The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-07-04
MEETING SATURDAY
Full Attendance Desired and Much
business to BE Transacted.

Chairman David r. Coker, of the
South Carolina Cor~ iii of Defense will
very likely address the members of
the Sumter County Committee of F'p
lie Safety on Saturday, July 7th.
In letter to Secretary Reardon Of
the Sumter Chamber of Commerce,
Mr.. Coker writes in part, as follows
II thank you for your invitation to
address your committee July 7th
will be very glad to do so If circum-
stances permit, and / hope you will
leave the matter open and notify me
Of the hour of the meeting.
'I have been very much Interested
In the intelligent. patriotic. and ef-
fective efforts which your committee
of Public Safety has been making to
IMPROVE and stabalize conditions in
your county.
mot only was your foodstuffs cam
paign launched earlier than any other
county, but In practical results your
county accomplished more and / wish
to congratulate you and the others
who were engaged with you in this
campaign.
"a strong and permanent organiza-
ton such as you have can be Of un-
told benefit IL the efforts are intelli-
gently directed. The aims of your
committee as stated by you are along
the right lines. and will undoubtedly
prove very fruitful. Besides increas-
ing agricultural productions and di-
versificatfon and fostering the right
propaganda for preparation for the
coming of the boil weevil, I think the
most important field your organizat on
can cover is marketing. Marketing is
the business mans problem. In CO.
operation with other business he is
we'll equipped to handle it and should
do so for business mans profit bears
almost direct ratio to the net profits
on the farms. Farmers have rarely
been successful, either singly or by co.
operative enterprise In handling the
marketing problem"
Chairman A. c. Phelps, and Secrc
tary, Reardpn are making strenuou;
efforts. assisted by Local Farm Dem
onstrator J. Frank Williams. to have
the entire Sumter County Committee
of Public Safety. 100 members, attend
its meeting next Saturday, July 7th
not only in hopes that Chairman Cox
er will be present. because the plans
and the itinerary OF the tour of the
Sumter County Boil Weevil Commits
sion will be discussed at this meeting.
Fifty newly appointed members If
tho permanent committee Of public
safety are expected to attend next
Saturdays meeting.
The big permanent drive in tho bac-
tie against the boil weevil will begin
at Sumter July 7th. Every interest,
farmers. bankers. merchants, lawyers.
doctors. laborers, land owners, ten
ants producers and consumers. teach
ers. school trustees. preachers, white
and colored citizens will be organized
FOR continuous campaign of prepar-
edness to offset the evil effects of the
cotton boil wccvil.
Several expert mathematicians and
accountants will he set to work this
week tabulating the many reports o.
the committeeman who conducted the
county OF Sumter agricultural survey
by townships. put on by the Commit.
tee of Public Safety. Only parts OF
two townships remain to complete the
entire county survey which will give
a very intelligent idea of how many
hogs. dairy cows. calves, beef cattle,
and how much cotton. corn, wheat,
velvet beans. peanuts. rye. Irish and
sweet potatoes. peas. vegetables, soy
beans. rice. sugar cane, oats, clover,
vetch. etc., are plantoi In Sumter
county this year.
The Sumter business men put up
about eight hundred dollars which
was supplemented by some money
from the country districts. and an
agreement by all of the committeeman
to work for nothing i'm making the
survey and pay their own expenses. i'm
order to make this agricultural sur
vcy. furnish free seed for thousands
OF school children all over the county
and free seed of various kinds for
hundreds OF poor men and women.
white and colOred I'm the city town.
and rural districts The sDlendid sDir-