The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, February 09, 1922, Image 2
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A GOOD CO-OPERATIVE PLAN
A bill bar been introduced in Congress
that ought to be of help to
farmers. It provides for rs'.O' ition ?
in each state for cooperative selling
of all farm products. These associations
are to be organized under a
general plan, but the bill permits
any organization already in existence
to become a member. The so\eral
State organizations are to elect or
appoint not less than one nor more
than three agents, whose duty U is to
represent, advise, and assist the State
associations in the marketing of their
products, whether within their own
States or at any place of consumption,
the expenses of these agents
to be borne and paid as a part of all
cooperative associations in the State.
One trouble about farmers' organizations
is that they won't organize.
While other industries not only organize
but stay organized farmers are
not inclined to work together. The
bill referred to ought to be a great
help to the farming interest and will
be of much benefit if tillers of the soil
will take advantage of it.
Senator McCumber, of Iowa, spoke
very hopefully for the outlook for
farmers.
He said:
"The hope of the American farmer
today lies in the ever-increasing
numbers of the consumers of his
products right here in the United
States, light here at home. We have
nearly reached the limit of our tillable
acres, but the birth rate will continue.
Population has no limit. In the
light of this assurance let the American
farmer take heart. The time is
not far off when by reason of increased
consumption in the United States,
demanding every bushel of his grain,
every pound of poultry and dairy
products, every pound of beef, and
pork and mutton, the farmer can and
will receive the full benefit of this
protection which has made prosperous
and built up our great city populations,
a policy which since the Civil
War has converted a population which
at that time was two-thirds food producers
into a population which is now
more than two-thirds food consumers.
Let the fanners not try to drive this
great consuming population back into
the fielil of food production."
FIGHTING LORD'S MUSCLE
SHOALS OFFER
It has been developed that a powerful
lobby has been at work in
Washington to block and defeat Ford
Muscle Shoals offer. The lobby is composed
of fertilizer and water power
capitalists.
Senator Harris claims that the lob
troduced in the Senate a resolution
asking for an investigation of the lobby.
Senator Ilari* claims that the lob?
by is at work in the interests of the
fertilizer and waterpower groups op
posed to < < velopment of the Muscle
Shoals property. The inquiry which he
proposed would uncover this, he said,
adding that if it were as powerful as
it appears from the propaganda it has
sent out, congress cannot act too
quickly in bringing to light the influenees
which the alleged trusts are
bringing to bear on members.
TALKING TO THE BUCKEYES
In an address before the Ohio
State bar association Hon. .Toe T.
Robinson, United States Senator from
Arkansas, gave the Buckeye lawyers
some very plain and needed talk along
lines that should bo brought to the attention
of Northern lawyers and lay?
men.
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..V IV. lilK ii> i III- <111 I l-I.Y Hi lling DIM
he said that no progress would be
made in overcoming the mob spirit
by enactment of unreasonable or unconstitutional
statules, fov such efforts
in the end must meet with failure.
Since no federal law, constitutionally
enacted, can apply to the
usual cause of lynching, the remedy
lies in state authority through awakening
in tile public conscience greater
respect for law and confidence in
the courts."
Referring to pr hibition he said the
law must be enforced. Good citizens
can not in honor respect and ob.erv
unly such laws as they approve and
connive at statutes which they regard
as a doubtful or unwise policy. This
would accomplish the triumnh of anarchy
over the just, the establishment
of lawlessness and terror in place of
justice and security.
MICKIli,THE PRINT*
P" j a /
MORE COTTON T1
THOUGH WEI
By James A. Hollomon g
Used by Permission Atlanta Constitu- j
tion. 1
College Station, Texas, January 1
20. (Special.)-In the initial article '
of this series that is, the story of how
to ?row cotton successfully in spite !
of the boll weevil, as practiced in 1
Texas, Louisiana and in the Mississippi
delta?I pointed out?
That it is a fact, as proven by
I (iviovnoi nn woki^nituiis, liiul lariiif rs
:n the southwest who exorcise intel- '
ligencc and energy in their operations
?"good farmers,"so to speak?aren't
only raising as much cotton today, *
under boll weevil conditions as tthey
did on the same acreage before the
advent of the weevil, but through ;
lessons learned in improved cultural
methods,are in many cases raising i
more cotton to the acre than in the
pre-weevil days.
In Neuces county?of which Corpus
Christi is the county seat?76,000
bales of cotton were grown and ;
ginned in 1921, which exceeded by
nearly 10,000 bales, the banner crop |
of the pre-weevil days, and on an acreage
not to exceed 2,000 greater than (
in the pre wevil days. This is a stat- i
inent that can be easily verified.
Also bear in mind?
The weevils were not only more
prolific in 1921 than ever before, due
to an unusually wet and humid spring
and summer, but other crop condi
tiojj? were poor, the heavy rains of
June practically submerging thou-1
sands of acres.
How was this record made?
Ry efficient and intense cultivation,from
the seed bed preparation to
the harvest, along the old, well estab.
lished lines without any new-fangled
methods or fool experiments; by intense
cultivation, getting the very
best pedigreed seed of an early maturing
variety into the ground as
ptickly after Christmas as possible
ny thorough and "systematic "chopping"
and "working;" pushing the ,
plant as rapidly as practicable; and |
by actually mastering the weevil be- I
fore he could take account of his!
surroundings after he emerged from ;
hih?.i n-it inn ??'! U.. ? -" I
v. t unit iiivii uy aysiuilittU- ' j
rally keeping tab on infestitation,
and by the proper application of cal-'
cium arsenate in those areas showing!
an infestation of 10 per cent, or
more.
That's how the farmers of Neuces
county, Texas, did it in 1921?and in
properly cultivating their cotton, as
in the proper preparation of the land;
and in the proper application of poison,
they made more cotton on the
same acreage than ever before?before
the weevil swept them in to a
panic several years ago.
And that in a word, which will be
enlarged upon in detail before this
series closes, explains how to make
cotton under boll weevil conditions,
whether in a warm climate, like Neuces
county, or further to the north.
There are direct and indirect agencies
of successful boll weevil control
which must la- co-ordinated by the intelligence
and energy of the farmer?indirect
provided and applied by
the farmer himself along simple,practical
and non-expensive lines that
have been proven now, beyond the
shadow of a doubt, to be wholly efficient.
In a word the one fact stands out
like a peak in the plains?
The boll weevil can never be exterminated,
or even materially weakened
in any given community or zone
as an agency of complete cotton destruction;
and the necessary procecduro
is to control him; and controlling
him can easily be accomplished, as
prove 11 in tne southwest, but can only
be accomplished by intelligent, systematic,
energetic, intensive cultivation,
plus calcium arsenate poisoning,
properly applied in those areas
where infestation has reached more
than 1 Opor cent.
it is nonsense to try to reach the
goal through any other route?it is
worse than foolishness to even attempt
another route when the right
way is not only easy, but is capable
of bringing a greater reward at the
end than ever achieved before, in
spite of the boll weevil.
As to a detailed explanation of
how to prepare the seed bed; how to
cultivate the land; how to poison infested
areas and so on, I shall let the
| recognized cotton growing expert of
the south tell in his own language hefore
this series closes?
Let me say this, however, here and
now -there are no new lessons to
learn, it. these methods of cotton cul-!
ture, to the painstaking, hard working j
efficient farmer, who farms direct and
not by proxy, and who had been a
EFTSDEVIL
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IAN EVER,
EVILS INCREASE
successful cotton grower before the
joll weevil menaced him.
Mistaken Ideas Prevail in Southeast I
It is a mistaken idea that the wee-!
sdl has revolutionized cotton plant- i
ing and cultivation methods?for instance
that the plants must be
sparsely spaced so that the sun can
reach every :?ber of every plant; that
seed have to be ''treated* 'and medicated;
that the stalks have to be burned
or buried immediately following
the last picking; that a certain grade
of fertilizer must be used; that a
flock of fowls must be kept on every
cotton field and so on.
All of that is rubbish and torn
foolery as proven in Texas.
It would help to burn the stalks
after the harvest, possibly, but it
would not keep down the weevils?
and in Georgia and the Carolinas it
is impracticable.
I find bvto ft. micro do 30 in Texas;
others do not. Other conditions
being equ.il I see no differen o in results.
That the boll weevil is here, and
here to stay, and that farmers must
not get the impression that after
three or four years he moves on, leaving
the path behind him practically
immune from further attack.
I know there is a widespread impression
in Georgia today that the
boll weevil has spent his day in Texas,
as an illustration. That he passed
on to Louisiana, and into the Mississippi
delta, and into Alabama, and
within the last three or four years into
a big part of cotton growing Georgia
; and that he will in due course
leave Georgia, and pass on to green
fields and new pastures.
In the name of sound, comon sense
dispel that thought!
It will cost Georgia $50,000,000 in
1922 if such a thought is allowed to
prevail.
More Weevils in Texas Than Ever
One pair of weevils have an averStories
of
Great Scouts fVatwn j
?, Western Newspaper Union.
EDGAR S. PAXSON, THE SCUU1
WHO WAS A PAINTER
Col. lOUgur S. I'axson was a scout
who became a painter. lie worked
for 20 years 011 one painting before
It wus completed, and when the <dd
scout's masterpiece was done. It was
declared to he the most accurate picture
of Custer's last battle ever
painted. It made I'axson fuuioua.
I'axson was a New Yorker who
went to .Montana in the early seven
ties. lie became a cowpunelier, a
hunter ami trapper. When Chief Joseph
led his Nez I'erce warriors on
their 1.000-mile ilnsh for freedom In
1877, I'nxsnn enlisted as a scout with
the United States troops and served
with them until Chief Joseph was eoruered
in the Bear I'aw mountains and
surrendered to General Miles.
After the Nez I'eree war was over,
Puxson returned to Deer Lodge,
Mont., und opened a studio. lie hud
always wanted to paint pictures and
lie took for his subjects the things
lie knew best ? cowboys, Indluns,
hunters and trappers. Then he conceived
the Idea of a painting of the
greatest Indian battle in American
history?Custer's last fight with the
Sioux and Cheyennes on the Little
Big Horn.
For years Paxson gathered information
about the battle. lie went over
the battlefield again and again until
he was familiar with every foot of it;
he talked with Indians who hud fought
against Custer, and he sought officers
and men who had served with Iteno
and Benteen to get their stories of
the tight. He learned everything he
could of the position of every man In
the Seventh cavalry on that fateful
day in June 1876.
Puxson was engaged seven years
In the actual painting of the picture.
His work was interrupted during this
lime by his service Id Cuba during
ihe Spanish-American war and In the
Philippines. After the war was over
he returned to his work and the picture
was completed.
In this painting I'axson showed the
figures of more than 200 soldiers, Indians
and scouts. It contained the
portraits of 30 members of Custer's
command painted from photographs.
Kvery detull of the battle was shown
historically accurate, so far as It Is
possible to know how Custer and his
men perished. The painting has been
on exhibition In the largest cities of
the United States and It now hangs
in the library of the Montana State
university at MlssouJa. It Is valued
at $25.<X>0.
In l^TS I'axson In Id down the
scout's rlre to take up the painter's
brus>. . nrty-one years later he laid
down the brush. Colonel I'axson died
in Missoula. November 0. 1910.
By Charles Sughroe
WfUftn Newspaper Union
1 IgggggBWS^^
age of 12,000,000 offsprings every.
year.
There are more weevils in Texas'
today, a hundred times over, than
there were in 1907 and 1908 when
the cotton farmers were terror-stricken
by the swarms of newly recognized
pests.
Weevils did more damage in Texas
i nl921 among those good-for-nothing,
improvident so-called "farmers"
who were too lazy to fight them, or
too mutton-headded to listen to or
understand reason, than ever before
in the history of weevil infestitation.
The state entomologist at this
place, whose duty it is to keep the
records will bear out that statement.
At the end of the year 1920 nearly
535,00 square miles of territory had
been infested by the boll weevil.
Ninety per cent, of the cotton belt
is today thus infested; and 95 per
cent, of the American grown cotton
is grown in infested areas
It is true, however, that cold retards
his progress and a freeze kills
him, just as dry heat kills him.
If it were not for the indirect j
agencies of control supplied by nature,
as, for instance, several kinds of
insect parasites that feed upon him,
| the red ant to illustrate, the whole at
| mosphere of the cotton belt would be
I so conjested with boll weevils in the
j summer that one could not live nor
even breathe.
Let's apply common sense to studying
this problem, and' to meeting it.
The fact remains that, despite all
the natural agencies that effect weevil
mortality, wheo a pair of them multiply
at the rate of 12,000,000 a year,
they are here and here to stay forever,
ever increasing in numbers.
They arc costing the cotton grow- j
ers of the whole belt today around
$300,000,000 annually, despite the
successful methods practiced in the
southwest for growing cotton in spite
of him.
There is no time to temporize with
foolish ideas, or new experiments, or
"patents," or any other kinds of
chemical or mechanical devices exploited
in order to take the money
from the farmers' pockets.
Intensive, early, thorough, cultivation,
pushing the cotton as fast as
possible, and getting in the seed as
MADE HISTORY j
? By JAMES C. YOUNG. ?
Oct bv MeClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
THE WOMAN WARMAKER.
IT WAS an Ill-fated ship which
brought a wonderfully beautiful
| Italian girl to England, toward the
close of the Seventeenth century. But
no one who saw this Ivory-skinned,
dark-eyed beauty, would have thought
that she was to plunge England Into
a period of Nourished. So her destiny
! proved, for Mary of Modena was the
embodiment of had luck to England.
1 She came jovef from Italy as the be'
trot lied bride of the Duke of York,
j In the course of a few years he ascended
the throne as James U, al
mmign in tne nine of ills marriage no
j ??m? could have foreseen that event,
.lames was a had king, and what la
perhaps worse, he wus a weak king,
j The people muttered against him, tyid
| Ids wife, Mary of Modena, urged that
: he flee. .lahiesyhesltated, and he pres!
ently was dethroned, William of
Orange taking Ids place. Immediately
i James' follower^ handed together in
what was called the Jacobite uprlsi
lugs, this being a play on the Latfn
name for James, which Is Jucobus.
Mary, watching events from France,
paid her court to Louis XIV, She la
said to have caught the fancy of the
gallant Louis and to have persuaded
him to declare her son the true kln^
of England, Instead of William. Louis
assented and a new war promptly began,
much worse than the civil conflict
which had preceded It In England.
William succeeded In gaining
j allies when Loots declared his own
; grandson to be king of Spain. Soon
the War of the Spaniah Succession
was In Its full red tide and Europe
ran with blood. The struggle lasted
14 years and before It ended practically
every nation of the continent waa
drawn In. Armies were wiped not,
furious battles won and leet. Prince
Eugene, Insulted by a alight of Loula.
went to Austria and Inflicted heavy
defeats on the Freuch. becoming the
greatest military leader Austria ever
had?and he was a Frenchman. Martborough
won battle after battle for
England and undying faipo for himself.
Loula' ablest lender died and
France Just escaped falling into the
clutches of her enemies.
Mary, the maker of wars, had well
earned the name. Bnt site still waa
unsatisfied, and when peace Anally
came she urted all of her blandish
mentg to stir up new Jacobite troubles
In England. The Jacobite rebellions
dragged on for a number of
years. But they were hopeless, for
William had firmly seated himself on
the throne. Still Mary kept on
with the resolution of despair and
not until her deuth In 1718 couWl the
English king breathe easy.
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quickly as season and climatic conditions
will warrant or make safe, applying
brains and energy, and fn
pushing the cotton for early and prolific
boiling?this coupled with
thorougnly understood system for
poisoning the weevils, in plats in
which infestation to 10 per cent, or
more develops, with calcium arsenate?which
can be secured in the tested
correct proportions this year for
7 1-2 to 8 cents a pound?these methods
co-ordinated, together with a
clean farm, clean fences, burned rubbish?the
natural things that appeal
to every drrt-?*lasi intelligent, farmer,
will absolutely make the boll weevil a
negligible factor, as proven here in
Texas.
By " intensive cultivation"! mean
making more cotton on less acreage.
It must be remembered CO per cent
of the cotton squares fall, or do not
mature, hence the weevil has much to
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feed upon before he can affect pro- <
duction provided the farmer pushes <
his cotton by intense cultivation and 4
high fertilization.
That is common sense and sounds *
reasonable. 4
Infestation below 10 per cent, ?
therefore, will do no production dam- <
age, as shown by my Texas investiga- 4
tions. " (
Above that, war upon him with the <
calcium arsenate, but do it right
I shall explain in detail how the
successful cotton farmer in the south- '
west does it?without worrying and 1
with only nominal expense?in a sub- J
sequent article.
One thing must always be carried |
in mind, and that is that complete boll ,
weevil control does not make cotton.
This brings me to another point I
made in the first article in this se- |
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: Detective Stories ! >
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; ALLAN PINKERTON'S ;;
RECORD CASE :
Jol)y right by The Wh*?l?r Syndicate. Inc.
THERE was no response to the
Impatient knocking on the heavy
doors of the Adams Express company's
building near the end of the
[}olumbu8 (O.) Union station, one
night In the middle of winter. There
stood the train, with the usuat bustle
ind clamor preparatory to departure,
but the express clerk and his assistant
had not made their appearance.
Bang I Bang I Bang 1
This time John Grossman, the ex
press messenger, knocked harder than
ever, for It was beginning to dawn
upon him that something ^ust be
wrong. A moment later he tried the
knob of the door. To his amazement
It turned easily and he stepped forward
Into utter darkness, stumbling
over boxes and packages until he
reached the gas Jet In the center of
the room. Papers and parcels lay
In wild confusion all over thefloor,
the door of the safe stood open
and the clerk and - his assistant werelying
In one corner, In a sort of stupor..
It was evident . that the two men-.
Iiad beeu chloroformed?the slckenlngrxlor
of the drug still pervaded theroom?and
that the company had been
robbed, in spite of the fact that hundreds
of people had been Just outside
the building all during the evening.
These circumstances, coupled with the
Pact that $40,000 was missing from the
safe, were all that Allan Plnkerton
had to work upon when he reached;
Columbus the following morning.
The details of the robbery were obtained
directly from John Barker, the
express clerk.
According to Barker, he and his assistant
were stretched out ou two cots,
as usual about ten o'clock In the evening.
taking a nap before going on
duty on the train which was due to
leave Columbus shortly after midnight.
"I wns awakened by what appeared
to be a muffled pounding or pushing
at the door," Barker continued.
"Was the door locked?" Inquired
Plnkerton.
"It was?and bolted. I didn't pay
any attention to the matter because,
whllfc we did have $72,000 In the safe
?$.'12,000 of It In revenue stamps?
we had often guarded a good deal
more, and I thought the noise had'
been made by some one who had
stumbled agulnst the door in the darkness.
Then, before I got really awake,.
I heard the bolt give, and the next
thing } knew some one had pinioned:
my arms, and I caught a whiff of
something which I recognized as chlo-roform.
I struggled, but It was no>
u?e. When I came to, Grossman. themessenger,
was bending over me, and.
the whole place looked like a cyclonehad
struck It. The $40,000 In cashwas
gone, but they bail overlooked
or deliberately left the $.12,000 1m *
stamps."
Plnkerton made no comment st ths^
time, but continued his examination
of the room where the robbery had;
inken place. A careful scrutiny of
the door revealed two Interesting:
fnrts: The holt had been bent, as If.'
It bad been In pi are when the door1
was forced, but It was bent far more?
than was necessary to secure an entrance
to the room, and there were no>
scratches or other signs of violence;
on the outside of the door.
All the evidence appeared to point:
to the fact that the Job had iweui
handled from the inside, and IMnkerton
Immediately ordered the arrest ot'
Parker and his assistant. The two
men protested their Innocence.
Upon looking Into Parker's antecedents.
Pinkerton found that the express
clerk hail a brother living lm
Chicago, a man who was reputed to h?>
quite wealthy and whom Parker stated
would willingly go on his hall If
permitted to do so. But the Chicago*
branch of the Pinkerton agency reported
that the other Parker was not.
only not wealthy, but was prominent
In the life of the underworld.
"Where was this man on the night
of the Columbus robbery?" Allan Pinkerton
Inquired by wire.
"Unable to obtain definite Information,"
came hack the reply; "but he
was not In Chicago."
"Trail him closely, and arrest him
the Instant he attempts to leave the
city," were the telegraphic directions
which followed.
Karly the following morning, less
than 30 hours after the crime In Columbus,
Henry Parker was arrested
en route to Canada, and $14,000 was
found In the lining of his valise. Pater
after having been given a taste of the
famous Pinkerton "silence cure," he
revealed the hiding place of the other
$20,000 and the details of the whole
affair, which he had claimed his brother
had planned. The scheme was
simplicity itself. John Burker hud
administered chloroform fo his sleeping
assistant. Then he opened the out*
side door, admitted Ids brother, and:
opened the safe. After strewing i>hpera
all over the floor, Henry Barkerplaced
a cloth aaturnted with chloroform
over his brother's nostrils, stuffed
the cash In his pocket and left, lirst
bending hack the holt on the door, t'lifortunately,
however, he had been a
little too thorough In attending rn
this last detail, and had left a c'tte
which enabled IMnkerton to start the
two m<A toward the penitentiary within
4K hours after the dlseevery ef thg
robbery.
Amending It.
Mr. Nagg?I suppose now you wish
you were free to marry ugaln?
Mrs. Nagg?No, lust free.
Doubtful.
North?Mr*. June* said that 1 reminded
her of Iter huahnnd.
West?Is that a compliment? . i
... No Place for Hor.
Phi!?Did anybody oyer catch har
nnder the mlatletoe? >BUJ?Nct
tf they i*w har ?rat