The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, January 03, 1919, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4
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FRIDAY, J AM ARY 3, 1911).
"My Country 'Tie of Thee. Sweet Lend
of Liberty."
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COl \T ON WILSON. 1
The four of a "hitch" in the peacej1
negotiations owing to the state- 1
ments of Premier Chmenceau ami'1
President Wilson, which were rather 1
divergent, so-to-speak. is unfound-t*
ed. The premier was rather "feeling
his way" than de- <
finitely committing himself, and 1
President Wilson, while already '
committed to an extent, is finding (
out a good many things he wishes to 1
know. There is no ground for '
fear that agreement between the a I- 1
lied countries will be hard to reach, i*
The common purpose of them all has '
been and is now paramount and 1
there will he no misunderstandings *
and no misjudging.
President Wilson in.iv he ennnteillf
upon to bring about harmony in | *
peace or war. He takes no half-way!'
ground and he is determined in his'
effort as much at this time as he 1
was when the war was going on. In 1
this determination, he is backed up!
by a fraction less than a million '
American people
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TH.K XV.XIt AMI THK IVXI'KKS.
The consolidation of the two pa- '
pers at Manning, the Herald and 1
the Times, or. rather, the absorhtion 1
of the Ilerald by the Times, sug-|v
gests the effect of the war and war 1
conditions upon the country weekly 1
paper. It is <|uit natural that the
hlg city dailies have profited h> tnr,
war. although latuc and pap r ami 1
other things that into the mau?- '
up of a newspaper have advances
rapidly and eat into the profits. \
demand was created l"??r the d uj. v
paper the like of which was neve
before known, and advertising pa-1
Ironage did not fall off to any ap '
Birecialde <vent Hut w itli th?
country weekly it was different, and
the Manning Herald found that the
best it could do was to sell out t"i
the Times, which was the oldei pa
1 -1 . iiiiii w'-i 11111 <M mismoss.
The Ciiioi, Time- in discussion 1
tin- problem say-: "Tim Horn d
undi M r. I * I > n om of t h
lid i I.tod in i s|?;ipt i i:i tl < ate i
and t in? < li.. m 11 ri |> ni I In
p: .( c \ !i! > 1
have frequent v noticed >. t;
liberal ailin 11 i i ,>ilniii m- t n
j ; per < njc. cel. If M .' ' n 1 ! '
li??t tilid >t pi oi in I' ii c (i in
how icn oth'1 I mint r- wo. i.ly ,.n
find it profit. hie
It would .- til tll.it if tin colli*11
* i f I lie paper tunc illed \v. It ulvrI
inili nt .i irt ii ni m 11 ill.. > ..
might haw l.< n kept wing. it t h
material in m'.isc in t ?*< ,t of pro
duction w 's out nt (iropo'' ion. wi
suppose, to tin" adverting patronage,
and Mr. Itrer-dln abandoned the.
ship before it sunk.
Kvery t h ing used in the newspaper'j
shop latior, paper ink, type metal
machinery has advanced from
to l't'0 percent since the beginning of
The war. The News has gone along
meeting this increased cost of production
by a larger volume of business
and without increasing either
the subscription rate or the adver
tising rates, although many other
papers have increased both. The
News is recognized as an excellent
advertising medium, from the viewpoint
of circulation both in quantity
and quality, more and more each
year, and consequently the year
just closed was a successful one from
the point of volume of business, notwithstanding
the war. For this increased
business. The News is very
grateful.
Every effort will be made during
the year just begun to make the pa-,
per worthy of still greater business
from the merchants and business
men of the county and the liberal
number of toreign advertisers who
use its columns by putting into the
paper the news the people want
md by improving the facilities foi
handling both advertising and job
printing.
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TIIK El 11ST STEP.
Petitions are being circulated for
I lie signatures of automobile owners
in the county asking the legislature
to pass such bills as will conform
to the plan recently outlined,
by a committee of the state automo-l
bile association, chief of the provis-j
Ions being the increasing of the automobile
license tax from 25 cents
the horsepower to 50 cents the horse-1
power. This is the tirst step in the'
ilirection of good roads in South
Carolina and it is not likely that
dgnatures will be lacking.
An effort will be made to give
jvery owner of a motor car the op
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mi 11 u ii ii v hi signing me pennon,
Mther by a systematic canvas of thO|
'ounty or by sending one of thoj
ilank petitions into each school disriet,
and putting the same in th?%
lands of some man who will see the
>wners of cars and ask them to sign^
rhe car oweners, however, should I
lot wait to be approached and the I
ditor of The News or any member
>f the Lancaster county automobile
issociation will be glad to give any'
nformation desired as to the plansj
nider way for the Improvement of
-oads in the state through legisla-'
ive enactment anil the issue of
jonds.
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I'lIK \VOI(LI> WILL NOI FOItLKT. j
(Sermar.y may well expect humane
reatment at the hands of the allies
may not expect any degree of seril.liln
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WI .III* u.i i u :mi i |i> imii lit" I ill
tpon servitude but ilif world has
nnny ehurpes auainst (Jermnny. The
\ oriel will not forpet The memory
if Kdith i'aveil will live forever and
lie imii ra : es perpetrated in the name
if war (Je many cannot outlive.
The I tost on lierabl says Germany
oust answer not only for the stupen
loii^ in is of the war in property
o il in life. |.in in partieulai for
ller fold liiooded breaeh of the
\ oi'hl's peai'e
The ravapiim of ftelplum.
The Hist air raids on crowded
'I ies.
Sanction of the Turk's atrocities.
The first use of poison pas.
The deportation of civilians.
The enslavinp of women.
The liurninp of l.ouvain
Tin* formal murder of Kilith Ca"11.
limitless sinking by 1 li? U-boats
The pro aniioum oil dost rnot.on of
ho 1 Ms 'i r in.
Moiub Haps in evacuated posiions.
i
l)o|ilinir of altars ami burial pi arcs
I In* plot ai d false prom scs of
liplotnntir aRcnt-,
11. o wrorkbm < i Hhcitns t'athr
rl: tl.
I'lic torroi trim's ian l- in shcliinK.
\nil it slaiiRht< r on flood Friday. |
Tho treaty t Urest Lit vsk
'i ti lit o- .t tlie (lorin ins will
' 1 ni' affoi ovorv (Ionian now li\
iiiir Is dead and the world will be
tow mi fotyiviiiR. (bo many owes t<>
the world and to v I /atlon what it
cannot par .? d what rill never In ,
pa id
MI-.S WIKSOV WITH l?HKS||)K\T.
I *ii r Ih. Jan. 2. Miss Margaret
Wilson accompanied the President |
to Italy.
< ItF.KI. (JOKS W ITH PltKSII?K\T.
Paris, Jan. 2. George Creel,
chairman of the committee on public
information is accompanying
President Wilson to Italy.
THE LANCASTER Ni
Governor Spring*.
(Charlotte Observer.)
We see it now as plain as a chal
mark on a new blackboard?"Hoi
Elliott White Springs, Governor t
South Carolina." He Is going to b
one of the war-made governors, an
the fame which has come to him a
an air fighter in France is what wi
do the work of his political elevi
tion. He was making such a recor
when the collapse of Germany cam<
that if the war had lasted muc
longer he might have found plat
among the presidential timbe
Young Springs went into the bus
tiess of air fighting with a vigor an
determination that quickly quail fie
him for squadron leadership. i
which capacity his performance
brought decoration tit the hands ?
the King of Kngland. lie is a son r
Col. l.eroy Springs. formerly <
charlotte, and has here a town fu
of relatives, friends and admirer
who would he willing at a moment
notice to go over into South Carotin
and vote for him. if their vote
should be needed.
SCISSORS AND PASTE.
More llogs and Square Meals.
(Columbia State.)
The number of hogs returned fc
tnvatinn it. f-~ 1 i ~ ' - ??
lit UUlHIl \ ?* I IMilin III III
year 11* 18 was greater than that r
the preceding year by 4 5.321. Th
number in 11* 17 was 236.86b. I
other words, for every six men, w<
men and children in the state thl
year was one hog. There should b
at least one hog for each hums
mouth, hut the increase Is a happ
sign. The number of cattle was er
larged for the same period by 32
!?44 and it is an interesting coincl
dence that the number of cattle an
hogs returned for taxation was a
most the same. The cows outnutr
bored the hogs by 4 4 4.. It seem
inar. mere snnuid dp three or foil
times as many hogs. For years th
State has urged that hog raising eon
tains more of bright promise to th
agricultural prosperity of the stat
than any other one thing. It is t 1
antidote for the boll weevil and whit
we are still rejoicing at the return o
peace, it were well that we remembc
that the weevil is with us and in th
course of a few years will go ove
the top in every county of the stat?
So long as a great part of our agr
cultural labor is ignorant, comrno
sense dictates that emphasis shottl
be placed on the simplest kinds c
agricultural production and how t
raise hogs is more easily learne
than how 1o raise any other edibl
animal that walks on four feet. Thti
a substantial increase has been r<
corded in the raising of this nou
profitable kind of live stock is a cii
cumrtancp pregnant with encourng*
tnent for the new year. More hog
and a square meal state!
There -oial Here.
( Philadelphia Record. I
The Knglish people had enoug
political common sense and sense <
tol and ll'c I nlon (Ifpot. Washini
ion wax rapidly being ronvorto I <ti'
flic urea test war camp of any natlo
The human organizations we
thrown together with wondcrf
skill, fa eh filling i t s particular pa
in fitting Into its proper place in fl
great machine. This vast army
civilian workers is heing quickly (li
handed and. the population of tl
city restored to normal at a ra
that indicates a man may soon go
the national eapltol and not lie r
quired to fake his place in line at tl
hotels These have boon v.onderf
(lays at the seat of government. T1
scenes of human animation and fe
erfsh activities will be remember
for years to come, and very short
the senators anil representatives w
be brought to a realization that tl
war is over by the reappearance
justice ;iti<I regard for (he autho^it
r.f their covernment in tlio peace ' < '
ferenco. to re-elect the administr:
tiim that lias conducted tho war fc:
two years and brought it to a g'(
rions end It did not occur 1o ill
Knglish voters that the primer wa
to hark nn Moyd CJeorRe would I
to elect an adverse majority to tli
house of commons.
11 i ii tx Hack to Normal.
(Charlotte Observer t
The lot war machine nl Wsohlm
Ion is being dismantled wllli almoi
as much expedition as it was put t<
gel her. The springing up of the m
merous bureaus at the National far
itat and their entry into active w or
without the slightest apparent hltc'i
the appearance overnight, as it wer
of hundreds r?f structures in pari
and \acant spaces for the housing <
the bus> personnel of these organlzi
lions, was one of the marvels <
aeromplishniont In military anna!
At tlie time the armistice was sirri
ed the war activities at Washing!)
bad iust begun to get fairly tind?
way and a city of terra cotta hons?
was springing up between the can
SWS. LANCASTER, S. C.
"'the capltol corridors of the man who'
I is "looking for a Job"?for the Job
_ i he was ashamed to ask for while
everybody was trying to get into the
k War- i
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ELLIOTT SPRINGS IS
' i DECORATED BY KING1
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" listment with the British. Several
'"I other Americans with smaller scores
lare doing equally brilliant work with
9* the R. A. F."
British Profit liMicy Startling.
e "The revelation of British profir*
cienoy Is startling in the face of enemy
propaganda which advertises s.>i
{| extensively the prowess of the II.in
" pilot and the danger of antagonizing!
11 him. It is a distinct pleasure to'
know that the Hritish pilots have
'' overthrown him."
,! Mr. Driggs pays a glowing tribute
to the French and Italian aviators
" and intimates that the Americans,
s
t ' were hitting a mighty stride when
s the Cennan collapse came. The lure
a of aviation attracts the chivalry and'
the pride of our youth. Fearlessness.j
j gaiety, cleverness, courage, coutesy,'
thoughtfulness and a debonair and
polished art is found in each of,
them, says the writer. "Modesty ofj
? the truest sort crowns the victories
of these gallant boys."
South Carolina a 1/eader.
>r| Of these and a leader among them
ie is Elliott White Springs, son of Col.
>f Leroy Springs of Lancaster. While
ie 'officially credited with eighteen Hun:
n machines, he has shot down at least
> I ten more, but the rules of scoring'
Is^tre very strict. A Hritish aviator,
e does not claim a score unless he sees
nihis adversary going down in flames !
y! or unless the Ilun machine is found,
i-j upon the ground. Elliott Springs
,-i has consistently refused to write'
I-1 anything about his exploits in tho
d air, although he must have had
1- scores of thrilling "dog tights" in
i- the air. He even refuses to let oth-,
is ers than his parents read his letters,
r All of this is creditable to his inodp
esty. but is otherwise very tantallz-l
i- ing. for he has seen more of the war.|
m1 from his perch on high, than any
e other South Carolinian.
? The relatives and friends of Elc
liott Springs, knowing his daring j
o and devotion, feared that he would
>r never survive the war, for he went
o into it with his whole heart. He
ir graduated at the famous Culver Mil5.
itary Institute. and graduated at
I- i-nnreion in i:?i7, and thero took
n preliminary flying lessons,
rj !!*? ipft ?H|p. country in September,!
,f 1!?17, taking l.r?0 aviators over to
o (Kngland and took them for training
d for a month at Christ Church at Ox??
ford, and was officer in charge. He
it afterwards split them up into squads
and sent them to different aviation
it schools. He hipiself stood oxaminat
Ion for the fast scout division and
went into it vigorously.
;s He was qualified in November nnd
was transferred to Ayr. Scotland,
where he took training and target
practice and performed scout duty
for the ships that were coming
h through the channel between Ire.
f land anil Scotland. lie took some
y of his training under llishop, the
i- celebrated Itrltish aviator, and was
i- selected by htm with one other
?r American to go with his squadron to
>- France.
e Iteinarkiihlc Record.
v Taking into consideration that he
was in the air actively only five
' weeks when he had accounted officially
for fifteen enemy machines,
h's record is regarded as remarkable
During the whole month of
July he was In a hospital on ac'*
count of an accident to his machine
tin the first of August he was placed
in charge of his own squadron, and
1 sinco thru has brought down a numher
of tho enemy Ho was decorated
^ tiv the King of Knelnnd during the
I last two works of tho war. At
" prosont ho Is in chargo of an Amorics
i an s(|'tadron In tho south of
II Franco, but expects to got homo in
l" February. I
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KH.VS M IIOOl, 1111,1,.
Columbia. S. f'., Jan. 2 Tho art
1,1 pnssod by tho last goneral assembly
1 providing olght grades for schools in
indi strlal toxtllo rommnnltios receiving
an appropriation olthor front
tho state or th< county, dorivod from
tax, lots boon signed by th"
school tax. bas boon signed by the
governor Tho moasuro heroines opii
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t orative January 1 i.
l?ItV VMIM'MI'NT RATll'IFO.
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I .nnoini' \ll,?. l-?- o T' ~
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t)e Michigan legislature has ratifieri the
lt, federal prohibition amendment. Both
f(( houses adopted ihe resolution without
debate.
I Kreneli to Orriip> Hi uiiihnul.
lie London. Jan. 2 A battalion of
v- French troops has been detailed to
ed occupy the Stamhoul district of ("only
stantinople, while a British battalion
ill will occupy I'era, the Kuropean quar
lie ter Italian forces will occupy nnoin
ther district of the city.
wiwyT - v--*,y'r m*m " man
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Members
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will please bri
books and reo
The 1919 CI
open and evei
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Bank of
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THE WAR DEPARTMENT | ^
UNDER FIRE IN SENATE 7
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Hitchcock Charges Inadequate Fa- a'
cilities ami No Definite I)e[
so
mobilization IMans. hr
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Washington, Jan. 2.?Srnator t.,|
Chamberlain of Oregon, chairman
of senate military committee, spoke
for more than three hours in the w
senate in criticism of the war tiepartment,
dealing with particularly j,r
what he termed the failure to provide
adequate hospital facilities for j^j
returned wounded soldiers and to
formulate*a definite plan for demobilization.
The senator reiterated many of <1
the charges he made in his address
at New York soon after the nation
entered the war and in a subsequent
address in the senate and said that
1111111 niii i mmi 11 (in ruiiif in iiuru
since had justified the statement ho in
liatf made. Senator Chamberlain's til
!>e\v York address brought forth a e<
sharp statement from President Wil- cj
son. Referring Indirectly to that n.
criticism, the Oregon senator said li
his purpose then and his purpose to
now was to bring about an improve- (']
men) in conditions. ('<
Senator Chamberlain who was ''
hea'd by crowded galleries, said the r<
war department now is pursuing
"IIII ii'Kitiu III liospiiui tacilHtes tin* "
same dilatory tactics it did in the 01
prosecution of the war many months (li
ago.
"If the war department," he de- '
elated "paid one-half the attention Sl
to preparations for receiving those m
hoys as it is to Retting legislation ''
through congress in order to pro '
tect contractors who made contracts
for war supplies over the telephone "
in violation of law, this matter would
soon he settled Tlte need for a I"
nolicy of demobilization was urged '
by the senator who said "that if one
were established unrest among the li
men In cantonments anil overseas
would cease." tl
The senator was frequentIv inter- vv
rupted hv questions from other senators,
hut there was no general de- '?
l.oln
..til*-. "
Senator Chamberlain red exten '<
s i v e I y from the recent report of '
(lonoral Pershing to support his as- a
so''ton that despite tho claim made
last February that thousands of air- ?
pianos wimp being shipped abroad '
land that the heavy ordnance situa- !l
I tlon was improving it hud boon nor Sl
I essary for ttio American forros to '?
depend heavily on both tho French Hl
and Itritish governments for air- "
planes and trie guns. I n
Senator f'hamherlaln spoke of the ?
report of Charles K. Hughes on tho '
aircraft production as evidence hear- ft
ing out his charge of InefTlclency, I
particularly referring to that portion '
I of the report which snld misleading n
statements had been made on au
horlty of the serretary of war, concerning
the production of alrcrnft.
Senator Polndnxtnr asked if It ?'
j were not a fact that the Prealdent <
RIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1919.
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of the
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ko
ng in their ,
eive checks
ub is now
rydody in
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ancaster
'eliable"
, S.C.
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is responsible for acta of the exutive
departments. Senator Chara rlain
replied that the President
mid not he held irresponsible for
1 the arts of the departments.
"In the failure to pay taxes of
bliers and the failure to construct
tspitals, would not one word from
o President remedy the whole
alter?" Senator Poindexter ash"Yes,"
said the Oregon senatoi,
ind one word from the secretary of
nr would remedy it also, and It is
at one word that ! am trying to
t."
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ElZl'RE OF CABLES IS
AKtil El) UK FORE COURT
liarlcs K. Hughes Conshlm Taking
Over During "Trclinlcal
State of War" Illegal.
Now York, I)ec. SO.- In authorlzg
President Wiisnn In take nvcr
ic nation's cables, congress intondI
su< h seizure to Im> made "only in
iso of impend ng danger to the
itional senility" and not "at any
mo during the existence of a n?era
clinical state of war," declared
Itailes I'. Iiiicites, counsel for tho
intnercial ("aide and Cotnmerclal
aeitic ('.tide companies, in federal
hiYt here.
.Mr Hughes made this contention
hile arguing itefore Judge Hand,
t the motion of the government to
lsmi-s tiie hill of complaint In a
lit brought by the two companies
' enjoin rost master tieneral Mul lein
and Xeweomb Carlton from
erglng their lines under federal
rntrol with those of the Western
nlon Telegraph company.
In reply to a quest Ion of Judge
and as to whether "the security of
I'fense of the nation does not dei'i:d
on achievements of the objects
>r which the war was fought" and
nt on the mere termination of
. hting. Mr Hughes said:
"I think what may be achieved, in ?
ie sense of the tlnal results of tho
ar. will probably not be detenninI
during our lifetime I think that
mgres had no reference to the naorial
security in the sense of the ^
It olute establishment of some oonII
ions. ( 'lin ! r^.uu I... I i? ? ?
....... <>< in iiiiiiu >i n
Mini state of applied force."
Previously counsel for the govi
nnu-nt, who ( oilondcd that the
nltcd States is the vital defendant
nd cannot he made party to the
lit. had challenged that part of the
ill of complaint In which It is aserted
that "seizure of said cables
n the proutid that they were or are
eressarv for the national aecurlty
r defense, was and is a mere pref>xt
without substance or basis in
lit." This imputed deception to the
'resident, declared Edward F. Mclennnn.
special assistant to Attorey
General Gregory.
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Itia/.ilian <'impress Ends.
Rio Janeiro, Jan. 2. The regular
psslon of the Mrardllan congress
nine to an end yesterday.