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:astekni;ws (SKMI-WKKKLV.) t Established 1832. Posed to draft young ? . . 19 years until after I Published Tuesday and l<riday UY TUB between 31 and 45 LtANCASTKR NEWS COMPANY, j service, and the pr< luuicaster, 8. C. ? . _^_(that the new draft GhOI(<*E HI '''"I CHAYEN to be known as the hditor and Manager _? the "class 19," and The News is not responsible for the talIea iuto 3ervice views oi Correspondents. Short and rational articles on topics 01 goueral (iUULUl c j^uru. me - Interest will be gladly received. committee has adopt hCBSCltiPTION PltlCK: nie?t to the manpo Cash in Advance. is? being raced throt ^.ue.)ea,,r. no order that by Octobe Six Mouths 1.00 ? new registrants wll entered as Second Class Matter October 7, 1005, at' the Postollice at ln(luclion into the si Lancaster, S. C., under act of Con- While this amen gress of March 3. 187?. j would meet with gVTjlV<)Yfl? | % CWn vost in the preside YJ | establish the order senate, likewise, is i My Country *Tia of Thoo. 8w##t Land to executive discretic of Liboriv" calling the youths FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1918. members of the hou dissatislled with Se ?1 promise to nuike ri ^ SENTENCE SERMONS. sep?rate cla? i ^ and defer their call i Jubal sang ot the golden years jb,e and thege hope when wars and wounds shall cease? But Tubal fashioned the burnished sion of the nmenllU spears Many people are ^ And showed his neighbors peace. drafting of boys si '? Kipling. though these boys, tit Ujr^Sot ours the crime of war accurst? ^ ,,, . > m W-, . . . . . older brothers, will ^But once let war begin, n iTte They'll have to kill the Lion first tho inference that eal " "Who'd wear tho Lion's skin! young to fight the H Gene. . ?Anon. tQ put them in del / tion until the classt i i And Ardennes waves above them by! lo ' green leaves. |becomes exhausted f Dewy with Nature's tear-drops, as aEe ?' a lap36 of tir they pass, 18-year-old boy will ^ Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er or maybe 20, and n. grlves, | nieanH of removing i* Over the unreturning brave?alas! [\ ?Byron. Jectlon raised to young boys. yf % T War is honorable j ? ?. In those who do their native rights (JKIIM.W PAI'EilS maintain; The German pres. In those whose swords an iron barrier are ,the ?reat Franco Between the lawless spoiler and the five on the Maine ; weak. ?Baillie. British drive in Pi i| m violent campaign o: IlK. 4P j- ^ ?? I Marshal Koch, evide fon FTOITOHIALKTTK*. | to console and ami d th . , people while they \ But a traffic nrtlmnnoo ... ....... ' ,ad' r , ? " ol ,he "K?-oat victor Mo> little unless It Is going to be enMai * . Ludendorff. Genera forced. * in an article in a lit rHE ' And yet 5.000.000 is no big figure that r'??e,al Foch 3E\ when compared to a population of, intellectual giants more than a hundred million. history and not e {lit J dominating cliaract j^tJriule ('.'about" the age of 21, the best that Knglish critics 4* rover, iU can^fo tomt 7ow is go to Foch to lack initial 1 rd and inquire about before the drive?w ,3* * Aug - , .General von Ardenn eak A ' 46. is dea 4nn'v ranging * ' of Foch now! Then are no indicHre |pvs expects to "keep open Foeh is at the head h will CQ4iHhg 'ne*t Tuesday night to re- Rrmy>" ail the parts it of Soa,V0 e]ectjon returns. You are in- aont separate inten rod at e?? No admission charge. English and America toon at a ? 20 mil* * are in "constant riv a "Tomorrow will end the county ? a snu General von Ardei Jo. 4.1 campaign and we take it for granted point that the allie were the boys are polishing up for the , . H 1ms been used up anc ? ? biggest speeches of the season. .... id an ,s lacking in organi They eral von Ardenne, if io . That saloon would have been a ' believed then, woul good place to paste the submarine ... * , ently now, hut he wc t officer in the eye and then lock him ? ... The German public up foK the duration of the war. , , J.rf ?^ ranee of actual cond fri -T>f;$OTn plica Ing the German arm; , occupant, or the: ar" automol.llBB to |nll|aUvo ha trie, C. Holler, it.January 1. but front An- (<) ^ necb - Ku.,t 1 to-that dato only 25 per cent ^ ^ ^ d||||g|. .. .? of normal manufacture will be per- ? of the Germans. S "*>k mitted. Verily, the style of walk- ... n 1 * ? Ardenne was eithe f Ing has returned. ... . ... / , ? lied, most probably the German gene TKa A ? 'J- * i i no vuoi icbiuii j\iuoncan eviaeni"Finally, when one b i ly is neelng double, or several limes, B / , General Foch tried 1 i , s in estimating the number of people w , the so-called unity < r who hear MIease, which is another A ? mixing up the separ a question beyond understanding in a P , that he is now reprc state as dry as South Carolina. ^ not entirely withou , . We don't suppose"Mr. Wilson has havln* to? *reat,y fl the control of any numj>pr of votes 'an ^,ont' a,,(' f' in this state, but his*''opinion of are now out' one ni liloase is concurred in by the peo- ?enernl For* n< pie of the whole world. Including pon',e'1 to tho ,deal 1 \ South Carolina. inatlon of ,he Fr,'nr P jf, lans had made of hlr The Greensboro NeWs asks: ",e 6?-yhar-old lead* idk "What has become of the o. f. a l?e'l of roses." lefir *? baseball contest, wherein the Fats The Merlin Lokal S C^9'CT08sed bate" with the Leans, the article headed, "Mori 9 Shorts with the Slims, the doctors says: Ct ^'th the laWyera?" "It is evident from Somewhere in France. * jous and similar a ,k ' v M w A* . THE LANCASTER NET* ' LAW. French on the Aisne that it was not j iss are not dis- of their own initiative that the Kngmen of 18 and lish 011 the Lys engaged in partial! those of 20 and attacks, which were too strong for ! have gone into more reconnaissances and too weak' jposal is made for an offensive, with even the carry "classes" slightest of success. Doubtless both j "cla^s 18." and operations were the results of j that these be Foch's deliberations, and it would after those of not be surprising if the fresh and house military bloody losses were considerably to ed this amend- increase the dissatisfaction about wer bill, which j Foch achievement which can no igh congress in J longer be hushed up either in Paris r 1 some of the j or London. It is true that Foch has 1 be ready fori a strong support in Clemenceau. who srvice. lean hardly drop the generalissimo 1 dment probably without exposing himself to the reeneral approval, proach of having insisted upon his eat, and doubt- appointment." s passed it will Both the articles quoted are obnt authority to viousl.v inspired by the German genof calls. Thcjeral staff. nclined to leave in the matter of MARRIAGE AS EXEMPTION. of 18. Some Secretary Baker, in answer to a se, however, are letter from Senator Chamberlain, icretary Baker's,chairman of the senate military compulations for a niittee, asking whether it was true 18-year-old boys that ,he war department proposed is long as possi- tc exempt married men as a class for the reten- under the new manpower bill, says ent. J that the existing regulations will opposed to the ] continue in force. "The present sit) young as 18. nation," Mr. Baker says, "with reas red-blooded Kard to married men in class 1 is merlcan as their that four classes of married men are perhaps resent included within the limits of that they are too class: F'irst, married men who do loehe. The plan "ot support their wives or families; erred classiflca- second, married men whose wive3 ;s of older men support them; third, married men has the advant- whose wives have adequate indeue by which the I Pendent means; fourth, married men have become 19,jengaged in useless occupations, and might be the who are not the main or principal entirely the ob-j sllPP0,'t of their families." tiwi amf11ncr Those are the conditions now n*. isting and which will continue to {exist and under which tho new ABUSE FOCH. draft Qf men between the extended i on the eve of w'ill operate. Mr. Haker says: American offen-; "There is no intention to change ind the Franco- 'his situation. In construing the cardy opened a regulations with regard to dependf abuse against P?f>' of wives and children, financial ntly in an effort dependency has been looked upon ise the German as 'he reason for deferred classitlvaited for news nation. This will continue to be the y'" promised by J case." I von Ardenne, irlin paper, says: SCISSOItH AND PASTE. ? not one of the ' of military Itenimeintioii of liiea.se. ven one of the (Charlotte Observer.) ers. lie says i Col. John L?. McLaurin. a South lavi declared ^ Carolinian who has been understood Live. That was (0 have entertained ? '?nd'y feelings e wonder what1 for Mr. Blease, has made public proie really thinks 'himatlon of his position in the sen. . , . atorial race. He has no strong perhe asserts that , 1 sonal admiration for Mr. Dial, but of a coalition j)e wj|j KjvP Jlis to (j,at can. of which repre-1 didate. He feels that it would be ssts, w hile the "a shame and a disgrace to send a ns in particular n,an to senate who has bitterly rtjry ? attacked Mr Wilson personally, and who was utterly unable to apprenne stresses the ciete his wonderful breadth of vision d reserve army until unholy alliance desire for ofl says that Foeh ,i('? f,om his eyes." Coionel . ? ,, i Mcl.aurin tliinks the overshadowing zed staff. Gen-,, . , issue in South Carolina this year is he wrote as he,fj1P ending of a man to the senate d write differ-1,'who can be relied upon to support >n't write at all : 'he policies of Woortrow Wilson,'' is kept in igno- :,ru' does not believe Hlease is , . ? that man. Hlease, surrounded by litions confront- ,. ^ ... ? . . .. , ' thp j>rotection afforded him by senay. Hut an> way,, torlal privileges "can and would do is been demon- a vast amount of harm," in the estiiction of the al-' mation of McLaurin. The views t dissatisfaction! f,ftm"dly and plainly expressed by | former Senator Mchanrin must exo, General von , , , , :crt a powerful influenee on the ( r mistaken or j minds 0f the people of South Caro-| the latter. And, linn, for they know that of all men ral concludes: qualified to speak on the characterconsiders that lflt,cs of Mr Blease, McGaurin, stands head. The renunciation of :o give effect to . ... _ . . . ... , . C ole Blease by John Mcl^aurin Is a j >f command by straw that shows clearly how the poate contingents, litical wind is blowing in South ached?perhaps Carolina. it reason?with avored the Ital- Accidents at Aviation Camps. esh regroupings (Charleston News and Courier ) iust admit that .Th* rathor fequent reports of fatalities at th$ aviation camps have >t quite corres- ,ed ff> thfi wI(,egprftad bei|0f that In vhich the imag- training our aviators we are losing, h and the Ital- an unexpectedly ^large number of a In any case, as a result ,of accidents. Ac-. . . . cording to The Array and Navy Jour-; er has not got . . , . * , ,L. iia 1 which ought to be good authority, not only Is this impression misAnzeiger, in an taken, but, as a matter of fact, our| 3 Bloodletting," aviation schools have established "a new world's record for safety In training airmen in war time." Oflfli the simultane- (.JaJ ngureB ?how that from Septemttacks of the ber 1, 1917, to July*20, 1918, "the ; # . L. ? \ v; ? -' j, VS, LANCASTER, S. C. oK'f losses sustained in the actual flying training of United States air forces in this country totalled 155, making the average in round numbers of one man killed for every 3,300 hours of flying in the United States." This is obviously an extraordin- X J srily low percentage. What the average reader forgets, when he sees in the newspapers from time to time dispatches announcing the death of aviators in training, is the great number of men who are making flights at the training camps every day. We do not know what that number is at present, but up to May 125 last the United States army had Irn! >m<l anil trr,, ,1,, ? ')*> > tors. The deaths ui> to that time were 14 2. It is reasonable to as- O suine that the proportion of aori- iJU dents has decreased as the aviation schools have improved with tho pas- tVltO 1 sage of time. A True Prophet. Cfl// 1 (Charleston News and Courier.) The Lancaster News must be ed- edited by the seventh son of a seventh son. Last Friday, August 16, the day President Wilson's letter HO against Blease was first printed, it said: at Oi "President Wilson has addressed a letter to Thomas H. Daniel, Washington correspondent of tho Spartanburg Herald, which gives his views on the South Carolina senate- TU rial race. This letter will not likely 1111 be printed in the Charleston American." I The News up to this writing has proved a true prophet. It will be a week tomorrow since Mr. Wilson's letter was made public in Washington. The Rlease organ has yet to print it. It has referred to it, hut only to garble its meaning. Instead of publishing the letter of Mr. Daniel to the President, and the Presi- ? should |?re er dent's reply, so that its readers ",om* ..... . . ... . ..... That is the statt might know what Woodrow Wilson _ ... . , ? , , . . . | Ly OCTAVUS CO thinks of Cole L. rllease and how he| J came to express his opinion, the j t** or* ^ *^r" ^,?^ien whole energies of the "American" ^ouc't 8 Corner. have been devoted to the effort to ? delude its readers who have not seen Valparaiso and the these communications by wholly Chili, which ended , misleading statements as to their $118,000 in Americ contents. lected as follows: It is an amazing policy, but en- Valparaiso tireiy in keeping with the Mease i,,ujqe campaign, which from the begin- Antefagasta. . . . ning has been founded on the theory Conception that the people of South Carolina other towns. . were either knaves or fools. This district in lection was made h Multiplication. hundred American (Rock III11 Herald.) The News and Courier of Charles- The word "Autocl ton states it has been well known vented by America for decades that the German Artll- (inscribe an Amerit lerv Hall in that city will hold | (rain carrying a apt over twelve hundred people. The toward the front. Charleston American, however. :n plain enough: th claimed that 2.10rt Charleston voters, lbe word "chirurgic and many other people heard Mr. J (|f spelling surgical. Illease speak in this hall. Probably ! (inscribe an Amer the enthusiasm followers of Mr. < truck of eighteen < Illease in Charleston simply remov-||n knock-down fron ed the walls of the building and|0f 200 beds One opened up the space outside for the a COmplete operatln crowd. Or perhaps the German Ar- bp bolted together 1 tillery Hail in Charleston is similar' eration |n a few mlt to the mansion of the rich man Josh,is a sterilizing room Hillings wrote about, which man-Lp against tho sion had nineteen rooms inside and | structure. From room for more outside. nurse passes sterll and supplies to the The tirade Crossing. ,he operating tahl (Charlotte Observer.) trueks carry double This time it was a freight train framework. floors I and an automobile with-eight poo- (jow frames, heatinj pie in it. "What a small thing it is equipment for diet to slow down on approaching a rail- cross construction road and take a look up and down Hpiected and traine the track, and how terrible the con- KO wjth the trucks n sequences that may be avoided by short time after exercising that little bit of t rouble! I roaches the selected It is at the very crossing that the are ready to receiv driver thinks no danger is lurking that the killings and malmings oc- por the primary cur' eating the peoplo Stntes in the princir , conversation the It F.I) ClttWS NOTKs. Cross, at the reques Ilaruch, chairman o The work In surgical dressings for 'r,,'s board, has es the month of August has fallen off rroSH buroau of con to such an extent that much will Announcement wl have to be done within the next few ,,n>e to time of thi days If the allotment is shipped foy1 collect o the end of the month. Won't you t,on of whlch the come and help fill this order at | hoard doems ,noHt 1 Iw?i?j UI i iio i in iv <11 1 r I work of the war ind A box of 100 navy kita was ghlp-j'ates *? "ie conHor ped to headquarters Tuesday after- r'a'H 0!4sent'nl to th< noon. These kits are most attrac-jwar' the r five and useful, fitted out with pins co-ordinated of every alze, buttons,, needles ami ,"'is "n<> nm' ftT>pre' thread. - ' r iand cfhrlency of th I ganization, Chalmta The second box of pajnmas, within " to 8UP' the last two weeks, was shipped to j aervn"on wor't U Atlanta Wednesday. Over half uf,hoard. " bellev these were made by the auxilliary at "-sting of the active Heath Springs. than twenty million Red Cross will resul The Red Cross War Council has ucatlonal force thai Just received a cablegram trora. United States to th' James Heaty, chairman of the of conservation American Red- Gross chapter at Val<a In addition tb paralso, Chili, ^stating that, during function the Red ( the Red Croe# war fnn<\ drive In Jflnaorvatlon wl11 a ^aotfiA. t ^ I FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1918. hird Liberty bonds - JHPr NOW ON HAND * > bscribers who have paid or vish to pay cask will please ror tAe bonds. n . bscribers who have made ayments will kindly do so SCE. E BANK OF LANCASTER mm LANCASTER, S. C. * to be defeated by Mease votes than to be elected bjr ^ jment made from the very beginning of the campaign HEN, the Anti-Mease candidate for Lieutenant Govts an attorney-at-law, with offices at Charleston and cost towns of | Red Cross chapters certain mateJuly 6, a total of rials, such has platinum, essential to an gold was col- war purposes, to be specified by tho war industries board. These mate- / \ $84,000 ' rials to be sold, but any financial 10,000 benefit which may accrue to the Red .... 8,000 ( Cross will he merely incidental to 8.000 the purpose for which the bureau 8,000, has been created. which this col-1 In the program of salvage an<f ad less than two conserving there are certain mat? residents. rials which cannot be reaches ? through existing trade channels, o2 tiir" has been In- peclnlly where the appeal must ns in France to made to the householder and to In-^B|P <an motor truck, divlduals. It is in this connection icial type of load that the Red Cross expects to be able The first syllable' to contribute, in a large measure, to v J" p second is from the success of the general program, al," the old way Henry I*. Davison, chairman of the ^ \ Combined thov war council of the American Red lean Red Cross Cross, replying to Chairman Ba- v camions carrying ruch's appeal, stated that the Red it a tent hospital Cross would welcome this opportu- * , truck transports nity to co-operate in the nrnsmm of v/ f JE'w . g room ready to conserving the materials necessary j and put into op- io war purposes. He also expressed lutes. Its trailer confidence that the millions of Red t , which is backed Cross workers throughout tlit^ counopcrating room try #muld welcome any opportunity 'jf this trailer tho to assist the government along ?* ized Instruments lines in question. surgeons around! The new Red Cross bureau, whlCh^IA e. The other will begin activities at once, will bo A ! tenting, sturdy under the Immediate direction of A n sections, win- Robert L. Raymond, an attorney of r stoves and full Roston, who wns Tor some time kitchens. Red Hold director at Camp Devens, and crews specially who later wns connected with Ofo j . ] d for tho work conservation and reclamation Uvlo* 'lEu nd within a very i Ion of the quartermaster corps. f the first truck The war industries board will . 'V* point the wards J leave to the newly created bureau -r e patients. I the measures necessary to bring the ? j most effective results, purpose of edu-| * Of the United WILL WIN THE WAR des of systematic 0N WESTERN FRONT f American Rod # it of Bernard M. (Continued From Page One.) f the war Indus- ___ taiilished a Red oan federation of labor, appeared in iservation. ... . . ! . ... ? II be made from <"?*>?"">" "> tha and.lt a particular ma- arranged to hear him and other n and eonserva- labor representatives. Chairmait war Industries Dent said that he hoped to reflSrt mportant. the measure Wednesday or Thursfant narts of thol ustries board re- <lay' Probab,y w,th amendments. If il vatlon of mate- sentiment in the committee for prob winning of the vltdo^fconcclfying the order of;^By ieed for country- called and to 8peclflc-H.flBf activity along ally deferral Is for 18 year old boys Mating the scope are adopted. Representative Kahn, <B| Red Cross or- of California, ranking Republican yfljfl n Baruch ap- member, plana a minority report In tvpW dement the con- favor of the administration plan, ?e war Industries General Crowder told the commtt.- $7 'ed that the en- tee that men now In class one will Interest of more be exhausted after the Septemhr* * members of the rail and urged apeedy action on ( ' It In a direct ed- bill to provide sufficient men for J * i will bring the ture oalls, although General Ma e highest degree said he thought there will be end : * cle^cy. men to Jast until November w|^ ittf^aducatlonal the. n*w legislation. By Janusf^ ; 3ross ^bureau of Crowd at said he