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m ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER FOUNDED AUGUST 1, 18*9. SM North Mala Street ANDERSON, 8. C W. W. 8MOAK, Editor and Bus. Mgr L. M. GLENN.City Editor PHELPS SABSKEN, Advertising Mgr T. B. GODFREY.Circulation Mgr. XL ADAMS, Telegraph Editor and Foreman. Member of Associated Presa and Receiving Complete Dally Telegraphic Barrica. Entered according to Act of Con gress as Second Class Mall Matter at the Postofflce at Anderson, 8. O TELEPHONES Editorial and Business Office.821 Job Printing .693-L 8 ins CHI rn o.v BATES Sem U Weekly One Tear .11.50 Six Months . .76 DaRy One Year .85.00 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 I as. Opposite your name on the I label of your paper is printed date to which our paper ls paid. Al1 checks and drafts should be drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer. oooooooooooooooooooo I ONLY W 13 . Moro Stopping ? J Dayl ? 0 Before X'roas. eooeoooooooooooooooo No, Pauline, the franchise matter is not dead yet, only sleeping. Do Grain elevators elerste, and how? Watch Anderson's grow and the ques tion lp answered. "What Is the editorial page of a newspaper?" wss hesrd on the train. Dont tell him. what's the use? A little sunshine hss a soothing ef fect, and even' helps to mske our streets passable. Let us talk paring. "Editors are human," says the Louis ville Herald, which ought to be heart ily ashamed ot Itself, letting out pro fessional secreta that way.-The State. It Ia .hard for The Intelligencer to ' get some questions answered, but the people are answering them if those asked do noL CRIXE IN FLORENCE In Florence county last week a number of men, fifty or a hundred, took a man out ot the hands of offi cers of the law and killed him. The man, a negro, ls said to have been found under the house of a white man who was absent from bis home at the time. The negro said that be intenaea to steel chickens and it is also said that be bore a "bad reputation," al though no crime had been laid at his door, i That the life of a man was taken le bad enough. Probably nothing ta to be gained by using hard words about the matter though of course the deed was ' shameful. Were every act of no greater criminality than waa this negro's punished with death, probably elgbt or ten thousand men would be killed each year in South Carolina, aa all the petty thieves and forgers would be Included In the an nual massacre. The most pitiful phase of the trag edy la that from fifty to a hundred men, many of them perhaps young, will go through life with thb smell of human blood on their hands, with the hearts hardened and their con sciences seared, persuading them selves that the mere killing of a fel low man ls a light offense-The State. ABOUT THINKING People who do not think are uncon genial t? people who do think largely because they do not think, and people who do think are uncongenial to peo ple who do not think because they think, If.people who do not think would learn to think then they would become more tolerable to thinkers aa woll aa to themselves; but if thinkers should cease thinking, and put them selves on a parity with those who do not think, just think what an un thinkable meas it would make ot us au.-Yorkville Enquirer. WE HOPE SO The Andersen Intelligencer cried Sagalast the blind tigers until t city got rid af them. That journal ls now crying out against maddy streets. May she likewise have a deliverance from them. The Newe cried oat against muddy streets and they are now passing. We expect to keep np the- yell against the blind tigers Until ?hey, too, pass hence The Laacd seer Newe. HAYE YOU? "It may rain tomorrow, hat, say, ain't lt fine today?" Bava rou caught the spirit o? that sentiment yet? If you have net you are toting Half of your existence. Wake np and get in tho running? Newberry Herald and Newe. WE THANK YOU The Intelligencer desl?es to thank the many kind '.rlrnds who have made complimentary remarks about this newspaper recently. It ls Indeed pleas ant for the workers on thia newspaper to know that their efforts to give the people of this section of the Piedmont a really good newspaper ls appreciat ed. The little; things one says in a com plimentary way go far towards making the long hours of the night seem short er to those who are engaged in getting the news of the world in type Tor the readers who await the paper before breakfast each morning. On behalf of the entire force we desire to thank those who are kind enough to express themselves as pleased with The Intel ligencer. It must he remembered that this newspaper ls only In its Infancy yet, and that it is more than a month till it will be one year old. l?ut in this short period of time, thanks to the kind support of friends, it has grown us large as many similar enterprises of n uch greater age. A letter from a subscriber In another state says: "I will send in one year's subscription and get someone else if I can. I tako several different ones, but think Thc Intelligencer the best of all." Many such expressions are heard on all sides, and we thank those who are so kind and so generous in their praise. WORSE ANO WORSE It ls becoming moro and more ap parent that Pros lent Wilson knew what he was talking about the other lay when ho urged the newspaper mern in one of his semi-weekly conferences with them, not to be too ready to be lieve dispatches coming to this country from Mexico. He stated, In effect, that there were a number of interested parties In Mexico who were having sent to this-country false and mislead ing messages descriptive of conditions and tendencies In the Southern Repub lic. That there has been a consider able amount of this sort of fake news (rom Mexico all along ls known by all close observers of newspaper dis patches, but tho revival of the "stuff" In a more violent form than ever lends color to the Idea that the President 'knew it was coming." It must be ad mitted that he knows and has known more about Mexico ail along than the professional politicians who ?rltlclse and attempt to ridicule his policies. Two most absurd stories have come From Mexico during, the present week -Among the most preposterons* of all he daily "rot" from that country. One a to the effect that Gen. Carranza p&ld rifi.OOO to two United States senators 'or their Influence in having the United States troops withdrawn from Mexico- aa if the President of the Jnltcd States could be influenced by Jenatora who ha^|hch^^rtO)e. The )ther is that the troops"r/Ht'e with lrawn from Yera Crus by President iVilson upon the peremptory orders of 3eneral Carran sa. Of courae stories ot thia sort aro lot carried by the Associated Press, or f they aro, their character as mere ?umors ls presented with them. Chief ly they are "special artllces," and a arge proportion of them come from Bl Paso, where there are a number of 'waiting statesmen" from Mexico, .cady to join any faction that can nost thoroughly, and completely loot he country. Specifically, the Hearst iowa service has been more than once :harged with presenting Interested 'news" from Mexico. Mr. Wilson's statement haa no doubt ie rv ed to call the attention of casual .eudora to the absurdities of some of ho Mexican dispatches, but the thing las got to be so notoriously flagrant hat nobody of any ordinary degree of ntelllgence needs to be told that the Mexican news \ not news, but stuff ICHlgned to mislead and distort the Vmerican public opinion. SELF-DENIAL DAY In Oils Issue of The Intelligencer ls m appeal for a Self-Dental Day in An Ierson. One of Anderson's public spir ted and generous cltisena suggested to The IntellL ncer that the good >eople of Anderson be called upon o aet aside one day between thia and Christmas for the purpose ot donni ng something to those among us shorn the Salvation* Army feels are worthy. The Idea ls to give to the Sal ration Army aere all that one would ?pend on the 16th of December for uxuries In the ordinary course of a lay. This is asking very little of the rood people of Anderson, and we are mm thia appeal will meet . with a lear ty and ready response. Wi ere tnxtous to send money across the we er to our cousins who need if very nuch, and we should be equally as inxlous to give something to our needy irothsr at borne. Baltimore haa set aside next Tues, lay as Self-Dental Day. abd lt le meet ng with mach favor. Thousands of lollars will be realised aa a result of he interest taken tn thia worthy ef fort.'Can Anderson afford to do lesa proportionately for the unfortunate in. rar city, and they are here, na they are everywhere. One haa but to go down the street and watch the eager and hungry little faces that are press ed against the show windows where the Santa Claus has his toys on dis play, to be convinced that to give only the price of one's luxuries tor one day will bring more Joy than if the amount were spent in self indulgence. The Intelligencer will be pleased to receive any funds that may be left with us, and wo are sure that the mer chants and thc hanks will provide boxes for the deposit of the funds, and c?U attention to them as their cus tomers come and go. Let us make this a red letter day in Andesron and one which our unfortunate brother at home will have cause to remember. Tho Baltimore Sun IIBB the follow ing editorial, which we ask that you take timo to read: The problem which we afc facing In Saltimoro and which the people of all other great cities In this country aro facing, to a greater or less degree, ls, in the main, the problem of unem ployment. It has become much more severe, much more pressing than usual this winter owing to the business con ditions produced by the war. But lt ls not a new social phenomena, and will remain with us until we have remov ed tho causes from which it springs. In its final analysis and solution it is becoming evident to nearly everybody we shall have to deal with it on deep er and broader lines of social phil osophy than we have hitherto employ ed. But for the moment the question ts one of immediate rescue, ot com munity Red Cross work, so to speak. Those who hare been wounded or rendered helpless in the struggle for existence are lying all around us on tbe tho battle fields of peace, and our first duty is to ?ave them from suffer ing and to set them on their feet again. We shall not be allowed to forget that this is not a final cure for Buch con ditions. There are too many mission aries of reform abroad in the land to permit us to shelve these questions by first aid to the injured. Whatever our views may be as to the future and per manent remedy, therefore, we can ail unite in tho task of rendering the im mediate aid that is so sorely needed. One thought which should be kept In mind is that the extension \>f this aid is not an act of generosity, but an act of individual and community duty. We. owe this to the people who are suffering among us for the ordinary necessities of life. We owe it to them because, in one way or another, they are generally the victims of our social order- some weakness or viciousness in our system, of some lack of wis dom or lack of heart in Its construc tion or operation. Consciously or un consciously, all of uu have contributed to these results, and it is only rair mat we should assist in atonement for. our own wrong.. Our help is predicted on the ?.vinciple of the compensation act, which provides a certain recompense fer workmen injured by dangerous ma chinery. The machinery ot our civili sation grinds out many maimed bodies and lives ; in-time ' wo may learn bow: to make lt less basardous to be born into this complicated factory of -sod ern Ure; but now tue first thing In do, the duty of the hour, ls to bind up the wounds of the injured. Viewed from'this standpoint, Solf Denial Day loses none of its inspira tion and is strengthened in its appeal to cur reason and our self-interest, december 15 will bring home to us, if we use it aright, a slight comprehen sion of the meaning of poverty and dis tress. It may tax the resolution of some of un to forgoe on that day our accustomed luxuries and indulgence, but If we give them up we ?hall hare a faint idea of the self-denial which the poor are forced to practice every day in the year. It will tend to bronc* - en our human sympathies and to give us an insight into tho other fellow a life-the other fellow who is not mere ly going without elga rn and soda water and theatre tickets all the time, but to whom the whole of existence ls ouu long act of deprivation. How many of us make any real sac rifice for anybody, outside of our own families, tn the course of the year? And lt wo db, by chance, how particu larly virtuous we feel! This Self-De nial Day that we are all talking about will give most of us a chance for-a new experience, and we believe it will BOW the seed ot Isstlsg thought. VERT RARE OCCURRENCE The Anderson Intelligencer lukes The York News to task for reflecting on the manner in which convictions were secured against blind tigers in the city of Anderson. The York News thinks public opinion was stirred up to too high a pitch. We differ from our York contemporary. Wo believe that lt Is a very rare thing that a blind tiger is unjustly convicted. They ar? a menace to any community and all forces for good should unite In getting public sentiment thoroughly crystal ised against them. Just as has been done in Anderson.-Tho Lancaster News. The Day Ie Congress WASHINGTON, Dec, 9.-SENATE: Hearing begun on land leasing bill. Debate begun on the immigration MU. Senator Kenyon Introduced a bill to reduce the number of men requir ed for a federal grand jury. : the London safoty-at-sea conven tion waa favorably reported for con firmation. Senator Stone Introduced the ad ministration shipping bill. Adjourned at 3:37 p. m. to noon Thursday. HOU8K: Secretary McAdoo submit ted bia annual report. Rear Admiral Fletcher and Briga dier General Scott testified before military and naval commit tees on the preparedness Of the national de fenses. Representative McDonald introduc ed a plan to put the question ot na tional deren?* to a referendum. ? Adjourned nt 5:1? p. m. to noon ^Thursday. "A Beggar Ra Never Be? Columbia. S. C., Nov*. 20. Thc moat hopeful und helpful sign of the t?nica throughout the South la the rapidly swelling protest against the apirlt which has mude the South appear as a beggar Hitting at the gate of the rich man, Lazarus-tike, expos ing Ita sores to public gaze, ?nd ask ing alms. Everywhere there Is heard a ringing protest against the men and the movements which have resulted in placarding tho North with begging signs, "Please help thc South," and even in originating "charity balla" and selling tickets on thc plea that something must be done to help tho South. This section did not at first quite realize what would he the effect of the many begging plans in congress and elsewhere to give to cotton-grow ers a "protectlonf never granted to any other industry, and to teach the, improvident ones that they must be "coddled" and. saved from their own fatal mistake of raising too much cot ton, and the people responsible fot this overproduction of cotton arc the one million or more tenant farmers who raise three to four bales each, in season and out of season. It must bc rememberd that I am referring not to tho intelligent, thrifty, hardworking growers, who make un a largo part of the farming elament of tho cotton States, and who raise their own food* stuffs, but to tens of thousands of in efficient, lazy and "ne'er do well** small farmers, mostly teneuts, white and black, who are a curso to the South-a burden on Jt which constant ly holds it bach. Tou can aee their homes wherever you travel, many of them without a sign of a garden, a pig or even a chicken. What to do to lift this burden by lifting these peo ple, is a great problem, but it must be .solved. . The sooner they dre forced by the refusal of landowners and country atores to advance one dollar of credit on cotton-and many of these classes of local financiers must be taught to quit their habit of which is directly responsible for existing deg radation of tenant:; and for their fail ure to raino foodstuffs-thc sooner they will be forced to earn a better living by regular work. There are, of course, tome good tenant fermera; many. Indeed; but aa a class these small tenants are slovenly In their work and a hundred years behind In their methods of cultivating their crops. They 'destroy the fertility o? the soil, they7 are ever moving - from place to place/ and rarely eyer bene fit any place. These aro the people who. like a load, aro hung around the noel's of the thrifty, prosperous far mers whe by their own work or that of the more Intelligent tenant farm era have to carty this burden, and yet have wrought; t^oll In. developing the South. They %rc Uk? a : dead body chained to a live man. who can only -advance-as lmttrfe(ga-tb? load to which fate has tied hito: i \ For the votes ;af these people, that la to say, the votes of the whites among them, politicians of high and low degree, politicians who run the county machin?, the town machino and the State machine, propose every visionary and uneconomic scheute that the brain can devise, merely to keep the spirit of unrest alive, for upon unrest they fatten. Th'so politicians are, developing among many of'these lower classea ot Ignorant, lazy farmers a spirit of an archy, which hatea auccess, despises honor and condemn:* honesty. Out of this condition, lamentable as it ' is, grew the agitation'which has placard ed the country with Lazarus-like pleas, and which held up for national pity every evidence of weakneas. The late D. A. Tompkins of Char lotto who was once rightly nominated in a public meeting, not aa of Char lotte nor of North Carolina, nor even of tho South, but as "D. A. Tompkins of the United States," had a favorite expression when talking to cotton mill operatives and others, to the effect that "if you have a sore, toe. don't be always sticking it out and calling at tention to it." . The South, or at least a part of lt, stuck out Ita "sore toe" and begged the passerby to note ita soreness and tn five charity when nono was needed. ', "A beggar race can never be a great race," said. Tompkins once in a Ponton club, when he- had been im portuned to give his Views about the negro. Ile had refused to discuss the subject until after much persuasion he consented upon the promise that be should have the right to express hts views with absolute candor without offense. Then when hq pointed out how the philanthropists ot New Eng land were ruining the negro race by encouraging Its begging proclivities Inatesd of letting it fight out its battlo pf Independent development, he added that so long aa the race waa a beg gar race it could never be a great race.' "How about Dr. Blank." one of audience asked; "surely you do not count hbo as a beggar?" "He," said Tompkins, "ls the greatest beggar ot them all, for h? has for yearn made a business of begging from yen and other Northern people, and I repeat, *no race that ItVes by begging can ever become groat, any more than an In-* dividual beggar c^n ever become -v true, self-reliant vnan. so long as he clings to his hising for a living." There is ? laWiV'?rtmeu Vio? im portance to tire South in tUese state ments of Tow Ohm*/ one of the wisest men tho South hss known in a quar ter ot a cent try. Tompkins was re ferring specif! sally to the negro. But for more than ? generation, and es pecially In the past 12 or li years, there has been systematically culti vated, under the guise of "educational statesmanship" abd "phl"?*r?hropy la education," an appalling spirit of beg gary tn the South, not among the ten ant taratap etea, but among he clara that ta supposed co be io train ing ot and for future leadership ia the South on ali linos. - Hot only must the self-reliant, vir ile South-the. South that Stands for ce Can a Great Race ' honor and. integrity-determine to suppress the politician whoso work encourages a spirit of beggary, hut it must make certain that tho weak kneed begging element in its popula tion shall not be posed before the world as in the slightest degree rep resentative of the real manhood ot the South. An old cotton grower, a man of the old but ever'living school of honor and honesty, in berating the tendency of Borne farmers to refuse to sell cotton and pay their debts, said to the writer: "Why, I have sold cotton at 3 cents a pound, and would do it again, or even sell my land or anything else, if necessary, to pay the man who had trusted me and whose goods I had used." Ho ls a type of the man who resents with bitten, ?BS the beggar plea, "help the South." He is of that great body which holds honor and honesty above price, whose soul is made somewhat bitter and re sentful by having his section and him self misjudged hy the "charity balls" and begging please toiwy cotton of 150 a bale when it was selling at $15 less -every bale thus sold being an en forced contribution to charity. Any man might properly be urged to buy a "bale of cotton" at the market price, but the moment the movement under took to name 10 cent?, while the mar ket price was less, it was**? doomed to i failure-, because it became a charity proposition. The foremost newspapers of the South are vigorously righting the mendicant spirit muong .the farming . element. While they are about lt they will do well to widen their campaign so as to include the element, far greater in influence, represented among State and local school authori ties and faculties and officials of uni versities and colleges who stand, hat In hand before the coffers of "philan thropic educational" endowments. The newspapers are demanding that the South shall fairly and squarely and honestly meet tho situation; that farmers- shall sell enough of their cot ton to pay their debts and that those who hare been responsible for tho "Help the South" placards shall fully understand that thoy do not represent the South, but that they do seriously misrepresent it Surely -it would be a bitter arraignment of* our bf si ness sense If. after five big cotton crops sold at very high prices, the whole South, could be long stampeded and made panicky by one year of "uncer tainty as to tho sale of its cotton. Thousands and tens of thousands of cotton growers, men who measure up to the highest standard of business ability, men whose Integrity ls as high a? that of the justly famed men of the Old South, are abundantly able to hold their cotton, for they are fi nancially Btrong and have abundant credit. Tho Southern cotton growing Industry should be. judged by them. We would be as unwise In our-judg ment If WP regarded the inefficient ?lass as typical of this industry and ' of Southern farming as we would be if we estimated all China by the cool ies whom we occasionally see. And yet many people who do not know the South make Ulis mistake just as mam? do in their thoughts of China. Unless begging of outsiders for education shall end, the Impression will no long er be a mistaken one. The whole ?situation simply showed how easily the mob mind or the mob spirit can be turned cse way or an other in theso days. Many of the peo ple have been led to believe that everything is rotten; that all success is based on fraud; that all corpora tions are controlled by robbers. And for this regrettable condition ot mind In a large part of the public'many of tho men who stand high in politics, some in one party?, some in another, are responsible. While they have de nounced men of great fortunes, and, with the aid of a species ot Journal ism, have excoriated wealth as scoun drellsm and thlvery, thoy have es teemed lt an 'honor to know the men they have called robbers; The same class has been-lound at the. front 4n. advocacy of begging ot these very mon of wealth- for school fur.de, for libra ries and for church organs and for eign missions. Consequently, Utero has been created an atmosphere of hyprocrisy and mendicancy.. Consid ering all- the circumstances of the re cent . cotton stampede, how could we, threfore, expect that the poor grower ot throe or four bales of cotton who could not clearly differentiate, should not be "ilUng to join in a schema to have charitably disposed people buy bis cotton at $50 a bale when the mar ket price wa* $10 or $15 less? Perchance the South is already learning ita tesson. It baa certainly found that the men most denounced by the politicians in public are the most toadied to when the chance comes. to seek a favor. It has certainly learn ed that the fight against railroads haa cost this section billions more than any saving made in freight rates; it has certainly learned that In the hour ot financial need the people and the government have had <o ask the help of the vjnry Wall street powers which both have been denouncing. The South is justly fighting the beg gar spirit which placards tho stores and the hotels of the East with ap peals to help the "poor South." Lot it now take from every store and every show window in the Sooth tho charltj cotton marked "I have bought a bale at 10 cents a pound. Ha?e you?" So long as that sign appears < tn every town and city atore in the South, let us remember that we are holding out our "sore toe" and asking people to look at it, and wa ?nat not therefore blame the North for taking us at our word. Let us atop whining, stop de nouncing success merely because lt la success, stop developing the anarch istic spirit or tho day and start afresh to lay a solid foundation on which to build a higher and cleaner lire, with independence. backbone, common nenne, honor, honesty and Integrity tn our thinking and In our acting.-R. H. E. in The Manufacturera Record. Business .Ti, ?ta? aft* ? Orneme* Bulletin AUTUMN THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10 1914 "True salesmanship consists in selling goods Jthat don't corn? back-to peo ple who db come back.'7 I saw that-or some thing like it-the oth er day and repeat it here because it says more about good business than any other short sentence I've ever seen. The "people who do come back" are Many men who buy clothes here ask us to do their choos ing for them. We are very glad of this, for it gives us the opportunity to utilize the lessons of our long exper ience in fitting the right clothes to' the right man. The result is a thorough ap preciation of our thoughtful selling service-a service and always have been-the main stays of B. O. Evans & Co.'s store. It is easy to get a man to buy once-but to sell a man the kind of goods that will bring him back again-that is the modern busi ness idea and it is part of the "Evans idea"-though we have no monopoly of it. which we believe is the best in Anderson. And the merchandise matches the service-a com bination that makes perman ent patrons out of chance customers. Suits $10 to $25. Overcoats $10 to $25. The Christmas store for Men's and Boy's Gifts. Order by parcel post Wo prepay all chargea. Respectfully Referred to He of the Fox-skin Overcoat -? The Intelligencer haa been handed a communication which will be of peculiar intereat just at this time in view of the etory appearing recently in an Atlanta paper that Col. James T. Robert of Anderson had offered a reward of $2.000 to any one who would find for him a suitable com panion to ond bia bachelorhood. The communication followa: Are those days of chivalry ovo', when knighthood waa In flower, whoo knights of old and .warriora bold did most valiant deeds to gain ray lady's favor? Now there dwells a man io North Anderson town of a Norseman-like statue, a princely man of large es tate as well as great fox-chasing tame. He baa dared to iaaue a most startling proclamation, which repre sents in dollars and cents a sufficient amount) it seems to beguile or entrap a "malden shy." for a helpmate or a better halt News travels easily lt seems from both far and wide and great showers ot letters, are daily re received. He must be by .this time really deluged, though not to be pit ied In being so dreadfully beset, by there poor i foolish maidens, who seem to forget. instead of besetting bim they should bo sought. These samo showers of letters will at least give him some food for thought and take heed, 'you ?nan of foxy fam? that oar good wemen cf today are just the same; as of yore and the maid worth having, however large the sum, can not ho bought for a price, though a king's ransom were laid at her feet. Her price Ia far above the rubles of Biblical lore, therefore a most priceless gem. Now this foxy Norseman should also know he Is missing the chance of hie life, of getting onto tho chase and of win ning tho race of the biggest game that waa ever played on the highroad of life and given to mere man. So come down from thoae stilts my worthy Sir Poxy and do tho right stunt and'tell the same old story in the same good way, even on thy bended knee, as "I pray thee, my fair maid" which If persistently and per severingly told, kind fortune may re ward you and gain for you in the end a beautiful lady of golden locks prefered to help you and keep you, my dear air, from going fox-chasing and to grace those ancestral halla and. try. to'help rufe those vast fair, lands and won't evett sobra to sew on buttons of this great "big man and "My lord" of, Koxyquiller A BLOND. RIFLES ' The .imple, strong, hard-hitting; accurate shooting kind. Such Rifles make happy boys. Bows and Arrows Just what every boy wants. Get one for your boy. <, \ SULLIVAN HARDWARE GQ. Anderson, S. C., Greenville, S. C., Belton, S. C.