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THE ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER FOUNDED AUGUST 1, 1860. 140 West Whitner Street ANDERSON, S. C._ W. W. S.MOAK. Kditor and HUH. Mgr.' B. ADAMS.Managing Editor I.. M. GLENN.<'lty Editor PHELPS S A SS IO KN..Advertising .Manager T. H. GODFREY.Circulation Manager. Entered as second-class matter April UK. 1914. at the post office at Anderson. South ?'a roi Ina, under the A< t of Murch ::. 1879. _ Member Of Associated I'ress und Deceiving Com plete Dally Telegraphic Service._ TELEPHONES Editorial and Business Ofllee., .321 Joh 1'rlntin g... ... ... . .....693-L SUBSCRIPTION RATES l> ADVANCE. Bally. KeauMVcekly. One Year.$5.00 One y?ar.$1.50 Six .Months.^.50 Hight Months. .. 1.00 Three Months. .. 1.35 Four MtpUis.50 Tlie Intelligencer ls delivered by carriers in the city. If .you fall to get your paper- regularly (?lease notify us. Opposite your name tm the label of your paper is printed dutc to i n.ch our paper is paid. All checks and drafts snould Ho drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer. H o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o oV o o o o > o o THOUGHT FBI! THE DAY. ? .1? o 0 0 o o o o o o o 0 0 o o o ? o o o o o o o o o o '? o . \ ?j There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave; y There ure souls that are pure und true; ' , Then glvo to the world the bcBt you have, And the best will como back to you. Give love, and love to your lifo will flow, A strength in your uttermost need; llavo faith, und a score of hearts will show Their faith in your work and deed. THE WEATHER. Mouin (andina:. Hair Thursday ; Friday lacreas. lng cloudiness and wanner. Anderson Is My Town-C. H. Bleich. The national houso has plucked thc plucking boa ni. There seems to he little point to thc stories of lighting about that German town Thorn. Thc tooting ot the steam roller is a recollection rather than a reality in the legislature nowadays. Submarines may net always rise to thc situation but H's probably as well for them that they don't. An international association of copr?sidents would be overwhelmingly Mexican in complexion. --o Roasting peanut politicians occasionally doubtless I pro veli ta their showing something raw on the com mmunity. -o Wliy doesn't someone como forth and tell us whether wo ure going to have an carly or a lato East?f. Observing tho siro of some folks' feet, wo are not surprised they cannot keep in thc straight and nar row way. Thu English may have little regard for tho Ger man war machine but they sure look up to. thoso j Zeppelins. Tho allies would havo been pleased to celebrate I the kaiser's birthday by giving hts subjects In tho j trenches a blowout. We'll bet that battle In Champagne was a corker. . < Vhr.-ibia State. And. the combatants mum and 1 their powder extra dry. Charleston to bandle grain.-Headline. If ex tract of grain ls worth anything, thc venture ought | to prove a howling success. Mexico is still far from pacified, but a lot of tho I nghtors aro being pacified every day.-Columbia | ' State. By being plecefied. --o Tho Greenville News speaks of the rise in wheat I as spectacular. Spectacles wBl bo uecessary to see | the price of flour if lt keeps up. Greenville folk s?w wl'd geese flying over the town Tuesday night There are a lot ot tame ones . permanent residents and votem of the burg. I Hog and hominy have already com? in for their , share of publicity, and now.we would complete the j trinity by shouting the praises of corn dodger. .0 Exper* To Study Pei??it Prospect. Columbi: State headline. Some fine material to begin with ' may be found around the Statehouse right now. -o The state speaks of thc "landachaftsbund bill" being before the house for discussion? Having as sumed a scrupulously neutral position on the war, we are ag'in said bill. Greenwood's city council adopted an ordinance prohibiting the railroads leaving any more box cars on the square. Now it they will only stop the pigs from "using" on tho square they will be getting citified. \ < The man V'JO Isn't true to himself teat true to anybody.^- Exchange. We're glad that somebody concurs with Shakespeare, when, in Hamlet, Old man Polonlus says to his young son* Lear tes: "Atti this above all, to thine own aelf he (rue, and It must follow as the night the day thou cahs't no? then be falso to any mun. , WHAT WILL OI K DELEGATION II?.' Th?' Intelligencer cannot conceive that the An derson County delegation in tin- legislature would turn down tilt1 'imposition tu make au appropria tion for HUpport of Hie farm demonstrator for An il.THOU County. We have lons 1/oabted that Ander son lu tho l?>ading county In tho State agriculturally, lind that her citizens are among thc most progre? slve to he found anywhere. Persons Informed say that this county stands among a f?*w in the South as to the variety and quantity of her products agricul turally, and we believe this to be true. Greenville and Spartanburg counties are coin pit itors for llrst place, and the h'glslntlve delega tions for there counties held special sessions be fore going to Columbia and immediately mad'* th?' appropriation asked for by Mr. Long. There was not a moment's hesitation and Mr. l-ong was as sured of their hearty cooperathm to make the work of the demonstrator a success in those counties. Anderson's legislative delegation was also tailed together and the same proposilon was made as had been made a few day? prior to these other Counties. But, how did the Anderson delegation receive il? I>iel they eagerly embrace the oppor tunity for securnlg one of the best experts in the State? Old they ?ay to Mr. Long: "Yes. sen?! us \our be: t mau and we shall give you our earnest cooperation to make bis work a success. We be lieve In the agricultural supremacy of our countv and are determined that our farmers shall have as good expert advice as the State has to give?" No. they began lo put the milter off on one pre tex{ or another, and to delay giving Mr. Long the assurance that he would have their aid and sup port. They have kepi putting lt off, till a month has passed and the foundation work needed to b?; none during January has been delayed. Now. romes news from Columbia that the dele gallon is not likely tn make the appropriation, but thut one or two of them are holding back. Acting on his faith-In the progressiveness and liberality of the delegation Mr. Long has sent tho best man In ,-tae State to Anderson County. Now unless this ap propriation be made. Mr. Garrison will doubtless ba wi Uni rr. .vu nnd sent elsewhere. Surely, this will not be allowed. There should be such a protest raised that the members of the delegation who are holding ny this assurance of support, will be forced to accede\o the request for aid. The people want lt. and should demand lt. The work to be done will be of benefit to all the people, especially to tho;-o who rieed lt most-thc rural farmer in the isolated sections of the county. Therefore, let there bc a dcViand for this appropriation so loud and insistent li?t the doubtful and hesitating Thomases on Hie delegation will heed and act. NO UHOftND F?K SUPERIORITY. There ls nothingVniore irritating to the people oL a small town than\hc air of superiority that peo ple from larger tow As have towards them and their village. It ls hard Vi Bay Just what prompts thc city man to feel greater than the villager, but he almost Invariably does and what makes It worse, shows lt In his notlonsA - It is the weakness qActty people, this belief of theirs that country people are back numbers. Thc man from a city concern'fays the country business man a visit and shows piafa ly that ho considers the little merchant a very small potato; but If he were wise enough to realize the mit h of their respective businesses., he would know \hot the bsck number merchant, us he looks upon lim. is laying by each year more than the etty chap ls drawing as a hired man from a company that ciuld find a thousand like him in a day's time. \ The nar row-brained lecture Ad rops into a small town, aud at tho beginning of Vis talk, mentions that he has changed his subjoct,\"for fear the one announced would be over the head? of his audience," and then proceeds to ramble alonV for a couple of boura with stale stories and disconnected ideas, . boring his auditors half to death. Yhe chautauqua entertainer, until be has had a good deal of ex perience; the traveling salesman, unto the time he becomes of some val?e to his house;., the transient visitor, on a chance business or pleasure trip; thc young city employe, before he learns the lessons of the relation of capital to business, wherever lt is em ployed-all of them make the same mistake of mis judging the capacity, the intelligence and the char acter of country people. \ It there ls such a tblrg as superiority between city and country folks, the latter have theVbest op pot unity of securing lt. But as people, there is no difference between those who live in cities ans thone wiro live in thc country. They all read the \ same newspapers, the same magazines and the ' same books; they heat; the same lecturers, and s*e the some theatrical performances; they attend the'.same high schools and graduate from'the same colleges and universities; they take the same trips, visit the same vacation resorts, end make as many excur sions abroad; they ride in pullmans as often, and ney their billa as regularly; end when everything U counted, lt is hard to point out any difference he. tween them, except that the country people have tbs advantage of freedom from the life In throngs,| and from tho scramble for a livelihood with) great numbers contesting 'or * ?bare. We have no criticism tor those who prefer to live in e big city, but we do object to their attitude of scorn for the doings of those who live in the coun try or larger towns. There ls no basis for their feeling of superiority and, to a person with a prcper understanding of the relations of things, it is non sensical end uncalled for. SOME RH( ORBS FOB THF NEWSPAPER. Tbs newspaper has made presidents, killed poets; made bustles for beauties and punished genius with criticism. It has curtailed the power of kings, converted ban kefs Into paupers nnd graced pantry shelves. It bas made paupers college pres idents, it has educated the poor and robbed the philosopher of hts reason; lt smiles, cries,, dies, but lt cant be run to suit everybody, and the msn 'Will be ern/.v who tries. Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods'. Here's sn English stylist like Doc Eliot of Harvard writ ing: ' "The Rockefeller Foundation is the largest end freest benevolence ever attempted in >? world that 1 hnvo ever heard anything about," "A PENNT BATED If* A PENNT EARNED." Th?; Intelligencer would like to approve the plan for extending Hie time for the payment of taxes. This will, however, entail considerable more work on the ?-ity clerk and treasurer, and lie will have to have an assistant during the time of the exten sion, and unless the mayor will redeem his cam paign pledge and, himself assist the city clerk, it might prove a blt expensive to tile taxpayers to pay tlie additional interest and thc salary of an assist ant. We presume, however, that the mayor intends yet to do as he promised < the campaign, and act as assistant clerk, saving inls additional salary, which saving we would favor being added to the street paving fund. Council will doubtless, how ever, take this arrangement under advisement, and some member may have the temerity to suggest such course as a matter of economy in these hurd times. SAVING THE FARMER'S COWS. Al tliis stage In the progress of South Carolina, cows ure more Important than cotton-at least, it is more important to encourage cattle production than cotton production. The latter needs, if any thing, discouragement. Last yeur the general assembly appropriated $:I0, 000 for the eradication of the cattle tick and the bureau of anima*, industry added 130,000. The $60, 000 thus rulscd has increased the value of cattle and cattle products by $220,000 for a single year. Meanwhile, the six counties are a redeemed cat tle country, free to raise cattle and dell it anywhere in the United States. The profit from the $60.000 will he earned from year to year. In a country free from the tick one muy buy and own a fine cow without feur of losing her, and the repaid improve ment of thu quality of cattle Is therefore insured. Money appropriated by the general assembly for thc eradication of the cattle tick is nur _.>. spent for the cause of the independence of the South Carolina farmer.-The State. THE APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE'S HUMANITY. When knowledge Is suddenly brought home to a man that his daughter is suffering from a dangerous disease and that medical treatment of an expensive kind ia immediately necessary to save her life, he does not count the cost-not if he Is a good man. That is exuctly tho relation of the State of South Carolina to the matter of the mentally diseased and the hospital established for their habitation, tnelr care and their cure when cure is possible. When in his dispassionate review -of the condition of the State hospital. Dr. Herring declares that lt is wltat that of similar hospitals in Massachusetts and New York was fifty years ago. lt ls a polite though positive and unqualified way of saying that lt is not Bhort of barbarous. The report of Dr. Herring is not an attack on the present management or on any preceding manage ment. On the contrary, the Inference is rather that with the facilities at their command and under the policies adhered to by the State the results have beet and are as good as might have been expected. The report concludes, in Affect, that through years on years South Carolina has in Ignorance and blind ness failed to provide for the necessity, the com fort and the betterment of her unfortunates in. the manner that an enllghted understanding of duty to them would have con jelled. The question and the only question before the general assembly is whether it will or will not knowingly continue a condition tbat is cruel to the patients in the hospital and therefore shameful to the s:.-te. The general assembly is well aware that the peo ple of South Carolina are not cruel and that they will not harden their hearts to avoid spending money to protect their own afflicted from suffering. To confine an insane person in a hospital un equipped for his comfortable care and without pro tection for his safety ls to inflict a punishment up on him for his misfortune. It is to make misfor tune one with guilt. A place of confinement for thc insane that does not adequately minister to their wants nor contri bute to their improvement serves only to relieve the public of thc annoyance or danger of their pres ence. A State that knowingly maintains a hospital for that purpose, tbat confounds the mission of a hospital with the mission of a prison, ls guilty of a refinement of criminal selfishness that ts un known In this age even among the more advanced pagan peoples. . There ls nothing left for the general assembly to do but to relieve as soon as practicable a condition that ought to be as intolerable to the people ot the State as to Its unhappy and helpless victims. In the plan of reconstruction of the hospital of fered by Dr. Herring, two features are outstanding: The Drat ls that the superintendent shall be chosen by the board of regents and he responsible to them: they, in turn, to be appointed by the gov ernor at successive intervals of two years. Thus, the ground is prepared tor a concentration of authority essential to efficient administration.. The second is that the present city plant should be retained, that to dismantle it . would Involve great and needless waste, that lt ls susceptible of conversion into a hospital aa good as the beat for active work at relatively small cost, and that the State Park property is required as a hospital for the negro patients, for the colonisation and segrega tion of white patienta suffering from infectious er possibly infections diseases and also for the relief of congestion in the city plant by accommodating patients not demanding the treatment that the city plan would alford. The whole plan ls evidently well considered and points" plainly the wisest and' surest way by which the general assembly may deliver the SUU from a condition that is a grave reflection on the State and a cause of distress to the sensibilities of all Its right thinking people.-The State. It is said that Iceland has gone dry. Well, John Barleycorn never did get anything better than a cold reception up there.. -O I.'IL-. "It ls not well fer a mah to be a drag on his community, hut lt ls fine for a splft log "to be."- Is the clever observation of The Andersen Intelligen cer.-Lancaster News, 8TILL HOPE FIX OF PASSIM; BILL (CON ^IN LED PHOM PAGE ONE.) Kress tomorrow. The shipping is not dead by any means." In denouncing hie seven Democrat I colleagues Senator Stone charged them with open hostility to their par ty. He also made a vigorous defense of the administration, asserting he would rather follow President Wil son's leadership than that of "Elihu Hoot. Henry Cabot Lodge. Theodore K. Burton, William Edgar Borah. Jacob Gallinger or any reereat alleg ed Democrat who goes about with a dagger in his sleeve." Referring to Senator Camden's "se cret conferences with opponents of the shipping bill," the speaker said there "had been doubting Thomases who whispered that If the Issue were sharply drawn between the vested in terests and the masses of the peo ple, the senator would he most ac tive." Senator Camden replied briefly, say ing he was willing to leave his legis lative sluggishness to his friends and neighbors to determine, but that when it came to "denouncing secrecy, it comes with 111 grace from the senator from Missouri who is known the world over as 'Gum Shoe Bill.' " Senator Stone told the senate that the majority might Invoke a cloture rule to suppress continued obstructive tactics against the bill. With that, the senator coupled a vigorous de fense of President Wilson, replying particularly tc critics of the presi dent's Jackson Day speech at Indian apolis. "I have been always opposed to cloture In the senate, but, had as I think cloture would be. there ls some thing worse. The unrestrained dom ination of the majority by even a . mall minority, cohesive, unrelenting and determined to stop the wheels of legislation, might endanger the safety of the nation. I close with this ad monition, that if the necessity for a cloture rule is forced, it may he re ported, and If it is reported it will be passed." The senator said rot many people would be fooled about the purpose which the "ridiculous performance" of the Republican opponents of the shipping bill would serve. "Overwhelmed by facts and beaten in the argument." he declarea, "we are now solemnly assured that 'thc people are against the bill.' What people do these gentlemen speak for? The people these senators speak for are those who control the executive committee of the New York chamber of commerce and other like organiza tions." x Of the men r>ho be Bald formed thc potential memoershlp of these organ izations, responsible for resolutions sent to congress attacking tbs bill, the senator named J. P. Morgan, Wil liam H. Skinner, W. H. -Porter, E. H. Outerbrldge, J>. A. S. Franklin, and others Interested In great steamship companies. Earlier in the day thc senate debat ed without action resolutions offered by Senator Burton asking the secre tary! of the treasury what ships had been offered to the go\V?inment In con nection with the shipping bill plan, and requesting Secretary Bryan to btate what intimation, If any, the state department nad as to the prob-11 able attitude of belligerent govern ments toward purchase of Interned ships l Senator Hoke Smith issued a state ment tonight denying that he was op posed to the shipping bill. '. ?Vhen the vice president ruled that the mitton to recommit was out of order because a call had been made for the yeas and nays 1 voted against sustaining tbe ruling of the chair," he said, "for the rules of the senate expressly provide that a motion to re commit can be made at any time be fore final action In the senate upon a bill. I have cooperated with the Democratic caucus in every way to support this measure, and I expect to continue to do so, and I earnestly de sire the legislation passed." WAS AFRAI) OF OHGAMZFI) LABOR (CONTINUED FKOM PAGE ONE.) tlon could do many things Incompati ble with the "general Interests of the public.' such os conducting propagan da against organized labor or n cam paign against compensation for work men. But he declared there was not] even a remote possibility that suoh1 things would happen. He said he | considered the Colorado troubles to be economic. Mrs. Domlniskl, questioned about living conditions in the Colorado mine regions, said prices at the stores or tho Colorado Fuel and Iron Company were higher than elsewhere and that for this reason miners frequently went to nearby towns for their sup plies. She asserted that one miner was discharged when caught with supplies purchased outside. Mrs. Dooi???ski lU'scriuei? thu alleg ed shooting at women end children by sStU&f at Ludlow. She said that the militiamen had demanded from a leader named Tykas the production of a certain miner who was not In camp. Shortly after Tykas had so Informed them, she said, she heard e bomb ex plode and looking out of ber tent, she .saw militiamen riding toward them. 'YTykas told us to scatter as the militiamen und machine guns," said the witness. "About BO o.- 60 women and children were standing bn the bill when they star tod to shoot at us. Two of my children hld in a well, and1 I hld in a barn with my other' child. I saw men set fire to the tents.*' Mrs. Petraccl related ber exper- ? lences during the alleged attack on the colony. ' ''I took my children Into an under ground chamber." she said. "There! were three women and eight children In' the coller by the time I got there. Ten minutes later the tent caught on fire end then' I lost consciousness. The next morning somebody dragged me out. When I reached the depot I found out for thc? first time my chi!- j dre? were missing." ANY MOTHER who is a real judge of values will appreciate these reductions on boys' clothes. The entire stock reduced. 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. . . . .... .5.95 9.00 and 8.50 Values now.., 5.95 10.00 Values now. . . ... . . 7.45 12.50 and 11.00 Values now.7.95 BOYS' UND?RWFAR All Fall and Winter-weight garments reduced; one and two-piece suits. .50 Garments reduced to.40 $1.00 Garments reduced to. .80 $1.50 Garments reduced" to. .. ..$1.15 Order by parcels post; we prepay. INITIATION FEE, ONE HOG Oregon Ledge Han a New Member and . a Fine Porker. ALBANY, Ore., Ft?b. 2.-A pig WHS the unique Initiation fee which Wal ter Miller, Jr., paid to Joiu thc Knights of Pythias. So. as the result of an offer and an acceptance in a joking spirit, the lodge now has a good hog which is worth more than the customary initiation fee. Miller had expressed a desire to Join the lodge and was signing an appli cation for membership when he asked the amount of the Initiation fee. "I've got a lot of good hogs and, will trade you one of them *or my initiation fee." he remarked joking ly and members of the lodge prompt ly accepted the offer. He volunteer ed later to keep the hog and feed it free, of charge until the lodge desir ed to sell it, and this he is doing. SIKH Ll? BUY AT HOME Correspondent Writes of Mall Order Houses and Their Methods.' From different sources 1 have re ceived inflormatlon that Northern mail order houses selling goods on Installment basis haMe been sending numerous requests -tor credit Infor mation to Southern retail merchants. These requests are almost always on a tlot lt i ms Arm's letter head so as to mislead the merchant into think ing information U wanted for a total ly different purpose. Seldom does the letter head show the name of firm that really desires the Information. I Have studied this mail order prop osition from many angles and I can not see where the .consumer can do any better ks a rule by purchasing from these mail order houses than from hie local towns. Besides, lt builds up some Northern city at the expense of the South, und hy Hie re tail merchant furnishing such in formation he is giving an unknown competitor a knife that may be drawn across his own throat I think a Southern retail merchant should be very careful in furnishing' credit Information tb firmB he does not know. . W. A. KANORA. Florence. January 30. ooooooooooooooooooo 0 . o ATtDEB80N VILLE DOTS* O o . OOQOOOOOOO 0 0 o o o o o o o The Sunday school at thia place ls organized and doing good work. Mr. Henry T. Shaw is superintendent; Mr. A. R. Brown, assistant superintendent and Mr. J. E. Shaw secretary and . treasurer. An invitation is ex ted ed to everyone in the community to attend and help make each service a success. Mr. H. M. Shaw1 of Townville spent Saturday night and Sunday with rela tives here. Mrs. Janie C. Smith has returned home after a weeks visit to her daugh ter in Anderson. Mr. James Harrison will open a store at this place as soon as he can secure a suitable building. We wish him much succesa for the new busi ness. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Brown were tho guests of Mr. A. L. Shaw and family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Maxwell of Hart well, Ga., spent Sunday here with friends. Mr. George Sanders and Mr. Charlie Bridge have been fishing some. Mighty cool for the boys! Miss Lois Shaw accompanied by Master Edgar Brown has been visit ing her brother recently. Mr. James Marwell was shopping In Anderson Saturday. Mr. Phil Brown spent the week-end with relatives In Georgia. . The heartfelt sympathy of the whole community Is extended to the wife and cnlldren of Mr. Walker Sanders In their bereavement of their husband and father. Mr. Harry Shaw reports some one borrowing hts nee hives. He hopea they will soon'bring the hives back. The health of this, community ls very good for which we are very thankful. PARAMOUNT THEATRE TODAY \ 'The Lost Paradise" H. B. Warner I "The Exploits of Elaine" IFRIDAY-'?THE BARGAIN"-A Big Wertem Drem? SATURDAY-"ONE OF OUR GIRLS"