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TBE ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER
FOUNDED AUGUST 1, ISM.
ISM North Malu Street
ANDERSON, 8. C.
W. W. s MOAK, Editor and Bus. Mgr
h. M. GLENN.City Editor
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T. B. GODFREY.Circulation Mgr.
EL ADAMS, Telegraph Editor and
Foreman.
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Have you paid tho piper yet?
rave you started preparstlon of
.'tiloso TsTew Year resolutions?
;ow is a pretty good time to begin
ir 1016 Christmas shopping.
Now nbideth Indigestion, headaches
dark-brown tastes in the mouth.
Th? latest addition to the class ot
aa-boensM- good old Sslnt Nicho
The joy of Christmas giving will
! ' !-n be overshadowed by tho advent
|?sjsa of the btu collector.
^standard for reckoning the
H'' flight :bf\lwe-"since Greenwood had
'Ung." .
up. kentle reader, the worst
* ts yet to .dots*-the Legislature meets
Bp^;';Jah??ry J2jf
Z^?vt??^'^^?^? n 11r" C|,rlsllo&a will
not lind Andor?U noundering in a
v JjSrtire trouble, it ls
/J^HBTsroead Saturday
tnornht^^^Hh^ly appropriate to
"peak ?^?/^0??Id STay dBWn 0t
,, ?tay stoutly claim lt
I^HK?I^?MV^; ttn&B in Anderson,
HHO%iu many who will testify
Santa Claus may
now, there's
In the class
who had an [
tho one who
the relief of I
poor of Andor
<e\ have General
erj General Green,
Drought, but win
1 Mud has got them
'John Bunyan saw tn
streets of Anderson
.onleles In his Pilgrim's
3 passage through the
Despond.
.;ajfl trjusf to be neutral, but we
1 lt to a Dutch friond who
?tish war statements ex
at country's last name
going to buy an
for a sommer home
a winter borne In
salary ls so small he
au tau jua act during
the family larder
H ?fjffi^l? girls, rather than go
. cr the compulsory edu
loped to Kentucky and
eli. respective beaux,
compulsory educa
work, there shouldn't be
am among the
UejOhe propriety of
li g the sentences
men who plead
I gambling, but
.sm of any ono
??sted, with the pardoning
in ; smell town, where claims
ranna! . . apt to he
than they
1 in a large city.
Si
SH O I'M? BK INVESTIGATED
If the story told In the Greenville
Piedmont under date linc from Wal
halla and over the signature of "J. S.
8.," be ture the recent -killings and
race riot near Fair Play, and in Hart
county. Ga., are outrageous and those
guilty of the crimes committed should
be brought to Justice, and given thc
full penalty of the law. There has been
entirely too many homicides in this
section of the State recently, and it ia
time for a halt to bc called. Never a
week passes but there ls some horrible
murder committed, 'or some other
crime committed almost as bad.
According to this story of the kil
ling of these two negroes, there seems
to have been absolutely no Justifica
tion for the deed. Whiskey and the
passions aroused by tho drinking and
?carousing of some white men, seem to
have caused the killin?; of two neg
roes and the serious w ..pplng of an
other.
' Let the authorities ferret out the
'truth of this matter, and bring the
guilty parties to Judgment. The re
sponsibility for this-double killing and
[Us attendant shooting should be fixed,
and those who have taken the law In
to their own hands taught that there
is some respect for law and order
?eft, and that human life cannot be
taken with Impunity. If the white men
who were engaged in this affair are
not guilty as this article states, they
should demand an investigation and
clear their community of the -Ua'n
[that has been placed upon lt by thc
?reports going out about this affair. At
any rate an investigation should be
made.
THE STATE'S REFORMATION
The following editorial appearing
in The State Christmas morning ar
gues a complete change of front In the
matter of prohibition, or, rather this
coupled with the entire absence of at
tack on Ute prohibitionists during
several moons. How a newspaper with
Ute standing The State has in South
Carolina can afford to line up with
this liquor gang, composed as lt is
of so many men like it speaks of in
the editorial reproduced, la hard to
comprehend, and we believe that both
,The State and The News and Courier,
Ute two notable, and only examples
of daily newspapers in the State, who
oppose the referendum of the liquor
question to tho votera of the State at
a special election to be h dd some
time next year, will finally line up for j
lt, and come out with the South Caro
lina congressmen who presented such
a solid front In Washington when the
matter was voted upon recently.
The following editorial ls commend
ed for Ute perusal of our readers.
Whatever may be one's opinion of
Ute merits of ibo prohibition amend
ment - proposed in Congress and ita
present tate, one ia embarrassed in
discussing it. The extreme difficulty
tn defending Ute manufacturer and
aale of intoxicants flows from the
methods and. character ot the sellers
and manufacturera
That the whiskey business is a most
iniquitous and corrupting influence in
American pol?tica ta indisputable.
When Mr. Bryan bringa forward that
indictment, nc one can answer lt.
Were wine, whiskey and beer mer
chants and makers no more than
merchante and manufacturers, were
their behavior towards the govern
ment of a kind similar to that of cloth
sellers and makers, legislative assault
upon them would muster armies of
voters and newspapers in their de
fense, but* Uiey are, as a rule, as ac
tive tn politics aa In business. They
are "aporta" and "heelers," their shops
are the headquarters and commlssair
at for Ute worst and most depraved
political movements.
In European countries the case la
diff?rent The wine merchant In
Perls ts no more a politician tb MI
ls the glove merchant He is a mt -
chant and nothing else. In New York
he ia a Tammany Congressman's lieu
tenant or in Philadelphia hie grog
shop ls an outpost for Boles Penrose's
far spreading and carefully organized
"gang."
Should national prohibition prevail
in Congress within the next few years,
the victory will be due to the en
forced neutrality of the votera who
question its wisdom and expediency;
who are disgusted with the whist.y
traffic not so much that lt ls a traffic
in whiskey ss that whiskey is sold by
such traffickers.
To be sure, there are numbera of
wine and whiskey merchants in the
United SUtes who do not belong to
this claas. One may buy flour, coffee,
raisins and rye-liquor by the caa?
from the same shop tn Baltimore and
the aaller la the same type man that
sells flour, coffee, and retains and no
rye liquor la Columbia. That type of
sailer unfortunately does not defina
and fix the character ot the whiskey
business; it is the saloonkeeper and
the brewer who owns the saloon who
defile the business and. pursuing a
policy conceived In stupidity and sure
ty carrying them to disaster, under
take to defile the government making
It subsidiary to whiskey Interests.
Jn South Carnltnt a few years ago
s number or excellent citlsans, in
tensely resentful against prohibition,
helped to roto tn a State government
diaUncUr friendly to the liquor truffle.
lt .would be illuminating to know if
they wak .leased with the kind of
government they got
The liquor Interests pr?tend that
they wish to obey the law. Undoubted
ly they preferred * liquor traffic pro
tected by law to one that ts outlaw
ed bat when and whare have the li
quor sellers (barring the exceptional
man of the better class), allowed the
law to Interfere with liquor sales. If
[they could prevent it?
AL FKK li HENRY LEWIS
Tho untimely death of Alfred Henry
Lewis, in the midst of a very buny
career, removes vine of the most pic
turesque of the newspaper writers of
the day. Mr. Lewis was only fifty-five
and bad reason to hope and expect at
least twenty years more of active life.
Had he been spared so long, there is
every liklihood that he would have ad
ded materially to the very large ac
complishments that were his during
the comparatively brief period of his
literary life.
At one time Mr. Lewis was a door
keeper in the House of Representa
tives at Washington, though he was
doing some newspaper work on the
side. He was also gaining some experi
ence and acquaintance with public
men that served him In good stead
later on. Ho was noted for his plain
language at all times, and it was not
unheard of for him to play the role of
the Irish servant girl, by Informing
visitors who asked for members of the
House that the members said, "Tell
'em I say I'm not In."
Mr. Lewis's ability as a writer ls
well known, and as a story teller he
was famous. It la said that on oc
casion be had the honor of keeping
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle entertained
far into the night with his inimitable
stories. Some of these he committed
to print, though they loBt much of
the charm of his dialect His "Wolf
vllle" stories are among the Western
sketches that will probably live.
Unfortunately, Mr. Lewis allowed
himself to be dragged into the mire
and mud of partisan Journalism. He
was for some time at the head of the
Washington bureau of The New York
Evening Journal. Some of the matter
that he produced at this time perhaps
did some good, but no doubt his ad
mirers, now he ls dead, would be glad
if they could pass over some of the
partisan writing that he turned out.
But lt wil>be forgotten, as practical
ly all daily journalism ls forgotten.
Mr. Lewis's fame will rest upon his
stories, eighteen .volumes of which he
produced in fifteen years, nearly all
of them good.
ROAD BONDS AND UNEMPLOY
HENt
Considerable comment has been
made favorable to the' plan proposed
recently by The Intelligencer to vote
a bond issue for Anderson county for
the purpose of building roads, promin
ent surburban resident said a few days
ago: "I trust you will push your bond
Issue proposition, and that we shall
soon have a chance to vote for a good
slsed issue for Anderson county for
the purpose of building some perman
ent roads." Another said: "I am un
alterably opposed to ?ntinuing ?5 we {
have been doing, filling in mud-holes
for the first rainy spell to undo what
has been done. Whst we need ls a
bond issue and some permanent work
to be done."
These gentlemen discussed this
proposed bond issue in the light of
what could bo done for building a per
manent and lasting system of roads
in Anderson county. There is just now
another very good reason for voting
bonds for Immediate work on the
roads, and.thia has been mentioned in
an editorial appearing In the last is
sue ot The Saturday Evening Post,
which ia here reproduced
Every commercial country has a
banking reserve- a certain largo sum
in gold that ls set spart and Iles un
touched from month to month and
year to year in ordinary times, but
which may be drawn on tn an emer
gency. Thus, in the war crisis gold
that may have lain unmoved for a long
period passed out of the Bank of EnJ,
land.
; tye believe lt would be possible for!
a country to create ah industrial re
serve. Every Important nation's labor
statistics show a pretty cou ?tant re
currence of unemployment For three
or four years labor may be quite fully
employed. Then business slackens and
the number of n.en out of /ora rises
until times Improve. These recurring
seasons of largo unemployment take
a heavy toll of labor. Savings disap
pear; debes accumulste; families for
merly self-supporting become depend
ent
As a matter of tact we know lee dull
seasons ara gulag to recur, because
they always have, Ia every country
there ls a vast deal of public wotx
done by the cities, states and central
governments'. In every cdjuntry the
public employs labor mostTreely ex
actly when private employers do-that
fa, when tunes are good and credit
ls easy. When times are poor and
bond? not easily salable the public
cuts down employment It ought to be
the other way. By Intelligent fore
thought lt might be made so- public
?work, that is might be made a sort
?of Industrial reserve to fall back on
wbtn private work slackened
Republican papers say Mr. Bryan's
utterance about a million men re
sponding to a Call to arms "before
sunset" If they wore needed by Ameri
ca, is all rhetoric and ls absurd; bat
lt Isn't half as absurd, when you come
to think of lt, sa the stock Republi
can argument that yon can make the
people prosperous by taxing them.
King Albert ts said to have present
ed a box et 16 cigars to each of the
Belglas soldiers as a Christmas gift
.Can't some of those potentates make
some each ase of a let of oar surplus
! cotton f
THE RIGHT SPIRIT
Evidently there arc others thinking
as do The Intelligencer and the lady
who discussed the matter of employ
ers holding on to their employee*
during ethe time of this temporary
dull times. It ls obviously right end
proper that 'JIOBO who have been
faithful and have helped a business
man build up his fortunes, should be
given some consideration when the
winds of adversity begin to blow, and
not bc cast aside as so many pieces
of machinery. Then, this depression
is r-uro to prove only temporary,
while business Is adjusting itself to
the new and changed conditions. Al
ready there are many signs of return
ing prosperity, and our prediction is
that very soon wo shall wonder why
we were ever so pessimistic as to
question the ability of our conditions
to adjust themselves and conserve the
best interesta of the country.
The Charleston News and Courier
has the following to say on this very
live subject:
The story ls being told In the
streets that ls worth putting into print.
The head of a large cc neem lu Char
leston recently called his employes
together." Men,' he said, 'T\e been
making money for clgnt years and
now I'm ready to stand * bal year, m
keep all of you on for a year longer.
If the war Isn't ov;r by that time and
If business hasn't lmpm/ed, we'll have
to consider what wa'H do.1
That ls pluck; that is fair dealing.
If there were more employers like
this one, there would bc Inlnitejy less
suffering in this country on accuuut
of the war. There are many, of course,
who have done what this one has
done, bpt there are also many who j
have done the reverse and let num
bers of their employees go because
the war has injured business. Moat
of the big men can aland the strain,
but many ot .ho little men cannot
stand it unless the big men help. Host
of the big men can afford to carry
their emploees for another year. To
do KO may coat them some money, but
it will not ruin them. We hear a Ipi
about the generosity of the American
people to stricken Belgium. What
about the generosity or lack of gen
erosity of the American business man
towards his clerk
In many cases, of course, retrench
ment through reduction of the num
ber of employees is absolutely neces
sary. But it is safe to say that many
officient men are being thrown out of |
employment simply because their em
ployers have not., the pluck rind the j
sense of fair play shown by the Char
leston man who felt that hla faithful
helpers during eight prosperous years
ought not to be pitched overboard in
the first bad year that cornea along.
Does the War Provo Christianity a
Failure! ?
In the January Woman's Home
Companion Charles E. Jefferson, pas
tor of Broadway Tabernacle, New
York City, writes an interesting war |
article in which he comments as fol
lows on the question as to whether
this war proves Christianity a fail
ure:
"If someone says tnat the claims of
the Church hive all been shattered,
the reply Is that the Church- makes
co claim except on conditions 'that
must be met. It promises no vic
tories except to hearts that surren
der. It predicts no paradises until
men have In them tho muid Of Jesus.
Christianity ls an invitation. If the
i invitation is not accepted, lt can do
no mighty works. Christianity ia a
revelation of the heart ot God. If
men refuse to become like him, the
world remains in darkness. There ta
no failure then in the Christian relig
ion. The failure Ilea with the men
who refuse to receive lt. If Europe
bad been Christian thia, war would
never have been. The agony of Eu
rope gives new point to the question:
'How shall we escape if. we neglect
so great salvation 7* It fllustratea
the meaning ot Christ's figure ot tho
man who was foolish enough tq build
upon the sand. It pours a biasing
Ught around the Apostle's great de
claration-"There is nona other name
under heaven given among men,
whereby we must be saved." .
How One Factory Keeps Going
Critical Tines.
In the December American Maga
sine appears an article by Ida H. Tar
bell entitled "Keeping Hen at Work.",
It la ono in her series which she ls
doing for thst publication entitled
"The Golden Rufe in Business." ' In
Oils article Hiss Tarbell shows how,
by adopting Ute principles of scientific
management, manufacturers can es
tablish an equilibrium be ?ween dull
and busy seasons and thus prevent the
throwing out of employment ot hun
dreds Of men. Sha gives examples ot
employees who are working success
fully on these principles. Following
ls one of them; *
"The Ciothcraft Shoo of Cleveland,
Ohio, for Instance, finds that one Out
side condition which hampers it in
ita efforts to give regular employment*
ls the practice or many nulla ot hem
ing up the delivery et ordere fdr ciuth
for two and ihr?* months. This warka
two avila to tho maker ot clotho: it
prevents proper inspection ot the
cloth, the manufacturer being torced
if he ls to catch the market, to J mks
up what he would oth?rw?aa rAjeS.
and it forces bim to, close or work on
half time in one month, on overtime
othera Hr. Richard Ffclss. the inanag
such a aituaUon eou?d.be corrected by
the clothiers' trade associations. Their
great business, he contends, 1a to
Standardise trade conditions. To en
able enterprising xuuufacturers 10
aalclpate a seseon'e demands he
would have them establish a standard
scale of sises. Hr. Falsa himself bas
overcome largely Ute fluctuation la
the trade hy puahin* a Una of staple
gooda. The factory fa kvot on these
course, require* close and intelligent
study ot me market."_rJur
HHallaWaVBal
Ove?
Beginning JV1
our entire st<
greatly redu
]
$20.00 Men!
18.00 Men
15.00 Men
10.00 Men
]
$7.50 Boys*
6.00 Boys'
5.00 Boys'
, 4.00 Boys'
3.00 Boys'
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The IT? high school teachers lett
Wednesday for their respective homes
for tho holidays; Miss Maggie Thomp
son, Seneca; Miss Nellie Wyatt, Eas
leay; Miss Kate Sampey, Hodges;
Miss Carrie Howell, Greer's; Miss j
Sud ic L. Wright, Hartaville, and Miss ?
Nancey Pearson, Woodruff.
' Mr. Wesley Huckafee and little son, I
John, of Lowndesvllle, were here for j
a few days last week.
Mr. Holcombe Harper of Greeg
Shoals was a business visitor here]
Wednesday.
Misses Mamie Beabright, Clara Cook
and Mabel Bald, students of Winthrop
College, are spending.the holidays
here with their parents.
Mr. S. E. Anderson left Wednesday i
for Spartanburg where he goes to f
Join his family.
Mr. ??. W. McAdams has returned]
from a business trip to Columbia.
Mr. and Mrs. Reid H. Sherard andi
family of Belton sire spending the
hallidays with the former's mother,
Mrs. V. C. Sherard.
On next Tuesday afternoon at 81
oclock the. Priscilla* will be enter
tained at the home of Miss Georgia |
Belle Baskin on Church street.
Miss Pearl Beaty, one of the teach
ers in the T.ancaster high school, ls |
at home for the holidays.
Prof. Cliff D. Coleman and wife left I
Wednesday for Lebanon where they|
go to* spend the holidays.
Mrs. Sodio L. Wright was called to |
Harts ville a tew days ago to the bed
side of her mother who ls quite 111.
Mr. T. C. Jackson, Jr., has returned |
from a business trip to Anderson.
Mr. and Mrs. Rosamond Beabright I
ot Anderson are here for the holidays
with; relatives.
Belgrade, Their Capital,
The Servians have again taken their
capita), Belgrads, after a .r?rjffglSm
fight tn the mountains in the western
part of their country, seventy-five
miles southwest of the capital and
about that distance east ot Save ja? o,
the scene , cf the asjumlnatfrnrVjOt^tM
Crown Prince Frans Ferdinand of
.Austria whL4t wak the pretext HfeS
I the great war.
Th* Servians marched back ?nt
the capital Bsc .16. and ac
announcement was made, fl
Austrians hold only a small
tn the country about Sh abat?, just
west . of Belgrade, So . far sa . caa * be
.coat Reduc
londay- December 28th, w
ocks of Men's and Boys' C
ced prices.
MEN'S OVERCOATS
5s Overcoats reduced to
's Overcoats r?duced to
's Overcoats reduced to
's Overcoats reduced to
BOYS' OVERCOATS
Overcoats reduced to?.
Overcoats reduced to
Overcoats reduced to
Overcoats reduced to....
Overcoats reduced to ..
Order .by Parcels Post;
We Prepay All Charges.
"The Store with a
Afr. Clement Hall, dyt editor of the
Aiken Recorder, is here for the holi
days with his parents.
Rev. J. L. Singleton and Alonso
Herron of Starr spent a few hours in
the city Thursday on business.
Miss Eva Price, district nurse ot
GaBtonia, N. C, is visiting her sister,
Miss Lulle Price.
Miss Greeta Hall, who has a posi
tion in the graded schools at Camp
bell, is here for a week's stay with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Hall.
Miss Gertrude Weldon, teacher ot'
the Moffettsville school, har gone to
Neuman, Ga., to spend the Christmas
holidays.
Mrs. Minnie Brown and children of
Due West are spending the week at
the home ot her father, Mr. s. T. Mc
Cullough.
A novel sight was seen on the street
hare Wednesday afternoon when Prof.
Cliff D. Coleman with his able corps
of . teachers and three hundred and
twenty pupils marched through the
streets of Ivs. Prof. Coleman hus his
pupils well under control and the Iva
patrons should be proud of their
school. ?
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. McGee and lit
tle daughter. Edna, are spending a
few days in Mci^mnlck with relatives.
Mr. W. M. Tate and son of Hender
son, Texas, is visiting relatives here.
Mr. T. E. Strlbilng left Friday for
his home in, Seneca, where hs will
spend the holdays with his parents.
Miss May Yeargain, who teaches, tn
Orangeburg county, is home for the
holidays.
Miss Lula Price ' U a visitor In An
derson Thursday.
Dr. J. D. Wilson and family are
spending a -short while with friends
m Lowndefyille.
, Mr. and Mira O. N. Bals?n ot Green
ville are spending a few days here
with relatives. *
Semant Have Retaken
' learn frotn
a terrific,battle.,took Place te Jt?
mountains WV th west of the capital
and many Austrians were kJUed and
nuu?y were taken prisoners. The Aus
tria?*, have explained .that the d?feat
was das to larger farces af the G*r
vtana, Austrian soldiers have, at the
demand of th* Jtalair, been takea frota
th* Servian fight to bald back the
Russians. .
This i* th? Servian it?rera meat*
announcement of the reentry into
Belgrade:
"Tfcc enemy his fled across thc Dan
ube and Save rivers In gr*at disord
er and has evacuated .Belgrade, All
tions
re will offer
)vercoats at
.$16.00
. . 14.40
. 12.00
, 8.00
$6.00
4.80
? 4.00
3.20
2.40
Conscience
Mr. Clem McGee of Anderson ts here
for the holidays with his mother, Mrs.
Jaiij McGee.
Mr. Carter Watt of Anderson ia
spending the week with bia parents,
Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Watt ?
Miss Minnie Galley, who teaches
near Honea Path, ia here for the holi
days with her parents.
Master David Smith has gone to
Hodges to spend a few days with rela
tives.
Mr. Charlie Townsend of Anderson
is here for a few days stay with his
mother. Mrs. A. C. Townsend.
Messrs. Walter and Lester Sadler of
Anderson are on a visit to their par
ents, "Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Sadler.
Mr. Glenn Baskin of Chester is here
for a few days with his'parents, Mr.
nd Mrs. J. L. Baskin.
Rev. J. H. Brown, who has charge
of the textile school in 8partonburg,
ls hero for a short while wjht rela
tives.
Dr. C. D. Evana and wtfe left today
for r short s?ay with relatives itt
Abbeville.
I 'Miss Mary Grace Wilson of Watts
and Miss Alice Cooley of Lowndesvllle
are guests this week of Misses Mar
garet abd Annie Wilson.
BEST FOR KIDNEYS-8A?B DOC
TOR
Dr. J. T. R. Neal, Greenville, Sc
Car., aaye that in hie SO yeera of ex
perience he haa round no preparation
for the kidneys equal to Foley Kidney
Pills. Pain in back and hipe Sa aa
indication of kidney trouble-a warn
ing to build up the weakened kidneys,
make them vigorous, riding ycur blood
of adds and poisons. Foley Kidney
Pills will help any case of kidney and
bladder trouble hot beyond the reach
of medicino. In 60c and $1.00 sixes.
Sold In your town by Evana Phayifr??y
After Bitter Fight.
Servian territory ta now freed of the
'The triumphal an try of
troops ta
?ea of '
Peter has
Mead hro?rt alTot
now officially admits
tlremsnt of ita army la Eerva
the inference la that Austria**