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COTTON or COLOR. ^ (feraUnlap V? #f W? Sum* l? CdMwUm Nf?' filing ??? ????*? ?? A. W, ltra)H>am'8 experiment/* with colored rot ton continues to attract wide attention. Mr. Mrahbam ha* made' hta experiment* <>n liin plantation. Tbu Hermitage, "ear <>lar, liamherg couot.r, mii<] Luther Burba ng, the plant wizard, haa, communicated with h'm on the matter. v Tb? .Savannah Morning New* re 'eiu tjr published the following article fit dor a double column heading : "After exj>erlmeutlng for *e?eral jear* ?? producing fiOttou of <*olor, A W. Brabhapi, of The Hermitage, Olar, tt. 0., believe* that the end nought, wbk-h la tbe production of black cot ton, la In algbt. "Mr. Brabham ba* Kent tbe Morning New* four aample* of ('otton* of/calor wbit b kUhtaiii bia claim that be b?a fcuecesnfuMy produced tbe*? cottobs of extremely flue fibre. The four nasuptea *Uad?' frupi liicbt brown and from iigbt greet) to dark (irccn, He *aya. that tberc hatt uetM hero a softer or liner fibre ? trail tbe dprk brown aauiple and thiit ilotb wdw-p from ?>uob iofton would wake -a fabrU; tbat would aur I?hsh in aoflne*H hiiv textile uiaterli) yet developed. "Four yearn ago .MfeJfrabliatjt *o?|? hi> tirat specimen* of cJttou lu colore | to tbe Moruing Newa and ??? tbe SuTRfi uah Cotton -Kg change. He ?aya now that be hax never abandoned tbe Idea < v of producing cotton* of that claaa but for two yeara be baa wade no pr> ki??-s, ih?. rrop each year baring been destroyed before reaching ^ua^urit.v. Thi* year great care waa exerctod In tbe few plant* of (hit* eottou tbat be k'l t vv When the plant# open tip In foil Mr. Brahhatu thinks "that otber colon Address of Senator E. D. Smith to the People of South Carolina T ; : ; ' > 1 I I wish to express to the voters of my State my heartfelt appreciation of the generoHS support given me in the election last Tuesday. 1 received more than 20,000 votes over my. nearest opponent, and came within a very few votes of a majority. The issues before the people are clear cut. Three powerful interests are endeavoring to bring about my defeat. FIRST, The cotton exchanges on account of the legisla tion 1 had passed fixing it so that they could no longer deal in fictitious cotton, and exploit the real cotton of our real farmers. SECOND, the whiskey interests desire my defeat so as to advertise to the World that South Carolina is repudiating her stand on prohibition. THIRD, the great financial institutions of Wall Street oppose me. The reason is that by my work in having adopt ed the proviso to Section 13, of the Federal Reserve Act, the Southern farmer's cotton became a basis of credit. Because ? \ .m of this the money power, the manipulators, the speculators, and gamblers on the New York Exchange are working for my defeat. They knowing that I am the only Simon Pure farmer in the United States Senate, and that I have been working for the past twelve years to keep them from using our cotton for their own selfish interests, and knowing that by my being advanced to the head of the Agricultural Committee of the Senate my power will be greater than ever before, they are sparing no effort or means to defeat me. ? ? IrfHikc my opponent 1 have done and am doing all 1 can to wipe out factionalism in South Carolina, so we can all co operate and pull together for a profitable price for our main money crop ? cotton, aiid for the development of all the in dustrial and other interests of the State. We have these selfish interests opposed to us, but we are going to win. The people of South Carolina do not move backward, and they will not be deceived by "camouflaged" argument and false reports. The best years of my life have been given to the service of the people of my State, and my fists are not only doubled, but I am going to strike every enemy of the best interests of South Carolina. Thanking you again for your confidence already ex pressed, anil with assurances for the future, I am, Yours faithfully. E. D. SMITH Take Your Cotton Around to F. M. Wooten and Get Top of Market. Office back of Loan & Savings Bank bwldc* (be four b# b?t now may hp pear, "Luther Burbank wrote Mr* Brab bum (hut ho would undertake the jot of producing black cotton for a million do! In i-M. . MV. Brabham *aj rs that a glaUC* At Otto of bin sample* HhOWS that ti?- >a In a fair ?ii.v to produce it at a much lower cost than a uiillou. l!e say? further that he Is Mjne be would have produced black cotton thin year had not a package of blue tluted or llnted cotton imported from India rnla ca fried. Mr. Brabbam baa a liindu botanist of I>elbi gathering specimen* of cotton of color iu ludla. and I Ills botanist located blue, grey and light pink, He bopes to have another con* signment of seed from India In the near future, and in also hoping to get the colorn growing In Peru. It Is, how* over, he ways, very difficult to get for eign need because ao many careless dis honest persons handle the packages In tbalr long Jouruoy. "Mr. Brabham has also seut three specimens of corn in three colors, a gin nee ut which, he nays, should prove tlitft black" corn will be his next year. By crossing red and blue corn will In two years, he claims, develop black corn. This being true, Mr. Brabham argues that by crossing the blue Indian cotton with the darker shades which he has developed from white cotton he is bound to obtain the long sought black cot ton. ' , "Not only cotton and corn, but almost any other croi\ Mr. Brabham feels con vinced, cjui Ik? produced in colors. Al though lie dees not expect himself to reap the commercial profits of his dis covery, he Is content in the satisfaction of believing that he Is bequeathing to (posterity a contribution of enormous value in scientific knowledge." iik will bk Chairman of thk GRKAT AGRICULTURAL' COMMIT ; TKK. Senator Smith will be the chair | man of the great agricultural committee ' of the next congress if re-elected, ('an 1 South Carolina afford to miss this i chance to head this important commit i tee? The answer Is ? VOTE FOR SMITH. The senate restaurant, although charging prices equal t<? the most ex pensive hotels, has consistently lost money. An expert investigator found that Hie loss, was caused by "free lunches" that were being eaten by em ployes about the eapltol. ; - -Although twelve hundred miles from land In the Atlantic ocean, ? ves ; sel communicated by wireless telephone .?with an eastern seaboard station. ? It is proposed to build a U.000 bale .cotton warehouse at Chcsnee. Spartan 'burn county. ? WATSON'S MILK PI'NCII. We have been going over a copy of Tli* Columbia Sentinel, Tom Watson's paper, which a Charlotte admirer has sent us fur inspection, particularly of that section in which Mr. Watson makes explanation of the hotel -and jailing j incident. There are two pages to it. * ir wir?r tht "Itowcome" of Wat, soil's sup posed condition we were wanting to be si *1 clear on. Mr. Watson explains that , being wearied and exhausted by the travels and "worries of the bad roads In that section of Georgia, "a local friend secured a pint of corn whiskey, whose virtues I doubted ; he boldly showed me that it was pure by taking j two generous drinks of it himself." .Then Mr. Miller, Mr. Watson's compan , ion, also took a drink, which notice ably reduced the contents of the bot tle. That was on the road to Buford. I Then, in continuation of Mr. Watson's i narat.ive. "Too heated to eat dinner, and ' having had no breakfast, I made my vself a milk punch, using a wineglass to measure the whiskey." lie makes no j further mention of recourse to the little I black bottle until after arrival at the , hotel on the rambunctious night. lie was tired out, muddy and in a fatigued j way, generallv, and the landlady sent > . j u is supper to his room after dispatch ing which ? "I measured off the medl ' cine for a milk punch, .and took it." j turned out the light. and went to bed. i hoping for a restful night. Subsequent proceedings appear to have been about 1 ih described in previous news articles. So. It appears from Mr. Watson'- testi mony that his abuse of the bottle was confined to two measured portions of ( the "medicine" for a milk "punch," We can think "f nothing better than Ithey injected Into the Georgia states man's mental and phy&icial makeup. ? We cant hink of nothing better than to advise Mr WaKon to take if ">t ra ijtht" in fh?- future. -Charlotte i liters ?-r WHY CHANGE VOI R \VIKKM \ Khjnied lie view of Picture b> Kus sell Holman. i .Are \?.ii married? i Pardon ladies!) I irat your husbands- 1'ko a l^rd? j ( :i re f < ? r 'hem like grown up babies? I ?oh't do that. It m.tkes them bored. 1 1 nd- ' Shun that ",.:hcr R.mi?n r.ea a: v may begin at home, W.ve- m re often very human. I T! lid need for you p. roam. < e, ii H. IxMllie has taken To the screen a theme from l'fe. j J>iv?reetbea rtg ! iluahandt ! Wires I Awaken Met t#>r "Why Change Your Wife" iflBW OVE* THr STAT* Shmrt Nawi NttM (Utktred ?* E??k4Mi & ???. ? Pr. Wdllip If. Haver of Marion, 8. C\,ba* t*e? elected associate proffensor of history in tbe University of Tsnnss ** ;#?: ?According to J. W. Tojber of Ninety Hi* Greenwood county, KepuMleans of South Carolina will piaee tt t ivket 1a tbe field of the general election' this year. ?The \n.i. i ,,n ( i <?n Mill at Ander son, employing about 700 people is run ?'og on half time. It in proposed to operate the ujiir on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. ?John M. PesCbampa of Plnewood, a candidate tor governor several years ago has announced that be ban quit the. Democratic p?,ty ftgg wiD ^ fof Harding for president. ?The new tan^unit of tbe South Caro Una National Guard was mustered in to .aer vice .at Edgefield yesterday. James O. Sheppard of Edgefield is captain of the tank corps. ? Prln* Fred rich Wilhelm, former great German ocean liner, in ?ow trav eliug between Canada and England ijti the service of the Canadian Pacific railway's ocean lines. <More than 3,000 people attended the funeral of Policeman Arthur Hughes I of Honea Path, Anderson county who! was buried Sunday. Hughes died of wounds inflicted by Earnest, Ashley at Honea Path last week. ?Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Singleton who live on the Itufhford road near Gr?en Mlle were put under arrest last Friday w en Const-able Corn found about fif teen gallons of liquor and a quanity of jugs and bottles on tbelr premises ?George II. Brown of Richmond,' Va., was instantly killed in Darlington Sat urday whthi a piece of lumber fell from a height of sixty feet, bitting him on the bead, Brown was a member of a crew of steel workers engaged in build a tank at Darlington. Governor Cooper ha* appointed the following womfii notaries public: Nell Pressly Detreville, Ruth Simmons Saw yer and Minna Lay ton Holmar, Colum hla ; Maggie Viola Thomson ,?f Newber ry and oh. <\ (Vane of Spartanburg Miss Dot re vine was the first woman to make application for a commission at ? Notary public to tbe governor after reniiossee had taken action on the An thony amendment. ---Arthur Hughes, policeman o Honea Path. Anderson COUnfv who W|jg last Tuesday by Earnest Ashley died in an Anderson Hospital Saturday morn >ng. Before Ids death Hughes made a! statement. in which he declared that his *1, noting by Ashley was the result ! "f Ashley's spleen because Hughes's activities against bHndtigcrs. He also I declared that Former Sheriff Joe M. II Ashley of Anderson county bad offered *2(H) M m?ntb and a Buick auto m?Wle provided he would peddle liquor made at Ashley's distillery. ? College students are l>eing imp?, ed L that_pduj-titioii is a continuous pro cess and that long summer vacation's chief justification is to permit them to exeerctBo rtreir-nnents1 to good finan cial advantage that, they may continue their studies in the autumn. | ? The oldest l>ead dealer in the coun ? try Is PeTcr Bendes, of New York. He says the >?ead eraze' .comes every 2.*> years, the present era ze heing due to die out in a few months, and the next one to come in 194fi. He has profited by two snob |>erictds of bead popularity. ? When during the discussion of the armistice, General F*och was asked how long it would take to drive across the line if it were concluded not to grant j an armistice, General Foch replied: "May be four or five months ? who knows?" ? Meat prices in New York are 12 cents a pound higher than the highest summer price during the war. ? The salary of the premier of Can I ada has been raised from $12,000 to j $15,000 a year. j ? James Hamilton Lewis former ! United State? Senator, predicted in a ! speech before the American Par Asso i citation at St. Louis n few days ago. i that another world war would be , fought within four years. "This con j flict will be in the Pacific, " he said, ; "it will be with a league of Japan. : Russia and Germany against the UnH ! ed States. The revenge of Germany, ? i he vengency <>f Hussia and the Oriental I hatred of Japan will assail the suprem acy ?>f the United States to destroy it. i The people of our nation are blinded j t?i the approach of this calamity and making no proper preparation to avoid it. The <igns of t>?day mean that the ! next president of the United States ! will command this nation through that war There i* no unity of patriotism for America ns a nation." i ? Governor Cox's daughter is related to Senator Harding .on her mother s ! side and cmUs him "uncle." Whether her father wins or looses she wi" have a relative n the White House. ? Prince Joachim, youngest s<>r. of the former kaiser, whose death by suicide occured after a debauch. wh? the only ?j ?n>e of the German roya1. famiiy who J "tifferrd wounds !n bnttlf What Senator E. D. Smith Stands For and What He Has ' ? y; . Done in Congress . ? ? .... ? i , : : ' n ??? : ? : . "No man dares question the war record of South Care, lina's Senior Senator, E. D. ?mith, during the war emer gency." l ? ' ' ? ? ' X'Xr " ? ? ' ' He is the greatest authority on cotton, and cotton pro duction in the United Sates Senate today. His advice and utterances on cotton are closely watched by Wall Street So much so that the cotton gamblers and speculators of the North are fighting him for his advocacy of the cause of the Southern white farmer, and labor in general, SOME OF THE THINGS HE HAS DONE: ? He is the author or the exponent of : The Cotton Futures Act, passed by Congress regulating the grades of cotton and restraint on the cotton gamblers and speculators. The cotton farmers and truck farmers are indebted to him for his untiring efforts in having inserted in the Fed eral Reserve Banking Act as a basis of credit cotton ware house receipts. \ Nitrate of Soda is essential to the farmers of this State. His untiring work along with others brought this product to the farmers during the war at cost, and released abun dance of nirates as soon as the armistice was signed. He fought for'the Federal Land Banks and had one of these banks located in our own State. He fought to res trict undesirable foreign immigration to keep down com petition from the low classes of Southern Europe in the cotton mills and industrial establishments, so that the na tive workman would not have his wages lowered. LABOR WILL STAND BY HIM;" : WHAT SENATOR SMITH IS: He is South Carolina's most influential and experienced . ; J man in Congress today. He becomes the head of the great AgriculturaljCommittee ?f Congress by reason of there cent defeat of Senator Gore of Oklahoma. He is the only Simon Pure farmer in the United States I Senate, and the only representative of the southeastern stated on the Agricultural Committee of which he will be the head. If South Carolina wants an influential man in Washing ton, Senator Smith will be re-elected.'' A vote cast for him is a vote cast for the best interest of the er^ire State. Senator ^mith will be elected next Tuesday, because it; is to the best interest of South Carolina to re-elect him. VOTE FOR SMITH \ "This is a Studebaker Y ear" 4L t . v f