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Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Entered as second-class matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months .50 AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION Foreign Advertising Representative FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1922 HIGHER PRICES FOR COTTON ' . ' Discussing the price of cotton sometime ago the Press and Banner stated that higher prices were not only inevitable for the present crop but that eotton would continue to command higher and higher prices ( as the years advanced. We sought to show, as is evident to the man who thinks, that the price paid for the raw material has little to do with the cost of the manufactured cotton goods which we buy. The Progressive Farmer in its issue of this week discusses these sub jects and arrives at much the same conclusions. A reading of its editorial we believe will prove of inter? est and value to the readers of this . 2 paper, and we are therefore reproducing the editorial. Discussing the prices of cotton, tobacco and peat nuts it is said: "All three crops have heretofore been made on a cheap, slave-labor ba , sis, with no provision for modern < standards of living. A great multiu tude of negroes with cabins for homes, rags for clothes, and cornbread and fat meat for diet, have made these crops on a cheap labor basis? also keeping their children out of school in order to increase the overproduction of these crops?and low x prices have been the inevitable consequence of cheap labor and child jaoor. "Moreover, our Southern white farm workers have had their own living standards lowered by having to work in competition with cheap negro labor and have not come to expect the comforts and conveniences V that farm workers elsewhere enjoy. As the Manufacturer's Record of 1 Baltimore said recently: " 'Following the Civil War, which came about largely as a result of the economic theories developed by the ;"v. - - raising of cotton by slave labor, the South was in deep and desperate poverty, and the financial and cotton forces of the world were then concentrated to keep cotton at a price which enslaved the cotton growers, white and blacks, to a far greater extent than the slavery of the Rlacks prior to 1860. Hundreds of thous> nnrlfl af wnmen work in the cotton fields, hundreds of thousands of chil* ? dren are without education, because they, too, must work in the cotton ? fields. Cotton has been raised thru the slavery not only of the white and black men, but of the white and ry black women and children.' > "Now, however, these conditions are changing. Both white and colored ' farm workers are demanding higher living standards. The excessive proportion of negroes is being remedied by negro emigration to the North. Moreover, this emigration^ is likely to be accelerated now because our new immigration laws arei ?*. shutting out cheap European labor. Consequently mines, factories, and railways in the North are going to call for more and more Southern ne-? * ? * ? ? J *?*?-* fViA nn/yrA'e grues. JLiiducau ui iiavm^ u^iu ? cheap labor congested and concentrated in the South, it will become distributed all over the country. "In the case of cotton, the boll weevil presents another reason why ! j prices must advance. Cotton can never again be grown as cheaply as in the past. It used to be called a 'foolproof' crop. Almost anybody could grow it. Like a mulef> it would stand _ .1 1.x _ i* -1 J I a snameiui iot ui auuse anu hc^idvi But the boll weevil has changed all that. Growing cotton profitably under boll weevil conditions calls for brains and eternal vigilance. Shiftless, slipshod, 'don't-care* farmers; and laborers must find other work. | "The consequence is that cotton, prices are bound to go up enough to { pay for the better class of farm, workers called for by Mr. Boll Wee-j vil?provided only that farmers' make any sort of decent fight to get the better prices they are entitled to. Prices must go up enough to pay farmers for the cotton Mr. Manufacturer spins. Mr. Weevil calls for his rent cotton first of all every year, and since Mi*. Weevil won't pay a cent for it, somebody else must. That is all there is to it. As the Atlanta Constitution said the other day: " 'The day of cheap cotton is forever gone. The increased cost of production will never permit a drop to 'old-time' prices. Twentycent cotton will in time be' a minimum, with th? average price running perhaps beyond 25 in the course of tim^.' In the case of cotton, tobacco, and peanuts, another reason fo* permanently higher prices is found in the changed educational system in the South. Heretofore, the South has Hoon not nnlv with cheap labor of grown men and women but also with a vast quantity of cheap 'chtfd labor.' The labor unions of the country have long realized that cheap child labor breaks prices of adult labor and its products, but farmers have not been quick to see that the same principle applies in agriculture. "Compulsory education by taking cheap child labor out of the fields is one of the greatest agencies not only for promoting education in the South but also for increasing Southern prosperity. Children, both white and black, will make more money for the South in the schools than they would make for us in the fields, besides giving us at last the inestimable advantage of an intelligent citizenship." i" , t INCREASE SHOWN IN RETAIL COST OF FOOD Washington, Nov. 9.?The retail cost of food increased between September 15 and October 15 in .all of 128 representative cities from which statistics were complied the department of labor announced today. The increase ranged from less than onehall? of one per cent in Chicago and Milwaukee to 2 per cent in PhiladeJphia Cleveland Newark, New Haven, Providence, Scranton and Washington reported increases of 3 per cent Bridgeport, Columbus, Denver, Jack sonville, Kansas City, Little Rock, Manchester, Portland, Me., and Seattle 2 per cent and Cincinnati, De>troit, Memphis, Omaha Peeria, Richmond, and St. Paul 1 per cent. Decreases ranging from 2 per cent at Seattle from 11 per cent at Columbus were recorded for the year which ended October. 15. Ha? Pneumonia George Mann Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. George Mann has a cafee of pneumonia at their home near the city. Will Address League. Mark Toney, of Johnstone, has been invited to make a talk at the meerting tho Epworth League Sun day afternoon at i$iq Methodist church. COMMUNITY COOPERATION AGAINST THE WEEVIL I t Clemson College, Nov.?The fall destruction of stalks together with j fall cleaning has long been recognized as one of the most important steps in controlling the woevil for the succeeding season, and although a farmer practicing this by himseJf obtains important benefit from it, the great need for community cooperation in this work can not be overestimated. While it is a well known fact that the weevil will have his fall migration period from year to year, yet this pest migrates more 01^ less at other seasons of the year. After tho cotton is destroyed by frost, the pest migrates and of course in the spring it must again migrate more or less to find cotton fields for food. For this reason the greatest amount of benefit for this j UpcratiVH v/Ubaiii&u nuv* V w of a community band together and carry out a definite fall destruction and farm 'cleaning program. The earlier in the fall this is done the mor? effective it will be. Cotton picking should be/ rushed as fast as possible and no time should be lost in getting this program in operation. 0 Make your land comfortable this winter by wrapping it up in a blanket of green and it will make you comfortable next season by increased production. I A WOMAN'S DREAM SAVED SIXTY LIVE New York, Nov. 9.?A woman' dream is credited with saving th lives of sixty dwellers in a Bron tenement early today. Mrs. Jessie Barotti dreamed c fire and of muffled footsteps creal ing dQwn the hallway. She awok screaming "the house is afire," Under protest her husband gc up, went down the hall and foun a fire blazing near the door of th apartment where slept th? wif and six children of a policeman. The alarm was spread and th sixty tenants escaped without ii jury, flame's leaping through th house before the fireman arrived. SLOW AND STEADY. the Greenwood Index-Journal ha an article sometime ago on wlu could be done with pimento peppt in South Carolina. Unfortunate) Abbeville saws wood and says not) ing until the thing is done. Mrs. J. M. Wham of this city toe .first prize at the State; Fair this yei on her pimento pepper. She plante one-twentieth of an acre in pepp< and has realized $60 on this sma plot This would mean an averag profit of $1200 to the acre on p mento pepper, which is the hot stu when it comes to either peppers < profits. She set out 175 plants from whic she gathered z<o pounas 01 pimei toes. In addition to this she sold mar pound of seed, and her-family ha all they wanted to eat, as she say "John and the boys can eat a peck < .sandwiches daily." She sent 60 jars to the State Fa for exhibition prepared as follow Pimento paste, 22 jars; canned 2 stuffed pimentoes, 1; pimento has! 1; pimento .relish 1; cucumber relis 1 and seed, 9. Mrs. Wham receive a $10 cash prize from the Fair A sociation. A SICK BABY. * The seven months .old baby of M and Mrs. H. E. Staples is very sit with a catee of pneumonia. - , ; NEW S. A. L. SCHEDULE The Seaboard Air Line Railws will change schedule of passengi trains, effective 12:01 A. M. Sui day Nov. 12. Trains will arrive i Abbeville as follows: . SOUTH BOUND Train No. 11 ar. 1- 3:17 A. M. Train No. 29 ar. 3:45 P. M. Train No. 5 ar. __ 1:35 P. M. Train No. 17 5 A. M. NORTH BOUND Train No. 12 ar. __ 1.27 A. M. Train No. 30 ar. .. 11:42 A. M. Train No. 6 ar. 1:16 P. M. Note change in Nos.,5 and 6. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. The County Highway Commi sioners of Abbeville County will r ceive sealed bids, at the Office of tl Countv Supervisor, until 12 M., c Wednesday, November 15, 1922, f< the construction of 7.50 (Seven aT Fifty One hundredths) miles of T< Soil Road from Lowndesville 1 Cherokee Ferry known as the Che okee Road, as per the survey of tl County Engineer. The work will consist of the ne essary clearing and grubbing, exc vation, culverts, headwalls, top sc surfacing, and such other work may be necessary to complete tl road according to plans and speci ^ # ?!? 1 cations, juetau miormayon win i furnished by H. B. Humbert, Coun Engineer, Abbeville, S. C. Bids shall be on the prescrib* form, and accompanied by a cerl fied check, or Corporate Surety B Bcfid, in the sum of Five Hundn Dollars, ($500.00), payable to J. Stark, Chairman, as guarantee th the bidder will, if awarded the co tract, within ten days after noti* thereof, enter into a written co tract, and give satisfactory bond 1-2, (one-half) the amount of - tl contract price, said bond to be fu nished through an agency resident I Abbeville County. Bidders must satisfy the Commi I sion of their experience and abilil to perform the work. The right reserved to reject any or all bids. Done at Abbeville, S. C., by ord< of the Commission, this 3rd day c October 1922. J. S. STARK, Chairman, L. W. KELLER, Secretar; 10, 27.3\vks. i * e The packa t' Your taste a The sales e Over bill ie lie I I c I ,d it sr ly > , ik ir / >d 2T ,11 re lift >r ' :h aiy id s' . >f ' ir s: 5, h ' Ligcett & Myers Tobacco Co. .h i id ? s- CHURCHES ARE ASKED TO AID RED CRO, \ Washington, Nov. 9.?Churches I-'Ive Heard! That We heard that stat be I He had just been 1 ty B his build and shai :.d m guaranteed fast, t\ id B Suit hold its shape s. 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