The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, December 13, 1911, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6
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? THE RELIABLE MAN. ?
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Editor The Advortlsor:
A few weeks ago I sent you some
verses on the "Reliable Man." Since
then I have been thinking of bis an
tipodes hi charactor. I suppose you
-will find him where ever you may go
if you have much business deullngs
?with other people. I saw once a pic
ture representing the church as a bus.
The poor old pastor was pulling In
ttao shafts With all his might. The
load became too heavy and he looked
around and all his members had
climbed In and were riding. The
character I am thinking of is always
in the bus instead or nt the wheel,
and very often he will reach out and
put on the brakes, and if he is per
suaded to help push a little someone
Will have to beg him into It andjmll
him up to it and watch him to keep
him there or he will be brakeman
again.
Nothing hut the sentinel, Public
Opinion, will keep him in line. When
such characters prevail in church
work, people worship in the same little
old wooden building their grandfath
ers used, with not a modern conve
nience to indicate a public spirited
congregation. And were they to pre
vail in town or city, there would be
no paved streets, electric lights or
street cars of any kind. People would
go about in darkness or wall tor the
moon, and wear boot . to wade in the
mud.
The character I am describing was
never known to offer a suggestion in
church, town, or city, 10 improve pres
ent conditions it" there is any possi
bility of it costing them anything. Lei
me paraphrase one of the verses on
the "Reliable Man" and It tits the
Character I am trying to describe.
'"Me may be clever and often quite
blunt
lie may have money like air.
Hut though it is not in him t'o 'put
up a front'
When you need him you must get him
there." (If you can)
I am glad to know that this char
acter, thou ill often present, does not
prevail in our churches, towns or ci
ties. The two classes have been call
ed the workers and the shirkers. Let
every one decide for themselves to
which class they belong.
W. T. A.
rror.s Hill. Nov. 28th.
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nil. COTTON QUESTION. *
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The Edltorof The Advertiser: ?
The writer was actively engaged in
the cotton business for twenty years
in North and South Carolina, Georgin,
Mississippi Olid Arkansas. 1 haVO seen
roftoa at high as fifty ceu'd a pound
that wi'iS hold by the ownar nnd lln
rtljy sohl for 18 cents a pound. 1
was buying in Mississippi when the
price was bringing four and ono-hnlf
down to one and a qua (? owing to
grade. 1 knew one man to hold i'7
bales that he was offered 0 'i-i for
until storage, interest etc , broke and
r?hfd him. I know eiuugl it'-ottt
e-otton to know that no living man
knows anything about Its future. .Men
form opinions and yet go broke: and
so docs the cotton buyer who holds for
a price. I remember tulkiug with
Aoine o?i.<,., nirn or i?m w< Ks auo
and stateil that it would not surprise
mc if cotton went to eight and a half
cents. A local buyer who was pres
ent said that if it did he would take on
wflO bales. It is almost there and I
have no doubt but what that man is
Wondering that he hadn't better wait
and see if it is not going lower.
Now as to tha futltl'i of cotton. I
learned long ago not to tell a man
to sell or hold cotton and yon can
understand froth this whal I think
uboul doing so. Nine cents is not such
a bad price, if it should go to ten oi
ten and a half next summer, figure
and see what you have made. The
manufacturer would he perfectlly wil
ling, yes delighted, to pay the differ
ence to have you hold the cotton and
earr.v it tor them. Few things heat a
clenn sheet. With the cotton sold,
the farmer would know where he
stand?, the merchant, would be re
lieved, the bank would be in a posi
tion to extend the usual accommoda
tions and my candid opinion is that
it would be for the best interest of all
parties concerned. No doubt about
there being the biggest crop on rec
ord.
{?m. . ~r "Observer."
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