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i'AGE POtm THE SUN FRIDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1988 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher One Year |1.00 Published Every Friday Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the post office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. CLAUD SENN “Friend after friend departs; Who hath not lost a friend? There is no union here of hearts That finds not here an end.” This writer feels a personal loss in the tragic death of Claud Senn. Claud was quiet, unassuming fellow, honest and loyal to his friends. We hate to give up these friends but their passing serves to enrich the prospect of our own destiny—to make more tangible eternity’s realm. To his family and the family of his father we extend our most pro found sympathy. THAT INVITATION Well, the president came to Co lumbia and ate ham and sausage with Olin while old Cotton Ed. stayed in Lynchburg and breakfasted on sour belly (being a farmer of course he did!) Cotton Ed said he didn’t get the invitation Olin said he mailed. Has Big Jim Farley been tampering with the mails? What went wrong anyway ? We have little doubt but that FDR in his press conference let it be known that he didn’t want Ed around while he was eating. This was “off the record” of course but Walter Brown for some reason put it in the record. This action seemed so little on the part of the president that something had to be done so Olin announced that Ed had been invited to share the ham and sausage. We have accused Olin of a lot of things but never of lying, and we don’t now. But if you care enough about it to experiment a little just address any number of letters to Cotton Ed. at Lynchburg,—a thous and, ten thousand, mail one each day or mail them all simultaneously, and you will' find that he will get every one of them. It won’t even be nec- essy to put his full name on them as we are sure Olin did—just “Cotton Ed.”, or a sketch of a bale of cot ton, and the town, Ed will get them. Olin says he mailed the letter. We don’t doubt it. But did he put a stamp on it? emment to bring prosperity to him is crazy or just plain dumb. No far mer can prosper except through care ful planning, hard work, and the use of common sense. The “leaners” will continue to see their children go hun gry and half-clothed. They may have little money, but those who have com mon sense and are not afraid of hard work will get along with or without government aid. The farmer can save himself. No one else can do the job. THE POLITICIAN AND BUSINESS (From the Berkeley Democrat) Senator Bailey is quoted as saying, “The average politician is in politics because he is a failure in everything else. He does not believe in a bal anced budget because he never had one.” The senator may not be 100 per cent correct in his statement, but legislative bodies in recent years have shown so little regard for the people’s money that many taxpayers will a- gree with him. THE PLIGHT OF THE FARMER (From the Berkeley Democrat) There has been so much talk about government assistance to farmers that some, perhaps, are beginning to lean too much on such assistance. The farmer who expects the gov- PROTECT YOUNG COWS FROM LICE AND WORMS Besides good breeding and proper feeding which are essential in grow ing out young dairy cattle successful ly, says Acting County Agent J. L. King, it is necessary to guard the growing stock against the injuries effects of infestation with lice and stomach worms. The heifers should be examined every few weeks during the winter and early spring months for cattle lice, he suggests. If lice appear, they should be removed immediately by using a good dust treatment. Hei fers heavily infested with lice will not make normal growth even if abundantly fed on the proper feeds. If the heifers have been grazed, especially on lowands, during the past summer, they may soon show symptoms of stomach worms. When these symptoms occur, the animals should be drenched at least twice, a- bout three weeks between drench- ings. Normal growth cannot be ex pected when animals are heavily In fested with stomach worms. Bill—Speaking about baseball, I’ve even got me a baseball dog. Jim—What makes you call him a baseball dog? Bill—Cause he wears a muzzle, catches flies, chases fowls and beats it for borne when he sees the catcher coming. Safeguard Your Home And Your Investment Too! Extra fires and Christmas lights present extra fire hazzards. Safeguard your home by taking extra care at this time of year. Safeguard your investment too, if fire gets be yond control, by having ample fire insurance on your home and furniture. t Fire insurance costs are not high. See Us Today! Newberry Insurance & Realty Co. E. B. PURCELL, President We Issue'Travellers Insurance Tickets Spectator COMMENTS A princely man has left us. David R. Coker was a man of such conspi cuous service that others may more adequately evaluate his surpassing contribution to agriculture and other pursuits. He was a great soul, a rare spirit, a fine gentleman and a manly man. I find on my desk this morning a letter from Mr. Coker, inviting me to confer with him “about a number of matters of public interest”. That pleasure is now denied me. Mr. Coker carried on worthily the great tradition of service which “the ■Cokers of Hartsville” made the very warp and woof their life. Respected and honored far and wide for his achievements, Mr. Coker never lost “the common touch”; he was always too big to act big; and I feel his loss myself for his warm humanity. The National Cotton Council will make itself felt, I think, because it makes the sanest approach to a so lution of the problem of the South ern farmer. There is no escape from the conclusion that either we must sell more cotton or develop a substi tute crop of equal magnitude. Words will not carry the full mean ing of that statement. Every nook and coner of all this wide-spread re gion is largely dependent on the pro duction and processing of cotton. It savors of romance to make plans for expanding our foreign trade. We think of the great numbers of Chin ese and the vast nations of South America as customers whose favor we need; but the greatest market in all the world for American goods is the United States. We know that the northern states have more than we Southerners, but the South is the greatest potential market for Ameri can goods in all the world. Even in bad times the people of the South buy a hundred dollars of American goods to one dollar bought by China or South America. So, with cotton stable and prosperous a National problem of markets is solved, as well as a problem of regional agriculture. What is the National Cotton Coun cil? It is a co-operative effort of producers, handlers and processors to fight for full justice for cotton, not only before Congress, but before rail roads, maritime corporations, and others. But the most important of all its functions will be to bring about an increase in the uses of cotton. Oscar Johnston, Chairman of the Council, completely captivated me, as he did all the others. I am not much of a heroworshipper, but I saw Oscar Johnston under a strain and he stood out as a man of uncommon ability, a statesmanlike farmer and a thinker of extraordinary grasp of business; and with it all, he is so in tently human and unaffected that we adopted him as “OUR OSCAR.” So much has been said and writ ten about widening the market for cotton that we have had even the sug gestion of politicians that we per- suade the Chinese to lengthen their shirttails; but most of our approach to the enlargement of demand for cotton has been oratorical, not sound ly constructive. At any rate, however sound and constructive a plan may be it will not become self-acting; it must be vigorously promoted and constant ly perserved in. So the cotton Coun cil means to ascertain new uses for cotton. This is no idle dream. Forty years ago bananas, oranges, butter nuts and rainsins were a bit out of the usual run of things for the table. Now, due entirely to advertising and sales promotion, we drink orange iuice at the breakfast table and feed bananas to babies. We have at our doors, sometimes in our vards, the nicest nut ever known—the pecan. But we rush about to buv other nuts from other places for the fruit cake. Advertising did it. So advertising— intelligentlv promoting scientific dis- coverv—will greatly increase the de mand for cotton. I heard a New York man tell of the success of cotton as a road material. He—a New Yorker—has as his hobby the use of cotton for a road material. Once conclusively proved, here is a field that might greatlv affect the de mand for cotton—and the prices. Let us face the problem with cour age and confidence. Something can be done to restore the primacy of King Cotton. What the Council needs is the full cooperation of all Southerfl farmers and other business men. We are all bound together here; when the farm er prospers, all fare well; but when cotton goes begging a blight hangs over us, all. Our Southern bankers, merchants, lawyers and doctors should find their common interest in a common cause —and support it. In South Carolina alone our cotton farmers are thirty causes; but they spring from the fact that only through organization and concert of effort can anything be ac complished. The world is too busy to look for us. If we have something worth selling we must proclaim it from the housetops—and keep on proclaiming—if we would break through the crust and break down the defence. As we sat in session I saw a two- page advertisement of Florida fruit. California orange-growers pay six cents a crate to advertise their fruit. If they did not, we would think oranges grew only in Florida; and if Florida should stop advertising we should buv our South Carolina toma toes and thrive more. It used to be said that the world would gc to the solitudes to buv the best mouse trap: but that isn’t true. If you don’t make people think you have the right mouse trap and put it on sale at convenient places, your lit tle shop willi be a museum, not a sell ing place. And the Ten Cents Stores win sell the mouse traps. We must engage in th# great dou ble task of discovering new uses for cotton and of selling cotton for those uses, If we Southerners have just half the spirit of the far West and Florida we shnll rebuild our economic life and we shall do it on cotton. If not, then on what? Much loose talk is indulged in about substitute crops. To produce what the farm consumes is sensible; but a large diversion of cotton land to other crops will upset all other sections of our nation. One cow or two cows to the family may be a sound policy; and a dozen hogs for butchering, together with a score to sell, will not entirely upset the na tional economy; but if we engage in million dollars poorer this year than dairying or cattle and hog raising on in 1937. Thirty million dollars is a tidy sum. This Cotton Council is an effort to save a whole region and, through it, to rebuild pur nation’s commerce. Those who attended from this State were T. N. Durst of Columbia, repre senting the warehousemen; J. Wade Drake of Anderson, representing the giners; Dr. J. S. Hathcock of Colum bia; J. R. Lindsay, Jr., of Greenville; J. B. Caldwell of Spartanburg; and J. K. Breedin of Manning, represent ing the South Carolina Farm Coun cil. Oscar Johnston, said to be the most extensive cotton farmer in the United States, was elected Chairmen of the Council; Vice-Chairmen are: Lamar Fleming of Texas; Harold Yoiing of Arkansas; and our own David R. Coker of Hartsville. The election of Mr. Coker was a tribute to him as a nationally and in leader in agriculture. Mr. Coker was not present, but his was the only name even suggested by the delegates from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. Oscar Johnston, in repeating the name of Mr. Coker, re- ferrer to him as a cotton specialist recognized throughout the nation and abroad. There are many organizations, many movements, a multitude of a great scale—as one of the substi tutes for cotton—we should either have to throttle present producers, or go down with them in general pov erty. Some of us who produce cotton to day are diversifying somewhat: I am marketing corn, sweet potatoes, to bacco and a few hogs, with a turkey now and then. Can I switch more extensively into these things? Tobao co is under severe restriction, wheth er by Government control or the still severer control of consumer demand; corn is selling on our market for thirty cents a bushel; ten acres of sweet potatoes would glut all local and nearby markets if only a hun dred farmers had ten acres each. We might possibly overcome the competition of the West and North in hog business and dairying, but it would be far cheaper and more satis' factory to save our own cotton busi ternationally known and respected ness than to peek something eqally TV/T-m /"i yils sin m 4-sv aiv-nml n-ml* t b A ■fn-rtr wide-spread to supplant it. A few men can do all these things—and at a profit, but for two million farmers to undertake a substitute crop would mean disaster unparallelled. The horse and mule dealers and the ice manufacturers seemed destined to stand out on pedestals in a museum befere the mighty sweep of machin ery. But they formed fighting orga nizations to save their business—and (Continued on page five) New Silent Tread built especially for late model cars MEW LOW PRICES Why take chances on even one worn tire when you can buy new Yales for so little, and pay for them as you ride in safety? WeMI gladly check your tires, today, for dangerous cuts and wear. Then let us show you the new Yale in 2 Traction Tread designs, explain its 8 special construction features and 12-month guarantee. YALE TIRES Made and Warranted by The General Tire and Rubber Company Guaranteed by The Pure Oil Company C. D. COLEMAN COMPANY PHONE 400 Washing Lubricating Accessories' Battery Service SEEK TO RESTORE THE KING OF CROPS Leaders in the cotton industry from the east coast joined hands with representatives from 18 cotton producing states in formation of a long time program to reestablish King Cotton on his throne. Through the concerted efforts of all branches of the industry, the Na tional Cotton Council of America was established with Oscar Johnston, Scott, Mississippi, manager of the largest cotton plantation in the world, as its head. Advertising, research and education combined in a co ordinated program to increase consumption of American cotton are the objectives of the Council. Among the delegates to the organization meeting from the east coast states, the following leaders were photographed together: (left to right) Wade Drake, Anderson, South Carolina, chairman of the South Caro lina State Unit; T. B. Upchurch, Jr., prominent producer, Raeford, North Carolina; R. C. Neely, Waynesboro, Georgia, chairman of the Geor gia state unit; and W. H. Smith, Prattville, Alabama, chairman of the Alabama state unit. —A JOY FOR YEARS TO COME Give Your PHOTOGRAPH This Christmas There is nothing more fitting—more personal—as a Christmas Gift, than a good photograph of yourself. 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