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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, August 15, 1940
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Cotton Report As
Of August 1,1940
A South Carolina cotton crop of
840,000 bales of 500 pounds gross
weight is forecast from conditions
as of August 1, according to report
issued by Frank O. Black, agrfcul-
ral statistician, Columbia, Au
gust 9th. A crop of this size would
e 31,000 bales or 4 per cent below
production in 1939 but 52,000 bales
«>r 7 per cent above average pro
duction for the 7 years since the
beginning of the control program
.'n 1933.
The August 1 condition of 79
per cent of normal indicates a
yield per acre of 318 pounds lint,
vhich would be 24 pounds below
the record yield of 342 pounds last
year but 43 pounds above the av
erage of 275 pounds since 1933 and
4 urther compares with the aver
age of 219 pounds for the 5-year
period (1928-32) immediately pre
ceding the control program.
The forecast is based on 1,264,-
000 acres for harvest this fall,
which. compares with 1,218,000
acres harvested last year and the
average of 1,369,000 acres har
vested during the 7 years 1933-39.
Early Spring weather was too
rod for proper germination and
growth, but June and July weather
was generally favorable and the
crop has largely overcome the slow
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start and Is now about up to av
erage in advancement.
Plants are rather small in some
ooaiities —.particularly on clay
soils—where moisture has been
omewhat deficient, but generally
•peaking the crop is uniformly
good over the entire State.
Prospects on August 1 were bet
ter in the extreme northwestern
and southern portions, where the
condition was reported as 84 and
83 per cent of normal, respective
ly, but less favorable ^hruout the
middle two-thirds of the State
where the condition averaged 74
per cent. ., .
Reported weevil infestation is
the lowest in years. It appears
that fewer weevils than usual
emerged this spring, which,
coupled with extensive poisoning
and very favorable weather for
weevil control during the last half
of July, has reduced the weevil
threat to a minimum.
Crop correspondents estimate
that 97 per cent of this year’s
cotton acreage received commer
cial fertilizer and that an average
of 405 pounds per acre were ap
plied. This is about the usual
proportion of acreage receiving
fertilizer but the amount applied
is 5 pounds above last year and 75
pounds above the ten-year (1929-
38) average. ^
A United States cotton crop of
11,429,000 bales is forecast by the
Crop Reporting Board of the
United States Department of Ag
riculture, based upon information
gathered as of August 1% Such a
production would be 388,000 bales,
or 3.3 per cent, less than the 1939
crop, and 2,118,000 bales, or 15.6
per cent, less than the 10-year
(1929-38)-average. . •
The average yield for the United
States is. forecast at 222.3 pounds
per acre, which is 15.6 pounds less
than the 1939 yield, but 24.2
pounds more than the average of
198.1 pounds per acre.
The forecast production of 2,-
893.000 bales in Texas is slightly
more than produced in 1939, but a
million bales less than average
production in that State. The
Arkansas prospect of 1,315,000
bales is 100,000 bales less than
last year and slightly above av
erage. In Mississippi, a crop of 1,-
313,000 bales is about 18 per cent
below 1939 and the average. The
Alabama, Louisiana, and Okla
homa crops are about 30 per cent
below average. The Missouri crop
is much below last year but 13 per
cent ab6ve average, while the
Tennessee crop is about average.
South Carolina has a favorable
prospect of 840,000 bales in com
parison with the average produc
tion of 820,000 bales in that State.
Georgia and North Carolina crop
prospects are about 20 and 10 per
cent respectively below average.
Production in the irrigated States
of the West continues above av-
erage.
The cotton acreage of 24,616,000
acres used in this report is the es
timated acreage in cultivation on
July 1 less the 10-year average
abandonment. The acreage is
811,000 acres, or 3 per cent, more
than finally harvested in 1939, but
8,550,000 acres, or 26 per cent, less
than the average of 33,166,000
acres. The Board secured such
information as was available con
cerning the number of acres
which would be removed in order
to comply with the Agricultural
Conservation Program, and made
due allowance for-such reduction
in acreage to be harvested in de
termining the probable produc
tion.
The reports from crop corre
spondents indicate that the crop
in the Mississippi Delta and in
Alabama and Tennessee is from
one week to 12 days late, due to
late plantings and frequent rains
and cool weather until late July
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is only A few days late; in Geor
gia, less than a week late; while
in the Carolinas, it is average or
earlier.
Reports received up to August 1
concerning weevil presence and
activity indicate a light prospec
tive loss from this source in Vir
ginia and the Carolfhas/ 'ln Geor
gia, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas
and Texas, prospective loss is in
dicated near to average. In Mis
sissippi and Oklahoma, a relatively
light loss is indicated. For the
United States as a whole, prospec
tive loss from this source is less
than last year and less than av
erage.
WASHIM<nON
Washington, August 12.—The
presidential campaign machinery
of both the major parties has now
been set up and the actual cam
paign is about to begin. The
selection by the President of Ed
ward J. Flynn, of New York, as
Chairman of the Democratic Na
tional Committee to succeed Post
master-General Farley, while not
expected, is considered by Demo
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THE/TREND IS TO TAYLOR!
Voterfe All Over Third District Are Rallying
To Andersonian — Textile Workers Say
Taylor Was Right On Wage Law And
Are For Him — Whole District Recalls
His Fine Record And Faithful Service
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Taylor favors a strong Ajvny.
Navy and Air Force with which to
defend America. He isv'no new
convert to this view^naving al- 11
ways advocated a^,strong defense
nolicy for this jration. He is in
full accord with President Roose
velt’s defense program.
six years he repre-
the people of the Third
t Taylor was a tireless
ker. He was successful in pre
senting the needs of many towns
and communities for various Fed
eral projects. Many of'these were
built during his term in office,
sent
way possible. He voted for full
payment of the soldiers’ bonus.
He is a World War veteran. He
voted to take the profit out of
war. Personally and politically he
is a dry.
Taylor is a frank, sincere, man
of deep convictions. He values
his word, makes no idle promises.
The people know they can trust
Taylor to keen his word and serve
them faithfully.
He served the Third District well
for six years, giving prompt atten
tion to every letter and request
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Two years ago, seven voted against Congressman Taylor because
they sincerely believed he was wrong on the wage bill. The
“stretch-out” loads have convinced them he was right. They
are all for Taylor no#I
Textile workers are lining up behind their true friend
JOHN C. TAYLOR in this year’s campaign. Similar reports
are pouring in from all over the district.
*nd others are now In process of
construction among the numerous
proposals of the Roosevelt admin-
stration which he supported is
•be Social -Security Act. This act
allows up to $30 a month old age
tensions, relief for crippled chil
dren, assistance to the sick and
Pelpless, and,funds for mothers.
Taylor gave his active and en
thusiastic support to every piece
af legislation helpful to our veter
ans, and assisted the ex-soldiers,
their widows and families in every
that came to his office.
Taylor is the man who carried
the cause of the textile workers to
the President of the United States
in an effort to have the machine
load regulated. He knows the
problems of the textile people first
hand, for he worked for 21 years
in the mills of the Piedmont sec
tion, most of that time in the
Chiquola Mill, at Honea Path.
The people need him in Congress
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McCORMICK, S. C.
Mr. Roosevelt wanted Senator
Byrnes of South Carolina to take
the post. Mr. Byrnes is regarded
as the smartest political strategist
in his party. He declined the
Presidential invitation on the plea
that he is a victim of hay fever
which always lays him low for a
month or more at the very time
of year when the campaign will
be at its height.
Chairman Flynn inherits from
Chairman Farley a thoroughly or
ganized party machine. He has
not the intimate knowledge of
party leaders and workers
throughout the nation that Mr.
Farley has. He also lacks much of
Mr. Farley’s personal megnetism
which has made the retiring
Chairman one of the most popu
lar politicians in the country.
Mr. Flynn has a long and excel
lent record of public service. He
has been Secretary of State of
New York, Sheriff of Bronx Coun
ty and is now the acknowledged
political leader of that most popu-
ous borough of New York City.
Larger Bank-roll
The Democrats start their cam
paign with a larger potential
bank-roll than the Republicans
have. Under the Hatch law, no
national party organization may
spend more than $3,000,000 in any
presidential campaign year. The
Republicans have already spent,
since January 1, 1940, about $1,-
500,000, while the Democratic
National Committee has still
about $2,000,000 margin left for
use in this campaign.
But the Hatch law permits State
Committees and other political
groups to spend as much as they
can raise. That, at least, has
been the general interpretation of
this new “Purity in Politics”
measure as understood in Wash
ington, and it has been confirmed
in a formal legal opinion given to
the Republican National Commit
tee by its General Counsel and
former Chairman, Hon. Henry P.
Fletcher
Mr. Willkie, the Republican
nominee, has set his foot down
firmly against extravagant’ ex
penditures on his behalf. Nobody
is to be paid for making speeches
for him. The radio chains are
worrying for fear they will not get
their usual large revenue for
broadcasting political speeches.
But nothing is to stop State and
County Committees, “Willkie-for-
President” clubs and the rapidly
organizing. Democratic Willkie
Party from spending whatever
they like for local newspaper ad
vertising.
Martin Tied Up
Representative Joe Martin of
Massachusetts, the new Chairman
of the Republican National Com
mittee, is not likely to be able to
give the close attention to the
campaign that he did in 1932 and
1936, when he was in charge of
the Eastern headquarters of the
party. Mr. Martin has his hands
full as leader of the Republican
minority in the House of Repre
sentatives. So John Hamilton,
the former Chairman and now
Assistant Chairman, will run the
campaign from national head
quarters in Chicago and Samuel
F. Pryor will be in charge of the
New York offices.
The heavy work in the East,
however, is expected to be done by
the Willkie Clubs, under the
direction of Oren P. Root, the
young man who actually started
the Willkie movement, and who
has associated with him Russell
W. Davenport, formerly manag
ing-editor of “Fortune Magazine,”
and Raymond W. Buell, former
President of the Foreign Policy
Association. Besides those politi
cal amateurs there is a large bloc
of experienced politicians, former
ly active in the Democratic Party,
who are undertaking to organise
Southern Democrats for Willkie
in the hope of repeating their suc
cess of 1928 when they carried ^
states of the Solid South for
Hoover, by the aid of Democratic
votes.
The best and most scien"
political forecasters today r e
pointing to a strong trend in ?
direction of a Republican vir’ /
in November. But the sma* it
of them are pointing out that at
this period in the 1936 campaign
the trend also seemed strongly
Republican. In what direction, it
may swing or continue depends
upon events in Europe affecting
our own national security, prob
ably as much as upon any .other
one possibility.
Defense Non-partisan
There is no political capital for
either side to be made out of the
National Defense program, nor
does there seem to be any partisan
angle which either party could use
to advantage in the question of
conscription of young Americans
for military training. The bill
■ which Congress has before it pro-
1 viding for such conscription was
sponsored by a Democratic Sena-
i tor, Burke of Nebraska, who has
since bolted the party and de
clared for Willkie, and by Repre
sentative Wadsworth of New York,
a staunch Republican. One of its
principal backers is Republican
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts.
On the other political side.
President Roosevelt’s declaration
that he favors the plan is ex
pected to carry much weight. Mr.
Willkie has promised to state his
position on conscription in his
speech of acceptance. Some who
have talked to him lately expect
his attitude to be the same as
that of the President. A recent
poll of daily newspapers through
out the nation shows more than
87 per cent in favor of compul
sory military training.
The indications are, however,
for a hotly contested and long-
drawn-out debate in both Houses
of Congress.
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