The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-06-05
NEEDS COTTON
SAYS GOV. MANNING
FORMER GOV. BACK FROM EU-
ROPE, Talks ENTHUSIASTICALLY
Says President Wilson is Regarded
Abroad as COuntry's Greatest
Leader.

sumter, June l-Slgnlng or the
peace treaty and readjustment of the
markets of the world to postbellum
conditions will have an optimistic ef-
feet on cotton, according 10 eY-Gov-
ernor Richard 1. Manning, who has
just returned from Europe, where
he attended the peace conference as
the delegate of the league to enforce
peace, which organization is headed
by former President William How
ard Taft.
AS the former Governor has been
in contact with the moving drama in
Europe and has been intimately asso-
ciated with the great leaders there
for two months, any utterance of his
on international politics and his OBJ
servations of world-conditions are not
only interesting, but are of anyliti-
cal and authoritative worth.
Interesting Story.
Governor Manning speaks interest
ingly of his and Mrs. Manning's trip
abroad and of the international pc
sonages with whom he was associat-
ed. He and Mrs. Manning sailed from
America on the Adriatic, March %,
and their trip across was in a fog
and rough, but no inconvenience was
he stated. They landed at
Liverpool and went to London by
train, thence to Southampton, where
they crossed the channel to Harve.
From Harve they were taken by train
to Paris. Returning the South Caro-
linians arrived at Halifax, Sunday,
May "a, reaching Sumter over the
Atlantic Coast Line Railway yester-
day morning at 11:2O o'clock. They
spent a few hours at Sumter and
went to Governor Manning's farm at
Boykin yesterday afternoon and they
spent today at the home Of B. H.
Boykin, at Boykin. They were met at
the train yesterday by their son, Col.
w. M. Manning, of Columbia.
This is the most picturesque seen
cry l have seen in sometime" said
the former Governor as he got off
the train. Il returned home a proud
err better and more enthusiastic
American than when 1 went to Eu
rope. The old U. S. A. is good enough
for me-
In Best of Health.
The Ex-Governor and Mrs. Man
ming appeared to be in the best of
health and they both stated that they
had an interesting and instructive
time while in Europe. The former
Governors first idea was to get into
cooler clothing, as he was wearing a
heavy winter suit, which was not
exactly conducive to bodily comfort.
Both he and Mrs. Manning wore
pins with six service stars, one of
which had turned to gold in memory
of Major William Similar Manning.
who was killed in the Argonne for
est fight and whose body is buried
on a hillside near where he fell. They
visited his grave.
In dealing with the cotton question
the former Governor said that un-
doubtedly the shelves of the world
are bare of cotton goods, and that
the raw staple is, next to food stuffs,
the worlds most badly needed mater
ial. He is firmly of the opinion that
there is need of all the cotton the
South intends to raise and that this,
together with the supply now on
hand, will be consumed.
With the signing of the peace
treaty and the lifting of the blockade,
he said, the world markets will be
open for the influx of cotton
goods. However, the taking of the
staple necessarily must be slow, he
stated. The Ex-Governor pointed out
the deflation of the European mon
etary system, stating that the mark
which, normally, is worth about
twenty cents is not rated at seven and
one-fourth cents, while the franc,
which is about the same value in
American money as that Of the mark,
is now exchanged at sixteen and two
20 cents is now rated at seven and
the resources of the warning coun-
tries have been depleted.