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THE INTELLIGENCER ESTABLISHED im. Published every morning except Monday by The Anderson Intelligen cer at 140 West vVbl trier Street, An derson, 8. C. SEMI-WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER Published Tuesdays and Fridays L. M. GLENN_Editor and Manager Entered as second-class matter April 28. 1914, at the post office at Anderson, South Carolina, under the Act of March 8, 1879. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES Telephone .821 SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY One Year .$6.00 Six Months . 2.60 Three Months .1.88 One Month.42 On? Weah .IO SEMI-WEEKLY One Year .11.80 Six Months. .76 The Intelligencer la delivered by carri?re lo tba city. Look at the painted label on your paper. The date thereon shows when the subscription expires. Notice date on label carefully, and lt not correct please notify us at once. Subscribers desiring the addreea of their paper changed, will please state tn their communication bot>i the old and new addresses. To Insure prompt delivery, com plainte of non-delivery lu the city of Anderson should be made to tho Circulation Department before 9 a. m. and a copy will be sent at once. All checks and drafts ahould be drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer. ADVERTISING Rates will be furnished on applica tion. No tt advertising discontinued ex cept on written order. The Intelligencer, will publish brief sad rational lettera on subjects of general Interest when they aro ac companied by the names and ad dresses ot the authors sad are not ot a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. Rejected manuscripts will not be re turned. In order to avoid delays on account of personal absence, letters to The Intelligencer Intended for publication ahould not be addressed to any Indi vidual connected with the paper, but simply to The Intelligencer. _ WEDNESDAY. JUNE 16. 1816. WEATHER PRECAST Fhlr Wednesday except showers and cooler on the coast; Thursday fair. "Whit a long month," sighed hs who used up bis galioa-a-moath before 'the end thereof! <*?.? o- - Teddy doubtless will be peeved that Wlllyum has gone a-salloplng with hla front page apace. Considering the hind of names they have la Russia, halag a telegraph edi tor in war time la no eott snap. o- -, A seat on the New York stock ex change costs 8430,000, and R lan't al ways a comfortable seat, either. -o If the Oreen ville Piedmoat keeps up Ita war editorials sour, one will suspect lt bf being pro-Gn'msn. Thara la so much talk of efficiency these days that a loafer wonders what the world ls coming to, anyhow. ? ? o ? What haa become of the old-fash ioned man who uaed to mistake mes tache dye for the ellxer of youth t The rich who man baa nothing ' to do, and the poor man who ban get nothing to do are both to be pitied. ? ?,"?? Love Caa Now Be' Sent By Parcel Post.-Headline. We have seen whole packages ot it returned by express. -o When .be look* at the reports from the various war bcices, Ananlss mp st winder at the modera improvements. ?rn ... . The miner .deals in quarts. So uoes the bartfUvVr. The only difference be tween Ujeni is one measly .little lat r: - --Cr Ti would hf Interesting to hnpw who laughed the deepest, Carran sa or Villa, upon reading ot the Wlnnsboro outrage. -o Will Governor Manning please ad vlas Mayor Grace ead, Sheriff Martin that one Chlcco ls still operating on Market. street-or waa last Wednes day..-Oaffney Ledger. Not many moona ago the editor ot the Oaffney Ledger let it leak out that ha was oo Olaaay Mountain, la the heart of Greenville's "moonshine" manufactur ing district. Now that he gives out this tip on Vincent Chlcco's joint, we no longer have any doubts sa to the gen tleman's stand on eleohalicgu FAIRFIELD'S OPPORTUNITY. Cltlfiens ot Winusboro and Fairfield county has presented to them an op portunity to do South Carolina a great Bervlce-place her along in the same row with Virginia as a state that up holds law and deals surely and swiftly with those who commit outrages against tb? sacredness of the statutes. The horrible tragedy enacted at the county scat of old Fairfield on Mon day ls similar In some respects to the barbaric onslaught of the Allen gang upon the court of Hillsboro, Virginia, some years ago, and for which the ringleaders were put to death despite a great wave of disgusting public pro test against the electrocution. The circuit court is now in session at Winnsboro and the grand Jury has not been discharged. If they will In dict the parties guilty of the murder ous assault upon the late Sheriff Hood, and a petit jury In turn pass judg ment upon them according to their deserts, and the citizens of Fairfield see that the sentence is carried out, a long stride will have been made to ward ridding South Carolina of the effects ii the orgy of lawlessness through ..hlch she passed recently when such doctrine as that which has besmirched Fairfield's name was ./reached from the .State House Bteps by one whose duty lt was to uphold the law, and uphold it to the extent to which poor Sheriff Hood of Fair field did-with his life. MORE POWER FOR GOVERNORS. Our state governments are supposed to be modeled after the federal gov ernment. In one Important respect they are not. The state's executive branch lacks the unity and simplicity of the national executive. The president appblnts his cabinet. The heads of departments are respon sible directly tp him. If anything goes wrong, he is blamed for lt. The result ls that things selber? go -ory far wrong. Our f?d?ral wxacutlve system on the whole, has worked admirably. When we come to Ute atate execu tive, Ciere !s confusion. The govern or's power ls far more limited than the president's. Hij cabinet is chosen for him by the voters. In Massachu setts be bas a council with power to thwart almos; any official act. In New York hie executive power ls broken up among many semi-independent depart ment heads. Various states have va rious ways of tying the governor's hands. And perhaps that.ia one reaaon Why state government in general is sp far inferior In efficiency to federal gov ernment. Now comes former President Taft with the suggestion that New York, In shaping Its new constitution, should provide for a short state ballot and give the governor power to appoint bia own administrative heads of de partments, as the president does, con solidating the executive responsibility. Why shouldn't South Carolins, sud every other mate, as opportunity of fers, adopt the suggestion? THE HOMELESS ONES. One pathetic fact has been brought out by the discussion of New York's "trotterlea" aroused hy the case of the young girl whose mother had her brought into court to rescue her from their evil associations. It is that New Yorkera have no homes. "Why don't young girls have partier In their homes, the wsy they used to, instand of going to these public joints?" waa the cry that went up from many. The answer is-because they can not. The home of the crowded New ' Yorker is no roomy house with spacioua halla and breezy porches. It la a small flat without bed rooms enough to go around, so some one always sleeps on the living room couch. There lent any porch at all. There's no room for exercise of any kind, not to mention dancing. There's no outdoors except the city streets. Parka are few end small. Pity the young people growing up un der thea? conditions No wonder the tango jointe ara popular-aad dan gerous. Some day New York women may wak? up to making the public amusement place? quiet, L&f?, and homelike. But meantime.'and all the time, reaidenta or bar own etty ?may be thankful that they Uv? where there fa atill breathing space' for themselves and their children., sad homes in which to be happy sud have harmless good tunes. Draw up tho porch chairs sad be comfortable. Mother's going to pour th? lemonade. "United we ?tend; three sheets In the wind we fall."-The Stet*. W? hate to tell you, old ?coot, but we fear that you will stand ss Arm aa a -rock on a concrete he?? when you come to Chick Springs.-Greenville News. That's bec*;-* the Oreeavill? News gang will get there first. FREEDOM C (New York World.) Dr. Dernberg's final word to tho people of the United States was his best word. He boped for a contin uance of the long and sincere friend ship between this country and Ger many, "whose Interests are insepara bly Intertwined in many respects, and not the least in that they both need and demand the freedom of the seas." It ls the freedom of the seas for which President Wilson has been pleading. There can be no true free dom of the seas as far as their naval power extends. Where their naval power ends, international law pro tects, or shoud protect, even bellg erents. German shipping has abandoned the sea because the naval power of the empire has not been exerted. If Ger man merchantmen were on every ocean, no nation would insist more Imperiously than Germany upon the full benefits of International law. A sweeping naval triumph ny Ger many today would liberate German commert ~ If In that case Britain and Fran?.? inaugurated against it a murderous submarine warfare, doea Germany Imagine that our protests would be any the less vigorous? There can be no absolute freedom of the seas for belligerents in war time, but as between neutrals engag ed tn lawful trade there ls rot in law any question of their rightB. Tbe so-called war zones of Europe have been made regions of outlawry. As defenders of the freedom of the seas, we have been compelled to deal more urgently with Germany than with Britain, because Germany takes American life, whereas Britain, as yet, has taken only American property. What ia called the British blockade DR. BROUGHT*)] BRYAN (Atlanta Georgian.) Dr. Len G. Broughton, pastor of the First Baptist church of Knoxville, former pastor of the Baptist Taber nacle, and of Christ church, London, ou his arrival Monday in Atlanta for a lecture, roaated W. J. Bryan for his conduct following his resignation aa secretary of state. Dr. Broughton declared that Mr. Bryan is guilty of little short of treason, and that he will be rebuked by the American people like no citizen or public official was ever rebuked. "Mr. Bryan comes in the field of our vision because he has misconceived the meaning of statesmanship and done himself, his administration and bis country an Irreparable wrong," as I aerted Dr. Broughton. ' He bad a right to resign as secretary of state, but certainly there can be no honor, jus tice or patriotism in his going to the j country to discredit the president and weaken his leadership in an hour when everything ls involved In the loyalty of the nation. "Such a course Is well-night trea son, and If I do not misjudge the tem per of the American people he will be made to feel tbe rebuke more than the man be tries to rebuke. "But our vision tales in mor--? f'sn Mr. Bryan's platitudes, lt takes in ? ? ? WIT AND HUMOR. ? ? ? i *??*+***???**+??+?*? ? ? The Best Sale Bills. Admitting that it prints the bast zi\e j billa, the Sheibina Torch., jiu modestly ' offers in confirm?t lo- that it recently "struck" some bills for a farmer and that the drawing power of the printed matter waa auch that the crowds I flocked to the. sale and would not Btop | buying. Here's the rest of the story: "After getting top prices for every an imal, Implement and article on tho bill the auctioneer simply couldn't stop. [The farmer. In hope ot driving thin*I away, put up hla mother-in-law. She brought $160 on tho hoof. Then h's I offered bia mortgage.for sale. A life I time friendship between two ou) neigh bors waa shattered, aa each' tried td I outbid the other."-Kansas City Times, | -o A Pearl of Truth. The sversge woman would rather have her husband's finger nails long aa tiger claws and fringed with black than see them m&?? shapely, pink and brilliant by a red-headed, dimpled manicurist with a low neck waist on. -Houston Post. Nate of Cheer? Across the top of its front page the Stanberry Owl-Headlight blasona Ula note of cheer : "Your friend will prob ably desert you before your enemy strlkos you, so prepare to fight your battles alone."-Kansas City Times, V afc TBE Ll By JANE aPLEAN, 1 In a garden old and o Sought by no curio There are two lovers V ^ Keeping tryst 'neatl The grass grows high Bat weatherbeaten Roughened by rain ar Yet face to face an< And through the glan? They glimmer whit Two lovers in whose Deathless and hallo >F THE SEA of Germany ls in fact a blockade of neutral nations. It is therefore a vio lation cf the freedom of the cea. not because lt stops trade with Ger man port?, which ia a legitimate war measure, but because lt stops trade between neutral ports. We are Interested in the freedom of the seas as a neutral. .Germany at the moment is interested in the freedom of the seas as a belligerent. Aside from war, our only recourse is, to law and good conscience. Being at war. Germany's first recourse should be Hs ships and guns and tba valor of its men. At war or at peace, no nation can hope for genuine freedom of the seas unless International law prevails. Ti>e freedom of the seas was estab lished not by the corsairs of the Bar bary coast or by the pirates of the 8panish main, but In spite of them. Interrupted as it now is by the ex cesses of Germany and Great Britain, it will survive and reassert Itself, and those who now flout lt or misre present lt will presently make haste to avail themselves of its advantages. Standing squarely for International law against all offenders, no matter what their excuses, the United States is ssfeguarding the interests of the belligerents as well as its own. Those who, like Ur. Dernberg, would, OB he says, restore the freedom of the seas must distinguish between fight ing and fc freeboot lng. between friends and foes, between law and lawless ness. There is no other way. It ls respect for international law, accepted in this case by Germany's enemies, that gives Dr. Dernberg safe conduct to hf H home. There are no safe conducts where International law is in ruins and the submarine r.uies by stealth and assassination. N CALLS NEAR-TRAITOR every attempt to represent Christian statesmanship in terms of effeminate weakness and sentimental nonresist ance when at the door of the nation stands a madman and an assassin.. "The church can be content with nothing short of the reign of right and justice, whether it be in the nation or the city. "I expect "vir. Bryan to try to come back and keep bis promise to go be fore the people. He ls that kind of a man. But the people are not apt to listen to him. He abould keep quiet, and if he refuses to db that he should be shut up. His vacation trip is a for tunate thing Just at this time." Dr. Broughton declared that Mr. Bryan had planned to say one thing to the German-Americans and then had said another. "He evidently had intended to try and turn this class against the-president, but on second thought asked for support. This coun try has been given a great black eye abroad, where we were already re garded HS a nation ot shopkeepers, willing to sell anything for the dollar But Bui ope will find out that ls not true." At the train to meei Dr. Broughton were his brother. Dr. Joseph Brough ton; Dr. J. L. White, pastor of the Tabernacle, and others. A large crowd ls expected to hear his lecture. ?4>*?+***4>*V******W?4>+* ? ? ? ODDS AND ENDS. ? ? . ? Scientists of the department of agri culture, after extensive study, have decided that the moon haa no effect upon growing vegetation. Paraguay produces about 70 per cent of the world's supply of petit grain, the essential oil extracted from the leaveB of the sour orange. To save electricity In hotels there bas been invented a door lock that shuts off the lights in a room when lt ls locked from the ouslde. . yaSHSBBBSM* The production of cheese in the United States baa grown anvil it now exceeds 320,000,000 pounds a year, Wis consin making nearly one halt of it. An English Inventor's aeroplane can be coa verted into a tent whereever Its pilot may happen to, etoo by tho addi tion of curtains between ita planea. A new spirit level indicates in terms ot Inches or frac tiona ot lachea to the foot the deviation of. a surface from the horlsontal or perpendicular. Dire PredJeuea, Now that a Washington architect has said that Broadway la a convul sion, not a e'reet. New York will have a flt.-Philadelphia Ledger. JVERS a Alkata Georgia. -;-f ., vergrown, us passerby, nade of stone, i an open sky. % about their feef, still they stand, id wind, and sleet, 1 hand In hand. / ; . ' ' -t" ring light Spring rain ely through the tress, hearts remain v^iYieinones. ??J?. ''Thinking makes the difference between the man and animal." ?u Think of our daily advertisements. !s >^ Don't miss one. f r&K ^?^?JjJ-^^vV These daily hints will save you many ^dollars and add to your comfort. ^^?^f^-f??^ Today, we want to touch on athletic un ^^^^^^^^^^^ derwear, the foundation for summer fefip-sE^L J$\^ ^1 buys a complete suit. Other grades ?fllfipi! from 50c tp $2. Remember the union suit-"two in one" -they're sure to win and hold your fa vor. What say about trying a suit at our risk ? ? ~ "TkiS?aa.aUh ? JOHKAMOS ********************* ? ABOUT THE STATE, ? ? ? ^lake" Building. The new Behool building which will be erected in the southern part of the j city will be named "John Rennie1 Blake" building as a memorial to an honored citizen of Greenwood. Prof. Bloke was chairman of the first board of trustees of Greenwood graded schools and for 15 years was virtually president of Davidson college. It ls j peculiarly fitting that the new build ing be named for bim.-Greenwood Journal. First June Apple. The Advertiser mau was the r?cip ient the other day of a beautifully col ored and delicious Juno apple, the gift of Mr. H. Terry. This was the first apple nt the season, having ripened at an y nu BU nil y early period and judg ing fro-a tts high quality, is the fore runner or a very luscious crop.-Lau rens Advertiser. -o Puasllng Bag? A rare specimen of unknown bug that jvould probably delight the heart of an entomologist was captured and exhibited In the city Friday by Munroe DeiStaf?no. 1 The Insect had a remark able resemblance to a crawfish, al though not enough to be classed as a member of the crustacean family.- | Gr ."ney Ledger. England'^ Polities. The Columbia Record says "Eng land 1B too darned anxious for us to fall out with Germany." England is long-beaded. She knows that if the j United States declares was on Ger many that practically every neutral I nation on the eastern hemisphere will follow suit. In that event Germany's finish will be easy.-Newberry Her ald and News. Lancaster's Post-office. Mr. Claude N. Sapp left yesterday j for Washington, where he will bel joined today by Messrs. L. C.'Lazenby and R. E. Wylie and the three, acting as a committee from the Lancaster chamber of commerce, will interview the postoffice authorities to secure, it possible, an early beginning on the construction of the new postofflce. Lancaster News. Of interest in York will be the an nouncement that at the alumni ban quet at Wofford college held Friday I night, Dr. 8. A. Weber, now.. Ot Char- ; reston, bot for many years a resident ot this town, vas the oldest former, student preue?t. lie being a member of the clea? cf '6*. Th? banquet whs a very enj?yale affair ead waa at tended by ex-students from all parts of South Carolina add'also from the neighboring states. The alumni ora tion'waa delivered by B. W. Crouch bf Saluda, assistant federal district at torney.-York News. Wate aa Weafjoa. The new county1 jatl will be fitted | with' a novel device to prevent the es cape of Us prisoners. A hot and cold water defensive system will be in stalled so that the jailer can prolect his prisoners from a mob seeking/to deliver the prisoners without doing permanent injury to the rioters. Hot or cold water takes immediate effect] In the proper temp?rature and ls more j disconcerting than gan fire.-Green ville Piedmont. -o BJj? Convention. The Southern Textile exposition, which will be held tn Greenvale on November 4. 6 and 6. will be the first machinery ebhlbit of Its k\nd held in the South and will be ods of the larg est gatherings. If not the largest gath ering of practical cotton mill men ever convened in this Beetloo. The (Southern Textile association, under Whose aus pices this , exhibit will be held, bas a membership of 1.290 or more, and the expectation la thal at least two-thirds ot this membership win be present. lu addition to the m?ttbers, fQreenvilte will have .as 'her guests on this occa sion repr?sentatives of various cotton mill supply houses, and practical,] workers who are not members of the Mjaaiaallea ' Oieaiiailss New*. ARMS AND (By W. H. Alburn.) It seems amazing tbat a nation BO efficient in arms as Germany should prove to be so inefficient in diplo macy. It bas become commonplace to say that "German diplomacy is bank rupt." While Germany's armies have compelled the admiration cf the world, uutil even her enemies have no prouder boast than their soldiers are "as good as hers." Germany's states manship has sunk lower and lower In the world's estimation. The defec tion of Italy was but the climax of a series cf blunders that would have broken Bismarck's heart. Every German capable of looking calmly at the Fatherland's present status, and the steps by which she attained it, must grieve that the great inheritance left the empire by Bismarck has been squandered by bis successors. The Triple Alliance comprising Germany, Austria and Italy was ori ginally the strongest force in Europe, for war or peace. German hatred for Engand now is strengthened by the refection that English statesmen, year by. year, bare undermined the strength of that alliance, turning every German error Into a British gain. Today there4s left only a Dual Alliance of the Central Europeau pow ers, aided little by tottering Turkey against which is arrayed an iron-clad alliance of four great powers-Great Britain. France, Russia and Italy leagued with Servia and Belgium, with Japan and Portugal ready to help in j case of need, three more Balkan states 1 -two of them naturally friendly to Germany-almost ready to join the hostile majority, and all the Scan dinavian nations angry and wavering In their neutrality. lt waa a mistake, as Germany now knows, not to have formed the "Drei kaiserbund" of Gerntnay, Austria and Russia while there was a- chance. It was a mistake ever to lean on Italy as an ally, when her ties were nat urally with France and England. It! was a mistake to hold Alace-Lorraine, against Bismarck's advice, in 1871, ? and keep alive French enmity. But the grossest' blunders are those which have occurred within the last year. It was a deadly mistake to let Aus tria move against Servia, guarantee ing to stand by her, come what might. It was a deadly mistake, to let Aus tria, hi that rash act, alienate Italy and give her a technical excuse for neutrality and subsequent hostility, lt was a deadly mistake for Germany to Invade Belgium. It was a diplomatic mistake to let tba militarist's have a tree hand In all their subsequent harshness. It waa a diplomatic mistake to wage Ute lawless submarine campaign. In def I Picked Up H* A Modern Danger. . The case was one of assault and battery. The witness had Just given his story of wh?t he had seen, when the magistrate turned on him In sur prise. "Do you mean to tell the court, slr, he asked, "that you watched the pris oners set on this old mfa. throw him on Ute ground, hit him with a piece ot Iron pipe, and then steal hie watch f" * "Yes, your worship," replied ? the w!ta??s Calmly. ~ ?and yet yon did not interfere you made no attempt to say* him from them?" asked tho magistrate again. "Oh, hot'* replied the witness. "You see, 1 thought they were acting for s cinematograph. " Breaking the Recard. The regiment waa drawn up ready for Inspection. Smartly the men were standing, chests out, eyes front, etc. Round about an admiring crowd had gathered. A sergeant, anxious to show off be fore Ute spectators approached ope ot DIPLOMACY ance of the world's opinion. It was a diplomatic mistake to permit the bombardment of unfortified towns by air and sea, and the use of asphyxiat ing gas. Not the German nation, but a little group of German statesmen headed by the Kaiser, did all these things. Genuine statesmanship might have kept Italy neutral, ana secured the permanent neutrality or the co-opera tion of Greece, Roumania and Bul garia. Genuine statesmanship would at least have labored Intelligently to preserve the sympathy and respect of the American republics and the neu tral nations of Europe. But the mad diplomats of Berlin have arrayed against their country the arms of half the world and the judgment of nearly all of it. Even such friendly neigh bors as Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Holland bave been alienated by foolish aggressions. Holland and Switzerland have joined in the Ameri can protest against the Lusitania out rage, and In a demand for reparation and decent treatment hereafter, and lt would take little more to force Hol land, at least into the ranks of Ger many's active foes. "The more enemies, the more hon or!" has been the cry of the Infatuat ed militarists as thoy have seen the war flame spread and the ring of steel and condemnation tighten around them. There is a certain glamor In such audacity, but it ls based on mili tary delusion, not sane statesmanship it represents tbe ideals of the camp not of the home, the counting room or the council chamber. Suppose that Germany, In spite of the odds, wins over all her enemies. Of what avtall will it be to have a hos tile and rebellious world under her feet? She will be bated by nations whom she should never have had to fight, and feared and disliked by hun dreds of millions ?of men and women who should have remained her friends. At the bent Germany has accumu lated a stupendous heritage of hatred, which will follow her when the war ls over, In every path ot public and private life, making harder the lot of every Germ?n in the world. At.the worst, the proud German empire will be Isolated, humiliated and stripped of her power and. self-respect. That ls what comes from letting sol diers govern nations and dominate na tional ideals. Bismarck, the civilian, used soldiers, but kept trem under control; Bismarck's successors in statesmanship have i been dominated by the malled fist. There could be no stronger argument against militarism anywhere than this break-down ot German statesmanship under military Influence. the latest recruits and asked him: "Well, Jones, suppose you were on outpost duty, and you saw the Ger mans approaching in massed forma tion, what would you dp?" Private Jones looked stolidly ahead, but bis answer came clear an J loud to tho. listeners: "A mlle a malote, slr-a mlle a minute!" Much ia Little. A very raw Highlander joined the Qlasgow police force recently. Ona ol' his strictest instructions was about not letting people congregate on the pavement. He, therefore, accosted a group of young men aw follows: ' "My lads, if you be going to stand there, you'll have to be moving ons" The youang follows began to chaff him, which speedily roused his .Ire. .He repeated hla warning In sterner tones. "But why?" asked one ot the youth*, jestingly, "isn't this a free country?" "Thia ls not a country at all, you sheephead!" retorted the enraged Highlander. "Thia I* one of the larg est cities in tbg town ot Glasgow!"