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BUY-A-BALE PLAN SOLVES PROBLEM SAYS GONZALES MEN OF NATION MUST STAND FIRMLY TOGETHER. William E. Gonzales Points Out That Government Has Furnished Aid And Can Do No More?The South Can Save Itself. To the Editor of The State: It is frequently unpopular to dispel illusions, but my concern for the welfare of the Southern cotton grower is so great and my understanding that only prompt measures for his assistance can be beneficial is so clear that I must speak against an illusion. Every hour that our people wait inactive, in the hope that the general government will purchase and retire the 5,000,000, <5,000,000 or 7,000,000 bales of cotton in excess of the demand for manufacture is an hour lost. Every effort to get the government to do that thing is effort wasted, and .o ..v 1,1111c mi tut; ooum 10 waste effort. Even were the government willing the machinery couUl not be organized to embark in a revolutionary venture and set in motion in time to save the small farmers and the weak holders from disastrous losses; and those are the farmers whom it is most important to assist. But the government is not going to buy and hold cotton when there is overproduction, any more than it will buy and hold wheat or pieiron in similar circumstances. There is an overproduction of 0,000,000 or 7,000,000 bales this year because the European war has curtailed the demand by that amount; but two years hence, when the consumption throughout the world is normal, the identical problem would face us if the South produced 21,000,000 bales. The government will not establish a precedent for buying cotton in years of overproduction. It can not control the production. Even were it possible for the general government, under the constitution, to limit the acreage (and the South would quickly resent such an attempt) the production depends upon the seasons, upon cultivation and the quality of seed, and it can not be regulated by governmental decree. T believe that in agreeing to issue $75 in currency, at a low rate of interest ,to every bank lending $100 on cotton, the government has gone a long way to help the South. No stringent regulations are made for warehousing. and the United States treasury makes no attempt to fix the value; the banks may lend on a 7 cent or a 12 cent basis. Of the multitude of plans proposed to meet the present situation in the South and save the farmer who can not hold from disastrous loss, one pr.ly?with its developing possibilities?stands out as practical and immediately effective. That is the b ij i-balo plan. The South is the part of America Ui! hardest by the war in Euvopj anl nothug can prevent us from suffering less, but if we can establish a mcrk?? for cotton on a 10-cent basis we will be saved from disaster, and that i > v hat this buy-a-bale movement will #.1o if pressed to its possibilities. Mrvv'es giving relief to the individual who sells for $50 a bale instead oT c $40, it can be made to stimulate holding by those who co aid ot Ire-wist throw their cotton on a demoralized market. For example, if it were known that next we;<, at 50 C'iftrent points in South Carolina, 3,000 bales would be bought for S50 a or.le, thousands of small farmer? would hold, maybe 10.000 or ) 2,0'JO bales on a 7 cent market this week, in t.'io hope of participating in the limited but better market next week. Again, every purchaser of a bale of cotton at 10 cents, becomes an advocate of "holding" and a talking advocate for reduced acreage and higher prices next year. Better than that, in the years to come, will be the developed self-confidence of the South and the spirit of aiding each other and our section in times of stress. There are thousands in the South who can buy, in the spirit of this movement, five, ten, 50 or 100 bales; and they will do it if "worked up" to the understanding of the importance of their cooperation. The press, from Virginia to Texas, should work on this plan as earnestly and systematically as when raising a Democratic campaign fund. ? And then there are innumerable opportunities for developing and extending this movement. One suggestion of great importance made recently by a South Carolinian was that the fertilizer companies to whom farmers of the South owe many millions of dollars, take their pay in cotton on a 10-cent basis and retire that cotton. They, as was suggested, are vitally concerned In the South's Drosperity; therefore they should help t?i^ farmer help himself in time of pressure; and they are in better position, to insure the increase in value of their holding of cotton because of their potency in bringing about reduction of acreage. If the fertilizer companies should take half their dues in cotton at $50 a bale, the movement would gain such impetus as to insure success. There are thousands of other creditors, great and small, in the East and West who would cooperate in this movement and take cotton on a 10< Msis if the facts were put before them. If a big concern in New York of Chicago takes cotton in payment for debts on a 10-cent basis from a Southern business house, that business house should extend the benefit down to the grower of cotton. In ,;'<e manner of banks, with increased resources permitted by the government in this emergency, extends additional credits to a Southern business house or refrained from pressing for payments for loans, that business houses should be likewise lenient with its debtors. If such leniency is extended "all down the line," the honest man will not be secrificed. It need scarcely be added that this is ] occasion for the banks of the South to utilize their resources in extending to the utmost assistance where it is neded. That is that spirit of the government; that is the spirit of the United States treasury in dealing ^ with the financial institutions of the country. As illustration of the possibilities of extending the buy-a-bale move- | ment, I quote a letter in the New York World of yesterday: "To the Editor of The World: "I was much interested in your letter from Texas today in the subject f of cotton. In the past ten days I j have been writing parents of girls in ^ the Southern States who had planned ( coming to my school but have de- ? ferred it on account of conditions. To j these parents I have offered to take j. cotton for tuition at 10 cents, delivered to a responsible warehouse nearest them. i "Miss C. E. Mason. "Tarrytown-on-the-Hudson." . I believe that aside from the direct purchases by individuals and busi- c ness houses, in and out of the South . and outside of what the fertilizer J companies may do, that Eastern and Western creditors of the South are r wiling to accept payment for scores J of millions in cotton at a 10-cent basis. ( Commissioner Watson can pet the * attention of the newspapers of the ' South. It would be a splendid serv- : ice if he would pet them to support ' and press this campaipn. It would 1 fae a campaipn to get by scores of 1 channels the people of the South ana 5 their business connections and cred- 1 itors to take the surplus cotton off the market, while at the same time ( establishing a basis of value. It can be done, but it needs quick work and j ceaseless enthusiastic publicity. If it J is done, and the 1915 crop is held to 10,000,000 bales, we will have 12 J cents or better for cotton a year from J ttylay. Of course I contemplate co- J operation in holding by those able to store their cotton in warehouses and ! refuse its sacrifice. To sum it all up, there is a prac tical plan to help ourselves. We ' should concentrate upon it and work ' for its fullest success without waiting supinely for the government to 1 pull us out of the hole. . William E. Gonzales. Rogers Rock, New York. WARNS THE BANKS, < CHEERS FARMERS McAdoo Issues Statement on Situation?Chance for People?Sees Good Prospects for Cotton. Washington, Sept. 21.?A warning to national banks which have received government funds to aid crop moving or which have received emergency currency not to cnai-ge excessive interest rates or to refuse legitimate credits, was given tonight by Secretary McAdoo in a formal statement dealing with the present situation in the cotton growing states. The secretary declared he would not hesitate to withdraw government deposits from offending banks or to refuse to issue emergency currency to them. Aside from this warning Mr. McAdoo announced there is no reason for the cotton producer and manufacturer to feel pessimistic. He expressed the belief that there must soon be an increased demand for cotton and added: 'If the banks, the merchants and the manufacturers throughout the South will quit taking counsel of fear and will go forward with confidence the situation will, I believe, improve still further. "Complaints have been made to < me," said the secretary's statement < ""that some of the national banks i which are receiving national bank 1 currency are charging excessive rates i of interest on loans, a9 well as re- ] stricting credits. I have ordered that ] a careful investigation be made im mediately. ( "If I discover depository banks are < refusing to extend legitimate credits, or charging excessive rates of inter- j est for government funds deposited with them, or for socalled emergency ] currency issued them, I shall not hesitate to withdraw government funds from such panks and to refuse to issue emergency currency to banks which I am convinced are not making use of it upon reasonable term; for ' the benefit of the business comnmnl ty. This applies not only to national banks in the cotton states, but in all other sections of the country. It musl be remembered that the issuance of this socalled emergency currency rests by law solely within the discre tion of the secretary of the treasury. I shall not knowingly exercise that discretion in favor of any bank ?. banks which fail to make use of it at reasonable rates of interest. 'There is no reason, in my opinion, for the pessimism which prevails in many quarters of the South about cotton. The assistance which the federal government is extending to tha banks, through the issuance of national bank currency against notes secured by cotton warehouse receipts, has already greatlv improved the situation." DON'T HURT YOUR LIVER WITH CAinMvi When your liver becomes torpid and 1 sluggish, you can take calomel and i whip it into action, but the calomel i will leave your body weaker and sick- i er than ever. Calomel is a very pow- ] erful drug, a form of mercury, and i need never be used because there is a j perfect remedy to take the place of j calomel, that has all of calomel's (rood j medicinal effects with none of its dangerous and uncertain follow-ups. It's name is Dodson's Liver Tone. The Milhous Drujr company sells . Dodson's Liver Tone with the guarantee that if you don't find that it ) treats you much better than calomel, 1 they will give you your money back ' with a smile. Dodson's Liver Tone is J a true tonic for the liver, purely vege- ' table, and with such a pleasant taste that it is no trouble to get children to take it. It is absolutely impossi- ' ble for it to do anyone any harm. 1 VEGRO WOMAN IS I BRUTALLY KILLED 1 IN GREENVILLE VNGRY HUSBAND AFTER HE HAD ALMOST SEVERED HER HEAD CUTS HER UP. * t Seems the Woman Went to Church Against His Orders. (Monday's Greenville News.) Because she attended church last light against his orders, the wife of j, STelse Farmer, colored, was last night tilled by her infuriated husband who Iragged her from the HhJiness church J ind carried her into a butcher shop on tl Nichols street where he chopped her v lead off with a big meat knife. a At a late hour last night the sheriff j, md his posses and Chief of Police rlolcombe, Call Officer Bridges and :everal of the other officers were still n >eating the bushes in that part of the & :ounty searching for him. t! It would be hard to imagine a kill- ] ng more brutal and feeling among a he colored people in that-section was l:?u t4. ?~ pormpr. UnnillK 111 >4.11. 11 necius uiat ? I"??I vho goes by the name of "Big Boy," *md ordered his wife not to go to n ;hurch. She went, however, with her d lunt, with whom she and her hus- c land made their home. He came jj lome and found her gone and went x> the church for her. The negroes ^ vho saw the tragedy stated that he ^ narched up the aisle, pulled her out n >f her seat and dragged her scream- y ng to the butcher shop, which is in s .he rear of a soft-drink stand at the ? crossing of the C. & G. railroad. it It is said that he took a small pock- n ;t knife at first and slashed her over ;he face and arms until she fell upon A ler knees, weak from loss of blood. / \ negro who saw the whole tragedy T ;hen stated that Farmer took a meat _ tnife and holding his wife by the hair sent her head forward and with a " mighty stroke all but severad her lead. He then took the knife and jobbed it down the neck cavity several times, punching it the full length a if the blade. He calmly walked out s< the back door and while passing an ? old colored man about a block fur- v ther away, struck the old man a P heavy blow over the head, cutting an e ugly gash. The old man was carried ? up town where his wounds were " dressed by a physician. Farmer is from Hartsville and has been here about six weeks, working J1 for the Douglas livery stable. He is described as being tall and well built, c about 25 years of age and is said be a light ginger-cake color. ' NEGRO IS CAPTURED. J Tried, to Take His Own Life. Greenville, Sept. 21.?Nelse Farm- si er, the negro who on Sunday night g killed his wife, cutting her head al- T most entirely off with a butcher** p knife, was captured early this after- ti noon by a posse of officers. When hi tj was surroundeflMoMHaaMMNNp^MiiMW about three miles from the city, t^PJ negro drew his pocket knife and in jM dieted a terrible gash in his omyofl throat. The officers, hearing the falla ft rushed in and found him prostrated with blood flowing profusely from thdKft wound, which was about six inched;*? long. The negro was placed in aif^B automobile and brought to an undertaking firm, where it was found was alive. He was then taken to the'^H hospital and his wounds dressed. To-'^P night he lies in the county jail andd physicians state he will probably re-.^ cover. There was some talk of ?iJ( lynching by negroes of the city but ir when the leader of the threatenedH outbreak was arrested the crowd M quieted. The crime of the negro,, aroused the citizens, both white and black. He dragged his wife fronttc church and brutally slew her. Ate posse started in pursuit but did not,, locate the negro until noon today. Ht h< was making his way back to town ca and said his intention was to surren- ii| ier. v SINGLING DAY ALMOST 1IKRE. kr Rig Circus Bound This Way on Fire ha Great Trains Loaded With ex Wonders. an P*1 Children are now on their l est be- w< tavior in anticipation of a real holi- m lay treat on October (5 when Uingling ot Brothers' Greatest Shows will exhibit pj( n Spartanburg. It is expected that Sp this city will send more than its usual ca lumber of "sawdust fans" to welcome to this popular circus. Ilingling Brothers promise many J lovelties and innovations and a "big- out ?er and better everything" is the slo- en( Jan. Preceding the regular perfornance the new spectacle of "Solomon ind the Queen of Sheba" will be en- , icted on the largest stage in the vorld. This mammoth l,2f>0-charac- . er pageant cost $1,000,000 and the ^ ost unties, scenery and stage proper- n ? ies are said to be a revelation in . ?orgeousness. Among the 385 arenic icts, are scores of equestrians includng the Lloyds, famous English riders: the Borsinis. rollintr trlobe ar- . -ists; the Balkanis, whirlwind riders nll rom the Balkan mountains; the five highest perch acts ever presented; cu loxing and wrestling kangaroos; five lerds of trick elephants; 50 clowns, Hu JO families of aerialists and a maglificent horse show and speed tourna- r Tient. The menagerie is larger and nore complete than ever and features l< nany animals never before exhibited 011 n America. A free street parade will >e given on the morning of show day. . 18 2t adv 101 , m W( To Use Cotton Sacks. J" East St. Louis, 111., Sept. 19.?A ^ arge milling company of this city ^ vill ship its product in cotton sacks ^ nstead of burlap bags, according to in announcement today, and thus will nake a market for 3,000 bales of cot- D ;on- . M A low grade man judges his friends P' >y what they are willing to do for lim. ha # WAND RESCUED DESPAIRING WIFE Uter Four Years of Discouraging Conditions, Mrs. Bullock Gave Up in Despair. Husband Came to Rescue. Catron, Ky.?In an interesting letter rom this **? " " p.uvv, mi5>. Dtiue Bullock 'riles as follows: "I suffered for four Ws, with womanly troubles, and during 'tis time, I could only sit up for a little 'We, and could not walk anywhere at N- At times, I would have severe pains mmy left side. The doctor was called in, and his treatment relieved me for a while, but I was oon confined to my bed again. After at, nothing seemed to do me any good, had gotten so weak I could not stand, od 1 gave up in despair. At last, my husband got me a bottle of ardui, the woman's tonic, and I commenced taking it. From the very first ose, 1 could tell it was helping me. I an now walk two miles without its ring me, and am doing my work.'* II you are all run down from womanly Roubles, don't give up in despair. Try ardui, the woman's tonic. It has helped more than a million women, in its 50 ears of wonderful success, and should urely help you, too. Your druggist has old Cardui for years. He knows what will do. Ask him. He will recommend it. Begin taking Cardui today. Write to: Chattanooga Medicine Co., Ladles* dvisory Dept., Chattanooga. Tenn., for Special VtruclioHS on your case and 64-page book,' Homo raiment tor Women," sent in plain wrapper. L66-B 10W THK l \UMKU'S DAUGHTER \| IV ? no "*' " H r.,.\iv.> riA-MUINKY. A lady in Richmond, Va. has made national reputation putting up and ell'np "pin-money pickles." She bean a few years ago in a very modest '?v, but now her products are so opular that they can be found nearly very where in the United States. Anther woman in Wahsington, I). C. as built up a business making chowhow, for which she gets $.'3 a gallon. These are only samples of what undreds of young women have done o earn pin money by putting up anned goods at home. People are cond goods at home. People are coninually demanding a better quality f canned goods and are willing to ay a better price for them. The irmer's daughter who desires to arn pin money may avail herself of lis demand and with care and pereverence learn to put up canned oods that she may sell at a profit, hose who are interested in such a roject may obtain detailed instrucons on canning in Farmers' Bullen fcl of the United States DepartTreeoiTcharge to th eapplicapt. ,e bulletin, which encouraging the g woman in her efforts to make isiness proposition of putting up s and vegetables, cautions nst enthusiasm. It advises that beginner experiment with a few i before going too heavily into j project. If the first cans keep L she may be encouraged to pro I. li sne meets with a lew tail i, perhaps she has overlooked e important detail outlined in I he irtment's bulletin. It is only ugh failures that one gets good jrience, and with a little practice care in following the directions farmer's daughter should be able >ut up a satisfactory can or fruit vegetables. fhen a young woman has succeedin putting up a product satisfac' for home use, she may well look and for a market outside the le. The girl who starts out with: fidence in herself will be more j ly to find a good market than one ? is diffident. pecialize in What You I)o Best, he girl with experience in canning ws the products with which she the most success, and should envor to sell only those in which she els. It is always best to specialize i work up a reputation for some ticular kind of goods, as did the lien already mentioned. One girl j y make a feature of satsup, an-1 cr may find her best product is j kles, while another may put up a I cially attractive can of peppers, j iliflower, peaches, apples or tonia-. s. doubt life would be one grand, i ' own troubles as easily as we can I lure the troubles of other.-. Ex. SIGNALS OF D1STKKSS ion People Should Know How loj Head and Heed Them. Disordered kidneys jjive many sir: Is of distress. The secretions may I>e dark, eon-j n sediment. Passages are sometimes frequent, mty, painful. Backache is often present day and rht. Headaches and dizzy spells may ocr. Weakened kidneys should leceive i<-'k help. Don't delay! Use a special kidney medy. Doan's Kidney Pills are for weak lneys, backache and urinary dislers. Union evidence proves their worth. W. Lester Davis, 51 South St., UnS. C., says: "My kidneys were jak^ and caused my back to ache. >an's Kidney Pills, which I procured nm the Palmetto Drug Co., greatly nefitted me and I soon enjoyed Rood alth. I can Bay this remedy is line one for kidney complaint." Price 50 cents, at all dealers. Don't mply ask for a kidney remedy?get oan's Kidney Pills?the same that r- Davis had. Foster-Milburn Co., ?P8-, Buffalo, N. Y. Those who win success by practice ven't time to do much prcacning I Draw a 1 ! Check ^ ^ for the money you owe anc respectfully your creditors : ?ft lo do business with a mar ?)t at the CitVeils National Bs ?|f doing business in a business ?{t such an account even if you ?ft They will grow all right. <4f + CITIZENS NAT! ^ R. P. Morgan, President C ^ Capital and Surpli + BUYERS TO SHAR1 LOWER PRICES OI Effective from Auk. 1, 1914 to 1 teed against reduction d TourinK Car Runabout Town Car (F. O. B. Detroit, all ca; In the United States o 1 Further, we will he able to obtai in our factory production, and t purchasinR and sales department put of .'100,000 cars between the And should we reach this produc the buyer's share from $40 to ij AuRust 1, 1915) to every retail new Ford car between Auk. 1? U For further particulars regard! profit-sharing plan, see the nearc UNION G I * " V1 LAST" Sold Hogs by A South Carolina farme of hogs which were ready t was so warm that killing was He went to his telephc Columbia over Long Distani at a good price. He then c; office and arranged for shipn 1 he telephone is now a i You can have one on your U See the nearest Bell Tel send a postal for our free bo< FARMERS' LINE D1 SOUTHERN BELL TEL AND TELEGRAPH CO S. Pryor St., A There is more Catarrh in this see- llj | lion of the country than all other (lis- |f|| j eases put together, and until the last p I few years was supposed to he incura- Prcs ;!>le. For a tfreat many years doctors p.r, ! pronounced it a local disease and pre- .j,v< scribed local remedies, and by con- J.c(^ stantly failing to cure with local (jap treatment, pronounced it incurable, i Science has proven Catarrh to be a -? i ..Anclllnfinnnl /lisoacn at?l fVia.nfn.n ' requires constitutional treatment. ^ j Hall's Catajrrh Cure, manufactured u' by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, ()h;o, ^ j is the only constitutional cure on the ,)ro | market. It is taken internally. It y acts directly on the blood and mu- jn ! cous surfaces of the system. They mjn I offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars a and testimonials. Address: F. J. Cheney & Co, > Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Drutftfists, 7f)C. ffi Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. ^ 7 +4"4,+4,XJ I note how much more regard vou. They like + i who has an account & ink. They know he is + ,-like way. Better open ? r affairs are not large. 4? + ONAL BANK '. C. 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