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H r/i£ uw/r£0 J7W/: 7Tf£W Of /tGWCl/irif/&. F WE will ignore the hysteria of the professional farmer's friend' and dis­ count the selfishness of certain trad ing and manufacturing interests, we will find that the eottoa producer and the fair-dealing eotton trade cotton-goods industry have nothing to fear from the f/O 3£L/£T £X/3ZJ AAfOJfG those/#& that corra//sv?/c£. ££r/X£0 mmm. Its Variety. She (coldly)--Have you a family tpfee? V He (enthusiastically)--YOB, and it's • peach! • 11|1, "" • • /_ % Dandruff and ltefcin$ To restore dry, falling hair and get rid of dandruff, rub Cuticura Ointment < Into scalp. Next morning shampoo with CBttfiU* Soap and hot water. For aamples address, "Cutknra, Dept. X, Boston." At druggists and by Soap 25, Ointment 25 and 50.--AdT. A patent covers a eoifcblned and shovel, so mounted that the handle serves for both. pick A Giveaway, *9«MS IS boasting that he ia A bag sort of fellow." "Between the lawn mower and the baby carriage, I think he ought to bo." 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Here Is inst^t raUet 'xorra/v jsu/3//y£3j iMii. ;v - ' j - v I)"*>'&*<] I &• action of the war industries board in pro­ viding for an allocation of cotton and an Inquiry into the whole cot­ ton' situation," said Clar­ ence Ousley, assistant sec­ retary of agriculture, in a statement given to the recently. Mr. Ousley con­ tinued: "I am moved to make these remarks by the pub­ lication in the New Tork Journal of Commerce of October 8 of a denunciatory article by Mr. B. B. Comer, President of the Avondale mils and former governor of - Alabama. Hie eotton traders whom Governor Comer denounces may de­ fend themselves. My con­ cern is primarily to pre­ sent the truth for the wel­ fare of cotton producers, add secondarily to dispute his Imputations partici­ pation or collusion by the department of agriculture, I speak from accurate and first-hand information in tnaking the statement that there has not been from the beginning, nor Is there now, atoy set purpose or desire to fix cotton prices. There has not been from the beginning, nor is there now, the belief among those in responsibility that price-' fixing will be necessary as a war measure--cer­ tainly Jt never was contemplated, nor could it be justified, on any other basis. It has been con­ sidered only as a possible necessity, dependent upon the information to be gathered. "But there are several reasons for a cottO» H> qwtry.. . "In the first place, there have been marked fluctuations many times during the last few months, and more or less since the beginning of the European war, without justifying economic reasons. Repeatedly the market has risen more than a hundred points and reacted as much or more within a few hours. There have been vio­ lent 'breaks,' reminding one of the slump at the outbreak of the war, and in no single case has the movement been. Justified by any real fact of trade importance. All such irrational fluctuations are extremely hurtful to producers and legitimate traders and manufacturers. < !• • "In the second place, often and almost con- tlnuously during the last few months contract quotations have been .out of normal relation to spot quotations--and generally have tepded to de­ press or to discount the trade value of real cotton. "In the third place, the prices of cotton goods have been advancing' for four years out of all proportion to the prices of cotton. Contrary to popular impression outside of the cotton belt, cot­ ton prices are not out of line with prices of other staple commodities. For Instance, on July 1, 1914, the average price of wheat to the farmer was 76.9 cents; on September 1, 1918, under govern- jneat control, it was $2.05--an Increase of 167 per cent. On the same dates the prices of cotton were 12.4 and 32.2 cents--an increase of 160 per cent. The average increase oji farm products has not been so great, but the average of manufactured products (except those regulated under war pow­ ers) has been as great or greater. One of the most interesting comparisons is found in the price ton goods. X quote from Bradstreeis. Wholesale IMase Of Cotton Goods. '£//fy£jr/G-Ar/o/f&Y 7THE wMrmtm/JveatoP kszz a&mrjv&i it cloth*. 6Ts (Boaton) tandard greeting (Boeto*N».v.• Ingham*. AmoakMg, Stapla (BoetM). Aac. l, Aug. 1, A«ft. V 1918. WIT. ink •0.0S75 . -0TT6 , .0675 isit. •0.08 90.14 .166 .S0S1S .is .an «Bere are increases of from 261 to 383 per cent. "fii the fourth p'scs, It ucVnupcu «» «» agw that there is rather a scant supply of cot- I'.}';;.' ton of the grade of middling of 1-lnch to 11-16- ^ if? inch staple, and an abundance of low-grade cotton ic*.4 . < on the one hand and extra staple (such as Arl- '̂' Mn>i Georgia and Florida Sea Inland) on the &U :" other. The European countries were in the mar- - . ket for the small supply of middling and the K, V speculators were contracting for It, while the producers* of low-grade and extra-staple cottons *-* found few buyers. The cotton market was out of ! V.. Joint. Several months ago the department of ag-" .' riculture foresaw this precise situation and urged ft: +"*• the modification of war goods specifications in \a .vj order to increase coAumption of low-grade cot- w« tons, but it takes a long time to readjust eom- t-mercial and manufacturing customs, because all - :"JL men are prone to maintain habits, and spinners v are averse to incurring trouble or reducing profits. it' "But when the new crop began to come to f l ! market the war Industries board deemed it necef- * ; aary to take some action for adjustment. "Cbalrmiin Baruch of the war industries hoard ,;j dtd nm tike honor to consult me, in the absence of Secretary Houston, about the details of the jSrVC. plan he had decided to adopt by constituting a committee of Inquiry and a committee of distribu­ tion. for a quarter of a century I have gl*«* more or less study to the economic aspects of cot- ton, and I cannot recall a time when the cotton farmer was Injured by the revelation of the W \i Whole trat|> about cotton supply and demand.' He True Levelers * Ood be (banked for book& They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life ® of past ages. Books are the true levelers. They give to all, who will ; faithfully use them, the society, the • spiritual presence, of the beet and greatest of our race. No matter how a^ poor I am, no matter though the pros- iu-1'J perous of my own time will not enter has typen Injured times unnumbered by the half truth. Therefore, I rather welcomed the in­ quiry which Mr. Baruch felt It necessary, In the discharge of his responsibility for the conserva­ tion of all war material, to Institute. Develop- v ments since then have confirmed my Impression. After the first flurry--due mostly to the persistent suspicions or unwarranted apprehensions of a few oversea lous spokesmen for the cotton producers-- the situation became more stable, more normal, and meanwhile, the report of the bureau of crop estimates exhibits a slightly larger supply of .cot­ ton than was reckoned upon the condition of the plant a month earlier. My information is that the commissions representing the allies, the legitimate traders and the more thoughtful farmer* recog­ nise the wisdom of the undertaking and have full confidence ^ that these instrumentalities of gov­ ernment exercised under war emergency will do no Injustice. Th$ chief objectors are a few short- sighted spinners who are unwilling to take any chance upon a reduction of the handsome profits they have been making for three years and<more. "No doubt there has been recently, as there has been always, more or less sharp practice by a cer­ tain class of cotton traders. I have ne\er seen- •the. time sotae men did not take advantage of any situation to exaggerate, to distort, and even to falsify facts for speculative advantage. For instance. Secretary Houston was represented as saying that 25 cents a pound was a fair price for cotton. It was utterly false. He had never said anything of the sort. How the story orig­ inated I have not the slightest Idea. It was a piece of market gossip Invented for a purpose Mke many another concocted and circulated from time Immemorial. i "As to market influences, nothing has been so hurtful of late as the attitude of a few men from the South who insisted, in spite of Chairman Baruch's statements of purpose, that the contem­ plation of the war Industries board was to caust» a price to be fixed, and who assumed that If a price were fixed it would be lower than the mar­ ket price. Market gossipers naturally have made the most of such a state of mind. Another hurt­ ful influence has been the effort in some quarters to magnify the cost of producing cotton. In this connection* there are those who remember that when the fixing of a wheat price was under consideration some professed spokesmen of the producers' sought to have the cotton price fixed at 25 cents, though the market at that time was considerably below 28 cents. These men have uwioi iLie uuprcssiuu liiai liie soutn aesireci price-fixing upward, but was unwilling to have the facts as to real value ascertained. As has often been the case, much harm has been done by the oversealous. the suspicious and the selfish. All such factors must be discounted in truly ap­ praising the situation. ••Whether Intentionally or not, Governor Comer's article in the New Tork Journal of Com­ merce misrepresents the department's relation to this whole problem. The United States depart­ ment of agriculture enforces the provisions of the United States cotton futures act, except those portions which relate to the collection of taxes on contracts, and these portions are enforced by the treasury department. The department of ag­ riculture, however, does not 'establish differen­ tials' for grades of cotton other than middling, as one might ^ infer from reading Governor's Comer's article. The section 5 contract, which Is the con­ tract used on the two exchanges. Is a "basis middling' contract. Cotton of grades other than middling may be delivered, and the differences on or off middling at which such grades are de­ livered are determined by the difference prevail­ ing in spot markets designated for that purpose by the secretary of agriculture under the terms of the act. •This department has no authority to say what differences shall be quoted by the spot markets. In foet, the New York and Now Orleans exchanges -get their quotation direct from ihe spot mar­ kets, and the department of ag­ riculture does not even transmit the quotations to the two ex­ changes. We keep a check on the published differences of the exchanges, however, and it any error is observed, we Immediate­ ly advise them. Although we have no authority to control the differences quoted by the spot markets, we make it our busi­ ness to keep In touch with the spot markets, in order that so far as we can do so by co-opera­ tion with them, we may assure the accuracy of the spot quota­ tions. Governor Comer has been Informed in correspon­ dence heretofore that this de­ partment does not 'establish differentials.' ••Governor Comer states that the differentials depressed cot­ ton values on the exchanges from five cents to twelve cents a pound. We keep a rec­ ord in the bureau of markets showing the av- etaee of the middling quotations in the ten offi­ cially designated spot markets, and we are con­ stantly making comparisons between this arerage of spot quotations and the quotations of future exchanges. This 'average' spot quotation and the future quotations of New York during the past spring and summer were not as wide apart as five cents per pound except for one or two day®. ' . "The spot markets whose quotations are used hy the New York and New Orleans exchanges, in accordance with the law and the designation of the secretary of agriculture In making up the differentials on and off middling, are: Savannah Galveston Augusta Houston Montgomery Little Rock . Jforfolk DkUai New Orleans Memphis *If there Is any market In this list which is Hot • bona fide spot market I should like to have Information to that effect If there are more representative spot markets than the ten selected by the secretary of agriculture I should like to feitve Information to that effect. "Governor Isomer seems' very solicitous about the welfare of the fai^a*r, and refers particularly 10 the fact that the Surplus of low-grade cotton at present Is not held ny the farmers. I take It that the committee on cotton distribution has a much bigger problem ahead of it than merely to take care that farmers shall find a market for their product. The lack of a market for low-grade cotton is tying up a large part of the nation's re­ sources, is crippling prospective purchasers of Liberty, bonds and otherwise retarding the ew nomic life of the country. That a perfectly good product should thus be placed under the ban and Its money value retired from circulation, is un­ endurable. Even if the surplus low-grade cotton Is* held by middlemen, these middlemen are the same persons who must buy the farmers' present crop, and if they, and their bankers have their capital tied up In a product which they cannot dispose of in turn, they will be unable to buy the farmers' product this year. So whether the farm­ er holds a surplus of low-grade cotton Is not of prime importance, and it appears that anyone who stands in the way of getting this cotton Into cir­ culation is, In fact, an enemy to the farmer, lr- the attltude that be * DlTERMINATIOfl. - *Yca went around on a friendly visit to that SjSfis has vk-uuilued you in his profiteering.'* *Yes. I'm at least going to do all *1 can to make him do the right thing with my money and buy Liberty bonds." *• - ;tj^ a- < # • (V1 f * .W"' < »:*v ; Ji Dent stay upset! Eat a tablet of Pape'8 Diapepsin and Immediately the indigestion, gases, acidity and all stom­ ach distress ends. Pape's Diapepsin tablets are the sur­ est, quickest stomach relievers in the world. They cost very little at drug stores. Mv. j, • .-.v.-.. ::: rT-. . . „ •v -'fJt'i. • Safe. ' ' ' "TWey tell me old Closeflst has mon­ ey to burn!" said Jinx. "Yea," said Wtnx, "and never a match In the houaf?!^- ./ UVesWYels! SAME THING. 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I went to a drug store and bought six bottles of 'Favorite Prescription and five of the 'Golden Medical Discovery and kept . . . myaelf supplied with the 'Pleasant Pellets,; Mid Most men Study art by the aid * today I am free from all pf that Buffering.' I jui----m Margaret Boyd, 4508 N. IrAtyfft. * How They Conversed. An American llason officer who knew little French and a French artil­ lery officer who knew little English had Important business togefher dur­ ing the height of the recent fighting. "Henri," said the commandant to a young sergeant, "I have seen you talk­ ing to Americans several times. Can you speak English?" ^ "No, mon commandant,'* answered Henri simply. ^ For all that, Henri and the Ameri­ can officer were soon engaged In viva­ cious conversation. At Its conclusion the commandant turned to Henri. "But.yoii speak English very welt" he said. "No. mon commandant." Henri atfll Insisted. 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