The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-05-15

financing with unity and precision.
They have lacked business applica-
ton even in production, their hob
by.
John Lee Coulter, a great student
organizer among farmers, says, Ed
ucation in agriculture so far has been
'one sided,' for it has covered only
one third of the activities of the mod
ern farmer. He has been taught to
produce, but has not been taught
how to sell or how to spend the mon
ey he received. This is the age Of
commercial agriculture, and it is as
necessary to buy we'll and to sell well
as to produce we'll The farmer must
be a business man, if he is to sue
ceed at present.
Why have people left the farms
today and during past ages? Simply
because the farmers have not made
their business as profitable and as
attractive as the business man and
the banker.
Farmers must become business
men. We should stop talking "busi-
ness men and farmers" In the fu-
ture we must say bankers, farmers,
merchants and other business men,
The first step towards organiza-
ton in every town should be to start
a club, a good, live business club. In
which farmers are admitted as mem
bers on the same basis as other bus
mess men; a place to plan for and
discuss problems common to both.
Second, whenever bank or any
other business enterprise is to be built
by home capital so or 100 represent
ative farmers should take stock, even
if they purchase only one share each.
They should have at least, one men,
| Der of the board of directors, and
thus join in the good work. This
should be done, If for no other rea-
son than to learn the business prin-
ciples involved, and to establish a
relationship of confidence between
the dwellers of the city and the coun-
try. This will develop the spirit of CO.
operation between the people in the
country and in the towns.
But, before farmers can be brought
I'D to level with other business men,
they must learn to finance their un-
dertakings more intelligently than
most of them do now. They must
learn to buy and sell as business men
they must be more than producers
of crops and live stock.
Mr.. Farmer, the banker and the
business man are your very best
friends, and the sooner you realize 1t
more fully the earlier will you enjoy
their fuller confidence and accommo-
dations The banker and business
man, after studying production with
you, always have the remaining two
thirds of your activities to solve
alone; namely, marketing and financ-
ing. Why not awake from your slum:-
bers like RIP Van Winkle?" remove
the cobweb from your brain and solve
these problems for yourself.
Every organization of human So
ciety awaits and welcomes with out
stretched arms, those who will prove
an asset to it. The banker and bus
mess man are always wide awake for
+, the promotion and future welfare OF
Finance" - they measure men and
commodities by comparative values.
The good is taken, the undesirable IS
Ile,t. Thus far, the farmer, as class,
has not qualified to be admitted in
to the union of finance" and to ad-
NIT him as a class into the union
finance" would prove as colossal a
mistake as throwing a steel monkey
wrench into the perfect mechanism
of delicate machine. The farmer as
vet has not grasped the situation from
the same viewpoint as the banker and