The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, April 28, 1921, Image 2
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SEN. HARRIS WANTS TO KNOW
Georgia's Senior Senator, Hon. W.
J. Harris, has requested the federal
trade commission to look into the relation
of the prices of cotton seed in
Georgia as compared with the
products of cotton seed. Prices of cotton
seed are $10.00 per ton and
while lard made from the seed
is selling at 9 cents per pound and oil
at around 4 cents per pound.
MONEY FOR THE RAILROADS
Railroads in the South have ro
cently been paid by the government
ton million dollars under the provis
ions of the transportation act. Of this
amount the Atlantic Coast Line rail
road frets $2,400,000 and the Atlantic
Coast Line and the Louisville
and Nashville railroad lessees of the
Georgia railroad jret $3,000,000. With
all that money the roads outrht to
make both ends meet but not on the
same track.
They might even reduce the fares
and freight rates a little bit.
MONEY FROM JOHN BlfLL
A few days ago John Bull paid
Ulicit' ISam S2.>,UIM),()U0 on the debt
of $122,000,000 that ho owned for silver
that ho bought during the war.
That amount is what Sammy needs if
ho has to pay Colombia for the Panama
canal zone that Tom Watson says
Colombia did not own. President
Harding and other leading statesmen
in ami out of Congress contend that
it is a just debt and ought to be paid.
The matter will be decided one way or
the other, perhaps by the time The
Advertiser goes to press. If we have
to pay it. that $2.".(100,000 from Great
Britain is like picking up money in the
road and comes just in the nick of
time. John Bull still ownes us $97,000,000
on the borrowed silver and a
good deal more on other obligations]
incurred during the war. Hope he will
come across right soon and if France)
and Italy and other borrowers willj
pay up our taxes would be lighter and
our prospects brighter.
OH, WHAT A I.AW MAKER!
Oklahoma hasn't anything on South
Carolina when it comes to illiteracy.
For that great state has sent a Congressman
to Washington who is the
limit as a letter writer. lie is a new
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member, named Emanuel Herrick.
When he got to Washington a few
days ago to take his seat as a law
maker, he wrote hack home this letter
that is published by the Washington
correspondent of the Atlanta
Constitution, Mr. .T. A. Hollaman:
"I have a line Room at $20 per
month and am Boarding at what Is
considered heare as a Swell private
Boarding house at $20 per month
Breakfast and Super Lunch at a Cafe,
well ! must Tell you what fun I had
with The Lan Lady and Then quit for
Tonight for It is 12,15. She Brought
out a Dish of Black Eyed peas with
my Super. 1 pushed it awa from my
plate and She Said Dont You Like
Them. I .Said we Call Them Cow peas
In Oklahoma She Said Dont The people
Eat Them 1 saidThe Extream
poor I)o She held her hands to her
breast and said. O. what a knock what
a knock, now my friend if you get
This letter in Time Read it to the
eorneri ial club .-upper Tuesday night.
A Matter For Wonder
' Tomorrow," announced live-vearold
Sidney proudly to his kindergarten
teacher, "is my birthday."
"Why," returned she, "it is mine,
too."
The boy's face clouded with perplexity
and, after a brief silence, he
exclaimed: ' How did you get so much
bigger'n he?"?Forecast.
WHY NOT HERE TOOT
At a recent meeting of the farmers ,
merchants board of trade at Acworth,
Ga., definite plans were perfected for
the establishment of a large power
sorghum mill in Acworth. It is announced
that the mill will be large
enough to take care of al the cane
that can be grown in that section.
Furthermore, the mill will take care
of all details, such as canning, labeling
and the selling of the product to
the best advantage.
It is further stated that the best
-yrup makers will be engaged, and attractive
trade mark established, and
the finished product put upon the
market.
This enterprise, now positively assured,
will atford the farmer a ready
market for all the syrup cane he can
grow. Hundreds of acres in that section
have already been promised to
oe put into cane, and the farmers
around Acworth are very enthusiastic
over the project.
This is a commendable enterprise,
md a few acres on each farm in sorghum
would be a good substitute for
a few short acres in cotton. Thousands
of gallons of corn syrup and
ither varieties are shipped into Chesterfield
county every year. Why not i
grow it at home. There are hundreds;
.?f acres of wet land in this county I
hat is too wet for corn or other crops,
hen why not a sorghum mill for Chesterfield?
This syrup put up in convenient
size cans and beautiful labels, no
trouble will be found in selling it to
wholesale grocers in large quantities.
And some of our local traveling men
might be glad to sell it as a side line.
Fhis would give Chesterfield farmers
another good cash crop.
GET IT BY WINNING
"Father, I want a new baseball i
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nut.
lie got it.
Later we talked with the father,
and in the course of the conversation
remarked that his boy seemed to have
just about everything he happened to
want.
"Yes, I give him everything he
wants, if it is within my power to get
it for him," replied the boy's father.
'But arn't you afraid of overindulging
him?" we asked.
"No, sir," emphatically, "I believe
, it the thing to do."
I Il0 paused until the remark had
[ time to sink in and assimilate, then
he continued,
"I believe a child should be given
everything he wants, if within reason,
j Let him get the habit of getting what
he wants in his buddnig years, and
when he reaches seniority, that habit
will abide with him and put him on
easy street."
This was a new angle, and there
was no further argument.
But, on sober second thought, we
are inclined to believe that this theory
is wrong.
The habit of getting what one
wants is an admirable one indeed?if
one wins it.
But, when one has had every desire
gratified, without eflort, he may get
the idea that they will come in the
same manner to the end of the game
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When we got into the honest-togoodness
battle of life, when the other
fellow wants the same thing- we want,
when he feels he just must have it,
there will be a struggle?and the best
man wins.
If we want that boy to get what he
wants, it is well, but let him earn it.
Then he will appreciate it after it is
won.
Abraham Lincoln got the habit of
getting what he wanted, to a great
degree, but he struggled against overwhelming
odds for years before things j
began coming his way. No fond par-j
ent stood at his beck and call ready
and able to gratify his every whim, j
Lincoln struggled to acquire and
struggled again to retain. j
The author of "David Harem"
wanted his manuscript published; but
the first publisher to whom he submitted
it did not accept it; nor the
second, nor the twentieth. But he
fought on and struggled and strained
--and won.
There is an old saying to the effect
that "whatever we get that is
worthwhile, we must pay just what it
is worth."
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w.t nil i >| 1/ ui (Kl.VIIIK.
Everything comes to him who waits
?if he works hard enough while he
' is waiting.
A Forlorn Hope?
At the grave of the departed the
old darky pastor stood, hat in hand.
Looking into the abyss he delivered
himself of the funeral oration. "Samuel
Johnson," he said sorrowfully,
"you is gone. An' we hope you is gone
where we 'speck you aint."?Ex- i
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CONCERNING CO-OPERATIVE
MARKETING
3. Deficiencies of the Individual
Farmer As a Market Man
Having seen in the last article that
marketing of a farm crop includes assembling
or concentration, o-radinc. ,
warehousing, processing, transporta- j
tion, financing, salesmanship and re- j
tailing, we should readily understand i
why the farmer acting as an individual
is such a poor merchant of his own
products. Acting alonc he can do very
little with any of the various steps in
marketing. Usually at the vevj tirot
step, that of assembling the commodity,
the title passes from the grower to
a "middle nian" and all subsequent
steps in marketing are performed by
middlemen. Sometimes a growe-* will
warehouse a part of his crop and, if he
is a large grower, may grade the crop
and later sell it by grade. By far the
great majority, however, put their
crops on the market soon after harvesting,
accepting in payment the current
cash value and accepting also the
more or less arbitrary grading of the
buyer. This price is usually too low
because of the fact that markets are
being glutted, and th0 grading is frequently
unfair to growers for no reason
except that buyers know grades
and growers do not.
As Individual Seller, Grower Competes
With Grower
rtcung as inaiviuuais in selling:,
growers have to compete with one another,
this competition resulting frequently
in prices below cost of production.
It seems that regardles of
how economically a crop may have
been produced, there are always some
growers whose financial condition
compels them to sell whether or not
they get the cost of production. This
number who must sell is sufficient, to
break the market and compel all other
growers to accept losing prices.
Profits from farming are, through
our individual methods of marketing,
thus maintained at low levels, and this
is of course reflected in our iow scale
of living.
Farming is generally regarded as a
selling business. Practically all of the
farmers' energies, physical and mental,
are spent in economical production.
He has little time and capacity
for studying marketing conditions;
and, as an individual, he can do nothing
to correct poor conditions even if
he were as well informed as the expert
middlemen who handle the marketing.
Why Berate Middlemen?
In spite of these facts, when the
grower brings his crop to the market
he is put in the absurd position of
matching his wits with experts who
have made studies of how to buy
lowest and sell highest. Moreover, ev
ery middleman who handles his crop
is a part of an interlocking economic
system the tendency df which is to
pay the lowest possible price and exact
from consumers the highest possible
price. This, however, is no reason
for berating middlemen. The work
which they do is in most eases necessary.
Their ranks include our bankers,
merchants, railroads, warehousemen,
manufacturers and others in addition
to speculators. The only question
that can be asked about middlemen
is, can the work they are doing be
done more economically in some other
way? The advocates of co-operative
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marketing say that it can be done
more economically in many cases by
the growers acting together through
co-operative marketing associations.
All are agreed that growers acting individually
could not do as well as our
present set of middlemen.
Successful Co-operatives Pointing the
Way
There are enough successful cooperative
marketing associations now
doing business to point the way. The
subject has become perhaps the livest
agricultural topic in America. Grow
ers of every kind of commodity are
studying the principles underlying the
successful co-operative marketng assocatons
with the idea of applying
these principles to their own commodity
These principles will be explained
in later articles.
PALMETTO SCHOOL TO
CLOSE MAY 5th
The closing exercises o fthe Palmetto
Graded School will be rendered
on Thursday, May 5 at 10 A. M., at
Wilke's Chapel.
Following is the program:
Invocation, Rev. W. S. Myers.
10:30, speeches and recitations by
the elimentary class.
11:00 A. M. Dialogues, essays and
declamations by the intermediate and
elimentary classes.
12:00 M. Address by Rev. W. S.
Myers, also will delivered the prizes
to the pupils for punctuality and deportment
and to those making the
spelling.
1:00 P. M. Refreshments.
2:00 P M. Address by Prof. W. F.
Young, Mr. Wilks and other distinguished
gentelemen expected.
Everybody invited?bring a basket.
You become a good conversationalist
the moment yen halt your own tale
of woe and start listening closely to
the other fellow's.?St. Joseph Gazette.
Lots of men will open a $50 pot
on a pair of jacks and kick up
an awful rumpus the next morning if
their wives want to open a $1 bank
account for the baby.?Au Sable
Forks (N. Y.) Adirondack Record.
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house. Bring me your cotton and seed. I will pay you the high- j
est market price for same, and will sell you bagging and ties,
llcur, seed oats and shoes, household and such other goods as I
will have room to.carry until I can build my new store. I will sell
tnem cheap as any one.
Don't expect to carry very much on these declining prices,
so as to be able to give you best prices all the time. No war prices
will hold, and you may expect them to decline.
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BETTER TO BUY COTTON THIS
YEAR THAN TO GROW IT
The prospective carry-over of cotton
at July 31st, 1921 ig now not far
from 11,000,000 bales. That amount
is fully 2,000,000,000 bales larger
than was threatened before the
Christmas holidays, when the acreage
committee predicted that the carry
over would not be less than 9,000,000
bales. Thus it is that our fears have
not only been confirmed but the situation
is even worse than we seemed
warranted in predicting: a few months
ago.
A desperate effort has been made
I during: the last three weeks to advance
the price of cotton. It is a trick of
those who want cheap cotton, to advance
the price about planting time.
The trick has been used so often that
it can now deceive no one. Efforts to
advance the price of cotton, while determined,
have failed, and this fact of
itself should be ft sufflripnf u,ornm?
to farmers not to be misled. When
those who want cheap cotton and who
ordinarily control the price of cotton
cannot advance the price for a purpose,
it is not likely that the farmer
will be able to advance it.
Cotton acreage must be reduced
and the reduction must be adequate.
Anything less than 50 per cent compard
with last year will not be adequate.
There^is now enough cotton in the
world unspun to last nearly two years.
The world will carry over this year
more American cotton than was spun
during the past twelve months.
The carry-over, including linters,
may approximate 11,000,000 bales, or
from five to six times a normal carryover
of American cotton.
The United States cannot consume
more than about 6,000,000 bales of
cqjton annually.
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surplus of the American crop, or
about 50 per cent, of the crop, is very
unpromising as a market, becausc of
depreciated currency and lack of security
to offer as a basis of credit.
The buying power of the world is
far below normal, but the supply of
cotton is now vastly in excess of every
normal requirement.
It will cost more to produce a new
crop than it can be sold for at present
prices and there 's no present'
prospect that prices will advance.
Cotton can now l<e bought cheaper
than irt can be produce!. It is better,
therefore, to buy cotton or to hold
what you now own than to grow mors.
Every bale purchased tends to adVance
prices; ever/ acre planted tends
to malte prices go down.
Unless cotton can be produced
profitably it would be worse than folly
to attempt to produce it at all.
It is impossible to recover losses by
incurring more losses?that is the
road to bankruntev
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Unless cotton can be sold it^vill not
pay debts or taxes, neither can we
eat it.
Cotton is no longer a cnsh commodity.
For the first time in your life, it is
difficult if not impossible to sell cotton.
The cotton farmer, at the best, receives
returns for his labor but once a
year. He turns his capital only once a
year, whereas under a diversified system
of farming, returns are received
many times a year.
Any one crop system is uneconomic,
because under it no plan of farm management
can be devised which will
give a maximum yearly use of tools,
equipment and labor. The one crop
farmer, particularly the cotton farmer,
finds it difficult if not impossible to
keen profitably employed the year
round.
If you grow cotton without growing
fnnd 1 ' 1
aim ieea ior beast, we
shall all be worse off than bankrupt,
maybe starving this winter when the
wind whistles through our meatless
smoke houses and cornless corn cribs.
Diversified farming will raise the
standard of living in the South.
Diversified farming will make
healthier and happier women and children,
more and better schools and
churches, manlier and more contented
men. In short, a more ambitious,
better educated, thinking and more
intelligent citizenship.
Farmers who have depended entirely
upon cotton and cotton alone, are
virtually bankrupt today, whereas
farmers who have diversified more or
less, have food for themselves and
families and feed for their stock and
money in the bank.
. The South stands at the parting of
thc ways. It is up to you.
Every farmer ought to own a cow,
a sow and some chickens.
Might as Well
Even Abe Lincoln, though never
noted for his beauty, had some pride
in his appearance. One day, the story
is told, while going down the steet,
i.v moii a man wno looked him over
closely and drew a gun on him.
"Stranger," the man said, "I swore
that if I ever met anyone homelier
than I was, I'd shoot him on sight."
"Brother." drawled Abe, "if I'm
homelier than you I reckon you might
as well."?American Legion Weekly.
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