The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-10-16

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South has to considerable extent,
In keeping, however, with the rest
Of the country, been developing ten
dencies Of extravagances and of
waste that needed to be checked. 1t
is unfortunate that these tendencies
should have to be checked by the
appalling conditions existing In Eu-
rope; and yet Europe's awful war
has brought us face to face with
situation that demands the earnest
prayerful thought of everyone.
The South has faced trials and
tribulations and poverty in the past,
and 1T has met them with heroism
Like the Confederate soldier Of old.
who many a time had to buckle his
belt little tighter i'm order to
make his stomach forget the alb
sence OF food, the South in other
days when trials came upon it,
buckled the belt little tighter,
learned to grin and bear it and out
OF apparent disaster won victory. II
needs to do this now. All of us have
to learn these lessons sooner or
later, and few of us ever escape in
dividually the experience which the
South as a whole is passing through.
The way i'm which the individual
meets these conditions proves whe;h-
re he has strength of character and
backbone to conquer them or whrth-
er he is a weakling and is conquer
ed by them. The same thing is true
| Of section or nation
Due to the present halting i'm the
handling of cotton there may be
some hating in contributions to the
mission work of the South; and vet
IL the adverse conditions under
which the South is laboring force
the people Of this section to turn
their thoughts to the worship of
God and to Thanksgiving to Him that
they are saved from the awful cal
antilles under which Europe is liv-
ing, 1t may be that out of the
smaller things Of this year the South
will give as much as 1t has hereto
fore given out Of the larger things
which 1T had. AS we view the sit
uation in Europe, with it's indcscri5-
able horrors, every man in our
country, and especially every man in
the South, ought to be much in
prayer, thanking the Almighty for
the boundless blessings which we
enjoy.
AT the battle of Gettysburg, about
10000 men were engaged in a
three-day fight. They used the old
muzzle loading guns and cannon.
The soldier rammed his powder
home, rammed the ball on. top OF
that, put the little cap on and yhen
itred Again he had to stop and re-
load in order to fire. But today re-
peating rifles and machine guns can
be fired almost as rapidly as ,ne can
pull the trigger. At Gettysburg,
about $4,000 men were reported Kill
ed or wounded, or nearly twenty-five
per cent. For more than a month in
Belgium and France and Austria
and Poland, some Ave or six million
men. with the most modern death
dealing inventions that mans in
genuity has been able to fashion,
have been killing each other; and
twice as many have been under
training to begin their killing cam
paign later on. Necessarily the gov
ernments of Europe have been loatb
to let the fuW story OF the losses be
told. and SO we get accounts of a
few Thousands killed here and
there. when, as matter Of fact, II
we are I'd judge by the Civil War
contest. those killed and wounded
must be many. many times as great
as reported
We are free from that situation.
Peace reigne throughout our land.
For the time being. our ability to
buy and sen Is somewhat lessened:
but how trffiingly small is the halt
ing in business when contrasted with
the awful wreck and ruin, the
wreck of matter and the crash of
worlds" In Europe.
II the thoughts of the people of
the South can be turned to this side
OF tho situation they will, to large
extent. forget soma OF the dimcul.
ties OF the hous. fand with hcsrtsfuai
Of sratitao . thank God for ~ tho
ble6 sings vhat they are ,e1s fov,ytAs ~ -,