Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-10-25
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Progressive ,Farmer.)


While this years cotton crop is
short, 1t with the seed will doubtless
bring the South billion dollars
probably more, In fact, than any pre-
vious crop has brought us. Tobacco
prices, too, are exceptionally high:
wheat, corn, oats and all kinds Of
live stock are bringing record prices.
So. despite storms and floods that
have meant disaster locally, the aver
age Southern farmer will this fall
be In better condition financially than
for many moons.
All this means that we have the
opportunity Of our lives to save some
money-the golden opportunity to
break away from the bondage OF
time prices, put some money In the
bank, and get ouselves on a cash ba-
sis. For two or three years prices
have not been good; now that they
are the highest In many years, fool
ish indeed Is the man who does not
put some money In the bank against
the rainy days that are sure to come.
TO the ambitious tenant-farmer es-
peclally would we appeal to make use
OF this great opportunity. IHome-o own
ership should be the ideal Of every
tenant and wise Is the man who this
fall, instead of wasting the profits
from the years work on senseless,
eXtrayagant luxuries, uses them to
give himself mighty boost toward
economic freedom. Every year, as
land values go higher and higher, the
tenant Is going to find it increasingly
difticult to become a landowner and
home-owner. We know the tempta-
tion to spend is great, but the man
with real grit, the man who means to
do or die in his fight for home for
himself and his family, will pass
them all by and put some money in
the bank, into livestock or into
equipment that will help him to still
further increase his earning capacity.
Likewise the landowner who looks
forward to greater degree of eco
nomic freedom will not wastefully
squander the profits from this years
crops. Comparatively few farmers
have been able to avail themselves Of
the savings that come from paying
cash. What would 1t be worth to us,
for instance. to buy for cash all ferti-
lfzers in car lots? what would It
mean to us If we had enough ready
cash to enable us to hold our cotton,
SoNeoh oOcQ OIHST pIOuuCIS
prices suit us? And aside from The
great savings thus affected, the very
fact that man has money in the
bank makes him a more outstanding,
self-respecting citizen. If you doubt
1t, try 1t!
When the South becomes a land of
thrift 1T will become a land Of wealth
and plenty. The really great coun-
tries of the world are peopled by
thrifty, hard-headed. sensible folks
who are not ashamed to save, and n
large part Of the destitution and
misery of this world are traceable to
somebody's unwillingness to give up
present pleasures for future pros
perity. The boy and the girl who
fail to get the schooling they should;
the mother. broken by hard, unend-
ing TOLL the foreclosed mortgage,
the broken-up home-how often do
these come from somebody's failure
to save.
If we have not already done, let us,
NOW, learn the glorious lesson Of
thrift; let us join the bank line and
be our own masters, rather than the
bread line of dependent supplicants.
Lets save some money!