Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TWO GET SOUTH'S VIEWPOINT ON COTTON SITUATION Columbia, June 12.?J. Skottowe Wannamaker, president of the American Cotton Association, is daily: receiving letters from members of: Congress acknowledging receipt of information sent them by the association rotrnrHinp- the cotton situation and promising protection for the South. The following letter from Repre-i tentative M. 0. McLaughlin of the; 7ourth Nebraska District was re' :eived today and Mr. Wannamaker says it is typical of the replies that are coming in from the Northern and Western representatives: "I beg to acknowledge receipt of your communication of May 28th, setting forth the cost of the production and giving valuable information as to the cotton industry and its I!YOUR PRICE TBI j 1 | Located c | Containin 2 . I FREE | FREE i the iv i cash | prize; I By the future needs and prospects. "In response I will say I have fil< your letter with the enclosed bull tins for reference to the proper tin in the sixty-sixth congress, and I bi to assure you that I stand for an u biased program that will protect i " -*x* J 01 our citizens aim cvcij iuu>u?. in every part of the country. Y are a great nation bound together 1 indissoluble ties, and you can d pend upon my standing for justi to the industries of the South just conscientiously as I will for those any part of our great commo wealth." President Wannamaker said tlafternoon that other members Congress had written him thankii him most heartily for the inform tion. One representative stated th the letter gave him the viewpoint the South and had opened his ey regarding the cost of production , - ] T AT 1 i VUJ )n the Main g 1,000 A mmammmmomammmmmmmm* BAF IILLER P nrii ir in a "< k j uA?*r n j nuiviL, u way, when yoi iiiiiMiisiBiiiiaaitiiiififl i IlUi r 1VDWO mii/ uniiiiui I cotton. I ed "It is not a very pleasant subject e- to dwell upon but we are obliged to ae admit," said President Wannamaker eg today "that there has been right n- much, prejudice against the South in ill the North and West. I have felt all ry! along that thi swas due to lack of iniTe' formation in the North of conditions Dyj that prevail in the South. The North,e-i erner has an idea that cotton can be ce | produced for a little of nothing, and as; that practically all that the Southern of planter gets for it is clear profit. n| NEW WAREHOUSES FOR us COTTON THIS SUMMER of i igl W. G. Smith, State Warehouse a-! Commissioner, said yesterday that at many new warehouses must be built of this summer as units in the State es cotton warehouse system of South of i Carolina farmers are to avoid the iiiiiiiBiiiiiiiiiniviiiiiiiHiniiiiiK nr \/ L i Road Betw icres, has be< Farms, and xmnmnohbmhb lBECUI I LACE, FRI rWi (Incorf Service of Guara FFICE: i get ready to sel n,, ? enormous "country damage" loss onj the cotton crop of 1919 which theyj suffered on the crop of 1918. A large! part of this loss from weather rotten) cotton would not have occurred had1 ! the State warehouse system had' j storage space for all of the cotton offered to it. J. S. Wannamaker, of St. Mat ; thews," president of tfte American! I Cotton Association, has estimated J j that "country damage" caused a 10SSJ of 6.3 per cent, on the cotton crop[ of 1918. On this basis, the farmers' of South Carolina lost on their 1918! crop of 1,500,000 bales the stagger-j ing sum of $14,175,000 account dam-j | age to bales of cotton left in the j weather. On Mr. Wannamaker's estimate,! the loss per bale for "country dam-j age" amounted on the average to 31.5 pounds worth $9.45 at 30 cents. The average cost of warehousing ^ A / i A LLEI reen Greenv en Ideally Si 11 1 Oil will be Doia [ HHHmmomn i DIN DAY, JUN iorated) * nteed Satisfactic GREENW 11 1 ] L?n 11 your laiiu, nan IHHliilfllitlililllllflllllllllllJIIVIflflllll'llllililllfillllilllKltjllllKlllKIHIIIKIIIIflllilllllllRIIIIIIDIIIIfllllllllllllSlll1 DiHH 1 n III liiwin nil 11111II11HI minU n 1111 n lui nI n 111U HIM i U ih tf (oHirTiHKIiiiiiM IIH h fnin IrfitiJ iflf H Jiil rfTi llinl/i and insuring a bale of cotton against f fire for six months in the State ware- s house system is less than half this s average loss per bale on the entire 1918 crop caused by "country dam- t age." * ' - , * However, the average "country damage" loss per bale on the 1918 s crop is not a fair index to the actual * loss on individual lots of weather * damaged cotton as is shown by the ; following instances which have late- * ly come to the attention of Commis- * sioner Smith. ^ A farmer recently sold 16 bales of cotton which were left in the weather t after ginning. The rotten, weather i damaged cotton in this lot amounted 1 to 2,300 pounds or over four bales. < The loss in money amounted to $690 1 at 30 cents a pound. This farmer ^ could have warehoused his 16 bales I in almost any warehouse in the State t system, had there been room for it, : I??? YG sru vood and 1 lib-Divided i; HfiB Hi L 1 VJ NER E 20, 10:3 Tity I1A4U A A n /M J UUU, u |_ die the matter w IB??? i or six years for $690 and at th ame time it would have been in ured against fire. A second farmer disposed of 6 tales of cotton a week or so ago o vhich the "country damage" amour .a * * n knn nan?i/1a a Iaoc 'U IV jWV ^/VUUUOy O 1VOO (*V Wv i pound of $2,250. He migfat tan >ut his 60 bales in a State war louse, thus protecting it from tl veather and against fire, kept here for the six months it lay ro ;ing in his yard and saved at lea >1,818 of the $2,250 he lost. Mr. Smith pointed out yesterd ;hat with the removal of all govei nent restrictions on constructi ;here was no reason now why far jrs or groups of farmers could i auild either plantation or commuuH warehouses and put them into iH State warehouse system, thereH avoiding "country damage" on 1919 crop. H mmmmiiSSl EASY I I TRMS I m H Abbeville, I nto Small I I free! FR FF 0 A. M. | 21 >RASS 3AND [1 rith