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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-08-19
Big Plans for Cotton Marketing.

Probably the greatest story Of CO.
operation l have saved for the last.
This is the Oklahoma cooperative cot
ton marketing programme.
When Aaron Sapiro came south IN
April to the Montgomery Cotton Asso-
citation meeting with his vivid story
of successful commodity marketing
in California, he started something.
And no man can say what the end will
be. The peanut formers Of Virginia
and North Carolina got him to come
to Suffolk and tell his story, and they
are already at work signing up con-
tracts for large scale marketing on
the California plan. And in Okla
homa the cotton farmers, with Sa-
piro's help, have worked out cotton
marketing plan which is the most
promising and practicable big plan
of cotton marketing yet worked out
in any southern state.
Cary Williams gave me the details.
/. The plan is to get 10000 Okla
homa cotton farmers to agree to
market their cotton for seven years
through their own cooperative selling
agency.
2. In order to safeguard them 1t
is guaranteed that selling costs in no
case exceed per cent. as mimi
mum, and the farmer will be re-
bated for any payment in excess of
actual selling costs.
3. Each farmer pays member
ship fee of $40 to be used in pro-
noting organization work.
4. While the organization hopes to
control 100000 bales, it may
begin business if farmers raising
100000 bales ign up for the service.
5. The farmers will own and con-
troll the organization. Only growers
of cotton can be members and growers
in each Of the ten districts will elect
an executive committeeman. The
eleventh member will be named by
the president of the state board Of
agriculture.
This is indeed a big and promising
plan. The theory is that each farm
er ought to be willing to say, Il
would rather trust the selling judg-
ment Of the biggest and brainlest
organization we can hire than to
trust my own Judgment. | know,
too, that the plan will insure wise
warehousing and fairness in grad
inc and chasing which /, as an in
dividual, cannot enforce for myself.
| know, too, that by reason of the
ADVANTAGES of wise grading and sell
ing in quantities, prices will be in
creased for me to a much greater
extent than will be represented by
my membership costs
Tremendously promising, in my
opinion, is this Oklahoma cotton
marketing plan. Every state in the
south should get ready to follow
OkIahoma's lead in this matter. The
Progressive Farmer will keep our
readers informed as to its progress.
The Progressive Farmer.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-08-19
RADICALIsM IN COLUMBIA 1876
CONTINUED from page 2, column

Of remarkable spring in seQuest'
cred spot near Geiger's Mill.' The
finding of the spring was told with
great deal OF detail and number
of we'll known Columbians were
named who had visited the spring
and tested its waters. | had paid a
good deal of attention to chemistry
while at college and had assisted in
the laboratory, and SO the matter ap-
pealed to me. AS soon as breakfast
was over l got a glass retort and
some sheets Of litmus paper from
the small laboratory of the college
and started horseback to find the
spring, with the idea of making a
speculative analysis Of it's contents,
having no idea how to get there be-
yond the newspaper statement that
it was up the river.' Inquiries led
me two or three miles up the canal,
following it's banks till came to a
point near where the big dam, since
constructed, turns the water from
the river into the enlarged canal. 1t
must have been near here that
found a millhouse sitting astride the
canal That was "Geiger's Mill.'
made polite inquiry of the miller
for the location of the newly discov-
cred spring.
"What spring?' he asked.
THE mineral spring." l replied,
that was found somewhere near
here yesterday
From beneath the white dust that
covered his jolly round face appear
ed smile and he said:
"Mister, somebody has been foolin
you This is the first day of April.
1t had not once occurred to me.
turned and rode away, making de-
tour so that | might not meet any
body on the way came who might
also have read Thompson's story
and might suspect the truth, and en-.
tered the city by way Of "Butchel
Town." following the least frequent
ed streets till | came back again tc
the college.
For two or three days I was in 6
state of fear and dread lest jim
Thompson might get hold of the
story and F'play it up in the Union
| Herald. He was just the kind OF
fellow to revel in it and to make
'|mighty interesting reading' out Of il
Fortunately, | had not taken any.
body into my confidence nor told the
miller my name So in the course
of a few days l felt at ease, and the
affair passed out of mind.
It must have been fully twenty-five
years afterward that I saw in Co.
lumbia newspaper that "Geiger's
Mill had burned down. 1t recalled
Mill had burned down. 1t recalled
search for the mineral spring. Tha
night, however, l had dream.
dreamed I was walking along thu
banks of a small stream anon!
trees and shrubbery when my atten
ton being attracted by bright light
| looked up ad distinctly saw "Gelg
er's Nlill,' sitting astride the canal
wrapped in flames, through which
could clearly distinguish the torn
and features of jim Thompson, who
was attired like Mephistopeles Will
peaked cap and forked tail, sitting
astride the comb Of the roof, GRIM
ing sardonically and yelling Will
fiendish glee In a little while thu
burning roof fell in, sending up
mass of sparks, and l awoke.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-08-19
MURRAY Declines POStmaStership.

John D. Murray, who was recent
ly rendered the postmaster's office
at Walterboro, has declined to ac-
cept The examination was held
about a year ago, and Mr.. Murray
has accepted position in the upper
part of the state, which is bet
ter paying position than the postof-
Office. It is not known what the next
move in the Walterboro postoffice
will be.-Press and Standard
The Bowbells tribune., 1920-01-16
SPRUClNG UP UNDER FIRE
Soldier in the Trenches Welded Razor
While Enemy Shells Were Pass
ing Above Hin.

The sailor who can shave himself in
a storm has found his match In the
soldier Walter Ehrman, Kansas City
man, saw at the ArgOnne front. Ehr.
man was with medical corps and as
he passed into No Mans Land with
the stretchel bearers, he noticed a
youth in khaki hiding In shell hole.
"He had mirror between his
knees" writes Ehrman, 'and he was
intermittently shaving himself. Which
is to say, that, between acts, he'd NOW
a section of his face. Whenever a
shell would come over he would duck
expertly, orfly to resume his interrupt
ed task in moments of what you might
call peace.
"'Hey, buddie, do you need a shave
that bad?' asked him.
"'Aw, my mugs so blame dirty, had
to have it, was his reply.
"And here's another: One of our
medics found pair Of hair clippers
on the field, and while he was waiting
in shell hole with doughboy until
an enemy barrage should light up, he
clipped that doughboy's hair as nice
and stylish as you please, till they'd
hardly let him in when he returned to
the trench, he looked that different"
The Bowbells tribune., 1920-01-16
Waxing Wooden Dishes.

If wooden dishes are to be waxed
to render them impervious they should
be made of good quality of pine or
deal with an even grain, and the inside
should be sandpapered quite smooth
Then, says Camera Craft" while the
dish is being made thoroughly warm,
to just little short of the scorching
point, using an ordinary kitchen oven,
the wax should be melted and heated
in water bath on top OF the fire.
With both the dishaand the wax as
hot as can be conveniently handled, the
cUating is applied with brush that
is not too stiff, as evenly as possible,
working in a warm atmosphere. When
the fire has gone out the dish may be
put back in the oven, SO that the wood
will absorb more Of the wax than It
otherwise would, leaving 1t there until
the next morning. With little prac-
stice one is able to make a workmanlike
job; and such dishes, particularly tor
large sizes, make q great saving mex
3pense. s {Es5 ,s, Sys3 as
The Bowbells tribune., 1920-01-16
CROW IS ENEMY OF FARMER
y Little Reason for the Birds Con-
tinued Existence.

The record Of the crow is like It's
coat-about as black as black can be-
a writer in Detroit Free Press says.
1t may be that in the great plan Of
nature, some time in the past, the
crow served useful purpose-like-
wise the hawk and the buzzard. Take
the buzzard, for example. Once pro-
tected by human laws everywhere be-
cause useful for removing carrion,
the stencil Of which offended the nos
trils of all animal life, it is now out
lawed, because man realizes that it is
better to burn or bury the dead-leav-
ing no excuse for the existence Of the
disease-carrying buzzard. So, in the
beginning, the mission of the crow, we
may conjecture, was to preserve some
equilibrium, some balance in the econ
omy Of nature. It may be he was
The Bowbells tribune., 1920-01-16
Girl Farmers.

South Bethlehem. Pa. probably Ind
one OF the most active organizations
Of the 'woman's land army In the entire
United States during the summer just
ended. Farmers In that locality in
many instances reaped the largest
crops in history, and they praise the
conscientious and efficient work of, the
girls and young women who assisted
them as among the best help they ever
had
Pitching hay Is really mans job,
but the girls on the farms near Beth
!ehem were ready to try any kind of
farm work. and made a fine record in
harvesting the hay CROP The work
for which they showed themselves
best adapted. however, was hortfcul-
tural. They were Invaluable ln the
truck gardens, wedding onion patches.
picking berries. punching asparagus
and doing the various other odd jobs
that mast be done to keep gardens
productive and neat.
Saturday night meant time of rest
for the girls, and they celebrated with
"sings" ordinarily. They also gave oc.
casional vaudeville and minstrel shows
and dinner parties. Many of them are
college girls and have gone back to.
school, but others are engaging in 9TH
er forms of work during the fall and
winter season. s
The Bowbells tribune., 1920-01-16
R0UsEs HENS FROM INACTI0N
Theory as to Benefit of Use Of Arti.
ficial illumination Would Seem
to Be Plausible.

How can artificial illumination have
any effect on egg production, is the
question being asked by some skep-
teal poultrymen who have never made
any tests.
The answer is, according to the
workers IN poultry husbandry at the
NeW York state college Of agriculture,
that the light appears to equalize the
time between meals and to shorten the
period of inactivity Of the fowls dur
ing the long nights. ..-
The long nights of the late fall and
winter months apparently cause the
fowls to use larger proportion of
the night feed for bodily needs than
would be the case under normal con-
ditions in the springtime, when the
days and the nights are OF practically
equal length.
At the time of the year when fowls
lay the most eggs in New York state
the months of April, May and June
the days and the nights are approxi.
mately Of equal length. Under these
conditions, fowls appear to assimilate
their feed. secure the proper amount
| Of exercise, and form their eggs to best
| advantage.
The latter part of December there
| are about fifteen hours of darkness and
nine hours Of daylight, whereas in the
| latter part of June the reverse is true
there are approximately fifteen hours
of daylight and nine hours of darkness
In other wsrds, illumination at
tempts to initiate spring conditions so
far as the hours of activity and the
regulation of feed supply are con-
cerned.
The Bowbells tribune., 1920-01-16
yub CONTROL oE uaLlNEss
selemes Should 30 Capable Of Rsnr
edy'ns or Preventing Defects,
Either Physical or Mental.

Why Is 1t that one member Of fam.
lily is ugly or imperfectly developed.
while all the others are practically
perfect In form and features?
Nearly every family has It's ugly
member. If the defects happen to be
physical the sufferer will be known
us the runt Of the family, or If the de-
fects are Of the morals, as the black
sheep.
There are good and sufficient causes
for all physical and moral ugltness and
there is no reason why these causes
may not be discovered and controlled
Why should one member Of fam.
ily be made sick by eating the same
food the others eat and that he has
often eaten before?
TO say that it doesn't happen to
agree with him may be satisfactory to
some, but to the Intelligent, tuquirlng
physician 1t Is not There Is some
thing wrong with the human machine
or 1t would produce proper results,
To the mechanical engineer improper
results are suggestive either of lack
or of q perversion Of energy. The Or
gan or portion of machinery that has
failed to do its proper share Of work
has not been supplied with Its proper
share OF nerve force.
May<we not apply the same rules to
the building up Of the body and Of the
mind also?
The Bowbells tribune., 1920-01-16
MINNESOTA
(From Staff Correspondent

(From Staff Correspondent =
The Happy Workers Aid society
met last Thursday afternoon with
Mrs. Frank Gerard, with large at
tendance and very interesting
meeting. Mrs. W. o. Tucker will
entertain the aid this week Thurs
day so as to. bring our meeting to
the regular schedule. If the
weather permits we will meet reg
ularly. and are always glad to well
come visitors.
Miss Marie Euland returned to
Bowbells last Sunday evening. af-
ter a. weeks visit in this neighbor-
hood.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Brown spent
ast Thursday at Andrew Iacharlas
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Shoff, Grace
Lands, Mrs. sigma Lagoo, Carl
Gerard, John Koch, Jimmie Thomp-
son. Johnnie Walleen, Leo Cron,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Cron and Mar
garet. Mr.. and Mrs. Gittin Spelse,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Carter were
among those from this nelghbor-
hood who attended the Gance given
bv the I. o. o. F. last Friday night.
they all report a most en]ovaDle
evening. w ,r,,
Mrs Ray Snoff and little daugh-
ters went to Northgate Saturday
evening for short visit at Cari
Andersons. M,
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Klein, Mr..
and Mrs. John Cron, Clyde Geraru,
Johnny Walleen and Leo Cron spent
Sunday evening at L.. M. Hau"ens. >.
Miss Florence Degree spent the
week end at her home IN Flaxton;
Mr.. and Mrs. John Sloan anu
daughters and Donald OSBORNE Wis
tied Sunday afternoon at l.. nj.
Hadwens.
Clyde Gerard spent Sunday with
Leo Cron.
Walter Kallandar is visiting at
the home of his mother, Mrs. Her
man Radenz.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Felch and
daughters were Sunday visitors at
Clint Rogers.
Pete Thompson spent Tuesday at
John Kochs.
Most of the young people and
quite few of the older ones of the
neighborhood attended the dance
at George Whites last Wednesday
evening. There was large crowd
present and all report O. splendid
time.
Clint Rogers writes that the doc
tors at the Mayo hospital were un-
able to do anything for his eyes,
and that he would be home some
time this week.
Miss Myrtle Shauf spent Satur-
day and Sunday at her home in
Bowbells.
Mrs. Chris Peterson is on the
sick list with very severe cold.
Herman Radenz has been on the
sick list all of this week.
Werner Hermanson spent Tues
day afternoon at Chris Petersons.
Frank Gerard Was on the sick
list several days this week.
Carl Gerard is hauling hay for
E. c. Mahoney.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry White, Miss
Opal White and Stanley Dunlap at
tended the dance in Bowbells last
Friday evening.
Cor. F
The Bowbells tribune., 1920-01-16

placed here to hold in check the weed
seed and grain eating birds, because
weeds were factor in the past in
covering the waste places Of the earth
and making them fertile. However
that may have been, there seems to he
no\ excuse for his existence now since
man, the agriculturist, seeds the
waste places to useful grains and
grasses and needs the help of the In
sectiverous birds. ,f'+.a'is
The Bowbells tribune., 1920-01-16

~ >OAA pal lAoaA League
BY JOHN CONWAY
Governor Frazier. he is man,
And praise of him will sing all can.
He is an orator doubt
he does know what he talks about.
He always was the Farmers friend,
Their rights he does defend
he lis is not not afraid Maa dot2,Iy to speak
Hurrah, Hurrah, Hurrah
For the Non-Partisan League.
Hurrah, Hurrah Hurrah
We will stay in the fight, e.
Because right
We will parade into Fargo.
Of him will enfod,
He is Farmers man,
He does know when he is right 81.
He will stay in the fight,
For the NqnPartisan League, EA3
Mr.. Mills he is small in size
He does them all surprise, ~
His enemies he does defy,
He known to tell a lie.
To the Court Of Justice he was brought
He is not afraid to speak
For the ,NOn-Partisan League. tt S51l4 MI
The league the !. v: A. it will down .
In the country city and town.
They will work early and late
They statesmen that are great
They are not afraid to speak |G&$$
For the Nonpartisan League. sss
To conclude my song; 5 ..r
&& The Courts found LANCER wrong SS4s sD5
Their .st bank be did try to smash, .5=
They did put up the cash.
Now he has got the blues, e S 35.% %5#SssS#
Me He h is trembling M n,Dll D. u hi his q shoes
Against the Nonpartisan League
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-06

to feel. So my women pals are well
come to go to it, for all OF me, but |
insist that l shouldn't be made the
victim OF II and have my parties ruined
by u, and that when they indulge in
private.
1T seems to me that no matter how
much a woman dislikes another wo-
man she should be enough OF a lady
to bury the Ratchet when she meets
her in another woman's house, and
the most elemental good breeding
iings and act as If she found her fell
low guests congenial. Certainly she
owes that to her hostess. Even saw
ages respect the bread and salt that
much, but | often have my women
friends say to me when l ask them to
luncheon, "Oh, don't put me next to
Mrs. So and So. l can't bear her"
Nor is this ALL The favorite in
door sport of half my women friends is
abusing the other half, which puts me
IN painful and embarrassing posi-
ton. l don't want to be in an eternal
am not, feel myself a traitor To sit
silent and hear a friend accused OF
faults she does not possess, or de-
rided for little peculiarities she may
have but which are no more than sur
face blemishes on a fine character
yOu IGtl lildl you are IL y6llON
cur, yet you do not wish to quarrel
with the woman who is venting her
spleen for some grievance against the
other woman, and who is, in spite OF
IT, a good woman herself.
Certainly those of our friends who
undertake to pick out our other friends
for US and edit our invitation lists
are guilty of a great impertinence, and
they commit an objectionable breach
of good manners when they criticize
to us those whom we have selected as
our intimates, for in doing so they
impeach our taste, or judgment and
our sense of propriety.
Yet who escapes the candid friend
who says, I don't see how you car
stand that Mrs. y. She comes of such
ordinary people, or Dear me, what can
you see in Mary Jones. She gets on my
nerves. And you have to bite your
tongue to keep from saying that the
reason you don't like Mrs. X or Mary
Jones is because you haven't enough
heart or brain to understand them, Fol
we pick out friends as we do oul
clothes--for many reasons and different
wear. Which is a thing most of ouI
friends don't understand and never can
understand
But all the same our friends enc.
mics are a great and ever present
source of trouble in society," finished
the woman, and l wish somebody
would impress on women that they
should sing their hymn Of hate as they
say their prayers--in private in their
closets, instead of foisting them or
the innocent bystanders."
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-06
Columbus Couldn't Have
Discovered America

Unless he had good eyesight.
On the sea for days with
crew disheartened and discour-
aged, about to be heaved into
the sea, Columbus looked into
the distant horizon and saw,
floating on the crest of a wave
some leaves and branches. He
pointed these to the crew and
he was spared, as they knew
then that land was near.
Suppose Columbus eyesight
had not been perfect? Are YOU
failing to see success out in the
distance? Let us help you and
your eyes.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-06
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
OUR FRIENDS ENEMIES.
BY DOROTHY DIX
Inc Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer
Copyright, 1890 by The Wheeler Syndicate. Incl

why do women who are otherwise
wellbred and observant of the amen
tiles of life, carry their private feuds
into general society,"" asked woman
the other day.
They do, you know" she went on.
And it's one Of the Affections of ex-
Istence against which l always rebel,
ipecauSe IL Is so unnecessary, and so
brutally selfish on the part OF those
who are not willing to deny themselves
the pleasure Of INDUCING their petty
spites no matter how much ANNOYANCE
1t causes other people.
Personally. l have gotten so tired
OF acting as buffer between ladies
VINO are out for each others false hair
every time they meet that / feel like
retiring to some desert solitude. and
doing the hermit act the balance of my
days. While, as for giving a hen
luncheon, or an. afternoon at bridge, /
am worn to such a FRAGILE trying to
arrange my guests so that they will
not commit murder upon the persons Of
their next neighbors, that I swear
every time l do it that l will never
submit my. nervous system to such a
strain again. AS matter of fact,
the difficulty Of reconciling the ire
concilible does keep me from doing a
lot of entertaining that | would do
II ! didn't have to worry so over who
could be asked to meet whom without
fighting.
There are about a dozen women
with whom am on terms of more or
less intimacy, and all of whom l like,
Tor one reason or another, but they
seem to have the same effect on each
other that red flag has on a mad
bull. The minute they meet they go for
each other, hoof and horn, or else they
sit up in a frozen silence that sends
the cornwall atmosphere down to zero,
and nips my poor little party in the
"Of course I know well enough the
reason for all of these Vendettas. Mrs
A dislikes Mrs. because Mrs BIS
son doesn't pay her daughter any at
tention. Mrs. hates Mrs. d because
Mrs. d didn't invite her to a big re-
because one. Of them is a Christian
Scientist and the other Presbyterian,
and the wife of doctor. Mrs. H fell
out over the Red Cross work, and
Mrs. and Mrs. J are at dagger's
drawn since the time they both ran for
president of the Browning club.
-, And so 1t goes, and I'll say that set
Ting the comfy of nations is no more
delicate nor diplomatic job than plac-
ing these women so they will not rub
elbows with their dearest enemies.
Now have no objections to my
friends disliking each other il they
want to, and get any pleasure out of it.
l., believe that the psychologists have
discovered that hate is a stimulating
emotion that Is almost as enjoyable as
love as sensation, ana does US good