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THE INTELLIGENCER K&VARLISHKD 1460. Published ?very moraine except Monday by The Anderson Intelligen cer at 140 West Wbitner Street, An derson, 8. C. SEMI-WEEKLY INTELLIGENCE!! Published Tuesdays and Fridays Lt. M. GLENN_Editor and Manager Entered as second-class matter April 28. 1914, st the post omeo st Anderson, South Carolin?, under the Act of March 3. 1879. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES ?Telephone .821 Hli'OHCUIPTlON BATES DAILY One Yeer .16.00 Bis Months . 2.60 j Three Months . 1.26 j One Month.42 Ons Week. .10 SEMI-WEEKLY OB? Year .-..11.60 Biz Months .76 The Intelligencer ts delivered by Barriers In the city. Look st the printed label on your paper. The date thereon shows when the subscription expires. Notice date on label carefully, sud if not correct Olease notify us st once Subscribers desiring th? address of their paper changed, will please state m their communication both the old and new addresses. To Insure prompt dellrory, com plaints of non-delivery in tbs elty sf Anderson should be made to the Circulation Department before lin. and a copy will be sent st once. *!1 checks and drafts should be dr, rn to Tbs Anderson Intelligencer jkpVEBTlRIJie Bates vi be furnished oa applica tion. No tf advertising discontinued sx eept on watten order. The Intelligencer will publish brief and rational letters on subjects of general Interest when they are ac companied by tba names and ad dresses of tho auihore and are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous eommunlcstlons will not be noticed Rejected manuscript* will not be re turned. In order to avoid delays on account af parsons] absence, letters to The Intelligencer friended for publication should not be addressed to any Indi vidual connected with the paper, but ?imply to The Intelligencer. LU. TUESDAY . AUGUST 31, 1015. WEATHER FORECAST Partly cloudy and slightly cooler Tuesday, Wednesday fair nnd warmer interior. . Some farmers mnko good money wtfth their pons-yep, pig pons* Lots ot times lt isn't tho Idea but Gie man who hos lt who won't work. -o ? - Tho follow who takes care of today I will lind that tomorrow will take cam | Of itself. K Russia's grand duchesses aro act ing SH Red Cross nurses. "Grand" | 'duchesses In rieht. Good Outlook.^ for Business.-Head line. What business wants la not an outlook but a look In. o "W.il Civilisation Endure." asks a present-day philosopher. Huh, lt"? j enduring a lot these days. Cotton up ?84 a Dale Since England I Declared it i Contraband.-Headline. Can't some othor nation declar cot ton contrabajo. Wonder if'the Gorman armies at tempting to catch tho Russians have : tried putting salt on the enemy's | coattails. Hearst's Views Interest Derlln 'Hine. Ia it possiblo thai: Boineone ? has last become interested In what Hearst thinks t Another revolt lia? bioksn out in Portugal, which is another way of saying that times aro perfectly nor mal in Portugal. A BOWS dispatch Bays the Dutch invented" s new kind of trench. '"Inventing?''a ditch, whadyo you know about that? -o ; Impossible news Hem: Col. Roose velt was surrounded by 147.70$ peo !io' enthaBtlcally but vainly clam bred for him to make them, a speech. In 4he last 3,000 'groara tho world hen seen only 00 yoars" of uninterrupt ed world-wide peace. And yet some folks continue working for world wide peace. -o f?^?t is said that sunflowers.are some thues ??"d ia the. manufacturo of cigars. Prospective candidates would do well to cultivate larg? patches of sunflowers hereafter. A NEEDED UKI OHM. Io the court of general scanlons at Greenville a few days ago two white girls, aged 16 and IC yearn, were ar raigned on a charge of petty larceny. They admitted their guilt, and Judge Prince, a blg-heart< 1 and kindly man, was confronted with the cold neces sity of sentencing them to a term of imprisonment along with other pris oners because the State lias no reform school where wayward ?Iris of tender ago can be sent und niven a chance toi turn from lives of ?In to Uvea of re spectability and usefulness. From thu newspaper account of iheir appearance in court wu learn that they had left home ut, wilful und foolish girls will sometimes do; tint they got into bad company and had contracted the habit of drinking whis key; that lt was nn easy step to go further und begin to lead Immoral live?. Once upon tho downward road, there was none to pity and none to help them retrace the path of sin and ?h?mo. "Doth girls wore short skirts scar cely below their knees" runs the newspaper story, "and, though rather shabbily dressed, were not Uko in ap pearance women of the underworld, hut rather gave the appearance of gnornnt children who failed to sec the horror of tho situation; and, even If they did seo Pt, they were power less t?. avert lt. What chance have they? WI ere can they go? What can they do? Those were some of the questions that flitted ithrough thc minds of those present, and the usual looks passed around thc court room whare men sec day by day those who aro hardened to crime, or who ap pear as criminals, were lacking. There were no smirks, no nly winks at ono other, but solemn-faced men looked at the tragedy-a real, present tragedy and not one depicted on tho films-of two glrlB, helpless, friend less and with absolutely nothing be fore them In the world." Following the suggestion of the court, the grand Jury requested thc presiding judge to present to the gov ernor tho urg?- t necessity of an in titutlon for '?he reformation of female prisoners who are so unfortunate us to violate thc laws, tims subjecting themselves to conditions that en courage vice and lawlessness, and asked it hut the. governor bo urged to recommend to tho general assembly the pasBago of an act for tho relief of erring girls. The Greenville case has attracted much attention nlready, and it will emphasize tho unfairness of neglect ing helpless girls by the State when relief was long ago granted to boys of a similar cass. The reform school at Florence for boya hun been main tained for many years, and lt is rec ognized as an Institution of vast pos sibilities In remnking and reshaping the lives of young boya who while net criminuls at heart, have yet com mitted some criminal act or . have shown an Incorrigible disposition. At the last session of tho general assembly a bill was introduced by J i cantor Sherard of Anderson in thc renato and by Representative Boyd of Spartanburg in the house to es tablish an lndustri.il home for the re form ot wayward glrs. This bill is now on the calendar of both houses and will pass at the next session of tho legislature. Tho proposed act pro vides for .the admission of girls be tween the ages of eight and eighteen who have convicted of any violation of law or who are being brought up under Immoral and vicious surround ings. There ls a need for an Insti tution of tills kind, and it has the full endorsement of tho Federation of Wo men's Clubs In th's state as well as that of all men and women Interested In social betterment. Someone has said laughter is .a smile set to music. Then some of thc "muBlc" we have heard sounds strangely like the braying ot a cer tain animal whoso name ls synonom ous with that of tho fellow who monita your disgust LET THE SOUTH,DO IT! In the midst ot the avalanche of criticism and condemnation heaped on the state of Georgia for the lynch ing of Loo M. Frank, tho Columbia, (S. C.) State makes a pertinent sug get lon: "Our position Is this: If Georgia must be chastened, her neighbor states who grew up with the old hua s; "nd love her most of tho time are capable ot doing it carefully and thoroughly. We favor New York and Massachusetts minding their own bus iness." To the credit of the South, let It bs said that Georgia's neighbor states have been "doing lt carefully and thoroughly." Moreover, various in fluential newspapers and public men within the state ot Georgia have Join ed in the chati sam en t. The whole country has been shock ed and humiliated by thia affair. And yet lt should he recognized thut the shame of the crime und the problem lt exemplifies belong peculiarly to the South. No section or state has a monopoly of public or privute vis tue. The South could probably find just as many things to criticise in the North as the North finds in the ftouth If lt tock tho trouble. Every lynching below Mason and Dixon's linc could probably be matched by some act of violation In the North; every BOUthern evasion of public duty couid be parrallelled by u northern one. Hitter und vindictive criticisms of the South accomplish no good, and only make more defiant such southern men and communities as have a ten dency to lawlessness. The more In telligent and kindly criticism of south ern crlmso and errors by the le id' rs of progressive opinion in the South It self are vastly more effective. Tho ?mall boy's Idea of world wide peace is a piece as wide us the world wi;th crisp, brown crust on both bottom and top and a generous layer of mince-meat in between. "SC ANUAL.'* Rarely if ever has The Intelligen cer made reference In Its editorial columns to the merits of any motion picture, but we feel that in CAB In stnnco doing so ls justifiable. "Scan dal" is tho tit e of a five-reel picture shown at a local amusement, house last night, and pity it IB that every man, woman and child within reach of the city could not have seen it. And here's a tip for some organization church or otherwise-that wishes to raise some money by a legitimate en tertainment; (and we take it that a "benefit" pe/formance" at a motion picture lieuse ls a legitimate form of entertainment) let this organization arrange for a "benefit" performance at one of .he local theatres aad then have the management of that house arrange for a return show of "Scan dl." You ought to make a "killing" out of it Contrary to the general rule, the "scandal" episode had Hs beginning] with gossip about ? high-toned, ap parently honest and sincere gentle man. The slimy trail extended ac OBS the doorslll of his own home and' prompted his wife to leave him, wrecking two lives to start with. The stenographer with whose name his was connected by the vipers, too, was driven from hor homo. Later shu was married, and a perfectly happy life she and hor husband and their child were living till one day tho scan dal-monger found her. It was not long then until the end, and a most tragic end, resulting In the husband's Bulcide, the death of his od mother from a broken heart and the crush ing of the life of his innocent wife and Line o . Last week thia paper and another newspaper published In Anderson re fused to carry advertisements of the Loral Option league of South Caro lina against prohibition and Sunday morning the Baracca class of tho First Baptist Church tho following resolution was offered by Mr. E. R. Horton and seconded by Messrs. C. S. Minor, J. W. Quattlcbaum and others: "Resolved that we endorse tho movement to vote prohibition in this state on September 14tb, next, and that we commend the local news papers, for refusing lo publish adver I tlsements Bent out from Columbia op posing this movement and heartily thank them for their action in this matter. . "Eugene Milford, "Secretary." -o Judge Prince, who ls holding court In Greenville, .-yent Sunday In An derson and returned to his work yes terday morning, where be will prob ably continue to preside all tho weok unless Judge Memminger arrives to take charge. Judge Prince will go to Orangeburg next Monday where ho will begin his regular tall work. -o "The minutes ot the last meeting ot the Saluda association aro now ready," stated the Rev. W. W. Leathers, clerk, yesterday, "and they may be had at Cox's Bock Store. The clerks ot the various churches are requested to call for them." -o- . Charlie Chaplin appears In two reels at The Anderson today In a picture entitled, "Work." Mr. Trow bridge stated that while tn Atlanta last week he wss told that Chaplin (?ss receiving a salary of $100,000 this year aad that the contract call ed for a two weeks' vacation. A con cern la Nsw York learning that' he . thu casting of a cloud upon their child. There waa absolutely no foundation for the "acaudal." A long-tongued woman and n "Jolly" bunch of fel lows at the club got to looking about the and Booing things which they mis construed. Tiley gave tongue to the slimy trail with a vengeance and fol lowed it to lt? terrible ending. Quite a bit of truth Is there in the text from which tho "play" waa written, the text being a sentence from an edi torial In a popular Sundiy paper, reading something like the following: "Sit behind the window of any fash ionable club and in the course of a half-hour you can hear more gossip limn you would hear at a sewing circle in a whole afternoon." There are no clubs of this sort in Anderson, but there are the street corners on which men may loaf and make remarks about other men, and sometimes women, as they pass. And wc suppose they do, that is, if An del non is Uko any other town on the top side of thc earth. We read once of the origin of the scandal monger, und the story ran something like thiB: When God had finished making the hyena, the skunk, tho rattlesnake, the buzzard and the toad there were a ! lot c* little scraps and chunks left over. And he said unto himself, "If| I leave these scraps here to the ele ments they, will fester and rot and set up a stench that will choke the nos trils of mankind. I must make some thing out of them." So God took them and made tho man who lolls on the Btreot corner and makes dirty re marks about women ns they pass. The Athenian Arepagus, or court of law, used to sit in darkness, s.iyB a lecturer. And certain northern papers think that the court ?lint tried Leo M. Frank did the same. PROHIBITION. Before the voters of the state go on record September 14th. as wanting South Carolina "dry" wo want to let lt be known as a matter of record that The Inltelllgencer ls in favor of state-wide prohibition. Aye, more than that-nation wide prohibition. Yes, world-wide prohibition. And more than that, we know there will be no whiskey In heaven ai. ? we hope ahere is to be none down below. For we would hate to think that liquor is to bo added to the "torments" already in store for those who are to bc con signed to 'that region. Yes, wc want to seo prohibition in South Carolina. We have no long drawn-out and elaborate, arguments to ofter in favor of prohibition, for we don't believe you wooli rend them. Everybody knows what liquor is and they have been taught from . infancy what it will do. tSo what's the use of re-hashing stuff that you havo heard all your life. It's tiresome So go on and vote for prohibition and let's be dono with tho pesk subject. f Dope was to have a vacation offered him $25,000 for the time to go In vaude ville. The Bssanay people learning of this Just paid Charlie the $25,000 themselves. -? The Anderson Machine and Foundry company has made a record for itself since it built one of the machines to be used in the manufacture' of asbes tos yarn at the Conneross Yarn mills. Everything about the machine except the iron used in its structure was made right In the foundry. --o Mr. Pinkston yesterday stated that tho attendance ttl the Paramount Saturday, tho new moving picture house that gives three reels ot comedy for a nickel waa nearly . 1,000. It socms that this house will be a suc cess from the very start. -o The DeLoss Masqueraders put on a good show at thc Palmetto yester day which waa enjoyed by toll houses. Mr. DeLoss, the manager, ls not a strangor in Anderson since he baa been coming here for the past ten rears, for a long time in stock com panies and he knews how to please the patron i here. Miss Marie Pi leer is the prims don na of the company and ls truly worthy nf mention. Jack La Pearle pulls off the funny stuff and he ls hard to beat HU falling stu,n?t always causes laughter. The dancing team ia com posed of Poo and Hodges and they aro S novelty tn their line. The chorus is composed of beauti ful western girls, who are oft the Job. j ? They have plenty of life and aro very j 'entertaining. Manager DeLoss stated j last night that he secured Ute mem bers of thc chorus while eat west re cently. -o Mr. Har>y Oelsberg, ot Oelsberg n NOW A 1 Bros. shoe store, returned from New York, Boston and other northern mar kets yesterday whero he had gone to buy a fall and winter line of shoes. He stated that he had a very pleas ant but a bUBy trip. "The scarcity of leather ls making shoes higher" stated Mr. Geisberg to the Line 'O Dope man, "and in some instances it is almost Impossible to get the kind of shoes you want. In nearly every place I went and called Tor heavy shoes, the dealer would throw up his hands and tell me that he did not have them. Nevertheless, I succeeded in getting some shoes of heavy make, but I sure had to look the little towns over before I found them. "One reason that the price of shoes ls going to bo rather high is because Russia, the place where we get a great amount ot leather, ls comsumlug all bf lt In making shoes for her army. Another ls because dealers in this country are selling great numbers of shoes to tho warring nations of Eu rope. Last spring tho CharleB E. Eaton company had an order for 700, 000 pair of shoes from the English government. The shoes were so well liked that the company received an other order for 1,000,000 pair. Soles that usua'.ly sell for 18 and 19 cents are now P '" g at 28 and 30 cents." Mr. J01..1 Townsend, who haa been playing the piano at the Sunday school at the First Presbyterian for some time, will leave in a few days tor Davidson college. Tho mem bers of the Sunday school Sunday presented him with a beautiful gold ring to show their appreciation of his services, whclh he so regularly rend ered. -o Mr. Frank Sloan leaves Ulis morn ing to go to Atlanta, Ga., where he will accept a position with, the Ar mour company. Mr. Sloan has been connected wfth the Farmers Phos phate and Fcrtll'.er company for some tmc past and ls well known in the city and over tho county. . Mrs. (Sloan will go to Atlanta to Join her husband in a few days. Both have many friends here who will re gret '.o learn of their departure but who will wish them much success and happiness In their new home. -o Mayor Godfrey yesterday afternoon received a telegram from Sidney Spit zer Co., Toledo,- Ohio, purchasers' of the $51,100 paving certificates, stat ing that the engraved certificates had been shipped from Toledo. They will be promptly executed so that the money wilt be available at once. Dr. C. E. Burts of Columbia, who IS spending a few days In Anderson, made three addresses for prohibition Sunday. The first was at Flat Rock church and about 1,000 people attend ed. Sunday afternoon at the G luck Mill there were about 100 present and Sunday night at the Brgon Mill there were about 200. . -o The se rylee at Sunset Forset Sun day attorn ooo were wei} attended and [tore enjoyed greatly. Dr. Fotest ntaod on the front porch of the Fret . frail home, while the congregation sat MATTER Ol And this cleai tory. This cz ue-giving pos #10.00 Suits #12.50 Suits $15.00 Suits $18.00 Suits $20.00 Suits $22.50 Suits $ 3.50 and $ $ 3.50 and $ $ 5.00 $ 6.50 and $ $ 7.50 and $ $10.00 #12.50 and $1 And other cle Men's and Bc Men's and Bo Manhattan St Men's Oxford Mail Orders promptly to the reduced p BM in scats placed in the yard. Tho services were very impressive and Dr. Poteat's sermon held the audience spellbound. COL. DEAN FOR CONGRESS IN 1916 Prominent Greenville Attorney to j Be Candiente in Regular Pri mary Next Summer. Greenville, Aug. 30.-The friends of Col. Alvin H. Dean, from all parts of tlie state will be gratified to learn that he has announced Iiis will ingness to become a candidate for congress from the Fourth District in the Democratic primary of 101G. It has been known for several weeks that hia friends have (been urging him to offer for congress and fiat he had the matter under consideration, but lt waa not until today that he decid ed to become a candidate. Col. Dean is prominently identi fied with the Democratic party, and moro than once has he spoken in the North in behalf of a Democratic nominee for thc presidency. CROP ESTIMATE 69.2 PER CENT I (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.) some portions of Alabama. In the western part of thc belt good grow ing conditions prevailed except in Texas where tho drought contiaaued over much of the state until the close of the week when the West Indian storm brought considerable rain n\'or the eastern and coast districts. Hy states: Virginia... .85 Xor th Carol UKI.76 South Carolina.71 Oklahoma. 71 Georgia.. ..'.69 Mississippi......69 Florida.70 alabama.65 Louisiana.6S TexaB..67 Arkansas. .. .72 Tennessee. .... 92 Missouri.81 California..?3 The next report will show the con dition of cotton on September' 25 Md will be Issued at noon, eastern time. Saturday, October 2nd. UERMAJfrs COURSE IN A RA RIC CASE DECIDED Berlin, Aug. 20.-It 's understood Germany's course regarding the Ara bic cash has been decided upon and that'it ls ia line with the recent con ciliatory statement of German Chan cellor von Bethmann-Hollweg. Mall Forwarded. laredo, Tex., Aug. 30.-One<| thousand pouches of accumulated mall were transferred from Laredo to Neu ro Laredo today to be forwarded to Mexican points - controlled by Car ranza. Car ran sa announced that rail road communication with the interior of Mexico ls toeing gradually restored. Resslft Has Prisoner*. Moffoe>w, A ag. 30.-Acccf fling to the latest official statements, there are now 700,000 war prisoners in Rus sis. Bishop Capers ts Preach. Bishop Capers will preach st the Episcopal ch uren next Friday evening at 8:SO o'clock. He ls well known In Anderson and ' it ls needless to say that the?e ?will be a big crowd ont to hear him. The public is cor dially larked to sttend. F HOURS rance passes into his irnival of double val itively ends tonight. Reduced to. .$ 7.45 Reduced to. .$ 9.45 Reduced to. $10.95 Reduced to. .$12.95 Reduced to. .$14.95 Reduced to. .$16.95 3 Suits Now. .$2.45 4 Suits Now. .$2.95 Suits Now. .$3.75 6 Suits Now. .$4.45 7 Suits Now. .$4.95 Suits Now. .$7.45 ll Suits Now. .$7.95 arances: >vs' Pants. ys' Underwear. lirts. ls. should be mailed receive attention at rices. ?Tie Ste-.aKh a Canxfcner GERMAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM MAY CHANGE AS RESULT OF WAR Berlin, Aug. 24.-(Associated Press Correspondence.)-Not tho least important among thc probable effects of tho war aro the changes that it may cause In tho educational sys tem of Germany. The hard life In the trenches, now shared by thous ands of German teachers, is evidently bringing thom to the conclusion that the whole educational system must be overhauled and recast in the di rection of emphasizing (modern nec essities. Such a teacher is Dr. Herren, di rector of the Gymnasiums in Buecke burg. In the trenches before Rheims, where he has been fighting for months, he has been talking with other teachers and with officers and men who have passed through the usual gymnasium course of training, and with their cooperation he has drawn up a scheme for the reform of the secondary schools. He sent his proposals to the leading school offi cial of the Province of Hanover, who had them published as a "sign of tho times and as suggestions for what should bo done alter peace is pro claimed." The chief idea running through Dr. Heeren's scheme is that education must be made more practical and modern; old studies that are chiefly valuable as mental discipline must -bo discarded or made optional; aud boys must be trained more tor tho duties of present-day citizenship. Phypt cal exercise and sports for, the de velopment, ot health and strength must be more, freely cultivated. Man ual training must be made obligatory In all the classes of gymnasium; a workshop must be added to every school, and the boys must learn to know the qualities of all kinds of ma terial, must learn to r<ypalr appara tus and machines, anuBt work in me tal and wood. Coming dow; to the curriculum, Dr. Herren proposed to make Latin only an optional study after the boys pass into the three upper class?e; end Greek and Hebrew are to be relegated to the universities altogether. . lie would make history of prime tutpor ini.ee In the course of. study and would ase it as a basis for teaching many other things, giving special attention to the leading features in the develop ment ot civilisation and to the growth and developm?r.L ot Gie German peo ple, and inspiring the young men with a sound hero-worship. To this end he would give rathe recant attention to ancient and medieval history, in order to lay all tho greater emphasis upon modern history. Thorough In struction in Gie .political systems of modern states, In the- theories of the state, In constitutional history, is In sisted upon. Geography must bo much more thoroughly taught, es pecially commercial and political geo graphy "About every country the question must bj worked: What In terests have we thore?" After practically brushing aside the ancient languages Dr. Herron treats the kadli*g modern languages with scarcely less generosity. French, "in view ol Hs diminished importance," ls made optional, and "English will probably haye .to be treated similar ly-" / * F-4 Raised. Honolulu, Aug. 30.-lt is expected the submarine F-4 will be drydocked tomorrow. Preliminary .work under way today. V The submarine was surifc lp Hono lulu harbor Mareil 2?, with twenty two men, and was raised yeiterday by means ot six special pontoons. Many a straight man goes on a bender when luck ia against han.