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;; VOLUME XXXIV.
P WILSON MAY VISIT " I
I SOUTH CAROLINA
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| President Considers Coming to 1
10 * Review the Thirtieth
F Division
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I .STATE'S SENATORS
| GIVE INVITATION '
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Smith and Dial Among the
First Callers Received at
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a " White House.
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Washington, July 14.?President i
Wilson today was invited to South
i Carolina September 29, to review the
20th division, which helped the British
army break the Hindcnburg line
in front of Amiens last fall. The
invitation was extended by Senator
Smith and Dial of South Carolina.
,' 1 was understood that the PrcsiIf
dent might accept the invitation later
MJ should he be able to.
I President Wilson today received a
I number of Senators and representa
I tives who called at the White House
2,' to discuss a variety of subjects. The
KL visitors included Senators Smith and
Dial, of South Carolina; Stanley,
m- Kentucky; McKjcllar, Tennessee, and
ml, King, Utah, and Representatives Ste
venson, South Carolina, and Johnson,
m Kentucky.
} The engagement today were the
15 x first made for tho President since
1?^ his return from Paris.
jj .WOOflROW WILSON
AT WHITE HOUSE;
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|j President Returns to Washington
Home After Four
L Months Absence.
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Washington.?President Wil: on -c.|j
tinned to Washington after an ; b-;
I senco of four months at L\ ri p ace
I conference. lie was aceompani .1
|t by Mrs. Wilson, Miss Marguerite|
Wilson and by Vice President Ma [ft
shall and most of tho member> < f his ;
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Icaoincv wno greeted nun on nis a: iv- 1
al at York.
The presidential party was greet d
j at the station by a crowd of several
j thousand persons who had waited
\ for several hours. After brief welcoming
ceremonies, the president and
j Mrs. Wilson drove directly to the
t White House.
, Welcoming the chief executive
| were representatives of the Non-ParK
tisan League of Nations, the War
I Camp Community Service and the
r Central Labor Union and committee
I of Washington citizens headed by
I Commissioner Brown low, who cxII
tended greetings on behalf of the
K city.
i* As the president and Mrs. W lson
I left (Jr'o train shed they walked b >
j nealh \i bower of flowers an 1 pa scd
I ^0 to a waiting automobile betwe? n
l^tog linos of ft-iris representing heraids
while the marine band played.
Plans to strew roses in front of the ,
^^B presidential party at the station were j
disapproved by the police.
Hb At the city postoffico, adjoining !
HH| thp union station, a tableaux of Co- J
l^jjnbia welcoming tPo president was
illuminated by searchlight. A batHB
talion of t yeowemon in white v.niHh
forms also were present to gro t
MM their commander in chief.
CONTi'xbn INVESTIGATION.
A. 6^-Sdmmcro of the State dcpartmemt
of agriculture Wont to
Darlington County to continue his
investigation of crop losses, thought
to be incident to the use of domestic
potarh. Considerable iavestig tion
II has already been mad?. Photograph
? are to be tahen of 1ho fields
of cotton and tobacco which have
been destroyed.
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HARRIS PREDICTS
EXPENSIVE COnON
Will Go Beyond Figures of The
Last Sixty Years,
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Commissioner Harris has given
out a practical statment on the cotton
crop conditions. He says the farmers
have won their fight for 1919
and should now get ready for 1920.
Here is his statment:
"I am a farmer and I have been
watching the crcps closely for 40
years. I can say honestly that the |
crops of cotton and com are at thin I
writing in the most critical condition
I have ever known them as to what I
they will make per acre. Why do"I
say this?
"f irst wo will begin with the prep
aration for the land for a seed bed.
Taking it over the entire belt, it was
one of the poorest prepared seed
beds for planting that I have ever
known.
"Second, since the planting season
opened until the present time, there
has not been one week, all told, of
ideal growing weather and the first
90 <lays of the young plant's life will
determine whether it will yield abundantly
or sparingly. The season must
be ideal so that the plant may make
good root growth. The roots of the
plant must take good hold of the
ground before it will make a good
fruitful stalk.
"Crops rarely improve after the
10th of July, as they are like a young
animal, which, if neglected the first
six months of its life, will never develop
into what it would have done if
it had been well cared for. If tlvc
jains keep up through July, we know
the cotton crop is cut short, and we
also know that if the rains shut off
and hot. dry weather sets in this,
too, will he injurious. We are sure
to have one or the other of these
two seasons. So I say that the cotton
crop will he cut, no matter which
of the two seasons we will have.
"Cotton can not recuperate from
now until the growing season ends.
H matters not what conditions arise,
the maximum size of the 1919 crop is
fixed. The only marked change will
be deterioration rather than recuperation.
"Now I wish to remind the farmers
that they had been advis'd by
the best authoriitos to hold cotton
off the' market and it would reach
he price set. Last week it did not
sea h thai figure?115 cents. Some
if the mills had to buy and I heard
V spots in South Carolina selling
for <V) cents. Conditions arc cepl rable,
however, when spots se'.l for "2
cents in New York and October fu
tines for 35 cents. This shows that
the boars are trying to put a bandage
on their bruised heads.
"The farmer who has spot cotton
on hand will be paid handsomely if
he will hold this cotton until June,
1020. Of course, I refer to farmers
who have their debts paid, for T
would not think of advising farmers
to avoid their indebtedness. This
cotton will pay all warehouse charges,
8 per cent, interest and then
bring a handsome! dividend to the
holder if he will keep it until next
June.
"We will sec higher cotton in 1920
than we have since the War Between
the States period. No one
krows just what the top price will
be, for wc have a world's famine; m
cotton and the bear speculators l ave
at last realized it.
"The government "s crop c nd'tim
report as of Juno 23 was 70 ;ci" con",
against 85.8 last year. By July 25
the public will find that the condition
report would be nearer correct
at GG instead of 70. It is impossible,
so I have said, fo rthe crops to recuojcrate
in the next 20 days. The ra'ns
;ue continuing in the Western an 1
Eastern cotton belt States.
"As the price has been set for the
| IMS crop, and as our prediction as
j to the pi-ice has been verified, we
will pas; that up and will now open
eui guns lo protect the 1C10 crop, to
help to make it bring more money
to the Sell tin than any crop that has
e ver been produced, even though wo
: <; not make more than 10()?y0,000
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~7 conway, s o., thxjrsdayi
ALL PARTS ENTITLED ^
TO EQUAL RIGHTS'
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As to Building of New Roads
and Spending Public Revenues,
Says Subscriber.
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Editor Herald:?
In a recent issue of the Herald,
there was an article relative to the
roads, to be built or improved under
the Federal Aid Road Act; and one
individual offered $500 to the County
to put Loris on one of these highway
routes. Surely, this individual appreciates
the value of good roads to
his community, and feels keenly the
fact of being- left off the map of
road construction. The people of
Loris and the North Eastern portion
of Horry are no doubt thinking of
how different things might be if
Horry were cut in half about Gurley,
with Loris the county seat of a new
county, quite as large as Dillon or
Marlboro. The rest of Horry will,
also, do well to think of this when
they are dealing' out the county's
revenues which are collected alike
from aii portions or sections of the
Independent Republic of Horry County.
Self interest is very alluring: but
dangerously poisonous and some people
have drank deep of the draught,
anu will be laid at rest in due season.
A disinterested person looking over
the road situation in Horry county
would take a very different view from
those who have great interests at
stake and also have the lines of government
in hand. There arc several
things to be carefully considered in
mapping out there highways to oe
built by Federal, State, County and
Township cooperation: First, the
Federal Government expects these
roads to be laid out along the lines
of our most traveled highways, which
lead irrespective of Township, County
or State lines, to the most important
trade centers, whereby, the public
interest will be most fully served.
Snj'rtn/'l ill/ ! /> unrvlll/l lin nAnnni'o) inn
between the States, as to which ones
of such highways, should have first
consideration. Third: These should
bo chosciv to mete out justice as near
as possible, to the people who are to
help bear the cost of construction an 1
maintenance. Part of these roads
will some day, no doubt, be National
Highways under ''Federal control.
Part, will be State Highways, or remain
as such, and when we have advanced
far enough, some will be
classed as Farm or Community reads.
Now the unwritten law of "all
Roads must lead to Rome" will not vlo
in our day of Democracy. Different
sections have different interests?
National, State, County, Township.
Beginning at t the County seat and
building as the spider weaves his bed
-around self?is r.ot going to be toloiaicd
by that portion of Ilorry
County who help pay the piper and
can't- see the dance. Tell us why a
| great thoroughfare leading from
j Charleston to Georgetown and Wilmington,
should be built into one corner
of the County to Conway and
I then side tracked in the interests of
! special legislation, tell us why in
j planning out the other three routes
to lead out from Rome. The great
highway leading on to the sea ports
I of South port and Wilmington should
jbe overlooked, ignored Notwithstanding
this old King's Highway
has the indorsement of J. Roy Penned,
State Highway Engineer. Tell
us why, when, two bridges across the
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11,ales.
"With the organ rzation of the
American Cotton Association, which
is now going- to be pushed to completion
by August 25, and the export
cotton corporation and the $400,000,000
corporation to finance distressed
cotton, if there be any such, the people
of the South will get their hands
upon their own purse strings. They
will say, for the first time in the
history of the cotton belt States
what their product will be sold for.
The producer, when he has srch a
monopoly, has the rights to say what
he will take for his labor?as much
so as the manufacturers have to say
what they will take for thoir product."
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JULY 17, "1919.
SOME FARMERS ARE i
DAMAGED RY POTASH
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Coming From Searl' Lake, Cal- I
ifornia, Other Sources
Proved Good.
Clemson College.?Clemson College
authorities have investigated j
the potash situation which has given (
trouble in the Pee Dee section, and
have traced the matter to its source ,
in the use of Trona Potash, which 1
contains impurities injurious to
crops.
Mr. Bright Williamson, a prominent
banker and farmer of Dai ling- !
ton, and John M. Napier, County
Agent of Darlington County found
trouble with potash in that county
recently and reported the matter to
Clemson College. Prof. C. P. Blackwell,
Agronomist, and Mr. J. L. Seal,
Pathologist, went immediately to<
Darlington and Florence Counties
where they met Dr. W. W. Garner,
Chief of the Office of Tobacco and
Plant Nutrition Investigations. The
three studied the situation in the
fields of Darlington, Florence, and
Dillon Counties.
They agreed that the very erratic
seasons have caused poor crop conditions
in parts of Florence County
which some have erroneously attributed
to potash. In Darlington County,
however, where Trona Potash
from SearP Lake, California, purchased
thru a Charleston broker was
used, very serious injuries were obseived
on a number of farms.
The Clemson and Government experts
were convinced from field ex
animations that this Trona Potad.
is responsible for the trouble. Tho.isands
of acres of crops in Darlington
have been destroyed.
Other sources of American potash
have given good results so far as investigations
show. Since nearly all
the Soils of the Coastal Plains section
o ' the State arc in need of Potash
it would bo unfortunate to have all j
potash indiscriminately condemned
along- with this one source.
Director Banc announces that exp<
riments will be begun at once at
the Pee Dee Station to obtain all
possible information on the effect of
this material on plant growth. Further
study will be made in Darlington
fields to assist farmers in securing
data upon which to b: ;e claims
for damages. These invc.-ligations
will be reported as soon as the data
is available. The legal a poets of the
case will be considered by the Board
of Fertilizer Control.
There has probably been injury !o
ciops from this same source in other
sections of the state, and if fanner.j
think they have this trouble they
should consult their county agents,
pi rr whom have been posted about
the matter.
Late in June Director H. W. Barrc |
of the S. C. Experiment Station, attended
a potato conference on Long :
Island to examine tests of ail sources
of domestic potash. Trona potash
showed marked injury to potato .
plants, and the conference developed)
the fact that similar trouble was being
experienced in North Carolina j
with cotton, tobacco and corn. Similar
trouble seems to have been experienced
in several localities along
the Atlantic coast.
For the guidance of farmers Prof.
Blackwell gives the field symptoms
as follows. In tne case of cotton an I
com germination is retarded or prei
vented. Soon after plants which do
j germinate are above ground, they
turn white or yellow and die. To- j
ibacco when transplanted turns light j
J end soon dies. The roots are found
t > be undeveloped and many dead.
' Tin trouble is worse where tobacco
j beds have been knocked down, as this
| brings the roots in closer contact
iwith the poisonous substances. With
all crops the trouble is worse on light
| randy soils than on heavier soils.
j Waecamav.' River in Horry Comity?
| an upper and lower bridge?were
promis'd, the upper bridge was n: v!
or built?
Tell us why, now, Lorfa, Simp en
jCredk and f/t'lo River Tov.n hips nv
1 not entitled to some consideration
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AUSTRIA MAY GET ~~1
PLACE IN LEAGUE
Must First Show Proper Gov- i
ernment With Will and
Power.
Paris.?Austria will be admitted t
;o membership in the league of na,ions
as soon as the allied and associated
powers consider that she possesses
a responsible government with
joth the will and the power to ful- .
till its international obligations. The
Austrian peace delegation has been
so informed in a reply by the supreme
council of the peuce conference
to an Austrian plea for immediate
admission to the league.
The Austrian note embodying the
plea was sent by Dr. Karl Rcnner,
the Austrian chancellor and head of
the Austrian peace delegation, to Premier
Clcmenceau as president of the
pace conference on June 23, and with
the reply, was made public. The reply
as follows:
"The principal allied and associated
powers note with satisfaction the
adherence of the Austrian delegation
to the ni'ftiprt. nf n lonmir* r?f nntiAno I
g VV?^ V4V/ VL llUVIV/m>
and to the principle upon which such
a league of nations has been founde<l
by the covenant embodied in the conditions
of peace. They were glad to
know that the Austrian government
shares their view that the establishment
of such a league will conduce
to the maintenance of peace in these
parts of the world which hitherto
have been centers of international
frictions and mi: understandings.
"The principal allied and associated
powers have taken into careful
| consideration the demand of the
'Austrian delegation for the admission
of their country as an original
member of the league of nations. It
has never been their intention to exclude
Austria for any long period
from the league; on the contrary
wi ?h to reiterate that it is their hope
and conviction that the lecagud will
at the earliest possible date include
all nations that can he trusted to
cm' ry out tho ol ligat ions accepted by
members of the league.
"They must point out, however,
that in urging the claim of Austria
to membership in the league as immediately
necos nry to the safety of
their territory, the Austrian delegation
have used some arguments whim;
appear to indicate ti at they have not
fully appreciated the provisions of
the covenant. But they recognize,
.nevertheless, the strength of the
claim put forward by the Austrian
delegation. They fully appreciate
\no cvuiencc, wnica i y tr;3 atuiude
which she has hither o cb c ved,
Austria has given of hor good intentions.
They see no reason why she
ah01.1 hi act apply for admission to the
1'v'iio, in nccordan o with the provision
of Article 1 of the covenant,
at the earliest opportunity that may
piesent itself after the raiifiaclion
of the treaty of peace.
"As soon as they are assured that
Austria possesses a responsible government
and tit is government has
both the will and the power to fulfill
its international obligations they are
prppared to support Austria's candidature
for admission to the league."
when the Motor Tax, County and Fed
oral Aid moneys are to be spent in
Bridge and Road Building?
Self interests should not bias those
who are charged with the duty of rep
resenting Horry County in spending
the people's money and if the Tnv.n
-.bin Provnt.m R.ond T,nw has not h<> mi
appealed surely, we have the right
and should have the courage to demand
our own. If the laws arc sucl
that we have been hoodwinked again
some one i& responsible and will b
held to account for it. Just see what
Cue Eastern portion of Horry Coun
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many years. It was Conway int r~ot
that cut the bridge down at Wo/tham's
Ferry and it is Conway interests
that has 1; pt it down ever since
Oti this account, Little River ha
been denied a quick mail route from
Loris and made to wait two day? fo
mail to come via Conway. Loris has
I en denied the upbuilding which
Ihij bridge would undoubtedly give
NO. 13.
rOBACCO markets"
open in horry
Mong With the Other Markets
of Eastern North and South
Carolina
GROWERS COMPLAIN
ABOUT SAND LUGS
Better Grades Brought Good
Prices on Opening Sales of
the Weed.
The Conway Tobacco Market opened
on last Tuesday with big sales at
the four warehouses, the sales beginning
about 11 o'clock and running'
until a late hour in the afternoon.
Only an estimate can be given of
the amount sold in the county as the
figures from the warehouses were not
available in time for this week's issue.
At Conway there was at least
one hundred thousand pounds disposed
of on the floors of the four
wa rehouses.
The sales consisted largely of the
primings or sand lugs, and a look at
the piles on the warehouse floors
shewed that even these bottom leaves
had, in most instances, been gathered
while too green in order to save them
from drying up and being entirely
lost from the extremely dry weather
of some weks ago. Very little of
the second gathering was offered on
the opening sales here and the same
is said to be true of the other markels
of the county.
The prices realized on the. opening
sales, as compared with those of last
year, showed that the primings or
sand lugs of low grade brought an
average of about one third what this
grade brought last year; but the bettor
class of first barns and small
quantities of second gatherings, when
ever offered in these opening sales
brought two thirds as much as likegrades
brought last year.
It was stated on good author ity
that there was another drawback to
good prices on the opening sales, and
that was the fact that two or throe of
tin* leading factories had no buyer;
hero for the opening rale -, as they
would not send cut their buyer- uuf'.l
July 20th, the time when they wanted
the season to open.
Many complaints were hoard about
the prices last Tuesday by farmers
who realized low prices for the primings
and who no doubt compared
these with the high prices ttcy got
last year for about the same grade.
It is thought by many, however, that
the grade of the sand lug:; this time
is nothing* like as high as this class
ot tooacco was last year, owing to the.
dry woathm* which prevailed just before
the plants were ready to begin
to ripen the bottom leaves.
Paper towels in rolls at the Herald
ofTiec.
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A Mitchell car of the six cylinder,
touring car type was driven into the
river in this county recently where it
remained until taken out of the water
and turned over to the acc'der.t
insurance company who had insured
the machine against damage by accident.
The damage was regarded
as rather large and the company decided
that the best thing to do was
to pay off the owner and take over
the car, and this was done. The car
has since been sold to a citizen her.
it. The people of the interior hnvo
been denied a great advantage rn I
the cast side of Ilorrv has suffered
accordingly. High River means prac.
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injustice continue while we sit idly
by anil see the last opportunity flip?
Conway has its bridge and road to
the coast. The Southern portion of
the County is well provided for. G've
Levis a fair ileal. She asks for no
less. Exempt these Townsli ps from
the County bonds or else give, ur> representation.
Protests are in o dec.
Let men speak their convictions.
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