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THE CLINTON CHRONKXE. CU14T<^. ■fia ■in FEDERAL FARM BOARD ms TO DEVELOP C04P MARmiNG Laurens, Jan. 12»!::::Clarence I. Mar- Commodity Groups BeinK Formed To Handle All Principal Farm|;|^^’^[X”iri^r?o If Products. tV’ill Be Agricultural Trusis* • • - ' *tX (Written for "The Chronicle By Caleb Johnson, Through Autocaster Service) The Modern Valentine Art Is best expressed in our wonderful displays, await ing your visit. Here are scores of the very newest i n sentiment, combined with art, and we know you will be delighted with what we have to offer. PRICED FROM * Ic to 15c Sadler-Qwens Phatniftey! “Corner At Union Station' Phones 377 and 400 from Less Feed It's u fact—you cun get more eggs from less feed if you give your laying 6ock this ^rcut ration t Qwaltoff • FUL*0*PEP EGG MASH The reason Ia that tills ►rirntilic mi\tii»N' < oti- lui:.s jii-l the till r* ri licz'. UM'ds t<' and just Ihr |!m i; ii^r iHidy in to p l•«T• atroii^, ht alllijf, a* tl'e, uuili a,'.rcr Id ,>rw,du(. . It the (> V I'M K V i, mar'll i...d ve have a i uiioly wuitinp for you. What is the new Federal Farm board doing and how will it benefit the individual farmer? THqs^ are questions to which the answers are not yet clear, event to many of the people whose business .it is to observe things in Washington., ' As a result, some folk have already begun to throw brickbats at the board and to utter dire predictions of failure of this great effort at farm relief. /without venturing an opinion as to h5w it is all going to work out, sup- {luse we see just what the board has et out to do, and how it is going .ibout it. For it is now getting into ac tion, and the results of its work will be felt by every man, wdman and child in the United States. It is, in a very reaf'-aense, the' most powerful governmental agency^ ever establish ed, by reason of its authority-and its immense financial resources, and it has been entrusted with the most rev-- olutionary task which any government bureau has ever tackled. In a nutshell, the job of the farm board is to teach fanners how to be business men. Under the agricultural marketing act the board is directed to do four principal things. These' are: 1. To minimize speculation in agri territorial organizations for each cbnji- modity. The Farmers National Grain cor- poration,«to handle wheat especially, was the first of th^se. Its problem is the most difficult of all, mainly be cause wheat marketing in private hands is already highly efficient and wheat growers are likely to gdt less benefit from the new law than an^ other class of farmers. Nevertheless the board’s policy of lending up to $1.18 a bushel on 'wheat (Chicago market) has stabilized the return to the cooperative members at that fig ure, less cost of handling. Juliys Barnes, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce of the Unitdd States and himself a wheat exporter, has criticised this policy of the board. He contends that it gives the coopera tives an-unfair advantage; that^pri- ".N Claims , > C. L. Martin vate dealers ought to be able to bor- at his home on Laurens sti-eet, after a brief illness,^although he had been! a sufferer for sometime fronr heart ^ affection. — Funeral services were held at 11 o'clock Monday morning from Mount Olive Baptist church, conducted by the Rev. William D. Spinx, pastor of the First Baptist church of Laurens. f Mr. Martin was a native of the* county, a son of the late J. A. C. Mar tin. For many y^ars he’was engaged in farming near the city, and later w'as a popular salesman with a local mercantile store. He was « consist ent member of the First Baptist church and of the Men’s Baraca class. ■ He had a wi<}e circle of friends who mourn with the family in the sorrow that has come to them. Mr. Martin is survived by his wid ow, formerly Miss Florence CJooper, who is sister of former Governor R. A. Cooper of Washington; his mother, and by three sons, Earl Maf- tin, of Hampton Roads, Va., where row at the same rate. The board’s re ply is that local elevalors will have to pay commercial rates, as the central organization will charge a premium on loans to its members,, to cover costs and possible losses. Mr. Barnes is not opposed to the cooperative plan; quite the contrary. He is a director of the only national he is connected with the U. S. navy; I .^2. To prevent wasteful mkhods of ation which was in operation before distribution. * * j the farm board was created, the\Fed- 3. To prevent surpluses, so a* to | crated Fruit and'Tcgetable GroWs give the advantage to domestic mar-1 of the United States. This month of kets. [January fruit and vegetable coopera R. A. Martin of Columbia, and Ernest Martin of Laurens; three daughters, Mrs. C. T. Lollis of Fork Shoals, Mrs. B. B. Senn and Miss Dorcas Martin of Laurens; three brothers, E. L. Mar tin of CHntoh, R. 0, Martin of Green wood, and C. _W. Martin of Greenville; four sisters, Mrs. George W. Culbert son of Waterloo, Mrs. L. B. Culbert- Culbertson of Laurens, and Mrsl E. L. Biirts of Laurens. ziu JUT us- 4. To encourage the organiz of farmers’ cooperative marketin Rociations. That i-s a big program. It will take years to develop it fully. Meanwhile, It is to be -expected that the board will make some honest mistakes, that its members, being human, will have to learn by experience, and that many farmers will believe that they have been sold another gdld-brick by the government. But the board is authorized to use five hundred million dollars. That is a lot of money, even when you say it fast. One hundred and fiffy millions of this is already available. This mon ey is to be lent to farmer organiza tions for the purpose of facilitating the marketing of farm products; not to private dealers, but to organiza tions owned and controlled by produc ers—the farmers themselves. Fifty-three million dollars has al ready been promised by the board to such organizations, twelve miHioh paid tion tives of the whole nation are meeting by delegates in Washington to make plans to enlarge this national marke*^- ing association. The hardest oppose tion of all is exp<*cted in this Held, in which thousands of commission houses now function. Cotton men began meeting in Wash- ingtoti in December to set up their national association; the .board has agreed on loans up to 16.59 a pound on cotton. New Orleans market, when cooperatives have got together. That will make money for Texas growers,, not so much for those east of the Mis sissippi. What is in prospect is a series of agricultural trusts or cartels, one for each major commodity or group of commodities, which will be_ actually owned and capitalized by the farmers themselves and- which will control the markets for their respective products for the whole country. They will, if properly managed, be able to regulate productTbnirnJ Jrstribufioh7 cuFbr^ erage and freight charges, and with out increasing food cost to consum- .SOMETHING NEW Ladies’ Home Journal, 1 year $1.00, 2 jrears $1.50, 3 years $2.00. Saturday Evening Post, 1 year $2.00, 2 years $3.60, 3 years tS.OO. . Country Gentleman, 8 years $1.00. JAS. W. CA.LDWELL - Magazines — Newspapera Eat at Clinton’s 'Most Popular Cafe Whereyou.. will find it quiet and dignified, with a re fined atmosphere, and above all — first-class. We offer the widest sort of choice, th^most complete meal obtain able, and always properly prepared by experienced chefs. Meals served at all hours to your individual liking. BETTER’ SNAPPY A Trial Will Convince You The Sanitary Cafe Clinton, S. C. An Outstanding Val ue Event in zation and support of cooperative 4-marketing association.s, in the belief that if the producers of 40 to 50 per cent of any commodity can lie group ed into marketing organizations, local, territorial, tied together into natjonal distribution systems—all owned by the farmers themselves—speculation will FOR SALE BY MILUNG GRO. CO. CLINTON, 8. C. WEAKSPELIS fb Wtidkr* Map lifra. JoMphin* Cockcroft, of Bial- dock, S. e,'*that I wu not ablo to do-aiqrthing^ *Atoortaintitnei^ I nflSnod droadfiit Ij with pains in my back and sidss. My haod would,hart— fidt lika it woold qiUt opan. ftpaUa of waaknsM woold laatfcrwaaka *1 road of CardoL 1 oont ftw a bottla anrfbagan takinf it My caM WM stab- bon, and at timaa I almoat loat hops, bat I ooold aaa a Mttb improvamoni At laat I bagan to htl much battar. Tmo t fanprovad rapidly. .FVir frw laat yaar 1 haaa baan' in \ out. The borrowers pay the govern ment rate, limited to 4 per cent by law, so far about 3’/a per cent on thejers increase the profits to the' grow- average. |ers. Private capital now employed i»! The board cbnsideis that the third |'^'‘‘ "'“'•keting of food will find, some j purpose set forth above, the preven- i IL g'ood investments in the stock tion of surpluses, will involve many I national cooperatives. Some big years of experiment and education, j-^ hii uRo and New York ^financiers so it is concentrating on the organi-. have already agreed to take shares in some of the asswiations now forming. Men’s Other private interests in the field will have to compete on the basis of greater efficiency and lower profits. Grain is organized, so*'are fruit and vegetables; cotton, livestock, tobacco, wool,, dairy priKlucts, eggs and.pouW try, all are organizing nationally. It be reduced and wasteful distribution j will take time to get everything going cut down. And these organizations are smoothly, two or three years in some the beneficiaries of the revolving fund' I'nes^ perhaps lunger before enough of in the board’s hands. the output of a given commodity is Local cooperatives now borrow from cooperative control to enable local banks to finance the movement of ‘crops after they are ready for mar ket, from Federal Intermediate Credit banks to finance the production of crops, but they have to wait for the the growers to make their own bar gains* in the national markets. That ie the real objective. Heretofore the farmer has had to sell in a buyer’s market, take whatever price was of- A/uv iicavv Vv trcaiv a \ f i • crops to be sold before the growers , ^he.. new way will give him the get all of their money, which means chance to set the price, based on his that many growers prefer to deal with commission men for cash on the nail, even at lower prices. The farm board provides supplemental loans to i structure, the full current market value of the i cost of production. But he can do this only by cooperating with other farm ers. Cooperation is the key to the crop, enabling grower members to get their nmney as^ speedily as if fr^i TllVat? soirees and enabling operative lo hold, grain, fruit, cotton, tobacco, or whatver in elevator or Aged Mother 7 Passes Laurens l>aufens, Jan. 12.—Mrs. Cornelia warehouse until the market is r;ght, ^^*11 DuvauK 82, widow of John W. giving the grower then the benefit of Duvaul^ died at 1:30 o'clock Sunday any higher price obtained.V morning at the home of her daughter. If the board is not going to lo'>e a' Duvaul Machen, South lot of Uncle Sam’s money d7 street.'^’She^had- been -4H--fTH4 - RPVPral mnnfKa I loans which locaf cooperatives will not i months. be able to repay, because of poor juJg- j At 3 o’clock Monday afternoon fo ment in marketing, then it must do | neral serveies were held at thV riesi* two things. It must sturt a huge cam-' dence, followed with interment in the paign ^f education to impress the ijm- j Laurens cemetery. The services were portance of well-paid intelligent man-1 charge of the Rev. W.' D. Spinx, agement upon members and prosper-1 or of the First Baptist church, live members of cooperatives, and it! ***>sted by the Rev. Jodie Martin, the must tie local cooperatives together' Rov. Graves L. Knight. D. D., the into highly-organized selling and dis-jR^v. W. Ray Anderson and Chas. B. tributing systems. j Bobo, a life-long friend and former Those two things the board is now ’ A/i New! 'AU Broadcloth! So^ Color Grounds! ^ Vat 'Printed Colors! Collars Attached! Neckbat^ Style! I*"/ •**' V battar hoalth tiuni I arm I Mm tiw exodit to OwduL mm I boa fhoa ^ it • triallfot actively at work upon. The proof of jthe value of its efforts w’ill come only when orderly,marketing on a natjonal Mrs. Duvaul was a native of the county and had lived in the Barksdale station section most of her life. She scale with a mhifitiuYn of middlemen’s j ® woman of deep piety, devoted I tolls is actually in effect. So while it church and considerate of 'iif” Is lending whore needed to local co operatives, to enable them not only to get their products to marl^i^*to acquire such physical facilities gs ele vators, cotton gins, warehouses, can ning and packing plants, creameries, milk trucks and “other equipment friends and neighbors. .^ IW’dABghters, Mrs. Machen and Mrs.' Grace Duvaul Pearce, both of Laurens, survive the aged mother. .4.-^ a^ch can be used cooperatively, it is i Batins ) ' t' ILACHmAUQHT ting up, or rather encouraging the growers themselves to set up, nation al marketing ^rporationi which are named anf financed by the local and Dr. Frank F. Hicks DENTIST Offict National Bonk BMMint Dr* Smith's Fonaer Loeatioa PiMM 15$ Strongly advise you to come prepared to Iniy at least a half-dozen of these shirts! We can’t,say when we’ll be able to offer such a decided vduc in shirts again. Each shirt has had the careful workmanship that the J. C. Penney Co. demands. 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