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fHE JWOERSONINTEUJBENCER FOUNDED AUGUST 1. IM?. 14ft West Waitaer Street ANBEHSOft, 8. t. W. W. 8MOAK, Editor end Bas. Mgr L. M. GLENN.City Editor PHELPS SASBEEN, Advertising Mgr T. B. GODFREY.CirculsUon Mgr. E. ADAMS, Telegraph Editor sad Foreman. nattered ss second-class matter Ap ril 28, 1914, at tb* post office st An derson, South Carolina, under the Act ot l&rca~ 3,1879. Member ot Associated Press sad Receiving Complete Daily Telegraphic Service. TELEPHONES Editorial and Business Office.Ill Job Printing .693-L SUBSCRIPTION BATES Semi-Weekly On* Tear .$1.(0 SU Mantas .76 ?any one Tear .K.00 Stn Months .2.60 Three Months ..-. 1-25 The Intelligencer ls delivered hy carriers in the city. IC yon tall to get your paper regularly please notify na. Opposite yoar nam* on the label of your paper la printed data to which our paper ls paid. AU checks sud drafts should be drawn to Th* Anderson Intelligencer. The Weather. South Carolina: Local rain* Thurs day i Friday fair, colder. THEIR DUTY DONE. In the next few daya. or to bs ex act on February 1st, Messrs. W. L Brlssey, T. Frank Watkins and M. M. Mattleons terms aa directors in the Chamber of Commerce will have ex pired. It should be and doubtless la a source of great encouragement to all Andersonians to know that their placea will be filled by such able pub . ile spirited and progressive men as . those who have been chosen to suc ceed them. For in Messrs. E. It Hor ton, It E. Ligon and J- E. Barton the organisation has secured three men who sre capable, willing and able and bare the progresa, prosperity and growth of the city at heart, and will creditably All the places of thoBe gentlemen whom they are to succeed. ' But jus? n word. What about thone three gentlemen who have laid down th* mantle of duty well done and or conscientious service weil rendered for the public good and for the city's, progress? Th? Intelllrencer ls Informed that ? the records in the office ot the commer cial organisation jail! show that these three gentlemen gare never missed a meeting of the directors ' during the entire two years they served when they were In the city: that many times they gave up their own businesses, needing particular and painstaking attention, in order to be on band wb4u the board met to deiiverate and take action on the many matters brought to its at tention. And tbs record' of accom plishment made Is enduring; it has been solid, substantial, and fruitful of tremendous results. No one. who has followed the results obtained can for one moment question the fact that great and lasting good has been done. These three retiring directors have pla'-?d their part In that activity. To gether with their fellow remain-over directors tho wbolo city is the bene ficiary- - Today business draws the brainiest and busiest men within its folds. Politics no longer, If ever for that matter, draws our really biggest men, Good men are in politics. That is true and some exceptionally able men, but aa a rule today the real, big, con atructtve men of America are tn bus iness. And sometimes lt would ap pear that-the great public, ever forget ful of the work done xor it volun tarily and for love of one's city. State, country, ta all roo prone to put too light * tribute upon those who hare labored for the common good of all', la an unselfish desire to serve. That condition we do not believe exist* to any approachable extent in Anderdon, and The Intelligencer therefore feels that in the retirement of these three gentlemen from the governing board of the city's business commercial body, do BO with th* sincere ihsak; of all our people, who are grateful for what they haye done, for what they have Blood for, and for the increasing importance Anderson ls securing upon the map of progress. The Intelligencer but wents to add 1U reit* of thankfulness. And it does heartily. COXPUL80BY EDUCATION. We are keenly interested in the question of compulsory education for the SUte of South Carolina. We had hoped that Immediately after the leg islature convened, that it would pass a compulsory school attendance taw. t so far they have ssoeeeded in .r-ing no law regarding thia moat important question. When the question of the percentage |pg Illiterate children in Soutn Carolina :i* mentioned, we are compelled to hang our bead? in ?hame, because we are very near the bottom of the list. We are either next to the bot tom or third from there at any rate. While the entire United States as a whole haa made great stride? in stamping out illiteracy among the children of school age in the last four ten years the. South has not kept pace with the balance of the country; In fact, the high per centage of Illiteracy among the Southern States ls whet keeps the per cent of Illiteracy of the United States from being considerably lower than it is today. From the latest figures obtainable j from the United States government it i is shown ttiat the number of Illiterate' children between the ages of ten and fourteen, lias dropped from forty two out of every thousand in 1900, to only FIFTEEN to the thousand In 1914, j wliile the number of Illiterate chil dren In this State has dropped from one hundred and fifty to the thousand in 1900 to an ESTIMATED number of ! EIGHTY FIVE per thousand in 1M4. With theBe figures at hand, further comment ls hardly necessary. They speak volumes, and in a language of one sylable that all who read may un derstand. How can we advance, or I hope to keep up with the rapid prog ress of thc balance of tbe country when we are lagging so far behind j in the very foundation of all civilisa tion, progress, and advancement? We owe a duty to the illiterate adults and their illiterate children of thia State which cries out for immediate att n tlon. We, who are more fortunate than some -others should see to it, that the children of this State are given a sufficient education that will enable them to' earn a bare living; for with the rapid Invention of machinery with which to do almost every thing that has been done wltb? human hands heretofore, the day is not far distant when the person who is dependent upon his hands for a living will starve to death. As Elbert Hubbard once said: "A man ls worth a dollar, a day from his ears down, and from his ear up he ls worth what he can earn;" thia being tnt? what chance will the uneducated child of today have against the competition of the highly educated child, when they will have reached man's estate? From a commercial point of view strictly, it will be the very best in vestment that South Caromin can m-.\fce at this time, to pass a good workable and enforceable compulsory educational law. without any excep tions. Make it broad, so that it will) cover the entire State. Wp would sug gest that a commission or a comtt-] tee be appointed selected from level headed educator*, or men who r.re known to have the interest ot the children at heart, for the puvpose of framing a bill that wilt gire the chil dren qf this State at '.east ah even break with the average child of this country. They couM get copies of the different stnte iaws which have, been j and are now ls force in a great many I other States, sad fashion oura from) the best nf all these. As South Carolina ts one of the -only j States of. this entire country which has not yet embraced the plan of Compulsory Education, and each of these five . States are high in their per cent of Illiteracy, this should be sufficient reason, without another! word to convince any thinking man! that wc should have State wide com pulsory attendance law, and ATI ONCE. How are you going to educate the j child of illiterate parents, who do not | appreciate the need of an education; or who are toe eager to gain the bsneflt of the earnings of their own children to be wining to spare thom to ge to schcol? Only by the aid of the law! The awful amount of money neces sary to keep law and order; and to punish the law breakers of this State could bo cut In hali lt our people had been better educated. A study ot this phase ot the situation wir? con vince the most skeptical thai et least j seventy-five per cent of our criminals j are illiterates. The terrible ravages of pal tagia, hook-worm, and tuberculosis, and' other diseases could te diminished to a m*pv?d degree if cur p?ophf were better educated. Most of thcae caaes, cr at lesat a grsatir j?jr Cent o? them could have been prevented if'the peo ple had boen better educated. We can alt talk, and write, and res ol ate until doomsday, but we will never solve this tremendous problem until we caa get the children Into the ac bor?! rooms; we cannot educate them wi'^cift wetting them lato th ar.d t'*ere a?<< thousands of childrr S Vrfih Carolina wh? *lll nev any education until the State has ? compulsory education law. A GOOD CHAIRMAN. The election of Mr. E. H. H?rten chairman of the Paving Comxulaslira ; bsa proven a popular choice through-1 out the ciJy. No one could expect: otherwise. Mr. Horton ts a man of j : .-Ml.. wKb ! ilii' other able members of tho .com misvtoa a proper handling, disburse- ! mont and distribution of the paving fund. The other selections made have proven no lea? popular. Everybody knows that Mr. li. O. Evans, as vice chairman, Mr. Ledbetter as treasurer and Mr. Walter Dabbing aa secretary will carry on this Important work, so necessary now if Anderson ia to pro gress further, in a proper manner, to the satisfaction of the overwhelming majority of our people. e ooooooooooooooooo o o o Letter From the People. o o o ooooooooooooooooo Editor Intelligencer: In complying with your request that I give you my views on compulsory education. I shall try to be very brief. In tbe beginning, too, allow me to say that I have not seen the text ?r any of the bills now before the general assembly and therefore cannot pre sume to comment upon them. I am unequivocally In favor of com pulsory education, and for this rea son 1 earnestly hope that, whatever the bill submitted. the details shall be ? carefully considered by men whose experience in Buch mattera render them competent to arrive at a workablevconclusion. A mistake just now will Bet the educational clock back several years in South Carolina. An Impractical, unworkable law wilt carty, within itself the seed of. it's own repeal. This ?is no time, I res pect, for hasty or half-baked legisla tion. An effective law ror compulso re education in my opinion should be State wide; it should provide ror a levy in e.?eh district of sufficient taxes to operate town schools nine months and rural schoolB Bevan months as a minimum; it should pro vide for the raising of adequate funds for modern Behool houses and school equipment. An effective law should not say that these taxes and charges may be levied but that they must be I levied ; and lt should be. the specific duty ot some one to see that they are levied. It is utterly useless to pass a j law without providing the means whereby it ls to be carried out. To allow u community to throttle the law l y neglecting to provide the neces sary school funda ls to nullify the Whole matter. Yours very truly, E. C. McCants. ' f hat member of the South Carolina legislature who waals tue cobon acreage reduction law repealed, most be a large land owner. I have beard that In some instances landlords re fuse to rent their lands without an agreement to plant practically every ncr.; in cotton. The farmer who raises cotton only, is bound to pay cash for what he eats, and there is hot one cotton farmer out of every hundred in South Carolina who can aave money from the proceeds of his cotton crop who carries his provisions home in tin cans and paper bags. The landlord may think differently and continue to demand that the tenant plant all cotton-not even per mitting -him to raise a few hogs, or keep a cow without extra tiny," r.r raise a few chickens.. But that does not.-disprove the proposition;that the tenant can never expect to ?be any thing but a tenant under such res trictions. However, that is probably what the landlord knows and desires. If there were no tenants, there would be no landlords with land to rent-for the richest land on earth is worth much less than the same number of aerea In prarie grass, unless some man plows lt, 'hoes it, raises croon amt gathers the harvest. An uncork ed farm it on par with an Ice cream parlor at the North Pole. It cannot be denied that tho produc tion of cotton ta a wonderful blessing to the human race, for lt.'supplies gothlng to that Innumerable class of ipoverished humanity who otherwise would, from necessity, play the role Of. ''September Morn." But for the white men, women and children of the South-who for many years h?ve been forced to Vhit the cotton patch" for thirteen months in each year-it has been anything but a profitable and up. lifting employment. Instead of a blessing, it has simply bound them into an economic slavery from which there is absolutely no hope for relief outside of rebellion, and a complete change in the'system under which they struggler In other words, they must stop raising cotton not entirely-but as a sole crop. - When any mac in the South .aug? goats a curtailment of c 'ion"wZi.* tfon, a yell goea up frc^ all over the .country. It Ia a mar.nlflc!ont yell, and for years has had th?. ciT??ct of drown ing tb> feeble voice o.V the opposition. To listen to thc cry, one would think that it a fifteen million bale crop was sst produced every year, Southern people would starve to death. They will starve, anyway, if the? kaim it up. But who does the yelling? Is it the poverty stricken tenant farmer and bia helpless family who raise and Pick the cotton ? Not on your life. The landlord yells "plcnt cotton." Th* merchants takes ap the cry. The gin and cotton seed mea reuet hav? it. or they are out of business. The Iocs! cotton buyers really need The big cotton firms, with headquarters^ figure from planting to picking season, eattotating th? sis-of the crop, and sending dally loft) tica to those phllantbr. Patriots tn Wall Street-who ar? fertng from lnsoravnia on the ravages amy worm. The n?rs.nre also the Lord to send seas ^ In order !iQ poor t< mer dov. wearing shit These reductions are facts and not advertising fiction. Every price quoted shows what we priced these goods during the regular season and what we are pricing them now---the difference points the way to the largest saving in our history. Men's Suits and Overcoats. S25.O0 Values now.. .$17.95 22.50 Values now.16.95 20.00 Values now. . 14.95 18.00 Values now. 12.95 15.00 Values now .... .... .. 10-95 12.50 Values now. .... 8.95 10.00 Values now. .. 6.95 Boys' Suits and Overcoats. ?3.50 and $3.00 Values now. ... . .$2.45 4.50 and 4.00 Values now.2,95 5.00 Values now.. ..... 3.75 6.50 and 6.00 Values now. ... . . 4.45 7.50 and 7.00 Values now. . .... 4.95 9.00 and 8.5o Values now. . .... 5.95 10.00 Value? now.7,45 12.50 and 11.00 Values now. . .. 7.95 Men's Odd Trousers. $2.50 and $2.00 Values.. .. ... ..$1.75 3.50 and 3.00 Values. . 2.45 4.50 and 4.00 Values. .. 2.95 S.oo Values. 3.76 6.50 and 6.00 Values. . .. .. .. . 4.45 8.00 and 7.50 Values. . .... .. 4.95 9.00 and 8.5o Values.5.95 Men's and Boy's Underwear. ? .50 Values now. ., . .$ .40 l .do Values now.,.80 1.50 Values now. . .... - . 1.15 1.75 Values now. . 1.35 2.00 Values now . . . . . ..1.45 3.00 Values now. .. 2.25 3.50 Values now. . 2.65 ^^g^ I Hill ''''J! I PiffTTMiMM *T "The Store with a Conscience" the cotton out ot which lt was manu factured-aud sold lt at the rate of 7c. a pound. The scream for "more cot ton" even comes from across the great ocean. There, mammoth mills are transforming the fleecy slave-making product into l'a various forma-manu facturing it into more short-tailed shirts, or into ready-to-wear stylish clothing, branded "ail wool." Then they Bhtp it back to South Carolina and sell -lt at a high rate price to the man who raised lt. if this isn't true, pick: out the errors. Every maa who handlea cotton, or its products, makes money-except the man who performs the actual !*ber c! producing lt. Un der present conditions a large crop qt cotton will Invariably net the pro ducer a low price. By the time it reaches the hands ot the actual con sumer (and the producer of cotton always wears cotton goods) lt com mands a high price, when comparea to what the producer received for the. raw cotton.. If the big profit went to the producer it would immediately be returned into the channels of trade for I never saw a cotton raiser who wouldn't spend money if he had lt. Under our present aystem, the man who owns no land nnd raises cotton as his entire or principal crop on rented land, ls aa complete a slave as ever existed upon earth. The con stantly lUCTC?ol?lg Cuttu? uOicUK'-' in this country is responsible foi" the high cost of Hying, not only here bu?, in other countries which ave more or 1088 dependent upon the United States for food products. When con ditions are thus, there is-something wrong-and wise men should Temedy the evil. Sitting on goods boxes, ^hewing Brown's. Mule - tobacco and cussing.boll weevils, and army worms, don't do it. The Lord Bent' them to HM if He couldn't' isseh people some sense, bat the Behool hasn't turned out a graduate so far. ?t is my honest opinion es f t it the boll weevils won lu clean up ??e Southern cotton fields io* a half dosen years in succession it would be the salvation of tho country. If the entire cotton producing rcgoin could enter Into a contract wlth>the mills In thia country and Europe tc buy all the cotton that could be raised, at 15c per pound, et the end of fifty years we would have just as many ? land renters aa We now Lave. They would DC just as poor, and poorer-Il I possible-than Pt the present time. Ia ? fact, I am coandent there would ht more tenants and fewer land owners ' In addition to natural Increased popu I tatton, only large land owners would have money-and they would aoon buy UP the small tarma, even at exhorbit ant prices. Under such a contract, all available ' land would be planted la cotton, and while the producer vroulfj receive mora money for hi? crop, h? ouc'd dlacover'th?t the cost of.llvini kept neck and neck with bia Increaser, 'profits-and probably, a tap or twx ahead. It is a mistaken argument that th< manufacturers "hsvo got te bay" oui !<?Ci!eSi- T?ccc o^n Tim? donn even have to run 'em unless they car< to at a profit thai Bults^them. The! together* and wait until the poor "prc ducers "have to" sell at their price or starve. They can afford to wal lor the cotton, but the tenant farme! /..an't afford to watt for his meals. Suppose each working farmer Lat raised enough meat tor his own us? and that bis wile and children-ta stead ot ?'.hitting th* cotton patcbT~ h>< put tn their time raising chicken? turkeys and attending, to a rewan** cows. (Raising ,T>m cat si for th.el furs pays better than raisinn ? rented land)., Suppose the smoke tntiho-wa* fnlv of meat, th? bars fui of grain, while thc entire layout wa fenced around with big.v stacks o It ls Time For The farmer to Think About Boyiog .ty^ftff? Spnag Fleming Our line of Farm- Implements is complete, goods that are well established and of known merit. Call and let UR show them to you be fore you buy. ?nd?rson S. C J^^tonf an average at. the price of production, and haye to buy every bite he and his family eats from a corner grocery wno Is dominated by the trusts? Under the circumstances would it not be the part, of wisdom-for tho far mers-the real producers-tor make a change? Not to ask for it-becaase they wont get it-but demand lt? . Northern raen, were vt he first alaye owners. Finding the African slaves could not live in the cold Nar them climate, they sold thom to Southern white men, who put them to work* raising cotton. Alt the negro got wat j ht? living. His owner began to grow j rich by leaps and bounds. Any man j could do the samo, who owns large j Quantities of land and can have, lt I Cultivate by men willing to plant lt all ? ''? _ tn cotton, pick lt, gio it, and only get enough out of their work to pay for cheap board and poor lodging. If the ] renter.get* more, he ia lucky. ' Becoming Jealous . of * the South's prosperity,; tho North . decided that slavery waa >reng, anti ;set the nig gers free. 1 King Cotton is a tryant. He can dot rule any country with out enslaving a large part of the population, and having lost the nigger, free white, men, their wives and chil dren were induced to accept the Job, under promise of big rewards. r?r a short time they got th? re ward. Irater on they got it "in the neck" and havo been getting it stronger and . stronger. . ' V, B. Cheshire. M ll? log PEARL WHITE and ARNOLD DALY Special Musical Program hy Paramount Trio. Lammg Saturday MAX FiGMAN ind LOLi?? ROB! "WHAT^MiSNA (ff ia