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FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1941
THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE FIVE
COTTON ON THE OFFENSIVE
The cotton industry prepares for the third year of its nationwidi
campaign to increase the consumption of American cotton through
advertising, scientific research, and resistance to discriminatory legis
iation. Through its threefold attack the industry expects to attain .he
goal .parity^vposumption and parity income as'well as parity price.
Calling op e^ry mem^pr of the
cotton industry in ^dewberry and the
surromvding area r to pledge anew his
allegiance to the drive for cotton
markets, President Oscar Johnston of
the National Cotton Council said to
day that the assurance of parity
prices for cotton is only the begin
ning of the cotton farmer’s fight for
parity income.
“Only through the atainment of
parity consumption can the farmer
be assured that his income will oe on
a par with that of other workers,”
Mr. Johnston declared. “For that rea
son we must not slacken for a mo
ment our efforts to increase the con
sumption of American cotton pro
ducts; rather, we must intensify and
redouble those efforts.
“During the parity period, *909
to 1914, the consumption of Ameri
can cotton averaged nearly 13,500,-
000 bales. We must reach at least
this level of consumption to give us
parity income. We must go far be
yond it if we are to achieve real pros
perity for the Cotton Belt.
“The only way we can hope to
reach the parity consumption mark is
through a continuation of the pro
gram of advertising, scientific re-
serch, efforts to regain foreign mar
kets, and resistence to discriminatory
legislation, which the cotton industry
has carried on ifop- the past two
years.
“In the end, it will avail us little
to have parity prices if cotton con
sumption is cut down. A parity prico
means nothing unless we can sell a
sufficient number of pounds of our
product at that price to insure us a
living wage and a decent return for
our efforts.
“That the cotton industry’s pro
gram to secure increased consump
tion is aimed in the right direction
is proved by the gratifying results
which have been achieved thus far
A gain of almost 2,500,000 bales in
domestic cotton consumption over
last year is already in sight.
“Again on the 1941 crop cotton pro
ducers, ginners, warehousemen, mer
chants, crushers and spinners are be
ing called upon to contribute their
pro rata share toward a continuation
of the domestic consumption cam
paign on an expanded scale and for
a program to regain our foreign mar
kets at the end of the war.
“As a cotton farmer speaking for
the producers, I call upon every mem
ber of the six raw cotton interests
and every individual dependent upon
cotton for a livelihood to join us in
our efforts to strengthen the program
to attain parity consumption.”
MRS. THOMPSON DIES
Mrs. Lener Thompson, 57, difed at I
the Newberry County hospital Mon
day night. She had been ill for some
tirtle.
She is survived by five brothers,
Fred Queen, J. C. Queen, M. H. Queen,
G. M. Queen and T. G. Queen, and one
sister, Mrs. A. B. Odom.
Funeral services were held from
New Liberty church in Greenvilllie
county at 5 p. m. Tuesday with the
Rev. Floyd Corley in charge. Burial
was in the church cemetery.
COTTON EXPERT SEES
SHORT CROP
By J. Skottow Wonnamaker
(President, American Cotton Assn.l
St. Matthews, July 4. — Reports
from dirt farmers and representatives
of fiendly allied lines from every
section of the cotton belt as of July
3 show that the condition of the grow
ing cotton crop and indicated yield
per acre is the same as the 1921-22
cotton crop when the production was
7,900,000 bales on 28,700,000 acres.
The cotton acreage this season, 23,-
700,000 acres, is approximately 5,-
000,000 or one sixth less acreage than
in 1921-22. Indicated yield of cotton
is 7,425,000 bales.
With the exception of Tennessee,
Alabama and parts of Mississippi, the
condition and .indicated yield per
acre of the growing cotton crop is as
low and lower than in 1921-22 at this
time.
Cotton is a dry weather plant and
sunshine is vitally necessary. Con
tinuous rains, cloudy weather, and
lack of sunshine throughout 80 per
cent of the cottorr belt, Resulting in
abnormal seasons, is similar to the
seasons of 1921, since the middle of
June, has produced a luxuriant poor-
iy fruited plant with undersize bolls
equiring, as was the case with these
conditions in 1921-22, 110 bolls to pro
duce a pound of lint cotton instead
of seventy bolls which is required in
normal seasons. These conditions have
also vastly increased the boll weevil
propagation and damage.
As is shown by the written rec
ords, in 1921 these abnormal condi
tions were not given due considera
tion until the last of December.
Hence, the indicated yield was shown
as from 11,600,000 to 12,000,000 bales
including the final report in Decem
ber. A supplementary report was
made on December 20—some ten days
to two weeks after the final report,
reducing the yield to 8,200,000. The
cotton yield as shown by the ginning
returns was only 7,900,000 bales. Un
less we have immediate improvement
in weather conditions with ideal
weather conditions for the balance of
the season and a late migration of the
boll weevil, instead of around the
first part of August, and a late
frost with one-sixth less acreage
planted in cotton this season than in
1921, we will have one-sixth less pro
duction of cotton than in 1921-22.
During the World War, middling
cotton sold for 43 cents a pound. As
a result of the abnormal short crop
in 1921, cotton price advanced to 36
cents a pound in 1923. Under the
law, the commodity credit corporation
can only release a maximum of 300,-
000 bales of cotton per month from
their 1937 loan cotton estimating to
cost them 12 1-4 to 12 1-2 cents per
pound.
The cotton growers with this rec
ord short production will probably
avail themselves of the 1941 loan on
their cotton to a geater extent than
with a normal cotton crop in hope of
reducing their losses by getting high
er prices. The cotton so borrowed on
by the farmers fom the commodity
credit cooperation will certainly ex
ceed the maximum amount that can be
released by the commodity credit cor
poration.
COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBERS SCORE 96
QUIZ ON U. p. DEFENSE BONDS
SIDEWALK
SUp e*INTENDENTS
T here’s no hocus pocus about building anything
—from a new porch to a new city. It’s out in
the open where we can see all of the work. What
it takes in men and materials can be seen for the
looking.
It’s easy to see what our local Construction Industry
has done for this town! Look around you! And
think back a little ways. It’s hard to believe this
is the same town.
If you look behind the scenes you’ll see more happi
ness, more health and a better future for all of us.
That’s what our local Construction Industry has
done for this town! That’s the biggest job it’s done.
It’s mighty important to realize how local Construc
tion has done its big job. The job has been done by
individual effort—by free enterprise.
That’s an open air system, too. Where everybody
works on an equal basis. Where nothing is hidden
by red tape.
Invest now — in your own home — in your own
community.
Courtesy Nation”s Business Magazine
Q. How does the Treasury Depart
ment’s regular purchase plan operate?
A. Upon request, reminders and re
turn envelopes are sent to you. These
reminders will come at any intervals
you select—weekly, semi-monthly,
monthly, etc. You may dhange these
intervals at any time, increase or de
crease your orders, or stop ordering
at any time. The advantages of the
regular purchase plan have already
led more than 100,000 persons to make
systematic savings through Savings
Bonds.
Q. By purchasing Defense Savings
Bonds, can I assure myself of a re
gular income like an annuity, 10
years from now?
A. Yes. If you pay $18.75 for a
Defense Savings Bond every month
for 10 years you will have an own
ership of $3,000 in Bonds, which will
mature and be payable to you at the
rate of $25 each month for the fol
lowing 10 years. Likewise, if you
pay $75 a month for ten years, you
will have an ownership of $12,000 in
Bonds, payable bo you at the rate
*>f $100 eadh month for the following
ten years.
Note.—To buy Defense Bonds and
Stamps, go to the nearest post office
or bank, or write to the Treasurer of
the United States, Washington, 1>. C.,
for an order form.
MISS UNDERWOOD DIES
Miss Lula Mae Underwood, 22, died
Monday at a Columbia hospital after
an illness of about two years.
She was the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Underwood.
Miss Underwood was a graduate
nurse having taken her training at
the Hazard hospital at Long Beach,
N. J.
She is survived by her father and
mother and two brothers, Jaimes Un
derwood and Bobby Underwood; her
grandmothers, Mrs. R. H. Underwood
and Mrs. C. B. Brown.
LIVINGSTON LAD KILLED
IN WRECK
UP SEVEN MILLIONS
New York, July 27.—General Mo
tors Corp. reported today consolidat
ed net income for the June quarter of
$53,579,568, or $1.18 a common share
based on the greatest sales record of
any three months’ period' in the com
pany’s ristory—$699,898,241.
This net income compared with
$46,546,999, or $1.02 a common share,
in the like 1940 quarter.
Of the total sales, $75,200,000 re
presented delivery of defense pro
ducts, bringing the total defense de
liveries since the company started
work on the national defense pro
pram, one year ago, to $209,500,000.
In the like 1940 quarter, sales to
taled $461,809,533.
REVIVAL SERVICES AT
LITTLE RIVER-DOMINICK
Revival services at Little River-
Dominick church will begin Sunday
night August 3rd at 8:30. Rev. C. J.
Matthews, the pastor, will conduct
the services. Mr. Theron Bunting, of
Waycross, Ga., will be in charge of
the singing. He will be remembered
by many, having assisted Rev. C. A.
Calcote in revival services recently.
Services will be at 11 o’clock in the
mornings and 8:30 in the evenings.
The public is cordially invited to
attend all services.
FAMED GLENN SPRINGS HOTEL
IS BURNED
Spartanburg, July 26.—Historic old
Glenn Springs hotel, Spartanburg
county’s most famous landmark, was
burned to the ground tonight by fire
of undetermined origin. At midnight,
nothing was left of the huge old
building except a mass of smoking
embers and remains of the brick
foundation and chimneys.
The rambling frame structure had
not been occupied in recent years,
and there was no loss of life or per
sonal injuries. No estimate was av
ailable of the property damage.
The hotel was more than a century
old and once was known as the larg
est wooden building in the state. With
the famous nearby mineral springs, it
was famed throughout the South as a
health and vacation resort in the days
justpreceding and for several years
following the War Between the
States.
Robert Lee Livingston, 5, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Livingston,
Sr., died at the local hospital of in
juries which he received Tuesday af
ternoon when the car in which he was
riding with his brother and sisters
was struck in the rear by a Chevrolet
tuck near Nichols’ store, about two
miles bellow Prosperity on the Co
lumbia highway.
The accident is said to have oc
curred as the driver of the car, Ar
thur J. Livingston, Jr., was attempt
ing to make a left-hand turn and was
struck by the truck loaded with emp
ty bottles.
Mr. Livingston received serious in
juries, his sister, Miss Edna Living
ston, received cuts and bruises and
Miss Caroline Livingston sustained
an injured shoulder.
The twelfth Poultry Short Course
will be held at Clem son August 26-
28. A few days rest will help you
and at the same time you can visit
your agricultural college and you
may get a few tips that will help you
in your poultry business. Indications
now point toward a substantial price
for eggs this winter. In order to
make a profit on poultry products we
must employ the best methods of
feeding and housing. If you are in
terested in further information call
at the County Agent’s office.
In a recent news story about
cotton stamps we urged each family
to have a “get-together-conference”
on planning how to spend the stamps
wisely.
Now with plan in hand, or cer
tainly in mind, the family will be
ready to start shopping for the plan
ned articles as soon as the stamps
arrive. /
Read all labels carefully and ask
the merchant for definite facts about
fabric quality.
Does the label say color fast and
preshrunk ? It should further state
that the fabric is eolorfast to sun,
washing and perspiration of the label
is to be of definite help to you. “Vat
dyes” indicate completely fast colors.
If the label says “pre-shrunk”, the
fabric may shrink still more, so you
should insist on- a label that states:
“guaranteed not to shrink more than
one per cent” if you want satisfac
torily shrunk material.
It is important to observe the
amount of sizing (sometimes called
loading or filling) in cotton fabrics,
for sometimes new material looks
very substantial, due to this starch
filling, but will bo very sleazy and
oosely woven aft r the first washing.
There is a permanent starchless
finish that is used now on some of
the better quality tbm muslins or
dimities. This insures crisp fresh
frocks for summer afternoons or for
children’s best dresses without extra
work for the one who has to launder
them.
The worst criticism of cotton mat
erials for dresses formerly was that
of excessive wririklinf,'-. There is a
new crease-resistant finish now that
is very satisfactory and that will last
through countless washings. Besides
lessening the wrinkles, this finish
helps the fabric to keep its shape bet
ter and also to stay clean longer.
Thus a sheer voile that is sanforize!
shrunk and crease Resistant will look
as flimy as chiffon, yet cost about 1-3
as much originally and will look the
same after washing.
Whatever your nee4 versatile cot
ton is likely to be the answer, but,
“stop, look and listen” to the quality
before buying.
All Newberry County Ciuncil mem
bers will be interested in knowing that
the Newberry Council made a score of
95 on the past year’s work which en
titled the Council to a blue ribbon and
a check for $6.10 offered through the
courtesy of the Dixie Home Stores.
This scoring was done by a commit
tee from the State Council of Farm
Women and the awards made at the
recent meeting at Winthrap college.
This is very encouraging to the
Council and already plans have Been
made for a big program in the coming
year. At present the Home Demon
stration clubs are gathering aluminum
in the rural districts to help in Na
tional Defense.
MAY GET F. D. R-’s NOD
REGISTRATION BOARD TO MEET
MONDAY
The County Registration Board will
meet on August 4th to issue certifi
cates to all who have not received
certificates since January 1, 1938, to
vote in the general election for .Unit
ed States Senator in October.
B. M. D. Livingston,
S. C. Young,
J. A. Kinard,
County Board of Registration.
MRS. J. J. JOHNSON
Mrs. Lula Johnson, 70, wife of J. J.
Johnson, died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. J. R. -Mafone, in Grap-
pells about midnight Saturday.
Funeral services were held Mon
day morning at 11 o’clock from Tran-
quill Methodist church near Green
wood with the Rev. G. R. Pettigrew
assisted by the Rev. Mr. Bryson. In
terment followed in the Church ceme
tery.
Mrs. Johnson is survived by her
husband, J. J. Johnson; one daugh
ter, Mrs. J. R. Malone, one brother,
J. J. Terry, Greenwood; one sister,
Mrs. Lizzie Hart, Ninety-Six.
Washington, July 27.—The gesture
of President Roosevelt last Monday,
implying support of Governor Burnet
R. Maybank in the curreoit senatorial
special election campaign, will ont
be the last act of the White House to
demonsitaite the choice of the chief
executive.
The President is expected to re
veal in no uncertain terms that he
would prefer Governor Maybank as
the successor to Justice James F.
Byrnes.
The White House obviously deems
such action necessary to overcome
any feeling that the President might
Still favor former Governor Oiin D.
Johnston, who had the administra
tion’s support in the unsuccessful
New Deal effort to undseat Senator
Ellison D. (Cotton Ed) Smith, bitter
Roosevelt critic, in the 1938 election.
PROS! ERITY PLAYS BATESBUSG
THURSDAY, AT PROSPERITY
Prosperity will play the strong
Batesburg baseball team, Thursday
afternoon, July 31, on the Prosperity
diamond, at 5:30 p. m. Daylight Sav
ing time. This game will have quite
a bearing on which team will win the
second half , the Dutch Fork League
season.
Wes Boozer will be on the mound
for Prosperity and either Hoyt or
Rfster will be on the receiving end
fo the team. This will be a very good
gamfe and' a large crowd is expected
to be on hand due to the fact that
the game is being played on Thurs
day afternoon will give the business
men of the town a phance to attend.
The bleachers have been completed
and a small admission fee will be
charged.
Mrs. Kate Williamson will leave
Newberry some time after July 81st
for Charleston, where she has ac
cepted a position at the Navy Yard.
ART
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LPHO-KAPS
WHITMIRE MAN BEST
i RIFLE SHOT
Camp Wheeler, Ga., July 29.
South Carolinian is the leading rifle
shot of the Fifth Training battaliorj,
an anti-tank unit a>t Camp Wheeler,
Ga.
Firing the Springfield .30 caliber
rifle, Pvt. Floyd Cable, former lum
ber worker of Whitmire, S. C., scored
153 out of a possible 165 to capture
all prizes offered to the battalion’s
high marksman, it was announced to
day.
Awards to Cable were given by Col.
Druid E. Wheeler, commanding offi-
ver of the Fifth battalion; Capt. Alex
ander, H. Boag, Cable’s company com
mander, and Lieut. J. K. White, his
platoon leader.
Cable wbo has been in training
with Company B of the Fifth oat-
talion for the past three weeks, has
been made an acting sergeant of his
platoon.
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CITIZENS’ MEETING
A citizens’ meeting is hereby called to be held in
the Gity Recorder’s Court Room on
Thursday, July 31, 1941
at 8 o’clock p. m. to elect an Executive Committee
of the Democratic party of the City of Newberry,
and for the transaction of any other business that
may properly come before the said meeting.
J. O. HAVIRD
Chairman City Democratic Committee
SPEAKERS, BARBECUE, GOOD
ENTERTAINMENT AT JOLLY ST.
The 53rd Little Mountain Reunion
Newberry college get-together, will
be held at the above place Friday (to
day), and much in the way of men
tal and gastronomic pleasures are of
fered in the well-rounded program.
Speakers for short talks include
Gary Paschal, J. Kess Derrick, Dr.
S. J. Derrick, Jas. C. Kinard, Rev.
E. Z. Pence.
Chicken barbecue, hash, rice, toma
toes, pickles, slaw, tea, and so on will
be set before the crowds at noon
time, and this prepared as only the
Little Mountain folks can do it. The
eating begins at 11 and lasts until
two.
There will be music and motion
pictures and free baseball
Capt. T. H. Pope, Jr., who has re
cently completed a three months
course at the Coast Artillery school
at Fortress Monroe ,Va., is spending
this week with his parents Dr. and
Mrs. T. H. Pope. Capt. Pope will re
turn to Camp Stewart, Ga., this week
end.
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