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"THE BLIGHTED c6tfoN
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From the standpoint of actual production,
the Government's report *>f
the condition of cotton on Au^. 25^
giving a percentage of 49.3 is calamitous.
From the economic standpoint,
it may mean the salvation of the
South. The ravages of the boll weevil,
have become so extensive that 77
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-per cent, of the crop is affected. Long
periods of wet, cool weather combined
to give a big weed which boll weevil
in the flush of early invasion at-,
tacked voraciously, destroying all
squares and bolls set during August
and even attacking the larger bolls.
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A crop of 7,000,000 bales is estimated,
in comparison with 13,000,000
bales last year. Although private reports
had pretty thoroughly forecast
the situation, confirmation by the
/ Government was even more pronounced
than anyone could believe possil
ble. The response of the market was
an advance of 131 to 144 points. *
As long as a crisis of this kind had
to be reached, no better time could
have been chosen. Practically every
agency .avail-able in the South advocated
a reduction in acreage for this
year's crop of 50 per cent, but succeeded
in obtaining only 30 per cent,
although this(was considered a remarkable
accomplishment. Nature
seems to have completed the task for
them, for another large crop on the
heels of the large carryover from last
year would have spelled disaster. Coti
ton h?s been practically unsalable for
almost a year and the prostration of
the South has been severe. Advanc.
ing prices for cotton wi^l bring about
_ a revival of all business in ^he South,
tbe effects 01 wmcn win De ien Dy
the whole1 country. '
All this, however, has to do with,
present conditions of supply and de-1
mand. In the course of time it will j
be necessary to look once more to the
South for a large production of cotton.
That will not be next year or the [
year after, but it will not be indefin- j
itely deferred. The American Cotton;
Association has submitted a referendum
vote to the cotton producers of
the fourteen cotton growing states on
' the questions, first, of total elimination
of the cotton crop for the year
v 1922, and if necessary, every other
year for the fighting of the inroads
of the boll weevil; second, limitation
of production for five consecutive
years, planting only one-fourth of
\ the cultivated lands in cotton, with
? a view of producing for the year
1922 not in excess of 6,000,000 bales.1
' Results thus far tabulated are pre-!
ponderatingly in favor of total elim-l
mation of the cotton crop next yeaT,
even the point of f orcing" it by legislation.
Limitation of production forj
live consecutive years is also favored. j
Regardless of tha welfare of indi ftdual
farmers, the ravages of the
boll weevil must be stopped. Heroic
measures a^e necessary. All efforts
made thus far have been futile, so
that resort has pfacticaily. becoftieJ
necessary to the one sur'e method,
that of pnytting the crop entirely for
a season. If the boll weevil can be ^
stamped out for all time by omitting,
the 1922 crop, then the raising of cot-1
ton should be forbidden by law nextj
year. From the supply standpoint, it
can be done. This, however, is con-1
sidering it only from the basis of sav- [
ing futufe crops, and is akin to the ]
drastic measures necessary to sjampj
out any plague.
Curtailment of production to force j
ViJotIiot nrinps is another Dhase of the I
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question entirely. It is defensible on
exactly the same grounds as the manufacturer
shutting down his plant
when he is overstocked. The farmer
. is entitled to a fair profit over his
production costs and is entitled to
adopt similar methods to the manufacturer
or any other producer. It is
legitimate to reduce production to
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'a point where a surplus is obviated.
To reduce production to the point
where an artificial scarcity is created
is illegitimate.
From still another viewpoint, it
might be advisable to omit a cotton
crop next year, and that would be
"forcing the farmers to plant other
crops. Then they might cease the
practice of sending to Chicago to buy
hogs that they can raise just as well
on their own farms. The South can
produce anything it needs in the
way of food crops, which have here*
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toiore Deen cruwueu vuv uy wow*..
It would bo- a good thing to teach the f
Southern farmers to be self-sustaining.
They work hard to raise enough
cotton to sell for enough money to
buy food when they could just as
we)H ijcpepd less labor by raising the
fooa "in the first place.?New -YorkCommercial.
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^ The Observer would not set up its
judgment of the law against that of a
circint judge, but if law is common
sense, .one man ought to be able to
interpret it as well as another. An<J
so .we venture to think that Judge .
Frank Gary was wrong at Spartanburg
in granting Hatchette and Porter
a continuance on the ground that
the court was not a regular but a
special one, basing his opinion on the
recent decision of the supreme court
in the Gossett. case.
I To our mind that case was altogether
different from the Gossett
case. In the Gossett case the special
court had beerf'called to try Gossett;
in the Hatchette and Porter case the
special court had been called before
Hatchette andd Porter had committed
the alleged crime, and therefore, of
course, had no reference whatever to
them. Their alleged offense was com
mitted between the calling and the
sitting of the special court.
We well remember in a Newberry
court years- ago when a negro was
caught picking the pocket of the late
Alfrdti Reeder of a gold watch on the
street not forty feet from the court
house, and was carried immediately
before the judge then sitting on the
bench, and was convicted?or else r
pleaded guilty?and was sentenced 1
to the penitentiary for a number/ of
years. Not thirty mi.nutes intervened i
between the pocket-picking and the j j
sentence. j
That wa? not a "special" court; but
what difference can that make so !
long as the court is not called to try J
a special individual? 5
Our reading of the 'supreme court's J
decision is that Gossett was given a' I
new trial because he was tried by a i
court that had been called specially [
to try Gossett. * |
Of course, though, we yield our |
judgment to the learned court S
though we cannot see any reason in S
common sense for the court's decis- j
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Miss Gertrude Penney has been I
sick for several days
Mrs. Charles Schram returned j
home Sundav from the Chfester Hos- !
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pital, whee she has been for almost y
six weeks. j
Litte Mildred Watson has been in g
Abbeville hospital for several days. |
We hope she will soon be able to re- I
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turn home.
The social for the Junior society !
Twit? kaan nnetnnnd/l #1TI ttCPOllTlt of !
the sickness of some of the members, j
Three fine mules were killed by J
lightning Tuesday evening in the J
pasture near the Methdist parson- I
age. Two belonged to Mr. Link, and j
the other to a colored man, Walter |
Jackson. |
Mr. and Mrs. W. 0. Graves spent |
'Sunday with Mrs.*Tom Palmer above j
Abbeville. i
The young people will hold their i
regular monthly business meet-11
ing next Friday "night. This i^ the 1
last meeting of the quarter. All the'!
members are urged to be present. J
Miss Gertrude Penney has- been J
^elected to fill the unexpired term ofj
I the president. i
We have had line rains in this J
J community, for which we are thank- j
fui. ! j
! The Woman's Missionary, society j
| will meet next Wednesday after-Jj
noon at 3:30. The subject will be j
J "In the cities of Japan." Visitors are j
invited to meet with them.
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V HITS BY HAL
Yes, its just one hot day after another.
Let your light shine?so that the
mosquitoes can locate you.
A Chicago man stole an airplane,
but couldn't get away with it. Thai
was a plane failure.
Fatty is still fat, according to his
pictures, but he is not quite so sassy
as he was a week or two ago.
, New Orleans is advertising for its
pext MaHi Gras by admitting that a
quart of the best can be had forgive
beans.
The Dutch Weather prophet predicts
a break in the hot weather
about the 25th. Break for the better
or the worse?
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Mr. lodges thinks its time for the
farmers to ' go into politics. The experienced
politician says that profession
pays no better than bollweevily
cotton.
Mr. Zero, who has been auctioning
off the services of the unemployed
in Boston and New York) seems
to be accomplishing naught?excepl
a lot of noise.
In Virginia a man was caught carrying
liqubr wrapped in a sock. He
was found guilty of violating the
prohibition laws. Moral: Never carrj
it wrapped in a sock. ' ,
There was more rejoicing in
Greenwood over the one still which
was lost, but now is found, than over
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yet bet captured.
The Rev. Dr. Straton has raised
a "stink" in his New York church because
he balled out the wnole moving
picture business following Hatty's
escapade. That's condemning the
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;eeship upon the whole conference, i
:t is regretable that the conference
for reasons quite beyond the control'
>f the participating powers, is to be J
ieprived of the advantage of Russian i
:ooperation in its deliberations, but
t is not to be conceived * that the
inference will make decisions pre-<
udlcial to legitimate Russian inter-!
whole fiodc because of one black 1
sheep.
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Four New York girls have returned
home after a hike around the
continent. They say that not once '
were they treated with anything but j
the greatest courtesy. A lot of girls' ^
! faces call for nothing but courtesy.
Anon on Job.
The following comes anonymously
,' from Calhoun Fal&: ,
Maggie Jiggs died of late, I
j And Safely arrived at Heaven's
gate;
,1 Where Peter met Her with a club,
r j And knocked her down to Beezle bub.
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Holy Creek Newt.
!j jHezekiah Brown dined with HepI
zefoiah Smitj^ again .. last,, Sabbath.
Hez is trying to discover if Hep is a
good cook.
Frank Hooligan visited at Four
Holes Sunday. Must be some attrao'
tion down that way.
iFriends of Miss Julianna Trombone
will be sorry ta know she cut
her finger the other day when a
! knife with which she was peeling
pears slipped.
Our genial mayor Is not feeling
well these days. We hope he will soon
be recuperated.
Sign of The Time*.
The Fort Mill Times, under the
j capable direction of Capt. W. R.
. Bradford, is evidently making plenty
of money. The Times has just
moved into a new building of its
own, especially equipped for newspaper
printing. The Times is usually
| made up entirely of local news, ad'
vertising being so plentiful that its
news coumns are always taxed to
capacity. Such success speaks well
for Captain Bradford as well as for "
1 Fort Mill. 1
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Fir? At Memnhii.
Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 20.?Fire ;
. early today destroyed the plant of i
the Southern Boiler and Tank Work 1
and' an adjoining warehouse and 1
damaged several nearby buildings in i
' an industrial district in north Mem- i
1 j phis. The loss was estimated at ap- <
j proximately $100,000. - 1
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rries a new season with ne
stion that comes with the
the best advantage? " Th
ing public. After a carefi
^cordingly, we don't think
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jsts or wnich would in any manner
violate Russian rights.
"It is the hope and expectation of
he government of the United States
;hat the conference will establish
general principles of international
iction wihch will deserve and haye
;he. support of the people of Siberia
md.of all Russia, by Reason, of. their
hnstice and efficacy in the $ettlenent
of outstanding difficulties."
The state department has recenty
sent to Chita John Caldwell, a .
:onsul, for temporary service with
nstructions.to observe and report to
;he department developments in that
region. It was declared, ' however,
;hat Caldwell's presence in Chita did
lot impy recognition. ?
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Sufficient assurances, formal and
informal, vare understood to have
been received by the state department
from the differnt powers incited
to participatiTln the armament
conference to make it appear that
Holland and Belgium will be given
seats at the conference when it discusses
Far Eastern subjects.
The only formal replies are those
fropi France and Japan,, but it was
explained today that informal assurances
had been received from
other quarters and that the delay in
dispatching more precise responses
tvas due largely to the absence from1
;he various capitals of the responsible
members of the government.
The state department's proposals
regarding the conference which were
Forwarded to the invited powers, are
understood to have been, responded
to in part and on the whole to have
net with little announced opposition.
Official comment, however, on the
character of such replies as have
been made was withheld, although
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regards with satisfaction ?
he progress being made in the diection
of understanding concerning
he topics to be discussed.
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