Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GROWERS OF COTTON F( "AMERICA FIRST." New Orleans, May 16.-Col .growers in conference here late day went on record as being "America first" against any" sectic claims, when they declared it wc be better to "sacrifice every bale cotton rather than to sell one poi to Germany before the peace tre is signed." / The action was in opposition t resolution asking that export rest tions for cotton be removed, wh was tabled amid cheers of the d< .gates. A number of the delegates pressed fears that such a ersolut might hamper the negotiations of American peace envoys in Paris. "If we never sell another bale " cotton. I am against Germany ceiving one pound until she signs 1 peace treaty," L. D. Jennings South Carolina declared. The committee engaged in worki out plans for perfecting the forn tion of the $100,000,000 cotton < port financing corporation report a sub-committee would be appoint to meet at an early date to organi: The sum of $11,750 was raised the floor of the convention for t preliminary financing of the expoi corporation, and to insure its coi plete working operation. The su scriptions followed an appeal ma by C. J. Haase, Memphis. The headquarters city and Sta in which the new concern will be i corporated will be decided by the su committee, it was announced. A cording to a large number of del gates the contention for the hea quarters has narrowed down to Mer phis and New Orleans. It was thoug! likely the incorporation will be some ohter state than Louisiana. J. S. Wannamaker of South Car lina was chosen president of tl newly formed American Cotton A sociation at a convention of the men bers to-day. Oother officer electe were: John T. Scott, Houston, Texa first vice president and W. C. Bai rickman of Dallas, secretary. Th treasurer will be chosen later, it wa announced. An executive committee to wor ont details connected with the fun< tions of the association was appoinl cd as follows: Arkansas, George L. Sands; Ala ?ama, M. -C. Allgood; Georgia, J. I Brown; Mississippi, P. P. Garner Missouri, S. S. Barnes; North Care lina, L. Tomilson; South Carolina, E M. Mixon; Tennessee, J. P. Mathews Texas, J. A .Thompson; Oklahoma D. J. A. Whitehead; Louisiana, J. H Ardis. In his inaugural, speech Mr. Wan namaker charged that millers of Ne\ England have reaped "enormous divi dends" from theil- cotton products while the South was "left to starv< on the crumbs it might pick up fron the industry." "The South has a vision and wil nexer perish," he asserted. "This sec tion is going to be the salvation oi the nation. Arc you going to be foi the dollar or the man? By this I dc not mean that we should attack legit imate enterprise and capital, and ] know we have no sympathy for th? wave of unrest and anarchy, fostered by foreigners from other lands. "Prices of cotton crops in the past have been based on slave labor. The industry has blessed every section ol the lanct except the South. Labor in hte Southland has been so low that it almost has been forced to steal to ex ist. Cotton to-day is w??ih 40 cents a pound. During last year it should have been 75 cents for the first six months and 40 for the remainder of the year." Mr. Wannamaker declared the New York cotton exchange was "respon sible for much of the distressing con ditions of the cotton industry in the South." "The cobwebs are being raised from our eyes," he said. "We are en tering on a new era and it is up to us to work out our own salvation. The South may now see before it is the dawn of freedom." Shortly before adjournment the as sociation adopted a report of the warehousing committee urging that adequate facilities be established throughout the South. They declared it should be the duty of the American Cotton Association to "encourage the creation of a warehouse system in every State as speedily as possible and to urge governors of the cotton states not having such a system, to call an extra session of legislatures to expedite the establishment of the sys tem." The report also urged th* associa tion to form as quickly as possible a plan for marketing al cotton through the State and central organizations, and declared it necessary that the matter be taken up with the next United States congress to "relieve the situation of the growers of cotton in the South." The conference of cotton interests adjourned late to-day. The delegates were entertained with a boat ride over the Mississippi River to-night be fore returning to their homes. FACTS ABOUT THE l?p ByELIZABI T?e people of the South are once more called upon to give. This time it is for one of the most worthy of all causes-the Salvation Army Home Service Fund. When war was declared the Salva tion Army workers went over seas with our boys and down into the trenches into the very jaws of death. They crossed the sea with our boys with never a thought of personal in jury-never dreaming of the wave of popularity or. publicity they would get for this humble Christian service; they had only one desire and that was to serve our boys when they most needed friends. They spent much of the money that it had taken them many years to collect in small change -spent it ungrudgingly-because they saw that our boys needed it. All they asked in return was that they be allowed by their every da# examples to teach the Christianity our Savior taught while on earth. Many soldiers tell of the wonder ful work the Salvation Army has done overseas. To me there is nothing unusual about that work, but it is the same kind of work and service the Salvation Anny has always given here at home-at our very own doors. It has taken the stories told by the returning soldiers who have come to know the Salvation Army to bring about this wave of popularity for the Salvation Army, but the Army has al ways worked and served as they are now serving. It reaches a class of people that no other religious organization can or attempts to reach. The men and women that are too ragged and mis erable to attend the services at our churches-they reach the poverty that hides and shrinks in the by-ways of life. A man or woman can never fall so low, but that this army of earnest workers stretch out a helping hand to them. Every man, woman and child in America should contribute to this Home Service fund because there is not 'a corner in our beloved land, however remote, that does not receive direct benefit from the Salvation Army, for fifty per cent of the popu lation of the cities is made up of people that come from small towas and from those remote sections and ninety per cent of the boys and girls that appeal to the Salvation Army for assistance are those who have come to the large cities and find them selves unequal to the struggle for ex istence. The Salvation Army conducts Res cue Homes, Day Nurseries, Homes for the Helpless and Aged and Blind, Lodging Houses for the men and wom en that are unable to pay and free clinics-it extends its services every where that misery and poverty exists. Soldiers Tell Of Overseas Work. The soldiers that are returning from France after their hard strug gle have nothing but words of praise for the Salvation Army, and from the lips of a soldier now at Camp Gordon comes a story of a frail Salvation Army lassie that defied the shot and Bhell of the Hun and carried him three miles to a first aid station and saved his life-that man is Sergeant James McCoy of Co. E 17th Infan try. Sergeant McCoy is the proud possessor of the Croix de Guerre, and the famous Belgium medal for brav ery was among the first Americans to join the Allies in the great world war. "It was on my twentieth birthday, August 5, 191?, in the famous Argonne 11 Forest that I received five machine11 gun bullets in my legs as a sort of a birthday present from the Hun." says Sergeant McCoy, of Camp Gor don, Atlanta, Gi?., as he extolled the work of the Salvation Army abroad. "The rain of bullets from the ma-, * chine guns brought me to the ground with hundreds of my comrades. In 6pite of the pain, I crawled along, and after making two miles towards a first aid station I fell in a faint and lay there with shot and shell burst ing around me. I will never know who found me, but when I awakened I was looking into the eyes of a frail Salvation Army lassie, who had bound my wounds to check the flow of blood and who was bathing my face bringing me back to consciousness. "It was after midnight, and the only light around us came from the bursting bombs and the hand gre nades which were being hurled by one of the strongest battalions of the Ger man Crown Prince. She bade me have courage aud said that she would carry me to the nearest first aid sta tion, which waB three miles away. She unloosened my equipment and carried me in a military fashion straight out over that perilous jour- j ( ney three miles away. Time and again she stopped to regain her strength and each time after she was ready to go on she would bathe my face and make me as comfortable as possible. How long it took her to bring me through, that shot ridden 'and I will never know, for I after wards learned that I fainted several timer, daring the journey. It was daylight when the lassie carried me to the first aid station and after she FOR SALE: One Sterling Thrash er mounted on trucks for $300.00. Guaranteed to be in first class condi tion. Suitable for six-horse power en gine. STEWART & KERNAGHAN. FOR SALE: Nineteen thorough bred 0. I. C. pigs, now r^ady for de livery. Apply to J. E. MIMS. SALVATION ARMY .TH TYLER r had olaced me in the hands of my sturdy comrades she sank to tho ground unconscious." This is only one of the many things that I know of concerning the Sal vation Army and their work with the American troops abroad. They are the greatest friends we have, and, if the American public can only be told of ten per cent of their heroic deeds in No Man's Land the appropriation of ?13,000,000, asked for by the Sal vation Army, will be but a drop in the bucket of the funds actually received. Brothers, sisters, wives or sweet hearts of the American soldiers should always love and support the Salvation Army, for they owe that wonderful or ganization a debt of gratitude, for by its example of humble Christian ser vice it has implanted in the hearts of the world through her fighting men, a renewed faith in Christ and the seeds it has sown in No Man's Land and at the training camps, which will spring up and bear fruit that will give the world the first real taste of de mocracy. Heroes Explain Why In the following words Private Frank Ivy, of Goldsboro, N. C., sums up what he has seen of the work of the Salvation Army abroad. Private Ivy, who was a member of Company K, 167th Infantry, was severely wound ed in the early battles of Soissons. While he lay on his cot at Fort Mc Pherson Hospital, waiting time to leal the wounds inflicted by the Suns, he was at his happiest period, is he discussed the work of the Sal tation Army, both here and abroad. When he learned of the coming irive in May for additional funds for his great cause, the wounded hero said': "I hope I am out by that time, ind, if I am not, there are thousands vho would go far and wide to tell the leople of this country just what the Salvation Army stands for, what it did !or its boys under shell fire, in the ?ospitals, and, in fact, everywhere we vent, the Salvation Army worker was 30und to be there. Tlis is no adver sing campaign, for all the boys will lave to do is to tell the truth of this jreat work and the great American jublic will do the rest." Sergeant George Henderson, of facksonville, Fla., who was wounded it Chateau Thierry, ls following the ?xample of Private Cook and organ zing the discharged soldiers of Flor da to put over the Salvation Army Drive in his home State, as the Sal ration Army so ably assisted to put iver drive after drive in the cruelest lays of the great world war. "We doughboys know how to help, md we are going to do it," says Ser jeant Henderson. "The Salvation \rmy cared not for shot or shell, for heir only thought was to aid others n spite of the personal risk to them selves. They started in the war with is at our training camps in America md remained with us until we put he Hun back on his own ground and ?tarted him on the greatest retreat hat a losing army was ever forced to nake. Oebt of Gratitude America will never know the grati ;ude she owes to the Salvation Army ind the number of lives that this little sturdy band of workers saved by their earless actions in the greatest of all Ights." Hundreds of statements have come ? our office from, those who know )f the Salvation Army's work in the renches. There will be no vital change in the idministration of the work. The Tam bourine Girl will no longer circulate iniong us, however, except at devo ional services. The big drive is for unds to replace this smiling lassie ind release her from collecting small mango to devote her entire time to i work of mercy. The people of America will be asked to contribute mee each year instead of all the year .ound to the Salvation Army and per petuate its work. Some of the most prominent men in he South will tour this section of he country in the interest of the Irive. Judge J. S. Reynolds, formerly solicitor General of the Augusta Cir cuit and one of the best known law lers in the Scuth, is chairman of the ?peaker committee. He has gathered ibout him men who have made good n their respective lines and who will ?peak in the behalf of the Salvation irmy Drive. Among the prominent speakers who viii tour the Soutli are: Judge Mar ius Beck, of Georgia; Dr. S. R. Belk, ?Valter P. Andrews of Atlanta, Clif ord Walker, Attorney General for Georgia, Rev. James Horton. C. Mur phy Candler, Georgia Railroad Cum nissioner, Hooper Alexander, District Vttorney, and many others. The Salvation Army is not basin? ts plea for funds on its war record t has behind it in America forty reart of work as thoroughly aid con scientiously rendered as was the work >f the Army lads and lassies.: in the ,-enehoB and on the battlefields di Ti ance. I know the people o? Aaieiicu viii help. Cow Peas Wanted. Paying highest prices of season. Viii buy one sacK to carload. Write, dre or 'phone us what you have. WALTON & CO., Augusta. Ga. tores Old Sores, flther Remedies Won't Cure. 'he worst cases, no matter of how long: standing, re cured by the wonderful, old reliable Dr. 'orter's Antiseptic Healing Oil. It relieves >ain and Heals at the same time. 25c, 50c. $U0f ?^I?P^ riere s me way y we look at it . Just for a minute, look at the tire proposition from our ?|p* standpoint. jv We are in the tire business here, to stay. We can remain * in business only so long as we. please our customers. ??s???g|S^ Consequently, it pays us to handle good tires-United l^^^^pggjf They're the tires we selL . ^ They're the tires you should use. Sl?i?iliSI* ^c *^vc t"2:n to U1C every need of price or use. jjjp United Statesjires iL Ilk ^arg Good Tjces STEWART & KERNAGHAN, local Dealers Oxfords! Oxfords!! Now is the time to discard the heavy, wornout winter shoes and buy a stylish pair of Oxfords. We have a large stock to select from in Crosset and Selz-Schwab Oxfords Big line of Straw Hats, warm-weather Underwear Clothing1, etc. COME IN TO SEE US Dorn is NOTICE TO Stock Raisers My Stallion and Jacks will make the season at my farm, and on account of so much trading among mare owners I have decided to reduce fee to ten dol lars-strictly cash at time of service. Not responsible for accidents. Return I privileges. J. H. GARRETT. Clark's Hill, S. C. A HOUR KODAK 7INISHING I / All Rolls developed 10c. ; packs X tel 2?c. up; prints 2Ac.-4c.-5c. ; enlarging 35c. up. Specialists-we do nothing but kodak finishing. All work .guaranteed to please. Eastman Ko daks, Films, Supplies. Columbia Photo Finishing Co., lill Taylor Street, Columbia, S. C. ARRINGTON BROS. & CO. Wholesale Grocers and Dealers in Corn, Oats, Hay and all Kinds of Seeds Corner Cumming and Fenwick Streets On Georgia R. R. Tracks Augusta, Ga. Distributors of Marathon Tires and Tubes. None better, but our price is less YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED Jpfl^" See our representative, C. E. May.