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' > ! | >agi rotm TheLancasterNews Ther (8BMI.WKKKLY.) lap8? 0 Established 1832. states Published Tuesday and Friday vantagi BY THE ofter 0 LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY. ? ^ roads. Lancaster, S. C. ? dollars GEORGE BULLA CRAVEN tion I li Editor and Manager Mil til 1IT1 Tk* New* la not responsible for the : miles o flew* of Correspondents. Short and rational articles on topics of general K?vern! Interest will he gladly received. the 1110 SUBSCRIPTION PRICK: roads > Cash iu Ailvaiue. ter to < ;-?S : underet Six Months 1.00 ??? ? ; not tal Entered as Second Class Matter. |,je October 7, 1905, at the Postotfice at Lancaster, S. C., under act ot Con- built n grees of March 3, le79. j The onl FRIDAY, FEB. 21. 1919. !8nmewl , 1 | people *^ly Country 'Tio of Thi?, Switt Land : roat^s a of Lihorty." ( gated I I whatevt SENTENCE SERMONS. wm fui ' words. Let another do that thou wouldst anrt do. Liberty is not for ourselves total cc only, but for all. Especially inustj Conic we concede the religious liberty njs}, R f which we so earnestly claim for ourselves. "Think and let think ;"! s,att s and this you may do without being ,1,an ev compromised in your fidelity to. appoint! truth, if you keep from all personal, j( nur connection with the error.?Ex. I tion Is i Keep truth, and truth will keep '0,1,1 thee. Whatever truth costs thee, witness even if she put thee to heavy an exto charges, she will repay thee with the largest interest.?Ex. \ A in o The desire of power in excess, caused the angels to fall; the desires! to in<l11 of knowledge in excess caused manj,M'ua1 s to fall; but in charity there is no) which v excess; neither can angel or munition of come in danger of it. ?Bacon. , . . have hi One ought to seek out virtue foi T1,is m Its own sake. without being in- as to p k.. e 1 -- k- I Iiucm l>y icill III ur UJ ail) VOlC 11111 external influence. Moreover, in meri that does happiness consist. Dioanrt wn genes I-aertins. import a Conceit may puff a man up. but .great d? never prop him up.?Ruskin. | (be inei ??? J gotten t KDITOUIALETTEM. ! sible thi '.later tli At any rate it may be said that th? and the legislature has done little harm. j privilege * the batt But if it is put up to Secretary I ; women Class to act tin- money it lnnWx i? it bring p congress might let him do it his own fought *av ; ? ?... r ,1 ; , tiKT'll few more armistice agreements the\ * *will begin to realize that they have) ' 1 .... | States h De?"i whipped + women It wouldn't lie interest'ng to| cities of President Wilson if he met no op living, c po .-it ion and it is doubtful it he e\ charged pe ted anything more. It js n(, , . 77 T .. Ing the Ot course, it the (}ermans really , , . will 1"' 'think they can start sotneth ng they'll never be satisfied until some ' " ?. , . . .. lent to i Doily shows them they cant. i for inst It <loes seem that half a million i compare men ttndet arms in peace time is a' perhaps rather large number, but vou re scope o member what they said about un-j problem preparedness. port liai ft" the boys who are still overseas ... . ! <1 ligation want to come home it would be hepared f fitting of us to permit it and then n a nn, i Rive them anything they want after may de they get home. t Man ha Anybody who wishes to travel a anyway. hundred miles or so and pay ."0( possibly for a s^at to hear Hilly Sunday had ! Thereto just as well throw their money away as the that way as any other. tion. li * " ' ending It has narrowed down to th:s: mounter The President will give a dinner at heights * te White House to discuss the begin t c 1,eagre of Nations provided it can be t u tii b 1 i n ?1 ne without the attendance of Sen, matter otor P.ornh. __ t-'il' ' Tiie Columbia Record is now ' si It - governn t I upon to defend a suit for libel Prices r brought by A J Hethea. former ally ar? lieutenant governor. for other n And if the Record should los'- the ing pov rase, there w ill be nobody to say 'materia that talk is cheap. j come n w TUB I 8LJPPKD A tXXJ. ! cotton, if we ret e appears to huVe been a 8|x cents back i f memory on the part of the the twentieth c in the matter of taking approximately as j of the federal government's pound now at 2 f aid in the construction of thereabouts. M Some forty-eight million tion. Hut it is ? were available upon coudi- investigators of lat the states put up a like, j. might elect to iu upwards 01 seven inousana tjon and elucida f roads were approved by the !a long-sufTering ment for the expenditure of' We reinember ney. Forty-nine miles of th?jbuy a Kreat dea, vere built. It is a hard mat- thp ,ea8t slRnm Mtplain. it is. In fact, beyond 80SRiona. True. anding that the states have steak # reaU ;en every cent of the availa-j v,8,on ,R made and built roads and then j whJch 8;Ud 8teak lore with their own be seasoned, or f ly explanation available in out I of the oth,?. (hil lat limited area is that the|flr8tH.la83 moal. have just recently come to t, But if the re del-standing of the value of .... gation which hi oads. We are expecting the, , . I in order to knocl to be taken during the com!. ,. . . . der old h. c. 1. 1 ir like sure bets are taken. , .... price of the afo avy cost of construction of i OOnull tlior (ho *? t this time is somewhat mitt- , ... tee of young ladl >y reason of the faet that and a monumer >r is spent the government ... . . will have been p nish a like amount; in other the Htate pays half the cost. THK C-IT1 IT the rost is less than the When Stauntoi >st on pre-war basis. ago adopted the ress Is now prepared to fur-1 it WHa a new det ;reat deal more money to the government and or the construction of roads who awaited wit er before and it will be dia- patience results ing If the states do not take the worth of th ing the period of reconstruct- found the only e a good time for the building plan of tnunicip * and the next few years will a?(j many towns the construction of roads to (lUt the country I nt never witnessed before. adopted it. It is * tradiction that a Momi-itin st rrit \<;i:. charge ol anoth iveiuent is under way to trv , ami operate it wi ice congress to provide for . . ... just as true that iu ITrage in a modified way , . ... for two dollars a rill probably meet the objecyour money s w< some of the senators who .. The councilmamc therto opposed the measure. . town government odiflcation goes only so far .. , ... that illustration. rovide that the women may erally, are paid ler the same regulations that p<jr mH<?t| , vote in the different states. | ^ month He a concession of no great?o. < nee. it ought to remove ?i wlth coanc,ln 'ill of objection. Whether . lay lor managem isure so amended could be tion is $ 120.00. hrough is one of the impos- . . w would YOil, Mr. tiers to foresee, but sooner or1 , zen. buy in a corf e women are going to vote . be managed by a sooner they are given the . ... is to be taken in 1 the bet t or it will be. for course, every goi le to determine whether the in his town, but come down to politics ot Itl nnt "11 olitics up to them must be that a man will i vate business so t re betting on the women. time and thought N<< \I I I:l; Till-: II. ( . I,, 'I1" town in whie government of these I'liited There is notlu as sent out a party of young there lias been to investigate in different waste, but that ll the country the high i <>st ol will hardly be >r, if you please, the pt ices thosp who have for the necessities of life. ,,H' expenditure t stated just how fat reach- the simple reasoi investigation wi,| be hi what a man is a good done when conclusions are merchant or g< Perhaps they will he con does not necessar tind the cost of navy henna. !l P?>od town ma ance. to the merchant and spend money !< ! ii with his selling price. or g'?"?d faith that ii they will bring into tho SP''?I i" some ofl l tlieii inquiries the servant bettor advantage and attendant cost, and re- n?t charge this k that the price of beans is "i?>ie than in t r so exasperating as the towns. It is th i of getting the beans pre- ove''- n?d the bin or the table On the other N'm ?r governmr he investigating com mitt eo 'owns of twi terniine that Mr. Average P'>?'Platlon than s no business with servants Population where and the price of beans may tlrely too large l>e the sole point ol inquiry, handle re, there is much to expect Waste stoppag outcome of the investiga- ture of town am is but natinal that w i Ii the very t est advant of the war prices which save sufficient r 1 to heretofore unknown ' salary of a cjty r on account of the war will For instance, in i ') tumble .lust how far this concrete sidcwal g pro ess i I go is another eipal improvcmcr that alone with the investi- ture. ; h. good I >f the ladies sent out by tho business man rn; nent, remains to be se< n. for inferior worl ?f a certain commodity gener- banker or the i ? regulated by the prices of knows about as r Dmmodities; that is. the huy-f lug of concrete vor of a dollar may change, concrete knows 11y though the dollars he- soiling goods by lore plentiful. A pound of, city manager k , > .ANCASTKK N^Wft, LANCAJTItm, 8. C. netnber correctly, at | Just aa a trained banker kc n the early part off banking business, but becaus entury, bought ap- is a good banker, a good u: much sugar as a a good doctor, or even a go< 5 cents will buy. Or cier, does not indicate that aybe this is evolu- run a railroad or a town, i question that these The efficient city manage the well known h. c. ally is a man secured for the take into considers- from outside the city; a n te for the benefit of has experience and has r public. other city. This propositio when a dollar would aI|y opposed because mot , but now it is about P'efer to give a good Job cant of man's pos- worthy citizen, who. perhaps it will buv a small equipped except in the matti lurant, but no pro- perlence. However, every i for the onions with friends and his eneu should by all means favorites among men and h or cofTee, or for any "ps among sections of th< lgs which go with a w'hiph he lives. Not every n biased but he will serve the suit of tho Invest!- Pa,tially but some are. n is been undertaken from f^e outside knows no o c the props from un- no favors and favors no cer s a reduction in the tion ?' r'fy. has "n< reaald beans to the ?rind" ?*xcept the earnini ork of the commit- saIa,y- and hia services si ies will be well done ln,'?ediately dispensed with it to their memory '? parn his salary, rovided. Dayton, Ohio, Hickory. High Point. N. C., and mar f MA.VYtiKH. ; towns of varying populatlo a. Va., several years tried the city manager syst city manager plan found it satisfactory and e< arture in municipal ally efficient. Under the there were many those towns the mayor and h more or less iiu-j nfd merely in an advisory < which would prove Riving instructions to the i le system. It was and having him report to th I'onoinically efficient to the manager is delegated al administration J tail of the work in connect! and cities through-, the government of the muni lave since that time These are matters for the a fact beyond con-1 oration of the people of La man will not take I\ventunl1y, Lancaster may ? er man's business I consider the adoption of a 1 thout pay and it is tcm and it is a matter well if you hire a man ef the most careful thought week you will get part of every citizen who 1 nth and no more, welfare of his town at heart system of city ot m is quite similar to SCISSORS ANO PAST1 Councilmen, gen from one to two; The Paramount Questio nig; they meet one (Columbia State.) which, at SJ.00 Nothing, in the absence ui )0 per year, and bisr.Jte, coulu bo better asc< ten. the annual out- than that the people of Sout ent of the corpora- .?ue"V?n 01 i n? ii iii unlit i ruiivt^inuin ne su How much stock t() an(j a|j tho reasonlni Voter, or Mr. Citl-j j0 tpp wisdom of submitting i oration that was to earliest possible moment, so t $120 man? Therw 'Mission niay.be general an plete. to consideration, of , , , if it should he determined id citizen s inteiest |pgj#iHf m-p adjourns that t this consideration pie vote on the question ne: , .,0 In linllnyn ihnv ? ; I ] their thti'iIShtn leglect his own pri- ?P?n ,h? framing Of a newlaw and there will he ample t hat he ntav ulve his ... , , .. , the education of public opi to the business of n,p.,n) j0 p On the contri h be lives. or eight months would not 1 nB to indicate that r,,r threshing out numerous important questlo graft or malicious would come up for consider} lore has been waste a ,.onstltutionaI convention, disputed by even if the resolution he adopt been charged with douM is almost negligible t of the money, for w,n vo,<* wllh * unanimitv In favor of the 1 that the fact that w . ... . . . Hon and men will begin at lawyer, or a good ^tudv such problems as taxat uid business man oration and the suffrage j ily mean that he is two voars in which to prep . . . people to frame a new cons finger, and he may 1 1 are needed and the only argur gitiiiiatrly and .( fjpferrlng fj10 passage of the lerhaps ought to he (|nn WOuld be that a new c ler direction and to tlon is not at all desirable. The News does associations of educators am' , . already have asked for the 111 Lancaster any , , , , of the resolution and it is , thousand othe, ,hat ,hp prouM.oss of fho ie same the world fOI m legislation will be hind sines* manager ava-1 lone as the present constltuti lit fs more efficient stumbling blocks shall r> to ton thousand mo<' This is bv long odds the < In Cities Of greater flf pnranuuinf importance be| the business is en- general assembly. It sh< for one man to dealt with frankly. It shoulr 1 sidetracked. If the house o sentatives Is opposed to the e and the expendl- of fhp ronvonfion it shonld 1 city funds to the record of the direct Issue, so age ordinarily will'people tnav know the attl nonev to pay the ""very member In relation to nanager every year. The Cost of Making I'ol th< matter of laying (Columbia Slate ) ks. or other muni- Tf f,,0 farniors nf 1hfl so I of a similar na- convinced that cotton in 1! inker oi the good not be produced for less Ilia iy pay a high price 22 n rr>r,J there will be a notable eur1 k because (he good , ... a- . ~ . of production to be sure, t <ood business man j)pr nf ignorant farmers, inel nueh about the mix- large proportion of the nej as a good mixer ot ants. will plant cotton In anv about hanking or Hrcnmatances. because they t t know how to turn their h othr.r fhlnsrs. |,iit tho numhpi row* his huslnea* mors of intnlllponco ami f lows the | A J ' te a mail lerchaui. I I >d flnan- ^ ^ he can r-gener- ^ position lan who un some n gener- i it people to some i. is well g er of ex-. fun man has nies. hisi tior is ravor-| p city in lan is soj is O city I in- j W0I fhe man" OUII ne. owes tain sec3 axe to ? of his aou louid be ban when ha perj l N. C..J iv other ns have :em and 'onomle-j JU nlans in council ! apaoity. unnager i cm hut the do-| on with ^ f cipality. | a T?? considncnsfer | | erloustyj ike ays- has rapidly and j worthy j recent years. 1 on the owners are awart has the1 duro corn- K ln. I manner of foodst at a profit, and th much common s severe toil eight . chance remote of crops so much as n- will cost. To assume tha ' a. pie- ately and knowln srtained toll to msk6 cot' h Caro- a Pound with the r a eon- acreage be plant* hmitted w"' drop to 15 cf it points him ('"wn as a p? t at the ar>' studldity. hat dis- Perhaps it wot d com- <n ''very county cotton planters a before 'hes#? two Interro the peo- Af what price <t year, think vou can at or" vear' organic How '"any acr ime for Plant? nion in Ir his answer ary. six he -'2 1-2 or 20 r< he suffl- nru1 12 or 15 acr of the Inference would ins that M"e hand, tha Uion in nn the other, tha dian. ed. the hiit the ><*?' Ami iractical (Charleston Ne ronvoni The Germans once to liminar\ Rrumblii ion, ed- defiance have acc< It least for a renewal are the These conditions Ititution been made publi nent for seem to have ho resohi- the danper of n onstitu- bv the present ( Divers to thp demands I others allies will sop to passaRO of the conditions certain ual compliance: p in re- terms have been lered so pver possibility e on with resistance by tti be re- Government cann ! been removed, inestion ceptance of the Tore the taken as a fairl r?u1d be that there will b I not be sistance by the i f repre- trol in Germany. calling, Tf tliis mar n make a: fairlv well assm ill.II inr tnat tnp nPXT SCV Itnde of which thp allied Hons have to dor many is the pn ton. present German 1 ly he displaced bx nth aro present a frraver >10 ran settlement as the n 20 r>r r* r all this tlrrn lin tli ? ''' ert regime wa< failme"t f > a reaetlnna he nam *?rlit later mm tiding a he able to orgar rro ten- ' tuallv for and nil, Nominally, at ai do not h":ty will he d'i nnds to, new armistice te of far-1 rfed out hv the < oresight danger then, np FRIDAY, FEB. 21, 1919. '! . i SERVICE TO mc m a TiriM i IIL n/i 1 ivyn \ 4 iaving is no longer only a personal or lily matter?it is a service to the nai. * 'he war has shown everyone that there nly so much wheat, meat or wool in the Id and that by wasting these things leone is obliged to go without them. t is the same with all material rerces. Every dollar deposited in this k goes to build up business and prosity for all. The tank of Lancaster "THE OLD RELIABLE," Lancaster, S. C. { H^l greatly increased In German swing to the other extreme, rhousauda of land that la, to the radicalism of the * that they can pro- Spartacans which might develop inltve stock and all to a militant communism so similar tuffs and sell them to that prevailing in Russia as to lese people have too lead to alliance between the two. enap to engage In Hence paramount importance now months with the attaches to the question of the receiving for their status and prospects of the Sparta- ' the making of them can movement in Germany. It will be watched with keen interest bet a farmer deliber- cause, next to the Russian situation igly will 8west and to which it Is closely related, it is ton at 22 1-2 cents apparently the gravest obstacle to prospect. If a largo tho restoration of peace. ?d. that the price mts would he to set A Dark Picture. ?rson of extraordin- (Charleston News and Courier.) .. . ... A dark and gloomy picture of the lid be worth while, ^ ,. . . , , outlook in Germany is drawn bv a to send out to the . , ... . . ' trained American observer who, acquestlonnaire with ,, . .. , . ? cording to a dispatch from Paris, has ga or just completed a tour of Prussia for per pound do von ? ...... . "'he supreme council of food and remake cotton this ... , ... , lief, a subsidiary organization of the ... conference. According to this es to the mule will , ... observer, while there is a serious .. ? . . shortage of food, "there is much to the first should ? ...... ... , , more at the bottom of the almost ants and to the sec- . , ... hopeless situation. The people will os or. even ten. the ? , , _. . .. not work. Thev are paid a too high ho unoscapahle. on . , . . , , ponsion for idleness Thev have no t ho is inslneoro or. , , . . , . , roal leaders to organize and carrv it ho noods a guarthem. They are going down further, and with few exceptions they do not blame themselves: thev renrnaoh iha ir ? entente. They are blindly insolent." despite their pre- It is to he hoped most earnestly rigs and gestures of that this is overdrawn. One does ppted the renditions not like to let the mind dwell on the of the armistice consequences of such a condition as which have not vet 1s heie portrayed. If the Germans c in their entiretv. have lost their grip as completely as en framed to meet this witness thinks, the situation is irganlzed resistance indeed, as he calls It. "almost hopelertnan government less." Rut is modern civilization of the allies. The really a thing that can he so easily it that acceptance shattered? It hns required ages to is followed by act- hu'hl up. to construct the moral and but until the new material machinery of civilized life, carried out. what- Has it been smashed beyond repair xlsted of systematic almost overnight* Has the whole re present German complex mechanism been so fearfully ot he said to have damaged by the war that It cannot Nevertheless. ac- be set going again In Germany? condition may he That is what this observer seem* v trustworthy sign to think At least that Is the logical p no renewal of rc conclusion of his observations. Meanregime now in con while, however, the Germans have been able to carrv out the process of nw bo regarded as electing a president and setting np ed. It would seem the form, at least, of a new governlous possibility with ment This, as far as It goes. Is and associated na- encouraging It does not look like il in regard to Her- complete breakdown. complete paissihll'tv thai 'he rnlysls of the national organism. Oi regime n?v present- course, the Ebert government may ' another Mi h may not last. If Its foundation Is ns lorn en ace to su i i secure as it must be if the Amerl allies desire 'IT. < n nti-rrver's picture of conditions ? has heen that the is correct it will be supplanted soon < but a sort of mask either by a reactionary regime or ry regime which else by its very opposite?a Spartne to the front and ran coroniunism It seems likely, at lire the country ef- any rate, that the near future will renewed resistance reveal definitely the course which iv rale, this possl- events will take. ?posed of when the1 ?^ rms have been car- Miss Malvena Sowell Is spending rietmans. The only a week with her sister. Mrs. Rcgeis. parently. will he a In Ttennettsvllle