The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, February 24, 1939, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7
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Five cotton interests aro fighting toetlier
to save cotton producer#, wureousemeu,
ginners, merchant# aud
rushers. TUoy have united their
>rces in a national organization callh
The National gotten Council, an
ssociation which waa begun in Memhit*
last November and which hau
ow entered upon active work as a
iduIt of the meeting in Dallus, Texjuituary
24. Five of us from South
urolina atteuded the Dallas meeting,
N. Durst, of Columbia, warehouseinn;
J- B. Caldwell, Spartanburg,
sed crusher; W. M. Manning, Sumtor
reducer; W. M. Agnew, Donalde, proucer;
J. K. Dreedin, Manning, proper.
Mr, Agnew represented both
io Grange and the Cooperatives; Mr.
auning and I represented the South
iirolina Farm Council. The ginners
are not represented because J. Wade
rake, of Andafson, was indisposed;
e merchants were represented by
ive Gilbert, of North Carolina. J. B.
urphy, of Columbia, attended ga a
oinber of the Advisory commltWe.
r. Manning was elected a director.
What is the cotton problem? No
ilutlon is found in controls and benets;
those measures are expedient,
utches to help a lame condition. Is
io cotton farmer ever to walk again?
r Is he to wear bandages and splints
ad hobble about on crutches all his
fe, growing weaker every year?
How serious is the cotton problem?
Igures are dry but they are the nectary
frame work of any Intelligent
scussion of cotton in our scheme of
ving.
Cotton, not Including seed, has
ought to the south the following
nounts In recent years, 1920, $933, 8,000.
This was the year of the
pat deflation the year which precipited
the economic collapse of South
irollna, for the boll weevil Joined
e deflationists to hobble agriculture,
mkriipt the merchants and paralyze
e banks. It was a terrible blow,
le other years were: 1921, $643,8,000;
In 1922 it was $1,161,846,000;
11923, 1924 and 1926 the cotton crop
s sold for about a billion and a
If dollars each year; In 1926 the
ue dropped to $982,736,000; In 1927,
18, 1929 the crop sold for about
) billion and a quarter dollars, each
ir; then 1930 and to date the value
t dropped to $650,000,000; to $483,L000;
to $371,840,000; $611,743,000;
fc,602,000; $590,136,000; $760,386,-,
L In 1937, It was $796,179,000; and
1938. it was $517,892,000.
That happens in the potton growstates
when income falls off year
r year as the figures show?,
^en the income of southern far
mere falls on an average of ali ttun-!
dred million dollars a year for ton!
yearn the stupendous total of six billion
dollurs reveals the loss. This is
a moderate ostiinute. Six billion dollars
would have entered our local,
state, and national trade and would
havo become possibly twelve billions
in the end. To recover that would bo
worth more than all the now foreign
markets we might hope to develop.
Consider our own little state.
Hero is a table of receipts for lint
cotton sold in South Carolina from
192Q through 1938:
1920 *118.000,000
192 1 00,400,000
1922 59,827,000
1923 '. 123,226,000
1924 89,129,000
, 1926 - 83,536,000
1926 58,968,000
1927 83,948,000
1928 66,792,000
1929 68,060,000
1930 49,550,000
1931 ,.... 30,142,000
1932 21,838,000
1933 35,652,000
1934 42,070,000
1935 42,065,000
1936 52,680,000
1937 . . 43,798,000
1938 28,925,000
This is an averago of nearly *69,Q0O.00O
a year during nineteen years
but the value of our cotton crop has
not amounted to as much as $50,000,000
since 1929 except the crop of 1936
which was $52,580,000. How can a
people adjust themselves to a crop
income which ranges from *21,838,000
in 1932 to *123,226,000 in 1923? Of
course a people can readily adjust
themselves from *20,000,000 to *120,000,000;
but how can they adjust
themselves to a fall from *120,000,000
to *20,000,000?
We may think the federal government
lavish in its WPA expenditures,
but this state has lost in cotton income
alone many times more than all
th? WPA expenditures here. And that
is not the full measure of our loss.
Those millions of dollars for cotton
would have entered all the channels
of trade, expanding as used from farmer
to merchant, to banker, to manufacturer,
to insurance, to transportation
enterprises, and all the other
multifarious phases of commercial interest.
In oar owu little state, before the
days of boll weevil, we had an average
yearly income of *100,000,000 from
our cotton. Even following the early
attacks of the weevil our cotton crop
brought in more than *80,000,000 a
year for several years.
All the government payments are
but a small percentage of our loss. I
am not unmindful of the bread-andbutter
aspect of the benefit payments;
nor am I ungrateful for the high purpose
motivating the government's program,
I am calling attention to the
great loss sustained by our state.
The government cannot make good ;
our loss; it can "tide us over" in a
measure, but that is ail. We must !
swim through our own efforts or we
Blia.ll wink _____ ,
Can we swim? Aye, that's tho rub!
i/ook at th!? In ttie face. Are we to
be fed by the government all our days?!
Are we engaged in a business which,
cannot Support ItHelf, which must bo I
subsidised? What would a great busl*j
nosH genius do, If ho had all tho cot '
ton under his control? What do our
uutoiuobilo and other concerns do?
They enlarge the market for their.i
products; they make smoothing that
wiil supply a want or a wish and they
play on the imagination until they
turn dreams into realities.
Cotton is today a problem of merchandising;
wo muHt sell more cotton.
We cunnot prosper on tho present
basis. And we should be foolish
to produce more cotton without creating
a greater market.
Where is the greater market? Our
people are prone to think of Europe,
Asia and South America, but the
greatest of all world markets is the
population of our own great nation.
Here we have millions of mattresses
made out of materials other than cotton,
wo have hundreds of thousands
of miles of roads on which cotton
might be used, according to creditable
witnesses, and there may be a thousand
other uses still awaiting the gen*
lus of the chemists.
Why should we cotton people surrender?
If paper can be made into
towels; If paper can supplant glass
and chinaware, then may not cotton
step into the place of something else?
Are we willing to enter the race for
business; or are we reconciled to defeat?
The National Cotton Council Is organized
to work for everything which
may help the cotton people; It Is the
application of business to our problem.
I am not an Illusionist; the
Scotch that is in me tends toward
sterh realism; I am more Inclined to
think of two and three as four, rather
than as six, but I believe In the pos
nihilities of the National Cotton Council.
In brief, shall we fight, or shall
we quit? The ice people are still in
business; the mule dealers are prospering,
so let's find out what we can
do?and do it.
4 . -
? LuyoH Otdor Youth GKtb Mcota ? A
very interesting program was
held by tho Older Youth Club of Lugo
ff Friday evening, February 10.
They had a? their guests members
of the Older Youth Club of Maltern
Hill, muktng a total of seventy-nine
attending .the meeting.
The following program was given
after the singing of "America" by the
entire group: The devotional by Caul
Jordan "Washington's Utiles for Success,"
by Hill Cameron. "Trail lfind"
was sung by Miss Mangum, accompanied
by Mrs Uomalno Smith. Joe
Jordan welcomed the visitors, after
which Miss MoCarter Introduced the
speaker of the evening. Komuine
Smith.
Mr. Smith is one of the outstanding
workers of the Kxteuslon Department
of Clcmson College. He gave a vef'y
inspiring message on "The Characteristics
of A leader." In his talk he
stressed the. importance of u leader
having such characteristics as originality,
personality, dependability, tactfulness,
sincerity and courage.
Following this a very enjoyable social
hour was spent at which time
Mr. and Mrs. Smith led the playing of
several games with music. Punch and
cookies were served in the school
lunch room by the Lugoff club girls.
Memorial To Mrs. Baruch
Greenwood, Febf 18.?President
John W. Speuke of lender college announced
today that Bernard M. Baruch,
New York financier and native
South Carolinian, had contributed
110,000 to'the college for an endowment
as a memorial to his wifo, the
late Mrs. Anne Grlffen Baruch.
Camden Girls Now
In State Tourney
Cumdon high school girl's cage team"
invades Blshopvllle Monday evening!
for tho last (|unio before tho state!
I'lutinploushlp tournament at Orangeburg,
tho tournament to start next j
Wednesday and continue through toj
Saturday night.
To ditto Camden girls have playod
twenty-two Kumoa and have won ton
of thotn, tho htat winning stretch going
Into twelv-e gamoa with a wldo victory
ovor Hook 11111 hero laal Tuesday.
Tho splendid success of tho Camden
team la duo to tho superior scoring
ability of tho four maidens who work
the forward positions. They are IN ggy
MeOulrt, Doris McI?eod, Margaret
McDowell and Theresa Hood. Tho
splendid defense offered by Camden
falls on the shoulders of Frances
Hammond and Dot Howell, who despite
tho fact that this Is their first
year In tho game, havo exhibited fine
headwork. x
This McGulrt girl has had the fans
standing on their oars by her goal
shooting ability. In the game at
Brookland-Cayce gymnasium recently
Bho shot 57 of tho 66 points scored
by Camden In larruping tho Brook-1
land-Cnyce outfit by a wldo score. J
Peggy Is able to roll up these impres-j
slve totals by reason of two factors,
first the fine work of Captain Doris:
McLeod who feeds the ball and seconly
the accuracy of Peggy in gauging
the shots.
Some of the basketball writers
about the state are looking to Cam- J
den to cop the girl's Btate title, and |
at least, finish as a runner-up. If the
girls win the title, It should be made
the occasion for a testimonial dinner
for the members of the team, with
the boy's team as guests.
HOW TO SLEEP SOUND
Drink six glasses soft or dlBtillod
water dally If funotional kidney disorders
cause waking up nights, frequent
or scanty flow, burning or
backache. You know what hard water
does to a teakettle. Also flush kidneys
as you would the bowels. Help
nature eliminate excess acid and
other waBte. Ask any druggist for
BURETS. Your 26c back if not
pleased. Locally at DeKalb Pharmacy.
I las Gas All Time
Mrg. Jan. Filler saya: "Qaa on my etomh
was so bad I couldn't eat or sleep,
is even pressed on my heart. AdlerlUa
ouKht me quick relief. Now, I eat c.s I
eh. eleep fine, never felt better."
fold By DeKalb Pharmacy
YAS SUM, MlSTAH GRAY, W 'S
^FOUND A 5HO* WAY TO
MAKE CROPS WUTH TAIKIN' 'BOOT
?PLENTY O' NATCH6L SOPA -rd
PATlS 06 TRICK. 1
UNCLE NATCHEL'S right Natu^il Chilean
Nitrate is good for every crop you grow. It gives
you; (1) Ideal, quick-acting nitrate to help make
the finest crops that can be grown; (2) Nature's own
balance and blend of protective elements to helpj
correct soil deficiencies now or whenever they occur.
There is double advantage in using Natural
Chilean Nitrate of Soda. Remember this when you
think about fertilizer.
NATURAL
I CH/1EAN
I N/TRATE or SODA
I THI NATURAL SIDE DRESSER
I
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SATURDAY, FEB. 25.
"BILLY, THE
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With
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"TORCHY GETS
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With
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MONDAY and TUESDAY,
FEBRUARY 27?28
"JUST AROUND
THE CORNER"
with
Shirley Temple ? Joan Davis
WEDNESDAY, MAR. 1.
"KING OF ALCATRAZ"
With
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THURSDAY, MAR. 2.
"HARD TO GET"
With
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ADMI88ION:
Matinee, 20c; Night, 26c.
Children 10c any time.
I Going Out of Business!
ENTIRE STOCK OF
WALLNAU'S STORE
Must be Sold at Once, Regardless of Price!
I This is a bona fide Close-out Sale, as
we must vacate store before March 1
Sale Starts Friday, Feb. 24
STORE CLOSED THURSDAY
GOME IN AND GET YOUR I
BARGAINS WHILE THEY LAST
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