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fli? ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER FOUNDED AUGUST 1, 18W. Mt North Maia Street. ANDERSON, 8. C W. W. BMOAK, Editor and Bus. Mgr L> M. GLENN.vJlty Editor PHELPS 8A88KEN, Advertising Mgr T. B. GODFREY.Circulation Mgr. El ADAMS, Telegraph Editor ead Foreman. Member of Aa. ods ted Prees and Receiving Complete Dally Telegraphic Service. Entered according to Act of Con gress as Second Class Mall Matter at tbs Posto Ol ce at Anderson, 8. G TELEPHONES Edttorlsl and Business Office.321 Job Printing .693-L SUB8CBIPTION BATES Semi-weekly Oat Tear .11.60 Bis Months . -? Dafly One Tear .15.00 Biz Months .2.60 Three Months .... 125 The Intelligencer ls delivered by carriers In the city. If you fell to get your paper regularly please notify as. Opposite your name on the lsbel of your psper le printed date to which our psper ts paid. AU checks and drafts should be drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer. ?0040000000000000000 I ONLY ??j?? Z j 16 I * Mor? Shopping ? J Dart J I Before X'mae, Z The Weather. South' Carolina: Partly cloudy Sun day and Monday.. i Things, on which, war revenue tax ts not required: -o Paying your debts. \ .. Planting some kind ot grain. t. . e Uncaring a marriage license. . . . - O' . Attending the grain elevator meet ing tomorrow. , . . ' ? ' e -- Ceasing tbs talk shout hurd times and being cheerful. - o. Feeling disgust over the condition af Anderson's streets. '' '6" '?' ' Making up your mind to work your toe nain off for the passage of a bond issue for paving. ? '"P "? ? Forgetting all strife and differences ot opinion on public questions snd making np your mind to pull togeth er for the good ot Anderson. 1 * - Thia waatbsr ought to be fine for - neatlng loans. More than ons nation ls trying to get Gea. De Wet's goat. Wouldn't lt be nice to swat the war correspondent?' What ha? become of tho old-fash ioned person who termed the Federal League aa a Joke? . " i n i %. . We Judge that some of the European nations will want 'means to carry lt to extremes. ' 6 ' -Hearst wants a larger navy. Well, the ons we have Is anything other thea water-proof. "Many to Retrain Postofflee Jobs roads a headline. Which ahows Ute ad vantage of haring a ppBtofC e. Job. . - ' a ? since the Germana wont, and we aren't allowed to, we wonder who nil concede the victory to the Allies. ?? '"O' IK We dont believe Abe Martin la guil ty nt all the stuff he ls accused of say ing. - p It begins to look aa if the farmer koowa at least halt aa' much again about his own business ss most peo ple gire him credit tor knowing. ' O-?' "Trying the Wolf of Wall Street." says a headline la aa exchange. With BnUe ead Beera ead Wolves, that place must he a regular menagerie. ?' ' o While hardly instructive, tt certain ly ra interesting to leek et the pic tures ot the Rulers ot the Nations of the world. Greenville Piedmont ls now run ning "Some of Bob's Best" There is no guess coming as te who Bob ls. ?vee the eiUsens of Loris know not. -o "Pond?rons platitudes sod the per fectly obvious are prerogatives ot the regatar editora,'* says the Greenville Piedmont What's the poor dears done to he called all that? MK. H008EVKLT AMI THK FACTS The country has not seen flt to go very wild over the fulminations of one Theodore Roosevelt, now fortunately an ex-president of the United States, with respect to the shortcomings of the Wilson administration as regards the Kuropcan war. Mr Roosevelt has been writing a series of urtllces for a syndicate, in which he has takeu time, between flings at the peace treatiea 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 'In vu the United Statea into the conflict without any possible hope of benefit or glory. Declaring "unlawful" certain acta oi war, such as Germany's invasion of Belgium, England's destruction of a German vessel in Spanish waters, and Japan'a lng Kiao-Chau, and so forth, Mr. .osevelt has declared that the Unit ed rftutes should "take action In all theae eases;" that If we had an in telligent and reaolute I'reaident 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, Instead of ob serving "a timid and spiritless new trallty," would have "lived up to our obligations by taking action," and would have "done what we were sol emnly bound to do." The "obligations" to which Mr. Roosevelt BO solemnly and emphati cally refera-the obligation? which, were ao atrong that they should have moved the Preatdent to "take action" which would have plunged tho Unit ed SUtes Into the war that har. horri fied the world-are the "obllgatlona" of The Hague conventions, to which the ex-president proudly refers as having been entered into while be was President. Mr. William Bayard Hale, 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 or the tact that The Hague rules regarding neu trality, regarding mines, regarding everything which troubles Mr. Roose velt and saddens us all, have never been ratified by Great Britain, nor by Prance, nor by Belgium, and that by their own provisions these articles are binding oply If ratified by all belli gerents; ignorant likewise of the fact that the United Sutes, 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 ot war and the rights and duties of nations, forgetful of the grave results that would fo|low our Intervention; indif ferent to the welfare of the hundreds of miltons of our own kindred; neg-, tactful >of the true duties of neutral ity, and, above all, sublimely super ior to the difficulty of ascertaining the truth and judging righteous Jrng ment amid the whirlwind of rumor, charge, and counter-charge; this man would have the United SUtes govern ment step into the ring aa the referee of the fight, isying down rules and breaking beads all around to enforce them! "Our true course," hi exclaisB*. "should ba to Judge each nation on lu conduct, ?uhc&i'vutiagiy - antagonising every nation that does ill! "Has a more amasing speech ever been given utterance by anybody out of bedlam? . "It waa not a Roosevelt who, In re ply to the plea, "Master, speak to my brother that he divide the inheritance with nae," answered.."Man. who made me a judge or a divider over you?" "The only comment that sober men can mske on such wild words ss these of Mr. Roosevelt is this: thst. if they bad been published five daya earlier, the country would have gone to tu tfoees with lu disposition to give thanks profoundly increased by a sense of ita escape from the iucon cetvabis calamity of having in the White House at usuch an hour this incarnation of rashness, violence, and irresponsibility, in room of the saga cious man who today, at the head of the nation, walka with recollected feet the imperiled path ot peace.** Come over Greenville end Uko a look at our streets, and you'll see something that will remind you of days that were. .*':. - Time wes when we'enjoyed "The Man With the Hoe." But "The man With the Dough" Interests us a great deal'more nowadays. -o A Preach surgeon cites Instances of where men have lived without brains. We could have informed him oa that score long aga . - ? ?? AtlaaU simply won't be outdone. Following N?-? York's barrel murder mystery, the Gate City ot the South sprang her apartment house killing mystery. * The waning nations ot Europe are taking ship road after ship load of horses sad mo's* from th* United Sutes. Why not sams ot th* asses, too? i -o-' . Wera lt only feasible to collect all the mad now on Anderson's streets and saar* H uatll sosa* of tis* "wet" had evaporated, we would have matar, lal for making enough brick to pave the town. The Truth Ab* Ky P. Iiuslne.su in Anderson is not normal for this time of year, but it is not Bub- i normal. It in exceptionally good, und lt ls daily getting better. Jt will thus 1 continue, and when next spring und Hummer Anderson County harvests her muminoth grain crop, conditions 1 will he normal or above normul; ver- ; talnly above normal for that season of the year. Let us see what an analysis will 1 show about thc "reui" business condi tion In Anderson. What part of tho city's business de pends upon our cotton mills and oth er small industries, all of which are being operated at least yo per cent, normal, and probably IOU per cent, when the decline In certain non-tex tile industries is considered UH being ' made up In increased textile expan sion? Cities, (county scats) in other 1 parts of the State in counties similar ly populated agriculturally to Ander son County, which cities have no cot ton mils, are usually cities of about r>,000 to 7,00t) people. For instance. Abbeville, Bennettsvllle, O/ingoburg, and other cities in ;hiB State. If An derson had no cotton mills it ls safe to say the city would have only fi.000 to 6.000 people, or be approximately tlie size of such county seat towns as are enumerated here for South Caro lina. Take Georgia. Hartwell, (pop ulation 3,000); Washington, (popula tion 2,500); Baimbridge, (population 4,000); all county seat towns with no textile development, and all small towns. Take Alabama. There ia Ope II!:;., the county seat nf one of the best counties in Alabama. It has 5, 000 people. Take Brewton, county seat of Escambla County, Ala., and in tho center of the finest agricultural and lumbering regions in that State. It has barely 3,000 people. Take Eu falla; it ls a county seat, on a great river, and a point of navigation. It has about .ri,f>00 people. None of. these Alabama towns have any considerable manufacturing. Agriculturally they aro on nearly a par with Anderson County, or at least r>0 to 75 per cent, so. Yet their poulatlons are relative ly small. But let's go further. let'o take tho argument into ono 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 Ut Shelbvvlle in Western Tennessee, in the center of a county noted for Ita 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; lt is in Xorthest Texas. There is Vernon in Northwest Texas, county seat of Wllbarger, admlttedlv the best county in that part of the State, and Vernon bas but few over 3,00 people: and then again in Middle Texas, In the rreat Germanic section, where the thrifty Dutch live, there ls New Braunfals. It ls the county seat of one of the best develooed. counties in the Lon* 5!tar St:? e. It has but 2,500 people. In Southeast Texas there ls Bryan, a county seat that markets more wagon cotton than tny other town in the world. Bryan handles about 30,000 bales of wagon cotton annually. (Anderson averages about 22.000 bales and ls probably the third or fourth largest wagon cotton mar ket In the world.) Bryah has just un der 6,000 people; and lt has practical ly no manufacturing. It is probably lust such a town as Anderson would be If she bsd.no manufacturing in Louisiana, there is Minnen m the north end '?ouma in the south: In Arkansas, there ls Arkadelphla and Parsgould, and in Florida. Wo find De Funlak Springs and L~ke City. Ail ? these towns are county seats and all < markets for wagon cotton. None of them have over 4.500 1 ?opie, and yet DECEMBE THEN .Thirty-eight years ago today the first scientific cremation in the Unit ed Stater took place at Washington, Pa. The pioneer cremator was Dr. F. Julius Le Moyne, and the subject was Ute body of Baron de Palm. But the American precedent had been set S3 years before when under penalty of losing a legacy of 60,000 pounds if he refused, the sor ot Henry Laurens, South Carolina'^ Revolutionary pat riot, consigned ila father's body to a funeral pyre. The ghasty experience ot seeing his Infant child como to life Just beware burial In the earth Is said to have been responsible tor Laurens' demand to be cremated. Tho origin Of cremation is lost in the days ot unrecorded history- It was practiced sporadically hy the pre-Chrlstlaa civ ilisations, except in thoa? countries whose religion,. Just as do some re ligions todsy, forbade Ita practice. The Parvees were worshippers of fire, but prohibited cremation because of the opinion that the fire was thus polluted. The Greeks and the Ro mans practiced cremation, while th* Egyptians considered It an act of pag anism and disposed of their desd by earth burial. The revival of the practice in Europe In the 17th cen tury waa greeted with horror by the medieval peasants. Kings prohibited It under penalty of torture. ?/e Henry Thompson Introduced cremation Into Great Britain -hort!y after the CVJS tng ot the American Civil War. Us ing a reverberating furnace, he re duced a hedy weighing 144 pounds to four pounds of Hms dust within 50 minutes. Encouraged hy Thompson's success. Dr. Le Moyne Installed an Improved Incinerator In a vmall one story brick structure or a hill over looking Ute town et Washington. Three years after hie pioneer crema tion, he died ene weft cremated Ia his ow? institution, mt Conditions A. W. they are county scum and financial centers and commercial marts for rountles at leaat fiO per cent, as well developed as our ov>n Anderson. It is then we believe safe to say that without her textile business. An derson would be a town of about 6,000 people. She ha? at least 18,000. Ag riculture then aupports C.O00 people und 12,000 people are supported oth erwise. On thia basis, In.sinesB would be tis per cent, normal In Anderson, provided we admitted that agriculture was falling down entirely on its sup port "of the other 3!i per cent., but that can not be admitted, since it is not so. Much cotton is being held but some IM being sold. That which Is being held represents wealth, (gen erally) and is therefore essentially the same aa money, since the owner of it will not part with fl 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 UH offered. So our friend Agriculture is not falling down altogether. He is really on his feet good and strong and is incidentally planting a mammoth grain crop fl fattening up his hogs, in creasing his livet-ocU holdiugs, milk ing a few more cows and getting ready for the big "pot" which is surely lat er to be "poured" out. Agriculture is lust about 75 pet* cent, normal, so by a simple calculation in fractions, we read this result: Non-agricultural. G62.:i per cent, normal, and agricul tural, 75 per cent, of 33 1-2 per cent, normal, or the whole, 91 5-8 per cent., which represents the real actual bus iness situation In Anderson today. Business then ia less than 9 per cent, short of normal. And a great war is on. O! how thankful we should be. When the grain crop is harvested, business will be normal, probably lt will be a 105 per cent, business. Some say that bank deposits are a little short of the high water mark of last year; that the sale of luxuries is off; that collections arc somewhat tight, that salea are fewer. This may be true. It waa to have been expected but we believe a careful investigation of general business in Anderson would show , that practically every business house here is doing at leaat 90 per cent, aa much business as thia time last year, with the exception of businesses dealing in luxuries or quasi-luxurles. Thc falling off In the latter haa been heavy, perhapa 50 to 75 per cent. It la to be regretted, but later the vast Increased business of next year will overcome this depres sion on luxuries and near-luxuries, and the dealers In auch businesses will reap a deserved reward. Whether the war In Europe closes this whiter or five years later will make very little difference to the Southern farmer and business man when once next apring has come and gone. We shall hara, then re-adjusted our farming and re-expanded our bus inesses, and if the war keeps on, we Bhall be large sellers of food to the war countries, and if lt vtops we can manufacture our feed" into livestock and hogs and be the gainer. The future of the South ia sure. No part of America may look towards the vlata of tomorrow with more certain ty than old Dixie. Her time has come. She shall Bhow the world that ahe can substitute other crops for cotton; that she can finance herself; and finally that abe 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 burri up tneir shlp=; lei them send to death thousands of their finest workers and artisans, regret and deplore lt aa much aa we may; let them; and Ute South must reap. Anglo-Saxon Southern enterprise will not pass up thia splendid oppor tunity for world trade. Already R 6, 1914 NOW Today about 1 per cent, of the 900, 000 Individuals who' die iii the United 8tates annually are incinerated in the SO or more crematoriums located In more than half of the States. Ten years ago the ratio waa about one-half of 1 per cent. The movement toward universal cremation ts gradually spreading throughout tho world. Eu rope has nearly a hundred cremator iums, Germany disposing of 8,858 bodies by cremation in 191?. Conced ed to be the place of resurrection of the ancient practica, Italy lesds ;he world In percentage of cremations, while during 1912 the city ot Bt. Gall, Switzerland, reported that of the bodies of 535 individuals who died there, 201 were thus disposed of. England ls leaning toward the prac tice-. The authorities ot Westminster Abbey, tho repository for Great Brit ain's heroes, recently prohibited the burial ot more bodies there. They must be cremated. Cremation ls be coming a necessity, especially around the large centers of population, de clare advocates of the practica At the rate at which cemeteries are in creasing around- auch cities as Nsw York and London, each of which re quire about 24 across ot additional land annually to bary the dead, lt has been predicted that tba cities of the living will ha veritably encompassed by "cities ol the dead." Humanity ls reluctant to give up the age-long practice of Inhumation, some anti cremation ists declaring that "when the body ts consumed Tay heat the soul ls at the same tim* 'destroyed.'* Le gal-minded objector* alar, point oat tba ""' destroys all evidence of crime where murder by poison has been committed." Ia the reply the cremat ion lets argue "that cremation iB the only hygeale* sanitary and economic ?nathod ot disposing of our dead. Order by parcels post; we prepay all charges. And since you can return or exchange any thing not perfectly satisfactory, this parcels post proposition is about the best thing yet ror th~ose who can't come to this store. Orders for practical presents for men or boys can be promptly filled here. A few things he'll like: Suits and Overcoats $ 10 to $25 Boy's Suits and Overcoats $3 to $12 Bath Robes $3 to $10. Pajamas Gloves $1 to $3.50. Canes Umbrellas $1 to $5. Rain Coats Ties $2 Sc u*\ Socks in holiday boxes Handkerchiefs, Mufliers, Motor Wraps. If you guess the wrong size it can be exchang ed after Xmas. mTkt Start wUh a Conxivx* Southern manufacturers are getting ready for this new world business, and they will get lt, and then let us here In Anderson not forget that the Piedmont is destined to become thc ;reatest 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 ls just on the verge of a really great business epoch, and incidentally on the verge of her rea> city growth. The war In Europe is but as a passing boat. The development of the Pied mont, and Anderson, its most progres sive 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 thc guide to the future. Business is after all business. Let's get our share of it, and remember we may be paying today the penalty of ] a 9 per cent, shortness in business. | but that penalty ls the lever that shall j give us a 200 per cent, greater bUBi- ' ness on the morrow. Delegates [To State Baptist Convention Leave Here Monday After noon. Delegates from Saluda Baptist As sociatlon to the Stato Bsptlst Con vention, which will bc held in Char leston this week, Will leave tomorrow afternoon for the City by the Sea The delegates leaving from the city win board a special Pullman car, which operated through to Charleston, reach ing there Tuesday morning about 8 o'clock The Pullman car will go as far as Belton on the Blue Ridge Railroad, and there be transferred to the Sou thern Railway, going on to Columbia on the train wh!ch leaves Greenville daily at 5:20 o'clock Following are the delegates from Saluda Association to the State con vention: Mr. L. P. Ledbetter, Town vllle; Dr. J.P. Kin ard, Anderson Col lege, Rev. W. B. Hawkins, Townville; H. Haydock, Belton; W. H. S tor?, Orrvllle; Rev. O. L. Martin, Anderson; Rev. W. W, Leathers. Anderson, Mr. J. A. Brock. Anderson ; Mr. J. E. Brea seale, Anderson; Rev.* J. L. Vasa, Greenville; Rev. E. N. Sander?, An derson; Mr. J. J. Robinson, Barkers Creek; Mr. J. A. Cox, Belton; Mr. a?. A. McGee, Long Branch; Mr. Carl Aus tin; Mr. A. N. Richardson, Garvin township; Mr. E. W. Gregory Wu llamston; Rev. L. EL Campbell,*Bark ers Creek; Mr. R. J. Gambrell, Belton j Mr. Ellas Earle, Townville and Kv E L Kugley. Hones Path. ooooooooooooooooooo e ol e OUR DAILY POEM e . OOOOOOOOOOO?OOOoOOO Was Jg Ie Anderson I I There was a little farmer and he had a little hale, ?He didn't care to aell it, for a HUI, blt of kale, j So he put lt In his yard, and there he | let It he And the cotton deteriorated, aa you easily can see I Now when he decides to sell it, he will And to his dismay, . I That the toyer but little con for dam- j aged cotton will pay. ? And then this farmer, all forlorn, win wonder why ia thunder Hie conning tower didn't work, and j save him from thia blunder. (The fact that the-yagga went to | Nichols is enough to convict them. ? ?? o - A traveling man said Billy Sunday | Ila/a faker. Dare him tell Billy that? Anyhow, the "hog and hominy glide" I sounds good. -o We take lt that the races ot Charles-1 [ton ere making their last ron for the] I money. ? ' O' 1 Gee. bat wont the European war I alford a splendid opportunity for I pardoning record. Selling Satisfaction Yesterday tho Ad Man wa? lu the Bee Hive and overheard a custom .-r telling thr proprietor about a pair of men's shoes which he had bought there for ONE BOLLAR AND NINETY EIGHT CENTS? which had not Rhen him sut Infliction; and he asked Mr. Bailes to have the pair of shoes repaired. Mr. BaHes did not do this; he did oven better-HE GAVE THE MAN i NEW PAIR, and o?ked him to be sure to return thc pair nf faulty shoes at once so that he mold return them to the fac tory; nnd at the same time advised thc customer hereafter to pay at least two dollars and a half and get a real good pair of shoes. What would hare been the result If this man bought this pair of shoes from a MAIL Order House of a Storekeeper who eonld not see beyond hin nose and who would hare refused to give the customer any satlsfnrtion whatever! A DISSATISFIED ens* tomerl In all probability the Bee Hive will lose money on this parti cular transaction; they will unless the manufacturer is willing to make the losa good to the retailer; BUT-they MADE a SATIS FIED CUSTOMER out of a customer who MIGHT hare proven a DISSATISFIED purchaser, and he will, in all probability, do the "EE HIVE a hundred times the good that this pair of shoes would cost.. . s The'Merchant who realises that he is SELLING SATISFAC TION, Instead of the particular line of merchandise which he handles Is the one who will build trade that wUl soon lead to the my called SUCCESS. Sasseen. the Ad Man. sra? THE "Toddler" Affords Comfort, Safety and Fun For the Little One, -thereby relieving and resting the tired mothers. Holds th? child securely, and can be adjusted to any position. Made of heavy canvas and heavy steel wire, very durable and perfectly sanitary. Furnished complete with rcpe, hooks and rings. Just the thing for Baby's Christmas, only 75c Sullivan Hardware Co. Anderson, S. C., Greenville, S. C. Belton, S. C. enr^iirivantr> ?I^OT???I?II?S? I THE ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER I I JOB PRINTING DEPARTMENT