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JOHN W. HOLMES
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1937.
Helping the Farmer.
It is said that “the Lord helps those
who try to help themselves.” but ap
parently the fanners have interpreted
this old saying v to mean that “the
government should help those who re
fuse to help themselves.”
Meaning that, in spite of the fact
that the Roosevelt administration
proved that smaller crops bring higher
prices (and paid the farmers while
submitting the proof), Monday’s gov
ernment report indicating a cotton
crop this year of approximately 15,-
600,000 bales shows that the lesson,
which it wos though had been learned
through bitter experience, has been
quickly forgotten and already ap
peals are pouring into Washington to
save the cottontots from their folly
through the medium of a 12-cent loan
on the fleecy staple.
The farmers well knew when they
tncrea^fd this year’s acreage that,
with normal seasons, a bumper crop
would be produced; and yet, with the
depression years of six cents cotton
still fresh in their minds, they plung
ed blindy into over-production, with
the result that, now that the harvest
ing season is at hand, they are faced
with below coat of production prices.
The federsl government would have
more sympathy for tha plight of the
farmers if a bumper crop had been
produced on a curtailed acreage. But,
politics being what it is, perhaps a
paternal government will again lend
a helping hand and stop that down
ward trend of the market.
Now Do Htmethiag!
Congress, acronfng to reports, is
at last showing signs of “economy
aindedness " It is no secret that tha
towering national debt, which recently
reached an all-time high of 134.600.-
•00,000 is worrying legislators.
They certainly should be worried,
fcr the pnncipa 1 adverse effects of a
gigantic debt, with Its neceeaary ac
companiment of nsmg tases. falls on
the poor and the moderately wall-to
ds Every laborer, every professional
man. every whito-co.lar worker, every
storekeeper, today can boy leas than
he could otherwise—because a great
part of the rest of everything he buys
or oars is tai levy deluded In the
pm of every article.
Concern over the debt, noo eshibtt-
ed by Congress, should be follow
ed by *'do|ng something about the
debt * A policy of budget balancing,
and regudr debt reduction, would do
much for real recovery.
tiding and Abetting.
“Probably the strongest opposition
(to regulate and stabCise agriculture)
comes from a certain small group that
profit* immensely by over-production
and low prices." comments The Dil-
on Herald. Yes, but aided ami abet
ted by those farmers themselves who
insist oh over-producing when they
well know, from past experience, that
such over-production spells low
prices. Read The Herald’s editorial,
“The Only Way to Stabilize" else
where in this issue.
(Comments...
On Men and News
DISCOURAGING CAPITAL.
spend their time (end our money)
thinking out new schemes. What
they don’t aee, or don't regard aa im
portant, is that all government rests
on taxes and all wages rests on capi
tal investment, management, produc
tion, profits, markets, etc. Some
enterprises operate on small capital
and with out-of-date machinery.
They do a useful service aa long aa
they offer employment.
If capital is discouraged it will
withdraw from investment in the
hazards of business. Is our govern
ment prepared to guarantee a profit
on investment? Is it ready to say
to a man or a group of men, “Put your
money into business, pay such-and-
such wages for such-and-such hours
and the government will cover your
losses and pay you 6 percent, on the
investment?” No, the government
treats all business men as public
enemidk. It constantly experiments
and adds to the cost of doing business,
yet wonders why business does not
absorb the unemployment. If the gov.
ernment would go fishing for three or
four years and stop the WPA, most
of our people would find work.
I dto not forget the awful gloom of
March, 1933; I recall gratefully the
buoyant spirit of Mr. Roosevelt and
his vigorous efforts to restore confi
dence. He has performed greatly for
this nation; his measures saved many
a farm and made possible the build
ing of many a home; he has been help
fully resourceful in a hundred ways;
but the patient should be sllowed at
least a period of convalescence before
undergoing further drastic treatment.
Recently I was associated with a
number of men of affairs and was
struck with the conviction of all of
them that something must be done
to increase the income of the farmers.
Politicians like to talk about helping
the fanner, I know, but this group
was not talking for publication.
The increased spending by the
farmers brought about our present
measure of recovery. If the fanner
should receive 25 per cent more for
his products this country would a-
bound in milk and honey. Prosperity
would flow from the fanner to the
merchant and the banker. The farm
er is buying at higher industrial av
erage than he receives for his pro
duct
I am glad that no on* put me in
charge of the ram. New, wouldn't
that be a )©b? But no man could ad
minister the trust acceptably. To 0-
1 u*irate A few day* ago a minister
sad that no rata was needed. Those
who had their chief stake la cotton
agreed with him, but the com plant
er* wanted ram. sad m did the to-
herco growers So there you are. I
myeetf don't know what 1 want; I
should hsv* to petition for a heavy
ram for the com. a light raia for to
bacco and no rata for cotton.
What a discordant eon ad must bo
the prayer* of the faithful when they
mingle into one volume at appeal be
fore the pearly gale*!
How fortunato that w* and our fet
lowmen haven't power to regulate
mm
The general asaemb y having pro
vided for sa eight-month school term
at the expense of the State, each
school district should reduce its
special school taxes in proportion to
the amount which the State has*i»-
crrseej its support. To illustrate: by
increasing the term one month the
district should rut off the tax that
would operate the school one month.
In one school district the trustees re
duced the tax two mills; in others a
reduction of six mills might be made.
This is the t:me to get busy for
your reduction in local taxes. Do it
now and be vigorous about it.
You will hear some people say that
the schools need the money; well, did
you ever hear of anyone who was
willing to accept a cut if at could be
avoided ?
By reducing the millage in propor
tion to the increased appropriation by
the State you will not injure the
schools one dollar; you will, on the
contrary, get a little relief which is
long over-due.
If the taxpayer doesn’t look out for
himself he may be sure no one else
will do so.
closed. But in Greenville, alone, the
cotton mills pay $275,000 a week in
wsgei — two hundred V«*«nty-flv*
thousand dollars a week! Suppose
the mills should close—what would
become of Greenyille? And South
Carolina ?
Our leaders in Washington don’t
seem to understand that the consumer
must pay the bill. They know this
and dote about it—but don’t apply it.
The Black-Connery bill will increase
the cost to the famer and every other
consumer, but it will not increase the
price which the farmer receives for
his product. If it be imagined that a
general higher level of wages will
eventually raise the prices of farm
products you ask the farmer to wait
several years for a half loaf, while
labor gets a whole loaf today. If the
general trend'of values will help the
farmer would not that same general
trend be sufficient for labor. We
surely agree that the law should not
deliberately prefer one citizen over
another. ^ If, then, we are seeking to
serve the so-called underprivileged,
why restrict the benefits to a few ?
The Only Way to Stabilize.
It is rather significant that all at
tempts to regulate and stabalize agri
culture meet with strong opposition,
and there is nothing surprising in the
opposition that has developed to the
provision of the proposed AAA bill
that would fix marketing quotas and
impose fines of 66 per cent, of the
market values upon farmers who sold
more than these fixed quotas.
The same opposition was seen when
the old AAA imposed fines on farm
ers who produced or sold more than
the quotas allowed by the law.
The Herald ia democratic in spirit
and purpose. It does not believe in
dictatorial methods—far from it—
but a law that does not provide a
penalty is worse than no law at all.
You may search the statute books—
both State and Federal—and you will
not find a law that doe* not carry a
penalty for failure to observe its pro
visions.
If a man does something that in
jures his brother he must pay the
penalty provided by law. That is the
foundation upon which both society
and nvilixatioa rest.
The many law* that regulate the
manufacturing industry provide pen
alties which the maau/actarer* must
pay If they violate those laws. The
social sad economic Ilfs of tha as-
doa's lJo million ishahitoats la
tone hod either directly er indirectly
by the agricultural industry sad why
should It ha exempt?
It la Idle to talk of regulating sad
•tab)hung agrtcu.tur* by the volun
tary agreement of 40 million fanner*
The amaufactanag industry dee* not
represent more than a fraction of that
numbor and R would he just aa tan-
poeeihle to organise the manufnetur-
ere by voluntary agreement
When the nation s population was
hiaaaelf ha could da pretty much as
he pleased- There were not cottas
sad grata exchanges that ftxad priroo
tram day to day; aa exporter* and
importer* who** trad* ion* extended
mare than a few miles from their
base of op*rations.
If a farmer mad* 160 hales of cot
ton or 1000 bushels of wheat that
was his business. The outside world
had no interest ia it. But today it la
different. The selling price of farm
products is flxod or forecasted even
before the seed of the current year’s
crop are put in the ground. It la a
huge, world-wide Interlocking sys
tem of buying and selling, and here
tofore the producer has had very lit
tle say so in the most important end—
the selling end.
A well-balanced agriculture and in
dustry makes for an ideal economic
system, and apparently it is the pur
pose of the government to attain this
ideal in the nation’s economic affairs.
Probably the strongest opposition
comes from a certain small group
that profits immensely by over-pro-
duetion and low prices.—The Dillon
Herald. i _
INSTALLS NEW MACHINERY.
Farmers Ginnery at Barnwell Re
HELPING THE FARMER.
REGULATING RAIN.
REDUCING SCHOOL TAXES.
TAXES AND DIVIDENDS.
Senators Smith and Byrnes voted
against the Black-Connery bill. That
is the bill to set up a minimum wage
of $16 a week and" a maximum of
forty hours work in a week. You
must try to hold all work dowrHIo that
40 hours will be the minimum and
you must not pay le«s than $16. It
figures out then, as forty cents an
boor as a minimum. The farmers will
»ac hsv* to pay that wag* by law,
hat what the farmer will d* la rom-
pattti s with th* mills ia mmsth ^
A study of a financiay statement of
one of our leading industries—over a
period of years—indicates why we are
not buildling' new cotton mills in
South Carolina. Of all the mills in
Greenville, only one is today in the
hands of the original stockholders,
and during the years, from 1900 to
1937—good and bad together, the
mills havq paid about one tenth as
much in taxes as for labor and ten
times as much for taxes as for divi
dends.
Look into that, now, and ponder it
a bit: Ten times aa much money for
toxe* as dividends! Much bettor to
he a UaceUector that a stockholder;
covtanly aa am womld care to pat a
models Plant for New Crop.
The Farmers Ginnery at Barnwell
has installed the latest type of clean
ing machinery and is now especially
fitted to gfn long staple as well as
short staple cotton, according to B.
S. Moore, manager, who guarantees
farmers against damage to the staple,
as well as giving the very best re
turns in weights and grades that can
he obtained.
Mr. Moore say* that highest cash
price* will be paid for seed, or meal
dill be given in trade, and that he ia
prepared to meet any competition on
price* for either eood or ginning. So#
sdvertftaasaoat rise* her* m ihia lo-
t«» of TW his pis laanael
Ion Herald aays, “expresses the view*
of a majority of the people when
he says that the county-to-county
campaign has served its usefulness
and should be abolished.” Its use
fulness passed many, many years ago.
It has survived because candidktes
have been weak men. - Any really
strong candidate can abolish the coun
ty-to-county canvas.—News and Cous-
ier.
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