Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-12-08
THURSDAY. DEC. 8, 1921.

Farmers who are holding their
cotton for higher prices have rea-
son TO believe that with the turn
of the new year better days will
come tor them. The years pro-
duction is hundreds of thousands
of bales short of that of normal
years and the big carry-over from
previous crops about which we
heard so much some months ago
existed more in the imagination
OF those who were interested IN
keeping down the price of the
staple than il did in reality. Not
half of the worlds needs for col
ton goods could be supplied if
every bale of cotton were wade
into cloth overnight. Next year.
with the boil weevil destroying
much of the crop over the entire
cotton belt. the yield is certain to
be even smaller than it was this
year. The farmer who can hold
his cotton without Inconvenience
ing those to whom he may he in
debted apparently is in an advan.
tageOuS position.
The State budget commission is
an institution which was estab
iiShed by an act of the General
Assembly in 1919. 1t costs the
taxpayers something like $4,000 a
year. Efficiency and economy
in the conduct of the State gov
ernment were promised by tn"
proponents of the measure, which
provides that the commission
shall be composed of the gov
ernor. the chairman of the ways
and means committee of the
house and the chairman of the
finance committee of the senate,
these members Of the General As
Scmbly to join the governor in his
reports and recommendations to
that body. The commission has
an efficient secretary who makes
an honest effort to earn the sal
airy paid him: hut the commission
does not make the headway we
We're assured it would. and al
ready there has been talk Of
rbolishing it. There is a reason
for the failure of the commission
to produce the good things prom
isrd for it and il is this: The
governor has appropriated the
commission to himself and uses it
as an individual agency TO make
recommendations to the General
Assembly. AS a result. when the
the house and senate the commit.
report of the commission reaches
tee chairmen in those bodies who
are supposed to be members of
the commission do not feel it in
cnmbent upon them to urge the
adoption of its recommendations.
The budget commission has done
some good. but not as much as
was expected of it.
Nv ihdIi WHO p"tS ttbt anu
has a marketable commodity
with which he could pay the debt
without seriously incOmmOding
himself i'm all fairness to both him
self and his creditor should dis
pose of the commodity at the best
price he can get for it and pay
the debt. If the business houses
of community are not prosper
O,lS one may he sure that the
community itself is in no better
condition. There are business
men all over the country. some
even in Fort Mill. whose backs
are to the wall because thev can.
rot collect the debts due them. In
NAVY Instances relief would come
to these men at once if those who
could nav them wonld do so. The
man who has bushel of corn
thot he was able to grow nv Sc
curing supplies from neiehhor
merchant on the promise that he
would nav for the supplies when
he gathered his crop does not
own that bushel Of corn II is tn"
nrono~tv of his creditor and
shonld he sold and the proceeds
turned over to the creditor.