Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SOME :ASPECTS OF THE FARMERS' PROBLEM (Continued from page two) attely dump its products on the mar icet. On the contrary, it sa acts that it is frequently a stabilizing influen tee, as. is often the 'ease with other .large organizations. It is master of its distribution as well as of its pro .duction. If prices are not satisfactory the products arse held back or produc Ition, is reduced or suspended. It is not -9ompelled to send a year's work to the market at one time and take what ever It can get under such circum stances. It has one selling policy 'and-its own export department. Neither are the grades and qualities :of steel determined at the caprice of the buyer, nor-does the latter hold the scales. In this single integration of the steel corporation is represented about 40 per cent of 'the steel produc tion of America. The rest is mostly in the hands of a few large compan 'ies., In ordinary times the steel cor poration, by example, stabilizes all steel' prices. If this is permissible (it is even desirable, because stable and fair prices are essential to solid :and continued prosperity) why would it be wrong for the farmers to utilize central agencies that would have simi lar effects on agricultural products? ;Something like that is what they are aiming at. Some farmers favored by regional compactness and contiguity, such as thq citrus-fruit-raisers of California, alrbady have found a way legally to merge and sell their products inte grally and in accordance with season al and local demand, thus improving itheir position and rendering the con sumer a reliable service of ensured .quality, certain supply, and reasonable .and relatively steady prices. They :have not found it necessary to resort .to any special privilege, or to claim and exemption under the anti-trust legislation of the state or nation. With <out removiig local control, they have built up a very efficient marketing agency. The grain, cotton, and to bacco farmers, and the producers of hides and wool, because of their num bers and the vastness of their regions find for other reasons, have found integration a more difficult task; though there are now some thousands of farmer's 'co-operative elevators, warehouses, creameries, and other en terprises of one sort and another, with a turn-over of a billion dollers a year. They are giving the farmers business experience and training, and, so far as they go, they meet the need of honest weighing and fair grading; but they do not meet the requirements of rationally adjusted marketing in any large and fundamental way. The next step, which will be a pat tern for other groups, is now being prepared by the grain-raisers through the establishment of sales media which shall handle grain separately or collectively, as the individual far mer may elect. It is this sten-the plain of the Committee of Seventeen -which has created so much opposi FRO1VJ "H~ant people in 1 adaptab ilil due to too "Bani pie who hi plus in a b it. Treadi does not aj Theni count "un1 morrow is Pleas< savings ac ThenI I something Home CHARLTON D~uR WEAK NERVOUS, ALL RUN-DOWN M1ssouri Lady Suffered Until Shi Tried Cardui.-Says "Result Was Surprising."-Got Along Fiae, Became Normal and Healthy, Springfield Mo.- "My beek was at weak I could hardly stand up, and I would have bearing-down pains and was not well at any time," says Mrs, D. V. Williams, wife of a well-known tarpner on Ropite 6, this place. "I kept getting headaches and having to go to bed," continues Mrs. Williams describing the troubles from which she obtained relief through the use of Cardui. "My husband, having heard of Cardui, proposed getting it for Wue "I saw after taking some Cardul ... that I was improving. The result was surprising. I felt like a different person. "Later I suffered from weakness and weak back, and felt all run-down. I did not rest well at night, I was so nervous aifd cross. My husband said he would get 'me some Cardul, which he did. It strengthened me . . . My doctor said I got along fine. I was in good healthy condition. I cannot say too much for it." Thousands of women have suffered as Mrs. Williams describes, ujntil they found relief from the use of CarduL. Since It has helped so many, yo should not hesltate to try Cardui U troubled with womanly ailments. For sale everywhere. E.88 tion, such as any union of farmers must be at best, cannot be so arbi trarily and promptly controlled as a great corporation. The one is a lum bering democracy and the other an agile autocracy. In the second place, with all possible power of organiza tion, the farmers cannot succeed to any great extent, or for any consider able length of time, in fixing prices. The great law of supply and demand works in various and surprising ways to the undoing of the best laid plans that attempt to foil it. In the third place, their power will avail the farm ers nothing if it be abused. In our time and country power is of value to its possessor only so long as it is not abused. It is fair to say that I have seen no signs in responsible quarters of a disposition to dictate prices. There seems, on the contrary, to be a commonly beneficial purpose to realize a stability that will give an orderly and abundant flow of farm products to the.consumer and ensure reasonable and dependable returns to the pro ducer. In view of the supreme importance to the national well-being of a pros IUTH ! n of many gh lack of ~rally it is tion. Peo their sur they need to mouth" avings ac ls that to to open a ioking for I d ipany. L. WELTS, Chie tior and is thought by some to be in conflict with, the anti-trust - laws. Though there is now before congress a measure designed to clear up doubt on this point, the grain producers are' not relying on any immunity from anti-trust legislation. They desire, and they are entitled, to co-ordinate their eftokts just as effectively as the large business interests of the coun try have done. In connection with the selling organizations the United States grain Growers Incorporated is draftin a scheme of financing in strumentalities And auxiliary agen cies which are indispensable to the successful utilization of modern busi ness methods. It is essential that the farmers should proceed gradually with these plans, and aim to avoid the error of scrapping the existing marketing ma chinery, which has been so laboriously built up ' by long experience, before they have a tried and proved substi tute or suppleme'ntary mechanism. They must be careful not to become enmeshed in their own reforms -and lose the perspective of their place in the national system. They must guard against fanatical devotion to new doc trines, and should seek articulation with the general economic system rather than its reckless .destruction as it relates to them. V To take a tolerant and sympathetic view of the farmers' striving for bet ter things is not to give a blanket endorsement to any, specific plan, and still less to applaud the vagaries of some of their leaders and groups. Neither should we, on the other hand, allow the froth of bitter agitation, false economics, and mistaken radical ism to conceal the facts of the farm ers' disadvantages, and the practic ability of eliminating them by well considered measures. It may be that the farmers *'vill not show the busi ness sagacity and develop the wise leadership to carry through sound plans; but that possibility does not justify the obstruction of their up ward efforts, We, as city people, see in high and speculatively manipulated prices, spoilage, waste, scarcity, the results of defective distribution of farm products. Should it not occur to us that we have a common interest with the farmr in his attempts to at tain a degree of efficiency in distribu tion corresponding to his efficiency in production? Do not the recent fluc tuations in the May wheat option, ap parently unrelated to normal interac tion of supply and demand, offer a timely proof of the need of some such stabilizing agency as the grain grow ers have in contemplation? It is contended that, if their pro posed organizations be perfected and operated, the farmers will have in their hands an instrument that will be capable of dangerous abuse. We are told that it will be possible to pervert it to arbitrary and oppressive price fixing from its legilimate use of order ing and stabilizing the flow of farm products to the market ,to the mutual benefit of producer and consumer. I have no apprehensions on this point. In the first place, a loose organiza [ BANK TO MC I to Mouth" is the life conditi< ;his world. Often it is. throu ty or opportunity. But gene lavish spending. to Mouth" is the ideal condi isband their earnings and pul atnk always have money when ng on the thin ice of "Hand >peal to them. an who pjits off opening a a til tomorrow" invariably fin< just as far away. consider this an invitation count with this bank TODAI ian of tomorrow is always Ii he doesn't have today. Bank an rust Corr ALNT. President T. 1 perous and contented agricultural population, we should be prepared to go a long way in assisting the farm ers .to get an equitable share of the wealth they produce, through the in auguration of reforms that will pro cure a continuous and increasing stream of farm products. They are far from, getting a fair share now. Considering his capital and the long hours of labor put in by the average farmer and his family, he is remun erated less than any other occupa tional class, with the possible excep tion of teachers, religious and lay. Though we know that the present gen eral distress of the farmers is excep tional and is linked with the inevit pble economic readjustment following the war, it must be remembered that, although representing one-third of the industrial products and half the total population of the nation, the rural communities ordinarily enjoy but a fifth to a quarter of the net an nual national gain. Notwithstanding the taste of prosperity that the farm ers had during the war, there is to day a lower standard of living among the cotton farmers of the South than in any other pursuit in the country. In conclusion, it seems to me that the farmers are chiefly striving for a generally beneficial integration of their business, of the same kind and character that other business enjoys. If it should be found on examination that the attainment of this end re quires methods different from those which other activities have followed. for the same purpose should we not sympathetically consider the plea for for the right to co-operate, if only from our own enlightened self inter est, in obtaining an abundant and steady flow of farm products? In examining the agricultural situa tion with a view to its improvement, we shall be most helpful if we main tain a detached and judicial viewpoint remembering that existing wrongs may be chiefly an accident of unsym metrical economic growth 'instead of a creation of malevolent design and conspiracy. We Americans are prone, as Professor David Friday well says in his admirable book, "Profits, Wages and Prices," to seek a "criminal intent behind ever ydlfleult and undesirable economic situation." I catn positively assert from my contact with men of large affairs, including bankers, that, as a whole, they are endeavoring to fulfill as they see them the obligations that go with their power. Preoccupied with the grave problems and heavy tasks of their own immediate affairs, they have not turned their thoughtful personal attention or their construc tive abilities to the deficiencies of ag ricultural business organization. Ag riculture, it may be said, suffers from their preoccupation and neglect rath er than from any purposeful exploi tation by them. They ought now to begin to respond to the farmers' dif ficulties, which they must realize are their own. On the other hand, my contacts with the farmers have filled me with respect for them-for their sanity, their patience, their balance. Within the last year, and particularly at a meeting called by the Kansas State Board of Agriculture and at another called by the Committee of Seventeen, I have met many of the leaders of the new farm movement, and I testify in all sincerity that they are endeavor ing to deal with their problems, not as promoters of a narrow class inter est, not as exploiters of the hapless consumers, not as merciless monopol ists, but as honest men bent on the improvement of the common weal. We can and must meet such men and such a cause half way. Their business is our business-the nation's business. -Atlanta Monthly. ADVICE In seeking fortune I would say, 'Tis hard to choose an easy way, But casting o'er the land to nd The proper breed of hogs, or kind, Select the one wvith grace and beauty, But better still is one for dluty. Success one finds if when he knows how. A tip to you, take the Old Red Sow, R~ustling, seeking all the while Foodl to find where as beguile Tlhrough summier's sun and winter's storm, Each season's dluty toi perform. Large litters she must, surely bear, And raise the-m wvith the utmost care, Never failing, always true, What's her (duty she must (do. Success is yours fo~ver now To pin your faith in the 0Old Red Sow. Fiom Lakes to Gulf, from coast to coast, Within that area there is a host Of high class D~uroes, to be sure; But few the kind of secure; You may travel long throughout this space, But at last for real Duroces you will find the place, .COTT"ON ASSOCIATrION OEIIV'IING SIGNATEURES Columbia, Jan. 24.--The campaign for signatures to the cotton co-opera XPECT MOTHER for Three Geonerat ions WAimedg SOOKLEr Ost NOTHERmHODANDOt SABY. rain The Univ NEW I Chassis, Runabout, Touring Car, Truck Chassi Coupe, . Sedan, . These are the Ford cars in th Ford Motor Co' Orders are con place yours prc early delivery. W. C. P1 NEW ZI swing all over South Carolina and splendid headway is being made to wards the goal of 4000,000 bales, ac cording to Harry G. Kaminer, presi dent of the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Co-operative Association. Absolutely no opposition to the plan has developed according to Mr. Kaminer, who says that the people of the state seem agreed that it is the solution of the marketing problem. Everywhere the people seem to be enthusiastic over its possibilities, he says, and it now seems to be merely a question of getting the men in each county to make the canvass for sig natures. The plan has been endorsed by the agricultural committee and executive committee of the South Carolina Bankers' Association, the various dis trict group councils, the State Fair Society, the House of Representatives the South Carolina Division of the American Cotton Association, many chambers of commerce and other or ganizAations. In every instance the endorsement has been by a unanimous vote. Large and small farmers are sign ing the contract, accordling toi presi dlent Kaminer andl he dleclares that the plan will be .just as ptrofitable pro portionately to the one as to the oth Darlington county continues to lead theo state in the number of bales signedl hut several other couniities are crawling close to its figure, said Mir. Kam iner. B. D). Datrgan, county dli rector for D~arl ington county insists, however, that his county will lead thte state in the ntumbecr of bales signedl. Practicatlly no refusals are being net with ,it was said by Mir. Kanm iter. Some of the growers wish, of course, to study the plan carefully hut prae tically all of thtem seem willing to sign after they have thought the tmatter over. Meetings are being hteld in almnost every county int thte state at which: the plans and purposes of the or gaizration are being exptla inedl and reports from every county tell ot' enthusiasm for the plait, according to Mr. Kaminer who feels sure that South Carolina will seel its 1922 cropt co-operatively as will at least tent other states oif the belt. A D)MINISTRIA TOR'S SA LE [Pursuant to an order of .1. M. Wintd. ham, Judge of Probate for Clarendon County, I will sell at public auction, to the highest hidder for cash, oin I.ri day the 3rd day of February, 1922 at 11 o'clock a. mt. at the reslidenc eof the late Joseph Rtagin, Sr-., near Sum mortoit, S. C., the following persontal property to wit: 2 two-horse wag ons, 1 reaiper andl binder, 1 (one-htorse wagon, I mowver, 1 hartrow, 1 lot of ptlows anid plo0w tools, 3 nmules, 2 bug gies, I combination cotton plainter, about 30 bushels cottont seed, 3 cows, about 80 bushtels corn, about 2 tons rf hay, 1 horse, I saddle and br'idle, I ford automobile, 2 sets of htarness, I watch and~ Otto gun. C. TPradewell Dintgle, 1-3t-pd. Administrator. Sunmmerton, S. C., Jain. 10. 1.922. Jr agv e7evvn ersal Car 'RICES Detroit . . $285 . . $319 . . $348 s, . . $430 . . $580 . . $645 lowest prices of e history of the npany. Ling in fast, so mptly to insure OWDEN, ON, S. C. SKELETON, BELIEVED ''O BE 250 YEARS OLD, FOUND Honolulu, T. II., Jan. 23.-Half of a human skeleton, believed to be 250 years old, discovered on this island by a bather today, is being examined by Dr. Edward Handy of the staff of the Bishop Museum in the hope that 't may help solve the problem of the origin of the Polysesian race. The skeleton includes the major portion of a man's torso and is in an excellent state of preservation, espe cially the teeth. NOTICE To osyners of automobiles, trucks and motorcycles, you have until Feb. 1st, to get your State license from the State Highway Commissioner in Co lumbia. Do not operate your machine after said date without your license, for by doing so you will have to pay the penalty--a fine. .J. E. Gamble, Sheriff. State of South Cariolina, Cla rendon C ounty. Courttt of C ommion Pleas. Notice of Sale. .J. A. Weinberg, Phiintiff, Susan E. lBriggs, The Sumter Tlrust. Company, ad Wilhis Wright, De fendants. Under and hy virtue~ of a Decree of he Court of Conmmn P'leas rendered in ab)ove stated'( act ion by his IHonor, Judge .John S. Wilson, 1, J1. E. Gam ble, Sh eriff of Cla rendon C oun ty, South (Cairol ina, will sell toa the hiigh (st ,biddcer for cash at public outcry, im liron t of t he C om i II(inse door1 at Mlann ing, S. ( ., on Al onday the 0th dlay of February A\. D)., 1 922, being salesday, within t he legal h ours for judlicialI sales, the toll owing descrtibed real estatQ: All1 that trtact of !antI ini Clarendon~ County, South Ca'urolina, containing fort y-five ( I5) atcres, mor or less ad~joining landsu noWr ur faomerly of McKnight, of William Gibson, of estate of ken (Cobia , and possil y of thters: sai land heime~ the same 'conal L. .Jameus by deed dated Ja nua ry I17, 191I6. P'urchaser to pay tar papers5. . J. E. GA MBLE: SherifIf of Clarendlon (Ctim t y. NTl(ICE To C'itEImlTOlls All pe(rsons having cla ims again. the Estate of Joseph11 J. M itchu) m, de. ceasedl, will pre'sent thema dulv at ttetd. All persons (owing said estate will ma ke payment to the auders ign edl qualiftied E xecutors of sa id Esftate. Porcher M. M itchumo, Ella P'. Martin, ehug. E xecutors. D~avis Stat ion, S. C., R. F. D) .,Jan. 111, 1922. G. C. COOPER, Licensed Optometerist EYES Carefully Examined, Glasses Fitted, Broken Lenses Duplicated. Satisfaction Guaranteed. SUTMER. S. C.