The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1905-06-14
AS TO the Presses.


The Charleston News and Courier and
The Columbia State, both of which are
Unfortunately rich and prosperous news
papers, have purchased new presses
which are said to print from twelve to
sixteen and from twelve to tw~cnty-four
thousand newspapers each hour.
Both of these newspapers are bless
ings to the communities in which they
live. They print numerous commence
ment sermons and addresses or spiels
from which the larger part of the pop
ulation of South Carolin; would other
wise make good its escape. They also
print Sundays the gorgeous descriptions
of the decorations ''indulged in" in the
semi-weekly entertainments of the us
women's clubs in this state. 1t is be-
lieved that at least 1000 ways of ar
ranging color schemes at peanut parties
and donkey parties have been described
in the society columns of these great
metropolitan dailies. 1t is regretted
that society is not more clandestine.
The State and The News and Courier
also print the war news, the political
news and Ogdenite and ti-Ogdenite
editorials together with snatches of
ribald prose from the pen of the Rev.
Thomas Dixon, Jr., which is actually
readable. Indeed they print all the
news and the slop-over. While we are
of the opinion that the acreage in
printed matter also should be reduced,
while we know that everywhere in the
civilized world too much foolishness is
being hourly published, we are glad
that u contemporaries are able to be
Gin the running" and that our friends
who are candidates for governor and
other jobs now have increased chances
for obtaining ~notoriety.
If we were the Car of this country
we should issue decree number one, for
bidding the manufacture and sale of
type smaller than plea. The result
would be that men would be compelled
to think and write in clean, strong Togo
words and sentences or else stay out of
the newspapers. 1t would then become
too expensive to print anything long or
anything empty and of course the sales
of spectacles would decrease.
But again-s since the human race has
an insane and unbridled appetite for
reading all sorts of stuff, we rejoice
exceedingly that The News and Cou-
rier and The State are supplying more
and more of it and that they have the
money to buy overgrown and hopelessly
and u~nreasonably fast printing ma
chimes. While no set of editors and re-
porters on earth can keep up with the me-
chanical plants of modern daily newspa-
per shops and while since the invention of
typesetting machines newspapers have
increased in size and grossness and
deteriorated in brightness and force
and finish, it is a pleasure to know that
the frantic efforts of our mad contem-
poraries to march with the drunken
procession do not fail for want of sup
port.
The Charleston Post has also ordered
one of these wholesale slaughter house,
thirteen thousand ton battleship and
disappearing gun presses. Heretofore
it has been a neat, plump and trim lit
tie sheet. Lately it has manifested
signs of obesity. OF course it is also
to be congratulated on its royal straight
flush prosperity.
Probably the saddest picture visible
anywhere is the threatened going to
weed of the Charlotte Observer. 1t has
also sinned against the proprieties by
buying a big Norman P~ercheron Press
and it has been so delightfully."- well con
tanned with it's feathers so carefully
pruned in the past.
If Col, Lawrence w. Youmans or
Col. E. ID. Smith should run for United
States Senator next year, either would
make a remarkable ace and either
would make a better Senator than
somebody who might be defeated.
In Georgia there is a split among the
Smiths. Two of them, Lawyer Hoke
and Farmer jim, are running for gov
ernor. Both are rich and mighty.
Farmer jim is worth over a million. In
this State only one Smith as yet is run
ming for governor and he is no million
are.
A judge in Germany has decided that
poker is not a game of chance but a
game of skill. There are MANY who