The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-08-16
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Editor Manning Times,
Dear Sir:

Dear Sir:
A few years ago out on one of tho
California deserts prospectinp na,tv
came upon the body Of man who
mad evidently wandered from the
trail and died of thirst Among these
who found the dead man was one who
mad studied the desert good deal in
that locality and, he made an invest;
CATION, BY digging down into the
sand about two feet he found wot
sand and by digging a few inches
more ne found water running into the
hole that he had made. The man who
mad died of thirst had done so with
IN two feet of all the water he need
ed; The trouble was-he didn't know
EVERY once in while we hear it
SAD that what we don't know does
mt hurt us. The instance just cited
| work. NV
l have thought of this q good deal
in connection with the pliphf wo f;nd
ourselves in here in Clarendon County.
We find land deprcciating in value
taxes going unpaid, children stavinp
nome from school and collcge, people
gong without many things that thew
really need and some actually poin1
! hungry. All this is due to the failure
Oh what has been the main money
| crop-cOtton. Here and there. how
ever, in the southern states are locaji-
| ties which have been face to face with
| this same condition years ago. It is
interesting to note that some of these
communities have survived the arri-
| val OF the boil weevil whole lot bet
| ter than others have done. Some of
them have changed their farming
plans all together and some have not
ana are even to this day laundering
along almleessly, desperately, and one
might say hopelessly like the man on
1i 1he desert looking for water and
are doing in Clarendon County. There
are communities in tho South where
the boil weevil has made the country
practically deserted. The farm houses
are .desolate and even the little cross
road country stores are boarded up.
The folks around there didn't know
what to do and wouldn't take the
pains 20 find out.
The e are on the other hand places
in Dixie where the farmers are max
ing more money than they ever made
on cotton; places that look upon the
arrival of the boil weevil as a bless-
ing instead of the curse it has been to
SO many places.
One wonders what makes the diff
ference in the communities lust pic
tured. What causes one community
to look upon the arrival of the boil
wcevil as the time when all their
hopes were blightcd and another
community to see in the same event
the dawning Of the real day in oppor-
tunities on the farm.
One wouldn't have to be called very
wise, Mr.. Editor, to decide that the
folks who have found prosperity in
the very same event that had brought
others all sorts Of disaster must have
known what to do and how to do it.
Don't you think that the real trouble
in Clarendon County is that people
don't know what to do. Here's a case
of what we don't know hurting us
badly.
Must we see Clarendon County be-
come place in which the average far (
mer can not make a living? You
know what will happen when that
comes to be the rule. Look at the
situation today. Nearly every man
you meet can tell you Of some one
who is trying to leave Clarendon
County. Many have gone and more
are planning to go. This need not be
so. There are literally hundreds of |