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Volume 19 CHERAW, CHESTERFIELD COtjkrY, S. C.. SEPTEMBER 23. 1915 Number 47
REMAIN ON FAMM
URGES MANNING
RAISE HOME SUPPLIES
Chief Executive Favors Ownership of
Land by White Farmers?Soil
Must Be Improved.
Gov. Manning is a champion of
farm lfe in South Carolina. Several
days ago the governor received a lettei
from M. Turner Phillips, a farmer in
Cherokee county, asking for advice or
the question of moving to town.
"In the outset I must advise you tc
remain on the farm if i>ossible," say*
the governor.
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me governor receiveu mc iuuu? jlu*
letter:
"1 take pleasure In writing you to
day, the object being as to whether oi
not it would be advisable for a man oi
seven in the family, consisting of foui
boys and one girl, my wife and self
living in a nice location, on rented lane
to resign position of farming and mov<
to town.
"I ask you as a i>ersonal friend ol
mine to give this letter consideration
The ages of my children range froa
17 to 7. By moving to the city 1
would have better educational advan
tages, and it is my whole desire tt
give my V;hildren a fair education
i Please give me a few minutes of youi
time advising me as to what is besi
for my family and myself. Please giv<
me an early reply on this importau!
subject, and I will probably be abl<
to help others by having your lettei
nn hit shed in our local county news
I taper,
goods.
"Hoping you will give this lettei
your immediate consideration."
Stick to Soil.
The governor replied as follows:
"I received your letter several days
ago and have given the question whict
you proposed careful and thoughtfu
consideration. I appreciate your de
sire for the educational advancement
of your children, but there are som<
matters which we must seriously con
sider before taking rbe step you pro
poae. In the outset i must advise yoi
to remain on the farm if jiossible.
"One of the big problems of oui
State at the present time is to mak<
farm life so profitable and so attrac
tive that it will bold the people in
the country and stop the movemenl
into our crowded cities. You say you
are a small farmer and have not acemulated
much of this world's good.
Years ago I as a young man was
feeling practically the same problem
that you practically
that you are feeling today. My
choice at that time was the farm. I
believe that with the proper effort
more money, more lhappiness, more
contentment is to be found (among
the men of South Carolina who till
the soil.
"The city has many advantages tc
offer and also many disadvantages.
You must consider, among other
things, the extra items of exiiense.
In your farm home you have no electric
light bhills, 110 < ?."'! '.ills. 110 high
monthly rentals, no extra expenditure
for clothing, and many of the other
extravagances that go ! > make up
the life of our jieople in the cities; on
the other hand, you have your firework
you have your food crops, your
lings, cuttle and live stock, and. above
all. you have that atmosphere of
freedom and indeiiendeuce that can
not be found iu th^ city.
Better Rural Schools.
' South Carolina is making a constant
and wonderful stride in matters
of education and in improvements in
methods of farming. It has l?eeii my
hope and my ambition to see the day
when as good educational advantages
are offered to the child of the rural
and mill communities as are given
to the children of our cities. By this
I mean good, sound, practical horse
sense education without any frills. In
your own county educational progress
has been remarkable. If you
are not now living near a good country
school, I would advise you to cast
about, this fall, and find a piece of
land which you will be able to cultivate
successfully, that is located with
iu a convenient distance of one of
these schools. When you have found
this piece of land uiy advice is to
purchase same if possible, on easy
terms, paying a little each year. Then
map out your plans to farm on a
business basis; don't work your faruo
iu a hapazard, happy-go lucky way.
Raise Home Supplies.
"I would advise you to consult
Clemson college farm demonstrators
and ask their advice in farming meth
otls, especially winter cover crops so
as to save expense iu fertilizer. Write
to the Clemson authorities and have
them send you all of their bulletins,
Study these bulletins; study your sell
1 and try to plant and cultivate the
crops that are best suited to the con
i (litions. One of the *main troubles
i with our people Is that they have
been slaves to what Is popularly called
? the 'one-crop' Idea. We all know
5 that forever and a day cotton rnusi
be our major crop; but oiir sell If
; capable of producing the very besl
of every kind of food crop. Yt>i
. should not forsake cotton, but you
r should use It as your velvet crop?
t vour extra mouey crop. Raise firsl
r vour home supplies.
, "You 8hould""con8ult your land and
I -onsult with the county farm demon
? strator and find out Just what food
crops grow best on your land. Everj
f vear, In South Carolina, millions ol
. dollars are sent out of our State Ir
i exchange for little cans and iwckages
[ from other States. These cans contali
. foods, practically all of which car
> be raised at home. I would sug
gest that each year you put up af
f much canned vegetables, canned fruits
[ and other foods In cans, as possible;
; a big amount can be saved In this
t manner. Take, for instance, if yo?
? should move to town;' whenever youi
r good wife wanted a can of tomatoei
. 10 cents wTrnld hare to be deposited
at the corner gtpcenr, store. Yot
j there should be a small" cane' pafcl
- J to make your molasses; you should
I nlonf VAim nl/trne on/1 OAW ttOQtt mil
I"UUI i uul VW"
should plant some vetch with yeui
oats, and in this manner you would
5 help to feed both your family and
, your live stock and at the same time
I improve your land. The farm offer*
. greater opiiortunity to a man than
t any profession or trade that I know
, of in the State, and I would urge you
. Mr. Phillips, to remain on the farm
. where you can l>e contented and happy,
, Find that country school and keep youi
children there just as long as possible,
. It is a fact that our rural district
? during the past 10 years have been de.
pleted of a large majority of a sturdy
, i>eople which has caused a serious set
t back to the people of the entire State
[ Our people must come to learn thai
. the basis of all prosperity for all tht
people is a successful farming class,
. Until we get most out of the soil in
i this State and make more comfortable
homes for our wives and daughters, we
, can not hojie to have the better thing*
of this life and to keep our boys and
girls on the farm.
"I want to see n.oro of our whiie
tenants own their own homes; this
is the most important problem before
us. I trust that as our attention and
i interest are centered in the solution
of this question, we will be able soon
to have a practicable working plan bj
which the desired result can be accomplished.
"I would like for you to write me
. from time to time as to just what
progress you are making; write me
i about any problem that may come up,
I am intensely Interested in the* questions
and you may comma rid ray
si-n bos at any time to gi?o you the
iicsi jHissible information that I am
1 able to."
Banks Charging Heavy Interest
Raleigh, X. C., Sept. 20.?Facts
concerning high interest rates charged
by national banks throughout the
country, particulary in the South,
were disclosed by \V. P. O. Harding
of the federal reserve board in a
of the federal reserve board in a
Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Harding
was explaining the reserve hoard regulations
granting preferential rediscount
rates to notes secured by staple
commodity warehouse reteipts provided
the maker has been charged
not more than 0 per cent, interest
and defending the action of Secretary
M< Adoo in clo|?ositin>; $15,000,000 in
the Southern federal reserve hanks to
aid in financing the cotton crop.
"The comptroller of the currency,"
i TO RECOMPENSE
NATIONAL GUARD
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Hay Has Puan to Add Attention*
i Washington, Sept. ?0.?The sugges
tlons made today by Representative
i Hay of Virginia, chairman of the house
. military affairs committee, that one
; good way to improve the national de,
fense of this country would be to pay
I every National Guardsman in the Uni?
ted States at least $50 a year out of the
. federal treasury, will doubtless meet
with approval among the National
> Guard throughout the couutry.
( Mr. Hay does not believe we should
have an army of 500,000, neither does
t he believe that the American i>eople
i want compulsory military service.
: "I heartily agree with the president
i that our citizen soldiery should be
t given more attention," said Mr. Hay.
"It might be proper, for instance, tc
t encourage enlistment In the National
Guard by paying Its meml)ers 25 pei
I cent, of the amount paid to regulai
. soldiers, which would be $50 a yeai
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- and which would probably cost u:
$8,000,000 in addition to the preseul
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' army cost tor uie mm yeui. iu wi^u
' also bo wise to increase the Held ar
. tillery, now consisting of six regiments
i to twice that number, as the war ir
. Europe has demonstrated that this is
' a most i>otent arm of the service."
In so far as the South is concerned
>' a majority of the National Guard is
composed of the best citizens. Henct
' the statement of Mr. Hay, holdiug tin
high jsosition that he does, will b(
received in the South, at least, wit!
i favor by the Guardsmen.
he said, "has information from sworr
i rei?orts to his office regarding the
> maximum and average interest rates
' chaged by notional banks throughout
? the United States. From the rei>orl
1 of June 23, 1915, it appears that there
are Hve national banks in Alabama
whose maximum rates of interest
i average 26 i>er cent., the rate in one
i case being 60 per cent; in another 31
I i>er cent The average rate of interest
i which one of these banks was charging
i on all of its loans amounted to 1?
' per cent; another 10 i>er cent. Ii:
I IfL-niiuiic mm Iititimml lintli; llllnilttwl
making a lean at a rate as high as 12f
> i>er cent; another one at 50 per cent
: another at 00, and another at 25.
> "In Georgia there were 11 lank?
, interest was about 00 per cent. The
where the average maximum rate ol
interest average 20 per cent., the rat(
? in one case being 00 per cent; in ano
i ther 34 jser cent. The average rat<
of interest which one of these banks
was charging on all of its loans am
ountied to 12 per cent; another 10 pei
cent. In Arkansas one national ban!
admitted making a loan at a rate a?
|high as 120 percent; another one ai
1 50 i?er cent., another at 00, and anothei
at 25.
"In (Jeorgla there were 11 banks
where the average maximum rate ol
interest was about 50 per cent. Tlu
maximum charge b.v one of these banks
was 40 per cent, and the average on al
loans was 15 per cent.
No hanks in South Carolina admit
ted charging more than 15 per cent.
In Texas a number of banks report'
eil rates in excess of loo per cent, ami
imi?iv .if them stated that there aver
ajse rates on all loans were 1 per cent
I>er month or more.
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DISCl'SS GREAT CANAL
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| Engineers in Congress Talk About Panama,
So# Pamctsco, Sept. 20.?The PanuomKana)
was the ehelf topic today
at tab opening session of the Internati|fcal
Engineering congress, the
firsttotio held since a similar conventiciujtt
the Columbian exposition in
180Jwtaj. Geu. George W. Goethals
Sewers paid tribute to the succes?nf
fee canal and to the American
Tljfr American nation was congratulatmes
"fortunate in iindlug such
i a iifn as (Jen. Boetbas to build the
i canflto by Jean L. De Pullgny chief
enflfP of gbbbrldgea and highways*
' *or twr^6' saI(' 'lfl(1 '>oen ?a"e{'
i froipM trenches, where he had l>een
*or months, to attend the congress.
1 ^BrjfSOoethals revolewed the hl?I
torjttj&f the Panama can
fouwfcnerations and pave technical
' desiflklons of problems encountered
' in taPrork and their solution.
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i GROWING YOUNG
t Wlitn L was young and in my prime
t And that Is looking back some time,
A woman who was forty-five
J Looked like she liardly was alive,
ji She wore a cap and set around
And Knit and gazed down at the
, ground.
i At fifty she would dress in black
! And look like the back end of a hack.
?
4' But, nowdays, when she's seventy,
t A woman's purty fair to see,
She wears them corsets calle<l "straight
fronts."
' And does a lot of funny stunts.
' Is she not prime? Yes she is not,
[ For she kin do the new fox trot.
| Instead of waitin' fer to die,
[ She's purity frisky and right spry.
She has no time to sit and nit,
| She's na intention to quit,
" This sad and mornful vale of tears
| and keeps on knockin' off five years.
Instead of ploddin' up life's ridge,
She's off somewhere a playin' bbridge
[ Or with the young folks at some
dance;
I
I And woltzln' when she has a chance.
^ It's pleasant that this can be told;
The women nowadays don't grow old.
Fit Smith is confined in jail at
Tickville. He has bought himself a
bottle of patent medicine and ex'
poets to be out in a few days.
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SOUTH'S PROSPERITY
DEPENDS ON BANKS
President Through His Secretary Givca
Opinion on Cotton Situation.
"The President feels that the whole
maintenance of the cotton situation
dei>ends directly and immediately upon
The Southern hankers und they have
tnemseives tu mume 11 it uues uui
ecvme out satisfactorily," says J. P.
Tumulty secretary to President Wilson
iu a letter to John L. McLaurin, State
warehouse commissioner.
"The President," says the letter,
"has received your letter of September
15 and has beeu greatly interested
in reading it He asks me to suggest
that you emphasize the letter that
lie wrote to Mr. Harding, and which
Mr. Harding read in his speech at
Birmingham, Ala."
Mr. 'McLaurin left yesterday for
Atlanta, where he will this week deliver
an address on the cotton ware,
house system to a gathering of Georgia
farmers and business men, which
has been.called by C. E. Barrett, president
of the National Farmers' union.
On September 15 Mr. McLaurin
sent the following letter tc President
Wilson :
"You were so generous in the letter
read by Mr. Harding in his Birmingham
speech that I feel that you
should be promptly advised of a situation
now pending.
To Maintain Prices,
j . "The quick advance in cotton is due
Totop^ This wilflater sustain prices,
if there is no combination of moneyed
interests to force cotton on the market
"Last spring the New York banks
freely loaned 7 cents i>er pound when
the market price was much lower than
now. The same banks are refusing
to loan over 6 ceuts. Tills is a verj
short crop, and at 10 cents a pound
will not bring what the last crop did
to the producers.
"The banks of the .South are, as n
rule, opposed' to lowering the interest
rate. They are afraid since your lette
to come out openly and are workiiif
through the New York banks."
At tills point In the letter follow
; some matters of a confidential natur*
and the charge that certain banker!
In the South are writing letters t<
influential bankers in New York, ad
vising that it is best not to extend ac
commodatlonx to hold cotton; that 1
should be sold at 10 cents a pount
and that the best manner to accom
plish this is to make the financing a:
difficult as possible by unfavorable in
terest rates and the refusal to loai
over 6 cents a pound. This sumuiar:
f was furnished by Mr. McLaurin.
Basis of Trouble.
"You will observe," the letter con
tinues, "that the basis of the troubli
Is with the Southern, not the Nev
; York, banks. I do not wish to sti
strife and incite hatred among ou
. people by letting it be known wha
some of our large banks are doinp
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jlVE APPRECIATE YOIR BISINESi
-RALEY REALTY & T
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I am to address a mass meeting of
the farmers of Georgia on the 21st in
Atlanta, where this matter will be un*
der discussion and desire to be as
conservative as possible. . .
"To some extent I have the ear of * j
1 the cotton planters and feel the responsibility.
If you will advise me,
marking your letter 'personal,' ..1 .
promise not to use what you say except
for u:y personal guidance
While we made this crop at less cost
thau the 1914 crop, it is so short tjhat
'at 12 cents we will barely break even, ,
"It is a shortsighted policy, because
this crop will be about 5,500,000 bales
under 1911, and if it does not show ,
a profit to the producers, the 1916 crop .
will be curtailed to where manufaotnrer
will not have the raw material to >
supply their spindles. You can aaa
the far-reaching effect on finances as
well as labor.
"If the representative of the allies
arranging a credit here can be induced
to use a portion in purchasing low
grade cotton carried over from the last
croo. no power can keep prices down.
The question will settle itself. I had
this Idea when I wrote you In August,
and I still think this Is the solution .
which will relieve your administration
of embarrassment If they Intend to
purchase through New York banks,
and these force the cotton out of our
bands, it will be a grave Injustice to
the helpless." /
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Life With an Inspiration.
Stick to your dream, boy. Let
nothing swerve you from' the path
mat lead* upward toward tio fulflUment
of your life's ambition. ; ^
' You will meet with difficulties and
discouragements, but when fax do,
> just think of the man Herreehoff, the M
| boat building, who died the other day
you over pop staele.
A writer in one of our exchanges '
says that when John B. Herreehoff was j
a boy bis ambition, was to design and J
build the fastest boats in the world.
na luvmnm hiind when vet a boy. That
would have discouraged any ordinary
boy, for bow could a blind man design
' a model that be could not see? But
Herresboff was uo ordinary boy. He
' stuck to bis dream. The beavy band'
leap of blindness only made bim preps
011 all tbe harder,
i The blind boy sat in eternal dark
t ness and whittled out bis boat models,
r Gradually there devoted In his flngares
; a muscle sense that was worth more to
bim than eyesight would have been.
r Slipping the model cf a boat through
> his hands he could tell how it should '
, be shaiied to slip through the water
j with the least resistance. Other designers
figured out thenr models by
complex mathematical calculations.
But the Blind boy felt with his
^ sensitive lingures, and his models were
1 the best, for when he was twenty-four
* yeears old he built the fastest yacht the
' world has ever known and, while he
* could not see the boat go, he felt the
i dash and plunge and swiftness of it,
r and he wept when they told him his
boat had won the race.
The fame of the bind designer of
fast boats spread round the world and
Eimland. Russia and Italy gave him
? contracts for their fastest torpedo
' boats. He died a few days ago, a
r wealthy man and, better than that, a
r successful man, for he had stuck to
t his boyhood's dream and achieved it
fully.
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