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bankers indorse COTTON ASSOCIATION I Columbia, S. C., June 23.?At the convention of the South Carolina Bankers Association at Tybee Island this week, resolutions endorsing the work of the American Cotton Association and pledging the co-operation at the bankers were adopted. The formation of the big Export Financing Corporation was strongly endowed. The resolution adopted by the convention follows: Realizing that the American Cotton Association is engaged in i work of vital importance to every phase of life in the Soath; realizing that cotton has blessed every section of the globe on which the sun shines except the South (to the South it ha6 proved a curse); realizing that the commercial handling of cotton has brought wealth in every form in whieh it has been handled to every country in which it has been handled except the South (to the South it has brought poverty); realizing that for the last sixty years the South has produced and sold cotton on the basis of starvation wages and at starvation prices; realizing that cotton is a national question and not a sectional question; realizing that between the years 1880-1914 35 years, the total value of the foreign exports of raw cotton from this country was $10,843,114,637, or $2,282,887,437 more than the total of the world's gold production of $8,560,227,200 during the same period in other words, if every ounce of gold mined on earth during that 35-year period had been I Pure Ice Manufactured Under SOFT DRINKS I Sofl CIGARETTES i TOBACCOS P CANDIES VAJl FRUITS We . CIGARS the moi licit you Abbeville Cai poured into America it would have fallen $2,282,887,437 short of pay' ing America's bill again Europe and i Asia for our raw cotton; realizingji that during the 10-year period of ] 1! 1905-1914, inclusive, the value of 1 the export of raw and manufactured cotton and cottonseed and its pro- < ducts aggregated about $5,700,000,- < 1 000 as a contribution to our foreign > ' 1 1 - - -II?tVint Imm fVio Hid. ] iraue, reaiiAuig wo ?Vm. covery of America in 1492 to 1914, 1 the total production of gold for the 1 entire world was $15,690,000,000, i while the total ralue of the South'S: s cotton crops, including seed, for the J 35-year period, 1880-1914, was $18,- < : 164,000,000, or about $2,500,000,- 1 000, more than the value of the i ' world's gold production for 423 ji years, from 1492 to 1914; realizing i i ' that it is absolutely necessary that 1 the South change these conditions J J ' and its commercial life and the vari- < ous phases of its business and social i 'life, that are affected as a result of i conditions brought on by the produc- < tion of cotton, which has been sold i at starvation prices for the last sixty years: < Therefore, Be It Resolved: i That this Association hereby in-jl dorses in the strongest terms the. 1 great work being done for the pur- j pose of changing and improving the j J I conditions as outlined above by thej American Cotton Association; thatj 1 we further bind ourselves to cooper- j ate with, and loan every assistance I i in our power, to the American Cot- {< ton Association. We realize that j j they are engaged in a work of vast( | commercial importance and engaged^] in a work of great service to every J ?1. Cream? i . Sanitary Conditions - - - ? t Drinks and lfections 1 i re prepared to serre you in 1 t courteous manner and toir patronage. 1 ] ndy Kitchen rlX,VXM(i X* ^ if * ? Si y ?m.?\^_ ; ??I section of our nation. We, further, indorse in the strongest terms, and pledge our undivided ^ support, to the following specific lines of work now being undertaken; by the American Cotton Association:; (1) Formation and, putting intoi jpciabivu Ul H1C ?JApVI W JL' lliauviu^ i Corporation, the organization of j ivhich Corporation we realize will not only prove of untold benefit to ;he entire South, will revolutionize :he cotton and various allied business nterests of the South, but which will tlso perform a wonderful service in arranging credits to war-stricken Eu>pe, for the purpose of enabling ;hem to finance their purchases of raw cotton, it being necessary to furnish them with means for finan'cng at least seventy-five per cent, of :heir purchases. We realize that as i result of the organization of this Corporation after it has fulfilled its function as an export corporation it: ivill furnish the South with a finan:ial institution which will prove of fast benefit to them. (2) We, further, bind ourselves io cooperate with and assist in every svay possible, the formation of a sys;em of state-controlled warehouses ;hroughout the cotton belt; and uni form standard warenouse receipts For the entire cotton belt. (3) We, further, indorse and jind ourselves to cooperate with, ind loan every assistance possible, n the formation of and putting into jxecution, a domestic marketing corporation for the handling of domes;ic cotton, the details of which corporation are now being worked out jy_the American Cotton Association. (4) We, further, bind ourselves ;o coperate with, and lofan every asiistance possible, to the various lines 5f work in which the American Cotion Association is engaged for the ap-building of the South; for the improving of its social and commercial life and for the betterment of conditions now existing in the South. We realize that it is the duty of evary individual in the South, who has, the best interests of thsi nation at heart, to cooperate with this Asso-. nation in every way possible, as the result of their work mean that we srill really be carrying out our pledge to make the world safe for Democracy by improving these con-f iitions and making the South a better place to live in. Be It Further Resolved, That a : I y liL^r' I ^i'^:' I '* copy of this resolution be furnished the Press. ' t th< WOMEN'S COLLEGES OF f" cxMifn m > km ... . ria OUU 1 n LAKULiriA 1 t,ALM I PRINCIPLES OF THRIFT hai sm Columbia, S. C., June 27.?Two of the most influential women's col- 0U] leges in the South, Winthrop College t]e and Anderson College for Woman, onj have instituted a course in thrift for their summer sessions. This year there will be some twelve A hyndred teacher at the Winthrop H summer normal course. At the rec- H ommendation of Dr. D. 8. Johnson, H the short course on thrift which has I been outlined by the government, is H being offered there as preparation H for teaching it to the children of all H grammar grades. The course will be H conducted through the use of a gov- I ernment pamphlet, "Thrift in the H Schools," just issued through the H Fifth Federal Reserve District. A H special instructor will give the H course. S "Thrift in the Schools" contains | not only an outline of the aims ofjH the thrift campaign as it is to be H taught to children but sugestions as I to how this may be aciomplished as H well. From the "Mother Goose" I tots to those ready for high sdhool H the thrift arguments are adapted to H fit, and the teacher will find the work H of choosing modes of imparting the H lessons in a large part already done. 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