The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, May 10, 1918, Image 4
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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.
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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
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\ EDITOUIALETTBS.
Dju bu^ a bond? Then buy War
Savings 'stamps!
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The Kaiser is reported as "going
mad." Going? Gone!
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Are we to understand from the
^ V ^State that "reform" is not needed in
the Democratic party?
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And besides the more than a half
million already "over there," there
/' are many more "where those came
from."
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At making a noise you've got to
hand it to Mr. Borglum, but making
airplanes is an entirely different
matter. S - .
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Perhaps Secretary linker can explain
nian? other things but most of
the folks are willing to take his
4 word, for it.
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V The News believes Secretary linker
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ftnrl cnnt r-.u-lu /? nvion*
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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."
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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,
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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
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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.
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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
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+ WOHK1NGMAN. + <
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(l?v I?.\NIKI< IX)UIS HANSON.) ' '
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Listen to this!
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"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
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<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
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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
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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.
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'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
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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
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