The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-07-08
UNABLE TO LOCATE
PRODUCE OF STATE
"DO 1T FOR SOUTH CAROLINA'
DINNER CAUSE OF TRIP.
Visits Retail Stores
Former Governor Hayward Unable to
Find South Carolina
Goods on Sale.

went marketing the other day. Hut-
ting his arm through the handle OF a
regular market basket, capacity about
one-half bushel, he called at half a
dozen grocery stores along Main
street in Columbia, asking for and
buying canned goods only. At the
end of about an hour he had spent
more than 81, his basket was filed
and he had not been able to purchase
a single thing he had set QUIT get
for his family's and his own susten-
ance.
1t happened this way:
Mr.. Hayward had promised to make
a little talk that evening at the do
it for for South Carolina dinner. He
had selected the topic of Lets Do
It. He fell to thinking about this
subject. do what?" he said to him
self, and in the same thought answer
ed the question with "develop the re-
sources of South Carolina" Now one
of the most obvious resources of
South Carolina is it's food-producing
possibilities.
He Goes Marketing.
eff South Carolina was feeding it
self" thought the former governor,
:Ethe retail provision stores right here
in Columbia and in every other city
and town in the state would be SELL
ing South Carolina products and the
prices would be lower. I wonder II
they are doing that. think l Will
go and see." Hence the market bas-
ket and the trip along Main street.
"Please give me package of hon.
iny-South Carolina hominy,'' said
Mr.. Heyward to the clerk in the first
store he called at.
Sorry, sir, but we haven't any
South Carolina hominy," said the
youth behind the counter. "Here is
same from St. Joseph, Mo-, which we
sell large quantities Of
Mr.. Hayward took a package of the
Missouri hominy.
''Now give me can Of syrup
South Carolina syrup-to put on tnat
hominy when it is cooked; [ like it
that way" said the former governor.
Again the clerk was very sorry; the
only syrup he had, came from Phlla-
delphia.
In the next store the distinguished
customer gave a larger order. He
wanted a can of sweet peas, a can
of black-eye peas and can of string
beans-he insisted on having South
Carolina peas and beans if they were
in stock. The clerk looked over ev-
erything he had on the shelves and
then handed Mr.. Hayward sweet peas
from Columbus, Wis, black-eye peas
from Baltimore and string beans from
Bel Air, Md. Not a pea or a bean
grown in South Carolina was to be
had.
Having some doubt about the use
fulness of his errand, the former gov
ernor walked to another store.
~. No South Carolina Tomatoes.
s'Can you sell me can of toma-
toes. can of asparagus and can or
sweet corn that we're produced IN
South Carolina?" he asked. The deal
er could not. But. he did sell toma-
toes from Ohio, asparagus from Del
Monte, CAL, and sweet corn from LlV-
ingston county, N. Y.
Still determined to eat something
that was grown in South Carolina, Nr.
Howard in the next store asked Tor
pickles. and catsup. After some par
lev. he added to his collection a bottle
of nickles from Louisville, KY, and
castup from Rochester, N. Y.
His ventures in the domain OF rel
ishes having failed, Mr.. Heywaro
thought h would make one more trial
in the canned goods line. So in the
fourth store he inquired for pumpkin
okra and condensed milk. The two
cans of the former which he was
handed care from New York city and
the r4ilk n Spokane, Wash.
The form. governor was losing pa
tience--the basket was getting heavy
to carry in the hot sun, and ne was
all out of luck anyway, but he had
started CIT to get something to eat,
that had he favor Of the South Caro-
lima soil about it and so he made one
more call and asked in desperation
for some South Carolina potatoes
sweet or Irish-in any form Whatever
except as they come from the ground.
Same With Potato Chips.
1--WE have some very fine potato
chips,' said the young man behind
the counter, eve sell thousands OF