the ^'ei choosing of the way that he was to ^ . go, this would have been his i choice." Ma That's patriotism with seeriflce? the kind that "ounts. The son died ^ fighting?fighting gloriously?and , i An' : while the father will not give him i up cheerfully, but willingly, it will A be a soothing memory in the years to ; come. Ma * J A NEW DEPARTURE. " Newspapers have a way of marking political advertisements as such, possibly as a safeguard against some ' ? one who might wish to boost a cer- j Jtain candidate without cost, and be-! I 5 cause the paper itself may not wish to be accused of endorsing the particular candidate or his policies. If there is any other reason it has est | caped our diligence in generally tak- . e' I ing care of ourself. The Columbia COi Record, however, has adopted the of unique plan of printing above the n,! st i advertisement not only the fact that e i If it is a paid political advertisement, i Cf) i but also the amount paid and who j pr, paid it. The plan of the Record, The en pjXews assumes, is to clarify the pollti oal situation and do away with at ini f anonymous indorsation of candi- ro dates for public oflloc, and it is not a bad idea, or would not bo a bad idea icj p if it wore generally followed by all J s newspapers and all candidates. But n< ' an e most newspapers are satisfied to rr, e show the public that the particular IIp advertisement is paid for and not tr< s ^printed gratis by the paper itself on '^ so tl its own order. tn The new departure adopted by the co I THE LANCASTER NI i ?^?i ?cord, while girlng to the publl Formation they are hardly entitle* and could not demand, it' jjivln jo, in many cases, what thoy wis! know, and shows that at leas me politicians are willing to com ;ht out in the open and fight lich indication is refreshing if no luable. GOING OVER THE TOP. Lancaster county's allotment o e third Liberty loan is $191,600. Lancaster county's subscription i to yesterday amount to approxl itely $100,000. The quota is about half sut ribed. There are but seven more work ?? days in which to secure sub riptions. Have you bought yours? Have YOU bought ALL that yo 0 in position to buy? Lancaster county must go over th ??must not only subscribe its ful iota, but must over-subscribe il eeding up is necessary. Ev tv on ows what the Liberty bond is ere is no educational work to b ne. but the people must be mad realize that unless they act quick the top will not be reached. Wha uld you think of the men at th< >nt if they were to fight a littl' iile and then quit? Or put ui a good fight and refuse to flgh > next time the enemy shows his id? The war must be fought t( Inish?our part as well as tin t played by the men at the front ere must be no let up?there musi no falling back. Lancaster ha? ays gone over the top, and must over the top again! + \pproximately half of l^ancastei inty's quota of the third Liberty n has been subscribed. Which h way of saying if you have bought i KnnH nnrl a r? K?i\r o r* r-v* V* r**- r\ I < v! TOAST TO THE BOYS "OVER THERE." (Whitehead Kluttz, who delivered ? of the addresses here last Sat lay, closed with the toast printed ow. It is by Mayo, but just whal yo is the author, The News has been able to learn.) re's to the blue of the wind-swept north. Vs they meet on the fields ol France; y the spirit of Grant be with them all Vs the sons of the north advance, re's to the gray of the sun-kissed south, Vs they meet on the fields ol France; y the spirit or L.ee be with them all Vs the sons of the south advance (1 here's to the blue and the graj as one \s they meet on the fields o! France; y the spirit of God be with then all \s the sons of the Flag advance. USON CONDITIONS IN GERMANY REPORTED BAI ite Department ^fay Ketaliate i Reports of III Treatment Are Confirmed and Protest Falls. Washington, April 25.?Thoug thout any official information t nflrm press reports of ill treatmen American prisoners of war in Ger my, the state department has in tuted an inquiry to develop fact! they conform to the published ar tints a protest will be mad omptly through the Spanish gov nment, which has taken ove nerican diplomatic representatlo Herlin. If tlje protest is unavoil measures of retaliation will b nsidered. fZ?"?rmnn n ri aon rvra nf tvar I ? * A moi i largely outnumber American Id In German prison camps, an ;lude the crews of German raider d destroyers, in addition to th aw of the German submarin 58. These prisoners have bee aatod with a degree of liberalit at has caused adverse criticism i me quarters and in marked cor ist to the treatment said to be ac rded prisoners in Germany. . SWSt LANCASTER. 8. C. c I? SCISSORS AND PASTE. B I, Allies Are No Piker*. k ^ (Macon Telegraph.) When he started in. Hindenburg e announced he was willing to lose 300,000 men in the big drive. The >t allies, though, appear to be more liberal. They're willing for him to lose two or three times that number. Talking of Privations-*? '' (Charlotte Observer.) There may be be some people in l9 this country who think they are mak, ing sacrifices for the war?but they don't know. A look around In Lon> don might indicate to them what >- sacrifice means. Even with the restrlctions placed on our foodstuffs the people here are living like lords compared to the way people are faring in England. London is now under a strict curfew law. Lights must be out at 10 o'clock at night. No u hotel or restaurant or club may do any cooking between 9:30 p. m. and 5 a. m., and the food that may be 0 prepared is strictly limited. There 1 are no late suppers, no lighted store t. windows, and heavy fines are imposed for any wastage of coal or gas or electricity. People over here do not know we are at war. 0 Vladivostok. (Columbia Record.) t We can't afford to be splitting any 9 hairs about the Japanese. We need tk^lrx ~ ~ ^ ~ * J I i uri uciu, auu **f van nut aii'uni l() % I quibble over the niceties of the situ^ | ation. Japan can favor the allies 11 very greatly by sending an army to i Vladivostok, the chief Russian sea, port on the Pacific, and a near nelgh^ bor to Korea and Japan. Great quantities of war supplies purchased by the former Russian imL perial government are stored in ? Vladivostok. These supplies in large t ipart were sent from the United Ge j States. Except in the summer wc ' months, when the port of Archangel ^a I was open, Russia was compelled to 'aI r | rely upon the Vladivostok route for ,nt r | importing war materials from thitf 'ia , I country and Japan. The facilities of the tran?-Slberlan railroad are so limited that it was impossible to . . move the materials as rapidly as n" they were brought in by ship and large amounts of them accumulated there. To Much concern has been felt among , the allies since Russia's withdrawal from the war lest these supplies fall ed into the hands of the Germans. The thi prevention of this was one of the rCf principal points advanced in favor Eh of sending by Japan of an expeditionary force to Siberia. Early this tin month Japanese and British marines oai were landing in Vladivostok, but po : only In small numbers, for the pro- the tection of their nationals in conse- me quence of riots. Wo should now poi have an army of our Asiatic allies to foi protect these stores. What If the at I rabble of Russia does become offended? The bolshevlkl cannot ___ II fight without munitions. They are more in need of food than munitions, 1 and it is too hazardous to permit R ' this great store at Vladivostok to [2 remain there unprotected. ^ * + ++ + + NORTH LANCASTER +*++++++++++++++ rj Lancaster, S. C., R. F. D. 7, April I 25.?North Lancaster school, taught f by Miss Hazie Betts, closed its session on Tuesday. They have had a i successful school the past year. The program for the evening was speeches, .dialogues, etc., which j were well spoken and a credit to the j teacher and pupils. After the exj orcises were over Mrs. Lola Crawford ^ and Mrs. Pice, of Lancaster, asked to bo allowed to present the Liberty j loan, and War Savings Stamps to the pupils which was granted. They got some War Savings Stamps taken by the children amounting to $22. The ladles announced that they would serve ice cream and cake to the vislh tors and students which was very o much enjoyed by everyone. Miss t Uetta will return to her home in York - county. ix The people of our community, 1 think, are awake to the interest of the Liberty loan and are doing their e part to help the government, r. Farm work has been on a stand11 still for some days on account of the ii | i uiiuiiuni uiiiin wt3 iuiv? ntiu. v wry | I- little cotton has been planted and , e what has, I think, will be to plant , over. It Is too cold for It to come up and grow.* Small grain, of course, J a Is benefited by the rain. There Is I d some very fine wheat in the county. | s J. K. Craig Is cutting his alfalfa j o now und he reports a good cutting j e and thinks it a desirable crop to i ti sow. Just think of It, cutting hay y in April. Why do so many lack feed n when it can be raised so easily? ' i- J. W. Craig, Jr., has Joined the g navy and is at Raleigh, N, C., at thU writing for examination. * ? JiMHilku seZuA iui ONE MILUO RESOl .If Itp To Be Ic Wi A Stror THE BANK 01 LANCASTI A four-minute man saya if the xmans conquered this country wo mid be ruled over by one of the iser s sons. eurtnermore, the ldlords of Washington would be >re rapacious than ever.?Birmingm Age-Herald. It's not hard to bear the misforae of the other fellow?or to tell 11 you do. Political Advertisements. the Democratic Voters of the Fifth District: I respectfully ask to be renominatand re-elected to Congress from s District and agree to abide the mlt of the Democratic Primary jction. I will not be able to spend much le in the District this summer, bease of the great amount of imrtant legislation growing out of i war situation, but will attend letings in the District whenever ssible. It is absolutely essential congressmen to be at their post this time. W. F. STEVENSON. 54-tf. CI??"" firin ri wt r? n fflanBODDnnnPBB j A Billior ! Insuraiu ] The Federal Reserve B ' likened to a vast billion < 3 ] fund which we and 7,600 < all times to give us the < need to stand back of us i and to enable us to give b service in many ways. - Every one of our dep without any additional c 1 protection and benefits of ! j If you would like to ha^ j back of you, come in and J us. 1 I ] The First N; ] LANCASTE 1 i maaaaaaaag ^ ' ? " FRIDAY, Aprils#, ISIS. V N DOLLARS ER, S. C. ? ?? ____ Political Advertisements. Notice. The Democratic club of the Lancaster cotton mills will meet at the mill school house Saturday, April *m a , ai i n u u v,lut r\ y. in. Notice. The Carnes school houRe Democratic club will meet at Buford school house Saturday, April 27, at 12:30 o'clock. Juo. A. Carnes, Chairman. ' Notice. The Pleasant Hill Democratic club will meet at Heath Springs Saturday, April 27, at three o'clock p. m., for the purpose of organizing for the coming campaign. W. B. Bruce, President. Notice. ^ The Primus Democratic club will meet Saturday afternoon at three f o'clock. _ 'fl RtfafiifiifitfitfiifitRfitfi h i i Dollar [| :e Fund || {! unking System may be ! J dollar mutual insurance I j :>ther banks maintain at [ ] currency our depositors [ j n time of fmacial stress [ ] >etter and safer banking K f ! i m osttors, large or small, | 1 ost, participates in the j j " this great system. [ 3 /e this nation-wide fund [ S deposit your funds with j 1 : ?itional Bank i| ? :r, s. c. ! ] $ ' I IRCES .? cxyz> lentified ith ' ig Bank IK I ANfASTFR