Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, September 22, 1921, Image 2
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THE FORT MILL TIMES
Democratic?Published Thursday*.
Win. R. Bradford. Editor and PallMrr.
The Times Invites contributions on
live subjects but does not agree to
publish more than 200 words on any
subject. The right Is reserved to edit
every communication submitted for
publication.
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advertising rates are made known to
those Interested.
Telephone, local and long distance.
No. 112.
klntered at the postoftlce at Kort
Mill, S. C., as mall mutter of the
second class.
TH U RSI)A Y, SEPT. 22, 1921. ~
\\" 11 i 1? the impetus that has
been given business generally
throughout the South as a result
of the recent gratifying advance
in the price of cotton to more
than double the price at which
it was selling less than a month
apo may not have been felt locally
to the extent to which it
has been in other communities, it
is certain that within a few
weeks the increased demand for
the staple, coupled with theshortage
of the crop, the two factors
which have caused the advance
in price, will have done much to
restore normal conditions of bus
iiu-?>n ami trade. b'or once, at
least. it seems tiiat supply ami
demand ar?> responsible for the
price now being paid for tho staph'.
I Jot I. tin* American ami Kuropcan
spinners arc aware of the
fact that if their mills arc to continue
running through the winter
and on until the crop of 1922 is
gathered, it will he necessary for
tlieni to pay a better price for
cotton than they had perhaps expected
to pay. and good business
judgment prompts them to secure
this cotton as early as possible.
While it may be true, as
one paper observes, the crop
shortage is "nothing hut a calamity
to the world." the calamity
is no more regrettable than
that which the cotton farmers,
ami. consequently everybody in
the South, have been experiencing
more or less regularly since
the close of the Civil war. Year
after year for the last half century
and more this section has
gone ahead producing the principal
part of the cotton crop of
the world onlv to r#?e??iv.. o
a ruinous price set by American
ami Kuropeun gamblers, many of
whom never saw a stalk of growing
cotton. For this unhappy experience
the South itself is to
blame to a considerable extent,
however. There has simply been
too much cotton grown in this
section, which fact gave the gamblers
a plausible excuse for depressing
the price. Cut the crop
to something like 8 million bales
annually ami the price may be
depended upon to stay around 25
cents. Too much cotton, even in
normal times, means heavy and
insupportable losses for the South
and "when price deflation struck
the country last year cotton's
price was much more than cut in
two and the growers of last year's
crop at high prices were financially
stranded," says the Springfiled
Republican. "They could
not hold their cotton without
heavy loss. The banks of the
South ever since have been holding
hundreds of millions of dollars'
worth of cotton growers'
paper which could not be liquidated
ami which was given the
name of "frozen credits.' The
present sharp rise in the price of
cotton should enable Southern
planters to pay off their obligations
in large measure and thus
relieve the banks of a great mass
of these "frozen credits.' This
should tend to ease the money
situation in this country. Another
consequence of the higher price
of cotton should be the increase
of the South's purchasing power
in Northern markets. At the
same time the rise in cotton prices
is not unlikely to stimulate
somewhat the cotton textile industry
for as prices of textiles
; also tend to advance along with
the price of raw cotton the hope !
of lower quotations disappears
I and th# waiting buyers who had
hitherto been doubtful as to further
deflation begin confidently
placing orders."
The Charlotte News of a day
or two ago observed that the cities
composing the South Atlantic
league had had all the baseball
; they wanted for the present season
and that the -attendance at
the games had fallen off recently
to practically nothing. All of
which doubtless is true. And the
! statement being true, why do
I The News and other papers published
in the league .cities continue
to print practically as
much matter ahout the games as
they did when there was real interest.
shared in by many, in the
outcome of the pennant race?
There is quite as much to be said
iii hehali of the club owners for
giving the publie a longer season
than it wanted as there is for the
newspapers which are printiug
long accounts of the games which
the same public does not care to
read. B.it however much interest
in baseball may have v aticd
in this section in the last three
or four weeks, there still is more
general interest in the game linn
there will be at any time in the
football clashes which are scheduled
to take place within the
next two months. Baseball isllio
national pastime. Practically everybody
understands and likes
i lie game. Knot ball is largely a
college game and by and lucg"
interest in it is confined to college
circles. In the face of t'ds
statement of l'aet, why do the doily
newspapers print column after
c Muuin in their every issue lor
weeks prior to and during the
football season about the gam*when
they must know that it is
of no interest to a large section
?d* those who buy their papers?
The Times holds no brief foi
?he Ku Klux Klan. The or-tor
may be even worse, as this paper
iias before observed, than its en-'
.uies paint it. hut before we be.leve
all or even a considernLV
part of the charges of lawlessness
wliieb are being made against the
lilan we shall demand trustworebv
evidence ? not the evidence
of prejudiced witnesses such as
be New York World or Leslies
?\ eekly. both publications which
.inprove upon every opportunity
<o criticise the South and every
.hing Southern. Nominally the
New York World is Democrat ic
n polities?usually it supports
the party candidates for the presidency
and vice presidency and
piefers to be known as Democrat
iii in State politics. From
this fact it would seem therefore
hat The World would be kindly
disposed toward the South, but,
strange as it may seem, just the
reverse is true. Let a lynching
?ake place in the South and The
World immediately fires a broadtitle
of denunciation at this whole
sect ion,apparently vicing with tho
Chicago Tribune in the use of l\nig
adjectives to misrepresent the
people who live south of Mason
and Dixon line. Unfortunately,
the World has a national circulation
and is one of the most influential
papers in the country. Its
attitude of hostility toward and
misrepresentation of the South
has done this Ki-fOAn ...?
wvviiutl CI I llllllCtlM*
arable amount of harm. In connection
with its opposition to the
hkti Klux Klan, The World, us
was to be expected, has gone out
of its way to denounce the South
as a lawless section in which neither
life nor property rights are
held sacred. Fortunately there
are people in the North and West
who know thut the accusation is
untrue, but on the other haiul
perhaps a majority of the readers
of The World know no better
than to accept the churge at its
face value. The World is bent
upon destroying the Ku Klux
{ Klan. Why? Let the reader inform
himself as to some of the
| requirements for membership in
i the klan and then contrast these
i with the influences which control
The World and the answer wiljLj
have been fouud Through the
Beaufort Oaette Senator Niels
Christensen editor, we learn of a
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series of articles which one Win.
j G. Shepherd, whoever he may
be. is writing for Leslies Weeklyagainst
the ki.in. What Leslies
or Shepherd says against the
South is not to be taken too seI
riously?it doesn't annum to
j much. Few in this section care
I anything about Leslies and less
about Shepherd, but in {Missing
we quote f\:r what it is worth one
of the lies Shepherd recently
wrote for Leslies in denouncing
the Ku Klux Klan: "This lawlessness
is being committed by alleged
good citizens of the middle
classes, stranirelv moved to an >?1- '
1 leged desire to enforce law by
taking the law into their own
j hands. The long ami short of
the matter is that an organizaj
tion which calls itself the Ku
l Klux Klan is 'riding' again in
the South." What drivel!
j 'V . ?Wanted?The
people not to
i forget that Cook's Peanut Cream
Candy is just fine. Try a 5 cent
block. Jllftl
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FORT MILL (
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NOTICE or SALE.
State of South Carolina?County
of York.
Court of Common Pleas
S . vings 13: nk of Fort Mill against
H. Carros. Defendant,
and
Blankensldp - Johnson Company
against H. Carros. Defendant.
Notice of Execution Sale...
In order to satisfy a levy and
executions against the property
of H. Carros. 1 will expose to public
sale to the highest bidder for
cash, in the town of Fort. Mill. ,
S in front of the Fort Mill :
Times office, on Friday. October ;
7th. 1921. at 12 o'clock M.. the .
following personal property:
One Clsevrolet Roadster. which
has been converted into a truck:
stock and fixtures ot? the Fort
Mill Candy Kitchen.
For itemized list of the stock,
see list, in Sheriff's office or the
Savings Bank of Fort Mill.
F. K. OF INN.
Sheriff of Yor County.
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