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COTTON MEN PLAN DRASTIC MEASURES Wanna maker Would Organize Gigantic Corporation.?Will Reduce Acreage. Thp Stafp J. Skottowe Wannamaker, president of the American Cotton association, last night outlined the program of action which he will ask the big cotton meeting to be held in Columbia on Wednesday, August 25, to adopt. Every other state in the cotton belt will be asked to fololw suit. The program calls for the formation of an export trading corporation with a capital stock of 1,000,000 bales of cotton, all "stock to be paid in cotton; the retirement .f 25 per cent, of the growing crop from the market; a most drastic reduction in the acreage of the 1921 crop; the adoption of a plan of cooperative ~ * * xi. . marketing; prohibition 01 ine imputation of oriental, oils and taking of steps looking to legislation requiring that all cotton be classed upon American classification. The meeting in Columbia on Wednesday promises to be one of the most largely attended cotton meetinopc orer in the South and a de finite concrete program of action to be followed by the people of the South in their fight for a fair price for their cotton will be adopted. Mr. Wannamaker announced yesterday that he would submit the following recommendations to each state division: Export Trade Body. 1-1 j.; ?ovnnrt TV9 H ir.f r ormauun ujl an 0 corporation for the purpose of trading in Europe, the stock of which is to 'be paid in cotton. "I shall ask/' said Mr. Wannamaker, "that 1,000,000 bales of cotton be subscribed in the stock of this corporation and that each of the cotton producing states take its proportionate share. South Carolina raises approximately one-twelfth of the cotton crop. South Carolina's share of this stock would therefore be between 75,000 and 80,000 bales of cotton. Central Europe is in desperate need of cotton "and this is tKe only possible way that we can get cotton into central Europe. Every bale of cotton /we remove from the market will increase the value of the remaining cotton and in furnishing * central Europe with raw cotton"-we will enable them to enter our market in combination against the combine which is now kiijing ? s. "Second, I shall ask the cotton belt to retire 25 per cent, of the growing croD in the following manner: Each state will retire its proportionate share of the growing crop. This will require South Carolina to retire one> ? in fr < (Essex Ca New and The first test of an a can continent was mac And it resulted in ests nental record both wa The performance w speed and automobile torist. For it removes TYie\c?4- cinrl lliuot uiuivuiv uttu . Records Prove 1 Owners Kno Ocean to ocean aul travel has not become mon as not to be of in all motorists regardles time required in mak trip. Jiundrecis 01 car: sought to set new time between San Franci New York. But it ' been an easy accompl The records broken b had stood for four yea Your demands can n those made in the trs nental trip. But you equal reliance of y( whatever the service i Light weight has me nomy of operation in oil. It has not par 1- ? mtJciHL iexiauxiiL.), ciui Main Street I [twelfth of 25 per ccnt. of the grow- i j ing crop. My plan for retiring this j 1 cotton is as follows: Retire Portion of Crop. 1 j "The producer is to warehouse this; ] j cotton and turn the warehouse re- i 1 ceipt over to a -bank to 'be designated J j ' by the South Carolina division of the [ < i t : ^AH fsfiid ( American vunuu a^ut.muv?., ~?. j bank to give the producer a trust re- j < I ceipt for his warehouse receipt, said 11 trust receipt be^jg redeemable in j July, 1921, so that under no condition j ( | will it be possible to sell the cotton ; ] ; before July, 1921; the bank holding i j j the trust receipt to discount same for 1 ( 1 r?o?->Q -rivm-iovf ion i { I tne producer m uic ? , he would make a loan on the cotton.;.] , This will enable us to easily retire j 1 j from the market 25 per cent, of the t : best grades of cotton which is des- j j i perately needed by the world. , j j "We must drastically reduce the j 1021 acreage. I shall request each , < j state association to appoint commit-j. 1 tees in every county and township to : j ! secure pledges (oledges are frequent- j ly not worth the paper tiiey are writ- j ten on), but legally executed, written : and binding contracts, assuring the j reduction of the cotton acreage of 50 j per cent. The contract will permit j the remeasuring of the cotton acre-1 ( ~ " 1 1, {age planted and it it is iounu uu uc ; v. j more than 50 per cent, the owner per-12 I mits the destruction of his cotton ! j ! down to 50 per cent, and also lays : j himself to violation of contracts. The :s j acreage so reduced will be planted in j c food and feed crops. The world needs ' * an enormous increased production at!f profitable prices of food and feed T crops. I am firding ready coopera-! * tion for this plan throughout the 1 * ? J "w vannacfincr of the ^ O O U (.11 ?111U dill lUlUV-OVK't, , governors to issue a proclamation in- c dorsing same. c Bears Short Sighted. "The organization of bears in its < greed seems to forget that if its ef- i , forts are successful the disastrous result will not be confined to the South alone. They boast that we will not be able to finance our cotton crop and for this reason will be forced to sell it regardless of price. This is: the most costly cotton crop ever pro- duced. Prices quoted .today mean financial bankruptcy I am requesting j every state to appoint a committee I of its most able men from its agrij cultural and commercial life, num: bering among these its able financiers I -fnr flip nnrnnsp of iointlv meeting with the representatives from every state for a conference with represen-, tatives of the governors of the fed- } eral reserve banking system and rep- j resentatives of various of the leading financial institutions of the country! so that arrangements can be made, for financing this crop. "I shallJ earnestly recommend the j adoption of a plan of cooperative i 1 H M rrying U. S. Mail Bet r York It Sets a Mark for C Reliability Never Equaled .utomobile carrying U. S. Mail acj le with the light weight, moderat iblishing the Essex as holder of 1 ys. hile of momentous importance ii sportsmanship?is of greater va all doubt about the reliability of hardest road service. ?Vhat maintenance, p comfort. W ;omobile Doesn't. terestTo What Yo s of the - "Rnf rp\ lllg me ? - v costly car quali 3 have als? of its adva records You have the sco and to 45,000 ownei has not to the Essex, ishment. you ftaVe off y Essex 50 hours ^ rs. formance as to ot equal You have its r< msconti- miles in 24 hour require try roads. >ur car And now you imposed. coveted of all ] ^ant eco- the transcontin fuel and made by four ticularly Can you hesitz lomy of for Essex? marketing as prepared by a commit-, tio "ee of experts representing every j to state in the belt. I shall also urge , va ;hat steps be taken to have measures j scl put into effect to stop the importa-! ra1 ' -l i _ "i _ rri. _ ; 1 _ ! , :ion 01 oriental ons. lnese ons aru j*.?.-j largely unfit for human food and; at ome in competition with cotton seed j to >il and enable the coolie laborer of: sh< ;he tropics to compete on equal terms i Se ,vith the American farmer. I 19 "Other recommendations will in-j ^ :*lude legislation looking to the col-1 . - j- ? 1 r\ 4- ( sal .eiruon ui ?u cents jjei utiie cti uic gui i ror putting into' effect and force I economic reforms in the handling Ia^] ind marketing of the cotton cropji^j egislation requiring that all cotton j" e >e classed upon American classifica-1 :ion and the fixing of a minimum ! Pu. )rice for cotton and cotton seed." | ^ ! 17 Subscribe to The Herald and News,! J he] ?2.00 a year. ! ^jr ? j scj. MOTICE OF SPECIAL SCHOOL Ida' ELECTION IN BUSH RIVER | be' SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 43. ! n0 The State of South Carolina, aft County of Newberry. wh Whereas, a written petition or re- \ or luest made and signed by at least ( I cCi" >ne-third of the resident electors and ; ~ ^ i like proportion of the resident free- j lolders of the age of 21 years of | an( school district No. 43 of Newberry i ma :ounty, the State oi; South Carolina, j ' laving been amy presented 10 us re- or guesting us to order an election sub- Bo nitting to the qualified voters or elec.ors of said school district the ques;ion of issuing and selling coupon jonds' of said school district, pay- Trible to bearer, aggregating the sum j < )f two thousand and four hundred I ;$2,400) dollars, in such denominammmmmm&mBBRmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmnmBmm Car of Sugar J IN BARRELS AND 10 A good many of our requesting that we let tl could sell them a larg( have been selling .them the present able to sup] GET OUR Summer I ^ 1 1A| is |! X , ireaks Re ween San Francisco an Consistency of Performam [ by Any Traveling Machir ross the Ameri- ??e priced Essex. nDCT ,, . , FIRST the trans-contiSan Fra ?4 day 1 the World Of Lowers lue to the mo- min. light weight in ; SECON1 New Yo er^ormance or ?4 da5 Lowers min. It Prove u Want? THIRD San Fra -eals how those 4 daities are a part Delayed .ntages. - I ^ay ^rToa ing nc* praise of close i rs, to guide you fourt , ? New Yc Lcial records of c j. . ?5 aa> op speed perits reliability. Th*s ?;ai acord of 1061 s on Iowa coun- by 11 h have this most The av? oerformances? of the ! ental record? ^47 different cars. sTmi ite in deciding l Compai AL&ii JL r ns as we may deem necessary, not j ? exceed 4 per cent, of the assessed | "" luation of the property of said 100I district for taxation, bearing a I e of interest not exceeding 6 per \ it. per annum payable annually, j such times as we may deem best, ?j ' -1 - - J i 1. determine wnetner sain uuims g ill be issued or not as provided in B ction 1743 of Volume I of the Q 12 Code of Laws of said state; and g ereas, we, the trustees of said | 100I district have had a survey of i d school district made by Neely J. i omer, a' competent surveyor, and 8 tViprpnf made and filed in the ice of the clerk of the court for 0 wberry county, in said state. ?2 Now, be it resolved, That for the |3 rpose of determining: the issue of |j d bonds as authorized in Section H 43 of Volume I of the 1912 Code g Laws for said state, an election is H re by ordered to be held at or near g . M. M. Satterwhite's home in said 100I district, on Saturday, the 11th ra jr of September, 1920, the polls to |j opened at 7 o'clock in the fore- ? on, and closed at 4 o'clock in the m :ernoon, on tne question uj. h ether such bonds shall be issued a not, in which election only quali- j| .i voters or electors residing in said S 100I district shall be allowed to w W. T. Buford, J. R. Longshore j| 3 J. T. Senn are hereby appointed R nagers of such election. 0 The ballot cast must have written B printed on it the word "For jg nds" oi- "Against Bonus." tC. G. Johnson, |j L.. C. Singley, ^ F. M. Satterwhite, ^ iistees of School District No. 43 pj i>f Newberry County, the State ol* H South Carolina. ? j August 26, 1920. g ust Received I 0 POUND SACKS |j| friends have been j hem know when we , J 3r amount than we i . We are now -for j Dly such customers. PRICES ?. I Iros. Co. |j ? i i erica id 1 :e | le I ESSEX if ncisco to New York -t s, 14 hrs., 43 min. ^ Record 12 hrs-? 48 jw D ESSEX |; rk o San Francisco t*j rs, 19 hrs., 17 min. d Record 22 hrs., 13 ESSEX n ncisco to New York j rs, 21 hrs., 56 min. -j by storms and Sund congestion enter7 York. H ESSEX | irk to San Francisco rs, 6 hrs., 13 min. took a longer route j i ran into storms. Yet b s the former record || ours, 19 minutes. ? srage time for each , ?] Four Essex cars over ti iles Ocean to Ocean fe as 4 days, 21 hours, I: ! i mmmamm?mmm?mammammmmmm* fa ly || iberry, S. C. ?v t maun? ww?I?ii ADDRESS ( Tn flip Hpninmi 1 V 111V &/VI1IWW1MI In view of the fact that I missed a number of campaign meetings, being absent from the State in attendance upon the Democratic National Convention at San Francisco where I was a member of the Committee on Platform and Resolutions and consequently did not have an opportunity to meet my fellow-citizens of South Carolina face to face and give ' 1 wtr inem tin uccuunt ui my ?ardship in Washington, I have determined to issue this ad. dress to the people. I have been a farmer all my life and in common with the farmers I have had a struggle to make ends meet and I have no large fund at my service that permits me to send others . -C vilnnn 1i uii1 jjiuuc lu a\x t my reclection to the senate. If reelected it must be upon my record alone. In considration of the services rendered by me to the agricultural interests of my State and the South, I was elected to the senate twelve an aimnr vcaia a^u. vn vt\.i j I have stressed with all the force in me legislation for the benefit of the agricultural interests. Briefly referring to some of the measures which I have advocated and had passed in the interest of the agricultural classes are: Agriculture.: (1) Smith Cotton Futures Act, preventing the depression of prices by the tender of valueless cotton on contracts. (2) Standardization of Cot ton Grades, l co-operarea m securing this very essential legislation. (3) Government comparison of various grades of cotton,, showing much greater discrepancy in price than there is difference in actual value. (4) Resolution calling on diplomatic and consular representatives of the United States abroad to furnish information as to the needs and demands for American cotton in their respective countries and the best methods of supplying it. (5) Government cotton reports. v (6) Census Department to furnish number of bales of spinnable cotton and number of bales of unspinnable cotton cn hand. This prevented the ; counting of unspinnable cotton "in the carry-over reports. (7) I led the fight which prevented cotton price fixing during the war with the result that it was defeated. /q\ M;?TTn<W ~ /the Smith bill, originated, introduced and sponsored by me, "the government has constructed a huge nitrate plant at Mussel Shoals, Alabama, for the manufacture of nitrogen from the air. This plant is practically complete and this fall will turn out one hundred and sixty thousand tons (160,000) of 45 per cent, pure nitrates, which being reduced 1,0 the percent- ; age of nitrate of soda wil! amount to 480,000 tons. This ' TI T- _ ~ 1 -1 J _Ll ^ output Wlli De SOIQ 10 Llie -Liirmers at cost at a saving of millions of dollars to them. I am also the originator and author of the law by which ni- < trate of soda was purchased and sold to the farmers at cost during the war. The Congressional Record will amply substantiate this statement in every respect. This law brought prices down from $110 and $120 per ton to $75.00 per ton, thereby saving the farmers millions of dollars. If it had not been for this piece of legislation there is no telling where the price would have soared. (9) Immediately upon the signing of the armistice I secured the lifting of the embargo on potash from Germany, enabling the farmers to secure this year a partial supply at a more reasonable cost. (10) I am the author of the amendment to section 13 of the New Banking and Currency Act, whereby the farmers secured six months time on agricultural paper as against ninety days on commercial paper. 1 Phis puts the farmer on an equal footing with other businesses and enables him to secure the proper credit for* the holding and marketing of his crop. (11) I co-operated in the passage of the Farm Loan Act, . an Act which placed farm lands for the first time in the history of this country where it was possible for farmers to use their land as an asset on easy terms to make them pay " i "? 1" 1. ! _ a. ior memseives wnne supporting his family and helping to support his State. By virtue of my services in the senate I was ranking member of the Interstate Commerce Committee and on the death of Senator Newlands I became I Chairman Conservation F ? 1. 1 V i Agriculture ana forestry. Ranking Democratic Memb tures. A Member of Geolo 3F SENATOR E. I !ic Voters of the State of S< Chairman It was under my t leadership at the request of the t President that the railroads, a telegraph, telephone and cable ( ? i j j 1 i lines were turned over 10 me i government during- the war. i While serving as Chairman '< of this Committee I discovered that.the iack of growth of the * commerce of the Southern ports in comparison with the' * Eastern and Northern ports was not due to natural causes ] but to the discrimination of the 1 railroads in their rates to the 1 various ports and the discrimi- * nation of the government in the matter of appropriations t for drv docks and harbor < improvements since the Civil J War. The country does not ? realize that the government in 1 the last 50 ye?rs has expended 1 for naval stations and harbor < improvements north of Hatteras, a distance of roughly 750 * miles, nearly $700,000,000, 2 1- -1 - ? ^ /v -C TT /> wn rt a <4ir* 4 wnne b'UUcil uj. xxiitLcicus, u uiatance of over 2,000 miles, only t 870,000,000. t The North Atlantic has 18 dry docks; the South Atlantic and Gulf has one, a ^mall one, at Charleston. During the past session of Congress, two bills were introduced by Republican Senators which would discontinue the appropriation for the deepening of the channel at Charleston, and the -construction of a tremendous dry dock at that place. It was by my efforts in the Senate that these ,* bills were not pressed and. the work in Charleston is now going on. While I was Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee and the railroads were under the control of the government, I.instituted and led the - * nt if . n tight with ctner soutnern senators for an equalization of import, export and domestic rates with other sections of the coun- J trv. I was successful in this ^ fight. Since the roads have been re- j turned to private ownership they have sought to re-establish the old discriminatory rates against Southern ports. I intend to keep on with the fight to prevent this and at the Democratic National Convention I '3 wrote and had incorporated in the platform that piank which j pledges the party to stand for equality of rate5;, both import and export, for the ports of the country, to the end that there might be adequate and fair facilities and rates for the mobilization of> the products of the country offered for shipment. The equalization of freight 1 rates, import, export and domestic, and equal harbor facili- < ties mean more than anything else in the * rejuvenation and expansion of the direct foreign s trsde of Southern manufactur- ( ers and Southern ? products ] through Southern ports. I have < taken a leading part-in secur- ] ing the allocation of ships by 1 the Shipping Board to South- 1 ern ports and have 'had considerable success. i With the increase in our foreign trade, the South will be able to .take advantage of the opportunities offered, with its consequent prosperity. It is not generally known that most of the larger cities of the Middle West are closer to the port of Charleston and other Southern ports than to the port of New York. In this connection, while discussing transportation, I might say that while ranking member of the Postoffice and Post Rnnrfs f!nmmit.tr<v T rnllnhorat ed and fought through with " Senator Bankhead and others I the Good Roads Act which ap- 1 propriated $200,000,000 for : the government to co-operate ( with the States in the construc- J tion of good roads. The construction of good roads is one ( of the greatest needs which confront the people of this J btate as well as the country at j large, and I pledge myself for j the future as in the past, to 1 fight for any- proper measure which will lead to the construc- ; tion of better roads. One of the very many evils J that resulted from the Civil * War was our financial condition under the Banking and Cur- 1 rency Act of 1863. This system was in effect up to the time of the present Democratic Ad fy*o_ * IIllIlii>Li CblLKJll. JL CllIHO XXV quent and the victims of these panics were the weak and unbefriended. In 1913 was passed the Federal Reserve Act, the greatest constructive picce of - ' legislation enacted since the J Civil War. This Act, together with the Farm Loan Act, was * passed by virtue of a direct personal appeal of President * Wilson to representatives and senators who were friendly to J him. With this measure, as c well as every other measure, I 1 voted with the President and ' did all in my power to secure National Resources. Ranking Ranking Democratic Membei er Patents. Ranking Democr, gical Survey. A Member of F XSMIiH i juth Carolina | J he passage of these Acts. As ^ he result of these measures $ ' vhieh enabled the South to m capitalize of its resources, the I >ank deposits in the South have is* ncreased 900 per cent, as ?| igainst the Eastern and Wes- j| .era sections' increase of about if $00 per cent. These measures jj^ spelled the financial emancipa :ion of the South. While the Federal Reserve 8 3ank measure was pending, I ? 'ealized that for the Act to |j lave a direct benefit for the j| Agricultural classes, agricul- a ;ural paper must b& recognized 1 ;he same as commercial paper 8 md that six months' time I should be given that paper as igainst the 90 days given com- h nercial paper. It takes six 1 nontns for the farmer to pro- ? luce an asset to meet his liabil- j$ ties and anv shorter time than | his period given his paper was i mockery of him. I introduced and secured the incorpora;ion in the law my amendment ;o Section 13, whereby agricultural papjer is made the basis :or the issuance of Federal fte erve notes and is given six nonths' discount. v. While Chairman of the Imnigration Committee of the senate I introduced the bill and ed the fight which resulted in ;he passage of the Smith-Burlett Immigration Law. This is ;he law in effect now. It was, by/ far, more restrictive than sven its best friends thought '^ possible to accomplish. I beieved then and believe now :hat the influx of undesirable immigrants to America was a ; Aworipan >uurce ui uan^ui uv/ abor by the competition of iglorant foreigners, used to a ow standard of living. Fur:hermore, I believe that the ilass now coming in is doing nuch to undermine the princi- f ?les and institutions of our government. I am always anxious and eager to push a*id sup- | Dort any bill which only lets ;he desirable immigrant come ^ n and leaves America for Americans. f c? ^ By virtue of my service in ;he senate I am now at the top h }f several very important com mittees, among them the Com- 4 p rcittee on Interstate Commerce,, |j and the Committee on Agricul- I :ure, and with the coming vie- ^ tcry of the Democratic party, ' ^ if I am re-elected, I will be I Chairman of the Committee on | (Ygricuiture, tne committee k which controls all appropria- fj ;ions and measures pertaining 3 .uo the agricultural interests of II :he nation. fl 4* A study of my record and tj accomplishments will disclose that I have been responsible I. ^ cor much economic legislation ... $Pj and that it ail tends to giving ^ If jvery section a fair show and I. prevents the discrimination' of I jne or two sections against the || rest of the country by cruel 19 and arbitrary laws. It is by ;||| virtue of some of these laws ivhich I have had passed, that ' ;he South has been enabled to jantake in so large a measure )f the prosperity engendered by ;he war. I have served the people and ny party with a zeal and fidelity since my election to the senite. By reason of the wisdom * )f the South in keeping its men ? T Viniro r> nm m II tut: aciiabc x uaiv ippointments and high rank ;herein which could not be se- ' :ured other than by a long ;erm of service. These places \ sgj vould be lost to South Carolina >y a change at this time. The ;ime is approaching when the jj ight is to be waged by the Rejublicans and other reactionar- ? es to return to the pre-war and )re-democratic administration )f the financial system and the * ?|? :onduct of the government f(5r ;he special interests. I have experience in the senate, I have T lu?vc? inflnprpp and I Is . 1 It JL i*v. T V V ? v., im in position in this crucial # period to render more effective service to the people than I lave ever rendered. Experience and training are great issets in politics as well as an business, and every man, farmer, banker, merchant, lawyer 1 md laboring man is paying his noney for service in the senate, and I am in a better posi;ion to render satisfactory service to my constituents than my of my opponents, however j| ible they may be. g In conclusion, I wish to* call ( ;o the attention of the voters ^ )f this State that out of our S Dresent delegation to Congress, wo senators and seven Repre- A "Natives, I alone am a FAR- I VIER, the others being profes;ional men, and of those gen- t] ;lemen now opposing me, I h done am a BONA ?1DE FAR- K . MEJl, they also being professional menv Surelv the agri- $ cultural interests of this State * ire entitled to one representa- I ;ive out of nine. 1 E. D. SMITH. | I ' mJB ^lll $||jB