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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, December 6, 1945
Clark Urges Farmers To Grow Kind of Cotton
Best Suited To Specific Needs of Industry
FINAL SETTLEMENT
Take, notice that on thp 27th day:
of December, 1945. we will render a|
final account of our acts and doings j
as Executors of the estate of George ■
W. Bailey in the office of the Judge!
of Probate of Laurens County, at By A. B. BRYAN,
10 o'clock am., and on the same day. Agricultural Editor, Clemson
will apply for a final discharge from! (Allege
our trust as Executors. When Secretary of Agriculture
Any person indebted to said estate iClinton P. Anderson was South
is notified and required to make pay- Carolina recently he had something
ment on or before that date; and all to say atout the South being on the
persons, having claims against said threshold-of an agricultural-indus-
ostate will’present them on or before| trial r revolution; and among 1 other
.said date, duly proven, or be forever things,the had this .to say about the
barred. Souths great fiber crop—cotton;
MARY ANDERSON BAILEY, ! “Cotton production under a pat-
I perhaps the government and the in-
! surance ^companies could get togeth-
ler, agree on an all-inclusive policy
I from which no one would be barred,
| and issue it with the understanding
that the government would make up
the present time. The average yield j f Q r any losses incurred by cbmpanies
in South Carolina is now about 300.j s s U j n g that policy.”
founds per acre. The average yield) Th t lan seemed to meet with the
-could be made a bale to the acre, approval of those who
without difficulty. | heard it. As far as they could see, it
“I think the cotton picker will would answer the problem without
come into common use* and if we are putting the government directly into
wise, this will give u§iQ.ur chance to t he insurance business,
maintain a competiti^-position forj p erhaps the experts could ^
why this particular plan might be
the direct socialization of medicine.
In my opinion the majority of peo
ple don’t want government control
over medicine. But they are apt to
approve it, as an unsatisfactory but
partial answer to a major problem,
unless those who are in a position to
formulate a better plan work one out
immediately.
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For Your
and W. R. ANDERSON. JR., J
- ' Executors, opment may be just as large or larg-jhis ideas on price support and sub
!er than it is today. Our ultimate sidies. Here briefly is his thinking:
goal must be to produce cotton so
t-iUrth’mlv that -it can compete in
an d price and with foreign
growths in the world market, and
[ with synthetic fibers in the home
market. We have to do it. The great-j high prices and the government fos
I est challenge of cotton is the cost of ters and encourages those things that}
: producing and distributing. It must go to make high prices. The price of 1
i come down!” !cotton and any other commodity, the
Here we have brought forcibly be- price of which is fixed on a world f
Government policy ' impractical, but jt helped to assure
Reverting to public policy regard-that there is certainly some
tern of industrial-agricultural devel- i n g cotton, we asked Major Clark for i sound( . ianswer which'does not involve
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“I think that cotton growers are
entitled to have the price of cotton
held up by the government as a per
manent pojicy. That is, as long as
the government’s policy is one of!
Cough
fore us the important matter of ef
ficiency and economy of production
to make possible competition with
foreign cottons and synthetic fibers.
are to have your money back. i a.
CREOMULSIOti
r Couzhs, Chest Colift, Broncl
Bronchial
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Bronchial Irritations
Doe to Colds
pp^nd 45 cents today at any fyood
drug store tor a bottle of Buckley's
CAN A DIO L Mixture. Take a couple
of sips at bedtime. Feel Us Instant
powerful eftective action spread
thru throat, head and bronchial
tubes—starts at once to loosen up
thick, choking phlegm, soothe raw
membranes—make breathing easier.
Sufferers from those persistent,
nasty Irritating coughs or bronchial
Irritations due to colds And Buck-
lev’s brings quick and effective re
lief. Don't wait—get Buckley s Can-
adlol today. .You get relief instantly.
SMITHS PHARMACY
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Creonmlsion relieves promptly be
cause it goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel germ
laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe
and heal raw, tender inflamed bronchial .
mucous membranes. Tell your druggist This involves various problems —
to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with problems not only for the farmer but
the understanding you must like the {or all concerned,
way it quickly allays the cough or you
are to have your money back. ■ For light on these problems we
turned to Maj. O. M. Clark, Clem-
_ _ - Ison's veteran extension agricultural
For Couehs, Chest Cokft, Bronchitis economist.
i j Cotton’s Outlook
i , .ysked for his opinion on current
Statement that the outlook for cot
ton is not too bright, Major Clark
said;
“I'm afraid there is something to
it. So far as price is concerned, cot-j
ton quite likely will go along fairly i
well lor the next couple of years and!
probably longer. It is one of those
crops, the prices of which are being
supported by government action,
j cotton being supported at not less
!than 92 ly per . cent of parity. The
1 price of cotton is about at parity
now. It is not expected that parity
' will be very different next year from
1 what it is at the present time; conse-
basis would be entitled to support;
from government funds.
“If this were done, it would main
tain cotton production at its present
level, if we ignored the amount of
cotton the government might ac
cumulate and the probable conse
quences of such a situation. A safe
and, in the last, analysis, an econom-;
ical method would be one which'
would move cotton into consumption.
We need a plan which will give cot- j
ton growers a fair price for their I
product and at the same time move
it int6 trade at competitive prices.” I
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BILLS . . . Doctors
The other day I heard a group ofj
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INSURANCE would be
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^uently, the price of cotton cannot! people discussing doctors’ bills.
! be very different next season from **i j us t had a few x-rays,” said one
I what it is this season, unless there“i thought they would be
| is a substantial change in prices gen- $20 at the most—but do you know
erally. what the bill was? Eighty dollars!”
"If and when government support] “Don’t talk to me about bills,” said
:1s withdrawn, the price probably wilL ano ther woman. "Including dentists,
decline.”_ : lour bills have been over $700 so far
Strong Competition
ithis year! Of course that took care
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| Major Clark's reply to our query 0 { m y appendix operation and John
about foreign cotton production and h ac j t 0 get a couple of new teeth—
synthetic fibers was clear and point- before we re through the doctors
ed. “It appears now that cyimpetition ;are going to have every last nickle
from other sources will be much j 0 f our sav j n g s .’'. i
keener after the war than it hasj Then everyone began talking at
been heretofore,” he said. lonce—all wanting to give instances
“Not only will there be keen com-j 0 f h ow they had been bowled over,
petition from foreign cotton but from on one occasion or another, by the
synthetic fibers also. The supply of iam0 unt of money they had to hand
foreign cotton is now at record lev-' 0 ver to. surgeons, specialists, den-
els, and this cotton will be available tists arid family physicians,
as soon as it can be transported from The thing which brought up the
the producing countries to the con- discussion in the first place was the
suming ones. (recent introduction into congress of
"The production of synthetic fi- the Wagner - Murray - Dingell bill
bers, especially rayon, has been in-| ca iij n g for government insurance to
creasing rapidly during the last doz- handle the nation's medical costs.
en Vfears or so. . . . The increase has
not Been quite as great relatively as INSURANCE—Problem
lor the world as a whole, but has The people I heard talking about
been quite substantial. In the early their difficulties in financing medical
30's, the synthetic fibers produced expenses didn’t favor this legisla-
;n the United States was equivalent tion. They called it “socialized medi-
to about one-third of a million bales cine”* and they suspected that ‘it
of cotton. Year before last, they would interfere with medical pro-!
were equivalent to about 1 1-3 mil- gress, that it would make medicine ai
lion bales.” political football, and that it would, ’
Acreage Reduction? in general, be a bad thing for the
In view of this competition facing nation. |
! American cotton, our next question, But they were unanimous in their 1
naturally, was: Do you think our j opinion that something should be]
cotton $ creage will have to be reduc- done to take the financial headache
ed still further? ;out of sickness.
"Probably so," the economist ad- When those present had all man-1
mitted. “We have already made a. aged to get their pet complaint]
drastic reduction in cotton acreage, against the doctors off their chests,
We are now planting in South Caro- the talk turned to possible solutions,
lina and in the country as a whole] One man whd was in the insur-
less than half as many acres of cot- | ance business became tl\e chief tar-
ton .as were planted during the mid-'get of attack. “Why,” he was asked,
die 20 s. I might say, howev,eF„*that ] "can’t The insurance companies issue
we fire producing much mdlN? than policies which really protect us:
1 half as much as we produced then, against doctors’ bills so there won’t 1
Our yields per acre have increased be any need for government insur-
quite substantially during the last ance?”
.several years and quite likely will He began explaining about-various
continue to increase, which means; types of health insurance his com-
that evep if we are able to continue pany did issue. But he was stopped
to sell as much cotton as we are now by a young man who said, “I had
i selling, we will need fewer acres on one of those policies, but wh^n I had
which to grow it than we are now stomach trouble and collected on it,
] planting to ?his crip. ; the company said they wouldn’t in-
1 From national responsibility to in-,sure me any more. Your company
! dividual responsibility, Major Clark and all the others want to insure well
pointed out what the cotton grower people, but they won’t take any
, himself can do. 'chances on those who are most apt
H , “The individual grower can do a to be sick.”
gTeat: deal. He can keep informed asL, The insurance man explained that,
'to the kind of cotton the trade needs! insurance companies had to go 4h fdjr»
jand do his best to grow cotton to suit:that practice in order to keep rates
] these needs. In the future, in my down — but that explanation, al-
judgment, cotton will be grown for though understandable, didn’t satis-
specific purposes to a greater degree fy this group, who were seeking a
than has been the case heretofore. ! better solution for the care of the
“Some cotton growers are already sick through non-grivernment chan
growing their cotton as cheaply as nels. ,^-t
they can, but not cotton growers,
i generally. One of the ways by which RISK—Plan
production cost might be reduced is! “Here’s a possible answer,” anoth-
jby increasing the yield. Most farm- er member of the group said. “When
'ers can increase their cotton yields a I bought a home before the war I
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]great deal from what they are at got a 90 per cent jnortgage on it. No
—— private organization would have
given such a large mortgage on its
$ own—but this mortgage was guaran-
j-j teed by the government. That is, the
$ transaction was handled by a bank,
t-j but it was done with the understand-
8: ing that if the bank lost money on
the loan the government would pay
*’* the loss.
“Why,” he asked, “couldn’t the
same thing be worked out with
health insurance? I can understand
why insurance companies, which are
in business for profit, refuse to take
poor risks. But it is the people who
are classified as ‘poor risks’ who need
the help the most. So, instead of hav
ing direct government insurance,
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