The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 27, 1922, Image 1
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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
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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.
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HERALD BEGINS
AD-ART PLANS
Offers to Advertisers Selection
of Cuts Made in
Own Plant
FULL PLENTY~EACH WEEK
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In demanding some women on the
jury, Governor Small evidently believes
they were not called the gentler
sex for nothing.?Muncie Star.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Good roads and schools are transforming
life in the coal counties of
West Virginia.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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MISS HOLLIDAY
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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
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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.
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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.
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