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TheLancaster News ,
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KstublUlu'U 1M22.
Published Tuesday and Friday
BY Tilt;
LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY.
Lancasitor, S. C.
GUOHUU BULLA CKAVKN
Kdltur and Maunder
The News Is not responsible fur the
Views of Correspondents. Short and i
national articles on topics of general
ttereat will he gladly received.
SUBM'KirTlON 1'ltK'U:
Cash iu Advance.
Om Year <2.On 1
41X Mouths 1.00 |
Entered as Secoud Class Matter
October 7, li>06, at the Postoffice at
Lancaster, S. C., under act of Congress
of March 3, lo79.
FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1919.
^*y Country 'Tn of Thee. Sweat Land
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imim. \< huns riii<; \h,.xm h;
A naval seaplane of the F-."> type,
propelled by two Liberty motor:, of
4"o horsepower each and carrying a
crew of four men. remained in the
air at the Hampton Roads naval
base for twenty hours and ten minutes
Saturday. This established
what is said to he a world record
for seaplanes. It is est.mated that
twenty hours will be required to
make a Might from Newfoundland
to Ireland in the trans-Atlantic
Might if a direct route is finally determined
upon, and it is said the
machines which will negotiate the
air over the great water will be
much larger and more powerful
than that with which the test was
made at Hampton Roads.
This. then, may be taken as an
indication that a successful Might
across the Atlantic is in prospect
and that soon we will have mail
brought over from London almost
overnight. After a few years the
dying of planes across the water
iiuiii .-tmrrica 10 r.n gla ml will do
considered merely as one of the incidents
of modern times, like the
automobile, or the telephone, which
goes to prove the assertion that
nothing is impossible, any more. It
used to be. but it is not now. Wireless
possibly was considered impossible
and ndw airships are talking to
earth from somewhere five thousand
feet above.
I
ACItF.AtiK ItKIMVTlON.
When the South Carolina cotton
association was formed and subsequently
associations in many conn
ties of the state, including Lancaster.
it was announced that a list of
the farmers who signed the agreement
to reduce acreage would lie
printed in the county papers, likewise
it was announced that a list of
those who refused to sign would he
printed. The movement :*?>' reditc
tion in Lancaster county gained
'very little momentum There were
^ very few who signed the agreement
and at this time indications are that
Hie matter is in suspense Certainly
there has been no list prepared !"r
publication, and it is pethup* a fact
that a list of those who did n -t s.g i
would more than till any newspaper
in this county.
The Newberry Observer carries a
list of those in Newberry county
who refused to sign and another list
of those who "signed pledge, but
failed to reduce." We take it for
*
granted that the Newberry p.-pet
has already printed a list of those
who signed the agreement, though
we tailed to take note of it. Home
of the farmers in Newberry county,
according to the list carried by the
Newberry pa pr* r. have increased
their acreage, one man being put
down as going up from 100 acres to
200 acres and from 11 plows to 17 j
plows.
The News has no interest In the
production of cotton or its selling
price except insofar as its Interest
in the general welfare of the farmer
goes, hut the farmers will have no
one to blame hut themselves if there
la an overproduction of cotton this'
year. Those who are increasing
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'
,.v rouge certainly are doing nothing change
to bring about a better state of at- of hou
fairs. It is no concern of one man ported
what his neighbor does in the mat- tenden
ter of production, though when it is ment.
a case of general effect upon the oecurr
bustness of the south, as in the mat- age it
ter of cotton, it is the concern of July,
every one. However, if the farmer tative
doesn't wish to reduce his acreage, j The o]
or wishes to increase It, those of us ; will m
svho do not produce cotton at all can! gun o
hardly feel disposed to go to him! lower
and tell him he is a fool. The re- "Wl
daction of acreage means better hie?
prices, but the matter is in the tion a
hands of the farmer, and he alone intellij
can solve the problem. con fid*
sugges
Pit ICES. ton b(
"The country is getting further will 1
and further away from the armis- need t
ttce, says ine i narione uoserver, top 01
| "but things are not 'coming down' ed wit
las fast as might have been hoped The
tor People are yet wondering, for price
! instance, why meats remain so high' is har
;?why, with the war ended nearly, do wi
six months ago. there has not been And '
an approximate return to conditions or not
existing before the war." ! ing d<
i
The Observer possibly feels, as kind
most every one feels, that prices and if
should have a downward tendency have
in view of the proximity of peace things
anil even the armistice. While it is must
a fact that the United States is st II must
1 at war tentatively, It is also a fact be eqt
' that a resumption of hostilities is On
j next to impossible, and a formal ble i
declaration of peace is not very dis- prices
taut. .Many prices were advanced saiuy
during the war for various reasons, man '
supposedly an overwhelming de- he ea
mand and accompanying scarcity of price
materials, and it is perhaps unite buy i:
true that there was little excuse for' never
I I .
the advance in many cases. How-j whose
lever, granting that the advances' the w
were justified by the conditions of: linuul
war. when such unusual conditions prices
are removed, is that not a good time big pi
to get back to peace basis and peace and t
prices? supplj
"What is hindering the restnraI
A
tion of pre-war prices anyway?" the
Observer asks. "The National InSamui
jdustrial Conference Hoard has Just
made public an exhaustive report
on the result of an investigation in- ' W
to the changes in the cost of living'
. , * , I while
since the signing of the armistice,
, , , , trouhl
the whole being summed up in the
met t
conclusion that there was "no itn!
"but '
portnnt change in the cost of sun-'
of pit
dries collectively between November,
1IM8. and March, 11* 1 !*. and the
i visit (
: increase over pre-war levels was'
; , , . _ It Wil
I therefore again placed at 55 per
give li
cent " It finds that increases in the
"ost of living for wage earners in'
average American communities from H ,
| July. 1 i# 14. to March. 19 19. was 75 js
tier cent for food; 22 per cent for |tjKhw
shelter; 81 per cent for clothing; J Krovin
j 57 per rent for fuel, light and heat, Wonld
and 55 per cent for sundries. The , j1#,
hanges since November, l'?18. show ,R|
a decrease of I 4 per rent in food, jointl}
8 2 per cent in clothing, and an in wavs
rea e of 1.7 per cent in shelter and ,]
I per rent ill fuel. I'ght and heat j 1S ,|s
The average pri<? of 22 articles of] tnjjon
| food, comhfned by the Hureau of, ,()
1 l.rihor Statistics according to con j |?n|>?||
sumption by representative families, -?n?(?.,,
was approximately 7 ~> pop rent high- count!
ei in March. 1'?11?. than the aver- hour i
aire price for the year 11M3. whlrh roads
has been accepted as a sat isfnetory j ltf
pre-war standard. This is a de- -pp,. r
crease of about four percent since a|way
November, 11*18. of at>out six per. count
cent since December, 11* 1 8. whon | surfar
food prices were the h ghost ever re- i enmit;
corded by the Bureau of Labor Sta-| (|0 n,
t 'st ics, and of five per cent since for p,
l.i niiai v. 1 !* 1!?; it represents a slight j decani
inn-ease. however, ovnr February,! -p^,.
1 ! 1 ! , prices. which were 72 port vve|| ,
rent above the 1!?13 average. from
"Kspeclally significant arc the York
facts revealed in the renting flitua- J ties u
tion. There has been no drop in | schem
rents and in inanv com in unities | ties w
prices h'Ve advanced since last ever 1
March. It is said that these ad- roads
vinces are more noticeable in cities ready
which up to this time had expe tisuall
rlenced little or no increase in rents where
and were most marked for the bet-! where
tor class of tenants and cottages'comfo
and for new tenants. Frequently' er sec
there had been no Important The
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s in rents of the lowest class
ses. A few decreases were re
, hut there was no significant
cy toward a downward move
In many cities no change hat
ed in this interval. An aver
icrease of J 2 per cent sinci
1 !'l4. is apparently repres n
for the country as a wholt
pinion was general that rent!
it decline until building is be
n an extensive scale and a
costs than prevail at present
len wdl prices begin to tum
This Is an interesting ques
nd one that is hard to answe
gently or with any degree o
nee. We might venture th
ition, however, that when cot
gins going up to stay, price
legin coming down, and ?i
lot expect cotton to reach th
the ladder until peace is s.gn
li Cermany."
News wonders whether th
of cotton when the 1 li 11* cro
r
vested will have something t
th the prices of other things
whether reduction of acreag
i-reduction will affect the com
own process of prices. Sotn
of equalization is necessarj
certain things that the peopl
to buy remain high, then th
the same people have for sal
necessarily sell high. Labc
be high, and increases mut
titable.
the other hand, if prices turn
on certain commodities, th
on other things must necei
tumble proportionately. Th
who earns now the same th;i
rned before the advance i
of nearly everything he has t
s chasing a rainbow and wi
get anywhere; while the ma
earnings have increased wit
ar conditions will probably r<
sh some of the earnings i
begin to come down. It's
obleni, this question of pricei
he only fair solution is th?
r and demand control.
i >?Ol?t'l<All PHYSICIAN. .
Macon Telegraph says D
el MoChord ("rothers, of Can
>, Mass., says if he had his wa
Duld order everybody to tak
ith's vacation and forget for
at least the problems of th
ous times. "We have nev?
he Doe." says the Telegraph
ive certainly do adore his stvl
ching and broad-minded wa
king at things, and if we eve
Cambridge and catch anythin
1 afford us great pleasure t
lint our trade."
FKUKItAIj IIKiHWAVS.
be national highway, or wha
lerally known as the nationa
ay. had been built upon th
d instead of upon paper, i
have been of great benefit t
eople. Time may .come who
avernment will build, probahl
y with the states, federal big!
from the north to the sout
lie east to the west. Contentio
natural as the growth of vegc
when counties are taken it
nsidcration in the matter n
ng roads. The coming of th
lobile has made it such the
ps are crossed in a singl
ind where one county has goo
and the next does not. the jo
loses much of its fragrant'*
natter of state highways w||
s create a row because thi
ies through which the hard
e roads are built will gain th
v of those through which the
>t run. and those responsihl
Hiding theni will probably b
Hated
' government, however, ni gh
fonstruct federal lines, sa>
Maine to Florida and Net
to California, and while poll
ould doubtless creep into sue
e, if the roads were built poll
ouldn't hurt. Nobody ha
leard of opposition to goo
where good roads have al
been constructed. Oppositio
v is found in those section
they have no good roads am
the people dwell upon the un
rtahle thought that some nth
tlons have.
News would like to see a fed
WS, LANCAISTBII. S. C.
> oral trunklincy through this county. J
>ut if it can't get that, 't would like J
t to see it through some of the othei j
counties in South Carolina. 1 !
I doesn't make us nervous to contemplate
hard surface roads in Cireeni
ville. county, for instance, ?even
though Lancaster has no prospect
. of same.
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8C1SSOHS AN1> 1'ASTK.
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Whiskey Ticketed Through.
(New York World.)
i- If Homer Gudger of Ashovllle, N.
i C., providing himself at Baltimore,
f Md., with a few bottles of whiskey as
he was about to begin his Journey
homeward, had not been arrested
" and searched on the train at Lynchs
burg, Va.. protracted legal proceed0
ings would have been avoided and
( the supreme court of the United
States would have been spared the
necessity of ^lelivering one of its
! justly celebrated homilies on the
e meaning of words,
pi The lteed amendment prohibits
0 ( the transportation of liquor in intert
state commerce "into any state"
' where prohibition obtains, but it is
'' silent on the subject of transporting
i- liquor "through a state" in which
e prohibition prevails. As Mr. Gudger
and his drinkables were ticketed
through from Baltimore to Asheville,
the judgment is that the proc
hlhition officers at Lynchburg who
? interrupted their progress acted
ir without authority of law. Although
SJ the awful crime was in contemplation
from the first, it could have
been actually perpetrated only in.
l" North Carolina, for that was the
e1 state "Into" which the offender was
transporting his supplies.
( Probably this is a fair sample of
the momentous litigation with which
" state and* federal courts are to be
n overwhelmed. Prohibition and its
o enforcement will Involve personal
ii rlirhts and nronertv riuhts lnnum. I
erable. some weighty and some frlv(
olous. and whole libraries of comI
plaints, arguments and decisions
^'inre bound to result. Since many of j
f ithese controversies will embrace j
u federal questions on which appeals i
s will be taken, the supreme court of :
the United States promises soon to
become as busy and almost as sedate
j as an old-fashioned excise board.
llirds and the War.
(Saluda Standard )
?- A writer in a London magazine
y tells us that at first the birds of |
France and Belgium were panic
stricken by the war. Six or seven
a months after the war negan an unH
usual number of birds were observ- ^=5=
ir ed in France. haw]
, Hut after a few months the birds, hunl
Just as soldiers do, adapted them- then
selves to the condition of war. They time
-N came near to the armies with the wire
' greatest confidence. Ground birds A
g | made their nests and reared their bom
, j young in thistle patches in No abov
Man'* Land. chee
The trenches became overrun with beoo
rats and mice. and consequently heav
owls and kestrels (a species of attei
i
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1? INVEST IN VICTORY I
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{1 Our reputatu
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< f j Gifts for Commencet
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Q* Not too early to make
i Of lections. \Yc arc showing
. [l selection. Prices most iium
A t
h I ] Watch and Jewelry Re
? [ | We are pleased to ai
,, I f that Ben (\ Hough who h
!_ [ j in service has returned r
, [ have charge of this im
?[j work.
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Bank No
Statement of the ('<
The Bank of
Loeated at Lancaster, S. ('
ness March 4
KESOUK
Loans and Discounts. . . .
Overdrafts .
Bonds and Stocks owned b
Bonds deposited
r urnuure ana nxiures. . .
Banking house
Other real estate owned . .
Due from banks and bank*
Currency
Gold .
Silver and minor coin . . .
Checks and cash items . .
Total
LIABILT
Capital stock paid in. .
Surplus fund
Undivided profits, less c
penses and taxes paid .
Dividens unpaid
Individual deposits subject
to check
Savings deposits
Bond deposits
Time certificates of deposit
Certified checks
Cashier's checks
Notes and bills rediscount
Time deposit interest ac<
Total
STATE OF SOUTH CARC
County of Lanes
Before me came Geo. V
the above named bank, v
says that the above and
a true condition of said 1
books of said bank.
GI
Sworn to and subscribe
day of March, 1919.
Correct Attest:
LEROY SPRINGS,
WADDY C. THOMSO
L. C. PAYSEUR. ^
Dir^efoi
k) made their appearance and j g
Led fearlessly in the trenches. p
lselves. And the kestrels some- s
a built their nests in the bart>ed e
entanglements.
lark In one of the severest a
bardments at Verdun hovered a
e the French troops and sang 0
rfully. The birds seemed to
me accustomed to the sound of <1
y artillery and to pay it little a
ition. Different birds called to h
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lerate. suitable gift
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as been W e s]>ccia
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jMU'tant fit von in ^
reasonable.
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FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1919.
. 33. '
nndition of the
Lancaster
at the close of busith,
1919.
CES.
$040,033.99
8,766.57
y the bank 147,100.00 * 1
248,500.00
2,450.89
6,042.18
3,500.00
srs 113,569.03
21.664.00
2,660.00
4,142.12
1,791.86
$1,230,222.64
F1K3.
$ 50.000.00
100,000.00
urrent ex
38,964.14
100.00
$429,457.61
197,530.71
248,500.00
108,571.56
5.81
2,059.59 986,125.31
45.000.00
count'.'.'.'.'.". 10.033.19
$1,230,222.64
)LINA,
ister.?as.
/. Williams, Cashier of
^ho, being duly sworn,
foregoing statement is
:>ank, as shown by the
CO. VV. WILLIAMS,
>d before me this 10th
H. T. CANNON.
Notary Public S. C.
*s.
tvo warning of the approach of airlanen.
Th?v eTl/1?n?lv hon./i
ounds of the planes before human
ars could distinguish them.
Storks became Interested in the
Irplanes and would aometlmM
light on the machines that were
oml?v down from a flight.
The birds which ho bravely enured
the terrors of war will probbly
be delighted to have their
omes in peace again.
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