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?hr SUlon 2jpralii 4. B. JORDAN Editor Subscription rates: $2.00 per year r $1 .25 for six months. Subscriptions fot less than six months will to charged at the mte of 20 cents per month. All subscriptions are payable in advance. Advertising rates may be had on application, and advertisers may feel aaured that through the columns of Cbis paper they will reach all Dillon ?oanty, a part of Eastern Carolina ad continguous territory in North Carolina. s The Dilllon Herau is puonsnea ai the county seat of one of the richcat agricultural counties in the Ptste. It is the oiucial organ of the itaunty and goes into 90 per cent of Che homes in the county in which it la published. The office is equipped with an Intertype and modern high peed presses. Obituary sketches, cards of thanks, ommuotcatioDs espousing the cause f a private enterprise or a political candidate and like matter will be charged at the rate of 8 cents per line. Contract advertisers will not he allowed to exceed their space at name rates or advertise anything foreign to their regular business without extra change. Advertisements to occupy special place will be charged for according to position dedred. Communications, unless they conCain important news, or discuss politely and properly subjects of real Interest, are not wt nted; and if acceptable in every other way they wtll be rejected until the real name of the author accompanies the same aot necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Dillon, S. C. February 20, 1919 The Dark Ages were pretty dark, but at least they did not produce a Bolsheviki. When a man reaches the age of 98 and dies, he doesn't do so of any particular disease; it is simply his . turn. The most remarkable thing about the German militarists, now that we have time in which to think it over, was that theyVthought they could] make their dreams come true. I Folks in Dillon who come under the income tax classification are quite resigned to their fate. Might as well tally up the books and figure the payments. It's tough, men; but it would be worse for you if you didn't have to hand over the shekels to the government. j i Resolve to cut down your acreage, reduce jour fertilizer bill, skimp along as best jou can, make plenty of foodstuffs and the cotton prob- ] lem will take care of itself. | Money may be scarce, but if all the cotton in Dillon county were turned ' loose at prevailing market prices the county would have more money than . it would know what to do with. We haven't got the money, but we've got what it takes to get the money. Hold on to what you've got. There will be a squeal from somewhere before the next crop comes on the market. At the meeting of cotton farmers held at Columbia last Wednesday a resolution was passed endorsing the plan to pay for fe.-tilizer with time j certificates of deposit. The plan is very simple: Instead of sending your money away to some distant city leave it on deposit at your home bank, get a certificate of deposit from your banker and forward it to the fertilizer manufacturer. You are paying cash for ycur fertilizer and at the same time leaving your money in the community where it will do some good. Every dollar sent to some other town or city makes your own town or city that much poorer. In the fall when money is plentiful the fertilizer menu fat turer cashes the time certificate of deposit and the community does not miss the money. You are making the fertilizer manufacturer carry his share of the burden. ON CLOSING A DOOR. We have noticed in our inobstrusive way that the person who walks through a door without closing it, after having found it closed, is usually the person who i,j careless in everyin cr plaa .?? The state of mind, or mental raccum, that produces the lack of thought that results in leaving open doors, will be evident in nil things else. There are many folks in Dillon, no doubt, who advertise the carelessness in their make-up to no better advantage than the manner in which they will leave open a door that an alert mind would tell them is supposed to be closed. Carelessness is a defect In make-' up that produces a great deal of trouble, for self and others. COTTON ACREAGE AND COTTON I PRICES. I ! Following t'ue agitation for a reduction in the cotton acreage Senator Baker of Florence has introduced a bill which aims to limit the farmer to ten acres of cotton to the plow. Senator Baker is trying to ac- ' complish by legal methods that which it is impossible to accomplish by agreement. i There are those who will be ready to say that to attempt to limit the acreage by law is an attempt to take ( 'a man's "rights'" away from him. I 'There are lots of folks who harp ' on their "rights," but have very little to say about wliat their "duty" 1 18. ! I We do not hesitate to say that Senator Baker's bill is a good bill, j and we earnestly hope that it will become a law. Men whose daily business it is to keep their fingerg on the nation's financial pulse tell us the south cannot finance two cotton crops. If the south had its own money and did ? ? U I not have to borrow rrom mo uunu u could finance half a dozen crops, but unfortunately the south is a borrow- , er. If the man from whom It bor- , rows does not see fit to lend the south i is helpless. i We do not know what conditions < are in other sections, but we do know i that Dillon count: has all of its sur- ( {plus money and much borrowed mon- ' jey tied up in the 1918 cotton crop. J Dillon county Is not broke; it has'] more visible wealth at the present jj time than it has ever had before, but ] Dillon county is not able to finance 1 two cotton crops and plant the same < acreage in 1919. that it planted in 1 1918. ' The average crop in Dillon county ' is 30,000 bales. The Jan. 15th gov- C ernment report showed that Dillon 11 county had ginned up to the middle^ of January about 33,000 bales, j Nearly two-thirds of the entire 1918 ( crop is being held for higher prices, j I being distributed as follows: 1 In bonded warehouse a I (county) 14,000 bales In bonded warehouses * ~ * A ft A l,A1AM | I (elsewhere) ? s.uuu uuico Held at home under f | sheds, etc 8,000 bales j i t Total, 23,000 bales If all this cotton were turned > loose today it would bring in round;a numbers something like tw0 million,|1 six hundred thousand dollars. According to their last statements'* the total loans and discounts of the j seven banks in Dillon county were around two million dollars. It is con- r servatively estimated that 50 per cent t of these loans and discounts represent c money loaned on cotton. This leaves c a surplus in the 1918 cotton crcp of ' sixteen hundred thousand dollars or 1 , c more than enough to finance the, 1919 crop. In other words, Dillon j '-j county lacks only seven thousand j bales of having on hand at the pres-ij ent time a normal crop in which it \ has an equity of sixteen hundred 1 thousand dollars. 13 I But this cotton cannot be used aslT a medium of exchange, the banks are *; not able to double their loans in or- \ der to assist the farmer in making * another 33,000 bale crop, and there-L fore acreage reduction in Dillon coun-! c ty has become a necessity. It is rea- i sonable to assume that similar con-,! ditions exist in other sections of the'e * i r soutn. This makes it very clear that the e time has come for merchant, farmer! . ic and banker to cooperate with each other in making the 1919 crop. The; ( farmer must reduce his acreage and ( the merchant and banker must as- ^ sist him as far as they can in making | a limited crop. If he plants a full > crop and the price declines to some- S thing like 10 or 15 cents he suffers c not only a big loss in what he has * held over from the 1918 crop, but a ^ big Iobs in the 1919 crop, and trouble^ is sure to follow. i Senator Baker's ten-acre-to-the , I plow bill puts every farmer on an t equal footing. It prevents the big'f farmer who has a surplus of money J c from increasing his acreage and puts ^ him on the same footing with the j [ small farmer who, with the assistance 1 of the banker, is making an earnest ^ effort to hold his 1918 crop for a ^ legitimate price. it The bill should become a law. t c Death in the Airplane !c It Arcadia, Fla., Feb. 18?Lieutenant v Daniel Crawford, of Columbia. S. C.,'a was kiled in an airplane fall in Carl- g strom Field today. He was making a f "dip'' at a height of about 1,000 feet c when in some manner the belt by > which he was strapped to the ma- e chine became loosened and he fell c out. I ? Lieut. Crawford was about 25 years c old. !? I " ,1 Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days jc Druggists refund monev if PAZO OINTMENT fails J to cure Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles. Instantly relieves Itching Piles, and you can ge' r restful sleep after the first application. Price Jk,-. j. THE MATTER WITH COTTON'. Senator McLaurin Discusses Situation from International Viewpoint. The following correspondence, which explains itself fully, will bo of interest to very many of our readers it this time: The Inquiry. Winnsboro, S. C., Feb. 7th, 1919. rlon. John' L. McLaurin, Bennettsville, S. C. Dear Sir:?We are very despondent over the cotton situation since :ne price nas siunipea ana are considering selling out. We consider Kou an authority on the cotton question and will appreciate it if you will give us your opinion on the situation it the present time. Thanking you in advance for this favor, we are. Yours very truly, D. R. Coleman, Jr., Jno. H. McMaster. Mr. Leortn's Reply. Bennettsville, S. C., Feb. 10, 1919. Messrs. D. R. Coleman, Jr., and John H. McMaster, Winnsboro, S. C. Gentlemen: Yours of the 7th Inst,, requesting my views on the cotton situation. There is no use to discuss the world's need for cotton. Nobody but i fool would deny that the world is :loser to both a food and cotton famine than at any time within several lenturies. The price of cotton will go higher in proportion to other prothan it hac pnnp Hiirincr tho urtir .... *"0 period. This war has been conducted largely by the extension of bank credits and just now there is a temporary ialt, but there can be no great con:raction in bank credits without proiucing a revolution in all of the Alied countries. This is unthinkable. | rhe temporary halt will soon be over tnd the world will find itself .short )f all kind of raw material. First. We consumed much labor in; producing war mater al which is now >ractically useless. Second. There can be no immigra-( ion of labor from Europe and it is, ikely that much skilled labor from! lere will go there to assist in the vork of rehabilitation. Third. On account of the destruc-! ion of manufacturing plants in Eu-| ope there will be an urgent demand IMAM A miamUM. a J-t. lyuu mut-i itttu nuns iu iuruisu ciuiu or two hundred million people who lave been denied for five years ac:ess to material. Fourth. It is ilde to talk about vage reduction in this country. The ictual demand is not only great, but abor is thoroughly organized. Farm' abor cannot protect itself because it las no organization and the high irices paid union labor will continue 0 strip the farms until an actual' hortage in raw material compels a >riee for farm labor which will atract a supply from manufacturing inlustries. We cannot produce cheap otton because the day of cheap labor s gone and will never return. The iresent crop cost between 25 and 30 ents per pound. How can a man rent 1 piece of land and produce cotton at 8 cents? If he has any sense antl ooks at the price of October cotton te will go to town or to the railroad vhere he can get $3.00 per day. The and owner will be forced to cut acre,ge because he cannot pay sufficient vages to attract labor. There have (PPTI f mi r* chnrf ornne onj 5# aw 'VV?? ?"?* UliVl V VI Uj;0 (411(1 11 VUblUll loes not go back to 30 cents before tpril the acreage and fertilizer will ?e automatically reduced. It is posible that the 1919 crop under these onditions will not exceed ten milion bales, in which event $1.00 per >ound would not surprise me. The rop this year to supply the needs if the world fairly well, would take lighteen million bales. I have studied he figures carefully and this is my ieliberate opinion. All of this, however, will not help, he man who cannot finance his cot-' on for the next sixty days. Last Oc-j ober I made a speech to a convention J n Charlotte, N. C., in which I ad-j ocated a government fixed price of 15 cents for cotton. I believe this ould have been done at that time, >ut our leaders in congress and elsevhere saw nothing but a cotton fam-J ne, failing to take into account this, econstruction period. Cotton has had ( i loan value of 20 cents per pound ind the same element that gobbled lp the crop in 1914 by forcing a call j or margins, are going to get as much, if this crop as they can. While this | vorks individual hardship, it does iot chanee fundamental conditions ! t merely means that the middle man rill reap the profits instead of the armers. The middle men have alvays reaped the profits and will coninue to do so until the farmer learns 0 protect himself. I came to the :onclusion ten years ago that this ould best be done through our state rovernment. I have no confidence in j oluntary organizations. I organized 1 state warehouse system and it was i success up to a certain point, but it an never be effective in a crisis with_ >ut state insurance and a bank to tandle agricultural paper. The Fed'ral reserve act provides the needed hannel, but if we do not place our-| ielves in a position to use it, it is hildish to whine. Each crop must tand upon its own merit and carry (self. The bank cannot make advanes on the 1010 crop while they have !0 cents a pound loaned on the 101 Si rop. The Federal reserve act provdes for discounts based upon stored cotton and also discounts upon notes secured by mortgage on a crop in process of production. The two things are entirely separate and distinct, Mr. W. P. G. Harding gave Senator Banks and myself every encouragement to organise a bank in connection with the state warehouse for this purpose, he gave us a letter to the governor of the Reserve bank in Richmond, but we found those in authority in this state bitterly opposed to the establishment of this bank, as well as to state insurance. I resigned because I could go no further and I hope to be able to make the farmers understand me so that they would give me their support. If every state had its ware-' house system and state bank the speculators would not dare run the risk of selling the cotton market be-' low 20 cents when it cost 30 cents to make it. Just so long, however, as | the sources of finance are entirely out of the farmers' hands we will be, butchered and the profits made one| year swept away next year, as now. happening. As a whoter the bankers-; of South Carolina disapproved of the. state warehouse system until we1 be-'' gan to get money on the receipts and deposit it with them, then they; were loud in their approval until we demanded 6 per cent interest. They view state insurance and a bank such as I describe as an untried revolutionary project; few of them have ever studied the subject and know absolutely nothing about It. It is not an untried experiment. Such banks exist [in several of the Australian states. South Australia has had one in op'eration for thirty years, this state | has a population about half the size jof South Carolina. The bank has 189,'< 000 depositors, averaging $200 each. Similar banks exist in German, Italy, New Zealand, nearly all <>f the British colonies, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Hdfiand. I believe that one such bank in every one of the cotton states with the proper warehouse svs-, tern would accomplish the following results: First. It would stablize the cotton market and fix the price in the south, instead of in Liverpool or worse than that, the New York Cotton Exchange.) Second. By acting as a depository! for all state funds and the reserve of other banks it would keep the money * circulating at home, which is now held up in New York and elsewhere. Third. It would stablize the financial system in each state and not make us dependent upon northern money centers. It would have a ten^*. dency to make uniform interest rates an,! iriro email hnrrnwero on nnl nn. ""U D* ' ^ MW4. wn V.M V^UM* Vi' portunities. Fourth. This would promote agriculture and develop industries. I see some advocate a twenty five million dollar bond issue to build roads. I favor good roads, but this is like trying to lift yourself over the fence by your boot straps. It would be more sensible to issue two million dollars and have a complete sys tern of financing and marketing our cotton crop, so that we can build and j pay for roads out of our current profits. In conclusion let me say that ev- , cry man that will keep his cotton j will be amply rewarded by the increase in prices. Preparations are now | being made to extend lrrge credits i to European countries. Belgium has | just been loaned one hundred mil- j linn dollars. The ten billion or more|! loaned the Allied countries was not !j actual money, but a mere credit to j' buy American products. This was why - j there had to be government price' fixing to keep prices from going outj, of sight. Cotton went down in 1914 ' to 6 cents per pound and there wasj no big rise until a syndicate of bankers in 1915 loaned five hundred million dollars to England and three! hundred million to France. Prices will begin to soar as soon as'these: credits 'are arranged, not only with the Allies, but with our former enemies. Hold your cotton and "Wait on the Lord.'' Yours respectfully, JNO. L. McLAURIN. NOTICE. Iload Overseers for the Year 1018. In view of the fact that in many instances those subject to road tax for the year 1918 were warned out and did perform certain work on the public highways -of Dillon county and the full time of five days?as provided by law?was not actually performed, due to not having been notified by the overseer in that particular district to complete the full ] time, I beg to ask that such overseers I mail to Mr. C. W. Rogers, Kemper, S. C. immediately a full list of each and J every name and the number of days | actually performed (in case where a team wa8 used, please specify) so 1 that some arrangement can be made ! whereby the County can reimburse those who have not already had credit in the matter of abatement or been paid by check. JOHN R. WATSON, 2-13-tf.?19 Treasurer. NOTICE i Take notice that the spring term court of Common Pleas for the Conn-; ! tv of Dillon will convene at Dillon,1 j S. C., on Monday the 17th day of March, 1919, at 10 o'clock In the ! forenoon. I JNT0. C. BETIIEA, C. C. C. P. & G. S, 2-20-41?57 j SIS * i- ' Asa Price Announcement N / ^!S2B3ff^ i - p IraiB '?SS I The policy of the Ford Motor Company to sell its cars for the lowest possible price, consistent with dependable quality, is too well kn ? wn to require comment. Therefore, because of pres ent conditions, there can be no change in the prices on Ford carat 1 * v Runabout $900 Touring Car 085 * Coupe 690 i % .? Sedan 775 Truck Chassis .550 These prices F. O. B. Detroit ======= W. B. Ford" ^ PAGES MTLL, S. C. , 1 ;:Jj , 1 __ _ Watch For Our BIG SALE Commencing Feb. 28. Details will be given out later. SALEEBY'STDRY GOODS STORE J m SPECIAL I Big Bargains I L. Cottingham's Store j I One lot table oil cloth, 50c. value reduced to, per yard 35c. B One lot men's heavy underwear, $1.25 value reduced to, each 89c. M I One lot union made, overalls, $3.50 value reduced to, pair?$2.68 B . One lot men's heavy ribbed underwear, $1.50 value reduc- M ed to, each $1.24 B A One lot ladies' shoes, $2.50 to $5.00 values, reduced to ^ B pair .?$1.48 to $2.48 M S One lot window shades, 75c to fi.25 values reduced to m feach 49c. to 08c. V One"lot"ladles"Georgette Crepe waist $8.00 value re- * duced to, each $3.98 One lot ladles' Crepe DeChene waist $7.50 value reduc- 1 ed to, each $5.48 M One lot ladies' Crepe DeChine waist $0.50 value re?iuc- J ed to, each r_ . .$4.98 One lot ladies' Crepe DeChene waist $5.00 value reduc ed to each $3.48 M Everything in this store has been reduced. You m save money by trading here. Come in and look M whether you buy or not. We are glad to show you. A OXFORDS! OXFORDS! K Our new spring line of Oxfords will arrive this week. See M them before you buy. The very latest in style and colors. & HEX'S CLOTHIXG. ? 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