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.M IH ?lje founts llmtii. ^ : VOL. 35. 3 ' RIXGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1919. NO 22 ' COTTON OUTLOOK ONLY 67.1 PER CENT CROP TWO WEEKS LATE AND HAS DISEASED ROOT?NO TAP ROOT Last Saturday the American Cotton Association gave out the follow- _ ing statement: "The government report shows 67.1 per cent The American Cotton Association report shows 67 percent this report being the only correct report issued of all private reports. "The association is in receipt of a flood of telegrams from every section of the country, and every phase of cottoD trade, from the producer to the manufacturer, asking for detail information. It being absolutely impossible to reply to Tul of these inquiries, however, the following statement was issuea: In Poor Condition "The general trade has no conception of the condition of the growing ^ crop. Tt is two or four weeks late; it ' has a cuseased root system, no tap root; has less fruit than has ever been known in the last twenty-five years. Even with ideal seasons and without insect damage and a late frost only a moderate crop can be made. With adverse seasons we are facing a crop calamity. On account of the sa~~v condition of the crop, , . the lateness of same and the above conditiras it offers an inviting field ? to insect damage. Caterpillars would v '? bring a complete crop disaster. With either adverse seasons or insect damn age there would be more suffering kt ? on account of the need of raw cotton j * than lesulted in England during the Civil War. In reply to inquiries coneerni.iir suudIv. cotton experts are now ..orking on the cost of production, supply and demand. With the I information before us we find that t the cost of production will be at least one-third more than last year. ? Profit for Producer "A menimura price will be set, based upon supply and demand, that will bring to the producer a profit in j line with the profits being made by the manufacturers who are buying cotton at the present prices and are I 4 jnanufacturing it into cloth and * yarn. The manufacturer who postpones buying cotton under these conditions will find that he has adopted an extremely poor business policy. rHe will never live to see the day when he will have the opportunity of buying cotton as cheap "as the prices row prevailing. The minimum prices of the American Cotton Association will be far in excess of the present prices. Beyond the question of a doubt the cost of production has greatly increased. Preliminary Report The American Cotton Association ia now making a preliminary condition report, showing conditions of cotton since July 25 up to date. This condition indicated a still further deterioration. Under these conditions it would be absolutely impossible, with even normal weather conditions and without insect damage from now; on, to produce a crop in excess of 10,000,000 bales. The demand from the world for raw cotton will be the; greatest ever known. It will exceed supplies now on hand plus the yield from the growing crop under normal conditions by about 9,000,000 bales. Where will this cotton come from ?! The spinners found when it was too' late they could not spin an imaginary surplus of long staple cotton. We state most positively that long sta pie cotton the world over has beeD absolutely exhausted. The manufacturers have an enormous amount of goods sold, based upon being able to buy long staple cotton. This places them in a dilemma as the purchasers refuse to cancel. They can blame * * none except themselves. Concerning Short Staples Concerning short staple cotton:, ? Included in the amount of short sta-; , pie cotton carried over on August 1, | is an enormous amount of bolls which are worthless and in addition to this an enormous amount of rotten cotton. Our experts show the amount of rotten cotton is the largest on record. In addition to this-people are being confused by these figures,not! realizing that they include linters and regiems. A man who actually has spinnable cotton, if he sells it at present prices, is a living illustration of a fool and his money parting. Two of the leading manufacturers in the cotton trade have just informed me that they can use cotton, basis middling at from seventy to seventy five cents per pound and make a profit. In addition to this, one of the leading manufacturers informs me, "I have decided to accept your judgment. I feel convinced that you are correct, that a man who has short October cotton occupies a very dangerous position, that for the first time ever known in this cotton trade those who hedge their cotton on the exchange are faced with the certain%ty of enormous losses. The purchasers of these contracts for the fiitttime will refuse to cancel. They will * 1 * * ?*~j?? a ?au' demand wnite couuu uuuci Ulc ruling. They will take this action because they know that there will be a great shortage. In reply to the question being asked in every section what will be the minimum price set by the American Cotton Association for the growing crop? Our prices for cotton in the South before this time next year will be the highest price paid since the Civil War. Sentiment throughout the South is similar to what it was g ' just prior to the sixties. "The organization of the AroeriL can Cotton Association is an assumed fact. It will be the biggest and ; most powerful association in America. It will give the farmer the privi- ^ lege of naming the price of his prod- ^ uct. It will enable him to sell his j 0 cotton at a profitable price. It will y destroy the manipulations which have % brought proverty and illiteracy to n the South, which has in fact blight- n ed the entire South. These gentle- a men realize that their doom is approaching and for this reason are a making a desperate fight." ^ o e War Facts c ' ? ! ti The following facts regarding the i j. 1 ^ ? ? ?- I war were compneu irom [uriduii j ?.i furnished by the Government Loan ! h organization, based upon information ' ? issued by the United States Treasury ; ^ by Dr. Frank Crane: c The total cost of ammunition and I guns to equip our army amounted j to$12 for every hour since the birth r of Christ. ; w Over 2,500.000 shoulder rifles were | C produced in the 19 months of our I " participation in the war, more than 1 ^ either France or England produced ] tl during that period. tl Before the armistice was signed, ^ our speed in producing ammunition was twice that of France and 10 per a cent greater than that of England, d At the end of the war our production P of machine guns was twice that of q France and nearly three time* u e great as England's. ti CSv million hun hundred and fiftv UiA UJUUavu v?v ~ ^ I( thousand rounds of 75-millimeter ^ ammunition were fired by American v artillerymen. h It takes ten months to manufac- 15 ture one 14-inch .50 caliber rifle and costs about $200,000. Its life is 150 shots. b From April 6, 1917, to December ^ 1, 1918, we manufactured 438.652 v pistols and 743,663 revolvers. k On November 11, 1918, the United h States had 1,949,316 soldiers in Eu- ^ rope and 22,234 en route, besides 32,385 marines. We had in Europe J and 9,104 in the Siberian expedition o and 1,634,499 in the United States, j* making a grand total in the army c of about 3,700,000. h The enormity of the supplies pro- o duced for shipment abroad may be d ? j j- it. ifomc. 0 gaugea irom uie luuvmug i?uu?. Blankets, almost 20,000,000. Wool jf coats, over 12,000,0^0, Overcoats, al- G most 8,000,000. Shoes, over 26,000,- n 000. Stockings,, almost 90,000,000. ? Frozen beef, over 250,000,000 pounds. \ Flour, about 534,000,000 pounds, e About 2,500,000,000 cigarettes. Beans t' about 40,000,000 pounds. Hard bread, about 28,000,000 pounds. Salt, about 14,000,000 pounds. u There were transported to the ? army abroad from April, 1917, to November 1, 1918, 4,897,600 tons of fi frieght. U We lost 271 airplanes to the ene- ^ my and they lost 491 to us. p When the armistice was signed p we had cold storage plants in France capable of taking care of 513,000 tons of foodstuffs, base hospitals with bed capacity of 82,196 patients, M * -i?<?aii/vn roi 1 \1_To\? J y<50 Qllies OX buuiuaiu (augv ??..... ?J s construction, and almost 4,000,000 a square feet of miscellaneous covered I storage space t( At the close of the war we were jj using $1,500,000 worth of camou- n flage materials monthly. b Locomotives were shipped to ? France, completely set up, packed ? in hay. And we were just getting started. o * New Bank At Johnsonville Bank of Johnsonville, of Johnson- n ville, was chartered last week with a 0 capital stock of $25,000, the officers being: D. R. L. Cockfield, president;)^ Walter Poston, vice-president, and i ^ J. W. Williams, cashier. o C r: To Wed This Fall . C e Craddocksville, Va., August 2.? ^ Mrs. K S. Wise, Craddocksville, an- ^ nounces the engagement of her S( daughter, Ivy Pearle Wise to Ed- o ward Tindal Spigner of Kingstree, P S. C., the marriage to take place in the early fall. ?? b Because j^fhe importance of the , fertilizer >?retion the entire agricultural immunity of the South ? will be interested in the official con- ? firmation from Washington of ve- 1 ports that an immense deposit of potash has been found in Pennsylvania. ? IT Oscar Hammerstein, theater build- y er and producer of grand opera, died P in a New York hospital Saturday nr night* of a complication of diseases l< after an illness of several days. o A teakettle is a true optimist. Even when up to its ijeck in hot water it h keeps singing a^ay. * tl I I Europe's Present Condition We have not reached a settlement, ut only a basis of settlement with j lermany, provided we, her conquer- j rs, stand united for the next fifteen ears, provided we agree to use orce, if necessary, to compel Gerlan compliance with her promises, lade under duress, repudiated in dvance. In the meantime the alliance gainst Germany has not stood the! est of the Paris Conference unshak- > n. The Italians have all but left the onference. Italy has shown in every onceivable fashion her dissatisfacion with the results so far reached, 'rench and Italian soldiers have lashed in .Fiume. Italian journals ave united in the most savage critiism of President Wilson, welcomed l Italy a lew monms uyu as nu man , as been welcomed since Italy beam e a nation. Those of us who were in Paris aw develop the Italian dissatisfac- j ion and the equally bitter Japanese esentment against the three nations; hich were dominating the Peace inference. Of the five great powers ntil recently united in the common truggle against the German, two | ave already drifted verjr far from > fieir old allies. As a matter of fact; fae old alliance has ceased to exist. "here are left now only the United tates, Britain, and France. Nor is it less plain that forces are twork still further to extend the isintegration. In the United States ublic opinion is being deliberately nd successfully stirred against ireat Britain, against France, and ven more successfully in ? the direcion of a return to the old policy of! iolation, which, if adopted, would [ ;ave France and Britain substanially alone in the presence of a! engeful Germany, a hostile Italy, a! ' ?-1 ..H.'winfn wiintAirrfltinn ,USMU WI1UK- Ulliuare ; almost certain, but whose future lignment must remain problematial. Not only will Russia's alignment e a matter of conjecture, but it is t least certain that most of the in-1 luential Russians, the anti-Bolsheistic leaders, whom one saw or, new about in Paris, were even more, ostile to the Western powers than i ? Germany, regarded what they ?rraed Allied betrayal as 'more inferable than German brutality, leantime, Russia herself is the scene f half a dozen wars, the site of at ?ast as many struggling states, "rom the Baltic to the Black Sea haos and contest endure and we av& become hardened to the reports f the murder of hundreds and the eath from starvation and disease, f thousands and even millions. Such, then, is the Europe that ex- i ?ts at the moment the treaty with I lormany is signed. Two hundred millions of people are still in the gonizing torture 01 Doisnevism, rhich has proclaimed its hostility to Western civilization and demonstratd it Seventy million Germans in lie old Germany and the present Lustria are sullen and hoping for evenge. Nearly forty millions of talians hate France and Britain dth a hatred as intense as that they sit for Austria only five years ago. Ipwards of fifty millions of people f the recently liberated races are ghting with each other and with at , ?ast one of the Great Powers for heir respective "places in the sun"?j 'rom "Peace with Germany," by 'rank H. Simonds, in the American leview of Reviews for August, 1919. 0 i Suggested Aldennanic Tickets The following names have been * 1 ^ ilA.4 uggestea as a leamuvc uuci, iVi . Idermen of the town of Kingstree. j "hese are gentlemen who have ex-i ?nsive business and profess interests! i the town and it is generally be- j eved that the selection is an adlirable one if they will consent to! ecome candidates: Dr. E. T. Kelley, >r. LeRoy Cates, David Silverman, [. A. Miller, W. K. Mcintosh, Tom I. Kellahan and Chas . H. Singleton.; o leeting of Cotton Men at Columbia ! Yesterday Seven hundred larmers ana ousi-1 ess men, representing every section; f South Carolina, met at Columbia' esterday in a five-hour conference,! ailed by J. S. Wannamaker, of St. [ latthews, president of the American otton Association and the South larolina Cotton Association; B. Haris, Commissioner of Agriculture, Commerce and Industries, and Govrnor Cocper, and set in motion jrces the ultimate purpose of which 'ill be to align South Carolina with he other cotton producing States, a that an equitable price might be btained for the South's chief stale. o Congress was informed yesterday j y the Federal Trade commission iat the unprecedented profits by laughterers, tanners, manufactors nd dealers, for which there is no ustification, is responsible ior me igh prices of shoes. o I Anti-trust suits against the great leat packing firms were announced; esterday by Attorney General i aimer as the first concrete developlent of the government's campaign 5 reduce the high cost of living. o * Mr. T. E. Arrowsmith announces imself a candidate for Mayor in lis paper. V. UNKNOWN NEGRO LYNCHED Ciainmed He Bore A Message From Chicago Cochran, Ga., August 5.?An unidentified negro who was taken from a Southern passenger train at 1:40 Tuesday morning on complaints of negro passengers on the train and placed in the city. barracks was lynched by unknown parties during the early morning. His body was found hanging to a small tree fifty yards from the Cochran and Eastman line. The negro was enroute to Rochelle. j He told several persons, it is said,! that he was from Chicago and had a message from that city. Negroes in- j iUIXUCU WliibC yvzxjjjiKz viiav vnv of the lynching had boasted that the negroes of Georgia were going to do what the ngroes of Chicago had done. o Good Citizen Passes Away. As the result of a second stroke of paralysis Mr. John S. "Fulton, passed away ) at his late residence North of town Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Mr. Fulton/was a man of excellent qualities and was held in high esteem by every one who knew him. He was about 65 years of age and some 18 or 29 years ago married Miss Sallie Wilson by whom he is survived. No children. Funeral sendees took place at the residence at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon conducted by his pastor, Rev. J. G. Herndon of the Presbyterian church. Interment was made in the Williamsburg cemetery in the presence of a host of sorrowing friends and relatives. The floral offerings J 1 1TJ. .1 were numerous ana oeauuiui. o Saluda Baptist Will Raise $477,500 j Greenville, August 7.?The Saluda Baptist association will raise and oversubscribe its quota of $477,500, in the Baptist 75 million campaign, j according to a resolution adopted at the annual meeting of the association Wednesday at Long Branch church, in Anderson County. The Saluda association is the largest of the thirty-eight Baptist associations in South Carolina. It comprises nearly fifty churches, covering the larger part of Anderson county. Thl last day of the annual meeting was devoted exclusively to discussion of plans for the Baptist campaign, which is to be made November 30 to December 7, during which time South Carolina Baptists will be called upon to give and subscribe five and a half millions. The coming campaign was discuss-1 ed by Dr. W. J. McGlothlin, Presi-.' dent of Furman University, and State organizer for the campaign:' by Dr. John E. White, president of Anderson College; by Rev. Thomas J. White, publicity director, and by a number of Anderson pastors. Approximately 5,000 people from all parts of the association territory were present, and much enthusiasm for the coming campaign was manifest. The Saluda association is the first of the State Baptist associations to meet for the discussion of campaign plans, and it is expected that its enthusiasm and confidence will be; transmitted to other associations of i the state. Meetings of the other associations of the state will be held during the next few weeks, and all of them will devote a portion of their program to the discussion of plans for the coming campaign. D T Tk/tmncnn of A nrtarcnn IVC V V* V* 1 UVIUf/OVUy VA ?Ma?aw*rVM College, is associational organizer for die campaign in the Saluda as-1 sociation; Mr. C. S. Leavel of Anderson is publicity director for the as-; sociation. o Richland Votes for Bonds Results of the primary election held Tuesday shows that Rishland i county, by a vote of two to one, approves of the issuance of $2,000,000 in bonds for the building of a system of permanent hard surfaced highways :n the county. The vote was somewhat light, 1,613 voters favoring the bond issue and 766 being opposed to it. The vote in the city of Columbia was about five to j one for the issue while its opponents ' carried the rural districts by a smallj majority. o M Married At the A. C. L. Depot Friday, night, August 1, 1919, by the Rev. E. A. McDowell, Miss Nellie Mae Lee of Lake City, to Mr. Dewey Leo Crimsiey of Charleston. o Mpn Recently Discharged William String col. Kingstree; Jos. i E. Cooper, col., Willie Pressley, col., 1 Kingstree; Johnnie E. William col., j Greelyville. Chris. Washington, col., Michael j Bueford, col., Greelyville; Theodore, W. Rodgers, Hemingway. o i If you want to get a lot of satis- j faction out of life, just go around < "happying" up others. ] % V i ^ - WELCOME FOR PASTOR Rev. P. H. Bussie Assumes Charge At Andrews. Andrews, August 5.?There was union service at the Baptist church j Sunday night to welcome the new pastor of that congregation, the Rev. P. H. Bussie of Greenville, who recently accepted the call to this pastorate. Welcome addresses were , made by the Rev. J. E. Ford of the 1 Methodist church, and the Rev. D. \ M. Clark of the Presbyterian church,1! -/l ?L!.L If- A /AN? . <uter which :ur. du^iv mouc a ic? appreciative remarks, and preached < a sermon to a large congregation, ) many of whom had to stand for lack of sitting room. ] This field originally included two 1 churches in the country, but recently ! the Andrews church arranged to call 1 a man for all of his time. j Mr. Bussie is a young and capable < minister, and has made a very favor- 1 able impression upon the people of 3 the town. He expects to move his ^ family here about November 1. 1 0 .1 Notice of Primary Election i { Attention is called to the notice in 1 this paper of a primary election to < be held in the county on Tuesday, ] August 26 for the nomination of a ] representative in Congress from the j sixth district, made vacant by the i recent death of J. W. Ragsdale. In i connection with the notice names of < managers of the various polls are i given and any one desiring further information concerning the election should communicate at once with 1 Mr. A. C. Hinds, county chairman. ] o < Williamsburg Post American Legion < Organized Pursuant to a call issued several weeks ago by CoL P. H. Stoll a i number of ex-soldiers met here Monday for the purpose of organizing a Post of the American Legion, an American organization which is J purely an outgrowth of the recent . war, and to which only those who served as sailors, soldiers or marines are eligible to membership. Col. Sloll presided at Monday's meeting. There were 36 men, ex-soldiers, present and enrolled as charter members. From these the following officers were elected: Commander?Thos. M. Chandler. Vice-Commander?G. H. McElveen. Secretary?Donald Montgomery, Treasurer?W. G. Gamble, Jr. in x:? n T n O'Rrv DAtX'UUVC vv/iuiiuvv?c v ^ an, J. D. Britton, Kenneth E. Creel, J. B. Lovett, Dr. C. D. Jacobs. The officers of the organization wish it stated that by becoming a member of the Legion no one is obligated or liable to military service. The organization is purely social, just as are the organizations of Veterans of the civt war. The annual membership fee is $1.50 and every young man in this county who served in the late war, either overseas or in camp should enroll as a member. o 1 Salter* Item* Salters, August 4.?We have had . some very hot weather the past week 1 but Saturday and Sunday were ] pleasant. 1 Crops have withstood the wet spell , of the past two or three weeks very, well, cotton has been drowned out in a great many places where the land was too low, and some have not been 1 able to finish their plowing yet as , the land is too wet, it is also shed- ' ding badly in places. 1 Tobacco has suffered more than 1 any other crop and hundreds of acres < will not pay for the gathering. , Misses Mary and Willie Sparks are visiting relatives in Cameron. 1 Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Douglass spefit,1 the week end with relatives in Jones- > 1 ville. 1 j Rev. J. E. Clark and family visited relatives at Manning last week. 1 Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Mason of St ' Paul spent Sunday with relatives < here. I Mrs. S. A. Carraway and nine son of Lakeland, Fla., are visiting rela- 1 tives here. 5 Miss Fannie Gruber has returned i to Charleston after a pleasant visit to relatives here. Rev. W. E. Davis of Clemson, spent several day with his father, Mr. J. E. Davis of this place. \ M:ss Mary Heyward of Columbia, is visiting friends here. Miss Sarah Waring of Meggetts. 1 is visiting Miss Madge Cooper of j this place. , Miss Dulcie LiFrage is visiting; her sisters in Richmond. Va. .* Mrs. A. E. Thrower and children,. of Drooklet, Ga.. is visiting at the!, home of Mr. C. W. tfosweii. Miss Johnson of Lake City, is vis-< iting, Miss Carrie Moseley. We are pleased to welcome home again two more of our soldier boys from overseas, Messsrs. Ben Moseley and Grover Bryan who arrived last week. Last Friday a hearing was held be- i fore United States engineers of the Charleston district m the courthouse 1 at Conway with reference to the deepening of the channel of the Wacca- < maw river above Coilway. < WAGE QUESTION MUST BE SETTLED FOURTEEN LABOR BODIES ACTING AS UNIT THREATEN NATION-WIDE STRIKE Washington, Aug. 6.?Acting as a unit for the first time in the presentation of wage demands, the fourteen principal railroad uniops today, n expressing to Director General, % Hines their disapproval of President Wilson's proposal to consider ipcreassd pay, declared that wage questions must be settled immediately. A general program to meet tne present crisis, involving the threat >f a nation-wide strike, was submitted to the director general. It was suggested that the money to provide increased pay should come from an t appropriation by Congress, to be followed by appropriate freight rate advances. This "temporary relief must be accomplished by a determined effort to reduce the cost of living. Permanent solution of the railroad problem was declared to depend upon the removal of returns to capital as the sole purpose of operation, and the director general, accordingly, was asked to recommend to President Wilson that he attempt to obtain early passage by Congress of organized labor's bill to eliminate private capital from control of the rial roads and to give the employees ? a share in the profits. The union declared the belief of the workers that transportation rates should be sufficient to guarantee just wages, mainL- ? it- l:? I ? lain me properties aim ^ivc returns on money invested. Interesting as were the sugges- _ tions for removing the menace of a nation-wide strike, the unified action of the fourteen organizations attracted equal attention. Labor^ leaders who were questioned declined to say whether the unions would act as a whole in the future, but declared that they were going through with the present situation as the body. Die result will be to put the solid weight of 2,000,000 persons, virtually the entire rail transportation personnel of the United States, back of the demands, with the possibility as never before of the paralysis of the nation's life if a general strike y?^ should ensue ' - \: o SITftAR TO BE DISTRIBUTED Will Be Issued To People Of State For Canning Purposes * ? Columbia, August 5.?A carload Df sugar will be distributed from Columbia to the people of the State at cost, in the near future. Governor Cooper this afternoon received a telegram from the Louisiana Sugar Commission, New Orleans, stating that fifteen cars of fine granulated sugar would be distributed among fifteen states in the South. After taking the matter up with R. J. Blalock, mayor of Columbia, the governor ordered the sugar, which will be distributed to the Columbia city government. The price will be $8.28 per hundred pounds f. o. b. New Orleans, which will bring it into Columbia fnr cHchtlv under nine cents a pound. The governor suggested that the sugar be utilized for canning purposes. The following is the wire to the governor: ^ _ "The government, through the United States Equalization Board* suggests that the sugar be placed at points where it is most needed fyr Eruit preserving purposes. We have decided to distribute these fifteen aq; ;o ipsa 0} juo auo Sui^on? saeo fifteen states in this territory, and we ask you to designate the city or town in your State which is most in need of the sugar and instruct the mayor of such town that we will ship him the car for distribution up)n your suggestion and his confirmation, with sight draft bill of lading attached. Wire prompt answer designating town and have mayor con5rm." o . Buy Another Bottle Johnny was bragging to thcneigh)or's boy: "I get a penny.every time [ take a Jose of my col liver oil." "What are you going to do with he money?" "Ma is saving it in a box and vhen there's enough she's going to >uy me another bottle of the oil." ' o Mard to Find "Decided where you are going on ,-our vacation yet?" "No, can't seem to find the right spot." "What sort of a place are you ooking for." . ' "A place where one's pocketbook :an enjoy a vacation as well at its * >wner.?Bostoi. Transcript ' I 'I t i 1 v