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PREPARES TO PAY 10 CENTS. Liverpool Expects Fanners to Act as Usual. "Liverpool is expecting to buy the 1919 crop of cotton at ten cents per pound," said Commissioner Harris Saturday. "Believing that the South will plant a large crop or at least a normal one this year, Liverpool, which is one of the largest markets in the world is counting on a very low price. This information * is reported by a Liverpool dealer who has just come from England. And this is just exactly what will happen if the cotton planters of the South do not heed the warnings of those who know conditions. "Time and again it has been proved clearly that a 10,000,000 bale crop has brought more money than a 15,000,000 bale crop. Why should the farmer raise 5,000,000 bales of cotton for nothing? Just look at the waste of time and energy and of money, too. "In 1918 the government urged the farmers to plant a large acreage in food crops. It was necessary in order to win the war. In spite of this * great opportunity and disregarding the appeal of the government, the farmers of the South planted the largest acreage in cotton that they ever had; and if the good Lord had not cut the bales the South would have been ruined. It has been well said that He has a special providence over children, drunkards and fools. "I hope the farmers will do the right thing this year. Our farmers have been warned of the disaster that will befall them if they do not give heed to the advice of those who hate been watching the ebb and flow of conditions for many years. Now, what is the right thing for the farmer to do? Here is the advice of the combined thought of the leaders of the South. "Hold your 1918 crop until the price reaches 35 cents and even then sell sparingly. Cut your acreage 33 1-3 per cent.; and reduce your fertilizer under cotton 3^' 1-3 to 50 per cent. If this is done, we will win the fight and save the South * -. from bankruptcy and slavery. / "Investigation shows plainly what the South has been losing annually by the slipshod method it has had for selling cotton. The South has been losing annually $180,000,000. I can prove this and may do so at another time when ^pace permits. Can this system of selling be changled? It can. How? By organization and cooperation of the farmers, bankers and business men of all classes. "Have we ever had over production of cotton? I would answer 'no,' but we have had under-consumption, as I will prove. There has been no over-production so long as our people in the South have not enough clothing when the weather is cold and bad. It was not overproduction of cotton that caused the price to be low?but under consumptioa of cotton goods. It is a fact, strange as it may seem, that the farmers who produce the cotton and the labor that spins and weaves it into cloth are the most poorly clad people in the country, as a rule. There has not been one family in 500 that could not have used three times as much cotton goods if their real needs could have been met, but the . price of cotton was so low, the product selling at cost of production, i that no money was left to purchase clothes. I have known many a far mer to not have enough money left to buy even one garment apiece for his family after he had sold his last bale. "When is the system of cotton going to be changed? It is starting in now, in 1919, and in 1920, the fartiti 11 Vinvr/\ f V? /\ 1 P r?o tt HI ci will nave tnc yiivncsti ui oajing to the world, 'You will give me my price.' How is this going to be brought about? By the organization and cooperation which I have pointed out, and by sticking to it. "I will say to the farmers, when this is done, you will break the Hindenburg line. The bear speculator, or the Hun, is about ready to sign the armistice, as he must have cotton to deliver to the spinner who is calling for cotton as the supply of the mills is very, very low and they cannot spin wind contracts into thread and cloth. Now when he puts cotton up a little bit, don't take the bait. Sit steady in the boat. Have patience and determination and it will come out all right." < IDI ? Millions of What? "My boy," said the minister, "do you know the 'meaning of energy and enterprise?" "No, sir," answered Freddy, "I don't believe I do." "Well, I'll tell you. One of the richest men in the world came to this city without a shirt to his back, and now he has millions." Freddy gazed at the clergyman in open-eyed amazement. "Millions?" he asked. "Why how many of them can he wear at one time?" i SOLDIER SECURES SEPARATION Couple Marries in Columbia ant Nuptial Ties Are Annulled. Columbia, March 17.?Legal pro ceeding taken in Charleston recentlj to secure a separation between mar and wife is of some local interest af the marriage was solemnized in Co lumbia. It seems that a soldier sta tioned at Camp Jackson secured i marriage license and was married ii the county court house on July 13 191$. Later he applied before th< master of Charleston county for th< marriage, to be annulled. The cast was heard and the contracting par ties were freed from their nuptia ties. Legal separation is easy in Soutl Carolina according to the report o the proceedings. G. D. Bellinger judge of probate, said yesterday tha no one had inspected the license tc ascertain if the hand writing appear ed to be that of a man laboring in i half conscious condition or stupor The instrument was not used in tin L no T?in n- o n /I f L a Affiniol tt* V* /"v onn ^ n of iicai ins ciiiu tuc uiii^ia.1 ? iiu tuiiuuvi ed the ceremony was not summoned to testify. The judge of probate die not perform the ceremony ,as th< record shows. The soldier applied for separatior on the ground that he was dopec while out riding in an automobih and when he regained possession o: his mental faculties he was being in troduced as husband of the womar he had taken to ride. After discov eries led him to seek separation. Just what evidence was introduced at the hearing at Charleston is not known, but it is plainly evidenl that the office of the judge of probate where the marriage license was issued on July 13, 1918, wTas noi considered in the proceedings, neither was any testimony sought from officiating notary public. The license issued to Sidney Prager and Lois Huggins, the parties named in the Charleston case, was A/1 kir XTLI /\1H?i orst tt/\w/^ n ri CAcm-ili-icu. uj i>iA . uciiuigci jcatciuaj afternoon and the signatures by the man and woman are neat and legible. 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