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Rates on Ions term display adver ?^.?nients very reasonable. For rates apply at this office. In remitting checks or money or'Jet s make payable to THE COl'NTY RECORD. THURSDAY APRIL 3. 1919. THE PEACE CONFERENCE It is prebably very well that President Wilson has given a hunch to the members of the Peace Conference by way of warning that the world is tired of the delay in this important matter of a peace treaty. Mr. Wilson and his colleagues at this great conference have wasted lots of time that might have been spent in reaching a more speedy conclusion on peace terms, thereby restoring the belignent countries, in a measure to a normal basis and a readjustment of commercial activities throughout the world. Hut in this important matter the men who make up the peace commission are not unlike any other body of men brought together for a specific purpose. There must always be a vast amount of useless oratory and speech making. To such an extent has this been practiced in the negotiations of the peace conference that the peoples of the world have become restless, dissatisfied and disgusted. The situation in Russia has > gradually grown worse; numerous bolshevik i uprisings have been place in Germany and Hungary? tired, weary and half starved, seems to have become so throughly dissatisfied over the procrastinative tactics of the conference that its people have resolved themselves into a bolsheviki mob, and declared war on the allies. In parts of our own I'nited States sentiment is growing stronger and stronger with each day of delay on the part of the commission in whose . hands rest this important work of restoring peace and order in the world. We, here in South Carolina in Williamsburg county, feel the effects of the long drawn out undertaking. Other countries of the world need and want our products and we cannot market them on account of the embargo hanging over their shipment or sale into the countries which need them most. Since the armistice was signed and hostilities ceased on November 11, 1918, approximately five months , have elapsed and during this time the great heads of the Allied countries have been in conference?planning presumably, terms of peace, but apparently social functions of great magnitude and splendor, instead of getting right down to work in an earnest endeavor to restore to the world to pre-war conditions. TIa/-* ol'in<r Ill*- I'l^lIVd.^ Ul iii< uuuv I caning cannot bo questioned, but it does seem that there has been a lack of \is:on or understanding on the part of the conference as to the importance of a thorough and prompt despatch of its work. After all, however, we find that this great body of men have only followed the time-worn trend of human nature, and put off doing from day to day, the things that should have been done promptly and without hesitation. Nov that there is so much restlessness among il.e people in all parts of the woi !d. largely due to war conditions \.h:ch should have bee? removed soon after hostilities leased, it is time to stop parleying and do business. THE OPEN SESAME Advertising, the "Open Sesame" to success, is already ours. Through its pari in the war America has acquired the special good will of more than half the civilized world. To spread its commerce still further it is necessary for the United States to return to the pre-war basis. This can best be accomplished by paying all war obligations?the cost of victory?and it is to settle those ac 4 counts that the Victory Liberty Loan is to be offered next month. Commodities "made in America", have been carried from warm Palestine and the l'ar Kast to the frozen fjord of the north countries. With | the penetration of our men into parts of the weld that had onlv vaguely j I., rn! of American inventions and manufacture- ha. cone the introdv'ion of sanitary devices, artificial ice. farm machir.a y and even the j safety-razor. Through the hot .-ands of Mesopo- ; tat i:a the little automobile has taken 1 the route the camel, and the ther-' mo., bottle displaces the hump. No; mo'-.- need the dark skinned Arab! ber.ntv r.our oil over her hands for: piTrpo.-t* of ablution. American made j s?vt> has proven itself a bettor and! a moi convenient cleanser. The Thraciun 'voman in her blue and j w hite peasant's costume will be com- j >:<'i!e?l to use the st ream beds for washtubs no longer?community laundry machines have made their appearance. In all things useful and time saving Yankee inventions have shown themselves etficicnt, and the day of efficiency has arrived. A demand for all of these new utensils of life has been created. American manufacturers are ready to fill it, and they will go far afield with their products when the big war bills arc paid and and the wheels of peaceful commerce hum again. o HITTING BACK Mr. Wannamaker Replies to Governor Allen of Kansas. Columbia, April 2.? The bitter, unjust and uncalled for attack made on the cotton acreage reduction campaign by Governor Henry J. Allen - ** 1 Mwb h??s stimulated Ui ivaiiaas, ido?. the movement as nothing else could have clone. From every state in the cotton belt letters are coming to J. Skottowe Wannamaker, chairman of the central committee of the South Carolina Cotton Association, assuring him that the attack by the Kansas executive had, but helped the campaign which the Southern farmers are making for commercial freedom and had insured the success j of the fight they are putting up to ; save themselves from bankruptcy. Governor Allen last week gave out a statement in which he said that the cotton growers of the South in their efforts to limit the acreage] of cotton to maintain high prices, are "trading on the misery of'the world." He declined an invitation extended him by chairman Wannamaker to attend a conference at j which representatives from every State in the cotton boit are to be nre-.<>nt. saying that cotton growers I a.c making as much money "with j cotton at thirty-five cents a pound as Kansas farmers are making from j their wheat." Chairman Wannamaker gave out' a mtonuni replying iu viuhhiui I Allen saying that the latter was! either distorting the facts or else! , was very poorh posted on the same. ''The Southern cotton farmer cannot i sell his cotton at 35 cents as Cover-1 nor Allen states," said Mr. Wanna-; maker. "For middling cotton, if he! decided to sell today at prevailing' prices which are below cost of pro duction, he would get around 15; vnta a pound. The cotton farmer! cannot afford to seM his cotton for j less than it cast to produce it. Many of them are confronted with financial ruin unless they can get more for their product." Mr. Wannamakcr said that in the security of a wheat price fixed by the government, Governor Allen is ' entirely ignorant of the conditions surrounding the Southern cotton farmers. "He cannot know," said , Mr. Wannamakcr. "that the South ! orn farmers are not only carrying i nnrt of the cotton (TOD fori I which thcv are offered a price below j , the cost of production, but they arc unable to sell their cotton seed at any price whatever. The cotton i farmer held his cotton seed as a' matter of patriotism and in response 1 , to the government's request placed t it on the market very slowly. N'ow I he cannot sell his seed at all. Mr. Wannamaker declared that . the farmers of the South, by cur-; tailing their cotton acreage, would j a. sist in the production of food with \ i which to feed the world. Food, he said, comes ahead of clothes. "The , poo; starving people of Kurope are j , going to buy something to eat even | before they buy something to wear", j said Mr. Wannamaker. "The short- j age of food is just as great as the j i shortage of clothes." Governor Cooper's Statement Governor Cooper gave out a statc! ment Friday replying ;to Governor Allen. "If Governor Allen will in| dure some of the wheat growers of ; his state to come South and grow ' cotton under present conditions they ! could give him some \aluable inl formation on the subject about which . h* evidentlv knows nothingof all," ! . aid Governor Cooper. The statement issued by Cjovcimor Cooper follows in full: "The people I of the cotton growing states have j not criticised the fixing of the price of wheat by the government. They are glad for the Kansas farmers to ! receive a profit or their products, j Two dollar- and twenty-six rents j r^ay not be an adequate price for wheat. 1 don't know any more about the cos', of production of wheat than Governor Allen does about the cost of production of cotton. I do know end every weTl-informed man of the cotton belt knows that the farmer cannot todav get a nrofit for his cotIon. If Governor Allen will induce some of the wheat growers of his state to come to the south and grow cotton under present conditions, they could give him valuable information on the subject about which he evidently knows so little, rise he would rot have made the stat* nient he did." The Tobacco Situation 1 alitor County Iiecord:I see an article occasionally in the different State papers warning the farmers against planting a heavy crop of tobacco. I have always advised '<> ,t take care of home sup}>lies and then split their money crops. 1 cannot see anything in the way of getting good prices for their crop of tobacco the coming season. All of the adverse opinion writers; admit thai tobacco is selling high row. So it is; Wilson. X. C. market dosed last Tuesday with strong: prices. | We all admit that owing to the i abundance of common tobaccos in i the Virginia and Kentuckey crops,' that common tobacco will be a shade ; lower, but that the good grades will; be higher in proportion so the aver-1 age will be there just the same. 11 w,L-inrr for the cron to sell under last years prices, certainly not under a thirty dollar average for the State. It is a fact that Eu-i rope produced before the war abiliion pounds and is now practically bare of tobacco. China with about! one half of the earth's population is | rapidly getting into the use of tobacco, while the supply is to come from three or four Southern States. Europe is not in condition to pay much attention to the production of tobacco and will not be for several years. So the world will have to look to the United States to furnish the bulk of the tobacco for some time to come. With all the ports opened for! tobacco, I cannot see a reasonable1 excuse lor low prices. The fact is. the opinions being given to the farmer about low prices does not come [ from the right source for me to take, any stock in it. j It has been a perfect scramble for the manufactures to get a supply of j tobacco for the past two years and the speculators who had the nerve to buy it at prevailing prices have all J made big profits, notwithstanding] the high prices paid for it The facts are that the fanner cannot make any money under a thirty cent State average. Labor is higher than last, year, fertilizer is higher, all Steele implements are higher, infact everything used on a farm is higher than it was a year ago; then how can the farmer make a crop and sell it and come out on it at less tnan a mu-vj cent average. The State average last season was thirty three cents and it should do that this year, and I believe it will. I have always advocated that the manufacturers should make the consumer pay the dividens and pay the producer a living and profitable price. Labor, fertilizer, Steele implements and- other things must come down before the fanner should be expected to willingly accept lower prices. Yours very truly, .1. R. Hutching*. Hemingway, March .11. o The commission on responsibility for the war has decided: First, solemnly to condemn the violation of neutrality and all the crimes committed by the central empires; second, the appointment of an, international tribunal to judge all those responsible, inc'uciing the former German Emperor. I i For { 1 TflOtfff ; i^ynuvi j 14-Feet Flues, the j 16-Feet Flues, the s j 18-Feet Flues, the s j 20-Feet Flues, the s j 22-Feet Flues, the s ( ==? j All Flue Iron the f ! ?J ?i L:? iL. int, j ana wunuiicmmup iuc uc? I liamsburg county. This I but I guarantee the good: | your orders, will book tbei ! when you need them. 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