The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, February 18, 1919, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4
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Established 1852.
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Published Tuesday and Friday ton's ferry
BY THE . '
LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY.
Lancaster, 8. C. we are rauc
rial urtic.e
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Record atte
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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.
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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.