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THE INTELLIGENCER ESTABLISHED 1MS0. Published every morning except Monday by The Anderson Intelligen cer at 140 West Whitner Street, An derson, 8? C. SEMI-WEEKLY INTELLIGENCE!! Published Tuesdays and Fridays L. M. GLENN_Editor and Manager Entsrcd as second-clans matter April L'S, 1914, at thu pout ornee at Anderson, South Carolina, under thu Act of March 3, 1879. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES Telephone .321 SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY One Year .IS.or Bia Months . 2.60 Three Months .1.25 One Month .42 One Week .10 SEMI-WEEKLY One Year .$1.50 Six MonthB .76 The Intelligencer ls delivered by carriers lu tho city. Look at the palmed label on your taper. The date thereon shows wlicn the subscription expires. Notice dato on label carefully, and if not correct pleaBO notify us at once. Subscribers desiring the address of their paper changed, will please stato In their communication both the old and new addresses. To Insure prompt delivery, com plaints of non-delivery in tho city ef Anderson should be made to tho Circulation Department before 9 a. m. and a copy will be sent at once. All checks and drafts should 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 and rational letters on subjects of general interest when they sro ac companied by the names and ad dresses of the authors and aro not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. Rejected manuscripts will not be re turned. In order to avoid delays on account of i personal absence, letters to The Intelligencer intended for publication should not be addressed to any indi vidual connected with the paper, but simply to The Intelligencer._ FRIDAY JUNE 25, 1915! WEATHER FORECAST Fair Sunday, except showers along the coast. Monday fair. THE PURLIC INDEBTED. Anderson people, that is, those who . ?re born and reared in this city ami community, and especially tho older ones, should feel indebted to Mrs. Lou ise Ayer Vandlver for tho splendid work, "lu Schoolroom Walls," which appears in this lssuo of The Intelli gencer. The spirit that prompted tho author of this article to prosecute tho im mense amount of research work that was decoBSary to get tho facts set lorth In it and weave thom In a most absorbing and attractive manner, is possessed by but few people. She hau done that which, so far as wc can loam, has novor been attempted by another person about here-compiled an accurate and exhaustivo history of schools and the movement for educa tion tn tito city of Anderson. And she has done lt splendidly. Had Mrs. Van diver not performed this great task lt is not likely that another would have attempted lt, and a few years honco lt would have been all but Im possible for such a work to have been complied bad ono desired to do so. Those of the present generation who attended any ; of the old schools will find this article especially deightful, and doubtless they will wish to pre serve copies of it among their most treasured possessions. Posterity will lind in it much that should be of in terest and Inspiring. There are na tives of -Anderson, pupils of these schools df bygone days, who have wan? dered afar and taken up their abode In other climta. who will delight In ding thia Interesting review of tho old Rchools witch they attended "back home." It wll awaken memories that have lain dormant for years, and back to the scenes of childhood days will they bo wafted in spirit, there to com mune with the old walls within which they were-first taught, to romp once roore with the old boys and girls who w?iro their schoolmates and to live over again the days that were. indicated In the beading of the article, it deals with all schools that flourished tn Anderson between the years 1882-and the present. Beyond tho year i saris we have no reliable data of ibis nature, consequently the i.?rtod reran" la thia article dates from that oral monthfj of arduoua lubor and per severance of Ibo rarest kind. It 1? splendidly done, as ls everything of the kind undertaken by the author of this work. As for tito part The Intelligencer takes in placing thin commendable production before the public in print ed form, that I? Inconsiderate. The Intelligencer in proud of this excellent work and pleased tliai the author has permitted this paper to place it before tlie people of the community. Articles of tills length are rarely if ever seen in daily newspapers, but The Intelli gencer feels that nothing more thor oughly enjoyable or readable could be pla. i'd before tho local public through thc columns of any newspaper. The Intelligencer did not hope to make any money out of tho publication of this article. On tho contrary, It is published at considerable expense. We do not expeet to sell enough extra copies of tho paper to pay for the ink used in the printing of lt, to say noth ing of tlie cost of composition, paper, time and other items. All tills was realized fully before the first stick of typo was set. As an accommodation to those who might wish to preserve paper? containing this article or mall them to friends nt other places. The Intelligencer lias bad printed a lim ited number of extra cop?c3 .vVtch may be had for a nominal sum upon application in person or by mail at this office. . The Intelligencer does not stop to count the coBt when lt comes to the performance of an act calculated to contribute to tho enlightenment and uplift of the people, and thsl view was in mind in the printing of the article, "In Schoolroom WallB," for, as the author well says In the closing sen tenco of her meritorious contribution to thc literaturo of the community: "Let tlie names of thc noble teachers who have made our town a place of intelligence bc preserved forever, for it is th instructors of the world that have raised lt from Ignorance and wicked ness to tho heights and depths and widths reached by Science una Poetry ?nd Music uni Literature and Art, a homo for Immortal sous." THE OLEOM A KC A HINE SCANDAL. Thc Internal revenue department es timates that In the last thirteen years tho government has been cheatd out of $27.000,000 in oleomargarine taxes. The swindling has been practised by some tt.000 dealers, 42 of whom have been sent to prison for the offence since the beginning of tho present year. Thc violators of the law undoubtedly merited their punishment for cheating tlie government mid taking advuntagc of honest competitors. But tho very magnitude of this system of law-break ing seems du? largely to thc fact that the government has created an artifi cial crime and laid a heavy tribute on honest ry In a matter where conceal ment ls easy. U Is lawful to mako oleomargarine. It is lawful to soil lt, uncolored, If In ternal revenue tax of half a cent a pound ls paid. If lt ls colored to re semble butter, the tax ts raised to 10 cents a pound. The temptation is ob vious. It leads to coloring tho "oleo" surreptitiously, and selling tho artifi cial product as real butter, whereby tho dealor not only save tho amount of tho tax. but gets a higher price. At the same time, a fundamental In justice ls worked on the public, even when no deception ls practiced. There is a big demand for oleogargar'.ne. It is a good, wholesome food product, in some respect superior to butter. Thc coloring matter makes lt more pleas ing to the eye, and therefore moro palatable. It can be sold, colored, far cheaper than genuine butter, lt tho heavy tax" ls removed. There ls a growing feeling that the surtax for tho colored product ls unwarranted. Why not abolish the arbitrary and restrict ing 10-cent tax and let oleomargarine bo sold aa lt used to be, at its normal market price, merely providing that there shall be no concealment of Its real nature T Barrea HH1 late Fruit Orchard. The conversion of a barren hilltop Into 6%a of the best orchards In the Qr^nd Valley, dorado, has been ac complished by an Ingenious method of irrigation. For several years the area baa been considered practically worthless because of the absence of water upon? it, while surrounding lands -loder irrigation were valued In some Instances at more than $1. 000 an acre. The present owner of the triet purchased lt for a nominal sum sad then had constructed a large water wheel, ostial In height to that ot the hill, which was placed in a ditch at the base of tba knoll. A flume was built to reach from tbe top ot thia to the summit cf the hill. On each of the paddles of the wheel wa ter troughs v.cre attached In such a manner that as the wheel revolves j water 1? carried to the flume with out employing any other power than I that provided by the current of the j wate;- in thc? canal. Zn th!* manner I thu hill is thoroughly irrigated - From the July Popular Mechai (cs I MR. BRYAN'S (Nw York Tiiiies.J What a different appearance Hue cabinet pr?sents this morning from that which it' presented sixteen day? ago; how much trimmer, smarter, more shipshape; how much lens rag ged IOOHIIIK. les? untidy, with the loose ends gone! lt is hard to realize ,U ;at the impression o? general sloppi ness which it mude was due ulmost entirely to the presence of one mun. and yet how a single change has Im proved it and how business-like lt looks. The state department is no longer a depot for aids and fancies. A little leaven leavened the wi ole lump, end still docs, but it is a diff erent leaven now. Thc cabinet wore the face of Bryan then, it weurs a Lansing-Carrison-Lane face now. The general sense of relief cannot be mis taken . Mr. Lansing's appointment mends the second break In the cabinet. It is often tlie fact (hat a cabinet looks better ai the end of au administra tion than at the beginning. When au incoming president selects his cabi net he may not be bound so mud) by politlcul considerations nowadays as lie was In former times, but he can not ignore them altogether. Ile takes oflice as the rewult of his party's victory, and If his administration Is to be suscesBful his first task is to keep lils party harmonious and sat- ' i<?8fled. Irater on, niter lila policy has been worked out und part of lt en acted, he is no longer on trial and cun better afford to please himself. It is not as it was in il ve old days, when each political unit claimed thc right to name its mun for office and thc president had little to do but choose among them; but no president can afford wholly' to ignore party consid erations while his administration is ititi on thc ways. For thia reason the break which i'sually comes in thc cabinet often rc oiilts In Its Improvement. President McKinley's administration began with i Sherman as secretary of state, ah old < THE CAPTURE (Chicago 1 With the fall of Lemberg all thc rc have been lost. Galicia is regained fe llcvcd from the threat of Invasion and possession of the soil of thc Teutonic i In Berlin and Vienna. What the Fren the entente powers posses of their ei possessions. It is precumed that a great force will bc released for operations clsewh Belgians on the wost and the Italians enough to have established suitable 1 armies to be sent against them. The recovery of Galicia may be on war, but it may provo to bc a factor, doubted seriousness. With what forco 1 merely holding the French, who have b progress, in e. terrible siege warfare. ' in behalf of their eastern ally with tho tered lu behalf of the rench carly in '.'russia relieved the pressure against tl Petrograd now Intim?tes that thc enemy engaged while Itunslan rc^rganl is genorally conceded that ono cr.use fe lack of ammunition. The Russians evl th retreat, but they say that tho question :hey can bo aggressive again. France thorcforc must Btacd tho ma is upon French endurance that thc declt ticlpatlon in the war will divert armU used in the attempt to smother thc Frei Berlin's report ?B that thc battle fo mlgit indicate terrible German and Au hardly can count upon the possibility hnustcd themselves in this Galicien cam] For RuBala tho blow ls discuurag gained at the expense of many more tl months' campaigning ?B gone and tho ? seriously impaired by lack o? cuyplles. PRESS CC At the Wrong End of the Line. (Greenwood Journal.) It seems that tho tax commission created under an act of the last sca nlon of the legislature to work out a plan for a just and equitable assess ment ot property for taxation has , started at the wrong end of the linc. Instead of inquiring Into the returns ?ff property that have long been ack nowledged to be (ar below wi it they should have been placed at the commission has devoted its*most se-, rions attention to the people who are already paying more than their jost proportion ot the taxes. Instead of seeking to equalise, the effort, seems to be to make the difference in returns only the greater and to lay on Heavier and heavier whero the burden should be lightened. This course lnstoad ot making matters better ia making them worse and will tend to gravis complications. We do not blame the banks and other corporations tor seeking re dress and declaring that If necessary they will go Into the courts. Thl?. should cot he required ot them and we hope that the'commission will see tis mistake and dhange Ua course. Let lt begin at tho right end of tho line and correct where correction lo moat needed. Corporation? should ty* 1 treated with Jost as much equity aa individuals. They aro not all soul-i lesa, as a great many think them to he. And even lt they were that, would be no excuse tor treating them unjustly. 5 SUCCESSOR man with a falling mind, appointed that Mark lianna might get hits place In the senate; Alger as secretary or war, a purely political appointment; HIIHH as secretary of the interior, ap pointed that New York might receive a consolation prize, since Illinois had the treasury department. It ended with the state department in the hands of John Hay, who stands lu the very first rank of secretaries of state; the war department in those of Kl thu 1 'jot, who stands in a similar posi tion among secretaries of war. ano the anomalous New York anoint ment l-l a department which c is for a man with knowledge of Uie needs of tlie west replaced hy that of E. A. Hitchcock of Missouri, while Phi lander C. Knox, was attortiey general. Hy 1HI>8 Mr. McKinley was firmly in the saddle, and could choose men for their abilities alone; at thc be ginning he parceled out his cabinet among the '"en or factions with "claims." ills cabinet was a web., thing at the outset, for lt Is always the two or three leading appointments that give tone, good cr had. to the whole cabinet; it was a strong one ut the elose. In this case President Wilson has made amends for making thc one appointment most obviously political. Presumably Mr. Hurleson was ap pointed in recognition of the claims oft Texas, which had done so muoh for this nomination, and Mr. Daniels to recognize one of the chief party workers and the Bryan wing of tho party. Hut Mr. Dryan was the chief example of a political appointment, and his position at the head of the cabinet gave his color to lt. It is a different and unpretentious Lansing Is at the head of it. The ci lief change in the popular feeling is ono of cer tainty; there is no longer that un easy dread of what the secretary o? Btatc will do next, what ne\. noak, gyration or trapeze performance is ? tuoi-uio} oiij, -JOJ poHOOi yq oj gone from the furniture of thc state department. OF LEMBERG. 'rlbunc.) Bults gained by thc Russian offensive ir Austria-Hungary; Hungary is re- * virtually nothing remains in Russian impires. Naturally there is rejoicing I ch have of Alsace is about all that ' leroy's territory aside from colonial , of Austrian and German troops now ere against the, French, British and J , who may not have progressed far lines of defense against the veteran i ly an incident in the progress of the \ probably not conclusive, but of un- t is not known, tho Germans have been | ?cen making progoress, but not rapid They have not been ^able ta interfere effctlveness that-thc Russians inu.r tbe war, whea the Invasion of East he rench linen. French and British must >.jep the izatlon and resupplying goes on. lt ir Russian reverses is to bc found in dently have kept their artillery safe of ammunition must, be solved befora .jor strain of what ls to follow, and it don will depend, although Italy's par is which otherwise would have been ach resistance. ir Lemberg was "very severe," which strian losses, but the entente powers that thc Germans and Austrians ex palgn. lng. If not serious. What had boon ian a million men and more than ton iffectiveness of the Russian armies ls IMMENT day constitute, in their united action, such a study for the psychologist as ls rarely presented. They are trying to Justify all. that may haye been said of the sway of unreasoning pas sion in Georgia by the peopla, in all parts ot the couatry, who Btrove to ?ave eLo M. Frank from the gallows. Hac governor who, after a patient investigation of the case, was com pelled by tils conscience to commute Frank's sentence Is banged and burned in effigy as If he were a monst'ous offender instead ot a Just and upright man who has dared to defy popular prejudice in the per formance of his duty. Perhaps this subjugation of reason to passion ls not so uncommon as we would like to think. Similar mani festations of the force of prejudice in defiance of Judgment were to he j noted in various parts of this country ' when she famous 3ampson-Schley case was an uppermost topic of dis cussion, during the prepfcaterous Cook-Peary controversy; tad recent ly in New York when ' the case or Brandt was fresh in the public mind. In Georgia the people have spread before them the governor's statement of the Frank case from Its begin ning, lucid and convincing, but lt has ?failed to effect so far as many thou sands of Georgians are concerned. Yet w? must all admit that the Georgian ia not a. peculiar type, dif fering at all, in mentally -from the rest of us. The disturbance does net call for denunciation, but for grave consideration from a psychologist point of view. One of the strangest developments is the, published.statement ofiooe of the irrank Jurors, A. H. ijr condemning the governor tn .flaming teran, declaring the* the "daughters. it's a sure thing that all of us are going to Palm Beach Suits $7 to $10. j Mohair Suits $8.50 to $\2.50. Tropical Suits $5 to $ 10. A new showing of Wash Ties, attractive col ors and extra quality, at $25c. Regimental stripes and the popular polka dots in silks, 25 and 50 cents. wear Palm Beach or some other heatproof Suits this summer-yesterday's selling at this store prove it beyond every doubt-and there are good reasons for it, too. Such suits as we are showing offer you the utmost in comfort, style and economy. mTbt Sion aOh o Qoca?'ixa wives, siaters, and mothers" of Georgia are in danger. Yet this Juror frankly says that, after listening for three weeks to tho evidence against Frank, on t?;e first ballot In the Jury room he cast his vote as "doubt ful." Now ho condemns the gov ernor, who studied the records of the &ase patiently and without .prejudice many days, and made Investigations the Jurors had not made, because he, too, is doubtful of Frank's guilt. The governor was aware of the feeling against Frank In Georgia and dared to ct according to his conscience. He was not. however, closeted wlt?*i ten convinced jurors and one doubt ful as himself while a prejudiced mob was walting outside the court for tho verdict. This Juror himself is a fine subject for psychological study. Lloyd-George and the Labor Unions. (Baltimore Sun.) David Lloyd-George, the new min ster of munitions in the British cabinet, seems to have solved the dlffl :ulty that England has experienced ?lnce the beginning of the war in get ting the arms factories and shipbuild ing plants to producing at their maxi nuin capacity. He has, it is reported, made a com pact with tho trades' unions by which they agree to do their utmost to bring lbout tho greatest efficiency in man ufacturing war supplies, and in return the increased profits of the plants arc o go tho government and not to tho private owners. Much has been said of bte lack of patriotism of the British workmen. In defending them from such a charge ..'anon H. Scott Holland, a, prominent London clergyman, recently said: "If lt is thc nation that demands their services, then lt mus? be the na tion that makes "Its direct appeal to them th rou tl'their own 'representa tive organisations; and lt must be di rectly to the nation that the service ls paid. Control or compulsion eau not be imposed upon their labor If thero is. any suspicion that thc labor serves any private or. particular inter ests. If we desire to mobilize In dustry, we must mobilise it SB a whole. Labor will be ready enough to aerv? thc national need; but lt must . be. Assured that its sorvico gocB to bene fit nothing less than Oie nation." . This appears to be what Lloyd- I George has accomplished, and it has been a great personal triumph and a most valuable one for thc British um pire. No man in England has ever been moro severely denounced In his time than David Lloyd-George. When he entered public life as an advocate of ll ie workingman he was denounced as a firebrand. When ho becamo a pow-, er in parliament the Conservatives called him* "a "cheap d?magogue." But it was not until he became chancellor of tho exchequer that the vials ot wrath were literally poured upon him. There waa no language strong enough to expressf ie feelings of the Tories when he put Into effect his pensions for the poor dvd aged, his insurance schemes and raised the income takes and death duties. Two years ago he held undisputed the title of "the best-hated man <n England." But wti?n tho crisis catv? lt waa the little Welshman who ae vised the schemes to raise the enor mous sums necessary to carry on tho war. And when the allies were facing failure for lack of guns and ammuni tion lt waa to Lloyd-George that the empire looked to. ?rteet the emerg ency. Denouncing Lloyd-George has ceas ed to ho a favorite indoor ?port in England. The British (have made up their minds that he is a fellow who can be trusted. Has Coed Cotton. Mr. J. W. Babb o' the Brushy Creek section of the county was in the city yesterday and called at The Intelligencer office and exhibited some fine stalks of cotton. Mr. Babb Uvea ?ear the Pt okena line and says that he bas IS seres planted tn cotton. He says that lt was boylan (ng *o bl som freely aadrtCiat it locked as if it would inake gtflt ciop. .?,!:.. ' Bl m A BIT OF PHILOSOPHY PP.OM .REACH YOUR HAND TO ME gjJ^cJAMES WHITCOMB RIL-EY ^cacti your handtoii^,n^ 'With its heartiest caress Sometime there will cernean end lb its present faithfulness 'Sometimei may ask in v<ain For the touch of it again, When between Os lar?jcipr Holds it ever back from m?., .Sometime I may need it so, imping somewhere in thc night, lt will seem to me as thoudh Just a touch, however light, Would make all the darkness dav, And alon? some sunny way Lead me fhrou?h an April-show?ij .OF my tears to mis fa?r Kout: EDITORIAL OP THE DAY A Nw World Conscience. (From the St Louis" Globe-Democrat) Near approach of the peace meeting to be held-at Philadelphia movos less definite program adopted, there can succeed in enforcing peace than ot whether the conscience of mankind is not now quickened to the noir, of ceasing wars without compulsion. It is disheartening to some pacifists to find provision for an international ar mament made p*?.rt o fa peace pro gram to he Uiscussed by peace ad vocates. Ic is disheartening to them aot because such a proposal indicates that peace advocates are themselves either insincere or impractical, but moro for tho reason that they are boo? practical and sincere In contem plated ecori to preservo peace by fighting for it it necessary. 48ucb u proposal may lead itself to rtdlc-tle, if lightly consi<le:"cd. But fully con sidered, it is seen to be 'wise with the wisdom of accumulated experience and in the hope of making the domi- | nant conscience of a new world ! triumph over, anagcry. in realisation of Tcnnyon's phophetlc vision when he wrote: "There the common sense ot most sjmll hold a fretful realm In awe." But the hopo ot the future ls the despair of tho present. The great globe ls growing smaller. We can now place our ear ta the waters ana hear . the sounds of distant nations. In such an era as this, auch a war as is now being waxed, with ita dally accumulating horrors, ita desecration of temples, Its destruction of traga* area long hold ?as world ttclrlooms. its hurling .of death from under the wa ters and abort the earth, and more than all else. |he manifold forma of Editions of barba: sgp$osed to bo stirring profoundly fhsjf conscience of tho Thia conscience, to bo effective, must be stronger than; the hates of war have engendered among tbe com batants. We may proclaim a now age and think that what we preach is a new program, "and, for that reason, to be universally recognized. But conscience alone can fred peoples from tho thralldom of old hates find prejudices. The worldfwlll act only when lt fully recognizes a new ideal, the attainment of which demands the exertion of ail. WlUh?ut such rec ognition there ia small hope of faith. of. self-Bacrifices, and of love trans cending hate. Mall to tho peace con ference! It can do much. But the' high hope of humanity is in a new worid conscience .springing out of un paralleled war. L.:\\ Color Lighting 'Stages Movies Realistic Of the many Imperfections in pres ent methods ot producing photoplaya^^ the eu Ur g absence u feolor in the pro-": e?P jected images is pi* bably the one thatf lp is the mast 'keenly felt by spectators' 'M. at the botlon-picturo theatres. ia -this particular th? theatrical stage haa a tremendous advantage, it can re gal hi a wealth of ?.olor with modern facilities tor stage lighting it ia os ?tble to produce almost any color ef fect to correar.ad with tho atmo? Iphere of a scene. On th. 0vl? >" ? screen there la npne of thia l tifce coloring-nothing but a monotonous . succession o? black and whlto picture "A new method ?ow being tested i.'. PutifomUi g'vea every nroml*<<? o? e!! minaiing thia ?v-?*c? ia film pi? sayt-the Jnly Puoo-ar Mbchan* *K?BC. "The apparatus consiou dytof a spot il&ht provided Bereena, and .with it any .combination of colors, eau oh th? moxie S?er: -n. ? , la moulted on the projector