The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 14, 1913, Image 6
BANKERS INVITED j
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H'ADOO ASKS THEM TO HELP AR
RANGE PLAN
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FOR FINANCIAL NEEDS
Representative Hankers of Fifty-Nino^
. jwrgt' \ UK'S 111 1 111* .Agl'ICll n urn I llt'?
glons of tho South autl West <'ulletl
to Washington to Consult With
tin* Secretary of the Treasury.
Representative bankers of tiftynlne
large cities in the agricultural
regions of the South, Mi idle West and
Pacific Coast Monday weije invited hy
Secretary McAdoo to come to Washington
to confer with the treasury department
regarding tho distribution
of the $50,000,000 of government
funds about to he deposited m national
banks of those districts to facilitate
the marketing and movement of the
crops.
This unprecedented step, which
will call to Washington bankers from
tho centres that will finance the handling
of the great crops soon to bo
harvested, is designed to give the secretary
first hand information and advice
as to the specific and relative
needs of each of the farming districts. I
It has been decided to place the deposits
in the 59 cities to be represented
at the conferences. Invitations
were sent by telegraph to the presidents
of the clearing house associations
in each of the cities asking tlieni
to send representatives or committees
to Wamiington to discuss arrangements
for depositing the big sum
The conference with the representatives
from the Southern cities will
bo held at the treasury department
Thursday, August 7, with those from
the West Friday, August S, and with
those from the Pacific Coast Thursday
August 1 4.
These cities have been invited to
be represented: Birmingham, Mobile,
Montgomery, Ala.; Little Hock, Ark.;
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cal; Denver,
Col.; Tampa, Jacksonville, Fla.;
Atlanta, Savannah, Oa.; Chicago,
Evansville, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis,
Ind.; Des Moines, Sioux City, lov a;
Kansas City, Wichita, Kan.; Louisville,
Ky.; 'New Orleans, La.; Haitimore,
Md.; Vlcksburg, Meridian,
Miss.; St. Louis, Kansas City, Mo.;
Minneapolis, St. Paul, Minn.; Detroit,
Mich.; Charlotte, Wilmington, Raleigh,
N. C.; Omaha, Neb.; Oklahoma
City, Muskogee, Okla.; Portland, Ore.
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus,
Ohio; Charleston, Columbia, Spartanburg,
Greenville, S. C.; Chattanooga,
Knoxville, Memphis, Nashville, Term
Dallas, Galveston, Houston, San Antonio,
Texas; Richmond, Norfolk,
Roanoke, Lynchburg, Va.; Wheeling,
vv. Va.; Seattle, Spokane, Wash.; Milwauke,
Wis.
Secretary McAdoo announced that
it was not practicable to increase tho
number of cities and that he believed
those selected were thoroughly representative
of the agricultural sections.
Treasury ofTlcials declared the entire
$50,000,000 will be deposited if
the situation demands it. It was explained
that care will be taken to
prevent any undue inflation of the
circulating volume of money and that
the government would deposit only
what was needed to assist in moving
the crops, with the stipulation that it
must be returned to the treasury as
soon as that need shall have passed.
At the conference with the hankers
Secretary McAdoo will discuss the
amount needed and tho dates to be
named for the gradual return of the
money to the government.
The treasury department expects to
begin making tho deposits before tho
close of August and gradually to feed
the money into the selected centres
as the demand grows through the
crop moving period.
CUTTING DOWN CItKDIT
Parker and Hudson Make Serious
Charge Against Banks.
Senator Tillman had inserted in
the Congressional Record of Monday
to substantiate his assertion that nfl
nancial stringency exists in the South
and that 1he farmers could not obtain
money on the best of collateral
to move the cotton crop letters from
Lewis W. Parker, president of the
Parker Coton mills and A. D. Hudson
of Newberry. Mr. Parker in his letter
stated that ho did not know
whether the banks in reservo cities
were attempting to embarass the administration,
but that they had determined
to bring about a general
liquidation and reduction of credit,
the effect .being a condition of financial
distress which is unjustifiable.
Senator Smith has also received similar
letters.
Live men are essential for a live
L town. Men who are aggressive, earnest,
public spirited and loyal to their
town. Business men who are wideawake,
who let people know they are
In business and the quality and kind
of goods they have for sale. These
are the men who make a town worth
living in. Again we say, live men
make it a live town, dead men can
never do it.
WILSON FIRES WILSON i
.
KKSKiN \TIOX OF MKXIC.W MINISTER
IS ACCEPTED.
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Former (iovernor of .Minnesota Will
<io (o Mexico *s IVrsonul Hepicseiitutive
of President Wilson.
President Wilson Monday took the
first stops in the policy through which
ho proposes to deal with the Mexhm
situation. Ho formally aecople I the
resignation of Ambassador 11 **n i y
Lane Wilson, to take effect on October
14, and sent to Mexico City as his
personal representative but not accredited
to the Huerta government ?
former Governor John Lind of Minnesota,
a lifelong friend of Secretary
Pryan. The understanding is tluit
when a stable government is established
in Mexico Mr. Lind will he formally
named as ambassador.
President Wilson and Secretary
Hryan had frequent conferences. Ambassador
Wilson had a long talk with
Mr. Hryan. and Chairman Paeon of
the senate foreign relations committee
discussed tho situation with the
president at tho White House. Put
for the announcement of Mr. Lind's
mission, no explanation of the policy
to be pursued by the \merlcan government
was forthcoming. The statement
from Secretary Pryan read:
"Ex-Gov. John Lind. of Minnesota,
has been sent to Mexico as the personal
representative of the president
to act as adviser to the embassy in
1 hr\ lwoonn o i t 11 4 i r\ ?? 1* /\? * ? - - ?
inu nuiunni, >\ IIC11 11113 |)l (,'Sident
is ready to communicate vith
1 lio Mexican authorities as to tin1 restoration
of peace, he will make punlie
his views.
"Gov. and Mrs. T,ind departed for
Mexico tonight by rail, to proceed via
New Oilcans or Galveston."
It became known that a further
announcement would be made by the
President in a few days, possibly on
the arrival of Mr. Lind in Mexico
City.
It. is said the president is observing
with keen interest the efforts of leading
Mexicans to bring about peace
and will offer no sugestions until
these apparently prove futile. That
Mr. Lind will be empowered to explain
to all inquirers the unalterable
opposition of the American government
to the recognition of the Huerta
administration is said to be a factor
which may assist the situation. Prominent
Mexicans have taken it upon
themselves to try to persuade Gen
Huerta to retire in favor of another
provisional executive acceptable to all
factions.
WILL IX) MICH GOOD.
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Southern Hallway Will Ivxhibit Products
of Southern States
Splendid exhibits of Southern farm
products, showing the alluring agricultural
opportunities awaiting industrious
settlers in the territory on
their lines, will be made, hv the
Southern railway and a (11 la ted companies
at three great expositions and
35 district and county fairs in the
north and middle west during the
late summer and fall. This is the
most extensive campaign of this kind
ever undertaken for attracting settlers
to the Southern States and will
place their advantages in the most
striking way before thousands of
sturdy farmers of just the type that is
desired in the South.
Special exhibits will he made at
the Canadian national exposition at
Toronto, August 23 to September 8,
the attendance of which touches the
million mark, the famous dairy show
at Waterloo, Iowa, in November, and
the International Live Stock exposition
in Chicago during November and
Decembert Exhibits at district and
county fairs in New York, Connecticut,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan,
Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and
Minnesota have been arranged in four
circuits running from August 5 to
late in October.
The work of preparing these exhibits
have been underway since the
close of the fair season in 1 9 1 2. Since
the beginning of the new crop season,
agents have been at work with the
result that from every state on the
lines of the Southern system, there
have come most representative colloc
tions of the agricultural products, including
grains, grasses, vegetables
and fruit. Large photographs showing
farm and other views in the South
will also be used. The exhibits will
he in charge of agents who are thoroughly
familiar with conditions in the
South and who will be on hand constantly
to give information desired
about any locality. Special leaflets
and booklets have been prepared and
several hundred thousand will b<
placed in the hands of prospective
settlers.
?
If the published reports of Governor
Blease's speech at Filbert last
week are correct he put the people 011
notice that if they did not elect a governor
to his liking he would open the
doors of the penitentiary. A threat
of this kind ought to defeat any man
who runs for public office in this
State.
.
Stricken by Lightning.
Henry Blackwell, a white workman
at a saw mill five miles east of
Blacksburg, was killed instantly in
his door Wednesday afternoon.
MAKES BOLD STEAL'
BWDITS HANDCUFF MAIL CLERKS
AND ROB CAR.
BANDITS WEBE WHIlt
A
I >rti???*? mikI Successful Train llold-up
on Outskirts of llii'tnlngliain, ltobIhts
Escaping After Arrival in City
?One Bandit Molds Pistol on the
Clerks and Oilier Utiles Mail.
The mail on the fast Louisville and
Nashville Train No. 4 from New Orleans
to Birmingham was robbed early
Tuesday night by two unidentified
white men. All registered mail was
taken, hut no estimate of the amount
could be obtained.
When the train reached Birmingham
on time, at 8:37 o'clock P. M.,
two of the mail clerks, George Hoover
and E. G. York, were found handcuffed.
Chief Clerk Harry Everett's
thumbs were tied together with heavy
twine. The robbers boarded the car
at Calera, on the dark side after the
train had begun to move.
The clerks said they immediately
wore covered with pistols and oredered
to turn their faces to the wall. Everett.
looked around and was tired at,
the shot striking near his head. The
robbers jumped from the train at
Fourtenth street, Birmingham.
Everett said both robbers were
short, slender men. He did not get
a good look at their faces. The clerks
first saw the robbers jump to the mail
car on their hands and knees. One
man kept his pistols on the clerks
while the other ransacked the mail.
The distance from Calera to Birmingham
is 3 3 miles. Thor was plenty of
time to make a 'borough job. No one
on the train other than the clerks apparently
knew tho robbers were
aboard.
When tho engineer stopped for the
Southern crossing at Fourtenth street
Birmingham, ho glanced back and
saw the men jump from the mail ear
door. This aroused his suspicion and
ho investigated.
A qucik run was made to the Louisville
and Nashville station where the
alarm was given. Every police station
was notified and automobiles
with detectives started a search. The
handcuffs were filed from the clerk's
wrists.
E. G. York, one of the clerks in the
car, was in the Louisville and Nashville
mail car which was robbed near
Hroyles about a year ago.
SAYS THE HILL IS GOOD.
Currency Hill Particularly Pleases
State Delegation.
Currency legislation was discussed
Monday at a conference at the treasury
department between Secretary
McAdoo and Chairman Owen and
Glass of the senate and house banking
and currency committees, and a
delegation of ofllcers of the National
Citizens' League for the promotion of
a sound Hanking System. Later the
league oflicers issued a statement saying
they were "particularly pleased at
the attitude" of the men who framed
the administration currency bill.
"Adverse criticism of the admisistration
efforts," the statement continued,
"seems to have been based rath
er on a misapprehension of intentions
and a fear of radical innovations than
on facts warranted by the bill as it
now stands. The league is of the
opinion that in regard to many retails
snap judgment has been rendered.
"Those working to develop the
measure should be given encouragenent,
support and assistance by bankers
as well as by business men."
The delegation suggested that there
would be less difficulty in starting tlie
proposed new system with a smaller
number of federal reserve banks than
12 as contemplated. The fear of some
bankers that the reserve requirements |
of the bill would prove burdensome I
was discussed and it was suggested
that the total reserve for country
banks be reduced from 15 to 12 per
cent, including the 5 per cent, redemption
fund against national bank
notes and that the total reserve for
reserve cities be reduced from 2 0 to
1 8 per cent.
The league's delegation included:
John V. Farwell, president, of Chicago;
John If. Rich, president of Minnesota
branch, Redwing, Minn.; Chas.
' A. Moss, New England branch, Roston;
Irving T. Rush, of New York
' branch, New York; L. C. Royd, Indiana
branch, Indianapolis; II. (J.
Chatham, Winston-Salem. N. C.: Wil
Ham A. Scott, Madison, Wis.; A. D.
Wolton, general secretary, Chicago.
I
Sin Finds Tlicm Out.
; After eluding the police of New
i York waiting to arrest him on the
complaint of his wife, Harry Elliott,
i a lithographer, 35 years old, accompanied
by Miss Rllen Sibley, 30 years
old, Sunday night went to a point
i in Macomhs Dam Park, known as
"Lover's Leap," and early Monday
Elliott killed his companion and ended
his own life .by shooting according
to a compact they had entered into.
?
Comptroller General Jones is the
watch dog of the State treasury.
VERY DOLEFUL TALE
IMtOSPKCTS IN UOIJi WEEVIL DISTRICT
IS 1IA1).
A Mississippi Farmer Writes of the
Gloomy Conditions in This State
Caused the Weevil.
W. (I. Cooper, of Florence, Miss,
writes a very gloomy and doleful letter
to the Southern Cultivator. Here
is what he says about the conditions:
As it is a long time since I bothered
you with my squibs I will endeavor to
express myself as I see things from
a farmer's point of view. First, we
are being taxed out of reason for
others to steal and have a good time
on: still there seems no way to mend
the way of doing things. Graft is all
the go with them from the highest to
the lowest ofllcial. Some few are
caught up with, but it takes more to
convict them than it is worth; so we
are the losers at last.
Times are very gloomy with us on
account of a weevil known as the
Mexican weevil. We spent thousands
of dollars as salaries for experts to
go into the Infected territory and
learn the history of the weevil and
its habits or all about him, and they
came back and told us that he came
from Mexico and would destrov our
cotton for three years and then would
leave or nearly so, and if we could
live without so much more cotton we
could do better.
So we believed them and did as
they told. Now the weevil has been
here live years, and is a great deal
worse than he has ever been. They also
told us if wo could have a dry
spring and summer we would make a
fairly good crop. We have oeen very
dry, and still the weevil is far worse
than it has ever been in the five years
that we have had them.
They failed to tell us what the weevil
lived off, for he does not live on
cotton; it is only toe place for hii.i
to increase in or breed. You may pick
your patch of cotton clean today and
tomorrow it will be full. Again the
people have lost confidence in the experts.
Tell your people that when he
conies they just might as well to quit
cotton and all business that depends
on it and try to live at home, for nobody
can tell how long they will
stay.
Business is dead in tills part of the
country and if experts had told us all
of the facts we have since learned we
would have been in a far better fix
financially, for a great many tried to
keep their business going in hopo of
the weevil leaving, but this year will
be the last. So they would have been
better off if they had quit at first.
Your people had just as well quit at
first as to try the hard toil of three
years and then lose everything they
have at last.
We are plowing up our cot on and
planting peas and corn. There will
not be enough cotton made in this
county to pay the taxes. What are
we going to do with the shiftless negro?
I can not say, for he will work
at nothing but cotton and a little
patch of corn and potatoes?and corn
not enough to last two months to feed
him and his family.
Don't think that I am a pessimist,
for I am not, but am stating facts
as they are, and hopo to help some
one else from being led astray by
faulty reports. We had just as well
at once for the weevil is here to stay.
\V. G. Cooper.
The Southern Cultivator, in discussing
the boll weevil situation says:
"Senator Ed Smith of South Caro-1
Una is drafting a bill to introduce in
the United States Senate, proposing
to have the government to have a tifty-mile
belt through the state of Alabama
made where no cotton would be
planted, and such a belt to ho kept as
a quarantine against the eastward
j spread of the boll weevil. This belt,
would only have to he 150 miles long.
"This is a feasible proposition and
one the government should take in
hand. The Cultivator suggested such
a step in an editorial several years
ago. We also sent several copies to
Georgia congressmen, but they did
nothing.
"We think the farmers on this side
of the belt should he taxed $1.00 per
hale to help pay the expense and to
reimburse those in the belt. This tax
Ihould be collected by the ginners and
at no expense to the government. We
trust Senator Smith will push this
measure."
It will he noticed that the Cultivator
endorses Senator Smith's plan,
which is about the only feasible one
yet offered to stop the march of the
boll weevil on this section. We fear,
however, that Congress is too conservative
to pass such a progressive
measure at this time.
Tioses His T/Ogs and Hies.
Ilomer, the twelve year-ol 1-son of
D. C. Dorn, of McCormick, died as
the result of a distressing accident,
in which both of his legs were cut off.
It is not known how the accident occurred,
hut the young victim's father
operates a saw mill at McOornilck
and it is surmised that the lad came
in contact with a saw.
Stricken hy Lightning.
Henry Hlaekwell, a white workman
at a saw will five miles east of
Hlacksbur^, was killed instantly Monday
afte'frioon. A bureau near was
totally d^molishec and his wife badly,
burned.;
HKI) Sl'IUKK IS ABKOAl)
Insect An Kneiny of Cotton, is
in Tliis State.
Farmers are always having their
troubles and local agriculturists aro
110 exceptions to the rule. Not only
have their been rumors of the army
worm getting busy, although no ser'.ous
ravages have been reported, but
the red spider, an enemy of cotton,
has made its appearance, and h?pi
caused considerable concern.
We are in receipt of a bulletin on
the red spider and how to destroy it
from Entomologist A. F. Conradl. of
Clemson College, which will be of
much Interest to local farmers suffering
from the red spider.
The bulletin as to the "Red Spidor
on Cotton", is as follows: "This insect
is at present being reported from
a number of localities in the State
and according to the present outlook,
trouble may be expected from this
port as soon as dry weather sets in.
The red spider, which is a mite, has
been an important cotton pest in this
State for the last four years.
The damage varies in different localities
from year to year, and the
loss to the cotton may vary from 10
to 20 per cent. This insect occurs on
the under side of the cotton leaves,
and when looked at with the naked
eye, it appears like a dot of reddish
ink from the point of a fine pen. The
under surface of the leaf is covered
with a fine web under which the insect
lives and feeds. The female lays
about fifty eggs, and the life history
during warm weather requires about
10 days. Infested leaves turn reddish
and fall off one by one and finally
the plant dies.
There are a number of important
recommendations against this pest in
the fall and spring, but these are at
the present time out of the question.
The question is, what can be done at
the present time? Burn, grub out, or
otherwise destroy violets and poke
weeds.
Underbrush in a red spider infected
cotton field is very undesirable.
With the appearance of dry weather
carefully watch your cotton fields for
f lin O rot n ?\r\nn ^ ^ ? i -1 * ?
??.v: (l|/|H(IIUIH V ?J1 I U SpiUUI IIIfested
stalks. They can be detected
by the change of color in the loaves,
and these plants should be destroyed
immediately. Avoid careless dragging
of these Infested plants over the
plantation from place to place, becauseit
mechanically spreads the
pest.
TiOcal infestations on plantation?
can be successfully and economically
controlled by the application ol
sprays. It is all important that the
fields be watched and the spray, applied
when the first infestation is noticed.
Not only should infested be
sprayed, but also the plants immediately
surounding the infested or discolored
area. Whichever spray is used,
there should be two applications
one week apart. The second spray if
to kill the red spiders that have
hatched from eggs since the first
spray was given. The potassium sulphide
spray recommended by Mr. McGregor,
of the red spider labratory
of the bureau of entomology, is cheat
cause it mechanically spreads the
lows:
Potassium sulphide, three pounds;
water 100 gallons.
Potassium sulphide costs about 2f
cents a pound and thus 100 gallons
would cost about 7 5 cents; and is suf
ficient for spraying one acre. Potas
slum can be obtained at practically
every drug store and is therefore
available in most local markets. Tdme
sulphur wash is another spray that is
very effective against this insect
This can be made at home like th<
regular lime Bulphur wash used foi
the spraying of fruit trees againsi
San Jose scale. It is prepared as fol
lows:
quicklime, 20 pounds; water 100 gal
miii a.
The cost of 100 gallons is about
$1.40 This limo sulphur wash car
also ho, purchased in tho market as
concentrated lime sulphur wash ant
the sprya can be prepared by adding
two gallons of the wash to 100 gal
Ions of water. Of the sprays giver
above, the first, namely, potassiurr
sulphide, is recommended."
Express Hates Reduced.
Reductions in express rates whicl
will cost the companies fnily $26,
000,000 a year .approximately 16 pei
cent of their gross revenue, were or
dered hy the interstate commerce
commission to become effective on oi
before October 15, 1913. Notable re
forms in practices also were ordered
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President.
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KILLS HIS FATHER.
Little l>oy Says He Shot in Defence
r of His Mother.
>
? Sheriff Howard, of Aiken County,
arrested Ed. Vincent, eleven years
; old, who is charged with killing his
ather Monday afternoon, at Milledgei
ville in Aiken County. According to
t the boys story Joe Vincent, with his
. wife and five children, the oldest be
ing Ed, lives at Milledgeville, but tho
r father worked at Jackson Station, al,
so In Aiken County. It seems that ho
i returned to his home last Friday in
j a half drunken condition, drinking
. more or less ever since.
? On Monday afternoon he sent little
r Ed to AiUa?? r, ?? -* *
.w. ??. <iu(tn 01 wniskey,
t and when the hoy reached home, it is
- said, the father became beastly drunk
He killed one of tlie cats, and his
- wife begged him not to kill the other
one, and this so enraged him, it
[ seems, that he swore lie was going
i to kill everything in the house. Ho
? kicked his wife down and attacked
1 her with a knife, the boy says, and
r little TCd then took up a pistol and
- shot Vincent through the head, killi
ing him almost instantly.
* The sight of the little hoy is a pitiful
one. lie is a bright little fellow,
but without any education.
When asked about the killing he
l stated that he loved his daddy, and
- was sorry that he shot him, but
r thought he was going to kill his
- mother. That is what whiskey does.
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r If you are able send your hoy or
- girl to college. It will mean a whole
. lot to them.
F HORRY,
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