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FARMERS ARE URGED TO REDUCE ACREAGE PLANTED IN COTTON ’ Laurens, S. C., March 5 (Special)— The meeting held in the Court House Friday, in the interest of the campaign for cotton reduction, was largely at tended by representative farmers of the county and a number of business men of this city and Clinton. Mr. W. L. WHEAT GUARANTEE CAUSES TAIN Stevenson Takes Part In Congress Dis* cussion. Cotton Seed Losses. Washington, March 3.—One of the important bills which has been under discussion here for several days was that enabling the president to carry out the price guarantee made to pro ducers of wheat and protect the Unit ed States against undue enhancement of its liabilities. South Carolinians will Gray, chairman of the cotton deduction read with interest the fol.owing re- committee of the county, was elected j niarks made on this subject by Con- efiairman of this meeting and Alison gressman Stevenson of South Carolina. Lee named secretary and treasurer. The proclamation of Gov. Cooper, un der which the meeting was called, was read by the secretary as was the cot ton reduction pledge. loiter discussion of the pledge brought out the fact that the central committee at Columbia had advised the revision of the pledge to allow a normal amount of fertilizer to be used instead of a fifty per cent re duction. It was also pointed out that those desiring to sign some other pledge than that specifically set forth by the central committee could indi cate their desire on the back of the pledge blank. W. P. Harris, of Ow- ings, H. B. Workman, of Clinton, and H. S. Wallace, of the Shiloh section, were elected a committee of three to appoint sub-committees in each school district to place the pledges in the hands of the farmers, to arrange for public meetings in the school districts and to take up with landowners the question of changing the customary rent contract so that a portion of rent could be paid in other products than cotton. At a later meeting of the com mittee on the same day, it was decided to appoint the school -district trustees as pledge committees and these have been called to meet in Laurens Satur day to advise whether or not they will serve and to actively launch the cam paign. An air of hesitation and uncertainty pervaded the assemblage when it first gathered, but before the meeting was over it appeared that the unanimous sentiment was in favor of adhering strictly to the peldge. There was talk of social ostracism and even more ex treme treatment for those who refused to sign the pledges and abide by them, but the sentiment of the meeting was generally conservative. Mr. J. F. Jacobs, of Clinton, was invited in a special motion to address the farmers and he held the attenion of the meet ing for a quarter of an. hour in an ad dress which dealt with the fundamental conditions underlying the present cot ton situation. Mr. Jacobs spqke frank ly of financial conditions, stating,that the banks of the country are heavily handicapped by government demands and that consequently the farmer must depend more upon his own resources than in the past in financing himself. The demand for cotton, he said, has been cut off both by impoverishment of the world and by the terms of the armistice. Countries that formerly took $3,000,000 bales of American cotton cannot get .it now because of the block ade and lack of shipping. Until this is remedied, he said, the -farmers must hold their cotton if they wish a better price and must reduce their present crop if they-did not want to create a surplus and thereby depress the mar ket. The moment purchasers know that the south has planted a normal crop they will stay' out of the market RARE LEHMANN'S TAIN BENEFICIAL -7 —si ‘‘I am somewhat In sympathy with the purpose of the gentlemen from Pennsylvania <Mr. Moore) in so far as protection to the consumer is con cerned. I had an idea that he was to be protected under the licensing or supervising system provided in the bill; but I want to talk just a minute about some of those who have not had any protection, and I am a little curi ous to know why they did not put some protection in the bii! for the protec tion of some- more_ol the farmers.. “The statement has been made broadcast, and a great deal has been made out of it, that nobody’s price was fixed except the wheat man’s price. The mis-statement amounts to this. that hobody’s price was fixed and guaranteed except the wheat man’s; and I want to say to you that there is * a large class of farmers the price of whose goods has been fixed but was not guaranteed, and they are tied up tight today and have lost over $100,- 000,000. Take the matter of the cot ton seed of the farmers of the South— about 5,000,000 tons. It was selling at $83 a ton. They came along and said that they must fix the price of. that to prevent exorbitant charges, and they reduced the price to $69 a ton, mak ing a deduction at one lick from the- market price of $70,000,000. They fixed it at that and let it run along for a while, until some of the middlemen and some of the farmers had considerable stocks of seed on hand which they had obtained at the price fixed by the gov ernment, and then they reduced it an other dollar a ton. They did not guar antee that anybody could sell it at that. That took $5,000,000 more. Then they took the linters and reduced the price 3 cents a pound—the linters that were to be taken by the government for the manufacture of explosives. By that reduction they caused the farm ers of the South a loss of $21,000,000, hut they made no guaranty about tak ing care of the loss that we sustained there. They went ahead then, and, as soon as the armistice is signed they cancel all of the contracts for lintei Mr. Kari Lehman, Field Secretary for Christian Endeavor in the South, ad dressed the Clinton societies and their friends at the First Presbyterian Church, Tuesday night, on the subject, “The Four Square Christian Endeav- orer.” Mr, Lehman always comes to us full of enthusiasm and as usual, his address was enjoyed by all who hea him. His address touched the keynote of the present age, calling for real corf- secratod service for Christ and the Church. He made an after-address to the younger boys who are justVaklng up'’Christian Endeavor work and made them feel indeed, that they, too, are a part of the Great Plan. All came away feeling better and encouraged by Iris words. TREAT COEDS AND THE FEU First Step in Treatment Is a Brisk PnrgpitJve with Calotebs* the Jfew >auseaiess Calomel. Doctors have found by experience that no medicine tor colds and influ enza. can be depended upon for full effectiveness until the liver is made thoroughly active. That is why the first step in the treatment is. the new, nausealess Calomel called Calotabs, which is free from the sickening, weakening, and salivating effects of the old style calomel. Doctors also point out the fact that an active liver goes a long way towards preventing influenza and is one of the most im portant factors in enabling the patient to .successfully withstand an attack and ward off pneumonia. One Calotab on the tongue at bed time, with a swallow of water—that’s all. No salts, no nausea nor the slightest interference with your eat ing, pleasure or work. Next morning your liver is active, your system is on rifled, and you are feeling fine, with a hearty appetite for breakfast. Drug gists sell Calotabs only in original sealed packages, price thirty-five cents. Your money will be cheerful ly refunded if you do not find them de lightful.—(adv.) her that cotton seed, after it is crush ed and put into the mill, is sold back to the farmer for fertilizer; and they said, ‘If you take that seed home and keep .it there over 60 days you will be guilty of hoarding,’ and they indicted some people in my country for hoard ing cottdn seed, so we had to let it go until the mills were blocked, and they have not bought a pound of seed since .the 1st of December; and where are and render them lifeless, so that the' we , farmers can get only a cent a pound for them now. That cost us another niggardly $16,000,000 as a result of price fixing without a guaranty at tached. That makes $112,000,000 that they fixed for us^ but'they did not guarantee us against loss. . I sympa thize with the genUeman over there who wants to be guaranteed against loss on the flour that we are going to buy from those fellows who had a guaranty but West. You must remem- •» be paid in other products than cotton. For himself, he said that he was will ing to d6 this with tenants -on his place. ' - ‘ The committee of school disrict trustees, which is to meet here Satur- and let it sag, whereas if they believe ; day, hs expected to place the matter of that the south will reduce they will cotton reduction squarely before the commence to bid for the present crop in order to take care of present an<F future needs. It will be ten years be fore normal consumption of cotton will be resumed, said Mr. Jacobs, and this must be taken into consideration in formulating this year’s as well as next year’s plans. As a means of overcom ing this situation, he urged the plant- j ing of food crops. Make meat, pota- j toes, corn and other food products at home, he urged, thereby reducing farm operating expense and leaving cotton* as a surplus crop. “Somebody is go ing to get hurt on cotton,” he warned his heafers and advised them to let it alone at least to the extent of not de pending ppon it as a business. Mr. * A ‘ f Jacobs t df<| not recommend or oppose the use S|f fertilizers, but suggested; that Where cotton is reduced the fer tilizers should be usedt under other crops. Other addresses were made by iDr. H. K. Aiken, J. M. PowersT Lang ston, Dr. W. H. Dial, Milton Siumerel, Geo. M. Davis, John Finley, L. S. Bolt, C. L. Coats and others. The consensus of opinion appeared to be that reduc tion should be made by those who plant large as well as small acreages in cotton, so that all would be paced on an equality. Mr. Finley pointed out that the man who is now planting a small acreage in cotton is making a ! large proportion of the cotton crop ’ and his profits would be increased rather than decreased by a general re duction of acreage. Dr. W. H. Dial <i||gypessure be brought to hear to b« liberal with rent- i bf allowing a part of the rent tc armers and to leave* it to them whether or not they wish to reduce the acreage. They immediately raised the price of the cottonseed meal. Having re duced the price of the cotton seed $14 a ton, they raised the price of the meal $7 a ton, and thereby they hit the farmers of the South for $15,750,000. more on the price of cottonseed meal, but did not get any guaranty, or relief, or protection either out of the bon* sumer or out of the producer. That, is one item I have been sometimes de sirous of letting somebody find out— that price fixing was not confined to the wheat producers of the West alone; that the price fixing and the guaranty was confined to them, and that they are the fellows who are on top. Now, I think it is a good time to put in something here- to protect the con sumer, because we have all got to buy wheat, especially the Southern farmer, who has been hit $127,000,000 by price fixing without a guaranty. Want to Feel J ra Take an NR Tonight a JUST TOY IT AHD SEC how mu oh hotter yea feel in the xr.smls^ That **lotfT>" hoodachy. tired, don’t-knour-whet’s-tho-msttcr fioLaj will ke gor.o—you’ll locR fine. T ROUBLE IS, jrour system h clogrreJ with a lot of impurities thet your over-vrerhed digestive erd eliminetive ergsns can’t get rid cf. Fiih.Ici., sells, calomel and ordi nary Ltr-ctivcs, cathartics and parses only force the bov.chs ancl pred tl.ci, liver. Nature’cP.cTnci’y (!IR Tablet:,) act: ca theetcrr.ech, liver, bowels and erven k’dtrtys, not forcing, but ton ing end rtrengthening these organs. The result is prompt rilic! c.-.d real, lasting bcncf.t. I/lake the test. Nature’s Remedy will net promptly, thoroughly, yet so mildly, so gentty, that you vrl’.i think nature hcr- self has come to the rescue end is- doing the verb. Andch, what c, relief! : f.'d h-rr t:u:r ym We Will Open Our New Store About tbe Middle of March With a Complete Line of New Goods. - The Exact Date Will Be Announced Later. , v , MILLINERY Exclusive Pattern Hats for Spring, personally selected. A com prehensive assortment of the Newest Styles in Georgette Models, Gage & Knox Hats, Tailored and Sport Hats, and Mourning Hats. Also Untrimmed'Hats, Flowers and Novelty Trimmings, Crepes, Malines, Veilings, Silks, Satins, and Ribbons. SUITS, COATS, CAPES, DOLMANS DRESSES A Kleva Klad and Betty Wales (watch our window for the Plosh- kin) Dresses. 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A fine opportunity to buy at a big saving. MAZDA LAMPS • * We carry a full line in all sizes. . \ Springtime is €lean-l)p Time Renew your furniture and woodwork with * • . V our Stains, Varnishes and Polishes. Makes the old look like new and last longer. -*■ -< • • . . • ■ Whatever you may need in the Hardware Line, you’ll find here and always priced rea- sonably. STANTON & JOHNSON J. W. Copeland BrCo’*. Former Stand Clinton, - - - South Carolina