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CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16t(i. 1919
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GREAT MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN DURII
THE NEAT EOCR WEENS BE
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COLUMBIA, Oct. 12.—An intensi c
campaign will Ue conducted in every
Count}' in South Carolina during the
next four weeks to enroll as members
of the South Carolina division of the
American Cottno Association every
farmer, merchant, banker and profes
sional man who has not yet affiliated
himself with the organization. ——*
The central committee of the South
Carolina divisioh has issued an appeal
to the people to join the association.
^BflRisasrtiN o£““farmei% merchants ariff
bankers and professional men of hte
State have already joined the Associa
tion, the statement says, but there are
many who have nottyet done so and
it is desired to secure membership ap
plications from all who have not.
The American Cotton Association is
being organized in every state in the
belt, the statement says. North Caro
lina expects to enroll 100,000 members.
Georgia expects over 100,000 members.
Reports of an equally encouraging na
ture came from all other states.
Means Much to Farmers.
The statements tell of the plans of
the Association to force a higher price
for cotton. The Association plans to
take care of “distress cotton“ so that
it will not flood the market in the
first months of the fall. It plans to
establish warehouses in every section
of the belt in which the farmers may
store their cotton.- It plans to send
agents to foreign countries and arrange
for the direct sale of cotton abroad,
thus eliminating the middleman and the
gambler.
“The price of cotton,” says the state
ment, “for the last sixty years, has
been based on slave labor, and has al
ways been below the cost of produc
tion.”
“Consequently, the producer, largely
has lived qn the basis of laborer’s wages,
and not on that of legitimate profit from
supplying an essential raw material.
“Low priced cotton has kept farmers
and their families in slavery, their chil
dren out of school because they must
work in the cotton field, has meant bad
roads and undeveloped rural resources.
‘ * The only way the farmer has known
to meet his problem was to make more
low-priced material; volume has helped
him .at .times ,to,jeke. -Qut Aii exjsj£ii££*
“The American Cottdn Association
proposes to bring commercial freedom
to- all the South; to so change rural
conditions -that the farm will both at
tract and hol’d the white man.
“It proposes to have representatives
in every cotton consuming country to
keep you posted concerning supply and
demand. —“y’
“It will furnish advance information
of the world’s cotton heeds, so that
plhuting jpay he .made accord with,
thmv
without it he is forever in debt
“The debtor farmer is today still in
ttr£ majority.
16 years hid, are usually out of school,
barefooted and at work chopping cot
ton in the fields.
* ‘ The- injustice, the unfairness of it
cries out aloud for remedy.
“The American Cotton Association is
the remedy.
“With cotton producers, business and
professional men, merchants, bankers—
all the sputh—aligned in their own in
terests, it be easy to apply it, and,
with your assistance, we are going to
apply it. \
Producers Entitled to Good Living.
“The American Cotton Association,
without organization, through various
agencies, has already saved the cotton
producers of the south $.>00,000,000—
half a billion dollars.
“But even that saving did not carry
them across the divide between profit
and loss.
“It was but a beginning; the produc
er is enjtitled to a profit over and above
his actual cost, and must have it.
“He is entitled to a~^9b?l comfort
able home; to detent and respectable
living conditTons; to more than a cheap
calico dress for his wife; to a reasonable
schooling for his cMldren.” Justice cries
aloud for it; prosperity demandsJL
“The same facilities, the same op-
‘ ‘ It will tell its members of supply
and demand at all seasons; of crop
conditions; of the cost of manufactur
ing; of the market prices of cotton
products, in fact, all information which
is necessary to enable the smallest
planter to conduct his operations on a
purely business basis.
‘‘Through its publicity department,
and, as soon as possible, a weekly news
paper free from politics, it will keep
both producer and consumer fully in
formed about cotton, its production,
manufacture an dfair prices for material
as well as for finished products.
“Soil improvement, seed improve
ment, live stock improvement, these and
many other constructive functions will
constitute the great work of the Ameri
can Cotton Association.
Plans to Aid “Distressed” Cotton.
“The American Cotton Association
does not propose to stay there.
“It contemplates taking ste^
through the organization of a domestic
financing corporation, to insure the sue
cess df its purposes.
“It will be the purpose of the asso
ciation to assist in financing “dis
tressed” cotton and to prevent its ac
cumulation on a market unable prompt
ly to absorb it, a condition which prac
tically every fall results in a price de
preciation far below the cost of produc
tion.
“In carrying out this purpose, the
Association will have the direct as
sistanee of the Federal Reserve bank
ing system, and the influential aid of
some of the most prominent financiers
in the United Htates.
“ It will likewise assist in .bringing
to its aid advantageously owned and
controlled warehouses in every cotton
growing... jjtate
“In these the producer will be able
to store his cotton at a minimum cost
' His children, from 6 toftfrhere it' Vill be safe from any per
nicious control; and he will receive a
uniform warehouse certificate accept
able as collateral at hay bank.
“Through this system not only will
the producer be properly cared for
but great financial assistance will be
furnished to the entire life of the
Soi4h.
“To accomplish these objects there
must be not only organization, but funds
with which to meet essential expenses
must be provided.
“In order to raise these funds it has
has been determined, first, to sell
limited number of charter memberships
at $100 each, payradnt of which ex
empts from all dues until 1923.
“Next, the dues liavo been fixed at
25 cents per bale, based on the 1917
crop, for the producer; 25 cents per
$1,000 of capital stock and surplus
for the banker or other corporation
and for others, $3 per year.
“Every penny of this money wil
be expended directly for the advantage
of the Association and its members
“The president and other executive
officers of the association are serving
without -remuneration,- a labor of love
in which their reward will be conscious
ness of a duty w’ell done.
— ‘ ‘ The big men of the -South kuQw...it
now, and they are aroused to action.
“They have begun and will finish an
organization which, when it speaks, wil
be.heard around the world.”
portunities, yes, even the same luxuries,
just as rightly belong to the producer
of material as they do to the mtw-sffho
spins it into yarn or # makes it into cloth;
o*r to him who sells the finished product
to the consumer.
“When thq producer is enabled to en
joy better living conditions, our state
and section will prosper as they have
never prospered before.
“It is the purpose of the American
Cotton Association to see that these
rights are given—hre restored—to the
produced.
“How? Through his own organiza
tion and the assistance of the
Business Men of the South.
“Every business and professional
man in South Carolina, every banker,
every merchant, is vitally interested in
the success of the producer.
“Do you remember back in 1892 to
1894? When cotton went down to 4
cents a pound? —3—
“Certainly you recall 1914, when war
was declared and the quick drop to 6
cents.
“Likewise, you will recall how diffi
cult it was for you—banker, merchant,
' doctor, dentist, whatever you may be—
to make both ends meet—how your liv
ing problem grew to proportions which
made solution seem impossible.
“There were those among you who
did not know how they could meet the
grocery bill.
“So your own future, your own suc
cess, your most vital interests are
wrapped up in the well-being of the
cotton producer.
“As he succeeds, so in large degree
is your success measured.
“It is up to you, it is your duty, if
for personal and selfish reasons alone,
to join the American Cotton Associa
tion, and lend what sasistance you can
to that organization which proposes to
emancipate you, to emancipate the
business south.
“The opportunity for that emanci
pation is at hand in ;
TlM Plans of This Association.
BLUE STOCKINGS WIN
EDWARDS-SIMPSON.
Union, Oct. 11.—In a bridal setting
of pretty design with the nearest of
family ties and the closest friends pres;
ent, Miss Leila Edwards became the
bride of Hugh Simpson Of Clinton Wed
nesday at the twilight. There was a
beautiful sentiment about the choice
of the place for the wedding, the bride
selecting the memorial parlor f\t Grace
Methodist church dedicated to the mem
ory of her mother, Mrs. Fannie C. Ed
wards. The ceremony was performed
jy the Rev. J. W. Speake, pastor of
the church.
Before the arrival of the bridal party,
drs. J. Frost Walker, Jr., sang “Calm
as the Night,” “The Voice That
Ireathed O’er Eden” and the beautiful
ove lyric, ‘^Mavis,
As the notes of the wedding march
I'rom Lohengrin played by Miss Ruth
Gault, were first heard, two little girls,
Sara Wagnon and Mannie Lee Edwards
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to enter were the bridesmaids, Misses
Carrie Smith of West Springs, and Edna
Clayton of Central, followed by the
maid of honor, Miss Myrtle Smith, a
niece of the bride. The flower girl,
Mamie Sartor, scattered golden petals
in tlhe pathway of the bride and Billy
Smith brought the ring in the heart
of a golden dahlia.
The bride and bridegroom entered to
gether and took their vows before an
improvised altar decorated with ferns
and Southern smilax and yellow and
white chrysanthemums. The bride wore
a chic costume of field mouse with hat
of the same tone and carried a shower
of rosebuds and valley lilies.
Mrs. Simpson is the youngest daugh
ter of J. C. Edwards of this city and
is a young woman of rare charm and
intellect. After her graduation from
college she taught successfully for sev
eral years. Her friends regret that her
marriage will take her from their midst.
Mr. and Mrs. Simpson left immedi
ately after the ceremony for a honey
moon, the destination of which was kept
a secret.
The following Clinton people attend
ed the wedding: Prof, and Mrs. A. C.
Daniel. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Galloway,
Mrs. Jack H. Young, Misses Essie
Young, Connie Martin, and Messrs.
J. M. C. Barksdale, W. W. Harris,
Pringle Copeland, Carlton Winn,-Claude
Workman, Geo. W. Copeland, W. D
Copeland, A. W. Brice, Len Rounds,
and Garv Dillard.
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in the opening period, neither being able
to make any headway; but in the seeond
quarter the Blue "Stockings developed a
drive that was irresistible, piling up
touchdown after touchdown almost at
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when he blocked an attempted punt and
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