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SANDERSON INTELLIGENCER FOUNDED AUGUST 1, IS?". 1M North Main Street ANDERSON, M. C W. W. 8MOAK, Editor and Sus. Mgr L. M. GLENN.City Editor PHELPS 8ASSKEN, Advertising Mgr T. B. GODFREY.Circulation Mgr. E. ADAMS, Telegraph Editor and ? Foreman. Member ot Associated Press and Receiving Complete Dally Telegraphic Service. Entered sccordlng to Act of Con gress ss Second Class Mall Matter at the Postomce at Anderson, S. C VELEPI?0NE8 Editorial and D'j*'.aesa Offlee.321 Job Printing .693-L SUBSCRIPTION BATES Semi-Weekly One Tear .11.60 Six Months .75 Doily One Year .15.00 Six Months .2.50 Three Months .1-25 The Intelligencer ls delivered by carriers in the city. If you fall to get your paper regularly please notify ns. Opposite your name on the label of your paper ls printed date to which our paper is paid. Al' checks end drafts should be drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer. " - oooooooooooooooooooo 0 I ONLY ; 4_2ef mMm\\ . Mora Shopping ? J Dayl . ? Before X'mas. | * ' , . oooooooooooooooooooo . The Weather . A South Carolins: Fair Wednesdsy I and Thursday; somewhat warmer Wov'ne-day. ? .. OUR DAILY THOUGHT. Contribution*, "Our pacts ou? angels are or good or itt. Our fatal shadows that walk by us' i still." -^John Fletcher. PROTECT YOUR COTTON. in Andere? county there are BOV- j etal thousand bales of cotton this very morning lying on the ground ex posed to all kinds of weather, and be ing damaged. The loss already on j mtny bales will equal a halt ccn\ a pound or more. The staple ls rotting, the color ot the sample will be off, and there will be a coating of damag ed- cotton on every bale so exposed. Why this carelessness on the part of I Hie fannel ? It would be an easy mat ter to place this cotton on something to .keep lt off the ground, and In many oases lt could be housed on the farm, -tetter than this would be to take lt to the warehouse and get a warehouse receipt, where lt could be insured and at leset protected frau* the weather. ooooooooooooooooooo o OUR DAILY POEM , e . o oooooooooooooooooooo THE MEN WHO WILL NE'ER GROW OLD. (By Eugene Ackerman.) Out of the night tho pale mist sweeps, I Pitiless, gray snd cold; Oat of the'mist faint whimperings creep From broken men on the mould Prone In the palm of the hand of | death- < Men who will ne'er grow old. Over the field wht/e God's own hand Touched all with life's sweet glow The gray mist eddles In sighing slr, Where deed men He in a row Where men are not dead do He And scream tn their helpless woe. tip In the sky the sick moan rolls, _ Yellow and wan and cold, Baptising men with mottled sheen T A? they dte ere they grow old Baptising shrieking, helpless men ft Who rot on the sterile mould. Those who He on the livid earth, Broken and torn and red. Thirsting until their th!rs tis quench ed. I (By the rest which comes to thal dead. Were young and fair and stanch of] * frame Until kissed by the spewing lead. Fresh from the arms ot their dead! ? loves. * Smiling and brave and gay. With lips that stung from hot cs ress. They strode upon their way To gain the land- th* very land Where broken and dead they-lay. Out of the mist, that drinks up souls, As they creep from their quivering shells. % To go their ways through infinite days. ? . Where he who calls them dwells. There roars s smoking, fiendish thing I That shrieks through Ute crlnsiu* | night; That bites and tears at the writhing j muck, / And makes the gray field bright: That playa about and rends the ones j : Who He on the gloaming mould. And sods the screams of the broken1 sons. The mea who srUi ' hff?t~0ei?w, <M? A LOTI? SILENCE. Our afternoon contemporary main tained a Bilence so loud that it could he heard yesterday afternoon in refer ence to our editorial calling upon that newspaper for fair play. In order that our readers may keep posted we desire to state that The Daily Mail, In an editorial some days ago said that The Intelligencer was owned hedy and ?oui by the Southern l'uhllc Utilities Company. We denied the allegation and demanded a cor rection. For almoat two weeks noth ing was said, then the same allega tion was repeated. We again called upon this paper for a correction. The result wus the evasive, meaningless effusion which we reproduced yester day. Now this charge made by our after noon contemporary ls either true or lt! ls not true, and The Dally Mall knew before making it that it was either true or.untrue. We demand the proof] ot the truth of the charge. Neighbor, on what did you base your statement? Was your charge the truth or did you fabricate? There can be no evasion. You made the charge to discredit The Intelligencer with the public. You started lt. We demand fair play. Will you be fair? LAW AND OKDEll LEAGUE A few weeks ago there was great agitation in Anderson over organizing a law and order league. Finally a com mittee representing all the adult Bi ble classes in the city -gras appointed and. held a meeting, and another c om mittee was appointed, for the osten sible purpose of "ascertaining If there really existed a sentiment in the city In favor of the organization of a law and order league." This commute is still "ascertaining" so far as we can learn, not having held another meet ing. At the committee meeting consid erable "cold water" was thrown on the spirit of organization, and there were those upon whom the promoters of the organization depended for earn est cooperation and support, who were luke-warm in their support of it. Of course the need for tho organ ization ls not so apparent now; as the city is practically clean and free form vice. Just at this time there ls not a city the site of Anderson any where so free from all forms of vice j and crime, and the feeling of pride in this condition' of affairs is grati fying. There would "be little Just pow 1 tor arlawt andvorder league to-do in tho matter o^ conduct [pg a cleaning up' campaign. Such a condition ot j affairs, after what the city bas gone through with recently, is the cause for great rejoicing. But the main object of -uch an or ganization of those who would keep the city free from vice, ls to adopt preventative measures. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound' of cure," says the old proverb, and it is espe cially true now. The Intelligencer ls in favor of orgsnislng this league, and letting lt be known that there are j strong men banded together to fight against the reintroduction of vice in tho city at any time. Let this "flurry" blow over, and the shrewd violator of the law will again insidiously creep Into the city and begin to ply his trade. Let the impression go out that the people feel securo and have relaxed their vigilance and there will soon grow up more dens of vice and breeders of crime. This we should guard against, and what agency would there be more potent than tbs organ isation of the good.people of the.city into a league, and what more noble j object could animate them than a j fight for the purity of the etty, and the purity, therefore, ot the home? Wc, therefore, call upon this com mittee, and all good citizens to get busy and band themselves together In an effort to keep Anderson clean and pure STATE-WIDE PROHIBITION It seems that there will be a chance I for the people of the State to vote next year on the matter of State-wide prohibition,, At least there will be it the plans of the Anti-Saloon League do not miscarry, and the intentions ot the leaders ot tho prohibitionists are I carried out Wo believe that the area of the prohibition territory should be as large aa possible, and that lt is much easier for a State to se dry then for a county. It is manifestly unfair ? for one country to be "dry" and the ad loin tn K county to be "wet" The headquarters committee of the I Au?i-Sa?oon League of South Carolina j at a recent . meeting adopted the fol lowing resolution, which declares in tavOr ot State-wide prohibition. "As we see the situation from posi tive information obtained from Rep resentatives In both the house and senate wa are convinced that the time has como for state-wide prohibi tion. In oar opinion the'best [>lan to be pursued to obtain Otis happy j result ta to indorse the plana sugnratsd by oar stats superintend- J ont: "First, we think lt wise to secure the passage ot a bill by the legisla ture, making the Webb law effective. We believe that such a measure can be passed by a large majority and if ill positively destroy the t-?dath Caro Una. When this is ?lone the way will be open for a state-wide bill repeal ing the dispensary law . ".Second, reports from members of the legislature indicate that a state wide bill can l?e passed without tho necessity of referring to the people In a Btatc election, If, however, it is found that this cannot be done lt will bo time enough then to resort to the referendum plan. "We trust that your committee will carefully look into thlB matter and if you can see your way clear to do so you will offer a reeolutlon to he adopted by the conference, indors ing tho a!>ov<- plans. We fell assur ed that the work of the Anti-Saloon league should he continued and we have unanimously ele ctcdltev. J. L. Harley as superintendent for another year. Wo respectfully request that your committee recommend him to our presiding bishop for appointment. The Anderson Intelligencer is U he congratulated upon securing the services of Mr. L. M. Glenn, one of ! the best young newspaper men in the I State.-Greenwood Daily Journal. Mell the HuM Buy the Seed. Porty miles out of Columbia lives a. fanner who has six bales of cotton. He has perfected arrangements where by he can hold lt. but when he has paid what he owes with money bor rowed on it, he will have no money left to obtain advances now on thc crop o? 1915. One man advises. "Sow grain, oats and wheat; buy 0 nair of pigs; food will be higher in ?.ico next year." The farmer th I iles the advice Is sound. Along comes another man frantical ly urging, "Don'', sell your cotton, not a bale, not a pound; The market must not be glutter*. with cotton- hold and you will hiwe better prices." . The farmer has faith in what" he says; the idea of sacrificing a bale of cotton is painful. So the farmor has no money with which to buy seed oats and wheat, much less a pair of pigs. This is, we are informed, the quan dary in which many a small farmer ls at the moment floundering. He had better sell the bale and buy the seed and lose no time about it. That ho will need the foodstuffs, the grain and the meat In 1915 is certain. That he will get a higher price for his cotton ls not certain. In any case, be ra 1 not let his land lie idle with out loss. Under the law, he must re strict his cotton acreage next year and the only hope of the Southern farmer is in a small cotton acreage in 1915.- The State. PRESIDENT TAYLOR WRITES TO MAYOR Believes Any New Plan in Re Franchise Would Fare No Better. Mayor 3: H. Godfrey has received the following self-explanatory letter from President Z. V. Taylor of the Southern Public Utilities Company:. Hon. J. H. Godfrey, Mayor, Anderson, ? S. C. Dear Sir: I am in receipt this morn ing of your letter bearing date No vember 20th and I am very glad in dee? to know that "all rental justly owing by the city will be promptly paid when due." The purported resoiuliou ?Of you? etty council passed on the 9th day of, November A. D., ?914, did- not convey anv such information'to me. I beg .to advise that there is now justly due U.T by your city, hydrant rental for the month of October, and street lighting service for the same month, as ts evidenced by contract bearing date February 10, 1914; and also the monthly rental for the Il lumination of what ls known as your white way which ls covered by con tract dated March 1. 1914. 1 will be greatly.obliged If, you will let me know when. I can expect check ter these various services. I regret, however, that I can not ap prove of your suggestions for a con ference, for several reasons. In the first place lt seems to me that If lt had been desired that any substitute arrangement were to take place un der the present contract courtesy would have suggested that a confer ence take place before your council missed Its resolution declining to psy for the services we are rendering in all good faith. In the second place, lt appears to me that after having made a contract, which was the result of numerous conferences and months of considera tion, if the board now holds that the agreements therein reached are hot to be adhered to but mav bo lightly set aside. I might be justified in the belief that any new arrangement would fare no better. Your?* truly. Z.-V. TAYLOR. * President STOPS HEADACHE. PAIN, NEURALGA Don't Suffer! Get ? duna pack of Dr. James* Headache Powders. . You can clear your head and relieve a dull, splitting or violent throbbing headache In a moment with e Dr. James* Headache Powder. ' This old tune headache relief act? almost magi cally. Send some one 'to the drug store now for a dime package end a few moment? after you take a pow der you will wonder what became of the headache, neuralgia and pain. Stop suffering-ifs needless. Be sure you get what yon ask for. The best way to enjoy Thanksgiving is to give somebody cause far it; going home to mother is one way; having her home with you is another; and being a "good fellow" if these oth ers are impossible, is limitless in its opportunities. We have our own plans about these things; but so far as business i3 concerned we'll give a lot of men who come here cause for Thanksgiving in the merchandise we have to offer; the price advantages; the satisfaction-giving assurance. We are showing values in excellent clothes that are much better quality than the prices indicate. For a suit or over coat, whether you pay us $10, $12.50, $15, $18, $20, $22.50 or $25, you'll appreciate the quality advantage. Quality counta in boys' clothes. Give your boy the be3t; it helps him. No better way to convey the glad feeling to the little men than with one of our suits. The sizes here are from 4 to 18 years; prices $3 to $12.50; quality higher. Order by parcela post; we prepay. Closed Thanksgiving-Open Friday. "The Store ipith a Conscience" IN A iD POSITION ._i_ RICHARD H. EDMONDS CON DEMNS PLEAS FOR AID CAN BEAR ITS OWN BURDEN -? Editor ^of Manufacturera Record Says Dixie Can Take Care of m - . ? ? ? - i i'. Itself in Emergency. "Let the South raise its foodstuffs now and cotton only as a surplus and then we stall work our own sal ration." said Richard H. Edmonds, editor of The Manufacturer's Record. "The- first duty of the farmer who wants to be hon?st is to sell enough Letton to pay his debts. "His honor and reputation are worth more to him and his family than the few dollars he might pos sibly make by holdiug for a higher price. Moreover, there is no cert^istj whatsoever that he will gd. any high er price. When he Withholds his cot ton to the disadvantage of his cred itor ho is robbing his creditors of that which belongs to him. "Though the whole country is But tering a great business depression much of which existed prior to the European wsr. lt IS fortunate that luch an unprecedented world calam ity aa the European war. beside which ?1 other wars neem- trifling small, did lot bring universal disaster to our iMisjness interesta "we have Weathered the storm much better than 849* one had a right to expect when we remember that the world has never had such an aw 'ul war aa that which ia now raging," continued Mr. Edwards. "Europe- is withdrawing from the field and the Factories the very pick flowers ot its :ivUisatJon, the strongest physically ind the moat active, nearly 76 per cent more men than the entire num ber of agricultural workers of this :ountry; Buchtest? Opportunities. - "In view of this situation we ought to congratulate ourselves that we, isve pulled through ss well ss we ttave done. We ought to rejoice that >ur whole hus'.neaa airucturA* AM not so down in ono great cataclysm, i Every man on earth must haai> nome lhere ot the a wink cost -of this war Val (very man should rejoice If he ;a?i carry hi? bfc?esha through such i period even it be does not make a lcllar ot profit for the next 13 months, < looking to-the future td bring to this whole country wonderful business ?ossibirtttos as thw wends dentre of-j Inanes and manufactures lifts aa lt nest' inevitably do from Europe to the United States. Then will come the opportunity of the ages. then , will ?me oar chance aa a nation to mar velously expand our ?domestic and for tign trade as we step .oat Into the world dominance to uphold and troaden the world's civilisation. AP. he only great nation of the world, ?quipped to do business, we* have an amazing position of vsst responsible ties and limitless opportunities. We mould be compelled tot do things on ft big scale. We shall be forced soon er or later-to bnfl? ned owa-a great merchant marine. We shall have to And a way to lessen antagonism to railroads and to help the railroads to get the 15,000,000.000 or more badly needed for extensions and better ments. Unless we make it possible for the railroads to Increase their earn ings to such an extent as to attract billions of new capital into invest ment in their securities, the neces sities of transportation will compel the government to guarantee railroad bonds or else take over the railroads J? the country, and either would be a great disaster to our national life and before even this could come to pass cir country's trad* would have suf fered incalculably from a complete brakdown of our whole transporta tion system. Higher freight rats would cost the country infinitely tess than a collapse of our railroads and one of tho other is a certainty. '"In this coming day of. expansion wc shall have to view. without alarm big corporations doing a big world business for the magnitude of tur foreign, operations will require vast concentrated capital. Just as the gov ernment has mobilized the financial strength of all national banks inio the gigantic reserve system in order to strengthen all and help all inter ests, so many other concentrated and combined influences will be needed lu thu coming days big with tho big ness of dominating the world's com mercial power. The Sooth's Part. . "The South must prepare to do its uart and to share In the vastness of these coming developments. It must for a year or two make cotton a sub ject and not a king. It must learn to live at home aa never uefore, except during 1861 to 1865, when it produced all thit it consumed and thereby made possible the maintenance of that long struggle. "No farmer In the South ought henceforth to buy' a bushel of corn or a pound of bacon. If any farmer la tco lazy or "too inefficient to -ralee these foodstuffs, he will not deserve and should not receive any pity in Ibis self-imposed poverty. Any man who thus by his thriftiness adds tc his poverty and thus lessens the Com munity' wealth, ought to receive nc more encouragement than the trami who begs a living because he is toe lazy to earn lt. 1 . "If we will forget that for a ilm< we permitted the South to be peso*1 before the nation as a beggar seek lng Ita alms and. placarding Easton and Western cities with signs. 'Helj thc South,' before our people awoki to what was being done and will nov assert our manhood and our self reliance and our ability to depend upoi ourselves Instead of charity and li this spirit go farward In our work we shsll maka tho preseyt dissate I the Inspiring power to lift us to i I bette and higher civilization and : greater wealth than we hare, ere known.' The position in whlcL th ?Oath wa* placed by the 'poV.ticIa; who ts playing to the gallery suggest ed in. national and State, legislador every Imaginable uneconomic and tm possible scheme, of patriotism wa bad enough. But added to this war aa unwise, though well intende movements which led the North an West to placard store windows aa hotel lobbies with the begging pl? 'Help the South,' aa though this se? tico was a veritable Lsxrus com peile lo beg alms ot others. A Mistake* steve. "It mattered not how bard ot problemi might be nor how .great ot lossex we could not afford to ai charity. The very asking of it ga) the rest of the country the impre sion that the South was in' hop?lei poverty and had lost sll courage. Tl movement was well intended, but ' was a mistake. From the enconomic standpoint it was absolutely ? impos sible to maintain cotton at 10 centB by the buv-a-bale movement and any-i thing over the market price was sure ly a gift of charity. But the South is now reasserting its manhood and its selfreliance. It can afford to '-ol e?me board nationwide cooperation in financing cotton' because the whole country is . vitally Interes- ?sd in tho cotton trade and its.relations to na tional prosperity. That can be done on a business basis, very different from 'Help the South' Cry. Entirely independent of the war situ?t ?cr, wc have raised a cfop far beyond the world's needs. That fact- has from the beginning . beep , the heaviest weight on the cotton market When ever we rabie mor? than. tho world needs, we pay the penalty of our fol ly by having to accept a. very, much lower price than when the crop is moderate in size. Had there been no war it. 1B doubtful, considering the sfze of the crop and the general con dition throughout the' country, if cot ton would have sold as high as 9 cents a pound. Let the South now raise its foodstuffs first and cotton only as a surplus and then we shall work out our own.salvation." 04 Years In Office. HILLSBORO, Nj C., .Nov. 23.-John Laws. Ut years old, register of deeds for Orange County for the paBt 64 years, and who i? believed to hold j the record in the United States for continuous service in an elective-of fice, -died of-pneumonia nt-hie-home here at ii o'clock this morning. Ho was the only-man who ever hold tho ! office of recorder -of deeds tn Orange county. ?GH! CALOMEL MAKES YOU SICK. hn&aJiV oTaW nu DAUA ^MOT!?STE!B ?UN'I di ft i piuuud9 bunour A i tu rJo?sw's Lbw Tena" Wi!! itel Y'j?r Slavish Liver Better Thin Citas::;! and Gan Hot Saitoh. Calomel mal:?? YOTI sick: you loee a -lay'* work/ Caloinel ?a quicksilver and ?t salivates; calomel injure? your liver. If yon arc billop*; feel Inry...sluggish and all knocked out. if your bowels art constipated and your head aches or stomach is ?our, jus'^ tako a spoonful of harmlws Dodson's Liver Tone instead of Using sickening,, salivating calomel. Dodson'* Liver Tone is real- liver medi cine. . You'll know lt nest morning be cause you will wake up feeling fine, your liver will be working, your head ache und ditzinPM. gone, your: stomach will be sweet and bowels regular. Yon will feel like working. You'll bo cheer ful} full of energy, vigor gu4 ambition. >'*?Ur druggist r?r' dealer relis you a .Vj tens louie Of iJo-lson's Liver Tono under roy personal guarantee dat it will citan your sluggish liver better than unity calomel; it won't make you sick and you can eat any tiling you want' without being salivated. Your druggist guarantees that tech spoonful will start your liver, clean your bowels and straighten you up by morning or you got your money back. Children gladly take Dodson's LiVcr Tone because it is pleasant tasting and .doesn't gripe or crump or make them sick. I am selling millions of bottles of Dodson's Liver Tone to people who have found that this pleasant, vegetable, liver medicine takes the place of dangerous calomel. Buy one bottle on my sound, reliable guarantee. Ask your druggist about me. tl? hZ toot Balls ANKLE AND WRIST SUPPORTERS Gifts thal would plssse any boy. THE REACH trademark guar antees satisfaction and perfect goods. Sullivan Hardware Co. Anderson, S. C., Belton, S. C., .Greenville,, s. C.