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XnUKaUAI, W/IVPBP i», 1920 PAGE SEVEN How Gan We Help Cotton Why Build a New Fire Engine While a Fire Rages? (By CLARENCE POE) Suppose a fire should break out in a town, wouldn’t it be a foolish man who would propose to stop and build a new fire engine a little more to his liking while the fire ra'ged? Suppose a half dozen men were drowning in a lake. Wouldn’t it be a foolish man who would propose to ig nore a canoe waiting by the shore and suggest building a possibly somewhat finer one while the tragedy of drown ing proceeded? Of course, we all admit the foolish ness of either suggestion. And yet isn’t it exactly a parellel situation that confronts us with reference to the financial disaster that now threat ens every Southern state by reason of the low price of cotton? Thrrteen-cent cotton now is hardly better than seven-cent cotton in the days before the World war. Yet if Southern farmers, merchants, and bus iness men show themselves willing to accept this absurd price, that is all the South will get for the crop. The cotton consuming world is certainly not going to insist on forcing higher prices on us if we will accept 13 cents. An acceptance of the 13-cent price is, of course, indicated by just one thing—the actual sale of cotton at that figure. Resolutions, editorials, telegrams, and speeches of protest are mere sound and fury to the cotton buying world, if the actual lint con tinues to go on the market at 13 cents or thereabouts, a price that means sure disaster equally -to Southern farmers and Southern business men. But how is it propdke'd that we deal with the threatened disaster? Isn’t it suggested that we stop and build a new fire engine while the fire rages, or construct a new boat while the farmers drown? It seems to us so. Elaborate and high-sounding schemes are proposed for holding cotton off the market and financing the producer while the holding proceeds—but near ly all these schemes are hopelessly impracticable, and if any are practi cable, the bulk of the cotton would surely be sold before any of them could possibly be put to work all over the belt. Meanwhile (again permitting our selves the use «f a double metaphor) the fire engine waits unnoticed while the fire rages and the canoe unused while the men drown—at least so far as the incentors of grandiloquent schemes are concerned. A complete, well considered, effec tively functioning machine for deal ing with just such emergencies as now to it that it is not dumped wholesale him. We refer, of course, to the coopera tive marketing associations now at work in every Southern state. They will take the farmers' cotton and see to it that it is no dumped wholesale on a demoralized and ruinously low market, but is instead marketed grad ually throughout the year, and fur thermore, they will advance as liber ally as anybody can safely do on every pound of cotton delivered. As for acreage reduction,, no plan yet proopsed can be anything but a mere gesture. Farmers simply will not say definitely in October what they will do next April, when condi tions may be very different, and * should not be expected to. “Isn’t it an astonishing fact chat editors and politicians are filling the air with talk, protests, and proposals and yet ignore the very agency that is functioning for our relief?” So a friend asked us this morning, and we agreed with him. With the best thought of America almost unani mously proclaiming that cooperative marketing is the wisest solution of Ihe farmers' marketing problems, so- called prominent men prepare to waste valuable time trying to start some new and unheard of kind of makeshift organization. We appeal—and we appeal confi dently—to Southern farmers and mer chants not to be misled by such will- o-the-wisps. Instead, let us all turn in now and help those courageous and far-seeing cotton fanners and business n.en who have already set us in every Southern state effective and well-man- aged agencies for handling the South's great staple crop. In this way we shall not only best meet the present emergency, but we shall give support and strength, not to some temporary makeshift that ! might not work even for this cotton selling season and would certainly die before another season, but to a well- planned agency that will grow strong- ei with the passing years and help 1 prevent as well as control such emer gencies as we now face. Merchants and bankers should everywhere ac quaint themselves with what coopera- j tive marketing offers and give it not 1 merely nominal but active support, rnciuding helpful counsel to its leaders. It cannot even be argued that grow ers must sign up for a long time ahead in order to sell this year's crop ! through cooperative associations, for in most cases these associations are now working on the last year of their 1 present contracts, and will gladly ac- jeept signers for the 1926 crop alone, | leaving the grower absolutely free to j decide later about continuing with the [ erganization. Let’s fight the fire with the fire en- ! gine that is already waiting instead ! of taking time to build another. Let’s I use the canoe waiting by the lakeside | instead of letting drownina proceed i while we construct another boat. biles and other hundreds seeking to watch the work of rescue. The police, assisted by members of the local post of the American Legion, have roped off the mine entrance and permit none but those on errands of mercy to enter. J. A. Holden, deputy State mine in spector, who chanced to be in the city, is directing rescue work, wi*h the as sistance of N. D. Wilson, superintend ent of the mine. Many of the rescu-’ ers did similar work after the 1925 disaster. Rockwood iis a town of 6,000 inhab itants. Thev mine produces approxi mately 500 tons of coal daily, and is of the “drift” type. The Rdhne Iron Company has been operating almost continuously since the sixties. It produces coal to oper ate its extensive blast furnace and coke ovens, with a capacity of 600 to 1,000 tons a day. The coal mined here was discovered as early as 1840 by William Green. In 1867, Gen. John T. Wilder and Cap tain Chamberlain, federal officers in the war between the States, from Pennsylvania, acquired the property and began to develop it. Blast fur naces and coke oven were placed in operation and when the ovens were started up they operated continuously until 1922 when they yrere closed for a brief time due to strikes and mar ket conditions. Veterans Invited To State Fair Announcement has $>een made that all Confederate veterans in the state will be furnished free transportation to the State Fair, Oct. 18-23, to be held in Columbia, upon presentation to the railroads of a certificate of identifi cation from the Probate Judge of the county. Arriving in Columbia, the veterans will likewise be given free transportation over the electric lines of the city and admittance to the fair grounds including all attractions. Wednesday has been designated as Confederate Veterans Day and it is expected that a large number will be present. The Birth of a Nation has been shown to more people than any picture ever made and is still go ing strong, notwithstanding it has been before the people for twelve or thirteen years. If you have seen it you will want to see it again. At the Casino, Oct. IS IS. Excursion Clinton, S. C. To NORFOLK, VA $11.50 RICHMOND, VA $11.50 WASHINGTON, D. C. $14.50 Via SEABOARD OCTOBER 15, 1926 Good In Pullman Cars Upon Payment of Pullman Fare LIMIT 5 DAYS For further information see nearest ticket agent or write C. G. LaHATTE, T. P. A. VV. H. SHANDS, Agent Atlanta, Ga. - Clinton, S. C. 27 DEAD LISTED AS BLAST RIPS ; Thirty-one Men Trapped In Coal pit In Tennessee As Explosion Rends Workings. Rockwood, Tenn., Oct. 4.—Twenty- ' seven miners are believed to have perished and four were injured in a'n explosion in the coal mine of the Roane Iron Company here today. Of J the thirty-one men reported in the 1 mine at the time two early tonight ' were known to be dead, and hope ' virtually had been abandoned for the ! remaining twenty-five. The blast, in the Rogers tunnel, about three miles underground, hap pened in almost the identical spot where a gas explosion killed ten men in July of last year. It was at this point that the twenty-five miners were working, and veterans said the con cussion probably snuffed out their lives before the dread after-damp gas had time to do its work. The known dead: W. C. Elliott, Jess Dale. Their bodies were found in the Teague entry, a branch leading off from the Rodgers entry, about three- quarters of a mile from the scene of the explosion. Three of the injured also were located there by rescuers and brought to the surface after hay ing been almost overcome, despite hastily erected brattices against after damp. Rescue crews made slow progress in penetrating the shaft, due to the fierce heat and smoke and danger from gas, but they pushed forward on the slende)p hope that some life might still exist, leaving the bodies of the two dead men where they lay. A large force of open lamp men has been recuited and now awaits orders to enter the mine to assist in carrying the bodies of those believed dead to the main slope. From there a train of mine cars is ready to take them to the surface. r First word of the explosion drew hundreds to the mouth of the mine, and they have been standing for hours awaiting word of the fate of relatives and friends. Later the streets near the mine became choked with automo- mam Fall Festival A ' . Nov. 1-6 Clinton, S. C. Location: Florida and Clay Streets o . Harder Bros. 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Leather or Panco soles, extra spec ial—$1.95 to $2.50 pair. New Sweaters for the family, Lumberjacks, medium and heavy Underwear, Blankets, Dry Goods, Furnishings, etc. ATTENTION * Be sure to visit our Bargain Tables. You will find Slippers regularly sold at from $3.50 to $6.00, not all sizes in ever ystyle, but every size in all the styles. Extra Special, $1.50 to $2.50 pair DANZIGER’ NEVER UNDERSOLD . STORE CLINTON, SOUTH CAROLINA 1 10 FALL OPENING SALE Opens Saturday, October 16 Closes Saturday, October 30 ~ r—* . _ ...... . ' ‘ Special Announcement to Women Who Care Every Goat, Every Dress on Our Racks New 1926-27 Models 0 No Carry-Overs—No Last Year Garments. All newest Fabrics, Styles and Latest Colors are here for Madam and Miss. |jj] E I 1 p] 01 I I I | pi ill S 0 0 r-rgfr^f^lr^rrF fi—r5LfH-’crbl-rEjr~Llc~Lffr^