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tyz jtrnlB and ^cea 1 - ; """ ~ Catered &t the Po?iuflice at >?* f r **rry9 S. as inid elass matter. \ X % I E. H. A ILL, EDITOR, Tuesday, February 18, 1919 j . ; 'f . ?? ? The big after war problem is the : education of the masses of the people. .> The legislature should not i>e niggard;]y in its appropriations for the com mon schools. Any differences that may I exist in the heads of departments * should not interfere with the proper _ \ and adequate support of the schools. " We notice that there has been a lit, tie criticism of the State superintenI dent of education and that there is a , controversy on between him and the rrepstftsnr. for teachers and some critf icism of Mr. Swearingen by members / i of the legislature, we ao noi Know ;; .of the differences but the point is well i taken that whatever these differences fi the legislature should give ample sup-1 ' port for the common schools and the proper training of the children. There can be no doubt of the fact that Mr. Swearingen is inclined to be f dictatorial and has little patience , v with any one who may dare to differ with him. There is no doubt also ? that he is well informed as to the schools. He is a man of very strong a tn tliAinrTit thof prejudices iiuu we ua>c iuvub>.v v??.v ;tat times lie was governed more in his factions by his prejudice than by bis j judgment, but even these things .(should not interfere with the proper support from the legislature of the . schools of the State. There is no more important act of the legislature than the rural graced school law and there is no law thai has done as much to help the education of t?e cffildren in the rural districts. There is a proposition we understand to amend this act so as to give aid to schools that have an average attendance of 30 pupils even if the enrollment does not reach 50 as now required, That seems to us to be a good amendment. We have often thought and said that it seems to us that the tendency was to give too much attention and e hilt that is zuoue> lux ouj^i iwivu) true in other matters as well. It is not supervision so much as work that is needed. People to do things rather than to supervise the doing. A VISIT HOME. When I remarked to-a friend the other day that I had spent a day at the old home he very promptly said, "Well, I know what we will have in the next issue. There will be a dias.. ^-i? *Kirt tribe (ne aian i exacujr oaj uat, that is what he really meant) about 'roads and their condition and the^ necessity^ of the use of the ^plit log drag." Well, I ,told him he was about ' correct, and I do not know anything of greater importance befo?fe the peo* -* AT--- fr\/^o-rr than thp irh pie Ul UU3 CiiakC ivun; uum> , provement of the puOiic roads.. And about the only way to get the improvement or for that matter any other improvement is to keep up the agitation and constantly tell the people what is needed. It will after a while awaken their conscience and the improvement will come.. It was years of agitation before I could get any one - *? - ? * ji even to look at a split log arag anu | while the old gentleman is not used as much as it Should be, yet there has been one good result from the use of the drag. And so we must keep on writing and talking about better roads and the results of our efforts even if the effort is only talk, will come after awhile. I don't know a better sor' f vice I could do the people of this i county than to hejp even in a smr-.ll way to get better foads ana improveu schools in the country districts and I have labored many years for both. And, by the way, to go a little out of the way, I understand, in fact I am ? icid by Supervisor Sample, who was in Columbia on Friday, that the State highway engineer will be-in Newberry -on Thursday to lay out the new road from Newberry to Prosperity, so as to avoid all grade crossings of the railroad. And, better still, Mr. Sample says that all the freeholders whbse und will be used for the new road have about agreed to submit the matter of valuation to arbitration and rley have selected Mr. John Cousins z and the supervisor has selected Mr. L. \\\ Floyd to assess the damage to the U;nd by the making of this new road. And that the money which was paid '<)> the automobile tax or the part that is coming 10 ^ewuen j ?mu auu nUai. little we get from the federal governjvrtnt will be used on this road and t is to be made a real road and then ir the people will just keep it up and < he road is made v/ide enough there nill be some pleasure in traveling be'ween the two towns. In fact, it will just like one town to have a fine ; !ghway connecting the two. And I Lope to see this road made good and vide all the way from the Lexington line to the Laurens line and then some. But, what I started out to write was * # that when our boy came up from the camp and with his discharge from the sorvice I decided that the first place he should go was to see his two grandparents, who are living, so I arranged for that trip on last Tuesday. Ana I took my two American boys and their mother and Mrs. Alice Boozer and her little daughter Carlton and so you see we had quite a little part of the immediate family a&d then after we arrived Bachman and hi? wife came and along with them was Mrs. Nancy Matthews, who is also a relative. But I didn't hook up 111, but went on the train to Dyson. We w$re met by Mr. Thomas Price, the son of a neighbor, Mr. E. J. Price, who has but recently moved into that community, but Mr. Price had a car and he was kind enough to come down and take us out and then also to bring us DacK to tne station in tne evening. It was very kind of him but he did it in such /nice and courteous manner that I am sure he enjoyed the opportunity of being of service to ' sump nr?A of his neighbors. I I i We spent a very pleasant day. Had a good dinner. All home raised food. And home cooked. And the old folks in good health and good spirits and lively. Mother was 87 the January just gone, but she was lively and just as full of good cheer as she has al ways been. Father 83 and in good health and still looking after his farm and running his mill. They have been greatly blessed and we are very thankful. Not blessed with great wealtii of money and lands but greater than that, with good health and long life. I hope some day before very long to get all of the immediate family together a^ the old home while the parents are living. If would not be so difficult if they had the mind to gather, because they are not so numerous. 9 j . . The road from Dyson to the old home is not so bad as I have seen it at this season of the year. But it could be greatly improved by just a 1 TOnrlr T can that Qonatrtr iXtCIU TV VI XX* A. BVV VUMb (WTVMMVV* *>*w Ghee is passing some sort of ro&d law for Greenwood county. It is a good thing, but if the people would just use the split log drag we would have a great deal better lot of roads than we have. There was a time not.! so many years ago when it was the j . common talk that the Qreenwood i J county roads were better phan the Newberry roads^ but I do not believe 'that holds good at this time. Taken all around and over the county, I believe that Newbejry roads will compare favorably with the other counties hereabout, but that is not saying thpy ,are anything like what they should be< - ; ! - . - ^ ?#1 m T? T>:?V T 4-^1^ Ko I mr. 1. JT. AlUUaiUdUU a wao tuiu uau started to work on the bridge at the Saluda and when he gets it fixed up good and safe and the road leading up to it worked out then it will be a much nicer trip through the country than on the train. There should be a new railing put up along the edges of the portion of the bridge across the river as well as a new approach built. I believe that is the part that the y J railroad is expected to keep up. This is a very important road as it is the direct route that connects Newberry and Greenwood and there should be good road all the way between the two cities. i ?' | I could not help recalling the fight I had a good many years ago with the railroad commission and Superintendent Williams of the Southern railway in an effort to get a station or waiting room built at Dyson for the accommodation of those #ho had to wait on trains and the room that was nnany bunt, wen, 11 is mere : but about all that it serves is to keep I you out of the weather and that 4s a | good deal, "fhere is a stove in the i room, but yoji have to build your own fires and get up your own wood. On this Tuesday evening it was rather cold and a clever and polite and courteous colored man offered to make up a fire and we did not suffer from the cold. But it is a great deal better than, no accommodation at all, to have even this*room. % ! If I had known that my friend# Mr. George T. >Reid was dead. I cetainly would have run over to pay my tribute to him. It is only a short distance from the old home. But somehow I did not hear of his death until the Wednesday morning arter our return from Dyson. Chappells will not seem the ^same without v im to those of us Wrlirk Viovo Vmon orftirnr ' t Vi oro fnr Kfl ?* iiv UUT w J5V/4AAQ W4AVA V *w* MV many years. He was a good citizen. E. H. A, ? J * i XOTICE. I A charge of $2.50 will t>e made hereafter for er.eh and every carcase of mule, horse or cow turned at the incrinerater of the town. By order of the committee. O. S. Lindler, Health Officer. > I Plant Less Cot A / The South is now in a position which might be called "cotton poor;" that is to say, it has large % stocks of Cotton on hand costing considerably more I than present market values to product and for which there is seemingly no demand except at these sacrifice prices. Although there are sound fundamental reasons why cotton should not be as low as the pres** l i-i.:..-? fn Ko in nn Ieni raarKet quotations, jet m uiuw iv ?v *** vn. WSv safe side^it is good policy not to raise the usual croj5 of cotton in 1919?then the world will be sure to take the cotton it can get and pay the Southern farm Small Crops Brii \ Every one knows that small crop years yield more money. In individual cases this might not be so, because one farmer or one section of the farming Qf ofd moriVif Via VP a Til in Oil S If CUUiitl^ VI CVCII a WUViC UtMVU 1115x11 w i*vr ? w ? ? ly short crop. *In this event they would have to suffer while more fortunate individuals in other sections / would benefit. But as a general rule when a crop is short everybody makes more money. It is easy to see that ten bales of cotton at $150 a bale will yield more net profit than twenty bales at $75 a bale. Don't Put All Your Rv euttincr down vour cotton acreage you need " "" \ N not reduce your land under cultivation. A farmer's business is to farm, and every acre he can make productive adds that much more to the wealth of the world. But a farmer's business is also a business and he should not run it at a loss. Many people never realize that the average cotton farmer's situation is something like this: He borrows money, pays rent and either gives his own labor and that of his family . ' or hires labor to work enough land that will produce say ten bales of cotton. Usually by the end of the season either through bad weather conditions or because of boll weevil activity, or because of rainy weather during the picking season, or a scarcity of cotton pickers, his ten bales are reduced to eight bales. Now taking 30c a pound as the market price t for mttnn. -we find that of this eight bales four bales I ' - v . - : ... ... will be good enough grade to'bririg the full market price of 30c a pound, or a total of $600. The other four bales, because of bad weather during picking or carelessness of pickers, or various other reasons, might average say 18c a pound, $90 a bale, or $360 for four bales, or a total of $960 for his whole year's Hold the Cotton You / (Every well posted cotton man knows that cotton costs more to produce than the present market quo tation. Some authorities state that the 1918. cotton crop would be cheap at 35c. However this may be, the holders of spot cotton should hold their cotton until the demand for it will enable them to get back . I at least the greater part of the production cost. England has just lifted the embargo on cotton. ' France and Italy are expected to do so. The ocean freight rates have just been reduced and the export demand x ?-11 J~Jww*z*1tt Tf ic ovnopforl fliaf fViP I Will UtJVCIUp lmuicuiab^xjr . JL4, iu vaj/wwu vuwv Peace Treaty will be signed soon?-as early as the first part of March. This being the case, the Central European nations will be in the market for large sup How Bankers, Merchants, ( Business Men Can Help tl Do not let the South lose its prosperity. Do not let it go back to its economic slavery of past years. Help this big idea of holding the 1918 cotton and planting less cotton in 1919 by talking it to* everybody. You can help immediately and practically by sending a subscription for whatever amount you feel you can afford to further this propaganda. A few dol I I The sixteen million bale crop season of 1911-12 I brought the Southern farmer- only $810,000,000, 1 * whereas the eleven millon nine hundred thousand bale crop of the season of 1917-18 brought a total of $1,667,000,000?Secretary Hester's figures. * Texas has already agreed to reduce the acreage ii other cotton States are doing the same. South Carolina grower must agree and carry out to the letter his agree) finds out that there is over-production the output less than the cost. ' X I * ^..v . - . ; . ' TB :ton This Year L &r a rpmiuiprativp nrirp for raisin? it. Do not flood flD the market with more than the market will absorb. " V Any manufacturer when he sees that he cannot sell 1 the stock of goods that he ha3.on hand immediately curtaijs his production. Farmers are manufacturers and tKey can apply the same principles on a smaller scale. If in 1919 every farmer will cut his normal cotton acreage by one-third he will get more } X money for his crop and get paid at least the cost price ^ for any 1918 cotton he might have on hand, which ? * j % is now quoted below the cost of production. u tig More Money n The total value is the same, but the cost of handling,. I of making, of picking, etc., is twice for twenty bales^ J as it is xor ten. rne same ruie applies iu an uupa. ? The slogan for 1919 should be, "Make a small crop ?. and sell it for more than it cost to raise." It is time I for the Southern farmer to quit doing business at I a loss. In any other line of industry when the man- pjU ager finds that he is losing money he quits and tries 1 something else. It is good business and common ? sense to cut down your cotton acreage wh?n you are 1 M losing money on what you made the year before. || Eggs In One Basket I crop. This farmer started out to make ten bales of K cotton worth $1,500. Yet his gross income dwindled" " li down to $960. The Southern farmers are certainly J: m entitled to at least 30c a pound for their cotton under I J present conditions, and they should get it. K Jk . Diversification of crops is a common sense policy for a farmer. If your cotton crop goes wrong, you k ^ have your corn, your cattle-, your hogs, or other 1 < crops. During 1919 you will make more money by I cutting your usual cotton acreage and putting more land into feed and food crops., Plant corn. Feed it to the hogs, if necessary. The minimum base price of ?17.50 per hundred pounds, Chicago basis, as e&- ; tablished by U. S. Food Administration for hogs, will probably remain in effect several months. Even \ when this price restriction is removed there will be L uv money in hogs. ^Europe is short of fats, and it will A be a long while before pork gets so cneap as to de ^ unprofitable to the raiser. Europe needs foocL Eu- f i ! rope is not in a position to raise a big crop in 1919, or . : even next year. America must help feed her. Plant some of your.land in feedstuffs and foodstuffs, then you will be helping to both feed and clothe the world and make a reasonable profit for yourself. - ' < '1 ' ' ' ? ? lsr r:: Now Have On Hand - H a 4 i i ?mi i. _ j_i y / plies of cotton. American sxocks win oe me oniy available source of supply. Cotton will never again go down to its old levels. And it never should, be- ^ J cause the South will not go back to the conditions of j economic slavery that has existed for generations. Its young men and women will leave the farm and go to the city unless' farm life is made attractive 1_ L.u an, in -txri 11 Vionnan unlocc ? enougn tu nuiu tjidn* mo wm nut umvkik/ the laborer is paid the hire he is worthy of. Hold i, your cotton. The banks and merchants can easily I finance it. There is more money in Southern banks 1 than ever before. Do not be frightened by paper I prices achieved by "bear" speculators who are selling short in the market. Hold your cotton and let \ x the spinners pay you at least what it costs to produce. # Cotton Men, Farmers and ' he 3outh Stay Prosperous lars* spent in publicity will save hundreds of millions S for the South. We want the moral support of every E business man in the South, and of course the finan- B cial aid will be appreciated. This advertising is paid I^H for by public-spirited business men and cotton men throughout the South. Talk high prices?hold your. Ifl| cotton, decrease your own acreage, get others to do SVb likewise, help keep the South prosperous. | ^ We would advise all producing interests not to use I the future cotton market as a hedge against spot cot- , I ton because in the present position of the contract 8 moylrof if ia r>nf lPOfitfmatft hedCTG. j ft illUl I1V V XW J.KJ AAV V V* 4VQ-W-?? ? 0 f ^ , \ a cotton this year at least one-third. Georgia and the i must join in and the victory is won. Every cotton ment. When the mills or any other manufacturing ccnt is cut down. It would be suicidal to grow cotton for * * ' t > ' '* '^