The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, April 17, 1930, Image 8
Ras Stroigth, Energy
Of 20 Years Ago
OVERPRODUCTION IS SERIOUS
MENACE TO MEN ON FARMS
Federal Farm Board^s Hardest Task Is Keeping Crops Down To
Demand. Some Prices Are Threatened for 1930. Wheat,
Tobacco and Cotton Acreage Must Be Reduced If
(growers Are To Make Profits.
IDQCFOik*
JOIN JOSEPH WltESMa
Written for The Chronicle By Caleb j frrow one kind of crop and nothinff
Johnson, Throu^ Autocaster Service, j else ? There isn’t anythinjf for him to
Throuprh
al farm bo
Kcr of
activities of the feder-; do but try .^methinjf else. In an ex-
the war^niiiK of the dan-1 tremcly interesting and imjportant se-
•rproduction is being car-! ries of radio talks recently Mr. Sam-
ritKl f(^’ih!y and continuously to the
farm/rs of the United .States.
e farm board is only nine months
this April, but its contacts with
the fanners of the United .States are
already more direct and widespread
than those of any other governmental
agency. This is natural, since the farm
hoard’s contact is through that most
uel R. McKelvie, *a member of the
federal farm board, illustrated this
point. He said:
“There are available actual figures
of the cost of production of various
agricultural crops in different states
and regions. If these facts were con
solidated into one picture I, as a
wheat farmer in eastern Nebraska,
^OBT. ^ STRATE
“I suffered ten years with as bad a
case of stomach trouble as any man
ever had. I was iinp(«sible for me to
ever enjoy a meal without suffering.
I was terribly run-down.
. “Five bottles of .Sargon made me
feel like a n**w man, I have gained
sixteen pounds and have as much
strength and vitality as I had wtenty
years ago.
“I have never found anything to
'equal Siirgon Soft Mass Pills. They
regulate ine perfectly.” Robt. A.
titrate,
.homa City.
The demand for Sargon and .Sargon
Soft Mhtjs Pills has probably broken
all world's records for the length of
tmie they have been on the market.
, Sadler-Qwent Pharmacy, Agents.—
Adv.
sensitive part of the human make-up,! observing what it costs to produce
the “pocket nerve.”. I wheat in Dakota,'western Niebjraska,
The farm board’s purpose is to help! Kansas, Montana and other regions,
the farmer to get more money for' might conclude that I had an awful
his products, if not by increasing the | handicap because of the price of my
cost to the consumer, at least by in-1 land and my smaller operating unit,
suring that the grower shall get all I Then I would begin to see what else
of the price which has heretofore he.cn ' I could do -to get out of competition
•* likely te show much
42r» We*r"24th Street, Okla-
SHOPPERS
SAVINGS BOOKS
Are On Sale Al
The Casino Theatre.
The Men’s Shoi>
Sadler•()wens Pharmacy.
Kellers Dru^ Store
Sanitary Barber Shop
Edwards Auto Service
Smith’s Pharmacy
wasted between grower and consum
er, by unnece-ssary middlemen’s tolls
and the operations of speculators.
.Somehow, as human nature is con
stituted, we pay more attention to the
man or thq, organization which prom
ises to make more money for us than
we do to the institution which merely
tries to teach us how to run our busi
ness better. The manufacturer of any
\VitK that wheat-gmwing farmer out
$63.31
In Trade Tickets
for only $1.95
TVathf witif your liome tntrehant.
Clinton Independent
Advertising Service
more interest in the reports of his
salesmen as to what sort of goods the
trade demands than he is to the en
gineer who merely shows him how to
improve his product. And the federal
farm board—or, pather the natural
cooperative selling agencies set up
under its direction—is in the position
of the farmer’s salesman. In the
CPU file (^f time, and perhaps a shorter
time'than some of the critics of the
system now believe, an overwhelming
majority of all farm products grown
in the United Sta.te8 will be handled
from grov/er to consumer through
these agencies.
And when these cooperative selling
agencies tell their members that they
are producing too much of this or not
enough of that, and prove it to them
by the prices which they get for the
commodities designated, there is cer
tain to be attention from the growers.
So far only eleven commodities
have been' designated by the farm
board as requiring special national
selling agencies to handle them ex
clusively. They ar,e cotton, dairy pro
ducts, wheat, rice, livestock, wool and
mohair, tobacco, poultry and eggs
iee<ls, potatoes and coarse grains
West.
“I saw a statement by Mr. Henry
Ford recently in which he said that
he did not fire a man until he had to.
If he found an employee was not
adapted to one task he put him at
something else and then at something
else, until he found a niche in which
that man fitted. So it is with us farm- . . i • . • xi. , x-
ers. We must adspt ourselves td the' vf
thing w. can do beat.” "^Woaaing of mankmd. I know of
There is no subject so important to
day and for a long time to come, to
every farmer and every business man
in communities which depend princi
pally upop farmers for their trade
than the program of the federal farm
board and the way in which that pro
gram is being put into effect. The
hoard has just issued an eight-page
pamphlet in which the whole system
is set forth in the form of easily un
derstood questions and answers. No
American can regard hmiself as ade
quately informed about fundamental
conditions in this fundamental indus
try, fanning, without knowing the
answers to every question which can
he asked about the federal farm l)oard.
A copy of this pamphlet will be sent,
I am infforme<l, to anyone who will
take-the trouble to write for it. A
MIND OVER .MATTER
One of the most potent causes of
disease in the digestive tract is mental
unrest. The average medical practi
tioner, I believe, will agree with me
when I assert that nerve-conditions
are more frequently the cause of con
stipation, liver disorders and sour
stomachs—far oftener than “germs.”
and here I may say parenthetically—
that germs have been considerably
ovei>rorked as a “cause” of many of
the ills that the flesh is heir to; in
other words, I have arrived at the
stage in medical practice when I look
for the nerve situation in my patient
before I go running for the “bugs.”
Of course, if the malady is one of
known germ-origin, and its pathology
is thoroughly established, that is dif
ferent.
I believe thousands of people have
told me that they become constipated
only when they travel a day or two
on railroad trains. Certainly no germs
here; the nerve-currents have simply
been diverted from their usual chan
nels; suppose they are continually be
ing detoured ? Anxiety, business cares,
grief, apprehension, any of the legion
forms of mental unrest will do the
same thing. If continually indulged,
they will set up very uncomfortable
chronic conditions, and may lead to in
validism itself. . ■
H. D. HBNHT
H. D. Henry & Company
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STOCKS
BONDS
REAL ESTATE
LOANS NEGOTIATED
no
condition that pertains more to long
life and happiness; yet men and wo
men are toiling, moiling, day by day,
year by year, for everything else but
that! Tte pearl of great price slips
away from them because they do not
strive to attain it . . which they might
lay hold of, if they would.
The man who expects to cure his
constipation with medicine is only
heaping future trouble for himself.
I have seen aK^roper frame of mind,
a carefully selected diet, and strictly
regular attention to bodily routine
cure the most obstinate cases—but it
takes good generalship and an obedi
ent soldier to win such a battle.
ALL PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED
BY UCENSED PHARMACISTS
CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED PROMPTLY
SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY
“At Union Station”
Phones 377 and 490 Phones 377 and 400
V
post card will do. Addresl^the Federal
Farm Board, 1300 E street, Washing
ton, I). C., and ask for circular num
ber one.
"h.
Men’s and Boys’
IT S
We are closing out our
entire line of M^n’s. and
Boys’ Suits at—
ACTUAL COST
The Bee Hive
When Your Head Aches
Take
AP
Headache^ Powders
FOR PAIN.
DOES NOT EFFECT THE HEART
Said by all l.eading Druggists.
There are, of^course, dozens of other
ugriculturar products whlcfr wTir be
i:
Middle
Suff^ing
"Thrsb years ago.
'a,
as in had
health,” says Mrs.
J. B. Bean, of
Kirb3rville, Texas.
was going
through a critical
time, and I auffer*
ed a lot
’hly back hurt
almoat all the
time, and my lega
and ankles ached.
My head hurt me
until aometimea I
ssoold be almoat paat going.
*Aa I had used Cardui be*
iM«, and knew how much I
ksd improved after taking
Ik 1 got a botde and started
IridnfH. 1 continued touae
nioreeveral months. After
saddle I regained my health,
■sAlAal that I oould nsvar
throQ^ that
time without CsrdnL**
CARDUI
flSdlpc IFeMi ft ffisltl
organized either singly or in groups.
An entirely new kihd of administra
tive machinery cannot be expected to
get into full swing instantly. It is go
ing to take three of four growing sea
sons, in all probability, before all of
the farmers of the United States fully
understand how the new system oper
ates and how to take advantage of it.
Control of production, in the inter
est of more stable prices for growers,
is a definite function of the farm
hoard under the law which created it.
And already the board has found the
situation in some commodities, espec
ially wheat, tobacco and cotton, to be
such as to point definitely to lower
prices becau.se of overproduction.
Ten per cent decrease in wheat 1S
acreage is being advocateil today by IS
the board, which points to a surplus ' ss
of 100,000,000 bushels in 1029, above ^
the total demand of the w’orld’s mtTr- i^E
kets, in proof of its statement that S
too much wheat is being grown. Farm-
ers could make more money out. of j S
6.’»0,000,000 bushels than they are i si
making out of 850,000,000 bushels.jS
.And when the entire wheat market is SE
in the control of the farmers them- iSS
selves — and that is .what the cooper- S
ative marketing program is headed-S
for—it will not W so difficult to con
vince growers that low prices are not
always the result of manipulation by
'speculative intereStsr They wHll recog-
nize, as many of them do now, that
the remedy i.s in their hands. ;S
The tobacco .situation in the hurley IS
districts is so .serious that the farm ~
himrd the other day sent a long tele-, SEE
I gram to state agricultural extension
(directors in Tennessee and Kentucky
I warning them that planting reports
j for 1930 indicate a 15 per cent in-
[ crease over 1929, which would give
17.*),0()0,000 pounds more tobacco than
I last year, and that last year’s crop
j was 50,000,000 pounds more than the
! market for hurley would absorb.
Cotton is much in the same situa
tion, with everything pointing to an
other large crop which, added to the
carry-over from last year, will force
prices down to 1926 levels* or even
lower.
So long as each individual grower
is a law unto himself, there^is no prac
tical way to prevent overproduction,
but when the only market, or the best
market, available to the grower, is
through the cooperatives, and the in
dividual grower who disregards the
warning against planting too large |in
acreage finds himself unable to fi
nance his operations through the chan
nel! which are open to his neighbors
.who do play the game of cooperation,
there ia ho^ for every farmer.
What is the grower of any conuno-
dity going to do when he is all set to
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