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TUE ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER feuded August 1, I860. IM North Hain Stret ANDERSON, 8. C WILLIAM BANKS. . Editor W. W. 8M0AK_Business Manager Sintered as second-class matter Ap ril 28, 1914. at the post office at An derson, South Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. ?ami - Weekly edition-$1.60 per Tear. Dally edition-$6.00 per annum; 12.60 tor Six Months; $1.26 for Three Moa the. IN ADVANCE. ? larger circulation than any other aswspaper in thia Congressional Dis trict. TELEPHONES! Editorial.827 Bns'.S??? OIHce. .?821 Job Printing. ..C93-L Local NewH...827 Society News.821 Tbs Intelligencer ls delivered by carriers lu ?ho city. If you fall to get your paper regularly please notify ?a. Opposite you:- name on label Of your paper is prut cd dace to which paper is paid. All checks and should be drawn to The Ander ses Intelligencer. The Weather Washington, Sept. 16.-Forecast South Carolina. Unsettled Wednes day and Thursday, probably rain on the coast. DAILY THOUGHT When from some noisy haunt of man I step into the quiet night And, cooly contemplating, scan The lamps of heaven all alight, Remorso is mine that e'er I trod In ways where man's mean tumult lars, ."hen loud my spirit cries to God, Grant me?fcc?^almness of thy stars! -Gilbert Thomas. Talk peace. Stop talking war. -o Mexico is peaceful and uninterest ing. ?? O' Anderson is My Town. ; Ali ye col lege siria Welcome. -o The army of small boys lo mobiliz ing-at r?cese. - o It I? easier to say "Buy-a-Bale" than lt ls to buy one. "Drive 'em over the line"-No. That's no war. Just football. Our Idea of a ghlnk ie a man who stays in Europe to see the fun. 1 Cotton would be so much more de sirable If it would make good waf fles. ? o Eggs selling for $2.60 per dozen in Reno, Italy. Who wants to be a tour ist now? It ls easier to persuade people to cut the melon crop than to cut the cotton crop. It takes but the dash ot the pen of a few war correspondents to make corpses out of corps. -o This war in Europe ls so big that William Randolph Hearst hss taken personal note of it. There were eight heavy morning logs in August. What does that moan weather prophet? That surely was a funny game at Boston. Had to take Nap Rucker out to let the bean-eater win. We haven't seen General Retreat mentioned among thc Gertnun- com. ??bu?i-ib, but we know he ls there. --O John J. Mc.M aban will be a mili tant fore alright. And we opine that ho ls somewhat of a suffragette also. Why doesn't the kaiser let some body corns in and get him out ot this affair gracefully. He may lose-but he can't win. t n#___ BMHU I-1 ? . - .< I n fi lat C.. - . ?VID yvv|l.? UllGi it* t? tit*,/ tu ?-?U rope than In Mexico in a year-and yet the European powers wanted the United state? tr* stop that awful war 1 o The secret orders tn this country are appealing for peace. Perhaps they think that any man who Joins sees enough of that Sherman thing. --o That Dutch weather prophet in Co lumbia predicted a cool spell begin ning tho 12th of September and said that there would be several snows tnt? winters. Note-this is not a boost ipr tho wood and coal man. uj. -" '.A prophecy was published In an almanac last January to tho effect that the war would come to an end ia November and that a great emperor would lose hie ero wa. But what em* peror is thora that ls great? CONVERT SURP1 Thu plan for financing the cotton i .rop which ls submitted by 15. F. i Mauldin, president of the Hank of Anderson, is one of the most interest ing yet offered. Mr. Muuldin does i not cluim that it will be flawless. I and he does not cluim that it will do < better than some others yet to be de- i vised. liut. looking at the matter from , a successful financier's point of view, he does feel that it will do , more than bring relief and remedy, ile thinks that it offers a CUKE. The problem ts to handle the sur. pliiH cotton of this MfUMiu. If tlil'. sur- , plus Is not financed properly, and if t!i" acreage is not reduced next year, the result will bc another year of , starvation price? on cotton. The ?B- . sue niUBt be fuced, and Mr. Mauldin , thinks that to evade lt or postpone j lt for another year is merely to pile up trouble. | It ls Mr. Mauidln's intention if this proposition meets with sufficient , favor from the thinking men of the , state, to go tn New York and lay ] it before the financial headB tbere. ? The money may not be readily avail able, but he believes that lt can bo : obtained upon such security a?, be would suggest. At any rate Chica- ? go should Hoon have a great deal of , money as the grain crops will be o> { the move OB soon as lt cap And a way , to get to Europe. The conditions now are unprece- i dented and call for titanic remedies. The immensity of the proposition is almost staggering, but also is the erl- , sis insistent and vast in its reaches. i lt will require something like $24. 000,000 for South Carolina alone to handle her crop. Thc surplus cotton crcp of South ? Carolina for the year will be half a h million bales. .If mtlre surplus crop* of the South could be thrown away, it would yet leave a sufficient amount of cotton to operate the spin dles and otherwise to meet the de mand for a year. This demand is curtailed, with re .peet to other years, because of the !, idle spindles in Germany, ia Belgium, j j and in other countries where Amer!- j ; can cotton ls woven. It is true that. laws placing restrictions upon labor ' ? have been anulled and women and : i children are trying to keep the mills actively at work, but the further ques tion arises that, with the present em bargo on shipping, certain foreign : countries will be without cotton-per haps for months. The normal surplus of 2.000,000 ? bales came over from last year, and i the present crop of 15,000,000 bales i will exceed expectations by 1,360,- i 000 bales. AB Mr. Mauldin says, SOMETHING Ni The war in Europe ls causing peo ple to think. Heretofore newspapers have urged rotation of crops. Clem con college bkB taught diversification and the farm demonstration agents have .talked boll weevil and the need of leguminous crops. Some farmers have been wise unto their generation, but others have pursued their stub born way. "And aa for tnthracnoac, tbere ain't no sieh," is just about the way some have expressed their feel ings. But this war bas put people to 1 thinking In a new way. They are more ready to give heed to the warn- j lng and appeals of men who know. The cry of cutting the -jetton acreage in half ls meeting with favor now in some sections, and the legislatures of Southern states are being besieged with appeals to put this plan into ef fect. And yet aa old Editor Solomon once wrote, "there is nothing new under the sun." We mink or tbe rotation of crops as something new, and some farmer.* through indolence or other j cause seek to excuse their lack of ( thrift by being suspicious ot and ac tually scoffing at experiment station < ideas. These might be surprised to \ learn that the plan of .rotating has i been practiced scientifically and i witb success in South Carolina for j a hundred years. . I Our agricultural schools are doing 'j a great work to educate our people, \ but the principles which they teach < are, after all, but bringing the faras er face to face with things that have > i been tried and have been proved a i success for many years. I !n Toumay's "Geology of South ; Carolina" published hi Columbia In < 1848 by A. Sidney Johnston, this. i statement ls made on Page 243: L A DIFFERENT CARET. The esteemed Newberry Observer is In error In the following statement: The authors of the "Cary-Coth ran law" villi bo in the legisla ture again In January-J. P. Cary of Pichona and T. P. Cothran ot Orear. ?.*\la Thia w# not? ?as> ^. -CWap. tb* ord, r_US INTO CASH the question to he settled is what to lo with the expected surplus of the 1916 crop. The size of the crop would in lt Belf affect seriously tito price of cot ton downward. Hut with the for eign countries likely to be several million bales short In their takings, the probability is that the surplus of the present crop-over and above the normal surplus-will be at least four million bales. The paramount question is not what to do with cotton thrown upon the market, but what to do with the surplus. The situation is taxing the best thought of the South. Mr. .Mau ld i n's reasoning is that sporadic efforts to "boost" the price will bo useless unless that surplus ls provided for. Because when that sur. plus IN thrown upon the market, lt will put the price down to at least Hve cents. .By getting rid of the sur plus, storing it for a year, the cotton mills will not be Injured nor will the grower suffer. For the price of cotton will be given stability, perma nency and definiteness and mills and producer alike, will have some basis for dealings. The plan which Mr. Mauidin pro poses will relieve the banking house? of tho strain which will become al most too heavy for their resources next year when planting time comes. The state can borrow the money and handie the situation, can save the day In fact, and can mako the crop ot this year wotto tome thing. And eventually the state will never lo.-e a cent. If that 4.000,000 bale surplus ls not taken care of, it will be a constant menace. It is not wise to be calling upon the legislature to take up the people as babies. Paternalism can become offensiv^ and burdensome. But this is no ordinary misfortune. It is well nigh a disaster that is uni vernal. When a child is 111 sometimes it If well to take it off of a heavy diet. When a country IB suffering with a crop which it cannot digest, the thing to do is to give it a change of diet. It is recognised as a self-evident fact that the cotton crop must be cut In half next year. But even then there must be money for planting and ! lt is out of the financing of the sur plus of today that Mr. Mauldin would lind a way to keep the South from suffering. There may be details which would make his plan impossible of accom plishment, but the fact remains that If the Southern States will agree at once upon this or ?orne other plan, the details will be shaped to flt the conditions. BVV?AND OLD Besides the agency of manures other means of Improving the hard soila have been introduced, and none with greater success than the rotation of crops. To those countries whose sta ple crops and whose climate per mit them to practice rotation in its full extent, scarcely any im provement in hgriculture haa been taught with greater bless ings. The reason for this was not gener ally understood then. The people had no farmers' institutes, no govern ment publications, no earnest news papers to try. to get the facta before them. Dr. Tourney says: Before the functions of planta and their relations to the soils were fully understood, many at tempts were made to explain the fact that when land had become exhausted, by successive crops of the same plant, lt may be re stored after the intervention of two or more crops of different ni ft r* i q Th? people at large had the Idea that lt waa because of the "rest" ii ven to the land. Ho then goes Into a scientific dis cussion of rotating and shows that while by simply resting a soil may iecoine new, yet there is not enough treble land to let lt "lie out" tnst nay, and the science ot rotation ia that one plant puta hat tr Into the W)H the mineral ? ingrediente which sere being taken out by tho other :rops. This was In 184?, some 66 years igo. and it apples that the experi ments in rotation hid been going os t long time. There ls nothing, nsw ander tba sun and the fanner bf io lay is showing I a willingness to earn scientific notions because the rood sense of them has been proved. aabi eagle, but his son. Jae. P. Ca rey, Sr., might have hsd some diffi culty k> getting into the legislature, ts ho 'vas not of the political faction hat gave a majority to Portner. st al, tl ls the sams Mr. Cothran, however, that Greenville randa to the loglela Not a Remedy Alone But a Cure is Needed1 Extraordinary Times Demand B ig Work To Save South's Money -Mr. Mauldin's Plan to Ta ko Care of the Surplus Editor The Intelligencer: Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures; war times! Jemand war measures- Happily for this country we are at peace with all the world, and happily for us we have a president who is wise enough, courageous enough and diplomatic enough to ?keep us out of war if ii is possible to do so. But, as we know, the great nations of Europe are engaged in a war unparalleled in its magnitude and its direful consequences, and so closely linked together are we with these nations in business einter ests that the effects of this v/ar have almost paralyzed our business life for the time being, falling with heaviest weight upon the south. For our principal crop is cotton and the markets of Europe and of the east by reason of this terrible war are closed against this com modity, and the price is depressed to a point that seems ruinous, and unless a remedy is found the danger is that this price will be still fur ther depressed, for we are confronted by the undeniable fact that we are making from four to five million bales more of cotton than the world can consume in the next twelve months Government aid to the banks' plan is helpful. The "Buy-a Bale" plan will also contribute some relief but neither of them is far reaching enough. We need not only a remedy but a cure for a very unusual ind unfortunate situation and this situation, as intimated in th? beginning of this article, demands quick and drastic action. i. therefore, venture to suggest that the cotton growing states of the south call extra sessions of their respective legislatures and pass first a bill authorizing the purchase by the states of say forty per cent of the cotton produced in each state at ten cents per pound, pay ing for it in half cash and the other half in state scrip, payable next fall, taking the crop grown bi 1913 as a basis; and provide that this ctttc.n shall be withdrawn from the market for at least twelve month . \ lit pass a second bill restricting cotton acreage for the year i(; 15 tc So per cent., taking the crop of 1914 as a basis. The pur chas. of the cotton by the states will, of course, necessitate the bor i owing of a very large sum of money, and if I thought this would add to the burdens of our already overburdened creditors, the mer riang and the banks, ?n New York and other business centers, I could n >t advocate it, but this money will have to be provided , not all at :i c but gradually, as the cotton is purchased and will go right back lt . ou creditors, and thus it would be practically but a shifting of | ci edit on a more perfect security basis. Fo? what could be better security than cotton warehoused and insured on a low price basis? I do not know that either of the bills suggested for reli?f would stand the test of the courts, as I am not a lawyer, but the matter is of so much importance that this should be investigated. . "The writer is not in favor of state paternalism nor class legis lation, but the calamity which has come upon the south when the I people least expected it. and when they were least prepared for it calls j Tor state protection, and we believe that every citizen and every busi ness interest in the state would be benefitted, directly or inirectly. ? ? ' . B. F. BAULD1N, Anderson, S. C. Sept. 16,1914. NO EXTENSION NEEDED. ade-i by the union fleets from the. _ opening of the conflict. After the early With r??fer*ne? tn the evtra soubon V**1 ot 1863 **** Confederacy waa cut with reference to the extra session m two by Grant.s operations at Vicks of the legislature extending the time Durg which gave the North the pos tor the paying of taxes, there la one session of the Mississippi river, Gen point that is worth considering. The eral Lee's army was In the habit of legislature nae never yet failed to pro- ?oing through the Shenandoah Valley vide some relief measures for the dis- Maryland and on one occasion into Pennsylvania for rations and aup tres8ed or for the poor who have pUes, but the battle of Gettysburg trouble In meeting their taxes. But ended these incursions north of the the bulk of the tax money coming into Potomac, and a little later General the sUte treasury before the 1st ot f^f1*"? descended the Shenandoah . _" ._^L,""m Valley to the extent that "a crow fly January comes from the corporations. tag over lt would fmd u neceg8BTy (0 Let us take Anderson county for in- carry his rations." stance. Aa shown in the report of the Occasionally a blockade runner suc comptroller general for 1913. the total ceeded in enuring some Southern port amount of taxes paid In this county "Stffe but . * " .?n- AT? .... - * 8elB were ?f small tonnage and their amounted to 1285.000. Of this amount cargoeB( Rfter the flr8t year of the the banka paid S18.037, the cotton war, were so valuable that only, a few mills, oil mills and fertilizer mills wealthy people were able to enjoy paid $74.600 and the railroada and luxuries in the way of coffee, salt, T . J _. . ,_. _".",.. wines and spices, which they were telephone and telegraph companies ftble tQ JJ J consequence, the paid $18.000, or a total from corpora- people ot ^ dld WUhout,tbc tlons of 11,637. Leaving $173,363 paid most common and ordinary articles by tue individuals. Aa tbere wera of the table, Sherman's forage parties something like 16.000 Individual tax- always ^expected to furnish the wo * ,. men and children with coffee and aalt payers, the per capita waa but $10 on m gmaH quantltle. " partlal recom an average. ' pense for bacon and corn meal and However, aa the property bi towns other suppli?s which they were com and cities ls assessed higher than In polled to take to feed the army tn rural communities, lt 1? likely that g^'*1? ??d Nort* *?d ^ Cato' the average per capita tax paid in n can be said confidently that no Anderson county is leas Iban" $6 per household in the Interior of the South annum l?n lme of march, waa more Evidently there ls little to be gained tarown to haye coffee or salt With , millions of dollars worth of cotton all by extending the time. The corpora- Qy9T the Iand the s^ern people tiona would appreciate it, tor tt woultf ~er? without leather, cloth and meUls ?ave them the interest on their money manufactures and other articles of If tho e-all tax payer gets toto a hole, necessity for three or four years, yet he already ba. relief at Jaw which ex. ^^^^^ deprtved of tends the time until Mar eh lat, ana meQ g^n^u,., ftTOy marched the addition of a small penalty. lie- more than 500 mlle? through the fore March 1st the new legislature Squth cutting a swath of 60 miles will be la session and will have tha front without encountering any able ~ w Vni o-iv! ri"th*r helo ii bodied white civilians under 60 yeera opportuu ty to give further help, u. { ^ Possibly there were nome In needed. hiding bu4, the only human beings the It la unnecessary and unwise for Northern soldier came to contact with the nreaenV legislature In intra sen?|were wit tte womer, children and pa 4,fln tn BU, ?ny law extending the 1 marchs, and colored p??y?w.-?p_t?s .lon to pate ?ny iaw.e*?*i ?** ? of .65 the8o peopie were uytag time for paying taxe?. fa|rl7 comfortably attar frilly four -*?...?-rr-"" ycara ot war. They bad not only been A NATION'S ENDURANCE?. without the luxuries and many ot the - necessities of life, but they had bad Matchless DesaaagtratlglTWtvBewtsT no money during most of the tuna . Dartag CIT? War. * that waa worth anything and practl (P?o?a Tha Philadelphia Newe Ba- eaUy no credit ^.?m- nt 1 r__u ? ! Tnea? facta, aa to the conditions of ' the Southern Interior life Indicate The endurance ot nations In what the capacity of a patriotic peo time is beyond.human understanding. ple lg ior privation to war. If the Rn There ar? already predictions of tam- ropean countriea ?how any such qual in? ta Germany and other belligerent }UM a8 the people of our Southern states which have little means.of com- sta'ci did and aa their armies did, lt muntcating with the outside world, would ha useless to speculate aa to ont it can be aaid that lt will be a wnen exhaustion will end the war. long time before there is anything - ?? -- -, more than Inconvenience with oonae- TweatyRfgfct Beales **eeverei quent suffering to the German people, ,,, ? ut ^?/?L^?Jh?tl?frL*' 8t- **** ?-T*?*^??* ^.uS?a? **** - *^'idS$???*' States were almost wholly isolated from the St.,Louis andlbfr Francisco from the outaide woaM. the Atlantic wreck near Lebanon, Ito., and fifteen and Gulf pointa having bats block- were identified. Dignity and style combined with a range of selections to cover all tastes are the key notes of our Hat Service to the men of Anderson this ' fall. Stetson Soft and Stiff Hats $3.50, #4, $S. Evans' Special Hats $3. Evans' $2 Special. Order by parcels post. We prepay all charges. THE ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER' JOB PRINTING DEPARTMENT ii^iimH?Ulte flS Reaaonat)?eas Consistent with Quality. HE DIDN'T BELIEVE IN Advertising ' ?rt UP2RF?C?AL. Mr. Doc Hint bc J ic rc ia a?vi t???e?acuis. "Never read 'etn, didn't believe anybody ysid such atte&tics to em* and questioned seriously If advertising paid anyone." Here's a brief chronicle of Mr. Doe's actions on Thursday last: Arose 7.30-Shaved.with his Dinette; used WflHawft' Shaving Stick, a Babber-Set Brush and finished wit!: : Kata St Hosthcffs Shaving Lotion. Bathed-using Fairy Soap. Dressed-Donning B. D. Underwear, Holeproof hosiery. Paris Garters, Cluett Shirt. Arrow Collars, Solld-Bilk Necktie, High Art Snit, Stetson Hat and Florabel* shoes. Breakfast-Grape Nats, Priae of Porto Rico Coffee, Swift's p?*!.,! Ru?*. K*?.IJI tssii **L!t*!e General Bread. Rides to office.in Hudson Automobila, enjoying his "In surgent" cigar enroute. . At officie Sits at Derby desk; checks nail with Waterman's Fountain Peat loo"? at Waltham Watch; dictates mail to stenographer whs uses Underwood typewriter; calls for lette? from GIobe-Tieraieke Dies. T?l?phones for two ap pointments; sends several Day Letters; looks ia the Amusement Column to determino where to send ht? wife* that night, as reference to Die Time-lable advertisements show him that he must leave on the 7.10 train for tho West And so he moved along-. *?<jf h?nr of the day toing and de. pesding apea the things that are advertised, Advertising baa made for better living and better business. It pisces goods where everyone ah reach Diem conventlently, and places them at a price witbtln reach of all. ' The business that cant be successfully advertised today had best be advertised tor sale. -New Orleans Iteaw What i* trae sf flew Crfcaas is trae of Anders??. SASSEEN, the A4 Man.