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"HARRIS PREDICTS *WGH COTTON PRICE farmers urged to make |hf farms self-sustaining vn DECLINE IN PRICES I* Government condition reports inRicate that there will be an eleven I million bale cotton crop this year, which means a high price for the staple, said B. Harris, commissioner of agriculture, commerce and industries, in a recent statement in which he predicts that the cost of living will not be reduced this year, and says that there is really not going to be much production of food crops on the farms. He urges the farmer to make his farm self-sustaining, stating that it is not now too late to plant food crops with proper cultivation. In his statement he says: "The government report of 62.4 indicating the lowest averaged condi^ tion of the growing cotton crop in the last fifty years which is practically confirmed by the estimates of other authorities will startle the cotton ttarld. At a time when the European spinners thought anything \ less than a fifteen million bale crop i? the United States would be a world disaster, we have an indication of a crop of eleven million bales. Even this estimate may have to be further reduced by the activities of the boll weevil and the unfavorable conditions which prevail in growing this crop. We know that the present price of cotton is far below its intrinsic value measured by the cost of production alone and also according to the law of supply and demand cotton middling and above is cheap today at 60 cents per pound. Now, no matter what the market may* be, dont sell a bale of cotton for less than 50 cents per bale. There may be an apparent lack of demand, but when the spinners who have their requirements in New J York July contracts demand the cotton they are surely going to demand the actual cotton and we shall see the shorts do some tall scrambling to cover. As the spinners have been out of the market for some time weknow they must either be very long of New York contracts cotton or they t will have to begin to buy the actual cotton at once or they will have to cioee their mills. At the tremendous profits mills are making and a cotton A famine in sight I do not think they will close down. "Don't sell a bale for less than 50 cents per pound, bit steady in the t boat and let the shorts cover their oversold cotton as best they can Pay 10 attention how low they run future contracts down. It is an old trick of the bears to do this to try to depress fppts just when they have to buy spots to fill their contracts to the fgdnners. Now they say that the met government report will be a very bearish report. We know the condireport will be better than thai kit one, but it can only be a few points better. It can not possibly pome up to the average June 25 report for the last ten years, which was I hope that every spot holder will be a bear on the market, but will . ba a great big bull* and you will soon are the shorts come to cover for cotton to fill spinnable contracts which they have sold and will soon be compelled to fill. ^ "There is too much money in spring A I Don't Be 1 I _ In x m M mu*u eo?n?Ts wca III i MALT06EN .? 1 i "!'? l! S?S , a tfcct>?? t* c ; I tion ac I ft SmtsI Bo*r j ]|*^J up the ?rj liver a itself 8 ?? up the ?* ? creases reservt -?* enablir ?en is Ms Taiasi t^mtMra. CentS D k worn-o I For & KlCE, . <]i| ? ^ ... < cotton today for the mills to stop until they are compelled to for the want of cotton. I want to say to the spot holders that they have the situation entirely in' their own hands. The spinners are compelled to have cotton, as I have said, and there is not enough spinnable cotton in the world to run the mills for six months: so if the producers of .cotton will sit steady in the boat and be bulls on the market instead of bears you can get - - Pnf. I your own price iu: jum iun?:i. w/iton mill spindles were not made to stand idle. There is no money in a cotton manufacturing plant when it has stopped, although I believe that they will have to curtail and run on short time that they may be able to have cotton to run until the present crop has been gathered. Just refuse to sell and your price will come. "From the very best information I we can gather there is reall;T not go- j ing to be very much increased pro-! duction of food crops this year. I ! want to say to the farmers of South Carolina, those who have not diversified their crops to make their farm self-sustaining, it is not yet too late for them to plant any of the early varieties of corn, such as Hickory King or any of the Dent varieties. You can still plant these varieties up to the fourth of July, thoroughly preparing the land and fertilizing it. working it quickly and it will make good hard corn by frost. Also the bunch SDeckled pea and black peas can be planted yet and they will make good paying crops. Any farmer who has to buy food for himself or his animals will pay the highest price next year that he has yet paid for these commodities. The man who is looking for low cost of living next year is only fooling himself." o CANCEL CAMPAIGN FOR $1,320,214,557 "Friends" Fail to Support Inter- j ?. ehurch Movement; Expenses Exceed Estimate The Executive Committee of the j Interchurch Movement voted yester- 1 day to bring its financial campaign to an immediate end. Today, the Gen-. eral Committee of the movement will meet to decide on what basis, if any,; the other aspects of the work may be carried on. It is believed that the withdrawal from the movement of the Baptist Church, North, which was voted at Buffalo last week, was an important factor. It followed by less than a month the withdrawal of the Presbyterian Church, North. Originally the Interchurch World Movement proposed to direct the raising of $1,320,214,551 for the work at home and abroad of the fifty-eight boards and societies whjch became parties to the movement. These boards represented .thirty-two denominations. For the first year?1920? the budget called for $336,777,572, which was to be raised by a drive, patterned closely upon Liberty Loan methods, between April 21 and May 2 last A week after this drive closed, the General Committee, of which Robert Lansing is Chairman, met in Geve- j land and received the reports showing that at that time only $176,000,000 had been secured. More disturbing was the report that of an expected $40,000,000 from "friends of the movement," chiefly those who did not have any particular church through which Weak and efficient t drag around from day y in a worn-out condition, g energy, ambition, strength ldurance. If you are nervous, Kin and easily exhausted?if iigestion is poor, your blood erished, your kidneys, liver Dwels sluggish?> TAKE \LT0GEN reparation i> a oomjiound of well medicines that ait; in the digesid assimilation of the food, build blood and purify it by increasing mutative powers of the kidney ind (towels. It is complete in ?i ..u *1?. ...i* iUU an in*;i uaiuir iw ivi.v entire system. Maltogen in> your weight. It builds up a } of strength and endurance, thus ig you to resist disease. Mahoexactly the thing that convalesleed? a general reconstructor of ut bodies. lie at $1.20 JNGSTREE DRUG CO, ree, S. * i % " f to give, less than $4,000,000 had ma-l terialized. It w&s from these "friends" that the general expenses of the movement were to he* defrayed, so that the subscriptions to specific purposes might remain intact. The general expenses had. in the mean time, been underwritten by the principal denominations participating, and notes for approximately $8,000,000 had bean discounted by the Bankers Trust Company. At the time of the Cleveland meeting all this money was gone, and exDenses were continuing at a maximum of $1,000,000 a month and an average of $500,000. When the General Committee takes up this problem today it will meet with representatives from each of the co-operating- denominations. This will mean a conference of between 200 and 300 men and women. The estimate made in May was that $9,600,000 would be required to carry on the work until next May. For the expenses already incurred $1,000,000 was needed; for those from May 15 to June 15, $750,000, and for those from June 15 to July 1$, $250,000. Current expenses from July 15 to May 15 next were computeu at $1,500,000; interest charges at $600,000, and the balance of the 1919-1920 budget at $5,000,000. i After July 15 the expenses were to be on a basis of $150,000 a month. For the first sixteen months of the undertaking they averaged more than three times that sum. The report showed in May that there had been received from the banks $7,295,622 and that other receipts, including sales, had been $142,622. Expenditures, including $650,000 for adver* * * * rnn ] 01 tising, nad oeen $o,zo1 o&v, anu *?,100,000 remained in the suspense account. None of the leaders of the movement will admit the undertaking has been a failure, ?ays the New York World. None of them will fxlmit it may be set down as a failure even if it should be ended where it now stands. They will admit it has not been as much of a success is they | had hoped, but they say a final accounting will show more than $200,lK>0,000 raised and that the money 1 was but one of the objects sought J Right on the Job. I 1 1 Elsie, about to be married, decided { at the last moment to test her sweet- 1 heart; so, going to her friend, Maude, , the prettiest girl she knew, according 1J to London Tit Bits, she said to her, j Although she knew it was a great risk: i I "111 arrange for Fred to take you , out tonight?a walk on the beach in | the moonlight, supper, and all that' j sort of thing?and I want you., in or- ! der to put his fidelity to the proof, to j ask him for a kiss." Maude laughed, blushed s.nd as-? sented. The plot was carried out The next day Elsie visited her friend, and said anxiously: "Well, Maude, did you ask kim?" "No, Elsie, dear." "No! Why not?" "I didn't get a chance; he asked me first" o Examinations Tomorrow Scholarship and ent:-ance examinations will be held here Friday, July 9th. for Clemson College, University [ of South Carolina and Charleston College. There are four scholarships for , this county at Clemson, worth $100 and tuition. No scholarship at the University this year. There is one free tuitior scholarship at the College of Charleston. J. G. ttcCullough, j Supt of Ed. j ! 0 I ? ^ -j IT lA/ind KOIICH V/'ii i icu ra? uj ?t Wind-blowr pollen ("sulphur rain'O is known fo he carried far. Hesselman, of the Swedish xperinieni station. rej^orts a quite extensive rain of tree polleD '?n two fire ships 20 and 87 miles from shore; and the pollen of algae is knowD to have been carried even as far as 200 miles. NOTICE OF SALE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Williamsburg. 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