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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12
The Split Log Drag.
(Spartanburg Journal.

1t is easy to believe the statement
of those who have occasion to travel
over the roads of Spartanburg coun-
ty when they say that since Decem-
her the roads have been in the worst
shape they have ever seen them. It
is easy to understand that similar
conditions have been existing all
over the country, but since the
weather OF the last few days begun
to dry the roads out, there is no ex-
cuse for them to remain In that con-
dition. The county road forces are
daily coping with the situation to
the best of their ability, but the task
is simply too great for them to ar.
complish much unless some assist
ance is given them. Every farmer in
Spartanburg county owning a split
log drag, or able to borrow one.
should see TO it that some portion of
the road is dragged and that at
once. Within few days the roads
in Spartanburg can be back in as
good shape as they were before the
SHOWS came if every man living on
a public road will do his bit.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12
The Negro and the Potato.

(From the Charlotte Observer
Prof. George w. Graver, director
of the Agricultural Experiment
Station at Tuskegee Institute, has
been invited by the Department Of
Agriculture at Washington to call
there and make demonstration of his
sweet potato products experimental
ton This colored professor has
worked out as many as eighty-eight
processes for the utilization OF the
sweet potato. finding in II vastly
more possibilities than had ever
been thought possible. What seems
to be the leader is the dried sweet
potato, a product which has attract
ed the particular attention of the
government. and this article may
take an important place in the ma
tons war program of food econ
omy. The people of Catawba
county, the home of the most ia
nous sweet potato produced. will
probably be surprised that. the
sweet potato Is possible OF being
worked into as many as eighty-eight
varieties of food products, and IL Is
probable that they will find more
profit in the dried potato than they
have been securing from the raw
product. The Rural New Yorker
which has become interested in the
Tuskegee results, believes that
some one in the South will find II
possible to develop a great busin ess
In drying and selling sweet pota.
toes" In bringing the possibilities
or this much neglected Southern
product to the attention of the
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12

trucks themselves that we will find
the saving in freight cars used. as
in the number of fiat cars which
the trucks will release through their
ability to reach their destination un-
der their own power. If the gov
ernment requires 10000 trucks.
most of which will be built at a
great distance from the Atlantic
seaboard at least 5000 freight cars
Will be required for the transporta-
tractors will be employed to force
ton to their destination.
1t is not difficult to foresee the
time when powerful engine-driven
plows through snow drifts and thus
Keep country roads open to traffic
twelve months in the year.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12
GOOD ROADS.
Use the Road Drag Now.
(Gaffney I,edger.)

Now that the roads in the county
are drying. We wish to urge upon the
township commissioners to make lib
eral use of the split-log drag. 1t is
in our opinion, the most valuable
implement which can be used upon
dirt roads. One reason which i'm
pels this statement is the fact that
one man with team Of mules can
in one day render many miles OF
roads passable, makes them SC
smooth that instead of it being a tor
ture to travel over them it will be a
pleasure. The condition of the
roads at this time is such that the
drag will do its most effective work
and one drag operated over the
roads now will do the work of
many hands, and do it better.
Therefore, we urge upon the town
ship commissioners to see that this
implement is literally used while it
is possible to do the most good.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12
SCISSORS AND PASTE.
The Cultured Sex.

(From the Indianapolis NewS)
The Impression forces itself with
painful insistcnce on sensitive man
that the weaker sex of the present
era may be known to posterity as
the cultured sex. Women seem to
find plenty of leisure for keeping up
with the philosophic and literary
tendencies of the day. while man
seldom gets much farther than the
war news. The apparent familiarity
of women with new writer's, new
tendencies in art and thought, their
freshly brushed knowledge OF his
tory and the classics. their ability to
talk on any subject is. for the man
weighed with the cares of business,
a frequent occasion for wonder. He
cannot find time for such intellect
ual furnishing himself. Steadily.
surely. he Is being distanced. pass
ed on the road by those whom a
distant age believed fit for nothing
but household drudgery. The aver
age man in the average gathering of
women feels uncomfortable. They
talk about so many things he ought
to know about and does not.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12
PRESIDENT WILSON
TALKS TO CONGRESS
Replies to Recent Speeches of Ger
man Chancellor and Austrian
Foreign Minister.

Washington, Feb. 11.-President
Wilson. addressing a joint session of
congress today at 1890. replied to
the recent speeches of German
Chancellor Won Hertling and Aus
train Foreign Minister Czernin Won
Hertling's statement is vague and
confusing and leads to practically no
conclusion, the President said, and
is very different in tone from
CZernir's.
The President reiterated that the
United States had no desire to in
terfere in European affairs and
would disdain to take advantage of
any international weakness or dis
order to impose her will upon an
other people.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12
A ROSE OF YESTERDAY.

'Tis but red rose that she wore one
night,
But il hath touched her snowy.
rounded throat
That in my dreams I see as If b.
sight;
And so to me this bud doth more
denote
That cen a fresh and fragrant bios
som may.
For it hath marked the throbbine
of her heart,
Or quick or slow it's pulsng in the
sway
or hor emotio-s. Oh. had II the
art
To tell me what hath cuickoned 81
ITS throb
OF whom she thought that gave
her cheek its flush,
would this blossom OF it's secret rob
That In its fragrant heart it doth
so hush.
If 'twere of me she thought. ther
heaven knows
I'd ever bless thee, withering red
rose.
A. II. Taylor.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12

1t has been often said that true
honor is not touchy, but generally
Indifferent about SANDER; neither
the common sense nor common eX-
perience of mankind warrants this
theory, supposing touchy to mean
sensitive. The most pure and deli
cate, those who have labored most
earnestly to deserve the best repu-
tations, are apt to be TREMENDOUSLY
alive to every kind OF obloquy and
injurious suspicion Robert Walsh.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12
Opening IL New Era.
On. w. SIauson, in Leslie,s.

(H. w. Slauson, in Leslie's.)
The country has learned that
what heretofore seemed the i'm
possible can be done. A train of
thirtythree government trucks.
fresh from the factory at Detroit.
completed the $40 miles run to
Baltimore under their own power in
less than two weeks actual time.
There is nothing particularly
startling in the fifty y-miles-a day
avera%e maintained, although the
trucks were not forced, and it was
not the intention OF the officials OF
the quartermaster's corps to break
any records. The remarkable fea-
ture. however, lies in the fact that
this schedule was maintained in the
dead of winter, during one of the
most severe billiards. and cold
snaps that certain portions OF the
country have experienced in years.
Temperatures of Is degrees below
zero were encountered and the train
was required to force its way
through snowfall from one to four
feet, and occasionally drifts even
deeper than this were encountered.
This remarkable test of the abil-
ity and endurance of driver, as well
as truck, comes at time when the
country is looking for solution to
the problem of freight congestion
which is meDacing the food and
fuel supplies of many sections of
our country. However,. it is not so
much in the tonnage carried on the
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12
THREE BRAVE PATRIOTS.

1t is related that the driver of an
ambulance in Chester drove up to
the depot to receive a patient, but
when he learned that the patient
was suffering with meningitis hastily
departed. leaving the sick man to
shift for himself. SO much for the
driver. Two nurses from a Chester
hospital volunteered their services
to the young man in the face Of dan
ger; it being considered inexpedient
to take him to the hospital. a noble
woman who has sons in the army
volunteered her home. There is the
spirit that is going to win the war
the spirit of sacrifice, the spirit of
cheerfully facing danger. Those
two nurses and that godly mother
were on the firing line in defense of
their country. and there is pa
triotism no greater than they dis
played. Though the driver of the
vehicle who deserted the suffering
soldier is nearly Stacker.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12
THE CASE OF LAFoLLErrE.

we people Oh America are fncltn-
ed to forget and condone after a
weariness OF legal tangle and inves-
tigation. A murderer generally
stands better chance at trial after
long delay in bringing him before
the court. At the time of commits
sion of a crime there is usually lot
of sentiment against the perpetra-
| tor, but as time wears on the senti-
ment crystalizes into sympathy for
the accused and if he is brought to
trial and acquitted, most people are
glad.
In the case of LaFollette one
finds much to think about. The
Wisconsin senator has been gravely
indicted by the senate, charges of
tie most serious nature have been
brought against him, but his trial"
has been delayed and delayed until
the people-the rank and file of the
people-are beginning to forget the
details of the crimes charged to La
Toilette. Now, the governor of Wis
consin advances the idea that La
Toilette should resign his seat in the
senate and ask reelection by the
people of his state as a vote of con-
fidence. The plan is frought with
dangers, though it might work out
satisfactorily. Suppose that his
people endorse him and re-elect
him, but the United States senate
refuse to accept their verdict of ac-
quittal, would not that, in way, be
a reflection upon the people OF the
state of Wisconsin? or accepting the
verdict, would it not be a reflection
upon the senate? And in either
event. the charges against the SEN
ator would remain unanswered and
unproven.
Governor Phillips says that the
senate should face the issue frank
ly and bodily and take action upon it.
He very rightfully takes the position
that if a grave offense against the
United States has been committed
by the Wisconsin senator, the senate
should eXpel him, but on the other
hand, if the senator is innocent. the
senate should as frankly acquit
him. That position of the Wiscon-
sin governor is rightfulIy taken and
no one will deny that his suggestion
should be carried out. Charges
against LaFollette were brought in
the senate and the senate should
dispose of them. Should the peo-
pie of Wisconsin endorse LaFollette
by their votes, and the charges in
the senate stand without action on
the part of the senate. The News
cannot conceive of the senate max
ing peace with the people of that
state unless the charges are with
drawn. and in that event. somebody
would have blundered by ever point
ing the accusing finger.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12
THE DIFFERENT TASTES.

When YOU go to a hotel YOU eat
only those things that appeal to
your taste. The GaGney Ledger
thinks it's the same with news
paper-just cast aside the articles
that do not appeal to you. The
Ledger says:
And so Mr - doesn't
like some of the things he reads in
The Ledger? Neither DO we. But
he is at liberty to pick out what he
does like and leave the rest for some
one who is less fastidious. Does he
know what they call the man who
sat down at first-class hotel din
ner, and beginning at the first item
on the bill of fare, tried to eat every
dish mentioned thereon? The Led
ger presents varied bill of fare
three times week. but there is no
law compelling you to devour every
portion OF it. Just put aside what
YOU don't relish and say nothing
about ii. And don't swear at the
editor. It's both wicked and fool
ish.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12

And now the committee on public
information, not satisfied with free
newspaper advertising for the gov
ernment, sends the newspapers a
press edition" entitled: "The Ac-
tivities of the Committee on Public
Information" George Creel ought
to send out cuts of himself.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12
TUESDAY. FEB. II, 1918.
SENTENCE SERMONS.

Nature gives to every time and
season some beauties of its own !;
and from morning to night as from
the cradle to the graves, is but a
succession of changes so gentle and
easy that we can scarcely mark
their progress Dickens.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12

Most OF all the other beautiful
threes, by dozens and hundreds.
Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rain
bows, brothers and sisters, aunts aad
cousins, but only one mother in all
the wide world.-Kate Douglas
Wiggin.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12

Funny how a man can grow in
public acquaintance to be called
merely The Colonel
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12

Goodbye. old Heatless Mondays;
if you ever visit us again we hope
it's ninety-three III the shade
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12

world, this negro institution is serv-
The negro seems to be telling us
more about the sweet potato than
we ever knew.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12

Luke McLuke must have been
here. He has discovered that "a
Chance lives in Lancaster. S. c."
Though there is nothing so funny
about that because it's not the kind
of chance you take in most towns.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12

The arrival of shipment of b..
ward relieving the fuel shortage
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12

1t wouldn't be surprising if some
OF the editors got mad and refused
tc ride on the old trains.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12

The law requires the sidewalks to
be cleared of snow. Nothing is said
in the ordinance about ice. Why
this slip?-Richmond Times-Dis-
patch. Easy Because Of the ice.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12

The
Greensboro
Daily
News
says:
The person who raises his
Own tender. young
Spring onions,
And artichokes;
Strawberries, spuds,
Pie-plant, oyster plant,
Peas, snap-beans, caulihower,
And rosy tomatoes;
Yea, roas' ears. cabbages
(From which sour krout. the
Finest fruit that grows);
Beets, parsnips, yams-
Can snap his finger at
Famine and tell Doc.
Garfield where he gets off.
And in that gladstone season
There won't be any blackberryles.
Or watermelonless
Or cantaloupeless
Days.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12
EDITORIALETTES.

What has become of the old men
ace, Overproduction?
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12

The senate killed the bill prohib-
iting the shipment OF LIQUOR into
South Carolina, thereby avoiding
scme really worthwhile legislation.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12

Our idea of getting something for
nothing is the salary of the legisla-
tor.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12

To Doc. Garfield: Dear Doc
Thank you. (Signed) American
Business.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-02-12

If the government can get its ad-
vertising free, who blames il?
Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-22

One hears a good deal just now about what Ludendorf will do and what linden burg proposes to do and what the kaiser thinks about this and that, but not a word from General Ferdinand Foch since he promised the allied world that the Prussian should not take Amiens That was over month ago. Well they have not taken Amiens. They are at bloody standstill in Flanders. They are talking good deal but they are not doing anything; in fact, have not done anything since Foch assumed command Foch is as silent as the tomb. Not a word from him since that brief but glorious assurance. What is Foch doing? What does Foch think2 What does Foch plan? Won Hindenburg would give every hair from his ferocious moustache to know. They do say that Foch has the art of Fabian, who retreated often but made the enemy pay. That he fights like Par thian, who harassed his enemies venom ously without allowing them a return stroke. That he knows also the give em hell kind of fighting that all brave, warm blooded men love to see in leader. A great triple combination.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-22

than lUO eating establishments in the state have signed up the no wheat pledge.
 Thomas Maddock, former state en- gineer and chairman of the state re- publican committee in the famous campaign two years ago, is now lieu tenant in company D, 42nd engineers. It is believed that Lieut.. Maddock is already il France.
 A. D. Adkin, ST. of Wickenburg. who has been serving as major in the engineering corps at Camp Lewis. American Lake. Wash, has been pro noted 10 lieutenant-cOlonel He has been assigned to duty at Camp Perry. Ohio. Col. Adkin was a mining en- gineer at Wickenburg before the war CrOke cut, and enlisted at Camp Kearny in the engineering corps.
 Plans for the great farewell to be given the 800 men who are to leave Phoenix for Camp Cody at Deming on May 27 are beginning to take def mite shape This farewell is to be in
 
 all of Phoenix and MaricOpa county are invited to take part. The public is to do the marching while the men of the draft contingent about 10 de- part are to occupy the seats of honor in the reviewing stand and watch them march past.
 Habeas corpus proceedings will be instituted in the superior court with in the next few days, it is understood. to secure the release of Ival McCann. being held on a murder charge in con nection with the death of Kenneth C. FalstOn last November. That Justice of the Peace Charles DeSales Wheeler erred when he fixed two separate bonds fer the defendant. one for cash bond and the other for surety bond. will be the issue raised in the habeaS corpus proceedings, it is understood It is the contention of some that un- der the Arizona laws a court can af- fix only one bond.
 The first piece of mail to be received in Arizona by airplane mail service arrived at the capitol Monday morn ing address to Gov. Hunt It was a circular letter from the Aero Club of America sent on the first trip of the air mail service inaugurated May 15 between New York and Washington. The envelope bore the special 24 cent postage stamp for the air mail serv- ice, which shows an airplane instead of the head of an historical character and the postmark reads Air Plane Servica Washington-New York May l5 First Trip New York" An addi- tiOnsl marking shows two wings joined with the words "Via Airplane~
 Renewal of free issue of Krag rifles and ammunition to rifle clubs affiliated with the National Rifle As sociaJion of America has been an- nounced Colonel George J. Roskruge. National Rifle association secretary Tor Arizona, received the following .e legram Monday:
 The secretary of war has just ap- proved the renewal of the free issue of the model 1898 United States rifle CKrag). and ammunition for the same In limited quantities to rifle clubs.
 Under the rules of the National board for the promotion of rifle prac- ice such issue will only be made Co hose rifle club in good standing with the National Rifle Association of America. RequestiOn blanks with i'm ,tructions will be mailed to all secre- aries of clubs in good standing on re- rcipt of same. from tho ordnance de- lartment A new form has been ap- ,royed and is now being printed"
Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-22

holding in his hand the sacred banner of the freedom of today.
 To such an Irishman as this his Ameri- can friends and well wishers say, Your plight of fifty years ago under bad Eng fish rule was bed of roses to what Ireland would suffer under German dominion if England IS beaten now.
 This editor heard an Irishman on the Tucson-Bisbee train the other day sum up the present situation with profane but true emphasis when he said: Those fellows in Ireland that are preaching rebellion and consorting with German agents ought to be stood against wall and shot. I'm Irish myself, through and through, and have right to say this thing. 1 mean it, too. l fought dirty German sympathizer, fist and skull, in Phoenix drug store yester- day for daring to talk treason in my adopt ed land of America. And I'd fight an Irish man in Ireland, too, for the same thing. We must beat Germany first and save Ire land from German slavery before we go foolishly ranting around about any Irish freedom from England There1l be no freedom from Cork to California unless we beat Kaiser Bill Every lrishman that has the good of Ireland at heart and holds true to the traditions and martyrdom of his people will work, fight and strive hand in hand with England, America and France to the bitter end in this war Then, when the war is over and Germany beaten to a pulp, and an Irishman wants to harass Eng land and fight for more freedom, I'm with him clear to the hilt.
 And a hundred thousand Irishmen just like this brave, loyal, admirable lrish-Am- erican, are fighting in the English armies in France and winning deathless renown for the Emerald Isle But, unfortunately. there are thousands of misguided, bitter Irish who still hold their old wrongs before their present salvation and would rush on to personal and national destruction rather than yield jot or little of their old preju- dice against England We cannot condemn them utterly because of their brave breth- ren who took Givenchy on the Somme but we can speak plainly and sternly to them in this great crisis and urge them to save themselves and Ireland from shame and disgrace forever before it Is everlastingly too late.
 Home rule, freedom, prosperity, honor and renOwn to an extent never dreamed of in the widest visions of Robert Ernnet and Wolf Tone await Ireland in the near future if only she will for once stand firm and united against the greatest peril that ever menaced free men since the first despot organized tyranny upon the earth.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-22
HSEE 'GETS-IT' PEEL
 OFF THIS CORN"

Leaves The Toe as Smooth as the
 Palm of Your Hand.
 The corn never grew that Gets It. will not get. It Eever irritates the flesh. never makes your toe sore. Just two drops of "Gets-It" and presto, the corn pain vanishes. Shortly you can peel the corn right
Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-22

In his announcement and declaration of principles, w. A. Moeur, state land com missioner, and regarded as the most con servative of the Democratic candidates for governor, left much to be desired by all those having the real good of the state at heart when he remained silent in the mat ter of the l. W. w., the agitator and the professional strike promoter. As far as he went Mir. Moeur spoke finely and fairly upon state issues, but the trouble is, he did not go far enough Tom Campbell, the Re publican candidate, and Secretary Osborn, Democratic aspirant for the governorship, the only two who have already spoken to the state at large from platform of prin- ciples, came clear out in the open upon every subject in which the state has vital interest. Mir. Moeur may yet do so from the speakers platform before the primaries are held His record for frank speaking and courageous action indicates that he will