The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 07, 1921, Image 2

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( Do you know why it's toasted? To seal in the delicious Burley flavor. It's toasted. flucKr\ IstmkeJ ^TIGARETTE,^ w > RELATION OF DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE TO BUSINESS Secretary Wallace Discusses Regulatory Work and Proposed New Laws to Business Men. In an address on the Department of Agriculture and its relation to business, given before a group of New York business men, June 7, SecretanWallace referred briefly to the relation of the department to businsess through its administration of the various regulatory laws which have been passed since 1900. He said that during the first 40 years of the life of the department its chief endeavors were in the direction of promoting production, but beginning about 1900 it had become more and more closely related to business of various kinds. For example, it administers the Food and Drug Act, which forbids the adulteration or misbranding of any ar tide of food or drugs, and thus comes in contact with thousands of business concerns throughout tjie country. It inspects all of the meats which pass into Jnterstate commerce and, therefore, has representatives in every packing house which does an interstate business. It administers a number of quarantine laws dealing with live stock and plants. It has charge of the National Forests and has come into relation with all kinds of business through its stu-| dy of the most economical use of LUM We Have It We have on h full stock of Floor iners and Plain Dr (attractive prices i: If in need of t 1 in our line it will 1 tage to communic / 1"" " 1 Kincaid Lu Pffice at C. A. WATSC mi I Loyal S( mk in our Ban erty Loan tory drive, IV SERVICE U SAME SP U INTERES' raff that make JPV V A HE VOL I'aAW m unity V lV OFF YOl ? ?= ? FIT SOM] munitv ant UE OF TI >ERTY IN! We stand of our coi backing- oi communit) WE GET FOR YOl THINK ] haven't an without fi that APP1 0 wood. It administers the laws which! deal with the protection of game, animals and birds, and fish. It checks ' up the manufacture of serums and toxins. It establishes standards for!: grains and sees to their enforcement,! and the decisions of its inspectors are j now respected by everyone connected! with the grain trade. It fixes and enforces standard of size for boxes and baskets used in the packing of fruits, berries and vege- 1 lauic^t iv auiiinuowio vi.v ?-?? ir.g with future trading in cotton and 1 disputes are submitted to its representatives for final decision. At almost every session of cor.gress some new legislation is enacted which imposes additional duties on the department in the way of administering regulatory laws. Referring to the two bills now under consideration by congress, one dealing with future trading in grain and the other dealing with the pack- ' ing plants, Secretary Wallace said that the department had not initiated either of these measures; that they have grown out of a belief on the part . of large numbers of farmers that our grain exchanges are places where the prices of farm grains are manipulat- , ed to the disadvantage of the farmer, and that our larger packing enterprises are conducted in such a way . as to produce violent and unfair fluctcation in the prices of live stock. ' He said that our present system of mak,'nor nri/*oc for trrains Oil the Various ' grain exchanges is the best system which has yet been devised; that pos- 1 sibly some time in the future some better system might be discovered, 1 but, until that had been done, we should do nothing to interfere with the orderly and legimate operation of grain exchanges. j "But it is a matter of common knowledge," the Secretary said, "that around these grain exchanges abuses have grown up which are to the detriment Y>f every legimate interest. We know that there is manipulation by large operators whi<^h at times un- , fairly depresses the price of grain to the injury of the farmer, and at other times unfairly advances the price of grain to the injury of the consumer. The legislation now being considered is directed toward the removal of these unfair practices." eoi/1 fVof if fVlQ lfJYV* 1 11C octiciai^ ouiu ja. vi*v ?% ? shculd be enacted and the Department of Agirculture should be required to administer it "it ?s inconceivable that the department \/ould do anything that would interfere with the legimattf operation of institutions conducted for the purpose of arriving at fair prices ffUMKKEBii Mil: I iii'l'li:'!"-!! BER of All Kinds i ' 1 and just now a ; ing, Ceiling, Cas- |! essed Lumber at | n any quantity. | >uilding material | De to your advan- | ate with us. ? imber Co. I the Mill, 1-13-tf | t >N, Manager. |! jrvice! I i lerman Helmet that hangs SI :k was given us by the Lib- RE Committee of the last Vic- H < and is a symbal of LOYAL j to Uncle Sam. It is THIS H . IRIT OF LOYALTY to the rS OF OUR CUSTOMERS 1 s our friends loyal to us. 9| r LOYAL TO YOUR COM- ? OR ARE YOU SENDING . R BUSINESS TO BENE- gg E OTHER TOWN or com- Bf 1 INCREASING THE VAL- 11 TT? ATUrD M A V'C DDHD 1JU U1 I1UU n * i?vi STEAD OF YOUR OWN? first for the advancement nmunity, and we want the ? ADL CITIZENS of our . THE MORE BUSINESS THE MORE WE CAN DO i and for OUR community. [T OVER: And if you i account now, open one irther delay with the Bank RECIATES your business. ik of Trio TRIO, S. C.. tt for farmers' products." Referring to the proposed packer legislation, Secretary Wallace said that the business of meat packing is absolutely essential to the continuation of our live stock industry. "The developement of these paints has been a matter of national pride,' he continued. "They offer a market for cattle, hogs, and sheep every business day in the year. But their very size has giver, them such a dominance in the business of killing live stock and marketing meat products that Ihey are, in effect, if not in fact, of the nature of public utilities. It ivould be greatly to the disadvantage of our agriculture if anything should be done which would impair the efficiency of these slants are conducted or impose unjust additions to their cost of operation. But the farmer is Entitled to know mat these plants are operated in such a way as to give him just prices for his live stock, and the consumer is entitleu to know that the meat products arc marketed at a reasonable cost." The Secretary declared that if such legislation should be enacted and it? administration should be placed under the Department of Agriculture, the law would be administered fairly to all concerned and in full knowledge of the impoitj^e bf the idustry and its necessity to a prosperous agriculture. Referring to the need for a closer relation between agriculture and business, the Secretary said: "The period of agricultural exploitatiorf is practically at an end and, if production is to b;> maintained, every effort must be made to put agriculture or. a thoroughly sound basis. In times past those of our farmers who have gotten ahead financially have done so largely through the increased value of their land caused by a growing population. The Jarmers of the future can not hope to profit largely in this way. If production is to be maintained, the farmer must be able to get prices for his prodi cts which will give him a fair rate o.f interest on the money he has invested and a fair wage for his labor and the labor of his family. Lacking this the fanner will turn his efforts in some other directidn. "Now, if the farmer is to get a fair wage and, a: the same time, sell his crops at prices which the people of the country can afford to pay, we must not only increase our production, but we must find better methods of distribution. We must get the products of the farm to the city with less waste and at less relative cost. Also must learn how to take some of the speculative risk out' of farming. "In one sense the farmer is the greatest speculator in the world. His business is subjected to risks which he can not insure against. He is at the mercy of the weather. In an hour a hailstrom may completely destroy the results of six month's work. Drought and floods alike reduce his income. He has no means of correctly estimating hte demand for the :rops he proposese to produce. He ran not control Droduction as can the manufacturers. Hp has nothing to say ibout the price. What he gets for lis crops constitutes his wages, but he toes not know until six months or a fear after the work is done what hi* .vages are to be * * If in times past are had seen morj clearly the interiependance of agriculture and busiless, if we had given the same scien:ific study to the methods of dis^ribu:ion that we have given to methods >f production, it is reasonable to beieve that much of the trouble we are iow experiencing might have been lvoided. The Begining of a New Period. "When we have worked our way ;hrough this period of depression and lave shaken off the grip of these ?conomic forces wh'ch are now causng us so much discomfort we will ind ourselves at the begining of a lew period in our national life. Up to the present time this nation, like ropsy, has "just growed." In the future there must be a more conscious lirection of our growth and a much :loser coordination of our various activities. The relation between agri culture and business will become more ind more intimate. "The Department of Agriculture, charged with the duty of promoting agriculture in its broadest sense n< for the benefit of the farmers alo: , sr even primarily but for the ber -1 fit of all our people, may very properly inquire into everything which,has a bearing upon our agriculture! welfare to the end that our ae iculture be put upon a sound and enduring basis which will insure an abundant production of food at prices bur consuming population can well uuord to pay. Without lessening ior a mumci.!, iui | activities in scientific research, our efforts to find cheaper methods of production, our im(.r -vement in varieties and breeds, we must give more attention to the problems of finance and of marketing and of everything et?"e which directly or indirectly influences both production i<n<^ price." The County Record is the only newspaper published in Williamsburg County. I ' > v- V. NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING TO DISSOLVE , CORPORATION j . Notice is hereby given that a meet- ] ing of the Stockholders of the Fidelity Development Cpmpany, a corpora- < tio* ^uly chartered under the laws of j the #tate of South Carolina, will be held on Monday?the 11th day of July, ? 1921, at twelve o'clock noon, in the office of L. W. Gilland, Attorney,'!j Kingstree S. C.. in the County of 4 Williamsburg, State of South Caro- j lina, for tH? purpose of considering the liquidation and dissolution of the 4 said Fidelity Development Company, 1 the winding up of its affairs, and the ^ surrendering of its charter. 4 Dated at Kingstree, S. C., this 9th j day of June, A. D. 1921. ] H. M. COOPER, President. 3 THOS. McCUTCHEN, Sec. j 6-9-5t-lwg. - 4 s H \T/\r?tnr> An ,nni lAiTTAV > i^uiiV/Ci ur Arrijiviniu^ FOR DISCHARGE j ?? Notice is hereby given, That the undersigned will make application to W. < E. Snowden, Judge of Probate of Wil- J liamsburg county, South Carolina, at his office in Kingstree, S. C. at eleven ? o'clock a. m., on Monday the 25th day J of July, 1921, for his final discharge as guardian of W. G. Rodgers, ? and at said time will make full ac- J counting for his his actings and do- ! ing as said guardian. ? E. 0. RODGERS, ; Guardian for W. G. Rodgers. , 6-K3-5t ' KINGSTREE Lodgp; Nu 46 A. F.M. Meets the second Thursday night in each month. Visiting bretheren I cordially invited. B. E. Clarkson. W. j M., J. D. Britton, Secretary. =====^m i CYPRESS . SASH Jj "S DOORS BLINDS ij 9% * ! I ! % 9? 1 || | MOULDINGS ^ I and ' I MILLWORK ' || Quick, cl< for every i IT is hard to appr convenience and s; of cooking with the fection until you hav done so. It's a relief, especially weather, to be rid o1 coal, wood and ashi ing up litter and bla stove. And then y have to "rush the baking days and he; kitchen. Two burne New Perfection will all the heat needed kind of baking. You late the heat produce burner, warm someth on one and roast ove in a New Perfection < The long blue chimr fln - s v " I ,\V ' . ^ * .. -V Ml! ****** | It nn UIHII Removal ] ; This Is to Advise M: I Have Movi Electrica ! Repairing ; from ,the Gourdin Building int ; ing on Main Street, Next D ; Kingstree, where I will be plea j H. C. CRA^ : Kingstree, ... ; Phone 142 Work Called ; 6-9-4t ini!iimiII111imiiH11 II ?11 DlllllllilfllllUlllUVHIflMMBPHBlHHMI - tllijs jj The People'* COLD STORAG A-.-.-. Dealers in Beef, Pork, ! Sausagi I BEST MARKET PRII j TURKEYS, GEESE, CHK ! H. A. MILLE a Kingstree, ?B? Mil 1?IB HUIM jan Heat i ^ j r i K111U UJL CUUfl eciate the New Perfection supi itisfaction the right draught to c New Per- heat of the white-tipp e actually forcibly against all the utensils. The whit j in warm tiPPed flame Produc f carrying most heat do as, sweep- not 5001UP Your kettl eking the and Pans* ou don't The New Perfection fire" on simple, practical, ec at up the nomicaL Supplies he rs on the instantly,and when yc give you are through just shut 1 for any save your fuel. You d can regu- to watch it. No adjus A Ku parli talrp rarp nf A linv r ing gently fill it and clean it. :r another pQr tjie most satis?a oven* suits use Aladdin Se< Ley of the regularly. You alwa clean and efficient. New Perfection Oil Cook Stt at most hardware, furniture ment stores. 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