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THE ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER FOUNDED AUGUST 1, 1860. 140 W?it Whitrser Street. ANDERSON. S. C._ W. W. SMOAK. Editor and Bus. Mgr. E. ADAMS.Managing Editor L. M. GLENN.<'Ry Editor PHELPS SASSEEN'.Advertising Manager T. B. GODFREY.Circulation Manager. Entered us second-class matter April 28, 1914, at tho pout office at Anderson, South Carolina, under the Act of Mareh J, 1879._ Member of Associated Press and Receiving Com ?plete Dally Telegraphic Service._ TELEPHONES Editorial and Business Office .321 Job Printing. ... ..693-L SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN ADVANCE. Dally. Nemi-Weeklj. One Year.$5.00 One year.$1.50 i Six Months.2.50 Eight MonthB. .. 1.00 Three Months. .. 1.25 Four Months.50 | The Intelligencer ls delivered by carriers In the city. If you fall to get your paper regularly please notify UH. Opposite your name on the label of your pnper ls printed date to which our paper Is paid. All checks and drafts should be drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer._ THOUGHT FOB THE DAY. The little sharp vexations, And the brinn; that catch und fret, Why not take them to the Helper Who has uever failed us yet? Tell Him about the heartache. And tell Him the longing, too; Tell Him the baffled purpose, When we scarce know what to do; Then leaving all our weukness With the One divinely strong, Forget that we bore the burdon, And carry away the song. -PHILLIPS BROOKS. TIN: WEATHER South Carolina: Partir cloudy and colder Wed* aesday* Thursday fair. This weather is great for damns. -o Hiarorlcane can truthfully say that Warsaw saw war. ? Bllt Collector has gotten about all tho Williams wo possess. There's a great deal of shadiness about some | family trees. -o j Among those who are slated to come back-good I old corndodger. -o The Germans and the Russians have begun to see saw over Warsaw again. ? -o Govornor Blcaso's beheaded aro becoming Gover nor Manning's reheaded. -o J. Pullvlus seems to take a delight tn spoiling the work of the spilt log drag. The csnnlns season d?a we near with n great! many occupants of appointive offices In tba St ato. -o The president says that prosperity ls at the door. It baa taken the gentlemen a long time to get up tho steps. -o - We saw a headline stating that n negro had been shot in the heel, but didn't read the remainder of | thc obituary. , . V t -o We Buspcct that that Mexican fighter's name I ahould bo spelled O'Brcgon.-Colombia State. O. j begone, Gonsalos! Sunshine of Moy, snowers of April, winds of March and bleakness ot December contended tor mastery yesterday. A little weather on this order about the time the new styles in spring hosiery appear wouldn't be so objectionable to some folks. *-o lt the allies would have our Southern males feel at home over there we would suggest potting those troops from Africa in charge ot them. -o Gen. Carranca had a brother named. Jesus who | *VSB executed. Judalng from their conduct, Mexi cans never heard of another by that name. Like the oracles or old, the ground hog plays I Whether he saw his shadow yesterday de-] ponds altogether on tho time nf day he came forth. . o Luke McLuke says lt costs $165.95 to feed a cow for a year. Huh! That's nothing to what it costa to feed a chicken.-Columbia State. Nor defray the cost ot a tow swallows. Old Solomon acquired a great reputation tor wis-1 dom, but he never had to decide when to lay down ' two pair.-Columbia State. No. bs always had at] least four queens.-Greenville Piedmont. Wonder | he didn't play the deuce. There ought to be enough water In the ground w to prevent tho possibility Cf a drought this mumer.-Spartanburg Journal. There would be if the farmers bsd provided tba proper storage place, which la made of trash and vegetable matter, or cover crom, turned under. These who claim that the churches are losing their hold upon the people, ought to look to the Methodist Episcopal church. South, that held a cou renee in Dallas the other day and undertook to raise $1,000,000 in the.next three months for. the Southern "Methodist university at Dallas. People who ure willing to give $100,000,000 toward edves^ tion hare A religion that is indestructible and they ot be accused of lukewarmness o. Indifference. CHARLESTON'S AWAKENING COXES LATE. Judging from tue wave ul healthy public and law abiding sentiment sweeping over the ''City hy the Sea" Just now, as voiced by her newspapers, there will Le no business done there except lawful busi ness. Does Charleston realize that she ls the great est city lu the State, and should therefore, be a leader in law abiding Citizenship Has she defied all law and set aside thc obedience due the laws of j the State, till she feels that she can do as she | pleases? Or, rather felt, for this is a year when all unlawful practices are going to be rid-dy shown that there is a chief executive in the gover nor's office who will brook no violation of law either In Charleston or elsewhere. Why Bhould Charleston wait till Iilease was out and Manning In to decide that she would have a little "cleaning up?" Does anyone really believe that there is any j genuine intention on the ; art of anyone in Charles ton for a better law enforcement? True there is a small minority there who have all along stood for I enforcement of law, but they have been hopelessly outnumbered, and have been able to do nothing. We regret to have to say that we believe this eleventh hour repentance of Charleston will avail nothing. The city will have to be goverr.od by the name laws as the rest of South Carolina, "and you cannot help yourselves." Not that this law abiding Aili hurt Charleston, or any citizen in the city, but that it will be a novel experience, and will ulti mately do the old city, of which we are all proud, worlds of good. Your good intentions come too late to prevent a vote on State-wide prohibition, and it will not he possible for you to have an amendment to allow you to voto on a license system. That matter was settled years ago. It ls now dispensary or prohibition, not only for Charleston, but for | every county in tho State. The unholy alliances, which we aro told have been effected in. old Charleston, will not avail. The linn on??, liie lamb may He down together in some pisces, but burdly in Charleston, except that it be for tho purposo of giving the,lion a botter meal later when he gets to the full flock. We cannot j even sympathize very much with the people down there who are weeping such copious crocodile tears over the lamentable fact that they aro likely to be j forced to submit to tho samo laws as tho rest of the State. A BIT OP HISTORY IN THE M.: KINO. Among the things that will go down In the history of this epoch in South Carolina will bo the passage of the compulsory Behool attendance law, it lt shall poss as wc believe lt will. There baB been a grow ing demand for such legislation and tho soutlment of the people will back up a local option compulsory school attendance law. True, conditions everywhere are not ripe for the enforcement of such a law, and we believe that it wll! be many years before local conditions In communities in the State will suit such law. Out lt ls not right that thoso sections ready for lt should be deprived of tho benefits of buch law, becauso some other sections are not ready. The greatest barrier to compulsory school at tendance law in Uta State will be the poverty of many people, those who aro dependent on their children to help them keep the wolf from the door. To toed and clothe them, and do without their work while their children are at school, is a problem, that we rauat confess somewhat staggers us when we contemplate an inflexible school attendance law. But we believe tho Swearingen law which will in ! all probabilities be pauod, cllmiuutea many of these ! features. Still for tho good of the child and for the welfare of the future wo wish the State were ablo to step In and teed, clothe, and supply the parents with the equivalent ot the work of Ute child. This, however, cannot be donn by many of the poorer States, and many a child will grow up In ignorance who has capne'-v for knowledge Just on this ac count. While it ls true that many boys and girls will not be able to attend school on account of poverty, yet a great many are kept away now without this good excuse. These will be forced into the school by compulsory school attendance law, and many of them will grow-up to bo good and useful citizens, more useful to themselves and to the State because they will have trained, or partially trained minds. There are en ugh of these to make the law wise and helpful at this time. Sd we shall be pleased to see the Sw?arlngen law becomo effective st an early doy. A CLEAR AND HEN MIBUS PRESENTMENT. Tho Intelligencer desires to commend the grand ; Jory for Its very able and olear final presentment, made yesterday. This grand Jury evidently be lieves that the future welfare ot th? county depends | upon its toys and girls, and to that end lt wouiJ have the State force the parents of these future I citizens, send them to school. This is a forward view for a grand Jury in Booth Carolina, and one which not a grand Jury anywhere would have made a few years ago. It shows progresa and leadership. Ai.oiher matter touched upon ls the salary of the county superintendent of education. It ls nn injus tice to expect that official to perform his duties In a creditable manner on the pittance he ls getting. We trust that the legislators will take Ute same*view of Ute matter that he grand Jury did, and Incraae the salary of this official lo at least. Ute sam named in tho presentment. INSURANCE BATES KAT ADVANCP "Do yon snow that if Anderson does not gat j street paving soon. Ute Insurance rates will be ad vanced?" said a cltisen yesterday. "Why;" he con tinued, "the fire truca waa stuck in the mud in front of the station house yes^roey, and if the Aro bell had rung lt would have been a physical Impos I slbllity tor this truck' to have reached the fire. It j the insurance companies get hold of this fact, they ?wilt be sure to ad van co the rates for' fire Insur gence." Now, tbta io not a laughing muter,, and If j YOUR boase were on fire. Mr. Citizen, you would want your fire department to get to the burning building as quick!} as possible. To do this, there muet bo paved streets on which to make the run. Will YOU. therefore, vote for ar against street pav ing? A HAPPY KMU.NO fS BK ST. We feel sure that the action of the officials of the Equinox Mills in announcing that there will be no rent charged its employees for the time they were out or employment, will meet with commendation by all thoughtful persons. One of the things which has characterized the cotton mill industry of the j South has been the human manner in which the of ficials or the mills have always felt towards their employees. They have felt most kindly towards them, and why should they not? In many cases those who are at the heads of the cotton mills of the State and or the South, were themselves, either operatives or the mills, or wei i born and reared among those who are working in the mills, on the (arm, or in rural communities. Wc believe this is true in several or the local cotton mills, be it said to the credit of the men so rising. The Intelligencer is delighted that the strike (?) is over, and that thc whir of the machinery of this mill has again started. Glad, too, that the pay envelopes will go again into the homes or the op eratives, and help them to enjoy the necessities and some of the luxuries of life. Let us all hope that there shall be no references to the late little un pleasantness, but that it will be allowed to become one of thc legends of the past. May thc good fel lowships heretofore existing between the manage ment and the makers of the mill bc tiie same as heretofore. It is best and wisest. _ oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo o 0 o ILLITERACi AND SUFFRAGE. o o o oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo The suffrage requirements in Sou'.i CaroMr?a are two; thr ,-oter must be a male of 21 years or over, and he must be able to read and write, or falling this, he must own $300 north of recorded property. Without question the educational requirement is the most important or these. There is no "inward grace" that makes a masculino baud more effica cious than a feminine in depositing a ballot; whether a voter owns $300 worth of property or none at all affects but little tho good conduct of a Stute, but it is a matter o' great moment that the head that guides thc hand has been awakened sufficiently to understand and weigh public ques tro ts end has been trained to discriminate between what ls good and what is dishonorable. Some exceptional men who, from an educational point of view, do not know "A from lzzard," may make trustworthy voters, but observation and re sults incline most to the opinion that understanding and good Judgment are more to be relied on in an educated than in an ignorant person. A recent writer on race problems has said that the rata of Infant mortality might be taken, as a measure of civilization. Paraphrasing thts to suit thc subject, it might be H ia ted that the measure of a State's good government was the number of chil dren in school. This measure might be applied if the sex of the school children was of no more Im portance to ?.o subject in hand than the sex of in fants. But ie present ballot laws pring &ex dis tinction In'o consideration. This would make the measure of a State's good administration to be the number of boys in school. Is,this discrimination advantageous to our State? The report of the edu cational department will answer the question. Since the voters of today were the boys ot the past, they can not be overlooked in this discussion. Tho illiteracy of South Carolina has lately been much to the fore. In a recent newspaper article John E. Swearlngen, the ^tate superintendent of education, has stated that the illiterate white voters of this State have increased 100 per cent, in the last four years. Though this percentage may have been computed on an incomplete basis, still the Democratic club enrollments show that the destiny of our State lies largely in the bands of men who can only make their mark. Evidently there were not very many boys of the post in Behool. A review of the last four years of State administration will show how this reflects in State government Analyzing the report of the educational work in tho State, it is seen that average attendance in the elementary schools showB 1,821 more girls than boys. This deficiency In male attendance means that the future moral and intellectual standards ot South Carolina will be lowered and its progress retarded by voters who can only make their marks. An interesting and well worked out report of the inspector of high schools, W. H. Hand, shows the same lack of boy pupils ic the higher grades. Girls have always been In the majority in the high schools, but this majority ls Increasing. In 1910, the?? were 578 more girls than boya. In 1914 this number had Increased to 1.073. After the second iyear of high school there are few boys left. The high school enrollment of boys ls only 46 per cent. From these returns lt 1? evident that the most literate portion of our cittz-.cs are the women. Tho educational report?? from the whole country show !!?. same preponderance of girls in the schools. There are one-third more girls attending school tn the United States than boys. If lt ls women who keep up the standard Ot literacy In this State, as well aa in the United States, why would it not be a valuable asset te the State and to the nation as a whole to admit women to tho suffrage? No patriotic man, no thoughful woman can deny that it would be good.-The Stater Our idea of an apostle of optimism ls the French professor who figures that the allies will get tc Berlin by 1943.-The State. Most of Dilly Sunday's converts are men. May be the reason ls that there are so many more men than women who are in need of conversion.-Green ville Newa Senator Tillman in urging that the United States walt the disclosures of the European war,, before embarking upon any extensive armament building, is not sounding a new note tn the nation's history. Thia country bas from ita beginning profited by the experiences of others, and thus avoided many of the obstacles which others encountered. ''Wa may profit by their (England's) experience, without paying the price it coat them, ' ?aid John Jan ia the Federalist-Greenville Newa. This Is the Sale That Pleases Even the Hard-to-Please Man The best guage of the real merit of this extraor dinary clearance sale is the fact that the "hard" buyer and the man who is usually skeptical find . this exactly the kind of sale they are looking for. Men's Suits and Overcoats. sio.oo Values. . ..,.$ 6.95 12.50 Values. . ..... 8.95 15.00 Values.10.95 18.00 Values.. .f".. 12.95 20.00 Values.14.95 22.5o Values.16.95 25.00 Values.17.95 Men's Odd Trousers. $2.50 and $2.00 values $1.75 3.50 and 300 values 2.45 4.50 and 4.00 values 2.95 5.00 values 3.75 6.5p and 6.00 values 4.45 7.50 and 7.00 values 4.95 9.00 and 8.5o values 5.95 Mi*t?'Same reduction on Boys' Suits as on Men's Odd Trousers. W 1 " The Store with a Conscience THE PASTOR'S SALARY This writer ?B not a pastor, but dur ing the pa1', few weeks, he has con versed with a number of these ser vants of God hi the various denomi natiruB. In every instance churches were reported to be slow in paying their pastor. Now, if a pastor is God's appointed man to preach the gospel in a community, and if the church in said community promisee to pay him, so that he shall, according to God's Word "Live of the Gospel," then such a promise becomes not merely an obligation to a man; lt ?B an obliga tion, a promise to God. These are times of retrenchment, of cutting down expenses; but tbe Scriptures have never warranted our cutting down our obligation to God; but, on tba contrary, temporal ad versity, as well as spiritual decline, follow such a course. The'church and the faithful pastor are two of the greatest assets any community can have. For they mean temporal and spirtual prosperity, I would venture not a reader of these Unca would live in a community where churches could not be reached. Really he and his family would not be sale to live there. Lawlessness and all forms of sin. would be abroad. Pastors also have financial obliga-' lions. They must live, dress well, and many of them preach all the funerals In reach, paying their own transpor tation charges, with not a cent from the bereav 1 family to replace same. Then, If he gets7 in debt, some of those same people he hos gratuitously ser ved will ask, "how came our pastor BO deep in debt?" Their own negli gence constitutes a part of the answer. The remaining part lies perhaps with others who have not given his help less condition-a passing thought But this pastor has . done his part The year has past Another year has come In, and till he is unpaid, and humili ated because bf debt, where, if he had his rights,, he could pay and look the world squarely In the face. % Paying a pastor is not a hard propo sition. A small amount from each would do the work, and hurt no one. A bushel of corn will bring one dollar, so that those who haven't the ready cash can in most cases find it by selling something they have in order to - pay obligations to the Lord. This at course, ipplles to the meeting of other objects of church work; but I sm following the title of my article, and not discussing church work in sll of its phases. Failure to pay our pastor, if we can io so, constitutes an offense against the church, and those who flatly ig nore this obligation should be answer *bel to that body for remissness In iuty. Churches should prayerfully in vestigate silcb cases! requiring all who are able to contribute, and them selves contributing te those who arc not able to contribute. Thoroughly Investigation will dis close many ailments, and will also furnish the remedy.' Many will, be found, whoso membership ia miles from their home. Approached by the pastor or mem bers of their nearest church oe thc Bubject of bringing their letters, Bald members will begin to tell how theil young days were spent tn the old com munity, Mid ' that their parents ar? burled in th? old church cemetery and that they want their membership to remain In the old church. On th< othet* hand, if a deacon of the ott church asks them for a contribution some of them at least will roply, "well t haven't beard my pastor preach ai all, and so I don't think yon Bhoult expect me to pay for that which ] did not enjoy. I live near anothei church (naming it) and they expoc me to help them But here's 81.00.' So the man with his broad acres goei on his way, excusing himself bott here and there for^what he bas fallet to do. 1 believe that in every church wher< this ia true the names of all encl shouM constltuto a drop list Thosi who have intelligent Christianity am not seeking for excusos, but are t/y lng to do their duty day hy 4gKr. I sincerely hope tho above refl?etioi will find a place in the minds ot al who may read them, and that they wll he moro rigidly put Into practice. J. T. MANN. ISSUANCE OF BOND tEFT IO COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF AN DERSON COLLEGE TRUS TEES TO TAKE ACTION MET YESTERDAY Matter of Stete Canvas? Also Left to Executive Com mittee. Moetins yesterday afternoon for the purpose of taking; action with regard to the proposition of issuing $75,00(1 bonds and canvassing the State for $100,000 for the Anderson College, the board of trustees of this institution authorized the executive committee to take charge of the matter, issuing the bonds and perfecting plans for the campaign. The executive committee of the board consists of: Messrs. H. S. Lipon, C. 3. Sullivan, M. M. Mattl son, P. E. Clinkscales. W. A. Watson and H. H. Watkins. As will be recalled, the proposition of the board Issuing bonds and con ducting a canvass for the raising of funds fdr the institution was authorized by the State Baptist con vention, at the annual meeting; held in Charleston last December. Thc trustees met yesterday after noon at 12:30 o'clock at the college, where luncheon was served. After that they adjourned to the residence of Mr. R. S. Ligon, on Nortir Main .street, who was indisposed and could not go to the meeting at the college. The out-of-town members of the board at the meeting were Dr. W. E. Thayer of Sumter, and the Revi J. Louis Bristow of Abbeville, who is secretary of the board. Local mem bers of the board are: Messrs W. A. Watson, M. M. Mattison, P. E. (Mink scales, H. H. Watkins, C. S. Sullivan, R. 8. Ligon. NEGRO KILLS WIFE Axels Used to Commit Crime at ' (Manta. N, OLANTA, Feb. 1- Georgo Carrol, a negro section hand living here, struck his wife in the head with the blunt end of an axe Saturday evening, the woman dying two hours later. Her skull was crushed for three niches just back of the right ear. Neigh bors saw the two wrangling, heard the women scream, and then saw Carrol as he ran off into the woods, making good his escape. It is sup posed that he mad*? for Lynches river swamp. Sheriff Burch ot Flor ence was notified immediately. Car rol came from Virginia and waa mar ried here about one year ago. It is said by some that he tried to get his wife to go back to Virginia with him, and upon her refusal he said she would go dead or alive. . _ PARAMOUNT THEATRE TODAY "THE TRUTH WAGON Max Figman ?uA Lolita Robertson. II - ? . .. . - ll h I il..?.???'???II im -- THURSDAY-<fTHE LOST PARADISE*'-H. B. Warner. "THE EXPLOITS OF ELAINE*' ^ FRIDAY-"THE BARGAIN" SATURDAY-"ONE OF OUR GIRLS" Advertisings Plac Comparatively, advertising Is a new tatas u;eW *** In not every respect ha? ita sitiaste plaee ia rfalesss of sell ag been flnallj determined. It Ia soaeialag^** electricity ?ot everything Is known ?boat it. Advertising creeps Into the Mind naa*ares aad creates opinion- produces convictions. Tho great ?ass of public opinion nowadays concerning goods, contd it l/ sifted aaa analysed, would be found te have sprang large*/ fro* advertising. Advertising ls most Beaded ^w>en sellhsf eendttloas are hardest It ia ofter, the final stpi^ which taras a hard fought sale. : It supplies tba final oune* of strefagth needed ta five the punch that will win the flght. / / f tat ndvertlslng makes bo n?farle plays* It ref oses ta work alone without corporeal assjstaate. Aftrerthtes; bet ps him who helps Massif to advertising. It tn * *foree ta ka asar shelled, directed* had wed to. win Battles wHh fcr tko intelligent saleawisa.-Harvester World. " ^