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extrenlelv JL8TBH NEW6 LOMPAwV, <
?!<*,< in Waster, S. C.
feV- GEUltGE HlliLfKUAVp
Mqs' Editor and Manager %
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>' 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."
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'ns a KreatqEN?LNCE gBRMONs
What Is going
>'\w. Germany is
Vjes." the,world changes^
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A st^front sjmgeless state, 'twere
cauav, to weep.
' ?Bryant.
Character.?A reserved force which
^ acts directly by presence and with*
out means.?Emerson.
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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.
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a. KD1TOKIALETTES.
All I ' ^ T. - ...... -
J""' " nave juii a uuie war savings
V t stamp in your home?
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'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.
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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.
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, _ l_?ost?One street sprinkler, with
Seorcta tour wheels; leaks slightly by reanfont
agon of n"c4 being used often,
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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.
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Don't forget that in October
* you're to pay back that hour of da\
IT ^
light which you borrowed last
L' ?pring.
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v <? Uleltsi^, as a matter of fact, will
never have the opportunity of telling
President Wilson that he is a loyal
-senator.
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ltOf course the sinking of unarmed
v^tels off our coast entails some
lb'
loss, but it gets the enemy no nearer
cto Paris.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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"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
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^,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.
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' Byu BIGGS SAYS-3|^
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"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."
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"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.
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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