The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, September 28, 1922, Image 4
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1922
DOES IT PAY TO SELL COTTON
When It is Selling Below Cost of
Production.
We now have about 200,000 bahs
of cotton held over from the lyzi
crop and cotton is now selling for
$50.00 a bale more than it was 12
months ago. Let's calculate a little
and see if it does not pay to hold
cotton. A great many are always
ready to say that it does not pay to
hold cotton but that the best way is
to sell as fast as you get it ginned.
By holding these 200,000 bales of cotton
to date we have added $10,000,000
?f wealth to the state. If this cotton
had not been held off the market that
amount of wealth would have gone
into the hands of the speculators.
Has it not paid to hold it?
The same thing can be done with
the crop we are now gathering. I
think that our state will not make
over 600,000 bales this year and if
it is held off the market for even six
months at least 10^ a pound can be
added to the price it is selling for
today. Another $50.00 a bale can be
made, adding $30,000,000 of wealth
to our state. Now, is this worth our
while? I certainly think it is. Considering
the condition of our state at.
present, the business interests of our
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, state cannot afford to lose this great
' amount of money.
How can this enormous amount of
money be saved and added to the
, wealth of our state? Cotton is one
of the best collaterals In the world
I on which to have money advanced
\ and it is doubly so now, for it is ad*
mitted by some of the best cotton men
in the world that we have not enough
\ cotton for the world's consumption in
, 1923 even if the consumption is no
greater for next year than it has
been this year. If this cotton is ware,
housed and the receipts turned over
i i to the bankers, I believe that they
1' can get money on them and I want
to urge every fanner who has not
signed his cotton to the Cooperative
Marketing Association to warehouse
his cotton and keep it off the mar
ket. I think that you are bound to
1 see higher prices in the near future,
i The world is no longer going to believe
the big crop estimating lies.
1 They are now beginning to realize
! that we will make under ten million
J bales this year and they are begin!
ning to wonder where the cotton is
coming from to clothe the people of
the world. If not another bale of
spot cotton were sold in the South
for 30 days, you would see cotton
sell above 251 and I think you would
even see 30* cotton. The cotton is
growing shorter every day and the
world is needing cotton cloth at it has
never needed it before. A south-wide
holding movement for better prices
shoold be started at once. So long
as cotton is thrown on the market
it will not go up.
I know Texas ia selling her cotton
about as fast as she gets it out.
Texas will not make over 3 million
bales this year and it is opening very
rapidly. By October 15, she will be
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uirougn garnering. mey wui swu
be through and out of the way this
year. You must remember that
Texas can make cotton at least 5 to
7 cents cheaper a pound than we can
east of the Mississippi.
The farmers, bankers and business
men of the South have the coton situation
in their own hands this year
as they have not had it in 50 years.
They can name the price at which
they want to sell. I want to urge
our bankers and business men to get
behind the cotton and let's save South
Carolina from financial ruin by all
forces working together. We can add
many million dollars to the wealth of
our state. Single handed we can do
nothing, together we can do anything,
that is* right and I know that this is
right. Cotton is our great money
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'crop and when we get rid-of what we
I now have on hand it will be a long
, time before we will have this much
! again. I believe we will save our
i country in the future as we nave in
! the past. It is up to us.
B. HARRIS,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
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Why Country Boys Thrive in Town.
A new theory has been developed
to explain why country boys succeed
so well in the city, and why so many
of the city leaders were born and
raised in the country.
It seems that the average country
boy thinks that the city boy is a
super man. He must be, he reasons,
or he couldn't get along.
Thinking along these lines the country
boy concludes he must work very
hard or he will not get along in the
city.
So he digs in, applying himself to
his task with all the vigilance of a
small boy who is ambitious to become
a big league pitcher. In the course
of a few years he finds out that city
men are not super men at all and
that he is just as bright as they are.
He also discovers that city men are
not mules for work as he supposed,
but that most of them spend a large
percentage of their time in an effort
to dodge work. Fortunately, however,
by the time the country boy
"comes to his senses" he is so entrenched
in the habit of industry that
he can't emulate his city cousins.
"And so he continues to work his]
head off and builds up a fortune and
is envied by the next generation of.
city sports.
P. S. As we finish writing the,
above, a man at the next desk leans j
over and tells us we have missed one
important point.
"In addition to what you have writ-,
ten," he says, "there is still another
reason why the country boy, with the i
right stuff in him, succeeds so well (
in the city. When the country boy
comes to the city he doesn't know
a soul, he has to fight so hard, friendless
and alone, that his whole moral
fibre is stiffened. If he survives this
ordeal he cant help making good
when conditions and friends bfcgin to
favor him."
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Rome Book Gab.
After an intermission of three
months the Rome Book Club held its
first fall meeting at the home of
Mrs. G. K. Way.
The meeting was called to order by
the president and roll call responded
by each member, with name some
noted educator.
There being very little business,
the afternoon program was carried
out
Miss Gertrude Haddock was called
to the chair to preside over the parliametnary
drill and Mrs. W. C. Rollins
as secretary. Much fun was
cause ! by the drill. After the drill,
the meeting adjourned to meet with
Mrs. L. B. Johnson.
Delicious refreshments, consisting
of ice cream and cake, were served
by the hostess.
We were indeed glad to have as
our guest the teachers of Union High
school and Miss Louise Snow of
Henry.
Etta S. Tart, .
Publicity Chairman.
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