The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-09-13
"MY BOTHER'S KEEPER,

The farmer will be the man to feel
least the privations which may be
caused by the present war crisis.
Occasionally farmer owes little
money and lie should pay it just as
the local merchant should pay his
obligations when due. The farmer
will pay his debts when he gets the
chance. Neary every farmer in An
derson county can go another year
without buying necessities. Meat
and bread have been produced by the
sensible farmers and they are inde-
pendent.
The greatest weight of priyatlon
Will fall upon the mechanic and the
mill operative. Building operations
which for two years past have been
lively. may suffer curtailment and
carpenters and bricklayers may be
laid off. 1t is to them more than
to the farmer that our sympathies
should be given. The farmer Is inde-
pendent IL he owns his farm, no mat
The mill operative is another whose
happiness and prosperity is in the
keep.ng Of fate.
Some mills in other sections of the
state have suffered seriously already.
The mill managers OF the South are
splendid humane men. In ordinary
circumstances they would keep their
mills running at loss to give em-
ployment to their people Many
mean things. and false, have been
written in Northern journals with
reference to our mills and mill peo-
pie.
We are. and of right should be
proud of the mill people of the South.
They are Industrious, thrifty-and
what is more, moral and Christian.
There is emplanted in the soul of the
average mill person a deeply relis-
ious sentiment, for the most of the
population Of our mills come from
the native inhabitants and with their
natural instinct combined with the
religious opportunities afforded by
the manufacturing enterprises, and
the well equipped schools, we find
that the mill WORKERS are becoming
a class of citizenship which, IL undis-
turbed by demagogues or by alien
haranguer. will be the model for the
entire world. They have become in
telligent. saving and ambitious peo-
pie, and II this war keeps up they
will feel 1t more deeply than any othe
class OF people in this country, for
many mills may be made idle.
illustrating the deep implanted de-
sire of these people :. for the better
things OF life is the interest they take
In improving their little homes, and
the earnestness with which they
strive for prizes when the mills Of
fer them. The rannounceme ut. of the
prize winners appeared 1 this 5aaper
yesterday. We congratulate the Cos
sett Mill management in Anderson
and in Williamson for encouraging
dens and their vegetable gardens.
The mill people are good people. The
mill management does we'll to hold
out to them opportunities and to in
still into their hearts the wish to pro-
gress INCREASINGLY in self-improve-
ment.
1t is necessary that all good peo-
pie stick together no matter what
their surrounding or environment,
and IL there is any allegation of clan
nishness with reference to the mill
people 1t is not their fault. They are
sensitive, they do not wish to make
the first advances, but they will re-
spond every time to the friendliness
of the people of other vocations and
walks Of life.
This Is o time when all men are
placed on common plane to face the
fate.