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/ \ \ VOLUME XXXVir FARMERSMUST __ flUHT IT OUT Success in Co-operative Marketing Depends Upon Sticking To It WRITES ABOUT COTTON What Roddey Says Applies Also to The Co-operative Marketing of Tobapco John T. Roddey, a leading- citizen of Rock Hill, has written an article which now .appears in the papers of the state in relation to the co-operative marketing of cotton. What he says would also apply to the similar plan of marketing tobacco now being taken up by so many tobacco growers, and it is so interesting that we publish the article in full as follows: I have been requested by some members of the cotton association to publicly express my opinion on co-operative marketing, together with the rather questionable eorrmlimpnt "Wp know you will write what you think regardless." The beauty of the co-operative marketing system to me is its very wonderful possibilities. Of course, it could be wrecked or ruined by mismanagement, (and for the land's sake kep politics out of it). The success of practically everything or business depends on its management, and on this management will depend to the greatest extent the future welfare of the South, which includes every man in every line of business. The man assuming the general management, which will probably mean the handling of $3,000,000,000 or more per annum, will have to have some head, and the question is, have we got a man big enough and broad enough for the job? I realize that we have over 10,000 who think they are, but time will prove it, and we must have a start. Somehow I feel that the cornerstone is being laid and that we will sooner or later have a manument to be proud of, even if we did wait a half century to start. The management will have every big interest that has boon fixinir tho nrioos against it with all its power, money and influence, and will need the full support and co-operation of every man in the organization. Don't let any one get it in his head that in order to succeed it doesn"t mean a fight, because when any people have had things their own way foi fifty years and fixed a price to suit them, they will not surrender easily. I repeat, it is unfortunate to ho forced to have to co-operate, hut in this day i and time if you don't co-operate, "then fix the books." The farmers have stood for more and waited longer than any other class, and if it is to he force, then let it he force to tho limit. Rockefeller with his money could put cotton unreasonably high, united big, wealthy, professional operators with the present scheme can put it and keep it at a barely living price, and have had it their way so long that they will resent losing control. For instance, may 1 not quote from a New York editorial: "Certain interests in the North and East express themselves as out of svmpathv with tho efforts of the American Cotton Association to control cotton acreage. '-Some of those objectors frankly state that they want to see the crop as large as possible and the price as low as possible. They declare that to limit production is to commit an economic wrong." 1 think slavery was abolished in 1865 and I haven't seen any law not allowing any people to try to have some sense. If every"other class of labor or line of business has to pull uphill, and they cannot pull it up, unless they pull together, why should each farmer assume that he alone can pull MULLINS BOARD PAVHDC ATTrTIOM jl' i\ ? uivo nuvilun Market is Promised Two Sets of Buyers the Coming Season According to now?, items contained in 1he papers la^t week the Mullins Tobacco Board of Trade had a meeting the first of last week and went on record as being in favor of the auction plan of selling tobacco. It was nlso decided to open the warehouses as usiunl for the sale of leaf tobacco on that plan, regardless of what might be done in the co-operative marketing movement by the warehouse there that had joined that movement. The market there is promised two sots of buyers, so two warehouses may sell at the same time. In all of the tobacco selling markets in this section it appears that certain warehouses are leased or sold to the marketing association and others are standing out. The ones on the outside, it is understood, will be \ open for selling tobacco Ion the auc i,n>n [>:aii nit* .same as in years gone by. There was an interesting advertisement in last week's issue of the TierAid by the Mull ins Tobacco Board of Trade on the matter of opening the warehouses as usual. It was doubtless read by every grower who got that issue of the paper. J\ 4 % % Wkt HERALD BEGINS AD-ART PLANS Offers to Advertisers Selection of Cuts Made in Own Plant FULL PLENTY~EACH WEEK f!nst.s t.Vio Uorolil Mamow + ? r~ -~ ??V u/tu XTlUliCJf JLIlll Advertisers Nothing More Than Usual Rates The Herald this week starts plans that it had in view for some time to give the merchants and business men of this section the service they want and need in the way of advertising. More than a year ago the management invested in a costly machine for making- stereotypes from mats. It is a combination machine with which the mats may also be made. It has taken time to perfect the plans for the use of this machine in the interest of advertisers; but at last this has been done and now the Herald is under contract with a big company to produce the mats, using designs made by the highest priced artists in the advertising world. There is a big outlay of these illustrations received at the shop each week in readiness to be used by any advertiser who selects them. With the large machine which the Herald has a whole page of the illustrations can be produced in cut form at once. Kach week there are pictures of the latest styles of clothing, hats, shoes, and other illustrations of a general nature produced by the best artists, and they are calculated to catch the eye of every reader of the paper when placed in connection with thn nHvov. I tising of the live merchants of this .section. This extra service that the Herald is now giving its patrons is without any extra cost to the advertisers. They pay the same cost for the space they use as before. Do not wait for the Herald solicitor to call on you, but call at the Herald office and let the printer arrange the best layout of cuts to suit your business. jack~hunt7s~ under arrest Jack Hunt, negro desperado, was taken by V. D. Johnson of the rural police force on April IS land lodged in the county jail upon a warrant sworn out by a negro woman, charging Hunt with criminal assault, and that lie had drawn a pistol on her. The warrant also carries a charge of carrying concealed weapons. At last accounts the negro had not applied for bail. his load? He has been spraining his back trying it a long time and nobody else in this day and time is doing much extra pulling. If two of us can pull a load together, and neither one of us can pull it separately, rather than pull together, shall we just stand sJll and rot? Is that stubbornness, ignorance or meanness? 1 would like to see adopted as the motto of this association, its watchword, "Control your surplus." 1 would like to see every farmer and his children in tbe schools taught the necessity of controlling the surplus, for that, with all the schemes against you is your winning point. If you cannot control it you cannot really win. Twenty-five years ago when I tried to get the farmers to combine, and out of every four bales each farmer produced, turn over one bale to an association to be marketed, thus controlling the surplus, they called it a "gigantic trust," and I am afraid that when they cannot fix the price as they have always done, they will try to fight you in Washington on that ground. When the producers realize that this surplus must be controlled and that it is more profitable to plant less, not overproduce, and when they are shown that this surplus is getting beyond control of the association, then I believe they will know enough to regulate their acreage accordingly. No particular slate can win out (nor could a part of any organization, one working in one direction, and the other in another) but the co-operation of all the state, for if the professionals caught you without control of the surplus they would make every effort to put you out of business, and they "know their book." Don't be discouraged. It is a big undertaking and you will have ups and downs. If you can keep your organization even together and satisfied you will have won, because year by year they will see the*! possibilities and become more and mare enthusiastic just as every other 'successful corporation has proved. A man could write ten books on this subject, but Jill will be brought out in due time. Individually I did not intend to plant a seed of cotton, have not liked the price for the last two years, but I understand it is necessary to produce some before one can sign, so 1 told my man to put in at least enough to give me that privilege. JOHN T. UODDEY. Rock Hill. Wwvx \ ^ i CONWAY, S. 0., THURSDAY I HOW THE MAf | BUYS Ol * * i % ^^lOMMERCE lives through tl d. ?iJ i*-i T luiiiiu nuits tire soiu 111 mui * are worn on the Pacific slop* jc verse the Florida sands. Ai J Advertising lias played an all jjj ness growth. Without it we would * Business would stagnate; large in large production would fade into o * norance of many things which mij * happiness. )|? * The bread and butter of busines * interest in it. * ^ Reading the advertisements can * as publishing them is to the coinp an hour, or less, you can learn muc * life what it is. * * Advertising enables you to get ^ you what to buy. It is your guide * Read it?reflect * HOLDS HEARING PRINCE CASES Before R. J. Kirk as Referee in Bankruntov Pro ceedings Here PARTNERS ARE EXAMINED Arnold Who Was the Assignee of Failed Concern is Electas Trustee by Creditors The matter of Prince Bros., as well as the partners of this concern, Messrs. E. W. Prince and F. G. Prince, came up for hearing at Conway on Tuesday of last week before R. J. Kirk, referee, who lives in Florence, hut who consented to have this hearing in Conway at the same time that ho attended here in several other cases. The meeting was held at the law offices of H. H. Woodward, where the creditors met in the evening and filed their claims. George Metz, representing the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company, was present in the interests of that company which is a large creditor, hut who is holding valuable securities and did not file their claim for that reason at that time. Hoyt McMillan was present, re pre | senung- a numoer oi creditors of th< estate. Corclie Page, Esq., was als< in attendance, representing the Amer ican Wholesale Corporation, and onr other creditor. Under the Federal laws the creditors appoint the trustee, voting1 foi heir choice hy number and amount >f claims represented. The following is a copy of a part of the procedings in this case: In the matter of Prince Bros., bankrupts. Tho first meeting of creditors was hold at Conway, S. C., on April IS. 1922, before U. .J. Kirk, referee. Present were II. H. Woodward, bankrupt's attorney; Messrs. McMillan and Page, representing creditors. Referee filed claims. Mr. McMillan filed the following claims: H. T. Poindexter & Son $ 400.98 Bear Produce & Mdse. Co 47.GO Kingan & Co. 02.16 Carolina Portland Cement Company 10.00 Reba F. Prince 300.00 J. L. Hustess , 50.00 J. M. Bland 200.00 J. M. Bland 200.00 J. M. Bland 200.00 J. M. Bland 100.00 J. L. Butler & Bro 68.00 Mr. Page filed following claims: American Wholesale Corp 1,308.93 Hyman Supply Co 63.76 Mr. A. Bell of Bayboro was nominated as trustee and duly elected, his bond being fixed at $2,000. S. M. Allen. J. W. Sasser and M. D. Mishoe were the appraisers appointed. E. W. Prince was sworn by the referee and was examined by Mr. 1 1?A UAf A f t t \ t 4 IT ? . ? A V I I. I mi I IIJ I r?* 1 I lr> CA" amination was of some length and resulted in bringing about the same facts as sot forth in tlie schedules filed vith the petition in bankruptcy. P. G. Prince, the other partner of the firm, was also sworn, lie stated that his brother had attended to all of the bookkeeping and business affairs of the firm and that lie himself knew very little about it. The concern had made an assignment on November 2X, 1921, and named Arnold Boll as assignee. Two of tho creditors represented hy Attorney C-ordie Page would not come in. under the assignment and this resulted in the bankruptcy proceedings. ROSES HUD IN NEW JERSEY Orange. N. J.?The unprecedented November heat caused many rose hushes to hud hi this section. I no buds were all smaller than appear in the spring. o In demanding some women on the jury, Governor Small evidently believes they were not called the gentler sex for nothing.?Muncie Star. trip* , APRIL 27, 1922 *?*#**#******#************ ! 4 IN MAINE | REGON APPLES I , * * le interchange of products. Onli- * at ine. Shoes made in New England * e. Automobiles from Detroit tra- ^ | ad Sso it goes. $ * important part in fostering busi- * J retrograde half a century, or more. ^ stitutions which build cheaply by- * blivion; we would live in total ig- * jht add to our wealth, health and % * 5S depend on advertising, and your ^ * * be as productive of results to you * anies that pay for them. In half I :h of many things that go to make * * sic more for your money by telling $ to what's good to get. * onSW?it pays % Ml CONTRACTS ARE STILL SIGNING Makes Seventy-Five Per Cent Sign-up Look Very Certain MORE EXPERTS EMPLOYED Among Those Going Into Management Are J. S. Neal find John Dixon, Mullins J ? Hii nd reds of contracts reaching Rafligh, headquarters of the Tobacco vn.wcio vyo-operaiive Association, evelv week marks the successful statt of the campaign for a 75 per cents, membership. Carrying out its policy of obtaining the services of leaders in the tobacco trade, the Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Association has announced tho appointment of another group of men whose names are widely known in the tobacco world. Charles L. Smith, district manager of the Universal Leaf Tobacco Company, has accepted the position of district supervisor of graders in the leaf department of the Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Association. Commenting on Mr. Smith's ap pointment, R. Iy, Patterson, manager of the leaf department, said, "We : consider him one of the best loaf to>acco men in the business and his | eputation among the tobacco men in j :he eastern Carolina section is nnsurjassed." Another veteran of the tobacco trade, who leaves the Imperial 'IV.i bacco Company for the Tobacco j Growers' Co-operative Association, is W. I. Skinner of Greenville, Is. C., according to announcement by K. I v. Patterson, manager of the leaf department at Richmond, Va. Beginning his career a^ a buyer with J. M. Meadors at Oxford, .W when fifteen years of a;ve, JVir. Skinner was later connected with L. S. Cavlton & Company. j-oing to Wilson with Richmond, Ytauvy & Company, he became connected with the Maxwell Tobacco Company after vhe death of Mr. Maury and remained with that company unvil t tie formation of tho Imperial Tobacco Company in 1002. For sixteen years Mr. Skinner has been branch manager ('or the Tmpe rial at Greenville, N. O., and is described by General Manager R. K. Patterson as an expert in the tobacco business. K. L. Walton, until recently owner of the Banner Warehouse at Danville, Va.. will become manager of warehouses for the Bright Bolt of Virginia in the Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Association. Mr. Walton has had twenty-eight years' experience in the warehousing business. | W. M. Fallon, for eighteen years branch manager for the Imperial Tobacco Company of Durham, N. C., joins the leaf department of the j growers' association. C. O. Dixon of Mullins, S. C., well known to the tobacco trade, has become manager of warehouses for South Carolina. J. S. Neal and John Dixon, prominent warehousemen of Mullins, S. C., have transferred their warehouses t<> the association and will aid the organized growers in the warehousing and leaf departments, respectively. The appointment of I'. K. Chambets of Blackstone, Va., as manager of the warehouses for the Dark Belt assures the northern territory of the marketing association strong leadership, according In T. C. Watkins, Jr., manager of warehouses for Ihn ciat ion. o HAS OPPOSITION Solicitor L. M. Gasque was elected as solicitor in the last primary without any opposition. I To will bo a candidate for election attain in the approaching* primary, and already opposition lias developed, as Capt. II. YV. Muldrow of Florencee, S. C., has entered the lists. o Good roads and schools are transforming life in the coal counties of West Virginia. % raid, TRACK MOVING HAS TWO SIDES Could Be Done Best in Friendly Way is One View FOR GOOD OR EVIL Right to Place Railroad Company in New Location Free Of Cost According to a statement made by Mayor L. P. Magrath before the Civic League recently, steps will soon be taken to remove the railroad tracks out 'of the Main street of the town. Just how this is to be done is not said. It appears that a fund has been set aside for taking the matter into the courts and that lawyers have been retained to make the fight. The manner in which lawyers will be able to force the railroad company to leave Main street does not appear in the allegations made. The removal of the tracks from the main business artery here has been something for which , many have longed and longed for in vain for many years past. Time after time the matter has been taken up with the Atlantic Coast Line, only to be dropped with nothing done. For more than twenty years the railroad company has been using the street as a right of way. They have owned it so far as we know just as much as they owned any other right of way they pass over. When they came here and located their road it was regarded as a great blessing because Conway had no railroad and had never had one. We were then Had to get the road, no matter if we did have to let them have the main street for purposes of laying their tracks. Now that the town has grown and Main street has become a business place, the passing of the trains is a great annoyance. The noise stops men from their business affairs and nen cannot hear one another talk on the streets while the train is passing along. We have thought that the proper way to do is to get the right of way for the road somewhere else and pay for laying the tracks on it and offer this to the railroad company, thus making the matter more of a friendh arrangement than one of a light in the courts. It would really be nothing but right to place the railroad company ir statu quo by making it a present of the right of way where it should be and also help in paying for the Uiboi of relaying the tracks. This is only a suggestion, and it is made only for what it may be worth. It is well to remember that the railroad companj has it in its power to do the community a whole lot of good, or on tin other hand a whole lot of harm. Take i'or instance the matter of sidetrack: for the potato storage warehouse. The railroad company refused to give the Sidetracks and away went the hopes of a potato curing house. You see how it is. NOT Tf>() MITCH There is money to be made from I.10 rinsing ol truck 111 this section of the .state. Hut the farmers should not plant too much of any one tiling, ut have a variety, and then organize cn-operative marketing association so that I lie truck may be shipped iway l?y the carload and sold to the host advantage. o CHANGE FINISHED The changes in the front at the 1 lorry Hardware Company were finished last week and the new fixtures for the filling station were installed. TWO EXPERTS All) FARMERS / One Will Assist Growers. Another Will Advance Cause of Dairying Florence.?A tobacco specialist whose work will be to introduce to South Carolina growers such methods as will bring their weed up to the grade and quality of the North Carolina and Virginia bright product has been authorized for the South Carolina extension service and will be placed in Florence, probably by May 1 according to an announcement of VV. W. Long of Clenison college. Mr. Long also said the Pee Hoe district was to have another dairy specialist within II,n ..^..4 'IM,? 4.1 Lin: 111*.\ l imiiiui. I lie n ii.im' >|" cialist, while using* this city as headquarters, will ho available for all parts of this district. While in Florence yesterday, Mr. Long said Olemson college would soon have its radio service working: and will furnish the farmers with the latest agricultural news and reports. There will he two receiving' sets here, one for the county ag'ent, Ward McLendon, and the other for the district agent, T. Benton Young*. South Carolina wiJl he the fourth -;tato in the union and the first in the South to adopt this means of keeping* its agricultural interests posted and informed on conditions. The station nt Olemson college will have a radius of 500 miles. NO. 2 MISS HOLLIDAY U,TI\Tn a n u WLM3 AS togU IlilliiN Received the Prize Worth $500 Offered by Merchants of Columbia COLUMBIA NEWS STORES Elected as Candidate From Horry in Contest Conducted by Herald This county is proud of the distinction won last week by Miss Flora Mae Holliday, when she voted the most popular and most beautiful young lady in the state of South Carolina. As soon as the final votes had been counted and Miss Holliday was declared elected, the Mayor of Conway received a telegram from Columbia announcing the fact. The Daily Record carried a three column electro of the winner with the following news story underneath: Queen Flora Mae, of the House of Holliday, beautiful daughter of Horry county, to be crowned Queen of Palnafesta and voted by the people of the state, is eighteen. It's a fact. She told a reported from The Record so, and she made no bones about it ^ ' i iiutjr. uui tnrough those pretty eyes she looked ami that soft voice said it, in answer to the impertinent reporter's impertinent qquestion: "I'm eighteen." And she's as pretty as an Easter flower. She's a queen and the robes and the crown she wore Friday night only served as appropriate symbol of her queenliness. Miss Holliday is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George .T. Holliday, of Gallivant's Ferry, in Horry county. Theirs is a prominent family. Mr. Holliday was state Senator from his county when Miss Holliday was but four years old. and the Palmafesta queen says she first knew Columbia when she spent the legislative months J there with her father. On her mother's side, Miss Holliday's grandfather was Solicitor John Monroe Johnson, prominent ollicial, and Col. J. Monroe of Marion is her uncle. On her father's side hor grandfather was Joseph W. Holliday. Miss Holliday is no stranger to Columbia. She has been a frequent visitor in the capital and has many friends here. She was county queen of Horry county last year. Miss Holliday has been a student at Coker college, Hartsville. Next fall, however, she plans to enter Converse college at Spartanburg. Miss Holliday won as a candidate from Horry county following a contest conducted by the Herald to determine the most popular and beautiful young lady of the county to represent her county iVi tho big Columbia festival. As tlie winner in tho contest in J Columbia she has received the prize of a diamond ring costing the sum of $500. negror} )bber taken asleep Will he Charged in Marion County With Serious Crime Sam Richards, colored, who is charged with having held up and rohhed Tom Godbold, night watchman for the Marion County Lumber Co., in January, was arrested in Mullins by Deputy Sheriff Furman Edwards last week. Mr. Edwards kept up a search for Richards for the past several months, lie was informed that the negro was working at a lumber camp. The officer secured the co-operation of A. C. Smith, foreman, and when search was made in the woods the deputy and Smith walked up on their man as he lay asleep. The officer had him in handcuffs before he was awakened, later placing him on a logging train and brought back to Mullins. From there he was carried to the county jail. He will be charged with highway robbery at the next term of court. I w-fc. k / "V -w?1? w w -r x w FAlliiiM UFF1UU NEEDS HELP W/ishington, I>. C., April 27.?The United States Civil Service Commissi mi is mi hority for the statement that o'' late an average year's busiof the United States patent office a ; of more thnn 8~>,000 applications for patents and that more than one <iful a nuarler million patents have been issued since the present system was established by the act of 183 G. Each division of the patent oflice passes on distinct subjects of invon- . Uon. Whether the invention pertains to a hairpin or a cantilever bridge, a perfume or a deadly gas, a process for mounting jewels or for extracting and refining metals, a new toy or a new engine of destruction, there will be found in the patent office experts possessed of the requisite knowledge to understand the invention, its operation, and the field occupied by similar attempts. s #