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j. / PAGE FOUR The Lanc aster N ews w** (SKMI-WKKKI.Y.) the | Established 1852. , resth Published Tuesday uud Friday 'n " by the relet LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY. be n LMCMter, S. C. year l)0:i 1 n GKOIUiE 111'LEA CItAVKX Editor and Manager I the s The News Is not responsible for the ? ' views of Correspondents. Short and ever) rational articles on topics of general Interest will be gladly received. ages army SUBSCRIPTION PRICK: faith Cash in Advance. tjle ( One Year |2.00 ,ions Six Months 1.00 . of lal Entered as Second Class Matter Th October 7, 1005. at the Postotlice at ,ju, j Lancaster, S. C., under act of Congress of March 3, 1?79. In re j in ho FRIDAY, JAN. 24, 1919. stand wh?8t "My Country 'Tis of Thee, Sw??t Land year of L<b?rty." t i not i THIRTIETH IS COMIXC. ab,e The "Old Hickory" division lias vv heen released hy tleneral Pershing: IllVA and is getting e\erythlng in read:-!""'*5 ness to siil for homo. Tho "<>I?T "" Hickory." the Thirtieth Division, is as ,H> composed of South Carolina. Nortii Carolina and Tennessee troops, and 1 lu it w is these troops who gairted fame print in tln? fighting during the last month Poitib or so of the war; it was these who! I dow 11 broke the ilindenhnrg line. The ? , , I w hi eh Thirtieth will probably come tol itiatioi Charleston and from there the i going South Carolina troops will go to may I Camp Soviet to be mustered out; th' lie thi North Carolina troops to Camp ; cont or tireene aipl the Tennessee troops to of nai Fort Oglethorpe, which is a short ;before distance from Chattanooga. Or th< t ied o whole of the division mav he niu.s-, lleli tered out at Camp Sevier or Camp . the "1 Jackson. No definite announcement Presid .has been made as to the place. j The announcement will bring hap- 0p0,,|v piness to thousands of Carolina shall 1 mothers and fathers and while nojdersta date is given for the sailing of thej,na'-v men, the statement is made in a," " cablegram from General Pershing i , tion u that they have been released from',.jnj xv further foreign service and it is now: except merely a question of transportation 1 w hole home and demobilization. tional And the boys will he glad to get home. You bet! Ttie reader will ((j recall how anxious every one was cstabli to "go across" when in camp: they condit broke away from the family ties eonser and from business connections, and' nance. once away, they all wanted to go ??4 over and tight Many who didn't and ti go were keenly disappointed. And w"' '' consis .now . tbey \ :'l lie just a^ anxious to ret back home. now that the work a hso! i Is done. Tbev will he a happy lot j. 0()| when they reach their native soil ohsor\ again and the welcome home will he detern In keeping with the spiiit of t h'-j so',M .1,1 ulatio work they did while away. . . weigh ? jthe g< IN II MtNKSS \<?.\ I \. 1 detent Annotincetnent is made In the t'n-1 "f>. Jumbia Record that Walter ! '. I >*t n -t c i"r It * can. editor and publisher of the " .assuif Aiken Standard, and for the past ^ ^ year private secretary to Governor jn Manning will on February 1 he< ome( and i associate editor of that naner. M> ',,r> m . "Duncan is a newspaper man of wide " r ' nnflor experience anil the Record is to l?o ?jm.or felicitated upon securing his scr- free n vices. own r Once under the yoke of newspa- f,f>,Tie per harness, while mnsr exacting at I ytesin times, a man never feels at home *>UflSj anywhere else, and it is a noticeable tnontl tact that when a real newspaper of th man gets out of the easiness It is not for long and finally he drifts I agree back Into the old ways This Is storfM inite demonstrative of the assertion | the s "that a newspaper man is horn, not mon made, and unless the tact and fitness Is In him. he cannot he trained for! a mon the work. ,hoy Mr. Duncan will mnse the Record none a valuable man. because of his pe- relati ruliar fitness for the position and f,l,s because of his familiarity with men I forev nnd affairs in the state. <.g Rf i THE LAF IT h'Alt.MKK BOYS KBIiKASKD be freed and the number of farmers throughout restored; and the , , . ' France in 1871 ir iouthern states are becoming Alsace-Lorraine will iss over the fact that their boys thft pence Qf the y le homo camps have not been i fifty years, should 1 sed and they fear they will not ' der that peace ma sleascd in time to begin this ,na('e 8cci>re 'n the _ , ., | "9, A readjust s crop. Some of them have ap-l , ... * tiers of Italy shoi d to senators in Washington j a,ong cloarly reco^ the matter will be laid beforei nationality. tecretary of war. It is pointed "10. The peopl hat in some sections practicillyIHungary, whose piai , . . . . tions we wish to see r. able-bodied man between th- , , , . . assured, should b ol 21 and .5 1 was sent to the ^freest opportunity o and many of them went no velopment. er than the home camps. Now! "11. Rumania. S . . , . negro snouia oe ova armors want to begin prepara-] territories restored for the crops and foar scarcity fid froo an(, 8ecure { ')or- * and the relations of e News is not itiformed as to kan states to one a ntention of tlie war department P(' t?y friendly coui .... , ... | rioallv established gard to the release of the me., ance and nattonalil me camps, but it is our under-j t,ona, KUarantee8 of ing that they are to be released economic independe illy us possible, as as fast as; rial integrity of th< tions will permit. Perhaps Bta,es Bho"ld be ent i "12. The Turkisl should bo seme speeding up . present Ottoman e regard to tho farmer boys assurP(i a secure a duty it will ne to see that the other nnttonalitii is no food shortage in the under Turkish rub ... . , ... . sured an undoubted ahead, but we doubt if nnv dis and an absolutely on will be made. It is prob- . .. , ' port unity as a free that the men in home camps ships and conimerci be released without regard i > under international i business or calling, and wo ^n independ , should be erected, \ the faith in tne war depart elude the territories that it will be done as quickly (lisputably Tbilisi, no wsible. should be assured a O J access to the sea, a 'iii-: 1(11 i:tki;\ points. cal and economic ii News has been asked to re- territorial integrity anteed liv internatioi the now famous "Fourteen ,,, . 14. A general as whi'lf I resilient Wilson laid fions must be forme* ??o.o mm ,iini rovonnnis, tor ino pi will lio the basis for all nepr, ,n?t mutual punrnnt ts at (ho poaeo conference now Independence and ?e _ ty to proat and sma on. The fourteenth point, o>e re carded as haste and wip lirst to he acted upon hv the l.KTTKKS TO Tl at Versailles The Icapuc ??????? lions, indeed, must be formed *" *PIM ..... . To the Kditor of Tt tlie other points can he carPi ustees and tea not pet your people >w is piven in condensed form purpose of orpanizin Fourteen Points" as stated liy provement associati ent Wilson: ,in<' l',a* no ot',er a> .much to hrinp your i Open covenants of peace, i 'community into a jo arrived at; after which there and by working to lie no private international nnmuch pood will resit 1 tidings of anv kind, but dipio, ,, , ... and to the comtnunft shall proceed alwavs franklv , , . I criticism of tlie schr i the public view. ly among those whn Absolute freedom of navlpa- s,an(, ?8 work T poll the seas, outside ter.lto- Droveilu.nt ass0clatioi atevs, alike in peace and war. ni,.uns 0f bringing as the seas may I?p closed in nuaintan,.e an,i an or in part by International ac- whirh win bo niutl ir the enforcement of Interna- hon)e and s?.hooi. covenants School Improvemc The removal, so far as possi- jUst now have the ' all economic barriers and the rendering an especial ishment of an equality of trade vice in looking aftt ions among all the nations whose fathers are i iting to the peace and nsso- navy or any others r themselves for its mainte- tion wherever necess cial interest to such Adequate guarantees given burden imposed by iken that national armaments borne by the men an e reduced to the lowest point Pnlted States withm tent wltli domestic safety. the future or the chi A free, opened minded and war times with the i itolv impartial adjustment of labor and the high onial claims, based on a strict products, there is 1 k ante of the principle that in dency to keep child living all such questions of boys, out of school ( igntv the interests of the pop- The strenuousnesi ns concerned must have equal however, calls as u t with tiie equitable claims of tion as for niaterir verumcnt whose title is to lie great President of tl 11 jlied. recognized this whet The evacuation of nil Russian during the war our e >rv, and such a settlement of tutlons should contii estlons affecting Russia as will tie interruption and 1 the lies! and freest co-onera nlans as possible, f the other nations of the world nrovement assoclat aining for hei an unhanipccd will he a great liied inemliarrassed opportunity for act any tendency ti ldependent d?*tei ruination of oct of school on a< ?wn political development and may urge, of war c in) policy, and assure her of a generally conceded e welcome into the society of ment plnys an Inipoi lauons unuer institutions or n? i'vos 01 an or us i -boosing; and. morn than a wel- vironments of school assistance also of every kind be made as pleasan she may neeri and may het'self sanitary as possible The treatment accorded To do good work a by her sister nations In the necessary for a chih tis to mine will be the acid test be well he must ha eir good will, of their intelli- well heated and and unselfish sympthy. I school' rooms The Melgiiim. the whole world will | do It all. she nun >. must he evannrted and re-' operation of the c I without any attempt to limit may suggest (mprov lovereignty she enjoys in com- not her duty to mail with a'l other free nations. No ments. County hna single art will serve as this are willing to assist serve to restore eonfldenee that their funds wil g the nations in the laws which community should h have themselves set and deter- ly familiar with t! rl for the government of their own school. This ens with ono another Without plishcri hy visits to healing act, the whole structure through meetings o validity of international law la provement assoolatf er Impaired. bring about the d All French territory should, the organization w hi i mai , . / JCASTER NEWS, LANCASTER. S. C. invaded portions lows: 1st. An increased i wrong done to on the part of patrons in ail 1 the matter of work. 2nd. Material inipro ich has unsettled of school grounds, buildings ai korld for nearly nishings. 3rd. Parents >e righted, in or- through an awakening interest y once more be school, gained an understand interest of all ; modern methods of teachin lent of the fron-lthus a serious handicap to the lid be effected era' work has been removed. ;nizable lines of i Twenty-five prizes of fort J lars each, are to be awarded es of Austria- dividual schools making thd g i*e among the na-1 improvement during the til safeguarded and' tween March 1, 1919 and Mt e accorded the 19 20. One prize of ten doll f autonomous de- the local association in each I in miiik in me largest atiio erbia and Monte- money raised from outside i .ruated: occupied and deposited with the county ; Serbia accord- urer. One prize of five doll icress to the sea. each local association send the several Bal- twelve (12) reports of (12) i nother determin- j monthly meetings, between Mi isel along histo- 1919 and March 1, 1920, lines of allegi- county organizer. a certiflc ty; and interna- award will be given to each the political and district that adopts comj nee and terrlto-' school attendance through tl ? several Balkan tlative and co-operation of th< ered into. ; School Improvement assot l portions of the All prizes will be awarded 1 mpire should be state executive committee sovereignty, but School Improvement associat ?s which are now its meeting in March, am i should be as- awards will be announced duri security of life meeting of the state teachers unmolested op- elation. The prizes will be s passage to the checks from the oflice of the sti e of all nations perintendent of education guarantees. ! county treasurers. All money cut Polish state be spent for the further ini vhich should in- ment of the prize winning t inhabited'by in-. We are working and hoping 1 pulations. which organization In every school free and secure county. For any further In nd whose politi- tion, write, idependence and Mrs. LeRoy H. Habenic should bo guar- Kershaw, S. C.. County Org rial covenants. for Lancaster County. isoclation of na 1. under specific irpose of afford- SCISSORS AM) PASTK. cps of political rrltorial integri- Tlto Movie Censor. 11 states alike.", (Monroe Knquirer.) "" Mr. H. B. Vainer, of Lexi IF PIHTOK commenting on the propositi have a National Board of C shin for moving pictures si 1,1part: it News. "Frequently agitation for a i In is. will > on n ^ Censorship is started for tin toutther tt i tin pOSO nf creating an office for g a School Im- ... , . , ... . . feeble-minded citizen who has on*/ ^ on will lInaj,|f, to make a living at anj ,t iu > t.in 11'> so pjS(. hntl thinks now is the oppt school ami your 4!. , . time to get a fat job at the en hit relationship. of 80inebody else... gether unitedly, Ynfl and frequentIy lt ,8 th( t to the schools 1 . , ? . _ when some fellow tears his v life. Adverse .u about this, that or the other >ol arises main- ... . , , _ . that neetls reforming he war > tlo not under- . ., .. . , boss the rernrmnllnn toll ? he Srhool Im per. i offers the best about an ar- Germany After All. understanding ,, (Philadelphia Record.) tally helpful to ' The Germans in Rumania . .. true to type. The Rumanian >nt associations . mier says: "When the last G< opportunity of ,. , , , left the last carload of graM lly valuable ser.. .... taken out. The Germans dl >r the children .. leave much behind them anyi n the armv or except the soli ami the materi needing attenthe wrecked buildings. It arv. giving spe... , cause they stripped as much ai children. The ' * . .. . could reach of Rumania, f war shonld be , ... Poland, Russia, France and B? d women of the .... , of food, and left the fnhahitai it handicapping , , . .. those regions to perish of starv ldren. In these , , that there is little disposition I icareltv of farm , , anything on the plate of Gei prices of farm , , . until everybody else has beer elv to be a teni . i. >. Iron, especially 'or work. , .. ,. Mr. Manning. ?of the times, inch for educa- (Columbia State.) il tilings Our Yesterday afternoon a citl: le T'nlfed States So?th Carolina, a man of quiet 1 he urged that nerfl an<' somewhat deficient I durational insti- modern art of parading, who, m e with as lit- performance of tasks delegat modification of him, has been a sojourner in f the School Im- hia four years, returned to his ion. therefore. 'n Sumter, accompanied by his film tn counter- a Kenne ami kimciiv woman wi 0 keep children helped him and. In so helpln [ count as some horn, with him, the friend < nnditlnns. It is people in their undertakings an that environ- riflces. They were Mr. anr fant part In the Hichard I. Manning. 'her?fore the en- the curious things tl children should have observed Is that this I, attractive and sometimes been coarsely revllf what seemed the foolishest < In school It is counts in the indictment b 1 to he well To against him was that he Is an ive well lighted tocrat." At the risk of completl well ventilated ruin of his political future, teacher cannot he have, we are going to saj d have the cn- in a sense not so foolish, the e ommunlty. She tlon Is true. He has htmn entente. hut ft in hard worker, not sparing h ie these improve- He has taken his worn serious! rds of education for some reason or other, he h in every way boasted of his deeds, or abus 1 allow, but ejfrh maligners. or spoken In a loud income thorough- or climbed Into headlines In he needs of its of notoriety We think he wc can lie accom- the last man who would say t i the school and has not made mistakes or set I f the School Im- up to be an extraordinary ] on. which will age. No one has heard of him esired results of ln? responsibility or making hlch are as fol- plaint of any kind. He has g ? ? .i. i i ... - ' , * / nterest | A | ??? KCllOOl trement I I ^ nd fur- i. I huve y ^ in the inn of * ?">' Statemen tea'*hy dolto Inrentest me beirch 1, lars to county Ty - I- _ unt of . MjQflK 0 lourees treasarn to at tiiv v?\ ing in egular Hpr irch 1. LSKZK,. to the ate of school julsory h? 'n'_ Loans and Dlscoi B local Bonds Matlon. Banking House *h? Fixtures, Ktc. . ?' t*16 Cash on hand a l?n at Banks i thp ng the ' nssoent In nte suto the L-I must iprove-, Capital school Surplus and I'roll ror an Dividends. . . . in our Deposits forma* ht | nnlzer v j -Jl 'the public service all that he ha I give and. some day or other, v ngton. ait of us are gone to a lone s on to men free of the passions of this t ensor- will write history and say that i.vs in his first administration began new era in South Carolina when Hoard commonwealth turned its attoi p pur- t0 (he care of the poor and weak some to the training of every child, been they will write, too. that, when 'thing came, at the head of affairs w >rtune man who directed the use of the ipense, Hources of the stato to assist | American Republic, in his npp ? cast* monts to office taking no thoug) murt j>?>rsonal fortunes and selei thing (hp nien who host could and w its to ,|n the things necessary to he t much Just a quiet, clear-headed. < mannered, entirely modest, rr shrinking, industrious, God-fes man, with a notion uppermost it mind that in performing his d were as governor his personal popul Pre- was not to he considered?ths erman Richard I. Manning, i was We wish he would stay In Co d not bla. vhere.f als of New lirnnd of Peas. 'H h?" (Chester News.) i thevj jn (tH plant-breeding work ierhia, row peas, which involves several dgiuraj dred hybrids and selections, nts of xynitpd States department of agr ation, ture during the past year has to put | veloped several new sorts w hich rmanv s?rh promise that they are now i well inR grown in quantity for dlst tlon. These varieties are Potc j Arlington. Columbia, White Hy 'and Early Ruff Extensive 1 work is being conducted hy th< ten of partmenf with hybrids, especial tnan- the wilt and nematode lands o In the southern states. Two hybrid i In the tions. unnamed as yet. have ed to found highly resistant to 'olum-, nematodes and wilt and nre ?un home to other sorts for the productic i wife, j seed and forage. These two < 10 has tions arn being crown In qua K. has for more extensive field tests of the year. id sac-1 1 Mrs.; \ Jealous CJtinst. (Charleston News and Courle lat we The ghost of Onesar must in has gazed with keen Interest upon d and Wilson when the latter was in F of the Julius also had considerable rought rtenee In licking (Jermans. "arls ng the The New Palmetto fiovemn if any (Charlotte Observer.) r that.! Mr Ilohert A. Cooper, who iccusa-' reeded to the governo Mn of ! a very Carolina yesterday. mapped r imself. program of unquestionably pt? ly and. legislation for the genera las not s unhly of that state. He wa led his r? tnpulsory school law and a voice. <;t seven months minimum He Hoarrh n <itate budget and hp would mid h'? ? e money for thp state bon hat h? h-ilth. Revision of thp tax s ilmself urged, and hp does not forj pprHon- treat reatrlrtion In the 11 i dodr J pnt medicines as a beverage f com- v <> ild make the patent me Iven 'o <1 ink?the worst In the rategr / FRIDAY, JAN, 24, 1919. ?-? ^ t of Condition of The f 1 nnrastPY | UUHVMV?Vi t ?se of business 31, 1918. ESOURCES. unts . . . 671,312.77 190,600.00 Furniture, 10,542.18 ind due from 254.897.43 $1,127,352.38 ABILITIES. $ 50,000.00 |ls 136,500.00 2.5O0.OO 038,352.38 $1,127,352.38 H+l id to all drunks as nearly as possildo v hen prohibited South Carolina indulleep, genoe. The policies of Governor ime, ('ooper, as outlined in his message, with confirm the high expectations his the friends had entertained of him. 1 thej ,""n Cheapest Not Always Best. (Greensboro News.) A nd war hexuinburg purchased hor is t husltand lor ten francs, which was rt}_ cheap enough, considering the high the cost ?verything. Still, It doesn't olnt- ,0 ',uv "l<; c'">al,esl ?v?ry time. t If itosa had bought a 20-franc huscting '>ar>(' s'"' niighl have got a better ould one? 0,10 that would have made her lono ?tay at home and thus saved her from an untimely eud. pasyither iring To liridge the fataivnlm. 1 his The North Carolina legislature utles yesterday granted permission for the arlty building of a bridge across the ( %i3 taw ha liter between Mecklenburg i county, N. C.. and York county, S. * Iuin- c. Permission will l>e asked of the South Carolina legislature next week, ami this secured work will begin at once. The location of the new bridge will be near Wright's with ferry The decision to construct a hun-'bridge over the Catawba connecting the the two counties was reached followicul-'ing the agitation of the matter in i de- York county #and a conference begive tween leading citizens of that county r be- and members of the Mecklenburg ribu- county board of commissioners, imar, Why Putter Willi V"in- Corns? UseGels-H" f the ? ?eiec-1 Common-Seme, Simple, Herer Fail*. been You ran tear ont your corns and sofiw.th ' or '?u can P"' your oorns and j note. The Joy - pooling way Is the erlor I 'Oats-It" way. It Is tho only happy, painless way In the world. Two drops in of t k J "CM Ik. Drop- oa Thai Cf?_ Us. "G?s^k" ud tli* Cora U "Goof" I BllCof "Gets-It" on any corn or callus dries So1.. :n at once. The corn finally loosens off _ from the too, so that you con pool It off with your flngru In one pleco. palni - < lessly, like pooling o banana. "Great nff, wn|i I >1 tlono that l?oforo.M There's il . on.y ono corn peeler ? "Oot?- It," Tors ots ? wrapt* (| up m* with tape and band1 "i age*. to. s 8<iuImu>!>k from Irrltotlng form solve , It , nil n hnrtsirlty. To?s wounded by razors and knives, that's butchery, wants ridiculous, unnecessary, dangerous. U?? have "Gets- It." tho liberty Way ?> Simple. "" * painless. always sure. Tako no chances, rrl of Get "Gets-It." lion't Ik> insulted by Imitations. Hoe that you get "Gets-It." yatenri "Gels-It," the guaranteed, money'ot In back corn-remover, the only e'tra s way. coats but n trifle at any drug Stove. ho of M 'I'd by M. Law ri'nco A C o.? C/bicMtOi lii# II,. Sold In Lnni-Hrtter and recomniondcd dlclno as ?>P?t corn romedy by ^ Mackoy Co., Standard Drug ' Company.?Ady.