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The Herald and News says Newber
ry merchants have quit advertising
S>ecau?e they think the people have
no money to spend. That is where the
merchant errs in his judgment. John
Wannajmaker used printer's ink and
built up a big business. He worked
ou the theory that when times were
dull a merchant should increase his
advertising- People always have money
to spend tor the things they must
have, and the merchant who uses
well written advertisements gets the
.bulk oT their business. When it gets
to* the point where people can't buy
tbe things they are compelled to have
.the channels of trade will be closed
and money will have no value.
The people are "up in the air," so
fl . to speak, over the resolution which
provides for an extension of the time
foi the r&yment of taxes. The measure
went to free conference some two
weeks age and there it has remained
neglected or forgotten. Under the
present law the penalty of 5 per cent
goes on March 1st., and if there is
to be no extension of time for the
payment of taxes the people want to
know it. The resolution has had the
effect of suspending the payment of j
isseg not only in Dillon county but
all over South Carolina, and if, at
the laat moment, the resolution fails
to pass or the governor refuses to appiove
it, 50 per cent of the taxpayers
of the state would find themselves
confronted with the 5 per cent penally.
The measure should be disposed
of one way or the other.
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The gasolene tax bill which levi^
a tax of a cent a gallon on every gallon
of gasolene sold in the state bas
passed it8 final reading in the House.
The tax will be collected out of the
petroleum companies and they in turn
will collect it out of the consumer.
We have not read the bill, but our un[
deratanding is that the revenue from
the tax i8 to be used on the public
highways. This appears to be about
th? most equitable plan that could be
devised for raising revenue for road
improvement, provided each county is
given the right to spend its own mon ey
in its own way. The only weak feattllTA
of thn Kill ic *Kof ?* I?
elude all classes of vehicles. Years
ago the late Smiley Bigham advocated
a sensible road law which would
tax the "wheel and hoof." If the author
of the gasolene tax bill would
go still further and place a nominal
tax on all horse-drawn vehicles he
would, in our judgment, have an ideal
road tax law.
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THE DILLON HBB
i WHY FARMING DOESN'T PAY
Farmers of Dillon county and every
other county in the United States,
from thi* cotton nlantor? nt ?i>?
the apple growers of New York
state, the wheat and corn experts of
the middle west, the boundless granary
of the northwest, the fruit paradise
of the Pacific coast, to the fruit
heaven of California?all are asking
and wondering %hy farming does not
pay.
And farming does not pay?of this
there is no doubt. It would pay if
prices were high enough, but they
are not and despite the artificial
methods considered for maintaining
them, there seems to be no way
around the problem. Under present
conditions, which have been growing
more intense as the years roll on,
farming does not pay.
"We believe, frankly, that most
persons who have looked over the situation
at all know quite well what
is the matter with agriculture, and
for reasons of their own, which we
do not pretend to fathom, prefer not
to say what they know," remarks one
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cuuui, wuu yiviviB iu tan & syaae u
spade and not a toothpick.
The National City Bank of New
York?one of the largest institutions
of the kind in the world?knows why
farming is no longer a stable business.
It has put forth the knowledge
in its recent market letter.
The New York bank analyzes a
Burvey of certain farms in Iowa. The
average value of the land of 106
fatms, devoted to the raising of oats
is given at $260 an acre; the average
yield, 38.3 bushels an acre.
The largest item in the production
cost is the charge against the land,
at 5 1-2 percent on the selling value,
plus taxes. This charge comes to
$15.53 an acre; all the other items
put together, such as seed, labor, fertilizer,
machinery, threshing fuel,
twine, storage, etc., comes to only
$15.09. The bank points out that labor
costs were reckoned at a higb
rate. On only two farms of the 196
was a crop produced under the current
market price for oatB, 44 cents
a bushel. On the remaining farms the
producer lost from a few cents to a
dollar a bushel.
I On 167 farms a survey of wheat
was made. The land value was $282
i an acre. The interest charge against
the land comes to $16.80 an acre,
1 and the total of all other items id
production came to $18.98 an acre.
Sixty percent of the farms lose money
at the current market price for
wheat.
These surveys were made by the
Iowa State College of Agrimlture in
co-operation with the Iowa Farm Bu[reau
Federation.
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AID. DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA,
The U. S. Department Qf Agriculture
give8 figures showing that farm
land values in Iowa Increased $63 a
acre in a single year. In the decade ^
from 19Q5 to 1915 they increased an
average of $60.25 an acre, or 125
per cent.
The figures for South Carolina are
not available, but it is safe to assume
that land values in this state have
increased 300 percent in the last ten
years. Taking half this amount as an
average, plus $50, the original value ot
the land, and basing it on an an- P
nual interest return of 8 per cent.,
an acre of cotton land would rent for
$16.00. Add to this $15 for fertilizer
and with cotton Belling at 12 cents,
the farmer has spent more than half v
the grosg return from his land before 1
a peed begins to sprout.
The uhore figures answer the question
as to why farming does not pay.
It simply cannot under the present
farm value load. Yet farmers would
naturally want to be the last to see farm
values decrease.
In the United States farm land has ?
borne a monopoly value since 1890. J
The land is all taken up and is being farmed,
except idle acres held by
'speculators. No more land can be ^
manufactured. The price charged for ^
it is measured by all the traffic will v
bear. Each year sees a population increase
and more demand for the land. I
which automatically increases the
price of land. The men who buys land
now, or has done so within recent
years, faces an interest production
cost that kicks over any chance of
profit from farming; and every ten-,
i ant has to meet this cost whether orj_
s {not his landlord bought the farm ^
in recent years.
The only farmer who can show ]
a profit with present prices of land ,
. is he who has owned the land a lonr |
'time, and bought it cheaply, and does <
not need to charge a high interest ,a
rate against production. j*
That's the primary ailment of 19 21 j j
' farming, and how to cure it ia beyond
the ken of mankind in this old U.
i A. as yet.
FINAL DISCHARGE NOTICE.
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! Notice is hereby given that Mrs. *
t. Amanda Watson, administratrix of,*
the estate of Samuel Watson, deceas-,?
: ed, has made application unto me fort*
: final discharge as administratrix and,
that Thursday, March 17th at 10
o'clock in the forenoon haa been ap'
pointed for the hearing of the said
petition. Ij
All persons holding claims against
the said estate are requested to file
' them with the administratrix on or
before 10 o'clock in the forenoon on
, March 17th, or this notice will be
plead in bar of their recovery.
JOE CABELL DAVIS,
Judge of Probate,
2 24 4t. Dillon County,
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WANT COLUMN
VAN'TED ? Man or -women to take
orders among friends and neighboN
for the genuine guaranteed
hosiery, full lin^ for men. women
and children. Eliminates darning.
We pay 75c an hour spare time, or
$36.00 a week for full time. Experience
unnecessary. Write International
Stocking Mills, Norristown.
Pa.?1 13 lOt.
iOTICJG?I AM AGENT FOR THE
Florence Steam Laundry and will
receiv* and deliver all laundries as
promptly as possible. Palace Market.
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VANTED?Everybody to know that
1 now have a full line of machinery
and that I am in a better position
to give quick service than I have
ever been. All work guaranteed.
Electric Shoe Shop over Dillon
Hotel, W. R. Summerall, Prop.?
1 20 tf.
(066 will break a Cold. Fever and
Jrippe quicker than anything we
mow, preventing pneumonia 19 9 18t
M
rill break a Cold, Fever and Grippe
[uicker than anything w? know, preon
ting pneumonia.?19 9 18t.
X)H SALE: HIGH GRADE AMMONlated
Fertilizers for cotton, corn,
tobacco, etc. Also, Fish Scrap,
Blood, Tankage, Foreign Kainit,
Etc. Write us for prices advising
.he tonnage you want. Dawhoo
Fertilizer Company, Box 608,'
Charleston, S. C.?1 20 6t. * j
VANTED ?COUNTRY PEOPLE TO
TRY OUR 5<>c. MEALS. PALMETTO
CAFE, NEXT TO HERALD
OFFICE?.tf.
IG(i is a prescription for Colds, Fever
.nd LaGrippe. It's the most speedy
emedy we know.?12 9 13t. ;
<OR SALE ? 50O Pounds Pure
country lard at 26 cents per
pound. Apply to H. M. Rogers, Dil-j
Ion, S. C.?2 3 4tp.
RUB - MY - T1SM
s a powerful Antiseptic and Pain
tiller, cures infected cuts, old sores,
etter, etc. Relieves Sprains, Neural'ta
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?OR SALE?White Orpington eggs
for hatching. Kellerstrass strain.
$1.50 per sitting of 15. Mrs. L. L.
Stephens, Dillon, S. C. R. 4?173tp
'OR SALE?160 Bushels Weber No.
82 Long Staple Cotton Seed. Ab-j
solutely pure. From cotton that U. I
S. Government graded strict mid-|
dllng 1 13 inch staple. $1.00 per!
bushel in lots of 10 bushel and |
over. Joe Cabell Davis, Dillon, S.
C.?2 17 2t.
WANTED ? Salesmen for line of
guaranteed tires. Guaranteed salary
with extra commissions. Cowan
Tire Sc. Rubber Co., Chicago,
Illinois. Box 784?2 17 2t.
WANTED?Family to take one or
two horse crop on shares. Also one
8ingle man by the month to act as
foreman. Must be hustler. Address
C. E. Taylor, Fork. S. C.? 2 241tp
MONUMENTS?Wo are builders and
erectors of high grade monuments.
All work of the best material and
fully guaranteed. Prices reasonable.
See us before placing your
order. Lumberton Marble Works,
J. H. Floyd, Prop., Lumberton, N.
C.?2 24 52t.
BOGS FOR SETTING?From single
comb, grand Rhode -Island -Reds,
exhibition blood, -headed by prize
winning male. 23.00 per setting delivered.
T. J. Bass, Latta, S. C. ?
2 17 3tp."
VIR. S. G. CONRAD HAS SEVERED
his connection with these companies:
Day ton-Money weight Scale Co.
McCray Refrigerator Co., and Southern
Scale It Fixture Co. Any
transaction may be carried on direct
with the Southern Scale and
Fixture Co., Columbia, S. C.?2t.
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NOTICE OF ELECTION
Under and by virtue of the authority
given us by the rules of the Demscratlc
Party of the town of Dillon
notice i8 hereby given that a primary
election Is ordered to be held at the
usual voting place In the town of
Dillon on Tuesday, the 15 th day of
March, 1921, for the purpose of nominating
a Mayor, six aldermen and
>ne commissioner of public works to
!>e voted upon at the general election
to be held Tuesday, the 19th day
>f April, 1921.
The polls will open at 8 o'clock a.
m. and close at 4 p. m. Books of enrollment
are now open at Moody's
Drug Store and will remain open till
1 o'clock on Monday, March 14th.
All citizens both male and female,
Df the age of 21 years who have resided
in the state two years, in the
;ounty six months and in the town
jf Dillon sixty dayg will be entitled
to vote in said election.
If a second primary is necessary
the same will be held on Tuesday,
the 22nd day of March, 1921, at the
Lisual voting place. Candidate* nr*
required to file their pledges with
the chairman on or before 12 o'clock
noon Monday. March 14th, 1921.
The following managers have been
appointed to hpid said election: C. S.
Herring, S. W. Jackson and W. A.
BTeaver.
M. A. 8TUBBS,
K 17 4t Chairman.
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READ OUR AD IN THIS WEEKS
issue, then come to see us. Southern
Wholesale and Distributing Co.
SEE OUR SPECIALS IN THIS
weeks ad. Southern Wholesale and
Distributing Co.
SOME SPECIAL PRICES ON OUR
line of goods. Read our ad. Southern
Wholesale and Distributing Co.
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Bosch Magneto and Lever Contr<
1921, we will make a special pr
on these machines, which means
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Our Mechanics are the best. All f:
We specialize on Painting, Repa
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will be at the Hotel
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and fit glasses. Cal
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The 1920 value of Canada's furfarm
industry is placed at $3,968,591.
i The person with a little money, im
the bank is the one who can get themost
satisfaction out of falling prices.
Even a cross-eyed man has no difficulty
in finding trouble these days
if he goes out to look for it.
A room ten feet long, ten feet wide
and ten feet high contains approximately
seventy-five pounds of, air.
Cecil B. DeMille's Production *
"SOMETHING TO THINK *
ABOUT"
With a Great Oast *
EVERYBODY'S THEATRE
TODAY and TOMORROW
Admission: SOc aad 30c.
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Special Prices
awa, which are equipped with
>1, last and antil February 15th,
ice f. o. bk Columbia of 1150.00
i a 25 per cent cutply
Company
COLUMBIA, S. C.
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iring, Washing and Doping Cars.
RecoverB and Seat Covers for
and Better Workmanship,
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