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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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