Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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frAGE FOUK TheLancasterNews i ch;;t: (SKMI-WKKKLV.) I the , Established 183a. ' prox * 000. PubUahed Tuesday and Friday BY THE Tt LJLNCASTBH NEWS COMPANY. Lancaster, S. C. bigh .lthet GEOKGK BULLA CRAVEN ,or ! Editor and Manager conci ?????? j j ni |>|The Newi is not responsible for the t rlews of Correspondents. Short and ' " rational articles on topics of gonei.il interest will be gladly received. SlliSCUII'TION rUICK: Cash iii Advance. One Year f 2.00 i 11 Six Months 1.00 Kntered as Second Class Matter October 7, 1U05, at the I'ostollhe at Lancaster, S. C., under act ot Congress of March 3, loT'J. TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1919. j V-? - *3*2* ^ < ," v."? ' ?iueni My Country 'T * of The6, S'^'^ot Land i m.rtv j , **(,u, ========================= The < o\cki:h: ko\l>s \\i? tiikik COST. 1.50(1 In ;i letter tu R. G. Rhett. chair-|,<,en man the committee which formulatcd the plans for a system of high- *^r ways in South Carolina, F. H. Me- ^ ,rK' Murray, acting state highway en- "iat gineer, ofTers some suggestions t'03 ' worthy of careful consideration One rn?t? is that the concrete roads to be built w?atl be located and the cost estimated be- one r fore the matter lie submitted to the voters. lie suggests that a bond'"^n'n commission be appointed by the gen-|?' eral assembly to make surveys and shout locate the roads and bridges so that m?bil the public generally may be inform- 'he r ed as to just what is proposed to be;:uu' dot.e with tiie $25,000,000 to lie do- to ('r' rived from the bond issue. This sug- ,r"m i gestion is a good one and carries! ',as '' with it the frankness of giving the fers. voter all intelligence possible uponj's,s w the iiuestion upon which he is tol:,,K 1 vote. The appointment of a special ilJ Vi vuiiiiuiMHiuu, iniwKvrr, woilKi s??r\e to complicate matters and might pos- htws. sibly cause friction.' Furthermore, a sen,it commission so appointed, without roncr funds, would merely result in a cumbersome piece of machinery ' to produce a product known 11 r8t as "red tape." And to provide funds for sucb commiss'on ^nl1"1 would be to increase the "overhead ro' evp. 11 e" of bit ild inn the I'-nl- \ s better plan, and one whh h would " li.eet mo* i to al <invor throughout ' ' the stale Is to place the question of 1< 't'tin, subs'ance an ! II oth"i <! ' tails in the hands of tie re< oust it it '' '' Cd ta'c highw; \ commission, which. ,,ir 1 v iler the p'an outlined by the ' " ' Ithett otlimittee. will he compos> d "v '* ?f seven members, one from each s,:|tc Congressional district, with the pr<>Ji'-soj of ii: ineei inir at tin- stat" Celle act i'.g .n an ad\ i i > en ' ' pa'-'ty This, in effect, is the same Rug-, ' post ion offered by Mr. McMurray, "m? til iir.li d 'ferlng in construction. evor> Th> > >.? ot Imi. din. the proposed wood li gbw i\ 11epe11d- large!'. upon wortl 1 1 t ! < i,. h ill \I' McM 11 in hi .jay is emphatic in < (t -1 ? .?t lahoi t at I .".oil . ,,t i ,, t vvid" ' um coo . t.. i ...id canr ' la- 1 u*l? t '' " * - " '. nil (li t one mile of ' ' con.p Is feet d< concrete.for Ii I ft < il t )> |)U It 1 it J'.'O.IHlll, fore 'Ih" New-. .ti t o vpi-i't in road ' h lonstt , t, would not take issue do/<'i v Ith a"i e\pe t in road eoi>stru<t op. . hi c but The New kt. s of concrete pr.ci r > i 1, ! . '..,.( hie, a ! -oh ha o .-a ' ? 1 t i 1 for th tii a oho per mi'o we e ; d ' th iii : l.a.nnu per mile Tlr* N< road has coin rele has" w ith asphalt h.'in tiuriace <1 it<i. we iienevn, i called iiik " VV;i rrenlte" road We nave betrd read it stated that tli* read will not stand niuel heavy traflie. hut it is standing it. men was built some ihrec or four year* burr iiKi) and is still d< i 11 ir basines .it the 'hem same stand. The News would take mud great pleasure in showing this road otinto Mr. MeM array, and if he will take Tt this ;us an invitation, we will drive up 'the whenever the road between I.anfas- "A < ler and Charlotte is passable. Wo radi: i M i . . ? ? . * . . ? ? ? I been Informed that the con- In tl i road between Rock H-ill and estini iver on the Fort Mill road, ap- morn imately three miles, cost $40.- boro mate: was le proposition of a system of thou? ways in South Carolina?the the c t plan?as we understand it. is to pu approximately 1,000 miles of|Ures reto and some 500 of otherwisel *Ther oved roads. Placing cost of! who ruction at $20,000 per mile.(said I ch The News thinks. Is exces-jknow , 1.000 miles will cost $20,000 - basin and of tiie $25,000,000 provld-l ,.j( here will bo left $5,000,000 to! Hme sand-clay and top-soil con- 0f?en nc links where the traffic does appal demand a hard-surface road. | thousand miles will include 11 the t from Aslieviile to Charleston. | ai,0?t acting. Spartanburg, Clreenvillo. i on ()| rson. Newberry and ?th?r! mnyb s; from Charlotte to Savatfnah. on p{ Augusta to Chevaw, with con-i r-lotlii ons to Conway and Georgetown. | man | perhaps more, and if. two years, shoes ? when the work is to lie done, pay|n is more plentiful and conse- j thnm tly cheaper, and the cost can hejmftn ed to $15,000 per utile. and I 0|iear News believes it can be the |artio ttO.000 will almost, if not build $12 i > miles of concroto road, ?ix-jthe p feet wide. j tend I | cm . McMurray, in bis reference t?|merel nia roads neglected to state jjie S( the supervisors of many counIn Virginia prevent the use of he ma r vehicles on the roads in bad ? icr under a state law, and that |Qpjoa ounty in Virginia made it a inis-llorrR anor to use any vehicles withlp^)(iu s upon the wheels on the roadsj j0|,|)ei at county, which was a round-, prjrPS way of bottling up th auto-| j e during weather which made man(j oads soft and easy to cut up. j take i iside from being ag'in the law! ve automobiles over it. the road slippi; lticlnnond to Prederlcksburg ,.nmp, een impassable for spveral w i'>" j somet Two years ago several tour- 0f n. ere arrested and fined for noth-ij0 jal nore than driving automobiles j pe K,, rginin That was neither n..> vwir \ e or sensible. and such fool ] vvjj p in a measure, strengthen thcj,)(M.au nont of automobile owners forj r,.aS0| eto roads. ! with of All i> News has tx '.ii v? d from the ppoph and st >11 believes that a million i nit,.^ s is needed in each county in1 i Carolina for the constriction were ads, and if every county seat in wjnnj tale had concrete roads leading' s?i nv or direct'ons :?>ni the couit . con lie" n?t v th the roid mi . tii ? . .it. tii ' > > .. cause mil i li" 'Hi* to t" \ forr> j I's p;tr ?'! its I1 c se tax to pa> her construct a and m:*ft*t|{n( That would he a < our.tj h"ard iu of roads throughout the high while the plan is for a system tj,,, ite ro. "Is. pea * IK 111 \ INt. row l-:it Ol \ IX ||<I .A It. come e /eeerul tendency during 'n*'. chant til'- 1' : ""I St a was at war' - Ill it in I?iiiist ;?ric? - boost them on ((n,, rthinu while the boosting was ,n Itesiill was that a dolla1- wis n ii about forty to forty-flvo cents Qarflt ivinu power. In many instances and earnings Ine en ed cor-1 COM >r. I l\ bsl a. t ii iI in taiu-os; If I; : i? 'I man bclna tlm e\i op- hopes (tf coui If ri man can draw an ii lis labor double what he <1 i< 1 be eirnoi tlm war, it will not ko so hard tion. h'M tj> pa\ ;< vi ntv 11 o o'tits a moor ii < _ v a ! eiirht do'lais 'm S<u'l .in 111 > come high at that years in I c inn v* ho i- earn nu no tor n fli iii he <!i<l before i'ii* prices pc< Is boosted. i lire )\v that the war is over ill" rys'e !? <>i| Cot ;i treneral "ko- la rip lown" of pi ;? ? > \nil it has ?1-. aoiiI v beiritn \ inninoblles. not sols'hoi i a luxury as they once were.jtoacl a. a net easily in these days ofjents; y. > ere the first, and some ofleomi i have dropped olT in prfee as j the ] i as three hundred dollars, and affei i s are RoinK ti? follow suit ; eiphl ie Creenslioro News, writimt of or i conditions now ox'stinK. says: j will ;ut of 26 per cent in prices of mini: itors, boilers and other staples quat THE LANCASTER NE\ iat line is announced. Inter5 information for the coldest ing of the winter. A Greenscitizen recently asked for estii on a heating plant. The cost 25 per cent more than he had ;ht it would be, and he said to ontractor. 'When you get ready it this equipment in at the flv I had in mind, let me know, e are ten other people in town have told me the same thing." :he contractor. 'What I want to , is how am I to continue in ess?' has been suspected for some that the ultimate consumer ! considered a boob, and who' rently will pay any price deed lor things, as long as he hasi noney, is becoming stubborn! some things. Maybe he'll go lying food, at any price, and e he, and especially she, will ko tying whatever is asked for ing. To digress a bit, a shoe flatly averred the other day that are high Jin price) because! g a big price for shoes is soniein the way of a fad with woHe says they do not want 'em i; there is a sort of soul sntisn in the possession of a pair of shoes that makes them worth rice. He did not go on to ex 111 o charge, but left the inferthat mere man is still content y to be shod, and is somehow ->rt of victim that Adam was. lit some things people seem to iking up their minds to do withintil they come down; a psycho1 epidemic that may finally tilings down. The tendency ofj cers of merchandise and of is has apparently been to boost . rather than to reduce them, he old law of supply and dewill probably sooner or later! charge again." en the time arrives that the / is in excess of the demand.' tition in business will meant hing, and the merchant, instead I luctantly allowing a customer ke goods from his store, will ing out after business. Tlie | n ought about many conditions j which we were unfamiliar, and, se the war was given as the i. I tie people submitted. Hut the ending of the war many rh conditions were removed e submitted to increased freight increased passenger rates, in?d postage rates because they willing to do as much toward r.g the war. Likewise people ittcil to high-priced eggs and and practically every other o?l ty net tled by the family l.ethey believed it was all wrapn* tin- process of winning the I liie price of labor, and we've a lot . bout il late.y. will stay ami will go even higher unless nying power of the dollar is in <1. mean'ng that the prices of articles which are included in imiiy budget every day must down. The days of the ntertflliny the customer how in itch certain article ho may huv .it nd tiio same time and the price; list pay fur the limited quantity umhotod Mr lloovoi and I > ?c eld arc n<> longer in business. \to\ sI-"Ns! ; |>ltKI>OMI\ \ VT. the l.i ief outline- of v h I to* to accomplish may lie taken as idication of the course of (Jov r t Copper's administracommon sense will lie the pa rait and predominant factor in i Carolina during the next two Coventor Cooper's fits' utiles hearing upon what he o\ to re ominend to the leg; ia II.Ill III III! Willi I III' I II IM'il ! I I I II I i in of the state which needs r and stronger support. Hp (I lengthen tlt*? tortus of puldle lis and increase the pay of lirs .ind of county superintend lie will contend for a statewide julsor.v attendance law without present local option features, to t children between the aites of I and fourteen years, with prop Machinery for enforcement: lie urge a more efficient school negation in each county anrl adee facilities for the education of / adult illiterates. 'He will be opposed in his advancement along ed- I 1^, ucational linos by those cicse-llsted | | people who think that the tearhci ^ ^ can live upon the same salary he lived upon years ago, and by the "old man" who didn't have such school facilities "when he was a boy." Hut Governor Cooper's ideas are common sense ideas and will win out in the1 end. Mr. Cooper thinks a revision of th" tax laws of the state is an urgent J need and he hopes to substitute a' budget system and the elimination of the present state levy, which is the modern way. Under the budget ays- ; tem, which Mr. Cooper would have modeled after the Virginia law. up I proprlations would be made by the' legislature for the various departments of state government and thost appropriations could not he exceeded. That's business. The new governor gives every promise of making good the a^ser- ' tion that he will make his the "edu ; cational administration." and also that the business of the state government Will lie pnnilnntoil ?'***' ' business lines and upon business J principles, and he does not assume to become a great state dictator and j rule with an iron hand, for he sug- j Rests that there be held frequently J "cabinet meetings" with other state j officials attending and offering suggestions, stating the needs of their various departments, and co-operating in the general scheme of government. j ^ ^ HCISSOKN AND PASTE. | A New Kccord. (Charlotte Observer.) | 'hut I believi Does not matter what sort of a ,-ovo,ni,rs "record" 1h made over there, it is for I ('own to the the American to break it. Any sort |the 8ermon 0 of a German record proved an easy!t,ral ,)aa,s ol proposition, but on land or on aea.1 ernment ,a C>1 with gunNor airplane, the American' 11 is ri*ht has only to be shown something done, state that is regarded as remarkable,i n,<>re tl when he will proceed to relegate it prnor Blcket to the commonplace. The latest In-! kppP the gi stance was in altitu?le flight. London whero hp sa> sends a story of an American aviator n<)t mcan tha who has attained the remarkable ,je protagonii helgth of 3 0.500 feet, or five times any special li the height of Mount Mitchell above ,nas- me! aea level. As a matter c?r course, in- 'arianism n vnsion of the rarlfled air at that ,n,,8t P?*rvad< height necessitated the use of artl-j aro at the la flclal breath, and the oxygen equip- arP to ai?ti?f> ment of the aviator's companion' No greatoi having been broken by the pressure, by any gove he was forced to come down with a religious pre half-dead comrade. It is entirely the selection appropriate that the United States greater tnish should sail higher than any other istence of ai country on earth. permit religii inately mixed A Faint flay. holders and j (Philadelphia Record.) !l" the time. Th" ???>? uii>n that his !,t)d no free |: come otit of Germany is the reslgnn- religious fan tion of one of the two groups of trt-ja"V type to li I'liiV'i wild have !> > .n nillm, <).,> hold that oili country and their replacement l>v P00P'? :,ni' '? iihmi wJio. while Soetlixts, arc bound a,1<^ ,s 'aws to vrcscivc orga 11 zed society and PR,tdx demon prevent the rommunity from deteriorating into an aggregate of wild A animals dominated by those that are (Charlesto !iiest d-'rini: and least seruptilous. It I lentenant looks as if the real democracy of pronch av|ai (iermany were plucking "P courage ace of aces" and beginning to assert Itself. , tho poa(.e r ! occurred to Ob I sod?How l/ong? declares the (Macon Telegraph ) fleets of the i Hurleson's phone rate order, formed into ' whereby if the lone distance operator There is no does not get your "party" at the accuracy of other e??d of the line you are charg- fr-t which it eil iust the same as though you did importance i complete the call, is on a par with world the tlie policy of charging the full price means for in fie- telephone installation or moving nf future wa of an instrument merely to swap numbers It is nothing more nor less Itegri than that form of gouging and /Pf] mulcting the public that done by a ,, . . . .. How the ( private corporation we would call . . , t n n is fovp swind'lng the public and handle the ' House, after h. ri.t-1 tlntii r/?m?hlv if thov hvnr . . , ' i War, he net* tried it. I Already this amazing mnlnclnilnls- ani' n,lV> trator Is mailing telegrams to us "ll' whon we pay for delivery. The tele. raph servlro of the eountry has been jo slowed up that it is almost intol- T.\I,K*I' era hie and now this. And some ( people wonder what make Bolshe-. viki out of fo'ks who always had be-| (Oontinu haved themselves previously. jwe nre goln lleligion iiood for State. I roads and In (Orangeburg Times.) j 'n^ "V ''i Governor Rickett of North faro- ownor wnuli lina recently made on Impressive fusible pro] statement, which has been reported "If you w; by Walter It. Duncan, secretary to got to lay Governor Manning. Our neighbor- Mr. Fihett. ing chief executive said: 'a main arte "I am not a professlonalist," said Mr. Rhott tho governor of North Carolina, questions th " TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1919. i Members of the 1918 Christmas Club ? will please bring in their r books and receive checks The 1919 Club is now open and everydody invited to join. The Bank of Lancaster " The Old Reliable" Lancaster, S. C. ? b. firmly, that unless the connection with the bond issue, the civilized world get| The first was: Will $25,000,000 ten commandments and build a connecting link between the in the mount as a prac-. county seats? ' government, then gov-1 Mr. Rhett said that 1.500 miles irentually going to hell.' ^ would connect every county seat in for the servants of a the state. The question then reto be men of religion, solves itself into whether you can lan right, it is ns Gov- build 1,500 miles of concrete roads t declares, necessary to for that money. Mr. Khett said that overnment from going half of the highways would average s It will go. This does IS feet, and hnlf 0 feet. It would t public servants should not be necessary to build the entire its of. of advertisers of highway 18 feet wide. rand of man-made dog-! Mr. It hot t figured that by 1921 the ins that broad human!- average cost of constructing a connn Christian chariiy crete roadway would be materially i the acts of those who reduced so that the maximum cost sad of governments that would hardly be more than $2.25 t the people therein. per square yard. At that figure the r mistake can be made concrete system would cost $20.rnment than to permit At $2.no the squnre yard judices to creep into " wnu'd cost $2.1.0(10,000. of officials, and no -Th0 second question discussed by ap can threaten the ex- Khett was; Will $20 per car ay government than to IPs,y $2 5,000 ooo bond issue an to become indiscrim- 'n ,xv'*nty years' I with polities. Office There will be 100,000 cars in the tolificinns. first, last and '"'^'e 102 1 in the opinion of They are missionaries. Mr. Ithett South arolina in 1 ! 1 fi leople should permit any hi"! 19.ooo.cnrs In 19 17 there wore a tic or church man of r;,rs ?"?? >" ''* th?ro were old office, if he does not r,r?.000 cars. He predicts that there ce as a trust for all the w"' on increase of about 4 0 per e a servant of the state ront in ",p n"vl three years. It is alone. Upon that do- n,,ie ,i00n ,hilt n ,:!X ?f $20 per car n-y or republicanism. will be amply sufficient to meet tho _____ issue. New Problem. Iown lh,*ft is one rar ?? "vor'r , six persons. In South Carolina there n News and ( miner.) . , is one to e\er.v tlnrty persons. if llene Ponck, the great we just allow one to every six white lor who is called "the persons in South Carolina, there will emphasizes an aspect of t?> 120.000 cars in the state. iroldem which has not if it waa on|y 1,500 miles of conmany minds when he oreto highways that we were going great commercial air fo get I would not he so enthusiastic tear future can he trans- over this proposition." said Mr. ... n r ?1,~ r- ... .1 I ... .i.Ti-.r. in .i i?-? "This is hut the beginning, reason for dotibllnit the Wo are l'oIhk to leave land and oththis statement and theior v> hirles and government money points out is of no little, untouched. T*hey ran bo used to n its bearing upon tho.piiild into thoso arteries, question of devising "Tho fanner today is isolated, 'nlmlzing the likelihood His wife is isolated She rannot sen s. anything of society. The farmer 'a makmir money and sending his chil:?tfnl Iteflectlons. dren to college \fter they Ret out (Chester Herald I "f college the children are not eon'olonel must regret that. lonl ,n r0,urn ?" *he farm. To me it n years in the White is ?Phortunity of the farmer to the Spanish-American s,:,v nn ",r f;" m ll"*1 "nk himself up lected to start hie artnv nl ,h" s'"n" ,i,no w,*h the backbone He appears to have "f ,hi' *ront s,;ite of South Carolina, all we needed was the xv" nrr no! "mm: the farmer at all. r his friend. I?r Wood. No ,ax ls fo ho assessed on bis land ^by this bill." FST ON r Hhett declared that the automobile Is here to stay. Airplanes ;<)()I) ROADS IIKI .1) mav come Im.. ..i_ ? -- . .IMIII use mii in<-y will never take the place of the ailed From Page One) tomohlle Properly constructed the highway ought to last Indefinitely. g to build you these Speaking of the advantage of tho t you ukp them for noth- system to the automobile owners, vesting $100 the truck Mr Khett referred to the saving It I save $500. Is thiH a would affect to them In gasoline, in position? I repairs and in the life of their ears, ant good roads you have The average ear costs $000. Don't your foundation," said you think your ear went* i?=? ....... inn V tt yrur "You have K<>t to have longer with concrete roads? ry of concrete road?." | David U Cokor. of Hartsvtlle, and then discussed some a. V. Snell. of Charleston, and others at had been raised In spoke heartily endorsing the issue.