The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, November 10, 1922, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
Established 1844.
THE PRESS AND BANNER
ABBEVILLE, S. C.
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Published Tri-Weekly
Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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post office in Abbeville, S. C.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1922
HIGHER PRICES FOR COTTON
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' 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
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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-? * ?
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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
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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."
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The seven months .old baby of M
and Mrs. H. E. Staples is very sit
with a catee of pneumonia.
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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
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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;
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