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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-05-10
PUTTING 1T TO USE.

A few years ago it was related
that authorities in Asheville poured
so much liquor which had been seized
into the French Broad river that all
the fish got drunk and held a big
razzee. This story in part is true.
In the old days when liquor was seiz-
ed by officers it was poured out in the
streets and permitted to run down
the cutters, sometimes while onlook-
ers with watered eyes and parched
tongues stood by in disgust. True
the fish did not need the liquor and
1t was no sort of application for
paved streets, but it went that way
and there was no means open for
the thirsty to stay the strong hand
of the law.
Them was the old days" when
there was plenty of it left and not
poured out to make the fish "tipsy."
Now it is different. The seized
liquor is shipped to Washington
where it is re-distilled, the alcohol
extracted and used for war purposes.
Colonel Hohenzollern, we have
heard, takes his straight, but Uncle
Sam, good old soul, takes out the
alcohol and throws what is left
away, and besides there is a vast diff
ference in the way it is used.
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SCISSORS AND PASTE.
Delays i'm the Mail.
Charleston News and Courie

Charleston News and Courier.)
When it was reported not so
long ago that President Wilson was
accustomed to rely mainly upon the
Springfield Republican for keeping
in touch with current events the
thought which Immediately occur
red to us was that the postal service
between Springfield and Washington
must be very much better than that
between Washington and Charleston
and, indeed, in this part Of the world
generally. But now we doubt this.
The Republican is usually at least
three days old before it reaches us
and not infrequently the better part
OF a week has gone by before the
Sunday paper gets to this city. From
articles appearing in our Springfield
contemporary we are led to conclude
that 1t is having its troubles nearer
home also.
The question Of chief concern to
newspapers and newspaper readers is
as to whether the delays which are
so generally complained OF are avoid
able. w. NJ. Collins. who writes to
The Republican from Washington,
signing himself as Industrial Secre-
tary OF Railway Mail Association" is
sure that they are. The principal
trouble, he maintains, is not the de-
moralization of the train service but
the curtailment of tho postal service.
both as to accommodations for the
mails on the trains and the number
of employees engaged in the distri-
button of the mail en- route" He
claims that the number OF railway
postal clerks decreased twelve pei
cent In the period of 1913-1917 and
that the decrease is more marked
during the present year; th3A not
withstanding the great inesS use
which has taken place in the volume
of mail matter carried. II is for this
reason he contends that congestion
of mails has occurred at all import
liant centers of business, 1n an effort
to perform the distribution that was
. formerly performed en- route, in the
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fashion by shooting down the ring
leaders. 1t lasted only two days and
the press was allowed to say nothing
about 1t. However, the Vorwarts re-
ferred to it and was suppressed for
three days as punishment According
to Mr.. Easley's statistics more than
two-thirds the strikes in 1912 were
unsuccessful and labor unions only
allowed to meet under government
supervision.
AS to slums-whoever has smelled
the horrible odors in Cologne-until
1914 the filthiest city in Europe in
some of it's residence sections, will
laugh at Germany's claim to being
slumless. And what about the foul
ness of Madgeburg and Dantzig-l
East London is Paradise Alley in
comparison. Berlin. the show city
Of the empire, looks like a town OF
Istucco-fronted houses, but back OF
them-and this condition is much
worse in Hamburg, Cologne, Frank
fort and other large towns-stand
the serried ranks of poverty's tene-
ments, row upon row. Berlin has
more one-room tenements than any
other city in the world. Families of
six and seven herding in one apart
ment and a hall bathroom doing SER
vice for half dozen such families.
AS to land distributions: over n
third of Germany's farms are less
than l IA acres in size; 22.6 per cent
between l IA and acres; 17.5 per
cent to II acres; 1876 per cent IL
to so acres; while 23,566 junkers-
the land barons. own nearly 25,000,- |
600 acres--running from $50 to 500
acres and more each.
The above is only small part of |
the picture which Germany actually !
presented to the world in the before |
the war period. Not of course what
she claimed, but nevertheless collat-
ed from her official records-all ex-
cept the filth of her large cities. 1t
sounds inviting to an American
workingman, does it not And since |
then-of course, conditions have got |
ten even worse with women doing |
work that would stoop the shoulders
OF the strongest man.
Oppression Of farmers, underpaid /
workers, enslavement of women and
children industrially, shocking hous-
ing conditions, chronic undertaking |
with resultant fearful infant mortali- |
ty, counterfeit social insurance-are |
a few counts in the indictment made
by Mr.. Easley against Germany be-
fore the war.
German efficiency goes to appalling
lengths, whether it is breeding Ger
man subjects from the enslaved |
young women Of France and Bel
gium; or in issuing lying propa-
ganda with which to break down the
moSale OF the worlds democracy. |
Nothing is too low. nothing too aw-
ful for the Potsdam spawn not to at
tempt
Yet fools in America still mouth,
Peace, peace at any price
Can a man make peace with
ren?
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PAYING DIVIDENDS.

The interest on the Liberty bonds
of the third issue bought in Lancas-
ter county is $S.243.25 annually.
This is the smallest consideration in
connection with the loan, yet it is
not small by any means.
Largely, the money invested in
Liberty bonds is idle money" and
it now has been put to work in help
ing Uncle Sam win the war. The
spirit OF the American soldiers in
France is to "fght hard and fast and
end the war Quickly" That spirit
Iwouid be fmpossible were they half
feds. and inadeqGately equipped.
There. are embodied two considera-
tions of the Liberty, bond. the inter-
est earned ig the third. -
Lancaster county has " ~ : of
the three issues of 50 sonds.
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I. I. I. T. + + I. 1. I. /. /. /. d r
HUNS TREATMENT OF
WORKINGMAN.
By DANIEL LOUIS HANSON.)

Listen 10 TINS.
81 look after my dear working
people as does a father his children.
] build beautiful homes for them,
pay widows pensions; also pension
for old age, sickness, loss of work
and increases in families. l pay high
wages, limit working hours. make
loans easy to farmers. have no
slums as do America and Great
britain; | adiudicate all strikes
Mine is the land OF the care-free and
happy workingman."
That is the ed-down-to-a-few-
sentences propaganda that Germany
covered the whole world with before
the war with the ostensible purpose
OF weakening the morale OF her enc
mics in the war she then was plan
ming.
Great credit is due to Chairman
Easley of the National Civic Fedora
tion in his published refutation of
Germany's claims; just few items
from that valuable document will
prove Illuminating:
Wido%s' pensions in Germany
during a series OF years averaged 35
cents n week; sick pensions 95 cents
week; invalidity pensions the
same; orphans pensions 81 cents a
week. Wages averaged per day for
carpenters S1.45; plumbers s1.25;
railway employes-engineer and
conductors on state railways, 20
cents. shop workers. S1.02; male
/ farm labor ~ cents; women farm
labor AZ cents.
And this in land where govern
ment statistics placed average cost
of keeping families at over $500 per
year How did they make both ends
meet? By working the whole fami.
ly; every second worsn in Germany
worked during the day before the
war nearly 100000 al
itold-and as the writer can testify
from an extended trip Throughout
the empire, at the hardest labor.
AS to hours: those OF skilled labor
ran about 5S per week, in textile and
other lines from IL to IA per day. II
1911 the big stores of Berlin KEEP
open till . at night and some hours
on Sundays-though that last was
remedied the following year Th'
smaller stores were even worse as tt
l.
hours. a banking concern across
from my hotel worked from Z IL
: morning -tN 9Sst night.
sRegaNiE Strikes whis German!
i claimed to)always adjW Ae3 tha
year ! saS the begy-sD OF N /
DISTURBANCE 10 W r.e seetie, !, o
Berlin and .or the aatAri
ties st.tleo rneassb~~<~T IA,
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have it, and billiards, for the aver
age man, is in itself the most de-
sirable of all games. 1t is compare
lively inexpensive, it affords plenty
of wholesome exercise and the relax
alton that tired men need. No other
game compares with it in attractive
quality. Nowadays billiard rooms,
and tables are included in the fur1
nishings of many of the YouI
Mems Christian Association buiId4-
ings and it is only sensible that they
should be. ~
OF course, the objection to bill
liards is that the game is degraded.
1t is employed as cover, sometimes, 1
for gambling and drinking resoreS
frequented by undesirables who luz
and corrupt the young and unsli,
pecting. a
billiard room should have pl
ty of fresh air and plenty of light.
Give the game chance under good
conditions and it will do good, rf6t
harm, in Laurens or elsewhere.
Evil invariably shuns the light. Ten
mis- and town ball" would come to
be evils were they played in dark
places where the air is close add ]
heavy.
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ma ought to be heard in [,

ma ought to be heard in the
:, but the healing . voice of
,tian charity. The cause of
liberty and civil government
IS as little as that of religion by
fusion of duties. Those who quit
r proper character to assume
{ does not belong to them, are,
the greater part. ignorant both
he -acter they leave. and of
er they assume.-Ed-
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The Corruption of Good Game.
columbia State.)

The opposition in Laurens to
pool rooms,' resulting in the clos
ing of them, has been, apparently, to
the rooms" rather than to the
game of pool, or pocket billiards. To
that, rational objection could hardly
be raised in these days.
Men must have recreation and
amusement, war or peace they will
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.ORGLUNI.

aircraft, mad - . guns and other
war material, nor does it care to
know. 1t is not a healthy subject to
discuss in public and in print in the
hearing of German spies and agents
of the Kaiser, whether such construc-
tion is satifactory or unsatisfactory.
| The alleged breakdown of the airl
craft program and the failure of the
Colts company to produce the
Browning gun, if essentially true,
perhaps deserve some criticism, but
the publication Of such stories does
not fall far short Of violation of CEN
sorship rules, and are not calculated
to inspire public confidence in the
administration. Possibly 1t would
be argued that the people are enti-
tied to know what is going on, and
possibly they are, but, in the opin-
ion of The News, the people who be-
lieve in President Wilson and the ad-
ministration do not care to know
Everything that is going on, and be-
| Ilievfng that the one idea of the
American government is to win the
war, they are going to call for proof
of the charges that there has been
mismanagement in the production Of
airships, guns, or anything else.
Chiefly the charges of graft and
mismanagement in the airplane con
struction program, which culminat-
ed in the ordering of an investigation
| by the president, come from Gutzon
Borglum, sculptor, and while The
News has an open mind as to the
truth of his charges that there has
been corruption in the expenditure
of funds and pro-German intrigue in
lairplane production, Mr. Borgmm
probably will find it difficult to prove
more than waste on the part of those
charged with the expenditure of the
funds. Borglum, however, has an
excellent opportunity to do the gov
ernment real service il he can sub
stantiate his statement of pro-Ger-
man intrigue. Col. f. A, Deeds, an
army member of the aircraft board
besides being charged by Borglum
with misstatement of fact as to the
number of American planes flying in
France bears the insignia of having
,chV l his name from "Diech" to
I"sd 1ing more American" The
genS charges preferred by Borg
lum ,Scontained in the following
paragH oh, and the investigation or
dered oy President Wilson may be
expected to substantiate or repudiate
them:
II have said that the aero depart
ment is full of profiteering, that
hundreds of millions have gone, that
factories have been created where
there were no factories necessary.
land contracts to the extent of fifty
millions given to men who had
! tneither rhyme nor reason for the
lremotest connection with the emer-
gency of airplane production, but
who had the pull of Deeds, and who
are still floundering in their ignor-
ance and incompetency, unable and
incapable of fulfilling their contracts,
still drawing under the cost plus sys-
tenn on the treasury of the nation. ]
have said that aeronautic men have
been snubbed and ignored, and that
factories that knew the art of air.
plane building are even at this writ
ing without the slightest considera.
tion by the group who dealt out the
colossal funds for their own pur
poses"
=.
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Manners must adron knowledge,
nd smooth its way through the
>rls-s Like great rough diamond,
very well in closet by
iosity, and also for its in
e; but it will never be
Nine, if it is not polished.
id.
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saying we would be willing to go if
within the draft age may yet have
an opportunity of proving it.
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Getting your name in the paper is
not all you get for the il gestment.
Besiees peace and protection event.
ually, you've got the bond
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1t is to be noted in passing that
, while drugs may relieve the, pangs
sof hunger for time they will not
prevent recurrence What hungry
fn'an needs is something to eat.
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The News believes Secretary Baker
knows what he is doing even If he
doesn't make confidant of the
fwhole world.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-05-10

AS matter of fact few reasons
are to be found why good preacher
should not stay in good town
where he is doing good work as long
as he does good work and there are
some towns which need a. good
jpreacher, not only four Fears, but all
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MAY 10, 1918.
SENTENCE SERMONS.

n The essence Of good and evil is a
Oertain disposition OF the will
GEpictetus.
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And besides the more than half
million already lover there" there
are many more where those came
from"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-05-10

Are we to understand from the
estate that reform" is not needed in
the Democratic party?
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-05-10

At making noise you've got to
hand it to Mr.. Borglum, but making
airplanes is an entirely different
matter.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-05-10

Perhaps Secretary Baker can ex-
plain many other things but most Of
the folks are willing to take his
word. for it,
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The Kaiser is reported as going
mad" Going? Gone!
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-05-10

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer, when we
stoop
Than when we soar.
n Wordsworth.
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EDITORIALETTES.

Dju buy a bond? Then buy War
Savings stamps!
The Ordway new era., 1918-05-10
List of States of the Union,
Number of Square Miles and
Number OF Counties in Each.

The following are the states of tho
Union arranged In alphabetical order,
the number of square miller and num-
Der of counties in each:
Alabama has 81 .99S square miles
and 81 counties; Arizona has 1885
square miles and 13 counties; Arkan-
sas, 53,335 square miles and 75 coun-
ties; California. 15s.297 square miles
and So counties; Colorado, 103,94S
square miles and 50 counties; Connec-
ticut. 4.965 square miles and coun-
ties; Delaware. 2.370 square miles and
3 counties; Florida, 5S.6C6 square
miles and 46 counties; Georgia. 50, ,265
square miles and 1877 counties; Idaho,
S3,SSS square miles and % counties;
Illinois. 56665 square miles and 102
counties; Indiana. 36,354 square miles
and 90 counties; Iowa, 56,147 square
miles and 30 counties; Kansas. 50. 1888
square miles and JOG counties; Ken
lucky, 40,59S square miles and 119
counties; Louisiaia. 4S506 square
miles and 80 counties or parishes;
Maine, 1904 square miles and 16
countless Maryland, 1897 square
miles and "a counties; Massachusetts,,
S.266 square miles and IA counties;
Michigan. $3.50 square miles and SO
counties; Minnesota, S4.6S3 square
miles and So counties; Mississippi, 49,
$50 square miles and 76 counties; Mis-
souri,, 69.420 square miles and 115 coun-
ties; Montana, 146997 square miles and
2S counties: Nebraska, 1880 square
miles and 81 counties; Nevada, no.
600 square miles and Ia counties; New
Hampshire. 9,341 square miles and 10
counties; New Jersey, 1924 square
miles and 81 counties; New Mexico,
122,624 square miles and 20 counties;
New York. 49204 square miles and 81
counties; North Carolina, 2,426
square miles and 9S counties; North
Dakota, 7O.s37 square miles and As
counties; Ohio, 41,040 square miles and
IS counties; Oklahoma. 7O,O57 square
miles and 26 counties; Oregon, 96,699
square miles and 33 counties; Penn
sylvania, 1926 square miles and 81
counties; Rhode Island, 1,24S square
miles and 5 counties; South Carolina,
3O,9S9 square miles and A counties;
South Dakota, 77,615 square miles and
50 counties; Tennessee, 1902 square
miles and 90 counties; Texas, 265, 500
square miles and 246 counties; Utah,
S4,s90 square miles and 27 counties;
Vermont. 1854 square miles and IA
counties; Virginia, 42,627 square miles
and IA counties; Washington, 69,127
square miles and 3S counties; West
Virginia, 24,170 square miles and So
counties; Wisconsin, 56.066 square
miles and II counties; Wyoming. 97.-
911 square miles and 13 counties.
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WHEAT ANDFLOUR
Total Commercial Stocks Shown by Partial labulation
of Food Survey of December 3D. 1917


a
hand December
n United department of
commercial visible
showed hand
visible
radsreet
that reported for January
December 1917
earlier than did the stocks at the end OF
while the commercial stocks OF
date In 1916 AT
slight change in the rel
of dates of the two
earlier
of the stocks
81 stocks OF
reported for the corresponding date in 9
approximately 60oOOOo bushels as com
and ou
els the avera r period 1911-l9l5
that the oa
bushels
about
barrels weeks supply
dealers held sS4 cent OF the
of
that date In the case OF
bakers wholesale grocers
per rcenta warehouses 53 per cent
commercial stocks OF
bushels
held about 5ONoUU
amounted to 2S
United .he
followed pennsylvania
Nebraska with 6349l5 barrels whe
Missouri each reported about o barrels
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Varieties Of Cheese
Catalogued

CBy the United States Department of Ag-
riculture.)
The distinct varieties of cheese num-
ber probably about IS. although the
names given to the manufactured kinds
total several hundred. This statement
is made in the United States depart
ment of agriculture's bulletin No. 6OS,
varieties of Cheese, Descriptions and
Analysis" which is revision of for
mer government publications on the
subject More than 40 names of cheese
are given in the bulletin and are of To-
cal origin usually having been derived
from towns or communities.
A list of the best-known names ap-
piled to the distinct varieties or groups
is as follows:
Brick. caciocavallo, camembert.
cheddar cottage, dry. edan, emmental,
gouda hand. holstein, limburg, neuf!
chatel, parmesan. roQuefort, sapsago.
scnnno and trappist. Descriptions and
chemical analyses of the foreign and
domestic cheese mentioned In the bull
letin are given alphabetically.
Attempts to make emmental and
limburg cheese in this country have
been very successful, the bulletin says.
These varieties are being made by 500
factories in Wisconsin alone and by
factories in Ohio, New York and north
ern Illinois. Investigation also has
shown that cnmembert and cheese
of the same general nature as rogue
fort or stilton, can be made success
fully in this country.
There is no reason says the bull
: letin, ito believe that any variety of
cheese imported cannot be made here,
although with present knowledge 1t
would not be advisable to try to make
many kinds. Probably scientific in
vestigation would show how to i'm
prove on the average quality of the
: cheese made In the old countries, for
II must be remembered that only the
very best is shipped by the European
makers. the rest, or poorer grades, be-
. ing consumed at home. Unfortunate-
;ly feeling prevails In the United
States. that cheese equal to the best Of
the European product cannot be pro-
drced here. This feeling is based upon
n lack of knowledge of actual condi-
tons in Europe and of the conditions
affecting the qualities of cheese. Ger
tain parts of Europe probably are bet
ter favored by desirable climatic con-
ditions and by more general dissemina-
ton of the bacteria or molds necessary
to the characteristic ripening OF diff
ferent varieties, but even the best aver
nge natural conditions can be improved
IN by artificial means since necessary
molds or bacteria can be grown In pure
culture and utilized anywhere. How
ever. the cost may render 1t imprac-
ticable."
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ERADICATE APPLE TREE PEST
Best Wash for Borers Is Thick Coat o
Paint Applied Before Eag-Lay-
ing Season.

N'rom the United States Department of
Agriculture.)
Probably the best wash for apple
tree borers is thick coat of paint,
made from raw llnseed oil and pure
white lead. Remove the earth for a
distance Of two to three inches from
the base of the tree, scrape off the
dirt and loose bark scales, and, afer
worming, apply to the exposed trunk a
thick. uniform coating of the paint to
distance Of about one foot above the
ground. Worming and painting should
be done annually about early May, be-
fore the beginning of the egg-laying
season of the parent beetles. White
lead paint has sometimes caused In.
jury probably on account Of inferior In
gradients.