The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-07-20
LEVER MAY ENTER
GOVERNORS RACE
FORMER REPRESENTATIVE FA-
VORS LIBERAL WAREHOUSE AID
Lexington Man Hints That He Will
Run if No Other is Found to
Lead Fight.
The State, 18th.

The State, lSln.
Asbury F. Lever, member of the
federal farm loan board and for
many years representative in con-
eress from the Seventh district, hint
ed strongly last night that It
staunch leader for the movement to
establish cotton warehouses by lib
eral state aid was not found. ". the
next two years that he would feel
called upon to canvass South Caro-
lima in the gubernatorial race with
this as his principal issue. Such a
course would be a. great sacrlt1ce to
himself, he said, but he added that
he was determined to see to 1t that
the cotton farmer should be given the
advantages Of the warehouse act. Mr.
Lever was in Columbia for few
hours, Ell route from kershaw, where
he spoke yesterday, to Lexington, to
spend Sunday at his home.
Mr.. Lever is speaking at number
Of meetings in the state conducted
by The South Carolina division of the
American Cotton association, the eX-
tension service Of Clemson college,
the United States department of ag-
riculturc for the construction OF
warehouses, the employment OF cot
ton graders and for new mem bers OF
the cotton association.
In these speeches Mr.. Lever is ad-
vocating system which will, he
thinks, remedy the situation in the
form Of warehousing ARRANGEMENT
whereby the state is to furnish at
least half the cost of the warehouse
and the community where it is built
the other half. To raise these funds
he believes that the state should is
sue 20 year bonds. He says this will
result in cotton being given credit
value under Section 13 of the federal
reserve act.
':The problem of distribution CT
cotton SO as to bring to the farmer its
real intrinsic value is not alone the
problem of the farmer says Mr..
Lever, "but likewise that of every
man, woman and child in the state
and of all classes, and, therefore,
every one should be interested and
should help bear the burden of Great
ing such agencies of distribution as
shall bring to the producer the real
value of warehousing. Experts have
said that storing capacity for $780,
900 additional bales is necessary to
give the state system which will
care for 35 per cent. of the cotton
produced. This would cost S500,000.
This could not succeed by voluntary
cooperation as the South has not
learned this lesson, and can only do
so if the state puts back of it its
great resources, as it is a problem of
the state
He advocates the state furnishing
at least one-half of the necessary
funds for the warehouse system to
be raised by the sale of 20 year
bonds. The state, under the direc-
ton of the warehouse commission,
would select the strategic points for
the location of the warehouses, of
which the public would be given mo-
tice. When any community became
able to provide one-half, the state
should be able to furnish the other
half, he says.
eff the state through legislative ac-
ton should hold out this induce
ment to the communities enough
warehouses could be built in two or
three years to meet the demand, and
cotton will be given credit value un-
der Section 13 Of the federal re-
serve act, which at present it does
not and can not enjoy, and to make
cotton good collateral" says Mr..
Lever.