Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-01-17
LONG CANE CLUB.
Farmers Effect Organization
Father Adam A Stand
patter." Mother Eve
Is Progressive.
editor Edge6eld Advertiser:

I find myself scribbling some of
the news happenings of the ex-Cog-
burn community, but now as Uncle
Sam would have it, Edgefeld r. +.
D. No. 8.
Well, since l last wrote for your
valuable columns, there have been
many changes of places, people and
things generally.
Your scribe has undergone a
great deal since the lst of last June,
which caused US so much work al
mos, night and day that l could
not see where / could even spare a
little time to write up the news
from this section. | enjoy the news
SO much from your various cores
pondents over the county that l
feel that some would be glad to
know what was going on around
here.
In December, just before the old
year was numbered with the past,
the farmers Of this section organ
lied an agricultural club at Long
Cane academy to be known as the
Long Cane Agricultural Club, and
at which we propose to meet once
each month during the year for the
purpose of exchanging views with
each other in regard to our system
of farming and to try and be of mu-
tual benefit TO each other in any rea-
sonable way that we possibly can.
Our aim for the present year Is to
be better citizens ourselves, and
help others do likewise. We also
hope to make our crops on more
economical basis, and obtain more
satisfactory prices than we have the
past year.
The farmer, as all admit readily,
I is the backbone of every enterprise
| in our common country, yet he has
less voice in the price OF his prod;
ucts than any other classof people.
If he has anything to sell the other
fellows fix the price he must sell for
and if he has anything to buy the
other fellows also fix the price he
must pay for it. It's very much as
the old saying that once went the
rounds, namely "Ought's an ought
and figures figure, all for the
white man and nothing for the ne
gro." The above right fttingly
illustrates the position of the men
that follow the plow, and by which
means the balance of the world has
to be maintained.
Now we are entering into the du-
ties of a new year 1912, which
will seem a very short while to
many of the older people, and oh!
such a long time to the little ones
who will look forward to the end
of the year for the appearance of
Santa Claus again. Yet with all,
it will soon be numbered with the
past, and we are, if living, to be
charged with being worse or cred
tied with being better as there is no
standing still in this life. We
either go forward or backward.
We should all grasp the value of
an idea. 1t cannot be measured by
dollars and cents. If we all lived
from day to day without some new
idea, some different view of things
than those of yesterday, how could
the remarkable advance and prog
ress of civilization have been possi-
bler In this progressive age we
see new methods of men construct
ing safe, strong and fre-proof build
ings hundreds of feet higher than
were ever built before, while other
men have gone down deeper in the
ground and brought better results
from the different soils for the
nourishment of mankind; hence the
value of an idea of our own cannot
be measured for its worth to man
and civilization because ideas
thought of and put in practice have
carried us on to progressiveness.
Progressivcness is univer s a |,
everything changing continually.
What was new yesterday is COM
mon today, and will be old fash
ioned and out of date tomorrow.
The old order changeth, is brief
history of the world. Forward,
march! was, is, and ever will be
Gods immutable command to all
created things in unlimited space.
Nothing stands still, not even the
standpatter. Adam of old was a
standpatter but his wife was pro-
gressive. However, he found him.
self unable to Withstand the pro-
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