The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-11-25

lency of the other professions. Mr.
Dabbs told of how we are burdened
with mongrel stock and crops as well
as 1arm implements. There should
ne said, be al farmers unions and
housewives leagues and also coun-
W, state and national afIiliation if
great and lasting accomplishment is
10 De obtained. "How can we 90
ahead without consulting together?'
Ihe world is indeed a debtor TO
the men who find the most economi-
cal ways of doing the worlds worl,
sometimes it makes one feel like
giving up when he thinks of the
waste all about him. But TO gain
| superiority in the future, the farmers
must join hands, not only in better
methods of cultivating but also i'm
marketing the crops There are at
present uneconomic methods of dis
trlbution and for every successful
man there are one hundred who know
not how to market their crops.
1t is impossible, said Mr.. Dabbs
10 go into the details of the farmers
problems, but ir should be made
clear that, whatever these problems
are they cannot be solved alone. The
old problem of landlord and tenant
Is still a problem because the two
parties have not come together and
discussed rates and problems. We
nave more tenants, more who are
farming some other mans lands than
we should have. Much may be done
Dy the local unions in helping the
small farmer to step from the tenant
to the land-owning class.
we should all realize the impor-
lance OF getting together not alone
10 possess power, but for the salts
faction it will be to us to do for our
boys and girls more than our fathers
were able to do for us.
We should all realize the imnor-
tance OF getting together. not that
/ we may make more money merely
Tor moneys sake, but that we may
give our boys and girls more than our
lathers were able to do for us. And
we also want the cooperation of the
people or the cities and towns.
we should not stand back for fear
Oh making mistakes. Every man who
mas done things has made mistakes.
III should always be our aim to cor
rect them. The farmers organiza-
uons will help us correct our mis-
takes. 1t is, therefore, important
that men and women organize. One
| or the many good things we should
nave is County School Day. with
eNhlbits from every school i'm tho
county. There should be Better
BABY Contest" with gold and silver
medals for the best specimens. This
idea originated in Ohio. where the
farmers discovered that thew had
been so busy raising fine hogs, crons
ana cattle that they did not know
now their babies were being raised
me race of human beings in some
sections is deteriorating; thev are NOT
able te measure up to reuuirements
There should, therefore. be confer
ences to look after this neglect. We
should not work merely for the great
est record yields but for a record of
the highest type of citizenship This
cannot be done merely by talking and
praying, we should go after these
4 things.
COL. E. j. WATSON.
Col. e. ]. Watson brought ser
/ ious, thoughtful message TO the mon
ana women at the conference eft
occurred to me as I came in todav -
Mr.. Watson said, that if this meet
ing had been political one, a meet
ing Tor the uncommon bad, Won
/ couIdnt have chained the people
/ away If had come to abuse some
man and call him liar when he was
not a liar, there would have been an
enthusiasm which would have
brought them from the uttermost
parts or the county" In the South
TOO much attention has been given to
men who have separted even families
without regard to their proper de-
Velopment. II want to impress the
idea first and foremost that ignor-
ance is the costliest thing I'm human
llte. Mr.. Watson complimented our
Superintendent OF education very
highly In these words. "You have
In Mr Lingle man whose soul is in
his work, man who has the brain to
see what is needed and can point the
way. Stand by him"
The speaker said we have drifted
along for many years with nobody
paying attention to the average man
/ We should try instead to stir his am
bition. He should want to be better
than he is and should realize that I'm
doing this he is lifting others with
, MIN. We have had the backward
movement in South Carolina in which
/ generations have been brought up
with wrong ideas of life. Higher
! standards should be set in South
Carolina. Things are now beginning
4 TO move in this state with the
opening Of the Panama canal comes
golden opportunity, the greatest
that has ever come to a people. And
why should the farmers be primarily
interested? Because farms make
/ freight, freight makes commerce and
commerce makes people great