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TURKISH, VIRGINIA
Guaranteed by
TOBA CCO
MARKETING
Open Forum for Expres
sions for Against Co
operative Marketing
SEEKS INFORMATION
ON HIGII SALARIES
Dear Editor:
Please publish this letter for me:
I want to know, as a farmer, the
real truth about the enormous sala
ries that is being paid Dick, Tom and
Harry, anil I think it is time an ex
planation was forthcoming from some
high olicial of the Co-operative Mar
keting association and we, as farm
ers, should have a right to see in
print a list of salaries paid.
Unless the paying of these salaries
stop we farmerh had much better sell
at auction, for we will save lots of
money by doing so.
We have never been told but one
side of the question and I am afraid
before we get through we will wish
we had never heard of the Mr. Sha
piro from California. -
Clod Knocker.
Cal!-tnds, Va.
The above clipping was sent to us
by a Danville, Vi., business man and
war taken from The Danville Le iger.
CITIZENS HIOL) MASS
M EE'ING ON TOBACCO
MARKETING ISSUE
Rocky Mount, N. C., April 11.--The
mass meeting held at the Masonic
opera house last night at the call of
the Tobacco Board of Trade adopted a
resolution "heartily endorsing the ac
tion of the Tobacco Board of Trade"
in its decision to continue auction
sales on the Rocky Mount tobacco
market next fall and pledging "sup
port and co-operation" to the market.
The gathering which attended the
meeting was composed of between
300 and 400 men of the city and far
mers of the city, but less than half
of those present expressed themsel
ves on the resolution.
A fter a nuomher of speeches had
been made by local and \Vilson men
who discussed the merits and de
merits of the co-operat ive plan of
marketinig, coom pa red it w it t1.he pre
semt auct ion system (4f tobacco sa les
and( stressedl what the hi'akinog up of
the tob:n'en, induostry in their opinion
would mean to eastern Carolina, \V
1I. lenner presenlted the resoilio ofi
end14orsen)4ei~t whbich Ibrought the intet
ing~ to a cubnination. \Vheni dl:is
5ioni of t hei resilit ion1 was anlled fr
pilan, dIeeI:ired t hi lid n believe
te resoluitio11~n,,oul be passed. le
saiit thalt Ihe 4o-operaticee plan hado
g~one too) farto be 0 )t-opped , that. the
farmers were goin~g to try it regardtl
less, and that. tee was no use handl
intg it a slap in the fne'. le believed
thle ltocky Mount mat~rket ought to be
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and BURLEY Tobaccos
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continued because it would give the
farmers an opportunity to see both
plans in action. If the co-operative
plan is a failure, he declared, the
warehouse will soon come back into
their own, while if the plan is a suc
cess the city would receive no bene
fits whatever from the association if
it slapped it in the face. He concluo
ed that he was voting against the
resolution not because he favored
either system of sales, but because he
did not believe that the resolution
should be passed as an expresison of
the citizenship of the city. F. E.
Winslow expressed practically the
same views, and the resolution was
then put to a vote with the close re
sults as above stated.
F. S. Spruill Speakes
The first speech of the meeting was
made by Hon. F. S. Spruill, promin
ent attorney of this city, who acted as
chairman and in preliminary remarks
stressed the importance of the mat
ter before the meeting. Mr. Spruill
stated that he did not know enough
about co-operative marketing to give
a concrete opinion and pointed out
that what he would have to say would
deal only with the machinery of the
association and not the fundamentals
of co-operative marketing. lie then
began a discussion of the contract
which growers who become members
of the association are r equired to
sign, and discussed the legal phrases
and objections which a study of the
contract had revealed to him, and
which he said ought to appeal to every
business man of sense. Under the
terms of the contract, he klclarecl,
those who sign commit themselves to
serfdom for five years to an invisible
thing which has no capital and which
exists only in the mind and that all
funds which this invisible thing bor
rowed woull he preferred claims
against its me'mhers.
Mr. Spruill took up specifically Sec
tions 7, 8, 9, 10 and 18 of the co
operative contract, declaring that the
association may hindle members' to
hacco as it sees fit, that the tobacco
loses its identity and goes out from
the growers' control absolutely. The
sneaker also declared that the asso
eaition, "this same nebulous thing
which has no capital, might sell thil
growers' tobacco w'th or without
the United States, may manufacture
it or put it through any process with
or without the approval of the mem
hers upon :iny such terms as it thinks
most profitable for the growers as
:s well as the publ ic. The speaker
dlwel t.1 upon t h(e property righ ts ats
tguarantd byil l t he Co n sti tution a nd
decdlard t haIt the assc itin took
a way :all such rights. Strlessi ng thle
obl)iga~it ionsi wich ilwire placedl uponil
hiis tolimero in th I pooIlil, \Ilr. Spriuil I de
ledi thit t he ma:,n whoiu ein'!lrse
:i tes ind'!iscimiinately c is a wVise mani
com: e t o Iitet ion Iho ae llw the
Ci coi illyV fa somei w ihee elseis
propt io'tI ei ohr. 'l'he spieakert de
e ared tiat Secitioni 10 dwhivr the l.l
u-rower bodyi andve sou toiil the asoni
nt "thi:, tainhri ,ficet itus un
I rai iogaizt i."ii Whie t ee
Itinl\'i'e t buIIl' t ildo b y w'faenor es
re ym l nt s,'i i tc. t hii s pa e
nilyli vr thle assolitlin full, ower
hf at orneyi tor thew frowmr and the
riiiihtui tius his tobaccwit a i s es lit.v
Tefinal Petionwt A hchte pa
Ir thal WrchEdo -n fren ri -
Cheonre. li taADta iOh
roe eierdhstbac ou
of what tho tobacco market meant
to the city and how it had built up the
city and how it had built up the com
munity, Mr. Spruill advised the farm
ers against signing any ,such "one
sided, unjust contract." As Mr.
Spruill was then called from the
meeting 911 account of another en
gagement, R. B. Davis was called to
act as chairman.
Mr. Davis introduced W. T. Clark
of Wilson who told of the offer re
cently made him of the general man
agership of the association for four
states. He told of his conference
with association officials at Richmond.
Mr. Clark told of the questions he had
asked these officials as to how the
farmer was to deliver his tobacco,
how the farmer was going to be able
to sell when told, how the Georgia,
South Carolina, old belt and Eastern
Carolina crops were going to be aver
aged up and the eastern Carolina far'
mer lose by the average process, how
the tobacco was to be graded, and who
can grade tobacco when they do not
know what the companies want. The
proposition, he declared, was one that
no man who runs a newspaper, teach
es school, or practices law in Califor
nia can run. He said that the brak
ing up of the tobacco industry would
shift the greater burden of taxation
to the farmers, that he believed the
plan would prove the undoing and
ruin of the farmers and that in view
of these things his conscience would
not let him accept the lucrative posi
tion offered him. H, said that he be
lieved the co-operative plan would ref
sult in the great cheapening of land in
eastern Carolina, that in his opinion
the tobacco would be sold in Richmond
and that the banking would conse
quently be done there.
L. L. Gravely then spoke briefly on
the proposition asserting that he
spoke purely from a personal view
point and not a representative of
anybody. He stressed the point that
Mr. Sapiro stated that the tobacco of
the members of the association was
pledged as payment for the ware
houses which the association will pur
chase and that Mr. Sapiro had like
wise said that the association would
revert every pound of tobacco possible
from those towns which opposed the
association and would try to keep the
farmers out of those towns. He said
in conclusion that the contract to him
appeared to be one-sided and that
the only right the farmer had left was
the right to quit raising tobacco. He
urged the farmers to take time to
see before going into it. Rev. Mr.
Boswell, of Wilson, then addressed
the meeting, telling of the benefits
and advantages which the tobacco
market had brought to Rocky Mount,
Wilson and all of eastern Carolina
and how the warehousemen and other
tobacco men had worked for the
growth and prosperity of the com
munity. He declared that he had been
a farmer and was with the farmer
and that he was opposing co-operative
marketing because he thought that it
would prove the ruination of the
farmer. iHe declared that he believed
the farmers were being swept into
the organization because they were
afraid of Sapiro. He said that the
farmers should realize that the mer
chants, bankers and warehousemen
were their friends and not their ene
mies. Keep your market and your
town growing was his final advice.
Fenner Last Speaker
W. E. Fenner was the final speak
er. Mr. Fenner decired that he had
maintained more or less silence until
he had investigatted the co-operative
plan because what was good for the
farmer was good for him. Ire de
clmred however, that he had an oppor
tunity to study the plan and see it in
operation in Kentucky , and that he
was now in a position to express his
views on the matter. Ile said that
every man had a right to his own
opinion and he harbored no feeling
whIatever towav~rds m(1iiman who hlad
Jgonl~e illto tile association as haud some
(f i . best friends. lIe poin1ted out
t hat thle (compan11ies whon buty tobaccoi
prei.fer warzihoumse floors where thiei r
rined bulyer can((1 get what theyV
waint. The asiatiiioni will ble ai deal
erI, lie dchu- edI, thle lig com01pan(ies
never go ti a dealer when they caim
y'et what they* wVimit on tile ware
hlouse floors. lI Idelared(' t hat the
work in of2 th !e asseint21Iion hol proved
'1ns-ui4fac'tory in K~entucky, that1 tile
tfarmiers thlerle got onily a1 small I
cha:1nces are tha:t the K en tucky Iarcm
ers won 't get whatI thley hav1 e b~een
prom~isedi. Ilie said that, itf the farm
ers hadiu the mloney Io we'it. and1 wvere
wilini sto t ak' a1 gamierh's chancle oni
ItwO-thirds 2'' thieir cropi, it was a11
righlt forl themi to1 join the associaition.
(in sanid thal i'.emnuky tfarmersi' when'
harroi ziidier tile namue of ".J'ohni .ones"'
or ".\ -iry Soith"i' hi(eiause theyV had to
as Ito thel ril.ht of lie farmeri~s Io join
the associaiti and bind11)1 thlemiseives
was ti thieir, wiv.es and chiirlen. "'I
:a0 let :' ic to you not to( join1,"'
ionei!udil.! *l*;. I-'(ln er, "hut I doi say
'omi lor ''-- own interes:-t;r In that.
'0u .shoid i"( tigate linth sidles and1
Th'len (:i le the res-ohtion, which
nrecqut- Iitd theIun sph)e('is by K. 1).
IHattle, I. WN. Isobin~s, who ('hamionil.
lattlhe andu I". I. Winslow. .\r. Fen
aer A ;lii-' I lby sayinugz t hat the
lfarmors, I that no farmner's }ield posi
t.ionts ini it, thaimt the mtin g was nlot
4MN TWO And MAqaJgo
FQANMIE2, IT MAKES '
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'u6s'
fijghting the co-operative plan but was
simply presenting the other side and
that the farpiers would have an op
portunity to sell their tobacco here
on the co-operative plan as they al
ready had one local warehouse.
(Continued on page six)
SUMMONS
State of South Carolina,
County of Clarendon.
Court of Common Pleas.
Summons for Relief.
(Complaint not Served)
Mrs. Jessie M. Merrimon, Plaintiff,
against
Annie E. Webb, Minnie Rouse, Eliza
Dunham, Amy Colclough, Milly
Webb, John Webb, the younger,
Isabelle Webb, Richard Roe Webb,
name unknown, Samuel Frierson,
John Frierson, James Frierson,
Estelle Frierson, Maggie Frierson,
Pretto Frierson, Mary Frierson,
Mattie Frierson, Clarence Frierson,
Clarence Webb, Estelle Webb Tay
lor, Minnie Webb, George Webb,
Jefferson Webb, Annie Francis, Ida
Guess, and all other persons heirs
and next of kin of John Webb, de
ceased, names and addresses un
known, Defendants.
TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE
Named:
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED
and required to answer the complaint
in this action, which is filed in the
office of the Clerk of Court of Com
mon Pleas for the said County, and
to serve a copy of your answer to the
said complaint on the subscriber at
his office in the City of Sumter, S. C.,
within twenty days after the service
hereof, exclusive of the (lay of such
service; and if you fail to answer the
complaint within the time aforesaid,
the plaintiff in this action will apply
to the Court for the relief demanded
in the complaint.
A. S. MERRIMON,
Plaintiff's Attorney.
Dated March 9th, A. D. 1922.
To the absent defendants Milly
Webb, John Webb, the younger Isa
belle Webb, Richard Roe Webb, name
unknown, Samuel Frierson, John
Frierson, James Frierson, Maggie
Frierson, Mary Frierson, Mattie
Frierson, Clarence Frierson, Clarence
Webb, Ida Guess, and all other per
sons heirs and next of kin of John
Webb, decease(, names and address
es unknown; TAKE NOTICE that the
complaint in this action was duly filed
in the office of the Clerk of Court of
Common Pleas for Clarendon County,
in the Court House at Manning, S.
C., on the 9th (lay of March, 1922.
A. S. MERRIMON,
Plaintiff's Attorney.'
To the infant defendants Milly
Webb, Lula Webb, John Webb, the
younger, Isabelle Webb, and Richard
Roe Webb, name unknown, and to
their mother Irene Webb, with whom
said infants reside; To the infant de
fendants Samuel Frierson, John Frier
son, James Frierson, Maggie Frier
son, Mary Frierson, Mattie Friorson,
and Clarence ]Frierson, and to their
father James Frierson, with whom
said infants reside; To the infant de
fendants Estelle Frierson and Pretto
Frierson, and to Eliza Dunham, the
person with whom said infants re
side; To the infant defendants Estelle
Webb Taylor and George Webb, and
to Amy Colclough the person with
whom said infants reside; To the in
fant defendant Minnie Webb, and to
Annie E. Webb, the person with
whom said infant resides; TAKE NO
''ICE that unless you apply and have
some person appointed as guardian
ad Iitem for you in the above entitled
action within twenty days after the
service hereof, exclusive of the day
of such service, the plaintiff will ap
ply and have some suitable person ap
pointed.
A. S. MERRIMON,
Plaintiff's Attorney.
Dated March 9th, 1922. .17-3t
SUMMONS
State of South Carol inat,
County of C larendon.
Cou rt of Com:mon I 'lens.
Sum:mons lFor R~el ief.
(Complaint Not Servedl)
A nn E. Webb, Minnie Rouse, El iza
l)unham, Amny Colclough, Milly
'Webb, Ilula Webb, Jlohn Webb, the
younger, I sabelle I Webb, Richaird
Ro(' Webb, name uinknowvn, Samuel
IFriersoni, .Joh n Frierson, .JamesC
lFrierson, Est 'll InIrierson, Maggie
l'rierisoni, I''retn Fr" irson, M ary
I'nrison:, Mat tie lFrierson, Clarence
Fiers 'on, Cla rence Webb, E stelle
XPECT -
MOTHER*
For Three Generations
Eser ByUsin d-t
So A.UO
WRifTEFOR BOOCLET ON kOTHiEROOD ANOIT DASY.FRa
SRADFIErLD REGULATOR CoODpy. 9-0. ATLANTA. GA.
Tr :aav W, ? . l LA .U, 1U1G '
Special Prices on
Coat
Suits,
Capes
Coats
ONE-THIRD OFF ON COAT SUITS
$50.00 Coat Suits for -----------------.$33.33
$42.50 Coat Suits for ----------------$28.93
$35.00 Coat Suits for ----- -..$23.33
$25.00 Coat Suits for -...----------------$16.66
$18.50 Coat Suits for ----....---.--------$12.33
-9.95-Coat Suits for ...-------------------$6.33
ONE-THIRD OFF ON CAPES
$35.00 Capes for --------------------$23.33
$25.00 Capes for --------------------$16.66
$18.50 Capes for --------------..-------$12.33
$12.50 Capes for .._ ---------------------$8.33
$10.00 Capes for -----------...$6.67
ONE-THIRD OFF ON COATS
$32.50 Coats for --------------------$21.67
$27.50 Coats for --------------------$18.33
$25.00 Coats for --------------------$16.66
$18.50 Coats for
$15.00 Coats for --------------------$10.00
$12.50 Coats for-------- -------------$8.33
SHAW & McCOLLUM
Mercantile Company,
SUMTER, S. C.
Webb Taylor, Minnie Webb, George Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas,
Webb, Jefferson Webb, Annie for Clarendon County in Manning, S.
Francis, Ida Guess, and all other C., on the 24th day of March, 1922.
persons heirs and next of kin of WENDELL M. LEVI,
John Webb, deceased, names and Plaintiffs Attorn y
addresses unknown, Defendants.
TO TIE DEFENDANTS ABOVE
NAMED: NOTICE
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED - q
and required to answer the Complaint The Co-partnership heretofore ex
in this action, which is filed in the isting Iletwecn J. James and J. A.
office of the Clerk of the C, -t of James, Jr., under the firm name of
Common Pleas for the said G unty the Summerton Auto Supply Co., J
and to serve a copy of your answer to Summerton, S. C., has this (ay been
the said complaint on the subscriber, dissolved. J. E. James will continue
at his office in the City of Sumter, in busines under the nam oS
S. C., wvithin twenty (lays after the etnAuoS1PYCmpybt
service hereof, (exclusive of the day of fo n fe hs(aeJ .Jms
such service; and if you fail to antswerJrn11 V5wilbrepsbefo
the Compl-injt wifh in t he time afore-an lbcnrtoribltynu
sa id the P'laintifV in this~ action wvillIrdo aeby..E Jms
apply to the Court for. relief (demand- inl:
ed in the Complaint...A.Jaer,
\VENDE1L M. l.EVI, ..E Jms
Plaintiff's Attorney. Siletn .CArl112.3
Ib)ated Mahrch 4Ith, A. D. 1922.
Tlo the infant Decfendants Milly
Webb L~ula Webb, JIohn W~ebb, the NI'C FlIIAtG
younger, Isablle WcXebb and( IRicha rd
Roe Wecbb, mi ae unknown, and to IWl pl ote.ug fPo
Irene Webb) the parenlt and Iipersonaefr hedo ont nth s
with whom said infants reside; to the IyofM,19,atlvnocok
D~efentlants Samuelc Fierson, JohniA frLtes fDshrea d
Frierson, Maggie Frierson, .Jlames :troo f h sat fJoehE
Frierson, Mary Frierson, Mat tie C 111 leoel
F'riersoni an:d Cla rence Friersoni andlIoaeI. ;nai
to their father, James Frierson, with P.Amnsrtr
whom said infants residle. Io~suS . ac 1 92
YOU WIL L PLEASE TAKE NC)
TIE, that unless you appl)y and have
some p1erson aipliinted as Guard ian N''(EO )51 W
Ad Litem for you in the above st yledl
(-ise within twenty dlays after'the Iwl pyt h ug fPo
service hereof, excluisive of the d at frCaednCooyo h s
of such service, the plaintiff will 'layp My12,a 1 'lc .M
ply and have somie suitable person ap..rLttr flishreasAmns
WENDELL, M. LEVI, iees~. IacY no, "
Plainitiff's A ttorney. ll
D~ated Apriil '1th, 1922.
T1O TH'JE A ESEN''T)DEFENDA NTS, ~i11e'oS . ~ac 1 92
M illy Webb, Lula Webb, .John Webb,
the younger, Isaibelle WVebb, Rtichardl
Roe Webb, name unknown, Sounuenl N'lIEO SCARE
Frierson, John)1 Frieraon, Janiwo Frier.
son, Mlaggie lFrierson, Mary Frierson, Iwl pyt h Jde(fPo
Mattie Frierson, Clarence F'rierson, 10t o lrnlnCut n;es
Cla rence Webbl, Ida Guess and all dyo a,1)2a 1ocokAM
other~ persons, heirs andl next of kinfoLetrofDshre15xeuo
of .John Webb deceased, names and o h saeo Ih 1 ~dal
addresse unknowno. lCOe.
YOU WI LL PLEASE TAKE NO- M I ldol
TIC'E, that the Complaint in this ac- p.Eeuo
lionwas lu fild i theoflce o Cth Ao the 24th dApri ofMa, 1922.
WNELMLEI,
Plitf'ptony
NOTICE