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JWCNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. Buy-a-Bale Movement Has Auspicious . Beginning in Aiken Where All Cooperate to Help Farmers Help Themselves Professional Men and Others Respond to Popular Plan Which Will Keep Cotton That Must Be Sold Off the Market While Farmers Are Holding For Better Prices---Woman’s Club May Join in Movement and Set Splendid Example---Cot ton Receipts As Good As Money at Banks---Arrangements Made to Advance Money and Hold Cotton For Farmers Whose Obligations Are Falling Due WALTER E. DUNCAN, Staff Correspondent, The Augusta Herald. Aiken, S. C.—The “Buy a Bale" movement has struck Aiken with ap pealing froce, gripped the people, and promises to assume wide proportions by the time the cotton season is at its height. I’or the sake of the example thus set. Col. D. S. Henderson, dean of the Aiken bar, leader in the movement, Saturday bought his bale. Other pro fessional men of the city have declar ed their intentions of doing likewire. Or. G. A. Milner will buy a bale or two. Hon. \V. M. Smoak will do like wise. Mr. X. B. Gamble, who is con nected with the First National Bank, with several other young men, take a number of bales of the market. The Women to Help in Movement. When, in the near future, the Student Club, the leading woman’s -tiub of Aiken, resumes it meet ings for the year 1914-1915, the will consider the matter of buying a bale, or perhaps two bales. A member of the Student Club said today that joining in the “Buy a Bale" movement would be in thorough keeping with the work of the club, which is affil iated with the South Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, and which, giving its consideration to economics and co-operating in all worthy efforts aimed at social uplift, civic righteousness and the spread of the gospel of education, subscribes liberally to the Win throp Scholarship Fund and other kindred agencies. If, as is very probable, the 3tudent Club of Aiken takes evert one bale off the market, it will have set a splen did example for the club women of South Carolina and other states, and can be productive of very beneficial results. The women of South Caro lina and the South are affected by the existing conditions arising from the depression in the cotton market due to the European war as much as are the men, and it is gratifying that they realize that they can help—not only the farmer’s wife, who may be the more directly affected, but the city woman hs well. Savings Accounts to Buy Cotton. Numbers of people in Aiken who ~ gained their inspiration from Mr. Paul A. Bowden, president of the First National Bank at Thomson, Ga., who has taken from the sav ings account of his little son enough to buy a bale or two, will invest the savings accounts ac * cumulated in the names of their * children in cotton, buying a bale for each of the little folks and holding it. While for the present the invest ment may not pay four per cent, it is generally believed that at the end of a year or perhaps a little longer— perhaps earlier—the dividend will be a great deal larger: but this is only a secondary consideration, and it is a healthy sign that it is so regarded. The great underlying good of a wide spread “Buy a Bale" movement will be the common good of all. It. will afford a ready market for the small farmer who is absolutely obliged to sell his cotton, or at least a part of it. And the cotton bought, it will not fall into the hands of speculators. The cotton will be taken off the market— ar.d held off the market—while .the farmers who are not obliged to sell are holding their cotton for the rea sonable prices that must come with the world demand for the staple, whether the European war comes to an end and normal conditions are re stored In the near future or whether European nations continue to play the game of suicide. Holding Movement On. Talking with a large number of Aiken County farmers, I find them all, with no exceptions, disposed to hold, hold, hold. There are, of course, many of them who, in order to secure enough cash to complete the harvest ing of their crops, have sacrificed a few bales. But even those who figure that they can pny all expenses of pro ducing cotton by selling at the pre vailing quotations, have enough bus iness sagacity to realize that there is no progress to be made In swapping dollars. They think too, that they can see far enough into the future to discern the indication of betetr prices and betetr times no so far down the -•road that they are clouded with the dust kicked up by the marching and the fighting armies in Europe. Plans for Next Year. And with faith in the future, de termined almost to a man to hold, Aiken County farmers have turned their faces toward the rising sun and are considering plans for next year, realizing that a holding movement, even though It extended tnroughout the entire South, would be productive of little good should another monster cotton crop be raised in 1915. This, they know, Is Impossible, There will not be available the money to be ad vanced by the banks. Though the farmefi still have the bulk of this year's crop to gather and are busy In their fields, working as though no war had crippled business and clogged the wheels of finance, and though they know they must wait for many of the things they hoped to accom plish this fall, they are not dis heartened nor excited. Next year they are going to heed the gos pel they have heard preached so long—the gospel of diversified crops, which though 1' has spread wonderfully throughout this oec llon In recent years, will iave thousands of new converts by planting time next year. Cotton as Good as Monsy. '•Cotton is as good as money with this bank." said George A. Durban, cashier of the First National Bank of Aiken. Mr. Durban has Just re turned from Columbia and other Bblr.ts, where he has conferred with ’'The larger corresponding banks on the 1 situation. “We will take cotton at cur r«nt prices for money." While the Kiret Nationel le the only natlonel bank in Aiken County, it is in position, should It become neces sary to do so. to secure from tb* na tional treasury a large amount of the emergency currency. Mr. H. M. Dibble, president of the Bank of Western Carolina, which with the home bank of Aiken has branch banks in Johnston, North Augusta, Graniteville, Wagener, Salley, and several other points In South Carolina, it- at present in New York conferring with correspondents there. The Spirit of the Farmer. One of the most progressive farm ers in this section of South Carolina is Mr. A. W. Reynolds. Mr. Reynolds gave expression to the spirit of the Aiken County farmer when he said tersely: “The sheriff will sell all of my "cotton before I will sell a bale of it at the present price.” Mr. Reynolds, who operated 20 plows this year, stat" that next year he will plant his place one third in cotton, one-third in corn and one-third in oats, rye and wheat. Within the past few days Mr. Reynolds has cold something over a hundred dollars worth of hogs— shoats averaging 240 pounds and, at nine cents, bringing $21.60 apiece. 4 "It hasn't been many years ago,” said Mr. Reynolds, “that all I could have gotten for these shoats would have been three cents.” On his place, five miles from Aiken, Mr. Reynolds still has SBOO or S9OO worth of hogs, but he stated that he will sell no more, but will kill them later on and feed his hands through the winter. Arranges to Help the Situation. This year Mr. Reynolds has sold in Aiken County about SIO,OOO worth of commercial fertilizer. He has made arrangements with a warehouse in Augusta whereby he will be advanced sls a bale on cotton —agreeing to hold the cotton for at least ten cents—and will take cotton from those farmers who owe him for fertilizer, advance them the sls, and hold their cotton for them. “We’ve simply got to he,p one another," said Mr. Reynolds. “That’s the only way out. It arouses my indignation to see any man, in the present condition of things, shutting down on the far mer. The man who does it is bound to lose by It. A Blessing in Disguise. “What we are suffering now Is go ing to prove a blessing,” declared Mr. Reynolds. “The time when the far mer spends money is in the fall when he sells his cotton, not ip the summer, and too many of them are disposed to buy things they could get along well enough without, spending the money before they pay their debts, and the result is that many who owe, for in stance, five bales of cotton, can then only pay four and they begin another year in debt. They won’t spend money recklessly now. And another thing—they are going to have to raise stuff to eat and to feed their stock. “I can pay all expenses of raising my cotton crop with eight cents cot ton," continued Mr. Reynolds, “but I want my profit and I’m going to hold until I get it. Cotton warehouse re ceipts are just as good as money, just as much as a dollar hill is worth 100 cents. Perhaps not today, but they will be tomorrow." Preparing to Hold. Mr. Otis Courteny, who farms on the Levels, is at present building a big shed at his place in which to store his cotton. Mr. Courteny raised this year a magnificent crop of pea-vine hay and a fine oat crop. He has sold 75 bushels of oats at $1.50 a bushel, and could find a ready market for more if he cared to dispose of them. Next year, he states, he Intends to plant more oats than ever before. Warehousing facilities will be found for more cotton in Aiken and in other places throughout the county than has ever been stored at any one time be fore. At Graniteville , the Graniteville Manufacturing Company will either %uy what cotton is offered, or store (t and issue negotiable warehouse re ceipts. Mr. J. M. Holley, who deals exten sively In mules and who has sold be tween $20,000 and $25,000 worth of stock this year, Is converting his big stables into a warehouse and com plying with necessary requirements, will get the same rate of insurance as does a bonded warehouse. Mr. Holley will accept cotton from farmers owing him for mules on a basis of ten cents, having made fi nancial arrangements with the banks to carry him over until normal condi tions are restored. Mr. Chris Hahn, Mr. Jason Woo - ward, Mr. R. B. Toole, Mr. Conner* Woolsey, Mr. S. J. Brooks, Mr. Tom Cushman, Dr. J. M. Quattlebaum, are all holding their cotton off the market, but «o are all the farmers in this sec tion. Mr. Horace M. Cassels, of Ellenton, in this county, who is at the head of the Aiken County branch of the Southern Gotton Congress, has made arrangements to hold off the market an Immense amount of cotton. Mr. Cassels has sold between $40,- 000 and $50,000 worth of commercial fertilizer this year. Representing a manufacturer In Charleston, Mr. Cas sels has prfected arrangements with this concern to accept cotton receipts, upon which the notes of the farmers will be released as they mature and the cotton is turned in to Mr. Cas sels and shipped to Charleston. There it will be held, on a ten cent basis, for one year, or to be sold earlier only upon the order of the owner, the dif ference m-de by the Increase In price to tber» be paid to the farmer. Saturday—the big trading day In Aiken—brought the usual crowd to town. The streets were filled, a* usual. And every man, apparently, had money In his p»;ket—some money al least, for the merchants did an average Saturday's business, even for this season of 'the year. Of course It is true that the cotton-pickers had just been paid off, but there Is work for them for many weeks yet to come. In Aiken I could not but notice the conspicuous absence of the calamity howler. Everybody seems disposed to make the most of the situation. One sees no groups of full-grown men standing on the street corners bewail-I ing hard times. J AT THE GRAND HOWE’S TOURS OPEN GRAND’S SEASON TONIGHT. There has been no greater exhibi tion of endurance and sheer nerve In the history of the world than Uncle Sam's fight with the forces of nature down "on the line”—otherwise bet ter known as the Panama Canal. It is this tremendous conflict waged by an army of 50,000 souls and mighty machines doing work with almost hu man precision which will be repro duced by Lyman H. Howe at the Grand Theater tonight and Tuesday evenings. The film is in reality an astound ing—moving- living pictorial review of how supremely organized and in telligent effort scored a marvelous triumph over difficulties. As such it appeals powerfully to all mankind but particularly so to the victors—to us as Americans, and in order to form an adequate conception of how this $400,000,000 victory was won, every American should take advantage of the opportunity Mr. Howe offers, it will be the only opportunity as this film is the only reproduction made that is commensurate with the mag nitude of the work and at the same time that is absolutely perfect photo graphically. And it is the only time Mr. Howe will present It here. It woudl he indeed impossible to describe d tails of the reproduction which f jvers the entire 50 miles of the ca bal and all the gigantic workings of this greatest engineering feat in his tory. Nothin*- less than the film itself enn depict the sinking of the huge caissons, dynamiting hills, huge dredges scooping up tons of rock at “one fell swoop” and carrying it away as easily as a child would lift and carry away an apple, the conveyance of thousands of tons of material along cables in mid-air, the towering lock walls and gates, the deep gorges and a thousand other sights in this prod igious pageant of man's indomitable will and ingenuity. Here, at last, it may be seen in all its actuality—and —also for the first time as well as the last time. “OH! OH! DELPHINE.” At the Grand on Wednesday, Sep tember 23rd Klaw and Krlanger’s mas sive production of the New York musical comedy success, “Oh! Oh! wmm j '' Mabel Allan, who plays the part of St. Simone in the big Klaw and Erlanger Musical Comedy production, Oh, Oh, Delphini, at the Grand September 23rd. THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA, Delphine" will be presented and will be looked forward to by the patrons of the higher class of theatrical of ferings ns one of the most noteworthy events of the present season. “Oh! Oh! Delphine" is in three acts sump tuously mounted as regards both scenic and costume equipment and is the work of C. M. S. McLellan ami Ivan (’ary 11, author and composer of “The Dink Lady” and “The Little Case." The story is extremely enter taining, depicting the adventures of ai. artist who is serving his time as a soldier in search of a model for the left shoulder of "Venus Rising from the Sen," which he Is painting. The piece divided an entire season's en gagement at the Knickerbocker and New Amsterdam Theaters, New York, where it was regarded as the most pretentious musical comedy offering in recent years. SMALLWOOD VS. WILLIAMS IN SIXTH SALLIE GAME Albany, Ga. —With three games won, the Savannah team will meet Albany here this afternoon In an effort to win the fourth game of the post-season series and capture the flag. The Sa vannah manager will likely send Smallwood hack to the mound tc face Williams, Mannsh's star pitcher. Should Albany win today the sev enth game will be played in Jackson ville tomorrow. U. S. TREASURY. Washington.—The condition of the United Slates treasury at tlie begin ning of business Saturday way: Net balance in general fund, $122,- 138,603. Total receipts Friday, $2,256,16. Total payments Friday, $2,645,976. The deficit Ibis fiscal year is $14,- 941,117, against a. deficit of $7,680,896 last year, exclusive of Panama Canal and public debt transactions. APPEALS TO POLES. Petrograd, via London, 12:45 p. m. —Henry Sienkiewioz, the Polish auth or, has issued an appeal to the Aus trian Poles to fight with Russia. 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