Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

ESTABLISHED 1819. Published ?Terr morning except Monday by Tho Anderson Intelligen ?or fct KO Wost Whitner Btroot, An ? ar eon, s. 0. BEMI-WE?ItLY INTELLIGENCER Published Tuesdays and Fridays h. M. GLENN... .Editor and Manngor , Entered as second-class matter Ayrll 28, 1914, at the post office st anacreon, Suulii Carolina, uz.?cr ti Act ot March 8, 187?. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES ^Telephone.891 BUBBOBIPTIOK BATES " DAILY Jno Year.$6.00 (Six Month?.2.60 Throe Months. 1.26 One Month.* .48: Qa? Week.?.,..*.* .101 gSMI-WEEKL? im? Year.?.81.60 I ?Lc Month?. .76 I Tho Intelligencer 1? delivered by .arriera in tho city. Look at the printed label on your J ??per. Tho date thereon shows when tba subscription oxpiros. Notice date | an label carefully, and If not correct pl rr, to notify na at once. Subscribers desiring tho Address of j their paper changed, will please state, (n their communication both th? old | and now addresno?. Vo insure prompt dollvory, com plaints of non-delivery in the city of Anderson should bo made t? the Circulation Department before 9 a, m. end a copy will be sent at one?. All cmecka and drafts should bel drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer, j AD YE unsure} Kaus ?rill bs furnished on aynliia- j Hon. No tt advertising dbi continued ?s-1 ..pt on written order. Vbe Intelligencer will publish brief and rational letter? on subject? ot general interest when they ?re ac companied by the names ?nd ad dresses of tho authors and ?re not ot a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. Rejected manuscripts will not be re turned. Lu order to avoid delay? on account ?? personal absence, letter? to Tho intelligencer intended for publication j should not be addressed to ?ny Indi vidual sennocted with the paper, bat olmply to The Intelilgenoer. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1916 The moro wo look at the way the Brittjh nation ta' behaving In ". thin war, tho more wo admire France. -o Medical sclentlsta have discovered that brown rugar ls the best dressing for woundB. 'Most anybody's grand mother know that. This proparodnesa business IB all right, but wo hope congress will leavo enough money in our pockctB to buy tobacco with. -p.. "? That patriotic line-up that Presi dent Wilson announced a abort time ugo doesn't seem to have started yet. Is lt the sheep or the goats that arc hanging back? When "tho Sick Man of Europo" fights the way he's been lighting at the Dardanelles we frankly admit that we'd a heap rather tackle .a porfectly %vel) Christian ot *most any national Ity. An Indiana woman, who was mar ried to and divorced from .tho same man seven times, Orally shot him tho cthsr day. ' jSUs just couldn't hear the thought or having to marry , that man again. -b When you como right down to it, tho, only Simon-pure non-hyphenates lu tho country are tho Indians. Even thc negroes have got Into.a pernicious habit in late years of calling them selves "Afro-AmericanB," . I^fe^.' - -o Porter Charlton, tho American on irlni ?or murder in Italy, ??s't com plain that ho Isn't getting a fair trial according, to American precedents in mich, ca.iofc-..- There's a .typically Amer ican corps bf .- alienists mobilised in tht> court room, and their testimony regarding Charlton's sanity ls given Impartially ,to both sides itt she typi cally Amorlcan way, :'Wo$'^fa'BXo;'informed by an antl anffrajij^^^ ihechnse women went , into . politics, jost tho btltor day an English writer Insisted., that it foll because Rome abandoned military conscription in 'f?vor'cf voluntary service. Prev iously wo had learned that. Rom?? fell because ita mosquitoes, because of tho Gorman/ because ot Christianity, bo .canee' cf absentee landlordism, ned a domett or two other causea, i- The ono sure' thing about Rome ia that it felt And 'what a'lucky thing ttat waa for modern moralists. MHSIAN Fill EN D.Sil 11' Thcro hu? just been organized in Russia a. Society for Promoting Mu tual Relation? Between RuBsla and America. It baa (darted giving friend ly dinners to Americans in Petrograd. It la going to give lectures ?Ibero for di" benefit of those same Americans, and it expects to send lecturers to thc United Slates to disseminate friendly Information regarding Rus sia and tiic icm,.lian people. One of tho foremost leaders of the move ment is liaron Rosen, formerly am bassador to this country. This ls all very well. We shall I welcome missionaries to Russfun cul ture, and lend an attentive eur to any thing they may have to say, so long as they limit Uielr efforts to praising whnt is praiseworthy in their own land''and people, and do not attack or slander tho nations with whom they happon to bo at war. Wo have had enough of mutual recrimination by war partisans on our neutral soil. Wo ought to know more about tho Russians. Americans in general aro ignornnt of their abilities and vir tues. We judgo thom by their worst representatives-tho ignorant and bigoted peasants who vent their tra ditional grudges in "pogroms" againBt the Jews, and the undesirables at the othor extremo of tho social scale who have made Russian aristocracy a synonym for corruption and, injustice. And thus we misjudge a great peo ple, of whom the aristocracy is mere ly tho froth and tho.bigoted pensants Ute dregs. We misjudge them all bocauso we BOO so few nativo, representativo Rus sians; wo do not go to Russia, and tho pure-blooded Russian seldom comes here. But from their literature and art, which aro today as great OB any in tho world, and from occasional glimpses of sturdy and admirable qualities In the average Russian, we aro coming to suspect that wo have not grasped the soul of RuBsia. If Russia, however, really wants to win our friendship and admiration, she can persuade us far moro quick ly by acts than by words. She should start by -removing the causes that have turned us ngalnBt her. Ameri can:! cannot be will' disponed toward any nation that is characterised by political and religious tyranny. Let tho Russian government give its people freedom and genuine gov ernmental ' representation. Let lt re move the political disabilities ot the Jews dbtl dkicourago and suppress thc popuor outbroako against them which, but for government tolerance, would be no moro significant than are our own occasional lynchings. Then we shall, bo ready to take Russia by the hand. And perhaps, when we como to un derstand each other, we can ' learn from that great people-who are de stined some day to bo supremo in Europe-things just os valuable as anything we can teach them. ABANDONING, CHILDREN Since Mrs. Finley J. Shephord, who was formerly Helen Gould, adopted a five-year-old waif from an orphan asylum, several hundred men and wo men have written and telegraphed ol ni min g to be the boy's parents. li's bard to understand the point of view of thone men and women. If we may judge from their num bers and their readiness to claim parenthood, In this case, tho crime of abandonment must be amazingly pre valent, and must be held lightly by the criminals. Every such claim; is' an implied confession of a deod which al.' moral parents bold in abhor rence. It means tho deliberate cast ing off ot a helpless child by Its father or mother, the surrender of lt to thc; mercies ot a society that ls not merciful in such matters, the betrayal or their own flesh and blood either to early death through neglect or to a life made unhappy by the lack ot U home, tho' absence ot all family ties, tbs * . i.-?p?iiiai sitado?? . o? a dubious origin. . A brilliant Americanlawyer who began life aa a foundling and who rose to eminence in* bte profession, and then sank into compar?t Ivo ob scurity through alcoholic Indulgence, was Oijcc hoard to exclaim, .'.May you never, know the .bitterness ot treading the winepress alor*!" Tho burden ot bis isolation, v-as what dragged Mm down. Every abandoned Child that amounts to anything feels that , dead ly Isolation,' / In any tva.10, tho offenso ot aban-' donr-ient 1B looked Upon ny ri g ulm lad ed parents'i a'unpardonable. And yet there are 'hindreds of men and 'Wo men who havo either abandoned lit tle . sons, or ptVcnd that they havo, and f}??ht> the* dlsn^aco of lt for the doubtful advantage 0? claiming a sort of connection with ri ih and famous foster-parents. j It's a shameful.ibi'js tor Amer!' . -.',v '.-.v i\" - . I V. . ;;'-'<H-'v. tu contemplate. Child abandonment IB common enough abroad, particular ly In france and England, and the great author Jean Jacques Kousscau was not ashumcd that he had aband oned his children in their infancy, lint tho United States has been sup ported to be pretty free from that sort of thing. MISDIRECTING LETTE 118 The postmaster of Chicago is quot ed as saying that 43 per cent of tho 1JIU? liuiiii?c? vj Hiv. C'hlC??O pOot olllcc ls not properly addressed, and that it costs about $1,000,000 a year to correct the addresses and see that the letters get to their destination. Maybe that's an excessive estimate. Hut there's no doubt that tho care lessness of the public is responsible for an Immense amount of unneces sary work In the postofhce depart ment; and an expenditure of many millions of dollars a year which might bo put to a worthier purpose. Tho man or woman who misdirects a letter through carelessness or lazi ness IB in thc same class with the ono who gives a telcphono number from an uncertain memory, instead of looking it up. It IB harder on the postofTlco, however, than it ls on tho telephone company. It may take days to clear up a dubious address. The delivery of ono misdirected letter may take moro time and trouble than a hundred letters addrecBcd proporly, but tho department gets only the usual two cents for it. And of course, in supporting this public Institution, tho careful people pay for the ex penso? causod by tho careless. Wouldn't lt bo a good thing If the sender of a misdirected letter were mado to pay something extra for thc trouble he causes the postofflce? PEOPLE AND GOVERNMENT Tho Emporia (Ka.) Gazette, com moating on the fact that the people of Leavenworth are dissatisfied with their commission government and are thinking of returning to their old sys tem, remarks: "Wo don't blame them. If we lived in Leavenworth, we too wuold be dia na thined with it. The 'commfssion form of government has failed In Leavenworth -Just as the council form failed, and just as any other form of government will fall in Leavenworth so long as that city is the kind of a becr-drlnking, law-defying, hide hound, party-minded town It is." A [ stream cannot rise higher than its source, adds tho Gazette, and even a model plan of municipal government can't gather grapes from thorns or figs from UiiBtles. It's a characteristic weakness of Americans to believe that an abstract \ political system is capable of running Itself. The commission plan, because it has worked extremely well in many cities, has been taken by others as a panacea for municipal ills, adopted in I a spasm of reform and then left alone iq. run iteelf. They might as welly expect a mental concept of a con- [ erete-mlxer oporatlng in vacant space to. grind out-real concrete. . | .. Good citizens can get better results out of'a bad system than .careless citizens can get out ot a good system ?The.commission plan has certain con BPICIOUB advantages; but with or ,without if, the. chief essential Is a I spirit of civic responsibility that keeps citizens on the Job. A FEDERAL INHERITANCE TAX How are we going to raise tho hun dreds of millions required for creat ing an efficient army and navy? Obviously unusual methods, will be needed. The nation's Income, is al ready running behind its current ex? penses, and there is no prospect ot breaking even while the war lasts. A..few millions, of course, may be saved by economy ot administration, and a few moro millions may be saved put of the congressional pork ber rel if legislators are sufficiently patrio tic. The tariff might bo re-adjusted to provicio a largor income, though lt ls always hard td tell wb?t a tariff will or will not produce. But Xl ino plans ot army and navy building are Jo be carried : out on anywhere near the scale indicated In the administra tion's poliiy, it will be necessary to raise far more money than ,ean be expected .Tem all Ihcso sources to gether, vThe Chicago Tribuno remarks that direct taxation, is inevitable, and PUg gests that the least objectionable form ot direct taxation for such a .purpose is the inheritance, ta:. V.^Jt is not easy to evade.' It fall?? upon those who are most ablo to boar it. It It ls sufficiently radical lt will accomplish a general social reform AB a cheek upon Inordinate concentration of irresponsible trsilUi." . ,Thero ls,no doubt that the money could be raised In Ods ? way, and it Is likely.: that that. '.. method .would urouae lesa opposition than uiiy other' device. Ita elflcacy IUIH already been ! teated on a small acule in nearly all the states, although thc federal gov- ' ernment has not yet resorted to lt. ? Ju neurly every foreign country the Inheritance tax plays an Important part in paying .national expenses. It is rccoguized that, aside from its eco nomic value in breaking up huge, fortunes, it appeals to certain weak nesses of human nature. It ia easier for a man to pay taxes after his death, and It Ia easier for a citizen to give up part of an inheritance than to give up what he has made himself. "GENTLEWOMEN? IN BUSINESS I Ethel Barrymore, who ls playing tho part of "Emma McCheanoy," a business woman, waa amused at tho critic who said that Miss Barrymore herself was "too much a gentlewo man to Interpret tho part of a busi ness woman." It Barned to her that tue very quality of human sympathy which ls characteristic of a true gen tlewoman ought to help an actress who has lt to understand and inter- j pr?t the life of a business woman or any other type of woman. ? It was a "gentleman and a scholar" who first stated the truth that there is nothing inherent in ditch ^digging which ia demeaning to &4 educated man. No disgrace could come to him j unless he failed to dig a better ditcli than the man of less opportunity. 1 The "real lady'' goes into her kitchen to asolRt or take the place of her maid, or Bho docs all her own j houROwork, and loses nothing of her gentleness thereby. The labor, how ever, lowly, la'graced and dignified by j this very gentleness. It is the "get rich-quick lady," tho woman with superficial standards of aristocracy who dares no.t,woshihpr;.4l|Bhes> lest abe lose caste. . Miss Barrymore's own statement in regard to the j. busiucss woman , and the Indy was:" . Y . :. "I've been working for a living ever since I starra! to grow up. -I've heenl on the road longer than Emjna Mc Chesney. Dut I hope- that hasn't any thing to do wittt'my being .-a.'lady. Wc may work forgiving, we may not all be buyers; we >may be teachers, We may be manicurists, wo may bo stenographers. ' But lot's don't any of us get the ide?;w? aren't ladles." Only meanness of thought and nar rowness of son! are "ungentle." Whethor a woman'^is ia the business world, the "fncton^the drawing, room, or tho kitchen,?hos. nothing to do with it. . ,:7* /\ / ' ' " -' ' Tho Pendleton Fanners' Society. It Is hard to .say whether the Pen dleton, ,S. C., '"FarmersV Society," the hundredth ' anniversary' ' of wbpse founding I had'tho pleasure of help ing celebrate the other day, ts must famous for, Ita part In,starting Clenf Bon College or for the','fact'that it was tho farmers' club, of wblc'a Se jth Car olina's greatest s?atcsmac, fohn C. Calhoun, was a member and for some time president '" . Like Jefferson and 'Washington, Calhoun was intensely interested in agriculture, and contributed not a little to its progress'in his section of South Carolina) ??s *??do *> sort of hobby of Devon cattle, and was prob ably the first to bring this breed into South Carolina. It is. said that ho also Unreduced Bermuda grass for pasture; and nobody doubts now that Us rightful use in,' pastures would have compensated a thousandfold for ita unwolcomo .presence la our cul tivated fields.-Progressive 'Farmer. rpHE BEST A in this st right; and guars be right. Everj satisfaction; aft? Sa?Sii6u WG i6 grudgingly. Extra Value S A sparkli men; co ferries ai manufact These v buyer no Weather Forecast-Fair Tuesday and Wednesday. -o "I missed my Paramount service j Monday," said Manager J. J. .Trow bridge of Tho Anderson theatre yes-| tcrday, "but will have it on Tuesday. In place of tho Paramount feature II put on four reels of pictures free j Monday." -o Mr. Phelph Sasscen, . Advertising Manager of Tho Intelligencer, ' has been emiline! to. his home since last Saturday, overing with a severe. cold. He- was quito lil that night and Sun lay and it was feared fdr a while that symptoms of pneumonia had de-, telopea. However, it' " now1 'appears that tho danger ls past, and - Mr. Sas soon hopos to be out pgaln Soon. This will be pleasant nows to hin many friends about the city. 1--Orr Tho Wesley Phllathea class pf St. John's Suada^Mscheol wiii give a tur ir?y dinner in tho vacant store room two doors above Tolly's furniture ?tore Wednesday of, this week.' : The last quarterly meeting -of the Oakwood Singing Convention .', was hold Snmlr.y at the: second Baptist church. The next meeting is to be -.-,7 llfpffft tfa'Bttieat. J&Nfc ''.of ONLY-That's the ore; have things i mtee that things si fthing we sell is gui er you test it by we fund your money; uits from TVianufa* ng, fresh lot of suits fe nservative and extrem id serges; 106 suits in hirers' surplus, insuring $15, $1 vere indeed fortunate ?w in New York and eas cc ? . The Store with a held in M . ih of next year. Officers j were electa < at thia meeting a?: W. P. -Stevenson, president; W. W. Hale, I vice president, and R. >L> Lee, secre-j tary and treasurer. Aviator Bud Carey, hlB manager\ and his mechanician, who is the own er of tho biplane, left Anderson yes terday afternoon for Spartanburg, | whero Carey will fly at the Spartan burg County Fair tho.last of tho week. Tho machino was knocked down at the hangar in North Andorson Sunday and shipped yesterday via express to Spartanburg. - o Fines in tho city police court Mon day morning amounted to 3230. This amount is unusually largo and tho reason for tho record sum i's that one man was fined $100 for selling whis key. John Connor, a . negro waa caught with tho goodo on Quarry street Saturday night by two of tho officers and was hauled Into Court.' HIB Ano was just exactly $100. . Jesse Cochran, a negro, hit Shine' Hunter another negro in the head with a brick Saturday nighty tho re sult .being that Shine ls in -the hos pital and Jessa <ia In ..tao city lock-up. Tho charge In this case will probably be . assault' and battery with intent ; to kill. It is said that Hunter's condi tion is serious,-.and- Cochran is Oe ing; held awaiting developments. Tho regular monthly meeting of tho Anderson County Medical society will Sixes," Anderson Tho, aire, Toe^Oay, I dominating idea .ight; do things rall continue to iranteed to give ar, if you're not "i_j?._n_- "a cueeriuiiy? nub clarers'' Surplus >r men and young e models in fancy this lot, from the you extra values at purchases by our tern markets. j be heW at tho "Anderson County Hospital this afternoon ot 2 o'clock. There are sevcnti papers to be read and the meeting promises to bo one of the great interest. ? ? 9.: ":*T. . Tho show at. ..the.:.Palmetto this week ls a real good one.. Yes, of course they are .-all-''good, but hon estly, there is nd "kidding td this, lt is a good show. 'There aro several specialties, with a "yodeler" ( ono of those fellows who sings about, seven teen dig?rent ways all at the samo time) who is very good. His acts are c-ieelieut and in tho opening BIIOW ho was recalled time after time by tho audience. The comedian is good. There was only one real comedian and a black face artist in the bill for 'Monday. There' aro no fine voices tn the whole crowd, but all ot them sing well, meaning that their singing is ; pleasing to "the car, and not tho [ painful kind. The whole crowd is dandy and are puttlpg up ? fine show for tho week. Destroyers Spread Smoke Screen. Tho now 1,000-ton destroyers of the United! States navy *re equipped with oil burners for producing a hoavy cloud of smoke that drifts on the sur face and! serves to conceal an attack -oin'the enemy br to screen a bairlc ship fleet from attack. In tho recent h)ival maneuvers off NarranganBett Bay the enemy Su?sn?rl?iss were eas' ly rendered ineffective by these de stroyers, with (.hoir smoke screons. A "full-pago illustration in the Novem ber ... Popular.^- Mechanics \ Magazine shows ono ?! the destroyers, tho "McDougal,*? engaged ' in. this novel service?. ? . ^:?Jj^^W^^y: