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The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-07-13
SWEET POTATOES A
MONEY MAKER FOR
SOUTH CAROLINA

The Sweet Potato is becoming each
year of greater importance as a
money crop. Not only is it one Of
our staple southern foods but it is
rapidly becoming a highly relished
dish in the large cities Of the North
and East. AS first crop on newly
broken land it cannot be eXcelled. 1t
is a most prolific bearer. The aver
age number of bushels per acre in the
Southern States is 10o, but with prop
er care and cultivation ordinary
land will produce 200 bushels per acre
and with more intensive cultivation
and fertilization the yield can be in
creased to 400 bushels per acre.
: The 1919 South Carolina crop was
7,56O,OOO bushels and the 1920 crop
was 9,24O.O00 bushels. The value of
the past two years crops was $22,-
100000. 1t is expected the 1921 crop
will be still greater.
Is it any wonder that the farmers
Of this State are turning from a cot
ton and corn crop system to a more
diversified system? In 1920 the cotton
crop only brought s36.S3 an acre and
corn s22.O4. while in the same
season sweet potatoes brought an av-
erage Of s122.S5 per acre.
Farmers are being more and more
urged by the extension service work
erS to exercise care in the harvesting,
grading, curing and storing of this
valuable crop. Each season sees the
construction of more curing and stor-
age houses so that the crop can be
held in good condition until favorable
prices can be obtained. The Southern
Settlement and Development Organi-
Zation, with which the South Caro-
lima Development Board and Cham
Der Of Commerce is affiliated, has
made arrangements whereby well
known Ready-Cut House Manufac-
turing Companies will quote farmers
prices, on ready cut, ready to erect
Sweet Potato Curing and Storage
houses Of from 800 to 30. 900 buShel
capacities, +. o. b. any section in South
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-07-13

high as $500 per acre and cotton at
it's highest price. but he firmly states
that there has been no better money
CROP for him than the sweet potato,
for during the past four years he has
made not less than $500 per acre
from this crop. His success with po-
tatoes has been a great stimulus to
the growing of potatoes by other far
mers in the county.
The crop diversification Of MIR. Wig
gins as practiced for five years is rep
resented by this gears acreage Of
various crops as follows: 25 acres of
corn and velvet beans, II acres Of
oats, acres of sweet potatoes. 6 acres
of tobacco, 8 acres of cotton, and the
remainder in forage crops for hogs
ard 2 milk COWS and foodstuff for
the family.
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-07-13

Carolina, the plans and specifications
in accordance with the l.. S. Depart
ment standards. 1t is felt that many
more such houses would be built if
the farmers knew they did not have
to bother with plans and speciflca-
tons, and making out bills of lumber
and assembling of the materials and
the labor incident to cutting lumber,
etc. For further particulars write
your Board at its Columbia offices.
Last summer the Board used it's
efforts and influence together with the
Clemson Extension Service to organ
ize the South Carolina Sweet Potato
Association for cooperative market
ing and storing. The officers of this
Association are: T. B. Young. Flor
ence, President; A. NJ. Kennedy, Will
liston, Vice President, and A. G..
Smith, Columbia, Secretary-Treasur-
er. It's slogan is Better Potatoes on
the Best Market. Its first season
was quite successful and the South
Carolina Development Board will con-
tinue to do all within its power to
aid and foster this good movement.
Several canning factories in the
South are now engaged in putting up
the best graded varieties. One COM
pany marketed it's products in p
States last year, several carloads
going to the Pacific Coast. This is
helping to popularize the Southern
Yam and increase it's marketable ter
ritory.
It has been found that the sweet
potato will produce a very fine table
syrup, the color of honey and with a
very delicate flavor distinctively its
own. This and other by-products,
such as starch, can be made from the
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-07-13
A GOOD EXAMPLE
OF DIVERSIFICATION

Clemson College, July Ill have
a farmer who believes SO strongly in
diversifcation that 40-cent cotton did
not change his plans, and he is there
fore in better condition financially
than many larger farmers who pin
ned all their faith to cotton, says
County Agent J. W. McLendon Of
Florence. This farmer is J. c. Wig
gins of Effingham, who is not worry
ing at all about boil weevils and who
states that so far as he is concerned
it makes little difference if there were
boil weevils OF every square inch in
the county
Mr. Virgins has sold tobacco as
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-07-13
SERVICE"
County Agent Not Such a Derned
Bad Thing

County Agent Not Such Derned
Bad Thing
Clemson College, July 12.-"While
on a visit. to one of my farmers,
had an opportunity to render him
various kinds of service in connection
with his farm and thus won his ia
vor," says County Agent J. W. Nc
Lendon of Florence.
ellis cotton had boil weevils-I ad-
vised him as to cultural methods Of
fighting the pest.
His hogs were sick-I advised in
oculation.
His COW had milk fever-I advis-
ed a treatment which gave relief.
"His tomatoes were diseased-I ad-
vised spraying with Bordeaux.
"His bees were all out of the old
fashioned hives and he was getting
little honey-I persuaded him to use
patent hive whereby he could get
more honey.
ellis peach trees had borers-I ad-
vised him to mound the trees July l.
"When he old me goodbye it
was with an invitation to stop every
time I was in his community and a
parting remark that "a County agent
isn't such a derned bad thing after
all"
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-07-13

81 Columbia, July 1.-THE reduction
sof 2S.4 per cent in the cotton acre
age this year as shown by the gov
ernment report issued on Friday,
shows the temper of the cotton far
mer in the opinion of r. c. Hamer,
nresident of the South Carolina Dl-
vision of the American Cotton Asso-
sciation who said yesterday that If the
! farmers did not receive a fair profit
sfor their crop this year there would
he much more drastic cut in the crop
next year.
"Our farmers have served notice
Son the world that they are tired OF
sgrowing cotton at profit to every
body else but themselves" said Mr..
Hamer. 'They have cut the crop
This year over 100000 bales and if
this does not bring them fair price
they are going to make much more
drastic cut next year. 1t is my be-
Hef that unless this years crop ornss
a fair profit this fall that next year
not one-half of crop will be raised.
ssIn the past the threat Of the
Southern farmer to reduce his acre
age has not been taken seriously and
when the American Cotton Associa-
tion launched IFS campaign this wear
for reduction there were many who
smiled and recounted many past ef-
forts along the same line, practically
all of which had resulted in failure.
This year, however, a systematic cam
spaign was conducted and the govern
ment report says that there has been
an acreage reduction of 2S.4 per cent.
Some private reports place the re-
duction at over 80 per cent.
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-07-13
JOB PRINTING.

Attra ctiveness never fails to pay
dividends! Don't waste your money
on poorly printed stationery-IN-
VEST it in the kind that truly reflects
the attractiveness of your business.
IF it's worth printing at all it's worth
printing WE'LL
SARRATT PRINTING CO.,
36-tf Lexington, S. G..
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-07-13
Remember the Quarterly Meeting
of the Library Associa ton on July IS.
Possibly a Sad Awakening

Patient awakening after q pro-
longed fever spelD-Where am lin
Heaven?
His Wife-No, dear; you are here
with me.
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-07-13

:.strings'' and ''jumboes' and VII!
soon make this exclusively southern
product one Of the South's most val.
liable crops.
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-07-13

The Quarterly Meeting Of the Lii
brary Association will be held on July
Is. Come.
Phoenix tribune., 1921-10-08

According to the bulletin quoted using the deaths basis
and fixing that rate 10O the city Negro birth 104
while that of the country Negro is 159 Since the Negro is
moving into town. before long the chief factor decreasing the
Negro birth rate will be moving into town..
There be fair chance that venerea disease will
be brought under CONTROL but it will take
than decadeto raise the birth by decreasing venereal
disease.
Those sterile by such diseases will remain for life
Unless something is done the Negro population presently will
come to sans since there Negro immigration worth
speaking Of What will the Negro do about it? The obvious
way out is to reduce the death rate.
Moving into great industrial centes has made things
in directions than one
First, there bount to be great increase in ricketts,
West Indian Negroes said not to have rckets at ALL
Southern Negroes do not have much of it.
Recently Chicago baby specialist said that every Negro
child in that city had ricketts, 1t generally is agreed that very
large proportion of Negro children northern cities have ricketts,
Moving to industrial centers danger con-
sumption and the consumption rate of adult Negroes and
of adoesen Negroes ten times high that of whites the
ages. There will be increased baby death rate
The Negroes those industrial centers less subject
malaria typhoid fever and smallpox rule. All ALL
problem of improvement which the Negroes will
not be easy
Phoenix tribune., 1921-10-08
STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIR
CULATION, ETC. REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF
CONGRESS- OF AUGIIST "a 1912

CONORESS Ot AUGUST "a, I9lZ
Of The Phoenix Tribune published Weekly Phoenix Arizona
for October 1921.
State of Arizona
County of Maricopa
Before Notary Public in and for the County
aforesaid personally appeared A. R. Smith, who having
duly according to law depose and says that he the
Editor of the Phoenix Tribune that the following to the
best of his knowledge and belief true statement of the
ship management of the aforesaid publication the date
shown in the above caption required by the Act of August
1872 embodied in section 443 Postal Laws Regulations
printed on the reverse of this form, to-wit:
Publisher A. R. Smith, Phoenix Arizona.
Editor A. R. Smith, Phoenix, Arizona
Managing Editor A. R. Smith, Phoenix, Arizona
Business Manager A. R. Smith. Phoenix, Arizona.
That the owner is A. R. Smith, Phoenix, Arizona,
That the known bondhoers mortgages and other security
holders owning holding cent of
bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: None
A. R.. SMITH
Swoho and subscribed before this 3rd day of Oct 1921
(SEAL)Ai , Cpnstance Eberso
Ny Commission expires June 30 1928
Phoenix tribune., 1921-10-08
(By The Associated Negro Press)

eve at the dawn of better day humanity We
about abolish slavery forever from the the earth
All of the of have tasted of the of liberty
and the Negro would be less than human he did drink
the fullest of the spirit which promises make all free and
equal The fruits of labor form the base of all characters
wealth The procession of wealth makes for
DOM The gift of freedom kills every possibility
for slavery of its deestabe forms- commendabe
effort you making establish National Bank
largest cities in the world whether you appreciate not
you bringing people into closer contact with each of the
activities that country first among
greater nations of the earth No white help you
rise in the social scale You alone do the work This is
busy practical world today and sentiment plays small part
in the that holding the society together
Confidence courage these the great elemental forces
The confidence in yourselves that has prompted you establish
the douglas National Bank this metropolis of the West
is the first big have made whatever planned
to attain freedom This bank put financial
basis will make certain whatever else may attempt
do nds of big business enterprises There bondage
the body and there the bondage of the SOUL We must be free
of both before be truly emancpated This only
accomplished by showing confidence your ability
egence to solve the practical problems of life Have you
stopped long enough to realize that days profits the
business in the called Black Belt much from
your chance enjoy the yours as
matter of right and justice? Do know that the National
Bank the stabzer and mansay of the nations prosperity
Can not then that National Bank that you call
will bring those situations respect that will
you welcome in all of the greater for the general
public good this city of ours Confidence yourselves
and the full respect of the other big cosmopolitan
population again, will bring you the freedom
which all men throughout the world eagerly seeking
days and times Don't be easily satisfied give willing
to praise 1t takes courage do this What is
that have got to all the you possess
keep from falling into the pitfalls the bottom which lie fail
the play of prejudice economic slavery
social elimination You have $25000000 deposit the banks
of Chicago which have control Aside the
that have saved that huge money brings you
the profit your people But the
thing wish to bring home you that confidence your
Selves the wholesome respect of nghbors then the
fight aany for the places freedom are
the common by which get to the top the
great and worthwhile struggle for full freedom Keep
this bank going Stand sod behind the
working to give you institution that will be rank
to bring quickly to the proud position 100
cent Amecanm Your place in the larger American life
will be determined larger than you by your
loyalty to your business enterprises
Phoenix tribune., 1921-10-08
THE NEGRO IN INDUSTRY
By DIR. w. A. Evans in Chicago Tribune

The 1920 showed two among Negroes
The first that they moving out of the rural the
urban districts and especially into the industrial
When the great industrial enterprises
during the world they remembered that the Negro
lend himself readily organization and they ponced him
reservoir of supply When they did they something
which will cost many penny before it stops
The shows that the migration of Negroes every
northern heavy that heaviest to the in
dustrial centers
The point by the that the Negro
death rate almost high the birth the year
period according to the statistical bulletin Metropolitan
Life the Negro population increased only 65 per
cent The white population per cent
Of that cent due to of births deaths
The Negro in America has to have low birth
compared with Negroes elsewhere For this disease
large and perhaps the largest factor Voluntary control
is noi.a factor Of importance n.
Phoenix tribune., 1921-10-08

When you finish plowing, cultivat-
ing or using the hinder, mower, hay
rake or other farm implements, do
not leave them out exposed to the
elements for the rest of the season,
without you have money to burn or
wish to expose implements to the sun
and rain which warps and Injuries the
wood, rusts the iron and reduces their
usefulness at least5O per cent. 1t is
a loss that the farmers of the South
west should not bear.
Phoenix tribune., 1921-10-08
Beauty Chats
By EDNA KENT FORBES
AVOIDING OATARRH

A WOMAN wrote to me recently and
4 said she had suffered from ca
tarrh for many years and was getting
gradually deaf. She wanted some
remedy, and asked If catarrh was cur
able. 1 gave her all the advice
could, but such cases Of course, become
too serious to be handled by one whose
speciality is general health and looks,
and I told her to go to a physician.
For catarrh is curable, and anyone
who suffers from the least trace of this
annoying affliction should start az
once to cure themselves. If possible,
they should go to high or dry cli-
mate and live where fir and pine trees
Phoenix tribune., 1921-10-08

The farmer never knows how much
he is appreciated, honored and envied
until the political campaign is in full
swing. How beautiful and attractive
is country life to the average candi-
date. They bemoan that sad call of
the dear people from the paths of
rural pleasantness to the toll found in
political life.
Phoenix tribune., 1921-10-08
C.. M. E. Church

Corner Seventh street and Jefferson.
M. Thompson, pastor. Residence, 112
South Seventh street. Phone 1869.
Sunday school at 10 a. m Preaching
at IL a. m. and p. m. Epworth
League at $50 p. m. Teachers
meeting every Wednesday evening.
Phoenix tribune., 1921-10-08
CHURCH DIRECTORY
A. ME-. Church

Corner Second street and Jefferson.
T. ]. Sanford, pastor Residence, 113
South Second street. Phone 61S.
Sunday school at 10 a. m. Preaching
at II a. m. and p. m. Christian En-
deavor at 6:15 p. m. Prayer meeting
Wednesday night. General class
every Sunday at 1915 p. m.
Phoenix tribune., 1921-10-08

That moaning sound to the east
ward is the lamentation of the Paris
hotel keepers who have discovered
that the disarmament conference is to
be held in America--Cincinnati Com
merclal Tribune.
Phoenix tribune., 1921-10-08
Second Baptist Church

Corner Fifth street and Jefferosn.
E. d. Green, pastor. Residence 500 S
Montezuma. Phone S459. Sunday
school at $50 a. m. Preaching at IL
a. m. and s p. m. B. Y, P. U. at p. m.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday
evening.
Phoenix tribune., 1921-10-08

grow thick, since nothing is more eff
fective than breathing the pine-scent-
ed air every day. If for any reason
this is impossible, they should plant
their yards full Of pine trees, and put
up window boxes filled with dwarf
pines and frs, SO the air coming
through the windows bears the healing
scent For city dwellers this Is eR
DecialIy good
Phoenix tribune., 1921-10-08
Church of God in Christ

Corner Fourteenth street and Madi-
son. Elder j.. L. Britton, pastor.
Residence, 1443 East Jefferson. Sum
day school at 10 a. m. Preaching at
II a. m. and 1880 p. m. Services also
are held on Tuesday and Friday
nights of each week, beginning at
7:3O o'clock.
Phoenix tribune., 1921-10-08
Antioch Raptist Church
9th St. and Washington

9th st. and Washington)
c. A. Gilmore, pastor. Residence, 429
East Washington. Phone 2643. Sun
day school at 10 a. m. Preaching at
IL a. m. and p. m. B. Y. P. U. at
$3.50 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednes-
day evening. Bible study every Sun
day at 8 p. m.
Phoenix tribune., 1921-10-08

Things would be helped by a little
less pathos about the aftermath of the
war and bit more attention to the.
aftermathematics of the war.-Co-
lumbia Record.
Phoenix tribune., 1921-10-08

Germany failed to undermine civil
ization, and, now the hateful thing
seems determined to aundersell it
Tarrytown Daily News.
Phoenix tribune., 1921-10-08

The administration has discovered
that a great many of the expenses it
promised to cut off are capable of
voting Columbia Is CO. Record.
Phoenix tribune., 1921-10-08

The chap who said truth is stranger
than fiction died before fiction reach
ed its present Development Elmira
Star-Gazette.
Phoenix tribune., 1921-10-08

We shall see better times when ev-
erybody puts a little more emphasis
on the try in industry. Columbia
(SJ CO Record.
Phoenix tribune., 1921-10-08
Grace Raptist Church

S22 South Montezuma avenue. ]. H.
Jones, minister. Sunday school at 10
a. m. Preaching at II a. M and 1880
p. m. Everybody come-praying
Phoenix tribune., 1921-10-08
''THE MEANS TO AN END"
BY
PATRICK H. O'DONNELL,

PATRICK H. ODONNELL,
Extract from address delivered public meeting of the
Douglas National Bank in the city of Chicago by
a famous Irish orator.
(By The Associated Negro Press)
Phoenix tribune., 1921-10-08

100 per cent Americanism comes
high.
Phoenix tribune., 1921-10-08

Yes, they needed the money.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-10-11

their lunch TO school in tin bucket.
They gathered in groups on the school
grounds and enjoyed the lunch hour.
But not so in this day and time. Boys
and girls OF the high school age are
above carrying lunch to school and as
for eating on the school grounds-the
suggestion would be considered pre-
posterous. The most of them go TO
school in automobiles and when the
lunch hour arrives they step into their
automobiles and go to their homes.
The world must go forward but too
fast a pace is dangerous. More walk
ing and less riding would produce a
harder race of men and women. 1t
might pay to get back to the good old
days when all children carried their
lunch to school and no child was al
lowed to leave the school grounds dur
ing the lunch hour"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-10-11
WEALTHY STREET SWEEPER
Saves His Money and is Now on Easy
Street.

Thomas MarIucci, a street sweep
or, has purchased his twelfth residen-
tai property, paying Isaac II. Burford
a coal operator $4,000 for his house
in Lemon street, Uniontown. Pa. For
eig hit years Marrucci. an Italian i'm
migrant, has been receiving pay which
started at $3.50 a day and was in
creased to $3.50 which he now is re-
ceivng.
Marruccis first investment from his
scant savings was a lot for 5000 on
which he built a shack and reared l.
children. From time to time he i'm
proved his holdings. and when the
war came he experienced his first
modest prosperity, receiving as much
us - per cent returns a year on his
realty investments. The postwar
season with its housing demand, fairly
delug2d him with revenue.
Marrucci still continues to clean the
streets of Uniontown and his educa =
ton does not yet include reading and
writing hut this bothers the whit"
wing little.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-10-11
SOUTH CAROLINA COTTON
Condition Report For September Com
pared Wiki August.

According to report of b. B. Haze,
agricultural statistician in South Caro-
lima for the Bureau of Markets AMI
Crop Estimates, United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, condition of cot
ton in the state on September % was
40 per cent of normal, against so
per cent on August % and 62 per cent.
July 25, the indicated production being
$4,000 bales. The total production for
the state last year approXimated $780,
600 bales, while IN 1919 it was 1,422,O00
bales and 100000 bales in 1918.
Condition for the entire United
States on September 25 was 42.2 per
cent. of normal, against 49.3 per cent.
August 25 and CAT on July 25. The
forecast of production for the entire
United States is 6,537,OO0 bales, the
production for 1920 being 13,365,OO0
bales. Condition August 25 and Sep
tembar 25 is shown in table below, by
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-10-11
DEAD SOLDIER WILLS
Fortune to the Person Finding His
BODY,

BODY.
Three hundred yards from the mon
ument which marks the furthcst
southern advance of the German army
in France, in the woods near here,
SAYS Sanlis, France, dispatch, Ana
tOle DCmuy, a pensioned railroad
worker. while strolling after lunch,
stumbled upon the body of a man,
whose right hand still held a revolver.
Demuy lost no time in going through
the dead mans pockets and appro-
priatiag $500 francs. Scornin5 Nation
al Defense bonds and other papers
among Which was Il will and last tcs-
lament
Noticing his exaggerated eXpendi-
turCs ard failing TO obtain any in
formation from her husband as to tho
hidden source of his sudden wealth,
Demuys wife reported him to the po-
lice. lie was arrested and upon
threat of being charged with theft, di-
rccted the police to the spot where The
body was found.
\ gendarme opened the will TIE
first article read: Il am friendlCss,
without family. ! leave all the men
ey. bonds, valuables found on me to
the person finding my body, after dc.
ducting the expenses of It modest fun
cral"
Demuy had failed to read the will.
He will be &rraigned on Il charge OF
theft.