The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 10, 1914, Image 7
'HIS WAREHOUSE Bill
EXPLAINED BY LEVEI
CONGRESSMAN LEVER HAS IN
TRODUCED A WAREHOUSE
fc, BILL IN CONGRESS TO
r AID FARMERS..
I WILL BEJDMGE
f The Committe Believes This Bi
* When Enacted Into Law Will Be c
k Permanent Benefit to the Farmei
j of. the South. ^
Congressman Lever has introduce
a warehouse bill in the House of Rej
resentatives at Washington. Lai
week in an interview he explained th
working of his bill as follows:
"This bill authorizes the inaugurj
tion of a nationwide system of war<
(housing under federal supervision fc
A*HPle and nonperishable agriculturi
i.. ..1.. d! ? ? 1
^iwiutis, iiMjiuunig conon and gran
"The dire necessity confronting tl1
cotton producers emphasizes mos
strikingly the utter inadequancy of tl
present system of marketing 01
standard farm crops. An essentii
u^yeakness in our present system
found in a lack of adequate storag
facilities, and in the further fact ths
there is no proper relationship b(
tween it and the banking system <
u the country. Both these defects mu:
be remedied. A new system of banl
ing is being organized, which, for tl
M&t time recognizes agriculturi
products as a proper basis for credi
. it is therefore of the highest impor
ance that, in making these importai
changes in our warehouse and ma
keting systems, cooperation shoul
be had to bring these agencies in1
the most favorable contact, to tl
hat the producer may obtain tl
greatest benefit from each.
"Under the provisions of the bi
uniform warehouse receipts will 1
issued on staple and nonperishable aj
ricultural products stored in goveri
mentally licensed warehouses, p*ote?
J cd by ample bond, graded, weight
| afci certificated by governmental!
I licensed inspectors,.
B ?. , . . .i :. -
a warenouse receipt to oe 01 tr
fullest strength as collateral, and i
readily negotiable as possible, ;
the financial markets of the countr
must be such a receipt as is of ui
^>ubted intergrity. Such a syste
would create a form of security goc
beyond all doubt and one that wou
command the confidence of the con
mercial and investment banl
world.
"The committe desires to emph;
size the fact that the provisions <
)ill are permissiveonly, and
no sense compulsory. The syste
proposed can in no wise interfere wi1
warehouse systems wherever orgai
ized, or to be organized, under Sta
or local authority. The bill propose
to furnish adequate machinery for tl
Organization of a system of war
iiouses under federal supervisio
Those who' desire to take advantaj
of it may do so; those who have i
such desire are under no compulsi<
to do so. It is the belief, however,.*
the committee that the manifest 'a
irtintages of such a system as is pr
'posed will not only bring'into it pre.
tically all of the warehouses of tl
country now established, but also w
be a tremendous impetus toward tl
enlargement of the storage faciliti
of the country.
"While the bill is the outgrowth
IU *i\e pressing necessity occasioned 1
'*Tne European war situation, ai
thus may be regarded as an emerge
cy measure, yet the committee
strongly of the opinion that the a
vantages of the system when once e
tablished will be so enormously gre
to the nation as a whole that it w
^ommend ^self as a permanent..fe
i ture of our present system of marke
ing."
Smugglers Caught.
The trail of what is believed to I
on organized body of*Chinese smu
glers, including possibly governme
W -officials, which was turned up in Bo
^ ton several months ago, held the a
tention of the federal industrial cor
mission in executivesession whi<
closed-at San Francisco last Saturda
It is declared revelations made pro^
the smugglers operate through th
p^rt freely.
Talked With President. .
Provisional -President Carranza la
Saturday gave a formal audience
the national palace to Paul Fullc
personal representative of Preside
Wilson, who was introduced by Jol
R. Stllman, confidential agent of tl
'Jffrtate department. The confcren
Masted for an hour, but both th'e"Fir
Chief" and his caller declined to di
cuss the subject of their talk.
v In he course of time all of tl
r ^woodsland in Horry County will 1
Ijjjclcared and planted in useful crops
Fven the river swamp lands and o
crflow bottoms all over the counti
must in the course of time be drain*
THE SONG THEY SING.
The Man "Who Failed to Pay for Hii
1 Paper and Sang in the Church
|| "Jesus Paid It All."
^ The experience of the Troy (0.,]
Record may be compared perhaps tc
that of hundreds of country papert
all over the country. The editor oi
the Record sets forth his experience
as follows:
"Refused Notice." Every editoi
has received them. The postmastei
sends them to the editor. For instance
there is a man by the name of Johr
* Blank who refused to take his papei
8 out of the postofflce. He did not want
it any longer, and we wondered what
was the matter. Upon investigatior
)- of our subscription book we founc
5t that John Blank was short $5.70. He
LC stopped the paper as a matter of ecor
omy to us. One evening we went
to church, and John's melodious voice
rang out loud and clear in that sou
>r\ stirring song, "Jesus Paid It All." Wc
a 1 I
** might have been mistaken, but his
n' earnestness impressed us. The nexl
ie day we sent him a receipt in full, beg
ging his pardon for not knowing he
K had made arrangements for his lia
" bilities in that manner,
al
IS Wheat Prices.
rG
Although the highest prices since
hostilities began were scored last Sat
J urday in wheat, the advance met witi
determined opposition. Dispatches
st
Liverpool indicated British dealers
C reluctant to follow any further radi
cal upturn.
al
Motorcycle Races.
Interest at Charleston grew rapidl}
r_ in the motorcycle races held at th<
Isle of Palms on Labor Day afternooi
when Savannah, represented by 25 01
ie 30 daring riders competed for hand
le some cash prizes, under F. A. M. reg
uations, in two events, one for 21
W miles and one for 50 miles.
)e
The Men Behind the Plow.
n- The eleventh annual meeting of th(
ct. National Farmers' Union was in ses
?dv siort for three days at Fort Worth
ly last week. The delegates attending
the meeting came from more thai
ie two-thirds of the States in the Unioi
is and every branch of agricultural en
in deavor was represented. The whea
y, farmer from the northwest, the cori
n- farmer from the middlewest, the to
m bacco farmer from the Virginias an<
>d the cotton farmer from the sunn:
Id south?all held counsel together an<
n- were united in their efforts to solvi
k- the grave problem which now con
fronts the American farmer. Cominj
a- as they did, direct from the soil, witl
of their hands brown from exposure am
in their minds attuned to the needs o
m the hour, there was no chance for dis
th sention among their ranks nad ther<
n- was a complete harmony and unit;
te of thought and action, such as benefi
es the class which feeds and cloths tlv
ie world.
n. FARM FACTS.
5c (By Peter Radford)
io The need of the rural communitie
>n today is intelligent and consecratei
of leadership.
d- The farm is the power house of al
o- progress and the birthplace of all tha
c- is noble.
le The farm is the nursery of civili
ill zation and the parsonage of all re
rie ligious denominations,
es The farmer asks no special privi
leges. The business of farming onl
of wants the same opportunities afford
)y ed other lines of industry.
id It is as much a duty of the countr
n- pastor to exhort us to own a hom
is while on earth as it is to inspire us t
d- build a mansion in the skies,
s- The rural press, the pulpit and th
at school are. a trinity of powerful in
ill fluences that the farmer must utiliz
a~* to their fullest capacity before he ca
t- occupy a commanding position in p.ub
lie affairs.
Tax on Beer.
e After executive sessions of* th
? Democrats of the House1 Ways an
nt Means Committee, lasting practical!
s~ 'the entire day last Saturday,, it ha
been decided that an additional tax o
n~ 50 or 60 cents a barrel on beer shaj
jK
be written into the bill-which is to b
introduced in the House to provid
irp
1 $100, 000,000 a year revenue to cove
or
the loss of import duties during th
.... war.
Ability Pays in Farming
at No farmer gets rich by the quan
>r, tity of production. It is the price h
nt gets for his products and economy an
in business judgement displayed in mar
he agement that makes the farmer weal
ce thy.
st We cannot pass a law that will ir
s- crease the price of products or reduc
the cost of plowing the land and mar
fV>/? nvi/xt\ W7?
WVIII5 vui: vivp. IT C IIIU?t ucpcn
he upon factories and transportation fa
be cilities for marketing our product
i. and upon improved mechanical appli
v- ances and the business ability of th
ty farmer to reduce the cost of produc
pd tion, and to more intelligently mark
et his products.
FARMERS MEETING
' WAS SUCCESSFUL ONE1
)
> IN FORMULATING PLANS TO ASK
> FOR FEDERAL AID BY MEANS *
r OF COMMITTEE. . 1
MEN BEHiNnHE PLOW I
' V
k This National Organization is Still
, On the Job in Its Efforts to Bring t
About the Best Conditions for the *
Farming Class of People. r
; Fort Worth, Tex., Sept. 7.?With f
, representation from more than two- 8
I thirds of the States in the Union, the \
> eleventh annual meeting of the Farm- *
, ers' Educational and Co-operatinve 1
t Union of America came to a close in
? this city today, after a three days ses- f
[ sion. The keynote of the convention 8
was the action of the body in voting s
? to ask direct aid from the government o
[ in the present chrisis which confronts t
. the American farmer as a result of ?
> the titanic struggle across the water. 1
. A plan was formulated whereby the I
Federal government will be asked to i
tide farmers over the emergency, and 1
a committee was appointed to go to t
? Washington to consult with Federal t
. authorities relative to the situation t
i A high tribute was paid to the work
5 of Peter Radford by National Prcsi?
dent, C. S. Barrett, in his opening ad.
dress to the convention, who declared j
that it was the Radford type of men ,(
which kept one's faith sound, his j
courage high and renews his faith in
humanity- Hp Rt.nt.nH tlmt At**
{ ~~ " " ) '*
n ford has been of invaluable assistance (
1 to him in his work and that his wise j
r counsel and suggestions had material- <
ly assisted him in the solution of \
problems confronting the national
y work. <
The National Union has strong and 1
active organizations in twenty-seven j
States of the Union and is composed I
of a membership numbering eight1 1
million. The officers of the Union T
were unanimously re-elected for the 1
' coming year, as follows: President, ^
^ C. S. Barrett, Georgia;.Vice-President 1
i V. Swift, Oregon; Secretary and i
Treasurer, A. C. Davis, Arkansas. s
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x HEROIC TREATMENT NEEDED IN <
1 CRISIS. ,
1 Jno. T. Roddey Says Cotton Farmers
of South Must Act With Determi*
tion.
D To the Editor of The State.
It seems to me that all business ,
? propositions should be met by business
- men in a businesslike method and unJ
der business circumstances. A man
f might be slightly ill, and one dose of
* quinine might bring him around, and
e :then again, he might be desperately
y ill and you would have to keep
t him practically on ice. The Southern
cotton farmer I consider desperately
ill, and heroic treatment is necessary
to save him. Now, let us suppose a
man has eight bales of cotton and he
stores his eight bales and borrows 8
s cents per pound from some bank.
Suppose spot cotton declined to G cent
The farmer on the first margin call
1 loses two of his bales, and if the mari
ket declines to 5 cents he loses another
bale, besides he is also paying
" storage on his cotton as well as in"
terest on his note. I fear a calamity
if these margin calls are made, and
" also ruin to the country in case of a
y possible stampede. If the Southern
- cotton farmer lets the government
know that he intends to fight, that no
y one shall have his cotton inside of
c six months, I believe I could guaran- |
0 tee that Washington would be visited
within less than 90 days by foreign
e and New England spinners, Southern
T spinners, fertilizer presidents and all
c other classes asking the president to
n come to their (not thfe farmer's) re?
lief.
If some arrangement is not made
1 with the government as to the care of
ji
mis crop, watch the yarn and cloth
e gamblers sell, yarns and, cloth short,
d watch mills in this and other couny
tries buy cotton at any price they
s please, watch the "busted" cotton
f farmer and the South set back for
II years. A man might have a very good
e friend or a bank willing to loan him,
e say, $5,000 in an emergency, but if it
r is necessary that he have $20,000 to
e meet this emergency, he is gone. This
condition now, is an emergency and if
the government does not come to our
rescue I fear we are gone.
I am pinning my hopes on this
Fort Worth (Texas) meeting. I believe
the men assembling there, whoever
they may be, realize the true
I conditions and will state the case
plainly to the government.
A meeting of the legislature at this
time would be absolutely useless, a
waste of time, energy and money,
j Wait until the government is asked to
take care of this crop at a fixed, legitmate
price and then ask for the collateral
security at his fixed nrire.
_ ? ? r
Then let the laws of the cotton-growing
States, as his collateral, be made
indicting a severe penalty should any
one plant more cotton to the plow
than the agreement between the farm
GEORGETOWN NEGRO |
FINDS HEADLESS MAN \
rhc Horrible Find of a Negro Fisherman
Near South Island in GeorgeCounty.
There was at least one seared ne- I
fro in Georgetown County last week,
le received the schock while fishing
lear the South Island jetties. Five
niles inside the jetties he picked up
he headless body of a man floating in
he water. I
So badly decomposed was the body
hat it could not be told if the man
vas black or white. The coroner
nade an investigation. He concluded c
rom the size of the feet and hands r
ind the arched instep that the man t
vas white. The age is thought to \
lave been between 40 and 50 years.
The head appeared to have been sev- l
>red as with a sharp instrument. The a
lesh about the shoulders was not torn t
is would have been the case in a J
hark's attack. The body was in v
lothes of a good texture?better than c
i * ? 1
ne average sailor's or fisherman's \
garments. The pockets contained \
lothing to give a clue. Thebody was (
juried on the South Island strand i
ibove high water mark. So far as is
cnown no person is missing from \
;his vicinity. The inference is that \
die body came in from the sea with |
he tide.
I
An Aeroplane Baby. 1
Miss Ariel Vilas, who has attained *
,he dignity of four weeks, enjoys the 1
listinction of being the first "aero- 1
>iane baby." 1
She iias christened at a distance cv
^proximately 1,000 feet from the 5
sarth and gurgled with delight over 1
die sensation of having a name be- 1
stowed upon her while soaring like a '
:>ird, with her father at the wheel. 1
]
*r and the government, or perhaps
setter, the agreement between the
government and the cotton-growing :
States representing their different i
egislatures. Perhaps the government j
iyill not make such an agreement, pert 1
haps the rest of the world does not i
want such an agreement, but perhaps 1
the rest of the world and the govern- <
pent might greatly desire such an
igreement (which would be nothing i
pore than a fair trade under the cir- i
cumstances) if the farmer forced the i
conviction that his monopoly crop ?
had to be protected. <
John T. Roddey.
Rock Hill, Sept. 4.
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PRESS FORWARD
RUSSIAN AND GERMAN ARMIES ]
CRUSH OPPOSITION.
GREAT FIGHT IN EAST
l
tattle There Seems to Have Been on 1
Tremendous Scale, With Overwhelming
Defeat for Austria.
London, Sept. 6.?The relentless 1
rushing movement of the great war 1
nachines of Germany and Russia was 1
he dominating features of the past <
veek. i
The French government removed to ]
Bordeaux and the Russian emperor's
irmies dealt a crushing blow to Ausro-Hungarian
military power in the '
Cast and can now turn their forces tovard
Germany. The strong section
>f the Austrian army was routed in
,emberg in Galicia with staggering
osses and again Friday the Austrian
entre army was defeated at Dublin,
n Poland.
How many men were engaged in
hose vast battles is not known, as
;he few brief bulletins made public I
'urnish little ground for estimates,
rhe prisoners are spoken of as numbering
tens of thousands, while reports
say that the Austrians and Rus-!
dans left 35,000 wounded in their
wake, because they were without surgeons
to attend them and witout!
means to transport them.
Paris confronts the prospects of an
ittack with calmness. A large part
bf the population has withdrawn, :il
though a siege under present circumstances
with the French armies organically
intact and full of tight, appears
to be strategically impossible.
Pressing to South.
The "arrow head" of the German
irmy, which has been slowly forcing
its way through the Anglo-French
armies toward Paris, has made further
progress, according to the German
otlicial report issued today and
has now driven the allies back behind
Conde,
"Latere has been captured without
resistance," says the German stater>b
nnf nn/1 ^ U - **
. V.UV, (411(1 vv llll cut; CACCpilOII (H
(name deleted), which is now being
attacked, and Maubeuge, which the
Germans have masked, the outpost
forts are in the hands of the invaders.
Cavalry raids, too, are being
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made in the direction of the Paris
fortifications which will, if the German
accounts are correct, be the next
stop of the allied armies/'
Eearlier official reports from Paris
were to the effect that the Germans
had suffered a check near Verdun.
It now appears that in Lorraine one!
the Vosges region, where the German
forces were weakened to strengthen
their right flank, the French are at
least holding their own if not making
an advance.
Some Consolation.
The allies take some consolation
from the fact that the Russian defeat
of the Austrians around Lemberg
which town has fallen into the hands
?f the Russian emperor's army with
its immense stock of war material and
provisions, is apparently complete.
The possession of Lemberg gives the
Russians a base from which they can
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?yui ?\ ?iiu H um wiueii iney can attacK
in the rear the Austrian army which
has been invading Russian territory.
In a battle lasting almost a fortnight
the Austrians have suffered terrible
losses, 12,000 having fallen in
one place alone, while the Russian
general claims to have taken thousands
of prisoners and 200 guns. The
Austrian retreat, it appears from official
advices, has been turned into a.
rout.
Belgium, which saw so many battles
during the early stages of the
war, is again the scene of fighting.
The German advices indicate that the
Germuns are completing a half circle
around Antwerp.
Information has reached England
that seven of the German destroyers
which the British fleet engaged off
Heligoland bight and which escaped
in a damaged condition when three
cruisers and two destroyers were
sunk, have reached Kiel. Others were
so badly damaged that they went
down before reaching that refuge.
The speech of Premier Asquith, who
has started a campaign in which all
political leaders are taking part to
further recruiting has had an almost
immediate effect. Recruiting stations
are crowded.
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Taken Prisoners.
Two German cruisers and four destroyers
succeeded in sinking fifteen
British fishing boats in the North
Sea last Saturday. They captured a
quantity of fish, and the fishermen
were taken to Wilhelmshaven, as prisoners
of war.
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