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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13
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ONE GREAT DANGER.

Probably the liquor laws of South
Carolina at present are ineffective,
hut we are much afraid that the G 30
eral Assembly, by continually chang
ing the law, will eventually put South
Carolina back in the wet" column.
1T is our honest opinion that il the
General Assembly does enact a
"bone-dry' prohibition measure,
that there will be a howl from one
end of the State to the other. We
may be wrong, but we are sure that
the prohibition election two years
ago was not indicative of the opin-
ion of the voters OF the State. The
votes cast in that election were cast
b. the anti-saloon league supporters
entirely and those in favor of liquor
did not visit the polls.
We may be wrong, but we believe
that the present liquor law, allowing
each citizen one gallon per month,
is as near a solution of the problem
u, is possible.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13
The Madness of War.

The outrage against civilization
and international rights of neutral
nations offered by Germany in
threatening to sink all vessels with
out warning, attempting to enter any
of the ports of the Allies engaged in
the war against her, is her final fran
tic stand in hopeless struggle. We
have in this frenzied policy OF Ger
many simply the horrible example OF
the madness of war when ii is
fought to the last ditch.-Orange-
burg Times and Democrat.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13
1911 DaHydils.

Is symmetrical female figure to
be desired? OF corset is!
Why not make a desk tool of the
negro marathon runner? Is he
not an inky racer?
The trees are unlike the girls a,
the seaside, for they bare their limbs
in the winter.
If knife and fork should become
lovers, where would they spoon?
OF all the noisy girls of gooc
looks, is not the door bell the
worst
Man got it in the neck when col.
lars increased in price.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13
NEGRO SUFFERED
A MORTAL WOUND
Duff Marshall is Charged With
Shooting Pet Moses Last
Sunday Night.

Dun Marshall, negro, was
brought to Lancaster yesterday
morning and lodged in the county
Jail, charged with shooting Pet
Moses, another negro. The injured
negro is in critical condition, the
shot having taken effect in his abdo-
men, and it is thought that his
chances for recovery are very
slight
The shooting took place Sunday on
the plantation OF the Lancaster Mer-
camille Company and H. w. Bell.
manager OF the farm and formerly
chief of police of Lancaster, brought
the prisoner to town yesterday and
turned him over to Sheriff Hunter.
II is said that the negroes had
been drinking shortly before the
shooting and 1t is presumed that
Iwhiskey was the cause OF the row.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13
BOYS READ THIS:

Don't be afraid of work
The publisher of one of the world ;
greatest newspapers was shining
saoes and selling newspapers when
less than 16 years old
Thomas Edison was a newsboy
a, 16.
The inventor of the comptometer
was working at lathe when only
IA.
Andrew Carnegie was newsboy.
John ID. Rockefeller was gro
GERS clerk when boy.
The president OF the Illinois
Manufacturers association was
herding cattle at the age of IL
years.
Plan right now for job when
school is out this spring. Don't
worry about the pay-just get job.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13
LOCAL WOMEN TO
WAGE CAMPAIGN
The Lancaster Ladies Have
Formed an Enthusiastic
Equal Suffrage League.

The Lancaster Equal Suffrage
League held its initial meeting Mon
day afternoon at o'clock at the
residence of Mrs. G.. ID. Jones, vice
president of the local league. The
meeting was a large and enthusiastic
one.
Mrs. Springs made n report of the
work done in the Suffrage School
which was held in Columbia on Feb.
S-9-10. Delegates from many cities
throughout the State attended the
school, and took back to their local
leagues the benefit OF the forceful
speeches made by the instructors,
Mrs. Gotham, Mrs. Wilson and Miss
National Association.
The days selected for all future
regular meetings OF the Lancaster
League are the second and fourth
Thursdays OF each month. There
will be a call meeting of the league
on Thursday Of this week at the resi-
dence of Mrs. c. ID. Jones at o'clock.
All members. and any desiring to be
enrolled as new members, are urged
to be present on next Thursday af-
ternoon.
The officers OF the local league are:
President, Mrs. Leroy Springs; vice.
president, Mrs. r. r. Riddle: secre-
tary, Mrs. c. ID. Jones; treasurer,
Mrs. w. S. Patterson.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13

box some time Friday afternoon. 1t
is probable that the votes will be
counted by 5 o'clock at most boxes
and If the managers will assist us in
compiling the returns, we should be
able to give the public some infor.
nation on the matter by Z O'Clock in
the evening.
We hope that one manager at each
box will be kind enough to cooperate
with us in this and let us have the
returns at the earliest possible mo-
|ment.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13
American Diplomacy.

A nation. like an individual, likes
to look back on clepn record.
America can do so in this instance
Scrupulously, patiently, this govern
ment has borne the encroachments OF
both sides until it seemed that Ameri-
ca was to be not only long suffering
but all-suffering. At last came the
crisis. Germany announced that she
would sink all ships (even Ameri-
can ships) in certain waters. This
repudiated her former solemn pledges
and announced a campaign OF ruth
less savagery. America has severed
relations, therefore. with Germany
and the prospects for peaceful So
luton is not encouraging.-Manning
Herald.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13
Some Always Complain.

Telegraphic advices from Chey-
enne. Wyo.. Tuesday We're to the ef-
feet that a snow blockade which had
closed the main line of the Union Pa,
cifc Railroad since January 81 had
just been cleared, and that more
than fifty trains, which had been
stalled in the snow. were released.
And yet some people complain about
the "cold" here in Darlington!-Dar-
lington News and Press.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13
\ FORTUNATE DISTRICT.

Those in attendance at the politi-
cal meeting held here Saturday were
impressed with the fact that the
Fifth Congressional district of South
Carolina is fortunate in having five
such candidates running for the Of
fee. We firmly believe that any one
OF the five men asking the voters Of
the district for their support, will
compare favorably with any other
districts representative. OF course
we have preference, just as every
other voter has. but we do rot be-
lieve that the Fifth district vii! have
cause to be ashamed of our repre-
sentative, no 0atter which of the
five gentlemen is elected.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13
Probably So.

1t may be possible for this coun-
try and Germany to reach an agree
ment that will stave off actual war
between them, but perhaps just be-
fore the time for such an event, those
two American steamers. the Roches-
ter and Orleans. unarmed and heed
less, will enter the barred zone with
disastrous results-Columbia State.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13
How 1t Happened.

There are at least
Short intervals
OF time
When a publishers life
Is worth while.
Only the other evening y
When we were
Lscking the office
To go home for the night,
a subscriber came in
And paid Sc on
Back subscription
And two years in advance.
And
While we were fixing
UP his receipt
The telephone rang
And a business man said
He wanted a whole page
or space
In every issue
From now until July.
Then a little girl
Gave us $40
And said
Her pa sent 1t up and
For us to just
Give him credit on
His paper.
For about two hours
They kept coming
And we took in
More money
In those two hours
Then we ever took in
In two weeks
Before.
And just when we reached
Home the telephone
Rang. 1t was our
Banker and he said
A relative of ours
Had died
And left us
Four million dollars.
1t made us feel
SO good
That we just had to hug
Our wife,
And she said:
Henry. stop that;
It's six o'clock
And
Time to get up"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13

Some poor, down-trodden news
paper slaves on daily sheets think
they are living, when as a matter of
fact they are but existing. They
ought to try real life in real town
like Lancaster and see how much
fun there is In living.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13
Would Win Votes.

Preacher Says Women Are Using
More Liquor" OF course, the suf-
fragists would beg to differ from the
divine who made such a statement
but if they should refrain from TAX
ing issue, the cause might win a big
crowd of advocates from an unex-
pected source Columbia State.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13
MiGhtN Poor Logic.

An Indiana man shot himself about
two weeks ago because his sweet
heart refused to marry him. He has
now recovered and his sweetheart
has decided to marry him. Moral: If
your sweetheart refuses to marry
you, shoot -Spartanburg
Journal.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13
LOOny Limericks.

There once was a warrior bold,
Who at bay battalion could hold
But he shook like leaf,
CTS fact past belief,)
When his better-half started to
scold.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13
@ What Others Say
Those Anderson Folk.

An Anderson man writes asking
to know what an covert act" is. saw
ing he wants to know because If he
sees Germany commit one he can tel,
the United States about it.-spartan-
burg Journal
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13

We heard man talking in hotel
lobby several nights ago of the
places he had visited and the things
he had seen and according to relia-
ble figures he must be not less than
113 years old at present.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13
Both Wrong,

AS England is using illegal means
to carry out her announced intention
of starving Germany, some of us
cannot condemn Germany for using
illegal means in attempting to starve
England in retaliation. Both are
wrong. Piedmont.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13
Nothing in a Name

And again. just to show you there
is nothing in name, the negro
George Washington who was killed
on the California was a British sub
Ject and born in Alberta, Canada
Greenwood Journal.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13

In a Lancaster drug store the other
day young lady asked the hand
some clerk the name of a camera.
"Belvedere" he replied. After a
moments hesitation the young lady
asked, "Er,-do you recommend the
Belva?"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13
Combustible Is Right

Ignorance begets credulity, II
means a lack of understanding. The
ignorant man cannot even see what
is best for himself. There is much
Ignorance in South Carolina. There
fore, there is much credulity. This
is one explanation of our combusti-
BILE politics.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13

Since the United States is on the
brink of going to war, young men of
Lancaster may learn with interest
that by getting married they can
keep from being summoned for a
time. We had personally rather try
the war.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13

While York's municipal officers
were trotting over the State looking
at the fire fighting apparatus Of other
towns, they should have paid visit
to Lancaster and inspected a "sho-
nuf" fire department.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13
Published TUESDAYS and FRIDAY,

Published Tuesdays and Fridays
at Lancaster, s. c., by The Lancaster
News Company, successors to
The Ledger, established 1852; The
Review, established 1878; The Enter
prise, established 1891, and entered
as second-class matter Oct. z, 1905.
at the postoffice at Lancaster, S. c.,
under Act OF Congress of March 3.
1879.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13

People who think that the world
owes them living are usually tco
lazy to go out and collect the az
count.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13

News items from Sumter in one
day tell of two men committing sui
eide and another states that all jails
there are filled with prisoners We
hardly think that Sumter would APP
peal to us as a place in which to live.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13

We believe Lancaster is a good
town and we know that Lancaster
has good people. With those two
facts in mind. we are going to give
Lancaster a newspaper worthy of the
town and of the people.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13
Our Scrap Basket
Definitions of Moderns.

Boarding House-The maximum
of gossip and the minimum of food.
Comedian-The saddest sight up
on the modern stage.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13

We would like for some bright
young person to tell us if Fido ate
up all the kittens meat would the
Catnip?
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13

1t would have been a compara-
lively simple matter to conduct a
"leak" investigation almost any
where in Lancaster last week
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13

a headline tells, "Schoolmarm
Kills Lion We expect the pupils
OF the school taught by the huntress
would prefer to have it reversed.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13
This Week as it is Not in Histor,

This Week rs IL is Not i'm History.
Monday, Feb. 12.-Peter the great
POUNDS the Bull Moose party
1910.
Tuesday, Feb. 13.--Cinderella is the
first picture play actress, 1910.
Wednesday, Feb. 14.-The Vikings
invented the musical scale. 40.
Thursday, Feb. 15.-Tom Thumb
arranges a match with Jess VIII
lard, 1912.
Friday, Feb. 16-Tecumseh origin
ates new tatting pattern, 1850
Saturday, Feb. 17.-Sir Walter Raj.
elgh buys an X-ray machine for ex-
perimental purposes, 1880.
Sunday, Feb. 1S.-Pawnee Bill de-
cides to have his hair cut, 1920.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13

The News is not responsible for the
views of Correspondents.
Short and rational articles on
topics of general interest will be
gladly received.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13
Learn n Little Every Day.

"A well trained conscience speak.
only when spoken to.
A kettle sings because the air es
capes by fits and starts, thus pro
ducing the singing sound.
Plants grow more on bright moon.
light nights because such nights pro
duce more dew.
Animals are covered with fur
hair and feathers because these sub
stances prevent the heat from tn,
body escaping.
1t isn't always the culver in I
girls voice that draws a beau. Wher
love once grows cold, it is unpala
table when warmed over.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13

Lancaster Leads" All the time.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-13

TUESDAY, FEB. 13, 1917.
Evening journal., 1917-08-24
CONTINENTAL FIBRE
employees Give SlOO
Contribute That Amount TO
Tobacco Fund for Soldiers
Abroad
TOTAL FOR THE CAUSE
MOUNTS UP TO 1922

Employees Of the Continental Fibre
Company whose plant is at Newark.
know The pleasure that comes from a
good smoke. Even those employees
who do MOI use tobacco appreciate that
the solners IN present-day warfare
must have tobacco and cigarettes TO
bring solaco and relaxation 10 them
selves under the great strain Of trench
warfare.
so the Continental Fibre Company s
employees got together az their plant
and In a short time they Clipped In
500 as a contribution 10 THE EVEN
ING JOURNALS tobacco fund FOR
American soldiers IN France. This Is
the largest single contribution received
for the fund. and il and others re-
ceived from employees in industrial es-
Adjustments show that the workers are
alive to the necessity Of keeping th'
United states troops in France sup.
Piled with smokes as one little io
OF comfort in their lives Ui hardship.
Contributions TO the fund yesterday
totaied S127.5O. as follows. y
Previously Acknowledged .Sl6o.2s
Frank NJ Hagemann, 405 ".
! Fifth St .........'.......- sol
Police Capt. Thomas Kane,
CONTINUED on Page Two)
Evening journal., 1917-08-24
NEW ROW Starts
over ASSESSMENT
Supposition That County is
Getting City Figures
Causes Official Stir
CITY ENGINEERS
WARNED BY CITY

Receiving reports that members OF
the engineering department Of the
Street and Sewer Department we're
working on maps Of the city assess
ment lists for the New Castle County
Board or Assessors, despite the warn
ing against such action given in City
Council several weeks ago. James W.
Robertson. chairman Of the finance
cummittee OF Council, complained TO
Mayor James W. lawson, and meet
ing OF those interested was hello IN
the Mayors Office yesterday after-
noon. AS a result OF this session
which was attended by Mayor Law
son. Frank W. Pierson. secretary OF
the Street and Sewer Department.
members OF the finance committee OF
CITY Council and members OF me
Board OF Assessment, instructions
we're given to all employees OF the city
tha. such action would not be toler-
ated in the future.
Little could be learned OF the meet
ing today, those attending declining
10 discuss the matter. II was learned
on good authorttys however, Ahat
Harry L. Maier. one OF the city engl-
neers. was informed by Councilman
Robertson that every note and record
in his office. as well as the records
in other city fhces. were the prop
erty OF the taxpayers Of this city and
he nor any other official hod a right
to use them for his own personal ad-
vantage.
Il was said this morning that mem
hers OF the New Castle County Board
OF Assessment or their clerks aftei
their conference with the finance
committee OF Council relative TO thei'
securing the city assessment lists
lhad approached different city en-
ployes and asked for the figures o'
the city assessment. On one occasion
a stenographer in one OF the city de
partments where the city assessment
lare kept. is said TO have been asked
by an employe Of the County Boart
10 make carbon copies OF the prop
erty lists along a certain street fol
him. This request was refused.
EMPLOYEES Of the engineering depart
ment of the Street Ond Sewer Depart
ment have been working until late
nights for some time past and III
, burning Of the electric lights at IN
( city's expense caused much comment
When IL was learned that the clerk
, in the Office were working on maps, pre-
sumsblv for the benefit Of the Count
Board of Assessors. VINO had been OF
, fered the use Of the city as'essmen
, lists by the city providing the count
board would bear q Just proportion {
, the cost of the work, the city. ofii,ial
! became angry. This fact was mail
more 10 when II was learned that ih
employees Of the Street and Sews- 10
partment worked a good portion IF las
1 Sunday on the maps which are said =
1 have been turned over 70 the Count
Assessors Board.
Inasmuch as warning had bee
, issued in City Council some week az
against any city emplove furnishin
such information 70 the county boar,
r. Nlr. Robertson, chairman Of the hnsn,
committee Of Council was indignant, an
q ne the local Beard Of Assessors he
! Continued on Page THo.
Evening journal., 1917-08-24
POWDER Co. Meeting
called FOR OCT. 10
Judge Hastings, Special
Master, Fixes Date for
Vote in Suit
POLLS WILL BE KEPT
OPEN FOR SIX HOURS

Former Judge Daniel O. Hastings,
who was appointed by Federal Judge
j. Whitaker Thompson as special
master in the big DUPONT powder
stock suit. has fixed October 10 as
the date for the special meeting OF
stockholders OF z. |. DUPONT de Ne
mours & Co. TO vote upon the ques
ton Of whether the powder company
shall buy for itself the powder stock
formerly owned by General T. Cole
man DUPONT and sold by him to Pierre
DUPONT and his associates In the du-
Pont Securities Company. who nov
hold Il. Under the question TO be
submitted to the stockholders, as
framed by the court, the stockholders
will vote whether or not to acquire
for the company the dispused stock
at a price equivalent to that paid for
It by Pierre s. DUPONT and his esso.
ciates. with legal interest added.
Judge Hastings has called the special
meeting OF stockholders 10 be held al
the principal offices OF the dupont Com
psny in the dupont Company.
The polls viii be open from Il
O'Clock noon until 8 o o'clock IN the even
/ ine. u being ths desire of Judge Hast
ines that ample time be given FOR
stockholders 10 vote. Al annual meet
inss OF the company the polls are
usually opsn one hcura ...s-.....a.-..
Evening journal., 1917-08-24
FIVE DUPONT men
BURNED IN Flare
At PARLIN PLANT
By The United Press.

By The United Press.
PARLIN. y. j., Aug 24-Fire In an
air dry house at the smokeless now
der plant OF the dupont Company
here this mornins destroyed the build
ing and the material contained In it
and resulted in serious injuries TO
one workman. and slight injuries 10
four others. The men were remove ed
10 the New Brunswick Hospittl
The most seriously injured Is Alec
Yesionowskl. % years old, Herman
avenue, South River, n. j.
Others injured are;
Wallace Wagner. is years old. OF
Sayreville, n. J.
Joseph Quinlan. No 106 John street.
South Amboy. \. ].
Francizek Borowinski. a years
old OF Lincoln street, South River.
n j.
John A. Mamon. 19years old, South
Anboy. n. J.
A number OF other men were slight
ly burned. but after having their In
jures treated. either went back 20
work or 10 their homes
The plant damage was confined 10
the destroyed building.
The FIRE broke ou. while samples
Of powder we're being collected in
! the plant laboratory.
Evening journal., 1917-08-24
Disarmament and Freedom Of Seas AdvO-
Gated by Wilson, COndOnatiOn Of War
Damages and Restitution Of Territory,
BeIIigerentS' Idea, POntiff Declares in De-
Tense of His PrOffer.
APPEAL NOT ADVANCED BY
ANY OF WARRING NATIONS

speeches recently delivered by states
men Of tho different belllnerent nations
and from resolutions passed by their
respective parllaments.
Therefore the same statesmen can
not refute them now without contra
dieting themselves.
Moreover II f. necessary to remark
as cOndonuion Of damages caused by
the war, that there Is an exception ap-
plying particularly 10 Belgium.
"The NTH and sixth points concern
special territorial questions, about
which the Holy Father does not and
could not propose any definite and con-
crete solution. Consequently he con-
fines himself 10 expressing the wish
that said questions shall be examined
IN conclliatory spirit. taking into con.
sideration as far as possible any Just
aspirations of the people.
"Thc Holy See wishes 20 emphasize
the fact that tho appeal was not sug
Continued on Page Two.
Evening journal., 1917-08-24

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL
ELKTON, Nd, Aug 24.-Wilfred
Griffith. farmer. shot and killed his
friend, Robert Akrin, also a farmer.
and then chopped his own head on
with an axe, near Rising Sun, this
State. last evening. Both were un-
married
Griffith, a man about 40. has SEEM
ed moody aud has acted strangely for
some time. according to his mother,
with whom he lived. Yesterday he
spent the afternoon working upon the
road which passes his farm. When ne
came in TO supper. he refused 20 talk,
and scarcely ate a mouthful. After
supper he we0t up TO his room, got
his shotgun and went out on the road
again. Hero he waited until Robert
/ Akrin. his neighbor. a man Of 90
years OF age. passed by driving a