Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?f WE WILL GIVE YOU jOg Lb. FOR YOUR COTTON I Realizing the necessity for the Farmers to get 10 Cents per pound for their cotton, and being anx? ious to do all m our power to help the present situation, we make the following proposition: jjjg October 15th, We Will Buy from Each of our Custo? mers That Raise Cotton, ONE BALE AT TEN CENTS PER POUND, Proceeds 4 If your account amounts to less than the proceeds of a bale of cotton at 10c we will credit your ac? count in full and allow you to trade the balance. <I If you are not a customer of ours, and want to buy a bill of clothing, hats, shoes and furnishings, bring us a bale, and we will be glad to accept it at 10c pound and sell you goods that are as good values as arft ohtennahlp ! Johjf ?fu ?S&i^S October 15th. we therefore advise you to act at onco if you desire to take ad? vantage of it. Call and see us and let us talk it over with you. SUMTER CLOTHING COMPANY POUI EXPLORERS PERISHED. ? ELK.VKV OF "KARLVKW RVRVI VORH HKSd ku BY NCHOON ER. Incredible Harri ?hin? and IVrlls En coNUtrmd by Member* of Ill-fated Expedition Who Arrfer at Nome, Nome. Alaska. Sept. 13?(Delayed In Transmission )?Twelve membera of the Htefanaaon Arctic expedition hdve perlahed, it waa learned today when the United States revenue cutter Bear arrived with eleven survivors of the exploration ship Karluk's crew, rescued from Wrangell Island by the gasoline schooner King and Wlnge and transferred to the Bear seventy five miles from Wrangell island. The Kur Ink was crushed In the Ice last Jsnuary and part of the crew, af? ter Incredible hardships ant perils, reached Wrangell Island, eighty miles distant, on March 12. with seventy nine days' rations. These were ex? hausted about June 4. Death by star? vation and cold was ever near the castawsys until September 6, when the rescue ship arrived. The King and Winge, after leaving Nome September 3, went to East Cap*, Siberia, to take on Eskimos and akin boats. She then laid her course for Rogers Harbor, Wrangell Island, arriving there ai>out 1.30 o'clock on the night Of September 6. Four Eski? mos In a skin l>oat went ashore and brought back a number of men. The schooner thefl .proceeded to the other side of the, U.and. where It picked up the remaining survivors. A black and whits cat. picked up by the Karluk's crew at Victoria. H. C, last yeur, also was rescued. Counting the eight men who per? ished on the Ice while trying to reach land after the Karluk was crimhed. the three who died on Wrangell Is? land and Andrew Norman of the An? derson party, who committed suicide by shooting, while Insane from cx ponure. twelve men of the Sefunsson expedition have dud After the Kafltik was crushed in the Ico north <.f Herald Island, last January, her party ngggpgdj on ice for some time. Finally they decided to make for WmnyHl Islnud They di? vided Into parties and out. The party led bv Dr. Forbes-Muekuy rhansed Its mind and headed for the ?iberhin ?h?re It repeat*! and was teen to layt Its courMc ami In fo| Wran kHi island Four dsys Inter, Ig the third week of February, a tefllMe bllsterd rsgsd, which opened the id in all directions and churned it. There was no hope that any of the eight escaped, but the survivors on Wran gell Island searched in every direc? tion for the eight lost men, going even to Herald Island. I After their rations were exhausted the castaways subsisted on whatever i food they were able to gather. They ; killed three Polar bears and many Heals and birds. GOVERNMENT SHOULD AID. Charles R. Barrett Tells Why Federal Power Should Come to Help of Farmers. To the American People: During the ten years that I have been representing the National Farm? ers* Union, In every question which I have dlscused, dealing with the inter? ests of the furmers, and ' therefore contributory to the Interests of all the people, I have always striven with my utmost strength to tell the exact truth. During these arduous ten years I have met with great encouragement ; from the newspapers of the country In my work, and desire now to express i my gratitude to them for the loyal support I have received from the great majority, even though at times, here and there, some tmid editor hasi been fearful that I would go too far. At times. It has been my duty to call the farmers' attention to the fact that his business Interests were affected, , in a large measure, by legislation at Washington; and in so doing, have been compelled to criticise some of the measures of past administrations. I have not hesitated, when the truth demanded it, to say that efforts were intentionally made to deceive the farmers. A new occasion has nrlsen which imperatively demands from mo that I shall tell you the exact truth, in so far as I am ahle. One-third of the farmers of the United States, living in the cotton and tobacco belts, are face to faco today with bankruptcy through no fault of their own. They have rais? ed normal crops, and for several yearn past these normul crops have been easily taken care of by the world, if not at big; prices, at least at prices which huve enabled the farmer to live. The great cataclysm of war. which has involved the greater part of Kurope, In one day entirely riis lo<-uteri the business of the world, and has placed these cotton and tobacco farmers In a condition of the extreni Its peril which has threatened them in ortv yeaiH with the renewal o shipping facilities aerosa the waters and the urgent need of foodstuffs, our farmers who are producers of foodstuffs can look. forward to ad? equate relief in the near future. Not so with the cotton and tobacco grow? ers. All of the working capital and the credit of these two classes have been invested in the season's crops, and they are confronted with the to? tal absence of a market; the inability to sell at any price; and the Inability to secure such measure of relief from credit agencies as will tide them over. In all our history there has been no like situation?therefore our great financial authorities, our treasury de? partment and our government (which seems unable to move unless it can find a precedent) are at sea. There is but one power in this country j which can relieve the situation ade? quately, and if the congress had been big enough and wise enough to grasp the gravity of this situation, and its meaning to the future welfare of our people, it would have Instantly utiliz? ed the credit of the American govern? ment to the extent of at least three hundred million dollars, and taken off the market a sufficient amount of cot? ton to be held until conditions become normal in Europe. This would have steadied the situation so that the re? mainder would have been sold in American markets, If not at a re? munerative price, at least at cost pries, 1 do not want to make this letter too long. I want to call your atten? tion, however, most earnestly, to this situationi to the failure of our gov? ernment to come to the relief of these producers In thvdr extremity. Time and again, when Wall street has been in trouble, we have seen the secretary of the treasury hasten to New York and put behind the gamblers in that city the strength of the government, in order that disaster might be avert? ed. Time and again, the government has found money for every sort of thing and scheme but never for the producers, I could nil tolumns, if it was necessary, recounting things which the government has done along the line of Unding money for all sorts of schemei and schemers. But it is not necessary, you know it to be tine. Tin* annals of the country for tin- last fifty years are full of illus? trations. |lut, at this moment, when the great producing class, which has been the main contributor to the fundi which the government has used so lavishly and in so many directions, are in an extremity, the same govern? ment can not tlnd any money or any precedent for helping the people who have been paying the biggest part of j the bills all these years. Do not misundsrgtand me. None ofj the American farmers, whatever their particular specialty may be have ever called for charity from the govern? ment. When I use the word "help" here, I mean that government can furnish the resources which will tide these men over a critical situation, and government will receive back its money with interest. What is to be said of a government which, faced by a situation of this kind, can do nothing to relieve It ex? cept a f ood of talk, deceptive prom? ises, and nn inadequate dribble of dol? lars put out through the medium of middle men, who must have their toll, and a liberal toll at that, before even that inadequate dribble can be used. I leave the matter with you. I can only hope that the hardships through which, we are doomed to pass in the near future will awaken our producers to a closer investigation and greater watchfulness than they have exercis? ed in the past, and will not pin their faith quite so strongly to the prom? ises of smooth politicians?for we do not seem to have an over-production of statesmen. C. S. Barrett. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 15, 1914. A license to marry has been grant? ed to Henry Cabbagestalk and Daisy Davis of Sumter. COMMITTEE ON COTTON PROB? LEM, Henry of Texas Names Aides for Ef? forts to Secure Government Help in Crisis?Lever and Dabbs of South Carolina on Body. Washington, WeptL 14.?Relieving that it is squarely up to the gov- ; eminent to do much more than it has i yet agreed to do to take care of the cotton situation due to the European war, Congressman Henry of Texas, who was chosen chairman of a com? mittee of cotton men a day or two ago to consider the cotton question, today announced that he had selected the following members of a general committee to serve with him: C. S. Barrett, Georgia; W. C. Adam son, Georgia; Joe Thompson of Okla? homa, H. II, Jacoway of Arkansas, H. S. Mobley. of Arkansas, J. Thomas Heflln of Alabama, R. L. Doughton of North Carolina, A. F. Lever of .South Carolina, E. W. Dabbs of South Carolina. J. B. Aswell of Louisiana, H. D. Stephens of Mississippi, James P. Buchanan of Texas, Peter Radford of Texas, W. D. Lewis of Texas, K. D. McKellar of Tennessee, Frank Clark of Florida, H. D. Flood of Virginia J. C. Cantrill of Kentucky, George A. Xeeley of Kansas, T. J. Douglas of Missouri, Dr. H. C. Alexander of North Carolina. While it is not so stated by Mr. Henry, efforts will be made to pass his bill looking toward the better financing of the cotton situation, which is now pending in the house. What this bill proposes to accomplish has already been set forth. WOVLp CARRY COTTON. Baltimore, Sept. 14.?In further? ance of the movement for the relief of the South in its present crisis due to the European war. Former Gov. Warfleld, president of the Fideitty and Deposit Company of Maryland, sent a telegram to Secretary McAdoo tonight, asking the department's ap? proval of a plan to carry cotton among the assets of the company on the same basis as other investments. Mr. Warfield expressed the belief that if the idea met with govern? mental approval, it would open ths way for many other financial insti? tutions to do the same thing, thereby materially relieving the situation. Because of the poor price offered, less cotton has been sold on the local market at this time than in any other year for more than ten years. Field Seed Vetch, Crimson Clover, Burr Clover, Wheat, Rye, Barley, Rape, Red Ru& Proof Oats, Appier Oats. We are carrying a full stock of these seeds at right prices, also Farm ogerm for Inoculated Vetch, other inoculations can be obtained on short notice. It has been predicted that this will be a great Small Grain Season, and you had better buy your seed early as supply on some grains is limited. W. B. Boyle Company.