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FARMERS CONFERENCE
AUTHORIZES HOLDING
COTTON AND WHEAT
Uurges Congress to Investigate Banks
Interest Rates.?Co-operative
Marketing Urged Upon
Producers.
Washington, Oct. 30.?Resolutions
urging that all crops be marketed as
the demand requires and that con-|
gress conduct an investigation of in-J
terest rates charged by banks were!
adopted today by the conference in i
session here.
All farmers wex-e urged to join ex-'
isting co-operative marketing organi-j
zations or organize new ones, and
congress was asked to give the federal
farm loan board authority to issue
and sell in the open market'
short term securities based on ware-!
house receipts issued under the fed-'
eral warehouse act.
Delegates to the conference interpreted
the resolution for marketing
as the demand requires as authorizing
a holding movement of cotton,
wheat and other great farm staples. [
The resolutions as adopted were !
recommended by the policy commit-j
tee, which was appointed at the opening
session yesterday. Benjamin C.
Marsh, secretary of the farmers na-,
tional council, refused to sign the J
committee report, submitting a min-l
ority one requesting "the representa-j
tives of organized labor who have'
expressed to us at this conference J
their sympathy with farmers need to ]
secure short time credit so they may
secure at least costs of production',
that they go with us to the president
to ask for immediate credit relief and
to lay this matter before the cabinet"
Mr. Marsh also wanted the conference
to go on record to work for the I
restoration of the railroads to gov- j
ernment operation.
The representative of the national j
grange on the committee also announced
that he did not sign the maTi
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TWO DAMAGE SUITS ARE
FILED AT McCORMICK
Mccormick, Oct. 29.?Two of the
largest damage suits ever instituted
in the courts of this county is that
of Mrs. Ida. M. Black as administratrix
of the estate of the late Dr.
P. K. Black, against the Charleston
& Western Carolina Railroad Company
for the death of Mr. Black, resulting
from injuries he sustained
August 23 of this year while crossing
the railroad near Mt. Carmel in
this county. One suit is for the
benefit of the estate of Mr. Balck
and this alleees damages in the sum
j'of $50,000. The other is brought
'for the benefit of the widow, Mrs.
| Ida M. Black, and her children, Miss
j Dora Pickens Black and Jamest Floyd
j'Black and Fred Black, and the
I amount of damages sued for in this
is $75,000.
It is alleged in the complaint that
the defendant company failed to
give crossing signals and allowed the
right of way of the railway company
to be planted in corn and allowed
j the right of way to grow up in grass
j weeds, bushes, etc., and 'being in a
| deep cut, known as Rock Cut, the
plaintiff's intestate could not see the
approach of the train, which was a
mixed train coming from Anderson
to McCormick.
George Bell Timmerman, of Lexington,
and A. E. Blackwell, of Columbia,
are Mrs. Black's attorneys.
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jority report which was adopted with
little opposition. Charles S. Barrett,
president of the National Farmers
Union, urged that cotton and
wheat be held.
"The time has now come for action,"
said Mr. Barrett. "Since the
government has failed us, we now ask
that government officials stop talking
price decline and give us a chance t*
help ourselves.
"Our union officials interpret the
resolutions you have* just passed as
authorizing a general holding movement
on wheat and cotton and possiUl??
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and coton for that only will get us
?nywhere."
Other recommendations of the policy
committee included:
Rehabilitation of the war finance
corporation; that the government
take the lead in re-opening foreign
markets and developing ones and
where necessary financing them and
that a public relations committee and
a committee to co-ordinate the efforts
of various farmers committees
now working on the question of marketing
crops, be appointed.
Under the committee resolution the
proposed national agricultural bank
would be financed by the farmers cooperative
organizations and the directorate
would be chosen from all the
great farm organizations of the na
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I RESULT OF THRIFT IS
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i ^ a result of patriotic work done
. t k* av iiools of the country the
j : t >:f money now invested in ^
' 'jvrument savings securities ex- I
j ocis the cost of the Spanish-Ameri- ,
j v;wi War and the Panama Canal, ac- j
, .:>;-d:ng to official figures recently'
. -mpiled. The national debt was in- '
I -Teased approximately $300,000,000 by 1
I tiie war with Spain, and it cost about
,i v-100,000,000 to build and open the
j ."'anama Canal. The amount of money 1
..in Savings Stamps, the report from 1
Washington shows, Is more than ]
, $808,000,000. ,
I This 1> taken to indicate the steady ,
, growth of the thrift and savings .
( movement in the United States. Much
of the money invested last year by
sch'ool cfcaldren in tiie government's 1
i little savings securities was earned ,
I by them, and a large part of it
probably would have been spent
wastefully but for the savings tocieI
ties which were active in ?o many of
j the schools. In this, federal reserve
I district, which embraces Maryland, 1
t the 'Diutnci 01 fjoiumoia, Virginia,
West Virginia, North Carolina and
I South Carolina, there were last ses- 1
! sion more than 11,000 savings soci,
eties in the public schools.
i All of the normal schools in the Ave
j states were visited last summer by
, Miss Mary 0. Sbotwell, director of the 1
' educational division of the War Loan
; Organisation of this district, and as ,
I a result oi these visits thousands of
toachers were given courses in the
1 teaching of thrift, the principles of
t which are now being taught to tens j
| of thousands of children In the pub- ]
. lie schools.
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The savings movement is being con'
ducted in every part of the United
States under the direction of the 1
Treasury Department. It encourages j
increased production, systematic sav- ]
( Ing, wise spending and safe Invest- .
1 r.ent. To help people save, the government
la offering Thrift Stamps, '
Savings Stamps and Treasury Sav- ?
' ings Certificate is the big brother of
, ings Certificates 1s the big brother of
the Savings Stamp, and, like it, bear* 1
Interest at the rate of four per cent i
1 a year compounded quarterly. ,
! In all parts of this state and |
throughout the rest of the district
the boys and girls In the public
i arm hnrinninsr to realize '
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.is never before the advantages of i
I saving money, are reorganizing their
1 savings societies and cluba, and indi
i nations are that this session they will C
do even better than last year.
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RURAL WOMEN WILL !
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j to Apply Wise Principles ef Thrift [
and Saving in Battle to Bring
Down Price*.
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"Shackles or ShekelB?which?"
The question is being asked ap- j|
, proximately 2,000 rural women in this [
. federal reserve district, with the re- jj
| quest that they act as key women c
! who in turn will ask It of their neigh- ?
bors. The query is put by the Woman's c
! Division of the district War Loan Or- j
j ganization, which is establishing a j
i more personal contact than ever be- jj
i fore with the women who have it in [
their power to render an invalaable {j
j patriotic service in making thrift a [
I part of our national life.
j It is hoped to put squarely up te C
| every woman in rural communities [
the necessity for her to make a de- c
liberate choice between the inde- [
pendence that comes with money sav- *
ed and wisely invested in such se- [
curities as government Savings C
I Stamps, and the unsuccessful strug- [
| gle with ends that never will meet, f
I when there is no systematic saving, j
j Splendid response and co-operation ?
have already been gained from the [
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( ned to build the thrift movement here |
| this winter largely upon their help. |
! Home demonstration clubs, rural [
j school improvement leagues, the fed- ?
erated women's clubs of the state and [
I maur other organizatioas will take up ?
! again the systematic study and prac- [
' tice of thrift. Suggestive programs ?
including an outline study of prob- [
' leins of finance, copies of the bulletin [
on "Shackles or Shekels," model bud- [
ee!B and other Interesting literature C
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. will be used By mem 111 UUUUUU??ivu M,
of plans that proved widely popular C
last year. Societies and individuals [
desiring to help in the thrift cam- C
paign, who for any reason have not [
yet received this literature, are asked t
to write for it to Mrs. Eudora Ram- [
say Richardson, director of the Worn- fj
an's Division of the district War Loan [
Organization, 809 East Main Street, t
Richmond, Vft. [
' Through their clubs and a? indlvi- ?
duals, 30,000 rural women have been [
, using these "first aids" 10 me pw
i tice of thrift. Figures and facts
given out by the woman's division!
show that approximately f 2,316,WO
was saved from the clutches of the
H. C. of L. last winter and invested
l In interest-bearing Savings Stamps,
| largely through the activity of women
' id children in this district j
COAL SITUATION IS
NEAR NORMAL STAGE ]
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Washington, Oct. 30?Suspension {
)f the Service Order giving prefer- |
jnce in the supply of coal to the }
Northwest via he Great Lakes was f
ordered today by the Interstate Com- |
nerce Commission on the ground that 1
ts continuance was not essential.
The commission said, however, that 1
:he situation would be carefully f
tvatched and that'such action as the |
[acts warrant would be taken. Up to f
3ct. 26 there has been actually dump- |
2d in to Lake vessels at the lower i
Lake ports 18,572,518 tons of soft .
:oal for transshipment to the upper
Lake ports.
The suspension of the order reflects
what isregarde d as a return
;o normal in the coal situation. The
New England preference order was
suspended some time ago. The warm
weather in October is credited with
having been a controlling factor as
Ear as the improvement in the situation
is concerned. A cold October
ivould have complicated matters considerably.
Grasshoppers in South America attain
to a length of five inches and
their wings spread out ten inches.
HUNDREDS OF TONS
FOOD FED TO FISH
Havana, Oct. 26.?American pio- j
ducts valued at millions of dollars
are tied up at the port of Havana
seemingly without prospect or hope
>f early delivery.
Conditions have become so menacing
from the standpoint of health that
hundreds of tons of foodstuffs on
which war prices are paid on the island,
already have been dumped into
the sea. There is such an utter congestion
on the wharves that it has
not been possible however to dig
through the growing pile of boxes
and barrels and reach many decayed
shipments.
Warning against a possible epidemic
was sounded today by the chief
sanitary officer of Havana, who declared
that "while the people were
being taxed almost beyond their j
neans, enormous quantities of need- j
ed articles are rotting on the docks'
ind endangering health." h
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