The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, April 24, 1908, Page SEVEN, Image 7
|| COTTON GROWERS URGED
i TO REDUCE ACREAGE.
I Reduction of 25 Per Cent, and DiverI
sification Held Out as Help for
Better Prices.
To
the Cotton PI (inters of the South:
It % Votton toda>' reached, the lowest
| point since Jan. 1, 1903, except from
P, (November to May of the big crop
if 1004-05, when it sold 2 cents
per pound lower than this. What lias
I . caused this decline of 3 cents per
pound in spite of the fact that the
cotton crop of the world is about 4,
500,000 short of last year's crop? The
only answer that I can find is "lack
I of confidence." The retailer is not
Lbuying except as lie needs the goods,
KjLthc jobber is doing the same, consell^mucntly
the mills have no orders
IHnlicnd. while last year, and for severyears
past, thoy have had orders
gpfbooked Ironi three to six months in
R?>ad vanc-e.
^ '1J,i causes {his lack of confidence?
I They are afraid we will raise a bumper
crop of cotton again this year. Why
are they afraid of a large crop? They
took at the past. In 1003 we had a
short crop and good prices, which
as. followed by a large acreage and
ftod seasons and a bumper crop. The
Rxt year, 11)05-00, we had a short
K)p and good prices, which was again
followed by a large acreage and a
'bumper crop. Had it not been for the
September storm in the Mississippi
valley and the -exceptionally good
trade the market would probably have
gone to 8 cents or under for that crop.
We got a good average price for the
good "trades in the crop and a large
acreage was set aside for cotton last
season, but owing to the weather during
planting time the acreage was cut
some and poor crops in Texas and
. Louisiana enabled us to get a good
price for the most of this crop. A
mon:.h ago every indication was that
P we 'vould have a large acreage this
season and I lie people did not care t o
place he.wy orders for cotton goods,
knowing that with n large acreage
and fair season we would produce
more cotton than the world needed
and the price of cotton goods would
decline. They are good business men,
and you can't fool them.
How can we restore confidence? In
, place of planting the same acreage as
last season iji cotton plant 25 per
cent less. As soon as the acreage report
is out in June or even before the
trade will know that tlieu^ will be
( a moderate crop raised this year and
we will have the old lime activity in
the cotton trade. Jobbers will place
their orders ahead to enable them to
supply their trade and the mills will
contract in advance for supplies of
cotton and the market will advance
much faster than it has declined. The
result will be that you will market a
crop of 11,500,000 at an average of
at least $05 per bale, or a total of
about $750,000,000. If the weather
conditions should be unfavorable for
the growing crop and it should turn
rout 1,000,000 bales less it would sell
for 15 cents and bring a total of nearly
$800,000,000, and add to this the
m value of the feed crops that can be
M grown on the acreage intended for
fcjlfr cotton and it will give us another
I.$50,000,000. Suppose that you plant
the same acreage as last year and with
favorable weather we would likely
make anyway 13.000,000, possibly
more. What would the price be under
the present trade conditions? Not
an average of 8 cents per pound and
perhaps lower. Say that it averaged
$40 per bale, the crop would bring
| $520,000,000. at least $300,000,000
loss to the south. How to bring
about this reduction?
> It is not too late yet to plant corn,
i alfalfa, sorghum cane, millett or cow
peas for hay. Or it will pay you to
let the land lie idle for a season rather
than plant it in cotton at a loss. Let
every planter that reads this article
at once arrange to reduce his own
acreage in cotton and show the article
to his neighbor, or better, call a meeting
at every country school house in
the south and discuss this matter intelligently,
then go home resolved that
. each one will do his part. If you have
' any neighbors that will not reduce
send me their names and I will take
the matter up with each one personally.
This is no small matter, and I
hope that members of the Southern
Cotton association and Farmers' union
will stand side by side in this
great fight. With a heavy acreage
(Wall street will wet the price for our
cotton crop, with a light acreage we
, can get our own price within reason.
Don't delay, but get busy at once.
There is plenty of timejj'et if you will
only do your part. In 1005 by reducing
the acreage 15 per cent, the price
if
. advanced 5 cents per pound, and we
ir can do it again. I will be glad to hear
from every farmer that reads this
I and endorses it.
Do you want to return to th# old
days of 5-cent cotton? If not, join
this movement and wo will make the
south more prosperous than ever.
J. A. Taylor,
President National Ginners' Association.
Memphis, Tenn., April 18, 1908.
MILLS FACING PROBLEM.
Conference In Spa.rtanburg?Closing
Down, Reduction of Wages, or
Shortening of Hours Seems
Inevitable.
News and Courier.
'Spartanburg;, April 21.?It begins
to look as if thai stage of the cloth
market has been reached which will
result in a general closing down ol
cotton mills, the reduction of wages
or the operation of the mills on 'shorter
time. A conference of prominent
mill presidents wes neld here, today
and every phase of tluv question that
now confronts the mills was discussed.
Among' hose present were J. 1>.
Cleveland, president of the Whitney
(Mills; J. F. Cleveland, president ol
Tucapau Mills: l\. /. ('ales, president
of Arkwrig'hl Mills; A. II. Twitehell,
president of the Clifton Mills, and the
I). I*.. Converse company.
Mr. Cleveland said after the conference
that nothing' definite had
been decided upon; that a meeting
would be held nexl week, when sonic
action would be taken which, it is
hoped, will relieve the situation. The
situation, he said, was serious, and it
looked as though it ?ns going to
worse instead of better.
The closing; down of the mills would
have very serious results in this seclion
of the State, for thousands and
thousands of operatives would be
thrown out of employment during the
summer months, and when the mills
resumed operations in the fall they
would have no little trouble in getting
their help together again.
The mills will not close down if il
can be avoided and it is believed that
such action can be stayed. The opinion
seems to prevail that the bettei
plan would be for the mills to operate
on shorter schedule, and such a
course will in all probability be resorted
to in the near future.
APPEAL TO TEDDY.
Relief From Paper Trust Exactions
Asked By the Newspapers.
New York, April 21?The annual
meeting' of the Associated Press was
held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hiolel
today with an exceptionally large attendance
of members from all sections
of the country. Aside from the
transaction of purely routine business
affecting- the organization, the most
important notion taken was the presenting'
and adoption of an address
asking the president and the congress
to "grant immediate relief from the
exactions of combinations of paper
makers.''
The address, as adopted, is as follows;
"Representatives of 774 daily
newspapers gathered at the annual
meeting of the Associated Press, respectfully
ask the president and congress
to grant immediate relief from
the exactions from the combinations
of paper makers. In
September, 1007, and again In November,
1007, the attention of the authorities
was directed to the exeessi\?e
prices then demanded by the paper
combination. Immdiately upon the
assembling of congress twenty or
more bills aiming to correct these
conditions and to pur paper and pulp
on the free list were adopted and referred
to the ways and means committee.
Persistent efforts to obtain a
hearing have been refused. Dilatory
tactics have been employed to prolong
present conditions and to carry
over to another session of congress
every proposition designed for relief.
All newspapers here represented protest
against delay.
"Attention is also directed to the
false rports of news print paper
prices, which were recently furnished
to congress by the director of the
census bureau. The newspapers here
represented use approximately eighty
per cent of the news print paper consumed
in the United States. We denounce
the quotations as submitted to
congress as misleading and unworthy
of credence. The reiteration of the
accuracy of these figures of the director
after the error had been called
to public attention tends to shake
public confidence and respect for sthtistics
thus compiled."
GREENVILLE SAFE ROBBED.
Yeggmen Enter Store Near Depot
and Get About $300.
Greenville, April 21.?Safe crackers
this morning about 3.30 o'clock
entered the branch store of Carpenter
Brothers and blew open tho aafe,
i securing in I ho neighborhood of $300.
i The sub-post otlico was localod in the
building and part or the money belonged
to the government.
The building is located on Washington
street, in a tow yards of the
Southern depot, and the robbery was j
a daring piece of work, as there is ,
constant passing on the .street at all
hours of the night.
; It is thought thai the robbers blew
the safe open just,as a passenger train |
rolled into the yards, the noise from
the train drowning the report from
the explosion. A poslollice inspector
is in the city and lie lias been at work
; on the case all day. Xo clues have been
secured as yet.
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Why Latin is Used.
A great many people wonder why a I
physician writes liis proscription in
Latin. There are t><> principal reasons
assigned. First, thoiiuli obsolete j
as a language. I .at in i< the universal
"tongue" employed by the chemists I
ami pharmacists of every country. The
, physician, therefore, employs Latin
terms that his prescriptions may be I
understood under all circumstances.
The second reason, n good one, is that I
no matter in what country a prescription
may be written, il may be correctly
tilled by the pliaramcists of any
other clime. Thus a Oreek doctor
may give his native countryman a
proscription in America, and, though
unable to speak a won! of English, he
could' have il correctly filled in this
country.
Another reason, perhaps unjustly
assigned, is said to be the disposition
to conceal the contents of many simple
formulas from the patient, that
the charge of physician and pharma- j
! cist alike may be provecfed.
This is a rather selfish view to take, j
t however. But in tiro case of old established
formulas, long tried and provjoil,
such, for instance, as the formula
of Andes' Ureal Prescription, there
are no secrets to hide, and the manufacturers
are glad to show it in plain
English to the worh't.
This is done on every package, bottle,
label and container alike, along
with a guarantee of absolute purity
and a serial number showing that such
guaranty has been filed with the government
at Washington.
This remedy, Andes' Great Prescription,
positively cures catarrh,
stomach, liver and bladder troubles,
i blood impurities and female weak-;
j tresses. Tts formula lias been written j
hundreds of thousands of times by
well-informed physicians until acquired
by its present owners, who. tin- j
dor patent, offer it as a proprietary;
remedy, and publish its contents.
If yon suffer with any of the above
diseases, get a bottle and ask your
phvsician's advice abo.it using it. lie j
will recognize its formula.
"W. E. Pelham and Son are local i
distributors. Price of large twelve-!
ounce bottle $1.00, three for $2.50, or!
six for $.">.00.
FOR SALE.
I have for sale the stock of goods,
store fixtures, etc., belonging to the
assigned estate of B. A. Ivempson.
Stock may be seen and examined upon
application to the undersigned.
Fred. H. Doiuinick.
Assignee and Agent of the Creditors.
Attention Veterans, Camp No. 336,
U. C. V.
The camp will meet in the court
house on Saturday the 2nd May, 1008,
for the transaction of such business
as may properly come before it. All
memebers must pay their annual
dues, 25 cents, at once, as our per
capita assessment to the State and
general order is already past due. At
this meeting delegates will be elected
to represent our camp at the reunion
in Greenville, S. G|, May 11-12, also
at reunion in Birmingham, Ala.,
June 9-10-11, 1008.
By order.
J. W. Gary,
O. L. Sohumpert, Com.
Adjt.
Change of Schedules.
Kffcclive 12.01 a. in. Sunday, April
12th, 1008, the following Is the time
of departure of all passenger trains
leaving Newberry Union station:
Southern Railway:
No. 15 for Grcenvillo .. ..8.57a.m.
No. 18 for Columbia .. ..1.28 p.m.
No. 11 for Greenville .. ..3.07 p.m.
No. 1(5 for Columbia 8.47 p.m.
0., N. & L. Ry.
No. 85 for Laurens 5.10 a.m.
No. 22 for Columbia ....8.47 a.m.
No. 52 for Greenville .. 12.50 p.m.
No. 53 for Columbia .. . .3.20 p.m.
No. 21 for Laurens 7.25 p.m.
No. 84 for Columbia.. .. 8.30 p.m.
No's. 84, 85, 21, and 22 run daily
except Sunday.
The above schedule is given only
as information, is not guaranteed and
is subject to change without notice.'
G. L. Robinson, j
Station Master.
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NOTICE TO DEMOCRATIC CLUBS.
In accordance with the Qonatitu- (
tion of the Democratic party of South ?
Carolina, the Democratic Clubs of the
[county of Newberry are hereby called
to meet at their respective places [
of meeting on Saturday, April 25th, j
lOOS, for the purpose of reorganization.
At this meeting, in addition to ^
the election of officers for the club, (
there shall be elected one member
from each club to serve as a member
of the County Executive Committee
for two years, and also delegates to
the county convention which will convene
at Newberry C. II. on Monday,
May 4, .1908. Each club is entitled to
one delegate for every twenty-five
members and one delegate for a majority
fraction thereof.
Fred. II. Dominick,
County Chairman.
CHARLESTON & WESTERN CAROLINA
RY.
Schedule in effcct November 3rd, 1907
Lv. Newberry(C N & L.) 12:46 p. m.
Ar. Laurens 1:52 p. m.
Lv. Laurens (C. & W. C.) 2:15 p. m.
Ar. Greenville 3:40 p. ni.
Lv. Laurens 2:07 p. n..
Ar. Spartanburg 3.35 p. ni.
Lv. Spartanburg (So. Ky.) 3:40 p. in.
Ar. Ilcndcrsonville 0:25 p. m.
Ar. Asheville 7:30 p. m.
Lv. Laurens (C. & W. C.) 2:00 p. m. i
Ar. Greenwood 2:50 p. m.
Ar. McCormick 3:55 p. m. 1
Ar. Augusta 5:40 p. m.
Note: The above arrivals and de- ?
partures, as well as connections with c
other companies, arn given as information,
and are not guaranteed.
Ernest Williams,
Cen. Pass. Agt., 5
Augusta, Ga.
Geo. T. Bryan,
Greenville, S. C.
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