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??wwl as Ott- PustoaV* M Kurator? H. I CL. ?? ?eouatf CUmhb A3*u?r Bui"' i ? ? ?? ' ?? ? ? PERSONAL. Mrs. R. L. Butt and son Lamar, Jr., have gone to Atlanta to spend a few >tfeeks. Miss Belle Harper left this morning Tor Columbia where she will join Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Harper, Jr.,. on a trip to New York and other Northern points. Lieut. Norman Chandler is home for a few days on a furlough from ^Fort Oglethorpe. Miss Maggie May Seale is spending the day in Hartsville. Mr. Paul Kennedy, of Spartan - burg, who has been in the city for several days, returned home this morning. Mr. Harold McCoy has received his discharge from the army and is at home again. Miss Ines King left this morning j for New'York to take a six weeks' course in musii. Miss Alda Crawford is spending sometime with her cousin, Miss Kath erinfc,Bethea, at Latta. . Mrs. J. G. Crawford is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Evans, at Chesterfield. Mrs. Jack Skinner left yesterday to spend the summer in Hendersonville. Miss Henrietta King, of Columbia, is ^ visiting Mrs. R. E. Blanding on Calhoun St. Miss Celeste E. Hughson, who has been in the Metropolitan office here, has also been promoted to chief clerk, and will accompany Mr. Smith to j Portsmouth, Ya. Miss Faith Price, of Lexington, N. C, is the guest of Miss Mary Bland this week. Mrs. Gordon Bradley, accompanied by Misses Sidney Kingman and Emma Pinckney, have gone to Sullivan's Is- j land for a month. Mrs. Guy Warren and Mrs. Warren Burgess are spending the summer ? on Sullivan's Island. Mrs. F. A. Bultman and children left yesterday morning for Hender sonville, where they will spend the summet Miss Mary Heinrich is visiting rel atives in Reading, Pa. Mr. Stansill Covington, of Rocking- j ham, N. C, is visiting relatives in the | city. Mr. J. C. Humphreys has received a ' telegram from his son, Sergt. Leroy Humphreys, that he had landed in Near York. Miss Ethel Humphreys left Monday for Marion, where she has accepted a position as stenographer with the An derson Shoe Co. Browder-Smith. A very happy conclusion of a cupid affair was the marriage of Miss Mary Ellen Browder to Mr. S^mmie L. : Smith which occurred at the home of .Jthe groom's parents, 28 S. Mag- I nolia Street, Monday afternoon at 4.30 J o'clock, Rev. E. W. Re3molds per forming the ceremony. We extend our heartiest congratu lations to this young couple as they embark upon the matrimonial sea, and wish for them a voyage unmar red by distress or danger. Mr. and Mrs. Smith will make their future home in Florence, where Mr. Smith holds a position in the railroad service. Death. i i It will be a matter of regret to J many to learn of the death of Mrs. Eva C. W. Smith, who passed away \ Friday morning at 2.30 o'clocok at her j home on Calhoun street, after a ling- j ering illness of several months. Mrs. j Smith was the daughter of the late i Nathan B. and Kate L. Williams and j was born in Ocalla, Fla., March 27, JL861. Early in her childhood her father moved to Bishopville, where she was reared. In 1878 she was mar ried to W. H. Smith, of Camden, who dieil ,in 1301, leaving her alone with five children, all of whom she has reared and who are now living to mourn her death, as follows: Katie W. Smith, Florre May Smith, Jake L. Smith, W. Harry Smith and C. M. Smith of Summerton. Mrs. Smith was a lovable charac ter and had many friends. The fun eral services were held Friday after noon at 6 o'clock at Ebenezer ceme tery, near Camden. and were con ducted by the Rev. M. M. Benson, a former pastor, and the Rev. Mr. Mor rison. Baseball Notes. The people of Sumter will have the opportunity of seeing their crack baseball ream in action Friday morn ing at 11 o'clock when they play a strong team from Florence at the ball park. The team has been practicing hard for the past two weeks and shows good form. Behind the bat will be Buck Burns, the former Da vidson star, who is showing his old time speed. Frank Chandler, who needs no introduction in Sumter, has more stuff than ever. In Nunnamaker Chandler has a good assistant tosser. Mack Brower will be seen holding first base. He is hard to beat. Ralph Flowers, the Georgia Tech star is tak ing them on .-.econd as fast as they j come. Hugh Brown on short is show-1 ing his old time speed and is snatch ing them anywhere between second and third. Clint Richardson, a new man on the team but by no means a new man in the game, is playing sen sational ball on third base. In the outer gardens are Crawford in left, who is playing in mid season form; Joe Chandler, who is well remember ed by the Sumter fans for his ability to slap them over the fence will be in right field. John Haynsworth, an other Sumter star, will take everything in center. Bob Hornsby. an er--South Atlantic League piayer. is coaching the team and is rapidly getting them in excellent form. It is hoped that the people Will go to the game in lar^e crowds on the morning of the Fourth and show their appreciation of such a team. Marriage License. White?Robert Hancock of Sumter. S. C. to Miss Georgia Cobia of Sum ter. S. e. World-Wide Efforts (From Manufacturers Record, June 19, 1919.) Mr. William Whirtam of New York, who identities himself to the public as "formerly special commercial agent to Great Britain for the United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce," hi the Atlanta Constitu-i tion, the Baltimore Sun and other pa- j pers, refers to an address that was! made before the American Cotton Manufacturers' Association at Atlantic City by the editor of the Manufac turers Record with the statement: "However, when the ru st er of Southern industrial publicity becomes so slovenly vocal as to forget that while democracy is always at the mer cy of the orator, business never is, somebody ought to stop his harvesting ideas from the weed bed of delu sions." It is impossible for any ordinary intelligent human being to extract from that sentence even a modicum of common sense. And as most of Mr. Whittam's statements in his crit icisms of the discussion of fair prices for cotton are in keeping with that sentence, we are naturally moved to wonder what caused him to break loose in this manner, and which par ticular toe we stepped on when en deavoring to present to the cotton manufacturers of the South the rea sons for a justification of high-priced cotton in the interest of the grower, of the South,. of the country, and of humanity. In that address the writer called at-1 tention to the efforts which had been I made for half a century or more to j break down the price of cotton, ana stated that in 1904 Mr. C. W. Macara, prepident of the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' Association of Eng land, .cabled to all the leading cotton manufacturers' associations of the world, suggesting that they enter into a plan for breaking down the price of cotton. ' Mr. Whittam rushes to the defense of Mr. Macara and says: " Macara is one of the best friends the American cotton planter ever had." If this be true, may heaven defend the cotton planters from such friends! However, the vigorous drubbing the Manufacturers Record gave to Mr. Macara in 1904 when he issued that statement may have converted him from the error of his ways by show ing him the folly and wickedness of his effort to combine the cotton spin ners of the world in an unlawful con spiracy in restraint of trade to break down the price of cotton to a starva tion basis for the growers. We hope so, at least. Mr. Whittam continues: "Sir Charles Macara has done more to benefit the world cotton trade than' any man who has ever adorned the industry in this generation." And in referring to the cable from Mr. Ma cara urging cotton manufacturers to J unite in breaking down the price of | cotton, he says that Mr. Macara's sug-. gestion as to short-time working m the world's cotton mills was due to the fact that the bulk of the season's crop had ? passed out of the nands of the planters, and that the spinners during that year paid some $500,000, 000 more for American cotton than the Southern farmer received for it. Mr. Whittam seems to deal as loosely with his figures as with his i other statements. The total value of! the cotton crop of 1903-'04 was $617,- . 500,000, as reported by official figures. The average price of middling up lands in New York for that year was 12.42 cents per pound, and the crop was 10,011,274 bales, and yet, accord ing to Mr. Whittam, the spinners paid $500,000,000 more than the farmers got?a statement that is so absurd as to be unworthy of publication by anyone. Some spinners in this coun try and abroad were so determined to break the price that they refused to buy cotton until the price was at the top notch; but that was their blunder. The claim, however, that they paid $500,000,000 more than the farmers received is without the shadow of ex cuse. All spinners were not as short sighted as Mr. Macara, nor were all of them guilty of trying to form a world combination to bear prices. In defense of Mr. Macara Mr. Whit tam Quotes a number of recent ar ticles *by that gentleman. The writer was quoting a specific statement made by Mr. Cacara in 1904. In that state ment he said: "To endeavor to secure* an Interna tional union of users of cotton is a work well worthy of a serious at tempt, for no combination of hold ers of any raw material , can long stand against a combination of users of that raw material. In England during the latter part of last year, when cornering or similar lines was being carried on, the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' Association attempted to run short time, thereby reducing the demand for, cotton. The result was that the prices eventually fell, but fell not for England alone, but for all users of cotton. This Fed eration has always been active in deal ing with matters vital to the interest of the cotton trade, but it will be ad mitted that it is neither fair nor rea sonable to be called upon to fight the battles of the trade, and it is not too much to expect other associations of cotton spinners should fall into line with it now and by the combined power of the international union of cotton spinners put an end to this in tolerable state of affairs which is so seriously interfering with the welfare of one of the world's greatest Indus-1 tries. "In England. France and Belgium, short time is being resorted to. and if the present working week of 40 hours m England does not reuuce the de mand for cotton so as to defeat the; gamblers and bring down the price, a further curtailment will probably be derided upon." Tn the same statement Mr. Ma< tra said: "Although the American rolton crop has been nearly doubled ?m> i i^t the past :fi? years, it seems already in dicated that the machinery of :u world for its. manipulation is increas ing more rapidly than the produ?'ion of the raw material and this has made the work of cornering the raw material much easier than i: would have been under other circumstance Rut never before has there heen - > daring attempt at cornering on so ! ? ! ?large a scale as that which has taken j place during the last few months, and) this, too, at the beginning of a new cotton season, an experience which is without parallel." Mr. Macara, like some other cot ton manufacturers and cotton bears, undertook to throw upon cotton spec ulators on the bull side of the market full responsibility for* all the advance that had taken place in cotton and to j denounce them as gamblers, but that j advance had begun two years ahead of Mr. Macara's statement, and all the. (gamblers in America could not have [brought it about had there not been] ian actual shortage of cotton, and it I the growers had not co-ope.raied to j bring about these higher prices. A j gradual rise had taken place in the price of cotton from an average of 8.75 cents per pound for the crop year 1900-1901 to 10.27 cents in the following year, and then 12.42 cents in the next year, based largely on the fact that the world's consumption had outrun the world's production, which was the real reason for the advance, while Mr. Macara was astting all the cotton mills of the world to join in a combination in restraint ot trade for rue express purpose of closing their mills in order to baut down the price of the South's cotton. This was not a new thing for spin ners to do. For one hundred years the fight of European spinners has been to decrease the price of cot'.on to the lowest possible figure, and dur ing that entire time European papers and the reports of European cotton associations have been filled with stories of the efforts of cotton manu facturers to break the price of cotton. Exactly simiiar reports are being sent out from Europe today denouncing the present high prices, and saying that English spinners are bitter against cotton conditions in this coun try. It is natural that that should be the case if they look at the matter from the narrow standpoint of their temporary individual selfish interests as buyers of cotton, but it is wholly unwise from any broad business or humanity standpoint. English, German and French cotton interests for more than a century have sought to develop cotton growing in other part sof the world, as one statement made nearly a cercury ago in a report said: "In order to lessen the dependence upon the Southern States of America for cotton." In 1840 English spinners engaged ten American cotton planters to go to India and seek to develop cotton growing in that country in competition with the South, but the result was practically a failure, and after a few years the American cotton planters I returned to this country. In 1850 one of the secretaries of the Board of Trade of Great Britain, in a report to the British Association, after referring to the dependence of Great Britain upon the South for cot ton, and showing how rapidly the cot ton consumptive requirements for the world were then outgrowing the avail able supply, said: "It is by no means improbable ?hat the consumption during the last nine years would have gone forward at a constantly accelerating pace but for the check given'to it in 184 7 and in the present year through inefficiency in the supply, of raw material." And in the same report it was said: "The continuous fall in the price (of raw cotton) has acted as a stim ulus on the prodcers (American), who have hitherto made up, in quan tity in cultivation for the diminished price of their crop." In a convention of cotton planters held in Florida in 1850 this English | report was under discussion, and a j committee to which it was referred quoted this sentence and sarcastically said: "Thus it is seen that increased supplies are greatly wanted, but their experience is that the surest means of stimulating production in the United States is to reduce the price." That has been the theory on which apparently a very large proportion of the cotton spinners in Europe and some in this country have acted. A deputation of English cotton man ufacturers, shortly before Mr. Ma cara's statement was made in 1904, waited on Mr. Balfour, the English Prime Minister, with a view to seeing if he could not find some way to pre vent what these gentlemen called "gambling in cotton," in order that the prices might not be advanced against them: They had no objection whatever to gambling on the bear side, but they decidedly objected to anybody gambling on the bull side. The delegation proposed to Mr. Bal four that the British government should undertake to summon an in ternational legislation on gambling in cotton and all other commodities." The childlike simplicity of these people in their effort to unite the cot ton spinning interests of the world in an effort to gamble on the bear side, while asking the British government to call a conference to prevent gambl ing on . the bulV side, is indicative of their frame of mind which permitted them to see only one side of the case. Mr. Macara at that time expressed his regret that "in consequence of Mr. Balfour's unfortunate illness and the slowness with which government^ move, no reply had been made by Mr Balfour," but a little later the Pr?m Minister wrote to .Mr. L. V. Harcouri discussing the conference proposed b\ ; English cotton manufacturers as tc I "the policy or impolicy of forcibly limiting output by agreement amonr manufacturers of ail nations in order ! ihat the demand for raw material may in the future be more nearly equal to ihe supply." and on this he said: "'This however, is a matter on which (ai you will agree) it would be improper to offer an opinion or even to aid jr organizing a conference which shoul:' be asked to offer an opinion.*' Thus, in very nolit- language; Mi Ba-four :<v< these spinners, Mr. Ma cara included, his vivw of their pre sumptuous r< quest. On the other side of th<> situation just a few weeks after ATr. Macara'. ippeal for :i combination to break down the price of cotton a very il iuminating address was made by Pres ident \V. C. Heath of the American Cotton Manufacturers' Association a1 its annual convention held in Wash ington. In the coins,- of his ad dress Mr Heath congratulated tin farmers of the South upon the grea1 advance which had taken place dur--J ins the previous year or two in the price of cotton. He was wise enough to rejoice that these higher prices which Mr. Macara was fighting, whether brought about by bull spec ulators or by a short crop, had brought increasing prosperity to the Southern growers. He admitted that his views might be contrary to those of some of his fellow-manufacturers.! Nevertheless, he desired to emphasize | the fact that he regarded these high- ; er prices as a great blessing to the South and one which the cotton manu- \ faeturers should welcome. On this point he said: , "When the price of the staple be gah to rise last fall, however much the cause might have been due to other things everybody knew that all those causes were based upon the fact that according to all human wisdom the supply was going to fall short of tbo demand. But instead of accept ing, at least tentatively, this fact and beginning to try 1 correspondingly to bull the manufactured article, we all took the opposite course and became voluntarily raw-cotton bears, and consequently manufactured-cotton bears. And since the market resit ed the combined assaults of the man ufacturers of the world and the strongest speculators of the world, climbing upward in spite of a}l to aj height which seems dizzy to shorts, j we have as manufacturers our losses j from a yet irresponsive market fori our pains. As manufacturers we | 3hould have accepted the sifuation of a rising market. Instead of that, we! persistently, continuously and em phatically advertised to the world that it was our opinion that the in creasing price was purely manipula tion and far beyond intrinsic value * * "Under such circumstances it seems to me that our customers would have been fools to take more of our goods than absolute necessity drove them to. This thing of bearing the market on the raw material, as you have done, is, therefore, a weapon of doubtful efficiency in the hands'of the manufacturer. * * * "No body of men have cried out as fiercely, and often as unreasonably, against the American cotton gamblers as have the spinners of Lancashire, and yet a short time ago the president of their association, looking back at the history of the cotton market las* season, said in an address to the as sociation: 'Last season cotton cornere. itself.' "When the price of cotton began to rise last fall, due partially to ma nipulation, many of us began to cast vile calumnies at the bull leaders, and charged them with being gamblers, and even blacklegs, but one is impell ed to ask the question: "Who were the greatest gamblers, they who bought what they, wanted, J or you, who sold for delivery that which you did not have? '"One prominent member , of the New York Cotton Exchange was. heard to say not long since: 'Cotton is stand ing alone without a friend, it would seem. Against it is the English gov ernment, the combined mill interests of the world, the market manipula tion of Liverpool and New York and bankers of Wall Street, and every pos sible influence that can be brought to bear, and still prices hold high.' "Another said: 'I have been'a' mem ber of the New York Cotton Exchange for a great many years and IJ have never heard ? word said against a man who tried to bear cotton,; but the man who endeavored to bull cotton has always been a target.' p "Cotton has never been so low that persistent attempts have not been made to depress the price. An ad vance to 6 cents in 1897 was fought just as hard as the 16-cent level this year." At the same meeting Mr. Arthur H. Lowe of Massachusetts, one of the leading cotton manufacturers of the country, with the broad patriotism j tnd good sense with which many | New England manufacturers view chis situation, said: "I believe most manufacturers, North and South, congratulate and ?ejoice with the cotton planters that :hey have received higher prices foi their cotton. This was a great help to a section of our country. If the conditions to which I have referred are to prevail, the price of cotton will continue to be higher than formerl> and cotton growing will be very profi table, and in time cotton manufactur ers will be able to adjust themseive? to a higher basis." And yet at the very time that ^resident Heath of the American Cot ion Manufacturers' Association and Mr. Lowe, voicing what should be th< sentiment of all cotton manufactur ers, were congratulating the South upon the high prices of cotton which had been brought about, whether b: speculation or whether by shortage ii supply, Mr. Macara was suggestinf that "an international combination tc reduce the consumption of cotton ir lecessary if the existing condition ? to be effectively dealt with!" And tc this he added: "To endeavor to secure an interna tional union of users of cotton is a work well worthy of a serious at tempt, for no combination of holder? of any raw material can long stand against a combination of users of that raw mtaerial." Mr. Mcara, therefore, proposed and urgf d a worldwide gambling combina tion on the bear side of the cotton market, in order to break down the orire which the ?outh was receiving ; "or its cotton, a price which was lift ing from that section the burden of >yerwhelming poverty which had rested upon its cotton interests from 1800. when prices suddenly broke to i fraction over !* cents ^is an averag? for a year, and steadily declined to 6 ?ems as the average New York price n 1898 for middling uplands in New Yont. Between 1890 and 1901 the cotton ?rop of '.lie South sold l". low the cos' if production and every crop intensi fied the poverty cf th cotton grow ers. But as President Heath said when cotton advanced to t; cents in 1897 rand it had sold in the South atj i 1-:! cents to :> cents), this increas? j was foughl just as hard as the big ad j k;ance in 1904. There is :it the present time. a ??* i e has always been, a vigorous Mscrupulous hostility to a high pric. cotton which has carried on it propaganda in one form or another Sometimes this propaganda appears in the most innocent guise of people who are apparently "worked" by ihe cotton bears without their knowing that the bears have played them for suckers. .Sometimes it appears In the most deliberate falsehoods about the cotton situation, falsehoods that would match the lies of tin.- Gentian propa ganda, typified in the fact that sev eral years ago when a New York cot ton speculator was putting out very bearish statements about cotton a Bal timore banker asked him how he reconciled his statements with his transactions in the cotton market, and he said, in substance: *Tdd not want any friends of mine to follow my printed advice, for my actions are of ten directly opposite to what I am advising the public to do!-" But the statement quoted by Presi dent Heath which said, "against cot ton is the English government, the combined mill interests of the world, the market manipulators of Liver pool and Wall Street and every pos sible influence that can be brought to bear," has been true for one hun dred years, and reports of discus sions on this question in the financial and banking circles of Europe and New England for the last century prove" the truth of -t^ai'^taiemeiit.^li has not been England alone, however, that has- been- against-& high prtceifo'r cotton. Germany;-;a?d France ..and other European countries have also oeen aginst a fair price for the So?th's cotton, and likewise much of the financial and industrial power of i the East. " ..' k?r' Fortunately cotton growers of tbs youth are no longer in the binding* chains of economic slavery. ' , Whom Mr. Whittam represents \dr what is his particular interest in rush- ' ing to the defense of Mr. Macara, and in seeking to vilify the statements, of y the winter we "do..hot"; undertake to-' suggest. If Mr.^ : Macara V_h^Kei& converted from the error of his -,way,-v. and is no longer ,eager to bring aboxxi . a world combination cf cotton ^spbi-: ners to break down the price of cof^" ton, we trust that* some vigorous^^i'tif;.", cisras'which we made of his: position'. in 1904 were helpful in brin^n^^im^ to a saner a rid-, more honest>Jr^^^r'; mind. So far as Mr. Whittam's statements about the facts presented in the At lantic- City address- are concerned, they may be properly classed. 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