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f. PAGE FOUR TheLancasterNews (SKMl-WKKkl.Y.) ENtabllslu'U 1M52. . f Published Tuesday and Friday BY THE l-ANCASTER NEWS COMPANY. I ljancaster, 8. C. GEOllGE BULLA CRAVEN KUIlor unci .tiiiiiutiur The News Is not responsible for the views of Correspondents. Short and rational articles on topics of general Mterest will be gladly received. SUBSCRIPTION PltlCU: Cash in Advuuce. One Year $2.00 Its Months 1.00 Entered as Second Class MattCT October 7, 19 05, at the Postofflce at Lancaster, S. C., under act of Congress of March 3. 167 9. FRIDAY, AUGUST 1. 1919. ^iy Country 'Tie of Thee, 8weet Lend of Liberty/' ILLITERACY. It is rather startling to contemplate that out of every four men you meet, one cannot read and write. This! i? rwit 1r\ lit* hi lfon litorullv hut It ic n ' Tact, according to statistics just compiled by the educational authorities of the state, that 2 5 per cent of the adult population are illiterate. This is a condition for which there is a remedy, one the effects of which cannot be seen immediately, but will be apparent as the days go on. The adult night schools, an establishment of comparative recent origin, are proving very efficient and of great benefit to that class, representing 25 j per cent of the adult population of! South Carolina, whose education lias! been grossly neglected. With a con-! tinuation over a number of years of J the efforts of the adult night schools. South Carolina will change places in! the percentage of illiteracy column. While the adults are being taught j to read and write, all possible safe-1 guards should be thrown around ttie schools,-of the state in order that no child may escape and grow up in ignorance of the fundamental princi-j pies of education reading and writ j "i?g Perhaps the rece.it passage of a 1 compulsory school attendance law will go far toward wiping out 111 it -; eracy together with the teaching of the adults of the present general ion who at this time cannot read j.nd write. It is pitiable to see a man who cannot write his name or read it if written by some one else. He is really to be pitied for the lack of conception of the duties owed to himself and to his community, and every elevating; force should be brought to hear upon him, to bring him out of blindness antl let him see the world as others see it. Picture him in your mind! "As you read these words," says the Columbia State, "let your imagination play for a moment. You are, say 50 years old. and, until now, you have never read a book or a newspaper. you have never written your own name -you have been helplessly, abjectly, dependent on the understanding eyes of others to see the ycreat world that lies beyond your own little village or township. If there was war abroad you have known it only because another has told you of it. Suddenly you have learned to read , and to write; a great light is cast >round you and you are in intimate imunication with all mankind. "?as you "were blind," now you " and you feel the new * a man recreated and dlowship of men whose < part of The State - over that hun^n, many of are havexperl ?tine ?. n ^ i ^ - ..... w J of vanity in order that they may go to the schools established and conducted ^ by the authority of the state to banish illiteracy. "You will be convinced of the large The importance of the undertaking that , Is on tool, of the progress that it is driven making, of the success that the de- lie roai voted women and men engaged in it e'Sh. t from I are winning. during "Surely, there will be no grudging ^ of the paltry dollars, paltry by con- freshm trast with the great resuts, that you A pa are giving as a taxpayer to bring to them about and. surely, as a taxpayer jional highw: you will encourage your represents- .(mj n. tives in the legislature to make nextiNV]IO)e year the work larger and broaderj Clarks than it is, not only that the people, to ( The most of them illiterate through no outside fault cf their own, shall be free from som4> , the darkness of ignorance, but that derson intelligence shall be the greater about among the people, whereby your hap- '? ost of piness and vour security and those of i Yorkvi your family shall be improved." ^ ^jt,( was up SIIK WOlLD TKAt II. King s "Dear sir in reply to your adver-j college tise 1 would like to sav l am a col- Dene lege student four or five yrs? experi- nat by stri ence I would like to take position as . , blue 01 fteacher of ?? ? rural and th school, if invitation are excepted j In n please ans at once giving information not air and whate date school are exnected ,oa<' ing it \ to start I am 18 vis of age spent . .. togethi about 7 yrs in graded school at my over jj, home others In higher colleges please j fiver ans by return mail stating salry per i real go month I am yours as waiting for re- f'is,an(' . .. i editor's ply. j ration ' minded "p s please ans By return mail" I of the The above is given by the Kershaw ! made g Era as "an exact copy" of an appli-l **iwn | doubt. cation made by a young lady for the of mos principaiship of a school in Lancaster i anvwj1( county, "that has had," the Era says, j Virgin! "some of the strongest teachers that! l!o\ have ever taught in the county at its! head." How Without a common-school eduea- Carollr tion. the iirst element of prepared- t,u'''l'n ..... . questic ness to teach, it is hard to undermenibc stand what inspired this girl to seek OI . a teaching position. Says the Era: ; fore tl "It would be difficult to analyze just lure m what is meant by the statements of 111 S this 18-year-old girl, except the piti- j . mont o fill part that she desires to teach.' ,?OHt j, And the deplorable thing in connec-(en in i tion, is that there are other unpre- cost a pared young girls ambitious to do the mone> or by I same tning and mere are scnooi uus-' ? on the tees who will place the lite interest in tjlf> of their children into their keeping- semhly The tiiue has come to stop playing 'ir son ... , , , . . 1 considt with eil neat ton; too much is involved. . It is 11 We believe it is a noble and most ijnjans commendable ambition to want to'these ?i teach. I)nt the aspirant should have I ods that consideration both for self and 11 higliwi those whom they desire to teach to un,jPr first prepare for the work, for it is state too serious and too important to early < trifle with. That kind of education "''s 10 state i has been kept up too long already and it should he brought to an abrupt ('hero! stop. If you want your children to and At have an education see to it that they ",,ol|k . tion. . hti fo t?*'.wrn?r-g \r lui u r<> oil two t Ail ???<! j This competent to teach. And the most eru- toln () rial period in the education is the years i I very beginning. The very best teachrhoy a er is none too good to start the child ?ippro| right in the process of education. are no Have none hut well qua lifted teachers and d in your school." funds, m . . before The People Pay For It. 'system (Ohio State Journal.) How The lower house of congress Carolii : bought 48 manicure sets, and charged buildii ; them up to stationery account. This Tli i was exceeding the right of congress, and a deception beside. Included in * ^ the stationery account was one pov- f?en der puff, a Parisian ivory box. a hair ^as U(' I receiver and some cachets. The;e %VBr 'n mnv he smtill ?htii?*u ?r> nhtoef t<~> ?" ? Ibin A they stand for worse things. Anoth- f'amPs er item was 30 decks of playing cards, Phis w ! costing $72.10, all Included in the|st<lfirn ! stationery account. Still when these! men are. sent to congress the prefix srems j "Hon." is attached to their names. "on ? They had better drop that or stop K;,n'Zi> buying manicure sets and gambling Amnrl rls. Ftesides this, the seriate has '?le bathrooms and men to rub ni,m^H 'ators down, shave and sham- '^raf> \ all at the taxpayers' ex- re'?*,r oir public servants are c?,r-j^m'"1 a luxury-loving set. i mar,'t Miss Kate Nicholson, of Methane, as dis is visiting her sister, Mrs. John Rood, memb Ik -.1 itff -i THE LANCASTER NEWS, LANCAST1 pleasing to ther iCISSOItS AND P.V>iTE. long before the sans started to Caootl Itoads. jabout the 111 tre (Yorkville Enquirer.) soldiers in our editor of The Enquirer, not *ranco ,be ar">y 50. had the experience of being covered the abus in an automobile over the pub-jed to punish thoi is from Hauilet, N. C., to Ral-Js'b'c ^<>r tbem* 10111 Raleigh to Durham, and What more coi Hirhutu to Clarksville, Va.. all a?itatois ask thi the same 12 hours, including! b, utal n,en ever' lr or two of stoppage for re- ar,n>"- w?uld e?ts, etc. j nary if no such i irt of the distance from Hamlet i amonu: tbp mine eigh was made over the na-!r'iarRP 01 tbe ' highway, it was ordinary rbt comms iy from Raleigh to Durham. rPmm<> su?h nu itional highway during the wbpn m'sdi distance from Durham to n ' P'Mtlnh *v vilTe. The distance from Ham-fcommami 80ems Marksville is about 17f> miles. ! s ns ^ ,hil< 1 best of the road along the route, (>rc{"t "1P Amerl > of the bitulithic concrete in ro"aPs'n8>f the cities like Sanford. Hen Raleigh and Oxford, was LETTERS T< equal to the road from Clover nett's mountain and the poor-; it was about like that between , , ^V" 11 lie and the Chester line by way ' Connellsville; but little of iti ' ,l' ..... , conduct and bus > to that between Gastonia and .. , , , the Lancaster pci .Mountain by way ot Linwood that criticism is 1 ,, . .. . . . . ... when such statei rally, in lact almost invariably. .... . . . , . . . your last r ridav tonal highway is plainly blazed ... , . ... . am compelled to ps and daubs of red. white and ... , The early Sum 11 telephone posts, fences, trees , . which you referr e corners of houses. lost cases where the road was ,Iom 'rain 11 eady very good, great gangs of|?'Hn<f' 'ninH<^al , . . .and does not lie iborers were engaged in niak'ery much better, and taken al- " a'11 * ^ ''u >r it was a pretty good road as Xl>u ic whole distance. U is true that ; all the longest stretches of I)ro,n'M (' Sf)tm iod road throughout the entire! ma" Nv oil Id be r e. the ruling impression on the Sunday, hut h? di i mind was a feeling of admi-|l>rom'SH until the for the intelligent, broad-: ,IS'U'hat h? r,M I progressiveness of the people aC( O,,,,,iodnt< different counties who have1*1' )'>'< w'*? 8<l^ ' . . , . ., ,, .. years to get mail :reat headway along the line of iy Improvement. This. no naming train. is also the ruling impression (),,< ia"OM t people who travel good roads ' are, whether in North t'erolina.l * '''' 1 1 ' h ^ ^ .. ,, .. office a few davs i a or South < arolina. i . I inform him if I \ i'ar Should the State Cio? much Sunday w (Spartanburg Herald.) . have some of the far do the people of South off or suggest t la want to go in the matter of Monday before o| g a system of highways? This A letter receii >n is the one. state officials, from Mr. Metts si rs of the legislature and oth- riving here at 1 authority, want answered be-'depot until train ie next session of the Icgisla- and that all the eets. It is the question of su- then in order to i importance. to attend Sundaj Inlllll f'n/ilinti It,., .Ininl,.., .... durwl. 1 a system of state roads Is the It is true that nportant work to be undertak- office is far fron the immediate future. It wid the people realize great deal of money, and that has been ronside can be raised only by taxation last few months liond issues. Public senljment one of them inex subject will govern, of course, the work former Anal action of the general as-1 perienced men. t , but it is important that pub- why the service i timont be formed after a sane he. ration of the whole problem. Please publish one too early for South Caro- sue of your pap< to be seriously considering public may not b luestions. torial which appe ly about four hundred miles of July lhl'J. mhraeed in the proposed state / ly system of 3,000 miles, is ? construction, or approved by (There is no and federal authorities, for The News and th onstruction. The great part of We fell into em I >ad is in the upper part of the distributing the Sr mil with the exception of the by reason of tin mil Highway," passing through Sunday morning tee, Spartanburg. Greenville! train No. 118 it ldeison counties, no one of the! until the arrival h ...... 1. ^ .. II i 111 up )I| Will mt-n I'll! II IIIIII |ll?-| a III! i uf .?'?? " ii or rorrootion. ?h i mailer of building a stale ays-, day's paper. M f roads within the next three! grieved, liowevei rests with the people and their which he interp le towards the undertaking. If members of hire willing for the money to be] takes pleasure ii iriated it can be done. If they privilege of bein t going to insist that it be done.i irect the raising of sufficient it will be a good many years The anything approaching a state, i is in existence. J In th, r far do the people of South "I should like na want to go in the matter of woolly west,' " r ig a state highway system? visitor. .. . .." , .... "Then step in e Prison ( amp "Scandal. ? . , . 1 "But this is a arleston News and Courier.) "Correct. Ar eral March, the chief of star. place where you mitted before the special houst-l woo?y wegt. no? ivestigating committee that cer-, merican soldiers held in orison More Ti in France were ill treated., ..j SP,. v as. doubtless, the cause of con- yn? yof $50.00 ble elation among the members wasn't that enoi committee whose chief concern! ,j1(, Inor to he the discovery and exh?bi- thr. vvlfe was |on f flaws anil defects In the or* tion and management of the Sui can army. 'VSurnpeans a (Jeneral March added that it America such a 1 ir of the officers in charge ofi "Yes; many o prison camps, including th'* they can do Nlag ated Lieutenant "Hard Boiled" semito the same , have been convicted by court! il and are now serving senfenc > ^ Admire latter statement was probably "Well," svald appointing to the cnnunljtee|after a solo by ers as the former statement wm ' holr tenor, "if ' *1 V % I ER, S. C. ? ..rgg n. It proved that congressional parti- 1^^ ^^^? raise their clamor atment of American 1 ' prison camps in y < authorities had dises and had proceed- Condense^ i se who were respon- \ \ lid the congressional in this? There are, rwhere and in every have been extraordi- | 1 1 men had been found * >r officers placed in ison camps. All that . ? ,,, , ... At Close of ind could do was to >n from their posts ?eds were discovered lem. This the army to have done. It. atest attempt to dlscan army is already Loans and Disc v City Bonds . . Liberty Bonds ^ TIIK EDITOR. Furnlt ure and 1 Real Estate . . driv \\ rites. Cash on hand a incaster News: criticism about the dness way in which istotfice is run when >ased upon facts, but nents as you had in *s issue are made I say they are untrue. day morning mail to Capital ed is brought direct- ? . ,, , o ? .u m ? Surplus and r 18 to the office and tely and distributed Dividends . . . ' at tlie depot until Reserve for Ta: re at 10 :15, arrives. Deposits .. .. IlUUtl ii postofTice inspector af the patrons that nit on train 118 on il not make any such local postofTice force ^ ^ 'ommond It In order I A | some of the business hey have tried four I I ^ on the early Sunday I I of Sunday mail rests thing I ever saw. Just as s local postollice force, that young man began to sinf | Metts visited thi.s other member of the choir s ago and asked me to Hut he went through with it, thought we had too must say I admire his spunk." oik and he would ton Transcript. incoming mail taken hat it be left until Queer llrast. pening. "Man is the only animal tin ed a few days ago tobacco," said the prohibitioni u ggests that niaij ar- had joined the anti-tobacco lei 0:15 be left at the "Yes," replied the rounder. 114 arrives at 1*17, be is also the only animal mail be distributed always minding other people illow the olllce forco Iness." : school and church ' iv morning. lOO SHIPS lU'll.T OX the efficiency of this tlREAT HAKES AUK i perfect, but when Washington, July 81.?On > that the office force drcd steamships built on the rabiy broken up the Lukes during the war have be and that three men, by the shipping hoard to the pe-ienced, are doing ao" Overseas corporation of ly jione by four ex- York, for approximately $80,u hey will readily see This probably js the largest si s not what it should on record, the board said in ar ing the deal tonight, and the this in the next is- will eventually pass into Fren ?r in order tliat the Italian ownership, e misled by the edi- Delivery of the ships wil ared in your issue of nience August 10, and proceed W. J llendrix, rate of six or more a week unt icting Postmaster. pleted, Chairman Hurley said. argument between When Arabian women s e acting postmaster, mourning they stain their hat >r as to the time of w,,lt Indigo for eight da lundav morning mail during that time they will di > fact that the first milk, on the ground that Its it was received on l'UP does not harmonize wit was not distributed mental gloom. of the 10:17 train. is glad to make prop- Thfi onlv animal that is reall Ich was done in Tues- ia th*' Klraffe. which Is unable t r. llendrix feels ag- an>' ?o"nd whatever. at the criticism, rets as applying to lamnnrieinnnw force, and The News iJUUUUuC n according him the - J g heard.?Editor.] j W # "< ? [ j Li!G I] Jij e Movies. f J to see your 'wild and ] While you are in i oiua pL oil ?Kn f narlloK V e.wmien.l nliualonl AWa(M!, cuiai nwu iu' uu^iinii | i ? i|uu cu ^n/nM.m CAauii i be an exceedingly wise here with me." in accordance with your c'.uema show?" I f right now before it is id that's the only [ insurance protection yoi can see the 'wild and f 1 for your family as will r.'' "Undiscovered country ? " J that they are not going inn Kiiiiiik!i. ? | ihc'k of necessary tning* rhy you should kick. I . no to Heaven and your <> with your wlte. [ YOlTt BI'SIXKHM WIT iiuh ?" [3 COMPANY THAT HAl icy was enough, but f 3 YKAIt TO ITS POI.IO much." - ] YKAItS. CilVK MK A! 33 thf.sk poi.icifs iikir|iri*c<1. y- I.IKK. re surprised to find f 3 large country." f 3 ??????? f them seem to think . J ? ? :aru Falls and the Yo- _ l I ? MJf r- I Jos. f (1 His Pluck. r 3 . .. Uncle Si Hrugginti, > 3 LAI a fashionable church if* _ that ain't the rudest I " WAgBj ___ r FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1919. II ? -* ! ! I -'" "'""iii nf i 'omlll ion of | The \ \ )f Lancaster Business June Hit, RESOURCES. i \ ounts $ 703,638.34f .. ..t?. \. .. 10,000.0/) \ 388.110./o fixtures.. 2.4 5<y89 X 16,04/. 18 nd in Banka . . \ 186,583 07 V?f? $1,^06,^23.48 s \ \ j \ LIABILITIES. v $ 50,000.(K) i-oflts 140.500.00 2,500.00 (i>g 3,500.00 . . $848,373.48 .. 261,950.00 1,110,323.48 $1,306,823.48 > f oon as of ,'1? prominent universities in ; every Ihe United Kingdom, save Oxford and topped. Uambrldge, now confer legal degrees and I on who duly qualify. '?Bos- ? "An,li " [ I II211 1* ^ hun- HUMj SHflHBHb en sold n ? Any Careless Visitor oo.ooo. j \ ll,) sjl' may cause vou thousands of inouncvessels', dollars loss unless you are inch iiinl sured in a good company like j com.j the old reliable "Hartford." i at the We can insure you. il comiou may think you have nothing to insure but adversity ,0. inl" strikes from many angles and ids and ' ** i ys. and this agency sells many kinds rink no 0f insurance. \ i white \ h their Lancaster Insurance Agency y dumb UtA It. JOXhs, JR., 0 make Ijinriislrr, K. ('. I ^ BBBBMBBRRfigRBBfifo ? nsurancej; ,L j j nation for hit insurance policy, It would 1 a nmvv on your part as wejl as an action ( f christian duty to your ldved ones to go ( too late und by taking hut the best life | 1 1 can find make such adequate provision f | assur* you when yoif are Rone to that J from v^hose bourn traveler returns" I 1 begging or suffering on account of the | * i ot litet it woul(V be a pity for you to I f family > go to thur poor house. IMjACK j ^ ii thi-1 mow Aouk mi'ti'aij, thk [ 3 ?i pa iii goo* oividkxdh kvkity | ] r hom\kiih /for moiik than 71 | * OPPOHTrKfTY OK SHOWIMi VOIT J 1 ORK Yor Ip'IDK TO IXStltK VOI R ? j ii L Connors ;i SCASTER. S. C. I J ij ranmiranmifiuii^^