The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-04-24
TO ORGANIZE CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE FOR NEWBERR1

Or rather We should say to revive
the Business Mems League, or TO get
some sort of organized body, meet
ing is called to be held in the court
house at Newberry on Tuesday after
noon at $50 o'clock. Every one should
attend this meeting. There IS always
great need of commercial organlza-
ton, in a town the size OF Newperry'
but at this time and in this Crisis
such an organization is a posl1l'e
necessity, and it would be almost an
act of disloyalty to the community
and to the State and to the nation Ior
any citizen to fail to cooperate IN the
formation of some sort Of organlza-
tion.
There are many things to be done,
and that can be much better oone
nv an organization, that we feel sure
ali of the citizens of Newberry VIII
give hearty cooperation to~-the organ
ization.
The call is issued for those VINO
we're and are members of the Bust
ness Mems League and all otner cur,
zens of the town to come and JOIN ana
give hearty cooperation.
In the city of Sumter the cnamoer
Of commerce is doing great things 70
cooperate with the farmers in grow
ing food stuffs, and where they nave
no seed. arrangements are beng maoe
4o furnish the seed and to assure q
market for the stuff when it IS grown:
And possibly Sumter is the pest anu
most thoroughly organized county III
the State.
But the most important thing that
such an organization could do now
and the most vital thing in the pres
ent emergency would be to take up
the matter of marketing the 1000
stuffs that we are advising the 1arm-
ers TO raise, because if sometnlns
along that line is not done 1t Will Dc
useless to urge the growing OF tnelh:
Read the call for this meeting ana
then every one make arrangement "
attend. 1t is important to the com
mnnitv to the county, to the Sta'e
and to the nation. ~.
One of the important things that
such an organization should conslo-
or is TO assure the farmer Of mar
xet for his foodstuffs when they are
crown. That would be the greatest
Tncentive we could give him TO IN
crease his production along this hne'
The average farmer is planting more
land in foodstuffs this year than usu-
81 hut he is not trying to do more
than to assure sufficient proouc-
4jon for his own farm, because ne
feels that if he should grow it there
will be no market for it, or rather no
way for him to market 1t at pTont,
or even at the market value ana get
the money for it like he can for ms
cotton. ,.-
we heard a man say the other, day
that some few months ago man
had some corn he wanted to sell. he
asked a merchant what corn was
worth and found that it was selling
at that time at s1.3o per bushel. Inc
hest price he could get oHereo Ioe
me corn he wanted to sell was ~
cents the bushel. Now the merchant
Who was selling corn at $1.SO per
hushel paid more than ninety cents
sor it, but he would not give the
farmer but 80 cents. We heard an
other man say that he had a certain
variety of peas that the merchants N
Newberry were paying at least s4:oo
ner bushel for and freight, and the
hest price he was offered was S3.Vo
ner bushel He shipped his peas
away and got s400 per bushel. we
only mention these cases to empna-
size the Importance of having some
sort of market for the products when
they are grown.
We notice that in one of the coun-
ties. or We believe it is in Georgia
that the State is arranging to have
canneries established all over the
State and can all the perlshanie
stuff that is grown at actual cost