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THE MANNING TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. I. I. APPELT----------- ----------------------Editor F. M. SHOPE---------------------------------- -Business Manager JAMES H. CHANDLER. Seldom has it been our duty to record so sudden adeath. A dark gloom spread over our whole community when it was learned that Mr. Jim Chandler was dead. Not only has Sumter lost one of its best and most honored citi zens, but Clarendon has also lost one of its best friends. His death has brought the bitter cup of sorrow to the <ns of friends 'and relatives. He was one of nature's noblemen in its truest sense. His was the soul of honor, and his friends and friendship were sacred to him. There was a daily beauty about his life which won every heart. He believed in the fatherhood of God and the brother hood of man. He believed that the man who .scatters flowers in the pathway of his fellowmen, who lets into the dark places of life the sunshine of human sympathy and human happiness, is following in the footsteps of his Master. There is no language at our command by which we can fittingly portray the sincerity of this man's Christian character; and in the experience of a lift time, the writer can safely say, he never met one who seemed to more nearly walk hand in hand with God. Conscience guided every act. He was a model of mental industry in his efforts to entertain and instruct his people. He was strict ly honest in the service he rendered. In short, he was not only a Christian, but he was an honorable gentle man, in the highest sense that term implies. To man, woman or child, saint or sinner,' he always extended a cordial greeting that sent a ray of light to brighten tehir pathway in the journey of life. Jim Chandler is gone, he will never be seen again, but his deeds of kindness will ever rest in the memories of those that knew him. SHOULD FUTURE GENERATIONS PAY? In all large public undertakings where permanent im provements were sought to be made it has become a cus tom to issue long-time bonds in order to secure the money with which to finance the work. Probably nine-tenths of the counties of nine-tenths of the states of the union are bonded to a greater or less extent, and scarcely a city or town of any importance in the land but carries its bonded debt that has gone to pay for public utilities. ut in many cases the advocates of the bond issue ho e had hard fights to carry their projects through. Qne of the most serious objections has always been from he man who "doesn't believe in saddling a debt on fu ure generations." Now let us see about this. Suppose, for instance, our county has no railroad. For generations our ancestors, and we ourselves, have laboriously hauled in our sup plies and hauled out our products, realizing, when all expenses were met but a meagre pittance for our year's work. But a railroad is projected and we are told if we will bond our county for a few hundred thousand dollars, it will be put through. This we do. Now arises the objection that we have placed a heavy debt on posterity. Have we? Yes. But at the same time we have given posterity the means to pay that debt and then be infinitely better off than we and our fathers were. Compare for a moment the difference in their con dition, and our before the road was built. The average county is about twenty-five miles wide. Suppose that represented the distance to the nearest shipping point. Do you see the enormous savings we have effected for posterity in bringing the road to their doors? Again, take the question of plikes. The same reason img will hold good there. Whereas we and our fathers toiled through mud and mire to drag fifteen or twentyr b)ushels of grain to market our sons can hitch up an ordinary team and take a load of two or three thousand pounds with ease and in much less time than we needed. And so on through the list of all permanent p~ublic im provements. But the work should be permanent, or at least as near ly permanent as our best judgment can make it. When we have builded to the best of our ability and have lain a groundwvork on which our children can continue to build, we have not only benefited ourselves and not in jured them, b)ut we have benefited them, and made it possible to attain to conditions that were entirely beyond our reach. A debt on p)osterity is just, provided it rep~resents a tangible asset. LOOKING A YEAR AHEAD What wvill the year 1.917 mean to this town, to this community, to this peolple? What wvill he your personal attitude toward the making of a better town, a more porsperous community, a more open hearted people? The efforts of the individual citizen may accomplish mmething. The cooperation of a collective people will produce notable results. Collective cooperation is only possible where confidence and good will exist and where there is a determination to utilize this combination to the ultimate good of all. The man who holds a grouch against his neighbor can not successfully pull in harness with that neighbor so long as that grouch exists. The man who disparages and undermines the reputa tion of another can not expect the community in general to think well of the assassinator of chmaracm.r The man Who says oa pace .with the hu4tler who and get there. And one man who says of those whoh say "I Can't This .is the time of year filled with neW resolutigns to act than to resolute. Let us make this a year results. Let us make this more th Let us make it a communit ambition, and one great pu that purpose the good of mi and of this community in p If we work collective an( we will achieve success, bu will accomplish but little. The road of life is long, our way. But many. hands Test burdens, and collective barriers away. We may each pursue ou yet all labor in the commor prosperous town and counti Two horses pulling in on there. But when one pulls stands still. Will 1917 find us a comr divided aggregation of pull plish nothing but to stand Nineteen senevteen will t< the words in the mouth of What are those words go Will they be loyalty, cohel Or will they be disloyalty, aster? A year. of promise is ahe; good unaided and alone. We must each grasp the ture has provided us, and individual and collective we, To do otherwise will be to on to victory and to success Shall we stand, or shall w STATES PRICE OF PEACE Also Gives Secret of Success in War. New York, Dec. 26.-Preparedness for peace through the medium of ihe highest scientific development of re sources which would have to be em ployed in a war of defense by this nation, was outlined today by George F. Kunz, retiring vice president of the section on social and economic science, before delegates to the con vention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. "In the preparedness for peace," Mr. Kunz said, "we find a splendid field for the utilization of our pro jected museum of peaceful arts. If one of the great powers had spent $500,000,000 in technical and commer cial schols, the present war would not have Liken place and twenty times that amount would not have been expended. Cooperation and effi ciency are the price of peace, and the secret of success in war." Referring to the offensive powver of the submarine as showvn in the war, Mr. Kunz', saidl: "It behooves us to take time by the forelock andl to build a~ great number of these powverful, though perhaps somiewhat perlidious engines of war. We should have at least two fleets of 200 submarines, each, to guard our Atlantic and Pacific coasts and the routes to the Penama Canal. Thhis preparedness for war in the sea depths should be sup~lemented by an eqtklly active preparation of aero planes, hydro-aeroplanes andI Zep)pe lins." DARLINGTON MAN KILLED) BY AUTO Bay ron Ya rborough's Neck Broken in Peculiar Accident. Darilington, Dec. 2.--In a very un usual automobile accident Mr. Bayron Yarborough was killed yesterday in the Philadelphia section of Darling ton County. Ire was returning home with his wife from a call on her parents, and when opposite old Bethel, on the road from Lydia to Bonsal, he found it nec essary to pass to dIrive close to a dlitch. F"earing his automobile would fall into the dlitch, he stoppedl the engine. Geting out, he cranked the engine, and it fired and at once startedl for wardl, as it had ben left on the high gear. Mr. Yarborough made a desperate attempt to stop the machine. Ilis chin wvas caught and his neck was broken. A brother who had followed him, although the road wns out of his way, came up soon after the accident andl took the widow into his car. The dleadl man wais taken home. ------0 ENGLAND READ)Y TO DIsCUSs PEACE TERMs Eondon., on 26-Eng.la :,. ready head'' c n not expect to keep, ayB , "cotie on. S ively "I Will" is worth a hundred when the hopper of time is But it is more profitable of action; of deeds, and of an a collection of individuals. r of people with one aim, one 'pose in life, and let us make tn and womankind in general articular. I earnestly and energetically t if we labor individually we mnd stormy; and barriers bar make light work of the heav might may roll the heaviest ' own chosen vacations, and i cause of a better and more 'yside. e direction will get the load and the other balks the load riunity of loyal pullers, or a ers and balkers who accom still? ;ll the story, and you will put the teller. ing to be? ;ion, aggressiveness, success? ;uspicion, disintegration, dis id, but promise never makes )pportunities with which na turn those opportunities to 11. stand still while others march 'e march? to discuss peace terms-with its colo nial prime ministers. The first ray of hope that Great Britr in will not flatly turn down the Geeman proposal of peace came today in the form of an official announce ment that some time in the immediate future-not later than February-the war council will hold conferences to which, in the language of the ofllci statement, "the prime minister of each dominion is invited to consider urgent questions affecting the prose cution of the war and the possibility Our Big OUR E Ladies' Ooe Shirt Wai Raincos and AT ai ToMa SALE STARTS TI (OAT SUITS. $15.00 Suits at 35.00 " " 50.00 " " LAD)IES' F'INE SHIRT $1.0, Sale Price 2.50 " " 4.00 " " 5.00 " " LADIES' LONG Co $20.00 Coats at. 25.00 " " 30.00 "" TH~E NEWEST STYLE SKIRT IN AND) GABERD $5.00 Skirts, Sale Price 6.50 "4 " ~4~ 7.00 " " 4~ Entire Stc Nothing C PHONE 190. CAST The Mind You Have Always I in use for over 30 years, and ha sonal g ,Allow All Counterfeits, Imitations l Experiments that trifle with Infants and Children--Expe What is C1 Oastoria is a harmless subsi gorie, Drops and Soothing contains neither Opium, M4 substance, Its ago is its gui and allays Feverishness. Ff has been in constant use foi Flatulency, Wind Colic, al Diarrhoea. It regulates 1 assimilqtes the Food, giving The Children's Panacea-Th GENUINE CAST Bears the li Use For 0 The Kind You Hat THE CENTAUR COMM of which, in agreement with our allies we could assent to its termination." The statement adds: Other problems then would immediately arise." It further was officially explained that the meeting of the war cabinet, which Premier Lloyd-George an nounced the other day, will be a "special war conference of the whole empire." AS THE EDITOR SEES IT. Man fondly believes that he is the master of his own home. But he's the only one that believes it. ways at all. Make it a war on the high cost of living and you have our unqualified a pproval. SClearar NTIRE STO its, Coat Suil sts, Skirts, Ur tts, Millinery, Children's Sh id BELOW ke Room For Our Spring j ~ESDAY MORNING,1 - -- ----$ 7.98 200a -- -----19.00 TEBSTU ------ .--32.50 WAISTS. $.0Ni -- - ---2-.. .79 -- .--1.59 3.0" - -- .. 2.48 37 - -- ---....2.75 50 ----3.58-All the8 ATS. S -----.--$12.'9 $65 rse .----- .--16.49 290 -----17.79 3.0 B--WOOL,, POP-TH E INES.$15Kmoa - ----$ 3.85 22 -- -- --.4.12 Vle pt - --- -.-.-4.25 Below0 Cost. harged.Not 2.50 Se" o LAD0ES 3oiught, and which has been has borne thu sinnature of as been made under his per iupervision since its infancy. P0 Qoa tp decelo, yont in tlla : and endanger the health of rience agalist Experiment. ASTOR A ;Itute for Castor Oil, Pare. Syrups. I t is pleasant. I.t )rphine nor other Nicotto grantee. It destroys Worms or more than thirty years it e the relief of Constipation 1 Teething Troubles anti the Stomach and .Bowels, healthy and natural sleep. o Mother's Friend. OR IA ALWAYS Signature of ver 30 Years re Always Bought NY. New YORK CITY, The ways of some women are past understanding, and some have no Miss Rankin, the new congressman, is receiving more proposals of ' mar riage since her election than she can possibly accept. There is always one way in which you can achieve popularity amony your friends. Lend freely. You may not know it, but there's a lot of good in this world just the same. There are so many investigations of the high price of foodstuffs it gives the cusses an bxcuse to boost again. It's an easy matter for some men to "love their neighbors"---provided they are young and beautiful. ce Sale CK OF ;s, Dresses, derskirts, Ladies' oes. COST. Stock. ~ECEMBEB 26TH K AND DRESSES. - --------- -.----...-$1550 --- --,.----------.--1650 .- -..18.50 rIDERSKIRITS TO BE FOUND IN SUMTER. -- - -- -- - - -- -- .83 -- - -- - -- - -- - 165 - - -- -- - - - -. .- 1.69 ------- ---------.-....2.48 ------- -------- -......3.30 alance of Stock at Cost. ~RGE DRESSES. t -- ---- -- ----- -- ...$10.50 -- - ------- .12.50 ----------- ----- --..--16.50 -------- ---------17.50 I' STYLES IN KIMONAS. --------------..--..-$ .95 -- ------ ------...-1.25 $12.50Oat ~Cost IDuringI Sale..4 RAIN COATS. ek at and below cost. ry at and Approval. SHOP, SUMTFDR. S.C