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‘ /V i i n %. Page Number Two Thursday, June 28, 1928 Completed yesterday. Destroyed to-day. EVERY day, every hour that your property stands without fire • insurance is an invitation to financial loss. Fire strikes without warning perhaps wiping out today the newly completed building of yester day. Delay to insure may cause the loss of your investment u The large and ample re- jj sources of the Hartford ; S iFire Insurance Company jP are offered to you by this agency to protect your property and safeguard jSl your investment against jT loss by fire. I Frank C. Robinson [ Insurance Agency ^ PHONE 66 McCormick. S. C. i Clemson College r Scholarship Examinations i Competitive examinations for the award of vacant scholarships in Clemson College will be held on Fri day, July 13th, 1928, beginning at 9 a. m., by each County Superintend- «nt of Education. These scholar ships will be open to young men sixteen years of age or over, .who desire to pursue courses in Agricul ture and Textiles. Scholarships are awarded by the State Board of Edu cation on the recommer.dat'on of the State Board of Public Welfare. Persons interested should write the Registrar for information and application blanks before the time of the examinations. Successful ap plicants must meet fully the require ments for admission. Each scholarship is worth $100.00 and free tuition, which is $40.00 ad ditional. Membership in the Re serve Officers’ Training Corps—R. O. T. C.—is of financial assistance. These examinations may also be used as credit toward admission in to college. For further information write— The Registrar, Clemson College, S. C. f» THE CITADEL * * trite Military College Of South Carolina Vacant Schol- H arshins ! f i A vacant scholarship in McCormick County will be filled by competitive - examination to be held at the coun ty seat cn Friday, July 13th. Appli cants must be at least sixteen and not more than twenty years of age, and must meet the educational re quirements for admission to the freshman class, which are a certif icate from an accredited four-year high school, covering fifteen units, or an equivalent examination. This scholarship covers tuition, board, hospital, laundry, room, and an allowance for uniforms. The Citadel is a liberal arts col lege, offering electives i n civil en ginering, science, language and lit erature, and business administration. I It has an excellent military sys tem, having been rated by the War Department continuously for many years as “distinguished military col lege.” An inspector says of it: ■ “It is so superior in all its meth ods, it must be classed alone.” i» It provides thorough physical training of all students under com petent supervision, and encourages pH athletic sports. > For catalogue and blanks, write to, COL. O. J. BOND, President, w The Citadel, .Charleston, S. C. || Don’t let your name be tak- *» off our subscription list fust for the want of One Dol- Bsr. Send the dollar and or- Idet the paper for another fw. You won't regret it. Great Industry Forestalls All Trade Disputes Close Co-operation With Gov ernmental Agencies Is Policy Of Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers’ Association WASHINGTON, June 26.—How one of the country’s greatest indus- tr’cs has succeeded in forestalling trade disputes, has operated under its own trading rules satisfactorily for a period of over thirty years and has avoided any legal entanglements with the Federal government was described by Christie Benet, of Co lumbia, S. C... general counsel of the Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers As- ~,cciatidn, speaker on the general program, at the recent annual meet ing of the Un'ted States Chamber of Commerce. Close co-operation with govern mental agencies is the policy of the Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers As sociation, Mr. Benet said, and he ad vised any industry that sets up trad ing rules to follow certain necessary sane principles: Know your facts, make your rules clear and plain, use experts, particularly the government experts, to help you set them up; trust your competitors, but, having trusted them, if they do not live up to the rules, give them short shrift ever after. In detailing the policy of the In terstate Association in co.operating with the government, Mr. Benet said: “The Department of Agriculture has helped us set up grades for Ent ers, and the Enter business is now following these grades. “The Department of Commerce is cooperating with us, and the Depart ment of Justice is co-operating with us fully on a code of trade practices which we are setting up. “The industry which I repUesent has just gone 'through,, under con gressional order, an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission,” said Mr. Benet. “The report of tho Com mission not alone gave a complete and clean bill of health, but made most constructive and helpful sug gestions. That industry is organized as the Interstate Cotton Seed Crush- el’s Association. “What is a crusher? A crusher is an operator of a mill that buys cottonseed and makes it into pro ducts wh ; c!i are used in other man ufactures. “Cottonseed meal cannot be bought by itself, ror can cottonseed oil oi Enters, or hullo. For every bale of cotton that is sold there is a rela tive amount of cottonseed, and each one of those .cottonseeds has in it oil, which is the principal value; meal which is next in value; the hull, which incloses these two products; and the lintens, which are the lit tle remnants of staple cotton left on the outside of the cottonseed when the cotton is ginned off to go into cloth. “That immediately makes a very interesting situation from the point of view of a manufacturer, because he cannot buy any one of the four materials I have mentioned by itself until some other manufacturer, call ed a crushed, has bought all four and separated them. “The oil is frhe most valuable, the meal is next in value. Both of those products gained their value from their chemical makeup, and that var ies with heat, climate, soil, fertiliza tion, care in keeping and many oth er factors. Cottonseed is a perish able commodity. Our industry has to buy the entire crop of the South in about ten or twelve' weeks, which puts a tremendous task upon the in dustry. “In 1926-27 the amount of cotton seed raised in the South amounted, in value, to $160,000,000, in round figures. The value of products man ufactured therefrom would run from $240,000,000 to $300,000,00o; and that has all come from a product which, in my life-time has been built up by an industry from a waste product which was poured into the streams, on burned up as absolutely worth less. “I am giving you these facts be cause I want to talk about forestall ing and preventing and adjusting trade d'sputes. Last year in our in dustry there were actually sold 31,- 465 tank cars of oil, each tank car amounting to about $6,000 in value. Every ore of those tank cars had to be sold on a basis of chemical analy sis. The whole basis of trading for oil is s?t up in those rules which have been worked out in the last 35 years by the industry, and principal ly by the Interstate Association. “It ir; difficult to set up trading rules in any industry. It is very d ificu.t to ret up trading rules wher those rules have to be based upoi the act on of chemists, or in many r i '°rces, of people who are n • ' "‘1 ’■ in the indu try, because of the units in the industry ar big enough to employ the :ul ef a competent chemist. “To met that situation we hav • up these trading rules. We 1 i e+‘eree chem sts. and weighers locat ed in various places throughout h - ' country, and when Mill A wishes to sell a car of oil to Refinery B he makes the transaction on these te ms. “He sells his product on the basis of prime oil. He loads his tank and ships it. He attaches his b H of lad ing to his draft ar.d draws for the full amount based upen prime oil. Before that tank car leaves his plant, he draws a sample which hr sends to his chemist; or if he has a plant chemist, he has a sample an alyzed. When that tank cau leaves the refinery, in order to prevent charge in the chem'cal set-up or the oil, to release the tank car for fur ther shipments, and to give M.ll A its money to continue its operation —'for many mills are small units— : t is necessary to unload that oi promptly. “Tho refine:* unloads the oil. He has h's chemist analyze it. He then writes to Mill A and says: ‘My chemist says your oil is 20 points off or 20 points on prime.’ If that is a sufficiently close check with the an alysis of Mill A chemist. Mill A w'res back, and the transaction is closed. If not he wires: ‘Draw of ficial sample.’ “Three samples are drawn by an Official inspector. One goes to the refiner, one to the mill that ships it, and the third to the referee chemist who is chosen by and whose authority comes from the association. “That chemat then files a report, and the adjustment and remittance is made on the mean of the two closest analysis of the three chem ists—a very accurate, prompt and satisfactory way of doing business. “We found we could not go tc courts to settle our business. We do not have time; and, w r ith all due respect to the profession to which I belong, we dc'n’t have time to edu cate the la wye: s and the judges about our business. It takes too long, and the oil would ret long be fore we had really started on the process. “So we have developed th’s sys tern; and last year this system handled not only 11,000 tanks of oil. but also our meal, some cf our Ent ers. Out cf between ten and twenty thousand contracts, wo had one case that went to courts; and we have one case that threatens to go to court now. “In the first case the Supreme Court of Arkansas sustained ou: trading rules in every point; and in the second case which one of our members is thinking of taking t: court against another member whr would not comply with the award we are conf'dent that, if the case does gc : to court, the actio* of our committee will be sustained. “If traders do not settle, what dc we do? The person who thinks he is inju:cd has the right to take hi case to an arbitration committee. “Arbitration committees are set up in various cities of the country. They sit as courts. They dispose of a technical case in two hours where it would take a court two weeks. They then have an appeal committee. So the people’s rights are protected. “If we in our industry can set up a set of arbitration rules, if we in our industry can set up a set of trading rules by wh’ch we can deal i n a valuable commodity which we buy from tens cf thousands of buy ers, and hundreds of thousands of farmers scattered over sixteen states, and which we sell all over America, others can do it in their industry. “Heie are seme of the things we make out of our product. We make high explosives and we make silk stockings. Whether they are kin to each other ycu can decide for your self. “We make calf feed, cattle feed, horse feed, photographic film and varnishes, and collodions, stuff like duco, artificial leather, packing of all kinds. ‘We make emulsions for medical purposes, and we make human food, animal feed, chicken feed. “We make or furnish material for more than 140 products which are used by ether industries. Our whole business is based entirely upon the confidence in these trading rules and in the integrity of the men who en force them. “If we in our industry, which takes in many many small mills scattered through the West and Southwest, can make a set of rules that have worked satisfactorily over a period of 30 years, that stand the test of time and apply to a valuable commodity, when we t,rt ' more or 1‘fs the football cf politics because we deal with the farmer -then I say to ycu that you can do it, no matter wl'f<f your problem* or v*hat your in to: t sts arc.” More oiliness is proved by this harsh test that gives the facts about an oil, a motor oil that goes beyond the duties of an oil and keeps down wear and tear. “STAN DARD MOTOR OIL “Standard? Greases, Transmission Oil and Gear Compound are madewiththe same care as “Standard ” motor fuels and motor oils. PROOF OF LESS WEAR A large truck manufacturer i _ motors for 50 hours with “Standard” and with other well- known oils. Throttle, spark and carburetor adjustments were constant* Gritty particles were applied to the air as it entered the carburetor to increaseabra- sion on cylinder walls. This test proved that cylinders and rings were worn only one ninth as much with “Standard” Motor Oil as with the other oils. You can draw your own con clusions as to what this means in cutting costs of motor up- J .keep. 4 Experts Recommend Acala As Superior Cotton Variety Plant Discovered In Southern Mexico In 1906 How a single plant, discovered in southern Mexico in 1906, has been multiplied and improved until it now ^orms the principal cotton variety ir Mie irr’gated cotton lands of the West and Southwest, and has proved •‘t"clf of value over a large part of the Otton Belt, is reported in Cir cular No. 2-C, Acala Gotten, just Published by the United States Dc- -artment e!: Agriculture. In 1925 crowds planted Acala cotton or about 400,000 acres in California Arizona, New Mex.co and western Texas. Moreover, much Acala. sonr of it cf less pure origin, : s planted in northern Texas, Oklahoma, and neighboring States with succcssfu 1 test plantings in other sections. O. F. Cook headed a party scouting for Mexican cottons resistent to boll weevils early in 1906. In the course of the journey he discovered a s’ngle plant by the roadside in Ocosingc Mexico, a region where nc other cot ton grew. Ho learned it was from cotton brought f:om a district to the southeast for hand weaving and spinning in the village. H;s party went on but he remembered thif plant and in the next winter G. N Collins and C. B. Doyle left Wash ington and i n the course of the next month reached the district to fhe southeast cf Ocosingo. There in a market they discovered another cot ton they hoped would prove superior and gc^ng in search of this cotton they found at Acala, Mexico, a patch similar to the superior cotton Mr. Cook had noticed at Ocosingo. Seed procured (from a local gin is the pa rent stock of the present variety. For twenty years these three men and other workers in the department have been propagating and selecting superior strains and introducing the Acala cotton to growers. It is an uncommonly hardy variety, with stands extremes of temperature and moisture, is highly resistant to the boll weevil, and yields a superior fiber of great uniformity, medium length staple, excellent spinning quality n.:d strength, and it takes dyes be', er than most cdttons. One unusual feature of the devel opment of Acala culture has appear ed in t V: Coachella Valley in Cali fornia. Most of the cotton growers of this \ alley became convinced of the wis 1 -m of the plan of growing only on: variety of cotton in the comma riy, thus insuring a larger supply of uniform cotton, a pure seed supply, and surplus of pure seed fer sale. They selected Acala as the t no variety. California pass ed leg": ation allowing the formation \our Buick Dealer stands back of the USED CARS he Your Buick dealer’s good reputa tion in the community is worth far more to him than the profit he makes on any used car transaction. f He is the head £of an established business and he knows that in order to get more business, he must please his present customers. He carries a representative stock of used cars, including both used Buicks and cars of other makes— and he represents them honestly. You’re sure of a square deal when you buy from the Buick dealer. ITe stands back of the used cars he sells. BUICK MOTOR. COMPANY FLINT, MICH.—DIVISION OF GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION K HARRISON MOTOR COMPANY, ■— * Dealers Greenwood, S. C. to follow this example. The cotton experts believe that the one variety plan of culture is the only method by which seed stock can be kept pure ar.d kept from “iiinn'ng out” under the prevailing ginning prac tices cf the Cotton Belt. Acala cot ton in quantities as grown by com munities is in good demard and be cause of its superior qualities com mands a prem'um of from 2 to 5 cents a pound or. the market. Growers interested in Acala cot ton either for culture by individual: or in cne variety communities are invited to apply to the United States Department of Agriculture, Washing ton, D. C., for a copy of Circular No. 2-C. t xt Geese For Profit there is good green pasture, most goslings can be raised from the time they are 2 or 3 weeks old to fatter,- ing t ine without any additional feed. Seme farmers who fatten their own qecs-: feed them three times dailj; one feed cf a moist but not sloppy mash made of 1-3 shorts and 2-3 corn meal, and two feeds cf corn with some cats or barley. Some roughage or vegetables should be given. Ten-weeks-old goslings of the largest breeds of purebred geese weigh as much as 10 to 12 pounds when forced for rapid growth and are sometimes marketed at that age as gree n geese. Higher prices for such geese aiie usually obtained in summer. The demand for goose feathers and the practice of pluck ing geese seem to be decreasing and more attention is being paid to their production for market. of pure seed communities and for- Opportunities for goose i*aising at bidding the progation of other vari- a profit are best in sections where eties. Other districts in the South- there is a demand for geese for fat- west have followed or are preparing ' tening for use in large cities. Where 5 Russian sable is accounted the most vc ..able of furs. «