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PACK FOUR TheLancasterNews ab" * (SEMI-WEEKLY.) A , , , .. . ... . . 1U,? county looki Established 1852. ? bridge acros Published Tuesday and Friday ton's ferry BY THE . ' LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY. Lancaster, 8. C. we are rauc rial urtic.e UEOKiiE BL LI.A t'KA\ EN llill liprorri Editor and Maiiagei Record atte The News is not responsible for tin .er coUuty a Views of Correspondents. Short ano lUtlonal articles on topics of genera iess, et cet Interest will be gladly received. Some have 8UBSCKLPT10N i'lllCE: object to it Cash in Advance. some trade 1 One Year <2.00 ..... ... , Six Mouths 1.00 IiU b * are gett ink I Enteied as Second Class Mattel . ., October 7, litOo, at the I'ostoftke at ' s ' ( Lancaster, S. C., under act of Cod- 'ion of .b< trees of March 3, 1*79. watched it p TUESDAY, FEB. 18, 1919. en years) S going to *>it^ ^ houses In th P'? ?f thG U heen for y( everything o grw caster are ? Hly Country 'Tt? of Thoo, Sweet Land so People ?* L'berty." do business romed to. ii SENTENCE SEK.MONS. wa>- T1,t*>' their own < The true past departs not. No ':in '? * truth or goodness realized by man some town ever dies, or can die; but all is still easily as the here. and. recognized or not. lives; other coun)> ii;ui w urKs imougn enuiess cnanges. | II so-?C arlyle. . If Lancast K'-\v words to speak, new thoughts to trade fro to hear, : |ilan tilat New love to give and take; accessible pt Perchance, new burdens I may beai ' For love's own sweetest sake. ! business cenl ?F. It. Havergal. around it wo (full of trout A firm chin is helpless without a Koing with t stiff upper lip.?Kin Hubbard. ! , , and good hi To love and to be loved is the the h greatest happiness of existence.?> stores and si Sydney Smith. j times, and tl 1 teen buyer i To give pain is the tyranny, to . , . .. . .In this respe make happy, the true empire of beauty.?Steele. , P:,ss?d the ? ! The buildii KI>IT<>m.\LKTTKN. ton s ferry t r fit to Laucas Here's our bet that the League of j " v an^ Nations will be the winning leaguei "" 11 w'" ? r'etv which ' tlrs year and for many years toi and county come. ? through fear Without keeping tab, we venture flight sell a the assertion that enough valuable "me's worth time tp.Q tiopn lost since January 1 We're for on the road between Lancaster and l Charlotte to pave the road. | THIS if1 The statement that the resigna- 'he grea tlon of Ambassador Sharp was an- -orlds histo nouneed at the White House "with- 'which out comment" may have been occas-jvv'" he the ioned by the absence of the man of ;,<1 lor the the house. ' ''ever beei i 'l.solutely b It may be said without violating (M ()f p;(,V( any confidence that whether the jPo f(.r good roads legislation goes through ,, M,{ ,pilJ or not. Main street in Lancaster, mnny mnn. f South Carolina, oticht to be paved iu,.;t np j,.s | to the city limits. n ,|li8 Iospo When it comes to memorials foi ' ,,,nan inger the soldiers who lost their lives in r I France we know of nothing more certain appropriate than a mile or two of ''tween the conerete road in each eounty dedi- rm>nt. flios cated to their memory. League of N I ?>f a disput Wo have npvpr heard a real pood vv],job mav ren^mi why prope-ty ?hou'd not be armp(j fnrro assessed at its full value hut a nia??,jM.: about who pops out looking for office with ,,j- fj1f> f?jnipthat plank in his p'atorm ?\nd l>est |,|(ratjon take ;^ong a life preserver. onp sJf,0 or Writing to Hip editor of Life, Kd- :,n(' "l0r? ward Hot, of Washington, asks "how other dh gins and winps and beers and wliis- Any natin key are made." The uuestion is not., hership fall) Ed.. how they are made hut where: eiainn of the in the world are they made. tse'f Hip rlis I powers, w iii President Wilson is now sonte-: J nation, how where on the \flantir en route home. . I hopes of wl And despite the pessimistic deelara-j . , , . 1 hined force, I /\ Ko /tAni t*o rtf t Uo a!/1 TTn it/t/1 j avoid hrlngi States lias managed to jag along and1 .. i Itself. The keep on doing business in his ah! turns in fh sen re. I I and the r A government special agent at e<iu 'lly safe Asheville has been dismissed from Prevent as the service because he captured : v*'ar in the si s'ngle-handed Ik deserters and re- pntes amon turned them to camp without an- their beginr thority. We admit that statement hostilities, x looks funny but It's told in the North nine the fl,i Carolina papers for the truth. flnpratlon. it,:: L, ' ' eh THE LANC I OVER CATAWBA. A CASE OF G eat is on foot in York Germany's supposed in^ to the building of a military power and th is the Catawba at Cure- a resumption of ho We are not advised Just event that the terms d agitation has gone, but the peace conference h interested in an edito- particular German liki appearing in the Rock than bluff. Germany of Friday, in which the en, although propagi mpts to defend Lancas- iation and falsehood igaiust rumors of selfish- still rampant in that era. Says the Record, recent statement that said that Lancaster will unteer army was in i for fear it will bring mation in Germany is rom that county to Rock high German gener; elieve that our people "They will do to fight too broadminded to cling the Poles are not i is as this. Our observu There is no doubt of usiness (and we have Germany of general! rettv closely for the past who think the allied is that each community real army, trade with the business Germany cannot ret at community. The peo- bcause Germany has n 'axhaw section who have food or war material ( tars doing banking and such proportion as w lse in Waxhaw and I,an- sary to maintain a b (oing to continue to do who could make it i of Lancaster county will the allied armies. where they are accus- ^? ... . lit ILIllNG COM'IU a their own accustomed . . . It is quite natural tl have pride enough in| ?k.. i, ?. construction of concret ommunity that if theyj . . : ferent sections of the heir own county seat or; . . ' vary to more or less in their own county as i possible that the cost y can some town 111 some , .. . . , | tiotis will total up a gi r they are going to do ; than that in other sec ling ilue chietly to-the ter had no other claim' | the material to be use 111 the outtying districts 1 ferenee in transportath is the nearest and most chinory. material a >int. its success as a \gain labor may he 1 ti e for t lie fa l ining area and cheaper in one se< uld be "of short lite and (other, and in the matt >le. Truth is trade is ; roads labor is a large he advent of good roads Carolina lias plenty of idges. to the point of! it ist MfKuililii t 11 :i t fTpn r-ttlenient of the little dls- Carolina roads can be g the nations which, at per Hrpiare yard, or lings arc little cause for $14,000 per mile for but which through fan- courso. Hut the cost < imes grow Into a con- labor haa Increased gi construct Ion of the : lb j. i ... ... .-sh Si: 1,81 advantages. The, f|> b<> hau)j<d fwr gom, hops must bo up to the ^ ,.onstru,Hon of , ho spirit of fairness ?><* j s(j,tp ?owevPr. a cl ind seller must prevail.j (fon w|U ppvoa, ct Lancaster is not sur-| ^ Jn South CarolIn, state" | built. say in 1921, fo np o rthe bridge at Cure ^ based upon a vill be a distinct bene Ar an Ulustrf ter, and If there shouldL fc0 th0 (<os( of COMtM opposition to the rnov. i nncrete ..tost.. roads not be or the narrow va- ^ hnj|t |n m3 191 .vould i.ottle up the city , six|ppn_foot road was and cork the bottle ^ nvp.jn,.h concrete ? that some other town ^ rost ppf R(|l]are yHI citizen of this city a pr(?paratfon of four of aPPles- roiirsc tlie t>riuge. Oonc-ete pavement. mixture... .,. . . KilK or \ \TIONS. Trim mine shoulders test organization in ly is the League of Nais all but completed. It The cost of surface greatest force for pood in cents per square ya peace of the world that nnV square yard, on 1 known. It may not be pnt binds of material. \*r ASTER NEWS, LANCASTER, S. C. iLl'FF. roads, and it Is probable strength as a years from now, when labc e possibility of more plentiful and prices h stillt.es in the down to pre-war basis, $ eclded upon at $20,000 wilt be required in are not of the struction of a mile of cone ing, is no more with Tarvia surface; withou has been beat- face. correspondingly 1< inda, manipu Twenty-five million dollars appears to be build approximately 1,900 country. The concrete road. Or, at a larger vo'.- prices, about 1,200 to 1.5' process of for- main trunk lines criss-c belittled by i> state will take approxlmat .il who says, miles, and the balance cou the Toles but tributed In connecting linl i real army.' portant roads leading to a srarritv in trunk linos t or civilians Cost of grading in South army is not a would be negligible. N some hills will have to be new hostilities, and places filled in. but as 0 men. money, proposition, grading will jf any kind, in unnecessary in most part: nuld be neces- state. Take Lancaster co iody of troops instance; the road to the Interesting for Lancaster leading to the count} line would require ing. and above Lancastei ??Th HOADS. North Carolina line, little iiat the cost of pradjnp would have to 1 e roads in dif- nf the counties In th s country w'Impart of the state would h extent. It grading to do than I in some sec- This might offset to some e reat deal mote, jnPrPasP(t cost of construct!* tions, tills be-j(jIn? as COmpared to that 1 proximity of Pennsylvania test roads wi d and the dif- Furthermore, the federa m cost of ma- PP(Ved would he added to th nd supplies.. derived from the sale or h nore plentiful (ho total greatly increased. tion than an- 1 er of building KAH.MIXti ll\ LA\ factor. South The Cliarlutte Obseiver 11 sand, though posed to treat seriously th ivel will have the South Carolina legish e? il.stance for signed to tax cotton acrca oads in this Observer says: "Such a 1; ose invest iga- help South Carolina to uiai the concrete reputation for hating a duli x ought to he it is doubtfui if the desir r $15,000 per would he accompl.shed. sixteen-foot uier is willing enough I ition. we may promise of cutting down hi ictfon of some ?and then depending on h omh-prnor in the inat-l Btuminous top Dolli nting war, but it will ( Bituminous top?B ideney to make folks| mixture method . . ;t twice and probably Bitum'nous top C'ti inies befor entering into asphalt tired. . . . [t is as near bomb-proof Bituminous top -top-i rt as it was possible for, Hiromac mity to make if. While This road was not ft provide as inurh, it is tlre'y satisfactory; o there will be no wars surfacing was not sat > parties to flie agree- Bituminous top had e who compose the peeled off within a t ut ions and in the event const met Ion or the ro e among other nation* better nnd nion he ealetilated to I" id t.o road was constructed . the league. If ttnab'r with Tarvia surface al an amicable ndjn Intent proxlmnter> ?1 40 pet tlItios I v or tlf ouch t?r Composition of the c ire than I kelv will take roi(() w:s i: 2: :i and w the other in the dispute ?t,t corduroy road wl 11 he trouble a-plont.v for erable amount of sto tputing nation sary on the suhgrade n, included in the mem- the springy eonditlot ing to abide hv the do The unit cost per sepia ' League will bring upon road was: (pleasure of the combined Preparation of stibgr oh may mean war Such Concrete pavement . ever, could hardly have Shoulders nning against th^s comand would therefore ng such displeasure upon Hituminous top - Tart re are many other fea- This road was const e art'cles of agreement and the maintenance < onsfitution which are and one-half years w guarded and designed to year per Htpiare yard far as possible resort to Mased upon these I " " "'"r built for ?1 50 but ho will have that hour approximately and in his vest porket for a sixteen-foot Ing the day or for playing t of material and mind happens to he so del reafly since the to enjoy that kind of spor Pennsylvania Seriously, the dayllgh I. in I'ennsylva- bor to do the cutting dowi 4 and 1 1 f>. A a state were to threaten hi built in 101ft line of $25 for every excess ?t the follow- might cultivate, why, he w d: laugh and go on his way. ' idation which the government is . . .$0.1680 to uiaititain would be entire 1: fl: 6 juate to the situation if ca . . . 0.8702 to run in the farmers f< . . . 0.0101 crapping' in cotton under law as that South t'arolii $1 086.1 put upon them. Farming < s ranges from cording to the law and the rd to 1 f. cents made and provided is an ej several differ- we might 'wish' on South viz: hut rot upon our own state irwav . $0.1680 The Observer probably is icomac the assertion that the law i . . . 0.1201 accomplish the desired resul it-back statement as to the promts . . . 0.1057 farmer in- the matter of cutt asphalt acreage is almost, if not . . .. 0.10U4 refb-etion upon a largo pei I mind'to bo on the population of the sou r rather, the Vow a has found that the wo isfaetorv. The farmer is as dependable a! praetleally all any other class of business | rear after thej omotimes more so. Fur ad l being law-abiding, the far f satisfactory naturally would fool it hif of eonrrete respect such a law, whetl I a cost of ap really appeared merit or nol square yard, not uphold, or in any way tnerete in th * the law In question, but tl as built on an ver brines a rather serioi licre a conird- inent against the farmer h ne was nooes t'on, if not by plain stater on account of 1 of the soii.! HAVINCi T1MK. re yard of thls| The daylight saving law, | to general belief. Is still In ado .>0.1123'it is now only a short t.nie . . . 1 14??8 will begin to pick up an I . . . 0 0237 day and store It away if j for winter use The last 5 >1.2768' March is the day upon whii rla ... 0.1244 to run up the clocks sixty ructed in 1014 It will he a bad thing for ost during two who goes to bed on the as >0.052 per March by the old time ar next morning by the new ff\atfi Qniltk VI 111 lib Vft l<*o? ? u; ki?lo that two i A tr be ave conn I I 15.000 to ""aT" U???? ?? i the oon irote roatl a ^ | the 8Ut- j ess cost. | then wilt miles ot! HTUC present JL JLJLJL-4 00. Thret ross the eiy 1,000 Saving is n< Id be d 8 family matter is on Imthe main tion. Carolina The war haf Necessarily is only SO mucl out dDwn world and ths a Reneral be found someone is obi a of the . It is the sa unty, fosouth o sources. Eve Kershav bank goes to no tsrad penty for all. to th? i. If anv be done. ; e eastern I lave even Lancaster. l xtont the Bank < in at this wh<>n the "THE ere built. 1 aid re- ] e amount onds and ^ ^ i not dirt e dill ii. ilure de- P'an '? worth while and n ge. The Kreat deal to the business fi iw might working people who are main hei le'* to I*1'1 work an hour ea time, but evening and devote the ed result ro"r,*?lion *?r work about the The far- B?rdenlng. etc. It is a que^tii ;o make to ts to whethr it wo s acreage l,? b,,lter to run up the cb lis neigh-1 bour an(l let them remain tl . . ..I thrnuirh linth summer nnil ii?uui ir " ? m with al r?ther than run them hark i i acre lie I bPr There Is a Rood deal o OUld JUBt1rnem b?,h W",VaThe army I Man>' People thought the l proposing! passP*1 for ,aRf yoar on,v hu ily lnade-l ma'ns in forrfi un,M r I ed upon rbar>KCR and appear ir 'over no 'nc"na'lon on the part any such; body to monk"y w,th ?4 wo?, 1 cl R,,n w'" continue to r otton ir RPt at tbf> s,'uno time as heret ; statutes iperiment NCISSOIIS AND PAST1 Carolina. The First Flight Dvoi ! richt iii (Charlotte Observer.! II ikht not A New York merchant. It hut Its aompwhat of an expert In gines. has offered Ids service! es of the , . . Aero ( lnb of America as f ing rtotvn on the Hrst airplane that is wholly, a across the Atlantic. lie r cent of vv?Ke or salary. On the ront th The offflrs to Pa>' for fh lope of helping at the motor;>rd of the across. The would-be s that ot gers have not boon hoard ft men and but we need not bo stirp thormore boar of bids anywhere fron1 000 to 1200,000 for "first t "U' v,,y i{U( what the public Is now t t duty to tor oh tod in is announcement her there club of the aailinp day of t t. We do airplane to Europe Eater ot become Interested in the m advocate tickets and prices, he Obser is Indlctl nheratrled Heroes. v intlmafEoulsvllle Courler-Jourr nent. _ One of our magazine cont 1 has been running for aonru now a story of the wonderful contrary merits of the "Services of i force and without which our armies In ... I would have been Impotet i until we words are all near to hvperh lour each no apprec|at|on reader In st necessary throwing up his hat and t Sunday in "Hurrah." One simply cam rh we are 1iiHlasttc over even miri forethought and ene'pv in 1 minutes. breeches, and bacon, and sh the tnan buMv bpHf night of In like fashion we pass w id gets u' f,,nctory praise the laborers I 1 i.' >1 r?n o net 1 r? Kr?rn toeic o' h Iimo. I ! < ' -..wr.* l u'?I contribution to winning r of sleep, . . . . I "<uy have outweighed an arm aaved uo \?-ho can measure for Insta work duf-'work of a Pittsburgh chein rolf, if his' JUHt been allowed to go rormed a?! h'n ,,rlva,P ,ob w,,h on,y a f j of notice In the newspapers I slugle improvement In Ihe r t saving j1(, saved uncounted IJves ). r *i I,i, TUESDAY. FEB. 18, 1919. ~ > ! > ?\/irF Tn L V JL vy NATION 4 % 0 longer only a personal or ?it is a service to the na- \ 1 shown everyone that there n wheat, meat or wool in the it by wasting these things tiged to go without them. .me with all material rery dollar deposited in this build up business and pros* The of Lancaster OLD RELIABLE," Lancaster, S. C. > f ?-? ? >! ! iean? a I creased the offensive ability of our ilk and soldiers immeasurably. . ! Who knows the invention of the pel in it -' new gas. "5 plus," which, probably 1 as much as anything else, demoraliztitne to 0{j (|)P Germans opposing us in the house. Argonne? r>n open Who can recall the name of the ulil not pen'us w'10 Perfected the arrangeI ment for telephonic communication ocks an bejween aeroplanes and the earth? tat way How long shall we remember winter,| Lieutenant Burney, whose invention n Oeto made British ships of war almost r a re u comP'eteIy invulnerable to torpedo attacks and destruction by mines? Who has pondered the military aw was value of the modest Marylander, t it re James II Rogers who didn't want oncr?'ss to accept any compensation for his discovery of means of wircles" corn's to be niuntcation through earth and waof that tef? ise ami McLaiirin As a Cotton Prophet. ororo. | (Charlotte Observer.) A Winnsboro cotton firm wrote to I former Senator Mel,aurin a doleful letter about prospects. It wns so discouraged that It was thinking of "selling out." and it wanted McLaurln's opinion on the situation. ^ f . Warehouse Johnnie replied at some length, and has favored The Obgas enserver with a copv of the correspond* to the ence. He went elaborately Into nelnoe . , ? the cause and effect, but It was only * to fP In the closing paragraph that he told asks no hi? Winnsboro friends what thev rarv he wanted to know "In conclusion." e prlvthe advised them "let me sav that i on the every man who v ill keep his cotton passen, will be amply rewarded bv the inom vet. " , crease in price Preparations are rised to i SloO nmv being made to extenil large Ickets " rr,M'',s ,n European countries. Relgitim has just been loaned $10 0.nost in . 000,000 The $10,000,000,000 or by the he fir^t nu,n' 'be allied countries was ,, ... not actual money, but a mere credit i it will it tor of to * American products There nan to no trovernmont prion flxlnir to keep prices from colnfr ont of j siKht. Cotton wont down in 1004 to s'x cents a pound, and them was no ?al.t 1?!k rise until a syndicate of hankers ? ributors 'p loaned $f?00,ft00 000 to Kns> weeks hind and $300,000,000 to France, achieve- Frlces will hecrln to soar as soon as ^upplv," 'hese credits are arranged, not only Europe w'lth the allies, but with our former ^ it. His enemies. Hold your cotton and mle. but *w?lt on the IjOrd." " The South irred to Carolina statesman is well known In ihoutlnx these regions as somewhat of an aunot wax Ihority on cotton and If the deliveracles of once which he has made on situation inndllnc i,n'' prospect is not destined to help, ics and " I* n?t likely to work harm. ith per Wilson and Soldier. In work-! (Portland Atkus.) Indivd- jn a speech to the troops in Franco . .i" Wilson said: "You knew what we y r<>'PH exported of you, and you did It. I nre. the |<tiow what yon expert of me, and ilst who f|i ,i0 it." But Senator Halo aaya hark to o,,, president Is no! doing what, the ew line* people want. Hunk! ? Hy a, ^ as mask Rdwln Neablt. of Van Wyrk, wad and in- ? visitor In Lnnrastor Saturday.