THE ANDERSQ?SJNTELLS8ENGER
f.. BOUNDED AUGUST I, 1860.
i 126 North ?Kin Street- ~~
ANDERSON, S. C
W, W. SMOAK, Editor and Bus. Mgr
D. WATSON BELL.City Editor.
PHELPS SASSEEN, Advertising Mgr
T. B. GODFREY.Circulation Mgr.
E. ADAMS. Telegraph Editor and
Foreman.
Entered as second-class matter Ap
ril 26, 1914, at the post office at An
derson, South Carolina, under the Act
Ot March 3, 1879.
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DAILY THOUGHT.
"I'm growing fonder of my staff;
I'm growing dimmer In tho eyes;
I'm growing fainter In my laugh;
I'm growing deeper In my sighs;
I'm growing careless, in my drcas;
I'm growing frugal of my gold ;
. I'm growing wise,. I'm growing-yeB
.-I'm growing old."
The person who leads you Intd temp?
fallon seldom leads you out
Some girls handle their beaux like
a postmaster sorting mail.
Boys will be boys-and so will girls I
cometimos.
i The key to succeaa won't let you in
to the house st 3 a. m.
Luck will always be against you it
?you give up the moment it appears {
that lucie la: against you. -
'? The way some girls attract men of a
certain brand reminds one of the way
billiards; hang around carrion.
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S An easy mark for a woman IB a mer
chant who marks bia goods down from
60 cents to . 49 cents.
A Bingle life aems ? great deal to ns |
-the \fyim of lo.ooo !s but ss isel?sst
in the great European war.
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? Those who have never felt sorrow'
or grief are in position to sympathise j
with those who hare.
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. Enthusiasm is necessary to succeaa,
but too much sometimes leads- to fall
./jftrey .
The tax collector never pleases a
customer but they all come back to
sim the next year Just the same,
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Some who have left footprints In the
aanda of time s coom to have tried to
cover them up ao that others could not
. follow.
- The trouble with winning a person
by flattery- is that you have to keep at
lt BO continually that he soon go tn
suspicious,
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. A married man ia compelled to load
a double life-one himself as he really
. : ID, the Other himself aa his wife would
"nave him. , ?
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It seems as if a certain few In every
community Imagine they are always
being abused by the rest of the com
munity.
t Thero are at least two aldea to a
thing, which give? you an opportun
ity to pick out the bright side if you
%lah to.
} Don't growl about the things that I
don't go right-but don't be satisfied
- with something that can be done bet
ter.
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. When moat of the Imported goods
we buy are grown and put up right
JR our own United States, the war
hadn't ought to affect us very much.
:'.y .;.. -'-o
'.?.*?.. war is hell, tho preachers haye
an object lesson at the present time
that ought to aid them in getting , a
ct folks started tba ether way.
K Somehow or other Mexico seems to
Kava timed its performances BO that
; the intermission. comes while tho
^front nage la tn nae.
.' We presume ?hat by this time lt isl
Kottled that both poles have been sat
isfactorily dlacovered. After all the
.'tass we would like to know what last
ing good h?iB come to humanity.
^ ? scientist triba1 to make up bsUeve
that the h aman body la seven -eighths
water^W*-naow .that;'musti't? ?'>n^:
Uke because that much water would
: ?bt ho? >ave?? as easy as some people
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A PATRIOTIC IMTY.
Tho Intelligencer acknowledges with
appreciation the muny kind remarks
made yesterday as lo its stand on the
great moral question now being tried
in thin community. Of course this
newspaper could have remained silent,
and have said nothing to indicate the
position it took, but to have done this
would have been to compromise with
duty that was too plain to be shirk
ed, as we saw it. Of course there are
thoso who will not agreee with the po
sition we have taken. We expected
this. We arc willing to grant those
who differ from us thc right to their
opinion, and we certainly expect as
fair treatment on their part.
It was gratifying to note that those
who are with us ure seemingly in
thc largo majority in this community,
and if we can read thc handwriting
on the wall, lt will not be long till
the presence of a blind tiger in An
derson will be unknown*. This is a
consummation devoutly to be wished.
We are sincere when we say that we
wish them all well. We would much
prefer that every man who ls guilty
of selling Intoxicating beverages
should voluntarily give up hlB avo
cation and return to the ranks nf
those who work at a legitimate trade
to make a living. It will be much
better for them and for the commun
ity to effect a silent cure of the evil.
But. if there <B no appeal from the
standpoint of reason, then let the
strong arm of the law step in and
force an obedience, and let the good
people of the community assist In this
great work. Anderson must be a bet
ter place than anywhere else in
which to have your- boy grow up, and
you must kelp make lt so. Mr. Citi
zen. If it requires that you give up
your secret vice, should you possess
one, will you not be patriotic enough
to do so?
THE BON DH IN THE FUTURE
Ia any member of the Legislature
prepared to guarantee that ten or
fifteen millions or thirty-five millions
of dollars in South Carolina five per
cont, bonds can be sold now at their
face value?
Where 1B the Representative or
Senator with such faith In the issue
that he would contract now to buy
16,000 of the bonds In October, 1916,
at par? There are among the legis
lators some men of large means.
; If tbe bond issue should be passed
and ratified by the people and it
should result in adding ten millions
of doliera to the public debt, and
soma voter inquires i- ISIS, "What
bas the State to show for the trebled
State debt?" what will be the reply of
the men who voted the benda?
If the bond i?sue should be voted
and should result ia trebling the State
debt, what would be the reply in 1916
to the queatlon. of a railroad conduc
tor asking, "What bench, did we con
ductora derive from the bonds?"
Hair the white population of South
Carolina have ONLY THE LABOR
OP THEIR HANDS.- The State.
OTHER CRUSADERS
It appears that Anderson ls not the
only city just now that ia In tho throes
of a crnaade against the preaence of
blind tigers. Columbia business men
have awakened to the danger of al
lowing the illicit sale of liquor to con
tinue, and recently a number of them
appeared before Mayor Griffith and
the members ot the City Council re
questing that stepa be taken to put a
stop to the sale ot liquor illegally in
the city of Columbia.
Thia awakening of the public con
science along thnse lines is to be com
mended; Laws are placed upon the
statute books for ?he purpose of cor
recting evil8, or supposedly so. So
long as any law ia not enforced lt doea
not correct what it waa Intended to
correct. Now, the enforcement ot ?ny
law depends upon a healthy public
?jen tl ment backing up the enforcement
This public sentiment ls either exist
ent in the consciences ot the people
as an Inherent principle, or it must
be arouaed through nome crusade. If
lt exists there inherently, the enforce
ment of law becomes eaay on the part
ot those who are entrusted with the
duty of seeing that laws are carried
ont Where it has to be created through
some agency, it ia doubtful If the good
effects are BO,lasting as in the former
case, but it ls de si rabio that it be there
nb matter how ; it ls created.
Selling liquor ia either a good thing
or lt is not If lt ia a good thing for
a community to have intoxicants sold,
then there should be no objection to
lt being sold in any quantity or in any
manor. If lt la not a good thing, then
lt should be stopped at any cost Es
pecially is this true when the sale ot
it is forbidden by law. Therefore no
excuse can exist for its sale in those
communities which bare had the, op
portunity of voting on the matter and
have decided by their vote to outlaw
tho sala. Such community ia Anderson,
and the battle being fought here now
between the two forcea Ia being watch
ed with great interest Who shall win?
Will it be the forces of right or the
forces ot wrongf We ?t?alt^ see. *
FOR THF ri HUT DEFENDER
If society needs a prosecuting attor
ney to see that punishment is meted
out to its enemies, by that same token
lt needs a Public Defender to protect
its members who arc accused of be
ing its enemies.
The Juvenile Court was a long step
in the right direction. It gave our
youth the square deal.
Now let's institute thc Public De
fender and give the poor and needy
a chance for their white alley.
Every person, no matter how Impe
cunious and down and out he may be,
in entitled to a fair trial.
He cannot ?et it without money, be
cause without money be cannot pro
cure a good lawyer. Without a good
lawyer to offset tho prosecuting at
torney, who is alway? a good attorney,
he does not get an even break.
Boost for the Public Defender.
The Billboard.
A TRIUMPH OF TRACTION
Before the beginning of war in Eu
rope there had been a great deal of
prophesy concerning the prominence
the automobile would assume as a fac
tor in the warfare, but it seems that
nobody foresaw that to motor traction
would be due the greatest change in
the fundamentals of war that has ever
occurred. As far back as history goes
there have been forts and sieges. For
tifications have always been relied
upon to withstand attack, and have
been changed In form as changes in
armament have suggested the neces
sity of Improvement. The blockhouse
of pioneer days in America was Im
pregnable to the attacks of savages
I armed with aboriginal instruments of
war or with firearms other than can
I non, which the Indians rarely succeed
: ed in acquiring. The walls which atti
surround some of the Asian and Euro
pean cities were in their day safe
against all attacks save those of sol
diera who contrived to scale them. The I
high, thin masonry walla of the "Red
Fort" of the Mughul Emperors of Da
dla were Impregnable to arms that
could be turned against, them, al
though'they would be no protection;
against light field pieces nowadays.
The modern, fortifications, such as
those of Liege, Namur and Antwerp,
vere regarded as impregnable upon
the supposition that there was limit j
above which the weight of cannon for j
field nae could not go. But the mili
tary engineers did not take into ac
count the possibilities of motor trac
tion. It WEB for a long time stub
bornly believed that mule power would
alwaya .be the only practical form of
traction for cannon across country.
Automobiles, lt was held, would mire
of their own weight where there were
no roads, and at'first there were no
models built to cope with uneven sur
faces.
There are now "four-wheel drive" |
trucka which can climb over almost
any sort of obstruction and scramble
in and out ri ditches with amazing
adaptability to difficulties formerly .re-1
gard ed aa Insurmountable. There are
giant trucks which can cross com-'
paratively boggy stretches drawing
after them siege guns larger than
were formerly regarded aa possible
mobile arms.
When it waa announced. that the
Austrians would une a twelve-Inch
field gun lt waa popularly believed
that it could not be dona. Now the
German Forty-two centimeter, or six
teen-and-a-half inch gun ia being
hauled about by tractors and used with
irresistible offoctlvcness against the
moat modern fortifications. A sixty
centimeter gun for use against for
tresses ia now reported to bo in the
making. The rumor ls more credible
now than the report of Austria's
twelve-inch field gun waa when the
wan began. It has been demonstrated
that the possibilities of motor traction
are such that lt cannot be longer said
that any gun designed for fo' V use
cannot be transported.
The German forty-two r n time ter
gun weighs twenty-six tc j , yet it is
moved with certainty <m.t does exe-i
cut ion wholly impossible where light
er guna are naed. The sixty-centimet
er cannon wilt weigh,, perhaps, forty ,
tona
Of course tho Krupps can 'make
guns vhs large aa they believe to be
practical. Tho answer to the question
whether a gun ot given size . and
weight is practical depends upon the
means ot moving it It has already
beeb proved that tho Germans can use
cannon much heavier than tho Allies
have at the front Their artillery has
been the surprise of the war. There
may be further developments of . its
suporlority. If there are lt will be be
cause of traction facilities Unknown
In pVOTtoua wara.
Will-historians havo to credit motor
traction with haying rendered fort!fl
catlous obsolete, and revolutionised
the theory cf defense ?-Cour lor Jour
nal.
A modest mother in a house dress
fondling or playing' with a healthy
baby? makes a prettier picture than a
dashing ar.? ?uud?s* beauty who has
sacrificed motherhood In order to bo
able to always appear in fashion's lat
est orsaUona,
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.-President Wilson today issued
a proclamation designating Thursday, November 26, as
Thanksgiving Day.
The proclamation, which refers to the fact that the United
States is at peace while the rest of the world is at war, follows
."By the President of the United States of .America:
A Proclamation.
"lt has long been the honored custom of our people to
turn in the fruitful autumn of the year in praise and thanks
giving to Almighty God for His Many blessings and mercies to
us as a nation. The year that is now drawing to a close since
we last observed our day of national thanksgiving has been,
while a year of discipline because of the mighty forces of war
and of change.which have disturbed the world, also a year of
special blessings for us.
"lt has been vouchsafed to us to remain at peace, with
honor, and in some part to succor the suffering and supply the
needs of those who ire in want. We have been privileged
by our own peace and self control in some degree to steady
the counsels and shape the hopes and purposes of a day of
fear and distress Our people have looked upon their own
life as a nation with a deeper comprehension, a fuller realiza
tion of their responsibilities as well as of their blessings, and
a keener sense of the moral and practical significance of what
their part among the nations of thc World may come to be.
"The hurtful effects of foreign war in their own industrial
commercial affairs have made them feel the more fully and
see the more clearly their mutual inter-dependence upon one
another and has stirred them to a helpful co-operation, such
as they have-seldom practiced before. They have been
quickened by a great moral stimulation. Their unmistak
able ardor for peace, their earnest pity and disinterested sym
pathy for those who are suffering, their readiness to help
and to think of the needs of others, has revealed them to
. themselves as well as to the world.
"Our crops will feed all who need food; the self-pos
session of our peoplt!*amidst the most serious anxieties and dh
ficulties and the steadiness and resourcefulness of our busi
ness men wilt serve other nations as well as our own.
"The business of the country has been supplied with new
instrumentalities and the commerce of the world with new
channels of trade and intercourse. The Panama Canal has
been opened t<j the commerce of the nations. The two con
tinents of America have been bound in closer ties of friend
ship. New. Instrumentalities of international trade have
been created- which will be also new instrumentalities of
acquaintance,"'intercourse, and mutual service. Never be
fore have the people of the United States been so situated for
their own advantage or the advantage of their neighbors, or
so equipped to. ser ve themselves and mankind.
"Now, therefore, 1, Woodrow Wilson, President of the
United States Jof America, do hereby designate Thursday,
twenty-sixth qf,, November next, as a day of thanksgiving
- and prayer uutHuviie ine people throughout the land to cease
from their Vern te d occupations and in their several homes
and places bf worship render thanks to Almighty God.
"In witness, hereof I have, hereunto set my hand and caus
ed the seal of thc. united States to be affixed.
"Done at the .city of. Washington,, this twenty-eighth dsfy
.of October in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and'f ourteen and of the independence of the United
States of America the one hundred and thirty ninth.
"WOODROW WILSON."
"By the President:
4 "ROBERT LANSING, f j fr i v
"Acting Secretary of State." . -.
Before you "economize" by
buying cheap clothes, make
sure the maker didn't econo
mize on QUALITY.
There's no way yet discover
ed by which good clothes,
good style and good quality
can be had for less than
they're worth.
$10 to $25, properly placed,
buys the very best values in
clothes today. When you
pay less you lose more in
wear than you save in price.
Our clothes at these prices
represent our idea of helping
our customers to the most
for their money, and helping
ourselves to their permanent
patronage.
Order by parcel post
" We prepay all charges.
.The Stan_tcah o Catada*?
D OOOOOOO O'OOOOOOOOOO O'
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0 OUR DAILY POEM 0
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0.0,0 O O O o o O OOO o o ? o o o o
The Cowboy's Prayer.
"Oh Lord. I have never lived where
churches, grow,
1 love creation better as it stood
That day you finished lt BO long ago,
And looked upon your work and called
it - good.
.JE knew that ether- find yeu in the
light
That's sifted down through . tinted
window panes,
And yet I seem to feel you near to
night
In the dim., quiet starlight on the
plaina
"Lord, maka me easy on the man that's
down,
Make me square and generous with all
Pm careless Lord/ sometimes when
I'm In town
?But never let them say that I am mean
and small. > ? ' -.
Make me as big and open as tho plain,
Aa honest as,the horse between.my
- knees,
Clean as the wind that blows behind
the rain,
Free aa the hawk that circles down
the breeze.
"crgivc mc, Lord, if sometimes I
forget,
You understand the reasons that are
hld,
Yon know about thc things that gait
and fret/
You know me better than my mother
did. J
Just keep an. .eye on. all that's done
and said. ."
Just right me sometimes when I turn
aside . -,
And Guide me on the long trail ahead
That stretches upward toward the.
great Divide." .'
World's Darkest Moment.
The darkest moment ls said to bb
Just before dawn. Thia ls now dis?
covered net to be sc. Tba darkest
moment, relatively speaking, ts when
the noonday ; sub "shines, Thea it ts
that living things on tho earth ara
blinded by the ?Basal?! ot tba sun ana
tau to recognise the light thai nave*
tails out In space.
Laughter Aids Digestion.
Laughter ia a moat healthful exer
tion ; lt is ope of the greatest helps to
digestion with which 1 am acquainted;
abd the custom prevalent among our
forefatlora. of exciting lt at table by.
jesters and buffoons, was founded on
true n.edlcal prlnclploB.-Hufeland.
A Heater That's Distinctive
Herc's a stove that st rinds head and shoulders above the
usual HEATERS. It te built belter andi looks better. lt
??xa many features that no other HEATER offers-features
that mean greater, heating power, more durabDity, lower
. ' . ' .' .
running cost*
Moore's Air-T^
Yow watt quickly gee thal Moore's HEATERS give yon
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' moro for your money Como ard let us show you.
Sullivan Hardware &L
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Anderson, S. C., . ? .. Be?lor^ S. CV:''- ? GreewtOe, S. C.
ENCOURAGEMENT OR CRITICISM
When a man 1B doing nfs best, don't
find fault with him. Anybody can find
fault Help him, if you can; if you
can't at least don't- throw obstruc
tions in his way and*make, bis task
the harder. ? '
Little as some think- it, there, are
numbers of men who aro working for
the public good with no design or
hope of personal gain.' Hen Who don't
understand that sort or aplrit stand
off and knock and knock. ;. . . ? ? .
The man who la trying to do some
thing, though his plana and Ideas may
not he sound and wise/ deserves com
mendation. He is a better man than
the smarty who stands off and scitl
cises. It ls better to have tried and
failed than never to hays tried at ail;
and the person who keeps on trying
in a good cause will succeed,In time
In doing something of value to li bis
state or community.
lt is easy to criticise; lt ls hard to
do. It Is easy to pull down; it Ja hard
to build up. . . nit I . i* :
Don't criUclso a man. who is doing
his boBt unlesa-you can uo lt better
and will do it.
There are men. and ?oma, running
newspapers, who*Btand off and . find
fault wUh every attempt that is made
to ? better conditions. T^'ey^And ?fault
wih federal congressmen., and with
state legislators; they ?ad fault with
the churches : and the preachers, ?he
Schools and Ute tcaohersv wjth eiforta
making to: promote hb^^^an^^iAv
hrlety~?with ovary elf ott loosing to
public betterment; and -they 1 them
selves never undertake a?ythlngi worth
while.
Th ero ar e more knockers than, doers,
and that ls why ?a/little is done,*-.
The Newberry Obserter.
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Borne men haven^'aaw to
make use ot what sense they have.
THE PUBLIC DEFENDER
Toe creation In Los Angeles last
spring of tho office ot Pu Mic Def end
er suddenly awakened the . various
cities to the fact that a very necea
gary official of tho Judiciary system
had been di seo vis rod.
Th .> Idea of paying a m an11 to prose
cute ostensible offenders of the . law
and then paying another tn AaMjid
them seemed, st first glance, Uko pul
j ling In two diff?rent ways, but a short
j tune after the office had been in com
mission in the Western city it had
demonstrated- Ita worth, with the re
sult ibatf today some of the most in
S??nt?sl neWipMpers /and TO agam ?es
are leading m. publicity campaign
which will probably result, and with
in a comparatively short time,- tn
avery city in the country, which, bsa
a prosecutor having its foU^-The
Public Defender.
The old way of disposing of crim
inal cases, or rather of the alleged
criminal, who waa unable to employ
an attorney to defend htm, consisting
ot tho Judge appointing a fledgling
I lawyer ] tb handle the case-excellent
practice for the lawyer, but rough pa!
/Jr* accused, who rarely got bli with
leas than tbe maximum penalty.
The ancient wheexe regarding the
prisoner who, when tho attorney ap?
i pointed by the court, to defehd him
'waa pointed ont, immediately-plead
ed guilty and threw himself upon the
mercy bf tho court; waa . ubi entirely
[without foundation.
Under tho new. order - thia;-will; be
changed ; , Indigent prisonora will be
de?ndM by ootmse! as ???s,. i?S=iftsd
and respectable, and With the same
prestige of thd State behind them, as
the prosecutor, and ali ,;; 'pr^a##
abbr or rich, wilt ho peaced upoti a
true equality before the law.
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