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jffc \ V- - -C page four * TheLaneaster News;,, ( SMMI-WEEKLY.) Established ? Fi Publlttliod TucMlay tuid Friday ' al BY THE LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY. 6 ^ liouctutor, 8. C. 111 ?- IK UEOIU.U III LLA CRAVEN d| Editor and .Manager ^ The News is not responsible for the 1 in lews of Correspondents, Short and , rational articles on topics of general interest will be gladly received. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: lt(1 CaMi in Advance. iti One Year 12.00 tj Hix Months 1.00 ; tl Entered as Second Class Matter {^ October 7, 1905, at the Postotllce at . Lancaster, S. C., under act o? Con- ir Kress of March 3, 1679. pi : Country 'Tie of Thoo, Swoot Land of Liberty." FRIDAY, SEPT. 20. 11)18. ja / mm I -A P v BUY- I V- WAR : SAVINGS ? STAMPS J : CONSTANTLY ]:: iMKV | f 1-einps lom SENTENCE SERMONS. el ns food. tll necessities_ , . , au uuur ui suuiuue, passed ill sill- tt Mrest n<re aQ(j earnest prayer in conflict Lj, ,n jith and conquest over a single pas^ won or subtle bosom sin, will teae.i, us more of thought, will more effectually awaken the faculty and form t\ v, 11 . the habit of reflection than a year's]ti study in the schools without them.? n( S. T. Coleridge. in I , There are moments in the life both of men and nations, both of the world and of the church, when vast tl blessings are gained, vast dangers jn averted, through our own exertions sn C ?by the sword of the conqueror, by the genius of the statesman, by the holiness of the saint.?Arthur Pen- wi rhyn Stanley. th Religion's in the heart, not in the C!S knee:?Douglas Jerrold. j. ' -?,/ tn ?\ i Many mean things are done in th.,le family for which moods are put for- tic ward as the excuse; when the moods ]eb 4 themselves are the most inexcusable things of all. A man or woman in tolerable health has no moral * ? right to indulge in an unpleasant ,(> mood.?J. G. Holland. to ? L . ' OX G RUM AN SOlfi. j :>0 if J American troops are on Gorman ,.a soil. Whether that means a very tj1( great deal in military value or not, it { .?> .is quite an interesting statement 'an Air ? ' ' and certainly it means more than a , ;1i /' .Tew months ago when the best that tai iv-A could be said was that the (. Millar wn ?*' ' J'' had been stopped in their advance on &Paris. The stopping of the enemy. th< *-i a3 a ?I fact, was the turning j mi point and the beginning of tiie aili* d , offensive and the German retrograde ^0Vemont* The war ^4'ts 'lose to f' ^ ? the hearts of the Germans when . brought home to thetr own ground; ;,r m/"f. they know the destruction thev K .f A-* themselves perpetrated in Belgium and France and they know what it means when the battle line bonds -it back to their own frontiers. There-! th lore, that the Americans are on Ger- as % man soil is an important statement, at The springing of peace proposals ui * at this time by the Austrian govern- 't > ment was probably a ruse, oharac- bt teristioally German, to divide atten- ai tion so that the advance of the allies B , , might possibly slacken, and possibly 1" .' t * to divide the allies. In this, how- t? ever, as in perhaps every estimate ai Mm onnnitr Viao olaoo/1 on/?n ' >1 '1 * ?? i??o 1'ia* CII III' <111 l*?, he was mistaken. There will he no.ci Blowing down and no division of a Hentlment. or attention. The Ger- u mans perhaps believe that when the d . % war reaches German soil all along I1 the line, they can yoll "Kamerad," o and end the war. As In their eati- P rt male of the war policies of the allies ri as to the reception of Emperor ii * , * * V ' T1 liarlos' peace feeler, they are again ed. and tin istukeu. The war win not end un-|Will be mat I the peace terms announced by dustrles Ho resident Wilson, speaking for the defense cot lies, are met by the enemy, no mat- projected c r where the battle Hue goes. Ger- concerned t an intrigue and manlplation will The mat )t gain a hearing, and the quick up directly sposition of the peace note by Board, but resident Wilson illustrates ade- of defense, lately tlie position or the allies as ^the decisior i terms of peace. be made to Really, whenever Germany begins The ability i talk peace, we look for the blow- Board to e if, uv ui auuiuoi uusuuuiu, uui n rests upon lore is such a thing as sincerity in | the prloritl le makeup of tho German, there will j from the 11 b considerably more of it evident materials a i his peace talk when he has been terlals for riven out of Helgium and France authorized nd back on his own ground, and The stat ot until then. | create a sin The advance of General Pershing's; construetioi len into German territory is a step,, have the m nly a step, but an important step. ready had struction p THE TIIIKH PRIMARY. . 0 ? of South Ci A writer in the Charleston News' . | tion was tt nd Courier a few days ago ?laflo knovv osted that to avoid the expense ofj primary to nominate a candidate >r comptroller general the matter SCIS51 e left to a vote of the Democratic tecutive committee and the chair- Cicriiiai on of the various county commit(Chariest? es, who would vote by sealed letSo seriou >r. The suggestion sounds plans- f jn Gen ile to The News and is at least rjes (hat Ge: orthy of careful consideration. The sian ministi irrespondent of tho Charleston pa- through tin A. , , . . .'column app ?r says the plan has been worked lose heart. !'ore* | take France There has been entirely too many Frenchman, ections this year, at a time when final victor] ie public mind is engaged on mat- f?rce8 admi It is a oi ;rs of more importance, and the ' . Inor thol 1 r? i lird primary will elicit very little fry tQ cheer iterest, if any. Few people care them that ho Is elected to the office and he- confident veen the two who seek the notnina- wou,d suppr . _ . would have on have no choice. There are some. verse of ths 0 doubt, who are more interested probahl; 1 it but their nuinner is limited, siuns better lections are expensive; we have better how en it stated in some papers that " .... ... .. seems to s us third primarv will cost the state chiefs are t: the neighborhood of sixteen thou- Heretofoi iml dollars, and the money should followers th saved if there be found a b-gal done for. ay to save it. hWtl wh,toAmerica w '1 he News is not informed as to make her s e legality of a nomination by the are droppin ecutive committee and the chair- ning to tall en of the various county commit- threatening es, but after all, it is merely the i,s niona,'e change? imineo of a party ana not the duly Fvidentlv r?cted officer. People erf the state ,,p aj| jfiPa e too busy on the farms, in the trying to 01 dories, in business ana professions ,r>r>c as they . i .u ii their eneinv take the time to go to the polls tell their pi vote for a candidate for comp- that their e )ller general in whom they hive could tie ov interest The cost rn tost time to great effort. ih individual should be added to('^'s P?'iey? _ , , , , the allies as p general cost of the election, and span Is or appears there could be little if jnR s(gns as y objection to the election of the man govet rididate by the committee, the do- fJermany's ? I Is of the plan, of eourse. to be irked out by the committee. Another (id In a third primary at a busy time, (Cha re would not be sufficient votes In the clei t to give an expression of the will the people. and the plan suggest- palmer, alioi by the News and Courier's for- j covered mm ?pondent apparently would be the Hffht on the Intion of a more or less knottv rnrin ,,R'n,sas a true / ?'''' n1' j eessful in ? vessels und? NO IH ll,OI\<? NOW. that the nil f'onstruction of buildings is eon- would be di lored non-essential to the war and measure of e state eouneil of defense has been '^.it neutral eou !<ed by the War Industries Board to stars- and S t as its representative in passing enjoyed lari >on the necessity of proposed con- f?if't, anj ruction There is a scarcity of iaJ American n to how som >r, there is a scarcity of material, rerRnt)y jn ntl therefore, the War Industries supplied wi oard will taboo all unnecessary rial of any lidding where the construction to- 'arKply tls more than $2,500. It has been ,,m'r'r looking aft* nnounced by the state council of themselves efense that persons interested In a, gold frbpi t -wist met ion nrr.ipft mnal hftranftor America fo pply, with .a full statement of facts government ndor oath, to the state council of; J*0*0'' loval .to render tl efense for a construction permit. Qf a matof roper Investigation of the necessity j Trans-Atlar f the project will be made by a re-jbas been b resentative of the council, who wHli'nat,on an<1 >the better eport to the council where the facts j applies ar i the particular case will be review-j to Vjg'nt G< * v- : > IE LANCASTER NEWS, LANCA8T1 9 decision of the council 'MR. WYLIE W le known to the War In- COAL A ard. In cases where the * incil decides against the Qf the FormeP -n onsti ucttou, the person Plenty But H? Aril! be directly notified. With U? ter should not be tuken with the War Industries To the E<mor ^ through the state council jn the ja8t iSsut Ihllll fh n n nnn?nl from ocb ?/" i of the state council may011^00*1 ^or coal. j . . a I for the informat the War Industries Board. | t ^ such data as I ha-v of the War Industrie* Fearing that th nforce this whole plan hie in obtaining c the fact that it controls in company with ies and has also secured!of the flrm of Kdw . v Mr. W. Frank H manufacturers of building ^ Lancaster Icc pledge not to supply ma- two of thG deaier projects which are not place, I went to under its regulations. summer in order >. ? oo, ?fiii'fuel administrate e council of defense will, i first hand, all I cc all committee on proposed j ^ who,e cQal gU a. which committee will home an(' advised atter in hand. It has al- be too much alar referred to it four con- developments. _ . , The outlook nov rojects in different parts . ? J ing. Edwards & irolina, but Just what ac- qui8|t|oned> throu rken on these was not I administrator, eig n lump coal, and I _ more cars, orderi _ pendent ly. They iOBS AXI) I'AHTE. cent ly. three cars ? ; expecting three ! week. The Lam rv Confesses Failure. , ' * company have . ! through the Stati ,n News and Courier.) L e|ght rars of s has been the moral d-ition have ordered many of the allied victo-|f||j8 company now neral von Stein, tho Prus-Iparj, So if wo?i,j er of war, has issued uatlon is satisfact * German press a-three- nertjon. I will say eal to the people not tola pPrniit to any pei He tells the Prussians to order for several p > as an example. "Every ^he mines, one or he says, "believes in j CJin furnish, on r f with a steadiness that drGSRea 0f different ration.'' coal can likely be American waters were the civil war the r Ith provisions and mate- orai public resent! needed kind has been pc?s of the law rr ired up. Warner's ships 374 pien being in American flag had been rnv out of a total ?r them. They also made men drafted, the 1 useful in transferring .pared almost ent he i'nited States to South Crowder haa beer r the use of the German most without a to . The aid which this sup- Crowder hints American has been able credit for the dri he enemy must have been tarv of War Rake lal character. Rut the "No one know ltic company's enterprise whom we are lnd< rought to a sudd^**-^rm-jttve eervice law I the fleet will* ' tojits conception as service of K; administration. ' id possibly! n'wmow* the most srmany. , . . 4* /' irious process or reason-1the Clinchfleld Coa luces a German leader to 0ffirPa at Spartanb up his people hy telling niue Gem Coal Co their enemy Is perfectly! jn order to con? and determined. One aa possible, I woul >se that von Stein's words wood In cases whe an effect exactly the re- Your suggestion it which he desires. Still, wood, or coal yard v understands the Prus- sideration hy thos than we do and knows thoritv in the mat to talk to them. The in-j i wish to urge ting about it is that it people the Imnot how that the German ftlf? amount of gas [iking a new line. were more automi -e they have told their Sunday than sliou at the allies were nearly many places the nt France, they said, was an,j name of t Kngland was starving, taken hy officers i ould never he able to view to publicntic ttrength felt. Now they pers. If the requ g all this and are begin- ment is not heeded v about the great and forbidding the sal power of the allies and pleasure cars and to Germany. Why the them on Sunday, m Surely the wishes because they have given in this matter will of an offensive and are! -ganize a defensive. As County Fuel were planning to attack 11 was grimi |i(iiiry 10 I KUU eople and their soldiers NEAR nemy was weak and errome easily by one (Continued Fr< The abandonment of -the policy of depicting Kinc Ferdinand's i being weak and In de- >ng as they are for ie of the most convino- While Marshal F yot afforded of the Oer- his policy of strik nment's realization of aratod points alon lerious predicament. ^ay was one i quiet for Genera' ,, , ? ?- army. There was rmaii fiaiiie llrokon I p. sequence on their tillerv and patrol rlotte Observer.) inintr up of the American CHOWDER'S C :ic Ship concern, Mr. j LIK1 n property custodian, un-j re facts that will throw, (Continued Fri secret operations of Ger Wagner, who had posed and that this arm; American, had been sue- nof from volunteei bringing German-bought nf selection from t American registry, so nf fbe country, ovements of these ships Meanwhile Crow vested of the largest jn (ho army step b suspicion Tie had 11 linker (Jives had been flying flags of When the United ntries transferred to the war c.eneral Cro\ [tripes. and these vessels mnn in the army ?e liberties, the same. In po before mngres r other bottoms under suggestion for tin egistry The mystery as jcctlve drnft law. ie of the German raiders Th? ^.. BH, S. C. . ' '. ' KITES OF ' HJjT"] iND GASOLINE 49^ < tere Appears to Be > ^ s'h Not Pleased e of Cars. Hi The News: ? of your paper you in as to the present i< giadiy give you. urn* Ion of the public, wtm e In ray possession. * Lere might be trouoal for the winter, Mr. J. C Edwards, urds & Horton, and arper, manager of i- & Fuel company, s In coal at this Anderson the past to see the State r, and find out. ?uld in reference to uatlon. I returned I the public not to med and to await ' v is most encouragHorton have reph the State fuel j ht car loads of in addition, elpht I ed by them indeliave received, reaf the coal and are more cars next! aster Ice & Fuel likewise ordered [> fuel administracoal, and in nddl-j wv two more cars. K/vti has on hand two J I seem that the pit- iI I ory. In this con-J I . that I will grant I | rson, or persons, toil ersons, direct from morn cars of ipnllratlon. the ad-! I1^ mines from which ' had, partlcularlv. ??? 1 corporation, with ?-?? urg, S. C.. and thci .. Jellloo, Tonn. I lerve as much coal m^amm? d advise the use of re It can he used. of a municipal SpP mP lit OD . Is worthy of con- (hp <. s grown fl e who have alitor. bind after deducti upon all of our * i ... Anyone who can f jtnrr of romioincj * oline used. There TIME to liny Ian lhiles running last Id have been. In nmher of machines he owner Is being _ of the law with a ' in in the newspa- JH_ A. v ost of the governthen a drastic law e of gasoline, for the running of ???^? ay he nut in force aeaSBS^=S[BS of the government | he resnected. R. B. Wylle. w Administrator. 1% I PS ARE 1 ^1 \ ST. QUENTIN mi Page One.) troops is weakenced hack. 1 'och was following | I . ? mm ? 1 InR at widely sep- i iiiru ir the battle line, of comparatively I Pershing's field m no activity of con- m front beyond ar- JL JL 11 activity. AREER IS E PERSHING'S The T r>m Pa pre One ) * * y would be raised. 1 Election w s but by a process he total manpower dor was advancing I HAPHAlT y step I UCouay 9 IItin t'rcdlt. I States entered the vder was the one Then who was ready to ? is with a concrete 1 ? framing of a so- a. m., ana been that where In Clppl-j haft riots and Rennent at the unfair >sulted in only 4fi.- I ious preeir duced into the ar of nearly 800,000 Will CSlll Stt law which was preIroly by General rlav QpnfrF i administered nl- Uay, iJCpiC mplalnt. elf disclaimed all p a ft lnw, but Secre- tJ* r has said: s so well as I to L?bted for the selec- V^OUl In all its bearings, well as Its complex . , t The man to whom , in this respect i? ?* <*. * J ^ . '; I * . FRIDAV, SEPT. 20, 191$. * %J I. * ?j+T | WE YOU BOUGHT j | YOUR ^ Tar Savings | Stamps? NOW V J THE BEST TIME TO . V'-fl FULFIL YOUR PLEDGE The /f 31 it of Lancaster v * Lancaster, S. CJ r ^ I At oils will open at 8 o'clock *~s i close at 4 o'clock p. m. .* m ion managed for the var- s A icts in Lancaster County : the Court Hoyse Safur- | rnber 21, and get boxes. STEWART, Chairman '\j tity Democratic Executive ; f vCommittee. . J| ? Mp?j? I L?l^ < m . *? . %. ? LAND? f f i cc for some well improved land,, vj^iich in it this year will more than pay for the n? all expense for labor, fertilizer, etc. read should know that THIS IS THE d and houses. t "DO IT NOW" . HUGHEN TIIE LAND MAN J j OTICE I ' . 4i Democratic mary Election 1 % v| 'hird Democratic Primary I ill be held on J September 24,1918. ,/j " K. I "1