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^ancaster News J|. SEMI-WEEKLY.) - a Established 1852. | ,flbllshed Tuesday aiUl Eiiday I \ BY THa J LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY . V Lancaster, S. C. GEOlUiE BULLA CltAVEN Editor and Muuuuer " A % ' SUBSCRIPTION PRICK: ,'f. m Cnsh iii Advance. One Year 12.00 Jf Six Months 1.00 ? j i <-? Entered as Second Class Matter October 7, 1005, at the Postotlice at ?- Lancaster, S. C., under act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Mi The News 1b not responsible for the views of Correspondents. Short and w v rational articles on topics cf general Interest will be gladly received. r Wy ci try 'Tie of Thee, Sweet Land O* I. i'lorfy," ifelDAY, MAY 10, 1918. SENTENCE SERMONS. A The essence of iiood and evil is a Jjortain disposition of the will.? pictetus. sdom is ofttimes nearer, when we stopp Than when we soar. it ?Wordsworth. V* W Manners must adron knowledge, nd smooth its way through the vrJif Like a great rough diamond. * very well in a closet by iosity, and also for its ine; but it will never be hine, if it is not polished. ?d. infl ought to bo heard in the .. but the heallnc ? vnlep nf .tian charity. The cause of liberty and civil government .8 as little as that of religion by fusion of duties. Those who quit r proper character to assume .t does not belong to them, are, the greater part, ignorant both hfjr "SCter they leave, and of er they assume.?EdS i * \ EDITOUIALETTBS. Dju bu^ a bond? Then buy War Savings 'stamps! + The Kaiser is reported as "going mad." Going? Gone! 2 + Are we to understand from the ^ V ^State that "reform" is not needed in the Democratic party? , And besides the more than a half million already "over there," there /' are many more "where those came from." ? At making a noise you've got to hand it to Mr. Borglum, but making airplanes is an entirely different matter. S - . 4i Perhaps Secretary linker can explain nian? other things but most of the folks are willing to take his 4 word, for it. ? V The News believes Secretary linker k knows what he is doing even if he doesn't make a confidant of the / whole world. fe. And a lot of us who have been saying we would be willing to go il Within the draft afire mav vet havr ^Vn opportunity ot proving it. / ' * a Getting your name in the paper ii not nil you get for the investment Besides peace and protection eventually, you've got- the bond. ??? It is to be noted in passing tfca a . while drugs may relieve the pang! ^ Of hunger for a time they will ntv j jlfevont recurrence. What a hungry fmun '3 soi^?thing*to eat. As a matter of fact few reasoni are to be found why a good preache' should not stay in a good towi V where he is doing good work as lon? IJijV i as he does good work and there ar< tome towns which need a goo< | , \preftcher, not only four friars, f,ut aj s -mar- jdMBi j NjOIMJLUM. / Fra V.* ^ \Xews does not know ' 'just what t*v \c department Ib do-' ing In the >f construction of i aircraft, mat ^ guns and other! war material, nor does it care to know. It is n^t a healthy subject to discuss in public and in print in the hearing of German spies and agents of the Kaiser, whether such construction is satifactory or unsatisfactory. iiuu uuegtra DroHK-aown 01 me air-'j craft program and the failure of the Colts company to produce the Browning gun, if essentially ^rue, perhaps deserve some criticism, but the publication of such stories does not fall far short of violation of censorship rules, and are not calculated to inspire public confidence in the administration. Possibly it would be argued that the people are enti-1 tied to know what is going on, and possibly they are. but, in the opinion of The News, the people who believe In President Wilson and the ad- ; ministration do not care to know everything that is going on, and believfhg that the one idea of the American government is to win iho nui, muy iiru kuhik iu can inr prooi of the charges that there has been imismanagement In the production of !airships, puns, or anything else. Chiefly the charges of graft and mismanagement in the airplane construction program, which culminated in the ordering of an investigation by the president, come from Gutzon jBorglum, a sculptor, and while The J News has an open mind as to the truth of his charges that there has been corruption in the expenditure ,of funds and pro-German intrigue in airplane production, Mr. Rorglum probably will find it difficult to prove more than waste on the part of those Jcharged with the expenditure of the funds. Borglum, however, has an excellent opportunity to do the gov ernment a real service If he can substantiate his statement of pro-Ger-; man Intrigue. Col. E. A. Deeds, an army member of the aircraft board, besides being charged by Borglum with misstatement of fact as to the numbjer of American planes flying in France^ bears the insignia of having, jis ? "cnl 1 his name from "Diech" to ,"sA alng more American.'' The genek charges preferred by Borglum J "'^contained in the following paragn ph, and the investigation ordered lay President Wilson may be expectecl to substantiate or repudiate .them: I "I have said that the aero department is full of profiteering, that hundreds of millions have gone, that factories have been created where there were no factories necessary. J ftnrl cnnt r-.u-lu /? nvion* ? "I *'I 1111} millions given to men who had neither rhyme nor reason for the remotest connection with the emergency of airplane production, but who had the pull of Deeds, and >vho are still floundering in their ignorance and incompetency, unable and incapable of fulfilling their contracts, still drawing under the cost plus system on the treasury of the nation. I have said that aeronautic men have been snubbed and ignored, and that factories that knew the art of nir' plane building are even at this writing without the slightest consideration by the group who dealt out the , colossal funds for their own puri poses." + s| 1'ivivo aiviitevnc The interest on the Liberty bonds of the third issue bought in Lanras? ter county is $8,243.25 annually. This is the smallest consideration in connection with the loan, yet it is not small by any means. t Largely, the money invested In , Liberty bonds hi "idle money," and t it now has been put to work in helpt ing Uncle Ram win the war. The spirit of the American soldiers in Prance J* to "fight hard and fast and s end the war quickly." That spirit r would be Impossible were they half \ fed^. and inadequately equipped, t Theref are embodied tvi'o considera5 tions of the Libert^frond, the Inter1 est earned ie tli$ third', m 1 Lancaster county has J* *""* 7 of the three issues ^oA* ** onds, j I - i. A THE LANCAST&f NSWi more than half a million dollars, on fat which the annual Interest Is more1 *es than $20,000, and all the w hile vou ah are draw ing interest, the bonds are . paying other dividends by providing i thi the men who are fighting with the ( to necessities of life and war. j,w .T^liere is a fourth consideration. I U" all The over-subscription of the third su loan clearly demonstrates that the people of the United States are be- th< hind the government and that sue- 19 ceeding loans will be met face to face '8? without flinching. This evidence of "* sh the determination of the people to'ne back the government with everything 1 Eu it needs is worth while. It is one of co the best dividends paid by the bonds. of pa * sti PUTTING IT TO USE. th A few years ago it was related wc that authorities in Asheville poured ,fo1 I f Ji i so much liquor which had been seized I nif into the French Broad river that all 1 m( the fish got drunk and held a big 0f| razzee. This story in part is true, sis In tho old days when liquor was seiz- nu ed by officers it was poured out in tho N if streets and permitted to run down till the gutters, sometimes while onloolcers with watered eyes and parched bo tongues stood by In disgust. True cei the fish did not need tho liquor and '? It was no sort of application for JJ.' paved streets, but it went that way and there was no means open for. the thirsty to stay the strong hand n,, of the law. pr< "Them was the old days" when "" shi there was plenty of it left and not poured out to make the fish "tipsy." ro, Now it is different. The seized soi liquor is shipped to Washington NVO where It is re-distilled, the alcohol , ?er extracted and used for war purposes. * * wo Colonel Hohenzollern, we have nf heard, takes his straight, but Uncle ( Sam, good old soul, takes out the wo alcohol and throws what Is loft <-'1' away, and besides there is a vast difwit ference in the way it Is used. tv a ' + + + + * + + + + + + + + + + + + by + HUNS' THKATMKNT OF + for + WOHK1NGMAN. + < + + + + + + ! + + + + + + + + + Jen (l?v I?.\NIKI< IX)UIS HANSON.) ' ' yoi gll Listen to this! gai "I look after mv dear working mr people as does a father bis children. I build beautiful homes for them, f ,( pay widows' pensions; also pension t ? for old age, sickness, loss of work and increases in families. 1 pay high , wages, limit working hours, make loans easy to farmers. I have no 1 slums as do America and Great ' 11 Tiiitain; I adjudicate all strikes. Mine is the land of the care-free and happy workingman.'' i 'i;u is uic 001 i?'(i-ciow n-to-a-rewsenteneos propaganda that Germany covered the whole world with before the war with the ostensible purpose of weakening the morale of her eno-j'oi mios in the war she then was plan- aci ning. Sp Great credit is due to Chairman 'n Knsley of the National Civie Federa- . th tion in his published refutation of,rei Germany's claims; just a few items be from that valuable document will mi prove illuminating: jbe Widow s' pensions in Germany i an during a series of years averaged 35 go cents a week; s'ck pensions ft.r> cents (T1 a week; invalidity pensions theith same; orphans' pensions 37 cents a an ve?k. Wages averaged per day for of nil s fi.ii), 1>I ll III lit'I.-I ? I. ^ railway employes?engineers and ar conductors on state railways, 70ico cents, shop workers, $1.02; malejth farm labor 72 cents; women farm hr labor 42 cents. And this In a land wbere govern-|n? ment statistics placed average cost as of keeping families at over $500 per|sn year. How did they make both ends nl ;meet? Fly working the whole faini- T! ' ly; every second worm In Germany si ; worked during the day before the t,n war period nearly 10,000,000 all si told- -and as the writer can testify tr from an extended trip throughout m i the empire, at the hardest labor. Jtl As to hours; these of skilled labor "! Iran about 58 per week. In textile and m | other lines from 12 to 14 per day. In ol |1011 the big stores of Merlin kept b open till 0 at -relit and some hours cl Ion Sundav th-uigh that last was n remedied the followinp year. The | e< smaller stores were even worse as to tl hoijrs. A banking concern across id from my fcotel worked from 7 In w mornlffir-fA9At night. w ' Rcgfeqdiafc Ktrikee whic^ Germany o claimed yjpilw&yri ad J \if that r< year I 8?\fsth< beg^r-'-* m v *h a o \ 'J lleriin^iw* or Ihf^sAri- t, ties f< j, LANCASTER. S. C. <hion by shooting down the rlngiders. It lasted only two days and a press was allowed to say nothing out It. However, the Vorwarts re- _ red to it and was suppressed for ? ree days as punishment. According Mr. Kasley's statistics more than o-thirds the strikes in 1912 were successful and labor untons only owed to meet under government pervision. As to slums?whoever has smelled e horrible odors in Cologne?until it me nuniesi cuy in niurope in me of its residence sections, will igh at Germany's claim to being imless. And what about the foulss of Madgeburg and Dantzig? st London is Paradise Alley in mparison. Berlin, the show city the empire, looks like a town of laces with the streets lined by iceo-fronted houses, but back of em?and this condition is much >rse in Hamburg, Cologne, Frankrt and other large towns?stand e serried ranks of poverty's tenemts, row upon row. Berlin has >re one-room tenements than any liei city in the world. Families of : and seven herding in one apart?nt and a hall bathroom doing ser e for half dozen such families. As to land distribution: over a Ird of Germany's farms are less in 1 1-1 acres in size; 22.6 per cent I ween 1 1-4 and acres: 17.6 tier it 5 to 12 acres; 18.fi per cent 12! f>0 acres; while 23,56fi junkers ? land barons, own nearly 25,000.0 acres?running from 250 to 500 res and more each. The above is only a small part of s picture which Germany actually ? ssented to the world in the before -? war period. Not of course what a claimed, but nevertheless collatfrom her official records?all exit the filth of her large cHies. it jnds inviting to an American _ rkingman, does it not. And since >n?of course, conditions have got1 even worse with women doing rk that would stoop the shoulders j^ the strongest man. . Oppression of farmers, underpaid m, rkers, enslavement of women and m ildren industrially, shocking hous-Lj, j conditions, chronic underfeeding. j,a Ih resultant fearful infant mortall-1(|y cnunterfpft social insnrnnrp nro:.,^ aw counts in the indictment made tj, Mr. Easley against Germany be- jn: e the war. on German efficiency goes to appalling w] gths, whether It is breeding Ger- an in subjects from the enslaved to nng women of France and Bel- sil mi; or in issuing lying propanda with which to break down the idale of the world's democracy", thing is too low, nothing too awfor the Potsdam spawn not to atF In Vet fools in America still mouth, (j, eace, peace at any price." pa Han a man make peace with tli II? lie SCISSORS AND I?ASTE. Delays in tin* Mail. (Charleston News and Courier.) When it was reported not so IK ago that President Wilson was customed to rely mainly upon the ringfield Republican for keeping touch with current events the ought which immediately occurd to us was that the postal service tween Springfield and Washington list he very much better than that tween Washington and Charleston d, indeed, in this part of the world nerally. Rut now we doubt this. >e Republican is usually at least roe days old before it reaches us id not infrequently the better part a week has gone by before the inday paper gets to this city. From tides appearing in our Springfield ntemporary we are led to conclude at it is having its troubles nearer ime also. The question of chief concern to ?wspapers and newspaper readers is i to whether the delays which are i generally complained of are avoid>le. W. M. Collins, who writes to he Republican from Washington, gning himself as "Industrial Secrecy of Railway Mail Association," is ire that they are. The principal outdo, he maintains, is not the deoralization of the train service, but le curtailment of the postal service, both as to accommodations for the ^ ails on the trains and the number r employees engaged tn the distention of tho mall en route." He aims that the number of railway nriTYO CItJI RV UOC1 Qlinr 11 I ?v f | V ?T )ICl nt in the period of 1913-1917 and lat the decrease in more /marked wrlnK the present year; notithstandinK the Kroat Infc-^se hich has taken place in the volume f mail matter carried. It Is for thin pason he dontei^lH that congestion f mails has occWred at all importnt centers of business, "in an effort ) perforin the distribution that was jrmerly performed en route, in the / * > ' Jr I?, w * ONE MILLIO ? RESOl < : <v * jpjt t ? 9 * ?*, * . * I It F To Be Ic "W -A. A Strip* * * THE BANK 01 LANCAST ? ?* < \ 4 rmlnal railway poatofllees." How accurate Mr. Collin's' figures ay be wo are not in position to? dee; but the reports that the serae was being crippled for lack of an have perlsted, not only from > 13 on, but before that time. Someing is certainly wrong and It is ird to believe that efforts to remetbe situation are as vigorous as ey should be. There never was a ne when the mail service was so iportant as It is today. It, is^tlie ie branch of the government ufStrn filch every American is directly id personally dependent. It ought be maintained at the highest pos!ile efficiency. > 'I he Corruption of a Good Game. (Columbia State.) The opposition In Laurens to >ool rooms.'' resultlnK in the etosK ??f them, has been, apparently, to e "rooms" rather than to the me of pool, or pocket hoards. To at, rational objection coukl hardly raised in these days. Men must have recreation and nusement, war or peace they will SUCLCLCLCLCLCLCLCLCLCU mnDDDDD ma | 11 Farmer; I New| I j! Sys 3 A [ 1 The Federal ltestf E J with its thousand i E J sources stands bac* E J and assists theiainft E : of their depositors.*' | ] Our membership - 3 special facilities for ru plant, Rather and st< I J rnXhext time voi II aius toll you h< -1 '/^1H to help you. I 3 // Qfo arc prepared jy r?V< upon approved s j The First f j3 LANOAS k vFRIDAY, MAY IN DOLLARS 1 ' JRCES < J 'ays y lentified , ith i ig Bank Ij k \ ' \ \ F LANCASTER ? FR 1 f L Lltl^ U< V. I > ' I? ' I i X I \ J have it, anil billiards, for the averr s? . age man. is In itself the mos't de- \ sirable of all games. It is comparatively inexpensive, it affords plenty of wholesome exercise and the relaxation that tired men need. No other game compares with it in attractive quality. Nowadays billiard rooms; and tables are included in the "Jf oilmen ui many 01 Hie X OU|L (| Men's Christian Association builrtV a ings and it Is only sensible that they I should be. Of course, the objection to bil- 1 liards is that the game is degraded. 3 It is employed as a cover, sometimes,^ for gambling and drinking resorflL frequented by undesirables who lujr and corrupt the young and unou* pocting. ,, V A billiard room should have I>l(B^ ty of fresh air and plenty of light. (live the game a chance under good I conditions and it will do good, lMt a harm, in Laurens or elsewhere. Kvil Invariably shuns the light. Tennis and "town ball" Would Come to ^ be evils were they played in dark places where the air is close jfa^P heavy. v 1 r?nnriUZS ijijuuijij ijijijuiji 3TO s.and the y t&l ib| .?.? ** ji "i Pvc VBatikinir System ? ? yillff>n dollars of rc- 13 s ^of its member banks ( { ajcing care ot' the needs [ gx j {1 / I s1'es UH 11 / " fal'Md'S to |1 >re MHrcrops. * 1 l conie to town stop in I f> j ow tliis new system en- S \ w [l I j to make loans to farm- j r M 1 ecurity. ? 1 j Rational Bank ijjrj TER, S. C. [ | mmSRBRBRtmL ? I % jj