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TW<J ??tablistip? lfi35. J. L. MIMS.Editor. Published every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at $2.00 per year in advance. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Edgefield S. C. No communications will be pub lished unless accompanied by the writer's name. Card of Thanks, Obituaries, Res olutions and Political Notices pub lashed at advertising rates. Wednesday, October 12. Daniel Augustus Tompkins. No brief sketch can do ?ven partial justice to the manifold activities of Daniel Augustus Tompkins and his work as a builder of the New South. Few men in the United States had a more diversified career or better ex emplified in their lives the construc tive spirit. Unlike most of the suc cessful men of the South, Mr. Tomp- j kins possessed little of the character istics of the merchant. He was essen tially a pioneer, a man of far-sighted vision who fortunately possessed the talents of an executive and an organ izer which enabled him to practicalize his ideas. - He was a successful business man ?with perhaps just enough failures to his credit to give him a sobering sense of caution and responsibility. He was a man of wealth, but no one in speak ing of him laid stress on his accumu lations, but rather upon his achieve ments. It was more in what he did for others in the way of enabling them to help themselves than in what he did for himself that made the life of D. A. Tompkins- an example to his . community. A broad outline of his activities is impressive even at a casual glance. He was among th* first to recognize the possibilities of the cotton oil in dustry and make it one of the lead ing enterprises of the South. He was a builder of cotton mills. He design ed and furnished machinery to all manner of industi'ial plants in his territory. He was a publicist, a jour nalist, a writer, a promoter of edu cation and a pioneer in the establish "*NRmii??r^PlT?!?1,lS!uT?^ try. He did much to instil in the South a spirit of thrift i:hat had become al most a lost virtue among thc Ameri can people. He strove untiringly for the establishment of building and loan associations in Southern com munities. His fine philosophy with re spect to the social qualiti?s which make men valuable citizens had much of the flavor of Benjamin Franklin. Never posing as a philanthropist, he was at all times a friend of his fel low men. He did more than help them. He helped 'them to help them selves. A crowning recognition of his outstanding services was extended through his appointment as a member of the United States Industrial Com mission by President McKinley. This body, as is probably well known, was formed to consider the problems pre sented by the growing complexities of our modern industrial life. The re port of this commission presented in nineteen volumes covers a vast field involving almost every phase of America's business activities-indus try, agriculture, transportation, labor and kindred questions. Mr. Tompkins was a product of the old South. He was born on a planta tion in Edgefield County, S. C., in 1851, and with the exception of a ! few years spent as a student at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, N. Y., an apprenticeship served under old John Fritz at the Bethle hem Iron Works in Bethlehem, Pa., and a year in Germany in the intro duction of American machinery, his life was passed chiefly in the South until his death in 1917. It probably is not going toe far to say that he was then the foremost citizen of Charlotte, N. C. It was in 1882, after Mr. Tompkins had finished his studies, served his : apprenticeship and developed his tal ents abroad thal: he settled in Char- ; lotte and hung out his sign as an en- i gineer, machinist and contractor. He ? obtained the agency for the leading i machinery manufactures, and be- i came very act've in the building and 1 installation of mills and power plants i of various sorts. 3 The first shining example of the 1 use of vision came in his activities in '? the building of fae South's infant cot- J ton oil industry. He saw its possibili- 1 ties, and he set to work to realize ( them. Ever since the invention of ( Whitney's gin,, cotton seed had been * ihe South's most objectionable waste fe product, the bane of the planter's ife. Mr. Tompkins saw that it was a real economic waste, and for several /ears his activities were devoted to he building and financing of cotton iii mills. He lived to see the industry me of the most prosperous in the South backed by capital amounting :o hundreds of millions , and a prod act also running into hundreds of millions annually. He not only strove :o make the cotton oil business profit able, but he fought to make it clean, DANIEL AUGUS' to insist upon a superior product, one that would bc highly acceptable to the world as a food. The larger activities of Mr. Tomp kins, if any distinction can be made, probably were devoted to the up building of the Southern textile in dustry. Here also he displayed ex traordinary breadth of vision and ex hibited the practical wisdom of a Franklin. ' Help to establish manu factures at home," he said, "and help to get foreign markets and ships to bring back three dollars upwards where we now bring back one." Mr. Tompkins always felt that the South never would become really un!i>i?nilli, H ? m iJ ' ?..'"** raw material. He used to point out that a crop of 10,000,000 bales at six cents per pound was worth only $300 000,000, whereas in its manufactured state, half of it could be easily worth several times that amount. In one of his speeches he said: "In order to manufacture the en tire cotton crop of the South into plain white and coarse colored goods, there would be required something like 30,000,000 spindles and 1,000, 000 operatives. The population of the Southern States may be ranked at 20,000,000. Does anybody doubt that out of this who would be willing to work, to furnish 1,000,000 operatives in cotton factories? Go into ordinary cotton market towns where no cotton factories have as yet been tuiilt, and at any time from 7 a. m. to 10 p. m. count the people who are loafing, and the number found would more than make up the quota of people for its share of the workers necessary to manufacture the cotton crop." Again he says: "Practically all native people in the South are farmers. The manufac turing now being done by Southern people furnishes evidence of the fa cility with which the Southern far mer extends his operations. Almost every Southern man who has gone t into manufacturing is still a farmer 1 and will continue to be so. The escape < of the cotton farmer from approach- ? ing poverty is not in trying to curtail I production and increase the price, i but in devising means to keep the * cheap cotton at home and in utiliz- ( ing surplus time in turning it into i cloth worth eighteen cents and up- < wards per pound. D. A. Tompkins did not stop with i preaching the gospel of industrial ex- c pansion. He did not stop with urging "v capital to build mills or confine him- c self to providing the new plants with ? machinery. He strove with all his i might to create a new industrial spir- 1 it among his people. He used several ? agencies-in this missionary task. He 1 did all he could to promote liberal t education, but the phase of the work t that was dearest to his heart was the f establishment of trade schools. For i: nore than twenty years he served as S i member of the Board of Trustees b jf the North Carolina College of w Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and o ie saw this institution work its way mt of the handicap of poverty and ?vi liscouragement into an agency of e remendous value to the South. a His work did not stop here. He saw tl hat if the South was ever to develop ;extile skill that could" compare favor ibly with that possessed by Lan :ashire, Leel, Chemnitz, Fall River, )r New Bedford, it would have to de velop not only its own operatives but managerial ability equipped with technical skill and scientific knowl edge of a world-old industry. It was with this end in view that he inter 3sted himself in the establishment of textile schools. One of the most not able of these is the Clemson Textile rUS TOMPKINS School affiliated with Clemson Col lege in South Carolina. Another re sult of his efforts was the provision for a textile department in the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Encouraged by the work anc1 i enthusiasm of Mr. Tompkins, thc ! States of Mississippi and Texas fol lowed suit and established textile training schools. No summary of the life of Mr .Tompkins would be complete with I out reference to his activities as ? journalist and publicist. He was ac tive in shaping the thought and sen timent of the South through the me dium cf the Charlotte Observer ^uuia UlliUUilLIM newspapers, off thc country. He was untiring in his wort among his fellow men. He was a fine speaker, although making no pretense to florid oratory. His manner in mak ing an address bespoke clarity and force without flamboyant ornamen tation. In other words, he had the so cial qualities of an industrial mis sionary, and one of his biographers sums up his splendid life in the fel lowing words: He built a New South-of mills and factories, of skilled labor and machinery, or diversified and intensi fied agriculture, of improved railways and highways, of savings banks and loan associations-a New South also of public schools, technical colleges and expanded universities, of inde pendent journalism and independent thought, a New South of universal education and democracy.-Com merce and Finance. The Disaster and the Game. The professional players of the :otton game, that is the buyers and speculators in cotton, in New York, Liverpool, New Orleans and other :ities, apparently are dealing with a ?rop of 6.500,000 bales in much the same way that they have regarded a :rop of 16.500,000 bales. In a word, he Southern cotton crop is their foot jail to scuffle over and kick about, m their own gridiron, and if, occa ?ionally, the bulls make a run for a jain of $10 a bale that is their affair, 'rom which all players except bulls md bears are excluded. The bear is ?xpected to get a run of $10 a bale n his turn in the other direction a lay or two later. The bystanders, the rest of the vorld, are looking on the Southern :otton crop of this year and calling vhat has happened by its name-a lisaster. The people out of the game ire saying , and it is true, that not n the history of the cotton industry las a thing so serious come to pass, ^.nd they are saying that soon or ate wearers of cloth, users of a housand articles made of cotton and he manufacturers of them will suf er on account of it. Unless all this 3 true, unless the failure of the Southern crop is a bad dream, some body obtaining cotton at a low price /ill make a great deal of money out f it It would oe much better for the rhole world if this money were arned by the products of six and half million bales than garnered by ie gay gentlemen who buy and sell, J who play the game, who have not the faintest understanding that rais ing cotton under the best auspices, much the less under boll weevil con ditions, is much mor2 of a job than a game. If in the future the world is to have the cotton that it will sorely need it would be wise for the world to encourage the growers to plant it. The good old days, when always there was more than enough cotton to go around, are gone. It looks now that unless the growers shall be both assisted and encouraged their num bers will be tremendously reduced. If the Southern men who have cot ton at this time wish to have a hand in the game, the thing for them to to do is not to go into it too strong or too quickly. If they dump their cotton on the market they deliver the controlling trumps into the hands of the professional players. The terrible poverty of Europe and the destruction of the buying power of war afflicted peoples has been and st?T is a great factor in the cotton situation, but the drop from a crop of $16.500,000 bales to 6,500,000 is a greater factor and so it will prove in time.-The State. A Patriotic Creed., I believe _Jn my country and her destiny, In the great dream of her found ?rs. in her place among the nations. In her ideals. I believe That her democracy must be pro tected, Her privileges cherished, Her freedom defended. I believe That humbly before the Almighty, But proudly before all mankind. .We must safeguard her standards, ..The vision of her Washington, The martyrdom of her Lincoln, . With the patriotis ardor Of the minute men And her soldier boys Of her glorious past. I believe jin loyalty to my country, Utter, irrevocable, inviolate. "Thou in whose sight A thousand years are but as yes terday Andvas a watch in the night, Help me ray frailty 0 make* real hat I believe. NOTICE! Concordia L^ge No. 50, A. F. M?ill |(|p^F hereafter hold its regular communica tion on the SECOND MONDAY night of each month in stead of Friday night as heretofore.' All members are kindly requested to observe the change and be pres ent accordingly. J. H. CANTELOU, W. M. Edgefield, S. C., August 1, 1921. Notice of Final Discharge. I To All Whom These Presents May Concern : Whereas, J. Claude Johnson has made application unto this court for Final Discharge as General Guardian in re the Estate of Maud Smith John son, his ward this the 28th o^y of September, 1921, These Are Therefore, to cite any and all kindred, creditors or parties interested, to show cause before me at Edgefield Court House, South Car olina, on the 28th day of October, 1921, at ll o'clock a. m., why said order of Discharge should not be granted. W. T. KINNAIRD, J. P., E. C., S. C. Hemstreet & Alexander 647 Broad Street Augusta, Ga. Dealers in Guns, Revolvers and Fishing Tackle. Repairing of Fire Arms, Bicycles, Safes, etc. Key Fitting a Specialty. Telephone 679 Practical Jeweler. I want the people of Edgefield to know that I Repair Watches and Jewelry of all kinds in the most approved manner. Twenty five years of experience. Satisfaction Guaranteed. W. E. SIKES 216 Campbell St Augusta, Ga. Alfalfa Grown in the South. Alfalfa grows well in a soil in vhich there is plenty admixture of ime. For that reason the lower part )f Richmond, the whole of Burke and portions of Jefferson counties should produce fine alfalfa. There are large deposits of marl near Shell Bluff and ariffin's Landing, both of which are .n Burke. These deposits contain sea shell and the fossiliferous remains of marine animslsi in the last stages of decomposition, showing that the lime formed has mingled with the soil. With the principal ingredient sup- j plied naturally by the soil, alfalfa should flourish in Burke and in the contiguous territory of a similar na ture. The farmers of York county, South Carolina, have organized an alfalfa j association and are going into it ex- i tensively with other cover crops, in j consequence of the damage incurred I from the depradations of the boll wee vii. They have made arrangements to get their alfalfa seed direct from a Nebraska alfalfa grower. But the de mand for the seed is so great that they sometimes are forced to procure the seed nearer home to fill their or ders. They are receiving' many or ders for seed from Georgia and North Carolina. In addition to the item of seed, much lime has been purchased through the association for liming the soil at a considerable saving to the farmers. Since the organization of the association was formed it has saved the farmers who have affiliated in the co-operative buying plan many thousands of dollars on these two items alone, the saving some years amounting to $5,000 or $10,000. The probability is that Burke county farmers and farmers in the adjacent territory would find their land had a sufficient quantity of lime in it, con sequently they could avoid the ex pense of purchasing lime.-Augusta Herald. [ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ /ho Ono Bli; South Carolina F5ai# GREATEST LIVE STOCK SHOW : | in the history of the Fair Association. Come and see how others ur? meei? j inp- tlie boll weevil menace. AUTOMOBILE RACES J Fast track, well known drivers, speedy cars. Purses amount to ?3,00O, ) Auto races on Friday. 28th. 4 HORSE RACING : i On Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. Facing* and Trottln? j races for purses of $300 each event, with added money. Running- Races Xor j purses of 5ir>0. each event, with added money. . ?. AUTO POLO-SOMETHING NEW j Stripped automobiles in exciting- polo games. First time ever Beep la th$ i South. Ono exhibit each day between races Tuesday, Wednesday ana T?ttil*. day: also once each evening during fireworks. > BIG FIREWORKS EVERY NIGHT On thc Midway, the famous C. A. Worthan Shows, featuring 30 attractions, j many new ar.d novel. POULTRY EXHIBIT under the auspices of the South Carolina Poultry1 Breeders* Association. Held in conjunction with tho S?tate Fair. B. E. Adams, President, Charleston. E. C AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS from every section of the state, Including work of Boys' Corn and Pig Clubs; j ? 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