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^ * - 1 r 0hf Hantbrrg ijmlb . $2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2,1919. Established in 1891 BROKER PREDICTS j 50-CENT COTTON' ! BELIEVES SOUTHERN" FARMER WILL EMERGE TRIUMPHANT. i Better Turn Coming Bears Win Round One, But Next Round Will Be Different, Says Rowntree. ^ . New lorK, sept. is.?Kitty-cent v , cotton is predicted by Carlisle Rowntree, New York cotton broker and merchant. While admitting: that during "round one" the bears have had everything their way, Mr. Rowntree looks forward with optimism to the ""next round," at the conclusion of which, he frankly predicts, the South will be found triumphant uand the Southern farmer will have come into his own." Mr. Rowntree made the following statement: "While the inexorable law of supply and demand must ultimately determine the level of values, the next important item in the final analysis, and one that has not been considered in many of the discussions, is the 'morale' of the Southern farmer. * Phycbology Factor. "The majority of them do not know, nor do they pretend to know, but little about the effects of word'ls visible supply, mill stocks, exports, j consumption, census reports, crop es timates, exchange money rates, foreign labor unrest, strike troubles, or any of the economic factors that enter into making of the market and . cause it to vary as certain incidents occur that are bullishly or bearishly construed. But they do know that they had a taste of thirty-six-cent * cotton last fall, since when none of, the cotton goods they use have declined, and that, if necessary, they will eat corn bread and hold their) cotton until they get it again. And j here enters upon the scene the psy- i etiological fact that they want cotton to advance, and want it so bad that they only see the elements that favor an advance, until they allow their * desires to so influence their judgment that they really believe it is going to advance; and believing this as they do, they will not sell unless it does advance, which is thewinning card in the game of draw as this will advance, which is the winning card the majority of farmers have realized more cash the past few months than ever before cut off their grain and other crops, they are in a position to hold until next year if necessary. And they will have the help this year of the Southern banker, many of whom realize that they were duped this last spring by insistant, preconceived, organized bear propaganda, predicated upon the assumption that if the ? Southern banker got scared the spotholders would be forced to sell, which is- just what happened in many instances around the twenty-cent level. "Six weeks ago practically all the "Kior nnorofArc nnd interests in New kj i J-S VJ/VI U W* W York City were predicting that cotton would hit forty cents per pound in a few days more. This caused a considerable long interest to accrue, thus weakening the technical condition of the market and making it possible for heavy selling to start the break and make the longs run, this additional selling causing the decline to go still "urther. Now. while these same interest & are putting out a lot of pessimistic dope and figures showing that cotton must decline still further on account of present ruinous conditions. they almost without exception believe in higher prices ultimately. Then why should there be any further i decline at all if cotton is to go back to new high levels? The answer is " that there will not be much further decline." Bears Offer Scarecrow. "The biggest bear argument recentlv has been the scarecrow of the large carryover of spot cotton. Sstrict ^ analysis of these figures, estimated at 6.S?4.fiOO bales, shows that their significance has been greatly misinterpreted by those who figure that the large carryover will cause still lower prices. After deducting TT. S. mill stocks and European mill and nort stocks which are not available to the short seller, of bales: linters. 700.000 hales: low grade cotton not tenderahle on contract approximately i ,000.000 we have 2.024.- j 000 bales left. Included in this bal^ ance are the warehouse stocks here, a larsre per cent, of which have already be^n bought for foreism account, thus COLSTON CLIPPINGS. | Neigh liorhood News of a Social am! Personal Nature. | Colston, Sept. 29.?Messrs. Alex j Jennings and Eugene Ivirkland mo- J tored to Columbia Saturday, returning Sunday. .Miss Mamie McMillan spent the j week-end with Miss Natalie Kearse. The Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Clayton were: Mr. Sammie j Clayton, of Cayce; Miss Fannie Xeuf- j fer. of Columbia, and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Wooley and family. Miss Laura McMillan spent the week-end at home. Mr. Marion McMillan and Miss Addie Mcillan are spending a few days in Savannah. Messrs. B. D. Bishop. Mannie Yarn, Boh Wright and Will McMillan enjoyed a fishing trip last week. STOLL DECLARED NOMINEE. With Majority of Twenty-six Votes Over Sherwood. Columbia, Sept. 29.?The State Democratic executive committee tor night shortly before 10 o'clock declared Philip H. Stoll, of Ivingstree, the nominee of the party for Congress from the Sixth Congressional District, by a majority of twenty-six votes. v After purging the box at Andrews. Georgetown county, of twelve illegal votes, the protest of E. J. Sherwood, of Horry. Mr. Stoll's opponent, who alleged that fraudulent, illegal and irregular votes were cast at the Andrews precinct, was dismissed by the committee. The purged votes were not deducted from either candidate and the result, as tabulated and declared. gave Stoll 5.300 votes and Sherwood 5,274 votes. If the purged votes, said the report of the committee tabulating the results, were taken from the total of Mr. Stoll. it would leave him 5.28S votes or a majority of fourteen votes for the district. The famous Holman Bibles are on 1 sale in Bamberg only at the Herald Book Store. A few family Bibles on hand. leaving the short seller very little of the actual to fill in his contract with in the event it is demanded, and since mill and spinning interests have been buyers on the scale down, it is only a matter of time until the cotton will be asked for as the options expire, and these same bears who so I j ctMcsoi* suiu biiux t uxx me eaxxvuvei figures, will be converted into the best bulls in the world when they find they cannot get the spot cotton to deliver and can only cover at increasing higher levels. Even though the carryover was 3,000,000 more than it is, the result would not be much different-, as the South is now financially able to hold and carry this amount of cotton. And if each of 300,000 farmers and merchants in the South would appoint himself a committee of one to buy a contract of tenables of cotton and call for the,, actual at time of expiration, there is no limit to the price cotton would sell for. "Also the bears have contended that the Government campaign against high cost of living would affect cotton prices along with everything else. But the only way to decrease the price of a commodity like cotton is to increase the production, and unless the producer gets a living price over his cost of making the crop, the production will not be increased. Although on account of the large margin between price of raw cotton and finished product, the price based on as high as 70c to 90c cotton, the ixuiaiicu pi'uuuui ma.y uclhuc, emu. lui- | ton still be entitled to advance. Another Round Coming. "During round 1 for the past several weeks, the bears have had everything their own way and the gong strikes with them a winner on points. But the gong will strike in a few months announcing the opening of another round, when all of the present temporary obstructions to transcontinental trade will have been eliminated. exchange rates improved. Peace Treaty ratified, and England, France. Spain. Belgium. Japan, the Scandinavian countries. Italy, Germany, Austria, et. al.. wanting a few million bales of cotton each, plus American renuirements, totalling twenty-five million bales, and their buyers here vieing with each other in a mad rush of competitive bidding for the fleecy staple, at around fifty cents per pound, with the South triumphantly holding, and the Southern farmer will have come into his own." HOLDING WILL WIN j; HARRIS CONVINCED FARMERS MAY EXPECT THIRTY- < SIX CENTS FOR COTTON. Position Now Improved I Crowers Are Reminded That They Are Not Producing Cotton to (iive Away. Columbia. Sept. 27.?That the holding of cotton off the market sure lv will cause the farmer to get a minimum of thirty-six cents a pound for his staple is the position taken by B. Harris, State Commissioner of Agriculture, Commerce and Industries. in a statement given out today. Mr. Harris asks the cotton producers jf South Carolina to "stand by their guns" in the fight the American Cotton Association is making for them. * In Better Position Xow. "We are in better position to win this fight," said Mr. Harris, "than we have ever been. We are in decidedly better position than we were last year, when we had 4.000,000 bales more in sight than we have this year. We won last year our contention for thirty-five cents and I see no reason why we should not get our thirty-six minimum asked for this year. If we will keep our heads and hold our cotton we will come out on top. To win this fight means to win permanent domination of the situation. To lose means that we slip back into position where we will be despised by ourselves as well as by those who have been shoving the Southern farmer down. Cotton is sure to advance. Why? "Because at the lowest calculation there were in sight this year 4,000,000 bales less than at the same time last year and cotton was selling for as much or more last year* A year ago the^whole world was at war and European industries were idle. Today cotton should be moving more rapidly. A year ago we were told that the submarine menace prevented exporting our cotton. Today there is no embargo except profiteering. "In fact there is every condition to make cotton more in demand today than it was a year ago. I beg the farmers to think about things before they rush their cotton to the market. The famine in cotton and cotton goods is well known to the world. Farmers must realize that the world must come to them for their monopoly. We do not wish to be extortionate, but why should we grow cotton to give away? Bears Alone in Market. "The reason why cotton is not now selling for forty cents is because there is nobody in the market but the bear speculators. This condition will not last long. A reaction is coming and the price is going upwards. The time is not far off. The distressed cotton ;s now going to the market. I say with regret, but when this is out of the way the remainder of the crop will bring a fair price. T have been telling the farmers that the bears have sold an immense lot of cotton for October delivery and the speculators are making a frantic effort to get their hands on the re?l cotton. "Under such conditions there is no competition in the market, and there will be none for the present. The only way for the farmer to sret ? fair price for his cotton is to hold it off of the market. T am told that the mills are running from hand to mouth buying just enough for their immediate needs. "If the American Cotton Association had been thoroughly organized and had been able to finance the distressed cotton we would immediately see cotton selling for a fair price, in accordance with the laws of supply and demand. The American Cotton Association is gaining momentum. It has required time to get it organized throughout the cotton belt. It is not merely for today. It is to stand for the fight of the farmers against outsJde combinations, and those combinations will keep on fighting. Must Stick Together. "The farmers cannot get the best that is in life and all that is their due unless they organize and stick. The association should have the sup- . port of every farmer, for it offers the remedy for the evil conditions of the present that have come to us from the nast. "We won the fight for thirty-five cents cotton. T wish we were fighting for forty cents cotton now, or for even a higher price, for cotton is worth it. But let us fight for the MOB BURNS JAIL; NEGRO LYNCHED ttlAHA, XKI5KASKA, SCKXE OF HACK HIOT. Troops Are Called Out Mob Seeking Negro Who Assaulted Wliite (.hi, Sets Fire to Jail. Omaha. Xeb., Sept. 2S.?At a late hour tonight it was discovered that an abortive attempt had been made to lynch .Mayor Ed. P. Smith, when he appeared to appeal to the mob. Although reports are conflicting it is known that a rope was thrown around his neck. A policeman cut it off before the mob could accomnlioli i + e nnvnneo J'A&OH HO n A |;uov. The mayor was carried out unconscious by a squad of police officers and friends and he was hurried to the office of a surgeon nearby. He was removed to a hospital. At midnight he was still unconscious. Omaha, Neb., Sept. 28.?William Brown, colored, alleged to have assaulted a white girl was dragged from the county jail at 11 o'clock tonight and hanged to an electric pole, following a struggle of nine hours by an immense mob to wrest him from the sheriff. )Sheriff Michael Clark and his deputies held the fort in the top story of the courthouse, where is located the jail, with a hundred prisoners, until the building became a seething mass of flames, and he was forced to submit. Firemen Gft At Flames. Alter the lynching:, the hremen were for the first time able to get a stream on the flames. At the same time additional extension ladders were sent to the third and. fourth floors where many of the occupants were standing on window ledges on the side of the building that had not been touched by the flames. The entire fire department was on the scene and many of the trucks were rushed to truck houses to secure extra hose. The negro was pulled out on the south side of the court room, giving the firemen an opportunity to work on the north side, where the fire started. As soon as the mob had accomplished its primary object, it started to diminish. The work of rescue then began. It was apparent that the jail story, on the fifth floor of the building was becoming intensely hot. The cries of the prisoners, about 100 of whom were trapped, spurred the firemen to greater efforts. Mob Demonstrations. The lynching followed an afternoon and evening fraught with mob demonstrations seldom Recorded. When the first rumbling of a possible attempt to lynch Brown were heard during the forenoon Sheriff Clark called in all his regular deputies and swore in a number of others. The first act that indicated that the mob was in earnest was a parade up Henry street by about fifty men who detrained from street-cars a few blocks from the court house. They tore up Henry street at double quick and were at the sheriff's headquarters before ho realized what had happened. Appeals were made to the police station for help and a few uniformed men were hurried to the place. In the meantime the central station telephoned every man on the force and those on the South side to report at once. Being Sunday many of the men could not be found. The result was that several thousand persons had gathered on the South side of the court house before the police could arrive in any considerable number. The assault with which William Brown was charged was committed on a young woman early in the week. With an escort, crippled beyond the point of resistance, the girl met her assailant a few blocks from home in the southeast part of the city. He held the couple up at the point of a revolver. After robbing the young man he attacked the young woman in his presence, holding a revolver at minimum that has heen set. and the way to fight and to win is to hold the cotton until the price goes up. It is so simple and the results would he so sure. Not alone the farmer, but every person in the South, would be helped by the success of the farmer: then why should not all malce this their fight?" ih< k-bi r,<>si:. Brilliant Wedding at First Presby-j terian Chinch in Columbia. A brilliant society event of the early fall was the marriage solemnized last evening in the First Presbyterian church of .Miss Gwynn Ewell Dick, youngest daughter of Mr. and .Mrs. Thomas Hasell Dick, of 1622 j Senate street, to the Rev. Pierre i Wilds DuBose. the ceremony being followed by a large reception at the Dick home. The Rev. Thornton W. Whaling, D. D.. president of the Columbia Theological seminary of which the bridegroom is a recent graduate, and the Rev. Andrew W. Blackwood, D. D., nactrir nf tlio rUnirrUi nfUrintPrl The bride's attendants, all of whom wore exquisite gowns of pale colored tulle and silver cloth and carried bou quets of deep pink Maryland roses, inj eluded her cousin. Miss Caroline Dick, i of Sumter, as maid of honor: her sisters, Misses Emily and Margaret Dick, and her friends, Misses Jane Barron of this city and Marion Wassum of Greenville as bridesmaids. The maid of honor was in orchid tulle and her flowers differed from the others in that they were in shower bououet instead of a sheaf. Miss Margaret Dick and Miss Barron wore pink, Miss Emily Dick and Miss Wassum. blue. The bride, who entered with her father, by whom she was given in marriage, was the picture of stately youthfulness and beauty in her wedding gown of white duchess satin made with court train and combined with the filmiest of real Egyptian lace. Hand-hemmed with whole pearls, the lace formed a part of the corsage and the flowing sleeves. Her veil was fastened with a wreath of valley lilies and her bouquet was of bride roses showered with lilies. The ribbons were stretched up the aisle by little Alice Coopeiv daughter I nf A T r inH ATre PnlioH rnnnai? /"\f | vy i. .M i , unvt .uio. i vwpci , ui Wisacky and Elizabeth Withers, Withers. They wore fairy frocks of white tulle with butterfly bows on the shoulders. The bridegroom was attended by L. H. Anderson, of Anderson, as best man, and by E. P. Henderson, of Aiken. H. Xoble Dick, of Sumter. J. Roy Barron, of Rock Hill, and J. W. Thompson, of Rock Hill, as groomsmen. The ushers were: The Rev. John D. Gillespie, of Beaufort. D. A. Swicord, of Georgia, who is a student at the Columbia Theological seminary, Prof. W. T. Riviere, and Dr. Reed Smith, of the University of South Carolina. Just before the ceremony a group of love songs, written especially for the bride by her aunt, after whom she is named?Miss Gwynn Ewell, of Norfolk, who is rapidly gaining recognition in New York as a composer?was sung by another aunt, Mrs. George Pilcher, of Norfolk, one of the most widely known sopranos of her State. The wedding music was played by Mrs. L. B. Folk, organist of the church, the "Bridal Chorus" from Lohengrin being used as a processional and the Mendelssohn march as a recessional. The decoration of the chancel consisted of a bank of feathery asparatrii c ina tuirn in or whitp tflTIPr? flffflinst. a background of white, bordered with tall palms. For the reception the entire lower floor of the home was thrown open, and a large room on the second floor was given over to the handsome collection of wedding presents. Palms, candles and cut flowers decorated the rooms most effectively, pink roses and pale purple field asters giving a charming color combination everywhere excepting in the dining room where bridal green and white were used. Receiving in the drawing room were the bridal party and bride's parents, Mrs. Dick wearing a beautiful gowmof pale orchid chiffon embroidered in silver with a girdle of silver ribbon and a corsage bouquet of Ophelia roses. In the back drawing room the receiving party consisted of Mr. and Mrs. George Dick, of Sumter, Mrs. Pilcher and Mrs. Ewell. of Norfolk, all house guests. Dr. and Mrs. Theodore M. DuBose and G. P. Logan. Mrs. George Dick wore black satin tbe head of her escort in the meantime. Later Brown was arrested by police officers and taken to the city jail where both the girl and her escort identified him as the man who committed the deed. Later it was stated that Brow-n had made a confession of his crime. He was taken to the county jail, which was considered a safe place for his confinement. ? * SAILORS TAKE ITALIAN TOWN \mi:hk \\s in* posskssiox op tilol*. Act as Policemen Italians Surprise and Seize City in Zone Cnited States Forces Guard. Washington, Sept. 2 7.?A force of American sailors from the cruiser Olympia was landed at Trou, on the lower Dalmation coast, September 23, Secretary Daniels announced today. Without hloodsllPfl tho A mariMxo gained possession of the city, which previously had been occupied by a force of Italians. Secretary Daniels' announcement said: "On September 23 a number of Italians surprised and captured Trou, a Dalmation port in the zone assigned by the supreme council to be policed by the Americans. A small landing force from the United States Ship Olympia succeeded in recovering the town and preserving order there without bloodshed. Serbians were persuaded by Admiral Andrews from taking action." Rear Admiral Andrews, commanding the American naval forces in the Adriatic, in reporting the landing, said he acted on instructions from the supreme council at Paris, received after he had reported that a force of Italians apparently?revolutionists, had occupied the city on the morning of September 23. His message did not say whether the Americans still occupied the town, but press dispatches from Copenhagen and Paris have said that the Americans withdrew after turning the town over to the Jugoslav forces. The Italians. Admiral Andrews reported, retired when the Americana landed, without offering resistance. It was said at the navy department that Trou was in that section of the Dalmation coast assigned by the peace conference to the United States for patrol. The Italian government is responsible for the strip to the northward and the French for that to the south. and cut jet; Mrs. Pilc-her was in deep orchid satin and Miss Ewell wore a gown of gold tulle over gold cloth. The guests were greeted in the hall by Mrs. R. A. Lancaster, Mrs. Christie Benet, Mrs. Robert D. Earle, Mrs. Andrew Blackwood and Mrs. Wyatt A. Taylor. Miss Susie Fitzsimmons and Mrs. Guy Tarrant invited them into the drawing room and Mrs. John T. Slogn showed the way to the dining room. Receiving there were Mrs. William R. Moody, Mrs. Cyrus Baldwin, Mrs. J. T. Barron and Mrs. J. 0. Reavis and serving a course of ices and wedding cake were the following girl friends of the bride: Misses Mary and Helen Currell, Heloise Gibbes, Caroline Banks, Thely Clark, Mary Elliott and Bessie Taylor. Unusually lovely in appointment and decoration was the bride's table. The chandelier above had been converted into a great bouquet of lilies and feathery asparagus, the lights ? hi nine throneh tlipnptnls of the flow ers, and four streamers of white tulle led down to small cut glass baskets filled with bride roses. The candles were in tall silver candlesticks, and in the center of the table stood the bride's cake, iced in delicate valley lilies and surmounted by a tiny imported bride doll. Encircling the cake, at the base of its crystal stand, was a chain of bud vases filled with valley lilies. The dainty little souvenir boxes of bride's cake were presented the guests by Miss Pamela Moore and Miss Dora Gray, and presiding in the present room upstairs were Mrs. A. B. Theilgaard and Mrs. Lindsay Peters. Mr. and Mrs. DuBose left last night for a wedding trip after which they will go to make their hame in Bamwell county, Mr. DuBose being in charge of the Presbyterian churches in Barnwell, Bamberg, BiacKvuie ana Denmark. They will be there until the first of the year when they will leave for the mission field of China. Mr. DuBose, who is the son of the Rev. Hamden DuBose, pioneer missionary of the Presbyterian church, wos born in Soochow and spent his boyhood there, being sent to this country to be educated. He was graduated from Davidson college before entering the Columbia Theological Seminary.?Columbia State. September 25.