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To insuro prompt delivery, cora r taints of non-delivery in tho city' cf Anderson should ' bo made to tl:? Circulation Department before 9 n. m. mil b copy will, bo sent at once. AU checks and drafta should <e| drawn to The Anderson Into.licence-'. ADVERTISING Rates will ho furnisher! on ^plica tion. No tc advertising discontinued ex cept On written order Tho Intelligencer will publish brief I end rational letters on subjects i f | general Interest when they aro ac companied by the names and ad-j dreuscB of the authors and are not of j e defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not he noticed. Rejected tharuscripts ..will not hu Hi turned. \ ; , in order to avoid.dolays on account of personal absence, letters to - Tho intelligencer Intended for publication should not- bc addressed to any Indi vidual connected; with tho paner, but simply tc: The Intelligencer. SATllfiDAY, MAY 14. 1010. Today ia Mother's Day, so wo pin a carnation on our breasts and fer vently worship Ute Mothers of the roco -they aro t h e g r ea t interpreters of Croation'c Law. Mother Love knows no creed; no race, no age, no HmV tatlock It datos back to babyhood of man and shall endure as long aa Eternal Time; No messenger IB need ed to carry a mother's hteart out across the vasts of eon tin eu ta and oceans to her faraway boy, for falta and love of each other's souls began with 'the, first tjny song of greeting, and it was moulded, into a deathless bond aa hts (baby anUcs and boyhood pranks made her laugh and cry. And even alon?, deserted by friends, look ing out into the black chasm ot life'r. despair, it wan a mother's arm that Btole around his nook and a mother's whisper Uv his ear that brought back ? again lily cou ra so to start anew the fight for lite, Yea. we'll protully wear our white carnation? ' today, und softly \ breathe a:pruy?r;to'th? in?tnory of our Moth ars'^-both here'and'beyond. ' : : "F&OATl N? IN DE BTEDNE8S" ? Elsewhere in The intelligencer this morning . will. be found , a very ii;5Gr<isMng article from Mr.' Balles ou tho etty's /.Floating Inilcblcdnoss, $)ttchf.$$^ Dally .Mail Salu rday Wtornoon.. 1. Also the reply tisniio by MrGodfrey, who ls anem ployee of 7-he M?IL V \ . .-.Mr. BaUes' . article':, develops \. the that-, the city, .is^rrylng a. very . 'ies^ floating indebtedness, and ||j*aw^ , ^ win have Ute enormous, sum, of'morennan $100,090 to provide for':in/ its tax budget .next january in addition to providing for , .RS usual and necessary expend?turea ;^?Ma?ror.;'?o^ da?' Vend jPreseot . council by baying it D : iio oett:in?^^ tho etty's affairs,, as.it.-.fta?; been a custom tc j-.borrow' - fn',r :-' anticipation of abd against A?? WM' t***'* t&x,oav; bul!&i seems to be unable to furnish a pre cedent prior to 1913, when, he say?, money borrowed In that your wan paid out of tuxes collected for 1914, and so on, to umounts borrowed by present council, to be paid next year. But the precedent doesn't Beera to ex ceed three years, of which Mayor Godfrey's term covers the past two years! -But even if former councils ? had fallen Into the error of wrongdoing In this particular, would that Justify tho present administration not only in so doing but in apparently ex ceeding lt? predecessors in so doing? Tho 'Mayor says ho stated in hlB speech tho other night that he ex pected to overcome the greater dif ference without Increasing taxes, bul he didn't tnko thc public into his confidence ?nd tell how ho would do so. Why didn't he tell? Perhaps he thinks mut the people have no right to know. And perhaps that accounts for his ^remarkable assertion that on ly he and uno other Andersoninn knew how io prepare a budget: The Mayor pretends to complain that Mr. Balles' article ls au "eleventh hour" attack on him, and an editorial squib in The Mall saya that it printed the article in spite of its rule to print such eleventh hour attacks because Mayor Godfrey ls connected with that paper and re fusal to publish it might be misun derstood. ? Isn't that a. rather weak Hiibtor fugo? Mr. Bailen Intimates plainly that Mayor Godfrey, and not Treasur er Scott, replied to his letter. Rena tho reply again, if you choose, and seo if the Mayor's side IB not stated to the utmost limit and In detail What other facts could the Mayor produce? No chargo is made that Mr. Bailes distorted a single fuct, or that hi? conclusions were illogical, or unjust. E\Cdontly then tho cry that tho article ls an "elsvcnth hour" at tack is a more subterfuge and au ef fort to dodge the issue. SLANDERING WASHINGTON It ls well to have respect for the dead, particularly when they bappeh to be national horoes. Dut a Tacoma, .Wash., jury really went too far when it ?ound a ?citizen guilty of libelling George Washington and declared him liable to a Uno of St.OOO or a year in juli, or both. The defendant's offense consisted In writing a'let'er to a newspaper - in which he characterised the Father of hlB Country as- a "slave-holder," a "blasphemer" ahd "an Inveterate drinker." Without impugning Wash ington's character,' lt may b? ad mitted that there was some boals for ?tho. accusations. .A "Slave-holder" be was, undeniably, although itv ts knbwp that he disapproved of Bl av ery, free J nomo of.bia slaves and de sired that the rest should be freed af ter his death. Tlint Washington had a temper, and swore; roundly, when oc casion seemed to demand is admitted by his biographers. That he wau. a drunkard is incredible. But he waa no teetotaller.. He owned a distillery for many' years. And lt was announc ed recently in a news dispatch ?bat a badly discolored net of false teeth once worn hy Washington vwere known to hove been sttSned' hy* port wine; : The critics have been playing havoc . lately with the reputations of great ?men.. Franklin, Hancock, Patrick Henry and nearly all the reat of the elder statesmen we have been taught to revere have been pictured ss guilty ot habits or acts which would not be tolerated in public men nowadays. Are the crtlcs entirely right, and ls the tradition entirely wrong? Hardly. Tradition is probably the t ru cat thing there- ls in history-truer than docu mented facts. It represents the in stinctive Judgment ot great men's contemporaries, handed' on to posteri ty. Times, change and standards chango, and what ia righi Jn-one-gen ^atIoa.'nis^.'-TMVwrohg':^h' the next, but the main impression that a man was great or petty, virtuous or vi cious, remains as the most trust worthy test of his character. Again Bt the fame of truly great aten slander or Ttalf-truth cad have little ?3ect. Even if it ; were effective, however, the Tac?nos case sets a dan ferouB precedent. W it's ; criminal slander to apeak 111 of the great 'de parted, who will dare write honest history or -biography hereafter. ov'." - , . :vv:>^. Bauet?? Rivalry.. Atlanta. .May113.-Macon society .jasa (cot lt all- over. Atlanta society then lt cornea to variations of the modern.dance. , Atlanta, girts return hujt from, visita Aoihelr Macon friends have dashed t?te vanity ot Atlanta boys by telling theta the had better '?ter-*, all over again, and learn- how to dance. It : seems that dancers ot Macon, i which prides herself on rivalry with , Atlanta in more ways than one, have , invented a. dip *tbr tho hesitation ; ?J?Wts, that dancer? here ara 'ravin* 'I about. Floating Inde City Is Revu Bailes In Co Editor Intelligencer: In view of conflicting current re ports us to whether there WHS a float ing indebtedness ngainot the City of Anderson, and as to the amount there of, if any, I addressed thu followiug letter to Mr. ?Scott, City Treasurer, on the 12th inBtunt. and on the same day received reply from him, both of which letters follow: Mr. Scott, City Hall. Dear Sir: Will you, as a personal favor to me give me the floating indebtedness of the town two years ago, the float ing Indebtedness at the present time, and thc estimated floating indebtel ncfls nt next tax paying time, the laut based on the expenditures. Assur ing you that 1 will appreciate this and be more than glad to reciprocate at any tims ? may dc soi I am, Respectfully, i (Signed) O. H. DAT LBS. Mr. G. H. Dalles City. Dour Sir: I nm in receipt of .your letter of even date, and in reply will state that the city luis no flouting Indebtedness! indebtedness. All notes given by the city during the your 1915 for money borrowed for current, nnd other ex penses were paid with the 1916 tax and license money, as were the notes piven in 1914 were paid with the 1915 lax and license money. When the present administration went Into office in August, 1914, lt inherited $35,000 of notes which were glten by a former administration in anticipation of 1915 taxes, these notes maturing in the spring ?pf 1915. These notes were duly paid "rom the tax money at maturity. In addition to those notes the present administration Inherited two notes given by former administrations for the last payments on the Are truck and the traction engine. These two notos agregatcd something over $2,000. including prin cipals and Interests. These notes were duly paid at their maturity by this administration. In the spring of 1916 the present administration, like the former admin istration, borrowed $35,000 in antici pation of the 1917 tax and . license money, the notes for thia amount to maturo in tho spring of 1917 and bear ing Interest nt the rate of 5 per cont. A few weeks later, before all of this $35,000 had been exhausted, act ing-on the advice of . the local bank ers, who expressed lt as their opinion that th? money market might soon become "rigid" and that money may bring higher rates of Interest lalor on, the present City Council borrowed $50,000 at 4 3-1 per cent, straight Interest. A portion of tills money ls still on hand in the treasury, the difference between tho $50,000 borrow ed and tho amount on hand now be ing practically offset by the extraordl , nary expenses of the city in prepar ing the streets for the street pav ing; an appropriation by the council to thc Street Paving Commission of $1,015. &2 to -balanceo oft the City's share of the cosi of the paving "work: $5,436:16 advanced by the city coun cil for unpaid paving assessments and interest, which are outstanding today, and the amounts paid by the City for its charo of the coat of paving (South Main and Bast Market Streets, next to the City Hall, and for the post ! office's Bharo of the cost for paving '.North Main street, it being the Fed eral'Government's policy .??? io pay for any improvements made on streets adjacent to Its poatomes. Th? ex tr nord ian ry expenses referred to above included grading, laying ce ment and drains and curbs, putting.in sanitary and storm sewers,' putting in water main butts., In preparing tho streets for the paving before the pav ing was laid, and putting in the sani tary sower trunk lines leading from under the paving to th? out ftc. wa. The only other outstanding Indebt edness by the present council was for the purchase price of the incinerator plant. The purchase price fos -$5,250, and two botes of equal amouuts, ma turing In the summers of 1917 and 1918 respectively, were given.. Since no cher bonds can be is sued, for street paving ot for any other purpose until ?iftor the General Assembly meeta in '1017, thor o will be no moro street paving this year, and therefore there will be no further ex traordinary expenses Incurred by the city during tote like there were this spring and early summer. ?) ' My report to the city council for the month of April, submitted on the first ot this month showed a* balance of $9,718.0:1 on band on May lat; 1916. .If I can give you any further Infor mation please command me. / ' Your? very truly, (Signed) TS. M. SCOTT. , City C?erk and Treasurer... ., <In reply to Mv. Bailes' Statement.) Mayor Godfrey baa given the follow ing signed Statement VtS The Intelli gencer for publication: .The present system financing thc etty by borrowing money after, ta? paying time and nisklug up these notos ?! when taxes come in during the fol< lowing spring ia no new thing; ti ; bas been, the practice: for years. Th? pity of Anderson has been operating .' thia way for a long tuna.; ?nr ia ' stance the amount of noter, taken us in tho spring ot 1914 for money btw , :towedlfc.lMS waa $?9,009; thOamciunt i ot . notes taken up in the . spring o , IMP for mocoy borowed tu 1914 wai >? $70,000. and tho amount of notes i?k : en WP in the spring tj. 1919 for mon ey borrowed In 191$ was $105,600. Th< ? c.'- . btedness Of iwed By Mr. >mmunication Increase in tho year l?lf? was due to the extraordinary expenses Incurred by the city In preparing the streetB for Iii? .-.trt'et paving, which ls moro fully explained lu1 Mr. Scott's letter to Mr. Balles. I slut eil In my cam paign speech In the court house last Tuesday night that I expected to ov eicome this increase in the Indebted ness when next year's taxes come in, and without any increase In the tax levy. . "Eleventh Hour" campaign attacha are usually to be expected, and have always reacted on the man that makes them or the man they arc intended to help and I am surprised at a man of Mr. Balles' prominence making thia at the late hour. If Mr. Balles* only motive is to inform the people, why didn't he bring up this mater ear lier then I and others would have had ,<vna to Jiscas ii and glvo the people all .lie facts J. H. GODFREY. May, 23th, 191G. _____ * While the letter is signed Mr. Scott, it doesn't take a good guesser to guess the real author, so that'.'while the hand of Esau, the voice is' that of Jacob. The author opena by asserting that the City has nof loatlng indebtedness! But he proceeds immediately to give the figures showing that there is a floating indebtedness up to April of more than $80,000,000. Mere are his ' figures: Money borrowed in Spring of 1916, $35,000.00 Money borrowed few weeks later % 50,000.00 Notes' maturing summer 1917 and 1918 for incinerator .. 5,525.00 Total 90,250.00 Cash on hand May 1st 9,718.39 Floating indebtedness May 1st 80,531.01 1 Doesn't the author of tho abovo let ter know a floating indebtedness when ho sees it? 'What impresi?n ls he seeking to make when he says there is no floating indebtedness? The author of the letter undertakes to excuse the action of Connell by saying that the present Council in herited $35,000.00 and $2,000.00 of notes from the former administration, lie says that these note? were paid out of tho taxes of 1915, as aparently should luive been. Hence It follows that the present administration, has therefore borrowed$85,000100, and incurred ? obligations amounting to $5250.00, in adition, makbat; moro than $90,000.00 of indebtedness that' the present council' bas created without the vote of the people. iSuposing that the cash *dn bani on May 1st wil be consumed 'before the . expiration ot the t e r m ' of o i ?i c e ot tho presont Council on August. 15th next, then the floating indebtedness at that date will be $90,250.09, plus Interest I presume, and there v;ill' be ito funds in the treasury with wHich'to "meet the City's obligations from AuguBt 15th until the following January and February when taxes are again col lected. But the Incoming' Council cannot- cone'.act the city's affairs wita out money, and if they get along by borowlng only $2,000.00 a month for Ave months then the floating Indebt edness of tho City on January 15th next will be over $100,000.00. But the author of the above letter says that the City of Anderson has no floating indebtedness! " If the next Council pays the City's floating indebtedness out of the next taxes then lt is manifest that there will be no funds with which to con duct the city's affaira, the following year unless extraordinarily heavy tax es are levied, or unless that Council 1 lkciwise borrows an enormous sum ? of money.. ? . . The question naturally arises as to whether a City Council. can legally cr?ate an Indebtedness, spch as has der.son. If BO, then what would pre vent a city council from borrowing boen created against the city, of Ah a million, dollars and' giving the City's notes therefor, 'payable at any time, in the future? . But the City Council' cannot issue a single, bond, even for $10.00, unies by a petition of a majority bf the real estate ow ners and a voto of a majority of the qualified voters. If the Council can legally borrow enormous amounts of money without authority from tho peo ple on the plain potes of the City, then why. ever go through the slow er, mon? tedious and more uncertain method of geting the permisi?n of th?' vftonle-to issue bond$T.. ; ... fha above leter states thab tho City ' Council has advanced moro than $5,* i 000.00 for unpaid paving assessments 1 and interest. Doubtless it ls a great i ac?niodation to tho Individuals who are receiving the benefit of that rav < cr at the hands' ot Council, bm those who were compelled to pay will feel that they were entitled tb aa much ? favor aa anybody elsafand it ia cer tainly not conforming to that maxim > of proper government ' tb wit, that : there should be equal righta to all and > special privileges to none.-. If any on o should charit? that' I have . presented tho abbye for political cf > feet, then my reply iii: that even la : auch ho tba case, th*#!.I will at the r same time have presented to tba peo* > pl? Borne very interesting and Jinpor - tani facts with regard to .tho finan cial condition of the City, and which ? wilt moko every thoughtful man se s rloualy consider '?irnirrf?ww^'ihe tn? * evitable result of ^g_" ?pan ?' elngV*. ?> ' Qi H;BAILES. Some The Palm Beach of the feat rs an nexpensive luxury and necessity . Yes, oui* kind are made with they retain their shape KARVIN TOWNSHIP FAIR. Will Re Held Sometime During Fall Of This Year. On May? 6th tho initial ?lep was I taken at Lebanon by tho people of tint community for a township fair ! to bo held during the fall of 1916. It war, first Intended to hold a commun- ? tty fair; but the ?territory ls not large 'enough and tho indefinite boundar-j lea of a community caused the selec-J .tion of the entire township of Garvin in which Lobanon ls situated, i The Association elected as officers: j J. H. Douthit, .Tr., president; J. D. Smith, Secretary; and'J. A. Thomp son, treasurer. Tho remaining de tails of the organization wero post poned until 3 P. M. Saturday, May 13. This meeting, as was the first 'o bo held In this community club house at Lebanon . school park. After, .the meeting,, refreshments were servel THE WAY TO BETTER LIQIiT Published VOIr II. ? M ARCO MGR AMS With an electric iron ironing may be done in the coolest room. ' In our irons the, heat is uniform,.the weight well 'distributed, the-handln always co ol.. ' "--o Everyone appreciates that this Is the age of electricity. ,vDo lt electrically.'.' Is the familiar slogan. You will find hero electrical de vices to meet every; ron. ni rem eut of. practical dally use. Little Utility Electric Tabla Stoves are a wonder in the* matter of making iced tea. You can heat up one'or two quarts ot water al most instantly-doing away alto* gather with the'necessity of .firing' up the stove or range. Mothers, haye you cautioned . year boys about catching on to street cars when out riding- their bicycles? It ls a dangerous prac tice, and a word rram-you tnlgtit save,the boy a leg or an arm, may be bia life. Tell 'them to stop lt Tn lighting, the real point is to set th* n?ost? the -b?5i^''?t?:;esa?ss!v I the surest. . This fact was never more clearly demonstrated than in : the j a rr an ge m en t Anderson msr I chants haye for lighting tip .their, show windows; Which aro admired by hundreds each evening,: The j lights by special arrangement are turned on and off with the White {.Way Ugh tis without any ' alten t toe. by,the various firms ?Sing * tb? service and. Is proving ? great suc cess. - : nemies o ?f's a mighty coi a sweltering day Palm Beach in i $5 to $8.50; dc steds $5 to $10 A special suit fa colors most atti seaming, it's a ti her-weight suit a hot weather Mohairs the wini blues and neat hold their shape such care that Tropical, weight blue; and gr* v. with a litle ,noi suits. Just as ' te The Sto. 'Oith a by ilho Lebanon ladies, and a picnic will follow. AU the people of the township who wish well for this'en terprise aro cordially invited. , .Tile organization was enthusiastic and a great Fiir is expected. - .Tho plan of our State Fairs will bo followed. Agriculture,"of course, will receive greatest attention; so tho meu will be entrusted tho ar ranging of the agricultural features; sUch as field cropo, live stock, ' and horse races. The. ladies are plan ning large and attractive exhibits ot sawing, canning, cooking, etc. . -: AU exhibits will bo placed in compet?-1 tivo classes; and competent. judges will be secured. --7?>>i 'Whilo tho Lebanon people -nav? taken tho Initiative, 4hey have <>UP wish.,to, nor can they, give tho Fair Without the aid and. good wishes of the entlro Ntown3l|lp? :?1J residpnts of$Garvin are urged to.meet with By Southern Public Utilities ANDERSON, S. Ut SUNDAY, HAT, 1 !, 1 f- -? . ' ?> y ? ? ?? - Th? New W A way that puts t hear a hot stove a tC and fro-a hot ? . to and fro for a hoi ' electric' iron, i' we are abie to offer ' the tow prl'c? cf Why not do your ii H?at nfortable suit to slip into on mtural color to be-laundered irk colors that apear as wor r comfort in a new mixture, active, silk yoke* and s?k eat for any man at $8.50. lers without weight, in gr. y i stripes, especially tailored to $10 and $12.50. serges and Dixie Weaves in A great suit for comfort and re "dress up" than the wash light as allowed $12.50. Conscience them at lebanon nexrc Saturday af-,', ternbon. . ' . ?. i H ADMINISTRATORS* SALE : Au administrators ot Hie estate of; J. M. Sullivan, deceased,:. we will sell / for cash at. public outsrp in front of,, the ,Court House at Anderson, S. C.,-;. at eleven o'clock a. m:, on May 22nd,.'? 1916, the following: $ 1 1-3-shares of capital stock of Riverside Mfg. Co. V,. . 2 1-3 shares of. capital stock of ' Anderson Cotton milla*.-;. .' . ff/ , i shares of capitol-stock of Coi? Manufacturing Co. & 2:shares or capital stock (common)/ .pf .Anderson Phosphate ?? O HCp. a.:shares of capital 'stock or Orr' Cotton mills. . $ 1 1-3 shar?s of capital stock of Standard .Warehouse ,Co. HARR I PTE D. SULLIVAN. M G. CULLEN SULLIVAN. M . ' - ' ? ''.?'.*? ?K? -^-rr*): ? ? W g jB jSBBSmgpf? NATIONAL Vv,. MAZDA THE QUALITY .'.''-LAMP 010. NUMBER 18. m fay to Iron m end to standing nd walking miles ron-ia to use an i roh-is to use au ? ?l?uiiuijr in MiCTU you these irons st 5tf.'?t|ch.'( ?^?w.-ns-.eot?forit' i ?WIIIIII ?ian I i, ?.?tateme* ? Iwv-'