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dflpr- ra ' PAGE FOUR . TheLancaster N ews ! * (SKMIAVEEKIiV.) Established IHT>2. ? ati Published Tuesday and EiiiLiy BY TUB LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY. in laineustor, S. C. jj GEOltCE BULLA CRAVEN Editor and Manager da ( , . The Newe is not responsible for tin i rlews of Correspondents. Short am rational articles on topics of genera at Interest will be gladly received. ui'iici'ifin'i'iiiv pr Coah in Advance. <*' One Year J2.00 -i Six Months 1.00 Entered as Second Class Mattel 'li; October 7. 10 05, at the l'ostottlce a' m I^ancaster, S. C., under act ot Congress of March 2, lo79. FRIDAY. NOVUMRER 2i?, 1 Di-i \ $35 Z \ ' ' f-37 i, v '' *1* *ty 1 ^ *T V ^ "My Country 'Tis of Thee, Sweet Land 1* Liberty." M Ml, ItY AlKIMi.Wi:. >n It wi'I not ho surprising to find dh Lancaster people in the near futurej wi getting their mail from the 1101th 1?> j air route. This statement a lew j Mi years ago would have been frowned) re upon as ridiculous, but at tins tim.\ no a little more than ten years after the tin first airplane flew successfully 011 Mi Kill Devil Mill, it appears to lie near- th ing a reality. In all probability irr vt ut?u tut? ruutt? iruin tuu norm ioj mi the south is established, and it is ha now well under way, Charlotte will th be one of the stopping points for the in "birds." and mail will be brought ha there for all points nearby and ear- nti riod tlienoe in the regular channels. in: The mail planes, as a matter of fact, be may pass over Lancaster, but stop ye will lie in ilc only at distributing mi points, and Charlotte has put iu a; bid as one. ha Fly air mail. letters from New in York will be delivered in South thi Carolina several hours earlier tha. . toi is possible under the present ar-| no rangement. That is. assuming that pr t,,t in,.In., <1... ill ...... ...i..i ? i :? ..v. ......... ..... w, . .Il.-.I .1.1 l the distributing points. It will moan ho a good iloal to bus'ness in the south on which is experiencing and has bee..| experiencing for some time pnstl great difficulties in communication J with other sections. The facilities, pnl at present. The News believes, are far better than the service given, '<a and a reason for the extremely bad service in and out of Lancaster has in* not beer, discovered. The News has s,r just learned that but one mail is ,,u dispatches from the local potsofliee "' on Sundays. The early morning 'oi train from Rock Hill carries no mail. ,,1; 1 >w!se the train from Colura- '',l hia in the afternoon. No mail is d'spatched to the one o'clock train l r going to Columbia on Sunday,j though both the lo;i7 ;>. m. train and 1:17 p. m. train bring mail itro >'? Lancaster foi This service could be mater al v improved without tho addition of nitships to tlx- facllit e--. though t'o long distance mail the establishim-m of tin- air route w ill he welcomed a a relief long needed. The e < n< " doubt that when conditions begin to become settled after the war. people' a,) are going to demand better service in mail, telegraph, telephone and express, and the haphuxzard pro<ess of doing business which has w' heen tolerated during the stress ofiWil war. will come to an end. ^ ___ I m i TIIK I'ltK- ll>i:\T'S \iiSK\4 E. So Strange things are happenln"j 1 < these days. Something less than I i five years ago people were going J c< about saying there would never be another war. but there was. and, if "fl The News mistakes not, the worst, cm and the he-t war in history. Now, Nc another thine with which we arc un- fin familiar la go np to take place. The '01 president i en lis to Rnrope. The Or New a is not sufficiently versed in vi constitutional law to determine the tn status of the president after he W leaves the United States, or whether di' he will be able to discharge from th the other end of the cable the duties, in of the office. We are of a mind.'de >wever, that the president knows! hat he is doing. George \V. Wick- i sham, attorney-general in.the Taft I [ministration, sees the president's' >sence in a different light, and, be- I g a lawyer, he may know more lawji an one who is not a lawyer, lie i ys th?? constitution makes it man-! itory that Vice-President Marshall i sume tin* olliee of president if Mr. i iison leaves the I'nited States to tend the peace conference. "The projected journey of the esident to France and his sin:-, sted sojourn there for an indolltn ..., o \1,. ... 'tines up for the first time in our . story the question of the effect of I eh absence and of the powers of ' vice-president because of such J sence." Mr. Wickersham's chief | yument lies in section one of ar- | le two of the constitution do- i libing tli mode of procedure in ' cut of the president's "removal ' on otliee. h's death, resignation or t Utility to discliarue the dut.es of i id oliice." Mr. Wiekershatn hold- ' r tit tllft liolint' t lit t tln? nhuoncn ,? ' * i' president from the seat of govnment "constitutes an inability to . *eharge the duties of the office" thin the meaning of the law. 1 Somehow, The News feels that ' . Wilson will go ahead to ICnropej . gardless of Mr. Wickersham's op- , -ition, and whether he discharges| = e duties of his office or whether . Marshall becomes president for e time, there is something of vast . porta nee to be attended to on tin her side of the great water, per ' ps of tnore importance than allying that may take place in Wash gton. and if some strange tiling; ppeiis, something entirely new, it iv not he more surprising than my of the strange things that have, en happening for lo. the e many ars since Franz Ferdinand was urdered at Sarejevo. i M W'ilo.,.. ....-I,... l.i i- ... . . ?? ii-m/h |mi nium ii iv i' ;t ml in tlipeace parly it' ho staid Washington. An illustration 01 at may be found in the part ho >k in healing the Germans. Yet, isi people fool that In* should bo psent at the peace conference, and Mr. Wilson feels that way about it. '11 be there when the peace cake i? : * I'ltXISKS Till*: THIKTir.TH. Field Marshal Ha g. the Brit'sh i lumunder in chief, has written a wing letter of praise of the Atncr in second corps which served with * British fourth army in the clos ; days of the war. In which he be- ' iws the greatest credit to the ^ liters from "the states." "Now * it you are leaving the British \ no," he savs. "I wish to again 1 ink you and all the officers, mm ' tnntiss'oned oil! e>s and men on half of myself and all ranks of the f i;sh armies in France and Flan- t is for the very gallant and effi lent 1 vi< ? veil h ve rendered during ' itr operations with the British , irth army. j ' < -1 t e twenty-ninth of Septem- t i you participated with distin-to ' a . r d n it al at tack which ( altered the enemy's resistance on ( 3 liindenburg line and which ; >d the load to final victory. i "The deeds of the twenty-seventh ; d thirtieth American divisions i lieh took lb c riurt and NiiU'i y t I ' llartlv susta'ned the desper' . ? struggle for Bony, will rank 1 in i in- iiikik'i acmovKinoniS 01 'lie t ( "The names of Tlraneourt. Rre- , ?r' II --Kf-.v. Vaunh-Amrpny. St. 1 uplet anil Wassipny will testify to 1 f dash and eoerpy of voiir attacks, i ^ t mi prouil to have hail yon in my minand." I The thirtieth was known as the ? >hl Hickory Division," and was mnosed ??f troops from Tennessee, trlh Carolina, South Carolina and | e District of Columbia. Tho divis- < i v.?s trained at Camp Sevier,! eonville. The twenty-sventh di-j1 din was composed of Now York \ ops and was trained at Camp , ad?worth, Spartanburg Th> two < visions mentioned were probably e first American divisions to fight : Belgium, having crossed the borr with the fourth British army. It' j THE LANCASTER NE will be interesting to note whether historians will pay individual credit for gal.ant deeds during the war or will merely record the part played by American troops as a whole. It seems to be indicated by statements af foreign army authorities that red it will be given at least by divisions, particularly by the statement at h .eld Marshal Haig. _ SClKSOItS AND PANTK. Not Hack to tin-many For IIint. (Charlotte Observer.) The red tlag crowd in Germany is is rabid in peace as it was in war. It is now calling lor the organization >f a revolutionary tribunal for the arraignment of William Hohenzollern and his son?how quickly the l)ig-soutuling titles have been dropped?for having involved Germany in the war. They want Bethmannllollweg included in the indictment \!so, along with Von Jagow and gimmermann, their tools. Further, hey would also punish all who have undertaken to absolve Germany from llame. The "arraignment" spoken >f. would not ho for trial. It wou'd :ie for "passing sentence" on the ulprits. from which the inference is rdair. that these red flag propaganlisfs have already convicted the HohenzolJerns, et al, and with them here is nothing left but the formalizes of passing sentence and putting t into execution. It is not probable hat the Kaiser and Crown Prince SUNDA (Columbia State.) In the good old days when even the children were required to lead it least one good young day a week, daving with toys on Sunday was dis ?ouraged as a frivolous and seculai lccupntion. One plaything was ex epted because of its derivation and associations. This was the Noah's \rk. Kven in households where tin ^i iiioc r?n,?wi..a .... ti... ?. Pilgrim's Progress or the Prodigal Ion, and played on the principle of "raps, with a dice box and colored -hips like unfledged poker cli ps ivere forbidden, the Noah's Ark was considered a pious and beneficial inluence. Perhaps it was. It is possible hat the pleasurable interest excited jy the extraordinary collection of leasts may have kindled a desire to <now more about the cause of their "otning together, and thus the precision of sacred animals, may have ed, two and two, straight to the amily Hible. And one wonders .v hot her in like manner the popular lid sometimes reprehensible moving picture stage might not both confer lnd receive profit by a cultivation if religious themes. It is almost appalling to find out low little most people know of the look on which our civilization, as veil as our hope of salvation, rests The familiar scriptural stories on v iin il previous* generations nave >een roared seem to have dropped >?".t of sight. This hlatikness ranges rom the child vnho speaks of "Adam ind Kve in the Garden of Allah," hits betraying the recent reading, 0 the ooilege student who is surprised to learn that the Babylonian tings whose dreams Daniel interpreted were the same monarchs h- so lives lie has crammed for ex iminations in hstory. When a play 'minded on t'o storv of Jose'-h and B broil i en was given in Now Y??r'c 1 few seasons ago. 'ts striking suc e ? no d ni i a ose not only from ?? Ine acting and superb scenery, hut ilso from the fact that it was an ibsolute novelty to many of the spectators. It was the first time hat they had considered one of the mini niii.ii <i n 11 |i i ii'-' c iii'i rnives in the world's tre isure hoimn Dnr nc the middle ages, whirh mve boon railed the religious renuries, nobody was shocked by an attempt to make religion p^nular. The 'hurrh rightly eonsblered that there ivas less risk in hiving it too familiar than too strange. The first mediaeval European theater dealt vith miracle plays and mysteries, le ign ited to teach the mulitudo in the most realistic and unforgettable way not only the dramatic scene* af Hihlical lore, but even the m"taphvslcal subtleties of devotion ralderon wrote many plays of this kind, considering the method not beneath the notice of the greatest Spanish poet of his time. It is quite true that in this epoch a feeling of reverence came from th< people to meet the play. No mattei bow extravagant or absurd, the people received them gladly. And many r>f them must have been absurd When we read of some of the episodes presented on the contracted floats which were dragged into thf squares and set to reproduce kinps palaces, battlefields, or even thf IWS, LANCASTER S. C. | will ever be surrendered Into the | hands of these people, but the de,i inands they are makinu indicate ! quite plainly that wherever the I Kaiser may voluntarily no from llollund it will not be back to Geri many. The Shift. (Philadelphia Record.) If German Austria should be attached to Germany it would not ( justify any apprehensions. Ger-! | many will lose its unenisn ana imn-i ish provinces, and in addition thereto Poland and two Slav States form I ed out of the Ducal Monarchy will (fence it in on the east and south-j 1 east. On the west Belgium is go-j ing to renounce its neutrality and 1 assert full independence, which ! means that it will take ample mems ' to prevent another irruption of the * Suns. * . SOME OF KKTFIUXO TltOOPS TO li.AXI) AT KOl'TIIKKN POltTS I Newport News, Va., Nov. 1!S. ? Brig. Gen. Ilarlev D. Ferguson, who ! recently succeeded M;ij. Gen. Grot" i Hutchenson as commander of the 1 port of embarkation here, said that some of the American expeditionary ' forces when they are brought home, 1 will be debarked at Charleston, ri. C and other southern ports. Gen-" ' erul Ferguson did not indicate to just what extent the southern ports would be used but it is said unoffl: cially that many of the troops will i be landed at points near their s homes. Y FILMS court of heaven itself, we wonder i that the enterprise did not defeat its I own purpose. On the contrary, it rnimrnl n (Initio of on? li nalncn, nn.l formed the only religious instrucI tlon that an unsettled community i could receive. Our communities today are not i unlettered. Their diftlculty lies in jthe multitude of hooks, of whose making there Is no end, which contIj pete for attention. Bible reading Is so crowded out as to he large,y a lost art. But things which people are too lazy or too busy to read they ' can generally Hud time to sec. if the | seeing is made amusing. There is nowhere a more powerful or varied collection of scenario materia! than is found ?n Holy Writ At ' the outset we would say that some of these we consider unsuited to representation. First, we should withhold the life of our I.ord. A theme so sacred as this has no place i upon the hoards. No actor exists or has over existed who is worthy to s'l( attempt the portrayal. Perhaps un: among a simpler, ohtuser people than ' ourselves the representation mignt '' result in greater religious ardor, as among the peasants of Oberanume- ' gau, but even under those cirrumstances we doubt its entire advisa- ma bility. Applied to our nudiencos, wo 'HM have no doubt that it is certainly unwise. Perhaps in an Indirect man- , N< ner. as in The Servant in the House *'u or The Passing of the Third Floor ,na Rack, which deal not so much with XNO Fst th?? person as with tiie spirit of Christ, the representation may be borne. In the great four-barrelled ,ra screen drama. Intolerance, many ,M deeply-feeling spectators found the ' p: rts dealing with the secred story ' i of Nazareth and Jerusalem alto- v"'' gett er unbearable. *ur Rut . in the Old Testament the no v,,i ,, ,.r ?11? ? mo . ?? - w. i in pi un miry nil' mbod To cnrry the pi >ts out IB :npathetsc;;!ly would of course ne ' s-'f'te n overhauling of the methods of th" screen drama such as i has never known. A new tradition i would have to be developed. Hut in this very problem would lie a deep fascination for some procressive imprwsp.r'o w'th a v'slon f what his ( nrt alight be. A new style of actor also would have to be trained. H it m has that facile animal the actor, ever failed to achieve natural se'ec. tion and adaptation to environment. when he once fl"ds out what the public wants? Hut the present type would have to suffer a chancre of heart. One sorts out the list of stars in an attempt to find out who capable of dealing with *?'s or that ideal, dlBConcerted by the very i few survivals. What actors call a tailor-made part is almost ,?o seek. What for Instance, would "our i Mary" do in that galley? She is not 1 only hopelessly modern, she has all the stamp of the popular star, of, for ] and by grace of the crowd. We should not dream of calling her common ] and unclean, because she Is per fectlv clean; but she is utterly un- < fitted for a spiritual and Oriental at' mosphere. We should not trust her with the part even of one of King j Solomon's innumerable household. I She is simply out of the picture. , And that idol of idols, Francis K. ' Mushman? There Is a jauntiness ? about him, a sort of wink of tlio _ FR Bank No. Statement of the ( The Bank of t Located at Lancaster, S. C., ness November RESOURC Loans and Discounts Overdrafts Bonds and Stocks Owned by Furniture and Fixtures. .. . Banking House Other Real Estate Owned . Due from Banks and Banke Cnvvannir Gold Silver and Other Minor Coi Checks and Cash Items. . . . Total LIABILIT1 Capital Stock Paid in Surplus Fund Undivided Profits, less Curr perises and Taxes Paid . . Due to Banks and Bankers Dividends Unpaid Individual Deposits Subject to Check $5-1 Savings Deposits . . . . 13 Time Certificates of Deposit 10 Cashier's Checks . . Notes and Bills Rediscounte Other Liabilities, viz.: Reserve for Taxes Reserve for Accrued Intel Time Deposits Total STATE OF SOUTH CAR01 County of Lancaster?s P?efore me came Ceo. W. the above named bank. \vh says that the above and for true condition of said banl hooks of said bank. GF Sworn to and subscribed day of November, 1018. Correct Attest: LEROY SPRINGS, WADDY C. THOMSON R. L. CRAWFORD. ti: ,4 ? . I 'IICl IUI tl. miller blade, which makes him to luited for anything but a son of of Hal, or something like that. But bli y give the catalogue of those who vii 1 not do? Who would? ev Perhaps the "little Colonel" of the of 'th of a Nation might get the ho- ol? nity and the pathos of the old pa oes. Perhaps Idllian Gish, if she her eyes speak for her, and 1111 >ided the weaving footsteps and clt > waving hands and the other wi nnerlsms that mar her serious ha rk, might look the sacrifice of th :her or the sweet homesicness of th > Shunamite. There is a worn and sti gic beauty about the Italian ac pil ss who took the nart of Mimii . ~ UC <1 i;i in "The Last Days of I'om- wl i," and also acted Salam 111 bo ov ich would fit half a dozen scrip- en al heroines. Hut there would be th place for Charlie Chaplin. The st famous fool in the Hible is th" tin >1 who said in bis heart. "There ni no God." and we have no reason fo Jersey We have in our pens Fifty Hi Jersey Mi 111illi aa1<>A? J - _ ? J - 1 - miii taivcs ai muc ana cit royally bred registered registered Jersey heifer Hood Telephon IP AY, NOVEMBER 29, 191S 33. 'ondition of Lancaster at the close of busilst, 1918. ES. $674,326.46 11,627.75 . the Bank 95,860.00 1,000.00 6,042.18 ; 3,500.00 rs 213,716.88 28,036.00 2,735.00 n 2,921.20 10,613.59 $1,050,379.06 ; ES. $ 50,000.00 100,000.00 ent h.x 37,368.50 400.66 100.00 9 376.83 7.707.95 8,760.34 9.819.39 805,664.51 (1 45,000.00 3,500.00 est on 8,345.39 $1,050,379.06 : ina, s. Williams, Cashier of io, being duly sworn, egoing statement is a k, as shown by the io. w. williams, before me this Oth ii. t. cannon, Notary Public, S. C. suppose that Charlie is that kind a fool. We should also, incredii as it may seem, decline the series of the most famous vampire er born in captivity for the part Delilah, or of the lady whom the 1 French woman called "cette uvre chere Madame Potinhar." Running through a few of tho Rives, could anything he more oxing than the experience of Jonah th the whale; or the episode of tlje indwriting on the wall shocking e king's guests; or the children in e fiery furnace; or Samson, tho rong man, tearing down the great liars of tlie heathen temple; or tho ath of the first-born of Egypt aen the angel of the Lord went er the doomed land; or Jezebel si down from a high tower? And ink of the numerous ghosts. Surely, yea, verily, if we were a nvie actor we should borrow granda's Ilible and plunge into a pround study of the part of David. Cows at Lancaster, S. C., ead of ? lk Cows )se-un snrinam fin a - -r -g??1>~- " Jersey bull and one bred in the purple. Bros. ie 214