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THE INTELLIGENCER _ I>WARL18HEi> into. Publish ea ?very moraine except tfeuday by 'l"oe Anderson Intelligen cer at 140 West Wbitner Street, Aa der son, 8. C. SEMI-WEEKLY INTELLIGENCE Pnblished Tuesdays and Fridays L. M. GLENN_Editor and Manager Intered as second-class matter April 28, 1914, at tbs post office at anderson, South Carolina, nader the Act of Marcb t. 1879. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES DAILY Os* Year .85.00 91s Months .8.60 Throe Months .1.26 One Month .42 One Week . JO H1BM1-WBKXLY One Year.11.60 IBU Mouths . .76 The Intelligencer ls delivered by eariiers In the city. Look at tbs printed label oa your ?taper. The date thereon shows when ths subscription expires. Notice dste Ott label carefully, and If not correct ileane notify us at one?. Subscribers desiring the address of their paper changed, will please statu ia their communication both the old sad new addresses. Tu Insure prompt delivery, com plaints of non-delivery in the city et Anderson should bs made to the Circulation Department before 9 a. m. ind a copy will be aeut at ooo?*. All checks and drafts should be draws to The Anderson Intelligencer. ADYBBTI&15G Rates will be fernlea ed oa apel lee lion. No tl advertising discontinued ex Sept oa written order. The Intelligencer will publish brief pud rational letters on subjects of general interest when tb*y are ao eompanisd by the names and ad dresses of the aa thors and are not ot a defamatory nature. Anonymous r-jmmunicatlona will not be noticed. Rejected manuscripts will not be re torced. lu order to avoid delays on account pt personal absenoe, letters to The Intelligencer mended tor publication should not he addressed to any Indi vidual connected with the paper, but simply to The Intelligencer. SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 19, 1916. He is poor In wisdom who quarrels with his bread and butter. And after all the man with a heart cf steel may be lacking In mettle alto gctheir. ?? - o? -?? What has become of thc old fash ioned Ruler who said thc war would end In October. -o Kitchener says that Germany has shot her bolt. But lt's a long ways 'from "taps" with our German breth ren. < Couple Gets Two Divorces In Four .Years.-Headline. There's no fool like an old ono and no toola like two old ones. -o - In Barnwell there is a firm ol Lemons.-Orangeburg Times and Dem ocrat. Wonder If they ovor hand one ' to a fellow. -o ' It's time tor Diogenes to get busy with his lantern In Washington. But he may need a high-power searchlight to find an honest diplomat -O There's BO much money in tho coun try that 'most anybody caa go into Wall Street those days and borrow s billion dollars-If he has the security. - -o Two Early, Yet to Know What Far ; mera Will Do.-Headline. Yea, broth er, abd you'll have to get up a bil earlier yet ii' you are counting on get ting ahead ot yo farmer. -o presumably Captain Archibald wIP not do any morn war-correBpondlng for a while. But it he succeeds In coping out of jail he needu't lan pul?h without employment. Surelj . itt? Friends of Peace will give him ? "fe" ' There. *s a town in North Carolin! ted Bath but very, very few peoph o thero.-Spartanburg Journal ere'S one in tSouth Carolina, dom ir Augusta, by thai same name bu* people, tiley tell us, are not guld ed much by the suggestive name o their town. --o were talking to a pesstmis io other day. But then he was fron hderaon and how could a man fron derson lie anything else but a pen ??t?-Spartanburg journal. Oh, yee know the fellow you are talklai , He waa all right until he wen irtanburg. . TIIK M I. MO VIM) M.All I,O A \. It ls unfortunate that thc $1.000.-| 000,000 credit loan England and Franco ar? seeking In America is con fused with the munitions question, lt' hasn't necessarily anything to do with that vexing subject. It's primurlly a proposai for straightening out our ex change difficulties with Europe, Insur ing payment for goods already sold, and promoting D perfectly legitimate J export trade of vast importance to tho nation. The Allies and thc neutral countries. of Europe already owe us hundreds of millions of dollars, and their obliga-! lions are steadily ni.uniting. Com-j punitively little of this debt ls for arms and ammunition, in thc twelve month:; wo have sold Europe 11,400. 000,000 worth of foodstuffs, cuttou and oil. lu the drat seven months of 1916 the total of such sales was near ly $400,000,000 above similar sales for thc same months last year. Our totul exports in thirteen months of war have been moro than $3,000,000,000, a gain of $?OO.O00,W0. giving us a favor able trade balance pi about twice the latter amount We are exporting far moro goods than ever before, and im porting far less than usual. Our present upward trend of pros perity was started by this abnormal buying, und ls now supported by it, hud will continue to depend nu lt' very largely. Hut the European buy , ing lu our marketa cannot go on un-' less facilities are provided for paying American exporters for their goods. The lack of such facilities is what has made money exchange rates BO chaotic of late. British pounds ster- ' ling, hitherto the world's standard, j have been so discounted in our mar- j kc ts that buyers or Boilers have lost several conta on the dollar, accord ing as ratea were made in terms of pounds or dollars. And the rapid Bhlft of discount baa made payment very difficult, and Interfered with the plac ing of new orders. Credit must br established some how. So it ls proposed to raise a "credit loan" of about a million dol lars. Tho money ls not to go out of tho country. It 1B to be used to pay American manufacturers and export ers money already due them, and to smooth the ?way for a continuance o? our remunerative foreign trade. Objections to the plan have been registered, chiefly by pro-German sympathisers. They do not seem likely, however, to provo effective. Cormany herself not the precedent by raising a loan of 910,000,000 hore laat year, much[.fit which by the way wan used to pay for tho German propagan da. Germany can ratao as much money hereafter aa American bankers ace fit to lond her. if lt doesn't Involve thc exportation of "gold and ls used legiti mately. If serious objections are made to Anding tho Allies money to pay for ir.unitlons. they can be made to pay for their munitions with their own gold. Tho essential thing in tills credit loan is to provide not ns of payment for our non-munlt. . i ex ports. That is a matter that involves the welfare of the whole country. If Eng land and France can't get credit here, they will buy much of their foodstuffs, ' cotton and non-contraband manufac tures elsewhere. The western farm ers would lose $100,000.000 to $200. 000,000 ir they lost their present mar ket with the A Iles, and the southern cotton planters might loso aa much. There scorns to he no question of . the security offered. If the foreign representatives negotiating the loan don't put up gilt-edge foreign-owned American securities for collateral. i they can be msde to pledge payment by a first class mortgage on Great , Britain and France, which ought to satisfy any lender. CHIVALRY. ; A young lady from Tennessee ex plains that "southern chlvr .-y" ls an Inheritance from Colonial a?.ys. "when 1 women were very scarce and hence ; valuable." She adds that "women are i plentiful now." Presumably, then, * the South will ere long be treaUng * womel? in the same cool, matter-of i fact way ?that. Ia supposed to prevail th the North. As a matter of fact, the Tenneaseeo i girl wss probably more than half ? right. Women are no exception to thc . rulo a good thing is valued In propof I Uon to ita scarcity. The American t people as a whole are attn recognised * as the most chivalrous of - nations, t Some races, like the French, may treat their women with more elabor ate courtesy; -but nowhere is the .ex t so highly regarded and so much d.-fer t red t- 'n essential mattera as tn the i United States. And this is surely not because ol t, any special virtur inherent in Amerl t can men. It is because the American t standard ot behaviour toward women was established in tbs long colonia] period, when there were not enough women lu go uround and lt IH main tained by the scarcity of women that ?till preval?a in many sections of the country on account of the invariable preponderance of men In pioneer sec tions. The fact ls clearly noticeable today in the contract between the East and the Weit Women are plentiful in New Englund. In and around Heston th'-y form a considerable majority. It ls common there to speak of "unat tached women." nud even of "super fluous women." And the census fig ures ure reflected accordingly in the lessened respect paid to women In general. In the Wost, where thc men aro more numerous, women receive much more consideration. "Economic determinism" ia a new phrase that illumines many old prob lems. It's r< ally surprising how many phases of human manners and morals are determined hy economic causes. THF. WOOLEN SACRIFICE. "Wool, wool, wool! Everybody here j !s talking wool. Eov?rybody is col lecting all tho old woolen goods they ran (1ml in their houses and shipping them to the committees, who send them to the mills to be remade into woolen yarn. No old wool is going to waste. Eighteen million pairs of woolen Blockings for the soldiers arc called for; three million woolen head covers und one million woolen muf flers." So reads a dispatch from northern Itay. These supplies are only for one army, and these contributions arc from only one nation. lt is a mero hint of what ls going on all over Europe. And the Italian people aro making the sacrifice for first time. Tho peoplo of Frauke, Dclgium, Germany, England, Russia, Austria, and Servia, and even of thc neutral nations adjoining them, did lt last winter, and are doing lt again and may have to do it next year, and the year after, with the stock of warm 'clothing over scarcer. Tlio able-bodied men of Europe will be warmly dressed and well shod this winter. They must be, to stand in the cold trenches. But for the women and children of a continent there will bo few woolen stockings and woolen shawls and caps and woolen mufflers. Such wool as they wear will be most ly shoddy. There will bo few warm garments of anv sort left among tens of milliona of the poor. Thero will bo little fuel, too, in most of thc bornes, to make tho lack of winter clothing tolerable. Only hero, In peaceful America, will there bo warmth and comfort. iAnd how long before we. too, shall be giving up our wocien garments? Tho wemen and children-they pay the price. Th*, always do. The EOC riflce of wool for thc soldiers simply tolls the old story of wars since tho beginning. ANOTHER PROHIBITION STATE. iSouth Carolina made a pretty thor ough test of handling the liquor prob lem through a state dispensary sys tem, and has now given it up and fol lowed tho example ot her neighbor states In adopting total prohibition. The dispensary may be all right in theory; but in practice South Caro lina found, as Georgia, North Carolina and Alabama had fouad. that the state control brings too much politics Into tho liquor business, and results In bad management. There has been a big revenue from tho traffic, and drunkenness has been greatly reduc ed, bu the people made up their minds that the evil outweighed the good. That is, with the exception of Char leston, where the unavailing "wet" vote was ten to one. It was country against city, os usual. The South will now constitute a "dry" area of our prising extent, including all the south ern staten eaat of the Mississippi ex cept Louisiana. In that state the numerical preponderance of New Or leans will probably prevent state pro hibition for a long time yet IA LIN I o DOP Weather Forecast-Generally fair Sunday and Monday. O' ? ?? - A lady walking along the street ot Anderson yesterday came very near losing her hat as well as some ot her hair when abe came in contact with one of the many awnings that are placed In front of several different business concerns Ia tho city. "It is not knbwn Just what the city ordinance regulation ls In regard to the haighth that awnings mast be placed above the sidewalk, hut lt is a certain fact that this ordinance ia bclag violated." elated a well known business man of tba city yesterday. "I have to dodge them, you have to dodge them and everyone el?? has to do the Hume thing. In acme canes thc city ia wasting space In sidewalks for lt ls useless to try to walk under sumo of the awniufto. This matter certainly neods attention." Several days ago Thc Intelligencer carried an article about cane that would not make syrup. Mr. Varna dore, who lives out toward Portman (Shoals hud 15 loads of cane which Ito tried to make into syrup, ile ground the juice out of half of it and made 'J gallons of sorghum. This, however was not flt for table use and will have to be fed to the hogs. A sample of tho syrup WUH brought to .Mr. S. M. Byars who sent it to Clemson College. Mr. Dyars also made a trip out there to see what waa the trouble and found that the cano was a mixture of kafflr corn, feterita and sorghum. It was also discovered that the seed were bought in Hartwell, Ca., and that they were shipped in there. Mr. Vardomore has lost a great deal because of this kind of faulty seed and states that the next time he buys cane Heed ho will bo sure thai thc people know what they ure selling him. ? 8. M. Byars, farm demonstration agent, stated yestreday that Mr. E. F. Reid and son, Mack Reid, who live on Andersen R. F. D. f?o. 7, had two acres of alfalfo that was up and looking well. The land was prepared extreme ly well and when tho seed were plant ed a heavy roller was rolled over thc ground. This was done because of tho dry condition of the soil to insure a stand. Mr. Byars stated that tho far mers need rain so that they can HOW their alfalfa. o Miss Jayne C. Garlingtou is now re ceiving tho reports of the members o? the Girls tomato club in the county which will Bhow what every girl has dono this year and will tell in dol lars und cents what each one has made. As soon as all of the reports aro sent In the names of those mak ing the best averages will he printed In The Intelligencer. , -o Lewis Smith, a negro got a thirst yesterday morning that could not be quenched by water. He had a feeling that he wanted some "spirits" and ac cordingly set ont to get some. Wheth er it was because ho had no money or whether all the hiing tigers were sold out or whatnot. Smith stole a gallon of booze from Henrietta Groves. Henrieta missed her galion a month allowed by law and notified Chief Sammons and Sheriff Ashley at once. Both Uio chief and Deputy nanders got busy and in a short time had tho gallon and tho negro, who was almost dying of thirst just a few short hours before. Smith was tried In Magistrate Geiger's court yester day morning and received a fine of $20 or 30 days, so now he is out his , booze, two ten spots or 30 days time and still is suffering from thirst which water will not qnench. -O? Patrolman Will Hall beside-, being a valuable member of the city police force ls a farmer to some extent. Of ficer Hall hos somo of the finest pea vineB and cane growing that baa be?n seen in thia section thia year. There aro about three acres planted and many state that Mr. Hall will make 40 tons of hay. Mr. O. F. McConnell, who lives nearby the patch, which ld located on Brown's creek near the city, states that sometimes his cows got out in the hay and that he cannot seo them at all, the growth is so thick and so high. Fant's Book store bas won six prises In national window display con tests thia past summer. The contesta wcro put on by tho Curtis Publishing company and the first was for best displays of the Saturday Evening Post. Four chances were given and Fant's store took one each time. The second one was for the Ladlee Home Journal in which there were two dis plays from each store or dealer In de ferent parts of the United States. The local house batted a thousand tn this contest and this last week received a cash prize of $10, $5. for each win dow display. W. H. Keese and company are giv ing to the little boya and girls these days a very popular little dial watch badge advertising tho Elgin watch. The'little badges aro very attractive and those wishing one may get it by calline la at their atora. -o The Sanitary barber shop In the Brown building will bara new marble steps and brass railings down from the street to their place within the next few weeks. They wilt also have a tiled floor from th* bottom of the steps snd into their ahep also. The contracts have already been let for FALL FAsnion |/<?cMEN YOU may be interested to know that we are now enjoying the greatest fall business in our his tory. It's a cheerful fact; we state it simply to let you know that prosperity is here; and un der the law of "the survival of the fittest" we are among the first to feel it. And here are prosperity clothes, shoes hats, furnishings and everything that men and boys wear; styles have never been in better taste and, as for the prices, there was never a time when smartness of style so complete ly covered all prices of gocd?, from the highest to the cheapest. The watches we are giving free with all boys' suits at ?5 or more are cer tainly winning with the boys; and right they should for a watch is an idea! gift to a boy. And there is another premium with these boys' suits of ours-the extra quality we've put into them. Every mother will recognize and appreciate it. The Store with a Conscience1 tlicso Improvement!-.. This will make a big improvement in the appearance to tile entrance ot this popular bar-. ber Bhop. '-o The four reel Charley Chaplin plc turo mentioned in another paper tn tills city aa appearing at the Bijou theatre tomorrow will not bc here un til tomorrow a week, the 27th Inst. It never waa expected here until then, but it .surely will be here at that time. -o The Tate Hardware company have Installed an up to date Bowser gaso line tank in the pavement, directly In front of their storo on the square where they are now ready to serve th?dr patrona with gasoline at all hours. This street gasoline store business is a new venture In Ander son but owing to its convenience to the motorists, lt promises to make good right from tho start. *+*+**?.?>***+*+**?.?+*?? ? * ? ' OUR GOVERNOR + ? ? South Carolina has at this tima the ablest, the most efficient, the most determined and yot withal the most courteous and obliging gover nor of any state in tho union. There ls not'.lng spectacular about the man or his administration, but nevertheless the work of governing our turbulent Ult lo s tato baa been going on steadily and surely and In the smoothest and most systematic manner possible. ' To complain of bis official acts be cause they are not characterized with dazzling events, stirring utter ances, and sensational incidents shows our lack of taste and onr in ability to appreciate that whic.h is noblest and' best and beyond tho or dinary in refinement and culture and mental attainment; for the higher we rise in the scale of being-ma terias. Intellectual and moral-the more certainly wo cease to admire and the more speedily we quit the region of the brilliant eccentricities and noticeable contrasta and tho 'emotional schemes and demagogic movements that belongs to a vulgar and ?instable greatness. Our people need to learn that firm, common sense morality and business compe tency on tfie part ot our public ser vants ls far better than rash action and brilliant rascality. In spite of the fact that those qualities do not take told of the imagination, do not Inspire enthusi asm, and do not win applause, they are tho traita ot character thrt are most conducive to the peace, tho prosperity, the stability and Pie progress of the commonwealth and those ans the qualin ? ot heart and mind that determine final judgment on great practical questions, which the people of the state are bound to sooner or Ister accept. A <;slm and weil balanced temper ament ls no mean gift and'the atan who possesses lt is far better pre pared to lead a people to higher sun lit fields of achievement and to ad minister to and for them able and honorable justice than the man of ?nasty impulse .and fickle disposition. A Ute with well-adjusted powers and virtues is slm^iy In tune with Iths powers dlvi..*. Everything in heaven is orderly. The rotation and revolution of the earth sre rcsular ?hi their occurrence. The laws of K? universe, are harmonious. All the great eternal forces act* In solemn arlen*1* end due proportion. most striking feature, also, la fact that those e]emeats and bodies that do tho most good aro those that act quietly an t with regu larity. The 3un shlucs quietly. Thc rain drops fall In monotonous pat ters. Hut fie cyclone comes sud denly and the fierce winds blow vio lently at Intervals. Tae writer was not a Manning man at the time of his election but on account of thc dignified way and Uie thorough-going ina healthy manner in which ho has conducted himself since assuring I/o duties of office, he will support him for re election regardless of who opposes him. The opponent of good govern ment would have you believe that Mr. Manning is losing a good deal of his popularity and strength. Thu truth of the business is, he is gaining in /strength every day and is winning the good will and support of many who were formerly opposed to him by his fearless and determin ed stand for law and order. A man who stands for law and order first, last and always merits tho ad miration of ali men who love fair dealing and Justice and a public of ficer who ls resolved that thc world, tho flesh, and thc devil sf all not thwart him in his purpose to lift the people of his state to a broader plano and a clearer view by restor ing the natural order of things by using bis invested powors to do ell the good ho can deserves tho co-op eration and sympathy of every good citizen and patriotic Carol in ira. TUe donation of personal funds to supply a deficit in the salary ot the head of ono o? our greatest and most needy institutions, namely, tho asylum, sh?ws a spirit of splendid generosity and anxious concern for every department of work for which the state is responsible. It ls a re buke to money-seeking politicians and an Inspiration to liberal-hearted and public-spirited men. Just as Woodrow Wilson repre sents the truest type of American .manhood, so Richard I. Manning j demonstrates to tho 'world that class and quality of sterling manhood nnd , level-rwadcd . statesmanship that ! South Carolina is capable of produc ing. He ls a steady, shining star, while hut predecessor and many more before, hun were but bright and lamiaous radiancy for the time be ing, theo burst bod disappeared Hia lifo ls a complete circle, every petal and kindly grace going out therefrom belog equidistant from the center. It would be a pity, to go back to the old regime and return to thc old order of things after having had suc'u a period of peace . and tran quility and quiet as we have had un der the beginning of our present governor's administration, ile is a governor and his Is an administra tion that maketh not ''shamed, and one of whom we may well be proud. With firm and kindly t?ctica and re markable dexterity bo baa wiped eena the mudstalns from the fair escutcheon of our state's name. He baa vindicated ?mr in the ?yes of ber sinter states for all misconduct of the past. * We ' should never forget the moa who brought our state again to its own in the time when it was down and-out. His name should grow sweeter to our ears aa time rolls on' in its flight and we do not hesitate to predict that his fame sholl be more resplendent with glory and fconor in th? years tb come-for his ia no mean character and bia type of greatness ia the durable and last log kind.-W. W. Stuckel in Edge field Chronicle. Gently Broke?. A young man, au only eon, mar ried against the wishes of his pa rents. A short time afterward, in telling a friend how to break tfae news in them, he said: "8Urt off by telling them that I om dead, and then gently work .up to the climax."-Answers. WAR CHECKS PLANS OF FRANKFORT FOR GREAT UNIVERSITY Frankfort, eGrmany, A/jgUBt 31. (Associated Presa Correspondence.) -Tr>e war has checked but by no means stopped plans for what is per haps Frankfort's most ambitious un dertaking-a university to rival tho great educational enterprises and in stitutions in other parta of Germany. Despite stupendous demands on their resources because of thc War, the wealthy men and the societies and institutions back of the Frank fort university havo continued to lend it thc support originally planned and guaranteed, and gradually it is ap proaching completion from a physical standpoint, and developing in other ways. The university as originally planned was to be ono of tho few largo insti tutions of its kind in Germany de pendent upon private endowment and operating only wl!/i the permission, ?not lino support of tho state. With tho interest from millions of marks to draw on, highly paid chairs wore planned, leaders In educational Unes were engaged, and a wonderful set of buildings were outlined. Then came tho war and its calls on any and every private and public purse. Those behind tho university somewhat grimly decided, to go ahead, and in tho very midst of n'>e war, . have nursed it into being and set lt lon its feet. Not only will the unl I versify be complete arcfhitectui'ally, within a few months, but lt is already successfully in operation educational ly. The university began its first * semester with abojt 600 students, of whom it lost but few, and swung Into its second half year with 800 pupils. Practically every one bf the 1,400 wero, at tho time of enrollment at oxem ui from military duly, and thus 4fhe i '.end an cn percentage has been kept at a high point. One activity of tfhe Institution that was not counted on In tho original plans is the instruction of men, who have returned from the war with Im paired limbs and Incapable of further servlco. As in other German cities theso men havo been taught new trades in industrial s<fiools, aa many of them arc now enrolled as students at tho Frankfort University, and are .fitting themselves through tho. med io m of a thorough education to take up some now occupation. The institution is a university* in the full meaning of the word, though lt ls an outgrowth of tho adjoining aca demy of Boclal science, and will be predominantly scientific in ita work. It fias also a' large and growing med ical department, which, at present ls engaged in war hospital and clinical work in a separate tallding in anoth er part of the city. The principal departments of the university are the law and the medi cal schools, the school of philosophy, under whkft heading fall the depart ments of history, language, philology and geography; the school of natural sciences, with physics and chemistry, mineralogy and geology, botany, zoo logy and so on; the school of econo mics and social science; and the school ot arts and crafts. The requirements for admission to the university are approximately tfie same as those Inposed by other simi lar institution^, but officials of tho empire, the ?tate, the city or the church are not accepted., nor are those, attached to other Prussian ln ! atltutlons of learning, nor "persona be ' longing to the trade classes."