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raua l rru CALLS TO FARMERS TO HOLD COTTON Harria Advises All To -Stand Together?South Td Help Self The following statement on the cotton situation was issued yester day by B. Harris, commissioner 01 agriculture: Why should we be alarmed? When we recall 1914 when the worldwide war broke out cotton dropped six cents a pound just in a short time. A crop of 17,000,000 bales. The balance of that crop sold for ten cents per pound. I want you to remember what condition the banks of the South were in at that time. Now with not enough cotton for the demands of the world consumption, the trouble has been in the distribution of it. The export corporation which is about completed will in a measure remedy that drawback. Our institutions are solid. Our banks are in splendid condition, better than they have been made so by the people's money, resulting from the prosperity of the producers during the last few years. Their inter ests are the people's interests and the people's interests are their interest. We ask for full cooperaiton and we. in the South can settle this ques-1 tion. The world wants our cotton, the like of whifh can not be obtained elsewhere. We must look to our ownj selves to settle- those problems andi we can do it, for the South is one of j the most resourceful countries in i the world. The law of supply and de- j mand has been set aside for the present but you may rest assured that it is the natural law and it can be ig nored only for a time and it will reestablish itself. Now, how is the demand to be brought about by the farmers? By holding his cotton off the market until the world needs it for consumption and then the spinners will pay your price as set by the American Cotton association. We have whipped the bears five years in succession. Just remember 1917 when cotton was seling for 18 cents. We named the price 35 cents and called upon the farmers to hold for that figure, and all who held got it. You are now in much better condition to get the price named?40 cents?than you were in 1917. We farmers are too ready to forget the victories we have won. I want to say to the world that every timo fnr the last, ten vears the farm ers have set the price of cotton it has gone there before another crop has been marketed?and this year will be no exception, if we' stick. Just remember that this great drop in price has been brought about by a scare which caused the Texas farmers to throw 800,000 bales on tne maricec rnus neiping tne very factors that were opposing the prosperity of the producers. There is not enough cotton to fill the demands of the world's con* sumption today and with the export, ing of cotton which is bound to be ill NEW 1 | "THE ATLANTA" | MING! I VI 1 SEABl | < Effective Nove 111 Leave Atlanta |j| Arrive Birminghan | Leave Birmingham I Arrive Atlanta .... : Sleepers and Coach< i|: occupancy at 9:00 p * | For Pullman resem call on | J. D. MILLER, A : R. E. Camp, T. P. A | FRED GEISSL1 MORE THAN FOOT OF SNOW FALLS IN BUFFALO, N. Y. Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 18.?Buffalo is snowbound today in one of the worst November storms in its his| tory. From 4 a. m. to 8 a. m. more | man a foot of snow fell. Local and | interurban traffic was demoralized transportation companies failing to have ready their equipment to meet the emergency. Hundreds of people walked to their work, while thousands remained at home. Legal Blanks for Sale Here.? ?he Press and Banner Company. more this year than last, ind with the cotton export corporation and allied corporations being formed, there is no need to be alarmed about ' the price of cotton. All the farmer has to do is to sit steady in the boat ' amTliold his cotton until the demand of he world, which will be before another crop can be made and ga? thered. I J All that we can ask is the full co* nnpr*?ion of the bankers and busi i -* ? ness men of the South to help to I protect this cotton crop and make I it sell for over and above the cost of production. If that is done, the financial conditoin of the South will be ^better than it has ever been known, for we have the cotton and the world must have it before another crop?or the manufacturing interests will haveto stop and this they will not do for machinery was made j to run and to turn in dividends, which'it can't do if it is standing still. The fanners have got the situation entirely in their own hands and I believe that they are going to act more in a businesslike manner anil in a more intelligent manner in ; their farming operations in 1921 than they have ever yet done. They I are going to stop looking to other | sources for help and each individual I farmer is realizing more and moi'e j that help will not come outside of | his own efforts. And remember this. Now is the j time to commence to finance your 11921 crop, as it is not yet too late to . sow largely of wheat and oats and to prepare to plant a larger food i crop in the South than has ever been I done. Remember, the farmer who makes his home self-sustaining has ' got his cotton crop half financed ! and it will be no trouble for a farmI er in that condition to get all the money he needs to carry the rest and i get his own price, which is his right. , But remember, if the farmer goes to (the bank and borrows to buy mules and feed the fertilizer at high prices to produce a crop of cotton it is impossible for the banks to carry this (indebtedness over and to furnish money by which to hold cotton for higher prices. Just let's get down to practical common sense business and the biggest problem in the way of success is removed. DRAINS a and "THE BIRHAM" A I OARD | mber 28, 1920. 1:00 a.m. $ n 7:50 a.m. :j: i 1:00 a. m. :j; 7:30 a.m. $ 9S. Sleepers open for '. m. ' jj; itions or information ijj >gt. Abbeville, S. C. ijj Atlanta, Ga. | ER, Asst, G. P. A. | Atlanta, Ga. | MILLIONS WERE NOT EVEN COUNTED BY SHIPPING BOARD New York, Nov. 18.?John J. Gillen, former special assistant to John Barton Payne, when he was chairman of the shipping board, today declared that hundreds of millions of dollars went unaccounted for during the "complete breaking down", of ? the board's system of accounting ni-inor fVic. war ~ Mr. Gillen's testimony was given [ before the congressional committee [ investigating shipping board affairs,' and in the course of it declared he had investigated and learned how foreign governments were being mulcated on their purchase through operations of the board. There now remain only about $50,000,000 of $400,000,000 taken1 in on freight charges by the ship-1 ping board, and considering expen-j ditures of $3,400,000, Mr. Gillen added: "My investigation disclosed that j the board had no records to show how much money it had taken in! during the war and how much was i expended." He said that up to October 1, 1919, there had been more than 8,-1 OOO voyages of shipping board vessels, but only eight accounts had; . been audited. Judge Payne had been1 (informed he added, that one ship-, j ping firm alone had more than $25,000,000 of the board's money. A California woman has a home that is a veritable 'House of Hearts.' The tables, chairs, etc. ,in fact, all the furniture of thw peculiar house, in heart-shaped. The beds have heart-shaped headboards supported on both sides by bedposts carved to represent Cupid's arrows. ?????? ' * Y Hi We realize that must be sold at We want everyl N prices made nec a big stock?mu shoe is*our regul any "special sale tops, pumps, bn fact every article r aa J. m. i ' ?? TEACH JOURNALISM IN NEWSPAPERS ( Chicora, Nov. 15.?The Josephj Medill school of journalism of < Northwestern university will be j established within the next fewj months with the plants of the large Chicago daily newspapers available as labortories for students, Prof. Walter Dill Scott, president of Northwestern, announced. nrn r? nil A/^ f A flin I i. IIC piUJCVl* W OO OUggCJWWU WU W41W j trustees of the university by Robert] R. McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson, editors of the Chicago Tribune, in memory of their grandfather, Joseph Medill, founder of the Tribune, and one of the most famous journalists of the Middle West. "The curriculum will include three types of courses of instruction," Professor Scott said. "First, those familiarising the student with present day social and economic and political problems and the general field of literature.. * Second, those which will provide training in the actual technique and practice of modem journalism.1" CAPTAIN SAVES DAY nw/viinT i OTIAM D I rnuffir i au t ivn New York, Nov. 15.?As her passengers, 250 of whom were immegrants, lined the rails for a glimpse of New York's skyline, the Spanish Royal Mail steamship Montserrat collided with the Mollard line freighter San Marcos. The vessels, moving in from quarantine, were under the lee of the Statue of Liberty. The Montserrat was beached on the Brooklyn shore before she sank., The San Marcos, her bow mashed, made her pier safely. Water poured through a gapping hole in the starboard side of the Montserrat. Seized with fear of dis OUR SHO the shoes on our shel1 / a loss some time. In \ body to know we ? essary by conditions i ch larger than we w? lar stock of high clas; Any and every Dgues, oxfords, boys' ; i of footwear for each ANDERS< aster, the immigrants dashed for j lifeboats and raftc. Captain Muslera c a skipper in the Spanish service for more than a quarter century, rang f for full speed, turned the vessel c sharply toward the Brooklyn shore, 1; A LITTLE \ There is many an oppt business man to buy ar paying business. It i j tie capital." Are you the man with ; An interest-bearing a you among the capita Start One To-Day. Planter: "THE FRIENI ABBEVILI ??? E CHANC \ ves, bought when pric our judgment it is bet ire giving them the t ?vhich we cannot con ant to have by Janu< 3 shoes?not a pair 1 shoe in our store is / and girls' school and c sex?and every size. DN COMP urnped from the bridge into the exited crowd and restored order. One man leaped over the side. He 'ell on the deck of a tug that bad :ome alongside and was not seriousy injured. i : ' I CAPITAL )Hunity for a young i 1 interest in a goodrequires but "a lit"a little capital?" iccount here plaoes lists. i Bank " )LY BANK." ,E, S. C. \ ' . -? * > E H J es were higher, ter to sell now. >. >enefit of lower trol. We have I ?ry .1st. Every was bought for included?high lress shoes. In V -1 I our cnaiice. ANY ?,