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The Truth About Belgium
(Continued from Last Inane)
"If that is true the whole Bel
gian population may starve!”
The situation indeed was rapidly
growing serious. The supplies in the
country were sufficient only for a
fortnight. Even on the table of the
legation there was the gray bread.
However, the supplies at Antwerp
''ad not been destroyed, and we
eould continue our efforts to find
some basis on which we might con*
trive to get food in. Rich as the
little country was. and as Intelli
gently as its fertile acres were
farmed, it could not produce, even
in peace times, more than one-fifth
of what it consumed. Committees
came, composed of citizens of all the
principal towns behind the German
army, Louvain. Namur, Charleroi,
Malines, asking me to patronize the
committee to be organized in those
towns as I had patronized the com
mittee in Brussels: and one day a
man came from Dinant and laid on
my desk a loaf of mouldy black
bread—all »hat the people of the
stricken town had to eat. There were
priests from Louvain who came to
ask food for the sinistres of their
city: then came a I.iegols. to im
plore help for his town: and there
was a little girl asking bread for
herself; that we could give her. but
it only intensified the pang there
always is in the thought of the im
potence of personal charity in the
world. It' was evident thstt local
committees could accomplish little
good; the task would have to be as
sumed on a large, national scale.
There was food somewhere in the
world; there was plenty in the
granaries of that land which loomed
in such mystery far off there in the
west, that land which this old Eu
rope had never understood, and to
which now it turned for succor and
j help and comfort. But who was to
organize the gigantic work*
There were enormous obstacles In
the way There was the fleet of
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England blockading the sea; there
was the enmity between the - con
quering Germans and the conquered
Belgians. We had meetings and dis
cussions in which opinion hung
nebulously in solution for long
hours, as opinion will in commit
tees. until some one would lift his
eyes hopefully and exclaim:
"But The Hague convention! Ac
cording to The Hague convention it
is the duty of the occupying power
to feed the population."
And then, with that inveterate
vice of the human mind which per
sists in the belief that a problem
is solved as as it has been
reduced to formulae, they would
sigh and sink back in their chairs
and think that the phrase sufficed
for the deed.
But the Belgians could not eat
Hague Conventions, as I said,
though they seemed, alas! all that
we had to offer them. And then
one day—October 14, to be precise—
I had a visit from the Baron von
der Yancken and Mr. Hellfrisch,
whose name has since been toler
ably well known in the German po
litical, as it was then in the Ger
man commercial, world, though they
are, in away, much the same
thing.
The Problem of Feeding Belgium
The problem was to get food not
only for the poor of Brussels, but
for the whole population of Bel
gium. The Baron said that the
German government was well dis
posed, that the German authorities
were ready to give assurances not
to seize any food if it could be
brought in.
The Brussels committee, "le
Comite de Secours et d’Alimenta
tion," as<it was then called, under
the chairmanship of Monsieur Ernst
Solvay, with the admirable talent
for organization that distinguishes
the Belgians, had already seen the
necessity of undertaking the work
on a large scale, and in the bon
mot of Monsieur Emile Francqul
a phenomenon in nature had occur
red—the child had given birth to
the mother; the local committee
had brought forth a national com
mittee; that is, the ."Comite Cen
tral” had become 'He Comite Na
tional de Secours et d’Alimenta
tion.’’ It had organized sub-com
tees in each of the nine provinces
of Belgium, or in seven of the nine
provinces, since the two Flanders
were inaccessible. >
It was a fortunate circumstance
that the organisation was locally
formed on the lines of the Belgian
constitution. The system of Bel
’ gian government is based on the
commune, which is the cell of ttie
whole organization. Belgium is
composed of 2,633 communes or mu
nicipalities. each free to govern it
self in all local affairs. There is
not a square inch of soil in Belgium
that does not belong to a commune,
not a dtfaen that does not form a
part of a little city or community,
and this whether it is in the coun
try or tn the town. though, of
course, in a country so densely pop
ulated every commune has a village
as a nucleus.
Each commune elects its common
council, which governs the commu
nity as do the common councils of
English and American towns; in
deed the municipal system of Eng
land and America is derived from
Belgium. Out of the common coun
cil there are chosen a bourgmetre,
or mayor, and a number of echev
ins, who serve as heads of depart
ments, providing what is in effect
a commission form of government.
The communes are grouped into 223
cantons, the cantons into forty-one
arrondissements and the arrondis
sements are divided among the nine
provinces. Perhaps it would be
more exact to say that the prov
inces are divided into arrondisse
ments, since the nine provinces are
co-extensive with the historic prin
cipalities—the old duchies of
Brandt, of Limburg, of Luxemburg,
the counties of Flanders, of Hai
naut and of Namur, the old bish
opric of Liege, etc. Without going
further into details, there are ehec
tive bodies for the regulation of
the affairs of the cantons, of the
arrondissements and of the prov
inces, and finally of the nation,
L e-. the parliament.
The communal system is as old as
the struggle of the city to be free,
and it is to it that Belgium owes
her genius for self-government, one
with that love of freedom which has
kept the nation alive and stubborn
ly determined to -contest her right to
liberty through successive domina
tions of Spaniards. Austrians.
Dutchmen and Germans. No country
without some such fundamental or
ganization for uniting the people in
a common ideal, and for expressing
and satisfying their dally wants and
needs, could have survived, such a
calamity as the Inundation of the
German hordes.
Thus when we undertook the re
lief work in Belgium we found
ready at hand an organization for
distribution that simplified the task
and took into account at once every
needy person in the land. While con
stitutionally they despised the sys
tem the Germans did not interfere
with the communal organization as
such. Here and there they arrested
a bourgmetre or members of the
common councils, but they respected
the system as p. system. Indeed,
.they could not have governed the
country as easily in any other way
or, in the eyes of the unthinking,
as cheaply acquired a reputation for
efficiency by claiming as a result
of their administration the com-
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parative order that prevailed, a con
dition that was due entirely to the
schooling in self-government the
Belgians had acquired in their com
munal system.
Mr. Emile FTancqui was chair
man of the executive committee of
the national committee and it was
his genius that directed the Bel
gian organization. He was wholly
fitted by nature, by experience and
by training for the heavy task.
We had arranged a meeting for
Friday, October 16, 1914, at the
American legation, to discuss and if
possible to agree on some solution
of the whole food problem. The first
thing to do was to obtain the con
sent of the English government to
permit the importation of food; the
second was to obtain guarantees
that the food thus imported would
be free from requisition by the Ger
mans, and be reserved to the ex
clusive use of the civil population
of Belgium. This done, the food
could be distributed by the comite
national, under the patronage of the
Spanish and American ministers.
The theory, like most theories, was
adequate; the great question was to
realize it in practice, and with the
two great nations that held its ex
istence in their power just then
grappled in a deadly war, that was
a task to daunt the most resolutely
optimistic.
Early in the morning the Baron
von der Lancken came with Ge
heimrath Kaufman; later we were
joined by Mr. Heineman and Mr.
Hulse, and for a long time we dis
cussed the important question. It
was necessary that some one go to
London to lay the case before our
ambassador. Dr. Page, and ask him
informally to discuss the matter
with the British government. I
suggested Baron Lambert. Then
Villalobar arrived and approved the
choice Os Baron Lambert and sent
his motor at once to bring the bar
on, who came, screwing his mon
ocle somewhat dubiously into his eye
at the mention of the difficullt mis
sion we had selected him for. Then
Mr. Solvay, Mr. Francqui atid Mr.
Emmanuel Janssen came.
They were shown into another
room. They came formally to re
quest me to act in the matter, but
as I was already occupied with it
we brushed formalities aside and,
since Belgians and Germans did not
meet, we carried on the discussion
by passing back and forth, the mar
quis and I, from one room to an
other. Finally it was agreed that
the Baron Lambert, Mr. Francqui
and Mr. Gibson should go to Lon
don. There were letters and tele
grams to be prepared and we spent
the rest of the day in writing them,
for they had to be in four lan
guages, French, German, Spanish
and English, and all say the same
tiling— no simple task. There were
tottora from Villalobar and me to
tta Spanish and American ambas
sadors in London, telegrams to our
governments, and then we decided
that Villalobar send a telegram to
his king and I one to the president.
Then we prepared the letter for
Field Marsha von der Goltz’s sig
nature, the letter addressed to thd
Comite National, In which he guar
anteed that the food to be imported
should be free from requisition and
be reserved exclusively for the Bel
gians. It was, as it were, the con
stitution of our organization, the
cornerstone of the edifice we were
trying to rear, perhaps the most
Important of all documents. It
was written in German and then
translated into French and Eng
lish, and finally at tea time the
work was done.
Autumn In Brussels
The life of the city was being
peeping out again, there were ped
dlers in the streets, men shuffling
along thp Boulevard Anspach offering
Griffon puppies for sale; in the
window ledges around the Grand
Place roasted . chestnuts were ex
posed, and women from carts sold
fresh walnut# —signs of autumn all
like the brown and russet in the
bois.
But the aspect of the city was
changed by the presence of the in
vaders; officers swanking along the
boulevards, their gray mantels bel
lying in the autumn wind; a Ger
man band in front of the Bourse;
the Iron Cross on every hand, and
stolid soldiers everywhere. Now
and then they would stoop and try
to play with some passing baby—
whose mother would draw it away
in fear and loathing.
How lovely was Brussels in those
days, and how sad —like a beautiful
woman in tears! What will be the
effect of such depression on chil
dren born and reared under its in
fluence? What darkling influence
will it have on the mentality of the
next generation of men?
A scene comes back to me out of
the dismal October. It w’as at Iste
Gudule, a mass for the repose of
the soul of a son of a friend. The
boy was. only nineteen and had been
killed in battle and his mother had
gone to fetch his body from under
the bridge where it had lain for a
week. There was a catalalque over
which was laid the crepe that was
over it. I was listening to the beau
tiful music when suddenly in the
glimmer of the tall, white, crack
ling candles I was smitten by the
tear-stained, anguished fU.ce of the
lad’s father. And then I had a kind
of rage at those who deliberately
make war and bring about all this
hideous waste of youth, this wan
ton cruelty to the * aged. In the
midst of the accents of the sweet
singing of the choir the old church
Cotton
NEW YORK. July IS.— the cotton market
showed renewed firmness at the opening today,
wing to continued covering by near month
shorts, absence of rain in drouthy sections, talk
(•improving export prospects, and the encour
aging nature of the war news. First prices
were x to 30 points higher, except November,
an Inactive month, which opened 7 points lower,
with July selling at 20c and October at 25.50 c
on the call. There was considerable realizing i
at this level and prices sagged off some 10 or
12 points from the best before the end of the
first hour.
The western bolt forecast for dry weather in
Texas and reports that the allies had assumed
the offensive on the western front served to ;
stimulate buying later in the morning. Early
sellers covered, with Jnly selling up to 211.1t>
and October to 25»7;>c, or about 43 to 48 points
net higher. The volume of business tapered off
somewhat around midday, but prices held I
steady within 5 or 6 points of the best.
NEW YORK COTTON
Toe following were the ruling prices in the :
exchange today:
Tone, firm; middling. 34.10. steady.
Last I’rev-
< Open. High. Low. tsale. those. Close.
Jan 24.48 24.89 24.46 24.46 24.86 24.35
Feb 24.25
Mar 24.43 24.77 24.33 24.77 24.76 24.25
May 24.50 24.69 24.50 24.63 24.76 24.25
July 29.00 29.16 28.85 29.10 29.10 28.70 j
Aug 27.24 26.75 I
Sept 26.63 26.20 \
Oct. 25.45 25.76 25.35 25.14 25.73 25.30 I
Nov 25.16 24.72
Dec 24.80 25.09 24.64 25.09 25.06 24.62
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
NEW ORLBANS. Julv 18.—Reports of counter
attacks against the Germans on the western
battle front gave the cotton market a steady
tone today. Prices rose 15 to 18 points in the
first half hour of trading in the face of rains in
Arkansas and the eastern belt, which were con
sidered beneficial to the growing crop.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
The following were the ruling prices In tbs
exchange today:
Tone, steady; middling, 29.75e. steaQr.
last I’rev.
• Open. High. Low. Sale. Close. Close
Jan 23.63 24.00 23.61 23.99 23.99 23.57 ’
Mar’. 23.50 23.85 23.50 23.83 23.88 23.46 ■
July 27.70 27.73 27.50 27.70 27.70 27.18 [
Aug 26.30 25.88 I
Oct. 24.45 24.72 24.37 24.68 24.65 24.28
Dec 23.80 24.12 23.73 24.10 24.09 23.65
SPOT COTTON MARKET
Atlanta, steady, 31.55 c.
New York, quiet, 34.10 c.
New Orleans, steady, 29.75e.
Augusta, steady, 29.25 c. «
Memphis, steady, 30$.
Charleston, steady, 30c.
Montgomery, steady, 30c.
Boston, steady, 33.15 c.
Philadelphia, steady. 34.35 c.
Norfolk, steady, 30c. >
Galveston, steady, 30c.
Mobile, steady, 30c.
Little Rock( steady, 30c. t
Dallas, steady, 29.40 c.
Savannah, steady, 30.25 c.
St. Louis, steady, 30.25e.
Houston, steady. 30c.
ATLANTA SPOT COTTON
Atlanta spot c0tt0n..31.55c
Sales 325
Receipts 197
Shipments 251
Stocks 21,838
ATLANTA COTTONSEED FHODUVTS MAKKEJ
Crude oil, prime basisl7%
Cottonseed meal, 7 per cent am-
monia 47.50
Cottonseed meal, 7 per cent
Georgia common point rate... .47.50
Cottonseed hulls, loose 20.50 21.50
Cottonseed hulls, sacked 25.00 26.00
AUGUST—
Crude oil. prime basiso7%
lottouseea meal, 7 per cent
Georgia common point rate... 47.50
Cottonseed hulls, loose ..20.50 21.00
Cottonseed hulls, sacked .25.00 20.00
Linters, clean mill run 04% .06
COTTONSEED QUOTATIONS
Georgia common rate p0int5870.004475.00
Cottonseed f. o. b. Atlanta g70.00@78.00
LIVERPOOL COTTON
Tone, steady; sgles, 1,000; good middling,
22.67 d.
Open Prev.
Range. Close. Close.
July 22.18 22.17 22.71
August 20.94 20.97 20.81
September 20.02 20.07 19.88
October 19.54 19.60 19.40
November 19.25 19.32 19.10
OLD CONTRACTS
Prev.
Open. Close. Close.
July 20.89 20.99 21.09
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET
NEW YORK, July 18.—Flour, quiet and un
changed.
Pork, dull; mess, $47.50@48.00.
Lard, steady; midle west spot, .96 test, 6.055;
refined, puiet; cut loaf, 9.00; crushed, 8.75;
powdered, 7.65; granulated. 7.50.
Coffee, Rio No. 7, on spot, B%c.
Tallow, specials, 17%c; city. 17c.
Hay, firm; No. 1. $1.25@1.40; No. 3. 90c@
$1.05; clover, 75c@51.25.
Dressed poultry, quiet; chickens, broilers, 40
@6oc; fowls, 26%@32c; ducks. 33@35c.
Live poultry, easy; geese, 20c; ducks, 27@
38c; fowls, 34@35c; turkeys, 28@30c; roosters,
25c; chickens, broilers, 25@40c.
Cheese, firm; state milk, common to specials,
21@20%c; skims, common to specials, 6@19%c.
Butter, steady; receipts, 20,753; creamery,
extra, 45@'45%c; do. special market, 45%@
46%c; imitation creamery. firsts, 36@45c;
creamery on storage, 36%@37c.
Eggs, quiet; receipts. 24.202; near-by white
fancy, 52@54c; near-by mixed fancy, 38@46c;
fresh firsts. 42@4Gc.
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET
CHICAGO, July 18. —Butter, creamery, ex
tras, 42%@44c; creamery standards. 43%@44c;
firsts. 40%@43e; seconds. 38%@40c.
Eggs, ordinaries. 3Q@37c; firsts, 38@39c.
Cheese, twins, 23@23%c; Young Americas,
24%@25c.
Live poultry, fowls. 29%c; ducks, 23c! geese,
14@15c; springs, 36c; turkeys. 30c.
Potatoes, cars, 30; -new springs. $2.50@3.00.
seemed to say: “Peace, little man;
I have stood here for all these ages
and witnessed occupation after oc
cupation. I was standing here be
fore Columbus went to America, ft
was then as it is now. men quarrel
ing and suffering and bowing here
at my altars with tear-stained
faces. The light fell through these .
windows as softly then as no)t;
nothing changes, not even men.”
(Continued Next Issue)
<Published by special arrange- ,
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Syndicate. Copyright, 1918, by
Brand Whitlock, under the title '
“Memories of Belgium Under the I
German Occupation.” All rights re- I
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rights reserved for France, Bel
gium, Holland, Italy, Spain, Russia,
and the Scandinavian countries.)
ROME. Ga.. July 17.—0 n the first
ballot and in a few minutes after they !
reached their room, a jury in Floyd ,
superior court today convicted Joe
Webb, a young white man, of the mur- ■
der of Jim Welch, a fellow employe in
a local cotton mill, and failed to recom- |
mend to mercy. This, as the case was
not based on circumstantial evidence,
forces Judge Wright to pronounce the
death sentence and he will do so Thurs- i
day morning at 10 o'clock.
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| Government Review of
Fruit and Vegetable
Markets of the U. S.
United States Department of Agriculture.
Bureau of Markets, weekly market review of
fruits ami vegetables. I Prices to jobbers and
shipments for the United States for the period
of July 9-15 inclusive.!
Movement and Values Fairly Steady.
Carlct movement of leading lines of produce
continued, at fairly steady total volume. In
creaaes were chiefly iiu watermelons, canta
loupes, and apples. Fairly steady movement
was maintained for potatese, peaches, onions.
' cabbage and cucuniltefs. Volume was light in
oranges, plums, string beans, peppers, and
' asparagus. Total produce movement 11.332
cars, compared with 11,137 cars last week, and
| 12.167 cars for the corresponding week last
year. Price ranges show a steady average
i trend. Peaches and cantaloupes strengthened
I in value moderately, potatoes, onions and to
|ma toes were nearly steady. Watermelons
I ranged lower.
Exports dry beans and peas, January 1 to
I June 10, were 1.108.085, of which nearly one
’ half went to West Indies. About three-fifths of
I the Colorado Pinto bean crop reported sold to
the United States Grain Corporation.
Potato Prices Hold Fairly Well
Shipping movement of early potatoes was
liberal at about the average of recent weeks.
1 but below last week, 3,860 cars, compared
, with 3,9*3 last week. Virginia still leads.
| Northern shipping sections are beginning, in -
I eluding New Jersey, Delaware, West Virginia
and Illinois. Prices were irregular in shinning
j sections and consuming markets but closed
I about as last quoted. Virginia cobblers held
nearly steady, • around $4.25 per barrel f.o.b.
cash Norfolk, and at $4.75@5.25 f.o.b. usual
terms, Olney. Kentucky cobblers ranged $2.80
@3.00 per cwt., sacked, f.o.b. Louisville. Cali
fornia white stock sold $1.75@1.85 per cwt.,
shippnig points. Sales to jobbers foolowed a
weaker range. Virginia cobblers sold 50c low
er, at $4.50@6.00 per barrel. and North Caro
lina cobblers weakened to $4.00@5.75 per bar
rel. Southern and southwestern Tri-
umphs ranged steady, mostly at $2.50@3.00
per cwt., sacked, appearing in but few
kets. California white Rose ranged $2.75@
3.75 per cwt. in middle western markets. New
Jersey stock sold at $4.50@4.75 per in
New York, and Long Island stock rulde $->.OO
per barrel. During the corresponding week last
year, sales to jobbers, Virginia cobblers ranged
$3.75@5.75 per barrel, and for the coinparable
I week in 1916, the range was $1.50@2.75.
! Active movement early New Jersey potatoes
I beginning. Army requirements of potatoes at
I cantonments for August approximately -51.510
■ hundredweight.
Watermelons Active and Lower
Movement of watermelons from Georgia con
i tinued heavy, reaching 1.767 ears. South Caro
lina and Texas were also heavy shippers and
total was 3.427 cars compared with 2.206 last
week. Tom Watson’s at Georgia shipping points,
large sizes, ranged $25 lower at $l5O to $220
per car f, o. b. cash, while Hempstead, Texas,
recovered during the week, closing at $230 to
$325 per car, and also quoted at $1.25 per cwt.
In northern consuming markets tlie_ larger sizes
Georgia melons ranged SSO to $l5O lower, at
$250 to $325 per car. Texas melons sold lower
I than last week, ranging $1.50 to $2.00 per cwt.,
in southwestern markets.
Peach Markets Stronger
While the Georgia peach movement is rapidly
In considerable volume. The increase from
Texas did not offset the rapid decline from
Georgia. Total for the week was 1,283 cars,
compared with 1,880 last week. Prices ad
vanced 50c at Georgia shipping points, ruling
$2.50 per six-basket carrier to growers. In north
nearing its end, other sections are shipping
ern consuming markets. Georgia Elbertas. 6s,
ranged 50c higher at $2.50 to $2.75, closing
generally firm. Georgia peaches for the corre
sponding week last year sold to jobbers at $1.50
to $2.50, and for the corresponding week in
1916 at $1.25 to $2.25 per six basket carrier.
Delaware and Maryland peaches expected to
begin active movement about July 25.
Cantaloupes Firm
Price ranges show a strong tendency, with
the general average 25c higher in consuming
markets, at $3.25 to $4.00 for California green
meats, 455, Arizona green meats, 455. ranged
50c higher than last week, at $3.50 to $4.50.
Georgia green meats. 455, ranged lower at $2.00
to $2.50. Arkansas cantaloupes, 455, ranged
$2.40 to $2.60 f. o. b. cash at shipping points.
Shipments declined sharply from California, but
Arkansas, 267, Arizona 255, and North Caro
lina, 110, Gaines heavily. Total was 803 cars,
compared with 598 last week.
Indiana cantaloifpes expected to move ac-i
tively about July 25, and Delaware canta
loupes about August 1.
Onions About Steady
Movement of onions continued moderate, 283
cars, compared with 263 last week and 261 the
neck preceding. Texas yellow onions hold gen
erally in the larger markets at $1.75@2.00 per
crate. California onions ranged generally $2.75
@3.25 per cwt. New Jersey yellow onions
tended lower during the week, closing at $1.75©
2.00 per bushel hamper, and Virginia stock sold
at $1.50@1.75 per bushel hamper. Louisiana
cnions ranged $2.50@3.00 per cwt., sacked, and
Kentucky onions sold at $3.50 in New York,
compared with $3.00@3.15 at Kentucky ship
ping points.
Army" requirements of onions at cantonments
for August approximately 17,310 cwt.
Tomato Values Well Maintained
In consuming markets Tennessee 4s ranged
about steady. mostly $1.10@1.25. Prices
ranged steady at Humboldt, Tenn., closing at
75@85c. New Jersey stock ranged s2.oo@®oo
per box in New York and ranged generally
$1.25@1.50 per twenty-quart box in other mar
kets. Tomato shipments for the week increased
to 509 cars, against 59 cars over last week.
Government requirements expected to take
about one-third output canned tomatoes.
Other Fruits and Vegetables
Apples, 243 cars, against 176 care shipped
last week, Delaware, Illinois and New Jersey
leading. Only 87 cars of California oranges
moved, and 42 cars of California plums, but
California grapes began with 27 cars, and pear
shipments increased to 173 cars. Strawberry
movement was light, only 41 cars, mostly from
California. String beans and asparagus are
practically done. Delaware and Virginia are
still shipping cucumbers liberally. Cabbage
movement is again increasing with the opening
cf northern shipping sections, particularly lowa
and Ohio. Mixed fruits from California filled
210 cars.
Government requirements expected to include
about 25 per cent of total output canned peas,
corn and string beans, and about 60 per cent of
the salmon pack, also about one-half the output
of canned cherries and one-half of that of dried
peaches.—W. Gary Thompson. Market Station
Assistant.
DAILY INTERIOR RECEIPTS
Last Year. Today.
Augusta 118 10
Memphis 1,234 1,266
St. Louis 2,126 1.961
Cincinnati '. 261 194
Houston .*..... 388 534.
Little Rock 117 150
COMPARATIVE PORT RECEIPTS
' . Last Year. Today.
Galveston 638 6>o
New Orleans 374 1.025
Mobile 338
Savannah 1,636 153
| Charleston 50
I W ilmington 93 12
; Norfolk ” 309 85
j Boston 1,207 55
Total, all ports 4.307 2,338
JOHN F. CLARK & CO. COTTON LETTER
NEW ORI.EANS. July 18.—There is no change
in the drouth situation west of the river. The
map shows generally fair in Texas with high
i night temperatures. 82 degrees into north
■ Texas. Reports of increasing deterioration are
■ more emphatic. A reliable report from San
Antonio says: "Cotton crop this section as
j far south as Bee county and southwest and
'.west of here has deteriorated rapidly the past
! two weeks; some estimate as much as 50 per
: cent from earlier prospects.”
I Generally cloudy weather prevailed over Ar-
■ kansas and the territory east of the river with
i scattered showers, mostly light, except in the
i Memphis and Macon. Ga.. districts. The pre
i cipitation was generally too light to change the
' crop situation. Indications are for generally
fair west of the river, cooler north Texas and
I Oklahoma, while prospects are for cloud} - weath
er in the eastern states.
, Washington says a delegation of cotton grow
ers and other interested in the industry con
i ferred here with the War Industry Board, op-
■ i>osing price fixing and further regulation of
I cotton.
First trades here on new crops were at an
advance of about 15 points. The market re- s
> ceded a little on selling on showers over the
■ ogstern states, but recovered all loss promptly
and showed a strongly bullish tendency which I
1 soon found expression In an advance to a new ;
1 high for the day.
often indicated by an impaired appetite, i
a feeling of lassitude and a general
weakening of the system. It is then
that you should promptly take a few ,
bottles of S. S. S., the great blood puri- i
fier and strengthened It will cleanse |
the blood thoroughly and build up and ,
strengthen the whole system. S. S. S.
is sold by all druggists. Valuable in
formation about the blood supply can
be had free by writing to the Swift
Specific Co., 24 Swift Laboratory, At
lanta, Ga.—(Advt).
Grain
I CHICAGO, July IS.—Corn prices advanced !
• sharply today owing for the most part to small- '
i nrew of offerings. Opening prices which ranged |
' from ‘ic off to %c up. with August $1.60 to I
' $1.60'2. and September $1.60% to sl.tM) 1 -j. were I
' followed 1 y decided gains all around and then ,
■ a moderate setback.
Dry we.atser reports from Canada gave some
independent strength to oats. After opening I
unchanged to %c higher, with August 73c to i
73’40. the market had another upturn.
Provisions rose with corn and oats.
CHICAGO QUOTATIONS
The following were the ruling prices In tbs I
vrciiange today:
Prev.
Open. High. Low. Close. Close. |
<‘i:N
Jnly. 159 @159% 160 155% 155% 159% ;
I Aug.. 160 @160% 161% 155% 155% 160%;
Sept.. 160%@160% 161% 155% 156% 160%
j July .. 76%@76% 77 75% 75% 76%
j Aug 73% 73% 72% 72% 72% ;
I Sept. .. 71%@71% 71% 70% 70% 71%
July 45.30 45.30 45.30 45.30 45.25 j
Sept 45.50 45.50 45.27 45.40 45.35 ;
July 26.20 26.15 >
Sept 26.27 26.30 26.25 26.22 26.25’
..IBs—
July 24.45 24.40
I Sept 24.77 24.80 24.72 24.75 24.72
| Atlanta Live Stock |
(Corrected by W. H. White. Jr., president of
the White Provision Co. United States Food
Administration License No. G-21371.)
Good to choice heifers, 850 to 1,000 pounds.
$10.50 to $12.50.
Good steers, 750 to 850 pounds. $9.50 to
$11.50.
Medium to good steers, 650 to 750 pounds,
$9.00 to $10.IK).
Medium to choice beef cows, 750 to B*>o
pounds. $8.50 to $9.50.
Medium to good cows, 650 to 750 poonls.
SB.OO to $9.00.
Good to choice heifers, 550 to 650 pounds. ‘
SB.OO to $9.50.
The above represents ruling prices for good
quality fed cattle. Inferior grades, dairy types
and range cattle quoted below:
Medium to good cattle. 650 to 750 pounds, I
$8.50 to $9.50.
Medium to good cows. 600 to 700 pounds.
$7.50 to $8.50.
Mixed common. $6.59 to $7.50.
Good Tat oxen. $8.50 to $9.50.
Medium to good oxen. SB.OO to $9.00.
Good butcher bulls. $7.00 to SIO.OO.
Choice veal calves. SB.OO to $9.00.
Y’earlings. $7.00 to SB.OO.
Prime bogs, 105 to 225 pounds, $15.23 to 1
$16.00.
Light hogs, 130 to 165 pounds. $14.50 to ,
$15.00.
Light pigs, 80 to 100 pounds. $12.00 to SIB.OO.
Stags and roughs. $12.00 to $15.00.
The above quotations apply to good quality
mixed fed hogs.
LIVE STOCK BY WIRE
EAST ST. LOUIS. July 18 —Cattle—Receipts, j
4.500, including no Texans; market steady; na- 1
five beef steers, $11.50@13.00; yearling steers
and heifers, $11.50© 15.50; cows, $7.50@13.75;
srockers and feders, $8.50@12.00; calves, $7.75
@17.00; cows and heifers, $7.50@16.00.
Hogs—Receipts, 7.500; market 20c to 25c j
higher; mixed and butchers. $18.10@18.40; good
and heavy. $18.15@18.35; rough, $16.50@16.75; ’
light, $18.30@18.50; pigs, $17.75@18.15; bulk, 1
$18.10@18.40.
Sheep—Receipts, 3.200; market steady; clip
ped ewes. $11.00@12.00; lambs, $14.00@18.00; I
eanners and choppers, $5.00@10.30.
CHICAGO, July 18.—Hogs: Receipts, 34,000; !
firm; bulk of sales, $17.45@18.30; butchers, j
slß.lo@ 18.40: packing, $17.15@18.0V; light,
$L8.15@18.40; rough, $16.50@17.10; pigs, $17.00 ■
fri 17.50.
Cattle—Receipts, 18.000: good to best steers,
steady to 10 cents higher; top, $15.25, a new j
record: common to medium, slow to lower; best i
butchers sunk steady; others unevenly lower;
calves aml/stoekers and feeders steady.
Sheep—Receipts, 18,000; steady to strong;
best range lambs held higher.
SHEPPARD & GLUCK COTTON LETTER
NEW ORLEANS, La., July IS. —War news
put the cotton market higher today in the face
of much rain in the belt, outside of Texas,
where the drouth is worse titan ever. Nc’ws of
the counter offensive by the FYench and Amer
ican forces reached the market around the open
, ing and had an immediate stimulating effect.
The gain was widened until the active months
were 36 to 55 up, July being the strongest posi
tion. The strength of wuly can be explained
only by short covering, which came about de
spite the many reports of new cotton in unusual
volume in Texas.
llie counter blow by the allies was regarded
as important because it myy mark the begin
ning of a new phase of the fighting of this
summer. The action of the market tquay made
it plain that prices will rise very readily when
ever the entente scores.
The detailed xveather bureau returns indicated
that the drouth has been relieved over a good
portion of the belt. Moreover, showery weather
is generally forecast for that portion of the belt
east of the Mississippi river. Texas remains
the one bad spot in the cotton region. Tele
grams from that state tell of much premature
opening of bolls and, thns, while the early
movement will be large, in consequence, it will
be at the expense of the total yield. The mar
ket nets healthy and responds readily to buying,
which we expect will continue if war reports re
main favorable in the near future.
Robbers Get $4,000 From
Safe of Finance Company
MEMPHIS, Tent)., July 17.—Four
thousand dollars Was taken from the
safe of the Merpphis Finance company,
branch of an Atlanta firm, here last
night. The thief worked the safe com
bination.
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Congressman Howard
Pays $250 Entrance Fee
For Senatorial Primary
Congressman William Schley Howard,
candidate for the United States senate
to succeed Thomas W. Hardwick, on
Thursday paid to Hiram Gardner, secre
tary of the state democratic executive
| committee, the entrance fee of $250 for
i the senatorial primary on September 11.
Mr. Howard was the first of the sen
| atorial candidates to pay his entrance
! fee, although the time limit for
I trance into the race does not expire Un
til August 16.
The congressman is now engaged in
;an intensive campaign tour of south
Georgia, speaking two and three times
daily and covering about twenty-five
’ counties. He is expected to - return to
Atlanta on July 28 to spend a few days
before starting out on another cam
’ paign swing through another section of
’ the state.
ATLANTA MARKETS S
ATLANTA, July 17.—Cotton by wagon,
firm. 31.55 c.
SALT
Salt—Brick, medicated, per case. $7.50; do
plain, per crate. $4.50; White Rock, per cwt..
$1.50; Jack Frost. 25 3-lb. packages, $1.25;
Ozone, case. 25 2-lb. packages. $1.00; blocks.’
50 pounds. 60c.
CRACKERS
Florida soda crackers. 17c per pound; Pearl
oyster crackers, 17c per pound; lemon rounds,
i 18c per pound; cart wheels, 18c per pound: ali
10c package crackers. 90c per dozen; all 20c
packages. $1.75 per dozen; family tjn crispeltes,
t 58.00 per dozen.
FISH
Pompano, scarce, per pound. 25c; Spanish
[ matjcerel. per pound. 17c; trout, drawn, per
1 pound. 18c; headless red snapper, pound. 19c;
! bluefish, pound. 15c; whiting, per pound. 12%c;
j mango snapper, per pound. 12%c; mullet, per
pound. 11c; small channel cat and perch, per
I pound. 10c.
CEREALS
Purity- oats. 18s. round. $2.00; 30s. round,
$3.90; 12 family size. $3.10; Purity grits, 245.
’ round, $2.75; 10s, ruond. $2.90; regular' Pos
tum. large. $2.25; assorted. $2.50; small, $2.70;
; instant Postum, large, $4.50; assorted, $5.00;
small. |&40; Grape-Nuts. 15c size, $2.85; indi
I vidual size. $2.00. ’ .
CANDIES
Kennesaw stick candy, in barrels, 17c per
pound; small chocolate drops in 30-pound pails.
21c per pound; Stone Mountain chocolate drops
in 30-pound pails. 20c per pound; Bonbon mix
ture in 30 pound pails. 18c per pound; Fulton
mixture in 35-pound cases. 16c per pound;
Honeycomb taffy in 20-pound cases, 22c per
pound; broken taffy in baskets, 18%c per
pound; bonanza assortments. SIO.OO each.’
MEAT, LARD AND HAMS
Dry salt extra ribs, 24c; dry salt rib bellies,
medium to average. 26c; nry salt rib bellies,
light, average. 26c; Cudahy’s Puritan brand.
1 hams. 32c; Cudahy’s Rex hams. 31c; Cudahy’s
sandwich boiled hams. 42c; Cudahy’s Puritan
j lard, tierce basis. 29c; Cudahy’s Rex lard.
27%c; Cudahy’s White Ribbon compound, 23%c
I per pound.
I Cornfield hams. 10 to 12 average, 32c; Corn
field hams, 12 to 14 average. 32c; Cornfield
picnic hams, 6 to 8 average. 23%c; Cornfield
j breakfast bacon. 44c; Cornfield sliced bacon,
i 1-pound boxes. 12 to case, 52c; grocers’ bacon,
wjde or narrow. 37%c; Cornfield pork sausage.
I fresh link or bulk. 22c; Cornfield wieners in
I 10-pound cartons, 21c; Cornfield bologna sau
sage, 25-pound boxes, 20c; Cornfield smoked link
• s-ausage. 25-pound boxes, 19e; Cornfield wien
ers, in pickle. No. 15 kits, $3.00; Cornfield lard,
tierce basis. 26%c: compound lard, tierce basis.
23%e; country style laid, tirece basis, 26%c.
GROCERIES
Flour—Capitola. $12.70; Olympia, $13.00.
Meal—Atlanta Milling e-mpuny plain meal, 96
pounds, $2.02; 48 pounds, $2.04; 24 to 12 pounds,
$2.07.
Mackerel —U-Kno-It, 5%-6-ounce, 190 count,
out; Leader. 7-ounce, 100 count, out; Anchor,
8%-ounce. 60 count, $7.25; 75 count, $8.50;
Crown, 9%-10-ounce. 60 count, $7.50; 75 count.
$9.00; Eureka. 13-1-f-ounce. 60 count, SIO.OO.
B. & M. fish flakes, 24, small, $1.45; 24.
large, $2.25. ;
Sardines —Key, %* oils. Continentals, $7.50;
keyless, % oils, Conqueror, $7.00; key,- % oils,
in cartons. Homerun. $8.00; key, % mustards.
Imperial, none; key, % mustards, in cartons.
Gnmecoek. none.
Meats—Potted meats. 47%c; r<QHt beef, $5.25;
corned beef, $5.25; tripe. $3.30; C. B. hash.
$1.55; hataberger. steak and onions, $1.55; veal
loaf. $2.40.
Co.'fee—Blue Ridge brand, roasted. 15c; Wall
brand. 5@5%c; AAAA. 15c; Uno, 25c.
Rice—Japs. s@6c; Honduras, medium head,
3%©4%c; Arkansas fancy head. 6@6%c.
Beans—California blackeyes, $10.50; pink.
$9.50; limas. $14.50; small whites, $14.00;
Michigan choice, $16.00.
NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET
Close.
January 8.67@8.68
February 8.73@8.74
March 8.79@8.80
I April 8.86@8.87
I May •8.94@8.95
Ju1y8.37@8.39
August 8.37@8.39
September 8.39@8.40
October 8.4»@8.47
November 8.53@8.54
December' a... 8.60@8.61
RECEIPTS IN CHICAGO
Inlay.
Wheat 149 cars
Corn 309 cars
Oats < 210 cars
Ilogs 35.000 bead
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FOB, SALE —IHSCELLAKEOUS '
CANS IOH SAJ-E tlltAl’.
No. 2 cans, 2 1-6-ineh opening, with 8. H.
caps, $32 per 1.000, packed 200 and 500 in
cartons and crAes.
No. 3 cans, 2 1-6-inch opening, with S. H.
caps, S4S per 1,000, packed 100 in cartons.
No. 2 sanitary cans, packed 125 in cartom,
$35 per 1,000.
No. 3 sanitary cans, packed 100 in cartons,
$lB per 1,000.
F. O. B. Atlanta, cash with order.’ Special
price in car lots. We maouActure steam pres
sure canners and cookers.
AMERICAN CANNING CORPORATION.
78 Auburn Ave., Atlanta, Ga.
SEEDS AND~i’DANTS? “ ’
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Parcel post or express. Prompt shipment*.
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X ’ BEI S ”
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light work; good profit. Write today. Smith
Brothers. Dept. 20. Concord. Ga.
rOB SALE — rARMS
FARMS FOR SALE?
123 acres, 8- miles Moultrie, Ga., Colquitt
county, 86 acres cultivation, balance pasture.
Red pebhle land with clay subsoil; lies well and
desirably located near churches, schools and
railroad. Three settlements and is cheap at
$6,000.
60 acres. 11 miles Moultrie, 2 miles Harts
field. Ga., 48 acres in cultivation, balance pas
ture. Exira good land and two good houses.
Price only $3,000.
532 acres, 7 miles Moultrie, on public road,
' 200 acres in cultivation. 250 more can be culti
vated with little expense. Extra good land, lies
' well and is partly stumped.
Improvements consists of good 7-room- dwell
ing. two tenant houses. Located near churches,
schools, snd in good section. Price only S4O per
I acre.
2115 acres. 5 miles Moultrie, on public road.
135 acres in cultivation. 100 more tillable. Red
pebble land, lies well and desirably located.
One 7-room dwelling and two good tenant
houses. Price on application. •
Few other select farms for quick sale near
Moultrie. Ga.
L. M. BURNS.
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