The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 27, 1930, Image 9
I Basic Needs Of The Southeast
(By Guy A. Cardwell, Agricultural
& Industrial Agent, Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad Co.)
In a commercial survey of the
Southeast made a few years ago by
the United States Department of
Commerce a great deal of information
was developed that should be
Yept in mind by those, in control of
the destiny of this splendid region
ol opportunity.
Ihe following excerpts should vitally
interest us, and should constantly
guide us in our work to develop
i self-consciousness that will lead to
action in connectives with the advincement
of ideas Hhat are so readily
accepted as truths and about
which so little is done:
"Throughout the Cotton Belt bankw??p???
ers "and agricultural specialists
brought attention to the lack of diversification,
the dependence on one
crop, the consequent uncertainty as
to financial results and deterioration
of the soil, and to the planting of
low quality cotton. These disadvantages
are recognized and many efforts
are being, male to improve the
agricultural position of the farmers.
The Department of Agriculture has ;
summed up their recommendations
after calling attention to the steady
drift toward greater production of
cotton at the sacrifice of diversified
crops and of diminishing swine and
dairy cattle raising. W. M. Jardine,
Secretary of Agriculture said on October
22nd, 1926:
"The South needs a permanent program
of safe farming. Such a pro
gram is not a difficult one, Here
are home elements in it.
1. Grow all the feed necessary for
the lives took on the farm and ample
food to keep the family. Have dependable
grain crops. Have a summer
and winter garden. Keep enough
cows, ho?a and poultry to stpply the
home tteeds and to furnish some products
for sale.
Keep up the fertility of the
soil. Cowpeas, vetch and soybeans
ahould be grown for plowing under.
Kye sfhould be planted in the corn
and cotton field to prevent winter
washing and leaching.
'fhese practices will take care of
the land left available through the
reduced cotton acreage. As to cotton
itself, the need is fewer acres #f
cotton but more cotton to the acre.
High-yielding quality cotton should
be planted and cared for well. Many
farmers today are producing two and
three times the average yield of cotton
by following approved methods
of production and using varieties of
high quality.. This indicates the possibilities.
We can make southern farming'
safe and profitable by such u program
of sound prodift-tion, coupled
with adequate marketing practices.
The two necessarily go together.
It was strongly and generally held
that the accomplishment of this
chnnge in the rural structure of the
Southeast is difficult under the existing
tenancy system, large scale
holdings, and absentee ownership.
Thus, in order to raise the entire
per capita productivity and wellbeing
of this region the concensus of
opinion urged the necessity for
schemes enabling ownership of the
land by small, independent, progressive
farmers.
It is further recognized that this
step is difficult to achieve without
making possible the discontinuance of
long-time consumption credit, based
on the mortgaging of crops and labor,
which so long has' operated to limit
tip* accumulation of wealth by individuals
working the soil, and, on the
other hand, without establishing an
adequate credit machinery to facilitate
capital investment and the ownership
of farms and homes. This
goes to the root of the problem of
every business group in the Southeast.
They desire to see the region
placed on a relatively cash basis from
the standpoint of consumption, and
a readjustment brought about that
will permit general capital accumulation.
Cooperative marketing, which
presents many difficulties under the
prevailing system of agriculture and
teftancy, is emphasized as a step
in the direction of such a readjustment."
General News Notes
The United States senate on Wed.
nesday passed a bill which would confer
citizenship on all non-citizen
Cherokee Indians born and residing
in North Carolina. The bill was sent
to the House for concurrence.
The Wninwright bill to authorize
the erection of a tablet in the Fort
Sumter military reservation, Charleston
harbor, in memory of the garrison
at Fort Sumter in 1861, was
passed by the lower house on congress
on Wednesday.
Fire in a refining plant of the Texas
Oil Company at Port Arthur, Tex.,
Wednesday, caused property * loss to?talji\g
$500,000 and seriously burned
twelve men, some of whom may die.
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, estimates
the number of unemployed in
the United States at 3,609,000. He
told the house judiciary committee
on Wednesday that it is "inconceivable"
that congress should adjourn
without a "gesture for relief."
The First National bank of Cheboygan,
Mich., closed its doors Wednesday
with the announcement that
a shortage of $308,000 had been found
in its savings department, following
the suicide on Monday of Clyde
Milliken, 44, manager of the Savings
department.
The 45-year-old union station at
Toledo, Ohio, which served seven major
railroads, was destroyed by fire
Wednesday.
Dr. George A. Collins, director of
the bureau of maternity and infancy
for the North Carolina board of
health, shot himself to death at hjs
father's home near Charlotte Wednesday
morning. Ill health is assigned
as the cause of his act.
Mrs. Leo M. Ferguson, wife of the
sheriff, was fatally wounded by a
stray bullet Sunday at Europa, Miss.,
when her husband undertook to arrest
a pair of bootleggers. Both the
| bootleggers were wounded in the exchange
of bullets.
Ambassador Dawes left England
on Saturday for a vacation in the
United States.
Robert Evans ot Cameron will repr?t?ent
South Carolina in the Southwide
essay contest on Cooperative
Marketing, as a reault of having won
the state contest, conducted in Coil
IfiSSi*. ^ Friday.
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Arrwt Negroes in Knox Cue
Ik* 1 ton,-George Allen Greer, 40year-old
negro tenant on the fnrm of
T. 0. Poore, has heen taken into custody
in connection with the death of
Jack Knox, whose lifeless body was
found in a secluded locality Tuesday
morning. A single-barrel shotgun,
unloaded, was found in his house
where Greer was arrested which officers
allege, bore signs of having recently
been fired, and on a shelf
were loaded shells charged No. 0
shot, the type extracted from the
wound. A 20-year-old Negress who
discovered the body has also been detained.
Slashes His Throat
Anderson.-?J. C. Hunteinger, 2d,
veteran of the United States coast
guard service, slashed his throat
with a razor in the county jail Sunday
night, where he was being held
before being taken to the state hospital
in Columbia. Ten stitches
were required to close the wound.
Made "Bottled in Bond"
Spartanburg.?T h e Spartanburg
county grand jury has returned true
bills against J. F. Jenkins, Sr., and
J. F. Jenkins, Jr., futher and son,
charged with violating tlie prohibition
law. Their home in a fashionable
residential section of Spartan- 1
burg, was raided and a complete distillery
with paraphernalia for making
bottled in bond and imported
liquors was found.
Sheriff Recovers Sedan
Columbia.?A Chrysler s^dan which
was stolen from Mary C. Lacey in
Washington, D. C., was recovered by
Sheriff T. Alex Heise Wednesday on
the Winnsboro road, near Columbia,
where it was abandoned.
Warrant Issued for Car Driver
Anderson.?A warrant has been, issued
for Tom Jones of Ware Shoals,
charging him with murder in the
death of Mrs. John M. Murrell, of
Miami, Fla., who was killed Sunday
afternoon when the car in which she
was riding with her husband and son
was struck by one driven by Jones.
Jones, it is said, was drinking and
was on the wrong side of the road.
Dr. J. W. Sandel Dies
Columbia.?Dr. John Wesley Sandel,
72, of Colonial Heights, wellknown
physician of Lexington and
Richland, counti^, died at the Baptist
hospital Wednesday morning following
an illness of about two
months.
Getting Money for Monument
Columbia.?Tho lien It. Tillman
Memorial Commission continues to
receive popular subscriptions from
various counties in the state as a
part of the $10,000 that must be
raised by the state's citizens to mutch
a like sum appropriated by the last
legislature for the erection of a monument
to the late Senator Benjamin
Ryan Tillman.
Fifteen cases of homicide are
docketed for trial at the present term
of the court of general sessions for
Spartanburg county which convened
yesterday morning with Judge T. S.
Sease presiding.
Held by Police
Columbia.?Joseph Gray, Negro,,
who drove u oar which overturned
Wednesday afternoon at the corner of
Preston and Woodrow streets, injuring
its occupant, Clayton Cargill, 11,
appeared in recorder's court Thursday
morning to face charges of driving
a car while drunk, speeding and
reckless driving until the boy's condition
was determined.
With a greatly increased enrollment
over former years, the Clemson
college summer school is now underway
and will continue for six weeks
or until July 21. Several new: courses
have been added for this year.
[Reductions in Electric Rates
m
. The City announce^ the following reductions in
electric rates to apply on the June bills.
COMMERCIAL RATE
j Old New
First 12 KWH 121/aC ea. ^irst 12 iAvil 12?/2c ea.
Next 100 KWH 10 c ea. Next 100 KWH 10 c ea!
Balance 8 c ea. Next 175 KWH 7 c ea.
Next 500 KWH 4 c ea.
Balance 2Vj>c,ea.
POWER RATE
Old New
First 300 KWH 7 c each First 175 KWH 7 c each
Next 300 KWH 5 c each Next 500 KWH 4 c each
Next 1000KWH4 c each Balance 2Vic each
j Balance 3 c each
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RESIDENTIAL COMBINATION RATE FOR LIGHTS
STOVES AND ALL EQUIPMENT
| Old New
j First 26 KWH 12*4c ea. first 26 KWH 12t4c ea.
Next 14 KWH 6 c ea. Next 4 KWH 6 e ea.
' Next 100 KWH 4 c ea. Next 100 KWH 4 c ea!
| Balance 31/2C ea. Balance 3l/fec ea.
i These rates do not apply on seasonal contracts.
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