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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-08
COSMOS.

Much more than two hours of en-
joyable entertainment are provided
by this weeks bill at the Cosmos
Theater. where some of the. supple
mentary features sharply rival the
headline attraction. Belmonts War
blers. a bird novelty, is one of the
charming offerings of the season and
opens with bird songs and limitations
that excite unusual interest 1t closes
canaries, all singing cheerily as II
in accompaniment to bird song by
a man at the piano. Bartram and
Saxon, two southern singers, also,
rank far above the average vaude-
vile attraction of their type. Both
are excellently gifted in the matter
of voice and their songs are all new
and artistically sung. Gillen Carter
and company in The Slippery Duck"
a little playlet, win big applause for
clever work which introduces girl
coincidence who belongs out on the
big dramatic stage. ooh, Aunty.
the headline attraction. is more pleas
though there are two well sung
songs by Dolly Irving, and bit OF
comedy, with song by Rosavelle
Leslie. The real attraction. however.
is the company of seven pretty girls.
who are draped by William Grant in
the lingerie out. Kennedy and Kra-
mer offer some unusually good clog
dancing. and Bert Walton rounds out
the bill with good -natured chaff and
songs. The film display is extraor-
binary. including Nazimovas latest
matinee attraction only; Fatty" Ar
buckle in "A Desert Hero" an anus
ing conglomeration of nonsense, and
the Pathe News.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-08
NURSE TRAINING IN AMERICA
Scholarships for Italian Girls Es-
tablished by Red Cross.

ROME, June 20 Correspondence Of
American nursing to be acquired in
America by Italian girls who, in turn.
are expected to bring homo the bene-
fits of their training and teach other
Italian girls is the purpose of nurs-
ing scholarships recently established
by the tuberculosis commission of the
American Red Cross here.
Richard Beatty Mellon, Pittsburgh
banker, has financed three sch lar
ships and the girls will soon leave
to undertake their training.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-08
557 Killed in Munich Fighting.

MUNICH. juno 20 Correspondence
of the Associated Press).-Five hun
killed in street fighting during the
communist Instruction from April 80
to May 8. The casualty lists report
that SO government troops. 1875 red
guard troops and 377 civilians were
killed and 303 wounded. One hundred
and eighty-six were executed, of
which forty-two were insurgents and
IA civilians.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-08
Correspondents Organize

LONDON, June Is Correspondence of
the Associated Press).-The Association
of American Correspondents in London.
which has as its object the promotion of
the protection Of their interests, has
been organized This organization in
cludes in its membership representatives
of all the important American news
papers and news agencies. Its members
reach readers in every part of the Unit
ed States.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-08
200 Bolsheviki Captured; Executed

TOXIC, June 10 Correspondence of
the Associated Precs).-A dispatch
from Hardin states that 800 bolshe-
Wiki were captured near Irkutsk late
ly and shot to death 1t is declared
that there are about 1000 bolsheviki
west of Irkutsk in the direction of
Krasnoyarsk.
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Trades union organization in Japan
is reported to be making grea ter
i..adway among TIE working women
..!i,n al.tch. t,.o- Il.eIi.
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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-01

pleasing to them. 1t proved that
long before the congressional parti-
sans started to raise their clamor
about the i'll treatment OF American
soldiers in our prison camps In
France the army authorities had dis
covered the abuses and had proceed
ed to punish those who were respon-
sible for them.
What more could the congressional
agitators ask than this? There are
brutal men everywhere and in every
army. 1t would have been extraordi-
nary if no such men had been found
among the minor officers placed in
charge of the prison camps. All that
the army command could do was to
remove such men from their posts
when their misdeeds were discovered
a"d to punish them. This the army
command seems to have done. H.
looks rs if this latest attempt to dis
credit the American army is already
collapsing.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-01
100 SHIPS BUILT ON
GREAT LAKES ARE SOLD

Washington, July 31.-One hun
dred steamships built on the Great
Lakes during the war have been sold
by the shipping board to the Ande"
son Overseas corporation of New
York, for approximately $4,000, 900
This probably is the largest ship sale
ing the deal tonight, and the vessels
will eventually pass into French and
Italian ownership.
Delivery of the ships will com
mence August 10, and proceed at the
rate of six or more a week until com
pleted, Chairman Hurley said.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-01
SCISSORS AND PASTE.
Good Roads.
(Yorkville Enquirer.) }

tYorkville Enquirer.)
The editor of The Enquirer, not
long ago. had the experience of being
lie roads from Hamlet, II. c., to Raj
eigh, from Raleigh to Durham, and
from Durham to Clarksville. Va. all
during the same IL hours, including
freshments, etc.
a part of the distance from Hamlet
to Raleigh was made over the ma
tional highway. 1t was ordinary
highway from Raleigh to Durham,
and national highway during the
whole distance from Durham TO
ClarksviIre. The distance from Ham
let to Clarksville is about 175 miles.
The best of the road along the route
outside of the bitulithic concrete in
some of the cities like Sanford. Hen
derson, Raleigh and Oxford, was
about equal to the road from Glover
to Bernetts mountain and the poor
est of it was about like that between
Yorkville and the Chester line by way
Of McConnellsville; but little OF it
was up to that between Gastonia and
Kings Mountain by way of Linwood
college.
Generally. in fact almost invariably,
the national highway is plainly blazed
by strips and daubs of red. white and
blue on telephone posts, fences, trees
and the corners OF houses.
In most cases where the road was
not already very good, great gangs of
road laborers were engaged in max
ing it very much better. and taken al
together it was a pretty good road
over the whole distance.
Over all the longest stretches of
real good road throughout the entire
distance. the ruling impression on the
editors mind was a feeling of admi-
ration for the intelligent, broad
minded progressiveness of the people
of the different counties who have
made great headway along the line OF
highway Improvement. This. no
doubt. is also the ruling impression
of most people who travel good roads
anywhere, whether in North Carolina.
Virginia or South Carolina.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-01
The People Pay For II.
(Ohio State JOurnal)


The lower house of congress
bought 48 manicure sets, and charged
them up to stationery account. This
was exceeding the right of congress
and deception beside. Included in
the stationery account was one pow
der puff, Partisan ivory box, hair
receiver and some cachets These
may he small things 10 object TO. but
they stand for worse things. Anoth-
er item was 80 decks of playing cards
costing $72.10, all Included in the
stationery account. Still when these
men are. sent TO congress the prefix
Hon" is attached to their names.
They had better drop that or stop
buying manicure sets and gambling
IDS. Besides this. the senate has
lie bathrooms and men to rub
'ators down, shave and sham
', all at the taxpayers ex-
Jur public servants are GER
a luxury-loving set.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-01
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
Mr.. Hendrix Writes.

iEditOr of The Lancaster News:
do not mind criticism about the
conduct and business way in which
the Lancaster postoffice is run when
that criticism is based upon facts, but
when such statements as you had in
your last Fridays issue are made l
am compelled to say they are untrue.
The early Sunday morning mail 10
which you referred is brought direct
'ly from train 1lS to the Office ana
opened Immediately and distributed
and does not lie at the depot until
train 113. due here at 1915, arrives,
as you stated
1t is true that postoffice inspector
promised some of the patrons that
mail would be put on train 11S on
Sunday, but he did not make any such
promise until the local postoffice force
asked that he recommend it in order
to accommodate some of the business
people who say they have tried four
years to get mail on the early Sunday
morning train.
The operation of Sunday mail rests
largely with the local postofiice force.
Chief Clerk j. A. Metts visited this
office few days ago and asked me to
inform him ii | thought we had too
much Sunday work and he would
have some of the incoming mail taken
off or suggest that it be left until
Monday before opening.
A letter received a few days ago
from Mr.. Metts suggests that mail ar
irving here at 1918 be left at the
depot until train ia arrives at III,
and that all the mail be distributed
then in order to allow the office force
to attend Sunday school and church
services on Sunday morning.
1t is true that the efficiency OF this
office is far from perfect, but when
the people realize that the Office force
has been considerably broken up the
last few months and that three men,
one of them inexperienced, are doing
the work formerly done by four ex-
why the service is not what it should
be
Please publish this in the next is
sue of your paper in order that the
public may not be misled by the edi-
torial which appeared in your issue Of
July %. 1919. w. j. Hendrix,
Acting Postmaster.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-01
"p please ans BY return mail"

''p please ans BY return mail"
The above is given by the Kershaw
Era as IAN exact copy" of an appli-
cation made by a young lady for the
principalship of a school in Lancaster
county. that has had" the Era says,
some of the strongest teachers that
have ever taught in the county at it's
head"
Without common-school educa-
ton, the first element of prepared
ness to teach, it is hard to under
stand what inspired this girl to seek
a teaching position. Says the Era:
1t would be difficult to analyze just
what is meant by the statements of
this 1S-year-old girl, except the pitt
ful part that she desires to teach
And the deplorable thing in conneC-
tion. is that there are other unprc-
pared young girls ambitious to do the
same thing and there are school trus-
tees who will place the life interest
of their children into their keeping.
The time has come 10 stop playing
with education; too much is involved
We believe it is noble and most
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-01

There is no argument between
The News and the acting postmaster.
We fell into error as to the time of
distributing the sunday morning mail
by reason of the fact that the first
Sunday morning it was received on
train No. 1lS it was not distributed
until the arrival of the 1917 train,
and The News was glad to make prop
er correction. which was done in Tues
days paper. Mr.. Hendrix feels ag-
grievcd. however, at the criticism.
which he interprets as applying to
members of his force. and The News
takes pleasure in according him the
privilege of being heard.-Editor.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-01
How far Should the state Go?
(Spartanburg Herald.D

How far do the people of South
building a system of highways? This
question is the one, state officials
members of the legislature and 9TH
ers in authority. want answered be-
fore the next session OF the Iegisla-
ture meets. 1t is the question OF su-
preme importance.
In South Carolina the develop
mcnt of "A system of state roads is the
en- in the immediate future. 1t will
cost great deal of money, and that
money can be raised only by taxation
or by bond issues. Public sentiment
in the final action of the general as
Sembly, but ii is important that pub
lie sentiment be formed after a sane
consideration of the whole problem
I linians to be seriously considering
these questions
Today about four hundred miles of
road embraced in the proposed state
highway system of 5000 miles is
under construction, or approved by
state and federal authorities. for
early construction. The great part of
this road is in the upper part of the
state and with the exception of the
National Highway" passing through
Cherokee, Spartanburg. Greenville
and Anderson counties, no one of the
/ through roads promises early compile
/ tion.
/ This matter of building state sys-
TEN of roads within the next three
years rests with the people and their
attitude towards the undertaking. II
/ they are willing for the money to be
appropriated it can be done. If they
are not going to insist that ii be done,
and direct the raising OF sufficient
/ funds. il Will be good many years
before anything approaching a state
system is in existence.
How far do the people OF South
Carolina want to go in the matter o!
building a state highway system?
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-01
SHE WOULD TEACH.

Dear sir in reply to your adver-
tise l would like to saw l am col
leSe student four or five yrs-eXperi-
ence l would like to take position as
teacher of rural
school, if invitation are excepted
please ans at once giving information
and whate date school are expected
to start l am Is yrs of age spent
about Z yrs in graded school at my
home others In higher colleges please
ans by return mail stating salry per
month l am yours as waiting for re-
ply"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-01
The Best Joke.
In the Movies.

II should like to see your wild and
woolly west. " remarked the English
visitor
Then step in here with me-"
But this is cinema show"
Correct. And that's the only
place where you can see the wild and
woolly west now
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-01
Queer Beast.

Man is the only animal that uses
tobacco" said the prohibitionist who
had Joined the anti-tobacco league.
Yes" replied the rounder. And
he is also the only animal that is
always minding other peoples bus
mess"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-01

When Arabian women go into
mourning they stain their hands and
feet with indigo for eight days. and
during that time they will drink no
milk, on the ground that it's white
hue does not harmonic with their
mental gloom.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-01

that young man began to sing every
other member of the choir stopped.
But he went through with it, and l
must say l admire his spunk. .'-Bos-
ton Transcript.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-01
More Than f.nuugiI.

Il don't see why you should kick
You got $4,000 with your wife
Wasn't that enough"
"Oh. the money was enough. but
the wife was too much"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-01
Surprised.

Europeans are surprised TO find
America such a large country"
Yes; many OF them seem to think
they can do Niagara Falls and the Yo-
semitic the same day"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-01

The only animal that is really dumb
is the giraffe. which is unable to make
any sound whatever.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-01
Admired HIS Pluck.

Well" said Uncle Si BrugginS.
after solo by fashionable church
choir tenor. elf that ain't the rudest
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-01
The Prison Camp scandal"

iht TTlSoh amp scandal.
charleston News and Courier)
General March the chief OF star,
has admitted before the special hous.
war investigating committee that GER
tain American soldiers held in prison
camps in France were i'll treated
This was. doubtless, the cause OF CON
siderable elation among the members
of the committee whose chief concern
seems to be the discovery and exhibl-
tion of flaws and defects in the or.
ganization and management OF the
American army.
But General March added that 4
number OF the officers in charge of
these prison camps, including the
celebrated Lieutenant Hard Boiled
Smith, have been convicted by court
martial and are now serving sentence.
This latter statement was probably
as disappointing to the committee
members as the former statement wa
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-01
FRIDAY, AUGUST l, 1919.
ILLlTERACS.


1t is rather startling to contem-
plate that out Of every four men you
meet. one cannot read and write. This
is not to be taken literally, but it is a
fact, according to statistics just COM
piled by the educational authorities
OF the state. that 25 per cent of the
adult population are illiterate. This
is a condition for which there is
remedy, one the effects of which can
not be seen Immediately, but will be
apparent as the days go on. The
of comparative recent origin, are
proving very efficient and of great
benefit to that class, representing %
per cent of the adult population of
South Carolina, whose education has
been grossly neglected. With con-
tinuation over a number of years of
the efforts of the adult night schools.
South Carolina will change places in
the percentage of illiteracy column.
While the adults are being taught
TO read and write, all possible safe
guards should be thrown around the
schools. of the state in order that no
child may escape and grow up in ig-
nnrance Of the fundamental prpci-
Piles of ducation-reading and writ
ing Perhaps the recent passage of IA
compulsory school attendance law
will go far toward wipng out illit-
eTacy together with the teaching Of
the adults of the present generation
who at this time cannot read and
write.
1t is pitiable to see man who can
not write his name or read it if writ
be pitied for the lack of conception
of the duties owed to himself and to
his community, and every elevating
force should be brought to bear upon
him, to bring him out Of blindness
and let him see the world as others
see it. Picture him in your mind!
LAS you read these words" says
the Columbia State. "let your imagi-
nation play for a moment. You are,
say so years old, and. until now, you
have never read a book or a news
paper. you have never written your
own name-yOu have been helplessly,
abjectly. dependent on the under
standing eyes of others to see the
great world that lies beyond your own
little village or township. If there
vas war abroad you have known it
only because another has told you of
it Suddenly you have learned to read
and to write: great light is cast
Nround you and you are in intimate
1munication with all mankind
Has you were blind" now you
~" and you feel the new
man recreated and
ellowship of men whose
part Of The State
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-01

Miss Kate Nicholson, Of Bethune,
is visiting her sister Mrs. John Reed
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-01

All of the prominent universities in
the United Kingdom, save Oxford and
Cambridge, now confer legal degrees
on women who duly qualify.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-08
Hitchcock Seeks
arizona Aid For
Gen. Wood Boom
Conference Reported Near
New Mexico Line With
Governor Campbell.

Phoenix, Ariz., Aug. S-Governor
Thomas E. Campbell and Frank Il.
Hitchcock. of the national Republican
organ ization. were in conference re-
Gently at a point not far from the
state line between New Mexico and
Apache county. according to a story
which has gained circulation in po-
litical circles here. The supposed OBJ
ject of this conference was to deter
mine what support would be given by
Arizona Republicans to Mai Gen.
Leonard Wood as a candidate for
president
Andrew Baumert, member of the
state board of directors and secretary
Of the Republican state committee.
and Thomas Maddox, state engineer,
and also a number of the state com
mittee are reported to have gone to
Albuquerque, n. NJ, for the purpose
OF comforting with Hitchcock
1t is believed that they will induce
him 10 enter Arizona for the purpose
Of comforting with governor Camp
bell, who has been out of town for a
week. He left for the avowed pur-
pose Of investigating roads and the
Lyman dam project, located in the
northwestern portion of the state.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-08
Noto Is Time To Build
And Get Cheapest Site

The argument Of real estate men
that the present price of real estate,
with few exceptions, is an offset to
the high cost OF building is supported
by many facts, according to local real
estate men
Those who contemplate building
houses and stores to rent should build
at once" one realty man advised.
Those who build first will get the
benefit Of the best leases Land has
gone up very little. if any. in price.
but will soon begin to move. Those
who build now get the advantage,
however, Of building now is to get the
benefit of long term leases at high
prices which II is possible to get IN
this period of Initiation before the
building industry becomes overdone,
the same as everything else.
DO not haggle too much with your
landlord is advice to renters. If ne
Is satisfied with any Increase less tran
% percent, pay il quickly and gladly
The housing situation can be relieved
only by increasing building. Increased
building is awaiting increased rents
Hence, when we pay an increased rent
We do the most practical thing posi-
bic to relieve ourselves"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-08
Though Each O0er 90,
Fight for Womdn's Lone

Dallas. Tex, Aug. S.-AIen never
get too old to engage in fistic battles
or attempt to win the love Of a wo-
man, according to the statement OF
Judge Alexander. of this citv- after
disposing Of a case where two aged
men were charged with fighting and
bore the evidence OF the fray on 1heir
faces
Jonas Gorgan, ninety-six and a min
lister, seemed to be The one who start
60 the night, according to the evil
dence, but Henry Allison, ninetyeight.
was the real aggrezsor. Gorgas testi-
fied that Allison attempted to win
the love Of Mrs. Gorgas, a mother
" woman Of eighty seven Summers
Allison got a little the worse Of the
battle One Of his eyes was almost
punched out and his mouth was turn
ed inside out. Allison was fined. The
husband who fought to keen his wife
was dismissed