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Former TwcKr nNMM. I .aureus, J una 20.?Willi* P. Wingo who had served nine months of an indeterminate sentence of three to six years for larceny, was today given a parole by Governor McLeod. The parole was received at the clerk of t-ourt's office this afternoon and a few hours later Wingo was released froiu one of the county chain gang camps and taken to his former home in Spartanburg county. Wingo was formerly teacher of agriculture in the Laurens city school. Last September 29 he was found guilty in sessions court here on a charge, alleging the theft of an automobile and was sentenced by Judge M. L. Bonham. Sales of life insurance policies increased 12.2 per cent the first four months of this year over the corresponding period in 1928. ;/ . The BULL'S EYE ~?ditor and Qentrcd Jdanaqer _ WIU. ROGEtyg 7 ?;=== " r " r I Aii?lher"llull" Uurhimndvcr- V. Ml tlocmoRt by Will Kover*. Ztcg* I I rcldl'oltienuni]Hcr??natar,nn<l I I leading AniMicin humorist. |l k. Moru conilnt'. Wnlrhforthem. Meeting the "Bull" Durham Smoker Face, to Face - Im just making, as the Politician says/'A swing around the Circle/' , to seeTvvhat was going on in "Real America." I had been in NewYork ; o long, I was getting a kind of a Subwry "Slant" on tilings. I was be- coming as narrow as a Metropolitan In ewspaperEditorialW riter. My cycriyht was getting so poor I couldn't see beyond the Hudson River* and ir.y mind wouldn't function farther r .v. v than ^Mbany, N. Y. 1 iinew that NewYork was* 'amusi the world," but I wanted to meet the fellow who was "feeding it." 1 am kinder oddly constituted. You can cut off my amusement, $>ut if my food stops you are going to have an :.ryumcnt on your hands. I, as Editor and Proprietor of the, _ Hull's Eye, wanted to meet not only the readers,but thcfonfiTtncrsoiTHIS Wonderful Product of OURS. (The American Tobacco Company and no.) Well, 1 wish you could See the type of Men they were, Big fine healthy upstanding He-Mcn. They were not the little Ancmics that has to tap his Cigarette on thehax before he c an smoke it. They were our Producers of Life. W hen I saw the type of Ho-Men smoking "Bull" Durham; Itrtthnost made me cry, that I wasn't a smoker myself. I'.S. There will be another piece here a lew weeks from now. Look for it. Durham -Si !?1" kk *o?dU^d ^ THE BASIC TROUBLE WITH AMERICAN AGRICULTURE Many Mythical Causes Given But the Chief Financial | Problem Rises From Inflatioirof Capital Account Based on War Prices?Remedy Pointed Out? "Trick Legislation" Will Not Help, mm 1 . By MELVIN A. TRAYLOR Flret Vice Preeldont American Banker# Aeeoclatlon. IN recent years agriculture and the welfare of the farmer have been our most fruitful topics of conversation. Political fortunes have revolved arotind thp u nhnnnv sifnnHnn nf fVio fnrmpr and the business barometer has gone up and down with varying proposals for his relief. Only a few years ago there was widespread feeling voiced by the leading agriculturists that the time was fast approaching when America would not be able to feed its rapidly ipcreasing population unless there was improvement in soil culture, fertilization, reforestation and larger production. What is the situation now? The worry seems no longer to be for food for the hungry millions but for more millions to consume our tons of food. Evangelists of despair have talked so much about over-production and surrthia of atrrir.ultural products since 1920 that we are warranted fn fc#* to a f??t or two which may be enlightening to those felt that there has been a crushing surplus of the staples of the ] farm Mf * t yju A9X1 VU AViO production of cotton was 14,176,000 bales at an average price of 12.41 cents per pound, while from 1921 to 1926 production, averaged 11,362,000 bales at an average price of 21.86 cents per pound. In the 1911-1916 period wheat production averagpd 806,368,000 bushels at an average price of 89 cents, while In 1921-1925 the average production was 804,384,000 bushels at a $1.11% average; In the former period corn averaged 2,754,000,-j 000 bushels at 60.3 cents wliile In the latter the average was 2,873,000,000 at 69.6 cents. Cattle on farms for 19111916 were 37,178,000 at an average estimated price of $26.52 while in t^e, latter period the aunual average was 4616,000 at $26.08. Hogs on farms In the lirst period were 63,161,000 at an average price of $9.68 per hqad, and In the latter 60,418,000 at $11.34. The Surplus Production Myth . From these figures, which eliminate the period that embraced the war and the early post-war Inflation, It will be observed that, with the exception of I cotton and cattle, production has been [ almost uniform ill the two periods. In I no case has production anywhere ap! proached an Increase commensurate with the increase In population. Socalled surplus production is largely o. myth and the cause of the farmer's j complaint must' be looked for in some ? other direction. It must be admitted. [ that all has not been and Is not well uvitli tills Industry... After all, what la r the matter with agriculture? Thqrfi1 are a few facta which, seem obVioOsas a part at least of the underlying causes of the situation and which suggest .something of the remedy that sooner or later must be applied. Present difficulties had their inception largely in inflation of prices for agricultural products from 1915 to 1920 with consequent large expansion | of profits. . This led lnevltably with the farmer as with the manufacturer to expansion of plant and eqp.proent 7. .> the acquirement by the individual of larger acreage and modern, if not always efficient, machinery. These statements do not apply to every one because there are always some'who I play safely and conservatively. Pr<>ved by the fact that there are millions of farmers who have gone the recent crisis without any difficulty and are today prosperous and contented. In fact the complaints joday are coming from less, -than 25 per cent of the farmers of the country T and from: the hordes, of pofltlciana who ate seeking to make capital out of the situation. # Results of Inflation and *xp*n?lon With the average and with the ma lority of those who were swept off their feet by the wave of Pr??Perl^ through which they were m us analyse the results of this Inflation and expansion. The farmer ?Per<? lng on land that he was casing[ In his capital account,at a value of.Bay, 1100 per acre, and who perhaps had a 1 inon nf $50 an acre, suddenly found that because of the Increased profit, - rom hie operations, his land had . market value of *200 per acre and that if he had a new tractor and soifce new' farm machinery, he c6uld menace his production. Bntif he d? he would need a larger barn I a mnrfl warehouse facilities. The SJnSHrJthat With an appraisal^of I200 ner4cre on his land he incredied Iff man to,$100 per acre, thereby tmihllng-illR capital account ami his kwilri debt?not out of earnings but KSEL 0? & Shll.tr .0 e?ec. a write-up" Of 100 per cent of hi. Pl:}? heCdM"llot effect the doubling of " account In thla manner. j. ?rh& 8100 acre farm was clear. II orobably bought hie neighbor's rorm for *200 per acre and mortgaged 'hi new and the old for S100 per ^re in this latter case, he increased his raoital account 160 per cent. urn saw to "e *""" d ? t"\ hii net percentage of Income. If he JLa been able to make 6 pbr cent on Ms Original investment, without any ,? anr(* for the increased cost of 3KS21 which of conrae did lake rut his net Income, based capltjllra'1"". aboutone-halt J hh^~coo>p,e,?d hi. expansion nwwrku. But worse than that .bap-; ^ST"hI. calculation, had been S^ npon a price for hi. product which reflected wartime demand and a j Fra&f - " J > :jd> W.? wd - rd u _ ~ - -r g-r"a '{ " , **1 ; ^ ? ^ w? 1 ? - demand gone and buying power withdrawn he found his gross selling price cut In two. His gross at the high figure had enabled him to make 3 per cent net on his new capitalization. This now was cut one-half by the reduction of his gross selling price and instead of making a fi per cent return, as he was . able to do perhaps on his original $100 acre farm, he has since been lucky If he has made 1% per cent on his new capital account. The Remedy I am confident that something of this kind underlies 76 per cent of the present difficulty. How can It be remedied? I believe that time and intelligent hard work is the surest restorative of better conditions. No magic of trick legislation can accomplish the result. There are s~few facts which must be faced and accepted before a start to better things can be made. The first and most important is recognition that farming never was, is not now, and I do not believe .ever will be a so-called money-making proposition, tty this I mean a business in which a man may engage, with the certainty of being able over a period of years from the production and sale of farm commodities to accumulate great wealth. There are those who will say that unless farming can be made a- successful money-making proposition there is no hope fdr the future of the country. My argument with such people will turn on the correct definition ''of. what is a satisfactory money-making business. I believe that if farming is intelligently and Industriously followed it is a satisfactory business but I do not believe that it is sufficiently a money-making proposition to attract those who are ambitious to play for big fortunes. There are those also who say that many men have grown rich In the I past in agriculture. I do not think they have from the mere production and sale of farm commodities. The men Who have grown rich in the past from agriculture have owed their success most largely to the ownership of what would now be considered very oheap lands, which over a period of years have shown quadruple and more Appreciation in values. The Advantages of Farm Life Hut if agriculture does not mean great wealth, and It certainly does not involve a .life, of idleness, ease,1 or I luxury, it does mean much more. It [ means if intelligently and Industriousj ly followed a character of independence vouchsafed to no other trade or professions How do I know this? I know It by experience and I know it by observation. The farmers of today have more good, wholesome food than any man working on a salary of $2,600 per year can buy for his family and be able to pay hi8 grocery bill without paying any other of his <Jebts. The farmers whp are complaining of thelt inability to make money enough' to pay for their necessities of life are enjoying at home as a natural heritage of their business eomforta and luxuries which the man in the Industrial centers working for a salary is spending every dollar; of his Income to obtain and then Is hot getting anything commensurate with those enjoyed by the farmer. It is these po-called unledgered Hems of the farmer's income that are* too often lost sight of in the calcnl*. turns made by our reformer friends' who would legislate a living wage and universal prosperity to those engaged In agriculture. If the farmer as a whole would be happy again be must take stock of his blessings and thank God for them, got rid of his quack doctors of political bunkuffi, revalue his plant and equipment, and start over again in full knowledge of the fact that he must face keen and effective competition, that he must work hard and Intelligently, that he must calculate in his income inherent and undeniable items, which are not measured in dollars and cents. When he does this, I feel perfectly certain that over a period of years, taking the good and the bad as it comes to all classes of business, he WllLftud that he hns lived well, that he has had a fair margin for the enjoyment of all tha necessities of life and a surplus for those luxuries which he has a right to claim, and above that he will have had a t an independent indlvidaaj, a real , and a self rpepecttag dtiaen.u M. A. Traylpr <3. ?r COTTON PICKER INVENTED? J. B. Neil, of York, Has Worked Many Year? on Hfa Model Rock Hill, June 27.?Work will begin here Monday on construction of two models of a cotton picker, which its inventor, J. Brown Neil, of York, claims will revolutionize cotton harvesting methods, it was announced The cotton picker is simple in prin| eiple yet entirely different from the many other pickers which have been i unsuccesfully introduced. The models to be built by C. A. Deas, expert mechanic, are to be tested in the cotton fields of Oklahoma and Texas this season and upon the outcome of the tests will depend decision of Mr. Neil and his backers, J. C. Wil'born of York and C. L. Cobb of Rock Hill, as to whether they will establish a ' plant here to manufacture the machines or will sell them to another I concern on a royalty basis, it was an[ nounced. The machine, it is hoped, can be produced at a.price of from $100 to ! $200 each so that it will' be in the | reach of every farmer. It will, its inyentor claims, pick 95 per cent of the cotton on the stalk without injuring stalk or green bolls, and will ' separate the cotton from trash equally as well as can be done by hand. The machine has been patented to all respects except one and it is expecjted that this patent will go through soon. It weighs about 500 pounds and will pick, it is estimated, , from five to twelve acres of cottpn per day. Its inventor has been working to perfect a cotton picker for more than eighteen years and announced his invention after defects discovered when it was tested out late last yetr had been corrected. The principle is that of a row of concayd-convex brushes j Ivvhicb pick the eotton, eliminating trash, and delivers the staple on a carrier which in turn delivers it to containers. The model here is designed to be horse drawn but provision for motorizing the picker is to, be mad^' J Peruvians carry spil for hundreds ( of miles in baskets and on pack, horses to make productive the ter-' races they build along the mountain sides. These farms, many of them1 hundreds of years old, show no signs , ofsolTdepletion, KILLING AT HORATIO Drunken Negro Trie# to Shoot Up Store and in Killed by Keeper. Ben McBride, young negro logger, was shot and faUtlly wounded at Ho* rutio Saturday afternoon. Ho was brought to the Toumey Hospital here where he died Sunday morning short4y after 11 o'clock. McBride was shot in the back, the pistol bullet passing through his body, rupturing his liver and one kidney. He is suid to have been shot by Grant James, who works at one of the lumber camps at Horatio, and also runs a store there, where the shooting is reported as having occurred. According ,to the story told by James, the dead n^gro became intoxicated Saturday afternoon and went to a house near Horatio and ft red into it several times, slightly. wound ing a negro there. He then proceeded to James' store, and with no cause whatsoever, started shooting up the place. James claims he was hit twice by glancing bullets which, however, caused only small flesh wounds. When McBride started shooting, James said, he got his own pistol and shot him down. How the negro received the wound in his back has not yet been explained. Sheriff Hurst visited the wounded;1 n^ro in the hospital Sunday morning about an' hour before he died, but was unable to secure a statement from him because the wounded man thought he was only slightly hurt and would be up in a day or two. He did not appear to be mortally . wounded at the time, but hospital authorities stated that it was impossible for him to live with such a wound, and his death occurred less than an hour after Sheriff Hurst's visit.?Monday's Sumter Item. Some forty languages are spoken in Jerusalem. - It is not unusual to find a man who speaks half a dozen languages, and many uneducated persons converse with ease in two or three tongues. FINAL DISCHARGE: ., Notice is hereby given that one month from this date, on Monday, August 2, 11926, I will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County my final return as Administrator of the estate of Edward Brooks, deceased, and on the same date I will apply to the said Court for a final discharge aB said Administrator. THOS. J; WILLI A MS." Camden, S. C., July 2, 1926. II I? 1 - ? " ' ' Brother of Be thane Man Dead. Hartaville, June 20.?C. C. 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