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Washington for a voyage across the^ Atlantic and to attend the peace] conference, a conference which history will record the greatest evert having taken place. The Georgel Washington will have a naval convoy! of several destroyers and a battleship, which, to the average inind, is traveling in style. Furthermore, the decks of the ship have been en, closed with glass, so that when the 1 president wishes to while away his, I time on deck the dangers of contracting a bad cold 01 the "flue" have been removed. [ PAGE FOUK TheLancasterNews ' (HEM1-WKEKLV.) Established Published Tuesday and Friday BY THK LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY. Lancaster, S. C. UEOItUE BULLA CRAVEN Editor and Manager The News is act responsible for the lews of Correspondents. Short and rational articles on topics of general interest will be gladly received. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: ' ' 1. I? v. ikMl 111 .iinamv. One Year $2.00 Six Mentha 1-00 Entered as Second Class Matter October 7, 1905, at the Postottice at Lancaster, S. C.t under act of Congress of March 3, 1?7 9. FRIDAY, DECEMBER (i, 1918 Country 'Tn of Thee. Sweat Land of Lihertv." K\TK.\l>rri\(> THE KX-KAISKK The proposition to extradite Hit ex-kaiser to England and try him tor murder appeals to most people as nothing more than right and fairness. lie is guilty of many crimes. which tried to drag the world dowr to the lowest depths of inhumanity and brutality should play no part. He should he tried as anyone else would be tried, and neither pity nor favor should he granted him. The usual understanding of the death penalty is that it is the high est punishment possible under the law. hut it is not. Life imprison mem, wuunui .? commutation of sentence, is mort severe. The ex-kaiser doubtless do serves a pood deal more than he wil ever pet, but execution by the mos humane methods as practiced nowa days would he a relief to him com pared with ttic rock-pile for life Perhaps if tried in England for mur dor, England would not be very len lent, and should not be, but only th< question of right and justice shouli enter into the extradition and tria and the sentence. Of I I OK EtKOPE. The seat of the United States gov , eminent today is somewhere on tli Atlantic ocean, and, strange as I may seem, though we do not kno\ where, the business of governmen will be directed as usual and titer will be no signs of the removal o tno OXei'UllVI' llt.-Hd ihmii nm I unofiii ary locations. President Wilson sailed from Ne\ York Wednesday aboard the (Iootr I the actual commission of which was delegated to his subordinates. Is there then any good reason why lie should not bo tried? To most people it appears that no sentence could b*. too severe for this murderer of innocent women and children, though the punishment meted in the courts falls harder upon some by reason ol circumstances than upon others surrounded by other circumstauces. "What The News would give the exwar lord would not be what is generally considered the "extreme" penalty, but it would make a common prisoner of him and put him to work on the rock-pile, which, to him, would be a thousand times worse than death in the electric chair or public hanging. It now appears probable that William will be extradited, if it can be m^niiv fiiitu* Ct?rl:iinlv if it m.inot be legally clone, it should not be done, but his guilt is not questioned and it would hardly become Holland to resist the extradition. It may perhaps entail a legal tangle but it appears to us that there is no question of the legality of such step on the part of the Criilnli govei uiiieul. A bloodthirsty desire for the ex-emperor's life is not becoming to anyone. but that right and justice may be fully met. he should be tried for the crimes committed through his authority. Only right and justice should be considered and the fa<t v>4 William having ruled the country The president will be abroad fori six weeks; rather he will be awayl front Washington for that length of! ! time though he will be in Europe] just four weeks, it requiring a week' 1 to make the journey eaeh way. Ac-. companying him are 23 experts who] ] have studied .European cond.tionsj ' for the past year and who are s<> equipped in economic matte, s as to be able to give valuable advice t<> the peace conference. Included in the list are men who are experts in I international law. college professors, rated as. specialists in the history and politics of various nations, and j ollicers of the military intelligence I divisions of the army. With them] go tons and tons of documents and ) maps, which, together w ith other I records of their investig itions ali readv in Paris or on the wav. com '| prise a collection of international! | (lata said to be without parallel inj history. Hut the whole of the peace con-i ferenoe is without parallel; the at-! , tendance upon it of the president is i without parallel; the underlying j cause is without parallel; an era un ! paralleled is upon the world and new conditions with which we are | entirely unfamiliar are arising as th? j : days pass and we must accustom; I ourselves to tnanv conditions not thitherto experienced. We have j done so since the I'nitod States en t? red the war and have "stood the shock well." The News suspects that President Wilson whiic away from Washingt(*i where the wheels of the government grind dav in and dav out will keep in as close touch with the aifairs of the United Stall's a? '? would had ho staid in tho ofllep at tlio Whito TTouso. Surely, riivch i ment by Ions distance telephone or by wireless is something new under] the sun. but this is one of the new^ t conditions with which we are to fa-i niiliarize ourselves. The truth iv i President Wilson's presence at thej peace conference was felt in all i countries and the opposition to his going was confined to partisan poli( tics and was not in any wise directed by common sense. The part thej United States played in the war was! I , largely through President Wilson's 1 ' I direction and we inav expect to see! his hand here and there in the set I ' i tlements made at the peace confer , enee. j The hope of the nation is that thoj president may have a safe voyage and may rot urn in Rood hoalth. Birtli. Horn to Mr. and Mrs. Mack Uoh-j ' inson. November 2!>. I!tl8, a son. R. Mark, Jr. , Mrs. G. H. Barron has returned to her home in Union after spending Thanksgiving with her father. Sher' iff J. P. Hunter. m mi nuNn otpf I un uuluu nnu unn i i_ j FOLIOW DOCTORS ADVICE a; j Ask any physician or druppist and he will tell you that the first step in 1 the treatment of a oold, cough, influenza or prlope should invariably he : "a brisk ct lomel purpative. preferj ably the nnusealess calomel, called j Calotabs." This alone is often suf! ficient to break up a severe cold over nipht. or cut short an attack of prippe and possibly prevent pneumonla. I One f'alotab on the tonpue at bed * time with a swallow of water -that's ( all. No salts, no nausea nor the sliphtest interference with your eate inp. pleasures or work. Next morn, inp your cold has vanished and your entire system is purified and re i- freshed. Calotaba aie sold only in oripinal sealed packapes; price rhirtv-five cents. Recommended and v guaranteed i)y druggists everywhere. j Price refunded if you are not dej lighted.?Adv. THE LANCASTER N1 PRESIDENT GREETS A COLD CONGRES (Continued From Page One.) office and that Vice President Ma shal shall be immediately designate by congress as President. Senator Cummings, of Iowa, R publican, introduced a resolutlc stipulating that senate shall uppoii a senatorial comm'ttee of eight 1 represent this nation at the pea< conference. He recited that tl senate is a part of the treaty-makin machinery and that "It is extreme! important that the senate be promp ly, fully and accurately informed i all the facts which may bo pertinei to the proposed readjustment of tt affairs of the various powers." H resolution directs that the commi tee of four Democrats and four U publicans proceed to Paris at tl proper time "in order to be thei present during said peace confe ence." The resentment revealed wh< the President came before con ere has as its foundation two thing: first, the belief of a considerab nuinner 01 legislators mat tne pre* dent should not leave the I'nltc States for six or eight weeks. Se ond. the fart that he has failed i consult members of congress r garding his program nor to ask tl advice of senate leaders recardir the details of a peace treaty whlc the senate must eventually ratify it is to be binding. No Attempt to llcckle President There has been an undereurrei of complaint all along that the Pre ident has been more or less a reel tit and has not conferred freely with tli leaders of congress, even those < his own party. Heretofore, howe* er. these criticisms have general related to domestic affairs and whe war came the criticisms were so tened by the thought that Mr. Wi son as commander-in-chief had tl responsibilities of war and coul hear them in his own way. In tl field of diplomacy, also, congress ai predated that the President was si preme and represented this nation i all diplomatic intercourse. However, when it comes to U writing of a peace treaty which wi hind this nation and all others ft the future, the treaty-making hod of eonirress is evincing jealousy ( its prerogatives. The jealousii came into the open and were revea cd not only by the glances hut by t! half-defiant attitudes of members < the senate of the 1'nited States an by their spoken words. No one attempted to heckle tl President during his address. The had been published reports th: BUSINESS NOTICES ' ? * + ? I.OST?Brooch -green enamel, di. mond and pearls Reward. Mr T. M. Hughes. 14-.1t. KTKKIt TAKKN I P?itea ?.n<! whit spotted steer, about ono year oI< Taken up about three weeks agi Owner can get same by payin costs. W. I). Caskey, Jones 0ro< Roada. 14-lt. IA )ST?One light and dark colore male cow; weight about 7 00 lb Liberal reward for return to C. ' Morton, R. F. 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Ofll at Gregory, Hood Live Stock C rtables. Residence Phone 18 Office Phone 226. EWS, LANCASTER, S. C. | some member of the opposition party S would arise and question the President concerning his motives in going to Europe and the'peace program to which he proposed to commit this r- country. Nevertheless, the coolness >d I with which the congress received the President's message, the impae tience with which it awaited his ex>n planation of the foreign mission anil it the evident displeasure which metj to the President's incomplete state-' co ment of that mission, constituted a; ?e situation almost as embarrassing as igiif the chief executive had been |y I heckled from the Moor. of| ntj Z\ For headache neuralgia, colds and 10 grippe prudent phy sicians now advise ' The improved tablet in which the heart-depressing ' tendency is counteracted by heart-toning elements. ;o To avoid confus:on Aspitone 10 is sold only in unbroken Dackages. Price 35c. At !" ESTATE NOTICE. 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B =1 Till I C( I ISryi 1 With a Ca r The a ; 1 i i _ " | Moi :S| u ij [ | This is a story rl best and the sci [ 1 will J i 1 You'll b io [] 6 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1918 * Bank No. 33. Statement of the Condition of The Bank of Lancaster Located at Lancaster, S. C., at the close of business November 1st, 1918. %' RESOURCES. Loans and Discounts $674,326.46 / Overdrafts 11,627.75 Bonds and Stocks Owned by the Bank 95,860.00 Furniture and Fixtures 1,000.00 ? Banking House 6,042.18 Other Real Estate Owned 3,500.00 Due from Banks and Bankers 213,716.88 Currency 28,036.00 Gold 2,735.00 Silver and Other Minor Coin 2,921.20 Checks and Cash Items 10,613.59 Total $1,050,379.06 _____ LIABILITIES. Capital Stock Paid in $ 50,000.00 Surplus Fund 100,000.00 Undivided Profits, less Current Expenses and Taxes Paid 37,368.50 Due to Banks and Bankers 400.66 Dividends Unpaid 100.00 Individual Deposits Subject to Check $549,376.83 Savings Deposits . . .. 137,707.95 Time Certificates of Deposit.. 108.760.34 Cashier's Checks . . .. 9,819.39 805,664.51 Notes and Dills Rediscounted 45,000.00 father Liabilities, viz.: Reserve for Taxes 3,500.00 Reserve for Accrued Interest on Time Deposits 8.345.39 Total $1,050,379.06 STATR OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Lancaster?ss. Before me came C.eo. W. Williams, Cashier of (he above named bank. who. being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true condition of said bank, as shown by the books of said bark. r.RO YV WIT.T.I A MS Sworn to and subscribed before me this Oth day of November, 1018. II. T. CANNON, Notary Public, S. C. Correct Attest: LEROY SPRINGS. WADDY C. THOMSON. K. L. CRAWFORD, Directors. 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