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IUE ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER FOUNDED AUGUST h im. m North Mela Street ANDERSON, 8. C W. W. 8MOAK, Editor and Baa. Mgr L. M. QLENN.City Edltor | PHELP8 SAS8EEN. Advertising Mgi T. B. QODFRBY,....Circulation Mgr.] E, ADAMS, Telegraph Editor and] Foreman. Entered as second-class matter Ap ril SS, 1914. at the post ofHco at An derson, South Carolina, under the Act of March 8,1879. TELEPHONES Editorial and Business Office.821 Job Printing .693-L) SUBSCRIPTION BATES 8? m I. Weekly One Tear.11.60] 81s Months . .751 Dally One Tear .95.00 Biz Months .2.60 Three Months . 1-26 The Intelligencer Is delivered by carriers in the city. If you fall to get your paper regularly please notify at. Opposite your name on the label of your paper Is printed date to which our paper Is paid. AU checks and drafts should be drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer. oooooooooooooooooooo ? ? ? ONLY is . M?fa Shsppbg % Days 9. i 0- Before X'm&s. ef ? 4i o o0 0o0000o000o0oo oo 'Things on which war revenue tax Is'not required: Paying your debts. Planting some kind of grain, o Procuring a marriage license. Attending the grain elevator meet ing tomorrow.' . - . ?o-? Ceasing the talk about hard.times| and being cheerful. ' '. reeling disgust over the conuition of Anderson's streets. Making up your mind to work your j too,nails off for the passage of a bond issue for paving. ;; // . &' - Forgetting all strife and differences j of opinion on publie questions and making up your mind to pull togeth er- for the good of Anderson. This weather ought to be fine for floating loans. ' !" ' ?-or? ;." ' . "Wouldn't it be nice to swat the war correspondent T ' V';. ?i-o??- ' '.More than one nation la trying to get Gen. DeW?t's goat ; What has become of the old-fash ioned person who termed the Federal i League as a Joke? * . "i . ' . h ' . . -, -.O . Wo judge that some of the European notions wHl want means to carry itj to extremes. Hearst wants a larger navy. Well,} the one we have la anything other | than water-proof. "Many to Retrain Postoffice' Jobs" , reads a headline. Which shows the ad vantage of having a postofflce job. e ' Since the Germans won't, and we aren't allowed to, we wonder who will concede the victory to the Allies. ' Wo don't bellevo Abo Martin is gull-' } t9 of all the stuff he is accused of say in*. . ' King George. haa? gone to the battle front. Here's .hoping the war corres pondents don't bring him and the kai ser into b fisticuff. \\.^j?\h4gta? to look as it the farmer j Knottfl at least naif as much again ' alxsut his own business ob most peo- ! pl? give him credit for knowing. "Trying the Wo?r of Wall Btreef ?a?V ? headline In an exchange.' With ] Ijpnd jaws and worr?s, ioav must bo a regular menagerie. - " x> '. While hardly instructive, It certain .0 interesting to look at the plc bf the Rulers of the Nation? of Awortev ' O " ' . ' Orejwvllle Piedmont ia now rur i>0oms >f Bob's .Rest." There-Is no guefca coming as to who Rob ta> Even the cltleens of Loris know-riot, , >-tf?~ "Ponderous platitudes and the per fectly obvions are prerogatlvea of the regular editors." ; says th? Oreenvtl #*ctoont,What's the poor dears d to fee called all tuet? MR, ROOSEVELT AND THE FACTS The country has not seen fit to go very wild over the fulniinatlonj of one Theodore Roosevelt, now fortunately on ex-presldent of the United States, with respect to the shortcomings of ihe Wilson administration us regards the European war. Mr Hoosevelt hus been writing a series o' urtilces for a syndicate, in -which he hus taken time, between flings at the peace treuties negotiated through the influence of Mr. Bryan, to criticise Mr. Wilson for not having taken action at the begin ning of the war which would undoubt edly have drawn the United States into the conflict without any possible hope of benefit or glory. Declaring "unlawful" certain acts of war, such as Germany's Invasion v>f Helglum, England's destruction of u German vessel In Spanish waters, und Jupan's taking Klao-Chau, and so forth, Mr. Roosevelt has declared that the Unit ed States should "take action In nil theso cases;" that If wo hud an In telligent and resolute President and Secretary of State, "they would have taken action on July 29, 30, or 31, certainly not later than August 1." Such a President and Secretary of State, he has declared, ItiBtead of ob serving "a timid and spiritless new trallty," would havo "lived up to our obligations by taking action," and would have "done what we wore sol emnly bound to do." The "obligations" to which Mr. Roosevelt so solemnly and emphati cally refers?the obligations which were so strong that they should have moved the PreBldent to "take action" which would have plunged the Unit ed States into the war that haB horri fied the world?are tho "obligations" of The Hague conventions, to which the ex-president proudly refers as having been entered into while he wan President. . Mr. William Bayard Hole, who Is one of the greatest Journalists In this or any other country, thus remarks concerning. Mr. Roosevelt's grave charges of breach of faith by this country: "Thus rashly and violently writes Mr. Roosevelt. Ignorant of the tact that The Hague rules regarding neu trality, regarding mines, regarding everything which troubles Mr. Roose velt and saddens ub all,- have never been, ratified by Great Britain, nor by France, nor by Belgium, and that by their own provisions these articles are binding only If ratified by all belli gerents; Ignorant likewise of the fact that the United States, in ratifying certain of The Hague rules, added tne express stipulation that the action was not to be taken as involving this government in any way in an obliga tion to enforce their observance on other powers, snatching up the vagu est notions current among street-cor ner idlers concerning the laws of war and the rights and duties of nations, forgetful of the grave results .that would follow our Intervention; indif ferent to the welfare of the hundreds of m liions of our own kindred; neg lectful of the true duties of neutral ity, and, above all. sublimely super ior to the difficulty of ascertaining the truth and Judging righteous Judg ment amid the whirlwind of rumor, charge, and counter-charge; this man would have the -.United States govern ment step into the ring as the referee of the fight, laying down rules and breaking heads all around to enforce theml "Our true course," he exclaims, "should be to Judge each nation on its conduct, unhesitatingly antagonizing every nation that does ill! . "Has a more amazing speech ever been given utterance by anybody out of bedlam? "it was not a Roosevelt who, In re ply to the pies, "Master, speak to my brother that bo divide the Inheritance with me," answered, "Man. who made me a Judge or a divider over you?" "Tho only comment that sober men can make on such wild words as these of Mr. Hoosevelt is this: that, if they had been published five days earlier, the country would have gone to its ljtaees with Its disposition to give thanks profoundly increased by a sense of Its escape from the incon ceivable calamity of having in the White House at usuch an hour this Incarnation of rashness, violence, and Irresponsibility, in room of tho saga oIoub man who today, at the head of the nation, walks with recollected feet the imperiled path of peace." Come over Greenville and take a look at our streets, and you'll see something that will remind you of days that were. -o Time was when we enjoyed "The Man With the Hoe." But "The man With the Dough" Interests us a great deal more nowadays. -L_o?? A French surgeon cites Instances of where men have lived without brains. We could have informed him on that score long ago. Atlanta simply won't to outdone. Following .New York's barrel murder mystery, the Gate City of the South Sprung her apartment house hilling mystery. The warring nations'of Europe are taking ship road after . ship load of horses and mules from the United States. Why not somo of the asses, tool ' . .' o Wsre it only, feasible to collect sH the mud now on Anderson's Btreets aid store it until, some of tho "wet" bad evaporated, wo would have mater ial for making enough brick to pave tho down. \ The Truth Ab By F UuslncsB in Anderson is not normal for tills time of year, but It Is not sub normal. It is exceptionally good, and It is dully getting better. It will thus continue, and when next spring and summer Anderson County harvests her mammoth gruln crop, conditions will be normal or above normal; ver tainly ubove normal for that season of the year. Let us see what an analysis will show about the "reul" business condi tion In Anderson. What part of the city's business de pends upon our cotton mills and oth er small industries, all of which are being operated at leaBt i*0 per cent, normal, and probably 100 per cent, when the decline in certain non-tex tile Industries 1b considered as being made up In Increased textile expan sion? cities, (county seats) In other parts of the State In counties similar ly populated agriculturally to Ander son <"ounty, which cities have no cot ton mils, are usually cities of ah"at 5,000 to 7.000 people. For Instance, Abbeville, Menuett h vi lie, oymgeburg. and other cities in this State. If An derson had no cotton mills it is safe to Bay the city would have only 5.000 to 6.000 people, or be approximately the sl/e of such county seat towns as aro enumerated here for South Caro lina. Take Georgia. Hartwell, (pop ulation 3,000); Washington, (popula tion 2,500); Balmbridge, (population 4,000) ; all county scat towns with no textile development, and all small towns. Take Alabama. There is Ope iika, the county seat of one of the best counties in Alabama. It has 5, 000 people. Take Brewton, county Beat of Bscambla County. Ala., and In the center of the finest agricultural and lumbering regions In that State. It has barely 3,000 people. Take Eu falla; it is a county seat, on a great river, and a nOlnt of navigation. It baa about 5,500 people. None of these Alabama towns have any considerable manufacturing. Agriculturally they aro on nearly a par with Anderson County, or at least 50 to 75 per cent. bo. Yet their pou let ions ore relative ly small. But let's go further, let's take tho argument into one of the greatest agricultural States in Dixie. Old Tennessee we mean. There is Franklin in Middle Tennessee, with 4,500 people, and located in the very heart of a great agricultural section; and there l<* Shelbyvlle in Western Tennessee, In the center of a county noted for its progressive agriculture, fine horses and grasses. In old Ken tucky we find a similar condition, also in Virginia and In the Old North State. In Texas, there is Longview. In one of the great Black land belt counties, and it has but 4,000 people; It is in Northest Texas. There la Vernon In Northwest Texas, county Boat of Wilbarger, admittedlv the best county in that part of the State, and Verncn has but few over 3,00 people: and then again in Middle Texas, in the great* Germanic section, where the thrifty Dutch live, there is New Braunfals. It is the county seat of one of the best developed counties in the Lone Star St'?e. It has but 2.500 people. In Southeast Texas there is Bryan, a county seat that markets more wagon cotton than any other town, in the world. Bryan handles about 30,000 bales of wagon cotton annually. . (Anderson averages about 22,000 bales and Is. probably the third Dr fourth largest' wagon cotton mar ket in the world.) Bryan has Just un ter 6.000 people; and It has practical ly no manufacturing. It is probably lust such a town as Anderson would 30 if she had no manufacturing. In . Louisiana, there is Minden in the north and Houma in tho south: In Arkansas, there la Arkadolphla and. Paragould, and In Fiorina, wo - find Do Funiak Sprlngs-and Lake Cltv. Ail heso towns are county seats and all markets for wagon cotton. None of hem have over 4,500 people, and yet DECEMBE THEN Thirty-eight years ago today the rirst scientific cremation Ih the Unit ed States took place at Washington, Pa, The pioneer cremator Dr. F. lulius Lo?Mbyno, and the subject was the body of Baron de Palm. But the American precedent had been set 83 rears, before when under penalty of losing a legacy of 60,000 pounds If .he refused, the son of Henry LaurenB, South Carolina's Revolutionary pat riot, consigned his father's body to a runeral pyre. The ghasly experience of seeing his infant child com" to life lust before burial In the earth is frald to have been responsible for ?.aurons* lomnnd to be cremated. Tho origin Df cremation. is* lost m the days of unrecorded history.. It was practiced sporadically by the pre-Christian civ ilizations, except in those _ countries Whose religion. Just as do some re llgiohs .today, forbade Its practice. Tho Parseefl were' worshippers of fire, but prohibited cr?mation because Df the opinion,that the fire was.thus polluted. The Greeks and the Ro man? practiced cremation, while the Egyptians considered It an act of pag anism' and disposed of their dead, by sarth burial: Tbo revival of tho practice In Europe te the l?th cen tury wan greeted with horror by the medieval peasants. Kings prohibited It under penalty o'. torture. .Sir Hfnry Thompson introduced cremation Into Great Britain shortly after tho clos ing oi the American Civil War. Us ing a reverberating furnace, he re duced a body weighing 144 pounds to four pounds of lime dust within *>o minutes. : Encouraged by Thompson's success, Dr. Lo Moyne Installed an improved incinerator in a *moU one story brick structure on a hill over looking the : town, of .. Washington. Three years after hi* pioneer crema tion, ha died and was cremated in his out Conditions . A. W. they ure county seals und financial centers and commercial marts for counties at least 50 per cent, as well developed as our own Anderson. It is then we believe sufo to say that without her textile business, An derson would be a town of about G.000 people. She has at least 18,000. Ag riculture then supports C.noo people and 12.000 people are supported oth erwise. Un this basis, business would be CS per cent, normal in Anderson, provided we admitted that agriculture was falling down entirely on its sup port of the other 3:r per cent., but that can not be admitted, since it is not so. Much cotton is being held but &ome 1? being sold. That which is being held represents wealth, (gen erally) und' Is therefore essentially the same as money, since the owner of it will not part with it except for so much money, which makes it par ticular value. Then our chickens, eggs, butter, grains,' etc., are being Bold, at good prices, too, and as fast nn offered. So our friend Agriculture is not falling down altogether. Ho Is really on his feet good and strong and is Incidentally planting a mammoth grain cropll fattening up IiIb hogs, In creasing his livestock holdings, milk ing a few more cowj and getting ready for the big "pot" which Is surely lat er to bo "poured" out. Agriculture is just about 75 per cent, normal, so by ti simple calculation in fractions, we read this result: Non-agricultural, ?C2.3 per cent, normal, and agricul tural. 75 per cent, of 331-2 per cent, normal, or the whole, 01 5-8 per cent., which represents the real .actual bus iness situation in Anderson today. Business then la less than 9 per cent, short of normal. And a great war is on. O! how thaukful we should be. When the grain crop is harvested, business will be normal, probably it will be a 105 per cent, business. Some say that bank deposits arc a little short of tho high water mark of last year; that the sale of luxuries Is off; that collections are somewhat tight, that sales are fewer. This may bo true. It was to have been expected but we believe a careful Investigation of general business in Anderson would show that practleally every business house here la' doing at least 90 per cent, as much business as this time last year, with the exception of businesses dealing in luxuries or quaBl-luxurles. The falling off in the latter hu3 been heavy, perhaps 50 to 75 per cent. It Is to be regretted, but later the vast Increased business of next year will overcome this depres *;n on luxuries'and near-luxuries, and the dealers in such businesses will reap a deserved reward. Whether the wlar In Europe .cjoses this winter or-flVjO. years later will make very little ."difference ; to tho Southern farmer and business man when once next spring has come end gone. We shall have then re-adjusted our farming and re-expanded our bus inesses, and if tho war keeps on, we shall be large sellers of food to th? war countries, and if it vtops we can manufacture our feeds into livestock and hogs and be the gainer. \ The future of the South Is sure. No part of America, may look towards the vista of tomorrow with more certain ty than old Dixie, lier time has come. She shall show* the world that she can Substitute pther crops for cotton; that she can finance, herself ; and Anally that she has the Inert ability, determination and enterprise to develop her own wonderful and as tounding resources. Let Germany, and England, and Austria and France, and the others tear down their fac tories and bum . Up their ships; let them send to death thousands of their I finest workers and artisans, regret and deplore It an .much as we may; {let them; and the-South must reap. I Anglo-Saxon Southern enterprise will not pass up this'splendid oppor tunity for world trade. Already :R 6, 1914 KW. ; . . Today about 1 per cent of the 900, 000 Individuals who die in the United States annually are incinerated" In the 30 or more crematoriums located-in more than half of the States. Ten years ago the ratio was about one-half of 1 per cent The movement toward universal cremation j is gradually spreading throughout tho world. En rope has nearly av hundred cremator iums, Germany disposing of 8,868 bodies by cremation in 1012. Conced ed to be the place of resurrection ot the ancient practice, Italy leads the' world in percent?go of cremations, while during 1912 tho city of St Gall. Switzerland, reported that of the bodies of 636 individuals who died there, 201 'wero ; thus disposed of. England is leaning toward the prac tice. The authorities of 'Westminster Abbey, the repository for Great Brit ain's heroes, recently prohibited the burial of more bodies there. They must be cremated." Cremation is be coming a necessity, especially around tho largo centers of population, de clare cavocates or tqe practice,;, At the rate at which cemeteries are in creasing around such ; eitles as New York and London, each of which re quire about 24 acres of additional land annually to bury the dead, it has been predicted that the cities of the living will be Vsrltabty encompassed by "cities ol the dead." . Humanity is reluctant to give, up the, age-long practice of inhumation, some. anU crematloniets declaring that . "when the body ia consumed by heat tho ?oui is at tho same thhe destroyed." Le gal-mtnded objectors al*o. point out that "it destroys,alt evidence ot crime where murder by. poison has been committed." In the reply ; the cremat lonlsta argue "that cremation l8 the only - hygenie, - sanitary end < economic method or disposing ot our dead.** RISTMAS_ Suggestions When He Buys a Present For Himself He thinks of. this store first and right here he comes; men know that the practical things?the things worth while?for a man are gathered here. Don't you think you'd please him better in your gift if you'd take this tip from him as to where and what to buy. r , Plenty of Small Articles at Small Prices Neckwear.25c to SI.00 Gloves.25c to S3.50 Handkerchiefs... .'.. 10c to 5oc Silk Handkerchiefs .. 25c to $1.00 Silk Mufflers.5()c to $2.50 Hosiery.10c to Si .00 Holeproof Socks .. S1.50 per box Silk Socks . , . .50c to Si.00 pair Cuff Buttons ..25c to $1.00 pair Shirt Studs.25c to Sl.oo Slick Pins.25c to $1.00 Shirts.50c to S3.50 Collars.. .. 15c each, $l.5o per doz Suspenders. .25c to 5oc Caps. ... 25c, 50c, S1.00 to Sl.5o Garters.ioc, 25c and 5oc Canes.. ...Sl.5o Umbrellas.Sl.oo to $5.oo Hand Bags. ... . .$2.50 to SlS.oo Suitcases.S 1.00 to $15.00 Bath Robes. . . .S3.00 to S 10.00 Pajamas .. .Sl.oo to $2.5o per suit House Slippers. , .. ..Si to Sl.50 Way's Mufflers.25c to 5oc Night Robes. .......... 50c t? S 1.00 Trousers.S2.00 to S9.00 Underwear 5oc to S3.25 per gar ment Cuffs.25c pair Men's Suit, $10 to $25; Overcoats $10 to $25. Boys' Suits $3.50 to $12.50| Overcoats $3.50 to $7.50. Men's Rain Coats $3 to $15; Boys' $2.50 to $5. . Men's Shoes $3.50 to $6; Hats $1.50 to $5. 9 Order by parcels post. We prepay all charges. ?/ The Christmas Store for Men's and Boys' Gifts. "The Store with a Conscience" Southern manufacturers are getting ready for this new world business, and they will get It, and then let us here in Anderson not forget- that the Piedmont is destined to become the greatest manufacturing section on the ' continent. "Talk business and business will talk back to you*," said The, Intelli gencer recently. Do business and gen erate more business. Anderson is lust on the verge of a really great business epoch, and incidentally on the verge of her real city growth. The}' war in Europe is but as a passing1 ' boat. Tho development of the Pied- . mont, and Anderson, ita most progr?s- \ slve city, is a live work. Progression, , not retrogression, is the history . of , our past, and on a larger, undeviat ing, greater scale, shall progression , be the guide to the future. . vl Business is after all business. Let's get our sharo of it, and.remember we , may be paying .today, the penalty of < a 9 per cent, shortness In business, but that penalty Is the lever that shall i give us a 200 per cent, greater b?Bt- i nesa on the morrow. ' ' ooooooooooooooooooo' o o OUR DAILY POEM o O o ooooooooooooooooooo 0' - ; . ' ' ,Ofi . Was It In Anderson f There was a little farmer and ho had a little bale, . -. Ho didn't care to sell It, for a little bit of Judo. So he put it in his yard, and there he < let It be And the cotton deteriorated, as you easily can see. Now when he decides to sell.lt, he . will find to bis dismay. That the buyer but little con for dam aged cotton *will pay. And then.this farmer, all forlorn, win . , wonder why In thunder -. . ' His conning tower didn't work, and save him . from this blunder., The fact that the yeggs went to Nichols is enough to convict them. / o A traveling man said Billy Sunday Is a faker. Dare .him tell Blily that? . --o^_ Anyhow, th? "hog and:hominy glide** sounds good. ."a ?o-. We take It mat the races of Charles- _ ton are making their last run for the j money. ' 0' Gee, but won't the European war afford a Bpl?ndtd opportunity for ? pardoning record. ' -?-o? ' The kaiser finds that there la too much machine in his war machine! ?...QU,. y. Two things we knew agcinst, Boston f -rTrottor and the Braves. . Trustees Of College Mapped Out Recom mt r.f?Bimnc For the Conven tion. ApropoB of the meeting of the board of trustees of the Anderson College la Charleston nc-t Tuesday morning, & conference of the executive commit tee and local trustees of the instiCu tion was held yesterday morning at the college for the purpose of mapping out suggestions and recommendations which will be placed before the board at the meeting to be held in the city by the sea. Trustees of the college will leave Anderson tomorrow afternoon at 4:5? o'clock In the- special Pullman ' car which will bo-operated ; from here to Charleston for the benefit of the dele Kates to the State Baptist convention, which is to be held in.Charleston mis week. No statement would be given out yesterday as to the nature of the sus gestions which the executive commit tee and local trustees agreed to sub mit to the board at the Charleston meeting, but it was stated that tne matters were of great Importance to . the institution. The meeting of the board will be held Tuesday morning and the recom mendations will be made to the Con vention that night or Wednesday morning. Dr. Kinard stated yesterday that he hopes every member v>f the board of trustees will go to Charles ton, and remain there until the col lege reports have been acted upon by the Convention T,. McPhail ' of Iva was among* those sponding yesterday in the city on bus iness. '' ' * ______ , Charles ' Werner of Pend le ton was. in the city yesterday > 'or a short while. R E. Cochran of the firm of W. II. Keese & Co. goes to H art we 11 this week with a, line of Christmas gooda. The simple, strong, hard-hitting, accurate shooting kind. Sue!} Rifles make happy hoys. ws and Just what every boy wants. Get one for your koy- ' '~i V , i ....... / L-:.: ^!^;i,.;;t,-f|' er*on, S. C, Gr^n^