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Hayo ypu paid the plpor yet?
Have you started preparation of
thoso New Year resolutions?
Now is n pretty good time to bcg!n
your 1915 ChriBtmas shopping,
o
Now abldeth indigestion, headaches
and dark-brown tastes in tho mouth.
Tho latest addition to tho clasB of
"Has-beens"?good old Saint Nicho
las.
? o
Tho joy of ChriBtmas giving Will
soon bo overshadowed by the advent
of tho bill collector. *
o
A now standard for reckoning the
.flight of time?"since Greenwood had
hor last killing." ?
Cheer up, gontle reader, the worst
is yet to conio?the Legislature meets
January 12.
?o- *
Here's hoping next Christmas will
not find Anderson floundering in a
sea of mud. ,
o
Nancy 1b having moro troublo, it la
reported tho Germans are again drop
pi In g bombs upon her.
--rO
With snow on< the ground Saturday
' morning, it was doubly appropriate to
spook of it qs the "cold gray dawn nf
the morning after."
?O
? Prohibitionists may stoutly claim It
was a "dry" Christmas in Anderson,
hut there are many who will testify
that it was wet,
-o
No matter how far Santa Claus may
bo relogated to the rear now, tho re's
one thing sure, ho is not in the class
of thoso who can't come back.
o
Our Idea of tho person who had an
. enjoyable ('hristmas is tho one who
' gnvo something toward the relief of
suffering among tho poor of Andor
?on.
In tho spring wo havo General
Freshet ttio hummer General Green,
In the fall General Drought, but win
tor with its General Mud has got them
ell going.
Wo imaglno John Bunyan saw In
prospect the streets of Anderson
when ho chronicles in his Pilgrim's
Progress his passage through the
Slough of Despond.
We aro trying to bo neutral, but wo
havo to hand it to a Dutch friend who
says the. British war statements ex
plain why that .country's last name
18 "Bull"
--o
':Mf, Bryan is going to buy an
Aohoviilo estate for a summer home.
Io already owns a winter home In
lorida. But his salary is so Bma'i be
to do tho chautaujua act during
time to keep the family larder
,o Indiana girls, rather than go
'school undor the compulsory edu
fori law, eloped to Kentucky and
.married to their respective beaux.
. that's tho way compulsory educa
; tioh vjia^ff work, there shouldn't be
'Ksuch objection to them among tho
wf'e ?a not auoBtlon tho propriety ot
tfie^ mayor suspending the aentene?a
"of "three young white mon who plead
to charges of gambling, but
y?i?ation tho wisdom of any one
mS vested, wltA the par&nln?
SIIOI'LD HE INVESTIGATED
If the story told In the Greenville
Piedmont under date lino from .Wal
halla and over the signature of "J. S
S.." be turo the recent killings and
race riot near Fair Play, and in Hart
county, Oa., arc outrageous and those
guilty of the crimes committed should
hu brought to Justice, and given the
full penulty of the law. There hus been
entirely too many homicides In thlH
section of the stair recently, and it is
time for n halt to be called. Never u
week passes but there Is some horrible
murder committed, or wrtnc other
crime committed almost ub bad.
According to this story of the kil
ling of these two negroes, there seems
to have been absolutely no justifica
tion for the deed. Whiskey and the
passions aroused by the drinking and
carousing of some white men, seem to
have caused the killing of two neg
roes and the serious whipping of an
other.
Let the authorities ferret out tho
truth of this matter, and bring the
guilty parties to judgment. Tho re
sponsibility for this doublo killing and
its attendant shooting should be fixed,
and those who havo taken the law in
to their own hands taught that thero
Is Bomo respect for law and order
left, and that human l'fc cannot be
taken with impunity. If the white m*n
who were engaged In this affair are
not guilty as this article states, they
should demand an investigation and
clear their community of tho 'Ua'n
that has been placed upon it by the
reports going out about this affair. At
any rato an investigation should be
made.
THE STATE'S REFORMATION
The following editorial appearing
in The State TJhrlstmaB morning ar
gues a complete chango of front in tho
matter of prohibition, or, rather this
coupled with the entire absence of at
tack on the prohibitionists during
several moons. How a newspaper with
the standing The State has in South
Carolina can afford to lino up with
this liquor gang, composed as it 1b
of so many men like it speaks of in
tho editorial reproduced, is hard to
comprehend, and we believe that both
The State and The News and Courier,
the two notable, and only examples
ot daily newspapers In tho State, who
oppose the referendum of the liquor
quoBtion to the voters of the State at
a special election to bo lvdd sorut.
time next year, will Anally lino u*? for
it, and como out with the South Caro
lina congressmen wbo presented such
a solid front, in Washington when the
matter, was voted upon rocently.
The following editorial is commend -
I od for the perusal of our readers.
Whatever may bo one's opinion ot
tho merits ot the prohibition amend
ment proposed in Congress and Us
present fate, one Is embarrassed H
discussing it- i no extreme difficult.
In defending the manufacturer and
sale ot Intoxicants flows from tho
methods and character ot tho sellers
and manufacturers.
That the whiskey business Is a most
Iniquitous and corrupting influence In
American politics is indisputable.
Whon Mr. Bryan brings forward that
indictment, no one can answer It.
Were wine, whiskey and beer mer
chants and makers no more than
merchants and manufacturers, were
their behavior towards the govern
ment of a kind similar to that of cloth
sollers and makers, legislative assault
upon them would muster armies of
voters and newspapers In their de
fense, but they are, as a rule, as ac
live In politics as in business. They
are "sports" and "heelers," their shops
are the headquarters and commiBsalr
at for the worst and most depraved
political movements.
In European countries the case Is
different The wine merchant In
Paris Is no more s politician than
Is the glove merchant He is a mer-1
chant and nothing else. In Now York |
he Is a Tammany Congressman's lieu- j
tenant or In Philadelphia his grot
shop Is an outpost for Boies Penr<~.,e's
far spreading and carefully orr^nlzed
"gang."
Should national prohibition prevail!
In Congress within the nox t few years,
tho victory will he due to the en
forced neutrality of tho voters who
question its wisdom and expediency;
who are disgusted with the whiskey
traffic not so much that It is a traffic !
in whiskey as that whiskey is sold by I
such traffickers.
To be sore, there are numbers of
wine and whiskey merchants in the
UnPed States who do not belong to
this class. One may buy flour, co2fee,
raisins and rye liquor by the case
from the same shop in Baltimore and
the seller is the same type, man that
sells flour, coffee, and raisins and no
rye liquor In Columbia. That type ot
seller unfortunately does not define
and fix the character of the whiskey
buBincpa; it is the saloonkeeper and
the brewer who owns the saloon who |
defile the business and, pursuing
policy conceived In stupidity and sure- j
ly carrying them to disaster,..under
take to defile the government making
it subsidiary to whiskey interests.
In South Csrnlint a fewvyeara ago
a number of excellent citizens, In
tensely resentful against prohibition,
helped to \ev> in a State government
distinctly friendly to the liquor traffic
It would bo illuminating to know It
hey were pleased with the Und of
itovernmsnt they jot
The i liquor interests, pretend that
Ihey. wish to obey the law. Undoubted
ly they, preferred a liquor traffic pro
tected by law to one that la outlaw
ed but when an? where haye the 11
(.uor sellers Charring, the exceptional
men of the better Gloss) allowed'the
law to interfere with liquor sales, If
they couW >remt UT
A L Fit KI) HENRY LEWIS
The untimely death of Alfred Henry
Lewis, in the midst of a very busy
career, removes ou?s of the most pic
turesque of the newspaper writers of
the day. Mr. Lewis was only fifty-five
and had reason to hope and expect at
least twenty years more of active life.
Had he been spared so long, there is
every liklihood that ho would have ad
ded materially to tho very large ac
complishments that were his during
the comparatively brief period of his
literary life.
At one time Mr. Lewis was a door
keeper In the House of Representa
tives at Washington, though he was
doing some newspaper work on the
side. He was also gaining some experi
ence and acquaintance with public
men that served him in good stead
later on. He. was noted for his plain
language at all times, and it was not
unheard of for him to play tho role of
the Irish servant girl, by informing
visitors who asked for members of tho
House that the members said, "Tell
'em I say I'm not In."
Mr. Lewis's ability as a writer is
well known, and as a story teller ho
was famous. It Is said that on oc
casion he had the honor of keeping
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle entertained
far into the night with his inimitable
stories. Some of these hu committed
to print, though they lost much of
tho charm of his dialect. His "Wolf
ville" stories are among the Western
sketches that will probably live.
Unfortunately, Mr. Lewis allowed
himself to be dragged into tho mire
and mud of partisan journalism. He
was for some time at the head of tho
Washington bureau of Tho Now York
Evening Journal. Some of the matter
that he produced at this time perhaps
did some good, but no doubt his ad
mirers, now he is dead, would be glad
if they could pass over some of the
partisan writing that he turned out.
But it will be forgotten, as practical
ly all dally journalism is forgotten.
Mr. Lewis's fame will rest upon his
stories, eighteen volumes of which ho
produced in fifteen years, nearly all
of them good.
ROAD BONDS AND ?NEMPLOY
MENt
Considerable comment has been
made favorablo to tho plan proposed
recently by The Intelligencer to vote
a bond iSBue for Anderson county for
the purpose of building roads, promin
ent Burburban resident said a few days
ago: "I trust you will push your bond
issue proposition, and that wo shall
Boon have a chance to vote for a good
sized issue for Anderson county for
the purpose of building some perman
ent roads." Another said: "I am un
alterably opposed to continuing as we
have been doing, filling in mud-holes
for the first rainy spell to undo what
has been done. What we need is a
bond issue and some permanent work
to bo done."
These gentlemen discussed this
proposed bond issue In the light of
what could bo done for building a per
manent and lasting Bystem of roads
in Anderson county. There Is just now
another very good reason for voting
bonds for immediate work on the
roads, and this has been mentioned in
an editorial appearing in the last Is
sue of The Saturday Evening Post,
which Is h?re reproduced
Every commercial country has a
banking reserve? a certain largo sum
in gold that is Bet apart and lies un
touched from month to month and
year to year in ordinary times, but
which may be drawn on in an emer
gency. Thus, in the war crisis gold
that may bave lain unmoved for a long
period passed out of the Bank of Eng
land.
We believe it would be possible for
a country to create an industrial rc~
?STX9'. Every important nation's labor
statistics show a pretty constant, re
currence of unemployment. For three
or four years labt r may .be quite fully
employed. Then business slackens and
the number of men out of /or-k rises
until times improve. These! recurring
seasons of largo unemployment take
a heavy toll of . labor. Savings disap
pear; debes accumulate; families for
merly self-supporting become depend
ent .
Aa a matter of fact wo know the dull
seasons are going to recur, because
they always have. .In .every country
there Is a vast deal of publie work
done by. the cities, states and central
governmental In every country the
public employs labor mostircely ex
actly when private employers do?that
is. when times are good and credit
la easy. When times are poor and
bonds not easily salable the public
cuts down employment It ought to be
the other way. By intelligent fore
thought it mirrht be made so? public
work, that is might be made a sort
of Industrial reserve to fall back on
when private work slackened.
Republican panera say Mr. Bryan's
utterance about, a million men re
sponding to a call to arma "before
s?nsot," if they were needed by Ameri
ca, is all rhetoric and ia absurd; but
It isn't half as absurd, when you come
to think of it, aa the stock Republi
can argument! that you can make the
people prosperous by taxing them.
King Albert ta said to have present
ed a box of 26 cigars to each of the
Bolglan coldlers as a Christmas gift
Can't some of those potentates make
some such use of ? lot of our
cottoat^f^
the right spirit
Evidently there are others thinking
as do The Intelligencer and the lady
who discussed the matter of employ
ers holding on to their employee*
during ethe time of this temporary
dull times- It is obviously right end
proper thai 3iose who havo been
faithful und have helped a business
man build up his fortunes, should be
given some consideration when tho
wlndB of adversity begin to blow, and
not bo caBt aside as so many piece*
of machinery. Then, this dcprcEsicu
is sure to prove only temporary,
while business is adjusting itself to
tho new and changed conditions. Al
ready there are many signs of return
ing prosperity, and our prediction 1b
that very soon we shall wonder why
we were ever so pessimistic as to
question the ability of our conditions
to adjust themselves and conserve the
best interests of the country.
The Charleston NeWB and Courier
;has the following to say on this very
live subject:
The story is being told in tho
streets that 1b worth putting into print.
The head of a large cencern in Char
leston recently -ailed his employes
together." Men,' he laid, ''I've been
making money for eight years and
now I'm ready to st j.id a ba-i year. Ill
keep all of you on for a year longer.
If the war isn't ovr by that time and
if business hasn't Iinpro/ed, we'll have
to consider what wj'll do. -
That is pluck; that is fair dealing.
J It there were more employers like
this one, thero would be inlnl'.oly less
suffering in this country on account
of tho war. Thero are many, of course,
who have done what this ono has
done, but there are also many who
have done the reverse and let num
bers of thoir employees gv> because
the war has injured business. Most
of the big men can stand the strain,
but many of the little men cannot
stand it unless the big men help. Most
of the big men can afford: to carry
their emploees for another year. To
do so may cost them some money, but
it will not ruin them. We hear a lot
about the generosity of tho American
people to stricken Belgium. What
about the generosity or lack of gen
erosity of the American burmess man
towards his clerk
In many cases, of courre, retrench
ment through reduction of the num
ber of employees Is aVxdutely neces
sary. But It 1b safe to bay that many
efficient men are being thrown out of
employment simply because their em
ployers have not the pluck and the
sense of fair play shown by the Char
leston man who felt that his faithful
helpers during eight prosperous years
ought not to be pitched pverboard In
tho first bad year that cornea along.
t . lijl.
I Does the War Fro Christianity a|
Failure! 1 *
In the January Woman's Home
Companion Charles E. Jefferson, pas
tor of Broadway Tabernacle, New
York City, writes an Interesting war
article in which he comments as fol
lows on the question as to whether
this war proves Christianity a fail
ure: :.,
"If someone says that the claims of
the Church have all been shattered,
the reply is that the Church makes
no claim except on conditions that
must be met. It promises no vie- |
tories except to hearts that surren
der. . It predicts no paradises until .
men have in them the mind of Jesus.
Christianity is en invitation. If the ,
Invitation in not accepted, it can do
no mighty works. Christianity is a .
revelation of the heart ot God. If :
men refuse to become like him, the .
world remains in darkness. There is
no failure then In the Christian relig
ion. The failure lies with the men
who refuse to receive it. If. Europe
had been Christian this .war vroula
never have been. The agony of Eu
rope gives new point to the question:
'How shall we escape if we neglect
so great salvation?' It, illustrates
the meaning ot Christ's figure ot the
man who was foolish enough to build
upon the sand. It pours a biasing
light around .So Apostle's great de
claration?"There is none other name
under heaven given among men,
j whereby we must be saved .**
How One Factory Keeps Going In
Critical Tines.
In the December American Maga
I sine appears an Srticlo by Ida M. Tar
bell entitled "Keeping M?n at Work."
It is one in her series which she is]
doing for that publication entitled
"Thu Golden Rule in Business.*' In
this article Miss Tarbell shows how, !
by adopting the principles ot scientific
management, manufacturers can es
tablish an equilibrium between dull
and busy seasons and thus prevent th?
throwing out of employment of hun
dreds ot men. She glvw ?xamples ot
employees who are working .success.
I fully on those principles. Following
is ono of them: .
'The Glothcratt Shop ot Cleveland,
Ohio, for instance, finds that ono out
side condition which hampers It in
Its efforts to give regular employaient
18 tho practice of many mills of hold
ing up the delivery of orders for cloth
for two and three months. This works
two evils to tho maker of clothes: it
prevents proper inspection .of >v.tha
cloth, the manufacturer being forced
If ho is to catch the market, to make
up what he would ottvrwlse reject,
and it forces him to cIobv or work on
half time in one month, on overtime
others. Mr. Richard FcIm, the manag
er of the Glothcratt Shop, believes, that
such a situation could bo corrected by
the clothiers' trade associations. Their
great business, he contend*, is to
standardise trade conditions. To en*
able enterprising manufacturers to
anlclpate a season's 'deniajads
would have, them eeUb?fth a stag
scale ot sises. Mr. Felss himself has
overcome largely th?,filfit?aftMtvi*.1
the .trade by pushing a Itga of bum *
goods. The factory Is kept on tht .
many days b*t*f^ seasons^ when
otherwise it would bev idle. This, of
course, requires Close ? and tntolttgeat
study of ;ths.Mptyfc?
We '
Prepay
Parcels
Post
JHIS SALE of all men's and
boys' overcoats demands your
attention because of the great
Values it offers* demands your immediate
attention because some of the lots are as small as
the prices and we cannot guarantee their remain
ing long. People of moderate means on those who
appreciate a genuine bargain will find this a never
to-be-forgotten opportunity.
Men's Overcoats
$20.00 Overcoats now. :. . . $16.00
18.00 Overcoats now.. 14.40
15.00 Overcoats now... . ....... ....... 12.00
10.00 Overcoats now. ........ 8.00
Boys' Overcoats
$7.50 Overcoats now. > . .... .. :.. .$6.00
6.00 Overcoats now. .. . r7. . ... 4.80
5.00 Overcoats now. 4.00
4.00 Overcoats now ... ,.... . ...3.20
3.00 Overcoats now ...... .. ..... 2.40
I,
The Store with a Conscience
Germany lias Least Felt the Wastage
of War.
In the' December American Maga
sine Will * Ir win, war correspondent
'or that publication, writes an article
mtttled "The Qloryof War" in which
io gives a survey of the 'War's effects
is he bas seen them in England, Bel
gium, France and on the edge of Ger?
nany. Following is an extract:
"Perhaps of all central Europe,
3erman>~ *ias least felt the wastage
)f this war; tor, except in east Prus
sia, she bas .v> far been unlnvaded.
if et from end 10 end of Germany the
'actory doors a. e closed and the ma
chine ry stan dB .mmovable. in grease,
because the mei are gone to war.
from Aix to the Polish border, she Is
drtually producing nothing except
he eternal wa.' materials?which are
at ate because iHdlr end la' wastage
mil the few ne^si It les, like shoes/
which the stay-at-LomcB must hare
even in war time. Distribution has
been pared to a minimum; the govern
ment has been able to dispense with
only enough railroad men to satisfy
the moBt pressing needs. Of course,
the fine side of life, the sportive side,
has gone by the board, though the
oaf es and a few plays and cinema
shows are still running, I believe, in
Berlin and the other larger centers.
A border city like Aix furnishes Such
a spectacle as history never saw be
fore; One or two hotels are running
half force. Their cooks and waiters
all old men. The rest are closed.
Hait the shops are closed. On the
Streets you see no . young men, save
? policeman or a uniformed railroad
official here and there. A fear cabs
hang round the station; they are man
ned by bent, grey-haired drivers.
Down the streets files ah eternal nro
cession of. women, carrying bundles
home from shop or market."
RECORD!, BROKEN
Cold Wave is Worst Ever Recorded in
Manv gta?tjnna.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 86.?The cold
wave that gripped the country today,
causing record-breaking temperatures
at many places from the Mississippi
River to the Atlantic coast, was mod
erating tonight and gradually rising
temperatures were predicted for to
morrow. Fair weather was predicted,
with the exception of snow flurries lti
.the Great Lakes States and rain it
Florida.
The lowest temperatures reported
within the United States today was 32
degrees below zero at NorthSeld. Vt.
Robert H. Withers peon, of Atlanta,
is spendiing the holidays with his par
ents, Dr. and Mrs. R. H. V/ithorspoon,
of the Roberts section.
Belgrade, Their Capital, Servians Have Retaken After Bitter Fight*
The Servians have again taken
capital, Belgrads, a?te? a v?ry^lrturii'
fight in the mountains. In tho western
part of their country, wventy-flve
miles southwest of the capital and
about.that distance cast of Savojevo,
Ute scene of the ewsasfiinatinn of Ute
Crow? Fr in ce Frans Ferdinand . ot
Austria. ; wtri>h was the pretext tor
the great war. - " '
learned from ,tho meagre despatches,
a tefriflc battle took place in the
lieVthwest of the capital
Austrlans ware killed and
Russian*,
The Servians marched back Intel%*ibii&M-&&.&-:: loirertmcnt's
the capital Dec. 15. and an official!announcement of tho re-entry Into
SstriansiSld only "?ina?l has fled across UrtjSfe
in.the country about Boabate, ; |as> ?be and Save, rivers in great dl*ord
^M'*HVm:Wm**Mm ^mmWM^?^?^ .'All
^ie n?w treed ,of
Shabata and Loani
deUveranc? is" Imminent
ian troopo^nl?
by scenes of Jnfibacribablo enthusiasm.
King Pater h*- received messages of
ulations from an of his?lies."
ia;now officially edmUe a re
t of its army in Sorvia and
the fnferonee te that Austrian
les bare suffered a crushing detest
n*,ybU#**&m . ?tst*?5-? S
