Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE INTELLIGENCER ESTABLISHED IMO. Published every morning except Monday by Tbe Anderdon Intelligen cer at 140 Weat Whitnor Street, An derson, S. C. SEMI-WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER Published Tuesday* and Fridays L. M. GLENN_Editor and Manager ?. Entered as second-class mstter April 28, 1914, at the post office at Anderson, South Carolina, under the Act ot March 3, 187?. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES ffelepbone .321 SUBSCRIPTION BATES DAILY tine Yeer .15.00 Six Months .2.60 Three Months .1.26 One Month.42 One Week .> .10 SEMI-WEEKLY One Year .fl.SO Six Months . .76 The Intelligencer ls delivered by Barriers In the city. Look at the painted label on your paper. The dato thereon shows when the subscription expires. Notice date on label careful'y, and it not correct please notify us st once. Subscriber j desiring the address of th-,;r payar changed, will please state In their communication both the old and new addresses. To insure prompt delivery, com plaints ot non-delivery In the cuy at Anderson should be made to the Circulation Department before 9 a. m. and a copy will be sent at once. All checks sud drafts should bs drswn *xt Tbs Anderson Intelligencer. ADVERTISING Bates will bs furnished on applica tion. No tf advertising discontinuad ex cept on written order. The Intelligencer will publish brief aad rational letters on subjects of general interest when they are ac companied by the names und ad dresses of the authors and sro not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. Rejected manuscripts will not be re tsrned. In order to avoid relays on scconnt Of personal shsenc?, letters to The Intelligencer Intended for publication Should not be addressed to any Indi vidual connected with the paper, but simply to The| Intelligencer. ^ .SATURDAY, JULY 31. 1916. WEA HI EB FORECAST Generally fair Saturday and Sun day; not much temperature change. Why dooM't. somebody write a poem about tills weather. ? The gout should bo given a place oh the roll of reformers. Moat of us are thankful we have jobs evon at reduced salaries. ---o-?- . Wo hone tho weather man ls pleas ed with this weather, nobody el-e ls. - o Wo hope Germany wont send a note in settlement for the loss of the Leelanaw. ; .' King of England Approves Three Bills.-Headkine. Bet Kaiser Bill wasn't one of them. We trader Jf those Mexicans ever ?..top to think how tired we are of reading about their scraps. How. Would you like to submarine in a good old wash bole under spread ing shade trees on these roasting days. At the rate they are running these days, the Russians will be In need of legs factories aa well aa arms fac tories. ?8 % --o We 'dislike very much to call your attention to lt, children, but lt ls Just about five weeks until school starts iip again. -o S The water of Columbia ls said to bc perfectly palatable. \,The newspaper ?nen c?n*t vouch for i^out of personal experience. / -North Carolins ls having moonlight schools, but Greenville county's "Dark Corner" Inhabitants put moonshine to a d! if ayant use. . --o ? ' ?Te scribes who draw thy pittance Sn cry Saturday gase with alnklnc ^hearts upon this fifth pay-day that is shout to depart from us. --o The Belgian city of Brussels bal been fined one million dollars by Go.r . many because of the destruction of s ! German Zeppelin hangar. How. would yon lise to be Brussels? - )Sir Thomas Linton telegraphed his sympathy to Chicago on account ol th? EaKaland disaster sad accom panied.^ with, .a chock for. $tM9. Thafs'sytapftttir wRh a punch to IL < M I'll I) Kit HY LAW. Within thc hour he walked hold and willi firm tread from his cell to the death chair Charles Becker Issued a statement embodying thr?e words: "(?entlameiK . I ? stand before yen in my full sense* knotting ilia; no power on earth ran Narc me from the grave that IH to re* cehe me. In the fare of (hui, in Hie teeth of those who condemned me, and in (he presence of my Uud, I proclaim my absolute In nocence of the foul crime for which I must die. You arc now about lo witness my destruction by the Stute which ls organized to protect ide lives of the innocent. Slay Almighty dod pardon every one who hus contributed in any degree to my untimely death. And now, on the brink of my grave, I declare to the world that I am proud to have been the husband of the purest, noblest woman that ever lived Helen Hocker. TIIIH acknowledgement ls ?he only legacy I cun leave her. I hid you all goodbye. Father, I am ready to go. Amen." Yes. Amen; and Cod reft your soul. Becker. Wo hop? that you wore in nocent and that you were ready to go. What one of UH who road that har ? owing story of Becker's last hours in the death cell, of the parting with brothers, sisters and relatives and at midnight with Iiis devoted wife, und of lils ringing declaration of Inno cence, pronounced as he stood upon the very threshold of the ??reat Un known, but wished that there were no Mich thing as capital punishment; that our laws did not provide that when one poor sinner fulls from grace and slays another we shull calmly and deliberately go about tho ghastly business of taking his life in return? We are not arguing the question of Booker's guilt or' Innocence, nor the pros and cons of capital punishment; hut the terrible last chapiter of the whole horrible Btory that involved nl ready the execution of four men is enough to 'set ono 'thinking thoughts ho rarely if ever indulged In before. Is lt a reflection or not on our boasted civilization that after these thousands of years of intellectual and 'CV moral progression we have failed to improve on the old Mosaic law of "an eye for an eyo" and "a tooth for a tooth." bht BTC still down in the mire and slime of barbarism groping about in the dark with this question of pun ishment for crime, and in the mean time taking from one another that which ls Divinely bestowed-life, life which wo cannot give, Ufo which we cannot restore. We have orten heard that a lie was never told from the death bed. There are hundreds of Instances where death-bed ' confessions have unlocked mysterlm that were never penetrated by tiie> courts, and there have been death-bed confessions that have clear ed up the names of innocent persons who wont to their deaths on tho gib-' bet. Becker may have boen telling thd trut^when^uv pretested his in nocence af\ hers?t,..with the death carrying- electrodes ^trapping him to tho chair: Welara.;-'not prepared to say whothor he wav Innocent or guilty. Unless Becker confided in his spiritual xuivisar*? we, suppose thoro are but tW0"Wh? really knew whether tho man waa guilty-Becker and his Oed. - But our discussion ls not 'of the merits of tho "Backer case lt li? with reference to our manner of dealing with men whorl?av^ peten convicted upon .tito testimony' cit other man ordinary, fallible mortals-pf commit ting some crime ' for which the pen alty Is death. Becker's ? excutioners, and by that wo meun the courts, bollcved they were in the right And yet the con demned man, standing on the brink of tho grave, protested with hts last breath that ho was innocent. Who fcnor-s, of those who are left, which ' wai? right-Becker or the courts, lt's a terrible responsibility wo tako upon ourselves when we send a fellow man to'his death'-upon the tesUraony of other fellow Men. our fellow men, like ourselves, weak, full ot errors and ot tho earth earthy. As we said In the outset, tit's a poor ' ?. .>m ur.en ta ry on our no-called chrls ' flan civlllzr/ton thai after centurie* of weary winding in and out through the wilderness we havo arrived at no \ better solution ot how to deal with tbeso excresences upon that clvlllia 1 tion than .that ot murdering them by process of our own man-made law. LETTER BOSKS. M^ybe, after the postofftce depart I mont c?te all if* \>twet? problems solv ed, lt will concentrate lu efforts on the cr?ation?bf a letter1 box so shap I ed and so placed that a citizen catt ! opec the slot"and ?lip his letter. In with ona hand. The type of box now 10 VOSUO *requlrj8S *?*-JaaDda *? PP" hand fro? is helpless. Merely lower ing tlie hex a little would help con siderably, until sucli time as depart mental g< illus evolves a Ben.'?hie box. The apparently trifling Improve ment of a slot door which opens In ward instead of outward would do much for the convenience of the let ter-mailing public. The Augusta Chronicle ?ms a perni cious habit of crediting one paper's paragraphs to another sheet. For in stances, wc see where a perfectly punk one gotten off by us was credit ed to the Greenville News. i itu;nt?\ OF THF MOVIES. When the Eastland disaster oc curred in Chicago, a moving picture mun arrived with lils camera and got pictures of the scene showing the victims strugging and drowning in tho river. The mayor of Chicago, hearing that thc film was to be shown in the movie theatres, issued orders forbidding any such exhibition. A big New York newspaper, com menting on tho fact, expressed Its surprise that it should have been necessary for the mayor to pr?vi nt "? neb an outrage." Now, lt happens that in the same issue of that same newspaper, there were printed nearly three pages ?if pictures showing the very scenes thut were depicted by the movie Bim. The editor saw no incongruity or "out rage" lu that. Those pictures were news. Tliey supplemented the storv of the disaster told in the columns of tyiie ranged alongside the cuts. They wero shocking, even revolting, some of them-they showed victims struggling In tho water, and dead wo men and children being carried out by the rescuers, and divers at their gruesome work. But so wus the news shocking and revolting. If the pic tures wero in bad -taste, the fact probably fullee to ?trike most read ers. Just as it failed to strike the edi tor. Now, what ls tlie difference between thoBe "news pictures" and the "news film" that wai suppressed? They were meant for the same purpose to show people what happened when tho passenger boat capsized. The chief difference was that the news paper pictures did feebly and dls Jolntedly what tho moving picture I film would have dono powerfully and I consecutively. Where are we to draw tho Uno In such matters? The question ls far bigger than thld particular case. Tho censorship of the movies ls a problem of growing importance, and In applying it the censors do nut yet pcem to have ar rived at the truth that the moving picture when it portrays Inciden ta of ,every-day life ls news Just as surely cs anything thut is printed in a news paper. The movies have become a sort of extension of tho? public press. We shall probably have to give them, sooner or later, the freedom that wc glvo the press. Thcro are even in volved the right of free tpcech and the right of assemblage that are thu heritage of our race. Tho Ulm ls an engine, of publicity, of propogand-i and truth, wltli immense possibilities. It may be as dangerous to curb lt as to cirb the press, the platform or the pulpit LINE DOPE Manager I!. A. Orr of the Ander son branch of the Southern Public I Utilities company stated yesterday, that the' new schedule ot city trolley cara inaugurated come days ago on account of thc tracks being torn up on South Main street was proving salis factory to the -general public While persons transferring from Brogon Mills, Creen ville street and North An derson: cars" to Riverside Mills and South Main street cars, and vic., veiim have -to walk several blocks, and while the san ls sizzling hot and the streets and sidewalks fearfully dusty, they ar? tatting to the new ar?, rangement without grumbling. The Southern Public Utilities company of-, flcfals are appreciative of .the splendid manner In which the public generally ts putting up with, this inconvenience. -o This ls great weather for going to j the mountains, and numbers of An derson- people are hiking off to tho cool valleys and the ; breexe-'awept heights. Some of thom are going In their ears, while others are going by tram. Among those who leave today aro Capt and Mrs. H. H. Watkins, who will motor to Hendersonviilo. They will he sway for a month. While at Henderson vi Ile they w4!l stop at the Kentucky Home Hotel. Mir. M. M. Maison lett last night for Blltmor*; where be will Join members of hi* family who liuv?.- been there for nome time. Some newspapers men are terrible !h;rs. In writing of a cyclone out west on<* of them said it turned a well inside out, u cellar upside down, jnov KI a township line, blew the staves out of a whiskey barre! and let no thing hut the bung hole, changed the day of the week, blew thc mortgage ol? a farm, blew thc cracks out of a lenee und knocked the wind out of a politician. Robert Himer celebrated lil.< 17lll hi rt inlay one day last week, and holds tho record of weighing 300 pounds. This Is an unusual weight for u young man of that age, and for anyone for that matter, and it is doubtful wheth er any other county in the State can boast of such a boy. Everybody knows Robbie t?nd li" is a good fellow. Ho ls good natured and takes "jollying" about his size in good natured way. Ile is fond of mu ile and spVnds much of his time playing in this amusement. Clemson McGee will go to work at the Anderson Dank on Monday morn ing in the capacity of assistant book keeper, taking tho placo of Mr. J. C. Shearer resigned. Mr. McGee is a native of Iva mid has been living In Anderson for near ly the past three yeors. He has many friends here and is making good ar? a business man. When he first came to this city be was employed with the C. &'W. C. railway, but a few months ago went with the P. ?? ti. as bill clerk at tho freight depot, but this was only a temporary change His many friends will bo glad to know that he ls to be at the Anderson hank. First Dirigible Ordered tor American Nary. Definite fitepa have boen taken by the navy In carrying out its aviation program, which was outlined with the army's plans n the February issue of this magazine, i Secretary Meniels recently approved.ia:contract for the construction oY the first dirigible to be built for the navy. Tills, lt ls ex pected will be delivered n September at the Pensacola, Pla., aeronautic station, W.iere lt will be used parti cularly for experimental anti training purposes. The craft will bo 17.r. feet lu length, fi? feet In height, and or 110.0 ^0 cubic fcot gas capacity. Jt will bo sapable of carrying eight'men. will hayo a. speed of approvlmaXply; 2"> miles an hour, and, whop .loaded to its capa city, a radius of action of about two hours. This, however, can be in creased by lessening tho number of occupants, and replacing their weight in gasoline. The contract price of thc craft is $45,636. Two new flying boats of tho Curtis? type have been delivered to the navy ot late, while three Burgess machines are to be ready this Bi.inn.cr. Bids for three additional craft arc to be aske;i immefilately. The armored cruiser "North Carolina," which spent the winter in tin? Mediterranean, is to become the new aviation s"ilp, after i: has been thoroughly overhauled, and wll be stationed at 'Pensacola.-From tho August Popular Mechanics Maga zine. Surgical operation on a Hen. In tho current issue.of Farm and Fireside, a woman contributor tells about a hen in her flock, which ate co many dried peas that her crop be came distended, and ?he was in great pain and danger. The woman goes on H3" follows to describe the opera tion she performed: "Well, I was 'up against it,' for I wanted to save that hen, and so far as I could see, an operation was the only "thing that would do it. "Now, I never could bear the' Idea of -mung a knife on anything, but I gritted my teeth and hunted up an old razor. I scalded it well, got a pan ot clean water, and a little cloth, and went after those peas. Holding the hen, back down, between my knees, I made a cut about an Inch long In her crop. Then, very carefully, I worked the peas out one by one, us ing the cloth to wipo away the blood. I kept at lt until I had at least one third of them out, then put a few drops of turpentine on the . wound, and let poor Biddy go. "For about a week she stood .round, all humped up, and I waa tooling very doimttul ot my ?kill as a surgeon. But at last she decided Uiat life wus. worth living, and soon be gan singing." Prismatic Compasa fer Night Marek lng. Leading. troops across country by compasa bearing with as much cer tainty by night as by day is made pos sible through the use of a prismatic compass just brought ont in England, and described, with Illustrations, in the August Popular 'Mechanics Maga sine. The name given the compass ia doe to the prism flited to one side of the frame, although this ls not the most important feature of the Instru ment. Tho dial, which ls road? of mother-of-pearl, kas a censer coated with luminous paint, and In addition to this there are luminous patches on the ltd by which the instrument ls opened and exposed to the daylight for halt an hour. This Is sufficient to make the dial center and sighting patches luminous for from six to nine hours. In the latest form of the in btrument this >xnosure to daylight is unnecessary, owing, ta the use of ra dium, a substance.that ls.always self luminous. Palm Beach, 'Mohair. Tropicloth and Silklike Suits Reduced Twenty Per Cent Thru Entire Stock All feather weight suits-Palm Beach, Mohair, Tropicloth, Crash and Silklike- < re reduced twen ty per cent effective today. -1 We've a very comprehensive showing of all fabrics! In Palm Beach, natural color, blues and blacks with stripes; in Mohairs, blue and black self-stripes and grays; in Tropicloth and Silklike, natural col ors only. ?omplete Clearance Nott? On AU Men's and Young Men's Suits. All Boys' Knee Pants Suits. All Men's Odd Trousers. All Men's Oxfords. Manhattan Shirts. All Straw Hats. We Prepay Parcels Post and Express Charges "The Store with a Conscience'* HISTORY OF B Now York. July "O.- Herman Ito i<cnthal, the ganibhr for whoso mur der Charles Becker was sentenced to die In the electric chair, was stiot to death hy hired gunmen in the early menning of July IC. 1912. in Trout of the Hotel Metropole on Forty-third street, a few stopa from Broadway. The murder was the swift culmination of sensational charges made a few days before by Rosenthal against Becker in which Wo .-nihill asserted that Herker, then head of the strong arm squad o? detectives, freely sold police protection and had accumulat ed thousands of dollars of graft money. Rosenthal went further than lhat. He swore that Becker was bis silent partner in a gambling erterprisc that failed and Becker, angered by losses where ho had expected large profits, raided the Rosenthal - establishment ?nd drove Rosenthal out of business by stationing uniformed policemen on his premises day and night. These charges wero published and District Attorney Whitman began an invest'gatton of them. Ile summoned Rosenthal to the criminal court- build ing and listened to his Btory. An ap pointment was made with Rosenthal tor tile next day. Before the time came. Rosenthal was murdered. When the assassins had done their work, tiley ran across the street. Jumped into a grey automobile, which was waiting ait the curb, and whirled away uptown. A bystander caught the license number of the car. District Attorney Whitman, notified by telephone of tho murder, reached tlie police station where Rosenthal's body lay, before dawn. He aroused his detectives from their sleop and spread a dragnet over the city for the murder car. It war* found before night. Its driver, Shapiro, and Louis Libbey, pari owner, were arrested and Mr. Whitman asserted openly in an emphatic, statement that the police had ?Un : ed the murder.; . New York city, already interested In ''.ho charge of police corruption, responded to the news of the murder as if to a call to arms. Becker, who had been the chief target of Rosen thal's accusations, was open*y sus pected. He was relieved of this com mand of the strong arm squad and transferred io the Bronx. Jack Rose, his graft collector, walked Into the criminal courts building the day afler the murder and surrendered to the dh !ri< t attorney, declaring ho had nothing to fear. Harry Vallon and Bridgie Webber, ramblers ami friends of Rose and Becker, were anviled as witnesses. .The grand jury began' its investigation. Rose lay In prison twelve dsys without word from Becker, and, be lieving bis chief bad deserted him, confessed. Vallon and Webber cor roborated his story. He told of his long association with Becker, of police corruption whoih existed aa Rosenthal bad charged', of thousands collected by Becker for police protection and. finally, of his commission? by Becker to arrange to have Rosenthal killed by gunmen-a commission he exec uted. That night, Joly 2?, ?912, District Attorney. Whitman summoned the grand jury by telephone and - tele-1 graph, laid his evidence before it and within two hours obtained tho Indict ment of Becker on a charge of mur der. Pour East Side gangsters wt?re in dicted as tho actual murderers. Roso had testified that these men were as signed by "Big Jack" Zelig, a gang leader who had been arrested by Becker's men on s trumped-up charge, to do the murder. They were to re- i oe?ve 11,000 sud Zelig was to be re leased. Zelig's orders had been Issued from tho Teuiba to the gunmen. These gunmen-known in che streets of the East Side as "Gyp the Blood,*? "Horowitz" "Lefty Louis." Ro senberg. "Dago Prank," drone! and "Whitey " Lewis-were rounded up nae by ona. The last two were arrest ed*. "Gyp the Blood" sn4 "Letty Louif," were not found until Septem ber, hiding in a Brooklyn flat. With ;ECKER CASE thom were found their young wives who, to divert suspicion^ had died their light hair black To give standing to the itestlmdny of Becker's-three accomplices who hail turned Inf oriners-Rose, Webber and Vallon-a corroborating witness who was not implicated was needed. Sam Schopps, a dapper little gamlil'T who had lied the city, was the man who could do this. He was found ot Hot Springs, Ark., brought back to New York and the people'^ case against | ('liarles Becker was complete, lt went to trial on October 7. 1912. \ A verdict of gualtY of first degree murder was returned at midnight October 24, 1912. after the Jury had deliberated seven hours and fifty-sev en minutes. Becker was sentenced six days later to die in the electric chair during "the week of December 9, 1912. Within less than a month tho four gunmen were placed on trial as She actual clayers, found guilty and sent tn the death lieuse. More than a year later, on Febru ary, 1914. ithc court of appeals decided that Becker should have a new trial. Tho gunmen's conviction was upheld and they paid tho penalty with their lives on April 14, 1914. One of the number. "Dago Frank," confessed the guilt of his three associates, but maimtained his own innocence. His confession, made on the ever of the execution, became known the day they wero put to death. Becker was brought back to the Tombs. His second trial was begun May li, 1914 and ended may 22, with M verdict of guilty. He was sentenced to die during the week of July 0, 1911, An appeal was filed but tho convic tion was upheld by the higher couit lu a di cisi?n handed down May 25, last, and the date of the otecutlmt wna set for the week beginning July 12. Throughout Becker-.- troubler his wife Knwiincd loyal to him and waa his constant adviser. She labore 1 ap parently without tirhi-.' in his behalf, assisting bis counse! In every way K'ssiblc. Sho appeared to be crushed when the court of appeals upheld h la second conviction, but non turned bei enorgiea to.vard eleventh-hour work to save bim. It was largely at her urg ing that bo joined in the plan to ask Governor Whitman, Iiis prosecutor for clemency. There w ?is one other woman who ll repo/ts aro true, followed Becker*! career through tho? couria as closelj ns lils own wife did. This wa? Hermar. Uosctnthal's widow. Soon ofter Beck er's second conviction she disappear i'd/ Not long ago she was found broken In health and spirit, and li vim willi an o)d-tmle friend. "I am living for only , one thing.' she was r, not ed as saying, "to seo tin day ibat Becker pays the penalty." ( lever Invention for Farmers. In the current Issue of Farm ant Fireside appears an account of i new invention made for farmer which is to overcomer a greit. agrlcul tural difficulty. Nature has mad borne needs with such thick, har coate that it takes more than a yea TQ them to germinate. This is al lt Jil- when the plant has to sh'ft fo itself, because tho seeds which mue be soaked for a year Qr two ma saye the piont from destruction, whe a bad year wipes out the fi iv a-voa sproutings. Professor H. D. Hughe of Iowa State college has Invented machino vbich scratches the shell of the seeds and lets in the motstur Following lis a brief account of thi machine: "It 1s a very simple machine. T* seeds nra blown against sandpaper t a blast of air and their coats scarifie or scratched. * "The results with it are remarkahl Seeds that are treated wilt go twh sa far In many casa? as unt<*?at< seed/ Seed made a t?8 per cent recoi of sprouting which when left untren ed made only 50 per cent. One ns got a perfect stand of clover with fl' ..younds of scratched seed to the aa U ia simple, sensible, and very vi uabie." Where Heredity Win?. Theodore 1. Theodore III. Here is a comparison of the fore most and tile last exponents of thc House of Roosevelt. The upper photograph was .taken of the former president in one of his most stren uous moments. Tho lower is a photo graph of his grandson, now a little more than a year old. It was also taken in a strenuous moment, ? CONTENTMENT. In the great town of Lifcopolls Whore both thc rich nnd poor Rub elbows ; where the groat and email Converge, caught by the lure > There stands a monumental shrine Known as the Hall of Kamo, "?ncl those who dare Its portals fair May win an honored name. Upon tho heights the temple stands; Tho ?talrway to this hall Is built of .Excellence and Worth And yet. how many fall ! Many of humble birth arrive While some of noble caste Mako for the prize no sacrifice. And Failure meat at last. Some reach the gateway unannoun ced, A , Unrecognized/, unknown. ..'*-.? And wait until Posterity Their tardy honors' own; . Dut others seek a humble manse - Where written on the door You read in gold theso letters bold COmt?NTdlaWT-and no.-more. -. . 'h . lint Still immortal. Tho Officer-His name-will go down to' posterity -when this horrible.war |a all forgotten. The Girl-1 quite agrae. By the way! What ia bia riama? Tile officer-I'm dashed if I can remember it for tho moajontt-Lon don Opinion. \ Safe Conjeeturc. Tramp-Please, mum, I'm a Bel gian refugee. Lady-Are you? Mention a town In Belgium. Tramp {cogitating a tnomeiiti -f would mum, -but they have all been destroyed,-St, Louis Post Dispatch.