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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1920.
.^fAN INTERVIEW WITH FORMER PRESIDENT TAFT:
WILL U. S. EVER HAVE WOMAN PRESIDENT?
K Qlrt^A4JZitcoh<^
•rpHE 1
mil*
_ mules are eating up the South. This is the statement
E. T. Leech, editor of the Memphis Press, who is writing a s
riea of articles on cotton and the South for a syndicate supplying
nearly 400 daily American newspapers which became interested m
what the cotton situation had done toi the South, its alien ion
reeled in this section by recent so-cal ed night rider act,v tie, Mr.
Leech having first hand information of conditions, of course, is tell
ing the remainder of the country through his articles that cotton isn
•everything to the South by any means, and that just because the
tom has dropped out of the price and the farmers are not ge t g
it what they were entitled to, die Soudt is not broke by a long sh
DETURNING to the mule statement quoted above. Mr. Leech says,
m ..** interestingly: ... . . ...
Jp.-.' No, that isn't a fairy story, but an actual condition. I Have it or
it authority of George R. jeme, of this city—end Jeme. ought to know.
■ Wee heed of tho cotton division of the War lndu.tr.es Bo.rd, end „
1 lionairo merchant, financier and farmer.
* James blames the South’s financial crisis on its mules. He decla
* they typify the egricultural conditions which made such a crisis P®»*« b ••
* “Cotton is raised chiefly by tenant farmers,” he explained. Some of
I these farmer* pay money rent, but most of them ere ‘.her. cropper, who
4 .hero their cotton with the lend owner. They farm from 12 to IS ecre.
1 with each mule—end it take, half of the ye.r's crop to buy enough con.
j and bay to feed the mulct On the other half the family lire.—after .t he.
c paid its debts-**
W, Most tenant farmers are eternally in dobt.
m Tho cotton industry is founded on credit. The tenant gets credit for
C all hit supplies from a country/ merchant, cotton broker or bank, mortgag-
t Ing bis crop before It is planted. The country merchant borrow, money
Y for euch credit from a city broker or bonkert the broker borrow, from
< banks) the country banks borrow from city banke and tho city banks from
a the federal reserve banks—a long line of dobt.
a j„ me , If the South raised feed for it. mules and food for its peo
r pi. it wouldn't have to bo otoroally in debt. Tbot’e tho who!, hub of tho
t situation, be seye.
tl * * *
" MR. LEACH point* out to the Northern inquirer that the South is
gradually learning it* lesson growing out of the war and mak-
v ; ng further progress toward growing cotton not as the main crop but
as the surplus or "profit crop," and he goes further and tells truth-
'• fully why the holding movement isn't 100 per cent this year. He
® guys•
*1 The cotton states are, for tho first time sine# tho Civil War, showing
>* the intention of doing this—of first raising thair own food and feed, and
fi second, raising cotton on tho remaining acreaga. Thus, in times of stress,
i 11 the South could feed itself and hold its cotton for hotter prices. Cotton
a i would bo a "profit crop.” Now cotton represents food and clothing and
k* everything else which sustains life.
j Throughout the South this doctrine of "food and feed first** is being
preached. "Diversified farming’*’ it is called. The farmers are responding
and tho South will raiso the greatest food crops in her history in 1921. This
b is the optimistic side of its troubles of today,
Bfl A largo part of tho 1920 cotton crop will ho held for better prices.
If It were not for tho farmers' debts, tho merchants' debts, the brokers'
°l debts* and the banks* dabts, the "holding” movement might hd 100 per cent
■gtuccessful. As it is, tho cotton is being marketed very slowly. Farmers are
urged not to sell until the price advences, except in cases of absolute irtces-
eiity.
If Tho reduced acreage cry of e year ago haa largely given way to an
‘ appeal for diversified crops—end the movement is making real progress
j* K ||t promoters claim crop rotation and improved farming methods will allow
a greater cotton production on an actually reduced acreage, while at the
| hi same timo providing lend on which the South can raise its own food,
N EW HAVEN, Nov. 17.—Shall we
over have a woman presdent?
When I put this query Lo the only
living ex-president of the United
States, he threw back his head and
Inched—and the Honorable William
Howard Taft’s laugh is unique and
contagious.
It begins with the slow crinkling
of a pair of humorous eyes, which
nearlv disaonear, leaving only brief
horizontal lines to mark the place.
A double row of sturdy teeth appear,
aided and abetted by a teremendously
jollv dimple in the right cheek. Then
surges up a rumbling road, such as
marks the emotions of the grand
tand when Babe Ruth cracks a hom-
r This becomes rapidly crescendo-
gitado-molto and is sustained on a
brave, strong note, gradually easing
ff to nrofundo-dominuendo. et cetra
d infinitum.
Taft’s Laugh.
It is good to hear — .Mr. Taft'
laugh.
Before h n has even attempted to
swer vour question, you feel some-
w cheered, and as if women are
» ho*'* nf the world, perhaps. Or
at least that there’ no sense despair-
g of their being president some day,
d fixing up all the things that are
iw so vexing and puzzling to the
human race.
The laugh never ends. It only di-
n4shes to a degree which makes
speech practicable. It sort of ripples
nd the distance, like a breeze af
ter the high wind has passed.
And whv.*’ counters the owner of
laugh, "do you ask me such a
M ISS Alice Robertson, of Oklahoma, the only woman elected to
Congress at the last election and the second one ever chosen.,
Jo, won the respect of her fellow citizens, which made possible her elec-
cc*tion, through a life-time of unselfish service in behalf of the Indians
% f of that state. „
oc Miss Robertson, some say, was “born to serve. Her father
d« ^before her was a missionary to the Cherokee nation and her grand
be father, Samuel A. Worcester, served part of a four-year sentence in
t»o*the Georgia state penitentiary because he refused to abandonee work
Holof educating the Indian. His appeal to the United States Supreme
H fcourt resulted in an historical opinion by Chief Justice John Marshall
|L,Bf far-reaching importance.
Worcester, in the days of President Andrew Jackson, was ac-
| an cused of inciting the Indians and tried and condemned by a Georgia
[ nv court. Marshall held that the Indians were protected by treaty rights
c »nd that Georgia law had no power in their reservations. Hence,
Georgia coulc^ not try Worcester for acts done on the Indians’ ter
ritory.
The opinion was revolutionary. President Jackson himself said
|. : Marsh made the opinion; let him enforce it." Meanwhile Wor-
w«jpester was in jail. His plight became the talk of Northern maga-
lines. He terame a martyr. Daniel Webster used Worcester in his
famous discussions of state rights, and Jackson switched, his position.
| tb H When Worcester finally was released he went back to his preach
ing. And the nation’s second congresswoman, bom of such parents,
herself has spent a half century in the same service.
j pliment and gently but firmly lead
j him back to the ‘‘big question"
j shall we every have a Madame Presi-
jdent?
Realizing that he is in for it, and
{ no escape is possible, the former
president sets his back to the wall
and answers **i don’t know!"
"Anyone Answer It?"
"How can anyone answer such a
question?" he defends "Woman her
self cannot answer it.
"In this election just past there
were a number of women candidates.
Did the feminine vote support them?
I am afraid we must admit it did
not, for few were elected. Women
did not solidly support women."
"Then you think there is an un
dercurrent of hostility betwe'en the
woman candidate and the woman vot
er?
The Taft smile broke out again
benignly.
"Ah—you con answer that better
than I,” said the leader of the
League to Enforce Peace. "There
big question?"
To whir 1 ' there i# but one obvious
answer *•••> = .
“Ah!" replies Mr. Taft, "but I am
not so big any more—"
Whither he means that to refer to
his famous dimensions or to his place
in the government, you can only
guess.
So you say something about the
election. And how women did not
vote in the "sentimental" way prog
nosticated by those who felt the
feminine ballot would be overwhelm
ingly for the leauge that should en
sure peace as outlined by the man
whose health has been shattered in
the labors of his Cause. And M
Taft replies:
"That is true. Women have vot
ed pretty much as men have. I do
believe, however,” he goes on, look
ing as nearly serious as his eyes per
mit, "that women have a tendency
to choose candidates on a somewhat
higher moral standard than men do.
"Women are not strongly inclined
toward machine politics. They se
lect on personal ! rather than on fac
Which is one reason
some day, who seems to stand for
great reforms. But I should say it
could not happen for a long, long
time—not until women are more fa
miliar with political and idutrial in
terests than the majority of them
are now."
I recalled that the president of
a great industry once told me a wo
man would never be president, not
because of mental incapacity, but be
cause no woman could stand the
physical strain of a presidential cam
paign and the ensuing presidential
duties.
Mr. Taft waved the suggestion
aside.
"It is not that," he said. "Plenty
of women could endure it, for wo
men are notably more * enduring,
physically, than men are. But few
women will be found in the next gen
eration or two to whom such a ca
reer would appeal."
I reminded Mr. Taft that the wife
of the president-elect—Mrs. Hard-
ng—would assuredly be heard from
is a very nice psychological ques-: as a very vivid, practical, competent
tion involved * ? * * j personality, and one to whom state-
"Fundamentally I can see no great I craft would peculiarly appeal, per-
difference between the working of j haps more than would the affairs of
a man's mind and of woman’s. The domestic management and insignifi-
division of labor, however, natural- cant parlor politics,
ly leads to different interests. Men’s i Again the Taft smile shone as the
interest tends more to things out- sun.
side the home; women’s to things in-1 "In many instances, he said, the
side it—the cost of living, housing, j best man of a family is a woman,
educational conditions, the rights of j That often happens. But if, in
themselves and their children, moral time, such a woman as would care
issues. j to wield the direct power of a chief
Not For Long Timo. executive should rise above the
Results touching these things are j horizon, I doubt-—for what reasons
what women seek. I don’t think ■ I leave you to judge—whether she
they particularly care whether a would receive the backing of her own
man brings them about or a woman sex.” •
It is not unthinkable that a woman Which raises an always-interesting
tional issues.
their influence Is so good.’ — jt-:-
You thank Mr. Taft for his com- presidential candidate should rise ur question.
MELANCHOLY DAZE.
DR. E. E. PARSONS
Dentist.
Office in Commercial City Bank
Building.
Hflce Hours: 8 to 12 m. 1 to 6 p. ms
Work Solicited.
of
A correspondent named Porrfiman is traveling with President
elect Harding. His first story was good, but you should have aeen
his eecond-story.
v Headline says “Jap Factories Close.” Californians would like
know if that is “close" meaning shut or “close,” meaning near.
New York hotel men may cut the rates for honeymoon couples,
it*• the post-honeymoon cost that worries the newly-weds.
Every day some European nations are signing compacts. That’s
een the trouble over there; the nations are too compact.
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MR. SCARECROW EXPLAINS.
The last quarter of the hunter’s
moon didn’t given any too much light
for Mr. Scarecrow’s masquerade par
ty in the corn-field; just a pale mis
ty glimmer that made shadows look
4ueer, and the cornstalks piled high
into shocks looked like miniature
mountains. v
Between the com shocks were
great round boulders of deep, gold
en yellow. Pumpkins, you’ve guess
ed rightly, my dears. If Peter had
been there he’d surely have had a
great feast and found plenty to
spare for his wife.
But to Cutie Cottontail’s surprise,
and Ben Bunny. Jr’s., and Cobby
pair of trousers that had belonged
to Farmer Smith. Then he shook
hands with his guests all around very
cordially, before answering.
"If there were too' much light, my
friends, you could all who each oth
er really are. It isn’t well to have
too much light at a masquerade par
ty, you know^ Now, take my friend
here, I’d never guess in the world
that he was Mr. Chip Chipmunk."
Chip straightened his mask and
pulled down his little yellow jacket
and said he was glad of that.
"And," went on Mr. Scarecrow
turning to shake hands with some
new guests, “if there were any light,
ssilU ASCII DUIIIIJ, *11 a., HIIU VUUU.* | IICW quests, SA WICIO "SIB (SIIJ
Coon’s and everybodys, there wasn’t)I’d surely know that this gentleman
a single one of them made into was Mr. Scribble Scratch, the fairy
Jack-o’-Lanterns. The place was so schoolmaster, but as it is, I don’t
dim you couldn’t see to hop over a know him at all.”
leaf. Scribble Scratch, who’d gone as
"How come?" asked Scamper Mr. A.dam and wore a lot of leaves.
Squirrel running around curiously, was greatly gratified at this and
"Why so dark, Mr. Scarecrow?" winked at Nick through his false-
Mr. Scarecrow appeared from be- face. Nick and Nahcy were dress-
hind a corn shock, all tattered and ed as "Babes-in- the Wood.”
torn, in an old coat and hat and a Cop(yright, 1920.)
SEE ME- AT ONCE.
I have some very good customers who wont to buy small farm* (n Sumter
tounty. If you want to sell, see me at once and list your farm with me.
Do vou wanjt to rent a good farm ? If so. 1 have same
Don’t you want to live in your own home, and stop paying tent? I
can sell you one and let you pay for same like rent. Come and talk it over.
1 have a good list of farms amd houses that I can sell right and give
good terms. Call and see me at once, as 1 can save you money on anything
you want to buy and can sell anything that you want to sell.
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