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THE INTELLIGENT Bb?fABLISHED 1848. Published every morning exe Monday by ibo Anderson Intelilg? eer . ? 140 West Wbltuer Street, denton, S. C. SEMI-WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER Published Tuesdays and Fridays L M. QLENN....Editor and Manager Entered aa second-class matter April 28. 1914, at tbe post office at Anderson, Sooth Carolina, under the Aet of Msrch 8, 187?. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES telephone .8Z1 8IJBHCRIPTI0N BATES DAILY One Year .16.00 dix Months . 2.60 Three Months .1.26 One Month.42 Ona Week. JU) SEMI-WEEKLY On? Year .11.60 Biz Months .76 Tb? Intelligencer ls delivered by sartie rs In the city. Look at the printed label on yonr paper. Tho date thereon shows when th? subscription expires. Notice date on label carefully, and If not correct ?leaso notify us at once. Subscribers desiring the address ot their paper changed, will please state to their communication both th? old ?nd new addresses. To Insure prompt delivery, com plaints of non-delivery In the etty of Anderson should be made to the Circulation Department before lam, and a copy will be sent at one?. All checks and drafts should he flrawn to The Anderson IntolUgeneor. ?DYEB11SINQ Rates will ha furnished on appllea tton. No ti advertising discontinued ex cept on written order. The Intelligencer will publish brief and rational letters on subjects ot general interest when they aro ac companied by tbs names and ad dresses of the authors and are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not bo noticed. Rejected manuscripts will nr? he turned. Is order to avoid delara on account ot personal absence, letters to Thc intelligencer Intended for publication should not be addressed to any indi vidual connected with th? paper, bot sirrply to Th? Intelligencer. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1916. Weli, how ''oes tho old blanket feel. The calamity howlers ought to or ganizo a "Takc-it-Baek" league. It's mighty hard for tho Palm Beach to romain neutral these oven ings. Old Mother Earth neodu to spit on her hands in the vicinity of Panama Canal. -0 At 85 He Cots Permission to Wed Again.-Headline. There's no fool i ike, etc. i -0 Gallon-a-Montb receipts at tho ex press ofilco should pick up with the advent pf this cool weather. Bryan received $1,600 for hts poaco lecture in Boston last Sunday. Oh, tito blessings of peace (talk). The Kaiser's automobile has been wrecked. Fine chance for Arch Todd to sell 'him a. Ford. What has become of tho old fash ioned farmer who used to come for ward and pay his subscription to tho paper as soon as ho sold his cotton. A few moro of thoso Tom Loyless articles, on Tom Watson a..J well be convinced tho Augusta Chronicle edi tor is the original mauler. Col. Banks ot tho Columbia Roce i has an editorial omitted "Tho Penalty of Wealth." Whaddye you know about a newspaper guy talking that way. Some hogs love acorns and others love to take a hslf of a raliway coach seat for themselves with their grips occupying the balance. -o Tho debutante who has a young physician aa an admirer should never make the mistake of telling him that he haa "such killing ways." -o "John Barleycorn, Goodbye," naya tho Sumter Item. Why give bim up so noon, old scout, when yon hare un til December 31 to com m un o with him. -o A local story in the Columbia Stat? says Calcera College, located In that burg, opens today. We reMly weren't certain whether ?Shikkory waa In Laurens, Clinton, Columbia. Greenville or Jedburg. VON BEBJISTOKFrS LAST CHANCE ' Tlic futo of German-American rela tions now appears to be dclinliely lu ' the bands of one man. Ambassador von Ilernstorff. according to his own .'?tntoment, has boen given a free hand In negotiating between Washington and Berlin. "I am In charge now." lie said In a recent Interview. "Mr. lansing and I have readied a complete understand lng. Wo have completely shared j each other's views, and nre in ac cord." Ile expressed his confidence J that "within a fortnight all supponed difficulties between tho United States and Germany will have been settled, and permanently settled." If the German ambassador can bring about such i desirable consum mation, ho will merit the everlasting gratitude of the two nations and the praise of the entire world. Neither Germany nor the United States want war. The American peo ple, at least, do not want trouble of any kind. Count von Dernstorff now has a rare opportunity of acting au mediator between friendly nations' tlmt have drifted into misunderstand lng. .Mis chief obstacle Is the militarist ' party of Germany, represented by Ad- ? mirai von Tlrpitz, the remorseleBH1 leader of flic submarine" campaign and apologist for "frightfulness." There ls a secondary, obstado in tho anti-Amcrlcau feeling and jingoist prido aroused among the German peo ple by those same militarists. The Ger man government, having yielded to them for a time, has sown the wind; and now thc Kaiser and his moro ra tional advisors seek to soften their naval policy and conciliate America, tliey find they have raised the whirl wind. Tho German people, however, can be handled. They are accustomed to tn'tlng their emotional cues, as well as their facts and logic, from the gov ernment through Its established mouthpieces. Tho problem therefore is chiefly ono of ridding German statesmanship of the baneful Influence ( of such naval monomaniacs tm von < Tlrpitz and von Rcventlow. Hy von Ilernstorff"s work of theso two weeks ho will stand or fall. It is tim final test of his ability and his | sincerity. It le the test of Germany's sincerity, too; but we ere Judging Germany largely through hor ambas sador. If ho is reully "in charge," the outcome is likely to mean for him either glory or ruin.,, lie has twice held out great hope? to tho United iStateB. If he makes good now, we shall appreciate his work to the full. Thc first' time no filled. TP he", falls again, we shall wsnt nothing mere to do with bim. nacl 'perhaps? nothing more to do with lift ofhrotry. COUNTRY LIFE REVIVING. "Country life is dying in America because of tho drudgery of the farm er and tho lonesomeness of lils wife," decared a speaker in the International Irrigation Congress. But the gentleman needn't be so pessimistic. Ho ls looking at tho j past rather than-th? present and fu ture, and pondering tho census re turns of 1900 and 1910 when he might be figuring out tile change that 1920 will reveal. The old-fashioned farmer was In deed a slave1 of drudgery, and his wife was a victim of lonesomeness. But those phases of agricultural life aro passing. <? Year by year improved' farm ma chinery and better methods- Cessen the toll. The older generation" bf fhrmers scattered manure .over theil ? fields with a pitchfork, walked behind the plow and harrow, sowed their need by hand, reaped the grain with A cradle and thrashed lt with a 'flail. ' An such work ls now dono by machinery on sn up-to-date tann. And even the useful but troublesome farm bones art giving way to- -gasoline engines that will pull the plow and haul the wagons and saw wood sud pump water and do all sorts of miscellan eous work. It's vastly different for the farmer's wife, too. She ls brought closer to her neighbors by means ot the tele phono and the automobile. She has books and magasines and newspapers. She has tho world's best music, at slight cost. She baa more .leisure as well as more "company." Life on a prosperous farm ls rapidly becoming more comfortable and pleas ant than life In the city, and country peoplo aro beginning to recognise it. Tho prestige of tho city Is falling. Tho farmer and bis wife are comlrg to be envied Instead of pitied, and with very good rt ?son. _ PARCEL POST EXPORTS* . The post office department la re ported to be working out a plan for the furtherance of our export trade through a radical extension ot the foreign parcel post service. The de Ul!? have nat been made public, but It ls understood that the piar con templates taking off thc present size and weigh' restrictions and making It possible to mail abroad anything that can non bc malled from one point to another in the United States. The purpose ls to bring the Ameri can manufacturer Into direct relations with the foreign merchant or consum er. Hitherto the biggest manufactur ers have hud an advantage in the ex port trade, because they alone could afford the expense of developing it. The object o. tho government in this now project ls seid to he to give everynody un equal chance at the for eign markets, Just ar the domestic parcel post has already served to equalize opportunities in our own markets. It look? Uko an admirable move. The federal trade commission is un df.rstond to be directly interested in lt. ulong with tho g<neral promotion of export trade, ult hoi.',;,, it was sup posed to he primarily created to "regulato 1 business. Maybe business doesn't rood so much regulating any more ns people thought. Anyhow, it is well to have the various adminis trative departments of the govern ment co-operating In a campaign to win all posslhle legitimate trade ad vantages abroad for American busi ness, and in fostering business democracy in both our export and domestic commerce. WAU BLINDNESS. War ls tho great distorter of judg ment. Nothing else makes nations so inacapable of estimating each other correctly, or so little disposed to do each of r justice. Even though calmer than any of tho belligerents, our own nation lias shuwn great abcrations. Those of us who sympathize with tho Allies have a roprehenslhlo tendency to belittle Germany and all things German, and thoco who sympathize with Germany have been still more contemptuous of things Hritish. The same majority which, in UusHo-Jupnncsc war, bad nothiug but condemnation for Russia, vow finds that country an object of ad: ?...ration. Tbc Europeans, of course, have gone much further than wo in their IOBS of perspective. Even the scholars of thc belligerent counries, whose cul ture should ralso them above petty race prejudices, neem as weak as their Ignorant compatriots. It has become the fashion for writers to belittle great men, when it is those m*>n's misfortune to belong to nations with whom tho writers are now at war. Thus D'Annunzlo, tho literary genius of ' Italy is described by the Germans as a "monkey." An Oxford profes sor soberly announces that Heina the great German lyric poet, was "only a milk-and-water Longfellow," and that whatever was meritorious in the philosopher Kant wis due to his be ing "more than hair Scotch 1" An English scientific writer de scribes the discovery of "X-rayB" by Roentgen as merely a "fortunate ac cident," and belittles German nntural science. Another condemns Goethe one of the great world figures in litera ture, because bis "deliberate and colossal self-development." Another Englishman linda that the Germans have had no musicians of Importance oxcept Bach and Mozart, and that "the Gormans are now surpassed in music by other nations." The Germans turn culture values up side down with the samo cn thu dam. They see in the English people mere ly "what Treltschko saw-"shallow utilitarians, narrow and selfish is landers, hypocrites with the Bible In or.fi hand and a pipe of opium in the other." They are as sure as were the ancient Greeks that all the rest of mankind are "barbarians." "Sven for the French, their teachers ir so many elements of science and culture, they profess little regard, and tor the Rellane only contempt. In military mattera the belligerents ?how the same mutual acorn, although BS the New York Evening Post point ed out Ute other day, "The French must r?alit? they ore using German drill tactics, and the Germana that Ibolr wireless ls Italian, their dread noughts English, their aeroplanes, nut' mobilen and submarines perfected chiefly by the French." ' It's a crazy vorld. Sooner or later, however, lt will return to ita normal {?unity and thon maybe the various na tion? ' now engaged in a blind cam paign of mutual depreciation wont bate us quite so much for having kept our heads a little better, than they did. Spartanburg's cotton market yes terday was higher than Greenville's, 101-2 cents paid hore while the best Greenville offered was 10 8-8.-Spar enburg Herald. But Greenville will come back at you, Bro., and any the tam? bale would weigh lass in Spar enburg than in Greenville. li I N E DOPE Weather Forecast-Cloudy on coast and fair in interior Thursday and Friday. -o Tile fact that Anderson is appreciat ed as a shopping center was shown yesterday when a young lady came from a neighboring town, 40 miles away, and Just as close to some of the other leading cities of tho Piedmont, to buy her fall millinery and coat suits und furnishings. She stated that she liked to do her shopping in Anderson because she could get what she wanted and all of thc clerks In the stores here were always so nice in serving customers. -o A genuine counterfeit silver dollar was being shown yesterday by Mr. S. H. Pr?vost of the Anderson Ice com pany. Mr. Provost stated that one of tho drivers of the ice wagons had received it on his rounds and that the negro did not know where he got lt. Tho dollar was a great deal lighter in weight than the genuine coln of the same denomination and looked as if it contained a larger percent of allumi num. -o A condensed statement of tho sworn statements of the conditions of the five hanks in the city shows that they have a total of more than $3,500,000 loaned out at this time. The report also shows these banks have more than $1,500,000 on deposit and that they have approximately ?1,S200,000 in capital and surplus and undivided profits. It looks as if there is noth ing wrong with tho banks In this city from a financial standpoint. o ?? At Thc Anderson today and this evening will bo shown "Tho Tangle," a wonderful military picture in four reels, in whicb regular United States soldiers are to be seen In action. This is said to bo a very Interesting pic ture and will likely draw large crowds. A portion of the door receipts will bo donated to tho 8cnior Philathea class of tho First Presbyterian church. -o Crowds ot people were lined up on South Main street yesterday watching the negro placing the brick used in the paving Just as lt a big automo bile race was to bo pulled off. The ?rick layer ls really, a wonder and knows his job all right. His name ls Syd Howard, and he has been with the Southern Paving company for 15 yearsV Ha .con placo four rows of brick at one time and puts them down faster than Beven negroes can bring them to him. When everything is going wjell he can lay 40,000 brick a day or an average of 4,000 every hour or over 60 a minute. This is equivalent to* 1,000 square yards a day and he ta the only man employed In laying the brick on this Job. -o - This afternoon and tonight motion pioture reel will be presented at the Bijou showing Satanet the "Virginia Daredevil," climbing a 20 story build ing in Atlantic City. It will be re membered that this same fellow climbed the Hotel Chlquola building a few weeks ago and his feat was watched by several hundred people. The picture today will show him tn a much more daring deed and will be very exciting. -n After conferring with ir.??abers of the bar association yesterday tbs jury commissioners did not a raw Jurors to serve for the second w?ek of court of common pleas which convenes on October 4. Tho members of the har did not think it necessary since there would not be enough cases for Jury trial to occupy tho attention ot court, more than the first week. Mayor Godfrey yes' 4rday announced that tho circus wagons would not be allowed to uso River street because tho narrow tires on the -wheels might cut up the paving. Superintendent Craney aald that his company would not be willing to bava the traffic over the street unless the street' had been iceepted or unless tho city would be responsible for damages. o . The street flusher waa put In opera tion yesterday and ap; eared to he do ing satisfactory work. Uko every thing else, however, most everyone can see where improvements can be made on lt Mrs. G. A. Rubenstam lost a valu able diamond ring yesterday in a very peculiar way. She stated that aha had the ring on her finger when she left home and when she reached the store it waa gone, it having Just dropped from her floger in some way. \ ) Get the Idea Clearly This Evans "money cheerfully refunded" policy is for our sa?e as much as for yours; it works within and without the store. We say also, "after the test of wear;" we want to be sure, and we want you to be sure of satisfaction. It puts the matter squarely up to us, where it ought to be put. It makes it imperative that nothing shall pass our board of merchan dise censors that isn't worthy of our guaran tee. lt's a good policy for you and for us; it main tains the highest quality and value standards. WE'RE now showing superb styles in fall hatsTwith the style they also offer real triumphs of value; our expert fitting assures you of the greatest becoming ness. Stetsons $3.50, $4, $5; Evans Specials $2. $2.50, $3. "Thc Store with - a Conscience" The ring has a large ruby, encircled ' by diamonds, and is very valuable j both from a financial standpoint and j as an heirloom. She is offering a liberal reward .for its return to her. Mr. K. W. Thom has arrived in the | city from Johnson City, Tenn., to take ( up tito duties of commercial agent for, the Piedmont & Northern lines. Tho following notice has been sent out from thc railway's official headquar ters: , Effective Ulis date, Mr. K. W. Thom IB appointed Commercial Agent at Anderson, S. C., vice Mr. It. 3. Thomp son resigned to engage in other busi ness. C. 8. Allen, Approved: Traffic Manager. .E. Thompson, V. Pres. & General Mgr. ? ? ? COMMUNICATION + ? * STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA Executive Chamber. Columbia, S. C., Sept. 17, 1915. Dear Sir: I hand you the enclosed copy wlUi the request that, if you agree with me that same will prove of interest to your readers, you run samo in your next issue. It ls the policy of this office to keep in close touch with the people on all public matters, and wo know of no better plan than that of keeping the public informed of the Joings of the governor's office through the news papers of the state. Would be glad to hoar from you from time to Ume. Respectfully, O. B. La Roque, Secretary to the Governor. Gaffney. S. C., Sept. ll, 1915. -Hon. It. I. Manning, Governor, Columbia, S. C. Dear Slr: I take pleasure in writing yoH today, the object being as to whether T not it would be advisable for a man of seven in tho family, consisting of four boys and one girl, my wife and self, living in-nice location, on rented land, to resign position of farming and move to town. I ask you as a personal friend ot mine to give this letter consideration. The ages of my children range from seventeen to seven. By morin ? to the city I would have better educa tional advantages, and lt ia my whole desire to give my children a fair education. Please glvo me a few minutes of your tune advising mo as to what ls best for my family and myself. Pleas? give me an early re ply on th's important subject, and I will probably be able to help others by having your leuer published in our local cotu.ty newspaper. .I am a poor man and have never accumulated much of Ma world's goods. Hoping you will give Ails letter your immediate consideration, I re main, as ever, Your friend, (Signed) M. Turner Phillips. Columbia, 8. C.. Sept. 15. 1915. Br. M. Turner Phillips. ' R. *V D., Gaffnoy, S. C. Dear Mr. Phillip?: I received your letter several days ago and have elven'' th? question which you propose careful and thoughtful consideration. I appre ciate your desire for tbs educational advancement of your children, but there are some matters which ? we must seriously consider b.\rore tak ing' the step yon propose. Id ?he outset I must advise you to remain ou the farm if i or,L.blc. One of the big problems of our state at the present time is to make farm lifo so profitable and so attractive that it will hold the people in the country and stop the movement into our crowded cities. You say you are a small farmer and have not accumu lated much of this world's goods. Years ago I as a young man was fac ing practically the same problem that you aro facing today. My choice at t?at time was the farm. I believe that with the proper effort moro mon ey-more happiness, more content ment, is to bo found among the men of South Carolina who till the soil. The city has many advantages to offer and also many disadvantages. You must consider, among other things the extra items of expense. In your farm home you 'nave no electric light bills, no coal bills, no high monthly rentals, no extra expenditure for olothlng, and many of the other- ex travangoes that go to make up thc life of our people in the cities; on the other hand you ha*e your fire wood, you have your food crops, your .hogs, cattle and live stock, and, above all, you have that atmosphere of freedom and independence that can not be found in the city. South Carolina is making a con stant and wonderful stride in mat ? ters ti education and in improvements in niothods of farming. It has been ; my hope and my ambition to see the i day when as good educational ad ! vantages are offered to the child of 1 tho rural and mill communities as are given to the children of our cities. By this I mean good, sound, prac tical / horse-sense education without any frills. In your county educa tional progress has _?een remark abe,' If you are not now Uvmg near a good country acuco!, I would advise you to cast about, this fail, and find a piece of land -which you will be able to cultivate successfully, that is locat ed, within a convenient distance of one of these sohools. When you have found this piece of land my advice ls .purchase same If possible, on easy terms, paying a little each year. Then map out your plans to farm on bus iness basis; don't work your farm in ? haphazard; happy-go-lucky way, i would advice you to consult Clem son college farm demonstrators and ask their advice In farming methods, especlallly winter cover crops so as to save expense in fertiliser. Write to the Clemson authorities and have them send you all of their bulletins. Study these bulletins; study your soil and try to plant and cultivate the crops that are best suit ed to the conditions. One of the main troubles with our people is that .they have been slaves to what hi popularly called the -"one crop" idYa. Wo all know that forever and) a day cotton must be our major crop; but our sol' is capable of producing the very best of every kind of food crop. You should not forsake cotton, but you should use. it as your velvet crop your extra money crop. Raise first your home supplies. You should con sult your land and consult wlt'i the County Form Demonstrator and find out Just what food crops grow best on your land. Every year in South Carolina, mil lions of dollars are sent ont of our state In exchange for little cans and packages from other states. These cans contain foods, practically all of which can bo raised at home. I would 'suggest that each year you put up aa much canned vegetables, canned fruits and other foods tn cans, aa possible; a big amount can be saved In this manner. Take, for instance, if you should move to town; whenever your good wife wanted a can of tomatoes tan canta would bmve to be depositad at the corner grocery store. Yon should grow sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes and all kinda ot vegetables; (here should be a mall cane latch to make your molasses; you should plant bur clover and cow peas; you should plant some vetch with your oats, and in this manner you would holp to feed both your family and your live stoch and. at tue same time improve your land, The farm offers greater opportunity to a man faen any profession or trade that I know of in the slate, and I would urge you, Mr. Phillips, to ro main on tho.*farm wh'oro.you can be contented and happy. Find that country school and, keep your child ren there just as lou; as possible. It ls a fact that our rr al districts dur ing the past ten years have been de pleted of a large majority of a sturdy people which das caused a serious setback to the people of the entire state. Our people must come to learn that the basis of ail prosperity for all tho' people is a successful farming clasB. Until we get most out of the soil in this state and make moro com fortable homes for Our wisaa,.^..and daughters, we cannot hope to have tho better things pf t'.ils life andi to keep our boys and girls on the farm. I want to see more of our white tenants own homes; this is the most important problem before us. I trust that as our attention and in terest are centered in the solution of this question, that wc will be able soon to have a practicable working plan , by which the desired result can bu accomplished. I would like for you to write ra from time to timo as to just What progress you are making; write me about any nroblem that may come up. I am i?ienBelly Interested in these questions and you may command my services at any time to give you the best poaslblo information that I am able to. I am, with best wishes, Very truly yours, (Signed) richard) I. Manning, Governor. When Cyclone Tams Loose. (From The Denison Herold ) . Cyclone Davis, . Congressman-at large from Texas, has wired Postmas ter General Burleson with request that Knowledge bp communicated to the president thatw hen he gets to Washington ho proposes to twlBt the British Lions' tall until.tho roar of that animal awakens the sleeping dead of Due war of 1812. Tho cause for his wrath is found In the'reported of fer of the English government to pur phase America's entire cotton crop rather than have it or any part of it fall into tho hands of Britain's ene mies, and which will also remove fron* further, controversy the question as to wl'jether or not. cotton .la con traband. Wie don't know, of course, but wo will'wager that when the bom bastic congressman from Texas se? cur-s the floor for the purpose of giv ing expression to his pop ul ist ic and anarchistic views, tho cloak rooms will not hold the members and they will have to adjourn to th? corridors. Bluebeard Explain*. Tho Interviewer--Why dkfc-yon as sassinate all your wives an' soon as the honeymoon waa overt" Blaebecrd-Yan see, Pd promised to love et?h one as long as sfhe lived, and no matter what other sins i've committed I never disappoint a lady. Philadelphia Bulletin. Ber Characteristic. "Of couves your wife favors votes for women T' "Yes," replied Mr. Meekton, "but I suspect shell fituL.it bardi to ap prove of any plan that allows some o fhte women she knowe- to vote just tba sans, as she doe?. "-Washington 9Ur. More than ordinary sejf-control ls aeededt tc enable a man to go- ufa Ia the attic every time -he tesla, like swearing.