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SECTION TWO ' PAGES 9 TO 16 ' VOL. 1, NO- 67. ANDERSON, S.- C., SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 5,1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. $8.00 PER ANNUAL I'l'.VKKXlMN Cl DBAINA?E DISTRICT Citizen* of Pinewood Taha Progr?s? ?If* HtepAftle Petition With Clerk of Uourt. Citizens of the Pinewood section of Clarendon county yesterday notified tba State department of agriculture that the necssary petition? drainage district had been secured and filed with the clerk of court bf Clarendon county. Petitions are also being cir-, eulated In the territory adjacent. L. B. Dibble of Orangeburg notified the department that petitions were be ing circulated for the formation pf a drainage district between CoweastK and Bowman in Orangoburg county. 6 o o o o o o o ot o o o o o o o oe o o o o o RELATION? BETWEEN EM- ? o PLOYEH AND OPERATIVES*-" o O . . i . o O O O o o o o o.o o o o o o o o o o' U David Clark,- editor Of the South ern Textile Bulletin of Charlotte. N. C., hhs thc following ai tlclo on the re lations between employcro and opera tives : \ The textile Industry of the South ha? always been prpud of the friendr ly relations that haye existed between the mill owners and the operatives for Ihr? ?anio feeling probably does not ex ist In any other Inrrco industry in this country; The mill presidents and treasurers add those who control the mills have always shown an active personal interest In the welfare of the operatives and have always stood mady to do what they could to better their' conditions. Thc wages that have been paid have been reasonable and while not qnite a? high aa In somo sections of the country, they bave ai way B been a? high in proportion to the cost of Itv? lng, for the cost of living'ia less, in tho mill centers of the south than . In other parts of tho country. Wages In the cotton ' mills of the south .-haye steadily advanced in late years and al though the mills have passed through .' several years of depression they, have hot asked the operatives to share their loases and there has neveb' been any reduction. The Lours bf labor have-been grad ually shortened from ll 1-2 until the 10-hour limit applies over the entire south, but there has been no .corres ponding reductions in wages, for the operatives SB would undoubtedly have . been made in other, sections of the country. wki Being *?ble; to. view the .matter both from the sfundpolnt of the mill owners ' und the operatives wo believe that the ' present scale of wages th.the southern cotton nulls is as high as manufacture ' lng condU'ona will permit and that 4 they ari enough to provide good liv ing eruditions for the operatives. Because they have been treated fair ly and because the mill owners have never ahown any ??pu?ii.iun to op- ? press them the operatives have come, to i?oo. opon the mili owners aa their! friends and a relation exists which, is very rare. 0^6 factor ia this! feeling of friendliness, ls the fact that ; we h?.ve ?o foreigners Ja -.our ,m?iio( I and both thc mill owners ?p'V tho op- j Easter Day In Easter day is pre-emil Coins*. Three hundred matea, throng the chu world on Easter, bendii before the King of kinds, The Easter festival is one of ?he ender, ? festival in which Sowers ai parts. Easter is the harbinger season of hope, of raviv Immortality of which n ?nomar;?? hit s VS??S ?.'per. Let this Easier day bring yp|}? church which God established for *h< Go tt> church on East, and sermon that marvelc rection. Who knows? : tending the house ofwors in your own ?out the late when ft filia one's life, trar of wondrous power. Go to church CA\ lintier Ar.f enc eels, tho gotgeo?* varicolons? 2 Mooma maa rioon after die sterile winter. Go ?5tet* tis ths C??5'V?I compositions of many of harmony, whkh ?hechoi? edification. Easier day in church will appeal you. Go to church and pa?t?ke of tl soul yean?, cratlves 'come* ot pure Anglo-Saxon blood, which hi th?.*est oniearth. Be in g~ of ono face' -and oh? pSbple ?her-j io a natural understanding and- kin ship which could not be expected if our mills were filled with the dagoes and the riff-raff of Europe.* Only once have these friendly rela tions between Southern mill owners ind operatives been broken and that was about 1900-when agitators from p>?? "rtivcr, I?noes., came imo the south .nd stirred uti i?-?ui>?e wh?eh .war esl* serious at Augusta, Ga,, and Burling ton. N. C, ' That iron sic was. however, short lived, for the mill operatives soon' tound that they had been deceived by ;heiir new t H ends ~~ho wcro working the Churches ently a day for church rtilltnn nannie i*- ir ??**k? ?-.- fjtmrm+fjmiy **? ?/Jll" renes throughout the rig the knee in homage mojt beautiful in the church cal >dl exquisit nxusic play important of spring, the glorious ified life,, ar^&ffldifitf the san in hi? philosophic Ccu (.SUKI - :,5H5S?H3fi538BM into communion with that great er and hear'in anthem ?us storey ot the resur By that very act of at ihip you may. resurrect * mt Cod hunger which, isforms him into a man : I behold the Sower tarjen cha?? , of spring, so beautiful to tht hu isitc s i fi M3i??^fie sacred the worlt^^iasters of to all that b noUest and ?est in bat ?omtusW'piift ?or -which yo? for their own financial gain and they resumed their friendly relations with their . mi)-, m IWrwht?o^ these rela tions have wntgfiiefi :ttrm despite the ??jfarts bf ohtoide agitators and under them wages .hkVe increased and honra o? labor become shorter. Welfare work fa corrie'form or another ha- ? been eatAblfSh?d'bi all cotton mills of | the south end tho li vins: conditions of j ?the operatives' have - been greatly im-1 Such a condition is galling to the? P'bfet'^rinaA agitator and,now they* huve come imo the south again with ai d?teriulned -effort to ?Ur up trouble ?aid we regret to say that they have ?nvccccdcd in at least one place. lt .is agoinot our policy to give pub ? antlers, hut at the pres ent : t-6 reliably informed that agitators froid -Fall River, Haas,, are worktiiifjia-Uie soutli at several points. These: mbb jiave not come south ' with any'philanthropic motive and-au matter how smooth tongued they may ?be, tiicy cab ,not set around the fact that b.v.\c?uair?4f ?rohnie. Th?y but make i .t^r themselves. They are i.i iii- ;><?uth for tho purpose of ?stir ri mc up tronhle between the em ployers1 arid the operatives knowing that if they can convert a condition of ii^BIH^^^B^^^^Sfci"^ ?iiio one un rest and eumity, thc "pickings" will be ;. -Ifikat iHtlcfe ta 'the. north ?how that thete agiffet?ts moat nf whom started with hi :. :.\ are now well fixed in this world's; eoods. while those whom they have used for the,r purposes have loat much by reasou of strikes and dues, j ^rajWBHW^ttm?vM cf the I south ir?hi?wfber their experience ini lf)00 and the friendly relatlona that! ii nt theie ye?r2, .cr r.i" j L?ii-y ?fw.l?b";?o Smooth tnr.crn'? 'rom ! ra? uiver and turn against their! std tan [>rd tat our people can al ive affair? without the have come all the way r, Moss., to Rive thom pendenre nf action has characteristic of tho xl liows in the veins of o?tcn mill operative, t the present eflor*. to| attona . tareen xho wnem and the mili op ?ovc P. failure aa did a fifteen yeer? ago. for re fUccnasfol if will pro of turmoil from which s and the operatlvea will Rr* VOR PBESIUK.NT 4.- Ia a atate re Congressman that Hr.. Hobson will for the presidency If nrtahtenflAt bri' r, 1 4 {pating ute- pas bill to make hts HOW WILl BULEY 0 EXPLftlM HIS VOTE This Question Is B?ing Discussed By Num-. . ber in Rock Hill Rock Hill, April. 4<-How wjll Rep resentative Finley explain his voie on the tolla exemption clause when be coes before the votes or the Fifth Dist trict nevt summer la a question that has beeu asked in Rock lim a number times today. Whether or not tho atti tude of Mr. Finley with regard to the ?free tolls proposition will weaken or strengthen him in the primaries is now & matter'of conjecture, but there are some who think lt will decidedly weaken his cause. Oothcrs of course, think it will be to his advantage. Mr. finley voted against the administra? tion. SUIT OF INTEREST AGAINST RAILROAD Spartanburg Jury Found For the Defendant in Action Over Ac cident Happening Here Anderson people will read with In terest that a Spartaaburg Jury found for the defendant, the C. & W. C. rail way Thursday in an actloa brought against the railway by J. L. Daly io** Injuries done to Lillian Daly when plosion' of a dyajflnK?ap. Tito fol lowing-is ironi tho^Spartanburg Her ald of y?steday: "A Jury In civil court ' yesterday found for the t ?tarlcston & Western Carolina railway, which was heine cued by J. I-.. Daly,-guardian for Lil lian Daly, for injurias aliased to havi* been sustained by the latter, a young girl, because of thc explosion of a torpedo picked up ",on the right or way or the 'defendant er.m.oany by Lil lian Daiy, wlilchi explosion Injured har. N?gligence s*?!i?t the railway wes alleged, and dam?ges ia the sum ?r $10.000 wore asked. "In October. 100.9. Lillian Dab aged nine years, while walking along thc main street of Gino* uiiiis. in An derson county, which .street is a pub lic thoroughfare ?a* aleng.whi?h me tracks of the C. ?TW. O. railway run. picked up a torpedo from the rlfcht ot way. The complaint alleged that the child did not know what it was nor its explosive nature and took it home ts a plaything. Securing a hammer, abe ls alleged to have attempted to open the torpedo, and it exploded. She ls alleged to have been knock**! sense- j lesa and on*? ty* h? ?yea wea destroyed. The complaint also alleges that her health wat pi?rmsnsR?!? ?J5t>s?F?: 1. i "The '. pendant company introduced j wi?xr^scs to show that the child took * the torpedo to her . mother,. , who ;told her what it waa, but allowed her to. take ft into the next room. Evidence was also introduced tc show that the child kept the torpedo two days before th? accident happened." The Carse of The ?ie? Suspicion has fallen upon the flea os responsible tor scarlet fever.' The public health department of London aaa tried since 1909 to obtain a de tailed record of the seasonal preval? ance of fleas in London. Last year ad ditional information was made avail able by the examination of'elementary school chlldnniv Tho r??y\iM? S??>*? thst the "cHrae" of'flea prevalence 1B al most identical with that of scarlet fever epidemics. While QO actual con? elliston* cab he drawn. It is regarded aa possibly poasessing gre>t slgnlfl mi?? Pensacola Bra ny OB. the capa ble and efficient teacher |of the Double Springe school, was in thc city yesterday. ?BHBg? -_ =A^^?ga??aaaaaaa?*ft**4fl>aa THE FlftST JAST?B DAY, Never so sweet ailSL In oil Jadean n?gt?iH ^ Never.?o Coir a mn Roa* o'rr Judpsn hetghte, Never so hovei lng ?Sor* Did all of heaven Jean, As when approached the tomb The weeping Magdaba*. brTtat marvel greet* a>r ?y** i Too tear bedimmed aro they! Behold nd portal ha. rad The atone la rolled away! Va cnn i the ?heithrift*; depth SrherSI ba waa Kio V***?*- ta? n?rrow Spice Wharoon h la body preat. Only the cerement? wiall* Wber* be, th* Bott, had ?am: Omy Si bead and fool Th? guardian ungot* twafn Tbs gltiU?ni? *wtin:( Ot gentle mien and ara ve, To apaak of word ti " Of bim who died! How spread Ut? nv? ito* What tC jrlou t pr Th? fr'favlow/- of And th', world ls ?tad Amt men. rejoicing,: pray. fe A* did hi? servant* ?hen ? CAM* tb* erat Ra?t*r.day. r* -BtHnl*VjH?t?*?n?. P ?TT? TV t . V ?f a NIE aVSnk YSCHOOL AS A FOiH'E 1 C. B. EARLE BEFOKE UNION NO KVon Humbodlt, the great German I ] !a!esos=r, jiald tfi?t "if you -wish i&k j.;roducr? ni-.y i?e?a into a jriMHM??fl ??e. you must put them intu .he 11 tchools." Applying this principle tn th* j :ub;cct in hand, if wc would .Chris- ' ' ianize the world: we moat teach theil ianize tho world, tve must teach the j 1 treat subject of mioBiona in our ?im lay schools, and train the great forces i >f the sunday schools for mission j yorjf. ?During,?the last decade or BO, 1 ioth in seculsr and In religious ?du- 1 at ion. there lias been a wide-spread- 1 ind general fermentation; so to speak, < imong tho teaching forces of the : Ountry; and It ls gratifying :o ob?-?rv? : ho groat enthusiasm and earnestness i bown by thc, teachers touching.'nu ? lignes* interests of their profession- j i or the teachers of this country hold ts future In their hands. "And thou i halt teach them diligently unto thy i hlldren." m- < We ar?, mmman?ej te teach re?is?- ; IUS truth unto our children and to i lo so with diligence; and 1 appre- t lead that neither in the day schools. ? lor a home,.are the gf?at, funds- p nental tni'.ha of lifo, os presented by r ho P.ihle. talent diligent!* lint/i thr.i hildrcn. It i?as, therefore, fallon to \t he church io do this important work, jf nd I fear DO contradiction when I ? i ay that the Sunday Fchool, th??re- ls it oi-forrolng arid' soul-savin i:??un, i? sn HH?r whirn in nr-fr.^?.!***- - - cognize the supremacy of chsraet?r v nd righteousness. If parents are in- c ?rested in the training of the In flects abd character? -of- thpjf hoya fi nd girls, if they desl?e m them tho g nculcatlon of right proceptB, the lead- o tig to right K'cral choices, the cultiva- s lon of a gota conscience, ino learn- v Hufritof the way. of ' eternal life at?: i? ruth, as well as the soul-salvAtion of i, lieir children,-then it behooves thi.-m a ; give their best attention n??? *tit>- s 6rt to the work cf the Sunday SCJUOOJ^ > The Sunday School has a great hU*: ' >ry behind it; |t would be interest- d kg to trace iL hut wo i cannot da so c ow; suffice H to say that the Sunday d chool idea can he. traded from the h .ld Testament on down; and lt Hs a a recognized fact In ecclesiastical his- tl irv th**'the hlsheft. aud purest A rpo -of Christian Ufe was t&m? si- A rays where the *?'J,,e ?$?~.'?b r-r- . ailed. ? . < tl A Sunday Behool missionary hos ! tl tated that the sunday school Idea, In ractiuaViy appwoynas nsfl great In-ja! nene* In national reforms ?nd upan ? o roBperity. I xi rd Mahon points to' ie Sunday Behool as "the beginning tj f a new -ra in the national iife of jp, ngland ha the day* o? Robert Kalkes." : 2: nd Oreen, the (RbgStHi: >e*klng of the dark daya .which : -w-ru She AitK..ritan Kev?toxton'; just I for the begining ot BaJke* work. ?] lid; *It. was "theu the, mor?L'^he j ? "J rr" yOll MISION WORK-Af ?PRESS BY . S OP. SALWA ASSOCIATION ?bMunthropic, the religious td?as VtU\xh have moiiHoti i^p^iici. m^pt^y roto i's present shape, fl.'st broke the iplrituul torpor of the 18th century." And HcaiT C!s? Tirunibu*; Hm^ti 'America u.a been practically saved j to Christianity and ?10 relis'.en or he Bible by tie Sunday School." ' During these latter days we haar \ i great deal of Various rell??cu* and missionary movements-Tbs Students' Volunteer Movement The Laymen's Missionary Movement, The Men and Religion Forward Movement, etc, and ?hat we must now realise is that *?i(ch will be entitled to be called he Sunday School Missionary Move ment. This source in dealing with the A\tu\ vVe lUMti Isars te spprccist* nore highly the value, of the chili. The Psalmist said: "Lo. th? children ira; a heritage'of Jehovah;" and in hree Gospels .it ir recorded ihat Christ said to his disciples: "Suiter he ???t?o Cuitaren and forbid them nov. 0 come unto me, for of such . te he kingdom of Heaven." The yoong >eople who aro now pupils of the I 1 un day school will make the future .htirch, and tho supreme opportunity >7 ?he ct*orob tod*y lies in thc s-?d~y c^ooi. Lock. r.I thc d..otlon uiani ested byi the Roman Catholic church n the nurture, of her children and ob erve her extension throughout the I ....-l-l ' i . - /.i- r. v.M--- I * "/t lu. .*? . X'.itsB. ?-*. ? jcninouii Di*jr o. with ail her follies. and crimson ?'.?>, Ru m i- K?'es OM uer conquering r#t because she knows' the value of a ht,**., "In the problem of, the world's evan ejifei'on," says Martha B. H ison, "the Itthday School, of all forms of church rganlsatlon. Is supreme In its pos Ibliltics for service. Its field Is th? forld, and it deals with the most im iroBsionahlo age in lifo. Because of IA youth, its wealth of lives. Its rc ources m - gifts and prayers, it tanus unmatcnea tn the religious calm." Authorities tell us that 87 per cent, f the membership of the evangelical burches ha? geer?, trained in the sun ay school and t>at tho grca?set num er of conversions occur between 12 nd 20 years of s age. It is related int by some incident in childhood jexatider Hun, r idalia Ktske, mica gnow, Alexander Mackey and others sbelvetl their first impulse to give loir Uves to the mission cause At ie ago of 21 Livingstone declared his lisslooary Durnose. Toa. Chamberlain t li). Bishop Thoburn at 17 and james bajmers at 15. Authorities estirante that if for thir st; consecutivo yeera all the young oopie in the world, between ten and l years of age, could be reached by kristian training, tho evangelization ! the world would ba accomplished. They tell un that the sunday school .yr.e (? capable of providing mission (Centinucd on Page fifteen) ABBEVILLE SCHOOL* . HOLD AN MT AL FAIR r*rfe*t Day Af trac* a 1,000 Stadent* ?nd Equal Nuniber af Frisada to Event. Abbeville. April 4-Today was a perfect day for tho Abbeville school fair and 1.000 pupila arith more than 1,000, relatives and friends wore here I to enjoy the day. There were eight floate In the pa rade. Sharon school won ?rat price* with its beautiful float, representing "Rose bf Sharon.**. Abbeville came second with a float 'representing "Co?' lumbus Presenting America to the . Court of Spain." Thelma Seal of Ab beville won Bast prise m girls'.decla mation. Kenneth Baughman of Mr rormlck won first prise id the boys' class. Antreville high school won six out dresses will be delivered by Dr. Ward of ten class, contests. Tomorrow od or Columbia and Dr. Moffatt of Due West and the athletic events will ba held at tho fair grounds. VORN AND (ANNING CLUB* ARE FOIlMfcD Boys and ?Iris of Cheater Jula With - F.nthurtin*n* in t'lrps For Work. Chester, April 4.-Today was a me morable one for the boys and giris of the corn and canning clubs of Chester county. They mot early at the opera house, where an organisa tion - was perfected. Sixty-two girls Joined tho canning club and BS boya* the corn club. Tile boys and girls both were very enthusiastic and all agreed to make thia year a season of great things along agricultural lines for Chester county. The meeting was opened with an in vocation bv. th? Hov .William &- Thay er, pastor of tho First Baptist church. In the absence of Mayor William J. Simpson, Alderman -I. Baxter West brook welcomed the boya and girls to the city. The opening ?peech 'was delivered by v-ounty superintendent of Educa tion W. D. Knox. Thia speech rang with words bf encouragement for the " members of the ciaba Ho laid em phasis on a well mapped oat cam paign ""Jd har dwork all the way tb'roi # Ta; "..ev. J. ?, Roper, pftn??r fir na...- .Vi. E. church, wes the next speaker. He compared the opportu nities of the boys and giris of today with those of yesterday aa^d showed how mach great?? they were. The last speaker was John B- Noa* now. editor ot the Chester S4pfKv'' Weekly Newe, Her-?Ure; . < : portance of S high sch? >) to'the boyB and girl- < >:..<? friet?. Also the value, ?mporionce abd meaning of the boys' corn clubs and the girla, canning c?tths in the county. Following the speeches the elpbs were given tree exhibitions of moving picture? <?? th? ixiai theatree Orte or the s/eclal features of the day waa the fe??q?et given , tbs <clabs (jv ?I?? b?s!r?es mes. pf this rsunlcl paiity. it was an elaborate spread sad was lrTr?ensely enjoyed by the b??ya ao?5 girls. The banquet wgs well tve >ared by the girls of the esa?tfcg c?u? and likewise served by them. The ban quet was held ip, the Coogler building. A number of out-of-tbwa speakers were unable to be present. KOO ERM ICE CREAM ? CO. WILL ESTABLISH ?-!-' BRANCH At SUMTER Sumter, April 4.-The Rodgers Ic? Cream Manufacturing CordJJSfty, of Worldlan, Miss., will establish a fac tory in Sumter. . . "Tbmr machinery la bara and a rep resentative of the Arm wa? ttl flomter ?e?tsrd?y ?sd wdsy banting ale building for the plant. This firm ls In tad market for 00 tellons or cream and 200 gsttons of nlik dally". . . Traveling representative* vf?l iske the road immediately". Tl* lodat?sa? ager for Sumter len Mertdida Toes ley last and is expected here tonight >r tomorow. Secretary Resrdon, of the Chamber. sf Commerce, is snxibua to secure a mitable building and ali tbs mus amt The Rodgers people, lt is reliably ttated, will open up another ice cres? BCtory in Columbia. , Ttl MEEK VINDICATION* \ P. SS?? WB1 Raa Per L?SHlatrst? This Year. Spartanburgi. April 3.-Cbalrlea ft. ?ms, tndefinlielybydIsbgrred by? the tate r.::r"?~'S court jiwtd?iuy s??i?d hat the decision came a? a com riete surprise to hun. He further said hat he intended to continue to ro lde in Spartanburg. When asktod ' f he would make the tar? for tb? ;gislatt>re. an fcc announce ??otsttiw go. Mr. Sims replied: "I most assuredly will. V will e* W??the race to the finish sad I ba? leve I shall be elected, lt elected* s'nali introduce lo the hons* of rep-? esentatlves a hill requiring tho alec lott of Judgea by the people. I shall nnounce the remainder of th* nbata; f my platform later." The attorneys for ?. 8lma~S<Ma . Nicholls, C. C. Wy?h? and WV Ut. ones-announced lani night that tkejf oula appeal to the supreme court jo* reopening of the cae? and a re* i resiting of ii. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sparks find barlee Finley of tb? Moaarab Creely Bctioa SMKt ys*ver ?sy ip. the city, ^