Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FOUNDED A! WUST 1, 1860. 12? North Main Street ANDERSON, 8. G. W. W. SMOAK, Editor und Hus. Mgr D. WATSON HELL.City Editor PHELPS SASSEEN. Advertising Mgr T. B. GODFREY.Circulation Mgr EL ADAMS, Telegraph Editor and Foreman. Member of Associated PreBS mir Receiving Completo Dally T?l?graphie Service. Entered according to Act of Con gress as Second Class Mall Matter at the Postoffice at Anderson. S. C SUBSCRIPTION RATES Semi-weekly One Ycnr .fi.r.nj Sir Months . "751 Daily One Year .$.r>.00 j Six Mont hu .2.no Three Month,. 1-25 "FLKPHONK8 Edltorlnl -lOit Husiness Office.321 Job Print in: .693-Ll The Intelll' oncer is delivered bj carriers In tho div, ir you fail t< get your paper rcgi'lurly please notify VS. Opposito your name on th? label of your paper i i printed date to which our paper In paid. Al' checks and drafts should he drawn to Thc Anderson Intelligencer. . Did the society editor of the afternoon paper attend thc circus, or did she remain at home to Study costuming? -o How many ears of corn must a farmer feed to his horse? The special legislature should settle this along with the number of acres of Cotton to be planted. -o Let the legislature decide how] many subscribers it is right for a newspaper to have, while they are] regulating (?).' * -0 We are of the opinion that I some of the merchants are selling1 too many pairs of shoes to farm ers. Of course a farmer should! wear only a Specified number of j ?lairs in a year, lt would be well i or the legislature to look into this. -o Legislator Gray need not have put that property qualification so high to keep newspaper men out of the legislature. We dp not know one thar could go in over a $5,000 property qualification, instead of $100,000. Executive sessions of the city council have suddenly become | very unpopular. Why should the public's busi ness be attended to behind closed! doors? The public should know what the public servants are do-] lng. --o If the commission plan of gov eiument is good for Mexico what about Anderson? "Sheriff of Richland attaches Ringling's circus"-headline in] newspaper. What in the name of common sense does he want with it?, i -0 1 Senator ' Tillman will sow all the oats he can, but he will not ?'saw wood." Baseball has the war backed off the -bofrds. Cotton goods week in Ander son. Let the ladies all wear only cot ton goods next week. ? o The homespun dress of the mothers showed patriotism. Wilt not thc cotton dress of the moth ers of $oday be equally patriotic] WATERLOO. v Why have the mighty lived why have they died? r ls ti ever taus with Idle wreck to strew Fields such as thine, remorse* less Waterloo? Hopeless the lesson! Vainly hath ever cried Stern tats to man-"So perish human pride r Still must th? many combat for the tew: Stfli most the noblest blood fair earth bedew; Tyrants, slaves, freemen, mot* dering side by sids! On such a day the world waa lost and won By Pompey at Pharsatta; such t a day Saw glori?os Hannibal a fugi tive. . So faded 'seaiu the Macedonian ann ' Persia's pate atar; so ?aspire pasead away Tresa Harold's brow, bet ?? disdained to live! -Slr A. de Tare. Ton can get the news while its new ia The Morning Bally Intelligencer. SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE HOUSTON'S ADVICE TO _FARMERS. Amonte the t'ttcrances of prominent business men of tlic~iirition. md among the utterances and advice offered, in the opinion of The Intelligencer, t?tere has nothing been said with more sense to it, or >f more practical nature than the following plan by Hon. D. F. Houston, National Secretary of Agriculture. He does not advise hat the legislatures shall pass stringent laws'restricting the acreage .f cotton next year, but that "there is no other feasible way of ?ringing about wise action on the part of Southern farmers EX :EPT THKOUOH THE PROPOSAI. AND ADOPTION OF A CONSTRUCTIVE PLAN." But let Mr. Houston tell this himself: All the officers of the Department of Agriculture imme diately concerned have given most earnest and prolonged consideration to the problems presented to the Southern farmer by the breaking out of the European war. We are definitely of HIP opinion that there is no other feasible way of bringing about wise action on the patt of Southern farmers except through the proposal and adoption of a constructive plan. In the face of past experience and knowledge of the human element involved, it does not seem likely that an effort to induce Southern farmers sim ply to restrict acreage will solve the problem. In the past such an effort has been made. It has been found that where agreements have been made to reduce acreage they have not ben obsrved, and that instead of a reduction of acreage resulting there has been an increase and the pro duction of a larger crop. Many individuals thinking that others would reduce acreage have increased theirs, and the result has been that which I have indicated. The constructive plan which appeals to this Department as wise and practicable is simply-this: To bring home to thc farmers the fact that in the next year or in the next few years the prices of all foodstuffs Arc likely to be high, and that it is the part of wisdom for the farmers of the country to make every effort to take advantage of the situation and to increase their products of foodstuffs so far as possible. Even if thc Southern farmers should not think it wise to produce grains, such as wheat and corn, for foreign export or for interstate shipment in compel; tion with the middle West, it would seem to us that they should recognize the wisdom of ...produciing enough of these commodities for home consumption and for the in tercommunity market. Many of Che Southern States im port many millions of dollars worth of grain each year. With the increasing prices of these products it is econom ically unsound for the South to rely so largely on other sections for them. H seems clear to this Department that southern farmers should at least produce grains for home consumption as a means of cutting down the family ex penses, and that they might increase their production of chickens, guineas, turkeys and hdgs'to the point at least i of supplying their own needs ana>"?the needs of their neighbors. With adequate attention to marketing, they f can also profitably produce these things foor interstate shipment. I am told that the number of poultry on thc average Ohio farmm is approximately 125, while the number on the average South Carolina farm is about 14. Thc same comparison would doubtless obtain with refer ence to most of the Southern States. This situation should be remedied and can be remedied. The whole na tion is confronted with a problem of securing enough meat .for its own consumption. Too exclusive attention in the past has been given to the production of the large ani mals, such as beef cattle, and to the 'production of these on the big ranch, whiich is in a measure disappearing. We are confronted with a decreasing meat supply and a rapidly increasing population. It is obvious to everybody who thinks that a much larger part of the meat con sumption of the nation might well be the consumption of poultry of a considerable variety and of hogs. As a mat ter of fact, a very large percentage today of the meat con sumed is of this kind. The production of these smaller animals can be very considerably increased, if each indi vidual farmer will give his attention to their production, and they can be increased and qlti?l?y .'increased without very great expense. They can..,be consumed at home, relieving the farmer of the expense of securing his meat from remote States, paying transportation and middle man's cost; and with the usc of known methods of mar keting they can be shipped beyond the community. If the Southern farmer will give his attention next year and the year after to these things, and economize in produc tion by saving manure, thereby reducing his fertilizer bill, and by planting winter cover cxpps, especially winter le gumes, he can secure the surest relief for himself and for his community jn this emergency,''and can bring about a wiser detection of his activities as a. .prominent part of ag ricultural economy in the South, in this direction it seems to me lies the wise use of a much larger percentage of the Southern farmer's labor and capltai/and of his land. The Department urges that the Southern farmer follow this direction as the surest means of increasing his returns and of bringing about a better foundation for prosperity in the South. If he had cone this iln: jecent years he would now have means of subsistence, and would not be com pelled in so many instances u> pari v?th his cotton im mediately. : -";'! I recognize that there have been impediments placed in the way of many Southern farmers in his attempt to di vrsify his agriculture by failure of banks and merchants to extend hin credit on other things than cotton. It seems to me that this has been shortsighted on the part of banks and merchants. After all, the character of the indi vidual is the foundation cf credit, and again it is almost a truism th?.', it is more important to guarantee that credit exiended shall be wisely used than that it shall be ex tended at all. The bankers and merchants should co-op erate with the farmers in ascertaining what is the wisest use of credit and in directing the application of capital and labor into the most fruitful channels. i The hearty co-operation of individuals in the South, of land-owners and tenants, of all Southern organizations, bankers and merchants is needed to bring about a better direction of Southern agricultural enterprise. If they should see fit at this time to follow such a constructive program as has been indicated, it would result, as a mat ter of course, that less labor and capital would go into cotton planting and that the output of this particular crop in another year would be proportionately reduced, or that in any event the South could like at home and utilize I what cotton it did produce as a cash asset. The Depart ment of Agricurture is proposing this constructive plan to Southern farmers, bankers, and merchants, and is suggest ing it not only through its demonstrators but through circulars, lt has issued at least 300,000 of these circu lars and will continue its efforts in this direction. A pretty general acceptance of such a plan known to the public, as a manner of course, would afford the South a guarantee of subsistence in the near future, and would react on th? present prices of cootton. Very truly yours, p. F. HOUSTON, Secretary. Senator Tillman Favors State W?rehoiise System IN A LETTER TO CHESTER COUNTY CITIZEN SENATOR TILLMAN ADVOCATES STATE WAREHOUSE SYSTEM AND DOUBTS IF STATE CAN LEGALLY RESTRICT THE ENORMOUS COTTON CROP. Thc following Jetjcf was sent' The Intelligencer by Senator Till man, a copy of Y,-. Collin's letter was not enclosed but its contents :an bc pretty well guessed bv a careful reading of the reply. Th: letter follows: Trenton, S. C., October 9, 1914. Mr. J. T. Collins, Chester, S. C. Vt y Dear Sir: Yours of October r>ih received, I realize your condition per 'ecllv and sympathize with the farmers who owe you. 1 do not <now wh it to suggest or how to help our fellow-citizens who are in this predicament. Sad to say there are very many of them in dis tress. I am hoping that thc legislature will enact a law promptly nroviding for a sensible' warelrousc scheme and that the state will get behind ?ts own citizens with its cre'dit, by voting a Constitutional amendment to increase the public debt for this purpose. Possessing 'he power of taxation as it does* lhere is absolutely no reason, why ?i| should not do this. Until South Carolina and other Southerrt sfal?s show their willingness to back.their.own people it is idle to expect thc national government to do it. I believe the state Supreme Court would declare a proper warehouse law constitutional, provided the .?eople at the next election vote to increase the public debt for that impose. The legislature can act immediately and as the election comes off in November everything could be "satisfactorily adjusted n this way. South Carolina can thus save its own citizens whether other southern States do or .not. I doubt very seriously however, .vhcther any law looking to the,'decrease of acreage or forbidding 'he planting of any Cotton at all will stand the test of constitution ality. lt is worth trying however. I myself expect to sow all the oats I can get in the ground and viii fertilize them well with cotton seed meal and acid phosphate, two home products. The land may wait for potash until the Germans ire licked. Luckily most of the land in this State has enough potash in it already to make one or two crops, for it is a mineralj which does not leach out. All the soils above the falls in our rivers have a nat ural supply. IA ?i" 1 believe the reduction of acreage will settle Hself without leg islation, simply because nobody is able or willing to advance money jr supplies to grow cotton at seven cents per pound, lt is like lift ing one's self over a fence by his boot-straps. This European war has certainly hit the South a hard blow. We have before seen cotton very low, but everything else was low hen too. Now everything we have to eat, especially meat and flour, ?S very high, andJhe* cost of growing cotton is proba Wry double what .t was in 18.90. g , t?* V? '*{** iV I see no reason why the national government does" not hasten getting the National Reserve Banks in condition to. begin operation. We have heard for a long while that the machinery would begin to .nove on October 1st. The national government could recognize warehouse receipt^?; good collateral, and ! believe it will-do sc, pro vided the states first take sensible action in' regard ter this matter. 1 do not think Uncfltt5arn will, WOught to be'txpected to come to our help until we have. ?exhausteJ. al! of our own resources and have done mose, things which are necessary. There never was a time when he old adage, "GrYd helps those who help themselves" was more ap plicable and had more truth. If the peoj ; of the State demand a sensible and practicable law, fhe Legislati ;e will enact it, and the Governor will sign it too. Our home banks, if they would only cease being greedy hogs ;md do their duty towards the peonle could get us all out of the wil Jerness. lt is preposterous, and criminal for those banks to draw money from the united States Government at 3 per cent interest "to assist the farmers in marketing their cotton crop" and then give .1 to merchants and manufacturers, and then if some few farmers are fortunate enough to be able to put up the proper collateral charge them 6 per cent and 8 per cent. Secretary McAdoo has the ma chinery already started in motion to print all the paper money neces sary and will issue it \o the banks on proper collateral. Congress has already discharged its duty far better than our state legislatures. !n fact thc President and the Secretary of the Treasury dare not do mor * than they have already proposed to do. There are certain things the national government can do and ought to do, but as usual there are demagogs among our public men |-who are making wild proposals. Such men are public enemies and ought to be "sat on." Let the State Legislature do its duty and the national govern ment may be depended on :to perform it. We can stem the tide if we all work together, but many wild and impracticable schemes ought to be abandoned promptly and not talked about longer. Ac tion is what is needed and not so many words. ' ? O Very truly yours, (Signed) B. R; TILLMAN. o BUY YOUR COTTON GOODS NOW AND HELP o o PROSPERITY. o o ? ? - o o Don't delay. Go to your merchant now.and buy all the o o cotton goods you ?an use during the coming winter. Bydpfldi? o o this you will help to make everybody prosperous. The South1 o o has the biggest cotton crop on record and can't sell ittoEurope o c as usual on account of the war. Cotton is King and the effect o o will be to make times harder, as the South will be short of o '> money. o c All over the country, in all the cities, a movement is o o pushing ahead to buy cotton and to 6uy cotton goods right o o now to help the situation. Everybodv will profit, by it. o o White cotton stockings will be the styles fot'the girls o o and women of Anderson this fall and wintef. IC o o At least ?:ich will bc the case if thc public responds to the o o patriotic movement which has been launch?!. o o Be patriotic. Buy your cotton goods' now. You o o will help the patriotic movement along and help?t? bring bet- o o ter times. o o Monday morning, bright and early, "National Cotton o o Goods"*week wilt be ushered into existence, in Anderson, o o under the most favorable circumstances, o o Almost every merchant handling any cotton goods at o o all has not only signified his willingness to aid this movement, o o but the most of them have put their shoulders to the wh;el, o o and their hands In the pockets to aid this National movement, o o What is meant bv the merchant putting his hand ir. his o o pocket," ls-that ne has really put his hand into his own o o pocket and given of his own means to this movement, for o o they are reducing the prices on staple goods which they could o o sell at almost anv time this Fall and Winter at their regular o o profits, but in order to aid this movement, they have slaugh- o o tered their profits and gone to considerable trouble and ex- o o pense in addition to further ?h|s great patriotic movement to o. o aid the Sou.h. o' .A o o o O ? O o t> o O O DO O O - O O ,Yes the best is here-all ?the new ideas for Fall. This is the only store in this city that has a New York Resident Buyer permanently on the job: This makes it possible for us to have the new things as quickly as they are seen in New, York. Shirts 50c to $3.50. Neckwear 25c to f i. Arrow Collars. Everything for men's and boys' wear. >. - Order by parcel port. We prepay all charges. TU Sion sCftaJTianaaoi . 4 ?V-", . 1, Taking Today's Market PRICES AS A BASIS It will require about twenty-one pounds of lint cotton with which to buy a bushel of ^wheat and about twenty pounds with which to buy a bushel of corn. Every sensible farm?r must realize this year that he cannot afford lo buy grain, corn or other foodstuff; that he cannot afford to pur chase anything that he can raise on the farm. Wisc j and pOgrcSsivc fannerb fuiiy appreciate the necessity of Farming. on as economical basis as possible, and that the greatest saving can be affected by using modern, labor-saving implements. The Modern Method of Sowing Grain ."Experience has proven thal splendid, profitable crops 6f Oats ?ld other grain can be raised throughout the South. Sowing in open farrows positively insures against freezing out. Farmers no longer ear that their crops may be ruined by hard winter or early spring * reezes. This plan has made oats a sure and paying crop in sections vhere they cannot be raised profitably by other methods. It makes )etter crops everywhere. Seeing the remarkable certainty and success of this method, Cote lecided to build better machines especially suited to do the woi\ in he best and quickest way. As a result you have your choice of five tyles of One Horse Grain Drills-thc most splendid line ever of ered. Sullivan Hardware Company kalanoa, S. O, Belloa, S. C., Grwnvilk, 3, C.