The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-10-07
Offers new Plan
SUMNER UNIFORMS SHOULD Be
MADE OF KHAKI
WOULD UTILIZE cotton

Adoption of Khaki Cloth for Uni
forms by Roads and Departments
in Cities Gives a Business Basis
for All Lines to Work on and Will
Absorb a Large Part of Crop.
"The Hudson Plan" is the latest
suggestion for relief in the present
general situation. The several busi-
ness men with whom it has been dis
cussed, says The Augusta Chronicle,
express the opinion that it is the
most practicable and far-reaching as
we'll as the most business-like yet
suggested, and the only one which
has been offered that would have be-
hind it any sort of solidity and no
sentiment.
It would necessitate the immediate
manufacture of millions and millions
of yards of the very heaviest kind Of
goods made from cotton, would ab-
sorb an enormous amount Of the
present visible supply of cotton, and
would tax those mills equipped for
making the goods beyond their ca
pacity, thus forcing other mills to
equip at least a portion Of their
plants for making this particular
grade of cloth.
It would take in every steam rail-
road, every electric railway, every
steamboat line, every police depart
ment and every fire department in
tn entire cotton belt, and in many
other states, outside of he belt. At
he same time its adoption would
mean the saving of a very consider
able amount of money to the ulti-
mate consumer and the creation of
an entirely new line of business that
would amply take the place of that
line of business which the plan
would reduce, but not eliminate.
The plan was conceived and its de-
tails thought out by Capt. c. H. Hud-
son, a passenger conductor on the
Georgia & Florida Railroad. running
between Augusta and Valdosta, who
lives in Augusta In his own way he
tells it as follows:
"Of course the idea behind the
'buy-a-bale' plan is that not alone Of
aiding the farmer, but through the
farmer to aid everybody else. 1t is,
said to be plan of taking cotton off
the market in the hope that the
amount will be equal to that portion
which will not be exported and the
surplus.
That so much will be accomplish
ed is still question, but, even that
is a temporary relief. and buying a
bale of cotton here and there on a
basis of sentiment more than of bus
mess carries with it no insurance
that the same cotton will not again
be dumped back on the market. 1t
remains raw cotton anyway, and is
therefore an existing surplus, what
ever else of the crop may be used.
Permanent relief is going to
come only through some method
which will permanently absorb the
cotton. People are not going to
throw it away and they are not going
to burn it up; neither the producer
nor the consumer We have simply
If we are going about this saliva
ton of the South in a business-ike
way-got to find something to DO
with the cotton that we don't do with
it now
"The plan originated by Miss Clark
and the ladies in Washington, that
of trying to increase the use of cotton
cloth for clothing, is a good one in
it's way but it, too, has sentiment
only for basis, and there is nothing
in it to insure the use of any fixed
amount of cotton. The manufactur-
ers have nothing on which to base
their calculations beyond a fad, and
there is no telling how long that fad
will last. In fact, the chances are
that, so soon as the present condi-
ton is eased up bit. it will have be-
come a worn-out fad
ST am not a producer of cotton.
don't carry any mill stock, l don't
buy or sell cotton-but do live in
cotton country. The situation got on
my mind, just as it had On the minds
of pretty much all the other people
down here who have any interest in
their community. guess. An almost
constant thought on the subject has
resulted in what I believe is a busi-
ness producing, practical plan, like
this:
There is a uniformed conductor
and flagman on every passenger train
and a uniformed conductor on nearly
every freight train run in the states
in the South and Southwest; every
street car operated by electricity in
the same states has on it two uni
formed men, motorman and a con-
ductor: every police department and
every fire department in the entire
southern and southwestern country
has a number of uniformed men;
every steamboat operated along the
| coast and on the inland waterways
has several uniformed men on it.
| 1.-The uniforms worn by those men
are of design and material adopt
ed by the operating companies; many
of them after consultation with rep
resentatives of their employees, but
in the end the uniform is an adopted
one, and every man employed by
those corporations has to wear the
same kind of uniform. In addition
to those I have named, number Of
roads require their station agents to
wear uniforms; the express COM
panies use some uniforms.
"Just about this time of the year
the spring and summer uniforms for
all those people are being ordered !;
the winter weights are laid aside in
a few months and the goods lighter
| than that worn in the winter is now
being calculated upon. Right there