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4 ?? PAGg f xhelan (al^so* a (SKMI-weekiA 4 ' .' * "*Katubll>li**d 1805?ranee;|< f Aug. 8.-- no Jfc. ^ Hi fleant <hq^hg?l Tuesday and ctMBmQ cent event* ' ' BY TUB y* extrenlelv JL8TBH NEW6 LOMPAwV, < ?!<*,< in Waster, S. C. feV- GEUltGE HlliLfKUAVp Mqs' Editor and Manager % *e " ? r-* : >' The News is not responsible for the -views of Correspondents. Short an<! , -rational articles on topics of general / v Interest will l>u gladly received. ^ Sl'BSCUirTlON Pit ICE: v ' Cash in Advance. ?l\\ One Year . . . . $2.0r jf *>ix Months 1.00 Ge Entered as Second Class Mattel October 7, 1005, at the Postofflce at , .Lancaster, S. C., under act of Con,v;r<*sB of March 3, 1879. him ^Y Country 'Tin of Then, Sweet Lane rNf>Jj^ o* ? iSerty." * 1' ^ VPRIDAY, AUGUST 9. 1918. been ??t I ~ 'ns a KreatqEN?LNCE gBRMONs What Is going >'\w. Germany is Vjes." the,world changes^ \r prisoner ' A st^front sjmgeless state, 'twere cauav, to weep. ' ?Bryant. Character.?A reserved force which ^ acts directly by presence and with* out means.?Emerson. > Did universal charity prevail, earth would he a heaven, and hell a .i*aA>lo.?Col ton. For men. in reason's sober eyes. Are children but of larger size. ?David Lloyd Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.?George Maedonald. Fools aro ever fortune s care.? Burns. ? a. KD1TOKIALETTES. All I ' ^ T. - ...... - J""' " nave juii a uuie war savings V t stamp in your home? + 'f 'I Oo you remember how many snows ,tthcre were last winter? Weather forecast Probably warm T J _ _ "weather today and tomorrow may he ^ Iiot. L ? ? 1 We may expect nothing but squealy[ ? Ing when the government takes ovei .he packing industry. V ?*?The weather is quite propitious, 3ust at this time, for getting in your wood and coal for next winter. + , _ l_?ost?One street sprinkler, with Seorcta tour wheels; leaks slightly by reanfont agon of n"c4 being used often, uvad + There mav be a number of roads he ,j , leading to Rome but Hindenburg has I probably discovered thai few lead to rta ' Far is. pa + Don't forget that in October * you're to pay back that hour of da\ IT ^ light which you borrowed last L' ?pring. 1 . 4 v <? Uleltsi^, as a matter of fact, will never have the opportunity of telling President Wilson that he is a loyal -senator. X. . ?*? ltOf course the sinking of unarmed v^tels off our coast entails some lb' loss, but it gets the enemy no nearer cto Paris. I ?*? Tho American army' may still be ^contemptible in the eyes of the Germans but their estimate of the size of It has probably been revised. i ' ^(^utomobile manufacturers have -suggested a reduction of 50 per rent In number of cars produced, as a -war measure. It would really seem o> there is prospect of the buckboard 'D coming Into its own. i e ^ Germany, after 40 years of pre pnratlon and four years of fighting Is now In possession of about 7;' jSRL miles of French territory along t front some 200 miles long. \V< gh^V'uld say that Is slow traveling. ? ' ' 0 TllK JM.ITEIt.U V (XAIMISSKTN. The Illiteracy Commission of i South Carolina, appointed by Emu or Manning at the request of the?Federation of Women's clubs. 1 out a circular outlining "Its' VorW^MpWtating its purposes which shodt(l,<i^h%feto every citizen of the %tnte. Th^ education of the masses is. broadly {poking, the one purpose of the * co^unissipp. and, of course, there _ is work ahead. The state is b^ckwarcfih. this particular and the Iflfyeracy Commission has set about to improve the conditions aiul nut South Carolina lor ward educationally. ? The principles stated in the circular are os follows: 1. State Prole. The stannic of being the most laggard of all the states in literacy should sting the decent self-respect of every South Carolinian into vigorous action. 2. The Future. The terrifl^test to which our political fitness yud Industrial competence will be'put in the fierce after-war struggle demands universal education as a condition of self-preservation. 3. A War-Measure of the First Magnitude. Since the success of the war depends mainly on the wholehearted devotion of the people, the first duty of patriotism is to see that no citizen remain insulated from the currents of the nation's mind. 4. To save the world, the efficiency of repacity must be overmatched by the efficiency of democratic intelligence. 5. To deny to any of our people the chance even to read the word of God is to violate the very spirit of Christianity. 6. It is pathetic and intolerable thnt hiiiiflrcds tif worthv ix-itnle can. I not road or writo the letters between 1 themselves and their boys in camp 1 and trench. The commission outlines the work ahead of it as follows: 1. The Commission is to work under the leadership of the State ' Department of Education and as aux- ' lllary to it. 2. It purposes to do all in its 1 power to co-operate with, encourage, and aid all persons, organizations, and other agencies that are striving j for the eradication of illiteiacv from the state. 3. It will endeavor: To work for such legislation as is necessary for the success of the cause; To use all legitimate means of propaganda and agitation, To become a center for the gatn ering and exchange of information and for correlation of all agen ier In the state working toward tn^ same end; To assist, as far as possible, in actual execution; To raise money that may be necessary for the above named ends. Kvery forward-looking citizen of ' South f'aroiina will co-operate. The stain of illiteracy and its handicap must he removed from South Caro 1 i n a. + THK AliV.ANt K CtlXTIM KS. The German soldier made prisoner by the Americans who had a letter from another soldier telling him to shirk all he could, brought to light what Is more than likely the, general feeling among the crown ' prince's troops. Since the begin-j ning of the Franco-American drive and the consequent withdrawal of the enemy forces, the depression in Germany, among the civilian population and the soldiers, has reached th<* loWPttt nitr*li sinif the* hovinnincr , of the war. according to dispatches coming across the waters. The Germans have been "driven hard" and . they have lost much in men and materials. Paris dispatches tell of the enormous amount of booty, captured in the Maine pocket, "including one item of a million three-inch shells." London papers are quoted as featuring the "moving back on three fronts" of the enemy forces, and , these papers think the shortening of > the enemy lines is a consequence of i the heavy losses of the enemy In > men and an actual shortage of men It is declared that since Juue 15. the <4 ?7 * ? LANCASTER NEWS. euenfyVhg (yjtced to eugage S7 divia-1 tion b? tafce] ions in battle, 4 0 against Qouraud ures followed and*4 7 in tlm Mffcxne pocket.' The: Thi* matte losses in ttms? hfttlfres hag been ter- seriouJjflbiqMg rificSP A glance at the map offcthe Imt- dj^duale ac tlefronts shows the GermanyT5l(Wmt6 taV^ft'tue'tna wlthrt* *l?v|!? miles or their l^ne of difteasg-g0 from which thd?" started their Aian^' Three thin Marne drive on May 27. The enemy the campaigt is being driven across the river Swat the i Vesle and on toward the line of the Swat the t Choinin-des-Datnes, at which the Keep the i Germans will reach their starting point on May 27; will have lost ~ S( '|SS< heavily in men, guns and supplies, and will have gained nothing. Per An interesting incident in connec(Cha rlestoi tion with the advance of the Franco- .. , ,, General M American forces was that when the General I'ers enemy was stopped below the Marne, rect comman an American general ordered a American an counter-attack "because it was hu- "l0n 's ? ing of recei initiating to see the American flag , .. , publics fund retire." The enemy was thrown jMK our forc< buck and the American flag is still only gratify! going ahead. ? shows that Over-optimism, however, is dan- (>Ners?nR foin a rate Americ serous, and Secretary Baker warns cftn comman( against it. Discussing the successes course, to tl in the Aisne-Marue sector at Kansas Fooh?has p City a few days ago, the war secre- than had bee tary is quoted as saying: "We are When the American unl only beginning." Another signifl- French was cant statement by Secretary Baker certain that t was that the number of men now before there training at camps in the United France a d States is approximately 1,500.000. arniy aPP,nx It appears tl and that it is the purpose of the war W(jujd have department to keep at least one a plirf.iy ^m million men in training camps in the American unl United States so long as the wai 'n Frai shall last. The extension of thn "nu ,in<* w''' training. Thi draft age to include those between ? . . ... . ! finished their the ages of 18 and 21 and between forcements v 31 and 45. will provide a class ont, ried overseas the secretary says, that will preclude scattered thrc the necessity of invading the a?- ',,Pnr'1 armit much later tl Terred classifications. . ? . , to Pershing * jwith the Am "KXCKl'T HIjKASK." I( ls now ( The Charleston Kvening Post sa>*s: General Marc 'Woodrow Wilson probably holds 'hat the plan the world's record as a non-partis- units w'th " has been mo in. The leader of the Democratic , American un party, he has received the endorse- (Injshod their ment and support of a Republican quickly than ex-President, of the Conservatives, Since more it i i i i. i v ?i it. 1,3 0 0.000 nn Liberals, Laborites and Nationalists seas are now of Kngland; the Social Revolution- ... . manil in hi: ists of Russia, the Socialists of tinctiveiy Am France and, after a fashion, a min- that only a h ister of the Austrian Umpire; of al- m<>n #|e n ft a x r ~ ? H?rrfJH CM OUT most everybody, in fart, except How this Roosevelt. Lenine. Blease and the in(,.restinK th Kaiser." the chances ;i of radical nio TI!K C.\Sl VI,TV LISTS. ing plan. I The casualty lists published In the "n,.v as an e . .. , it mav not hi riailv papers mean more and more practice, thoi to the people of this country with Krfiat nssistai each succeeding day. That the num- crisis. Howe her increases as the lighting pro- fact that Cler grosses is but natural. There are under his dir approximately a million and a half <an armv ?' men?includi American soldiers now in France |ons which h and of course as the Americans get a part under more and more into the thick of the great battle fight there will be more and more ->"i?tifyii?u < .. i. .< . ?. swiftness and names in the casualty lists. Many our war macl American homes will be bereaved; j,um ?p many noble and brave sons will never return to their homes, but their sacrifices- the sacrifice of their bk ITMl Lves for democracy and world-freedoni will live after them?will live * r .To the Edito forever. I was surp The cost of war is great hut it 'Georgia I the price of peace that is being the peach cri paid?everlasting peace the world pected to fli over It is too low grow. I hav * the country BETTOR HEALTH CAMPAIGN. flnd the Crop Thar, la a l,?# 1 . - A~ . mv.u io ?? iwt iui utaDici tn# i?rn lory, 1 In the matter of precautionary meas- plantations r ures to Insure against disease. Facta ,8 a very . . . , . . Mr. Neely It had best be met face-to-face and , , , packing plan there la no denying the fact that 8ay that th there is room for improvement in with it and Ithe sanitary condition of this city, hogs and cc There is probably no one who will into t nesa. Mr. attempt to dispute the statement,!,,, 1 fifteen hundi but there ought to lie some one, thejpjOW8 aru) Js authorities or some individual, who'owners In (i will start the eampaign for better' manager of conditions. The safeguarding of the of ... . .. lie is runnin health of the community was nevei test impro> so imperative, although at all times |iave a punc imperative to a more or less degree. they are gp 'Die thinning out of the physicians their herd h of the community through their pii- ?"?* listment for war service will make coas, into heof/Th relief from sickness more uncertain, romp] and it is necessary that extreiua cau- an acre of \ ' J ' ^,c. w't J 'tf . 1 ft^iad preventive menu- , '*? ** / s I more closely. ' ^ ? , r sho'ulArenllst the nvost L ? -? ;ht^^^|3ptau^rutiou on . and In- \ ^ td -tflTe sooner action is Hnf 111 l B A ?' S^^'yjpgK^ariny. 1 mIKU ML rois lie debated. ^ ( ^ \ J iga in the begnniu^oi <|\ nosqulto. t , \ * -i premises clean. )IW. PAstk. \ / :"SK': am ("courier.) arch's statement that 'Lai -~Z. hiiiK has under his di- iVtlO WlSll lO\fl iy (. d "in his own arfea" an . |Z ~ ny ?\ ,;;o,? ,h;,n V000;" call for thejvond no of the most interest- f\ it oont rihutionu tn th#? * I of knowledge concern? in France, it t. ZUbSCWei\S U ng but surprising, for i \ . the organization or our HO pCiyfflCTltS \lvli bs as a distinct and sep- " \ an army under Ameri- stf \ I?though subject, of J* \ le orders of General / \ troceeded more rapidly \ n supposed. / \ > plan for brigading THF'kANIT ftfi Its with the British and II1L DfilllY VP announced, it seemed iii/iinirr i long time must elapse could be organized in listinctively American imating a million men. " ' iat General Pershing ' under his command as erican force only those ts which had already __ _______ ace for a considerable ch had completed their berry for his hog8 whlch hc is a i f ose units which had not Kreat orop for them' The crop8 on I* training and the rein- ,his p,RCO aie especially good. The I .'hlch were being hur- ' : : clieve is better than the would, it appeared, be v 0 They have a potato j iugh the British and :,?"se bl,llt especially for is and would not until ,his Pu'P<?He with the heaters and lis year be turned over "ues for regulating tbe temperature. and take their places Wu saw the ,,nest mel?n? ther? erican army we bad seen- ^'e with four of evident, in the light of 'hem. as Inany aa wu could hauI* 'j h's statement, either Wp turned our fare? homeward ' or brigading American hy way of '^"'svllle and Wrens. At ( rte forces of our allies ?<?uh?vllle we broke bread with Mrs. dified or else that the <Mr Patterson's cousin.) its so brigaded have Monriay night we spent with Miss training much more aaran rauerron. who taugnt ior me was generally foreseen !:iver,lde people last winter and than 1,000.000 of tho W,U teach aRa,n' Rhe was 118 clevpr , ;n we have sent over- an(1 accommodating as ever. In thin . under Pershing's com- <ectlon waa a very heayy rain that , ? own area" as a dis- waahed up the roada and other i erlcan army, it is clear hinKS prP,ty bad,y Tuesday morn* , mall proportion of our [nK we ,eft for Augusta, which was ( ow brigaded with the 35 mi,p8' and a very flne road* 11 ,n aUi,1H made of sand and clay. Near Auhas come about is less "s,ft arP 8on,p ftne r,ops- to? 8 ' inn the fact itself; but s,dft of Augusta for about 10 mile* ire that it is the result up a ,ake is a cotton ml11 BOct,nn dlflcatlon of the brlgad- NVp wcr? !n B,*ht of a mUi np,r'v , 'hat plan was adopten aM ,bP tin,p- The ?"'"ntry around . mergency measure ano X!kPn ia pood but thpy hav* hppn | ive worked very well in very dry and the crops aro not s" .gh it was probably of K?od' a,,hough there has been rain nee in tiding over tho a" a,onK Hnd ,hP crnpa have im i, ver that may be. the proVGd a Kreat ,,fial sinre wo went) leral Pershing now has down' Around Patesburg and Lees I ect command an Amerl- vi,,p ,hp rropH arp Also more than a million beyond Camden ovor ,be rivGr arG , ng. no doubt, the dlvin- HOm? ,,nP crop8' Wc madp *ood i, lave played so splendid ,ime and were soon ,n l-anraster 11 General Liggett in the <oun,y again and I still stick to it. now raging?is a most. ,he roa(l rr(),n Kcrshaw is ,bG beat j lemonstration of the ">ad we Raveled <>ver South | smoothness with which Caro,ina- ?ur 'riend. A. J. Oreg-> hine In Fiance has been ory' haH a finp crop and fbP flnPst field of peas that I have seen any where. We got to Lancaster about dark, good and hot. for Tuesday was IS TO THE EDITOR sure a hot day. Crops at home have improved wonderful since we leri. |Tne cotton Is growing but lacks the nig Writes A Kit In fruit on tt that the Georgia cotton r of The News: bas. rised to find no fruit in Rev. P. A. Pressley Is a very pop-! had heard so much of ujar minister down there and one of. Dp of Georgia that I ex- their leading men in other things as id them In abundance w0j| ag a minister. They say he lias r down for apples to been the means of more pure-bred! e been through more of ratt|e being brought Into that coun-j since my last letter and try than any other man. He asked! s are very fine over this |0t? of questions about I^ancaster, visited one of the Neely an(t her people. I visited a famous tear Waynesboro, which spring out there, which Is a pond ?e farm of 2,500 acres w|tti two great boilers coming up In i the head of the meat |t that Just rolls up like a cloud.1 t at Waynesboro. They you can't touch the bottom of these ey are succeeding well boilers with a pole. There are sev-j it affords a market for era) more spouts but none as strong iws. Some sections are two. It Is surronded by woods he cattle and hog busl- an(j could, with some work, be made Neely runs between a beautiful place. J. ,E Craig, red and two thousand Lancaster, S C., Aug. 8, 1918. one of the largest land oorgia Mr. Agerton Is Dr. Thayer Called, the farm I visited and a Dr. J. H Thayer, pastor of the Mr. Pressley's church first Maptist church In this city, has g this farm with the la- received a call to become camp pasred machinery. They tor at the Paris Island naval trainh of 36 red cattlq vfhlch ing station and has the matter under in,g to keep to improve consideration. If he accepts the call eaded with a pure short- he will likely leave Lancaster about They have a lot of the I the first of the coming month. Dr. ! toor that they will put Thayer has been pastor here for the imIIo and had Just past four years and Is very popul^^ eted flffng it. lie has with his copgregatiop and the p the^^-er-bMir^Ma^H-^^^YBlly of the tjitf. 1 FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1918. iA* * ____^ y* IB1RTY J P&ANO ^ * % >& ^ . ?i*r bo have paid or V rusft a;/// please }s. lho have made 11 kindly do so * X-, 44 . LANCASTER v R k s. c. .\ a. ?x ?_l t * \ \ * * * it* i-j 1. \ ' Byu BIGGS SAYS-3|^ h : 3F J "Mr. Eklilpr, I am suKgostln' to the t honorable city fathers that they paas jl a lA?v to prohibit the aaklakof a certain quea- v T^tlon," Yald"'3Hud Blgga ^Vj| gf V as...^e Uirew our solid(-'Old cuspidor at the mT office cat. know the weather 'T01 * the V7I.| past few days has been,[4 as hot as - the Y* I I place connected in mythology with Pr^a snowball. 1 . it's ronllv too much. Mr. Editor, to have a man walk up and say: 'Is it hoternoughforya?' Now, I've got :ho dope, Mr. Editor, if the honorable city council will only act^And ' the ordinance which I most respeHTully submit is as follows, to-wit: lie it ordained by the council of ity of Uanc^ter: 1st, that it shall be unlawful for any person to ask v other Is it hot enough for you?' 2nd. that any person violating this Didiuance shall bo subject to a penbit y of $ 1 tto 01 one year in Jail, or oth. in the discretion of the mayor.'' "And that reminds ae, Mr. EdiLor, that the fourth Liberty loan campaign is only a little more than a month off." continued Hud as he stood in the breeze of our goldplated electric fan and tried to.light a cigarette, "and that the issue is bigger and the campaign shorter than ever before. The hoys who've .-! gone over, Mr. Editor, must be hack-* ed tip and those of usjfvho are left over here to read ^h? Casualty lists every day must foot" tha bills.. Unclo Sam's business is juat like ahy. ordinary corporation, Mr. Editor;, whenever the Jm^rtneais needs a few billions of tfaltyn*' td buy bullet* and rifles for th^poys who. are going to ^ Horlln, we .stockholders to put up the ggin, ajjdU the next Lib- . ertyloan is ^in over the top. Mr. Editor, goin^yer with-, a whoop." r ? -T* , "Me for the swimmin' pool, Mr. Editor," Hud continued dropping his cigarott^jjtub In our TOt-glass Ink well. "Tt's the rolling breakers of the balmy deep for mlffe these,hot days. There]a|^pthln' J^ke a dip ill ^ the ocean atmrnere'i nothln'. like a -^jj dip In the flwlmmln' pool when (you can't Ret to the ocean. Not Anljr that. Mr. Kditor. but it*!?safer In the awlmmln' pool You go S In the ocean and you don'(know what minute a German "nhSBarjle may .bite off your leg. Th^^|p few^ntatrts has taken the folks down In dnrves, Mr Kditor. and they seem to have a good time I guess the swimmta' pool la one o' the beat things we have, in the way o' recreation for the < tired and weary at the close a' day. , Anyway, they nay the watev's fine!" J - and Hud went out to see If old Colonel Thermometer had gone over f the top. | K. "M Croxton returned Wednwjlay from Columbia where he attended <1 no . tina yf the ftute Tax Hoard , ^>1 tfltvie t> I c h he Is a menbtir. V J