The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-12-22
"NUB" COMES AGAIN
WITH A GOOD LETTER

wish to state in the outset that we do
not expect to advance the price of cot
ton, neither lumber, nor do we expect
to run wages back up to the highest
jpitch. Of course there are some rea-
sons why cotton should advance in
price, but surely some of the good far
mers who believe that some of the
Lords" in the u. S. Senate control the
price fixing of cotton will get busy
with such ga cotton lord" and have
| the price regulated. OF course we do
not agree with such an argument, but
we have heard SO many people give a
certain senator so much credit as to
the above we sometimes wonder if this
man is still in the Senate and cotton
selling on our streets at five cents a
pound, which cost, without any doubt
several times that price to make, yet
such is the fact.
Going b; k even one year, it was
declared by our best business people
that should we ever have low prices
and a scarcity of money again, it
would be many years; that with all the
wealth this country had, which was
said to be about one third Of the whole
world, it would be impossible. While
it is even said today: just take
America that we have more money
than ever before, real, honest to- good
ness cash, in the United States as
there is today. This country has been
growing in wealth by leaps and
bounds, because we have the best
educated people in the world, the most
moral people, the most humane people,
people with more initiative than OBJ
tanned among any other people on
earth. Then we have country whose
unlimited natural resources represent
wealth untold. We were coming to
the mastership of the wealth of the
world before the war. 1t is said in
1913 this country produced $14,OOO,-
O00 900 more than it consumed. Then
after the war came on with the ur-
gent appeal to produce our production
was increased and in 1917 we produced
l$l8,OO0, 100000 more than we consum-
ed And we loaned to the nations cf
Europe in excess Of $30,00O,O0O, 900.
| With the exception of some $3,0OO,-
1000 1000 this money remained in Ameri-
ca and was spent by the borrowers in
our markets which did not take the
money out of our country; surely this
money is still here, and since the close
of the war it is said that hundreds of
millions of gold has been sent in the
United States by foreign countries as
payments on their debts.
While It is said naturally a recon-
lstructed period must follow after a
worlds conflict as did after our own
Civil War Of 1861-1865, which was
about ten years duration when our
money went down fifty cents on the
dollar. But we expect to get through
the present reconstruction period in
side of three years when our money
will be at premium the world over.
And instead of laying off or throw
ling out of employment the boys and
girls who served you hard and faith
full during the past three years and
made thousands and thousands of dol
lars for their employers, keep them
employed. 1t is hard to be showed out
in the cold in a depressed condition as
now exists which we are compelled to
believe will be of short duration and
that we shall soon enter into many
years of intense prosperity when we
won't have men and women enough to
supply the demand for help for we
are going to he the busiest nnorlo that
humanity has ever known and perhaps
the richest
So let us go to it build and equip
and prepare ourselves for future,
somewhat rich in development as well
as in production, good business, rea-
fsonablc profits, living wages, lots of
work with the proftccrs eliminated,
checrfulness, courage, optimism fill
| ing every nook and corner of the
| American continent and let's hang our
banners on the outer walls and sound
the trumpcts of triumph and success
will surely be ours. Who says amen {?
Rev. II. E. Morris, the beloved pas
tor of the Methodist church, hsa been
suffering considerably for the past
! three weeks with carbunclc on the
back of his neck, and was taken to a
hospital in Charleston last week for
treatment. A report from the hos
| pital authorities say the operation
was success and he is slowly i'm
proving which is gratifying news to
his many friends here.
Mr.. j. A. Hunsucker, who has been
with c. NJ. Davis Son & Company as
salesman for the past few years, will
leave January 1st for Bennettsvile
where he has position with A. G.. T..
Railroad Company.
Mrs. w. J. Goodwin and son Luke
spent last weekend with relatives
and friends in Scranton.
Many complimentary remarks are
being heard Of our new supervisor and
his efficient co-workcrs for the good
work that he has done on the roads in
this section of the county since as
suming the Office Of county supervisor.
Among those mentioned for Magis-
trate to succeed the late Major A. j.
lRichbourg are his son Henry A. Rich
bourG, w. d. Carson and l.. A. Brun-
son.