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To Have Debate
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Think Market Rai(jl h
Drive Upon “Co-ops”
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Opposition Greets Mensures in Senate
—“Paternalism Ran Rampant,”
Declares Fletcher of Florida
in Openinf Speech.
Washington, March 3.—Strenuous
opposition tMay greeted the appear
ance in the senate of the first special
farm relief measure—the Norbeck-
Burtness bill proposing the loan of
$75,000,000 to finance diversification.
Declaring it was ‘‘paternalism run
rampant,” Senator Fletcher (Demo-
crat) of Florida said it was time to
call a halt upon such measure.
“We are proposing to lend this
money,” he said, “for th epurpose <rf
enabling the one crop farmer to keep
live stock on hand never adaptable^
for grazing, or to raise other crops
where the ’and will not produce but
one. We have already gone the limit
along this line."
Senator Fletcher’s attitude was un
derstood- to be that of several, other
senators on the Democratic side and
of some Republicans. An effort of
NO T I'
The books of the County Treasurer
will be open for the collection of
Taxes for the fiscal year, 1923, at the
Treasurer’s office from October 15th
to December 31, 1923. After Decem
ber 21 one per cent will be added. Af
ter January 31st, two per cent will be
add^jd, and after Feb. 28th, seven per
cent will be added until the 15th day
of March, 1924, when the books will
be closed.
All persons owning property in
more than one township are requested
to call for receipts in each of the
several townships in which the pro-
perty is located. This is important, as
additional cost and penalty may be
attached.
All able-bodied male citizens be
tween the ages of twenty-one (21)
and sixty (60) years of age are liable
to pay a poll tax of $1.00, except old
soldiers, who are exempt at fifty (50)
Tears of age. Commutation Road Tax
$1.50 In lieu of road duty. All able-
bodied man between the ages of 21
and 55 are liable to road duty except
those in military service, school
school teachers, ministers,
tadents. Dog Tax $1.25, which
be paid not later than January
si. ms.
Proper attention will be given those
whe wish to pay their taes through
the mail by check, money otfder, eta.
The tax levy is as follows:
State Tax 6 mills
Ordinary County Tax .... .... 5V4 mills
Hoad aad Bridge .... ... .... 4 mills
Raflroad Bond *... .... 1 mill
Road bonds .... 7% mills
Past indebtedness ft mil)
.Jail Bonds .... .... ft mill
Constitutional School .... .... 8 mills
Senator Ladd (Republican) of North
headway which has already
Representative Citizens Issue State
ment Declaring Time Has Come
for All in Cotton Belt to Show
Their Colors^—Challenge Issued to
All Southern States.
Columbia, S. C, March 1. -
Declaring that the recent raid on
the cotton market had demonstrated
the absolute necessity of cooperative
marketing, pledging their heartiest
support to a movement to double the
membership and deliveries of the
South Carolina association for next
season and calling on all other states
of the belt to do likewise, a group of
very represeiltative South Carolinians
Wednesday night issued a statement
calling on every man, woman and
child interested in the welfare of the
state to lend their full support during
the next few months to this objective.
The statement declares that the
time has come for “the people of the
cotton belt to show theit colors and
align themselves in solid array ag
ainst those who would keep us in
bondage.” It points to the wonderful
been
28 mills
Schools Disk Township
No. 1 8 mills
Eden No. 2 ... .; 12* mills
Shiloh No. 8 ..„ 12 mills
Now Hmmony^ Nor 4^ r.vr“— -r.-+Tatthr
Gray Court-Owing! No. 5 20* mills
Barksdale No. 6 Consolidated 16 mills
Dials Church No. 7 8 mills
... 12 mills
24 mills
Township
:.. 17 mi Is
8 mi
... 20 mi
.... 10 mi
No. 8
Fountain Inn No. 3B .... ...
Special Schools Sullivan
Princeton No. 1 ....I
Mt. Bethel No. 2
Poplar Springs No. 3
Brewerton No. 7
Merna No. 8 .... ...
Hickory Tavern No. 17 .
Local R. R. Bonds ....
Special'Schools Waterloo
Bethlehem No. 2 x
Ekom No. 3
Center Point No. 4
Oakville No. 5
ML Pleasant No. 6 ....
ML OlivdlNo. 7
Waterloo Town No. 14 ....
Is
Is
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... 12 mills
r.16 mills
— 3 mills
Township
.... 4 mills
... 17 mills
... 14 mills
.... 8 mills
... 12 mills
.... 15 mills
.... 8 mills
morrow wqs blocked by notification
from several senators they desired to
discuss the measure.
The North Dakota senator, having
reported the bill from the agriculture
committee, assumed. charge of it on, cotton growers at least
the floor. He contended the goveim*
ment owed special consideration tt|,
the spring wheat farmers because of
the evils they had suffered through
the war time propaganda, which-Al
once increased production and de
creased production and decreased con
sumption. Every other class in the
United States had been aided, he said,
either by the tariff or through direct
or indirect subsidy.
Several amendments already have
been proposed to the bill, which would
increase the amount carried to $105,-
000,000. Among'them is a provision
honored by Senator Bursum (Republi
can) of New Mexico, which would add
$20,000,000 for loans to banks in the
Northwest. Senator Fletcher said the
purpose of this was to “bolster busted
banks.”
“The whole tendency,” he said, “is
toward further centralization of au
thority in the federal government:
Can you imagine the secretary of
agriculture supervising this fund
without taking some control of the
farms he aids, or of the comptroller
passing out his fund without retaining
some control of those banks?.
“Of course if the idea is to establish
a good campaign fund, I have no
doubt that $50,000,000 or $100,000,000
properly handled would be very effec-
tive.” V -
Senator Bursum here interjected
Special Schools Laurens Township
Laurens City 13^ rpjn s
Tflnity Ridge No. f 16* mi Is
Prospect No. 2 8 mills
l«urens No. 3 16 mi
Watts Mills too. 7 8 mi
Bailey N<
Copeland-
'It •••• •••• -••• V fill.
Ora No. 12 * 11* mi
Special Schools Youngs Township
Ebenezer-Patton .... 3 mills
Friendship No. 2 8 mills
Warrior Creek R. Old Field 8 mills
Bethel No. 4 11* mills
Gray’s No. 5 .... 17 mills
Central No. 6 11 mills
Youngs No. 7
Lanford No. 10
Fountain Inn No. 3B ....
Special School Jacks
Shady Grove No. 2 .... ..
Renno No. 3
Hatton No. 4
CPdell School No. 6
Gariington No. 7
Hurricane No. 15
Special Schools Scuffletown
Long Branch No. 1
Byrd’s- Musgrove No. 2 ....
Langston No. 3
Sandy Springs No. 4
Lanford No. 10 ....
Ora No. 12 ...; ....
Special Schools Cross Hill
Cross Hill No. 1 ,
Cross Hill No. 2
Spring Grove No. 3
CM Mountville No. 6
Cross Hill Town No. 13 ..
—Special Schools Hunter Township
Lisbon No. 1 12 mills
Rock No. 2 .... 8 mills
— 16 mills
.... 16 mills
.... 24 mills
Township
. .... 7 mills
.... 16 mills
3 mills
.. .... 8 mills
.. .1.. 3 mills
..v 6 mills
Township
.... 8 mills
— 8 mills
.... 8 mills
.... 4 mills
.. 16 mills
14* mills
Township
.... 2 mills
— 8 mills
.... 6 mills
10 mills
15 mills
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Rock Bridge No. 3 .... .... .... ... 6 miUs
Wadsworth No. 4 .... .._ .... 8 mills
Reederville (part of No. 4) 13 mills
CUnton No. 5 20* mills
Goldvfile No. 6 4 mills
Kinards No. 49 (part of No. 6) 8 mills
Belfast No. 7 5 mills
Hurrinane No. 15 6 mills
Heuatville No. 16 .... 15* mills
Persons sending ia lists of names
to bp taken Off are reouested to send
—.— ly and give the township of
ns the Treasurer is very busy
the, month of December.
BOSS D. YOUNG.
the remarks that “the senator certain
ly does not want to leave the idea that
any administration would capitalize
the miseries of farmers,” and Senator
Fletcher replied he had “merely sug
gested that in passing.”
Senator Johnson (Farmer-Labor) of
Minnesota said the “chambers of com
merce were too strong for the . farm
ers, who tried to carry out their co
operative organizations,” when the
Florida senator suggested this was
the logical solution of their difficul-
clpring that those who would live off
the .sweat of the cotton growers'
brows had become alarmed and now
seek to crush the movement which in-
n
reasonable profit for their cotton.”
The statement is signed by Gov.
Thomas G. McLeod, Bright William
son of Darlington, W. W.- Long of
Clemson College. T—B.—Young- of
Florence, Dr. W. A. Barnette qf
Greenwood, D. A. Geer of Belton, P.
L. Bethea of Minturn, C. J. Jackson
of Horatio, J. S. Stark of Abbeville,
H. D. Henry of Clinton, Alfred Scar
borough of Eastover, L. D. Fridy of
Wallaceville, J. B. Guess of Denmark,
J. B. Johnson of Rock Hill, Edwin
Wilson of St. Charles, L. L. Rice of
Anderson and George W. Croft of
Aiken.
The statement follows in full:
“The developments in the cotton
market during the past six weeks
have demonstrated more clearly pro
bably than has ever been demonstra
ted before the compelling necessity
of organization on the part of the
farmers. We have sfeen a break' of
seven cento a pound in the market
without any justification whatever;
this, too, in the face of the fact that
the surplus on hand is the smallest
in history and in the face of very
bullish consumption figures.
“We are convinced that this manip
ulation of the market could" never
have been brought about had the cot
ton cooperative associations control
led a greater percentage of the crop.
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“I refer you to the recent decision
of the federal trade commission,” said
Senator Johnson. “If would be inter
esting to the senate.”
Senator Brookhart (Republican) of
Iowa also took exception to the ar
guments advanced by Senator Fletch
er. The credit facilities requested, he
said, were actually provided “in a
large measure from the farmers’ de-.
posits.”
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Young Man Dies
. In Car’s Plunge
John C. Bethea Killed Near Charlotte
Native of Dillon.
Dillon, March 3.—The town of Dil
lon was deeply shocked upon learning
early this morning of the tragic death
of John C. Bethea, Jr., which occurred
in an automobile accident near Char
lotte at a late hour last night.
- He left Dillon f with Brown Hamer
yesterday in a Lincoln car owned by
Mr. Hamer. The news reaching Dil
lon was to the effect that they had
spent the evening in Charlotte in com
pany with some Davidson college
friends and that they had taken them
back to Davidson and were returning
to Charlotte when the accident oc
curred. It seems that they were turn
ing a sharp curve and were blinded by
the glaring lights of an approaching
car. This caused them ty swerve too
close to the edge of the road. The
car plunged from the embankment,
which was about 60 feet high. Mr.
Bethea was a young man about 25
years old and was ye^y popular in the
social and business circles of Dillon
and the community. E(e was assistant
cashier of the Bink of Dillon, which
institution he had been connected with
since his graduation from Wofford
college several years ago. He is sur
vived by his mother, Mrs. M. G. Be-
These cooperatives have made won
derful headway in the two years in
which they have operated. This has
alarmed those who would live off the
sweat of the farmers’ brow and they
are now seeking through this drive
to crush a movement which insures
the cotton grower at least a reason
able profit for his cotton. This at
tempt will fail. Cooperative market
ing of cotton is now firmly and per
manently established. - We believe,
however, the time has come for the
people of the cotton belt to show their
colors and align themselves in solid
array against those who would keep
us forever in commercial bondage.
“Believing that the most important
step that can be taken in South Caro-
lina at this time is a vigorous move
ment for the increase in membership
of the South Carolina Cotton Growers’
Cooperative association, we have
pledged to lend our fullest efforts dur
ing the next eight months to this pur
pose to the end that its membership
and its deliveries may be doubled next
season. We call on every man, wo
man and child interested in the wel
fare of the state to lend their fullest
support to the movement, believing
as we do that the welfare of the state
is absolutely dependent on th# farm
ers of the state. . ^
“We call upon the people of every
other state in the belt to set for them
selves the same objective we have set
to the end that the cooperatives next
season will control a very heavy per
centage of the crop and we; believe
with this we shall in a.short time see
a stabilize^ market and a happy and
^contented people whose prosperity can
not be taken from them by a fe& spec
ulators and gamblers.”
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