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THE INTELLIGENCER ESTABLISHED I860. Published every morning except Monday by The Anderson Intelligen cer at 140 West Wbltner 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, 1924, at the post office at Anderson, Routh Carolina, under the Act ot March 3, 1879. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES Telephone .821 SUBSCRIPTION BATES DAILY One Year .15.00 Biz Months .2.60 Three Months .1.26 One Month.42 One Weak . AO SEMI-WEEKLY One Year .11.60 Six Months .76 The Intelligencer ls delivered by carriers In the i\ly. Look at the printed isbel on your ) paper. The dato thereon shows when ! the subscription expires. Notice date I on label carefully, and lt not correct j pleaso notify us at once. Subscribers desiring the address ot their paper changed, will please state In their communication both the old and new addresses. To Insure prompt delivery, com plaints of non-delivery In the city ot Anderson should be made to the Circulation Department before 9 e, m. and a copy will be sent at once. All checks and drafts should bel drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer. ADVERTISING Ratea will he furnished ea applica tion. No tf advertising discontinued ex cept on written order. The Intelligencer will publish brief I and rational letters on subjects of j general Interest whon they are ac companied by the names and ad dresses ot the authors and are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous I communications will not be noticed, j Reject jd manuscripts will not be re-j turned, In order to avoid delays on account ! at personal absence, letters to The! Intelligencer lr/ended for publication should not be addressed to any Indi vidual connected with the psper, but i elmply to The Intelligencer. SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1916. WEATHER FORECAST Fair in the interior; unsettled ba the coast Saturday and Sunday. The submarino seems to be the David of the seas. Probably tho Russians roason that "he who fights and runs away will live to fight another day." "All Roads Lead to Rome." but the Austrian armies might find them a bit difficult of travel Just now. Will the docline in the price of I whiskey and thc advance in the price [ of beef affect thc prlco of stew? Anderson County people say. "With all thy faults, I love thee, still."-j Newberry Observer. But with an ever ' decreasing majority. -o Caption over a newspaper illustra tion: "$30,000,000 Heiress and Man She Will Wed." Yep, wo Imagine sho'e the one doing tho marrying. -o The good dio young. Then wo know some folks who, If they don't change their way, are going to make Methuaiab look Uko an infant. '-o Thaw to tho reporters: "I ara merely a private citizen of Pittsburgh and my movements are of vory little . interest." B' gush! he talks sane, anyway. ? ? o ??? ?Some of tho pictures printed re cenUy of J. P. Morgan look like most j anybody, from Julius Ceasar down the line to ono of the cuts In Bo Evans' au In the ^Anderson papers.-Pickena Sentinel. Tho fact is. Bo Evans fished out a cut that looKed like Morgan and ran lt In his ad the morning fol lowing the shooting of the financier. That's how much he's on the Job as ; an-sdvertlser-with-a-punch as well as "the store with s conscience." We'd trade our plug hat for a late copy of a daily newspaper that doesn't contain a trsr of war.-Barnwell Sen tinel. We hear expressions like that every day. Wo aro living In the moat Interesting and the most momentous period In tho world'B history, and how a man of average intelligence can crave Ignorance of what ls going on In the titanic malcstrom ot mankind's greatest war, passes understanding, la lt any wonder we N are con temptonsly retorred to by foreigners as "narrow, bigoted, self-satisfied and self-interested doMtr chasing Yan kees?" I'OOH .MK VN HO I KI,S. A clean, comfortable In^tl In a clean, comfortable mom, a shower hath, H clean nightshirt and slippers ami th?' flee of shaving and other toilet uten SllK, all for the price of ten cents that Is what ls promised hy the Rufus Dawe? Hotel Association, which plans to establish a ?hain of poor mens hostelries jn various eitles throughout thu country. Tin- first one is being built in lin.Mon. It ls no sense a charity, as tim Rufus Fearing Hawes hotel In Cliica go is to some extent. That institu tion, built us a memorial to the son of Mr. DawoA a i'bicngo business man, lisa served as a sort of laboratory for the working out of a hotel to provide respectable accommodations very cheaply on a paying basis. Mr. Hawes and his assistants are satisfied that .ey have ?olved the problem. The .w chain of hotels will be run as straight business institutions. With the low rate mentioned for lodging, and similar rock-bottom prices for nourishing meals, and patrons paying for everything they get, a return of 4 per cent on the Investment ?B ex pected. What the system may mean for the big cities, especially during a hard winter, may be judged from the fact that in the first year's operation ot the Dawes hotel In Chicago it accom modated 180,000 guests and served C0.0G0 meals. John Wannamaker suggests that the United States ho louned a hun dred billion dollars, without Interest, with which to purchase Holglum. Al right, John, start your lin and we will subscribe thc "wdthout Interest" portion. THE FORD THIRD I'SALM. The Ford is my automobile, I shall not want. It maketh me to lie down under it; it soureth my soul and it leadeth me In tho paths of ridicule for Hs namesake. Yea, though I ride thr.iugh the valleys I'm towed up tho hills, for I fear no evil; thy rod and thy engine discomfort me; it nnnoit eth my head with oil, my radiator runneth over. I prepare for blowouts in the presence of mine enemies. Sure ly If this thing foPowB me all the days ot my life I shall dwell In the bug house forever.-Exchauge. We feel Uko apologising for r?V printing anything so shamefully sac rellglous. What a pity that one of the most beautiful passages In all litera ture, and one that is perhaps nearer tun hearts of the followers of Ae Cross than any other chapter of Holy Writ is made the beale of a parody so utterly senseless!. Thero comes to mind from across the chasm of fleeting years the vision of an open grave Into which a little whlto casket had just benn lowered; of tho heart-broken motlier of the child who hnd mot a sudden and tragic death and other sorrowing relatives gathered about; of a lower ing sun gliding the tree tops and golden rays filtering through gently swaying branches upon tho Howers banked about; of a minister repeating the Twenty-Third Psalm while a choir of silvery voices sofMy render ed a hymn that was appropriate. That particular passago mado an Impres sion upon us then that will llvo for ever. What a pity, wc say, that anything so beautiful, so sacred, so dear to the hearts ot so many countless thous ands should bo made the basts of sickening nonsense and doggerel. This brings us to another thought, that of tho language in which tho Gospel of Christ ls preached by thc cele brated and doubtless consecrated mnn of God, the Rev. "Billy" Sunday. Thero are many who are opposed to the manner of his preaching, thu slang he uses, the gestures he em ploys and his Illustrations. But thero are Just ss many, if not moro, who defend his methods, saying. "If he can take the language of tho back-alley and tho bas"eb?i: diamond and win souls for Christ, let him do it." Well enough, but we have often wondered If Mr. Sunday couldn't In some way manage to employ decorous language and yet do effective work. It may be cranky, but we apmehow believe tu the "eternal fitness of things," and the manner of the preach ing of the Rev. Mr. Sunday some'..ow doesn't flt in with that idea. Tho author of thc parody on the Twenty Third Psalm, if he ?rete lt to adver tise the Ford automobile, might argue thusly: "If it is necessary to parody the Scriptures to advertise Fords more effect ively, then go to lt" And that wouldn't sound very nice. OHE WHO KNOWS, There In a dearth of news this week, and, apropos of that, let ate say that I heartily agree with sea ia year editorial ea the.lack ef pleasure aa* harasteas saiarsapata lar jrse*gj peeple te amaU towns, not ealj or young people but Hie old ones ab V?||. "Without a Utile pleasure ami diver ilon of nome kind, ne, young and old, would become so set In our ways, HO .arron?minded and selfish (hal ru n nally our mind? and speech would ie like u rusted and creaking hinge, ls usefulness impaired, ererj move? m nt u discord. "Life ls hard at best; young people ire young only onre. Help them to ?ave a lillie pleasure, i.'et out o? the .arrow rut Hie small towns aire nul ling in, broaden and make happier he lites of the old as well as thc mung." Tile above was received in yester lay'fl mall from oi\p of Tlie Int? Iii cer's correspondents living in a imall town, and she 1H u lady. Coili ng as it does from u resident of a tillage in which there is little that .ransplroH to break tho monotony of Ife In the more remote towns-only wo trains or so a day, few visitors, irobably not a motion picture show, 'ow if any tourists whizzing by in heir ears, no parks, no musical con certs, no public playground, only th*1 ?me old routine duy In and day out -cooring as it does from one who (nows what life In the small towns s, the communication arrests our at tention more than if it had come rom a person llvi'ig In any other en vironment. Here Is a cry going up for harm ess amusement diversion of some tort, for a chango from the daily ?rlnd, for /something to break tho uonotony of life in tlie Village. Her leslre ls not un-nntr.ral. Every nor nal person likes amusement, every lormal person frets under the yoke >f monotony. What shall our answer >o to that demand? The chances are If our correspond ?nt were a young man Bhe would ong since have gone tc the city; not ilone In search of diversion, but to ive in an environment that's dif ercnt, where tho advantages! are ;reater In all lines, where there's nough of interest going on to keep whatever kind of work lie was engag ? In from becoming Irksome, where here are opportunities for harmless imuscment after work hours, where ho natural appetite for legitimate en ertainment has an opportunity to be ed. Again wo ask, what shall our an wer be to that demand? Shall wo ay to them "Keep away from our Kio?, where the paths of thc young xe beset by pitfalls." Shall we say 0 them "Leave thip form of amuse nent alone; go ..ot near that place; lo not do this; stay away from that; et all these things that pertain to imusements alone; the form of musement may not bc wrong per se, tut let it alone anyway for it might Bad to evil." Frankly, Y ls a great big question, 'oo big to bo answered offhand, too lg to be brushed aside by any one lerson. It is one that must be nought out and worked out like any ither great problem over whv< h the rorld has fretted and ?ussed. In ad coating in a previous utterance moro 1 the harmless amusements for tho, oung people of tho sm-?ll towns, we vere not attempting to te.ich our oung people that theil lea jon and ireachers and lawmakers aro pur tanical and narrow, and we were not xhortlng them to break filth with heir churches. To the young peoplo ..ho wish for amusements wc would ay, "If your indulgence in such-and uch a form of amusement will cause ou to break with your church, or ilaee your Christian life In jeopardy, hen flee from it as you would a rank ase of leprosy. Do absolutely notti ng that will for a moment undermine he beautiful structure which you ave buildde." We must, on the other hand, con Ider whether it is wise or the safere hing to do in the long run to koop he young people of our towns away rom amusements. There were and re men and women who believed and till believe that to Uve a pure life n this earth one must renounce the rdrld and all its pleasures and shut Imself or henstelf within the lonely ralla ot a monastery perched on some leak mountain side, far removed rom the world and Ita wicked ways, fat we are now taught that raonastlc .m is wrong; that the man or the roman of God should not partake bern selves to tho cloister and there pend their days in thanking the Al mighty that they are not like their irethren and sisters of the sinful rorld, but should be out In the sln nrsed world lifting up their fallen Dllow-man and pointing ont to thom be way of righteousness! If we would keep onr yoong poo le confined to the country towns, way from the cities* and their pit illa, would we not. in a sense, he laking monks and nana ot, them. It i ?enerallir. rV3ncaded JhaX JW people f the rural districts are the "salt of the earth," und that their children have been brought up aright and the principles of right drilled into their lives. Ia it Impossible, then, for those young people, born and bred in the ways of righteousness, to come to our cities and live and partake of itt; harmless amusements without con tributing to tile uet<-oriation of those amusements. Would they not, on the oilier hand, prove as leaven to the city'us life, Infusing into it new prin ciples and moral stamina. But if they must remain in Ibo amall towns, is it unwise to allow them to indulge in tho harmless amusements which they would find In the oitles, and the crav ing for which is responsible for many of them going to the cities? Atlanta hus had an "obey-less" mar riage ceremony performed. Well, the wife probably would have done UB she pleased anyhow, ?o wliafs the dif ference. BUILDING SHIPS. The shipbuilding productivity of the United States has increased enor mously since the war began. All our shipyards on both the eastern and western seaboards are runnmg at capacity. Five yard? on the Dela ware river are now building 48 mer chantmen, and the New England yards show Just as striking an out break of activity. A great shipyard is being built in Alabama, and others are projected. Many of these new vessels, perhaps most of them, aro for .'?reign na tions. European shipyards are so busy now with naval work that or ders for trading vessels naturally come to us, dn spite of the higher cost of building them here. The result ds that the country Is rapidly getting the best equipment lt has ever had for turning out mer chant craft of all typoB and sizes. We shall soon have facilities for build ing the great merchant marine that the nation needs and wants. When the war ends, foreign orders will fall off and our shipyards* will bo free to work for American shippers and help' restore our flag, to the seas. But will the. shipyard's get the or ders for American ships? That will depend on whether congress relaxe* the severity of ^ur seamen'.* law. It ls possible now/ at war rates for transportation, to operate ships under the LaFollette law nt a profit In the European trade routes. When prices lecome normal' again, roost o' oui ship owners may follow thc example of the Pacific companies, and sell the ships they own-net to mention the Improbability of their buying any new ones-if they are not enabled to compete with the foreign-owned lines on more nearly equal terms. Rapid fire questions in school of patriotism: What, is the national hymn? What is the national air? Repeat the lines of both? Nsme the authors of each? Now whistle the tune of each? MEASURING SPELLING ABILITY. Seven out of every 100 third-grade ! public-school children can not spell "has." This and other curious evi dences of the special problems In herent In the teaching of .spelling are brought out by Dr. Leonard P. Ayres, of the Russell Sage Foundation, In a study just published. As a result of combining the four most extensive studies that have been made to identify the words commonly used in different sorts of English writing. Dr. Ayres has selected tho 1, 000 words that constitute 90 per cent of the language ordlnar?r used. This selection was made irom various Eng lish authors, from four Sunday news papers of Buffalo, N. Y" and from the business and family correspondence of over 2,000 adults. The objects of the study was to "develop a scale for (measuring attainment In the spelling of common words on the part of school children." Cooperating with the city superin tendents tn 84 cities of the United States, Dr. Ayres had the 1,006 com monest words tsoted by an aggrgate or 1.400.000 spellings secured from 70.000 public-school children. The result, according to Dr. Ayres, made lt possible to accurately measure spel ling ability, and to compote the amount, of improvement 4n spelling the same words, from grade to grade. By a scale arrangement, extending on a line from 0 to 100, "spelling abil ity" ls easily and scientifically deter mined. For example, nine words ot most frequent use, via, "the," "in,* "so." "no." "notr," "man," "ten," "bed," "top." revealed that second grade pupils, on an average, spelled correctly 94 per cant of Diese Words; At the other extreme ot Die scale the words "Judgment." recommend," and "allege" were found to be spelled ccrrectly by iuvt 60 per ?ant of eighth grade pupila Percentages above and These Specials For Saturday Are Sure to Find Eager Buyers Sock Special A handsome, comfortable and ser viceable quality hose that we have shown all this season in regular stock. Particularly popular with those who like a very light weight and a snug fitting ankle. Double heel and toe, made of thread silk, libre plated. These arc from our regular stock of 35c socks. Colors, black, blue, light navy white, palm beach and champagne. Special Saturday only.25c Shirt Special A lot of several dozen Princely Shirts, made of very thin, strong fabric for mid summer wear. These shirts are in delicate tints of blue, green, tan and also in white. Selected from our regular slock of shirts of the famous Princely Brand, a shirt which we've sold regularly for years. This is a small lot and we would sug gest you see them early. The price Saturday.35c Straw Hat Sale Our straw hat clearance is proving quite a saving to men donning their second straw lids of the season. The prices now offer great savings. $2.50 Straw Hats.$1.50 $3.00 Straw Hats.$2.00 $4.00 Straw Hats .. ..$2.50 $5.00 Panama* (few) .. . .$3.75 * i Shoe Special Lot of Hanan $6 and $5.5o in all leathers except vicie and all sizes to to but not all leathers in all the sizes. This is a very special value at..$3.95 "The Store with a Conscience" Tie Special About fifteen dozen special Tub Ties made on the popular De Joinville shape, wide but without flowing ends. Ties that are guaranteed to stand the test of the tub and the rub. These ties are manufactured to re tail at 25c. Saturday only, we of fer the lot at, 2 for.25c below these would indicate variations from the normal in spelling. Dr. Ayres finds that "Intellectual abilities are distributed in much thc same way among people as are physi cal traits. Just as there are few dwarfs many people of medium height, and very few giants; so there are very few exceedingly poor spel lers, many medium ones, and very few excellent ones. Few words do most of our work when we write. Fifty words constitute, with their re petitions, one-half of the words writ ten. The child who m ?ste re he 1,- J OOO words 'on he scale given will make , no spelling errors in nine-tenths of I his writing." A LINE o' DOPE Frank J. Burrlss believes dt pays to advertkie, and especially in The In telligencer. A few evenings ago he and some friends were motoring from Greenville to Lowndesville, and some where along the route lost a valuable casing and rim. That night Mr. Har riss inserted a "lost" ad. in The In- : telllgencer describing the casing and the rim. The following morning he received a telephone message before 1 9 o'clock from a man way over near 1 Greenville, telling him that he had found the casing and rim advertised In that morning's issue of The Intel ligencer. . -o- ; Mr. S. M. Byers, farm, demonstra tion agent for Anderson County, is to be congratulated on the success he ls , meeting in organizing alfalfa clubs in thia county. Two have already been organized, one at Belton and one at Iva, thia afternoon at 2:30 he will , hold a meeting for that purpose In the rooms, of the , Anderson Cham ber of Commerce. ? The object of these clubs is to en courage the growing of this tried end ? proved wonderful hsy prodrct in An- ; derson county. Each member of theso clubs agrees to prepare a small ac reage for fall planting add later seed will be ordered. Although the ortgl- < nal cost of planting may seem rath er large, people who have tried al falfa proclaim lt to be the moat pro- j llflc hay crop that caa pe grown and ai the same time, one sowing will ; last for three or fonr yearn. At thia Mme when divers? ned farm- , lng ls being advocated so moah, and , tho success of the farmers in this section' seems to depend on it, it ap- , pears that every thinking farmer , ought to begin to try something else < besides) cotton and ebra. The people ( are arousing to the fact that th?y can raise their own wheat and o*$t. , 1? this coan try and Hfcewlso let them \ begin to look around (or some means by which they can raise their own hay crop. Henceforth you will have to get your "booze" at the side entrance of tho office of the Southern Express company in this city.- - It has been decided that the rush on Saturday af ternoons, and occasionally at other times, for the gallon, which is pro scribed by law, is interfering with the delivering of other express at this of fice and lt has been decided to baye the whiskey handed out at a side door. . *-o Mr. and Mrp. Leon Rice and Mr. Rex Rice are in Helton this week attending a house party at the home of Mr. J. T. Rice. The occasion might be spoken ot as> the Rice fam ily reunion, for all of the children, of which, there are several, and the grandchildren aro there, and a gen eral good time is being had. --o The third week of the summer school came to a close yesterday and there is only one more week for it to run. The enrollment at the summer school has been large this year and Ihe average attendance has been} above tho usual standard. Several j1 of the pupils, who were unable to^ attend during the past week, are ex- ' peoted to return Monday and take in the last week. ? "O . A certain owner of a new Ford au tomobile in Anderson recently .dubbed the car "Jack," and with this name he. was, content for several weeks. It ls not known*why the name of "Jack" was chosen, whether lt was "for short" or whether it was for the sake ot a close friend, but it -is known that lator the name of this same automo bile was changed. The new name 4s rather romantic and st the same time Is suggestive of a sense ot humour. Anyway, the Ford now ia called ."True. Love." and when the owner -waa asked why, he replied that the automobile like the course of true love, never runs smooth. Mr. F. A Gambrell of this etty says that while a private soldier In the Tenth Company Coast Artillery in 1895, and stationed on Sullivan's is land at Charleston,'3. C.-, he waa given by Seargaut Moody of Nsw York and s member ot the same company, a retiring soldier and- aa* old chemist, a most wonderful recel?e for making j s laundry soe? and'washing eora? pound. This rccelpe was placed In hie sol der's hand book kt the time and for gotten for twenty .years until a fpw weeks ago, while looking through bis Hies he resurrected lt - Mr. Oambrcll says that he had not thoasM of lt ! a* ot any Importance before, but concluded to try it out.| By following the directions given he lucceeded in making a soap and com pound with which he has conducted ;arefull experiments tn comparison >vlth several of the accepted stand ard laundry soaps, with the results of which he has been well nigh aston ished. He finns that any kinds of clothing may be thoroughly cleansed liter a few minutes boiling without lamage to either color or fabric. Mr. Gumbrell sayB, "After trying ill the leading brands' ot laundry loap, I find that my soap is the only me which will do away with the bat ling' stick and the rub board and give complete satisfaction." He has already made applications o the patent office for proprietary ights and will soon manufacture his loaps for the trade. In the meantime ie will sell recelpes and family rights 0 individual neera and consumers. These family rights will be sold at 1 small coat to the user and only a imall payment required to cover Im nediate expenses nntil the merits of he compound have been fully tested jy the consumer. -o Rev. and Mrs. J. T. Mann will leave Saturday for Chappella, to assist Rev. }. T. Asblll In a revival meeting. The veek following first Sunday In Au- ? ;ust they have a similar engagement vlth Rev. D. W. Hlatt at Mt. Carmel ?hurch near Easley. 3oif Coarse ?s Preserved hy Use ol Cement. Cement has been used extensively at i country club on the Pacific coast in preserving a golf courue which wa*J gradually being ruined ?y cuts wash id through lt by ?tonn water. The worse lies in a valle)/, and following ?eavy rains a large Wow of water ts I rained, through lt ?rom the surround ng hills. The banks of the various ut? have beer? lined1 adequately with binent, so that the 'periodical rushes >f water are ? now ? restrained from ireaking through th} sides ot the ?itches andi starting new cuts, or ?ronden In g the old ones. Some of base are litt'd more than two feet n width, while others vary from 10 o 15 feet across. In many .of tho hannels, especially at points where he water rashes most swiftly, a eries of low dams has .'been built* evoral feet apart In order to brea\t be force of the streams. In this way he injurious effects of th0 washes tare been largely overcome, white he advantage of having the cuta as alu ral hasards has been retained. 'rom the August Popular Mec?anles Cagaxlne. Uectrle Xaehlsy Hulaed For Hanl. ? \ earing? Wirk. 1 --*tt Operating in, mach tho samo man - ier as a dentist's drill, an electric aanlcufclng machine has recently ?en designed hy a Los Angol?s wo llan, and 4* described, with illuatra lon, in the August Popular Mechanics fagasine. It- constata essentially of . small motor -te which ts attached flexlable shafting, by which the va lons instruments sirs actuated. All he tools are made in disk form so nst fcl?e tricunlng, cleaning, and ollshlng of the nails is ?done without ?ia ?as of knives or scissors.