Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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In a new sia 10 for 10 ?is > I til L w a 1( pi TO POOL'COTTON CROP IN SOUTH CAROLINA C*mp*if n to be Launched to Put Marketing of Southern Cotton Crop on Basinets Basis Columbia, May 24.?The cam ? vpaign to sign up 400,000 (bales of cotton to be sold through the South Carolina Cotton Growers Coopera . tive Association will be launched in Spartanburg and Marion counties, according to R. C. Hamer, president of the South Carolina Division of the American Cotton Association and Chairman of the campaign com mittee of the South Carolina Cotton Growers Co-operative Association. $t would probably be around June 10, before the campaign is formally begun, acording to Mr. Hamer. "The contracts must be printed and a number of other details arranged be fore we begin actual work in the formation of the organization," he said. * ? Mr. Hamer - declared yesterday that "nothing could be offered to tfte cocton growers 01 oouwi uaru lina (that is sounder, more certain of success or which means more to them than t?e proposal organization of the South Carolina Cotton Grow ers Co-operative Association. "Every cotton grower," he declared, "knows that the sailing end of his business is sick. The remedy for the disease is co-operation among growers on a large scale. , "The formation of this association means a reduction of the' tremen dous Joss sustained 'by the farmers of the state each year from country damage, and a reduction of the tre mendous loss sustained through un dergrading. The saving from these two items alone would make the for mation of the association advisable but there is in addition the increased price which the farmers would re ceive through the sale of his cotton in pools. It as been found"in some states- that even little local pools are advantageous. In Texas local orga nizations in forty-five counties pool (their cotton in local groups, had it graded and stapled and sold to the highest bidder. Growers in these for ty-five counties found that even pool ing on small scale pays. They learn ed that co-operative action of that kind produced real cash dividends. That is why such remarkable head way is being made in the formation ,of a. state-wide j>ool in Texas. "It is a matter of more or less common knowledge that the loss through undergrading and failure to pay for staple value averages more than $10 per bale and in many cases j amounts to as much as $25 per bale. | Applying the average figure to lastj year's crop in South Carolina 1,200,- \ 000 bales it would foe found that the state lost approximately $12,000, 000 on undergrading. This was in addition to the loss from "country damage." ' "The question has been asked asj to what other states are doing. Okla homa has already signed up the 300 000 ibales necesary for the forma tion of the association in that state and is now driving for 500,000. At- [ kansas is working on a 200,000 bale pool. Texas is making splendid head- i way on a pool of 1,000,000 bales, j :e package L M ANY smokers prefer VX it. They'll find that lis compact package of ten ucky Strike Cigarettes ill just suit them/ Try them?dealers now irry both si?es: 10 for j cts; 20 for 20 cts. t's Toasted GOOD TO THt LAST OffOP" SEALED TINS ONLY AT YOUR GOOCERS MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE Canvass of 7,8?7 Editors Shows 7,393 Communities Against - Abolishing Weed. ANTIS LOSE THREE STATES. J^ah, Under Mormon Influence, Only Commonweaith to Adopt Prohibi tion Measure During Year. ' "la tobacco going to have Its scalp idded to the belt of the prohibitionist >e?lde that of tbe lamented but os ret not altogether late alcohol?" la :be question asked by Gurret Stuilli n an article In the current issue o 1 [.eelie's Magazine." The writer reaches the conclusion hat while there has bfen Increased igltatlon and legislative activity on he subject of tobacco following the puccess of the drive for prohibition >f liquor the efforts of reformers seek ng to abolish tobacco have no general lupport. This opinion is based on thu esults of the questionnaires on the lubject sent out to newspaper editors >f the country by the Press Service Company of New York City. The questions asked were: (1) Do you favor the enactment^ cf aws prohibiting the personal use of obacCo by adults Tf (2) In your jufzraent does the geu >rqj wntiment of your community LACK OF MONEY MAY SAVE BOOTLEGGERS . i ?ay? Dry Commissioner?'Thouunda of Law Violators AiMB; LtUUp. Washington, May 23.?Thousands of bootleggers may escape punish- ? ment for violation of the liquor law as a result of a furlough of 700 fed eral prohibition agents until,July 1 says Commissioner Kramer. In any event, He added, many of the cases will have to be continued oyer the forty days, which will add to the congestion of already crowded court dockets. Most of the government's impor tant witnesses in the liquor cases now before the courts, Mr. Kramer explained, are the agents who work ed up the evident against the de fendants. Most of these men, he said, would return to then-* homes", making it < necesary either to sub- < poena them and pay their way^ to , < x*--- - Xl J the places 01 trial or continue wie ^ cases. x Ait present, Mr. Kramer said, it is t too soon to gauge the effect on the 1 illegal liquor traffic which may result | from the loss of 700 agents for for- , ty days, because of the lack of funds to pay their salaries. However,? he '' asserted, the cut would hurt the pro- - hibition enforcement unit in every < way and set back if not undo the j w'^rh dona in organisms the force. Million* Have Been Loat. "Millions have been lost," he \ * said, "in an attempt to save a few {l hundred thousand dollars." r Mr. Kramer said he could notpro- n phesy whether there would be great er bootlegging activity over the f country during the forty-day 'let-off 0 of most of the government agents, t but he indicated foe expected some p increase of lawlessness. 1 Georeia is working on a 300,000 [ *5 " V bale pool. North Carolina is r working on a 150000 bale pool. Lou isiana and Alabama are preparing . to organize and Mississippi is com- a pietmg ner pool 01 long staple coi- * ton. J "The formation of this co-opera- j tive association will be of direct e benefit to the producer of cotton ^ but it will also help every banker * and business man in South Carolina. \ The greater the health produced by j the country the larger the business < done by the city. The poorer the busi H ness of the country, the smaller the ] business of the city and town. There- \ fore, every banker and business man l in Texas hould be interested in the r promotion of an organization that J create more wealth for the state. v The formaton of this association is t a sound proposition from every I lessee, Arkansas and Iowa, to be los ug ground and 19 not to any consld rable extent supported by the peo ple." The friends of tobacco foot particu arly elnted over this' showing, inas much as 1020-21 was a maximum year n legislative circles' with 42 state leg a(ui*?< 'r. session and the tobacco sub* cct received an unusual amount of hisJstate 94 per cent of the editors eported against tobacco prohibition. Arizona's Practical Joke "A bill, Introduced in the current iesslon of tbe legislature of Arizona o prohibit smoking in public dining ooms and other public places, was Irst amended to prohibit the consump ion In public of peanuts, chewing :um, tea and coffee and then defeated >y the senate. The questionnaire eturns from that state were 92 per ent 'no.' "In Iowa where the 'no's' were 93 >er cent a bill to repeal the antf igarette law has been passed and igned by. the. govej-nor. "A bill to repeal the anti-cigarette aw In Kansas, with 89 per cent 'no's.' S receiving the attention of its Iegls ature. ' Last year/a petition for u eferenflum in Oregon to prohibit the ise of tobacco failed of sufficient alg mtures to bring the question to ti -ote, and 95 per cent of the editors leclare their public against legislation, n-Oklahoma an anti-cigarette bill has >een reported unfavorably In the louse. The editors of that state re >orted 94 per cent against Its public iupport. "Outside of Utah, where Mormon ntiuence predominates," the article oncludes, "the anti-tobacco move npnt- nnnPHrt. ns In Hip rnsu nf Tpn avor such legislation? (3) Is the use of tobacco personal y objectionable to you? No arguments accompanied the ques ;lons and from their form It was im K>sslble for any edttor to determine he attitude of the questioners. Out of 12,518 editors questioned, '347 replied according to the summary riven. These editors, It is estimated, epresent a combined circulation of tl.870,046. Of the 7,847 editors reply ng, 7,393, or 95 per cent, represent niblic sentiment In their communities is opposed to anti-tobacco legislation! Dnly 260 editors, or 3 per cent of hose replying believed there was any /\rtnMAanUl/k ciAriHtvtAnl -f*? f.uuiKIa fi> Imi.^iuci nuir oniiuuuui uuviai/io ?u ohacco prohibition. There were 174. ?r 2 per cent, in doubt, while 20 failed o record their Judgment. Editors' Judgment Unbiased "It Is of special interest to note hat 509 editors In answering the first luestlon, personally favored. such egislatiqn. although only 260 of them eported that public opinion also fa vored the prohibition of tobacco?an ndication of the conscientious effort iiade by the editors to distinguish pub ic opinion from their own personal ?pinions," the article continues. "The highest percentage of replies eportlng public opinion favorable to >rohlbltion of tobacco <;ame from Utah, vhere 42 per cent of the editors bought the public were for such ? uovenient. Utah Is the only stale vhich has since adopted an anii igarette law. The result \vas~fore :ist by several of the editors who itated that the influence of the Mor iion Church was against fobacco. The ilormon Church is also strong in Idaho, vhich is the other state where tire use if tobacco was recently prohibited, nit the governor has signed the bill f prohibitory dilation 1s repealed. In this state to per cent o?f the editors estimate ontiment in tlieir communities as igalnst tobacco prohibition, which, severthelesK, Is C per cent below the iverage reported opposition. "The legislature of Tennessee some veeks ago passed and the governor ias signed a bill repealing the anfcl igarette law of that state. The ques ionnalre showed 93 per cent of Its dltors believed the public against mtl-tobaeco legislation. The legisla ure of Arkansas has also passed a ill repealing Its anti-cigarette law. In i MANY INDUSTRIES TIED TO TOBACCO ' Prohibition of Weed Would Moan Big Financial Loss to Allied Trades. WHO USES _THE MATCH? The Smokar Mainly-?Alto Responsible for Spending Hundreds of Million* Annually for Licorice, By gar, Coal, Cigar Boxes, Tin . - Foilj Eto. By GARRET 8MITH -Got a match?" . , How many times a da/ is-that 411m ttori asked iar these United States? How many m >re times it the question apnecessary because most pockets are kept, well supplied with the useful Mttle article? Anyhow, inasmuch as it !'* estimated lhat there ate tgO,000,000 ;Qbaccp users In the country, we would ifuess that the answer to that question would run Into the hundreds ot mll I ions; For If it weren't for the smokers la I hese days of electric lights how many matches would be used?- A pretty umall proportion of the number of these "sticks of blades" produced In I the country every year. Abolish to bacco and >he match business would be shot to pieces. ... But the match business is only one of a dozen 6r more allied industries which derive large revenues directly cr indirectly from the tobacco trade and would suffer heavily if national pro hibition of tobacco were to go Into effect as some of our reformers wouH have It. The annual sales of tobacco products, base! on retail prices, is ei> itimated at $1,1)87,000,000. Of the cost of producing and selling this quantity of clgdrs, cigarettes and other formi of the weed, some hundreds of million dollars are Dnld out for other thing!. , tlian the raw tobacco and labor o? j making: It up. $25,000,000 a Y?ar for Boxes For example, the tobacco trade con sumes each year 45,000,000 pounds o:t 1 Ucorlce, 50,000,000 pounds of sugar, both used In flavoring tobacco, and i 050,000 tons of coal. It Is estimated that the value of \roodeji cigar boxes* used Is $25,000,000 a year, quite at. item to the lumber business and to1' : manufacturers of the boxes. { In making these boxes 550,000 pounds of nails are employed. Other large Items used in making and pre paring tobacco for sale are tin and lead foil, paper for bags and cigarette wrappers, cloth for tobacco bags? la bels, coupons, etc., involving the print ing trade extensively. Then building contractors and inanu I facturers of machinery are largely ln J terested. Investments In plants and [ machinery employed In manufactur ing tobacco are estimated at $102,000, 000. Replacement, up-keep and inter est on the Investment make no small sum annually. And let realty men note there are ! approximately 325,000 tobacco farms '?> Hlo nniintrr with a tnt#l Mtlmfltefl i valuation of $169,000,000. Of further in j te:*est to real (State men is the fact I th:it there are "'00,000 retail establlsh l ments selling tobacco, Involving a total I rental and up-keep Impossible to estl j mate, besides the large amount of of flee space occupied by administrative [branches of the general business. ! The Insurance men. too, have their i share of the pickings. The tobacco I buu'ness pays out annually $7,000,000 j in premiums In the United States. I And there are the railroads who reap revenue from 2,:tt0,000 tons of tobacco products every rear. As Iter the advertising business, j here again It is impossible to form any estimate of the enormous annual outlay. ! The prolilbitior of tobacco would also J knock a good-sized hole in the receipts of the United States government. Tho Internal revenue receipts from tobacco for the fiscal year 1920 amount ed to $293,809,3?5.44. Customs duties provided an additional $25,000,000 In round figures, making the tolal revenue return to the government $320,000,000. Influence on'Popular Sentiment ! II: Is this Interlocking of the tobacco j business with so many other Interests I and the vast amount of financial loss I tha: would be Involved In the abolition lobacco that is one of the most se | dons aspects of the proposal to pro hibit the sale oJ tobacco, a proposal, however, which has little support by public sentiment If the newspaper edi tors of the country are correct in their estimate of that sentiment. Ir.. a poll of the editors made recently by the Tobacco Merchants' Association of the United Sta :es, through the Press Service Company of New York Cfty, 95 per cent of the 7,847 editors who replied expressed the opinion that the people of their communities were op posed to any law against tobacco. As thesis editors represent some 80,000,0'K) readers the results form a pretty gen eral test of national optnlon. , In their remark* accompanying their replies many of the editors expressed It as their opinion that the oppos'tlon of their communities to the abolition of tobacco was based to some extent at i least on the damage such a chance would do to the. business Interests of the community. This was particularly true In the tobacco growing states and centers where there were large tobacco plants. But when the extent of the business Involved in the allied interests of the tobacco trade is considered, as' above briery outlined, It Is clear that there id imrdf n section of the country that would not' be affected directly or in ' ' i T V GENUINE Mn... . m DURHAM tobacco makes 50 good cigarettes for Metier back without question if HUNT'S GUARANTEED SKIN DISEASE HEIftOXBS (Hunt'e Salve and Soar), (ait io the treatment of Itch, Eccema, Ringworm, Tetter or othe r itch ing akin diaeaaea. Try tbia treatment at oar risk. McMURRAY DRUG COMPANY. 666 curea Chills and Fever. GREENWOO COLLEGE ? HOW MAY I SECURE A THIS I This is a question that manj at this time. Our answer is pvnppf SFPIRFTARY STF.i KEEPER, and the success th and dreamed of is yours. Th for those who are compete: derful Summer Courses at s interested can afford a bu Months of your time and a mean a good position for yo write us today for ou^Catal Don't Hestltate. Don't Del: sition. 1 Address PRESIDENT V\(t Dept. D., a ' i, Wanan says: "If ther ness on earth 1 should leave s it is advertising " Advertising which creates s? , business. Th< to increase adv ing what are I times. In this way w ?by using adv ?keep their sa " to normal....... A di)prii The Press a Sells the NOTICE OF DEMOCRATIC PRI MARY ELECTION STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE Notice is hereby given that a Democratic Primary Election wr ;i be held in the City of Abbeville, on Tuesday the 7th day of June, 1921, for the purpose of choosing one al derman from ward four, for short term of one year, as the Demo cratic Nominee to be voted for at a general election to be held Tuesday on the 21st day of June, 1921. Pledges must be filed and fees paid to the City Clerk on or before four o'clock P. M., June 2nd, 192}.. The following will act as .'manag ers of the election: At the Shops?J L. Clark, L ,,W Dansby, and W. F. Perrin. At the City Hall?T. C, Seal, C. A. Botls and W. C. Sherard. . In case a second primary fis nec essary, same will be iield Tuesday the 14th day of Jun<? 1921, and $he same managers wijl sgryp. x. , J. HOWARD MOORE, Chr. Dem.. Executive Committee. May 17th, 1921. * 5,18-3t. jl Ol RAY CL1NKSCALES \, k ; > D BUSINESS ireenwood, S. C.; rU PROFITABLE POSITION' FALL? r young people are asking SPECIALIZE. Become an tfOflR ADHFR RAOK.. tat you have thought about iere are plenty of positions nt. We are offering'Won ueh low rat,es that any one siness education. Three small amount of cost will ; u in the Fall. If interested ogue and full information. ay. Prepare for a FafJ Po > S. PETERSON, Greenwood, 8. C. laker e is one busi that a 'quitter' everely alone, ft is the power ales and builds 5 natural time ertising is dur termed "dull" noo 'lot- V>1 lUllkO ertising space les volume up sing in >< ind Banner Goods