The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, February 26, 1919, Image 3
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Clarence Poe Suggests Re
Workers Opt of Field
Schools.-Editor's Plan
(The Statd.)
The wholo South today is discussing
the problom of how to 'better cotton
prices. The following discussion of
the matter Is sent to The State by
Editor Clarence Poe of The Progres
sive Farmer:
'lhere is no more important problem
before the ISuth today than that of
getting fair prices for the South's cot
ton crop. The prosperity of our mer
chants, bankers and p I)essional men,
as well as the prosperity of our farm
ers, is dependent upon the right solu
tion of this problem.
Of two propositions there seems to
me no reason for doubt:
(1) Conditions are such that holders
-of spot cotton should not sell at pres
ent prices.
(2) Conditions are such -That the
1919 acreage should be sharply cut
if possible, as much as 33 1:3 per cent.
In other words, (1) the present crop
being so short, must surely bring
higher prices than now prevail; but
(2) planting the same acreage we
planted last year might easily produce
a crop so large as to make disastrously
low Iprices next fall.
'Tlis is the situation in a nutshell.
More Staple Produced.
Last year the South produced only
156 pounds of lint cotton per acre. In
191.1 we made 209 pounds per acre, or
exactly one-third more per acre than
last year. 'Thris means that if last
yea r's acre yield had been as good as
in 1914, our crop would have been
15,100,000 bales instead of 11,700,000.
Or whileh means that if we plant
last year's acreage this year, and the
yield is as good as in 1911, we will
have 1.5.600,000 bales to market instead
of the 11,700,000 of the present crop.
We must Insist on fair lprices for ou1r
11,000,000 bale crop-and I am confl
dent we shall get th1emn-but we can't
afford to risk a 15,000,000 bale crop.
To hold to -the present crop and re
,duce tle next crop is manifestly there
for the one way to relieve the present
cotton situation; but I hope that the
present enlergellcy will set uts to tllill(
ing abouti ways to permanently -in
crease the price of cotton. It Is time
for the South to wake Ill) to tile fun
lainental causes that lave always
nmlado cotton aI low priced Crop iII the
past -the fuildalental evils that Imist
be correcte( if cotton is to be a high
plicel crop iln tle -fitur. And to that.
poilnt I now wkh to :dhess mysclf.
tofrotton laIIha l :1s be 11n c crop hoit
in0fore l!1,c-1ise it h oo hee madev withl
eaInl rI. It ha;; 1romu-htf a low
1'urie herall th (I 1:thor that proluced
Il la'. l 'ro'lhIt a l\wb en bee; lOe j
'nd h '1 or i V 5 a b i lisO
Xn ,.0 'C r I -rt i Iaum wo lVr
(N1o i')11r(1 Ca thI lonpr is)11 11ih
labor 01' l0(rllv - led upon11 in'
f atla3 IC ib .10s4 Nhth. NitrbIs
(hte isi it no fom lor dvore tby'
wVomen.lli tohire as? u famos liver
ersi housedeen sugges di0( tbl1uid
ming, t healed o "homt". l fi
Whateef s ome oni e Cs:.y thait lsKg
b rdy n.eItrtil who lmk -eth lohil-\
drn~ wit thfis y? Wh tor etheir
n s. So lronde-1,slmlins ofin aser
Tat fct o s not tr t he lit111 sita
51tion ord affect the01 aroen twe arel
toking. dowhn r coltt'C5tonr allmor
wthe whiers.anfrerms n
metthst wage( copfito ig
undtrton 11he go hetIs~ ao ptwof,
thle whitel man isc in tOgo. get ha
gt. to long as llte ioh nsongro<
gake etion1 'iund rk conitheon u
as o'on has Ftl to his ao as oit
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IILDREN'S SWEA1
duction by Taking Littk
s and Putting Them ir
Given.
would got if he worked in a factor3
or a mine.
It has never done this herotofore
never, that is. for any considerable pe
riod of years considered together. I
has been a low wage crop; and thi
light which faces us today is soinethin
nore than merely to raise the 'pric4
of (What cotton we havo left from itI
1918 crop, and tbe price of what wi
may raise in 1919.
The fight should be to secure per
manently higher prrcs for cotton
That Is to say, our detertinatioi
should the to put cotton on a leve
with other croIs in the matter o
wages paid labor for. producing it
We should simply "go on a strike
against raising cotton ol tile cheal
labor, child labor starvation basis o
production heretofore obtaining.
Cotton has been a cheap labor crop
"The world has gone on thinking tha
the farm laborer in the South shoulh
work for 75 cents a day when all othel
labor was getting $1.50, or $1 a (a
,when all other labor was getting $2.'
So said one of the South's leading husi
ness men to us a few weeks ago, am
it states a statistical tryth in concisi
form.
The labor used in iaking cotton It
tite South has 'been getting only fron
50 )ct* cent to 66 2-3 per cent of th<
amount paid labor in prodlucing an3
of the other great crops of this coun.
try.
Let.'s compare the United States de
patnient of agriculture figures show
ini the average Itonthly wages in tilt
South Atlantic States as compare<
with the average wages in tlte Nortil
AtlantIc States and then compare sucl
'wages in tite South Central Sitates will
wages in the North Central States, 11
other words, let's see what farm lahbo)
hlas ommanded here inl Ilte South am(
what. it htas commanded in other'State ,
just north of ours. Ilbre are tite f1g.
utres:
Average Wages of 31aile Farm Labor
Per 314onth.
1869 187!
North Atlantic.. .. ..$22.36 $21.2:
South Atlantic ......10.7'4 12.2
North 'Central .......20.01 21.81
South Central ..n......13.18 15.11
1889 190!
North Atlantic ......$24.72 $30.81
Southi Atlantic .. .. .. 13.01 , 18.71
North ('itrl . . . ... 22.25 30.5
Sotith Central .......11.10 20.2'
NNw lt 1. get onev poitlti very clear
ly inl 11n1nd. That polint is, that. Ilh<
:'ule of wages or prolits for farti LI
har (as slown by the fortgoing tablt
.h illdicalt s th. scale of iwa:ges; 0
prolits for the workiing Airin OWns1,
lit hasi. had1 tt get ~Pay. fori hiis tloi
(Put (P h is a c oo , andai it ha~s ben1 julS
Pe at a' bastis as the iborert ha.
h t ;on thle bl15 fm-t whieti
* V It t .- wa rb i ;:t as wI
hin it a re il hSLt h to' tokt
* b b !tor the wapb
-kto thi befor thsI
C n in f~n- , .no exb:
on i hai low v. ge, (e1. 10 3 s m
Mdya "enyo '1 exist otti
('(t totn andi mtor~tgintg the farmts Wi
Hastings' 1919
Seed Catalog Free
It's ready now. One hutndrodl hand
somely Illustrated panges with brilliant
cover in natural colors. It's both
beaittiful atnd helpful atnd all thlat is
necessary to got It is a postal card
request. You will fittd our 1919 cata
logue a well worth wIlo book.
Ilastings Seedsn are sold direct by
mail. You will never find thetm on
saulo in thto stores. We have 50om1
flye hundhred thlousanid customers wvho
buly frotm ts by mail. We plenso andt~
satisfy them, and~ we can please alnd
satisfy you In 1919..
Plnting Ihastings' Soeds1 in your
Jardenm orin your elds11(1 insures "good
uick" so far as r'esults can be deoter-.
r ined bly ti. deed planted. For 30
Ytrit Ihantintgs Seeds hlavo beeni thto
5th dard of seed excellence andti pur1
it xtn the South. Only varieties
-- lida id to thle South are listed. Qual
a its' h\io best antd pricos oftetn less
Sthan- so' you pay at hlome. Write
Sfor fropoiy of tis splendidl cata
1 loguo .I H. a. HASTINGS CO.,
a Soedsmc\mt ...a Ga~Avt
owned to make up the difference be
tween the prjce of cotton and the cost
of living. I know, because my father
and I were, nakitng cotton then, as I
am now, and the old farm which had
been in the family for three genera
tions had to be mortgaged to meet
living expinses. The period from 1890
to 1900 was the peiriod of a wholesale
heart-sickening change from land
ownership to,tenancy in the South, and
this is the explanation. We 'were
simply selling cotton for less than cost
and ipaying for the privilege .by giv
ing away our homes to boot.
Cotton, as is clearly proved there
fore, has been a cheap labor crop. It
has also been a child labor crop.
Not only have men who made cot
toil worked for less than men makling
corn, wheat, hay, hogs, etc. but they
have thrown In the labor of their chil
dren (and often of their wives) foi
little or nothing.
In all the other States of the Union
and in practically every other civil
Ized country on carth, It has been 'thc
custoi for years not only to trovidc
six or ight months pIbIli School
term for Children but to compel chil
dren to attend school. The faious
map compiled by the Russell Sage
Foundation. 1912, brings out that Idea
-a map showing in white the States
that compelled the children to go te
school, in black the States without
comipilsory attendance laws, and iI
To the Issi dro
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shaded form the State with .halfway
compulsory attendance laws-the re
sult. being -that every State in the Un
ion was shown in iwhite except the
following States without compulsory
attendance laws: South 'Carolina, Flor
ida, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama,
Texas. States with makeshift coi
pulsory attendance laws: Arkansas,
Tennessee, Virginia, Louisiana, North
Carolina, Maryland.
Only one Southern State-Oklahoma
-then had a genuine compulsory at
tendance law, and only one State out
side the South-Maryland-lacked
(Continued on Page Seven.)
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