Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ADVISES COTTON FARMERS !< TO SIT STEADY IN BOAT | < Watson I'rees People to Stop Discus-; ] sin^r Visionary Schemes and i Hold Crop. The State, 1st. i "Let the farmer get it out of his } i head right now that anybody can fix |, - ?- - - -? ? >' w i Wot_ I a piict; iur culiuu, sam X-J. ???>. < son, president of the Southern Cot ton congress, in a statement- issued yesterday to the cotton growers of the Souta. He discussed the cotton : situation in the South. "The greatest trouble," said Presi-ij dent Watson, "o* the moment now j' in the South lies in the fact that we ! were caught without a strong organ- : ized machine for controlling what is < really a vast disorganized anduntrain- i ed army, and if our people would i stop talking themselves to death over < \isionary schemes, make up their ; minds to hold the product until toe ' proper time and sit steady in the J boat, the merchant helping the farm- ; er and the bank helping the merchant ] as far as it is possible to do so, there :is every reason to believe that at least half of this crop will go to the mar- 1 kets cii" the world finally at a better 1 price than was being paid when t'he j i fateful declarations war came with I ' such startling rapidity." 13 Panickj Condition. 11 (The statement Ifollows: 1 "On may return from Georgia, where j1 we have succeeded in steadying the < people who were in a panicky condi- < tion last week, I was astonished to J find that at some points in South Carolina, despite everything that is being 1 done to help the producer of cotton ] in this emergency, some of our people ] had becoms 'hysterical, and in one instance at least 'had dumped cotton on ] tne market at o l-z cents a pounu. The men who have done this kind of thing deserved no more for their cot- ] ton than they got. i "We now have Georgia, South Car- ' olina and Texas thoroughly organized j under the Southern Cotton congress, 3 and active preparations are being 1 made for such organization in Xorfii 1 Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisi- 1 ana and Mississippi. 1 know full 1 well that the greatest courage that a 1 man can display is to sit still under 1 fire, but that is the kind of courage 1 every individual in the cotton belt 1 has got to display now or all the i night-ana-day efforts that the best '< men in the country have been de voting to this problem since the 2Sth 1 day of July may go for not'.nng. ? "If t'ae man who is now ginning ( the cotton will just simply, sit still * in the boat .for about three weeks? and nobody is going to push him be- 1 fore then?the South will probably ( emerge from this whirlwind of un- * certainty and flood o?f conventions and 1 plans into a position that will make ( her a greater South than she has ever been. The man who lets any other man have his cotton now for such a price at 5 cents, 6 cents or 7 ceivts is not only drawing a razor across his own throat, but is going around the community cutting the throats of his neighbors?economically. Opened Earlier. "Cotton !has opened a little earlier than any one expected and the con* tinnal muddling of the public mind by i conventions wherein impossible and uneconomic propositions and valoriza- . 'Joe schemes are aired ventilated and i sent up in t'be air like a balloon have made the tiiaid start to sacrifice. The New Orleans convention that has just . . adjourned, which I understand was attended by hardly more than 100 men, has only served to cause greater confusion. It could do nothing and it did nothing, and the announced purpose now of having another batch o" useless meetings instead or earnest cooperative, intelligent work, while the various States are going ahead with a business-like organization back into the counties and townships to nanaie tne suitaution m a Dusinesslike manner, can only do more harm. "Let us view the situation calmly. War has absolutely paralyzed about half of the industries in this country and ihas sent the products of other industries soaring. There must be a speedy readjustment. The cotton crop, being the big thing that it is, 'has been hit heavily. The United States has ; not failed through its Democratic administration to recognize the danger ; to the Union through disaster to cot- ; iuii, anu we nave uu quicn passage i through the federal congress, without ; .substantial opposition from the Re- < publicans, legislation which 12 months < ago could not even have been sug- . gested. In a .few days that legisla- < tion will have been.enacted into law ] and the secretary c<: the treasury, < the comptroller cf the currency and j tne regional reserve Dank board will ; be in a position to begin, through the ( only channels that can be used, to < place the money in the South that will ] relieve the situation. There are as- t stirances that a sum of not less than l $300,000,000 will be thus used and the : secretary of the treasury has pointed Dut how he will require the banks to use it and how it will get into the iiands of the State bank's and thus reach ihe man below. "The vital step now in connection with the undertaking to render help through the only available channel is for the South to quickly organize and take in hand that which is its dv. 11 problem?the warehousing of cotton, in such manner, with sufficient insurance perhaps through a mutual company as suggested by Commissioner McMaster) as to make the warehouse receipt a paper that to.e secretary o;' the treasury can accept We are bending every energy now to line up this warehouse situation in. such manner as to make it of immediate use as soon as the treasury sends down the money. This means that the man who has ginned his :otton can take it to the warehouse and get his receipt. If the federal warehouse measure is finally enacted ?and it has already passed the senate and is unanimously favorably reported in the house?then the warehouse can be a man's own barn and the warehouse receipt will be some:hing that any man, whether he is inown at the bank or not, can take to the cashier's window and get his money upon it. Let the farmer get it out of his head right now that anyaody can fix a price cor cotton. All he needs to do is to borrow against his warehouse cotton about 7 or 8 :ents per pound to tide him along; and let him remember that cotton in the warehouse is still his and will be his until normal conditions have come again, .when he will probably get more for his cotton per pound than he ever did be. ore. Twenty or tweaty-tfive cents is not impossible. Reap the Harvest. "There are some tour or five million bales of cotton that nobody in the wide world can take und make ise of this year, but when the war is passed there is going to be the greatest demand for cotton that the ft'orld has ever known and the man svho now puts his cotton in the warehouse and borrows just enough to 11V6 Oil U.QU pia.Il l Uis giam tiup j.o :he man who is going to reap the iarvest. If ihe truns it over to someDody else this somebody else is going :o make the difference and ne i?. gong to sacrifice the result of his labor it less than the cost of production, [f our farmers can do this and if we can get it through their neads ihat to plant cotton next year is equivalent to committing suicide, but ;hat to plant grain, for which there will be a great world demand and .'or which they will probably get several times per acre what they ever ?ot out on' cotton, and get a crop off Defore any other portion o': the world :an do it, tnen by rouding out next pear with corn and -forage, after a rig grain crop, tne South ought to oe in a position to not only command inything that it wants 'for cotton, but be in a more independent condition :han it has ever been before in agriculture, and it won't take all the fertilizer in the world to do it. "By that time Che new reserve bank system will have been put in full operation and the circulating medium in the United States will be at teast $4,000,000,000?more than double the currency of the United States hnrinv Dm- o-nlri reserve will have been called into its proper place as a banking reserve to balance either t'.ie internationl exchange of the world or cur internal exchange. Tncother nations of the world with depleted gold reserves will want gold as they never wanted it before and pay a higher price for it, and this country, practically the South, will have entered upon, with a proper expansion of trade and extension of the markets for cotton the greatest era Oil' commercial development and prosperity the country has ever known. "But the farmer wno now owes tae banks and finds no market for cotton will say, 'What am 1 to do in the meantime? How am I to pick my crop? How am 1 to keep t'he merchant from squeezing me and putting me in bankruptcy?' Price of Seed. "The cottonseed crushing industry, because the price of oil has kept up, all the way across the cotton belt is taking care of the picking problem by announcing its intention of paying $16 a. ton for seed. That will pay tor picking the crop. The securing of an advance of even 7 cents a pound on :otton stored in warehouses will take Dare of the most pressing debts. Again everything in the South is absolutely dependent upon cotton as a result of the one-idea basis of agri?ulture we have been practicing. The farmers oo' the South have borrowed ilready against the crop some $550.)00,000 in the shape o:' advances for supplies and in the shape of fertiizers, etc. These debts are owing to :he local merchant and the local )anker. The local merchant and t'ne local bank owe the banks above, and I ^^)rink this ^ M an^b^refreshed! fSip by si enjoyme fort?a s ?a cont< Dcmanc Nicknai THE CO1 Whenever A you see an Arrow think of Coca-Cola. so it goes all the way back into Xe j York. 'None of these can afford j squeeze. Everybody is in the sar ! boat. With no market for cotton would not pay the merchant to tal the man's cotton from him and it is case of where everybody is going help each other. 'When the mom I j that the federal government can p j up is gotten into the farmers' hani | it is going into the merchants' han I and then it is going in'c ihe banli j hands and so it will go into circul I tion, with proper liquidation, as f; as it will serve. "T:.e farmer lias at his commai now leguminous crops and grain ai he does not need the enormous qua Itity of fertilizer that he has wastefu ly used heretofore. He will nave start right away to buil'd the new a riculture of the South, the balanci agriculture, and to build it intelligen ly. He will have to look to wo< ashes ana other things for his pota: and lie will ha^e to farm -with to brain and raise something to eat I home. He must raise a big grain cr< | and raise it quickly and 'let t'be crea i of the war prices that the wrold w: soon be offering for grain, and folic j that with corn. Above everything ] j must make up ihis mind that for oi j year aji leasi ne must iorgt?i mai ct| ton ever was a money crop. | 1Take it all in all, therefore, the i is no reason for panic; there is i j reason fcr sacrifice of cotton; b 'there is every reason :or toe man w] | has cottor now to 'hold that cott< i with a grip like grim death, get t | necessary advances on it in the sha , of a proper loan, avail him-self of t ; aid that the government o'i the n j tion 'has extended and let no mi ; tempt him into dumping his cott i into the hands of the spot cott I speculator. MISERS MENACE TOWN OF BUT] Threaten Destruction if Soldiers A ( ailed?Vengeance Not 'Fight. i -?" Butte, Mont., 'Aug. 31.?Mine openly threatened tonight to lay t town in asheS if either State or t" eral troops attempt to enter But j une or me miners leauws uaiai | they do not purpose to fight the s< 1 diers, but they would wreak ve I geance upon the business men f i bringing soldiers to Butte. | "We have quantities of dynami ! and oil,*' said one leader, "and t i troops 'will find ashes." I Hitherto tie majority a. the mine I have not credited we report that tl 1 militia was being mobolizetl as tj local newspaper withheld the ne\ I on request ol: business men w'ho tea ' ed that its publication would exci the miners. But today a Helena ec J tor brought an automobile load ' newspapers to Butte for sale ai i c a An hp?an rrvine the ne\ lie >> o UKSJ O o v/w W0v?i4 v 1_? 1 of the mobilization. Calls immediately went forth fro i President Muckie MacDonald and tl other leaders for a secret meetine union miners. Later a committee miners was sent to the railroad depo I I uih 5WH 3^-v* l'A A C !j Vj It' V \%Si ?0 .-^ Jw* 3 -. -. *> .Vjm3^ -i~ *t>- ^? .-/"S&fi (3 ? ' 'it; !- ; ' *_ i u t ! |gjpf7 rzere j jiffc Br Jk p here's pure Ig^ nt?cool com- ** atisfied thirst 1 silted palate. a l the genuine by full name? nes encourage substitution. CA-COLA COMPANY lTLANTA, GA. : BAD STOMACH? ae it ONE DOSE of Mayr's Wonderful Stomach Remedy a Should Convince You That Your to Suffering Is Unnecessary Ck\T ; * i b I.J riixAnlr InrfiffPfltlOlL ! Kicommcnuea u vm ui-? ........ and Stomach, Liver and Intes't~ tlnal Ailments. Thousands of people, some right in your own lo- ' gJl cality, have taken Mayr's Wonderful Stomach ' Remedy for Stomach, Liver and Intestinal j is Ailments, Dyspepsia, Pressure of Gas Around ' the Heart, Sour Stomach, Distress After EatIng, Nervousness, Dizziness, Fainting Spells, Sick Headaches, Constipation, Torpid Liver, ^ etc., and are praising and recommending it m highly to others so thai they may also know the _ joys of living. Mayr's Wonderful Stomach ill Remedy is the best and most widely known Remedy for the above ailments. Ask your drug- : ,w gist for a bottle today. Put it to a test?one dose ke should convince. It is marvelous in its healing properties and its effects are quite natural as it a? acts on the source and foundation of stomach ailments and in most cases brings quick relief t- and permanent results. This highly successful Remedy has been taken by the most prominent ?a ;? oil a.-alkq of life, among | peupic? aiivi IUVJ\? *** ? . _ . rp ! them Members of Congress, Justice of the i I Supreme Court, Educators, Lawyers, Merchants, . 20 ! Bankers, Doctors, Druggists, Nurses, Manufac- I turers. Priests, Ministers, warmers, with lasting Ut ! benefit and it should be equally successful in your i case. Send for free valuable booklet on Stomach . ao Ailments to Geo. H. Mayr. Mfg. Chemist, 154-150 3n ' Whiting Street, Chicago, 111. he For Sale in Newberry, S. C? by Gilder pe & Weeka. he ~~ ' 1 to see if the troops had arrived. cl~ The miners called another meeting an for tonight. The electric light plant on and all the larger stores were guard- j OP ' I 1 led'by many armed men, as were the j i mines. On the attic floor of t'iie court j house* there were stationed 50 guards armed wifca rifles. ^ County Attorney, J. J. .McCaffery issued a warrant for the arrest of the ; re Helena editor on a charge of inciting ! a disturbance but he had left the city. All tr.e ammunition in the hardware I TS stores has been remo ved and firing j he pins have been taken from the rifles, j ?d- _ 1 I G' Anti-BI.ease Paper Says Smith Is a j 6d Domugogue. Greenviile Peidmont. Senator Smith will make a serious or ! mistake if he take his election as a I personal triumph. He was elected ite ! because the defeat of Rlease was re- j he I : garded by many as the supreme ne, cessity. Not a few men voted for rs j him who under ordinary conditions j j would not have done so. Xot a few J Qe ! who voted for him regard nim as as | vs great a demagogue as Blease, though r" in a less offensive way. At least te one strong man stayed out of the . 'i" race tfris year because he and his friends decided that it would be best 1{* not to split the opposition vote. Jenvs nings and Pollock while they ran and did some vigorous fighting?and j ^ m j many believe Blease could not have t TifitViz-vnt thoir fiprVif hnth ! :ie own ucaicu vnuiiuui ?? j of j urged the election of Smith in prefof | erence to Blease, which had the effect ts j of concentrating support upon him. 1 I ANNOUNt We wish to ar public that we h hest repair shops > W* still h A/1 V W C VII W J. r^i u>ho has been u>it time and haue sec Spotts, a Ford ex We hate adde to-date machiner pared to do first short notice. * Mower's 1400 MAIN ST. Night Phon es! I WRIGHTSVIU North Carolina's F EVERYTHING WOI MODERN AM I Bathing - Music - Fi n ? Boating Most Popals WEEK END ANI Excursioi via Atlantic Co Standard Railroad For schedules, rates of fare, or addre IW. J. CRAIG, Pass. Traf. Mgr. ttttt n/ttvr/^nnr* I $<?<$> kni G> $> COl <S> BARBECUES. <S> vit( <8> <S> We, the undersigned, will furnish a 1 first class barbecue at Jno. A. Crom- at "'"?o TnViHnv Anarnst 28. ! at tr S UiU jJiauc uu J. i 1UU.J, - ?0 ?, 1914. gre Eddie Graham, Marvin Graft am. We will give a lirst class barberue 1 at Bethel school house, Pomaria, on soc on August 22. The services of an j cla experienced cook raave been secured j D and a fine dinner is assured. A pleas - j of and time promised. Public invited. ; bcc H. F. Counts, Sp< Caldwell Ruff. fro 50c for KVe will give a first class barbecue at _ Coi the residence of Col. D. A. Ruff on I wo: Friday, August 21. There will be dancing for the young people. The dinner will be cooked by Mr. Luke - 3 1 ' ? ? ^ ? wi n TT v?fi nV_ ! rr~ seass ana a goou umuci maj u* ^ pected. per D. B. Ruff, app F. A. Gall man. I "will give a first class barbecue at L'topia, Wednesday, August 18. Ac-j \ ^ :ement inounce to the ave one of the in the State. \r. John Nance li no cntvt/) 4 ri uo7 / vi ov/iiiV' ured Mr. Geo. 1 pert. J 1 r m d a lot of up- 1 y and are preclass work on Garage PHONE 300 37 and 103 > \ LE BEACH amous Resort ITH WHILE IN USEMENTS lL: [suing Prizes - Dancing ir Season )SUMMER i Fares ' _| ast line ! of the South 1 etc., see ticket agents, I !SS, | T. C WHITE, 7 f. Gen. Pass. Agent m N, N. C. | ~?y Pledged as one of the best in the ! >nty. The ladies are especially in^^^jj ed- , A W I. Herbert. 1 ftrc will give a first class barbecue \ Pomaria on Saturday, August 22, which the governor and the con issional candidates will SDeak. ( Caldwell Ruff, H. C. Counts. "he Rural School Improvement as- J iation of Smyrna will give a first fl ss barbecue at the home of Alex * Hudson on the 28th of August. One the best cooks af the county has :n secured. All trains will stop at ' ?arman's enabling parties to attend m any point on Southern. Prices, for men, 40c for women, and 25c children under 12 years of age. i np t a srnod meal and heln a M rthy cause. M 4 1 TEACHER WANTED 1 'or Tranwood school. Salary $40 month. Term eight mon:hs. Send ilication to Geo. A. Epting, J. Robert Long, Oscar H. Abrams, Newtrrry, S. C., R. F. D. 3.