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They are Good! Buy this Cigaret TOBA CCO MARKETING Open Forum for Expres sions for or Against Co operative Marketing Editor Manning Times: In your issue of May 3rd, Mr. C. R. Sprott has an article under the cap tion "Tobacco Marketing. Open Forum for Expressions for and against Co-operative Marketing." If the readers of this paper will bear with me I think I can show them when I have finished this article which I am about to write, that Mr. C. R. Sprott does not believe in an open forum. In the first place if he did he would not hold with the views that are set out in his one-sided un Democratic, autocratic, article writ ten on co-operative marketing. Now, my learest Sprott, since the smoke fire and brimstone has some what cleared up in your columns in The Manning Times, I feel that I may be 'safe in getting near enough to it to answer the charges you have brought against the Manning tobacco market, and the business men of your home town, in general. Now, my dearest C. R., I am going to handle you with gloves on so do not be embarrassed when you start to read this reply. I know that you pulled yours off when you appened this wonderful, masterful, intellect ual ( ?) article, under a so-called open forum. This master piece of journal ism would have graced the pages of the Scimitar, Rip Saw, Chicago Ledger, or Saturday Evening Blade. My dear Sprott you have brought a joint charge against your home town, your home merchants, your home bankers, and the Manning to bacco board of trade. You have set out certain charges in your indict ment, you have attempted to prose cute, to rilicuIe, and to hol up the business in terests (If the towvn of Manning before the public for the sole reason of trying to carry out a olne-sidedl forum. I would ignore this article altogether if it, were not. for the fact that I want to 51how to the public what kind of a man you have developed in to. You are willing to drive business from the town (of Mlanning in oroder to gratify your own selfish ends. Aly dlear Sprott, I cani not imaginie a nmn so na rrowv, so steepedl in selftishnes~s, so uinplatriot ic. You , cla im) to b~e ai Demo-. erat, I haveo alwayvs lookedl upon you as such. Now I want to ask you bow undoer the high Hteaven enn you lay claimr to. Demorcy, when you are not willing to neOopt its teachintgs, viz: equal rig]. to all and spec'ial privile'ges to nlone. Why miy Deoa r Sprot t, this is what. our fore-fat hers tought, for. Are y/ou1 s( con temiipt ibly narriow that you oxpect oeverylbody to oonform to your ideas ? 'The s ide 0' rep resen t in tbhis great issue( have (very right guaranteed t hem uinoder the ('onstittion of the Sbat ed States that youri sidle has. Every question of greaiit mltoment. tha t comes0 before a publ)1ic has two sides. You art i'le tha t still has the scenlt of sulphur on it would have every non Co-opera tiv bel1(1iever tried in op'enl courit, prosected by the state attorney, alnd convictedl without *'ounsil for the de fendanFt. Aly doar Srtot t, if youri ideas are IDemocriatIie, then the late Kaiser oIf Gormiany mulst have been a goodl 'of Alexico with his usurpJer poelivi ties m)ust have a lso been one. You have tried to picture toI the read inFg puibl ic in) the one-sided airticle you wr'Ioe that nonF co-operaitive ad vocates shlId have alVIny cosidl-ra ion; you hav VpIicturied the other . ide ais being a set. of ignoramouse's; you hoav.e pictured0 the neutratl business5 men(1 in this3 town as beiing dlilatory in) thir dluty t.o w:ards you andl the one. sidled cause you ando your lieutenants ale trFying t to fostr and pu1111)t Over oni everyblodly iFn th)is( Cunt y regardless of wh'etheor or not they arec able to see th iS ' <iOstionh tha)t, is b in g ois.. eussed( thriough out the t obacico hlts (of the ont ire tobacco districts b~y bo(t h sideos in the light that you dbo. Each s ido is enititled to the ful lest conlsidlerat ion as every thinking man11 knows, but not from yourI conFtemp11tuol(5y ntirow viewpoint. You adm01it that you have only forty ;percent (If the toblaccol grown~ in Clarendon Contyivgnedl n. Th is I cigarettes /i ( ' J '10 e and Save Money do not believe, but taking you at your own statement let's assume that this is correct; what about the other sixty per cent of the tobacco grown in Clar endon County? Now, my dear Sprott, once again let me admonish you to dispense with some of your autocratic propensities, open your eyes wide, do not try to look from only one angle in this matter, get the idea out of your head that you are expecting a job on the visionary Corporation Cali fornia Lawyer pie wagon which 1 will tell the public about directly. I just want you to get this in your head first-it is this: The Manning Tobacco Market has been in operation for the past twenty-six years for the sale of leaf tobacco. It will be operated this season as usual. R. D. Clark and my self have promised the independent tobacco growers to have a market for them. We are going to carry out this promise if we live. If we (lie we hope that our administrators will make some provision to this end. Now, my dear Sprott, your charges against the tobacco warehousemen, etc.; are absolutely as false as hell itself. The public that have sold their tobacco with us for the last twenty years knows this is one of the most far-fetched statements ever made against honest men. Every honest man knows that the ware houseman are not working against the interest of his clients. Every sensible man knows that a man would not work against his own business in terests, even if he was a dishonest crook, as you picture him. The to bacco warehousemen are absolutely in the same boat or channel with the grower. If the growers do well the warehousemen do well. Every to bacco grower knows this, My dear Sprott, and you know it yourself. You have been around tobacco sales now for a number of years. You know positively that you have drawn a pic ture that is misleading and unfair. You do not seem to have any sense of justice left. You would have the reading public believe that tobacco men hold secret meetings of their respective boards of trade for the purpose of concocting sche~mes to ehisel the farmer out of his tobacco. You knowv this is false andI misleading. Now, my Dear Sprott, what about. the. records of the Cotton Seed Crushers Association ? What about the -tilizer association you have beei d no doubt are now a member of ? Of course it goes without saying thai you alwvays were actuated by Iitriotic motives, it goes without re peaiting that you looked well after the dear farmers inoterest s, (lid .,m not my D~ea rest Sprott ? Did you ever discuss what kind of filler woul be hest to put in your fertilIizer ? id you ever help to fix a miniimum price to pay the de:1 a }1ad working bony handedt 5ons of toil hack in goodl 01h Clareon County, when you were at someW mountini or sea shore resort, for cotton seed1? Now, Mly dear Sprott, I could con tinue to ask questtilns it ong this Iitline bt t im and i c spalce will not per mtit. I have asked some of these ques tioms blefor e ; a few yearis ago if yo u will recall in one of our newspaperI dlicuins. iS Now, Mr. Sprott , I muist hurry this arit iee to a close, as I can not ask foi too much(1 space ini The Manning TIimeas. I wish I had t ime and space to hanude Ie very phase oIf this quest ion undier idliscussioni. I wish to maske it car toe the Co0-operaitivye advocat es that f am pertfectly willing that they shall have a squiare. deal. I am per fct ly willing for them to have a to haico w.a rousei5 in Manning, I hopse that the A ssociatioin buys one of the warehou~ttsis hre Sir. I will stat e for the beniefit ot the public that Mi. . 1. TlerrellI, with my consent, triedl tee s(ellfthem thec Phlo 'ters Wa rehouse, andit the owner did likewise wi th fte i C fnta Warihouise. We found tht lii.we (1oubt lnot sell these ware bousts uniles's we expecd bonds in paymen( it oft the greateri part (of the G. C. COOPER, Licensed Optometerist EYES Carefully Examined, Glasses Fitted, Broken Lenses Duplicated. Satisfaction Guaranteed. SUMTR . C. purchase price. We wanted United States of America stamped on the money-this we could not get. I will still sell the Planters Warehouse to the Association if they can arrange to pay for it. I can make other ar rangements here for this season. Now, My dear Sprott, quit your kicking, it isn't my fault if you do not get the job that doubtless has been c";eced you here on the Cali fornia Corporation Lawyer pie wagon. I am perfectly willing thht you shall have a slice. I can not for the life of myself figure you out any other way. I can not see where you are actuated by patriotic, community-lov ing, town-loving, home-loving proc livities. if you were you would not hold up your home town and local to bacco market to ridicule. You would not give comparative figures and try to show to the public that Manning is the poorest tobacco imarket in South Carolina, when you know full well deep down in your heart that this is not true. You know that the seasons and quality of tobacco has been bad here for the last three years and especially last year when we had fifty (lays of rainy weather during the curing season. The tobacco com panies give the same limits to all of their respective buyers, and the price paid is based upon quality, Sir; you ai.e attempting to break down the to bacco market here by methods that are just as unfair and unreasonable as Bolishevikism itself. Your method is to rule or ruin. You hold up neighboring towns and try to drive the people away from Manning that would come here to sell their products. This will hurt the cotton market too. My Dear Sprott, when I get to this place I shall think of what .ome one has said of ancient Rome-all roads lead to Rome. All roads lead to Manning, and they run both ways. Had you thought of this? My Dear Sprott, you should love and respect your neighboring towns; you shoulI have due consideration for your neighbors. But Manning should come first, home has been first pro tected in all ages, the ancient cave man had propensities of this kind. "Breathes there a man with soul so dead, Who never to himself has said, This is my own, my native land." My Dear Sprott, you have given figures showing a variation in the prices of tobacco between Lake City, Kingstree, and Manning, it is a well known fact that the soil and method of cultivation around Lake City and Kingstree, is much more adapted to tobacco culture than around Manning. I believe with the proper seasons and proper methods in cultivation that we can grow as good tobacco as these other places. The Salem section of this County is a section like unto which Lake City is surrounded by. The growers are all old growers and largely white farmers. I could name many farmers near Manning that are experienced growers but they are in the minority. Now, Dear Sprott, I will now give you some figures in an other States to prove my statement. North Caro lina varies according to the quality of tobacco grown near the respective markets. Fuquay Springs sold year 1921 and 22 3,279,256 pounds for an average of $37.70 per hundre; Apex fifteen or twenty miles away sold 1,321,875 pounds for an average of $34.10; Raleigh, headquarters for hot air Co-operatively, now, sold last sea son independently 2,772,020 for - an average of $22.24. These towns are situated nearer each other than Maun ing and the towns you mentioned sir; Fuquay Springs averaged $14.46 more than Raleigh and yet the to bacco did not sell any better than it did in Raleigh--it was the quality and not a steal like you claim Manning pulled off last season: My Dear Sprott,, I am nowv going to give a note of wvarning to the sixty per cent of independent tobacco growers in Cla rendlon County, whom you andl your followers think are out laws and ignoramuses. You say that you are going to put on a sixty-day driive nowv right away. What do( you take us for? D~o you think we are cattle' that shouldl be dIriven wvith a scourge' into .somiethinig that wvill gratii your job-proclivity spleen 7 or am .de so ignorant, that we need~ a guardian to lead us that has tried farming for a living; oil mail I business, Ce . .izer busiiness, peanut agitator, coin elevator man, and now you wvant to act the part of Mosies and lead the. (dar people inito patures~C green. We ask you to showv your credlen 666 Cures Malaria Chills and Fever, Denguc or Bilious Fever. It kille the germs. JILOOM VI LLE DEMOCRiATIIC CLUB All nmmer~; of the Bloomville Deniocra tic Club are hereby call to mee(t at the store of F. C. Trhomas at Blloomaville, S. C., .on Saturday, May 20th, 1922 at four o'clock in the afternoon. The p)urpIose of said meet ing heing to re-organize and elect the necessary oflicers of the Club. By or. der of the Ixecultive Committee. 8. OIVER O'BRYAN, 18-21. Count~y Chairman. May 3, 1922. NOTICE OF D)ISCH ARGE I will apply to the Judge of Probate. for Clarendon County, on the 29th day of 1' y, 1922, at 11 o'clock a. m. for JL. .1of Discharge as GuardIian for Lucille Johnson, formerly a minor. William Johnson, Jpd. GuarIdlian. New Zioni S. C., April 26, 1922. CHICH E TE S PILLS D tND ERRAND 'lie in t d 0 (i met tii~Vj xes, sealed willh Blue Ribbon. Take no ois~tier He fO yearsknownasiestSafest,Alwaya Reliable SOLD BY DRUGOISTS EVERYWHERE tials. Farmers beware of usurpers. Farmers beware of ex-warohousomen that are going around pretending that they love the dean people and have quit the iniquitious warehouse busi ness simply because the people were being robbed. We all will admit that we do not always got the worth of our product but we had much rather have- the God-given perogative, which has come down the ages from Adam until this good day, of selling our own product while we live on earth. Farm-s do you want your tobacco sold Lehind 'closed doors like it was in Kentucky? 120,000,000 pooled, 55,000,000 sold we are told lrom good authority, and the farmers have realized about one-third of the pur chase price sb far. When will they get the rest only the pool bosses know. When will they sell the rest nobody knows. Now My Dear Sprott, when you get in another ugly mood, go -home re move your collar unbutton your shirt collar so you will be perfectly at en- . Bathe your feet in tepid. water. Fill your pipe with Burley Co-opera tive tobacco get some good books of poems, would suggest Henry W. Longfellow, Jas. Whitcomb Riley, -or Shakespeare. If you choose the lat ter, read from Hamlet Polonius ad vise to his probable son that was about to embark on a journey. And these few precepts in the memory see thou character; give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any un portioned thought his act; be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar; the friends thou hast and their adop tion tried; grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; but do not (lull thy palms with entertainment of new hatched unfledged comrades, beware of entrance into a quarrel. Yours very respectfully, Ralph D. Cothran. New Zion, May 5th, 1922. Editor The Manning Times: Manning, S. C. In an article .written by Mr. C. R. Sprott and published in yout- paper, I want to thank Mr. Sprott for the information given in reference to the average of tobacco sold on the dif ferent markets in the surrounding sections. Now it appears to me that while the average paid by the com panies is very low and yet that does not mean that the farmers who rais ed the tobacco even got near that much for their tobacco. As you know there are always pin-hookers that the buyer or the warehouseman allows to get hold of a good lot of tobacco and re-sell it and then only is it charged to the tobacco companies and the final sale on the floor is what the average is made up from. Now what really does the producer get? He gets his property sold for taxes, and cannot help himself. As to what the business men and bankers have done for the market at Manning I do not know. But one thing I do know that from this section we have been per suaded by the price offered us in Man ning for our tobacco not to carry it there. And when we carried it to other markets or so-called markets HO] Big Br M. K. ( WIUl Begimn Bring us you for cash mone guarantee as I T here will be a Lake City' G. R. BOWEN we received the same treatment only not quite as bad. We would like very much to patro nize our own county, though we are so far over here that in almost every thing we 'have but very little consid eration is shown. When there is any advantages to be gotten of course the nearby man gets it. Some of this hart of Clarendon County wishes to hold and have an equal part in the affairs of the County' in which we live. I am a co-operative man and without Co-operation we cannot do our part as citizens. The Co-opera tive spirit is the humane spirit. I shall not live to enjoy the full bene fit of the blessings that co-operation will bring to this country, but that is not my purpose. When I have gone to a word unknown I mean. to leave my posterity in a land that is worth living in. I have no selfish motive for my position regarding the co operative marketing system. I be lieve that it will prove a blessing to the farmers and no less to the real buyer and manufacturer. I wish again to thank Mr. Sprott for the valued information furnished in the article just referred to and also ask that in such valuable matters that he do not withhold so long. J. SMITH. TOBACCO ASSOCIATION SECURES WAREHOUSES The list of all warehouses secured to date by the Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Association in South Carolina was given out this week by T. C. Watkins, Jr., Director of Ware houses for the Association. Mr. Watkins has been in conference at Raleigh during the past week with the warehousemen of North Carolina who have tendered their properties to the Association. True to their word the officials of the Association have taken over both warehouses and ware housemen wherever possible and ac cording to Mr. Watkins the Associa tion is in excellent position to care for its tobacco growing . members throughout the Carolinas and Vir ginia. The str'ength of the Co-operative Association with over 40 warehouses evenly distributed throughout South Carolina is revealed by today's an nouncement. The refusal of a few warehousemen to discuss terms with the Association hitherto, has given its officials no anxiety according to Director Wat kins, who let it be known that suffi cient warehouses to take care of a majority of this year's crop have been secured. Negotiations with still oth er warehouses may be closed in a few days, according to Mr. Watkins. Over 70 warehouses in North Caro lina and 42 warehouses in Virginia have signed up with the Co-operative Marketing Association. The iampaign of the Marketing As sociation for new members is develop ing great strength according to latest reports from Raleigh headquarters where more than a thousand contracts have been received during the past two weeks. A new factor of strength BAC LLOWAY & BOWE ick War AND 1RAVELY SELL TOBACCO nON ng August 7 tobacco as uist y. No long time migh prices as p Sfull set of Buyers Fobacco Boai lAKE CITY, S. C - ~M.IE in the Vampaign of the grower i the leadership of experienced warehous & men in gaining signers to the cn.l tract. With the signing up of one thoui-:* sand acres of tobacco in a single day in Person county, North Carolina last. week and the recent successful meet' ings in three States there is every indication that the organized growers, will attain a seventy-five per cent ' sign-up before the markets open ac cording to M. O. Wilson, Secretary of a the Association. Warehouses have signed up definite ly with the Association at the follow ing points. Andrews, Brick, Stone Warehouses; Aynor, aFrmers, Huggin's warehous es; Bamberg, Farmers warehouse; Conway, Horry warehouse; Darling (ton, Dargan's, Center Brick, Price s warehouses;. Dillon, Farmers, Pal metto warehousep; Georgetown, Georgetown warehouse; Hartsville, Farmers, Tedders' and Star ware houses; Hemmingway, Center Brick, Farmers and Mlanner, Bif Four ware houses; Johnsonville, Center Brick warehouse; Kingstree, Farmers, Cen tral and Scott's, Nelson's, Wilkins warehouses; Lake City, Star ware house; Lake View, Farmers, Planters* and Liberty warehouses; Lamar, Far mers Friend warehouse; Latta, Farm ers warehouse; Loris, Brick, Farmers warehouse; Mullins, Farmers ware house; Nichols, Planters warehouse; Olanta, Olanta warehouse; Paniplico, Farmers warehouse; Summerville Summerville warehouse; Timmons ville, Banner, Farmer warehouses. 666 quickly relieves Colds,: Constipation, B i 1 i o usness 0 and Headaches. A Fine Tonic. BATTERI E5 If your battery could speak, how often would it ask you for a drink of water? That's an im portant point in battery care. If you've been a little careless in this, bring your battery here for examination. 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