N. Y. EDITOR TALKS OF COTTON. ; Walter R. Brown at St. Matthews Has Ijoarncil Much. (Speech made by Walter B. i Brown, editor of tho Now York Com- | merdai, before a mooting of tho Calhoun County Cotton Association, at St. Matthews, November 16.) Condomen: Another big mau is Mr. Waunamaker and another big man is Mr. Whitman, tho owner of the New York Commercial. I think ! might as well tell you how it came about that I am down here. Mr. Wa ima ma ker invited Mr. Whitman to go down to Now Orleans j in September and speak before Ii is association. Mr. Whitman could not j go and asked mo to go. saying. "I : am a Southern man, horn in Ken- j tucky, and I know tho South, but you do not. If you are te be tho editor of tliis paper you should have first hand information regarding tho South and you should find tills out yourself; therefore I think that you should go down and meet these peo ple and study tho situation." While on this trip I stopped at different points in tho South on the wny down and on my roturn 1 met the people and did not get back to New York until two weeks later. I got down there with the Northern Idea. 1 want to tell you frankly that I bad the idea that the South and tlio Southern cotton farmer were really profiteering. Mr. Whitman told mo I was wrong. I got down to Now Orleans and 1 met the grow ers faco to face. 1 mixed among them and talked to them. I talked with men from Mississippi, CJeorgia, Alabama, Texas and the Carolinas and Oklahoma. i bey all told mo the samo story. There was no chanco for their getting together. They did not oven know I was going to speak to thom. All of this opened my eyes. 1 saw that tho South bad a problem and I tell you that tho North does not know that the South has a problem. I then became intensely interested, 1 went back and talked to Mr Whit man and ho said to me, "Well, I thought it would open your eyes," and l said to him, "Tho first chance J get I am going back South," I had learned a little and I wanted to get a bettor Idea of the plans that tho South was undertaking under the leadership of tho American Cotton Association. I wanted to soo their plans for doing away with tho old methods of handling cotton, and this is the reason I have come hero. I wanted to go on to Atlanta, but I find it necessary to return to New York. I want to tell you gentlemen that this thing has opened up to me like a new book, it ls a new tiling to me, I have read a great deal about cotton and I thought I knew a lot from the marketing standpoint and from the cotton exchange standpoint, but the best way to study tho ques tion Js to come down hero and get into tho cotton fields, and I want to. tell you thai iii!? luis boee a wonder ful exporten < . i have learned this C-H*,-.wvoviij-;. Low io vat a persimmon l .,T*was introducen f'o:- che !'?i".?t time to sweet potatoes, i'eopie Hunt the Norla eau learn much from the South. 1 began to look into your big problem. After returning from my trip to Now Or leans I wrote an editorial along tho line of work liebig done in the South and I feel sure' that within the next few years tho whole ma chinery and method of marketing cotton will ho entirely rovorsod. We are entering upon a new era. This has got to be done. I wondered why it was that these people with whom I had talked told mo that they were not getting back out of the price of their cotton, the price for which they were selling their cot ton, a fair profit above the cost of production. At first this puzzled me. I bogan to study Into the mat ter further and I found that tho trou ble was that tho cost which their cotton took from the producer and tho consumor was not a perfectly straigh line. There were obstacles in tho way. There was a long line of unnecessary middle men cnusing great losses to both tho producer and tho consumer. To me this came ns something fresh and now and lt ap peared to me that the whole trouble was that the farmer sold his cotton immediately after gathering it in order to got returns and that he did not sell lt gradually throughout the year as lt was needed, but disposed of it at once. This was the great trouble. Next, in which way could that troublo bo removed. Farmers would have to ho able to carry that cotton in some way and get financial returns in such a manner that be did nut have to sacrifico lt. The an swer of course was the warehouse. To put bis cotton in the warehouse seemed to him to be a perfectly simple matter, but where was his warehouse to como from, how was he to secure that? This seemed to be at first a rather difficult proposi tion, but I concluded that if tho farm ers joined together and worked in co-operation. It could he done and I . wondered why this bad not. been done long ago. What the farmer needed was organizing, and this is the answer. 1 have studied for tho last. 15 years the organization of tho differ ent fruit growers of California and have seen how they have settled the matter. Now gel down to funda mentals: Once Hie cotton is ware housed you lia ve gotten rid of your greatest trou hies and a warehouse receipt represents merchandise in gilt, edge bankable security. Tho banks will Iond money on warehouse receipts which represent actual tangible properly, A warehouse full of cotton is certainly something Just as tangible as any form of paper re presenting merchandise and i could not understand why ibis had not boon dono before I bavo soon this plan worked out in California and these Pacific States have been made very prosperous and tho key to tho wholo question has been accom plished by organization. They havo an organization there for every kind of product which they grow. They first began With tho citrus growers and luivo gone on down the lino. These organizations havo been vory Successful without injuring tho con sumer, they have n selling organiza tion, a warehouse organization, and O:IP for distributing direct to the Job bers. They will not soil any of their products to anyone but a wholesale Jobber und will not soil in any larger quantity than they feel he can legitimately distributo, they will not aeil enough so that be can use this for speculation. If he wants more he must prove that his business has Increased. There was a time live or six years .igo when tho growers of raisins sold their ero;) even boforo it w.'S r. .. >d and for two or threo conts .i pound and sometimes as low as a cent and a half. This was be fore tho growers began to count tho cost of production and now they have turned around and have organised and lite price has gone up to nine and ten cents and sometimes as high as I ti cents a pound. The old method was absolutely wrong, economically wrong and unsound fro .1 a business standpoint. Tho be ut ifni part of this plan is that lt h s not increased the cost to the con.niiner. This plan has been fol lowed out with prunes, apples, apri cots and all other lines of fruit. Now why can't this same plan ho fol lowed by the Southern cotton pro ducer? Vague Idea of Cost. Another thing I discovered in studying tho cotton situation in tho South is that no ono seemed to have a very ilollnlto idea of the actual cost of production. 1 wanted a lot of information on that point. lt struck mo as being very peculiar that in figuring your costs you did not odd in the cost of labor for what It should have boen. It was s ; ra ugo to me that tho small grower should work his wife and children and him self six days a week without inti king an allowance for this labor. That struck me as being fundamentally wrong, it brought mo face tc face with a new feature and this was (hat these people had to work so hard that the children could not go to school. This struck me with a sharp snap. I happen to be very much in terested in educational work and 1 am chairman of the school board of my district in Brooklyn In whir': i have under my supervision, over 2,000 school children in addition to a high school of -1,000. In New Vork jour compulsory education laws aro (enforced down to the last line. When I came down here and dis covered this educational system I ? realized that it was a terrible men ace to the United States. The whole United States is vitally Interested in the education of the South. They may not realize lt, but it is of in terest to them as the welfare of the entire country depends upon this feature. We can never . have one I section of the country suffer In this manner without tho whole country feeling the effects of the same. I realize that the price of cotton must Include a living wage for those who raise It and that this living wage must bo sufficient to enable the peo plo to live decently and send their i 1 dren t ? Behool, If it. is noces rs to itdtj Ute, pelling pr.ee of i cotton in order1 lo bring this nbouT! thou it ls Owly right that that step [should bu taken, ? "'.ir smaller I tax upon the people of the United states to pay an extra cent or two for cotton in order to educate the chil dren of the South than lt is to ap propriate large sums for tho curing of Ills that follow the lack of educa tion, therefore, the question of a fair price for cotton to the producer of the South is one that vitally con cerns the entire United States. An other feature tn tho study of this situation which impressed nie on my visit, drought the South was the mat ter of the tremendous resources of tho South. What a wonderful coun try you have lying dormant hore. If tho young men of tho South will appreciate what they have here and set tho South to work, this section of the country will be tremendously prosperous. I have been impressed with the fact that the South seems to raise only cotton and that they take the money that doy get for that cotton and send to Chicago to buy hogs. I could not understand why this should he done, I could not see why the people of the South could not divide their farms and raise enough food and feed crops to keep them selves. 1 understand from a person al investigation that almost any known crop can be raised in tho South. You must, have very wonder ful soil and I could not see why you would continue hy the planting of cotton to take from Hie soil much of its fertility. The solution of this seems to me to be that you should rotate crops and plant something that would put the fertility back in the soil. This seems to mo to he logical and reasonable. I am going to look further into this feature of the situation. Ono Mg Question. As I have touched on before, the jhas mact?yourCom&r? * Cert Ain thru~~ Which spreads its influence upon the nerves, cords and ligaments in? volved, rendering them pliant to read ily yield to nature's demand. There la an absence of bearing-down pains, strain and general dlscorftfo-*v morr often than otherwise experienced" when nature is unaided. Mother's Friend to used externally. ? At all Druggists. Sperinl Booklet on Motherhood and Dairy fte*, bradfield Eksful'tor Co, Dept. F-9, Atlanta, Gt? "'i. '? 11 ?"?"a''*1.' .mtoi i groot question that will answer your ; problem ls organization, and under the American Cotton Associai (ob you have the solution of ibo; .problem. This association has accoWipllshod a most wonderful work and the re sults have been nationwide fader its able leadership lt bas ??.ol only brought tremendous bene!)* . to the South, but it is to-day uttvu?'?ng tho attention of tho nation td th'j South. lt has removed prejudge and brought a hotter understanding, lt has brought tho different se? llowl of tho country into a closer Union and as a resuit of its world wide aim paign of publicity, which baa been ono of tho most remarkable ever carried on in this country, the South will como into her own. Tho as sociation, its aims, objects and pur poses and tho work that it has ac complished in addition to the many Southern questions that it has changed, are hoing discussed throughout tho length and breadth of tho nation to-day. 1 have lust spout two weeks in Spitrlnuburg, studying tho Spartanbuvg plan, and this plan has struck me ; being about tho best thing 1 have soon yet and 1 told tho people of Spa' tanburg that If they would stick lo their purpose, and I firmly boin <; .'ley will, their plan would be id opied throughout tho entire Sou tl and it would be a solution of th wbble question. Of course a groa respon sibility rest6 upon Spartan bu (J coun ty, They have boon move t mutate in tho mat tor of warehouser as they were able to secure the Cam Wads worth warehouses and all he fa cilities there. As the platt stands from a marketing stand dnt in Spa rta n burg, tho farmers ar? in con trol of the situation. 1 wai lo tell you people hore that if tho partan burg plan is adopted th cou.. ut the cotton belt it will fill the ods of the South, lt struck jne v h sur prise that you farmers of tl . South have become so alarmed < er the break In tho price of COttO within the past week. I told I!.?.: | opio in Spartanburg not to worry .mt it, that they had tho' rea', oo' m and the speculators in Nev > vero only selling paper cotton. i< on thc south. Everybody who has nd uuj money has been keepin i . wi rei hot. This is what hu.s ; ponerj I during tho past week. Th fp wai too much speculation and -.urnllj I broke the stock market j p mos I popular stock wnS auj??m?bV# |r.??d in everybody was bUy??iiB lilli I stock li was ? nun eauHx??.W ^at al Lot Ibo nmomjhtle fae tirios in Un I United States would have nof bc.si labu? t< manufactur? ?iioi d biles, running at fiill capa eily, to fil their demands, and therefore tin speculators had to be stopped, Til? stock that kept above the Others >? a United States Steel, and ihi>. 1 natural because steel represent building and is the bac. ?> ? <>'' h industries of this coin try. Now what effect did this have t>n th< )t ton market? The speculr oi In .' il street went over to ?Otti n mi :e and began speculating there. r was a tremendous demand (Ol u gins on Wednesday and Hui rad K. o this week, the price o;" cotton na been going up and the p< Dpi ! ? y like a bull market on which spat ulate. Everybody made a great ras to speculate in cotton end oath)all cotton went down. This was 'h malu Influence, and the other lutin enees were only temporary. Yo must remember that th. > were - 'il dealing in paper cotton and the mai ufacturer can not spin paper co tl Ol Since I have come Sou tb I have ice the real cotton in the warehouse mid you havo it properl\ stored wit its full value. I hilve neve* soen timo In all history when cotton w* so urgently needed in tho who! world. The demand fo> iii?, an cotton fabrics in the Un i tod Stat* is greater to-day than ll .ver wi before. People buy coi < \\ goods t they never havo in thc- pa Bl, wogi have been very high ai.ri <> opie ai able to buy what they want. Bu y Ol aro oven now forcing tho lobbers I name prices for good* to be sol next fall a year from now. "> ii is a tremendous demand for ? ii staple cotton, tho crop thil -i far from normal in size lind in o md ty, with the result that tho suppl ? good white cotton is insufficient meet the requirements of '..(? tex ti trade and they aro u iv pnyii prices for It that rep re ont p question of prlco ?but a t/u -lio:, i obtaining tho goods and Lilt?) u that tho time will come bi foro tl end of the present crop iv ?on 1 milis will bo unable to maki a 'i grade fabric from lon,- tapio c ton and will havo to bei in to u o li forior grades in order to suppl) 1 demand, and tills is tho veal conti lion that exists. Control of Situa' lo?. If you will only con; kier tlioi fads you will readily understai why you have control of tho situ lion and so, speaking trow ?II oil Killer's view point for your own ben fit. I would say to yoi, no! to I frightened hy tho breal in ftitun Tho thing for you to do is io your cotton only ns it if needed ai for a price that will dca1 lo yoi fair profit. I don't expect you io profiteers, but it is only s nhl of simple justice that yon should r coivo a reasonable and fi i, pvol The demand for cotton is ><, gre that you will not bo able to raino surplus of cotton for tho work nooda. Why should this ?>. ? K llvo years 30,000,000 men wc lakon out of production ,?1 turn over to destruction. Tin - . 3 0,00' 000 men stopped producing 1 necessities of Ibo world and left iromendous gap that bas o bo hil GOOD HEALTH WITHIN EA5Y REACH. Vigorous Health Ojily ?a Far Away us tho Uso of l*epto-.>huiguii. CUBATES RICH, RED BLOOD. lVpto-Mnngnn Ohtalnablo in Liquid or Tablets-*- insist on "Glide's," tho Genuine. There is really no reason why mon or women with thin, watery blood and consequent poor health should remain in that unfortunate condition. Thin, nervous, run-down, ti rod people never got much happi ness out of life. .Men and women with the bloom of health in their cheeks, a cheerful, sunny disposition and an attractive personality aro tho folks who get most of life's enjoyment, pleasure, and success. (Jude's Pepto-Mnngnn furnishes thin, watery blood with the neces sary nourishment to enrich it, en abling it to supply enorgy, vitality, and strength to evory part of the body. Physicians recommend Glide's Pepto-Mangan to patients suffering from anemia because its beneficial and lasting qualities are well known to tho medical profession. Gudo's PeptO-Mangan is obtain able In either liquid or tablet form. Both forms contain exactly tho same strength and medicinal properties. When you buy Pepto-Mangan of, your druggist, be sure the name | "Gudo's" is on the package. With- ; out "Gudo's" it is not Pepto-Man gun.-adv. In and it is going to :a*ce some time to do this. Men have got to work longer hours, every man who can work has got to work and tills is [ felt all over the ?civilized world, lt will take at least ten years to catch up in order to equalize things : and in the meantime this country and tho whole world will have un- | dorgone many changes. Hore In the . South conditions have forced upon ?you a new thought in regard to the.' marketing of your crop, the high cost of living lias brought this close home to you and so you have been forced to take up the question of j fair prices for cotton and a reason able profit above the cost of pro- t duction. Within two or three years Hie method of marketing will be en tirely revised. Tho unsound system which you have been using for the I hist GO years must necessarily be revised and when this is done there will be a remarkable change for the better to all concerned. This is the reason I have come down here to lind out the situation and then give this to the readers of my paper. 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Santa Glaus* Headquarters Don't fail to visit Seneca's New M Ten-Cent and Novelty Store, opposite Dillard's Shoe Shop. 3|? Santa Claus has made this his headquarters for Oconce Coun ty? Be sure to see his big sup- m > ? ply of all kinds of Christmas ||[ .% Goods. SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY Coates' Ten-Gent Store, Seneca? S. C. ^ 1 ?TICES The Steck Ginnery will run every day except Christmas Day and Friday a,nd Saturday follow- f '? ing. No set gin days. Bring your cotton any time to gin and corn or other grain to grind. FERTILIZERS. Arrangements made for sale of best fertilizers maunfactured. Deliveries at Westminster. Harbin, Madison and Richland. Call and place your orders early. * . Westminster. S. C. Orr-MjilXM- s. HU??. f R tMX^W|#?Wa^CiH*/?i?? ? t *W^?*a?l|K?i)??Mir?W)U'1M1l l>M*W#ita>ma>??VtrW rOHTMni I I ll ur III I il II li Ul Mill I ll I ? II MMMW^MlMiWi. .? NOTICE TO DEBTORS ANO CREDITORS. All persons Indebted to the Estate of Mrs. T. F. Graham, Deceased, ' are hereby notlllod to make payment to the undersigned, and all persons having claims against said Estato will present the same, duly attested, within the time prescribed by law, or be barred. O. B, GRAHAM, | Executor of the Estate of Mrs. T. F. Graham, Deceased. Dec. 10, 1919. 50-53* NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS. All persons indebted to the Estate of Mr?. Mary F. Maxwell, Deceased, are hereby notified to make payment to the undersigned, and all persons having claims against said Estate will present the same, duly attested, within the time prescribed by law, or bo barred. GEORGE SEABORN, Executor of tho Estato of Mrs. Mary F. Maxwell, Deceased. Dec. 10, 1919. 50-53 NOTICE. Notice is horoby givea that I, Mrs. .Tano Wilson, have constituted and appointed James H. Hunnicutt my true and lawful Attorney for mo, and in my name and stead, All people having any business transactions with me, or for mo, are notified to deal with my said Attorney. MRS. JANE WILSON, Walhalla, S. C. Rt. 2. Caro of J. Il, Hunnicutt. December 6, 1919. 50-53. NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITONS. All persons indobtcd to tho Es tato of DAN 'OREEN, Do coasod, aro hereby notified to mako payment to tho undersigned, and all persons having claims against said estato will present tho saino, duly at tested, within tho timo prescribed by law or bo barred. R. L. GRIFFIN, Administrator of tho Estate of Dan Green, DeceaRcd. Dec. 3, 1919. 49-52 NOTICE OF FINAD SETTLEMENT AND DISCHARGE. Notice is hereby given that tho un dersigned will make application to V. F. Martin, Judge of Probate for Ocoheo County, in the Stato of South Carolina, at his office at Walhalla Court House, on Tuesday, tho 6th day of January, 1920, at lt o'clock in tho forenoon, or ns soon thoreafter as said application can bo heard, for loavo to mako final settlement of tho Estato of DAN GREEN, Deceased, and to obtain final discharge as Administrator of said Rstato. R. h. GRIFFIN, Administrator of the Kstnto of Dan Groen, Deceased. Dec. 3, 1919. 49-5 2 LEGAL NOTICE. State of South Carolina, County of Oconee. (In Court of Common Plena.) James C. Owens, Plaintiff, ' \< against W. A. Roxford, Mrs. L. A. King,, E. M. Edgens, U. S. Government, Department of Agriculture, Wash ington, D. C., Defendants. To Whom It May Concern: The parties above named, and alt other persons interested, will take notice that on the first day of Dee, cember, 1919, the above named petitioner filed a petition in the office . of the Clerk of Court of Common Ploas of Oconee County, to have the title to certain lands therein de scribed registered and confirmed, pursuant to an Act "To Provide for the Assurance and Registration of Land Titles," approved March 25, 1916, and that summons has been issued, returnable at the office of the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas I of Oconee County, on the 8th day of February, 1920. Said land ls situate in Whitewater Township, County of Oconee, and said State, adjoining tho land of W. A. Roxford on the north, Mrs. L. A. King and George Ridley on tho southeast, E. M. Edgens and the U. S. Forest on the west, and bounded and described ns follows: Reginning at a ston? corner on what is known ns tho Turnpike Rond, a short distance north from where tho Dodge Road towards Nicholson's Ford loaves tho Turn pike road, stone well set into tho ground and markod R; thence in the direction of Walhalla along tho vari ous curves in said road, as particu larly appears from tho survey made thereof, by C. L. Dean, on tho Otb, 7th and 8th days of November, 1919, which plat is'attachcd to the petition and mado part thoroof, to a stone corner well sot in tho oartb and marked R; thence S 51.20 W 495 feet to stone x R; thence N 85 Vi W 1955 feet to a stono x R; thence S 5.05 E 1140 foot to a black locust stono x R; thence S 58.20 W 2395 feet, crossing Village Creek to stono x R; theneo N 5 Vi W 3350 feet to a stump and stono R; thence N 12 Vi E 92G feet to stako U. 8. A. Forest corner; thence N 47 % E 336 feet to j U. S, A. x R; thence N 3.15 E 518 feet to stako ll. S. x stono R; thence N 75% E 985 feet to B O x R; thence N 64Vs E 1100 foot to S O stump stono R on north s do of Dodge Road; thence S 73 E 382 feet to tho beginning stone corner on tho Turnpike Road, containing two hundred nnd ninety-two (292) acres, moro or less, JOHN F. CRAIG, Clerk of tho Court of Common Pleas, Oconco County. This first day of December, 1919. Dec. 3, 1919._49-52. Th? Oulnina. 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