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THE INTELLIGENCER ESTABLISHED lb?0. Published every morning except Monday by The Anderton Intelligen cer at 140 Weet Wbitner Street, An derson, S. C. SEMI-WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER Published Tuesdays and Fridays L. M. GLENN....Editor and Manager Entered aa second-class matter April 28, 1914, at the post office at Anderson, South Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1870 ASSOCIATED- PRESS DISPATCHES Telephone.821 SUBSCRIPTION BATES DAILY One Year .16.00 Six Months .2.50 Three Months .1.26 One Month.42 One Week. .10 SEMI-WEEKLY One Year .$1.60 Six Mouths .76 The Intelligencer is delivered by carriers in tho city. Look at the printed label on your paper. Tho date thereon shows when the subscription expires. Notice dato on label carefully, and if not correct piesse notify us at once. Subscribers desiring the address ot their paper changed, will pleaae state In their communication both the old and new addresses. 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WEATHER FORECAST Probably fair Friday and Saturday, j Something to worry knout-will Ice land be drawn into tho vortex of thc | war? ? ? ? o ? ' ' ' Bryan on.; the Press.-HeadllneT^W few weeks ago it waa me presa on j Bryan. ' ' ; -o Wonder how many, more cities tho Russians are going to abandon to tho Germans for strategic reasons. ? A dispatch says a Chattanooga man lost his dog ehroute to Atlanta -He had best look to his goat, too, In At lanta. io.tors' Are faking Public Into Ttol Confidence." Not forgetting, of course, to u\'o siso along with this a little, specie, What has become of the old fash ioned man who about this time of I year began calculating the nearness | of "dog' days." Should Evelyn pass up tho oppor tunity to testify against Harry sho passes up an opportunity to get some mighty good free advertising. Doctor's have examined Holt's brain and pronounced it as belonging to a maa ot the highest intelligence. Then a ,$u>te lot of us are of a low order of intelligence. ^ , ijBtS Postmsrora, $at Salary In crease.-Heading ' Which shows ono| of thc advantage? of. heinr a postmas ter; aa Brother Booker ot the Spar taaburg Journal.would say., .-o , A Birmingham, man finding that ho had on hand moro liquor than th? t*W allows, gave tho shelli all o~cr tho proper amount. And yet some folks think a public Job like that hath not Iti reward; -Or The people of Greenville do not | believe In segregation. The one can didate for police commissioner who sort of half way expressed himself ;?5V$vorlng segregation tailed the [ ticket *-8partanburg Journal. The fac? that tho "wldc-opcn-town" ticket fin GmmvilW bsa;' boon defeated re posted ly tn the past goes to show that ; iiSm it comes to the scratch old lady :.-, ,!ie k?rps trrr nktrta about as clean as any ^w^odorn city yon will An interesting discussion of th<> wm i inc of the' Federal Reserve Sys tem ls. made by W. P. (i. Harding, member of th . board, In this wci k'H issue of thc Manufacturers llecord. The conclusions reached by Mr. Hard ing are that through tin- operations through tb?' new system currency penlee In tba future seem to bc Im possible; that thc stimulus to ex pansion and speculation which un der obi conditions would have accom panied such large excess reserves as those of the present lum been largely eliminated; that thc United States in in a stronger position tbun lt was supposed it would bc, und has greater financial power than uny other nation. "The Federal Iteservc System," says Mr. Harding, "la essentially a co-op erative one. Tlic power of co-opera tion In achieving results was shown very forcibly last fall, when several intricute and apparently hopeless sit uations were successfully worked out In a short time. Owinp ?O our ln sullielency of ocean transportation und to the restrictions imposed upon commerce by thu nations at war, some inconvenience may be experienced, perhaps, In marketing our crops this fall, but Intelligent comprehension or the problems Involved and tho strong position of this country an the world's treasury and storehouse should mnke thu solution comparatively simple. Through the Federal Reserve System and the banks of the country ample funds can be provided to tuke care ol staple commodities awuiting trans fer from producer to consumer, and. as no complications seem likely to arise that have not already been an ticipated, it appears that our peo ple should bc able to await with pat ience and confidence the great forward movement which ls sure to come wheu once.is begun thc world-work of re construction and rehabilitation which must follow the re-establishment of peace." THE COTTON PROBLEM AGAIN. j The cotton situation ls beginning ' to worry Ure South again, when it j hasn't got 4irou%h worrying about the ? disposal of last year's crop. Says thc 1 Augusta Chronicle: "The solemn fact, tsittiat if tho Brit- I Ish embargo is not lifted before an- 1 other cotton crori is tarawa > on the market, the South will bo in a worse tlx than it has been since the Civil war." Until recently there seemed no se- ; rlous cause for alarm. The prostra tion of The cotton growing industry ! and tho resulting business paralysis j of the South, brought on by the clos- i lng of tho foreign market in thc early ' fmiTrfrftl-irrrn m**ta?+*Mit^mijtH overcome. During the winter ana . spring tho cotton moved to Europe in a steady volumo, rising so far above the average In Borne months as j eventually to bring the total sales almost up to normal Tho huge crop ? of 16,000,000 bales has by no.;means ' all been sold yet,- but there bsa been j no such disaster ai tho pessimists ? anticipated. . i The new crop ls expected to total 3, 600,000 bales less than last year. ' The overnment's ads.ce to reduce tho , cottons,area and raise more variegated crops'hus been'largely followed. The i acreage has been reduced from last ; year's 37.406.000 to 31.G36.000. Tho estimated crop would be near the av crage for recent years, and if tho for eign cotton market wero not chang ing so ominously lt would presumably bring about tho average Income. But Great Britain's action is making the rcnumeratlve disposal of this year's cotton, a crop, second in importance only to our wheat, a very doubtful matter. ' Britain, without putting cotton on the contraband list, has becu holding up cargoes" destined for enemy and neutral countries until the foreign market ls demoralized. It is feared that thc rocent decision of the Ger-' man government to take control of all tho raw cotton tn Germany may rc- i suit In Britain declaring the product absolute xuntraband* which -f would leave us without legal recourse. Mean* while, our government ls bound to use every possible means to induce Oreat Britain to atop interfering with our customary exportation ot cotton, st least to the neutral countries witta which we have an inalienable right to carry on our trade. Two-Weeks Old Baby Tooth. - The three-weeks-old-son of Mr. abd Mrs. J. D. -Jennings has a tooth. The child waa only about two weeks old when the tooth was found, lt ls very rare that a child has a tooth at thia.Age, although cases have been knowtf ot children being born with teeth.-Saluda (Standard. Around the foundattona of British forts are breed circular, galleries, well ventilated .sad fitted with elec tric lights. They are called "listen ing galleries." because, In times ot siege, they are guarded by relays of expert ll?tcrvera?j-^ Jraen. their ears pricked up foY'the pTc*k and shovel ol the enemy. PRESS CC r'ruxJng thc If y i?hen. (Chicago Tribune.) A movement Is in progress for tho establishment of u now public holiday to be culled Americanization day, lu be devoted to bringing uti peo ple of the United States Into closer unity und a common understanding of American citizenship and American ; !< al . and opportunities. This movement springs, of course, from tho anxiety aroused by evidence of foreign nationalism made clearer since the beginning of the war. This ?vidence was by no means lacking from time to time by The Tribune, which in 1SI13 pointed out the reflec tion of nationalism in Europe upon our own atlalrs. lt was then assert ed that through the influence of poli tics and of cultural societies young Americans of European parentage wer(. often less Am.-rican than their parents who came to America for reasons they had not forgot while their children idealized race ties of ten emphasised for political purposes. The sympathies naturally aroused by the Euroean conflict may be taken too seriously. Nevertheless an intelligent propaganda of robust Americanism is to be welcomed. Creating a new holiday wo'iid hardly seem neccssury. If Independence day is not an appropri?t' occasion Tor teaching Ideals we do not see that ano can bo made. In fact, the es sential effort of the Americanization movement ought to be to insist upon what is and bas been for a century md a quarter American and not to make concessions in the way of new holidays for those who neglect the significance of the classic American national celebration. It is our American weakness to think we are solving a problem by restating lt. and now because wo have led Independence day become merely tho Fourth of July wc propose to tame a different date for doing what we ought to do on tile traditional lay. Certainly we need Americaniza tion, and the need is not confined to \uicricuns of foreign birth or paren tage. This is a good time, not to. indulge in the bragging Jingoism ot .he pust, but In un honest re-studying jf our history, Its mistakes as well as Its achievements, our national len iencies and ideals, their strength as well as their weakness, our present problems, and our probable future, ?ur mood is serious under the shad ow of the European catastrophe, but wc arc conscious, too, of our goou for tune and of opportunities never sur passed even in ou rfortunate his tory. Unless we, too, becomo engulf ?? in tho European disaster wc arc passing over ?he threshold of a period sf new and bplendid national expan sion. The thought ought to inspire Americanization as well as stimu late tho energies of the nation to their highest .point. ! Our Aeroplane Fleet? O? em pills Commercial Apcal.) Thus far the aeroplane has not played a great part in European war. Beforo the end the Germans may dis play their prowess in the air. As it ta London sleeps restlessly at night aud ls uneasy during the day. These swift monsters of the air are capable of doing great injury. They have not will become formidable' o norn les.1 So far they have been of great ser vice in making and In gaining knowledge of inc enemies' position, ?ort if lea i ii-., i s and movements. The United States has fewer than a score of aeroplanes available for im mediate need and appeals are hoing nade to the American public in be half of a national aeroplane fund for aopular subscriptions to organize aviation squadrons. The absurdity of meeting military teed) in this fashion by appealing trom an Indifferent congress to the leople is grotesque. Undo Sam ls no leggnr. The needs of the govtrn nent should be supplied by congress, ind not through pleas to the people. Tho United States ls not an obiect of charity. The people aro liberal with heir purses. They contribute to nny worthy cause. Tt is a rank injustice o expect that by private subscription hc mil Kary and naval needs of tho government arc to be supplied. Aero planes are needed. Thoy are useful n timos of peace as well as in times if war. It Is always best to be pre pared. Prior to the war England looked with contempt upon tho Zeppelins. England also looked lightly on the lubmarlne. So little did the English think of tho submarines and so groat vas the English regard for the super Ireadnoughts that Germany was al owed to advanco In both branches on lerlal and underwater warfare. The result ia obvious. England's mighty ?avy, is useless. The German subma rine is the terror of the seas. No army can be successfully put mt- the field without being equiped THE By JAM Deep hidden in the forest dc Where no glad ray of light The black crow circling low Its mournful shrill, like s< Thick rimmed with moss, Ht So still it ia. and deep enc Some call it haunted, and nt Through the deep undcrbr Fringed gentiane blue and a And nod and emile, reflect And fragrant berries glisten Where cluster terns, frone No human ?tee has ever bea Reflected beauties In the a w Bat ghostly forest folks hav To look within, and lingei I DMMENT with a fleet of a?roplanes. It might as well be without eves. A blind force would be opposed by one which saw. A failure to provide agalust tliis ls a blunder. It is a crime. Talk about war ls absurd. We arc not-prepured. Our necessities are day by day becoming more and more ap parent. !' is time for congress to wake up ?n ' remember that In times of peace we should prepare for war. Indorsed by the Press. (News und Courier ) A feature of thc meeting of thc State Press association at (.'hick Springe this week which ls ot' inter est and importance to the public at largo as well as to thc newspaper people uf thc state was Captain Held Whitford's presentation before the Press association of a matter of a stat?: highway system for South Caro lina. Tills is a matter, ns the people of Charleston know, to which Captain Whitford has devoted a ?reat deal of study and work and lt Is a matter of very great interest to tills commu nity. Tlie cruz of thc proposition hinges, of course, upon the Institu tion of a state license upon ull auto mobiles. There is no other way at the present Hmo by which a fund can be raised with which to start the building of a highway system for the state at large unless, of course, the legislature could be induced to make a direct appropriation for this pur pose, which ls not probable. The views of Captain Whitford were heard by the Press association with very close attention an dthe dis cussion which followed evidenced a sound appreciation of the benefits which would flow to the public If Captain Whitford's plans could be brought to execution. Thc adoption of resolutions Indorsing a state high way system and a state tax on auto mobiles was not hr any sense a mere matter of form. The full purport of these resolutions was duly considered and they wero adopted because they embodied^ the conviction of the association that the legislature by tr king action along this line would be doing a big thing for the progress and prosperity of the people of South Carolina. Turning a New Trick. (Charlotte Observer.) Th0 longer we live the more we learn-about cotton., The authorities have been raking over the South as with a fine tooth comb to get facts about the probable. production, ana lt has developed that there are otb* er things than the -use o? fertilizers Ute in the season to take Into ' ac count. The Texas farmers haw turned a new trick in(saving the crop when cotton pickers' ar? scarce. Th? Austin correspondent of The. . Now York Post tells about lt. He says Chat Inst year scores of farmers, w,bo- were mable to obtain labor to harvest'their crops adopted the -novel method of stripping the plants of their cotton and unopen bolls by means of a home-made wooden device., called a "?Iule," which they attached to a .wagon. More than, three hundreds carloads of cotton, and oils were harvested in this manner. Thc farm ers were paid from 75 cents to $1 the one hundred pounds for the mixed sL?SiJr.oe Qi teamas &J3&. tanc? of two hundred to four h?froroi miles, where it was put through the cleaning and ginning process. The farmers who harvested their cotton In this manner realized from 925 to $35 an acre from their crop, and were saved the heavy cost ot picking by hand. >?. ?1"^ Translation. (New York Sun.) Forgive us for recording again these vibrations and undulations of the boundless ocean of sound. "I have been the repository of In ternational secrets. Representatives of foreign countries have come to mo, and whispered words Into my ears that, if I ha dtold them, might have caused national calamities. But be cause I would not take newspaper reporters into my confidence and tell them these secrets newspapers have donounced me, because I would not surrender myself Into the hands of irresponsible editors who have little regard for the rights of the Ameri can people. "For two years and'three months I had to alt silent while .the New York press tried to assassinate me. But now (pounding the railing with his hand in aa almost frenzied fash ion) I am ready to meet them and, they shall not "assassinate - me with out reply." O Bottom, Bottom, - how art thoa translated Into Boy-Orator-of-thcf Platte-Dcutsch! But,-aras he silent for twenty-seven months'? Does not the constitution, eager as he may be to change it. protect bim from that cru?l and unusual pnushm?iit? POOL ~ ~ ? MCLEAN. ipths lt Hes, : may warm Its gloom; upon lt cries >me foreshadowed doom. to some dark piece of glass I dark and cool; y footsteps peas ttsh that hides the pool. weet grow close around, ted deep within; on the ground led and cool andthlu. ? ito see nrface clear; e beat the knee r ever near. 75 Pairs of Hanans $6.00 Ox fords Reduced to $3.95. These oxfords consist mostly of Patent. Kids, Gun Metal Calf, and Russia Calf. \ They are broken sizes, one two and three pairs of a kind in good style toes for this season but we've decided not to reorder on them, so you get a reduction in price. >* This is a chance for you to save money if you'll be quick. Remember Hanans $6.00 oxfords reduced to $3.95. Straw Hats at Cut Prices We won't fill your mind with rubbish or exaggerated statements-here's the S\TY\ pie truth in a few words. All straw hats reduced. $2.50 and $2 straw hats now . . . .$1.50 $3.00 straw hats now .. ...... . .$2.00 $4.00 and $3.50 straw hats now . .$2.50 Better Hurry. The Store with a Conscience Father of Tea ina, of Dr. Charles Opham Shepard, rho won the sobriquet of "Father ot he Tea Industry" in America because ie was the only man who succeeded n growing tea on a large scale in his country for the commercial mar ;et, Dr. Shepard died on his estate, he Pinehurst Tea Farm, at Summer lille, S. C. His funeral will be held a Brooklyn, N. Y. Dr. Shepard's tea plantation in South Carolina, covering about sixty icres of land, raised about 15.000 .ounds of tea annually. His farm las been visited by many botanists nd was a source of great Interest of ifflcials of the government, especial y the department bf agriculture, rhtch has hoped that others would Luplicate thc successful experiment if Dr. Shepard in showing that tea an be successfully grown in this 01 m try for the American market. Dr. Shepard was born at New Hav n, Conn*., Oct. 6, 1843. Hie father ras Dr. Charles Upham Shepard, a toted geologist, who became profes or of chemistry at Charleston, S. '., Medicine College, and thus the on became identified early ', with louth Carolina. He was educated at andover and Yale, then studied mcdl ino at Gettlngcn University, Ger aany, making a speciality of physiol ogical chemistry. After graduation, ie returned to South Carolina and lade a special study of tho chemis ry of phosphates, then coming Into se fdr fertilizer purposes: ? Dr. Shepard established tho Shop? rd laboratory apparatus, and wrote xtonslvely on chemical and agricul ural subjects. After his career in ho development of tho fertiliser tn ustry in South Carolina and Florida, hr. Shepard retired, and about 1890 e began his famous experiments in ultlvation and manufacture ot tea t his Pinehurst estate, succeeding /herr, the government and other .merlcan tea pioneers had failed. (Chicago Tribune.) Falling in our efforts : io compr end the present war and overwhelm d by Its vast horror, we too easily xclaim, "The world baa lapsed into arbarlsm." As a matter of fact, may not the ery. magnitude of the present st ?ug le be regarded as proof oil tito rorld'a advance? For whilo tho hu ?an race has not yet seen. the day 'hen vars shall be ao more, w has at ?est progressed to the point at .hich whole nations, not simply af? jeted fighting males, glv thern clvee to tho uttermost for vat each elioves to be fundamental prtucl NOT ALL Industry Dead rat1- grown nnMW^tatoy1''by1 1800 til an tod tea at Middleton Hatony on the Ashley rlvjer, fifteen miles from Charleston. One of the sup posed-original planta, probably grown for their decorative value, survived, and' when seen by Dr. Charles W. Shepard about twenty-five years ago had reached a height of fifteen feet. Tho first attempt to introduce tea culture In America was made by Dr. Junius Smith, Who in 1848 turned his attention to growing tea on his es tate near Greenville, S. C., basing his effort on imported seeds a and plants. Upon his death the tea plants he left without care soon dis appeared. The Interest of the national gov ernment was first aroused in 1858, when, through the action of the com missioner of patents, Robert For tune was sent to Chine, to obtain seed for planting lu this country. Plants were widely distributed in the South ern States. In many cases the grow ers made tea by domestic process for home use, but no records of sales have been found. .In 1880 the interest of the nation al government in tea growing was again revived Under Commissioner of Agriculture William G. Le Due, who, seeing the introduction of the plant alone waa not sufficient to lead ? to the development of an industry, se cured the sendees of John Jackson, a tea planter of fourteen years ex perience in India, who was instruct: od to carry out experiments. An area of 200 acres near Summerville was leased for twenty years, ar\d the government imported- tea seed from Japan, China and India, but the exper iment failed. ' ' Then it was reported that Dr. Shepard, about 1SD0 began growing tea, first on a small scale, and select ed Pinehurst for his farm. Dr. Shep ard said that all tea used in this country should be grown In-the Unit ed States. . pies. Regardless of the means and nvJ-lvAg 0t national loaders, no one doubts that, with acgliablo excep tions, the entire population!, of tho various countries are making this war their fight-their stand for cer tain Ideals. .That ls a spectacle Which the world has novar before wit nessed on auch a vast scala. A' few" generations ago each titanic unanimi ty would havo been Impossible. From time to tithe there came from the front very specific evidences that standards of humanity are advancing despite the cruelties of warlike effi ciency. In th9 wars of forty or fifty or a hundred, years ago what syste- ! * ABOUT THE STATE. ? persoas lately for violation of the.. game laws of the state. Ot these thirty-seven have been convicted and the other cases are - pending trial. This record is an excellent one. Mr. Thackston is making' every effort tc enforce the laws relative to bunting and fishing and ls meeting with ruc- . cess.-ti reii ville News. Male Gets Shoes. j Last ' week a 15-year-old mule re- . celved his second,,pair of,, shoes at the blacksmith shop ot J. t>. Jen-. J nings. The mule bad gone without protection to his pedal, extremities ', for so long a time that be entered, serious objections before be wad filially persuaded to accept the shoes' . by. being placed In the stocks; which never fails to convince even the mos*, obstinate mule or horse.-Saluda Standard. ? ODDS AND ENDS. In order to make British gunners tue best in thc *sorld, the admiralty has eve ugone so far as to .use one of (ts battleships as a target. This was th? Empress of India,1 which arl I glnally cost. 91,500,000, and was sent I to the bottom in 1918. At the I ? lgut of 3,000 feet all areo planes look very mach alike. and I troops would bo liable to fire at their own nsaablncs when they passed ov?r hcad were they not all decorated with an erablear tb proclaim their nation ality. In a brigade of artillery a tele phone Bet is supplied to enable Uta .officer commanding the brigade to communicate with hts three battery commanders. , . [matte effort waa made to relieve the' irameasuramV suffering of horrys gashed and maimed in ba'tle? Sven the angelic ser vico of Florence Night ingale for the wounded soldiers in the Crimea was a tremendous innova tion. Today, to the rear of Flemish and French battlefields and in Italy, the society known as the Blue Cross is manifesting the same spirit in Ita succor for wounded animals that, the now uni ve-sal Bcd Cross displays for suffering, sotdiers. It has boen well said that the meas ure of care a people exercises for its dumb animals ts one very accurate index to 'ts Intellectual and humani tarian development. There ls inspir ing evidence tn, this war that tho hu man heart has not slipped b*xk into barbarism. ,