Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-08-18
Value OF WAREHOUSES;
Commissioner ]. Clifton Rivers Talks
TO Farmers at Tif2ah.
TO EMBRACE POTATO HOUSE ALSO

cotton Brokers nave Long TToNoSu
Themselves With Warehousing Fa-
ciIties and 1t Is Necessary for Far
mers to Do Likewise-State System
Has Settled the Problem for the Far
mer.
(By a Staff Correspondent
Tirzah, August 15.-An interesting
presentation of the work Of the state
warehouse commission was made by
Hon. ]. Clifton Rivers, state ware
house commissioner, addressing the
audience in attendance upon the Tir-
zah Agricultural picnic here this aft
ernoon. Mr. Rivers spoke in part as
follows:
We have met today as I understand
it, in purely agricultural event where
we together with each other may dis
cuss the problems which confront us
as an agricultural people, and try by
some art of reasoning to devise rem
edies for the ills with which we as
such a people are afflicted; to counsel
and advise together as to the better
ment of conditions which mutually in
terest each of us from the standpoint
of produce. In the first place 1 wish
to say to you that all the increase of
wealth in the world comes from the
energy and intelligence of those who
produce crops, and those who dig from
the earth. That means that unless a
great part Of the population Of the
world was not engaged in growing
something from the soil, and digging
some mineral or coal from the depths
of the earth that all the supplies Of
wealth in the world in q very short
time would become exhausted. Espe-
cially is this true of the people who
with intelligence and by the expendi-
ture of muscle and energy go forth in
the season to plant and produce the
things that are necessary for food and
clothing. How long would the supplies
of food necessary for the sustenance of
man or beast last If nobody replenish-
ed the supply? How long if only just
vide the food and clothing in the world
was produced, would we have an in
crease in the wealth of the world nee
essary to take care of natural in
crease even in the population of the
world? If we only in a season pro-
duced enough to take care OF the needs
of each season what would become of
the people in adversely, and especially
when seasons come as do occasionally
when by erratic seasons the output Is
decreased or destroyed by elements be-
eph in the days of Pharaoh, we as far
mcrs are interested in laying up from
the fat season so as to be able to take
care of ourselves and those dependent
upon u.s. and those engaged in other
necessary avocations when the lean
ones come as they surely will, besides,
there is the laudable ambition to lay
| up something from our labOrs during
our producing years to take care of
the infirmities Of old age.
Several Glasses Necessary.
Yes, we as agriculturists are only
one of several classes necessary to the
| happiness and productiveness of the
world from the standpoint of social
| economy, because, somebody must
manufacture the raw product from the
| farms of our country into marketable
shape and into disable shape during
the times we farmers are producing.
! Somebody must be engaged in trans
porting and delivering the various pro-
duCtiOns of the various and varied cli-
mates and communities exchanging
the product from one field of activity
to meet the needs and necessities Of an
other field which will not produce that
particular kind, but is engaged in the
production of another necessary out
put. We must also conCede that an
other class is necessary and useful in
our economic life-thOse engaged in
the various branches of distribution
and financing the needs of those en-
S"SNi III pAOuuNiHSf ''iNA Aih Ni'S S''t y
and handling the products of our Ia
bors until such time as the needs of
the people and the markets of the
world will absorb them, because, as
you know, if we used up our entire
production of foOdStuffs and fibre nee
essary for clothing the human body
during the short growing season that
we would run into want, starvation
and bankruptcy before another grow
ing season would come to relieve our
distress.
1t is about this part of the economic
situation and it's relation to us and
the people of our community and state
that | wish to talk to you today. The
people of the West have found it nee
cssary in handling their great crops
of wheat and other cereals which are
semi i-nonperishable by nature, to have
elevators at their marketing places
where the farmer can deliver his pro-
duct and where by a system of re-
ceipting he can be assured of the
proper grading and delivering and fl
Eancing of their crops during the year
DS no shall desire tn sell and as the