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THE ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER l'onnuYi! AngOHt H, 18(50. 12H North Malu Street A MIK ?SON, S. C. "WILLIAM HANKS..Editor W. W. SMC)AK, - - Business Manager Entered According to Act of Con g: CHU at) Second ClaHH Mall Matter at the PoBtofflce at Anderson, S. C. Member of the Associated Press and Receiving Complete Daily Telegraphic Berrico. Semi-Weekly Edition - f 1.60 per Year. Daily Edition - $5.00 per annum; 92.50 for Six Months; S1.26 for Three Months. IN' ADVANCE. A larger circulation than any other newspaper in thia Congressional Dis trict. TELEPHONES*. Editorial .327 Business Office.321 Job Printing. 692-L Local News.327 Society News.321 The Intelligencer ls delivered by carriers In the city. If you fall to get your paper regularly please notl.'y us. Opposite your name on label of your paper is printed dato to which your paper is paid. All checks and drafts should be drawn to The Ander son Intelligencer. The Weather. Washington, June 24.-Forecast: South Carolina-Generally fair and continued warm Thursday and Fri day. Is an oculist a visionary person al ways. -o Any one who lives long enough can be the oldest inhabitant. -o Our assets are schools, churches, | homes, human lives, not finances. Now that we have a baseball league season, look out for falling wea ther. in ? a BaptlBt church in Atlanta, meq will be allowed to demove their conto. Georgia 1B afflicted by the legisla ture In the summer, why not South Carolina also? Birmingham cia'm H to have a mil lion dollars for the new Methodist | university. -Make happy comfortable homes for the -laboring people and make the people contented. o Mr. Bryan's middle name ls "Jen- j nih gs". No relation however, to our senatorial candidate. It ls as Important to keep labor busy at it ls to stabilize credit with tho regional reserve bank. -o Whenever Teddy wants to start something real fussy, let him chart a j river In the Saharah desert. Some folks are so stiff necked that they can observe but one point of | view-hence they are knockers. The future will prove the great nes of a state not by its magnificent j capitol, but by its laborers' homes. "Show me." is what the people de mand. They insist on knowing and seing, and will not believe candidates' yarns. o . ? Note-In Georgia, prohibition otate, ?hey wish to start a real beer brewery. That Is because the law needs en forcement. Mr. Sam Jackson of Iva, says that thia new moon that came Tuesday ] night 1B a wet moon. It might he wber lt ls raining. -o In crossing the Delaware, Washlng ton did not take as many chances as the chicken crossing the road, in these automoblllOUS days. , Since old Doc Cook took so many liberties with the Artic region, we don't seem to get as many cool breezes "as we uster.' ? I . .The war in Mexico would cease If the: government would give each man a chance to acquire a little piece of land wBh which to start life. -.> .*'.' ' o Senator 'Smith la making farmer talks and his three lawyer opponents aro making excellent legal arguments B?|t?|s this a trial-or a campaign? We^hopij that Col. Charles Carroll Sims took it good naturedly .when Gov. Blease Jumped on the arist?crata. Coli Sims IS one, If ever there waa one. -o. ( We have never hoard a colin mill president saying that he would sup port tfleaae. but we have heard some ? iee 1 dro- that they would not vote llih. ' military authorities have 1: the first section, 135 miles long, of e railroad in Algeria which it^S^aliy will cross the Sahara Des ert. ' ..J jr STICK TO roon MAN This paper lias heretofore uttered it H appeal tor a compulsory uttend atii'i' law. Especially tor a loin! op tion from which can ho given a trial lt would harm no one and might get into the public schools hundreds of unfortunate little fellows who other wise would in- denied the privilegia of having their minds expanded. .Mr. E. il. IJIake, of Greenwood, who bas made a clone study of tills prop osition, writes The Intelligencer that those who. through honest conviction, have opposed compulsory school at tendance in South Carolina, have ov erlooked the Injustice that is done the working man and especially the cotton mill worker by the absence of such a law. "Nearly all the slules," writes Mr. Blake, "including North Carolina, Tennessee and other southern stutes, i ave seen die need and passed com pulsory attendance laws. Time will no' wait on children in South Curo lina growing up in ignorance. How loi g munt these lielpleHH children w iit on South Carolina?" A man who describes himself as a cotton mill operative pleads for com pulsory education as follows, in a letter to The Helton Journal recent ly: "It seems to the average man work ing to better his condition, that the compulsory education bill would have been a great help. Had lt been pass ed, lt would then force the parent to give his child ut least an elementary education, lt seems inconsistent to say to the cotton mill parent, you must not work your boyB or girls un til a certain nge and then fail to en courage liim to send the boy or girl to school u stipulated time. "Give us compulsory education and in a very short while you will per ceive our condition greatly Improv ed from an educational standpoint. We realize education is the basis for better conditions In our community, and the foundation of a more stable government, or one more constructive at least. Compulsory education will force better school facilities, thereby giving more advantages for huvlng and making better citizenship. "The cheap politician says we are not ready for it and stops right there. Wonder why we are not ready for bet ter citizenship? Will some of those opposed to the bill explain the view they entertain, and tell how long it will be until we are ready for it? Also tell us how to prepare for Its pas sage? Some are using the poor ne gro as an argument. They fail to know that we read and are keeping up with the conditions as they really exist, or else they are not keeping up with the conditions of the present day. Statistics, as they are compiled by our state superintendent of edu cation, say that there are more ne gro children In school in our state than whites. So if the negro goes ahead of us along these lines we can blame no one but ourselves for our condition." Jl'DGK EMORY SPEER The report of the congressional committee that Investigated the con duct of Judge Spoer is one of the most amusing things we have ever seen. It proves more nearly than any thing else In recent months that there should be somo kind of recall of judges. Some recent decisions In this state show clearly that the Ju diciary of South Carolina should have some string to it. As to Judge Speer, the committee, In stating* that he could not be im peached, made this amusing declara tion: . "An examination of the record shows the fact that Judge Speer ascertained the limit to which he go before liability to impeach ment or official misconduct would accrue and went as close to the line as safety would permit," says the report. "The committee Ands that the record presents a series of legal oppressions and an abuse of Ju dicial discretion, which demand criticism and condemnation. These hang as a pretentious cloud over his court, impairing his useful ' 'Pess, impeding the admtnlstra ? Hon of justice and endangering the Integrity of American Institu tions." It seems to us that the very fact that Judge Speer with intent' used his office arbitrarily right up to the point of Impeachment ls the mast convincing' argument that he should be impeached. * -'tf GEORGIA TEXTILES. The report of the Georgia commis sioner of commerce and labor, H. M. Stanley, ls very interesting. Among other things it shows that there are 145 cotton mills In Georgia, using 288,100,188 pounds of cotton a year and turning out products valued at $82,G73,000. In the cotton, woolen and knitting mills the operatives num ber 14,7771 There are 66 operatives undo: ,12 years old; 3.074 from 14 to 18 ye rs, and over 18 years. l?,452. - HE WA HE THE MEHDLEIiK There ?K H? much oT hysteria and ol perversion in Hi's?' days that it is dilticult tu arrive al winn is thu truth. Kor instance, in Hie matter of child labor in the cotton mills. The editor o? the The Intelligencer was fortune to he permitted to assist in getting the first hill through the South Carolina legislature. lt was introduced Col. J. Q. Marshall, and championed hy the late N. tl. Gon zales. These two men did more for the laboring classes of the State than any other dozen men in the last 26 years. Both have passed to their re ward. A law to protect children from heart lens parents who would force them to work in the mills wus a ne cosslty and ls yet. Hut there should he some com mon sense displayed in Hie mutter. When Hie child labor law was first passed, it came ill response to the appeal from the laboring peo ple themselves, and the mill man agers offered no objection except to state that along with this law there should be a compulsory education law to keep idle children off the streets and out of mischief. And right there ls wherein rose the ob jection to the compulsory attendance law coming from politicians who did not want it merely because the mill managers did. At thc time of the enacting of the law, there was a widespread public sentiment in its favor and public de nium! for lt, but there In no great dis satisfaction at present, that we can hear of. Occasionally we hear that the law ls not being enforced, and that there has been some criticism of the governor of the state. We wish to say that this In unfair to him as the enforcement of this law ls not placed In his hands, although if viola tions were brought to his attention, he might get in behind the loafers who are letting it go on. We believe that the mill managers are the best friends of the mill peo ple. Even if they were ?ol so from a humanitarian standpoint, they should be from a sta alnoint of econ omy-and they are from both stand points. There are men in the manu facturing business whose minda are no greater than their great hearts, and their sympathies are broad as the field of their endeavors. Wc do not believe rhu the mills of the state are employing any con siderable number of children. And we have visited some of the mills and our observation ls that what chil dren are to be seen, have light em ployment, get pretty fair wages, aro treated nicely, have lots of fun In the mill and outside, and are a greut deal less driven with labor chan are hundreds of chore boys on tho farms. We believe that the mill managers do more charity voluntarily tj>n all of the charitable societies of 'he coun try, outside of that grand institution, the Salvation Army. And this leads to thc conclusion The great and admirable movement with reference to preventing the la bor of children In'mines and factories is being ridden by high salaried of ficials whose business is to agitate. We have read statements and pub lications and even books from them that are grossly and grotesquely false. How much of this agitation ir. caus ed by the mills of New England und the enemies of the contented labor of the South we do not know. Wo know somo of the workers in this neld and believe them to be sincere, though highly theoretical and slightly fan atical. We believe In remedial laws but we do not believe that legislation should be forced upon industries when lt ls not needed. What would the South be today if lt were not for our textile industries? How many of today can remember before the day of creation of inter est in the building of manufacturier? AU such know that but for the mills and their payrolls the South would today be but little better off thun lt was at the close ot the war, ex cept agriculturally. The mills are not entirely patriotic or benevolent or beniftcent, but they do more for their employes than the same number of employes in any other class of la bor get. The mill people are becoming an edu cated, proud and ambitious people. They are among our best citizenship. They are uot in need ot paternalistic or rather patronizing laws to the ex tent that politicians and paid agita tors would canse the people to think. Occasionally there is need for legis lation in thc case oi some trifling pa rent, but such coses may be found on the farms as well as in the mills. Finally, we suggest, beware of meddlers. If there are wrongs, let them be pointed out. and corrected. But let the mill managers and their help alone, and we believe that they will get together work out the solution of all vexing questions; Otherwise, some day adverse and fool legislation may stop the spindles and the con sumer will feel the effect of the high coat of idleness. One of the newest uses ot aluminum ls In the manufacture ot solea, for shoes for men who work lat Wot places. COMMITTEE UNDECIDED The Senate Judiciary Trio Worried For Kepari On Clayton Bill. Washington, Juno 24.-After ten days consid?r?t lon of thc Clayton anti trust bill, passed by the house, the senate judiciary committee tonight ap parently was no nearer a conclusion as to what it shall report to the sen ate than it was the ?lay it took ita first look at the measure. .Members of the committee have found little common ground for pro hibition of Interlocking directorates und holding companies, and they have not finally agreed on how to prevent price fixing. The so-culled labor sec tions have led to endless urguraents. The prospects for un early agreement, some members of the committee say. ls not encouraging and sentiment ugatnst reporting any such treasure ut this time is growing. A new complication in the situation came tonight when Senator Cummins offered five propositions which he ashed the judiciary committee to ap prove and report as amendments to the federal trade commission bill. These amendements would make In terlocking directorates and holding companies among railroads or other corporations unlawful where they re strain commerce, und would give the trude commifcBion or the interstate commerce commission power to deter mine when they restruin commerce. There was talk ugaln today about au effort to have the president agree to limit the amount of anti-trust leg islation at this session. FITCH EB JOHNSON MARKIES Takes as Bis ?ride Conu|'e*smUi)'H Daughter. Washington June 24.-Walter John son, pitcher of the Washington Amer ican League Club, and Miss Hazel Lee Roberts, daughter of Representative E. E. Roberts, of Nevada, were mar ried here tonight. Only members 'of the Roberta,family witnessed the cere mony. The pitcher and his bride will not have their honeymoon until after the end of the baseball season. Miss Roberts and ber mother saw Johnson pitch his way to victory against the world's champion Athlet ics this afternoon.. Johnson, although a veteran in thc baseball world, is only 26 years old. His home ls in Coffeyville, Kansas, where he owns a ranch. HUGE LAND PURCHASES Government Will Acquire Preserres in Several Southern States. We sh ingot n, June 24.-The Nation al forest reservation commission to day approved for purchase by the gov ernment ? number of tracts in Virgin ia, West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina uid Georgia, totalling more than 27,000 acres. About 13,600 acres are In North Caro line, principally in the Mount Mitchell region, about 7,000 acres in Tennessee and 6,000 ae>es in West Virginia. This will ' conclude the purchases for the fiscal year closing June 30, 1914, during which the areas approved for purchase have totaled nearly 400,000 acres. The lands selected for acquisition by the 'government for national forest purposes in the east since the purchase policy was inau gurated in 1910 now total 1,105,000 acres, having a purchase price of 95, 560.000. One of the best tracts, from a tim ber standpoint, that the commission ever haa concluded to buy, contains more than 7,000 acres and ls In the Mount Mitchell region, North Caro lina. Its purchase waa decided on today. It averaged more than 6,000 feet of saw timber and other producta per acre. All the tracts adjoin or lie near lands previously acquired, under the general policy, by which national forests of good size are be ing built up in the eastern mountains through successive purchases. ORGANIZATION" DELATED Will Take One Month Longer Than Expected to Start Reserve Ranks. Washington, June 24.-Although August 1 ls the date originally set by treasury department officials for or ganization of the Federal reserve banks, lt now seems likely that the organization will be not earlier than September 1. The senate's delay in the confirmation of members of tbe Federal reserve board and delay lp the choice of directora for the reserve bank? will defeat the plan to open on August 1. The organisation committee now ls busily engaged in compiling lists of nominations for directorships tn the twelve reserve banks. After the complete list haa been complied it will be submitted to electors named by all member banks. These electors muBt cast their bail?te for directors within fifteen days after receipt by them of the Hst of nominees. Many of the member banks are situated so remotely that it will take more than a month to complete the election of the Hst that has been mased. / Charged With Fraud. Philadelphia, June, . 24.-Charging with using the malla to defraud. "Colonel" George Dickinson, president of the Central Tennessee Development Company, and Hanlon Van Busklrk, counsel for the concern. Were ar rested today sad bold tn $2,500, bail by a United,States commissioner. It ls alleged that Ute company exploited Spring City,/Tenn., using the mails to Induce purchase of. land owned by the development company and' the bonds snd other securities lt Issued. Militia Camp Changed. Richmond June 24.-Because of Richmond's failure to install sewerage and proper sanitary equipment at tbe site selected for the annual encamp-! ment of the Virginia National Guard, this city has lost the encampment. Governor Stuart today orederd the state troops to encamp at Gordons vllle. from July 21 to SO. Tho order includes all'troops except field artil lery, whtohwill encamp at Toby hanna, IS FOn RIDDLE German Political Experts Have So Far Been Unable To An swer Conundrum (Hy Associated Press) Berlin, June 4.- The action of the government in ?losing the Reichstag instead of adjourning it, has furnish ed a conundrum which the political experts have not yet been able to an swer. The government's object is not known, and its action is wondered at the more because it meant the extinc tion of numerous pending measures desired by the government, most of which were certain to be passed, on all which must hard work had been done. Equally mysterous was the government's covert threat to dissolve the Reichstag, making new elections necessary ,if it adopted, as it seemed for a time likely to do, a Socialist measure providing an increase in pay ( of $24 yearly for certain postomc?* employees. Even the newspapers friendly to the government ridiculed the Idea of going to the people on ah' issue so trivial. Foremost among the measures thrown into the waste-basket by the closing of the Reichstag was the pe troleum. Others to suffer the same fate were the measures to regulate bookkeeping, to define the rights and duties of aviators, to establish a ju venile court, to sharpen the laws against "filth in word and picture," to regula Sunday employment, to es tablish a colonial court, to amend the business law, the new excise bill, and many others. Against this list of un completed work the accomplishments of the late Reichstag are very small. So long as lt had to deal with broad national questions, such as the arr mament and taxation bills, where the non-Socialist parties were united against the Socialists, the work went ahead smoothly, but as soon aa these were out of the way, shifting allian ces of factions prevented any real work from beir?g accomplished. Not all the" me for the little done dur inf * salon rests upon the Kele' inarchical a paper as . JUE RUNDSCHAU sharply the government's "doctrinariai passing the bounds nf the permissible," and its "stubborn ness." It declares also that from the first there was a lack of Intelligent direction of affairs on the side of the government. It is also a fact that the ministers of various departments on many occosions failed to show the fact necessary for dealing with the representatives of the people, ? ad on I more than one occasion made rnfortu I nate blunders. Another source of the Reichstag's weakness was- the presidency, Herr Kaempf, the chief presiding officer, is an estimable and able man, but even his own party-the Progressives or Radicals-were not satisfied with his conduct of the affairs of the house. He exhibited a lack of resolution and decisiveness fatal for the presiding, officer of a legislative body. It . ls, most unlikely that he will be mention ed as a candidate for the office when the newReichBtag, which will convene in the autumn, elects Its president and two vice presidents. Conjecture haa it that the next session's presi dent ls likely to be a member ot the Clerical, or Center party. NEGROES GET SCHOOLING That la No Reason Against Compnl* Hory Education Bill. Editor The Intelligencer: Sixteen negroes appeared: before the State Board of Medical Examiners ot South Carolina in Columbia, June 9 n th, 1914, for license to practice medi cine in this state. For the same ex amination 68 whites appia:ed. if, alter a few d<va?es ot meagre op portunity for education in South Caro lina, one negro seok3 to euter this most ?earned and skilled profession to only four and one-fourth whites who apply, wbat ls to be the tut al outcome? Here is part of what a Southerner, Shay N. White, now superintendent of public* instruction of the state of New Mexico, says favoring compulsory edu> cal'on: 'I have l"Med the law thoroughly, first, as u county superintendent for six yeats and t.ow as state superin tendent for two aud one-half years, and I am full convinced that any state will' make greater progress through such a law. It ought nol to be neces sary, but th?-re ls always a need for lt for a cortuln pei cea tage of the peo ple. Wo want to have our law amend ed, so thal thc ciiupi'Tcory age will be 7 to 16 years, ir.stead or 7 to 14 years, ?ts the law now ?tends. As a Southern er r.iyself. 1 think the law would un doubtedly help the tsr.se of education In your state." . . Yours very truly, E. H. BLAKE, Greenwood, 8. C., Juno 2?, 1914. COTTON LAST YEAR Figures Show that Crap Was Mest Valuable Ever Produced, Washington, June p4.-Final figur?s of the 1913.crop was announced today by the census bureau, placo lt at the largest that j tho United States haa grown with the exception of that of 1911. At the same time tho est?mate of the total value of he crop Bhows lt waa the. moat valuable ever produc ed, ? lt being worth. $1,040,760.0?*?/ The quantity of cotton ginned trota the 1913 crop counting ro.tnd oA half bates and excluding Unten-, was 19, 982.811 running bales or 14.?"?,469 balea ot 600 pounds & ros J v. eight. Cotton seed reported wu? 0,305,000 tons. The value at tho cot to a te os ti vat ed at 9887.166.090 and-ot Cia seed 'fl56, 600.000. , < . ' ? '?? . '. . ; Putting off bilung your summer suit is like putting off seeing the dentist- " the aching void" be comes more aching and more cav ernous every day. ,;i Today -come to this store filled with Cool Clothes, but warmed with hospitable courtesy and aglow with the desire to serve you help fully. Palm Beach suits, $7.50 $8.50 $10. Cravenetted Mohairs, $15 $18 $20. Straw hats, $1.50 to $4. \ Panamas, $5 to $7.50. \ Oxfords, $3.50 to $6. , **| Shirts, 50c to $3.50. ? ? We prepay all charges.' ' Order by Parcels Post. ' ("ar Load of Sogar Melted Ia An'Hoar. The' term mest?d used above; doria? not mean that a car load of BU gar. way. actually turned into syrup, but that-: 'inside of an hour a carload of.sugar;'. ?weighing between ten und twelve thousand pounds was sold'by 'Osborne > & Pearson yesterday morning, as ad vertised, 25 pou nd s for for one-dollar. To Bay that the crowd attending the ! sale was immense, is putting it mildly -it was simply . impossible for.. an other person to get uto the store. The retiring sale haa attracted thous ands of buyers up to the present time, and Judging from the increased patronage, the bargains offered this week by thia'well known firm arel worth while. Small Ad Gets Basalts. As the result bf a 6 inch uouDie col umn space in yesterday's Intelligen cer, Geisberg Bros. Shoe Co., sold SI I pair of ladles* white canvas, rubber I soled oxfords. Proving conclusively that lt psys to advertise In the Daily | Intelligencer. ooooooooooooooooooo o' o ?IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE" o . . ooooooooooooooooooo The following la from a weekly magazine published by the Huiyler Candy Co., called "Huyler rt Health Hints": ."It has paid Evans' Pharmacy, An derson, S. C., in more waya than one' to advertise their Huyler's salea ag ency. : In recent months the Evans Phar macy haa won the lion's share of thi prise money In the Hints' contest and this success has aroused the Interest of the Anderson newspapers*in which theo rlglnal advertisement? ' were published. As a result, both The Intelligencer and the Mail have given much public-, Ity In their news columns to,.EvonV Pharmacy, to Mr. H. P. Dickson^^-Jo: advertising manager, and to Hiyfi'V The Intelligencer even went so fa/ifai to re-run the last prize-winning ?? of Mr. Dikson, supplementing thia**-* with comments at the end of thi-aft ipa Mr. Dickson's success with Huy ler's. . . A'.- . ?. ft?;( .' The esporlonce of Evaps' Pharmacy", ?howa -What pTaff?b agent can do .bl Co-operating with'th a newspaper pnb> ^ BANDITRY MUST, CEASE ' Carrnusa footed AB Saying Terms ^-.JJiot. Satisfactory. '? f *wtr.-Orleans,] Jun? 'fc4:-Whst pre tended to.be details pf the demanda made by the United States upon ^en. Venu??anq Carranza, through which Carran ia's represe uta tl vea would he admitted to the mediation conference at Niagara-. Falle, were given but here'.today by Fernando Iglesias Cal- . Seren, ?hlet of .the Liberal party in ' r? Mexico,' ebroute to Washington In c,< nnectlon with the Mexican problem. Aside from the armistiee feature' which, Carranza .refused to consider, Calderon said St -was demanded con- & corning disposal ot religious questions and the time when elections should, take place which greatly interested v * the constitutionalists. ./ According to the'statement of the Liberal party leader, today the United States demanded) that all propcl^y of the Catholic Church confiscated by the constitutionalists should be re-: turned to the church,. that. buildings destroyed should be paid for, that priests should be protected and that, priests driven from. ' the country t should be allowed to return. To this Carranza replied, according to Calderon's statement, that the con- : Btltutlonalist laws of reform j provided , that aU church property should .gc. to the state when needed and also that' the priests must go. Calderon also stated that Carranza refuBed to accede to the'demand for. elections as soon as. the revolution : ls ended. Hi? reply to that, according to the statement, was thst elections cou'd not take place ?ntll banditry has ceased, therefore, he would not ' % agree to the plan of holding election until several leaders now-classed as bandits had-been crushed. Another demafffl, according to the: t statement, was that Huerta should be ' protected, to # which Carranza ls re ported to have replied that according to- the astee law Huerta must die end the constitutionalist chief refused to acquiesce In. tho demand. . .That Carranza also, refused to obli gate the' constitutionalists to ? pay debts Incurred by the Huerta j govern ment, was-another assertion included In the Calderon statement. < "J , Association Opens At laie , of Palms Far' Annnul Session. v'Char] eaton, S. Ci, Juuo 24.-A large attendance marked the opening at tho Isle of Palms today, o?. the fourteentjj, annual convention of the South Caro- , Hn\* Bankers Association. Congress* man-Carter Olftss' will be the'prlncjv;' pal,'speaker tomorrow. ?President Blight . Williamson,' ot Darlington,,tn' his annual address to day, endoraed tho F?d?ral reserve acL Msmaseet^ tamera taito^ get-better prices '^h their products. Tho membership of the association ls 342, Eighteen -ntm;