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' ... fv5*' ? PAGE FOtJR ?f. f??^ TheLancasterNews a , V ( S KM I - \Y K ! : El.V.) Established i?r?a. ?train Published Tuesday and Friday home BY THE 8hraI) LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY. , lie w Lancaster, S. C. Sever GEOllGE BULLA CIIAVEN aiul i (Minor and .Malinger ()t jj. The News Is not responsible for the l'u ' Views of Correspondents. Short aDd 1 line, rational articles on topics of general ( w Interest will i><j gladly received. a boy SUBSCItll'TION I'HICK: years Casli in Atlvunce. (II(| One Year <2.Ob shorti Six Mouths 1.00 1 _ t leiuix Entered as Second Class Mattel true! October 7, li'05, at tho l'ostotlice al Lancaster, S. C., under act ol' Congress of March 3, lo79. niul 1 t lie si TUESDAY, FED. 11, 11)19. i,oy u he ha *Ky Country 'Ti? of The?, Sweat Lantf of Lih-rtv" ? ianie,' and i SENTENCE SERMONS. ?u. st her ol It is virtue not ancestry that .\ , makes men noble.?Anon. tilkin Conscience is the highest of all in tin courts.?Victor Hugo. stnokt As half in shade and half in sun drittei This world along its path advances \ineri May that side tho sun's upon i-aine He all that e'er shall moot thv . hcgim glances! Thomas Moore. + Sam I' What a man does for others not ,j1(.|S what they do for him. gives him im .. anythi mortal it v.?Webster + at a t He that does pood to another man at (j,c does also pood to himself; not onlv . . oned in the consequence, hut in the vary act of doinp it, for the consciousness ,'11 of well-doinp is ample reward. ever ^ Seneca. pot in men v EDITORIAIjETTEW. had quiet); A little snow now and then is rel- this s ished hy tho best of small boys and I One ol girls. killed he ha< Chicapo has a woman candidate1 ot the for mayor and if she is elected and ter fro can stand it Chicapo onpht to. inp on When the legislature adjourns was c the roads will have been built, allj death but grading; and laying the concrete ' home * j the tr There is many a dog who has been I And at railed a sheep-killing dog who hasl I that 11 never seen a sheep in his life. | ^ I food. | The I'nited Stales has passed a1 ,\ fc bill providing for $200 000.000 for down. good roads Good roads come high th rn but they are worth it. "Were It is recorded that countries which wouldn't behave have been 1 made to behave. The Bolshevik inv fin ought to take note m | will gt The peace conference at last can worth be said to be working as fast as sev-'thing I eral state legislatures which are in young session at the same time. 'othei ; ~I ibout I Well, if the railroad employes I lie slu think they can run the ra lroads I soldier hettei than the owners It's not the i eplied first time the employes have fe t that V.ts III way. 9 and h? Of course, a law to compel the the gi: motorist to stop stock still at grade ubs ?tossii sounds good but who is sore, going to know whether ho stopped ' 1 or not? were i The follow who hadn't bought any v jj;| War Savings stamps needn't worryj j about those to ho issued of $100 de ,.oll|,| nomination If ho wouldn't buy five 'jiic dollars worth, he'll hardly huy a inoin hundred ? row d ('aide rates were paid on a disNor patch saying that President Wilson . _ , . . van roc went to church Sunday, hut we know . ... ? Carol! some men who would eroate more of, Memm a sensation than that by going to .. , l Kinstc ehurch. m j latere And all these fellows who are they t worrying about the non-owners of! them automobiles who will not be called state on to help pay for the toads can propot hunt up something else to worry fined about for there won't bo any. Caroli r ? THE LAN TAI<K1XG TO KOLK8. O.uolina's and Georg wounded soldier was seated in a connected up as a gi nger station waiting- for the they agreed with me. that would take him to his state, from what I iri North Carolina. A piece of poses to issue state mel had hit him in the hip and amount of about $! alked by the use of crutches, a period of ten yea al men gathered 'round him struction and mainte .\ere interested in his narrative Of course, it is expe fe in the camps overseas and sum will be secured dash through the Hindenburg eral government, an in which tight he had received imately fifty million ound. He was little more than j North Carolina w ill ; he looked to be about twenty system of roads. The old. llis left leg was twisted together dissimilar an inch and three-quarters j Una's plan. The aui !'r than normal. Since Sep-jtax is to be raised m when the German shell cents per horsepower v hi.n he has been in hospital ' mated that there are overseas and in this country and 100,000 auton ast week was discharged from state. At that rate ervice. Could you believe this; amount of money w as cheerful in the face of what that to be raised li d been through? lie was. lie 55,000 automobiles hat if his leg ever got well, and horsepower and $2. ii almost tyear his weight upon North Carolina, has v, and I'ncle Sain got into an- stretches of concrete war, he would he ready at the heen found practical. And he believes that leg is tions of the caster to get well. "Maybe, it'll be state brick Is being " he said, "but 1 11 get all right, nient. Between CI f I don't, Uncle Sam won't let High Point, a dista arve." This boy was a mem- miles, there is a conci the Thirtieth. J highway sixteen feet couple of men who had been known as the Warn g with the soldier helped him j material being the p s train and went back in the> ren brothers. a ros ?r. The conversation naturally | concern somewhere 1 1 to the war and the part that This road waa co can boys had in it. A soldierJ throo years ago. in and sit down, immediately. Krea(or pa,t ,,f lt ling to throw bricks at Uncle teeing the city of I or the way he treated the sol- just been completed. overseas. "We didn't have 000 p,,r Inile but jn . ing to eat for forty-eight hours, an allowance of $4.50 ime and no water for a week made foI. tlu> Kradln time, the (>eimans had |???i heeji done when the th? wells and we were afraid ,|oW11 some yoan nk the water. If Uncle Samjroad reallv had a t()t, ;ets into another war he won't I B00 per mjle It has V Mil tl-Atlf Alll The ....v. . ... | n11 kinds or travel ; k ho who had listened hut who J ,)4.w The niaintenan themselves said littie | the first three years I y thinking of the contrast Kn>le Property vah oldier and the wounded one. rouij i,ave doubled nv r the men In the car had a son WBH tojd th,lt a On in action in France. He khI? j bought a small tract r 1 never received official notice ppj- acre before the ru fact, but had received a let- J through It and he hat mi the young man's command- $;j20 j>er acre leer telling of his death He county through which heerful In spite of hfs son s s nnu- planning the < and he said the son wrote ?>tfir roads on the often before he was killed of plan." They propose eatment they were receiving. ronrt Hnd pay hair its nong other things he had said olf> property owners hey were getting plenty of nut tho property owi properly prepared. <ot ail fall upon the t How in khaki came in and sit the land alongside th< He lighted a cigarette and land adjacent, whethc iwd noticed he had a stiff arm. not, to be assessed in you wounded overseas?" he the benefits enjoyed. ;kcd "Oh, 'Jwrrv' got me in One man suggeste m. hut it'll come around all other day that the i 1 can t bend my elbow and mobile tax for the c gers ate stifl hut I think it roads is all wrong. 1 t all right. Anyway, it was j)y which he would rn it and 1 wouldn't take any- j)y taxing gasoline. i ..... V, Tkl. ......... kwiiv ?"? . "?? present license tax o follow then was told what the hoald remain as it it soldier had told |he crowd ance (,f fjie tax shoui l>ad treatment he had received, line, for the simple >ok h > head. "Well, a good this tax is o support doesn't talk that way he should he according The chances are that hoy taxpayer uses the ade to go agai si 'tis wishes according to what h probably spent some time in garage. i use my a tard house for violation of this method would h and perhaps that's w hy lie's , . n other hut I 1 It is true that at times we jn i;?i8 I used 800 g; have any too much food; we ,,, whivh meant tl joing so fast that it was Ini- ahout x.ooo miles, ai e to get the food to us. hut t, ??<pa% more for id enough and we knew the 11 roads over whii States was doing the beat it than a man who own hile and traveled on crowd knew this man knew (r \nother poit ahout i than anvone in the ()m>s who use the ron hut it agreed with him support them. For it been using the good th Carolina isn't as far ad r?.r the nasi seve I in its road proeram a-- South m,t helping to pay na. I was talking with a gcn-|||k(. n<.xt summer tho i from Wilmington, onr from r visit-.is w II use >n .ind a member of the login- Western N'orfh and from Pender county, and and pay nothing to hi vei'P Interested in what I told 1 gasoline tax w of South Carolina's plans for , , i, would nay his highways. I told thorn the support the roads h rifion was too big to be eon- mobiles aie already by Htate lines and that South ertv, and there shot: oa's trunk highways and North other such tax put or CASTER NEWS, LANCASTER, 8. ill's must all be tax should be such as w rent system and show it is a tax for thi The Tar Heel roads, and. however gathered, pro- unpopular it may be, I i bonds to the submit that it is hardly 24,000,000 over automobiles and let a rs for the con- glne untaxed come al nance of roads, more harm to a road cted that a liKe than an automobile coi from the fed- year. Everything that d with npprox- roads should help to paj a of dollars. Recently at a meeting . ..??*= ? *.<>*"> taster cuuniy auiomoD i plan is not all- tion there was a lively c to South Caro- to the tax paid by a Fo tomobile license larner and more expensl to seventy-five contention was that a Ft and it is esti- by the manufacturer re| between 7 5.000 if.'t horsepower and tha lobiles in the paid upon it at the t about the same horsepower, while a Fuel 111 be raised as presented by the man i mis smie on navtng a norsepower ol at $1.00 pci ami the rating given it 00 for trucks, which the license tax it now a few The suggestion recorded road which has at least eliminate this In some sec- the tax for roads, if r n part of the other and greater advan used for pave- _____ reenahoro ano I was talking with a nt nee of sixteen taken a trip to Florida ete and asphalt mobile. He had started ? wide. This is North Carolina where the enite road, the, roads and passed Rock roduct of War- C.. Cheraw, Camden. Co id contracting gusta, Waynesboro. Sa< n the north. Jacksonville. "I studied nstructed some of those 700 ,nlle8'" he Or. rather, the cause 1 had lo 8tudy rhe stretch en-|Wrecked- ?ne tinie 1 dk ligh Point has be undying something els It cost $12.- !o ,ross 11 small briiige uldition to this south in (5 rgia. which K) per mile was enou?h for onlv ono an<1 g which had>ccuP,t,d by a hoilvily >' Macadam was ber waRnn- and u was * before. Thojs,",, Il,at?ad of a few d il cost of $16.- to tho ?ning been used Tor ml8R much of be,n* a md looks like an in8Urance company, ce cost during road on thwt who,e rou las been negli-i ?eor*,a and the worat w les along this M'a The beat was from er and over. I Savannnh. and the worst ^ensboro man w?rld), was betweer >f land for $60 and Jacksonvllle, and ad came along l,aHsahle |n automobiles i i now been of-1 U8R ?r a derrick of one I for it The ot',er' to Pu" the car 01 thia road runs' and y?t this in In spite onatruction of| ,hat the road haa been a ' "assessment | an<' " '8 ^ad "?w because to build the Ren Pr?Perly repaired, cost, assessing one t,,e greatest lesso the balance. | ,M"'dlng. 'hat no matter lera' half will ?f n road >'"u make, you nan who owns " up and keep working o ? road, all the not refprrlng to Florida r 'r touching or havo roads that state proportion to'Rro no n,orR afraid of | taxes down there than t <1 to me the! a,,'KarorH Jackso >roposed auto- u1' %n" xv?nt to go onatruction of 8ol,d t>rick roads He has a plan road8- asPhalt roads. T1 ise a like sum j ,hRm- and w'th good Said he: "The. r,M18R wonderful wea " state would never have t ed without them. Here c, but the bal. , county, with an assessec a be on qasoof $15,000,000. with co reason that if asphalt roads and the sr the roads, it inqs they have are in kf to how much the roads. Whv do they roads and not cause they have learned le lias in his things are worth more utomobile and other thinqs into which t; 't me heavier put." <now it is fair. _ a lions of paso- ?? at I traveled SCISSORS AM) PI ml I therefore ?? the support of The llnse of Prosp h I traveled (Atlanta Journa ed an automo- A hroad assurance o ly 1.000 miles *00,, for south | The Griflln News and Sun it Is that the ... . .. ... . flits reqion will buy rr id^ will pay to thinqs that are plentiful, astance. I have fore cheao. while sellin roads of Florl- ,hoso ,haf nrp short- an . costly, than any other so ral weeks and applies, as our conten for them just ef>rv,.;, n0f only to cottn usands of sum- to food supplies in the the roads of which the south is hel Sooth Carolina | H*:inrp(' ^an ever before tory. ipport them If rood production In I eie in effect. T)1.,|n r,.|inru.(. fnr susta fair portion to perlty. Whatever the e uses. Auto- cotton may he. the fr taxed as prop- ra,*PM ?n "hundanee of nnd kindred staples ahoul lid not he an- ,. .. , adjust himself advnnta i them, hut the market conditions. Su[ J Uj jt ? i I rt,.:. ? ,.r-_ 4f - 1 ~ c. ould plainly r"7""l MM** ) use the unanimously I I respectfully ^ ^ fair to tax traction en- A ^ ions and do. JjKK \ in an hour lid do in a uses the " | 'Lir f for them.": * A It of the Lan ile associu-l liscuBsion as; Saving is no long rd and by :i family matter?it is Ive car. The >rd was sold' tion. presented as rrt, , , I he war has show t tax was atiiiK of 2:1 is only so much whet card was re- world and that by ufacturer as ... , , someone is obliged t 60. or more.. 1 . and upon It is the same w paid, is 44 _ , , sources. Every dol above woulo. objection to bank goes to build 1 ?ot prove of perity for all. tage. 1 I I inn who had ' I" In an auto-, it a point in y h*ve ro?", Bank of 1 ingbap*. N. lumhia. Anan.. - "THE OII) I every one .. ... Lancas said. beheni or get > 1 I happen to o. and t t ie i l . was wide I? ..as already '~~?? naded lum- r'se8 ani' he is minded to sell ai , , many bales as he has raised; the protoo late to I ceeds ran be hanked as those of a oil ms dam- j money crop, and will not be constimd it didn't! ed In the purchase of food necessaod Joke on! ries. Or suppose cotton does not The best' reach what he considers a fair price; , having a well-filled larder, he cat te was in i _ , ... . . afford to hold as many bales as he as in tieor- wishes until the market improves Augusta to Indeed, there is no decisive situation . (worst in ?f southern agriculture or southern i Savannah business which does not pivot on thf production of adequate food sup this is not .. . .. .. . plies. The stronger the section bevlthout the come jn (his respect, the surer will kind or an- be its hold on permanent prosperity nt of bogs. So varied are the resources of thf of the fact Hm,th that it need never be depend. ent on anv single field or group of good roa?l industries. Mining, lumbering and it has not manufacturing of all kinds are open Here i? to Its enterprise, no less than farmms in road ing Hut In every pursuit it must what kind rontpniber its fundamental food needs if it would remain freehanded must keep and strong. n It. I am ./...do TU?.. Why Waste Space. , and they . (Columbia State.! bonus anrt Already some of the prohibition hev are of societies are beginning a campaign nvlle any- aRajnRj use af tobacco It Is a . there are foolish thing for them to do. They concrete are injuring the progress of theli hey believe rampaign fur the abolition of thf whiskev trafllc which, notwlthstandreason, be- . ... ... Ing their opinion to the contrary, is 1th of that not yet ended in victory. They arc ?een touch- bringing the prohibition of aleohol'r is Volusia beverages Into ridicule and provid. . .. ing a weapon to Its adversaries 1 valuation At present the anti-tobacco agitancrete and' tion is not seriously taken and is a hool build-j HU|,j0( j for hut It ought not tr oping with be encouraged. Infatuated persons do if? Be- however mell meaning they be. mat that these *n prohibition move ment were elements of economic anr than any strength indispensable t< nxes can be tj,e gU(.re8g which it has achieved 11 I-amending the federal constitution The arguments against tobacco plausible as some of them are in Iso tSTK. lation. are on the whole trivial and at this time, they Insult the cornmor sense of the overwhelming majori ty of the people Because they air ^ Inconsequential they are absurd nn< f continued because they are absurd they ni< i. It strikes wasteful. ' ,,,f> ,M<' The State, whatever its view o lore of the and there- ,ho w,S('om aml expediency of th< g more of national prohibition law. will ass s (i tnerororo bo rar as it may in t' enforcement Ptlon." This because it is law, and 'I ? ^'a^o be lporary oh- lieves that the value of its :> n, but also would deteriorate worn It to glv< it i matter of or of approbation to an anti-f nba"*-' tter rlrcum- agitation by opening Its columns t< in hor his- It. Therefore, we must put our frlenr, fact. Is our on notice that we have little spi<? Ined pros- to lend them for a campaign that a fortunes of jiesent can result only in harm am irmer who confusion nnH iihlnli oi n-i ?i ? train, mett could not possibly arouse a feeling d bo able to other than of contemptuous mirth li Keously to a considerable number of The Stute'i >posn cotton r. aders. L liV*jt>lli ' ? ' ^ ^ TUESDAY, FEB. 11, 1919. flCE TO fATION or only a personal or * a service to the na n everyone that there it, meat or wool in the wasting these things o go without them. ith all material rqllar deposited in this Lip business and proshe Lancaster ( American product* which will be reimposed nn March 1. to allow the 1 Importation of American hoots and shoes to the extent of 2f? per cent of h.? number imported In 1013. I'asse* Northwestward. *! Washington, Feb. 10 The dlstnrhnnce reported off the North * Carolina coast Sunday night moved * rapldlv northeastward and is ap* parently central tonight near Sable I island, the weather bureau an* nounced. ij Mr. and Mrs W. W. Boykin, of 4 Charlotte are visiting Mr. and Mm. 'Ira H Jones, Jr. _ , i RELIABLE," ter, S. C. T H^l SEATTLE'S STRIKE TO OFFICIALLY END TODAY i - Decision |o Call (HI tln> ileneral Strike Itenrlicil hy the Strike Committee Yesterday. i > Seattle, Feb. 10.?Seattle's generi al strike, the first of Its kind ever i attempted in the United States, will * end officially at noon tomorrow. Decision to call off the strike was leached at 11 o'clock today by the 11 general strike committee. j The resolution calling off the > strike advised all labor unions which ( returned to work, Sunday or today ' to go on strike again until'tomorrow I noon as a demonstration of the solidarity of labor, so that all would re turn to work together Officials of the metal trades coun1 oi,, 25,000 members of which still are on strike, refused to comment on the effect which the end of the sympathetic walkout would have on the status of their strike -m COR.LFV, OF FAYKTTKVIM.K, , BRINGS 1IOMK PObICK BOG t New York, Feb. 10.?A Belgian police dog, used by the Germans for messenger service anil captured by Americans and retained as a Yankee i note carrier, was brought home hv Lieut. James W Corley, of Fayettei vllle. N. C. Lieutenant Corley ar' rived here today on the steamer Arakan. As an aviator. Lieutenant - Corlev twice was shot down, being wounded once, and accounted, he . said, for six enemy planes. i , JAPAN INFORMS CHINA S|IK MIST l\ UK I* IIKIt MOI'TH SIIIT r London. Feb. 10. Japan has notified China that China must work In 1 harmony with Japan at the peace > conference, and must undertake not i to reveal the conference secret Chino Japanese agreements accord. in" to a Reuters dispatch from Pe king dated February 3. The correspondent savs his infor> matinn comes from Chinese sources. - and Reuters says It should he re4 garded with some reserve. BRITISH KM II MtOO MOHIFIKO. ondon, Feb 10 The British Imf port restriction control board has . modified the proposed Oinhnrw nn