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PAGE POUR ? i i.I ??i??i TheLancasterNews (SKMI-WKEKLY.) ha8 up Established 1852. ? , , Hock I Published Tuc??l?y and Friday the mo BY THE .ntluen: LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY. Qf lhe Istacaster, 8. C. -nK wrt* UKOlttiK Bl/LLA CRAVEN the sofa Editor and Manager public Th? News is not responsible for tht ,l,ain 1 of Correspondents. Short and rest rait rational articles on topics of general . , tntereat will ' e gladly received. ? houses SUBSCRIPTION PRICK: judge's Oa*li iu Advance. . fljs ().(| One Tear 12.00 Jix Months 1.00 11 wa ' tors toi Entered as Second Class Matter October 7, 1005, at the Postollice at Lancaster, S. C., under act of Con- board < greas of March 3, lo7?. olosf FRIDAY, FEB. 14, 1919. lifo of _ hs actlc Country 'Ti? of Thoo, gwoot Land be of L?borty." noqiliesc possible SENTENCE SERMONS. disease. I ! The r There is no inherent evil in money., ''"* ,na' It is not the money, but the love of j vv;,s " money that is the root, of all kinds ofj hoard, a evil. There is nothing in the acquit- jon r,,n nig. holding or the dispensing of I . . . . , . Icarrv th weaith inconsistent with a Christian j conscience, or the teachings of the Master on the subject. Where the ''ass to evil comes in is in the manner of ac-j There a .Hiring, holding or dispensing! (MOVV,ts wealth. If we make, hold and dis-l h ev ret pes ' our money as taitlilul stewards of Cod. it becomes a means of grace ',n,,rs vv t both the dispenser and the re-l breathe ceher. Nowlin. I nnn?? ?t I I SO mucl To love plavth'ncs well as a child.; , . . 1,1 i , health 1 o lead an adventurous ami honorable youth, and to settle when the ''Pu' time comes into a preen and sinilinpI "nlc ss t ape, is to he a pood artist in 1 if?? and caprleioi !eser\e well of yourself and your jriVP t., neighbor. Stevenson. quent ly Do not trouble because you have sought t not great virtues. Only have enough of little virtues and common fldeli-| ties and you need not mourn because it is you are neither a hero or a saint.? Clinton llonrv Ward Heecher. tor in 1 We judge ourselves by what we ,St' 111 feel capable of doing, while others ttitude judre us by what we have already ,;erman\ done.?Longfellow. i ortj|nK erely ci KniTom.xi.FTTKN. ,M(l lhe hi in as There ought also to lie some sort |( lS j1;l| of i celebration staged for Woody to when he returns from overseas. dent Wi There is ni.iny a slip between the 'n ' cup and the 1 ip and also between a 'vv" mil tri-colored int;p and concrete roads. ,n'' 1 10 , ?. . ' (iertnan We haven't heard of any Coluni- Kiunc bla people comparing the price of on t)u, | whiskey in Atlanta to that in Co- p K j.>,i,. lutnbia. .(Jerinan; The price of cjes in Columbia ap-' in ,,"UI pears to have absorbed the attention that otherwise might have been; " ",ISgiven the legislature. ; ' r'inr'' h ! bit perp To tell the truth the parading1 ,.annot ought to be done by those of us who ; remained at home and let the men existed of the Thirtieth occupy the revie\y-.j f^.|( pr intr stand. | ,he war - 1 J Of course, the fellow who hasn't' ' ?n" any cotton anyway doesn't rare 1 '"n 1 Viiiif (i r what happens to the market, and 1 ' S I If* V fl 1 that's the way with the prices of everything. It all depends on whose mn* ^n . , The Mei ox Is gored. the stat The kind of weather we have heen want G having suggests the possibility thatjnnd for somebody has been monkeying with! visited the calendar and lias thrown Indian Neither summer here in the middle o' win- 'here is ter. Prance ? The r Bolshevism being. according to derma n onr privately owned vernacular, the possible exact similitude of Villalsm, there Is selves t not enough difference between it and i dustrlal what might be termed banditry to !fore fin fnr crlt ana ine announcement mai me hat if "United States may build a big navy least at Is likely to have a quieting affect suffered upon the nerves nf some European will hai "statesmen" who insist that if harsh more, t terms arp Imposed at the peace con- 'Ive n? ference Germany may rebel. America THE L [>LDS BOARD OF HEALTH. j aud being lees p e Ernest Moore, of this city, goods than the held the board of health in does not want a 1 till in the matter of closing tinually hanging ring picture shows during the another view of epidemic. The conteution tained in the thoi exhibitors was that the clos- in the division o er was discriminatory in that visit ruination uj iooIs and churches and other no one denies G< places were permitted to re- may Germany be >pen. They appealed for a the war and for t ling order to prevent the giuni and norther :>f health closing their show- France may coir and the judge refused It. The Wilson, instead opinion appears in full in pro-German, is [>er. and pro-ally. Thei ls a miscue the picture exhib- the questions whi ok in the itiatter and they lost peace conference bv the procedure. If the Wilson is on thr if health deemed it advisable the foresight to the picture shows that the would arise that one person might be saved, died at long dial >n then would have been jus- grep of efficiency Hut it was not one life at which he wisher nit perhaps hundreds. And Kven the "unthir board of health believed the bert pleases to ca menace to the health of the president, will in uty. it would have at least derstand. Iter form had the exhibitors ed and assisted in every way '' M Ilrli to avoid a spread of the ' 'ie News has legislature will i juestion at issue, however, in 'or'y days. As w ter heard by Judge Moore stops at thai io authority of the health strictly against tl nd this is settled l>y the min- Aiueiican working dei I'd unless the exhibitors 11 *>' lii 11 ir. (>! couri ie case further, which is un- that tho gi The picture shows are in a "inkers would re themselves, it may he said. '"'"bin a day or s re ninny other places where nnn Forty congregate, hilt none where, ''* !?'??t;* 111 bill l;k nain for upwards of two ''?R tax. but it is ith littie or no vent Mat ion and ' 'lav or twi t he same air, and there are before the law in.' iere they nrp crowded quite 'heir homes. 1. and the author'ty of the As a matter of anard. which is granted by said that logislat sl.itnro Is never questioned very little real wo heir actions are arbitrary or four weeks of tin its The judge appears to' little during the 1: ken this view and oonse-; history also recoi has refused the iniunction some really worth o restrain the health board. I statute books and in the pa t must 1' ItE.Nt II C1ALMS. good work at om an open secret, according to Also, it may be sa \\ (filbert, a newspaper w ri- arc necessary evil! \uis that the United States along without the nee are in conflk't as to the to, |>ut Tlie N'e of the two countries toward; to the theory that I iesident Wilson. ac- a genera' rule to Mr. Gilbert, has been se- rather machinery riticized in the French press1 ntottt of the la "unthinking" have regarded There are. necost an idealist and pro-German, ml good roads lc dl> possible1 that the French these, motion so soon that I'resi- itut the legist: Ison proved an idealist only no ted home at th nanncr in which be hurried forty days and if lion troops to Frances aid i twill more than fact these troops kept the late trains or mi? iron heel out of Paris. I ? e wants German territory \VI Ithine, German coal lands, a I rouble unticip, innity and an assurance that tiewspap >' will not be a great power 'A hen they enc e. menacing France. The headlines telling a position is totally opposed " Uerinany ot an And whatever may tie ('hief purpose right In the matter, it is a bulldoze the peace K'.MIIK II i I I 11 r\\C) C?M|I]|!iesi "Mis VI liltget along better together in M,s' (l upon tli.it < n view of tho harmony that * ' h"iit,, just eattsi in war. There is no doubt vvas w?'I organ.ze nnre has suflered greatly in foi*ty years or more tlian any othoi na- uultl not whip tl c? pt Belgium. Th?* d-vas'a- water was up it was visited upon tlio in- oming more thrt inrtions of northern France if threw up its id description. Mi Gilbert Kamernd." N? ow whereof he speaks, hut has been whipped is is not prepared to accept ' ? SH>' has not einent that America doesn't whipped good, ev ermany to pay for the war ",,r? ,n stir up tt the ruin and devastation " A few wet upon Belgium and France. Peated in the d; Is it prepared to believe effect tliat the Itol any wide difference between hon men under a ami the T'nlted States. ?? that the rair It-sire of the French to keep machines were gr v a pauper nation as long: as -"""''l <l"Rt and too and Ret a chance them- 'he magazine wh 0 outstrip that country In- ,r'ed to get 300,0 ly, acrictilftirally and there- he the literal expl anclally, may he a subject t-eport hut serves ictsm. but the French hold rors w"1 happen 1 Germany does not suffer at China and Jap 1 France and Belgium have some inisunderstf . flermanv and not France Fes. according to been the victor. Further-I coming across thi hey reason that they must 1 pence conference, dghhor to fJermany and j probably are pet and Great Rrltain do not, | countries Involv ANCASTEB NEWS, LANCA8TB*. 8. C. ossessed of worldly other. Japan, it is related, has >se two countries, tually threatened war if C nonacing cloud con- makes public secret treaties bet' over them. And the two countries and fails to ( the matter is con- out an agreement to make J light that if France, the successor of Germany in ri >f the spoils should property and concessions heli ton Germany, which Germany at the outbreak of the srmany merits, how ropean war. China is relying 01 expected to pay for peace conference, where her i he ruination of Bel- gates are said to have made at -n France. After all, cellent impression, and is see le to see that Mr. support from the United States of an idcnlist and Great Britain. Wang Chin C strictly pro-French member of a Chinese mission e are many sides to the way to Paris, while in San F Ich come before the Cisco a few days ago is reporte and that Is why Mr. have said that "All China is solii s ground. He had fair play and we want the world"! see that questions to free us from Japan." Per could not be han- China is becoming a little alai tance with the de- at the prospect of war with J. and fairness with but we fancy that every tin I to handle them country gets into an argument iking." as Mr. Gil- some other country. the w II the critics of the needn't be appealed to for help time come to un the same time we do not place great importance upon the did ties between these two countries ADJOI HX. WP anticipate that they will he j little fear that the (lily adjusted without resortint mimed up with oil Considering the matter of i many O's fell from "tructing a state system of pi .. . highways the important questio en the operator . whether it would aid In solving ft"t (Thir may not problem of comnrKiclal transpi anatlon of the wild tinn. that being at this time to show that er- most arute eeonomie problem be i the people of the Tnlted States. Would a paved highway from an appear to have Norfh r?ro||na )lno to rhnrle indtngs of dlffleul- enable the people to travel ant the reports that are haul many kinds of freight as eh a waters from the 'V as " can now 1,0 hauled on st , .. railwav? To ride In a steam and these verv wav car costs three cents a mile, lous to the two , . .. sides the war tax. ed but to none Cotild a public motorcar carr ? oilntered big-type favor the granting of the franc of the formation to women are more and more army of :!.U00.0o0. posed to granting It to this c1 of which was to If a distinction could he made, e< * conference into a time thev flare up and flaunt terms to be im- cause In the faces of people in f ountry, was worry a depressive manner. When Germany Suffrage, as a matter of fact, il after preparation tn the senate hy hut one vote, w more, it found it Indicative that the franc ie allies and when eventually will he granted. It m to its chin and be- ty requires time to convince pe? >atoning each day, and. when this is Anally done, hands and cried: w"1 wonder why It has not 1 >w that Germany granted long before. The milit and there aie none however, will gain nothing and been whipped and ,n?,p much, not onlv for herself en if it had a de- f?r the other women who wish to ouhle ft could not "hould he granted the right to ^ ;ks ago a story ap- ~ ^ illy papers to ihe I HCIHHORH AND PASTK. Isheviki had 3 000.- | rms, but It panned ... , . Highways to Freedom. is on the linotype (Columbia fitnte.) run over UN l^gaij arms. e understand it the Mr. Wang says that "it is L time and it is J opinion of the whole of China lie ethics of the, uvei vi bine ronrpming China bo t ; man to work for |n tlio open." which is. accordln bc it might be pos.-| American spirit right and pro reat body of law- but when open covenant invo main over in < o-, violation of agreements alr< o after the expira- made, by which violation one or I to complete some other of the Interested counl c that creating a may profit, it is entirely a dilTe unlikely that more'story. The Japanese ambasst a will be taken up to Great Britain. Viscount Chi ikers are back at who is now representing his ci 'try at the peace conference, history it may be dares that the reports of threa <mr> mm inn or anenipTing to coerce ('I irk during the first are untrue. "There has been ? session and very | pressure exercised, no menace Tst four weeks, but mulated, no bargaining done on "ds that there are, subject of the province <if Shanti -while laws on thej or any other Chinese territory." I some legislatures says. "No right of control has I ! have done some sought over China, and there <> time or another, been In no degree any ambitioi id, that legislatures' represent China at the peace We couldn't get j ference." n even if we want-l We may expect that the tro vvs has always held between China and Japan may i ft is not new laws, out to be another case of clogged that is needed. Mnotype cams, fnr tjio pnforco* \\ s already made I IIK Mll.ITAXTS. larlly, exceptions. T,|P aotion ?r ,h? militant su gislation is one of ,n effigy of Presh Wilson should not lie taken as lture may he ex- fl,,f,nclng to The least extent the e expiration or the ,n ,h? PGt,n,G Monday, one wa> there is any delay ,h? ?,h"r" 1,1,1 mav VG*>' tn,,hf i likely he due to ,,G ,nkGn ap Influencing publle sr wing connections menf aK?' * ,hG measure. Mor . 'is woTild he enthusiastic over Kl> NKWS, prospect of the women voting ated by readers of this class of propaganda been era a few days ago pensed with and those of us whi F Tir- , A , I HI! weeu I I :ariy " ^ J" apau - A SERVIC Ku? THE NA king and hun- Saving is no longer onl . on .. lamuy matter?it is a sei raud to tion. I for, j ui(1 The war has shown evei i>apsi is only so much wheat, me: medl world and that by wastii a pa Hi , av n someone is obliged to go > with! _ , _ ,,! It is the same with a 'orld. at sources. Every dollar d< au>' bank goes to build up bui perity for all. an?? ipop The the thrit 1 ? djf,. havp tens of thousands of individual neces > do and freipht carrvlnc cnrs. world which mitrhf he multiplied indefinite- prose ly, to check the exertion of the produ ?P" nower now monopolized hv the s'piiti we pr lass railroads. The motorcar on the good scale yory highway would never take the .scale place of the steam railroad trains ton r the hut it mifcht he such a restraining hereti "Ir^ Influence as to keep the railroads on the r \ their ??ood behavior, making the ed bj lost people equally independent In enier- accou hich ff^ncy of hrotherhooda and presi- of In 1 hlse ' | The highways are by lone odds the sr the most valuable of all physical of th< >Ple. j possessions of the whole people In neces we dollars they are worth many tlmes| brine been as murh a" school houses. The, We application of easoline to vehicles good 1 ft n t ',has quadrupled this value and we and a wi" may confidently look forward to scale hut mechanical inventions and dlscov- thrnu and'<'r,''a <hat will further add to the fore, rofn I cheapness of highway transports- every | tion. nes Why should the people neglect hie f| this best of all their physical prop- and n erties, which belongs to them alto- of coi I eether In which ovorv fllhnn la tk, shareholder? 'the 1 If the actual value of the steam i to thl ron" railroads in South Carolina bo $125-j state Oftrt.ftrtrt. would 1t n? no common moot I n ,s sense for the people ?o ?nend $40.- local 000.000 on tho ronds wh'rh th llglhli ,rta" own. thoroby making thorn oqir l to Ho th?i tho rallroada as commercial con- Una. '^oro tributors to tho general prosperity Measi end giving them, at tho same tlme.lConm freedom from railroad despotism? Febri s,on ^ - actloi * *" a co r on p- I-FTTFRS TO TIFF EDITOR. on n. | Cit] rail- McrlnK to Discus* Cotton. be- To tho Editor of The News: Wil | \t tho request of Governor Roht. Fenn? ylng A. Cooper, I am Issuing a call to alljdergo 1 lone! I I Kank of Lai g to por. "THE OLI) RELI lives Lancaster, S. t ho trios ^ ^ rent , ,dor! ^ < ndn, nun- ? do; a half a dozen passengers be operat- count *''n~ ed for 18 cents a mile? of fa hlna Could a three ton motor-truck and r i no haul bacon from the packing house prese for_ in Orangeburg over a hard road to meet Columbia at a price approximating Coluti t ilo the freight charges on the Southern | 13th. an*? railroad? j a pra he Could the Ice factories in Colum-j dueio men bia distribute thpir product to the|33 1-1 has! P^P'0 Lexington and St Mat- W1 i to ' b?WR profitably in similar manner? of tli About two and a half years ago niajoi con- ,1,^ whole country was imminently time. threatened with paralysis of steam the p nj,]o railroad transportation by a dispute dueed lurn between 'be "brotherhoods" and t?ir?] Rtan<l companies Everyone remembers' price UI' the extreme anxiety of that time t>o h: and. had the strike not been averted, crop. 1onif"i i Mini Sufferim; would have cron ? been universal. Strikes of railroad Poi (Tra- workeis are of common occurrence south lout a,u' 'be menace of tltem multiplies halan Whv should the people hp at the State; In merry of the eotnpanfes or the itn- ton e vote jn,.s when they have the solution of less < ' or the perP in their own hands, in part, the (1 ully at any rate? tirelv ,nf, Iliirhways over whleh any man (and eould drive his ear or his tnnk bank? 1* of would deliver the people from the farmr "1? danuer of oppressive and tyrann'eal what h 'd dictation In other words, we should we eh : . , ' - ' r RIDAY, FEB. 14, 191$. !***^T?WW I WTW? ?[ :e to noN i > y a personal or rvice to the nai yone that there it or wool in the if? these things vithout them. 11 material rejposited in this siness and prosicaster ABLE/' C. >[ * enn |(pt every county In the be fully represented at thin nsr that they may present their condition* and help In an Intele solution of the situation, vernor Rlckett. of North Carohis Issued a call through s. Plarence Poe and O. J. Mrell. to he held at Raleljrh, on tarv 11th to outline a plan of 1 In that state on cotton acreeduction. T*. I. OTTTON, mden. S. C.. Feb. 10. 1919. Illam Marlon Reed h^s entered *11 Infirmary where he will unmedlcal treatment. ies to send :i strong delegation irmers, bankers, business men ounty demonstration agents renting the various counties to at the county court house In nbia on Thursday, February at 12 M. to map out and adopt ctical method to reduce the pron of cotton In 1919 at least I per cent. th a largo part of the spindles e world standing idle, a vast -lty of thein working on short it is absolutely essential that reduction of cotton he fully reI In proportion to the spindles ing idle In order that a fair to {he producer of cotton can id for 111" residue of the 1918 and more especially for the r>f 1919. r forty years the product of ern farms has maintained the co of trade for the United. ?. and for fortv years the cot-, rop has been marketed regard)f the cost of production. For rst time in forty years, due onto four short crops of cotton not on account of the war) the i of the south and the cotton r are in a position to determine the prlee of cotton shall be If oct to fake such measures as ate sarv to bring It abont. While conditions are disturbed as at nf If Is necessary that no overictlon of cotton he allowed if irpose to maintain a living wage ror cotton producers The wape ol.taininp throuphout (ho cot>roducinp districts has boon >fore the lowest In oxiKtencp In nltod States, beinp only equallr Chinese "coolie" labor. On nt of war conditions the price tor has advanced and In order his advance bo maintained and ?uth serine their due proportion ? prosperity of the nation. It Is sarv that our cotton crop should * at least 35 cents per pound cannot expect pood roads, churches and school houses n educated people on the wape that has formerly existed phoot the cotton belt, therelet all public spirited men from ' walV of life make it their buslo advance In every way posslhe plans belnp outlined In this ither states to rednce production (ton in l$1f> at least one-third. f e meetlnp called In Columbia on 3th Is to devise wavs and means