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THE GASTONIA DAILY GAZETTE PAGE TWO ' t ' n::ir ra better COTTOn PRICES IS 03 Six Thins: the Farmer Can do to Keep lh SUple at a Rea ! onable Price Idea Glean- ' ed From the Montgomery v.' Meeting. ' TW Gazette bat been 'furnished with '-draaea copy f au editorial which will -ffP in The Progressive Farmer of 6ep--ftember 11. It ia given below in full and v will aa doubt prove of great interest not ' mtif to our fanner readers, but to the fcuiMss men as welL It is as follows: Xk Jtreat meeting of the American -Qotton Association in Montgomery, Ala., "last week, discussed a lot of things, but we believe the gist of the whole confer ence may be given in six definite things every cotton fanner in the South can -4 to kelp the fight for better prices: L first and foremost, hold your cotton. " "Wa must show the bear gamblers and ; their allies that they have absolutely mis--taken the spirit and determination of the . -Bonthern people if they think we will sit idly by and be robbed of half the fru:t8 of thia year's labor. It has cost between 130 and 40 cents a pound to make this year's crop. The decision of the Mont gomery meeting was thnt 40-cents should ' he a minimum price for middling. Not only must each man resolve to hold ; lis own crop, but he must see his neigh- ' bars and insist on their holding. An J. A. r Brown says, "VVe must shut up the mar ' kct so tight that no man tan buy or beg bale of cotton at present prices so that " the only way to get a bale of new-crop otton until prices improve will be t ateal it!" Mr. J. A. Todd, the distinguished Eng lish authority, who came to Montgomery jit President Wanamaker's request, sized up the present world-situation somewhat aa follows: (1) The world will need very bale of cotton that is produced this jrear. There Is no real overproduction. "it) Sight now. however, there is practi oally no movement of cotton goods, a , -wholly abnormal temporary dullness, in , the business of cotton manufacturers, and , t coarse they are not offering normal . prices for cotton. Present prices are only fictitious prices based on a temporarily demoralized market. .Nevertheless if one-fourth of the cotton fanners of the South are such fools as to accept this fictitious under valuation for 1920 eofton, prices on the whole crop will Jm lowered. We must keep anybody and everybody from selling at present prices. X Go to your county mass meeting Monday, September 20. Every county in the South is asked to hold a mass meeting of its cotton farmers on this date, to make . plana for holding, warehousing, cutting acreage and co-operative marketing. Go, and get your neighbors to go, both la mi lord and tenant, black and white. We moat educate everybody and all dulses to the importance of thisiight. And see to it that everybody makes some contrihu tion for supporting the Cotton Association ia its plans. A good method will be to have every grower authorize his ginner to deduct 10 to 25 cents a bale for the or ganization. Business men should sub scribe liberally, for no one will bo hurt mora than they if the South ' spending power and debt -paying power is cut half. 3. Cot your cotton acreage next year by -owing a record-breaking grain crop this falL Don't just talk about "cutting down acreage" a negative sort of pro' gram. Tell everybody to cut his cotton acreage by sowing more wheat, oats and ryt, and by sowing more clover to enrich the land for corn next year. This is the only sensible way to reduce acreage. 4. Pot your ootton in a warehouse, and . organize a co-operative marketing associa tion. Remarkably important was the comprehensive report on co-operative mar keting adopted at Montgomery, the result of months of labor by Cotton Specialist Murph and others. The report tells just how to start co-operative selling with offi cial grading or classing .in your com munrty. As for warehouses, if there is not suffi eient warehouse room in your section, it will pay to hurry up the construction of buildings of a cheaper sort. In next week's Progressive Farmer we exxvt to present some plans worked out by Mr. D. C. Walty, vice-president ami manager or the Arkansas Cotton Association, whoreby 1,000 bales may be taken care of in a structure costing only $1,500. We do not believe, of course, that every nim munity should bo content with such cheap and imiermanent construction, but this at least indicates that no community need accept the ridiculous prices now offered by bear speculators on the ground that it can't house its crop. 5. Do all you can to help men who are in a tight place financially from having to sacrifice their cotton. Make it a ixint to tee the president or cashier of the bank you do business with. Tel! him a large part of his business comes from farmers and that farmers expect him to go the limit in helping them now. iVe your merchant an.l tell him he had better suffer some temporary inconvenience, bet tr wait until he can wait no longer on his cotton customers, rather than force the South back into the poverty and back wardness it formerly suffered. And if yon have tenants or neighbors who insist , on selling anyhow, buy their cotton if pos ible, and hold it out of the regular chan nels of trade. & Demand also a fair price for cotton seed. This subject has already been dis euased in previous issues of The Progres sive Parmer. The decision of the Mont gomery meeting was that farmers who aa qpe cottonseed meal for feeding ahould exchange cotton seed for an equal -quantity of cotton seed meal, or should rll seed when a ton of seed is selling lor as much as a ton or meal. If thia battle for better cotton prices is to be won, the growers themselves must fight to the finish. Here are six definite thia fa every man eaa do. Cheek up yoor- jrir aaa see now many ox them yon are willing U do -and spread the news to -jTv neighbor. .. -:- ' YORK AKD Y0RKVHLE The Enquirer. The third generation of army worms is now operating ': in many localities of York county and there is more or leas concern amonir the farmers as to the daman the pests may be doing. Mr. J. E. Lowry, of Yorkville, brought to The Enquirer office yesterday some exhibits in the shape of cotton bolls and squares in different stages of development, all more or less damaged and alonir with them specimens of the worms that wrought the damage, show. mg conclusively inai u vj means exempt. "I brought this exhibit. from my lish- ing Creek place, on the edge of the black jacks," said Mr. Lowry by way or ex planation. "This is the second genera tion of worms I have seen on my place; but including this, there have been three generations in the blackjacks and it may be the third generation also. The dam- . 1 . 1 1 14 age occurs in me coiion omy uc is grassy. The worms go after the crab grass and other tender vegetation first and then after eating that up get . . T 1.... 1 .1 A A I on tne cotxon. l uniersiaini mai nicy continue destructive for eight days, and while I am hopeful they may not do a great deal of harm, of course I cannot say . ' ' Dr. A. Y. Cartvyright reports the worms quite numerous on his place, north of Yorkville and Mr. E. L. Wood says they are plentiful around Filbert. Mar cus Dickson, of Filbert No. 1, Hays the worms are to be seen out his way also and the general report is that they are plentiful over the whole section. A company of National Guardsmen re cently organized at Fort Mill by Arthur C. Lytle and others was received into the state service today. Plans are be ing launched for companies at Sumter anil Columbia and possibly Rock Hill. Mr. Harry Saye Whiteside, who was so dangerously injured as the result of the boiler explosion near Hickory Grove on August 23 and who was taken to the Fennell Infirmary, was able to return home last Friday. He is now slowly on the way to complete recovery. Mr. W. F. Wallace of Dallas, Tex., is visiting the family of his brother, Mr. J. C Wallace and other York county relatives and friends. Mr. Wallace is a special agent for the G. K. & T. rail road. His visit here ia the first that he has made back to the county of his nativity since 1904. Max G. Bryant of Rock Hill Li South Carolina's representative to the meeting of the Great Council Improved Order of Red Men which begins in Des Moines, Iowa, next Tuesday. Mr. Bryant will le gone about two weeks. Miss S. Elizabeth Grist, of the staff of The Yorkville Enquirer has the distinc tion of being the first York county wo man to register to vote in the general election to be held in November. Miss Grist qualified early yesterday morning and was issued a certificate of registra tion. Mrs. M. E. Nichols, jKistmaster at Yorkville was the second woman to register. Sever others visited the board's office in the court house yesterday after noon and registered. Edith Mrtartcr, little daughter of Mr. George A. McCarter, of Clover No. 4, and Mrs. J. (). Allison, of Yorkville, were more or less painfully hurt Saturday aft ernoon, AiiKiist -H, when automobiles in which they were riding cajne into collision on the road near the home of Mr. W. B. McGill at Bethany. In the McCarter car were several children. In the Allison car were Mr. ami Mrs. J. O. Allison ami Mr. Floyd Allison. Both iyrs were pretty badly damaged. There are too many mosquitoes alniut here ami something should be done about them. Just a, it has been established after thousands of years of ignorance, that the bite of one' kind of mosquito communicates yellow fever and the bite of another kind communicates malaria, it stands to reason that the kind of mos quitoes that swarm about here communi cate other things more harmful than music and stings. Of course it remains to be determined what that oinething is; l)iit there can be no mistake in rid of the mosquitoes. PERSONALS AND LOCALS. getting YORKVILLE FARMER SAYS HE HAS ONLY HALF CROP Prominent Farmer of York County Says that Cotton, Although Having Big Weed and Looking Good, Has No Fruit Prospect Gloomy. Gaston county farmers who have opin ions that are different from that ex pressed in the accompanying artic le will be interested, nevertheless, in the follow. ng from the Yorkville Enquirer: 'You have often heard that old only ha'lf a crop' gag," sid a prominent farmer and business man to a represen tative f the Yorkville Enquirer vester- day; "but if vou are not ui .itrsin.it t.h i r real thing along that line this year, you can put me down as an alarmist. ' Having nothing estecial!v to do this morning," he continued, "I made an ex tensive round among the crops, and I do not hesitate to say that it is simply the glojniest prospect that I have ever seen in my life. Yes, the weed looks good. looks like there is just plenty of fruit on t ; but examination does not bear out first impression. In the first nlae there is not half as much fruit there as there should be from the size of the stalk and in the second place, if you will look on the ground you will find it covered with squares and bolls, some of them as big as the end of your thumb. "In my opinion the actual conditions do not begin to bear out the government report of August 25. The report might have been all) right for say about August 20; but since then the deterioration has been something fierce, and I am sure that the next report will tell a far different story. Th trade will likely be wiser than it is now long before September 25." Miss Sadie Hanks lesves today for Winthrop College, Bock Hill, where she will attend school this year. Miss Hanks will te a freshman at Winthrop. Mr. Mike Guyton, of Gaffney, 8. C, spent the day in Gastonia Wednesday.. ' - t Mrs. N. O. ToddUof Belmont, was in Gastonia Thursday morning on busi ness. W.. ' ! ' Among the shoppers, in. Gastonia Wednesday was Mrs. J. W. , Keid, of Lowell. ' N Mr. E. X. Caldwell, of Clover, was a business caller in the city Wednesday afternoon . Mrs. Lou Craig spent the day with her friend, Mrs. Sloan Springs, in Low ell Thursday. Mr. Campbell Barnett, of the Bethel neighborhood, spent the day in town on business Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Wilkins, of High Shoals, were shopping in Gastonia Wednesday afternon. Mrs. W. E. Fite, of Belmont, was among the out-of-town shpopeis in Gas tonia Thursday morning. , Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Robinson and children sent Wednesday afternoon vw- iting in Charlotte and vicinity. Mr. C. F. Eineberger, of the Dal las section, spent u few hours in the city Thursday morning shopping. Br. Henry Duff, ho lias been spending the summer :.t Blowing Rock, spent Tlursday as a business caller in Gastonia . Mr:. Lizzie Falls and sun, Mr. Har ry Falls, of Kings Mountain, were among the business visitors in Gastonia Thurs day morning. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Duncan left Wednesday afternoon to see Mr. Dun can's father, who is quite ill at his home in Rock Hill. Mr. John Hoey, of Faison, who has been at the home of Mrs. R. C. Warren on South York street during the past sev eral days, left Thursday morning. Mrs. H. C. Cornwell and daughter Helen, of Dallas, 8ent the day as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Brittain at their home on South York street Wed nesday . Mr. and Mrs. D. Lebovitz, after an extended trip for business and pleasure ton New York city, Philadelphia, At lantic City and Baltimore, returned to Gastonia Thursday. There will be an ice cream supper at the Dixon Mill (Saturday night. The pro ceeds will be for the benefit of the cSun day school at that place. The public is invited. Among the Gastonia people present at the Confederate soldiers' reunion at ! Newton Thursday were Mr. and Mrs. j Pate Reynolds, Mr. and Mrs. Charles J Reynolds, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Reynolds and Mr. and Mrs. John Reynolds. Messrs 'Hope Wilson and Drew Wil son were callers in Charlotte Thursday morning. ; ' Misses Troups Stamey and Coriune Green were Gastonia callers ia Charlotte Wednesday afternoon. . -. -Miss Marie Crawford spent the night as the guest of her friend Miss Agnes Oates, Wednesday at her home near Bes semer City. ' Miss Edna Rankin an J Messrs. E. B. Brittain and A. J. Rankin were Gas tonia bufinens visitors in Bessemer City Wednesday afternon MlssBosena Pearl, after spending a few days as guest of her friend Miss Evelyn Lebovitz, returned Wednesday af ternoon to"her home in Augusta, Ga. Mrs. Albert Wilson, of Morganton, and her mother, Mrs. E. X. Huffstet ler, spent Thursday with Mrs. H .8. Dixon in the Pleasant Ridge section. Mrs. George Stewart left Thursday morning to attend the Confederate sol diers' reunion at Newton. She will re main iu Newton with friends till Sun day. Miss Gladys Armstrong left Thurs day morning for Statt sville. where he will attend Mitchell College during the coming session. This is Miss Arm strong 's third year at Mitchell. Grady May and Paul Ithyne, of the Crowders Creek section, are spending two weeks here visiting their grandpar ents, Mr. an.l Mrs. J. M. Tritt and Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Iihyne. Miss Dora Schneider, after spending three weeks as the ::ucst of her friend, Miss Ruth Boa., at her home in Atlanta, returned to the city Wednesday. She was accompanied home by Miss Rose Le vine, who will be her guest for some time. -the new food product Jor modern cooJHnd cuts cooking costs and prunes your, jood Despondency. Sufferers from indigestion are apt to become discouraged and feel that com plete recovery is not to be hoped for. No one could make a greater mistake. Hun dreds have been permanently cured by taking Chamberlain 's . Tablets and can now eat anything that they crave. 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