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The Press and Banner
ABBEVILLE, S. C.
Wm. P. GREENE, Editor.
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The Press and Banner Co.
Published Every Tuesday and Friday
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1919.
Ex-President Taft now seems to
be quite a large man among democrats.
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Speaking of reducing the acreage,
what has become of our old friend,
the boll weevil?
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Senator Lodge is greatly worried
by the criticism of some of the South
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Carolina eutwra.
None of the speakers at the meeting
on Friday told how many bales
he was holding, nor what he had
been offered for it.
Perhaps President Wilson sought
to give the ex-Rev. Herron a way of
escape from the widow, or a new
Carrie. The League of Nations is
designed to prevent all kinds of wars.
That crowd of farmers who met in
Columbia before Christmas and pro
posed the issue of bonds for build
ing good roads over which they might
haul their farm products to town,
and who called on the automobilists
to pay the expenses, should have
provided a system which would have
been of some pleasure and convenience
to the men who were to do the,
paying, rather than providing only a
scheme for their own purposes. The
farmers are always up to something.
Col. H. P. Burbage, of Greenville,
has come out for the twenty
five million dollar bond issue. His
provocation is that, although there
are three railroad lines running from
Greenville to Greenwood, he undertook
to make the trip between these
points one day in January in his automobile,
and got stuck in the mud
on one of Greenwood County's good
roads. Are we to assume that Col.
Now a great many people have already
sold their cotton; they sold
last fall when* their debts pressi
g, and in order to meevtheir; obfi
gations to the government. Other
v people are holding not only last
year's crop, bat the crop* of one
and two yean before that time. Ii'
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Burbage is one of the farmers for
whose benefit we should issue these
bonds, and that cotton would have
gone up if he had not happened to
this calamity? '
Notwithstanding the fact that the
government, which is the people, we
suppose, is now operating the railroads,
and wants to do so for the
-i next five years, and, therefore, these
roads are now our roads, so to speak,
and notwithstanding the fact that we
have.already been "McAdood" out of
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three quarters of a billion dollars
in so doing, according to newspaper
reports, the Columbia State now proposes
that we should build good
roads, and that every man should
operate his own railroad, thus cutting
down the revenue of the railroads
still further, and making a bigger
ueucit ior us xo pay. we claim tnat
this it not making the world safe for
democracy.
ANOTHER SUGGESTION.
As the people did not seem wholly
agreed on what to do in the matter
of cotton acreage, every man having
a differnt remedy for the prevalent
disease, it is suggested that what
ever scheme is adopted should be as
nearly equitable as possible. If there
is to be a loss, it should be shoulder
ed by all the people according to their
ability to bear it, and if there is to
be a profit by the reduction scheme
it would be altogether unfair for a
portion of the people to get it all.
view of these facts it seems to us i
that those people who have as much I
as a year's crop already on hand, ;
should not plant any cotton at all. 1
The man who has sold will, at the 1
end of the year, have only one crop,|i
so that the man with one crop al-M
ready, who does not plant any cotton |1
this year, will be on an equal footing! i
with him. If there is money in re-.'
ducing, they will share the profit')
ratably. If a man is only holding:]
one half his last year's crop he should :
plant only half what he planted last '
year, and so with other proportions. J
The fairness of this proposition J
will appear when it is considered J'
that if everybody reduces in the i
same proportion, then the man who'
has no cotton will suffer from having '
a small crop, while the man with the '
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cotton aireauy on nanus wm icojj ?
big profit, not from the crop raised
this y?ar, but from that which he
already has. This will not be fair.1
to the man who has sold already.
I Or if this scheme is not adopted,! 1
we believe that the men with cotton, j
who are to ask those who have al- <
ready sold to agree to reduce acre- i
age, should pool the cotton now on 1
hands, and have it valued at present
prices. All those who agree to cut
the acreage, whether they have cot- 1
ton on hands or not, should be par- i
ties to the pool, and when the cotton 1
is finally sold, the profits from holding
should be calculated, and divided ]
between all those who reduce, accord- 1
ing to the number of acres of reduc- 1
tion. Some will say that this will |
be allowing one man to profit at the 1
expense of another, but serious re- i
flection will show that this is what <
we intend to avoid. The man who 1
has no cotton and who reduces his <
acreage so that he cannot make a full
crop will be losing largely, and mak- 1
ing nothing, while the man who has i
a large amount of cotton on hands,
and who wants his neighbor to plant '
a small crop in order to help him, 1
will otherwise obtain all the profit I
by the reduction scheme. But if all ,'
cut down and all share in the profits j
to be produced by the reduction of j ]
acreage, it is evident that the scheme 1
works equally in favor of or against
all. i' I ]
We will have books opened on <
Tuesday morning in order that all ]
those who desire to go into this 1
scheme may enlist.
OUR OWN RAILROADS.
The Columbia State says that the'
railroads are owned by private individuals,
but that when we obtain
good roads every man will be his own j
railroad. We presume that every j
man who owns a Ford will haul his;
own cotton to New York on his^railroad
and there dispose of it.
The railroads, we believe, formerly
charged about sixty five cents peV
hundred for hruling cotton to New 1
York, or three ,'cllars a.id twenty- '
five cents per bale. Perhaps the!,
price now is about five dollars per
bale. A one ton truck would haul
four bales. A man who drove his j
truck from Abbeville to New Yo*rk,
paying for gasoline, oils, hotel bills, ^
and losing a week's time in doing -o, t
would get rich z*unning his own rail- !
road. . :
Ice was formerly, shipped .from .
Abbeville to Calhoun Falls at about
three dollars and a half for five tons.
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With a one ton truck, it could be ,
hauled in five loads, with a two ton
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truck in three. To say nothing of
the outlay for the truck, and nothing .
of the oil, gasoline, repairs and depreciation,
we doubt if a man to .
operate the truck can be hired at the | ^
amount charged for the freig/it. ,
It costs two dollars and sixty three '
cents per ton to haul coal from the
mines to Abbeville. A man who took
enough trucks to Tennessee, or West
Virginia, to bring in his winter's
supply of coal on his own railroad, ^
would, we imagine, have a hard timejj
convincing the doctors, were he ex-|
amined under a Writ of Lunacy,!
that he was still sane.
Every man operating his own rail- 1
road, we fear, will prove about as
remunerative as government ownership.
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ONE WAY TO REDUCE. <
If it be true that we cannot produce
cotton at present prices, and if ]
H*;De equauy true mat we ean maice i
money raising hogs, cattle, -fend farm ;
products other than cotton, then we i
suggest that some of the men who j
have bne, two or three crops of cot ;
ton in the warehouae, might do a
*ood part by the country in refusing
;o plant any cotton at all. Being
ible to hold cotton for thisi
length of time, the public has a-right
:o believe that these men are business
men, and are succeeding, else
they could not do so. The public
will not believe that good business
men will produce cotton at a loss^
when they may go at other things
and make money. They have the I
money with which to stock their
farms with hogs and cattle. Then
why do they not determine to quit
losing money in producing cotton,
find get down to business at something
else? The time has come for
somebody to put up, or shut up.
Besides the farmers of Abbeville
county need someone to blaze the
way.
VICTORY LIBERTY LOAN. |9
Richmond, Va., Feb.26, 1919. w
rhe Editor, The Press and Banner, g
Abbeville, S. C. ?
Dear Sir:? ?
An article bearing a Washington'
date line of February 19th, published
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in tne .tress ana Banner, nas a neau-j
line "No Fifth Liberty Loan for the,
United States."
Liberty Loan workers throughout
the Fifth Federal Reserve District j
are asking for information about:
this report.
The report is entirely wrong. Sec-j
retary Glass has officially announced
that the Victory Liberty Loan will
be offered according to the usual program.
It will be a popular Loan and
will be floated by a popular campaign
not later than April 21st. The same
organization which successfully handled
the previous loans is counted upA
ltnvi JIA Ana |
uxi bu iiaiiui^ iuio viit.
Each' worker is expected to stay
with the job and work harder than
ever for the success of the issue.
The Government is cleaning up its
war bills and expenses are running
very heavily. Secijetary Glass urges
the Liberty Loan Organization everywhere
in the country to disregard all
irresponsible reports and go on with
plans for the widest possible distribution
of the coming Loan.
Whether the Victory Loan issue be
notes or bonds makes little differ*
ence. The security will be a solemnpledge
of our Government to pay.
The rates and terms will be favorable 1
and the investment offer will be the
best in the world. jljj!
Workers must stay on the job and 1
keep up the preliminary work. Na- m
tional honor and American prosperi- &
iy are at issue.
I trust that you will make this =
plain to your readers and do every-J jjl
thing you can to pave the way for. H
;he successful flotation of the issue.'B
Your for the Victory Liberty LoanH
Frank H. West,
Director of Publicity. jg
The article headed "No Fifth Lib- g
>rty Loan" was taken from an At- H
B
anta paper. |j
rREATMENT OF
SEED IRISH POTATOES H
Clemson College, S. C., Feb. 28.? jg
'.t is very important that seed pota- jj
;oes should be treated for the pre- jj
mention of scab, says the Extension ^
Service horticulturist. This is eas- jg
ly done by using either formalde- jg
lyde or corrosive sublimate. In us- jj
ng formaldehyde the potatoes M
ihould be soaked for two hours in a i
tolution of one pint of formalin to p
JO gallons of water/ This solution gg
:an be used several times.
If the corrosive sublimate method g
s U3ed, the potatoes should be soak- g|
;d for one and a half hours in a so- =
ution of four ounces of corrosive'j|
sublimate to 30 gallons of water, jg
mis solution snouia oe renewea ai- s
Wm
:er /ising three times. Since it cor- M
rodes metal, the solution should be m
used in a wooden or earthenware, W
vessel.
In either case the potatoes should j j
be soaked before cutting. Both so- ?|
lutions are poisonous and should be,
landled with care. Five and on?- J
half gallons will cover a bushel ofjjg
potatoes.
MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
The Woman's Missionary Society H
of the Baptist Church will meet Fri- B
day afternoon at four o'clock in the g
ihurch parlor. Subject: "Value of g[
Mountain Schools."
At the close of the meeting the M
personal service committee will pack ||
a box for Connie Maxwell Orphan- |g
age. Every woman of the 'shilrch m
is requested to contribute o6e new] a
garment?any size from fouifto' 18 |
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