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W i PA6]B FOUR IheLancasterNews fcn ( S EMl-WKEKLY.) { Established 1852. " Published Tuesday and Friday by the Sot lancaster news company. i,a, Ijiuiea&.er, S. C. _ th( bUOKUU BULLA CRAVEN ne Editor and Manager m set The News is not responsible (or the Mr lews of Correspondents. Short and , rational articles on topics of general 0' lnte-est will be gladly received. elc SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: 8el Cash in Advance. kn One Year $2.00 __ "Six Mouths . 1.00 v sit Entered as Second Class Matter jt October 7, 1005, at the Postofllce at' Lancaster, S. O., under act of Con- tic gross of March 3, 1879. s(, "My Country 'Tn of The#, Sweet Land ' ->f I inert/." | FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1918. p,( ' ve -X-jf mj SENTgXrE SEHMONS. dr ?.?, fr( To sage advisers lot me ever bend jJO a meek, attentive ear ? Keats. . lie i It is only the truly virtuous who m< can love or hate others.?Confucius inl /S* Ipo He Is next to the gods whom rea-|en snn nnH not mission, imnels. Clau dlan. P" | no If we tread our vices under our co feet, we make of them a ladder by which to ri&e to higher things.?St Augustine. ^ d How little we pay our way in life' Although we have our purses contin\ ually itf^jur hand, the better part of is servic^ goes still unrewarded.? va Stevenson. . %. ;ti0 Iif^-yuth^ye dream that life is a|co' straight line. Later we know it to Kr< be a circle in which the present til presses on the future, the future on the past.?Anne'Sijj^on. j --* * i ces /EDITOR1ALBTTES. vei ; ^ m ' aDl The Americans in France are??gain- th< ing a reputation for winning ground Bh I ana then homing it. 1st ? cisi No, Geraldine, the "My dear Mac" tjV( letters have no relation to the "My wa dear Archbold" letters of some years wji aK<>. tha Til With a million of 'em over there ^ and more a-going, probably the can Vj*; American army has by this time lost its "contemptible littleness." ? ma "" * " i bin If the candidates for governor and senator can prove all they're saving 1 in about the other 'candidates, someVV e body-else ought to be elected to the j offt offices. .. . t hi Newspaper men as a rule are law-ablding but the life of the man who ^ promulgated thlB new postage rate Cjv f -wouldn't be worth two cents at a;pai i *v press convention. Ljt, J. *enl In anything but politics to call a the the _ . . man "a - character assassin, traitor I . watei. I the produ, an<* coward" would mean ^Kl,,:!the ^gds l therefore, politics should not be ta-'ie| yty ^en to? seriously. ^QT' *' , > * 1he |i' ,4 If Mr. Blease was following the i to Tjotsteps of Senator Tillman, as the S ^ ^^it^Mte Observer says editorially. s ' loff^the trail when the latter '',t heaaed for the Uniteg^iLates senate. 1 civ * * That Charlotte delegation may find' after reaching Secretary Baker 1,1,1 i* '' ' a tHat the cantonments are not main tained for the particular benefit ot any city or cities. 1 + pa> TV Maybe Mr. Burleson could make 'nK ^ the telegraph and telephone line- ('ar T % pay a dividend but if he applied the hit same reniedv as in the enae nt thelstn \mail service night letters by train st" Instead of by wire would be quite a Tellef. ? er ? of t < It was a mutual loss. The Greens- ?er boro News says: "Coleman L. Blease qri (shows his good stewardship by de- ] claring that he lost money while gov- dot ernor of South Carolina. Which of -means that the Blease Incumbency flic as a loss to everybody.'' ear t X > / . 4 " . ^ - # . 9 THE LANCAS' =^=. . ' T.VXCJLKMKNTS OF THE SENA- many cases the regulations TORIAIj RACE. land cities are cumbersome rhe News expects something to often neglected, but reason ppen in the senatorial race in can be taken without rei i?th Carolina. What it is that will legal force or prosecution, ppen, we are unable to say. That course, on the part of th< J race has taken on an entirely and should they regard rei w aspect is not disputed and it governing factor in mote iras, now, that the fight is between much work would be savei \ Blease and Mr. Dial. The people cials and there would be si South Carolina are not likely to for the cumbersome and ! >ct Mr. Blease to the United States unintelligible regulations aate and yet Mr. Dial is so little gated by councils of the t town, and not a politician, which cities. Perhaps Lancaster obably puts him in an unpleasant along without new laws b uation, his opponent being really j the subject if the request o a well known and a shrewd poll-1 league for more rigid en lan ?as shrewd as ever beat the ot the existing laws is grar imps of a political campaign. With News is mindful that laws na.tor Tillman in the race there was to be enforced and officers i* jTuuifiuauciw in me resua; ea or appointed to ento d Congressman Lever remained in though a little warning in there still would be little question of speeders perhaps will to the outcome. Hut between Mr. some extent the situation al and Mr. Blease, or Mr Rice and the civic league and many r. Blease, or any other way it may zons complain. If this wil ease you to put it. the outcome is flee, and in the case of hal ry doubtful. Mr. Lever may or,constant violations, then ly not re-enter the race; he with- should be rigidly enforced ew on the strength of a request ? jm President Wilson, who thought i'lllKNI) or TIIK 1M>< was needed in the house where he1 Greenwood Journal ?lds important committee assign- takably ag in the pool ro? >nts. The News is not well enough week 1 he News quoted formed of the ways and means of Greenwood paper some litics to anticipate Mr. Lever's re- nbout eliminating pleasures trance into the fray after the ex- measure and threw out tli ration of the time-limit for tiling tion that probably the Jour itice of candidacy. Perhaps this n?t oppose pool rooms und uld he arranged in some way. j restrictions. The Journa Mr. Lever, however, may not feel think that way about it. It ?posed, after withdrawing from "Our friend, the Lancas e race and acceding to the Presi- seems to have entirely ntial wish, to re-enter and begin stood the Daily Journal ii n oil 0.1.0. I _ V h'l/| on V nnt^o .1 o I . c ii^ui an U?C1 a^ilill. MI . ijCVHr ,,u" oa/, ouiiiv ways nil a very strong man and a very the importance of not cut'ti: luable man to the State and na- amusements for the peopl n tn his position in the house; he the war. in that it raises th< aid hardly hope to attain that de- of P?ol rooms. The News ?e of usefulness in the senate un- he on the fence about the after several years of service. at,d appears to be in doubt >ugh were matters different he position of this newspaper, uld appear to be the logical sue- "We beg to advise the ' isor to Senator Tillman. Mr. L.e- the Daily Journal has r can defeat Mr. Rlease. - Mr. Dial and it has not now, and ii Mr. Rice will have the.fights of never will have one lots sir lives to defeat him. Mr. pathy for the pool room bi case's attitude toward the admin- Is an unmitigated evil. t; ration in Washington; his criti- closed these things up lo in of the senators and representa- and we are glad that ma as who voted for a declaration of cities have done likewise, r, should alone defeat him, but pool rooms are no places f( 1 It defeat him? Will the element nients, but rather exist fo t would have voted for Senator and resorts for teaching iman be able to combine its We rejoice to believe that t imgth on one of the other two along with the iniquitou ididates, or will it split between business, are numbered. II three and give Mr. Blease as your shoulder to the w ny votes as the other two com- News and get these thing ed? Lancaster, if you have thei Something evidently will happen The News would not go the course of a very short period. 'ar as the Journal has gone don't know who will take the alizlng on pool rooms, whib tnsive or the defensive, but some- it says applied possibly to ] ng Is going to happen. j pool rooms may be true. * | pool appeals to us as a very LAW KNFOUCK.MENT. I game, though a very fo< The News is Informed that the There have been pool ro< ic league has presented or is Pre' R8 a rendezvous for liquorring to present a petition to the UqUOr-selling and gambling y authorities requesting a strlctet course, in such cases, were orcement of the laws regulating of the Wf)rs( 80rf but we d 1 driving of motor vehicles within ?eve a)| poo, rooma can , , city. The flagrant violations of|tbat claaa The Newg baf i speed laws and that against t|rular friendliness for kless or careless driving have ')?" room, but refuses to conde ue so numerous as not to escape; cauae one or niore particu attention of anyone. Twenty-flve ,iahrn?nta hav6 fallen below forty miles per hour on Main of decency. set has really become the ruiej _ her than exception, and it is u re-1 Wouldn't it be a pleasant siting bit of information that the to hear a candidate say th; ic league nas uusieu useii witn ponent really Is a nice fell task of calling the attention of _ ? ! authorities to what is admittedly If the supply of brick most dangerous practice. There there won't be any Candida ye been several near-serious aeci its In the city during the recent I ... . - I/KITKltS TO Til K Kf it which may be taken a? presag- | more serious ones unless the , . l/iniior Selling. igerous practice oi driving at To the Kdltor of The New< tak-neck speed through the city Will you please kindly It cets is stopped, especially at cross ,. . .. , . through the columns of yc nets, which nre, in several in M, ,f j Phal, vf>ry K,ad ? nces, obstructed by banks on eith son who knows of whisl side, and at which children are "Old anywhere In Lancast en at play unconscious of the dan- u0,1 id let the fact be kno . ? at once and I will see that ' lurking so near through fast . .. . party or parties are broug ving of automobiles. without fear or favor. License to drive an automobile man tells me that a cert is not extend to the confiscation him whiskey is being the whole road, nor does it con- T& not ,fk|' mft who infot h tfto <? ? ? ? ? mm an H?n I > ill * 111*7 alllj t with the regulations *overninK t|on; buf whfln he tfUn |t ,n ae in the towns and cities. In way /^o many othen^^^^^i i as a war menj 0f run 0f mine coal to insure j ie suggea- our people belnc taken care of before nal would noxt winter. We will advise you ler proper fur"1"r "Pon our return to Ander son." 1 doesn't n R. E. Wylie, 8ays: j County Fuel Administrator. ter News, misunder- <>?P Rotation. er eyer a what it To *he Editor of The News: tinual < ace about ^or some years our leaders in ed- hard-ea ?n ucatlon and public affairs have re- fertilize ng out all w alized that our traditional school are goii e, uring 8y8jpm an(j our preaent rural schools quantltl 8 question havo not met the ere^t re?nnn<dhilitv ever he seems to placed upon them in the proper man- long ru se places, ner- Our rural schools have been positive as to the Pattorne(l a'ter the town and city they hs schools As a consequence our youth howevei has been distracted from the Import- To te Te\vs that ant things of rural life and has been firm at lever had drawn in a steady stream to life in farming trusts it f?wns a"d cities Our economic life nearly , is becoming more and more unbal- projects i of symanced. Education is the only for thr? 1 w i || pu w I f means of stemming the tide and Der- irround reen wood ^aps some future great disaster. change ng since, So the study of agriculture and ru- sooner i iny other ra' affairs have been put into the In a sm .. . school courses. In South Carolina rotation No. sir, the plan is for five rural schools to suit coi >r amuse- co-operate with the government in First ir loafers employing a specially trained man and elo gambling | to teach and lead the youth In 1m- Secon heir days Pnrbant farm problems In Lancaster in midd county the schools of Elgin, Oak- Third s liquor hurst. Heath Springs, Rich Hill and beans li etter put ^ntlooti form the group. Actual The heel Mr.'work |n the agricultural classes be- year; tl s out of gan January 1, with two classes per the seci n there 'n eac^ school. Teacher's sum- the gro Imarv work for the first half year Is will als quite as as follows: Boys enrolled In classes, winter i in g. uer-l^j; girls enrolled In classes. 80; washing a all that classes taught, 188; pupils present, farmers particular 2.636; conferences and visits. 381; boys an In itself. Puh'lo talks and demonstrations, 10; them tl innocent "Prayed, 4; fruit trees prun- Instead ed. 385; fruit trees sprajtfd 225; in three ilish one. | mlje? traveled, 2,226. J their fe >ms used: One of the main features of the I^et < -drinking. | federal government plan Is for stu-,that to and of directed hv the teacher, to do above tl some home project work, and there- ground nuisances , . ., fore put into practice as far as possl- realize i o not be- j(|p |P(WonH learned at school. We er acrei je put in have 38 boys doing home project present ? no pai- work, not Including boys and girls questloi the pool ,n "ve8tock projects. Also, several this rej IA . girls are doing garden work to help stock w mn it be- , ........ ? | in this crisis. In all. the boys are 'Corresp lai estab- growing more than 50 acres of cot- problem the level ! ton, corn and peas. The following j boys are mentioned: Elgin, George | Harper, DeWitt Harper. Curtis Bas- Heatl diversion kln9, Ferry Hagins. Waddell Hagins; Oakhurst, Hugh Ussery, Thurs at a op !|on XTgsory, Claude Robertson, s nw* i Horace Robertson. Carl Hinson. j Floyd Hammond, Claude Hammond, bats lasts Johnnie Barrett. Raymond Roberttea left. json; Rleh 11*11. Manly Hammond. Ben Hammond, Coy Shehane, Ma- Just rion Fullerton, Chalmers Hinson. would >lToi{. Hunter Reeves. Yaney Blaekmon. paign r Johnnie Lee White; Heath Springs, benches Frvln Blaekmon; Antloeh, George average Baker, Boyd Blakeney, Carvel Blake- dldates ney, Ira Stognor Tom MeManus, Joe as they t me say. Brown MeManus. Fugene Halgler. The I >ur paper. Fred Lowery, \Vilkle Blaekmon, people i r any per- Whiteford Blakeney. (Meatus Cope- eampalf tey being land. there a er county As much as we like to boast of our polities, wn to me state and country, our rapid pro- good m the guilty | gress. and our superiority over the try to ht fo Jua- European nnd Asiatic countries and hear th When a I peoples -thin writer feeln that ouri P?op ain party farming In the nouth. generally, la feel llk( sold, and.ol a wreak. thriftless, hap hazzard,' *^ning med him, | soiUirrmblng, muu/ey-spending, man- tt>nt la i In forma- kfninsr' bant*, wr soils are surely, fritn a tjjie Aa^Jejand sometime* Vrtipldly, wanhln ^put^yj away into the ?^||ekn and rER NEWS, LANCASTER, S. C. of towns the violator of the law on notice to, i and too out 'or the officers, and Is doing 1 able care 111 ?10 harm than good. I do not believe any whiskey is J ior i,ig to j,eing soj(| Qn 8^reejg Qf i^ancas- ' This, of ter tt8 8ome seem to think. I believe I e drivers, that some people In the town of j ason as a Lancaster, who should be above It, i I are selling Jamaica ginger and ex-1 s tracts to people who they know are! 1 the offi- .... . j i i v. buying them to drink as a beverage, ight need a8 j Ree empty vials about in places, sometimes and I do think any person who sells promu!- such stuff, when he knows in reason owns and,,he Party ,s buying it to drink and! get drunk, is Just as guilty as those can 8?t j sejj whiskey. earing on ( John P. Hunter, f the civic | SherifT Lancaster County, forcement j ited. The A* to r?al* are made To ,he Kditor of The News: 1 In reference to the coal situation, .no elect- j %voui,i he glad if you will publish rce them, the following information, recently the case received by me. from the State Fuel relieve to Administration, viz.: ? i "For your information we wish to of which say that the run of mine coal situaothet < iti- t jon js easv at this time as compar1 not suf- (>,j with the movement of domestic bitual and coal We could direct large tonthe laws "ages of run of mine coal to South Carolina points, but we want to be I fully convinced first that a sufficient. 'simply of domestic coal for our peo>L ItOOM. pjp wj|| not available. We exis unnus- pect to learn the exact status when im. Last Mr. Gossett and the writer go to th? i from the coa' floltls next week. If we see there is no chance of getting domes-' remark's , tic coal we are coine In ilirecf eliin. . m- ' " ' '*!** -hr. " FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1918. ? - v THIRD LIBERTY BONDS / ;u /L NOW ON H^ND Subsfribers who/have paid or j who wish to pay cash will please call for\he bonus. Subscribers/ who have made no payments will kindly do so at ONCE. V THE BMOF LANCASTER /LANCASTER, S. C. y year. To meet this eon-'and supporting the government in drain we have to spend our every way possible ly that effort, rned money for hlgh-prleed This is no time for old-time political rs. This year the fertilizers oratory and the people are not going ng to the farms in greater to listen to it. ies and at higher prices than ifore. T believe that In the What On? oi.i ni.i n commercial fertilizers are a (Columbia Record.) evil to the south-at present Con8lder the case of Lucy McGlnty ive become a necessary evil, of Kansa8 ?ere.8 what 8hft dtd; ! Last year she put 50 acres into ach the boys to get on a more ^ ... .. . , corn. As she did all her own plowid permanent basis in their ? . In* and cultivating It was a regular : we have the promise of ,?e Job The weK ^ every parent for the boys dur|n(. the BUmmer Illonth|1 L , to run a. a crop rotation d|d hcr plowlng at h>yl bcr ,e years on the same piece of alster al)d htolh? br|n|! , Everyone feel, that a mldnUht |unch ,he N(J in our farming must come - ___, man farmer in Ldwards county got or later, and are glad to start a better crop. Lucy harvested 3d all way with their boys. The bU8he,8 tQ thR acre l 50Q bu8hel? i. which may be changed to rp. ? . . . .. . . . . a. . ' , . , . , ^ The last fall Lucy got out the old iditiona, is given herewith: . ,t . . .4 n plow and followed it up and down ^ year?Cotton, summer; rye ,he whe? ?eld, ,owln(( acres ,Q ver, fall. winter wheat. ,d year Corn, summer; peas Shfl d,d the dlsklng ^ le" planting, to- laflp I year-Wheat or oats. Soy If tbe weather is klnd_we i stu le. || wjj| be?L,UCy will grow enough above means two crops per . . " " food to keep hunger away from a he first to be taken off and whole re>flment of our 80ldler8 over ond to be turned back into ln France for 8evera, monthB und for soli Improvement. It a?m i .,?n . a . , B aw. a as. . An" I<UC> rCftP ? QiC? f*t bank io be noted that there Is a u i ,, . , account, which is as it should be. cover crop to prevent winter .u. mucu ui me mreaienea man power ; t*1? crafty r?bber. " our shortage on American farms would will begin a plan like the dl8appear If there were more girls e starting, we will guarantee ?ke Lucy McGinty uit the soil will grow better + of poorer each year, and that , vrt_ .... I4 lifllSvltit i years they can begin to cut rtlllzer bills In half. Because for once the world broke In our people realise, however, her hand, follow the plan mentioned . The words she spoke seemed perhey cannot run over as much' lshed for a space; as at present. But you will All wrong was braxen, and In every right soon that a much small-. land ige will yield as much as the The tyrants walked abroad with big acreage. Lovestock' " naked face. is are purposely left out of _. , . , . . , , . . , The waters turned to blood, as rose >ort and discussion. Live-, ... .. . . the star 111 be our second years work. ... . , ,, , . . I Of evil denying all release, ondence on rural and farm . The rulers smdte the feeble, crying is solicited. "War*" M. L. Eargle. Teacher of Aar. Thf r"bb<"1 ,be n?keda Sprlnca. S. C.. July 2, 1918. crying Teare. And her own feet were caught In nets of gold. riSHOHS AND PASTE. And her own soul profaned by __J sects that squirm. The State Campaign. 'tAnd ,,h,P m"n f,ll?brt to ftgh I seats, and sold (Anderson Mail ) I <. Her nonor to 'he vulture and the as The Daily Mall predicted, worm he the rase, the State camiarty Is playing to empty And she seemed broken and they So far the audiences have called her dead, d from 100 to 200. The can-. The Over-Men; so brave are said to be discouraged, the weak, have a right to he. vj^as y?,lr 'a?,t word of act of the business is that the been said, are not interested in ordinary O cult of slaves? tn speeches this year, Iml to speak. re no special Issues In Slate 1 af. The people want to sleet 1 Cle*r, thf s,ow' m,8t# fron? JB ien. of course, and they Villi nr ey?*? r do BO without going outCtn ! A e candidates ,'P** I And once ^Zflr lo are buny and they d^not sarprlg^Hg^^j|^^ HH11Tak*^J^^Vw " ,fjA 1 < *.# *2J> * <*