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Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. i The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly 1 Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-class matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. I Terms of Subscription: One year |2.00 Six months 1.00 Three months .50 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1920. | i A FAIR PRICE. .? Mr. Bryan, in his Commoner, this week outlines in a ~vay what (the demN ocratic platform, as he sees :t, will be.; There are several issues on which he thinks there will be a fight, but there1 are others on which he thinks the I convention in San Francisco next week will be agreed. Among the planks which he suggests will surely be adopted is one demanding profit^ fixing in every line of business. i We are not prepared just now to go the whole way with Mr. Bryan. , He is after the profiteer it is true, and the profiteer must be curbed in some way. There is reason in( his argument to be sure. He claims that the raiiroacis nnvtj uicu iutvui& limited; that the telephones and oth-, er public utilities have a price fixed beyond which they cannot go; and even the private money lender is confronted with usury laws forbidding the lending of money at more than a fair wage for its use. He argues from these facts that the man who deals in the necessities of life should likewise be limited in,-, the prices which he charge* the public?that his profits should be reguiate*^. We assume that Mr. Bryan is willing for | the broker and the retailer to make a profit which will enable them to live and prosper as other people live and prosper, but he is not willing that they should charge more than what < is reasonable in the way of profits, j There is at least something to _ I think about along this line. In some of the states, and in Georgia jus j now, there is what is called' a Fai j Price Commission, which is fixing th | prices at which many of the necessi j ties of life must be sold by the re-' tailer. Hie profits are limited. Per | haps we shall come to the same thins in the buying and selling of othe I things. It seems to us, however, that re-'^ lief will come from the employment j of ofher methods. What the country i really needs is. better marketing fa- j cilities and better business methods ^ in baying and selling commodities t There is a cotton mill in New Eng land, we will say, that wants all the'r long staple cotton which will be pro- 1 <luced the present year in South r "?wU should this cotton not ( TT c? r: v be pooled and sold in ft t? ihi?t " mill by the people who raise it, Oj*^ why should not each man sell his own'j cotton direct to the mill? As it is now this cotton is bought on the street by i a local buyer. It is sold to a broker, j and maybe to a dealer, and then to a j. speculator, and so on, and the price j which the manufacturer finally pays t for the cotton of necessity is greater c than the price paid to the man who grew it. The people who handle the cotton are not in business for their health. Without these middle men the , -profits which they have made might go to the producer. j The above is but an illustration.'( It seems to us that there is room for z great improvement and for men* of real brains in the mercantile world j these days. TWere should be some j way discovered by the merchants to ' buy the goods and get them to the consumers better than thai now prac-r ticed. Merchandising as now carried on is entirely too expensive, we believe. We do not know enough about i: to suggest the remedy, but we have merchants in Abbeville who are able to solve some of the difficulties which we have in mind. There should be a way by which the shoes anil hats, and other merchandise bought by the | , v; merchants, should find their way from the people who make them to the people who use them less expen-,J sive than handling them through the present channels of trade. The mer- ! chant who shall be able to discover how it may be done win De a wise man in his generation, and while not reducing his own profits perhaps, he will be. doing a service to the people - \ V 1 who ma^te his profits possible, a will be turning we hope into mc productive fields the labor of th( middlemen who neither produce r care for those who use, but who i interested only in the money whi they may make by buying at c price artd selling at a higher pr the things which the public mi have. The thing is worth investij tion. RUNNING FOR THE SENATE I | We see the announcement goi the rounds that our old friend, C Will Pollock, is in the race for 1 United States Senate. We have re Will's announcement, in which uses some fine words, and in wh; he thanks his friends for f; ors already conferred, praying a c< tinuation of the same. It all sour very fine, but what the people ws ju^t now is not fine words, fi speeches, and things like that, but high price for the cotton nowhands and that which is to follow. We notice that Will does not s a word about the price of cotton. \ take it that he must know that C( ton Ed is in this here race, and th Ed's figures are 1.8"9. We imagi that the people would like to kn< Will's fierures. Ed has DUt cotton from about 7 cents to 44 1-2, and is well on the way to the top. It kee going all the time, though it has be> a little slow lately; in fact Ed do not put it up fast enough for sor of the boys, and they are afraid th they will not be able to pay much j come tax next year unless he "gi gers" a little. But while there is this dissatisfa tion, we would like to inquire wh more they would have to expect fro a man who has no price at all for. cc ton? Does Will not know that cott< is the money crop of the countr and that the amount.of money \ will have depends entirely on tl price the cotton brings? Then, if ] does, why does he not name his pri for cotton? Is it higher or lower thi 1.89? That is what John Gray ai the boys around Antreville, as well the boys everywhere else, would lil to know? If the figures which W has in mind are less than x.89, wl make a change? Then again how does Wilj stand < "reduce one^third and hcW?" W must speak up, and now i* the tin to talk. - . ,, TO ERECT COTTON WAREHOUSE Columbia, June 22.?The intei jive campaign to be conductc throughout South Carolina Divisio >f the American Cotton Associatio ;he United States Department < Agriculture, the State Warehous Board and the States Relations Sei rice of Clemson College, looking t ;he erection of warehouses, the s< :uring of cotton graders and bette narketing conditions will open a Anderson on July 15th. Announce nent to this effect was made i Columbia today by Dr. W. W. Lonj >f Clemson College, who will be Di ector of the Campaign repL'eseni ng the fcuv co-operating agencies There will be thiee big state-wid tieetings, the first at Anderson oi uly 15th, the second at Orange urg on July 16th and the- third a Cershaw on July 17th. Followinj hese there will be four partie omposed of three men to a part vho will tour the State, holdin neetings in &very county. In thes >arties will be some of the bee mown men of the State and als pecialists in marketing, ware lousing, garding, etc. The itinerar >f the state-wide campaign will b innbunced later. The meeting at Anderson will b aresided over by J. Skottowe War lamaker, President of the Amer GREENWOOD Bl Greenw* /a n T uur mismess is 1 o Don't waste the Sui this time m preparii in the early fall. "W wonderful courses BookkeeDins-. Shor -x / ing. The courses and the cost to you us today for inforn GREENWOOD B1 Greenw nd can Cotton Association, and bi >re sides Mr. Wannamaker speecht >se will be delivered by Governc ior Cooper, Senator. N. B. Dial and Co ire T. J. Shackleford, of Georgia, ich The Orangeburg meeting will fc me addressed by Mr. Wannamake > ice Governor Cooper and W. I ast Stone, of Baltimore. ra- The Kex*shaw meeting will be a< [dressed by Mr. Wannamaker forrm j Congressman A. S. Lever ar ; ' Clarence H. Poe, Editor of the Pri I gressive/Farmer. ;nK Among those who will take pa: '?1* in the county meetings will be fo 'be mer Governor R. I. Manning, Davi :ad R. Coker, of Hartsville; form* be Congressman Lever, R. M. Mixsoi 'c^ B. Harris, J. ' Skottowe Wann; 1V" maker, L. I. Guion, T. L. Mannini )n" J. Clifton Rivers, J. if. Claffey, I ids w. Watkins, J. A. Evans, head < tn^ the extension work of the Depar ne ment of Agriculture. Henry J ; a Johnson, District Agent of extei on sion work and A. A. McKeown, Di: ! trict Agent, Dr. W. H -Mill, . spei ay ialist in organization work and ft e. Winters, specialist in fertiil zers. ia* Dr. Long yesterday said that th ne objects of this campaign wer >w three-fold: up First, to establish the necessar lt: warehouses in each county. Ps Second, to discuss and secure, i en the people look with favor on th es proposition cotton graders for eac ne county. ( Third, to increase the member n" ship of the American Cotton Assc n" ciation. I Dr. Long said that a survey ha lC* just been completed in every count a* of the State of the warehous ,m,facilities. This survey had deter .mined the amount of availabl 5 , warehouse space * and also th y' amount necessary to be constructs ve in order to warehouse the crop h the different counties. The surve; in each county was made by th ce county demonstration agent, tw in bankers, two farmers and a mei 1(* chant. 88 The warehouse space in Soutl e Carolina today, Dr. Long said, i just sufficient to take care of 200, * 000 bales or about one-seventh o the average crop. >n The committee in each count; which made thes urvey has submit ne ted recommendations as to the loca tion of the warehouses proposed t 'be erected. This information will b ^ in the hands of the campaign par ^ies so that the question of neces i- sary warehouse space can be intelli : I gently discussed%at he meetings. ? B. F. SWETENBERG } , The Southern Railway Ne^ri ,e, Bulletin for June has the followinj notice of the death of Mr. Sweten 0! berg, who was agent for the S&u thern in this city f?r many years: "B. F. Swetenberg in service 3? lt ; years and for the past 1$ years '"I agent at Abbeville, S. C. died 01 n ' (April 24th at the age of 66 years, f Mr, Swetenberg was the oldest 'agent on the Spartanburg Division ' iin point of service. His entire '"career with the Company was chare acterized by unswerving loyaltj n and devotion to duty." t| COURTING CORNERS. P ; s | Col. Bob Mabry is building a nev y j room on his house on Greenvilh ? street annex and goinj to finisl e ' off with a wide porch with severa i t"Od courting corners. o: ' i-! DON'T/ BUY A MOWER y i until you have investigated the Johi e j Deere Dain. Simple, but efficient Strongly built, yet light of draft e We w.'ll take pleasure in showing yoj i- j it's superior points, i- ' J. Allen Smith, Jr. JSINESS COLLEGE docI, S. C. 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