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"Well-dressed
on a
Moderate
Income"
i '9
(Q Unusual lecture
demonstration
by
Evelyn
Hansen 6
Q Miss Hansen
approaches hersub
ject from the vari
ous viewpoints of
beauty, utility and
economy.
F6URTH AFTERNOON
Redpath
Chautauqua
7 Big Days
SEASON TICKETS
$2.7-5 .
Chautauqua Week Here
May 2-9
fiabitual Constpntion Cured
In 14 to 21 D)ays
"LAX-FOS WITi PEPSIN" is a specially.
prepare(I Syrup Tonic-.axatie for Habitual
Constipation. It relicvcs promptly but
should ho taken regularly for 14 to 21 days
to induce regular action. It Stimulates and
Regulatei o Vcry Pleasant to TrAke. 60c
ver bottle.
Pains
Were
Terrific
Read how Mrs. Albert
her .wulywa .
My pains erewterrifi'c.' 1
thought 1 would die. The
bearing-down pains wer
myt stand the pressure of
Isimply feltsas ii life was
husband was worried .
One evenn while red
case simnilar to minroand
arduls fo mhtto try.om
TAIKE
CAR.DUI
Te Womnan's Tonic
" Ij took It faithfully and
the results were Immedi
ate," adds Mrs. Gregory.
"I continued to get bet.
ter, all my Ills left me,
and A went through'. ..
witht no further trouble.
My baby was fat and
strong,andmysel.-thank
God--m once more hale
and hearty, can walk
miles, do my work,
-though 44 years old, feel
like a new person. All I
owe to Cardu.'' For
man~y years Cardul has
been found helpful In
buIlding up the system- -
wheun run down by dis
orders peculiario women.
Take
Cardui
A NEW DEAL
THE COT
J. Sidney Cates in
A vast andl sweeping Southern agri
cultural movement is now under way.
History records none greater than it
bids fair to becoeic. It is a movement
having nothing to (10 with achieving
legislative enactment, or in any oway
tending -to cause .politicians to flatten
their cars to the earth; it does not de
p10nd for its successful culmination on
the signing of a bill by the President,
surrounded 'by i proud group of lead
ers who carry away the golden pen as
a souvenir. JTlappily, the Movement of
which I write 41as to do with men
'fighting their own battles alone and in
their own wayp They are the growers
of that stormy !etrel of all crops
cotton.
Back of the movement for pooling
cotton and selling it coole rativeiy
which is the Iear deal designated Im
tihe title of this story-lies a decade
(luring which cotton growers have had
the most violent churnings, now up to
unwonted heights, now cast di.vin
again to still lower depths of despair
Drought, pest, war and a world of buy
ers gone mad-mad at one time with
a wild orgy of spending, and more mad
again witli poverty and penny-squeez
Ing fright.
What is Going on Today
Add to the picture a lost of parasitic
speculators, taking normally an unhec
essary toll from every bale of cotton,
.b ying wildly on -a rising market and
'Aing bankruvt on the slutinp which
followed, leaving -price unsupported
*while fading away to the ow point
determined -by the quantity of distress
coming into sight-add all this, str
well and remember it has -been -brew
ing for ten years, and you have the
back-ground of what Is going on today.
Two and a half years ago I -wrote
for The Country Gentleman the story
of the American Cotton AssocIation.
It was a story of a spontaneous move
ment of a group of leaders from every
section startihg in earnest a fight for
a permanent higher standard of living
for the American cotton grower. In the
main the outcome of this initial en
gageient was a clearing of the air.
The American Cotton Association was
concerned iII the abstract-speaking
broadly--with 'bettering Southern con
ditions.
Through the various state and the
Federal governments enacting jware
house legislation, facilities for housing
cotton are becoming more and more
adequate each year. The problemli is
Oil th way towards -being entirely
solved, and with the crop stored and
insured credit becomes a iore. simple
matter.
Now the same general fight for het
terment i. sweeping on in the more
concrete 'form of coo:erative cotton
marketing associations sprInging iu1p in
every cotton state of importance, and
the Amdrican Cotton Growers' Ex
chlange, headed by Car'l Williams, of
Oklahonma, binding the whlole together
in a single unit.
"J. Scottowe -Wallnnmaker," remark
ed a leading man in the SouthI, "taught
thle farmers to thinik in terms of the
indulistry instead of in terms of the cot
toll bale. Cotton wvas put onl tihe front
agsof the big dailies." And from
ts beginning has sprung the biggest
dleveilpment wvhichl has ever conic into
agricultural history.
Today two have four states--Okla
hlomla, Mississipi, TexaIs andl Ar'izonaL1
--handling cobperatively a goodlly part
of the -19.2 cro-p. Ini Arkanasas and in
North Carolina apiproximately half thle
!)rosIpecctive crop for the next live years
has been signed upi by tile growvers.
OrganIzation is going forward rapidly
in Alabama, Gborgia and Southl Carq
linla. Soon the new ,plan will have
coveried every cotton-prodlucing tsate.
Picture iln yoiur m11nd( thle old condI
tion, wvith every cotton producer Is
own sales manager. Eivery village of
tihe South was a mairket place; a score
of abuyers, keen jiudges of cotton grades,
hmouir by hour11 informed of price chang
es, matchIng wvits iwith hun11dreds of
small nfarmers standing 'by the cuurb
wvith one or two 01' thlree bales of
'cotton on a wvagon. What chance had
thle farmer of Jiusti~ce and fair dealing?
'l hien let ine picture to you the plan
I found in opecrationl in Oklahoma.
IEach farmier as he receives the ,bale
from the gin-turks it over to tihe local
repr1esentative of tile association and,
through his locail 'band, driawvs onl the
'association for~ 0 qiner cent of tile elpot
price for middling for the clay. A
smite off thle 3pale of cotton is sent to
the' grading -room at hecadquar'ters at
Oklahomga City. Each -bale is so t'ag
god 'as td maintain its identity, and a
similar tag goes alogg wIth thdO nsamplle.
There, in a 'athgle rooin11, I foundl over
100,000 samples 'of cotton1 each reQpre
senting a bal9. -Theo Qklahomt 'crop
tIs year ha8 ,been divided into thlirty
seven lots of like grade amcj- staple.
A.~rict tecoi'd Ia kept of the ,number
and weights of ;b.ales of eachl memiber
or the .associatio9).
From this cenltral heoadfiluarters the
crop is being sold. TIhporter, mnanu
tanturer Jolbber, pnedulator or .anyonc
FOR
TON FARMER
Country Ventleman
felse may be the purchaser. The high
dollar rules. But one thing else stands
out in this icheme of selling. The
man who is making the sale knacxs
what he is offering and he knows what
it should 'be worth. If a grower has a
cotton with a longer staple than or
mnal, he gets paid for it. When a pool
has -been closed out the anoney received
is prorated and distributed to the grow
ers. This, in 'rief, is the simple work
lng plan.
'le Plan Is Working
A year ago the faint-hearted could
give you many reasons why the plan
Ixoulld not work. I could recount them
to you here. And they seem logical
enough. But patiepce and careful plan
ning have swot all these reasons aside
and anl incontrovertible proof remains:
The plan is working.
The total crop handled cooperatively
has fallen far bhelow the number ot
bales contracted. But this is not to
be taken as a bad omen. There was a
light crop, and on top of the light crop
there was more cotton than ever -be
fore covered by crop mortgages. Those
reasons-resulted In the Oklahoma asso
clation handling only a little more than
a qiuarte rof the cotton contracted.
Normally the man making the mort
gage will sige over his interest to the
cotton exchange, where provisions are
made to safeguard fully the indebtea
ness. In many cases the holders of
the mortgages needed the money des
perately, so desperately that they, in
many cases, had to insist on immediate
spot sales. And the crop mortgage
takes precedence over the contract be
tween the grower amil the exchange.
So of the 400,000 bales normal crop
production covered into the association
by growers' contract, there twas a
shinkage, flrst through the total crop
dropping from a normal one of 1,200,
000 to less than 500,000 bales. Only
175,000 :bales actually were producea
1) the grower members. And when
holders of crop liens insisted on the
immediate marketing of approximately
60,00 bales, there were less than 120,
000 bales to be handled cooperatively.
lretty 1 much the same train of cir
Cuimstances develoed in Texas. The
sign-up there was approximately 610,
It
Why
than
N Nov
I~AIwas n
~ for $-14
r Thi odd and
price was the lo
ever made or
yknown standan
A genuine p
yby the makers
y . Now comes a
7$10.90 tires bel
S the market."
"New" treads.
Y Unfamiliar t<
perhaps an al
y having been i
ythe price.
y . But the "Usci
ya place by itse]
United State s'fr
are Gee Tires
Copyrtiht
1922
U. S. TireCo.
Where You
Can Bluy
000 bales, normal crop. Thii norma
Production was cut heavily throug
cro) short.age, insistence of holders o
crop llortgages that the cotton be sot(
at once, aid through the 'itrtietr fac
that the Texas organizationl was unabl
to get Into actual sales operationi untl
the fifteen of September, by whici
time nearly half the cotton of Te:<a:
had been pielod and -taken to narket
Texas, therefore, had to release the cot
ton comting inl prior to the time theil
organization was able to funetion. Fo
these reasons the cotton handled L3
the Toxas nexhantge this season '.va
only about 125,000 bales of the (10,00
sign-upf.
The .l ississi pI association had 220,
000 bales signed up, on the basis of
normal crop. There was no croIp-iort
gage trouble, very little sih rinkage il
yiel, and the association has hald !e
practically the entire crop signed 1!1i
In the main h lie lississIPi iassociatioi
s comliposed of very Ilarge growers
Only 1,8111 iteibers fi-nish the mor
than 200,1000 bales, aid I Could pic]
thirty Iment ci the nlumober who prod-e
90 per cent ("f that total.
Milssisippi's Slying start
Then the Staple Cotton Cooperativ
Association of .1ississipii got, off t
a living s;t at onl another very import
ant count. Its members did not at
tempt to build their selling organ iza
tion fromt the ground. They did not at
tempt this becatuse they deelled stuc]
a move impossible with staple cottonl
The trade has long been (evelope
I with the Alississi.:pli product, whiel
centers arotintd one aid t Ih ree-six
teeiths incies in length, by dealer
who sell undertradeiark iames in
stead of tisual grade designations. Th
Alississippi growers, therefore took ov
Cr the 'husiness of one of the larges
and best established cotton merchant
-William Garrard, of Greenville, AMis
sissippi-paying him personally twen
To Stop a Cough Quick
take HAYES' HEALING HONEY, i
cough medicine which stops the cough b:
healing the inflamed and irritated tissues
A box of GROVE'S O-PEN-TRATI
SALVE for Chest Colds, Head Colds ani
Croup is enclosed with every bottle o
HAYES' HEALING HONEY. The salv(
should be rubbed on the chest and throo
of children suffering from a Cold or Croup
The healing effect of Hayes' Healing Honey in
ide tie throat combined with the healing effect c
o rove's -Pen-Trate Salve through the pores c
the skin soon stops a cough.
foth remedies are packed In one carton and th
cost of thc comtbined treatment is 35ce.
Just ask your druggist for HAYES
HEALING HONEY.
he I022US
just *IO
mber 10,1921, standby onr
x 3 "Usco" years. Bette
iarked to sell .Still puttit
).90.honest quali
closely figured sell for onl'
west quotation ninety cents
i any tire of The $10
Is. the record
ioneering step product.
of U. S. Tires. The tire tI
* still buy for
lot of different nity. of its q
ng rushed into regardless o1
Special" tires, low amoui
they pay.
> look at-with
:mnosphere of
nade to meet
>" still occupies
f. A gqod old
*Unitec
United Stai
J. D. SPENCE &
EURAKA DRU
E.V. GO
I ty-five cents a [bale for every 'bale han
i died, at a guaranty of $50,000 for the
f year. The whole chain of circuistane
IfI es, therefore, seens to have rworked out
Lto make the 'Alississippi busliaesis 11111
along the most smoothly, (.n the ili
I tial spurt, of any of tle state cooier
i ative selling organizations.
Arizona, Where long-sta:ple cotton Ii
also produced, Is li in uch the ame
slape as tle Alississippi associt ion
Of the 10,000 bale produced in asso
Send to Wi. SchicldMfg.
Co., St. Louis, Mo., for
Instructive free booklet.
the Perfect
Soap Make
-the choice of thou
making pure soap c
waste grease, water,
that's all. Easy, succ
and floating soaps or
upon the genuine
--
As for it by nam
001 s bette
.... t Ire
nillions of cars for
rtaithat's wal. Ess
uponhethmphasisnen
tyskefen if by does
CO teolas bett
.90 tire t
of han proevernas
tat people i~~
he dig
tality ~ I'
the
it ?
liiniTii
tes ( Rubber Con
:COMPANY, Gray Cour
a COMPANY, Laurens,
LDING. W(aterloo. S. C.
lation territory in 1921, 20,000 will be
Illindled cooperatIvely. Arizona, when
tLf boom was On1, had juititped up1) to
sOline sevetI1y or eighty iolusand 'hales
[t year, but iade a dra)st ic atervage (ult
last season.
Tis anakes a total of somle 1:1,0000
ble's of ctott handlI4d coeu)rative'ly
-a goodly total for a beginiting -anid
fully eniulfor It( W ulraaniza
lins, Conlsid(e(inlg t 1h1y had to 1u14i
Croni ti hv a p
-'k
sands of women for
Luickly-easily. Use
and Red Devil Lye
essful recipes for hard
i the can label. Insist
pure, strong, lasting.
2 at leading grocers
S. C

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