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fS? ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER FOUNDED AUGUST 1, 18??. Itt North Maia Street 'vt ANDERSON, 8. C._ r? W. BMOAK, Editor and Bus. Mgr M. GLENN.City Editor PHELPS SA88EEN, Advertising Mgr T." B. GODFREY.Circulation Mgr. Bl ADAMS, Telegraph Editor and . Foreman. < 'Member . ot Associated Press and Receiving Complete Dally Telegraphic Service. intered according to Act of Con gress as Second Class Mall Matter at the PoLtofflce at Anderson, 8. G> TELEPHONES Editorial and Business Office.121 Job Printing .683-L| m. SUBSCRIPTION BATES Semi-Weekly One Tear .IMO] BU Months .TB | Delly One Tesr .".$5.00 ftfx Mooths .2.50 titree Months .... 1-25 'The Intelligencer ls delivered by barriers In the city. If you fail to Set your paper regularly please notify as. Opposite your name on tho label of your paper ls printed date to Wh'ch our paper ls paid. Al' checks and drafts should bo drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer. 0?eooooooooooooooooo $ ONLT fr 2 e? .r o' . i e> ?I* 20 MOM Shopping ? Days . . o WajpM>sa^>s*?aa%^sSsaa>a*'' Tba Weather. uth Carolina: Cloudy' with pfob ; "local rains Wednesday; Thurs partiy cloudy. THOUGHT FOB THE DAT. we is a monster of such frightful M mein, Aa, tb be bated, needs but to be seen; Tat sae too oft, familiar with her fore, TO first endure, then pity, then em ^ . brace. AN UNKNOWN CARTOONIST Attention ls called to a cartoon on ?he first page of The Intelligencer Inls morning by an unknown cartoon ist This was received with no mark to, show the author, bot lt was so cloverly dons that we decided to use iL While ail our readers may not be lieve that the idea conveyed by this drawing is correct yet lt ls one view point, and ls cleverly presented. Whether we wish lt or not, the city ls being very closely watched jost now. sad a mistaken policy on the part of eur public servants, the officials, Whether IntehUonal or 'not will be ttsed by those cities competing with Anderson as a . strong argument against our city and in favor of theirs. If a person would give $2,000 to get ./"wife, WQat would the wife be worth? *$Ths kaiser finds that there ls too much machine In his war machine. -! . Two things *vs know agsinst Boston -.Trotter ?ad the Braves. Corn salve would be quite appropri ate smong foot notes. ?{JUpltas/a 'Tommy Atkins" seems to * something more than a Joke. Just for a change- "ls lt muddy enough for you?" Anjjhow, Woodrow succeeded la making the Mexicans think he would y a man Who "got hts start" be- ! a plow reflects no credit to the Poor Atlanta! It seems that the casa will last only a few days ? Clean up, fellows. We have a whole year before Ve have to eat okra at the pragraphers' feast la Columbia. ot ( tbs streets today sat In favor ot a plan. We neat knew who to lay tho para aj th* Of*e*v!!ie Piedmont on, Spas they dont acense an yt ody of] being editor on their editorial page. ? jtites. there's a little change in the war aituauon instead of denying tba j press dispatches daily they ara now denying tbs? weakly. ,,.We respectfully ask tbs versatile abd able editor ot Tba Fountain Inn Tribune to explain the whys aaa traerreres ut the rodent and time 0pnoredr) Joke about tb? maa beat bis wife apene morning and start a aro la the kitchen stove. Ll TEST YEAR" "Thl8 ls a year to tost man, and HCO If they have the Htuff In them on which to bane confidence, and produce man hood," wus thc remark of a business man of the city yesterday. "I wish you would write an editorial on thin sub ject and Impress upon the people of the county the Importun?e of protect ing their credit, and taking carn of their obliKationn. Thc man who comes up clean this year when money ls tight, even though he has to make sacrifices, will bc the man the. banks and business men of next year will tie to, and he will be the winner in the long run," continued this gentleman. The Intelligencer bas contended for Just this thing. To save a few dollars by holding to his products at the ex pense ot his standing in the business world, ls poor policy and porer busi ness. Hankers arc complaining that they hold notes of farmers and busi ness men fal! due and that they pay no attention U> notices or letters ask ing them to call and arrange. One of <the leading bankers In the State re marked recently In discussing this ?matter with a newspaper man, that j perhaps his hank would become a na tional bank in order to share in the 'benefits of the revenue banks and thc j national banking laws, but that his ?bank had so much past due paper that it could not be thought of at this j time. This condition of affairs should not ?exist. While the banks of the country I have been harder hit by the business ?depression existing for several weeks, than most people Imagine, they are not oppressing anyone, and they aro willing to extend resonable accomo dation! to those who, respect their ob ligations. There is little excuse for past due paper, amt the bank had rather extend lt than to carry lt as such. But, we are not pessimistic over tho present outlook. Everyone feels that in the next sixty days an era of pros perity will begin that will extend for many years perhaps. The price of cot ton is not likely to advance very much, but our peopfo will learn to grow other and more profitable crops, and with tho splendid climate and fertile soils of the South, lt is only a few months between harvests. So let the people of the South stand upright and baUis for the restoration of normal conditions. This cannot be accomp lished by sitting down and complain ing of hard times, and brooding over hard lnck stories. Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate. 1 . u ? * 1 ? ... t RACE MEET BEGINS TODAY If the report ls true the race meet tor the Charleston Racing Association will begin today cad last for thirty days, lt ia rumored that this meet wa? so timed that tt would be held before the term of Governor Blease expires. If thia be true lt ls a sad commentary on the closing period of the Gover nor's term of office. We do not blame the turf men for their decision, for it ls reasonably sure that there would have been trouble had they waited till Governor Manning is sworn in as Governor of the State. The best thought of the day ia opposed to race track gambling, and so closely ls this woven Into horse racing that lt ls hard to hold' a racing meet without the violation of*the law in this respect. Of course a racing meet without the gambling feature would prove a mis erable failure, especially this year, In South Carolina. It is to be regretted that there could not be manifested a Spirit against holding this meet at this time. Because the Governor may not do anything to sup lt does not, however, excuse the county officials of Charleston county. The sheriff.* backed up by the courts could go a long ways toward stopping the viola tion of lew, but the Charleston auth orities seem as apathetic as the State officials. RURAL TELEPHONES The movement to Install rural tele phones In every farmer's home lo An derson county, which will be started this morning at the meeting of the chamber ot commerce, ia worthy of support and cooperation of every citi zen of the city and county, lt is grati- ' lying to know that the county haa so many rural telephones, tags furn i oh ing quick communication, but with the system so greatly extended aa ts proposed at this meeting, the service would he so much better. With good roads, good schools and churches, the automobile, and telephone conectlon with "all out ot doors'* thors will not be any longer a movement to tho cities. By all maana let us have more telephones, and closer intimacy with all the people ot the county. For halt of $8.000 The Intelligen cer weald make a dosen recommenda tions of maidens to sad a wealthy man's bachelorhood. -1-,-fi Anderson county maidens should worry over the otter of one ot Ander son's coanmed bachelors. Why not let-one ot them be gams, and save thia marriage tee to the city? DECEMBE THEN NInely-elKht years ago today the Amt savings hank in the Knited States to open its doors for business began taking deposits in Philadelphia under the name of the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society. Eleven day? later the Massachusetts legislature granted a charter to the Provident Savings In-; stltution of Huston and thus establish ed the world's first savings hank to be legally chartered and regulated by ? law. Thje germ of the savings bank j iden hud been, in existence for half a j century, it having come to life, as is generally recorded, in Hamburg, Ger many. After experimentation by in dividuals in Scotland and England un-i hampered by legislative enactments the ide* wa? transplanted to Philadel phia through the medium of a news paper. The European poor, for whom tho savings bank was originally created a? a charitable Institution, greeted the Idea with suspicion, see ing) no advantage in it over the loose brick In the fireplace or thc thatch of tho roof which had been thc universal bank for many ages. However, Condy Raguet of Philadelphia was greatly impressed by an account In an Eng lish journal of a savings hank in op eration inj England. Meeting Richard Peters, in, on Chestnut street on No vember 20th he broached a pian for j a eimiler institution. Raguet'B plan wa? laid beforo a group of prominent j Philadelphia^ and without delay the j United States' first savings bank was j in -operation. The Boston savings! bank began more formally, receiving 1 the endorsement of legislature, ?ind as j an inducement for depositors promis-] ed 1 per cent quarterly and more if, found practicable. Four years later there were 10 savings banks in tbe, United States with a per capita de-j posit of 12 cents. Letters Fron 44 Re nerren." EDITOR THE INTELLIGENCER: In military parlance "reserves" are a select body of troops held back lu ? the rear of an anny drawn up for bat- j tie; reserved to sustain other linen of battle as occasion may require; a body of troops kept for an exigency. Your "coupling" followa: "He (tho city attorney) will cer tainly have to call for thc reserves commanded by Col. John V. Strlbling and then some." To the people of the city of Ander son, or elsewhere concerned, I would say: While I have said rn\ch about tho franchise matter I have in no way had aught to do with the city attorney In his franchise report. 1 have had ab solutely no communication or.conver sation with him 'on the subject other than to compliment him on his re port and to commend him for puT??hg a "spark arrester on the Southern Public Utilities Company "smoke stack." But I am pleased to realize, after long years of patient s?niggllng single handed In def eu so cf common rights of tho people-the only course left open to me for defense* of my water power possessions-the time of exposure of certain mobbors of law has arrived. And I beg to assure you, tho people, if you be tho "reserves" that whatever I can do to save tho living of this country, and tho chit-1 dren yet to bo born to It, from having to resort'to t?rms in defense of consti tutional government as against con trolling influences of capitalism-as the Mexicans have had to do-I may be counted on to do, at all times, everything In my nr-wer "and thea some" in interest of the great mess of the people as against such law mob ber? as I have done in all the long etruggle through past years without fear or favor or reward other than my own lights as a citizen and the safety and soundness of the Institutions of this republic as the best possible in heritance to hand down to posterity. What brought on this trouble? Answer: A "bunch" of "horse trad ers." or hone power traders If you please, sent their lawyer lobbyists to Influence the legislatures of two or more States to grant them such spe cial privileges as to enable them to so traill'' In "horses'' or horse power, as to put them tn position to acquire control over the held of supply' and demand Hence the Savannah river ferries trouble-now acting as a boom erang on our mierepresentatlves in Washington. The whole trouble baa been brought on by setting aside certain constitu tional provisions and un repeal ed statute laws meant for the governing of water power development on navi gable rivers; whereby the "horse traders" h?ve been permitted to carry oo their purpose ot water power and franchise monopoly. Belag so permit ted they proceeded to get in position po command the -field of supply and de mand and "farm-out" the horses pow er-so unlawfully obtained-to. pri vate and corporate and municipal use. And in so farm In if out the unlawfully acquired horses to the city of Ander son they have (doubtless emboldened hy their initial lawless Stride) besa led on to violate other laws of the States thea those voided hy the smooth cleverness of their lawyer lobbyists when laying the foundation for the very parp?se of "power and authori ty** to monopolise the water power resources y nd franchise business of the country. Hence the blot oa Geor gia's page-the Tallulah Fails steal of which I shall further sg^ek to the people of Anderson and to official Georgia. Aa a result of thens many acta ot lawlessness mobbing the constitution and statute laws of .two or more States-all owners ot horse power other than the specially privileged "bunch" are debarred: and the peo ple of Anderson. hara hean thus Bl .Vf"-*' Hi R 2, 1914 J?OTT . Today there are 1,087 savings hanks in the t'nitcd States in which 10,766. 936 thrifty Americans have deposited $4,727,403,900, according to a recent government report lt is a sum greater than any other country in tho world has On deposit, and lt exceeds the combined total that the French, the Austrians, Italians, Japanese and Hrltish peoples have on deposit in their communal, private, postal, cor porate and trustee savings banks. Just how great the Americans' savings ac count is, is illustrated by thc fact that, according to an estimate made by a French, economist In the Univer sity of Paris, Prot Charles Hiebet, the sum is sufficient to pay for the food, the equipment, the transportation and ammunition for the warring European armies for the next three months. On this anniversary the per capita rate of deposit has increased from the 12 cents of 1820 to the $!> of 1914. Thc average deposit account is now $439.07. Ninety-five years after thc opening of the pioneer savings bank, the United State? Postal Savings Bank came into existence. Today, three years after its adoption, about $42, 000,000 has been depositen by nearly 400.000 depositors for postal savings in operation from the pines of Maine to thc palms of California. Most of this sum has been rescued from its hiding place in stockings, cupboards and mattresses where many people found lt more convenient to hoard their savings than to stow them ' in savings banks. Recent decades have witnessed the growth of thrift, and in consequence schools, department stores, factories and 'financial Institu tions have mutual savings associa tions to provide against the proverbial rainy day. --?--r~r'titit Irr-t'V --'"raascu _?Hi-... .i . i The People brought face to face with thc facts that the horses power of the "bunch" has been unlawfully farmed out to tho users. What shall we do to light our way back to civilisation? The quor.tion now before us. Shall we respect the law or keep the "critter" that we may fin ish cultivating our growing crop of law breakers? An editor-who is a Btrong advo cate of law and order-told me he couldn't do without the elite "critter" to run his presses. What do you think of that? I have been frequently ^sked. should the attempt at' granting a frnnchise to take the place of the old, cr only vir tual ooo-by a council or mayor as suming such authority long before any action was necessary-Minne too against the expressed will of the peo ple-be set aside as .illegal (which lt undoubtedly lu from every anglo of reasoning)-what are wo to do for water, light and power. In answer I would say: If in truth vc are so com pletely at the raer^y or diction of e combination of power and franchise monopolists as to shut out competi tion our condition is such ns to de mand or every one worthy to claim right of citizenship to' firmly resolve to return to primitive customs and ussge, if need be, to break up such lawlessness and tryanny. Such self respecting pride of citizenship among the people of Anderson can surely1 be relied on to find a way to extricate us from such lawless entanglements. And I ah Mid say. Stribllng's work, as ad vance guard in trying to prevent ti,cse evils befalling us, ls well known to ; the lawyer lobbyists who prepared iuch way of evasion or mobbing of law as to bring on the evils! I dare any one or all of them to come out and deny lt. Don't hesitate, lt will be warm enough for you. Come on. Mr. ' Lawyer Lobbyist, come on. Being armed with truth I shall be found ever ready to cooperate with the people bring up the "reserves" if you please ' -to fight to the finish our righteous battles.. "To sin by silence, when we should protest. Makes cowards out of mea. The human race has climbed on pro test; Had no voice been raised against in- : justice. Ignorance, (lawlrssness) 1 and lust The inquisition yet would serve th* law, . And guillotines decide our least db)- ' potes. 1 The few who dare must, speak and speak again : To right the wrongs ot many." I am after results. Respectfully. JNO. V. 8TR1BLINO. November 30, 1814. Ed Decamp laments the fact that j Miss Juanita wasn't at the Selwyn banquet Why fellow, she'd have : brought the Bluo Laws I along. Only three weeks to do your Christ mast shopping. We could do oars tn , three minutes. Anderson Intelligencer, Anderson 1 Mail and Spartanburg Journel each used a column to enumerate' tho things for which they are thankful. The The Paragraphen.. of these newspa pers evidently have lively imagina tions-otherwise tony could not find so many things to bs thankful for in Anderson and Sparuauburg,-Rock Hill Herald. -." THERE'S GHARAG?TR ?ND Qt'AlITV IN TWECAilJ^CArU? Wt PRODUCE AND re Places m tm : I Yes, ours is the Christmas Shop-if you realize that a practical present is the true solution of the holiday shop ping. Neckwear, gloves, handker chiefs, mufflers, hose, cuff buttons, shirt studs, stick {.ins, toilet sets, shirts, col are, cuffs, suspenders, caps, garters, canes, umbrellas, hand bags, suit cases, bath robes, smoking jackets, house robes, pajamas, house slip pers, suits, overcoats, rain coats, shoes and hats for men and boys. There are numbers of other things we'll suggest too We've solved the gift puzzle for you. *T4t Stow W?h.a GxocSaxx o o O O O 0 0 o o o o o o o o o o o o o OUR DAILY POEM o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o TUE QUITTER. When you're lost in the wild and you are scared as a child, And death look* you bang in thc eye. And you're dore as a boil-it's accord ing to Hoyle Don't throw up your hands and say, "Die," But the code or a man says: "Fight all you can," And self-dissolution is barred, in hunger and woe, oh, it's easy to blow; It's the bell-served-for-breakfast that's hard. You're sick of the game? ;Woll, now, that's a shame. You're young and you're bravo and youYe bright. You've had a raw deal, I know, but dont squeal; Buck up, do your damndest and fight. It's the plugging away that will win you the way. So dont be a piker, old pard. Just draw on your grit,, it's easy to quit; It's the keeplng-your-chin-up that's hard. . It's easy to cry when you're beaten and die; . ', , It's easy to crawfish and crawl; But to fight and to fight when hope's out pf sight. Why, that'a the best game of them all. And though you come out of each gruelling bout ? m All broken and beaten and scarred, Just have ono more try-it's dead easy to die, ? It's the keeplng-on-llving that's, hard. -Robert W. Service HONOR TO WOMEN In these days when "white slavery" ls so rampant, and every paper one pioks up contains an account of some new scheme by which fiends ' in mortal shape hope to entrap young girls Into lives of shame and ruin, lt behooves every man worthy of thc name to be more vigilant and active In hts care of tho\ sex to which his mother, wife, sister and sweetheart be1 long. One wonders sometimes, why Qed permits the monsters who prey upon. women . to live and one cannot conceive of a hell too hot for such scoundrels We .have men in Shreve port today who glory in their power over women and who speak of their successes with pride... Go into any crowd of young man gathered in the many loafing . places of the city. and you hear women discussed! Their names . aro bandied about, they are talked of as if they .were cattle, they are lawful gams tor any man to pursue. These yoong men are the sons of mothers who never dreamt they were rearing monsters, they are brothers of sweet girls they would die to protect, yet they have lost regard for the sex. The downfall of these men commenced in the home where parent? were too careless and indif ferent to inculcate honor and resr-eet for virtue in woman. Very few Wo men brought up .m the right atm os phere, who haver* been taught the principles of virtue, who have had drilled into them that the laws which apply to man's chare ter apply chuall > as forcibly to woman's, that LVs home the city, the nation are based m right living and acting, go wrong. A few may,' hut it is the exctptiori which proves the rule. Woodmwi rbllgate themselves at the stamp, to respect and ears for the wives, daughters and sisters of other ' Woodmen, They should go further to care for all thc sex, for God knows that in these de generate days, with tbs wolves howl ing on their trail, they need the pro tection of every good mah.-The' Forest. _-1-? Determined to Ead Struggle. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.- General Car rania's determination to "end, the present struggle by tores of arms* was asserted in a telegram tonight from the first chief to Rafael Zaharan Company, head ot Ute Mexican Con stitutionalist agency here. The tele gram denied that General Pablo Con nies had declared himself provision ly president and that General Blanco bad been imprisoned. THE PLEASURE OF DQING * ' t isl YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING NOW lt wilt be n ga (infection to 70a to dc tote a little while every day, from now on, te thinking of the most appropriate Christmas gift for you te give to this friend or that, and to contemplate an ever increasing array of neatly betlssucd packages laid by to r *? the coming of Christmas, Every day from now on the numbers of such shoppers will In? crease until the "peak of the load" ls reached just before Christmas. But the early coaters will lind These Superb Storks at their best. Many * unique thing that cannot be replaced, once It ls seid. Whole groups of merchandise, coming from abroad, which will hardly be duplicated. Less hurry la 'shopping, hence better attention. Besides the unselfish satisfaction In making things vastly eas. 1er for the sales people, the delivery, and the whole store servite. Watch The intelUgeneer's cvry. Isswe for important Xmas sag gestions, from tho Andersen merchants. ? V ! SASSEEN, The Ad Maa. I DQxYOUR . OWNi SHOPPING J x" lp Hosiery Gives the! PEST. VALUE foe Your Money Every KkdtrnaCeUaa toS*fc, Fer Mea, WmaidCsSfres Any Color and Style From 25c to $5.00 per pair .Look for the Trade Mark! Sold by Aft Gob? Dnhn. ' ' Wholesale Lord & Toyiot NEW YORK The GIFT CHEERS Bartered* COMFORT for everybody-a gift that is useful, from cellar to garret. So be sure and mark down BAWLER SMOKELESS OIL HEATER" ors your Christ mas list. There b nothing like a BARLER for helping yon ont of bed on a winter morning. Light it and in five rninutes you have an riKgii?hut supply of denn, odor, less h ant Manses, S. C. ' Greenville, S. C.