Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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mm k f - * Why Hospital; Use i jjquid Laxative Hospitals and doe tori have always used liquid laxatives. And the public i fast returning to laxatives in liquid farm- Do you Enow Ue reasoosT Xbe dose of a liquid laxative can be (oeaAured. The action can thus be rtgujvied to suit individual need. It forms ?o habit; you need not take a -double dose" a day or two later, //or will a miU liquid laxative irritate ttxktdneif. The right dote of a liquid laxative firings a more natural movement, and there is no discomfort at the time, or after. - ^ The wrong cathartic may often do more harm than good. A properly prepared liquid tjtxfctive like Dr. Caldwell** Syrup Pepsin brings safe relief from constipation. -It gently helps the average person's bowels until nature restores them to regularity- Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is an approved liquid laxative . .which all druggists keep ready for use. It makes an ideal family laxative; effective for all ages, and may be given the youngest child. Gets $100 Reward A1 McDow, special state constable has received a check for $100 as a reward for the capture of Tony Carlos,, negro, murderer who killed and robbed his employer, Mineola, Long Island on June 2, 1934. This reward came from the True Detective Magatine which also publishes the Master Detective in which the picture of Carlos appeared a few months ago with the statement underneath that $100 would be paid for his capture. iSeeing the picture in the detective magazine and knowing that Carlos was a native of the Liberty Hill section McDow kept in touch with the situation and received word one day that Carlos was in the Liberty Hill vicinity. Although Mr. McDow felt certain that Carlos was in that section of the country he could not locate him. It is said Carlos stayed at a different place -almost every right and that in the day time he hid in trees. He was reported to have been seen on several' occasions and was always sighted close to the Lancaster-Kershaw county line. He stayed in Kershaw county most of the time but came over into Lancaster county at times but always was hiding in the wooded and unsettled portions of these two counties in the vicinities of Liberty Hill and Stonebo ro. i Receiving word one night that he was at the home of Carlos, Sr., about three miles from Liberty Hill Mr. _ McDow called Sheriff McLeod of Camden, who arrived upon the scene L" early on the morning of September 13. Between 3 and 4 a. m. Sheriff McLeod, Constable McDoW and officers Hough and iRaley knocked at the door .of the three room negro cabin. Tony Carlos, Sr., in reply to a question by Sheriff McLeod said that if his son was at home he did not know it In the meantime Tony Carlos, Jr., was dressing and officers Hough and Railey entered the house and took him in custody. Carlos had on underwear and overalls with a pistol in his cap. Carlos appeared willing to submit to arrest but on coming through the door he shook officer Hough from him. Carlos is a 190 pound negro and 6 foot tnreo inches in height. ..firing startca with" Hough. Railey and McDow using their revolvers and Carlos re<eived| one bullet wound in the thigh thati splintered the bone. was also shot just above-the ankle so that op the next day he was taken b*ek to New York in an airplane to f.ice a charge of murder. Carlos was employed as a day laborer at Mineola and Jrill?d his employer on pay day, getting several hundred dollars of pay roll money. Carlos and his employer were riding in an automobile- when Carlos - ruck hi ill Over tile head with X heavy instrument.?Lancaster Newt. Expert . A man visited a farm. ''What's that?" he asked. "That's wheat," said the farmer. "What's that?" asked the man. "That's corn," said the farmer. "What's that?" asked the man. "That's barley," said the farmer. And what is your business?" "I'm a federal crop expert," replied ihc man.?Exchange. Germany's second "pocket battleship," the "Admiral""Scheer," has been put In commission* ' TUB COTTON SITUATION The following pap^r was read hy County Agent Green at the cotton j meeting bald in the Court House in. Camden, Thursday, November 16. j This paper was prepared hy the late j Dr. W. W. I/ong, Director of County Agent work in South Carolina. It is printed here for the benefit of those farmers of Kershaw County who were unable to attend the countywide meeting Thursday. 4Tt is quite evident that the price of cotton is determined by tlyj supply of cotton on the one hand and the demand for it on the other. Thia is excellently illustrated duringethe years 1922 to 1929. period the demand for cotton was essentially unchanged but there was a wide variation in supply and also in price, price always changing in the opposite direotion from supply. , In 1924 the supply was 16.3 million bales and the average price was slightly less than 23 cents a pound. In 1926 the supply was 19.6 million bales and the average price was 19.6 cents a pound. In 1926 the supply yri* 23.6 million bales and the trtefage price was 12.6 cents a pound. That is, when the supply rose from 16.3 million bales to 23.5 million bales the price dropped from 23 cents a pound to 12.6 cents a pound. Not only is the price per pound greater with a desirable supply of cotton thdn with too large a supply but the uctual number of dollars received for the crop is greater when the supply is about right. The 13.6 million bale crop of 1924 .brought to the cotton growers 469 million dollars more than did the 18 million bales crop of 1926. With a normal demand a good supply is in the neighborhood of 18 or 19 million bales. A supply of this amount provides a margin of safety in case of a short crop and is still not so high as to depress the price unduly. , Due to the large crop of 1931 and the dropping off in demand due to the depression the supply in 1931 was 26 million bales, 2.6 million bales greater .than the previous record supply of 1926. The price dropped to less than 6 cents a pound. Again in 1932 the supply was 26 million bales. It was evident that with a supply so much above no.mal and with the usual rate of production and cosumption it would require several years to reduce this supply to a more -desirable supply. All the while this extra supply would have its depressing influence upon the price of cotton. It was because of this situation that the cotton adjustment program was begun, beginning with the plow-up program in 1933. The supply that year was reduced to 24.8 million bales. However, the supply would have been about 29 million bales had not 10.5 million acres of cotton been plowed up. Through the instrumentality of the adjustment program the supply has -been reduced from 26 million bales in 1932 to 20.1 million bales this year and the price per pound has more than doubled. At prices prevailing since this year's crop has been moving to market this year'8 crop has ,;been moving .to market this year's 9.5 million b&les crop has a total farm value 276 million dollars greater than had the 13 million bales crop of 1932, not counting the benefit payments received or to be received this year. _ . According to the best estimates available the consumption of American cotton for the present year ending July .31, 1935, will probably be loss than 12 million bales, leaving a carry-over of 8 or 8.5 million bales next August 1. This carry-over together with the crop produced in 1935 will make up the supply for the year in which farmers will sell next year's crop. If the 1935 crop is 12 million bales the supply a year hence will be about the same or a little more than this year's supply. If the American cotton crop is 13 or 14 million bales in 1935 the supply will be increased from the present 20.1 million bales to 21.5 or 22.5 million bales. The effect of thus increasing the supply of American cotton by 1.5 to 2.6 billion bales would possibly be to Wild dp the carry-over from the 8.6 million bales in prospect as of next year to something more than this in 1936. Tftfe increase in carry-over might be prevented by a general improvement in demand for cotton Which in turn would have to be supported by a general improvement in business and industrial conditions at home and abroad. Such general improvement while greatly to be desired is problematical. The other means at hand for controlling supplies and carryover of cotton lies in the control of production in 1935. Under this existing cotton acreage reduction contracts the maximum reduction possible is 25 per cent belowthe base acreage as compared witH this year's acreage as permitted under reduction contracts. This would mean that a cotton producer could increase by 25 per cent In 1935 over his permitted acreage in 1934, In other words, with a 26 per cent reduction next year a cotton producer with a base acreage of 100 acres and | permitted to plant from 66 to 06 -? - . - * . acre* in 1934 could plant 75 acres iaji 1935. If such a .reduction were to I be put into effect 4$xt year and with crop conditions ?iout averse the result would be jMcrop of about 12 million bales iu Ilk, With a reduction & 20 per cent in J 1936 it would be rfconable to expect n a crop of about |.6 to 13 million C bales and with a Ruction of 16 p?r * cent a crop of fron|3.5 to 14 million bales could be exp^ed. li Alt the foregoir^* based upon C the assumption th *ome kin<J of to compulsory controlImilar to the Bankhead Act is in ?ect. If no such ,?07>t:oI~L> in effect th* estimates te would need y> be increased * ,?^r. co' one-half to one million bales and more if those who do not have acre* age reduction contracts increase their plantings unduly. The question that cotton growers should bear in mind is if there is wo compulsory control will the cotton growers of America limit their plants to that acreage which with average yields would give a production which nlong with a carry-over of 8 or 8.5 million bales would give a supply of not more than 20 million bales. This would mean 33 or 34 million planted acres. The average acres planted during the past several years, not including 1934, have been about 42 million. The increase in the world supply of cotton was due very largely to the increase in the supply of American cotton. The supply of foreign cotton on August 1, 1933 was less than 9 per cent larger than the average supply for "tftie three years previous to the depression. Whereas, the supply of American cotton was 32 per cent greater on August 1, 1932 and 25 per cent higher on August 1, 1933 than for the average of the three years immediately before the depression. In general foreign cotton producing countries produce about 40 per cent or 45 per cent of the total world production, In 1933-34 cotton production in foreign countries increased over 1 that of the year before. To say, however, that this increase was due to our cotton program does not seem reasonable since most of this cotton was planted and well under way before we had contemplated plowing up a part of our crop. Further more we had increased our acreage by about 5 million acres. It could hardly be said that we increased because we were going to plow it up. Just what the production in foreign countries is this year (1934-35) is not now known. If we hope to keep down foreign production by keeping our supply large it is well to remember that we will likely, find this method of keeping down foreign production an expensive one: Namely, by keeping the supply so large and consequently the price so low that neither they nor we can make any money growing cot/ton. The aim of the cotton adjustment program is the adjustment of the supply to that amount which will give the producers a fair price for their cotton. If we cannot compete with foreign countries and at the same time receive a fair price for our cotton there are only two alternatives open to us: We shall eventually lose our foreign markets anyway or we shall have to adjust ourselves to a permanently lower price for cotton which will mean a lower income for cotton growers which in turn will mean a lower standard of living. We have been competing successfully with foreign countries for many years and while some times prices have been low and some times high they have as a whole .been fair. It hardly seems reasonable that we should suddenly find it necessary to maintain a large supply of cotton resulting consequently in low prices in order to hold our foreign markets against foreign competitors. The principaj foreign cotton growing countries are India, Egypt, Russia, Ohina and Brazil. All of the countries, no doubt, have land not now in cotton which might be planted to cotton but there are certain factors which will likely tend to limit any material increase. India's dense population and lack of adequate transportation facilities make it necessary for a large proportion of the land to be devoted to growing food crops. Food shortage is a constant threat. Growing more cotton would mean less land for food crops. The amount of land available for cultivation and the system'of farming followed in Egypt limit the land for cotton to about two million acres.. Only twice has this figure been ex* ceeded and then only slightly. Cotton production in Russia is handicapped because the majority, of her spindles are 1,600 to 2,500 miles from the Russian cotton growing area. Also if all the land in the cotton growing area were devoted to cotton, foodstuffs would have to be transported about 1,000 miles . with inadequate .transportation facilities. Furthermore any increase in Russia would likely mean an increase use of cotton in that country rattier than displacing cotton from other sources. The present Russian consumption of cotton it & pounds per capita. The average consumption In, 4he United . i? hi 1?*??? ^ ^ ^ States is more than 24 pound* per capita. China like India has a dense population and poor transportation facilities. Many of the cotton growing areas have to grow their own food and feed supplies. The cotton-growing region of Brazil is divided into two well-defined areas, southern and northern. The southern area is more like the cotton growing area of the United States. It is in this area that an increase has? taken place. Coffee is the chief cas-h crop of southern Brazil. Cotton competes directly with the coffee crop. Further changes in cotton acreage depend to a large degree upon the price of coffee. Uncertainty of rainfall and scarcity of labor are factors limiting increases in cotton in northern Brazil. It is the policy of the Secretary of Agriculture that whether we have a cotton control program next year or not will be determined by the wishes of the cotton growers themselves. The making of this choice is no light matter. The consequences involved are so important not only to the cotton growers of this county but to -some two million other cottpn growers throughout the-- United States that every cotton grower should think seriously about the matter before he decides that we should or should not have some kind of cotton control program in 1935." Henry D. Green, County Agent. , ?- - ? ntfT nn if Kit ? am ?* Stars Fell In Ala.; Money Fell In S. C. Columbia, Nov. 7.?Stars fall in dabama, but there was a day when loney fall from fhe skies in South arolina, according to a story in " The ews and Courier" of about fifty ?ais ago, on file in the South Carols room ut the University of South srolina. On the day following a rnado in AndereoA county a man a passing through a wooded region ar Brushy Creek and found scat'ed there several golden Spanish ? ns. These were very bright and "C iccorYJlJkl *>nwqr.O ?nd yet, -T several centuries old.' . weri one was ever able satisfactorily w account for them. Curl jmcobfon, 40, of Ne? Yor,k'l w?? killed !by hU * 'kin! was thrown in front of the m?a> ,ver the hood, when the druck a curb. The truck j?n over his body. Y>ot Ball Teams M Invited To Game I high $cn>. t- ' is invited by Nov. 20.?Every i< Carolina to the ..^am >n this state Pin ington and Ia>? in \ftvplty of South that ium, Columbia, Thahvith Wash- exp< All teams desiring to taKOfl stad- man of this offer of free &dm\ day. mon the coach and 14 players wiV^brou to Dr. R. K. Foster, director of a^id j letics, University of South Carolinl*ji I Columbia, for the admission tickets. ] The only invitation is through the ( press. i This is the first time in years there ' I has been a college football game in ' ' (Columbia Thanksgiving day. With 1 Carolina's greatly improved form, as 1 evidenced against V. P. I. and Fur man, and -with the fact that Washing- I I ton and Lee'B iSoutheren conference ' championship rests on the outcome ! of this game, the contest is attract- ' : ing wide attention. It is the outstanding Southern conference game ! of Turkey day and eyes of fans from J throughout the Southeast will be onj I the battle. Washington and Lee is |1 untied an<| unbeaten in the conference?the only team with such a record?but it must hurdle Carolina to keep the record unspoiled. North Carolina has not lost a game but has one i tie against its perfect score. So j Washington and I>ee is the conference J champ if it can beat the Gamecocks. Football fans remember what Carolina did to Auburn's hopes year before last and many are predicting t that Washington and "Lee will meet a similar fate. I j Two men and a woman, voyaging from New York to the West Indies in a 30-foot yacht, were rescued by a Mallory liner off the South Carolina coast, after their craft had struck | and underwater obstruction and was in danger of sinking. "*** . ? ? ? 1 11 1 ?p8HJ ^~)j any Persons Are nosing Money Daily it m !'?K";'": vil? P'?"l<l?nt of tho Not on.l Bonk, ?M yMt,rd,y ' I h'8 In?ny years of bankihir ?nence he hud never heard m> y complaints about people losing ?? A number of persons have tfht ashes to the bank which they was once money, seeking inforon as to whether the treasury ^nt the ' Whm itate Cha? jn*,fione hlrtiPQftftored their homes and taken the money from the bureau drawer. "A great many people have gotten out of the habit of keeping their money in the bank during the past five years," said Mr, Rogers. "However, we are glad to note that some of these folks have found that the danger of keeping money at hqmo or on the porson is too great, and they are starting bank accounts again. We are having new checking accounts opened every day, as people come to realize that the only sensible way to pay accounts is by check, for a check always furnishes an excellent receipt. "Deposits in our bank are insured up to $5,000 by the Federal Deposit Insurance corporation."?Stanley (N. C.) News and Press. Business A violinist was very much disappointed with the account of his recital printed in tho paper of a small town. "I told you three times," complained tho musician to the owner of the paper, "that the instrument I used was a genuine Stradivarius, and ih this story there was not a word about it, not a word." "That is as it should be. 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