The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1920-05-29

viii be referred to the membership
for consideration and adoption, plank
by plank. This is a thoroughly demo-
cratic plan.
Q. What activities of the Board are
now considered to be of the most inn
portance and of the greatest service
to tn estate and citizens?
A. 1t is thought to be vitality i'm
portant that there be established in
one or more communities in each
county, a Home Cash Market for live
stock and diversified farm products.
Assessment and taxation is another
activity which affects every taxpayer
in South Carolina. The efforts of the
commission dealing with this matter
will be directed toward securing popu-
lar support for legislation to equalize
assessment Ct property so that no
man shall pay the other mans taxes.
Q. What is meant by Home Cash
Market?
A. The forming of local corporat-
ion to buy and sell live stock and
diversified farm crops produced by
farmers. This means better method
of distribution of these commodities,
which will secure for the farmer
higher price and insure the consumer,
both at home and abroad, lower pur-
chase price, by the elimination of the
unnecessary middlemen and their
ha r
Cash Market also stimulates product
ion because the farmer, when he
drives to town, finds satisfactory
ready cash market for his products.
Q. What IS me:nt by South-wide
activities?
A. There are organization in our
sister Southern State similar 10 this
Board. All Of these organizations use
as a general clearing house, the
Southern Settlement and Develop
ment Organization. 1t is hoped that
through the whole-hearted cooper
alton and co-ordinated efforts of all
our Southern organizations, we can
secure federal and other aid in the
general development of the ayricul-
ture, industries and natural resources
of the South.
Q. What tas the South Carolina
Development Board accomplished?
A. The Organization started active
work one yea- ago and to date its ac-
complishments have been:
(a) The Orangeburg Packing Plant
sold to practical packing houses oper-
ators, which insures Home Cash
Market in South Carolina for cattle.
hogs and sheep.
(b) The enactment of the model
drainage law which will encourage
the formation of drainage districts;
be the means Cf reclaiming potentially
productive land and do much toward
the elimination of the malarial mos
quito, as well as stabilize the market
for drainage bonds.
(c) The enactment of the new State
stock law aboiishing the free range.
This makes poss sible the elimination of
the Texas fever cattle tick and will
encourage the lending of money on
live stock as security.
(d) Educational publicity for con-
structive activities
(e) Boil weevil conditions met by
the establishment of number of
Home Cash Markets in various coun-
ties, for live stock and = diversified
farm crops.
(f) Preliminary work done toward
organizing the sweet potato growers
of South Carolina. Such organization
means protection of the sweet potato
industry in South Carolina and the
securing of better distribution and
prices for that crop.
(g) War oil malarial Mosquito de-
clared and anti-mosquito movements
put under way in various counties.
th) Fly elimination campaign in
auguated.
GD Live stock credits assured on
sound basis.
Cd Encouraged the establishment
of markets for peanuts in the State.
(k) Educational work toward strict
enforcement cf the cattle tick law.
Cd Campaign to suppress hog
cholera inaugurated.
(m) Farm home ownership en-
couraged.
(n) Better health and sanitation
campaigns inaugurated in several
counties.
(o) Movement started looking to in
PRODUCTION C.! white farm labor in
South Carolina.
q How will tho finds nf Tho no