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ANTREVILLE -r* * N A large crowd of people attended j, die yicnic Friday, and enjoyed the ' ipeeckes of the day. !< Mr. and Mrs. Ernest McCarterp entertained the young people at a , l?vm party Friday evening. Gyp Branyon of Anderson'? 'spent several days last week with ^ ker aister, Mrs. J. T. Erwin. Miss Bishop of Athens, Ga., is the j ? 1 c R Rishon i ft gUCSV U1 Dir. auu ;uio. v^. ?. A ^ , for several days. Mrs. A. M. Envin and son, Albert, z Mrs. Henry Salley and Mrs. J. B. \ Holman spent several days last I ^ week in Montreat, N. C., enjoying i the mountain scenery and breathing"' the ivigorating mountain air. Mrs. j Holman returned home wi,th them !' and ^ent several days with Mr. and ' Mrs. A. M. Envin before returning 1 home. Miss Florence Clinkscales of c Belton and Miss Esther Bowen of'c c Abbeville spent the week-end with. Mrs. Norris Wakefield. i Misses Winton and Althea Keaton A are entertaining the following at a house party this week: Misses Annie' and Irene Simmons of Belton and * Miss Clayton Blaine of Greenwood.^ They entertained at a lawn party in a their honor Tuesday evening. An' ice course was served. , IB Miss Hattie Lou Haddon spent |( last week very pleasantly with Mr. je and Mrs. Wister Haddon, near Ab- .c beville. Miss Edith Pennell of Belton t spent last week-end with her sister, !d Mrs. W. J. Bowen. |E Mr. and Mrs. -Joe Anderson spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. George if Anderson at Anderson. !I Mr. and Mrs. Frank Crowther are | having a pretty little bungalow d built in north east Antreville on the J Due West road. s Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Wakefield are.C having their home remodeled. When I completed it will be one of the pret- S tiest country homes we have. The school building has had a newi coat of paint, and looks inviting to! those who are seeking knowieage. t The next session begins September E (J. The following are the teachers:^ Misses Cathcart, Margaret Bradley, h Susie Stevenson, and Mrs. Arnold. J s One teacher yet to be secured. a Mr. Archie H. Keaton has return- c ed home after spending several J days with his brother, Mr. M. T. 'r. Keaton, at Canon, Ga. He had the p pleasure of attending "a Georgia A Camp Meeting," at Poplar Springs, ii Mr. and Mrs. Reb Stivender of c Tampa, Fla.f are visiting Mr. and f Mrs. W. J. Bowen. ti Mrs. Joe Prince entertained the i i FOR AN IDEAL HOME the City Limits, rig ? u ?ii r; 1X1 rcdtll Hi an wi yet a regular Coun you can have chick and everything. ( House, fine Well ' vation, 25 Acres o; a bale of cotton pei in Pasture and THE PRICE 1 THE DIXIE L. M. TALBE ABBEVI1 Missionary Society last Saturday af-!b ternoon. An interesting program' 5 ivas rendered. Messrs. Prue Bell and Carl Saber Abbeville spent Sunday here! _ ivith hcmefolks. Mrs. J. W. Fulmer has returned "" io her home at Campobello, after spending some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Keaton. Rev. and Mrs. W. S. Martin are spending some time in Hendersonrille. Miss (Gertrude Harris of Augusta s visiting her relatives, Mr. and tfrs. Bonnie McElrath and family. Protracted meeting is being "held it First Creek Baptist church this veek. Rev. Mr. Campbell is assisting iev. White. \ r? cod 1 Mr"c y v. * Mr. and Mrs. Otis Smith and hildren spent Saturday night and lunday at Mr. D. E. Newell's. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. McCombs and amily spent Wednesday at Mr. W. L Hagen's. Mrs. Elidge Osborne and daugher, Miss Ila, spent Wednesday with It. and Mrs. George David Nash nd family. Mrs. Julius Mann and daughters, lisses Margie and Sarah, of Mccormick returned home Sunday afrnoon after a week's stay in this ommunity with relatives. Miss Ellen Hagen and her visitors he Misses McNeils, spent Wednesay night with Miss Allie Belle and Jessie McCombs. Miss Sara Uldrick is spending a ew days of this week with Miss Louise Uldrick. Mr. D. E. Newell spent Wednesay night with Mr. Otis Smith. Mr. W. A. Hagen and family pent Thursday with Mr. J. R. Mc/'ombs. LATTERY SAYS COTTON LOANS WILL CONTINUE Information from Atlanta is to he effect that the Federal Reserve 5ank will continue its policy of jnding to cotton growers on wareouse receipts. Joseph M. Slattery, ecretary of the bank, gave assurnce of this to J. J. Brown, State ommissioner of agriculture; L. B. ackson, director of the State Bueau of Markets, and R. W. Maddox resident of the Georgia Division, j Lmerican Cotton Association, m, ?u liormal conference this. week. Beause of the changed policy of the ederal bank in reference to cerlin classes of loans, it was thought rise to ascertain direct from the I SALE ,50 ACRES in fht at the School , ity conveniences, itry Home where ;ens, hogs, cows }ood Six Room 35 Acres in cultif which will make r acre. 15 Acres aodland. IS RIGHT. LAND CO. RT, Manager. ^LE, S. C. ^ J ark officials what its policy would e. The price recommendation comlittee of the cotton association will A D D R The De In view 01 the fact lhat J missed a great number of campaign meetings, being absent from the State in attendance upon the Democratic National convention at San Francisco where I was a member of the Committee on Platform and Resolutions and consequently did not have an opportunity to meet my fellow-citizens of South Carolina face to face and give them an account of my stewardship in Washington, I have determined to issue this address to the people. I have been a farmer all my life and and in common with the farmers I have had a struggle to make ends meet and I have no large fund at my service that permits 'me to send others from place to place advocating my reelection to the senate. If reelected it must be upon my record alone. In consideration of the services rendered by me to the agricultural interests of my State and the South, I was elected to the senate twelve years ago. On every occasion I have stressed with all the force in me legislation for the benefit of the agricultural interests. Briefly referring to some of the measures which I have advocated and had passed in the interest of the agricultural classes are: AGRICULTURE: (1) Smith Cot ton Futures Act, preventing the depression of prices by the tender of valueless cotton on contracts. (2 Standardization of Cotton Grades. I co-operated in securing this very essential legis lation. (3) Government comparison of various grades of cotton, showing much greater discrepancy in price than there is difference in actual value. (4) Resolution calling on diplomatic and consular representatives of the United States abroad to furnish information as to the needs and demands for American cotton in their respective coun tries and the best methods of supplying it. , (5J Government cotton reports. (6) Census Department to furnish number of bales of spinnable cotton and number of bales of unspinnable cotton on hand. This prevented the counting of unspinnable cotton in the carryover reports. I (7) I led the fight which prevented cotton price fixing during the war with the result that it was defeated. (S) NITRATE OF SODA: Under the Smith bill, originated, introduced and sponsored by me. the government has constructed a huge nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, for the manufacture of nitrogen from the air. This plant is practically complete and this fall will turn out one hundred and sixty thousand tons (160,000) of 45% pure nitrates, ' which being reduced to the percentage of nitrate of soda will omnnnl fr? 4Rrt OOfl tOTlS. This output will be sold to the farmers at cost at a saving of millions of dollars to them. I am also *the originator and author of the law by which nitrate of soda was purchased and sold to the farmers at cost during the war. The Congressional Record will amply substantiate this statement in every respect. This law brought prices down from $110 and $120 per ton to 575.00 per ton, thereby saving the farmers millions of dollars. If it had not been for this piece of mm Chairman ( Ranking Dei Ranking D Ranking Der Ranking Dei A Member c A Member < meet next week in Montgomerj and Mr. Brown, who is chairman o the committee, will advocate 4 | cents as the maximum price to b ESS OF S :mocratic Voters of logis;atiou theie it> no telling wnere the price would have soared. I'j) immediately upon the signing ot the armistice 1 secured tut liftine ol the embargo on ootash from Germany, enabling the i'arniers to secure this year a partial supply at a more reasonable cost. (10) I am the author of the amendment to section 13 of the New Banking and Currency Act, whereby the farmers secured six months' time on agricultural paper as against ninety days on commercial paper. This puts the farmer on an equal footing with other businesses and enables him to seeure the proper credit for the holding and marketing of his crop. (11) I co-operated in the passage of the Farm Loan Act, an Act which placed farm lands for the first time in the history of this county where it was possible for farmers to use their land as an asset on easy terms to make them pay for themselves while supporting his family and helping to support his State. virtue of my services in the senate I was ranking member of the Interstate Commerce Committee and on the death of Senator Newlands I became chairman. It was under my leadership at the request of the President that the railroads, telegraph, tele* ' phone and cable lines were turned over to the government during the war. While serving as Chairman of this Committee I discovered that the lack of growth of the commerce of the Southern ports in comparison with the Eastern and Northern ports was not due to natural causes but to the discrimination of the railroads in their rates to the various ports and the discrimination of the government in the matter of appropriations for dry docks and harbor improvements, since the Civil War. The country does not realize that the government in the last 50 years has expended for naval stations and harbor improvements north of Hatteras, a distance of roughly 750 miles, nearly $700,000,000, while south of Hatteras, a distance of over 2.000 miles, only $70,000,000. ine worm Aunuuv u? j.o ui; docks; the South Atlantic and Gulf has has one, a small one, at Charleston. During the past session of Congress two biils were introduced by Republican Senators which would discontinue the appropriation for the deepening of the channel at Charleston, and the construction of a tremendous dry dock at that place. It was by my efforts in the Senate that these bills were not passed and the work at Charleston is now going on. While I was chairman of the Interstate Commerce committee and the railroads were under the control of the government I instituted aijd led the fight with other Southern Senators for nn equalization of import, export and. domestic rates with other sections of the country. I was successful in this fight. Since the roads have been re. turned to private ownership they have sought to re-establish the old discriminatory rates against Southern ports. I intend to ke?v. on with the fight to prevent this and at the Democratic National Convention I wrote and had incorporated in the platform that plank which pledges the party ho stand for equality of rates, both import and export, for the ports Conservation National F mocratic Member Agri< i!. ivyf i f. emocrauc mcmoer u nocratic Member Pateni "nocratic Member Manu >f Geological 2'j/s :~y, of Railroads. r, asked by the growers for their crop f this fall. He estimates that the crop 0 will be short, on account of wet e weather and the boll weevil, and ' ENATOR r o the State of South C % ; of the' country, to the eud that ! uitre might be adequate and fair uieiliiiea aud rates ior the mobilisation of the products of the country offered for shipment. The equalization of freight rates, import, export and domestic, and equal harbor facilities mean more than anything else in the rejuvenation and expansion of the 1 direct foreign trade of Southern manufacturers and Southern products through Southern ports. I have taken a leading part in securing the allocation of ships by the Shipping Board to Southern ports and have had considerable success. With the increase in our foreign trade, the South will be able to take advantage of the opportunities offered, with its consequent prosperity. It is not generally known that most of the larger cities of the' Middle West are closer to the port of Charleston and other Southern ports than to the port of New York. In this connection, while discussing transportation, I might say that while ranking member of the Postoffice and Post Roads Committee, I collaborated and frtnchfi throiish with Senator Bankhead and others. The Good Roads Act which appropriated $200,000,000 for the government to co-operate with the States In the construction of gpod roads. The construction of good roads is one of the greatest needs which confront the people of this State as well as the country at large, and I pledge myself for the future as in the past, to fight for any proper measure which will lead to the construction of better roads. One of the very many evils that resulted from the Civil War was our financial condition under the Banking and Currency Act of 1863. This system was in effect up to the time of the presend Democratic administration. Panics were frequent and the victims of these panics were the weak and unbefriended. In , i A1 O Won nnooo/J flio PorlorU 1 P0. J. ?7 J.O TTOO pUOUVU wuv * vuvft serve Act, the greatest constructive piece of legislation enacted since the Civil War. This Act. together with the Farm Loan Act, < was passed by virtue of a direct personal appeal of President Wilson to representatives and sena- j tors who were friendly to him. 1 With this measure, as well as ( every other measure, I voted wiih j the President and did all in , my power to secure the pas- < sage of these Act3 S-s the re. j suit of these measures which en- ] abled the South to capitalize its ! resources, the batik deposits in < the South have reached 900 per ] cent as against the Eastern and i Western sections' hr-'eas.* of ] about 300 per cent. These mens- j ures spelled the financial eraan- i eipation of the South i While the Federal . Reserve ? Bank measure was pending Z i realized that for the act to < have a direct benefit for the s agricultural classes., agriculltu- i ral paper must .be recognized the same as commercial paper and that six months' time should be given that paper as against the 90 days given commercial paper. It takes six months for the farmer to produce an asset to meet his liabilities and any shorter time than this period given his paper was a mockery to him. T introluced and secured the incorporation In the law my amendment to section 13. whereby agricultural paper is made the basis for the issuance of Federal Reserve notes, and is given six vesources. i :ulture and Forestry. interstate Commerce, is. factures. / that the cost of production ;will beat least 30 cents a pound. , Legal Blanks for Sale Here.? i Uhe Press and Banner Company. SMITH Carolina manthc' ilicr'Aiinh While chairman of the Immigration couimittsju of the Senate I introduced the bill and led the > fight whid-h resulted in the passage of the Smith-Burnett Immigration law. This is the law in effect now. It was by far more restrictive than even its best friends thought possible io accomplish. I believed then and believe now that the influx of undesirable immigrants to America was a source of danger to American labor by the competition of ignorant foreigners, used to a low standard of living. < Furthermore, I believe that the . class now coming in is doing much to undermine the principles and institutions of our . ^ government. I am always anxious and eager to push and sup. port any bill which only lets the desirable immigrant come in and leave America for Americans. By virtue of my service in the Senate I am now at the top of several very important committees, among them the Committee on Interstate Commerce and and the committee on Agriculture which controls all appropriations and measures pertaining to the agricultural interests of the nation. A study of my record and ac- ' complisments will disclose that I have been responsible for much economic legislation and that it all tends to giving every section a fair stfow and prevents the discrimination of one of two sections against the rest of the country by cruel and arbitrary j laws. It is by virtue of some of these laws which I have had passed, that the South has been enabled to partake in so large a' - . , v.. :''S?i measure of the prosperity engendered by the war. * ^11 I have served the people and my-party with a zeal and fidel- ! . ity since my election to the Senate. By reason of the wisdom of the South in keeping its men in the Senate I have committee ap- I pointments and high rank therein which could not be secured other than by a long term of service. These places would be lost to South 0 Carolina by a change at this time. The time is approaching when the fight is to be waged by the Republicans and other reactionaries to return to the pre-war and pre.democratic administration of the financial system and the conduct Df the government for the special interests. I have experience in the Senate, I have friends, I have influence and I am in a position to render more effective service to the people than I have ever rendered. Experience ind training are great assets in politics as well as in business. ovarv man. farmer, banker. nerchant. lawyer and laboring | nan is paying his money for ?crvice in the Senate, and I am . } n a better position to render ' %? satisfactory servlca to my con rtituents than any of my oppo- ^ lents. however, able they mey be In conclusion, I wish to call. o the attention of the voters of his State that out of our pres;nt delegation to Congress, two Senators and seven Representa. ,'ives. I alone am a FARMER. the others being professional nen. and of those gentlemen ^ low opposing me, I alone am a BONA FIDE FARMER, they also !>eing professional men. Surely the agricultural interests of :his State are entitled to one representative out of nine. E. D. SMITH. | ;r| ' * 9 4