The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, October 14, 1926, Image 7
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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
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Nov. 1-6
Clinton, S. C.
Location: Florida
and Clay Streets
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Harder Bros. Shows
Furnish Ail Attractions
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Brown, Wine, also Black and Navy.
SHOES
A full line of Children’s Shoes, all new
styles—95c to $3.50 a pair.
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SHOES
Ladies’ Sport Oxfords, black, tajvor com
bination—opening prices—$2.95 to $4.95.
SHOES
The newest novelties in Ladies’ Slippers,
best workmanship, patent leather, and
kid, black or bright tan, with or without
new snake and lizard trim—opening pric
es—$3.95 to $6.50 a pair.
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\ Latest Fall Styles in Hats for Madam, Miss, or Child.
~ SHOES
Ladies patent leather and tan one-strap
Slippers. Special—$2.75 pair.
SHOES
Men’s Dress Shoes, black or tan. Special,
this sale only—#2.95 pair.
Styles and Quality at our underselling prices—That saves dollars for you.
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SHOES
Men’s Star Brand Dress Shoes, any style
you want. Opening Sale prices—
$3.50 to $5.50 pair.
Men’s Star Brand Work Shoes, sizes 6 to
12. 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’
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CLINTON, SOUTH CAROLINA
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FALL OPENING SALE
Opens Saturday, October 16
Closes Saturday, October 30
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Special Announcement to Women Who Care
Every Goat, Every Dress on Our Racks New 1926-27 Models
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