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NE ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER FO?NPED AUGUST I, im. !25 Nortb Male Stn ?t AXDEBSON, H. C. W. W. SMOAK, Editor and BUB. Mgr D. WATSON BELL.City Editor. PHELPS 8AS8EEN, AdvertlHing Mgr T. B. GODFREY,-Circulation Mgr. EL ADAMS, Telegraph Editor and Foreman. Sutured aa second-class matter A[ - ?il 28, 1914, at the post office at An derson, South Carolina, under the Ar. of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION BATES SemMVeekly One Year.$1.50 Bix Mouths .7D Daily One Ycnr ...$5.00 Six Month* . 2.50 Three Months .... 1-26 TELEPHONES Editorial p.rd pastness Ofllce.821 Job Printing .693-L The Intrl?Toncer is delivered by carriers in the city. If you fail to get your paper regularly please notify us. Opposite your nu mo on the label of your papor Is printed date to which our paper ls paid. Al1 checks and drafts should bc drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer. oooooooooooooooooooo . . ; ONLY o 44 More Shopping % . Days * I Before X'mas. J . ? a . . oooooooooooooooo040 0 The Weather. South Carolina: Fair Sunday, slight ly warmer lo interior; Monday totr. THOUGHT FOB THE DAY In peace, love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed, In halls, in gay attire ia seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Lore rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below and saints obovo; For lote Is beaven and heaven ls love. .^-SUr Walter Scott Villa stay !?"*e fiif??a his bsae, but power to . be dangerous ls bis own. \ .. -~o After all, though bloodier, the fam ily .scrap of , European royalty isn't buy bitterer than some heareabouts. O-:- . Training at European army head quarters ought to turn out some dandy newspaper circulation fakers, : -? Another advantage-over here a mau can carry around war. niupa with out taking a chanco on boin g shot SB a epy. '-o This Spanish art dealer who saye he's sold the government of Mexico some valuable "old masters" would better get cash before delivering them. .'- -0- . ; Canadian papers are overlooking a sure thing bet in not offering to in sure subscribers against damage by an invasion of Gorman-Am er leans. Did-the U. S. surgeon who said If tho allies rawore off" and the Ger mana, stuck to beer the. result would -be assured violate neutralUvf Many a, promlslcg courtship ls nip ped lb the bud by remarks ot pert lit? tie brothers faad sisters, Moral: keep the kids'bu^ bf Cupid's way. ? _ ' \ iWr?. y m? R?o?i-?:?Lv ihat publie opinion mles go?? In illa country, but doubt . that K'TU|?^iti?''.?Ae.eoudtrie?'now en .?pU::fk$Sa*tJ?fr.\ \ y^'.^'x-o NotV baan ia Congress will disputo the fitness M the reference of Socrc tay Garrison, tp ''the masterful figure of the President" standing out In bold relief.. -. Big"-' *n announcing her intention to take H&,on a fifth, a Popular dancer, naively M^^B?4arked that tho prophesy tbbt aho'd .bare soven husbands was merely a -, ..? eootbsayer'a Joke. . ;* ? oV-?? i "There muit .be. great exdteuseat in . v?B?&^^* fS?^O^?Ter -that' ?av . i- en-tdb bheeso ?ad^bys'a New York tWern to* exhibition a\ the. vSab ? 'Francisco > bbb w..:. ? ? 'Pnf?adelphi? may :be - sleepy, .but ?tai there ', ' Sata '? keeps' 'some widb-i waka hired ment In the vicbilqr. '? P Xj&'t i gef excited. wbeb - readin g 'bi, -Abajaitca's ?easels being searcbed for ^reontrat?'a^b?ito?i IM** eea* by British waioxblpat^. ofacJallyv^eldxin;^r7aab. iagio* tp be within tbel?jtftifc? ' A.i POSON, A CLEAN ? ITV yPo?sIbly ono feela that the ma\ter of a c:lcun city ls being exaggerated Just now ns regarda the city of Anderdon. If such a thing us exaggeration can be possible when the results are BO far reaching. There can be no douht In thc ninnis of well informed persons that the achievements of those who huve made a city that Is clean lu other place lu deslrnhle. What they have done dono and are doing, Anderson can do. The reputation Anderson has over tho State ls that it ls a very desirable city In which to live. Its climate und he progressiveness of its people are things which make Anderson known far and wide. The citizens are gener ally well behaved and Iuw abiding, and because there is Just now a great deni of comment on conditions herc as re gards the sale of liquor Illegally, lu no sign that conditions herc arc any worse than in other cities, even much smaller than Anderson. The echoes we have heard from our crusade are that other places are even worse than this city in regard to these matters. In truth the very fact that Anderson is having a crusade shows thc city to be a leader among others. Shortly after the crusade started here a dele gation ot Columbia citizen waited on the mayor of that city and requested that steps be taken to rid our Capital from the presence of this undesirable elemeut. We. find that Greenville needs a house cleaning along the same lines, and Greenwood could profit by a simi lar experience, and a crusade is being conducted in Augusta to have a bet tor observance of the laws there. We refrain from mentioning Charleston In this connection, and the "City of Success" bas not been heard from. How desirable indeed would be the knowledge that lt were Impossible for anyone to be subject to any lafluence In this elty other than the best Only a short while ago a college for girls was started here. What an advertise ment for that college would be the Bim pie statement that there l? nothing wrong in Anderson. Parents would rather send their" girls to such city. Of course we know that conitlons sur rounding Anderson College are as nearly ideal as it is possible for them to be. but the farther off yonder in a remote section of South Carolina does not possess the information wo have. He perhaps has heard only Of some lark In Anderson, or bia neighbor has been here to a convention, and has seen the effects of tho liquor traffic, thereby/giving him bis impression of "My Town." The effects of a morally strong sentiment In tho city on the home-seeker has been referred to hi ? previous editorial. Thus it will be Ben that there is ample ground for the work of the law i forcers, and those who would see in Anderson a city beautiful and a city clean. LET US REST. ?. -- Today is the Sabbath. The thoughts of all should be turned to other things han bond lusues and cotton acreage reduction, and state warehouse systom. Therefore, we shall not tresspass upon the thoughts for the day further, than to say that wo are "agin" the bond is sue, not because we would not aid the cotton growers in every way possible, hut because we do not believe this is the way to aid them. They do not fa vor lt themselves. The State ware OU80 plan ls all right, but comes too late to do any good to the small far mer this year. The cotton, acreage re duction bill had as well be written on the beach at Sullivan's leland, for the good lt will do. So, let's gp to church today and forget them all. * THE SCHOOL PAGE The school pago of The Intelligencer will be interesting Tuesday. There will be several new schools represented in the page, and a number of communi cations worth reading. We wish to have something from every school in the county, and trust that those schools not having sent in anything' will do so at once. If there ls any event to come ot in the future in any school not!co should be . given of this fact In the school page. Uncle 8am collected taxes from 4? persons on incomes of $l,OM,Q,00, v>r more; John Bull on none. Don't know if this means English magnates are pikers, or sltckor dodgers. Possibly the directors bf the Kew Vork. New Haven & Hartford railway were decreased from 27 to 17 be cause of difficulty in getting capable sos ic serve, ?wie? to the old band nama O' ? Some patient statistician might ren der tho public a real service by show ing, with proof, what percentage of .vptor^'-W-'aiftct?? by campaign hot sir though lt might Jolt the spell bindors somo. . Holding onli, ita benda, socured by fjOTToperty, upon which interest be paid, Andy Carnegie don , smiled when the' steel trust cut the dividend on ita common stock to one* belt bl i per cent 'OH) YI KS" AM? M O KA LS There was a time when ninny peo ple w<>re ready to declare that the mol ?un picture show waa a menace to the m?rula of children, who constitute u largo percentage of their patrons. Certain classes of pictures presented lu Mime of these theatres. It must he admitted, ure not particularly elevat ing, morally or otherwise. Hut it is not to be doubted that the "movies" have to u large extent outlived thcRC carly prejudices. Like tho newspapers, they cater to the puhllc taste, und if the wrong typo or pictures are shown sometimes, lt is largely hucause the public, by their patronage, have indi cted their preference for that type of show. The motion picture people >tudy closely the hind of pictures that ittact most patronage, and conduct their business on thal principle. If the public: more freely patronizes un desirable pictures, that ls thc kind of pictures that will predominate. Hut lt Is almost conclusively shown that certain other advantages must bc set down to tho credit of the motion picture show. It has been frequently said that saloon keepera complain that many of the nickels and dimes that formerly went into their coffers have been diverted to the ticket win dows of the moving picture shows alnco their extensive operation has bocome established. Now comes The New York World, and points out that within the past year in Brooklyn 53 saloons have gone out ot business, while for the past two years some two hundred new motion picture pla ces have been opened in that city. The World states that while tbiB is not conclusive evidence that the pictures are operating to the detriment of the saloon business, it ls nevertheless quite convincing evidence. Of courao the patronizing of a mo tion picture show is a very different form of entertainment from that indul ged ?in when a saloon is patronized, but the essential point is that each ls merely entertainment. Seeing a pic ture does not satisfy the craving for a drink, but many a drink ls taken, not because lt is wanted, but because of the fellowship and social contact that go with it. These are to bo bad in. almost, as satisfactory a degree by going into a picture show, and hence the film is a foe of the glass. In South Carolina we do not have .he saloon, but it may cause some of us to have a kindiier feeling for the pictures, and to be more charitable to some of their faults and imperfec tions, when We realize that they are apparently a real force against the saloon. COMMITTEB OF FIFTY The plan proposed by Dr. White in his closing service at the - Baptist church Thursday evening, that a com mittee of fifty representative citizens should he -organised to co-operate with the authorities in supresBlng the liquor evils to which the city is heir, la a good suggestion, and The Intel ligencer I wishes it can be followed. Certain it ls that a sporadic effort at cleaning up the city, will result only ia temporary relief. If it ls not follow ed up by some such plan as this, and a constant watch be sst on the matter, there will be a second growth of the oviles now complained of, and condi tions will be harder to handle at each' recurrence. The idea that the city is after cor recting an evil, and not after filling its coffers with the money secured from the fines v>f the convicted, is an erroneous one, and should not he be lieved. In fact, the city 1B doubtless considerably poorer after each such effort, even after all fines are collect ed and turned Into the . city treasury. The idea that should .goverp, and we -lievo doe a gotera in ?bis C?S?, ?5 that the evil conditions complained of t" "ld ceaae to exist, and that, those are guilty of tho alleged violation, ..uuuld become reliable and)industri ous citizens ?of tho city. The truth o? the matter is, that every good citizen ia an asset to the city, and every un desirable citizen ls a liability. ThU is especially true when the city has to spend money to correct the vice of tho citizen. Yes, let us have the committee. of fifty, or ot ono hundred, to add to the effectiveness v>t the good work hoing done by the. city authorities. Will not someone take the initiative and call, for a mooting to organise its com mittee and'get down to business. An derson must be a clean city, and lt can be. Every good citizen will aid in making it so. , THE PIEDMONT FAIB Tho Intelligencer desires to k oom* pllment th? anirit of the promoters ot the Piedmont lair for the splendid way in which they have made it pos sible for tho resources of Oreen wood and adjoints counties to be displayed attractively and made to advertise tba great, opportunities offered In the Piod 'mont section bf South Carolina lt was G-'eat, and will do much good, bot on ly to Greenwood but to all. this sec tion.' It required work to do this, and enthusiasm, but those Greenwood folks have a great amount of the abil ity to perfor, abd boosting comes aa natural to them as for ducks to swim. HUT ONE BIGHT COURSE Anderson has declared war on the blind tigers, and is prosecuting cf-, fenders with determination. The In tention of the city officials, who ?re backed by the strongest of allies public opinion- seems to be to rid Anderson of thcBc miserable para sites, if uuch be possible. Anderson is to be congratulated upon this activity for'the blind tiger is one of the most dangerous of all crimin?is. His business debauches. It gives rise to law-breaking of all. kinds. Homicides and lesser infractions of the peace, often have their Btart in the Joint of the blind tiger. livery ono who is at all cognizant of facts and conilit ions, knows this to be true. So bow can any city af ford to pursue any course except one of prosecution for those who illegal ly dispense intoxicating drinks? Any course except one of law and order, will inevitably mean the ruin of some young men, and the lowering of a community's morality. Thero is no reason for and every reason against, the blind tiger. Our laws aro design ed to crush him, nnd each citizen should demand that these laws be en forced so far as possible. There was a time v hen so-called clubs flourished in O icen vi lie and when drinks could be bought with little trouble. But these places of resort were closed and for some time he blind tiger has been on the Jump in this city. He does not yet dare to show himself in the open. But he will return it* ooccaslon offers, for he is intrepid in his work. So this city should not relax in its efforts to exert every power to, crush out this class of men who live, by breaking the laws and by damaging society. We have been diligent in thc past, and are dili gent now. Let us continue to be. The News Is taking no part in the disagreements which have arisen be tween certain departments of the city. It ls standing now, as ever, for straight out Jaw enforcement, and expresses now, aa it has in the past, the wish that ' all reasonable steps will be taken to prevent" the recur rence of flagrant violations of the law, and as far as possible, prevent the.violation oftthe liquor laws which are not open, but on the sly. It is argued sometimes that the sale of li quor contrary to law cannot be stop ped. But lt cam bn reduced to-a mini mum, and thi?'ft?s^?r'dntyi What if all violators cannot be made to mend their ways, doe?'that absolve us from our dutyro.'dp ??r nest toward check ing the violations*?'Low a against mur der do not evdiraljf prevent; it-There. ia no law which assume' time ia not violated, so the argument that tho il legal Baie of liquor - cannot be-stop ped, hence thero is n little necessity to try. becomes extremely absurd if lt be taken to conclusion. The News is not-aware of the plans of tho executive etouera. with regard to- the enforcement of liquor laws, bitt in the eight' of recent events this paper feels that"the citizens should be urged against a division which might cause us to lose sight of au objoct which we,'tsuL have in, view the maintenance of tho majesty of the law. There 1B no escape from the con clusion that connivance at lawbreak ing mean J dogre^tion. This paper does not believe that any of fl ?lal .of this city is the friend ot the .bUnd tig ers, nor that any Official would shield them. But thero ie a possibility that the d?sagreement^^whlch ATHO' might cause a temporary^lethargy, and in this case the lawbreaker, alert for his chance, will flourish like a green* bay jree until the principle involved ls once more caught,'.sight of. The differences whlch^xjst now are dil-' ferences as to means,, rather than hs to ends. Let noe this diversity of op inion cause a halt ^ be'necessary. Greenville Newa." : ? ?PLEASE irbp'iM?-^ : "Please stop taTt~" what? Times arc hard, money isvscarce. business.!* dull, retrenchmeat ls. a . duty, /lease stop my? WbrnkeyY*Oh- no ^ tanti are not had enough^t?r that''.".yat; But there la something ela a that is coating me a large amount ot money every year, which l'wlsh -t? save. Please Stop ray-" Tobacco;V?j^rs, shnfrt ;"No; no* not these but;! must' - retrench somewhere. Pies*? stop my--" Rib bons. Jewels, ornaments amt trlnkebtT Not jewels, ornaments^and,jtrinketsT Not at: alt Pride bo .^osiered; if tunes are so bardi' bu* * balleire 1 <an see a way to eff?tetv^hlte a.savlng In another direction, Please slop my-" Tea, coffee and n^le'sa and unheal thy luxuries? No*\no. rho* not these; 1 cannot think ot such a sacrifice, I mast th'bic of eometata* 'else. Ah, I bav? it*nowrmy; weekly jpsp% coats mei'lio cents a 'weak; 1 must save tfest Please stop my'--paper; that will carry rn* through, easily. I boM?Te la retrenchment ' an*ii.e^omy/V-^o Literary World. l? ia ..totar?if?^ xUwa'^ teit?'Anu?r^^ city council bc *?*e? hokS ol: tts meb who Ai? la tha^dind tl^r .h^.ett InVtbat city, 'u^m-^iySmtm. to them1'-cobd it?t?;tt?a? ?m?lliprts ... -"'?.-?> - - - onmcnt. This Is aa lt should be. No place should allow blind tigers to de fy thc law. We are glad to see that The Dally Intelligencer is backing up the coun cil not only by publishing the nantes of the tigers, but in expressions of endorsement, and of hearty approval. This is no more than any honest news paper should do, hut lt is moro than some of them have dora: in the past It might be a good idea for Green wood to take another whack at the tigers. No one has any use for them. The lowest and meanest man on earth ls thc dow down debased white 'man who goes into the blind tiger business. He ls not lit to live itt any decent com munity. . If he ls in Greenwood he should be routed and if possible sent to Ute penitentiary.-Greenwood Journal. A PEACE PICNIC. (By Elbert Hubbard.) Just suppose that three mouths ago there had gone abroad over the world an urgent request for big business .iii factories and stores, ovorywhere to grant its helpers ono day off with full pay for a peace picnic. What would have, been the reply of Coloncy Moneybags? I'll tell you-it would have boon this: "Ono whole day off for a picnic, and full pay? We can't afford it!" The war has been going on in Eu rope for ten weeks or more, with at least twelve million men taken from the ranks of useful labor. The cost, not counting loss of labor, is thirty million dollars a day. And I hope we dot have to prove that every soldier has to be supported I by a laborer. Going into battle isnt exactly going to a picnic. Picnics carry a decided benefit, es j nodally where a man takes his wife and children, or bis sweetheart. But even the sophistic apologists are at the!,, wits' end to explain the good of this war. And no one yet has come.forward and claimed the credit of beginning it ' Conceive that this is 1914, of the Christian Kalends. Pinch your ear, whistle ont loud. Are you dreaming? No. It is 1914. It is Ute age of Edi son, Kelvin, Steinmetz, Lister,' Roent gen, Charles W. Elliot, David Starr, Jordan, Robert Collie.., Ibsen,. Tolstoy, Rodin, George Westinghouse, the Wright brothers, Madame Curie, S. Weir Mitchell, William James, Nathan Straus, Alexander Graham Bell, Mae terlinck, Thomas Hardy! The human race seemed sure of Itt self. .its mind was opening, like a gigan tic, intelligible eye. The phantoms and goblins were in a panic in their sinister heavens. With microscope and alembic, with pen and press, man-heir to the Pro methean spark-was invading the realm of death, disease and fear. He had put wings on ' the stage coach; he waa whispering messages acrosB continents. He had segregated the germ; and brave men had gone to both the North and South Pol eB, Man ?w?s civilizing doctors, preachers, lawyers; civilizing his rulers-those in heaven and those on earth. His t?lescopa foraged among the ruined constellations of tho Infinite. His: microscope brought his- eye to pasture on the inconceivable. No matter how much pain ho had suffered, he found it glory to have lived In-the last century abd-the open ing years of the present ,. He reigned over life like an eagle. , His achievements put tho touch , of godhead on his brow. Conceive that this is 19914. And that art, science, invention .had.glori fied man-iifteu him to the Matterhorn of highest hope. Thon conceive the Inconceivable Think the unthinkable. Realize the un believable. .; One may paint the horrors of this struggle of the ages a la' Tolstoy or Zola. Sickening tank! .Ono may look at it from tho brain of a Hugo and write magnificent strophes in prose and verse, whose beauty would quench tho rainbow. Dpt there 1s no romance or heroism in this war today to inspire a Victor Hugo. .'.; The - safest, healthiest manner, of traveling witb the Groat Blond Beast from day to day ia. ia the manner of the philosopher. It will stifle those .bitter, burning tcar& that are in our hear ia, and purge o?r souls of tho BO sobB that choke us. And .beep your eye on the great re action, when tho human rac? will take poss&slon of the old planet by right ot eminent domain? ? And at the close of the wal let the entire world? ot workers and' toiler* have a picnic-with full pay? Abb let the ban?! play and the oratory flow, ann iov.% fer once, be legal tender. Can wa afford HT .Why. surer, we certainly can. And even o\*y man' Moneybags will Join usl . ?/, ' -- '--.? .? - ?.' -? :r ' INGERSOLL AT NAPOLEON'S TOMB* -:--. ..,-<. ... ./.....The'-following will do?bti$?'>?e 'bf interest just' now In th? light' of tho happenings in tho Old World: - b"A little while ago t stood by. the grave ot tho old Napoleon-a magnifi cent tomb of gilt find geld, -fit' sibssst for a dead delly-ead gazed upon the sarcophaeuS of black EgypHan marbio, where rests at last Ibo ?"?hes of that restless maa. X leaned over th? balus trade and thought about ifte raireey of the greatest soldier ot thc modem workL<. .. '.. "I saw him walking upon Cae banks ot. the Seine. contomplaUng suicide. I saw bim at Toulon. I saw- bim .pot ting, down a mob-in-tho-streets, ot Paris; I saw him at tho head bf the This Way-Please! Fall suits and overcoats are all here. Full and unbroken assortments of fabrics and sizes, every pattern and every style that's new and good. There's a pleasure in being first with the new-in meeting the new season face . to face with new and seasonable clothing. Now is the time to make your selec tion. Complete stocks and interested salesmen will make it easy in our store to select the suit which will please and permanently satisfy. Ask to see the new Bantam suits and Balmacaan Overcoats. Priced for economy $10 to $25. Choose today and wear tomorrow. "Tba SUm ailh a Gracier?. force of his genius. I saw him upon ibo frightful field at Waterton, where chance and fate combined tn wreck the fortunes ot their former klug, and 1 saw him at St Helena, with his hands crossed behind him, gaziue out upon the sud and solemn sea. "I thought of the orphans and wid ows he had made, of the tears that had been shed for his glory and the only woman who ever loved him, prush?d from his hoart by the cold hand of ambition. "And I said I would rather' have beeb- a Stench peasant and worn .wooden shoes. I would rather have lived in a hut with a vine growing over the door and the grapes growing purple in the kisses of the autumn sun. I would rather have been that poor peasant with my loving wife by my side, knitting as tho day. died out in tho sky-with my children upon my knees and their arma about me. I would rather have been that man and gone down to the tomguoiesa si lence of the dreamless dust than to haye been that 'mpot'al impersonation cf force and murder." - n - - Cole's Hot Blast Put This Beautiful Heater in Your Home Our Remarkable Guarantee "Cole's Hot Blast Makes Your Coal P?e Last" 1. Wo guaranteo a saving of one-third in fuel ovsr any lower draft stove of the stwt?o size, with soft coal, lignite or I .alack. . * \ S ' 2. We guarantee Cole's Hot BL?t to ote less hard coal . for heating a given space than any Lase burner made with I same size firepot. 3. We guarantee that the rooms can be heated from one o twp hours each mottling with the fuel put in the store the 1 evening befot?. ; [ . 4, We guaranteo that the stove will hold firo with soft i.'-'coal ?r hard coal from Sahxrday evening fa? MtmA?y g-ar^-^V" ?: :;: 5. .. We gu?rante? a uniform beat '? day. and night with soft coal, hard coal or lignite. ../.?"' 6. We guarantee every stove to remain absolutely air tight us long as used. 7. We guarantee the ?Vrd door to be smoko and dost I 8. We guarantee the ant?-puffmg draft to prevent prrf The above guarantee ls made with the understanding that the stove ' be operated accord ^lU, %'good ?ue Siiluyan H?^d-w?re Cot?oariy ?nd?rson, S. C., Belton, S. C.; GreSdviUe, S.'G