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?HE ANDERSON INTELLIGENCE! FOUNDED AUGUST 1, 1SS9. 1*6 .North Main Street ANDERSON, S. C W. YV. S. ")AK, Editor and Bub, Mgi L. M. GLfcNN.City Kdlto PHELl'S SASSEEN, Advertising Mgi T. B. GODFREY.Circulation Mgi E, A !? * Ms, Telegraph Editor am Foreman. Entered according to Act of Con Kress as Second CIusb Mall Matter a' the Postolllce at Anderson, S. C Member of Associated ProBS ant Receiving Complete Dally Telegraph? Service. TELEPHONES Editorial and Business Office.82: Job Printing ..'.693-1 SUBSCRIPTION BATES Seml*v?eekly> One Year .$LE{ Six Months. .71 Dally. One Year .w... 15.01 Six Months . 2.SC Three Months . .1-2C Ttio Intelligencer 1b delivered by carriers in the city. If you fall tc get your paper regularly please notify us. Opposite your name on the label of your paper is printed dato to which our paper is paid. All checks and drafts should be drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer. Hayo ypu paid the plpor yet? Have you started preparation of thoso New Year resolutions? Now is n pretty good time to bcg!n your 1915 ChriBtmas shopping, o Now abldeth indigestion, headaches and dark-brown tastes in tho mouth. Tho latest addition to tho clasB of "Has-beens"?good old Saint Nicho las. ? o Tho joy of ChriBtmas giving Will soon bo overshadowed by the advent of tho bill collector. * o A now standard for reckoning the .flight of time?"since Greenwood had hor last killing." ? Cheer up, gontle reader, the worst is yet to conio?the Legislature meets January 12. ?o- * Here's hoping next Christmas will not find Anderson floundering in a sea of mud. , o Nancy 1b having moro troublo, it la reported tho Germans are again drop pi In g bombs upon her. --rO With snow on< the ground Saturday ' morning, it was doubly appropriate to spook of it qs the "cold gray dawn nf the morning after." ?O ? Prohibitionists may stoutly claim It was a "dry" Christmas in Anderson, hut there are many who will testify that it was wet, -o No matter how far Santa Claus may bo relogated to the rear now, tho re's one thing sure, ho is not in the class of thoso who can't come back. o Our Idea of tho person who had an . enjoyable ('hristmas is tho one who ' gnvo something toward the relief of suffering among tho poor of Andor ?on. In tho spring wo havo General Freshet ttio hummer General Green, In the fall General Drought, but win tor with its General Mud has got them ell going. Wo imaglno John Bunyan saw In prospect the streets of Anderson when ho chronicles in his Pilgrim's Progress his passage through the Slough of Despond. We aro trying to bo neutral, but wo havo to hand it to a Dutch friend who says the. British war statements ex plain why that .country's last name 18 "Bull" --o ':Mf, Bryan is going to buy an Aohoviilo estate for a summer home. Io already owns a winter home In lorida. But his salary is so Bma'i be to do tho chautaujua act during time to keep the family larder ,o Indiana girls, rather than go 'school undor the compulsory edu fori law, eloped to Kentucky and .married to their respective beaux. . that's tho way compulsory educa ; tioh vjia^ff work, there shouldn't be 'Ksuch objection to them among tho wf'e ?a not auoBtlon tho propriety ot tfie^ mayor suspending the aentene?a "of "three young white mon who plead to charges of gambling, but y?i?ation tho wisdom of any one mS vested, wltA the par&nln? SIIOI'LD HE INVESTIGATED If the story told In the Greenville Piedmont under date lino from .Wal halla and over the signature of "J. S S.." be turo the recent killings and race riot near Fair Play, and in Hart county, Oa., arc outrageous and those guilty of the crimes committed should hu brought to Justice, and given the full penulty of the law. There hus been entirely too many homicides In thlH section of the stair recently, and it is time for n halt to be called. Never u week passes but there Is some horrible murder committed, or wrtnc other crime committed almost ub bad. According to this story of the kil ling of these two negroes, there seems to have been absolutely no justifica tion for the deed. Whiskey and the passions aroused by the drinking and carousing of some white men, seem to have caused the killing of two neg roes and the serious whipping of an other. Let the authorities ferret out tho truth of this matter, and bring the guilty parties to judgment. Tho re sponsibility for this doublo killing and its attendant shooting should be fixed, and those who havo taken the law in to their own hands taught that thero Is Bomo respect for law and order left, and that human l'fc cannot be taken with impunity. If the white m*n who were engaged In this affair are not guilty as this article states, they should demand an investigation and clear their community of tho 'Ua'n that has been placed upon it by the reports going out about this affair. At any rato an investigation should be made. THE STATE'S REFORMATION The following editorial appearing in The State TJhrlstmaB morning ar gues a complete chango of front in tho matter of prohibition, or, rather this coupled with the entire absence of at tack on the prohibitionists during several moons. How a newspaper with the standing The State has in South Carolina can afford to lino up with this liquor gang, composed as it 1b of so many men like it speaks of in tho editorial reproduced, is hard to comprehend, and we believe that both The State and The News and Courier, the two notable, and only examples ot daily newspapers In tho State, who oppose the referendum of the liquor quoBtion to the voters of the State at a special election to bo lvdd sorut. time next year, will Anally lino u*? for it, and como out with the South Caro lina congressmen wbo presented such a solid front, in Washington when the matter, was voted upon rocently. The following editorial is commend - I od for the perusal of our readers. Whatever may bo one's opinion ot tho merits ot the prohibition amend ment proposed in Congress and Us present fate, one Is embarrassed H discussing it- i no extreme difficult. In defending the manufacturer and sale ot Intoxicants flows from tho methods and character ot tho sellers and manufacturers. That the whiskey business Is a most Iniquitous and corrupting influence In American politics is indisputable. Whon Mr. Bryan brings forward that indictment, no one can answer It. Were wine, whiskey and beer mer chants and makers no more than merchants and manufacturers, were their behavior towards the govern ment of a kind similar to that of cloth sollers and makers, legislative assault upon them would muster armies of voters and newspapers In their de fense, but they are, as a rule, as ac live In politics as in business. They are "sports" and "heelers," their shops are the headquarters and commiBsalr at for the worst and most depraved political movements. In European countries the case Is different The wine merchant In Paris Is no more s politician than Is the glove merchant He is a mer-1 chant and nothing else. In Now York | he Is a Tammany Congressman's lieu- j tenant or In Philadelphia his grot shop Is an outpost for Boies Penr<~.,e's far spreading and carefully orr^nlzed "gang." Should national prohibition prevail! In Congress within the nox t few years, tho victory will he due to the en forced neutrality of tho voters who question its wisdom and expediency; who are disgusted with the whiskey traffic not so much that It is a traffic ! in whiskey as that whiskey is sold by I such traffickers. To be sore, there are numbers of wine and whiskey merchants in the UnPed States who do not belong to this class. One may buy flour, co2fee, raisins and rye liquor by the case from the same shop in Baltimore and the seller is the same type, man that sells flour, coffee, and raisins and no rye liquor In Columbia. That type ot seller unfortunately does not define and fix the character of the whiskey buBincpa; it is the saloonkeeper and the brewer who owns the saloon who | defile the business and, pursuing policy conceived In stupidity and sure- j ly carrying them to disaster,..under take to defile the government making it subsidiary to whiskey interests. In South Csrnlint a fewvyeara ago a number of excellent citizens, In tensely resentful against prohibition, helped to \ev> in a State government distinctly friendly to the liquor traffic It would bo illuminating to know It hey were pleased with the Und of itovernmsnt they jot The i liquor interests, pretend that Ihey. wish to obey the law. Undoubted ly they, preferred a liquor traffic pro tected by law to one that la outlaw ed but when an? where haye the 11 (.uor sellers Charring, the exceptional men of the better Gloss) allowed'the law to interfere with liquor sales, If they couW >remt UT A L Fit KI) HENRY LEWIS The untimely death of Alfred Henry Lewis, in the midst of a very busy career, removes ou?s of the most pic turesque of the newspaper writers of the day. Mr. Lewis was only fifty-five and had reason to hope and expect at least twenty years more of active life. Had he been spared so long, there is every liklihood that ho would have ad ded materially to tho very large ac complishments that were his during the comparatively brief period of his literary life. At one time Mr. Lewis was a door keeper In the House of Representa tives at Washington, though he was doing some newspaper work on the side. He was also gaining some experi ence and acquaintance with public men that served him in good stead later on. He. was noted for his plain language at all times, and it was not unheard of for him to play tho role of the Irish servant girl, by informing visitors who asked for members of tho House that the members said, "Tell 'em I say I'm not In." Mr. Lewis's ability as a writer is well known, and as a story teller ho was famous. It Is said that on oc casion he had the honor of keeping Sir Arthur Conan Doyle entertained far into the night with his inimitable stories. Some of these hu committed to print, though they lost much of tho charm of his dialect. His "Wolf ville" stories are among the Western sketches that will probably live. Unfortunately, Mr. Lewis allowed himself to be dragged into tho mire and mud of partisan journalism. He was for some time at the head of tho Washington bureau of Tho Now York Evening Journal. Some of the matter that he produced at this time perhaps did some good, but no doubt his ad mirers, now he is dead, would be glad if they could pass over some of the partisan writing that he turned out. But it will be forgotten, as practical ly all dally journalism is forgotten. Mr. Lewis's fame will rest upon his stories, eighteen volumes of which ho produced in fifteen years, nearly all of them good. ROAD BONDS AND ?NEMPLOY MENt Considerable comment has been made favorablo to tho plan proposed recently by The Intelligencer to vote a bond iSBue for Anderson county for the purpose of building roads, promin ent Burburban resident said a few days ago: "I trust you will push your bond issue proposition, and that wo shall Boon have a chance to vote for a good sized issue for Anderson county for the purpose of building some perman ent roads." Another said: "I am un alterably opposed to continuing as we have been doing, filling in mud-holes for the first rainy spell to undo what has been done. What we need is a bond issue and some permanent work to bo done." These gentlemen discussed this proposed bond issue In the light of what could bo done for building a per manent and lasting Bystem of roads in Anderson county. There Is just now another very good reason for voting bonds for immediate work on the roads, and this has been mentioned in an editorial appearing in the last Is sue of The Saturday Evening Post, which Is h?re reproduced Every commercial country has a banking reserve? a certain largo sum in gold that is Bet apart and lies un touched from month to month and year to year in ordinary times, but which may be drawn on in an emer gency. Thus, in the war crisis gold that may bave lain unmoved for a long period passed out of the Bank of Eng land. We believe it would be possible for a country to create an industrial rc~ ?STX9'. Every important nation's labor statistics show a pretty constant, re currence of unemployment. For three or four years labt r may .be quite fully employed. Then business slackens and the number of men out of /or-k rises until times improve. These! recurring seasons of largo unemployment take a heavy toll of . labor. Savings disap pear; debes accumulate; families for merly self-supporting become depend ent . Aa a matter of fact wo know the dull seasons are going to recur, because they always have. .In .every country there Is a vast deal of publie work done by. the cities, states and central governmental In every country the public employs labor mostircely ex actly when private employers do?that is. when times are good and credit la easy. When times are poor and bonds not easily salable the public cuts down employment It ought to be the other way. By intelligent fore thought it mirrht be made so? public work, that is might be made a sort of Industrial reserve to fall back on when private work slackened. Republican panera say Mr. Bryan's utterance about, a million men re sponding to a call to arma "before s?nsot," if they were needed by Ameri ca, is all rhetoric and ia absurd; but It isn't half as absurd, when you come to think of it, aa the stock Republi can argument! that you can make the people prosperous by taxing them. King Albert ta said to have present ed a box of 26 cigars to each of the Bolglan coldlers as a Christmas gift Can't some of those potentates make some such use of ? lot of our cottoat^f^ the right spirit Evidently there are others thinking as do The Intelligencer and the lady who discussed the matter of employ ers holding on to their employee* during ethe time of this temporary dull times- It is obviously right end proper thai 3iose who havo been faithful und have helped a business man build up his fortunes, should be given some consideration when tho wlndB of adversity begin to blow, and not bo caBt aside as so many piece* of machinery. Then, this dcprcEsicu is sure to prove only temporary, while business is adjusting itself to tho new and changed conditions. Al ready there are many signs of return ing prosperity, and our prediction 1b that very soon we shall wonder why we were ever so pessimistic as to question the ability of our conditions to adjust themselves and conserve the best interests of the country. The Charleston NeWB and Courier ;has the following to say on this very live subject: The story is being told in tho streets that 1b worth putting into print. The head of a large cencern in Char leston recently -ailed his employes together." Men,' he laid, ''I've been making money for eight years and now I'm ready to st j.id a ba-i year. Ill keep all of you on for a year longer. If the war isn't ovr by that time and if business hasn't Iinpro/ed, we'll have to consider what wj'll do. - That is pluck; that is fair dealing. J It there were more employers like this one, thero would be inlnl'.oly less suffering in this country on account of tho war. Thero are many, of course, who have done what this ono has done, but there are also many who have done the reverse and let num bers of thoir employees gv> because the war has injured business. Most of the big men can stand the strain, but many of the little men cannot stand it unless the big men help. Most of the big men can afford: to carry their emploees for another year. To do so may cost them some money, but it will not ruin them. We hear a lot about the generosity of tho American people to stricken Belgium. What about the generosity or lack of gen erosity of the American burmess man towards his clerk In many cases, of courre, retrench ment through reduction of the num ber of employees Is aVxdutely neces sary. But It 1b safe to bay that many efficient men are being thrown out of employment simply because their em ployers have not the pluck and the sense of fair play shown by the Char leston man who felt that his faithful helpers during eight prosperous years ought not to be pitched pverboard In tho first bad year that cornea along. t . lijl. I Does the War Fro Christianity a| Failure! 1 * In the January Woman's Home Companion Charles E. Jefferson, pas tor of Broadway Tabernacle, New York City, writes an Interesting war article in which he comments as fol lows on the question as to whether this war proves Christianity a fail ure: :., "If someone says that the claims of the Church have all been shattered, the reply is that the Church makes no claim except on conditions that must be met. It promises no vie- | tories except to hearts that surren der. . It predicts no paradises until . men have in them the mind of Jesus. Christianity is en invitation. If the , Invitation in not accepted, it can do no mighty works. Christianity is a . revelation of the heart ot God. If : men refuse to become like him, the . world remains in darkness. There is no failure then In the Christian relig ion. The failure lies with the men who refuse to receive it. If. Europe had been Christian this .war vroula never have been. The agony of Eu rope gives new point to the question: 'How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?' It, illustrates the meaning ot Christ's figure ot the man who was foolish enough to build upon the sand. It pours a biasing light around .So Apostle's great de claration?"There is none other name under heaven given among men, j whereby we must be saved .** How One Factory Keeps Going In Critical Tines. In the December American Maga I sine appears an Srticlo by Ida M. Tar bell entitled "Keeping M?n at Work." It is one in her series which she is] doing for that publication entitled "Thu Golden Rule in Business.*' In this article Miss Tarbell shows how, ! by adopting the principles ot scientific management, manufacturers can es tablish an equilibrium between dull and busy seasons and thus prevent th? throwing out of employment of hun dreds ot men. She glvw ?xamples ot employees who are working .success. I fully on those principles. Following is ono of them: . 'The Glothcratt Shop ot Cleveland, Ohio, for instance, finds that ono out side condition which hampers It in Its efforts to give regular employaient 18 tho practice of many mills of hold ing up the delivery of orders for cloth for two and three months. This works two evils to tho maker of clothes: it prevents proper inspection .of >v.tha cloth, the manufacturer being forced If ho is to catch the market, to make up what he would ottvrwlse reject, and it forces him to cIobv or work on half time in one month, on overtime others. Mr. Richard FcIm, the manag er of the Glothcratt Shop, believes, that such a situation could bo corrected by the clothiers' trade associations. Their great business, he contend*, is to standardise trade conditions. To en* able enterprising manufacturers to anlclpate a season's 'deniajads would have, them eeUb?fth a stag scale ot sises. Mr. Felss himself has overcome largely th?,filfit?aftMtvi*.1 the .trade by pushing a Itga of bum * goods. The factory Is kept on tht . many days b*t*f^ seasons^ when otherwise it would bev idle. This, of course, requires Close ? and tntolttgeat study of ;ths.Mptyfc? We ' Prepay Parcels Post JHIS SALE of all men's and boys' overcoats demands your attention because of the great Values it offers* demands your immediate attention because some of the lots are as small as the prices and we cannot guarantee their remain ing long. People of moderate means on those who appreciate a genuine bargain will find this a never to-be-forgotten opportunity. Men's Overcoats $20.00 Overcoats now. :. . . $16.00 18.00 Overcoats now.. 14.40 15.00 Overcoats now... . ....... ....... 12.00 10.00 Overcoats now. ........ 8.00 Boys' Overcoats $7.50 Overcoats now. > . .... .. :.. .$6.00 6.00 Overcoats now. .. . r7. . ... 4.80 5.00 Overcoats now. 4.00 4.00 Overcoats now ... ,.... . ...3.20 3.00 Overcoats now ...... .. ..... 2.40 I, The Store with a Conscience Germany lias Least Felt the Wastage of War. In the' December American Maga sine Will * Ir win, war correspondent 'or that publication, writes an article mtttled "The Qloryof War" in which io gives a survey of the 'War's effects is he bas seen them in England, Bel gium, France and on the edge of Ger? nany. Following is an extract: "Perhaps of all central Europe, 3erman>~ *ias least felt the wastage )f this war; tor, except in east Prus sia, she bas .v> far been unlnvaded. if et from end 10 end of Germany the 'actory doors a. e closed and the ma chine ry stan dB .mmovable. in grease, because the mei are gone to war. from Aix to the Polish border, she Is drtually producing nothing except he eternal wa.' materials?which are at ate because iHdlr end la' wastage mil the few ne^si It les, like shoes/ which the stay-at-LomcB must hare even in war time. Distribution has been pared to a minimum; the govern ment has been able to dispense with only enough railroad men to satisfy the moBt pressing needs. Of course, the fine side of life, the sportive side, has gone by the board, though the oaf es and a few plays and cinema shows are still running, I believe, in Berlin and the other larger centers. A border city like Aix furnishes Such a spectacle as history never saw be fore; One or two hotels are running half force. Their cooks and waiters all old men. The rest are closed. Hait the shops are closed. On the Streets you see no . young men, save ? policeman or a uniformed railroad official here and there. A fear cabs hang round the station; they are man ned by bent, grey-haired drivers. Down the streets files ah eternal nro cession of. women, carrying bundles home from shop or market." RECORD!, BROKEN Cold Wave is Worst Ever Recorded in Manv gta?tjnna. WASHINGTON, Dec. 86.?The cold wave that gripped the country today, causing record-breaking temperatures at many places from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast, was mod erating tonight and gradually rising temperatures were predicted for to morrow. Fair weather was predicted, with the exception of snow flurries lti .the Great Lakes States and rain it Florida. The lowest temperatures reported within the United States today was 32 degrees below zero at NorthSeld. Vt. Robert H. Withers peon, of Atlanta, is spendiing the holidays with his par ents, Dr. and Mrs. R. H. V/ithorspoon, of the Roberts section. Belgrade, Their Capital, Servians Have Retaken After Bitter Fight* The Servians have again taken capital, Belgrads, a?te? a v?ry^lrturii' fight in the mountains. In tho western part of their country, wventy-flve miles southwest of the capital and about.that distance cast of Savojevo, Ute scene of the ewsasfiinatinn of Ute Crow? Fr in ce Frans Ferdinand . ot Austria. ; wtri>h was the pretext tor the great war. - " ' learned from ,tho meagre despatches, a tefriflc battle took place in the lieVthwest of the capital Austrlans ware killed and Russian*, The Servians marched back Intel%*ibii&M-&&.&-:: loirertmcnt's the capital Dec. 15. and an official!announcement of tho re-entry Into SstriansiSld only "?ina?l has fled across UrtjSfe in.the country about Boabate, ; |as> ?be and Save, rivers in great dl*ord ^M'*HVm:Wm**Mm ^mmWM^?^?^ .'All ^ie n?w treed ,of Shabata and Loani deUveranc? is" Imminent ian troopo^nl? by scenes of Jnfibacribablo enthusiasm. King Pater h*- received messages of ulations from an of his?lies." ia;now officially edmUe a re t of its army in Sorvia and the fnferonee te that Austrian les bare suffered a crushing detest n*,ybU#**&m . ?tst*?5-? S