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kit lUUi LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY Ltuiitwivr, s>. C. GEORGE liULLA CRAVEN Editor uuU Manager Tk? .Newii Is nut responsible tor t |MW| ot Corredyondeuts. Short a gmtlonal articles ou tuyics oi gene Kitiwti will ha gladly received. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: 0a? Vear (2. IX Mouine 1. Enteied as Second Class Mat! October 7, Id06, at ttie Postotlice Lancaster, S. C., under act ot Cc green oi AlartU 6, lei*. ^Ky Country 'Ti? of Thao, Sweet La of Liberty." FRIDAY. OCTOKER 21, I ft ONE CENT POSTAGE. Senator Dial has introduced a li V-? 1 / A f PAGE FOUR The Lancaster New (SlOll-WLilvKlA.) EstubiiklioU loo*. Published I'ucoduy and Friday make local or "drop"' letter posta one cent. This was the rate befo Hohenzollern tried to rule the wor and doubtless Senator Dial's wish w ? eventually come true. There ha been numerous arguments in the pa for a general one-cent letter poster but this is probably for in the d tance, while a one-cent drop lett rate may come at any time. The matter of one cent on lette will not elicit the interest, howevt that a reduction in any one of a nut ber of other necessities might, b will be welcomed, nevertheless. T things that ought to come down a ^ the things that men must have. letter isn't necessary, after all. T message can be taken in person a thereby save even the one cent, b the shoe leather so worn out, at t prices prevailing, would cost a qu ter. That would be false econon And false economy may be seen oft in the reduction of the price of thin which don't matter, while the nec< saries of life continue to soar. THK IMIKSIDKXT I.MPltOVKS. It is good news the people get frc the bedside of the president. He h been permitted for several days p;i to attend to some business from 1 bed, and while the doctors insist tl is no siun of a decided improveme in the president's condition, the con try will take it as such, anyway. The stories circulated as to I president's condition were ridiculo in the extreme. Once it was said 1 mind was affected; again, lie had si fered a stroke of paralysis, and ma other stories equally as groundle The truth is the president was brok down from hard work and had have a rest, and we believe, if it h not been for the doctors, he woi have been going yet. Continued improvement In the C( ditior of the president is doubtless < pected by Dr. Grayson, but there 1: been no announcement to that effe MONIIOK IIAS AXOTIIKK KXPI NATION*. prom the Monroe Journal come! challenge that "for the same gra of cotton sold at Lancaster, the M< roe market will pay as much or moi than Lancaster has been payii "The cotton raised in Chesterfi and Lancaster counties is worth cent a pound more than staple rah In this section." says the Journ All of which may or may not be tr we are no judge of cotton, but have never heard of a North Ca linian |>eing willing to admit t something better than it can raise raised in another state. The Jour has probably unknowingly made serious admission in this resp< We hope the Journal's assertion true, for that leads us to believe tl Lancaster county Is a little bet than some of the adjoining count lying, principally, to the north of u The Journal quotes a monroe ( ton buyer as follows; "Farmers w raise that grade of cotton can rea get more for It here than in Lancas because there Is more competition tween the buyers In Monroe.'' Now, let's see! It was In our 1 L # ^ ? * ? - 4 > ' Issue, we believe, that we reprinted an item from the Journal, credited to the Waxhaw Enterprise, in which it ? was stated that farmers were "hau'ing it from all over this section to Lancaster." So, in the final analysis, it would seem that the farmers of Union county, North Carolina, are bringing one grade of cotton to I.an ue caster and another grade to Monroe. lui I That 's the only conclusion we are ; permitted to reach from the Journal's own statements and those of Its cour.Oo ty contemporary, the (Enterprise. 00 ~ A SUGAR FAMINE. :er at It has next to impossible to buy ,u* suur in Lancaster during tho past ? two or three weeks, the merchants r not being able to get a supply at any price. What has been sold here has brought the price of thirteen cents the pound, but the consumer has asked no questions as to price, being willing to pay almost any price to get it. and ? the merchants who have had it in 19 stock have apportioned it out to their customers in small lots. Possibly to some extent the famine nil is due to the fact that the United to States recently sold to France among Re ! other war material twentv-two million ire ^ ^ pounds of sugar. This statement Is made by the Tlarriman National Itank ill if New York in a paid advertisement ve in a New York paper. The advertiseLSt I I ment said: "It is obvious that inquiry :e. i need go uot far to discern that the is-! high cost of living is in a great nieaser ure due to the ineffici, r.?v of official Washington. 'IS Possibly mismanagement h is to do ?r. with the sugar shortage, out The 11 i News is slow to lay the blame it the U'l dnor of the government. It is nioro he than likely that other interests who re have something to gai nor lose is responsible. rather than the government he which can neither rain or lose. nd ^ lUt lilKK IRISHMAN'S I I,KA. l,P Attorney-General A. Mitchell Palmer gave out a statement last week in UI | iy j Philadelphia, anions other things in on I which ho said the cost of living lias ?S dropped considerably, though to the ,s_ average man, it is like the Irishman's lea; you hear it. but when you reach out for it, you fail to get it. "Prices have dropped in all parts of ?m the country," says the statement. "I as am surprised that the same condition ist does not prevail here, but it will come, lis "Throughout the I'nited States, the lis j cost of foods has fallen almost 2a per nt cent Meef on the hoof has gone down in-! so low in some localities that the pro jducers are protesting." ho Mr. Palmer evidently hasn't been i us! about much of late. If ho had come lis to Lancaster, or to any other town in if-'the immediate section, lie would be ny' again surprised to find that the redness.1 * (! cost of living did not prevail. On en 'be contrary, prices of many articles to of necessity appear to be still on the ad upward trend, though, Mr. Palmer Is lid, right in his statement that the reduction "will come." It may be a year, or two years or three years corning. ?x. but some time things will get normal again and a dollar will be worth a dolct. b?r in the open market, whereas, it is i now worth about 4o cents. ''^"j Some day a dollar will buy a dol| lar's worth of goods. ( a ide THK STKRIi STItlKK. in- Steel strike leaders are preparing re" to take advantage <*< what they term ng. consent of union railroad executives *l<l;to permit railroad men employed on a steel railroads to join the strike. Let ,c<' | the coal miners strike and it won't ial be necessary for the railroad men to ue' walkout. With the prospect of the strike of the miners, the strike of the ro - . steel workers, and automatically the hn t I stagnation of the railroads and all other business, this country faces revnal j I olution as bad as Russia ever knew. s a We just won't call it that; that's the set. . only difference, la Whether the steel strike leaders ftr ('an enlist the railroad men in their ies sympathy and cause them to desert a the engines and cars is no more seri ot OUH than the prospect of a coal strike, rho ''ft somehow, we don't believe that ii 1 v roill strike is coming off according to itf ? schedule. The distress and suffering he- it would bring is too much and the government will find a way to prevent ast it, if it Is possible to find a way. THE LANCASTER N r SCISSORS AND PASTE. Effort to Evade Caw. (Kershaw Kra) Already we are reading reports I the papers of persons trying to de j the provisions of the conipulsoi school attendance law. But the t Itendauce officers seem to be underta ing to discharge conscientiously at fearlessly in the interests of the ch dren whose parents are trying cheat them out of their education at trying the impossible task of makii the public believe that they are d pendent upon their children betwec the tender years of eight and 14 f< a living. We believe that one good effect i every evasion or partial constructic of the terms of the law is going to I the stiffening up of its provisions at the more rigid enforcement of it. Ar then after it has been in operatic long enough to show that instead i It was to be expected of course th: sented to be, it is the thing that hi been needed for many years gone b It is the change that hurts so man Some people don't like to change the ways in any manner. The Heyday of the Liar. (Anderson Daily Mail) It was to be epected, of course, tli; Judge Gary, chairman of the board < #xP * Iwv IT.iitswl Otni ?? i uii ci iwin ui i iiu uuiicu oiaim oiu I corporation, would, In testifying: b fore the senate labor committee inve tigating the steel strike, deny stat ments made by John Fitzpatrjck. San uel Gompcrs and other union repri sentatlves as to alleged mistreatmei of employes by the company, Uik wise, no one but a fool would have e pected Fitzpatrick and Gompers l proclaim before the senate invest ig tors that he United States seel co poration was the ideal employe treating its employes with absolul fairness and tenderest consideratio in every matter affecting their we fare. The senate investigation will brill forth statements from the respecth sides in the steel strike just as flatl contradictory as the statements whic have been given out at the mills an union headquarers concerning tT I number of men on strike or at work i the mills, and the degree to which o eration in the various plants is affec ed by the strike. When the investigi tion is over the public will know i more of the truth than it knew befor hand. We are living in an age of fals hood. People have little regard ft truth. Lying is common to evei sphere of human endeavor. We h lieve the practice is on the increas and that the truth is not regarded an revered as it once was. It seems t be solely a matter of being able t "get away with" what you say. Sw?s't Potatoes. ( Haml>erg Herald > Inasmuch as other crops than co ton have now become a necessity i j the county, many farmers are invc tigating the possibilities of the swe< potato as a money crop. The ditficu ty is. as we understand it. that pot toes have not been properly "curet! j for the market in this section. Tl ( old plan of hanking potatoes is a right for homo use. but such potatoi | cannot be marketed because they r I quickly after being taken from tl hanks. Some interest has heen aroused the county because of the suggestif that tobacco barns can he used cure sweet potatoes. This appears be a new suggestion and has not bet thoroughly tried out. Some of tl farm experts who have recently v ited Bamberg county are of the opi ion that these barns may be used t this purpose by making some slig changes without in any way damagit the barn for the purpose for which was built. The farm ilomnnstrnllnn oorvUn J now at work on the idea, and the 1 suits of Invest igations along this Hi will be made known through t! county agents at an early date. 'Hie Government to lie. (Manufacturers Record 1 The time will come, if it is not 1 ready here, when, without any host ity whatever to labor per se, and wi 'a full desire that the laboring m | shall be well paid, well housed, ai i in every way safeguarded, the count \ must decide as to whether this shi be a republic where human liber prevails, or whether l? shall be a o garehy absolutely dominated by t (labor unions. GOVERNMENT' MIGHT STEP IN AND TAKE A HAND IN THE STRIK (Continued From Page One.) , not discussed at the regular eabii meeting Tuesday but It was the s> Ject of serious private dlscussl among officials generally. Some <r ( EWS, LANCASTER, S. C. ?I WOMAN'S STATEMENT Will HELP liANCASTEl I "I hated cooking because what ever I ate gave me sour stomach and i bloated feeling. Idrank hot water am olive oil by the gallon. Nothing help ed until I tried simple buckthorn barl glycerine, etc., as mixed in Ad-lei fy ika." Because It (lushes the entin ry bowel tract completely Adler-ika re lieves ANY CASE sour stomach, ga k or constipation and prevents appeu uicu is. ini' acwon is sui prising. J. F. Mackey Co , Druggists it to Vjfl^ jnD :; FIRE FIRE FIRE One of the most terrible words in the language is robbed of it jf half its terrors by a policy in oi the Hartford Fire Insurance e- Company. u. p-| That comforting sense of n' security can only be enjoyed B1( by those who are prepared for e- anything because they are inx'i sured through this agency. o a- ?? rr; Lancaster Insurance Agency III A B. JONES, JR., in |J Ijanrastcr, 8. C. 1 ,e| them searched the records to set ^ what action was taken in similar dis ^ turbances, but everything was heh : in abeyance until it was determiuet ,ej whether Mr. Wilson's conciliation ef 'n forts would bear fruit. Re-establishment of the fuel ad ministration, which ceased to tunc ration last spring, was discussed by of ficials. It was contended that th< efood control act gave the governmenl ! full power to require the miners tc I remain at work pending adjustment of wage demands. It is not thought that the confer e'i O 4 ?; a; | Y 1 V in X PS 'l To My I In A t? % to) < . >n tie; ? I stated in no Is- A continue the ^ compelled tc ^ ? have said be ' } but I have d ia, e-Ll find labor cc i TiT no ? ho V I want to saj JL store that if V Y trade if they nl home. And, ij- Y th Y they carry t en id Remember a ry > tt t 117 ? 1 I w.n I E X. ONE AUTO DE T ,b- ? Ion * of V> * V% /% V%*VVV*ii r .^W * ** SBBH " ' ' v : % i* t Bank Ni B Jk 1 Statement of tl - y : t The Bank oi : % Located at Lancaster, S. ness September 12th, 1919 t RESOUR Loans and Discounts . . . Y Bonds and Stocks 1 Furniture and Fixtures . X Real Estate JL t Y Cash on hand and in Ban! T Mr t ; Y L1AB1L1 Capital i ^ 1 Surplus and Profits . . 1 Reserve for Taxes Y Rediscounts i ^ Deposits .. fc Bond Deposits S f T T T V i s'once will continue In session after to ] f - morrow. All government plans wait- c 1 ed, therefore, until its close, with full c 1 expectation should no results be ob- v -.tallied the government through con- b 'gress or other sources, would step in .'and keep the mines in full operation. w "j FORTY KNOWN DEAD IN ? A COAL MINE DISASTER t Lj Hoisting MaclUne in Cornwall Mine ) | Hreaks When 150 Were 1 Icing t ! IiO\vered in the Shaft. Ii l PENZANCE, ENG.. Oct. 23.?For- b -jty bodies have already been recovered e a MH Mr hi/ nu 7riends and C ly advertisement last week that delivery on November 2, but ) stop Saturday night, October fore, I regret that this action i one all I could to carry the deli mditions such that I can not ke r to all who have so liberally pa they ca ndo so, I would appr o__ i ? ? ? ' can nna any way to carry tn< too, they can save all the delive -heir own packages, bout the delivery cost. It's a b TCDD\ L. 1 UIVI\ 1 LIVERY CAR FOR SALE CH RUNNING CONDITION .... 1 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1919 Sk o. 33 ^ tie Condition of jr r Lancaster ^ . C., at the close of busi- V - I TV.< 1 i $630,503.40 595,000.00 X 2,450.89 16,042.18 ? cs 81,186.33 ?|# 1,325,182.80 *1* TIES. $ 50,000.00 ?! 142,440.24 V 3500.00 X 45,000.00 S 11,342.56 y" >72,900.00 X j 1,084,242.56 , $1,325,182.80 T T A^A A^Aj^AA^A i!^A rom the Levane mine at St. Just, 'ornwall. as the result of a disaster aused by the collapse of the main >*indiug engine while 150 men were eing lowered Into the mine. It is probable that other persons rare killed. Dozens of the miners fere injured. It was the greatest isaster in the history of mining in 'ornwall. . . I?ul>-My-Ti?.iii is a great pain killer, t relieves pain and "oreness .aused y Hlieumuti.siu, Neuralgia, Sprains, \ 1 ' tc. *wwvwwwv $ i mv /in I MIL 1 * X X i **ustomers $ V x I t 1,1 j* X WUU1U Ulb A I find I am y 25th. As I A ' * is necessary, ^ ivery on but <|? ep it up. But itronized my ?! eciate their z* eir packages & ry cost when X ig saving. ^ T THE | GROCER X EAP?IN GOOD X