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YH? ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER FOUNDED ADO DST 1, ISM. 126 North Main Street ANDERSON, S. C. W. W. BMOAK. Editor and Bus. Mgr D. WATSON UKI A..City Editor. PHELPS 8ASSEEN, Advertising Mgr T. B. GODFREY.CirculRt'jn Mgr. E. ADAMS, Telegraph Editor and Foreman. Member of Associated Press and Receiving Complete Daily Telegraphic Service. Entered according to Act of Con gress as Second Class Mail Matter at the Postofllce at Anderson, 8. C TELEPHONES Editorial and Business Office.321 Job Printing .693-L srnsmrrioN BATES Semi. Weekly One Year . Six Months . Bally One Year . 81x Month? . Three Month* . The Inte'.ii" :.<or it delivered by carriers in tim city, if you fail to get your paper rugulurly please notify Vs. Opposite your name on the label of your paper ls printed date to ?which our paper is paid. Al1 checks and drafts should be drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer. $1.60 .75 $5.00 2.50 1-25 oooooooooooooooooooo . e 1 ONLY o 29 More Shopping ? Days o Before X'mas. . oooooooooooooooooooo The Weather. WA8HINOTON" Nov. $7.-South Carolina; Fair Wednesday and Thurs day. _ Thought for th? Day. He who would bring tears to other's eyea must himself show sings ot grief. eeeoooooooooo a e o OUR DAILY POEM o o . oeoooooo ooooo The Twilight of Kings. The hellish crash of shells that speed to kill. ? The red shrieks that rend the war cursed air. Foul slaughter's sounds from evory vale and hill, Ten thousands dying while ten thousands cheer. Oh kings, these are your death knells, these on high Scream to a world that vou must bo no more, Wall that the despot's tvs'.'-ght time ls nigh, Inscribe your fall with every drop of gore. Each moan that rises from a widow's heart Each sob that shakes a virgin sweetheart's breast. Bach tear that falls as child and fa c? thar part Proclaim your nun ls drowning ip the weat. Your needless holocausts AU all thc place, Advancing armies stumble o'er their dead, But in the agony of every face The fate that waits for each of you ls read. Thia is the last of all the king-made wars. The reckoning is near and you have done The most that ever emperors, kings or czars Will do: your day ls sped, your race ls run. Peace waite without with weary, bit ter tears And mourns in silence for a world in blood ; But Liberty, far-seeing through the years. Stands by her side and sees the ulti mate good. The world will not die now; the world is old. It knows a hundred horrors full as great. From untold ages tales of war are told. Since man was man, man's heart has harbored hate. The world is old; and yet tho day is! new And In the east ascends a freer sun. At last, oh a?nas. God's judgment waits for you. It fa your twilight Mme; your race ls ran. -Sidney S. Rlttcnberg. Clemson College, S. C The Admit it. In an address at St Louis Miss1 Jane Addams said that "Chicago wo men have met the greatest amount of chivalry from Chicago men since they acquired the right to vote." From the Chicago politician, certainty. "For a woman is only a woman, but a bal lot, be gosh, ls a vote!" Not Even Beat. Little Eric had dropped a basket containing some eggs on his way home from the grocery. - "How many did you break f ' ask ed hie mother. .. .*? ; didn't break any," replied Eric, "but the hulls came Off two or three." Fl HST, PAY DEBTS; THEN ESCAPE BONDAGE. Thc first duty of thc BOU them far mer in a year unprecedented Bince the Civil War is to .sell enough cotton to pay lila debts. The .secind duty, and ii is hardly less emergent, is to pinn to escape next year the bondage of ail-cotton by raising fuudstuflTffs nt home, re during cotton sharply and using as lil tlc UM poxsihle lo produce even bis minimum o? cotton. These arr the fiat terms of tho South's emancipation. The < 'mist it ut ion makes the state ment, advisedly, that the salvation of UK- Soiitli is in tlx- hnmlH of tlx- far mer; and we say further, that the landlord who compels the tenant to nverplnnl In cotton, or who himself holds loo much cotton, or who will not permit the tenant lo plant food stuffs, Is a public too! If cull on were a crop that were raised debt-free, it would be legiti mate to hoard it indefinitely. Cotton ls not raised debt-free. Most of it is raised on credit That credit influences starts at thc cross-roads grocery store and stretch es up to the pay envelope of every man in every elly In the South. That I? Just how tyrannical and all-pervas ive cotton IS. Tho landlord, therefore, or the far mer, who is hoarding cotton and not paying lils debts is hoarding the cot ton of other people; he is paralys ing the current of activity all along tiie line; he is affecting people living hundreds of miles away who never heard of him. That is why The Constitution says tim first duty of men who control cot ton, and it Isn't always tho bonn Ilde farmer, ls to sell enough to clear debts. What cotton is left .can he hoarded. Tho Consltution realizes and sympa thizes with the disappointment over low-priced cotton. The Constitution knows, too, that cotton. Intrinsically. ls worth more than the price it will now bring. But the South must, as it has on previous occusions, face the situation as i tnow exists, not as we would like it to bo. We have the nerve for that process. Wo must get about lt. We must recognize that tho cotton market ls readjusting itself to a level that, while it will postpone many of tho things tho South hoped for, will permit a good, sound living, added to the accustomed surpluns -of ninny years of good prices. Next year, the indications are that we will return to normal. But we aro dealing now with 'his year. And wc niUBt act according ly. If cotton were not a debt-raised :rop, tho South today would be faced jy no problem. Ono of the big lessons of the present emergency ls, henceforth, to raise cot ton with as little debt as possible; to broaden viur agricultural program to Include foodstuffs. The country that feedB Itself need fear nothing. The South can feed Itself. It can produce yvery pound of meat and every other article of food necessary to the suste nance v>t man and beast. And yet, the anomaly is presented of '.his enormously versatile section sonding annually fortunes t way for the necessities o? ?itu, and to? tho oilis, saddling a mortgage on.cotton. The wonder ls we have done so well, despite this self-created and main tained handicap. The time is come to escape this bondage. The lesson of tho war In Bu- ' . ope ought to hammer home the wis dom of an immediate beginning. 1 1. Sell cotton enough to clear debts! 2. Blase a way out of the system 1 of bondage.- Atlanta Consltution. Willllng- to Take a Tip. "Look here," said the sophomore's ; father, "how do you expect to do any 1 studying if you're going to be out tearing around every night until ll 1 to 12 o'clock ?M 1 ' barned If I know, dad. I wish you'd put your mind to work on tho 1 matter and let mo hear from you if you succeed in working anything out. Will Sail With Cargo of Cotton (By A?KM-lM?d Prow.) SC AV ANN .H. Qa., Nov. 17.-Tho , ??icairn hip Carolyn, flying the Amerl- '. cnn flag, is expected to sail from Sai- , vannah within Ute next ten days with a carr " of cotton for Bremen. This - will be the first cotton shipment from , this port to Germany since the out break of the European war. Export- i era today said other shipments prob- ; ably would follow. _. I Wireless Operation Resumed. NEW YORK, Nov. 17.-Commercial I communication betwen Germany and the Tuekr-i ton. N. J., station being op- < crated by the United States govern ment was resumed today, according i to an announcement here. The plant 1 was closed for commercial business < November 5 because lt had become ! congested with messages of an official nature. Town in Two Districts. RICHMOND, Va., Nov. 17.-Officials of the Fifth District regional reserve bank, upas receiving $20,000 In gold 1 from the Domini?n National Bank ot ' Bristol, Va., became aware of the sin gular fact that the First National ? Bank of Bristol. Tena., (tbe main street divides tho two cities) IS send ing tts reserve gold to Atlanta. Plan Peace Jubilee. CHICAGO, Nov. 17.-Plans for a peace Jubilee between Onion and Confederate veterans of the siege ot Vicksburg were announced by F. A. Rosiene. president of the Vicksburg Veterans' Association. The reunion te to be held at Vicksburg during the week of October 13, 191S.. Nothing te Report. WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.-Proslde> Wilson today characterized an Idle in vention a report that American Am bassador Gerard would resign hts post in Berlin aa a result of hie defeat in his candidacy for the United States senate from New York. Reported That Launch From U. S. Cruiser Was Fired On By Turks (Uv AMOTIMF<I Prent.) LONDON, Nov. 17.-(9:06 p. m._ A dispatch to thc Exchange Telegraph from Athens saya: "A launch from the United States cruiser Tennessee which was enter ing thu Gulf of Smyrna to arrange for the c ruiser to come into the harbor, was tired upon by the forts and com pelled to return to the Tennessee. "The commander of the Tennessee informed the Vail that lie had orders from his government to enter the har bor of Smyrna and had decided to do so." Refuse to Ile Marm ed. WASHINGTON. Nov. 17.-Officials hero tonight refused to credit or be alarmed by ihe dispatch saying the cruiser Tennessee's launch had been fired on by the Turkish forts at Smyr iio. Secretary Daniels said If any such incident had occurred tho department would be informed fully tomorrow. Meantime he did not think it neces essary to make a special effort to commun l?ate with the cruiser. Mr. Daniels said the Tennessee had not been ordered to go into Smyrna harbor; that the commanders of both thc Tennessee und lier sister ship, the Nord. Carolina, had only general in structions to remain In Mediterranean wat -rs aud look out for American In terest*. IM> was satisfied neither of tho ct inmanders would take any step that might Involve the United States In international difficulties. All sorts* of rumors concerning the cruisers have reached Washington since they went into the Mediter ranean. A report that tho North Car olina had landed marines at Beirut Syria. Btood without being corrected for nearly a week while cable com munication was Interrupted. Then came the rumor that the North Caro lina had boen destroyed L., a mine, which was proved to be a pure Inven tion when communication with the ves sels was finally restored. At the Turkish embassy it was said the Smyrna report probably was un true, but if there had been any dif ficulty it must have resulted from a misunderstanding which quickly would be cleared up. American Breadstuffs Crossing . Atlantic From Every Port In U. S. (Uv A.?vxia'<*| Prc?!..) WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.-How Eu rope's cr^ for food is being answered by the United States was set forth in statistics made public today by the bureau of foreign and domestic com merce. They showed thut during last month exports of breadstuffs amount ed to $38,247,570. an increase of near ly 25,000,000 dollars over those of Oc tober 1913. Exports of fresh beef last month were more than double those o' October a year ago, the figures this year being $83,940 as against $36,S63. In spUo of the tremendous Increase In fool shipments, however, exports as a whole did not measure up to last year s figures. The total for October as recorded at the country's ten chief ports wu3 $83,51:1,406 as against $147.833.016 the previous year. The dil tricts selected handled nearly 80 per ent of the nation's exports trade in favor of this country on interna and the tabulation shows tho balance tional trade stood last Saturday at $32,392.214 for tho first half of No vember. It was said at the commerce bureau the increase in November exports probably would show breadstuffs and fresh meat were still in greater de mand than during last month. Officials also pointed to the Increase In cotton exports as u significant feature of the situation. So great bas been the European de mand for breadstuffs that wheat, corn, barley, oats and flour are going across the Atlantic from every port in thc j Unitod States. Huge shipments have been made from San Francisco via thc Panama canal. The total of breadstuffs oxports for the ten months ending with October this year was $204, 216, 478 as against $170,220,519 for thc like period of 1913. Export trade In mineral oils show ed a marked decline last October, probably because of.the seizure of many oil laden ships by British cruis ers. Tlie decrease in all exports for the ten month period of 1914 was $212, 326,321. Cotton exports for October 1914 were valued at $20,420.043 against I J107.375.197 In October, 1913. The de crease for tho ten month period In cotton ?ipments alone between 1913 iand 1914 amounted to $127,180,748. NO INDICATION THAT PEACE OFFER WOULD BE FAVORABLY RECEIVED (Ry Associated Press.) WASHINGTON. Nov. 17.-Efforts by the United States to bring peace to Europe still arc awaiting a time when Dne or more vjf the big belligerents Indicates a willingness to accept me - llation. This became known authoritatively today, from persons who 1 ive lately discussed the European situation with President Wilson. The Presldent'3 positron is that the united States, hav ing already in a formal as well as In formal way shown Its readiness to act as an intermediary, now should iwait the initiative of the belligerents. He feelB that tho American govern ment, by pressing for peace, might Impair its ultimate influence. The President said today he had not the slightest hint, formal or other wise, from any ot the European bel ligerents that a peace offer would be I favorably received. Thof? has beer* i much discussion among the neutral ' countries, such as Haltend and Spain, j of the desirability of concerted action. With the varying tide Of conflict, . the President ls very anxious that the attitude of the United ;Satos in making a move for peace should no be re sented. He is unwilling that the Amer ican government should be the means of placing before any of the nations, of its own accord, an offer of peace which lt might feel bound, because of a national interest to reject, but which uncut place lt before the world as an obstacle to peace. American ambassadors and minis ters abroad are familiar with the atti tude of the Washington government on this point and are on tho alert for any move which could be construed aa a desire on the part x>t any of thc belligerents to a.copt -jaediation. $170,000,000 IN LAWFUL MONEY SHIFTED TO FEDERAL RESERVE BANKS (Hy Amnciatrd Pres?.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.- How $170,000.000 in gold and lawful money vas shifted without a hitch yester day from the banks which are mem bers of tho federal reserve system to their reserve banks was told in to day's reporta to the federal reserve board. Between $70,000,000 and $80, UOO.OOO ls yet to be transferred to meet present reserve requirement. The first day of tim twelve reserve banks apparently das devoted large ly to the usual Ceremonies accompany ing the launching of a new organiz ation. A few million dollars worth of commercial paper, however, was re discounted. Officials tonight predicted large amounts of rediscounts In the near fu ture. There ls close to $300,000,000 ot omergency surrency and possibly $100.000,000 dearing house loan cer tificates outstanding VT in the hands of banks and all secured by paper which officials believe in most in stances would be subject to rediscount by the reservo banka It is' pointed out that there 1B moro currency in cir culation than lt needed, and treasury officials probably will - n?e their in fluence to avoid further Issues. Under the now law the banks can obtain federal reserve notes by re discounting with reserve banka the samo sort of commercial paper they put up for emergency currency. No demand was made yesterday, so far as reports here show, for federal re serve notos. About $20,000,000 have been printed and are In the hands of the different reserve banda . The board to day began. collecting data designed to give the reserve banks a central credit bureau with val nabln information concerning bor rowers. A V?TUBK CLEAR AND BRIGHT (Continued From Page^One) dealt with like the great embarrass ment In selling our immense cotton _-?.>-v. .11 tha wnrlil nnetls but against which, for the time being, the markets of the world are in danger of being artificially shut That situation the bankers of tho country are meet ing so far as possible in a business like fashion snd in the spirit ot the new time which is opening before urf. The railroads of the country are al most as mueh affected, not so much because htlre "business is curtailed as because their credit ls called In question by doubt as to their earn ing capacity. There Is no other in terest so central to the business wel fare of the country as this. No doubt In the light of the new day, with its new understandings the problems of the railroads will also be met and dealt with in a spirit of candor and Justice. "For the future ls clear and bright with promise of the best things. While there was agi tailor and sus picion and distrust and hitter com plaint 'ot wrong, groups and classes were at war with ona another, did not see that their Interests were common snd suffered only when sep juruLe? au? brought into con?ict Fun damental wronga once righted, ak they may now easily and quickly be, all difficulties will olear away. We are all in the same boat, though ap parently we bad forgotten lt We now know the port for which we ara bound. We have, and shall havei more and more as oar now under standing? ripen, a common discipline of patriotic purpose. We shall ad vance, and advance together, with a new spirit, a new enthusiasm, a new cordiality of spirited cooperation. It ia an inspiring prospect. Our task la henceforth to work, not for any sin gle interest, but for all the Interests OF J?E country a8 a united whole. ^The future will he very different from the past which we shall pres ently look back upon, I venture to say, as If upon a bad dream. The future wilt be different ia action and different in spirit, a time of healing If we were to tell you that there was five dollars concealed in ev ery one of our Evans - Fifteen Suits, we'd probably have to ask the police to keep you in line. Now. while there is not five dol lars in currency, there's just about thatmuch additional actual value in ea?h of our $15 suits and overcoats, which can be seen even at a glance. That is why we cite you to this store for your greatest clothes buy. The quality is always high er than the price whether you pay $10 to $25. "Thc Sion taUh m Comdex* because a time of Just dealing and cooperation between men made equal before the law in fact as well as in ?ame. I am speaking of this be cause the new banking system seems to me to symbolize all of lt. The op ening of the federal reserve banks eeems to me to be the principa] agency we have created for the emancipation we seek. The sixteenth o2 November, 1914, will be notable as i marking the time when we were best fable to realize just what had happen ed. "In the anxious times through which we have been passing you have, my dear Mr. Secretary, been able to do many noteworthy things to strengthen and facilitate the business operations of the country. Hence-1 forth you have a new instrument at j hand which will render many parts I r.f your task easy. I heartily con gratulate you upon the part you yourself have played in its concep tion and creation, and upon the suc cessful completion of the difficult work of organization. A new day I has dawned for the beloved country whose lasting prosperity and happi I ness wc so earnestly desire. "Sincerely yours, "WOODROW WILSON." AT GROUP MEETING HELD SESSION WITH GREEN VILLE CAPITALISTS. LARGE BANQUET Regular Meeting of Group Num ber From All the Surrounding Cities.v banks in group one, will bc read With Interest: Assets. Loans and discounts_$12,603.260.03 Overdrafts. 126,096.90 U. S. Ronds, etc., to se cure circulation .. .. 949,032.71 U. S. Bond3 to secure O. S. deposits. 15,000.00 Bonds and other securi , ticB. 104,369.02 Banking house, furni ture and fixtures and other real estate own ed . 300,180.00 Cash and due from banks. 1,703,489.48 SIRS. W. A. HXDGEXS, Editor Fhone 87. -o-? Mrs. Carrie Poore Sawyer of LOB Angel&3 waB herc this week the guest of Mrs. W. P. Cox. She went from hero to Panama to visit her brother, Mr. Walter Poore. Mrs. Hunter Thompson has '/sued Invitations to an entertainment on j Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock at har home on Pr?vost street, In honor of Miss Pal Dean and Miss Mary Thomp son. Miss Carrie McCully Patrick has returned from Savannah, where she went as a delegate to the General U. D. C. convention. At the ca'.l .,f A. L. Mills, chairman of Group Number 1 of the South Car olina Bankers Associ?t ?on,' the bank ers of this immediate section Tether ed yesterday afternoon in OrrenvUIe. The meeting began yesterday after noon at 3:30 o'clock and after the business deliberations bad been con cluded some splendid addresses were delivered. Prominent bankers from I/chmond, Baltimore and other points were in attendance and each of these made a few remarks. The Federal rc? serve system came In for considerable attention !ind al! the hankers took 0 hearty interest in the meeting. The last meeting of the local group took place in Anderson and therefore tho bankers of this city were more in terested in this meeting than might otherwise have been the case. Practi cally every bank In Anderson had some representativo present at yes terday's session. Last night at 7 o'clock a splendid banquet was served to the visitors at the Ottaray hotel and bankers return ing to Anderson last night said that they had never experienced, a more enjoyable group meeting. The following table, showing ap proximately the business done by the Total .$13,804,228.14 Liabilities. Capital. .$ 2.676.490.00 Surplus and profits .. .. 1,819,837.73 Reserve for taxes, in terest, etc. 81.311.34 Dividends unpaid. 2,'491.20 Circulation. 821.730.00 Deposits. 8,283,318.64 Bills payable. 1,799,412.00 Rediscounts. 319,617.03 Total.$15,804,228.14 Captain and Crew Rescued. BEAUFORT, N. C., Nov. 17.-The captain and ten men of thc crew of thc schooner Henry W. Camp, of Boston, were rescued from an opnn ?oat VJ which they had taken from the'r wrecked and water-logged craft and landed safely today near the Core Banks life saving station by the cap tain and crew of the schooner Aja M. Hudson and thc lifo savers. The Cramp, bound north from Jacksonville, Fla., is at anchor four miles northeast of Cape Lookout Lighthouse and may bc a total loss with ;. cargo of ties. Miss Pearl Hall left yesterday af ternoon for a visit to Columbia and Aiken. Miss Nan Osborne of Spartanburg, who has been spending several days with Mrs. Robinson ls now the guest ! of Miss Ella Sue Jones. , Mrs. Thomas Latham of Atlanta ar rived last night and is the guest of I Mrs. Carrie McCully. Mrs. C. A. Gambrell baa returned from a short visit to Greenville, where she was called by the illness ot her sister. Mrs. Frank Cunningham baa re turned to her home in Greenville, af I ter .? short visit to Mrs. R. E. LIgon. Mrs. J. L. Pettigrew of Starr spent I yesterday with friends here. Miss Ida Watson goes to Lowndes ville today to visit her elster, Mrs. B. IB. Allen. Miss Lois Jackson of Iva ia visit I lng Mrs. T. P. Hill. Mr. Wilds Mciver of Greenville I spent last night with friends here. There is plenty of land for sale, but ?not plenty of money to buy, since iland is essential to life, why should ! money stand between men and wo - men and children and their "bread" life? R^keni you waiat^^*11"'"T " ?m mm IPIIHI THE ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER JOB PRINTING DEPARTMENT 1 di 1 MANUFACTURING ENGRAVERS Prices Quite as Reasonable as Consistent with Quality. RODERICK LEAN AU Steel Spike Tooth Harrow Miss Janie Carlington of Laurens IH? vrias M.. tWrttn^nn of Pied mont have returned to their homes, after a visit to Mrs. T. A. Wigging ton. Mrs. T. B. Curtis and children have j returned from a abort visit to Augus its. .' : . Mr. and MTS. Prank Sloan, who have I been living on West Wbitner street, moved yesterday into the W. S. Brock house tn North Anderson. Wul Investigate Wireless Stations. WASHINGTON,* Nov. 17.-AB in spector from the department of com merce has been ordered fco Bayport, forty talles north of Tampa, Flu-, to learn whether a wireless station dis covered there has a license, and whether lt ts sending unneutral mes sagas to ships at aaa. The pr?sence of the station was traced by the navy department's radio experta at Key Weat DES?GN AND CONSTRUCTION-Simple in construction, built entirely of special steel, rolled for the purpose, ?nd well brac ed, it ia practically indestructible. No castings or mall?ables axe uted.. Roderick Lesta Harrows nave more than 100 les? p*rte than any ether Spike Tooth Harrow on thc market. If you want the BEST buy tbe Roderick LEAN. Sullivan Hardware Company Anderson, S. C., Belton, S. C., Greenville, S.