The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-01-27
URGES AMENDMENTS
TO WAREHOUSE ACT
Mr.. Wannamaker Suggests Changes
Which He Thinks Beneficial to
Cotton Growers.

Columbia, Jan. 26-The general as
senably of South Carolina is urged in
a statement issued last night by j.
Skottowe Wannamaker, president OF
the American Cotton association, to
make certain amendments in the
South Carolina Warehouse act. MIR.
Wannamaker urges that a commission
of seven, one from each congress
sional district, be created to cooperate
with the warehouse commissioner and
that the commissioner be given au-
thority to license warehouses.
"The South Carolina legislature,
said Mr.. Wannamaker, ''by making
certain amendments to the warehouse
act can make an act that will furnish
model warehouses for the entire cot
ton belt.
'sThe resent act has lnasly admir-
able features. At the annual con-
vention of the South Carolina dlvl-
sion of the American Cotton assocla-
ton, however, it was decided to urge
the general assembly to amend this
act to permit the state warehouse
commissioner to issue licenses for
warehouses.
"The cotton industry is gradually
being put upon an economic basis. A
bale of cotton should have the grade
stenciled upon it; we should have
licensed graders, men who have taken
a thorough course in grading, stap-
ling and tibering of cotton. The
|time is fast approaching when our col
|leges will put on courses on the bps'-
ness side of agriculture. Europe has
been for years past spending vast
sums in this way, the great uniyersi,
ties turning out men thoroughly equip
ties turning out men thoroughly
equipped for the business side Of life,
Again an example, Oxford university,
England, with Prof. Todd at the head
|of a department of economics, teaches
its young men in addition, to regu-
lar commercial training every phase
of the cotton industry.
eve export from 60 to 65 per cent
of cur cotton. This cotton is bought
subject to acceptance in Europe 80
that today, although we have been
!producing cotton since 1875 IN South
Carolina we only produce and fail to
market.
with an amendment to the South
Carolina Warehouse act, creating
commission of seven men, one from
each congressional district, to cooper
ate as a board with the warehouse
commissioner. licenses could be is
sued to men who are thoroughly equip
ped for handling the business side OF
the cotton industry, as we'll as the
business side of our products. 1t will
be necessary that we follow the
course followed in England, which is
{ the best of it's kind in the world. We
must teach transportation, including
exporting. We must teach grading,
fbering ard stapljng and every detail
of the cotton industry.
can act requiring that cotton be
graded and the grade stencilled upon
the bale would bring tremendous
; benefits to the cotton industry. 1t
would be the first step toward the
handling of the business side of this
great product.
with chain of warehouses
throughout the entire cotton belt, uni
form warehouse receipts and bonded
warehousemen, tremendous benefits
would accrue. The final result would
bring almost unthinkable benefit to
every lire of the Gotten industry. even
including the man who buys the cot
ton clothing. 1t would save enormous
damage and the tremendous loss re-
sulting from sampling and resamp-
ling and the uneccnomic methods IN
the transportation of cotton