The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, December 08, 1914, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4
IUE ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER
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'Things on which war revenue tax
Is'not required:
Paying your debts.
Planting some kind of grain,
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Procuring a marriage license.
Attending the grain elevator meet
ing tomorrow.'
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Ceasing the talk about hard.times|
and being cheerful.
' '. reeling disgust over the conuition
of Anderson's streets.
Making up your mind to work your j
too,nails off for the passage of a bond
issue for paving.
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- Forgetting all strife and differences j
of opinion on publie questions and
making up your mind to pull togeth
er- for the good of Anderson.
This weather ought to be fine for
floating loans.
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' . "Wouldn't it be nice to swat the war
correspondent T
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'.More than one nation la trying to
get Gen. DeW?t's goat
; What has become of the old-fash
ioned person who termed the Federal i
League as a Joke?
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. Wo judge that some of the European
notions wHl want means to carry itj
to extremes.
Hearst wants a larger navy. Well,}
the one we have la anything other |
than water-proof.
"Many to Retrain Postoffice' Jobs"
, reads a headline. Which shows the ad
vantage of having a postofflce job.
e
' Since the Germans won't, and we
aren't allowed to, we wonder who
will concede the victory to the Allies.
' Wo don't bellevo Abo Martin is gull-'
} t9 of all the stuff he is accused of say
in*.
. ' King George. haa? gone to the battle
front. Here's .hoping the war corres
pondents don't bring him and the kai
ser into b fisticuff.
\\.^j?\h4gta? to look as it the farmer j
Knottfl at least naif as much again '
alxsut his own business ob most peo- !
pl? give him credit for knowing.
"Trying the Wo?r of Wall Btreef
?a?V ? headline In an exchange.' With ]
Ijpnd jaws and worr?s, ioav
must bo a regular menagerie.
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While hardly instructive, It certain
.0 interesting to look at the plc
bf the Rulers of the Nation? of
Awortev
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Orejwvllle Piedmont ia now rur
i>0oms >f Bob's .Rest." There-Is
no guefca coming as to who Rob ta>
Even the cltleens of Loris know-riot,
, >-tf?~
"Ponderous platitudes and the per
fectly obvions are prerogatlvea of the
regular editors." ; says th? Oreenvtl
#*ctoont,What's the poor dears d
to fee called all tuet?
MR, ROOSEVELT AND THE FACTS
The country has not seen fit to go
very wild over the fulniinatlonj of one
Theodore Roosevelt, now fortunately
on ex-presldent of the United States,
with respect to the shortcomings of
ihe Wilson administration us regards
the European war. Mr Hoosevelt hus
been writing a series o' urtilces for a
syndicate, in -which he hus taken time,
between flings at the peace treuties
negotiated through the influence of
Mr. Bryan, to criticise Mr. Wilson for
not having taken action at the begin
ning of the war which would undoubt
edly have drawn the United States
into the conflict without any possible
hope of benefit or glory. Declaring
"unlawful" certain acts of war, such
as Germany's Invasion v>f Helglum,
England's destruction of u German
vessel In Spanish waters, und Jupan's
taking Klao-Chau, and so forth, Mr.
Roosevelt has declared that the Unit
ed States should "take action In nil
theso cases;" that If wo hud an In
telligent and resolute President and
Secretary of State, "they would have
taken action on July 29, 30, or 31,
certainly not later than August 1."
Such a President and Secretary of
State, he has declared, ItiBtead of ob
serving "a timid and spiritless new
trallty," would havo "lived up to our
obligations by taking action," and
would have "done what we wore sol
emnly bound to do."
The "obligations" to which Mr.
Roosevelt so solemnly and emphati
cally refers?the obligations which
were so strong that they should have
moved the PreBldent to "take action"
which would have plunged the Unit
ed States into the war that haB horri
fied the world?are tho "obligations"
of The Hague conventions, to which
the ex-president proudly refers as
having been entered into while he
wan President. .
Mr. William Bayard Hole, who Is
one of the greatest Journalists In this
or any other country, thus remarks
concerning. Mr. Roosevelt's grave
charges of breach of faith by this
country:
"Thus rashly and violently writes
Mr. Roosevelt. Ignorant of the tact
that The Hague rules regarding neu
trality, regarding mines, regarding
everything which troubles Mr. Roose
velt and saddens ub all,- have never
been, ratified by Great Britain, nor by
France, nor by Belgium, and that by
their own provisions these articles are
binding only If ratified by all belli
gerents; Ignorant likewise of the fact
that the United States, in ratifying
certain of The Hague rules, added tne
express stipulation that the action
was not to be taken as involving this
government in any way in an obliga
tion to enforce their observance on
other powers, snatching up the vagu
est notions current among street-cor
ner idlers concerning the laws of war
and the rights and duties of nations,
forgetful of the grave results .that
would follow our Intervention; indif
ferent to the welfare of the hundreds
of m liions of our own kindred; neg
lectful of the true duties of neutral
ity, and, above all. sublimely super
ior to the difficulty of ascertaining
the truth and Judging righteous Judg
ment amid the whirlwind of rumor,
charge, and counter-charge; this man
would have the -.United States govern
ment step into the ring as the referee
of the fight, laying down rules and
breaking heads all around to enforce
theml "Our true course," he exclaims,
"should be to Judge each nation on its
conduct, unhesitatingly antagonizing
every nation that does ill!
. "Has a more amazing speech ever
been given utterance by anybody out
of bedlam?
"it was not a Roosevelt who, In re
ply to the pies, "Master, speak to my
brother that bo divide the Inheritance
with me," answered, "Man. who made
me a Judge or a divider over you?"
"Tho only comment that sober men
can make on such wild words as these
of Mr. Hoosevelt is this: that, if they
had been published five days earlier,
the country would have gone to its
ljtaees with Its disposition to give
thanks profoundly increased by a
sense of Its escape from the incon
ceivable calamity of having in the
White House at usuch an hour this
Incarnation of rashness, violence, and
Irresponsibility, in room of tho saga
oIoub man who today, at the head of
the nation, walks with recollected
feet the imperiled path of peace."
Come over Greenville and take a
look at our streets, and you'll see
something that will remind you of
days that were.
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Time was when we enjoyed "The
Man With the Hoe." But "The man
With the Dough" Interests us a great
deal more nowadays.
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A French surgeon cites Instances
of where men have lived without
brains. We could have informed him
on that score long ago.
Atlanta simply won't to outdone.
Following .New York's barrel murder
mystery, the Gate City of the South
Sprung her apartment house hilling
mystery.
The warring nations'of Europe are
taking ship road after . ship load of
horses and mules from the United
States. Why not somo of the asses,
tool '
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Wsre it only, feasible to collect sH
the mud now on Anderson's Btreets
aid store it until, some of tho "wet"
bad evaporated, wo would have mater
ial for making enough brick to pave
tho down. \
The Truth Ab
By F
UuslncsB in Anderson is not normal
for tills time of year, but It Is not sub
normal. It is exceptionally good, and
It is dully getting better. It will thus
continue, and when next spring and
summer Anderson County harvests
her mammoth gruln crop, conditions
will be normal or above normal; ver
tainly ubove normal for that season
of the year.
Let us see what an analysis will
show about the "reul" business condi
tion In Anderson.
What part of the city's business de
pends upon our cotton mills and oth
er small industries, all of which are
being operated at leaBt i*0 per cent,
normal, and probably 100 per cent,
when the decline in certain non-tex
tile Industries 1b considered as being
made up In Increased textile expan
sion? cities, (county seats) In other
parts of the State In counties similar
ly populated agriculturally to Ander
son <"ounty, which cities have no cot
ton mils, are usually cities of ah"at
5,000 to 7.000 people. For Instance,
Abbeville, Menuett h vi lie, oymgeburg.
and other cities in this State. If An
derson had no cotton mills it is safe
to Bay the city would have only 5.000
to 6.000 people, or be approximately
the sl/e of such county seat towns as
aro enumerated here for South Caro
lina. Take Georgia. Hartwell, (pop
ulation 3,000); Washington, (popula
tion 2,500); Balmbridge, (population
4,000) ; all county scat towns with no
textile development, and all small
towns. Take Alabama. There is Ope
iika, the county seat of one of the
best counties in Alabama. It has 5,
000 people. Take Brewton, county
Beat of Bscambla County. Ala., and
In the center of the finest agricultural
and lumbering regions In that State.
It has barely 3,000 people. Take Eu
falla; it is a county seat, on a great
river, and a nOlnt of navigation. It
baa about 5,500 people. None of these
Alabama towns have any considerable
manufacturing. Agriculturally they
aro on nearly a par with Anderson
County, or at least 50 to 75 per cent.
bo. Yet their pou let ions ore relative
ly small. But let's go further, let's
take tho argument into one of the
greatest agricultural States in Dixie.
Old Tennessee we mean. There is
Franklin in Middle Tennessee, with
4,500 people, and located in the very
heart of a great agricultural section;
and there l<* Shelbyvlle in Western
Tennessee, In the center of a county
noted for its progressive agriculture,
fine horses and grasses. In old Ken
tucky we find a similar condition, also
in Virginia and In the Old North
State. In Texas, there is Longview.
In one of the great Black land belt
counties, and it has but 4,000 people;
It is in Northest Texas. There la
Vernon In Northwest Texas, county
Boat of Wilbarger, admittedlv the best
county in that part of the State, and
Verncn has but few over 3,00 people:
and then again in Middle Texas, in
the great* Germanic section, where the
thrifty Dutch live, there is New
Braunfals. It is the county seat of
one of the best developed counties in
the Lone Star St'?e. It has but 2.500
people. In Southeast Texas there is
Bryan, a county seat that markets
more wagon cotton than any other
town, in the world. Bryan handles
about 30,000 bales of wagon cotton
annually. . (Anderson averages about
22,000 bales and Is. probably the third
Dr fourth largest' wagon cotton mar
ket in the world.) Bryan has Just un
ter 6.000 people; and It has practical
ly no manufacturing. It is probably
lust such a town as Anderson would
30 if she had no manufacturing.
In . Louisiana, there is Minden in
the north and Houma in tho south: In
Arkansas, there la Arkadolphla and.
Paragould, and In Fiorina, wo - find
Do Funiak Sprlngs-and Lake Cltv. Ail
heso towns are county seats and all
markets for wagon cotton. None of
hem have over 4,500 people, and yet
DECEMBE
THEN
Thirty-eight years ago today the
rirst scientific cremation Ih the Unit
ed States took place at Washington,
Pa, The pioneer cremator Dr. F.
lulius Lo?Mbyno, and the subject was
the body of Baron de Palm. But the
American precedent had been set 83
rears, before when under penalty of
losing a legacy of 60,000 pounds If .he
refused, the son of Henry LaurenB,
South Carolina's Revolutionary pat
riot, consigned his father's body to a
runeral pyre. The ghasly experience
of seeing his infant child com" to life
lust before burial In the earth is frald
to have been responsible for ?.aurons*
lomnnd to be cremated. Tho origin
Df cremation. is* lost m the days of
unrecorded history.. It was practiced
sporadically by the pre-Christian civ
ilizations, except in those _ countries
Whose religion. Just as do some re
llgiohs .today, forbade Its practice.
Tho Parseefl were' worshippers of
fire, but prohibited cr?mation because
Df the opinion,that the fire was.thus
polluted. The Greeks and the Ro
man? practiced cremation, while the
Egyptians considered It an act of pag
anism' and disposed of their dead, by
sarth burial: Tbo revival of tho
practice In Europe te the l?th cen
tury wan greeted with horror by the
medieval peasants. Kings prohibited
It under penalty o'. torture. .Sir Hfnry
Thompson introduced cremation Into
Great Britain shortly after tho clos
ing oi the American Civil War. Us
ing a reverberating furnace, he re
duced a body weighing 144 pounds to
four pounds of lime dust within *>o
minutes. : Encouraged by Thompson's
success, Dr. Lo Moyne Installed an
improved incinerator in a *moU one
story brick structure on a hill over
looking the : town, of .. Washington.
Three years after hi* pioneer crema
tion, ha died and was cremated in his
out Conditions
. A. W.
they ure county seals und financial
centers and commercial marts for
counties at least 50 per cent, as well
developed as our own Anderson.
It is then we believe sufo to say
that without her textile business, An
derson would be a town of about G.000
people. She has at least 18,000. Ag
riculture then supports C.noo people
and 12.000 people are supported oth
erwise. Un this basis, business would
be CS per cent, normal in Anderson,
provided we admitted that agriculture
was falling down entirely on its sup
port of the other 3:r per cent., but
that can not be admitted, since it is
not so. Much cotton is being held
but &ome 1? being sold. That which
is being held represents wealth, (gen
erally) und' Is therefore essentially
the same as money, since the owner
of it will not part with it except for
so much money, which makes it par
ticular value. Then our chickens,
eggs, butter, grains,' etc., are being
Bold, at good prices, too, and as fast
nn offered. So our friend Agriculture
is not falling down altogether. Ho Is
really on his feet good and strong and
is Incidentally planting a mammoth
grain cropll fattening up IiIb hogs, In
creasing his livestock holdings, milk
ing a few more cowj and getting ready
for the big "pot" which Is surely lat
er to bo "poured" out. Agriculture is
just about 75 per cent, normal, so by
ti simple calculation in fractions, we
read this result: Non-agricultural,
?C2.3 per cent, normal, and agricul
tural. 75 per cent, of 331-2 per cent,
normal, or the whole, 01 5-8 per cent.,
which represents the real .actual bus
iness situation in Anderson today.
Business then la less than 9 per cent,
short of normal. And a great war is
on. O! how thaukful we should be.
When the grain crop is harvested,
business will be normal, probably it
will be a 105 per cent, business.
Some say that bank deposits arc a
little short of tho high water mark
of last year; that the sale of luxuries
Is off; that collections are somewhat
tight, that sales are fewer. This may
bo true. It was to have been expected
but we believe a careful Investigation
of general business in Anderson
would show that practleally every
business house here la' doing at least
90 per cent, as much business as this
time last year, with the exception of
businesses dealing in luxuries or
quaBl-luxurles. The falling off in the
latter hu3 been heavy, perhaps 50 to
75 per cent. It Is to be regretted, but
later the vast Increased business of
next year will overcome this depres
*;n on luxuries'and near-luxuries,
and the dealers in such businesses
will reap a deserved reward.
Whether the wlar In Europe .cjoses
this winter or-flVjO. years later will
make very little ."difference ; to tho
Southern farmer and business man
when once next spring has come end
gone. We shall have then re-adjusted
our farming and re-expanded our bus
inesses, and if tho war keeps on, we
shall be large sellers of food to th?
war countries, and if it vtops we can
manufacture our feeds into livestock
and hogs and be the gainer.
\ The future of the South Is sure. No
part of America, may look towards the
vista of tomorrow with more certain
ty than old Dixie, lier time has
come. She shall show* the world that
she can Substitute pther crops for
cotton; that she can finance, herself ;
and Anally that she has the Inert
ability, determination and enterprise
to develop her own wonderful and as
tounding resources. Let Germany,
and England, and Austria and France,
and the others tear down their fac
tories and bum . Up their ships; let
them send to death thousands of their
I finest workers and artisans, regret
and deplore It an .much as we may;
{let them; and the-South must reap.
I Anglo-Saxon Southern enterprise
will not pass up this'splendid oppor
tunity for world trade. Already
:R 6, 1914
KW. ; . .
Today about 1 per cent of the 900,
000 Individuals who die in the United
States annually are incinerated" In the
30 or more crematoriums located-in
more than half of the States. Ten
years ago the ratio was about one-half
of 1 per cent The movement toward
universal cremation j is gradually
spreading throughout tho world. En
rope has nearly av hundred cremator
iums, Germany disposing of 8,868
bodies by cremation in 1012. Conced
ed to be the place of resurrection ot
the ancient practice, Italy leads the'
world in percent?go of cremations,
while during 1912 tho city of St Gall.
Switzerland, reported that of the
bodies of 636 individuals who died
there, 201 'wero ; thus disposed of.
England is leaning toward the prac
tice. The authorities of 'Westminster
Abbey, the repository for Great Brit
ain's heroes, recently prohibited the
burial of more bodies there. They
must be cremated." Cremation is be
coming a necessity, especially around
tho largo centers of population, de
clare cavocates or tqe practice,;, At
the rate at which cemeteries are in
creasing around such ; eitles as New
York and London, each of which re
quire about 24 acres of additional
land annually to bury the dead, it has
been predicted that the cities of the
living will be Vsrltabty encompassed
by "cities ol the dead." . Humanity is
reluctant to give, up the, age-long
practice of inhumation, some. anU
crematloniets declaring that . "when
the body ia consumed by heat tho ?oui
is at tho same thhe destroyed." Le
gal-mtnded objectors al*o. point out
that "it destroys,alt evidence ot crime
where murder by. poison has been
committed." In the reply ; the cremat
lonlsta argue "that cremation l8 the
only - hygenie, - sanitary end < economic
method or disposing ot our dead.**
RISTMAS_
Suggestions
When He Buys a Present For Himself
He thinks of. this store first and right here he comes; men know
that the practical things?the things worth while?for a man
are gathered here. Don't you think you'd please him better in
your gift if you'd take this tip from him as to where and what to
buy. r ,
Plenty of Small Articles at Small Prices
Neckwear.25c to SI.00
Gloves.25c to S3.50
Handkerchiefs... .'.. 10c to 5oc
Silk Handkerchiefs .. 25c to $1.00
Silk Mufflers.5()c to $2.50
Hosiery.10c to Si .00
Holeproof Socks .. S1.50 per box
Silk Socks . , . .50c to Si.00 pair
Cuff Buttons ..25c to $1.00 pair
Shirt Studs.25c to Sl.oo
Slick Pins.25c to $1.00
Shirts.50c to S3.50
Collars.. .. 15c each, $l.5o per doz
Suspenders. .25c to 5oc
Caps. ... 25c, 50c, S1.00 to Sl.5o
Garters.ioc, 25c and 5oc
Canes.. ...Sl.5o
Umbrellas.Sl.oo to $5.oo
Hand Bags. ... . .$2.50 to SlS.oo
Suitcases.S 1.00 to $15.00
Bath Robes. . . .S3.00 to S 10.00
Pajamas .. .Sl.oo to $2.5o per suit
House Slippers. , .. ..Si to Sl.50
Way's Mufflers.25c to 5oc
Night Robes. .......... 50c t? S 1.00
Trousers.S2.00 to S9.00
Underwear 5oc to S3.25 per gar
ment
Cuffs.25c pair
Men's Suit, $10 to $25; Overcoats $10 to $25.
Boys' Suits $3.50 to $12.50| Overcoats $3.50 to $7.50.
Men's Rain Coats $3 to $15; Boys' $2.50 to $5.
. Men's Shoes $3.50 to $6; Hats $1.50 to $5.
9 Order by parcels post.
We prepay all charges.
?/ The Christmas Store for Men's and Boys' Gifts.
"The Store with a Conscience"
Southern manufacturers are getting
ready for this new world business,
and they will get It, and then let us
here in Anderson not forget- that the
Piedmont is destined to become the
greatest manufacturing section on the '
continent.
"Talk business and business will
talk back to you*," said The, Intelli
gencer recently. Do business and gen
erate more business. Anderson is
lust on the verge of a really great
business epoch, and incidentally on
the verge of her real city growth. The}'
war in Europe is but as a passing1 '
boat. Tho development of the Pied- .
mont, and Anderson, ita most progr?s- \
slve city, is a live work. Progression, ,
not retrogression, is the history . of ,
our past, and on a larger, undeviat
ing, greater scale, shall progression ,
be the guide to the future. . vl
Business is after all business. Let's
get our sharo of it, and.remember we ,
may be paying .today, the penalty of <
a 9 per cent, shortness In business,
but that penalty Is the lever that shall i
give us a 200 per cent, greater b?Bt- i
nesa on the morrow. ' '
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Was It In Anderson f
There was a little farmer and ho had
a little bale, . -.
Ho didn't care to sell It, for a little
bit of Judo.
So he put it in his yard, and there he <
let It be
And the cotton deteriorated, as you
easily can see.
Now when he decides to sell.lt, he
. will find to bis dismay.
That the buyer but little con for dam
aged cotton *will pay.
And then.this farmer, all forlorn, win .
, wonder why In thunder -. . '
His conning tower didn't work, and
save him . from this blunder.,
The fact that the yeggs went to
Nichols is enough to convict them.
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A traveling man said Billy Sunday
Is a faker. Dare .him tell Blily that? .
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Anyhow, th? "hog and:hominy glide**
sounds good. ."a
?o-.
We take It mat the races of Charles- _
ton are making their last run for the j
money.
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Gee, but won't the European war
afford a Bpl?ndtd opportunity for ?
pardoning record.
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The kaiser finds that there la too
much machine in his war machine!
?...QU,.
y. Two things we knew agcinst, Boston f
-rTrottor and the Braves. .
Trustees
Of College Mapped Out Recom
mt r.f?Bimnc For the Conven
tion.
ApropoB of the meeting of the board
of trustees of the Anderson College
la Charleston nc-t Tuesday morning,
& conference of the executive commit
tee and local trustees of the instiCu
tion was held yesterday morning at
the college for the purpose of mapping
out suggestions and recommendations
which will be placed before the board
at the meeting to be held in the city
by the sea.
Trustees of the college will leave
Anderson tomorrow afternoon at 4:5?
o'clock In the- special Pullman ' car
which will bo-operated ; from here to
Charleston for the benefit of the dele
Kates to the State Baptist convention,
which is to be held in.Charleston mis
week.
No statement would be given out
yesterday as to the nature of the sus
gestions which the executive commit
tee and local trustees agreed to sub
mit to the board at the Charleston
meeting, but it was stated that tne
matters were of great Importance to .
the institution.
The meeting of the board will be
held Tuesday morning and the recom
mendations will be made to the Con
vention that night or Wednesday
morning. Dr. Kinard stated yesterday
that he hopes every member v>f the
board of trustees will go to Charles
ton, and remain there until the col
lege reports have been acted upon
by the Convention
T,. McPhail ' of Iva was among* those
sponding yesterday in the city on bus
iness. '' ' *
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, Charles ' Werner of Pend le ton was.
in the city yesterday > 'or a short
while.
R E. Cochran of the firm of W. II.
Keese & Co. goes to H art we 11 this
week with a, line of Christmas gooda.
The simple, strong, hard-hitting, accurate
shooting kind. Sue!} Rifles make happy hoys.
ws and
Just what every boy wants. Get one for your
koy- ' '~i V , i ....... / L-:.: ^!^;i,.;;t,-f|'
er*on, S. C, Gr^n^