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New York Financiers
Give Xmas Bonuses
OF $25,000,000
NEW YORK. Dec. 20. —Total dis
bursements by banking and stock
brokerage firms in the financial dis
trict for salary bonuses during the
last year, including Christmas gifts,
were estimated today at $25,000,000.
While no accurate record is obtain
able either for this or other years,
persons familiar with conditions in
the financial district declare never
before had there been such a gen
erous distribution of gifts and bon-
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OFFICERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE GEORGIA BAPTIST CONVENTION
which replaces the various boards that have hitherto had charge of denominational activities. They
are, from left to right, Dr. B. S. Railey, of Atlanta, recording secretary; Dr. J. I). Mell, of Athens,
vice chairman: Judge Andrew J. Cobb, of Athens,chairman, and Dr. Arch C. Cree, executive secre
tary.—Staff pheto- by Winn.
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COST OF GORDON
The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
623 Rixgs Building-.
BY THEODORE TIE.T.EB
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—The Mc-
Kenzie subcommittee of the house
military affairs committe will begin
an investigation of the construction
cost of Camp Gorden Monday, De
cember 29. The hearings will be
held in Washington and officers of
the constructing quqartermaster’s de
partment, as well as the contractors
for the Camp Gordon project, will
be summoned.
Representative McKenzie, of Illi
nois, chairman of the subcommittee,
told The Journal correspondent this
afternoon tha the committee had
decided to summon witnesses to
Washington rather than hold hear
ings in Atlanta. The committee has
already probed the construction costs
at Camp Grant, Rockford, 111., and
Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, O. Ex
travagance at both camps is alleged
by the investiga ors, and the inves
tigation of the Atlanta comp will be
to determine whether there was ex
travagance and waste in the build
ing of Camp Gordon.
“It is inconvenient for the mem
bers of the committee to go to At
lanta, which we thought of doing,”
said Chairman McKenzie today. “We
have decided instead to have wit
nesses come to Washington, and
will summon the constructing quar
termaster and his assistants, as well
as representatives of the contractors
who were engaged in the construc
tion work at Camp Gordon.
“Our subcommittee is charged
solely -with the duty of investigat
ing camp construction, and we will
go into other details, such as the
controversy over the retention of the
Atlanta camp. Our purpose is to,
find out whether the camp was prop
erly and economically constructed,
and if there was any waste of pub
lic funds by the war department.”
Mr. McKenzie said the Camp Gor
don hearings probably would con
tinue for several days. It is likely
that Gordon will be taken as typical
of camps in the south, and the com
mittee may not probe specifically the
expenditures at other southern
camps, if Gordon comes through with
a clean bill.
Members of the subcommittee are
Representative McKenzie. Repre
sentative McCulloch, of Ohio, and
Representative Doremus, of Michi
gan. Mr. Doremus is the only Dem
ocrat on the subcommittee.
Casket of Fate
LONDON. England. There was
keen competition at Christie’s for
possession of the famous casket as
sociated with Mary Queen of Scots.
It changed hands at 2.700 guineas.
The casket is of French design, and
was made early in the sixteenth cen
tury. It is traditionally said to have
conveyed the letters between Mary
and Earl of Bothwell. It is about
four inches high and eight inches
long.
CONGRESS HALTS
UNTIL JANUARY 5
ON HOLIDAY REST
Congress Adjourns to
Meet Again January 5
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—The
Christmas recess of congress be
gan at 11:12 p. m. tonight when
the senate adjourned to meet again
January 2. The house adjourned
four minutes earlier and no busi
ness was transacted in either
house during the night.
The delay in adjournment was
necessary to permit bills passed
today to be prepared for the sig
natures of the speaker of the
house and the president of the
senate before being transmitted
to the White House. Few mem
bers were present at adjournment.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Con
gress closed down tonight until Jan
uary 5 for its holiday vacation with
the usual travail of adjournment
congestion.
Under the Christmas urge more
business was transacted today than
often goes through in a month.
Left for action in Januaty, however,
were many important measures, in
cluding the Versailles treaty.
Closing hours of the senate were
enlivened by two moves toward a
compromise on the treaty, but the
question of ratification went over.
Trains leaving Washington to
night were crowded with members
and their families homeward bound,
and nearly all business is to be sus
pended until reconvening, January 5,
when congress is prepared for work
expected to hold it in session until
the presidential election campaign
next fall. The only activities plan
ned during the recess are private ne
gotiations for settlement of the
treaty controversy and conferences
on railroad legislation.
To obtain its holiday recess, con
gress today passed a score of bills
and resolutions, mostly of a minor
charcter. Among important actions
was passage by the senate of the
Cummins railroad bill and transmis
sion of the senate and house bills to
conference with a view to enactment
early next month.
Congress also enacted and sent to
President Wilson the compromise
bill to continue government control
of sugar through 1920. Other major
measures enacted were the Sweet
bill increasing war risk insuran&e
allowance of men disabled in the war
and the $33,000,000 urgent de
ficiency appropriation bill.
A compromise with the Louisiana
sugar growers brought about final
passage of the McNary act. The
house in extending the board’s pow
ers provided the licensing of sugar
dealers should continue also. To
this the Louisiana representatives
strongly protested, but finally agreed
to a proposal that the licensing sys
tem as far as the domestic crop is
concerned shall end July 1.
The board is ready to continue its
work, and the action of congress, it
is believed, will secure an adequate
supply of sugar. Power is given to
commandeer or purchase any crops
necessary to relieve shortages.
The house passed and sent to the
senate the alien deportation bill,
aimed at radical agitators, and the
senate ordered investigation by the
foreign relations committee of bol
shevik propaganda including activi
ties of Ludwig C. A. K. Martens,
self-styled “ambassador” to this
country of the Russian soviet gov
ernment.
Legal requirements for transmis
sion tonight before adjournment to
President Wilson of measures com
pleted today delayed adjournment of
both senate and house until a late
hour tonight, although business vir
tually was completed and almost all
members left early in the evening.
While enrolling clerks worked at
top speed to complete bills for signa
ture of the vice president and speak
er, the senate and house recessed
for dinner and only a handful of
members returned for the closing
gavels succeeding transmission of
the bills to the White House..
Over protest of Senator Gronna,
Republican, North Dakota, the sen
ate agreed before adjournment to
night to give the house water power
development bill right of way when
congress reconvenes January 5. The
action was recommended by the Re
publican steering committee and Sen
ator Gronna declared he was not
“willing to be a rubber stamp for
any committee.”
The house will begin work on the
annual oppropriation bills imme
diately after the recess. These total
more than four billion dollars and
must be materially reduced, leaders
of the republican majority in house
and senate declare. The task of
passing the 14 appropriation meas
ures will occupy the house well into
the first month of the new year.
The senate will return to resume
efforts to reach a compromise on the
peace treaty. It will take up water
power legislation early in the new
year and following that, it is expect
ed, bills to regulate the packing in
dustry will be disposed of.
In both houses an early start is
hoped for on legislation reorganizing
the army on a peace basis. The house
military committee has completed
its bill and the senate military com
mittee will spend the recess perfect
ing a reorganization measure.
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1919.
I WEST POINT LOSS
$1,000,000, SAYS
BRADSTREET’S
Bradstreet’s weekly report for this
district, issued Friday morfiing, es
timated at more than $1,000,009 the
losses sustained at West Point, Ga„
as the result of the flood which swept
the western part of the state last
week. It was stated at the local
office that the financial situation re
sultant from the flood was appar
ently well in hand.
Eradstreet’s report commented
upon the general good business and
industrial conditions in this district,
reporting that there had been no fail
ures and that bank clearings for the
week ending Thursday reached a to
tal of $91,501,174, an increase of
more than $3,000,000 over tha preced
ing week. Atlanta stood tenth in all
the cities of America in last week’s
report.
The report issued Friday follows.
“Manufacturing and industry con
tinues active. Wholesale trade con
tinues good. Retailers report record
sales with good collections. Christ
mas shopping is in full swing with
a great demand for the higher grades
of merchandise and money is appar
ently plentiful. Building .is active
and about evenly divided between
commercjal and residential. The re
cent heavy rains caused considerable
damage throughout . this entire sec
tion, especially in the western, caus
ing an enormous loss by washouts
and damages to bridges and roads
which has seriously impeded country
trade. The heaviest loss was sus
tained at West Point, Ga., which is
estimated at over a million dollars.
No failures. Clearings, $91,501,174.”
Thirty L ives Lost As
Tanker J. A. Chanslor
Breaks in Two on Reef
BANDON, Ore., Dec. 20.—At least
thirty lives were lost when the oil
tanker J. A. Chanslor, bound in
ballast from Portland, Ore., to San
Francisco, was wrecked off Cape
Blanco, Thursday night, according to
the report of Earl Dooley, member of
the crew, who was washed ashore
from one of the Chanilor’s life
boats near here early today.
Besides Dooley an unidentified man
was saved. According to Dooley the
ship struck a reef at 6:15 o’clock
Thursday night and broke in two
a few minutes afterward, the after
part of the vessel sinking, taking
thirty men down with it. A score of
the crew of fifty-one still were un
accounted for today.
After the vessel broke in two,
according to Dooley s account, ten
or twelve of the survivors succeeded
in manning lifeboats. Captain A.
Sawyer being among them.
They drifted about all of Thurs
day night and most of yesterday,
picking up a seaman, who appeared
insane when taken from the water and
died shortly afterward. On attempting
to effect a landing near here, Dooley
said, the boat capsized and he and
an unidentified man were the only
ones known to have reached shore.
Dooley expressed the opinion, how
ever, that others from the capsized
i lifeboat would be found alive along
j the beach.
American Flyers Mourn
Sir John Alcock’s Death
NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—Grief and
regret over the death in France of
Captain Sii- John Alcock, first non
stop trans-Atlantic flier, were ex
pressed in a resolution adopted to
day by the board of governors of the
American Flying club.
“In the death of Captain Alcock,”
the resolution said, "the world has
suffered a great and irreparable loss.
The science of aviation has lost one
of its most daring and beloved lead-
I ers.”
i Canada Likely to Lift
Liquor Bans January
OTTAWA. Ontario, Dee. 20.—An
order granting amnesty to military
offenders has been passed by the
federal cabinet, it was announced to
day. It stops all prosecutions and
releases prisoners under the military
service act.
With regard to liquors, it is un
derstood, a bill in council is being
passed rescinding all the war-time
restrictions with a few exceptions as
I from January 1.
i Wilson Can’t Lift Dry
Ban, Palmer Says
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.--Presi
dent Wilson cannot lift the war
time prohibition ban until the peace
treaty has bee:', ratified and a proc-
I lamation of demobilization issued,
i Attorney General Palmer ruled to-
I day. The supreme court decision on
i war time prohibition strengthens
| him in his opinion, which he held
j previously.
Caruso’s New Daughter,
“Gloria,” Is a Soprano
! NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—Enrico Ca
ruso, tenor, has a new" baby, a so
prano. Miss Gloria Caruso and her
mother, formerly Dorothy Park Ben
jamin, were reported in fine spirits
today.
BAPTISTS BUY
CHRISTIAN INDEX;
PRICE IS $40,000
The executive committee of the
Georgia Baptist convention, which
replaces the various boards in charge
of Baptist activities in Georgia, has
purchased for the denomination the
Christian Index, the official orgati
i of the Convention, according to of
i ficial announcement following the
I conclusion Friday night of the two
: day conference held in Atlanta by
the committee. The purchase price
was $ 10,000.
The transaction was negotiated by
a sub-committee of which J. R. Hall,
of Moultrie, was chairman, and which
was busy during Thursday and Fri
day conferring with Dr. B. J. W.
Graham, editor of the paper and
head of the Index Printing company.
The purchase of the publication was
authorized by the Georgia Baptist
convention at its last meeting in
Macon several weeks ago, when a
resolution was adopted declaring it
to be the sense of the convention
that the Christian Index should be
come the property of the denomina
tion Instead of remaining under pri
vate control.
The details as to arrangements for
taking over actual’control and own
ership of the publication have not
yet been worked out, but it is un
derstood that this will be done with
out delay. The personnel of the
editorial staff and management will
also be selected at the earliest pos
sible moment, it is stated.
The consummation of the Christian
Index transaction constituted the
main feature of the closing session
held by the executive Committee on
Friday. The administration commit
tee, which is authorized to transact
business between the quarterly meet
ings of the larger body, will ar
range for the next gathering, which
is expected to be held in March.
Appointment of the personnel of
the department and field, forces of
Baptist activities in Georgia along
with a spirited discussion of the
proposed purchase of the Christian
Index, which was referred to a sub
committee headed by J. R. Hall, of
Moultrie, constituted the features of
Friday morning's ’ session of the ex
ecutive committee of the Georgia
Baptist convention in Atlanta. The
executive committee replaces the va
rious boards which have in years
past had charge of the denomina
tional work in the state. The per
sonnel of the departmental and field
forces as adopted Friday morning is
as follows:
Sunday school department—George
W. Andrews, secretary; two field
workers to be appointed.
B. Y. P. U. department—Frank H.
Leavell, secretary; two field workers
to be appointed.
Department of evangelism—J.
Frank Jackson, I. R. Walker, J. D.
Hoffman, F. D. King.
Enlistment department—J. Fred
Eden, Jr., R. L. Bonseel, M. R. Gad
dis, W. F. West, S. S. Mathis, W. Y.
Hunt, G. W. Garner, J. L. Helms, J.
A. Brendle, A. M. Duggan, A. Scott
Patterson, C. R. Lee, Z. M. Lever
ette.
Superintendent of missions—Dr.
B. S. Railey.
Superintendent of publicity—S. D.
Newton.
The state mision budget for 1920
was announced as follows:
Administration, $12,000; B. W. M,
U„ $10,000; Sunday Schools, $7,500
B. Y. P. U„ $7,500; publicity, $lO,-
000; evangelism, $22,000; enlistments
$26,500; missions, $25,090; church
building, $25,000; designated, $2.
000; emergency, $12,500. Total.
$160,000.
The committee opened its meet
ing at the First Baptist church
on Thursday and effected a perma
nent organization by the election of
Judge Andrew J. Cobb, of Athens, as
chairman; Dr. Arch C. Cree, as exec
utive secretary and various other
officers.
The executive committee, which
replaces the various boards hitherto
in control of educational, missionary
and benevolent activities of Georgia
Baptists, has named sub-committees
to have charge of each department.
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Get $20,000 in Holdup
in Philadelphia Club
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 20.
Six unmasked bandits lifted $20,000
in cash and valuables from fifteen
members of the Ajax Tire club in a
sensational hold-up here tonight.
They made a clean get-away with
out detection.
The robbers entered the rooms of
the club at the rear of the building,
lined their victims against the wall
and went through their pockets for
$9,000 in cash and SII,OOO in watches
and jewelry.
“You’re a cheap gang,” one of the
robbers exclaimed as they calmly
drove off in a waiting automobile.
Run Engine With Whipped
Cream? Chicago Can Do It
NEW YORK. —To run engines, us
ing as a fuel olive oil, melted butter
or whipped cream may sound absurd,
but according to E. W. Blakeley, of
the Society of Automotive Engineers,
at the convention of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers, this
already has been accomplished.
The experiment was accomplished
recently with the ues of a Hvid en
gine, invented by R. H. Hvid, of Chi
cago, and was performed in the pres
ence of five engineers representing
the Russian government.
Put Ban on Flirting
LONDON, England.—The following
notice is displayed in a men’s hostel,
attached to one of the Bangor col
leges:
“No member is allowed to hold or
to attempt to hold any conversation
with any of the opposite sex. No
member is allowed to be in the com
pany of any girl or woman within
the walls of the college. To give or
to attempt to give the ’glad eye’ or
by any means or sign whatever to
attract the attenion of he opposite
sex is strictly forbidden. Members
of our league who transgress any of
the above rules will be brought be
fore the president, and, if found
guilty, will be fined 12 cents for each
offence.”
Walking 25,000 Miles
LONDON, England. William C.
Brown, late of the Leicester reg
iment, who, for no particular reason,
has set himself the task of walking
25.000 miles in the United Kingdom,
said today that the “torture of his i
life’’ is the refusal of rides offered I
by kindly motorists. Brown left I
Darlington on May 8. He is averag
ing twenty-three miles a day, and
at the rate his tack will take three
years. His progress is recorded by
police stamps in a small ledger.
Attempt Is Made
To Assassinate
Viscount French
DUBLIN.—An attempt was made
Friday morning to assassinate Vis
count French, the lord lieutenant ot
Ireland.
Lord French was driving between
the Ashton Gate of Phoenix Park
and Vice Regal Lodge when a shot
was fired. A civilian nearby was
struck and instantly killed by the
bullet.
A policeman was wounded at the
same time.
Several shots are said to have been
fired by Lord French’s assailants.
The military present promptly re
turned the fire and one of the as
sailants was shoe dead. His body
lay by the roadside.
Ambulances were immodiatelx
rushed to the spot. Information
gathered indicated that the assas
sins fired from a field while the vice
regal party was passing along the
road.
The most intense excitement pre
vailed when two tankers passed
through the streets later.
Field Marshal John French has
been lord lieutenant of Ireland since
1918. Previously he was commander
in-chief of the British armies in
France and directed the retreat
through Flanders in the early days
of the war. The skillful handling ot
this retreat delayed the German
armies to such an extent that the
great victory of Marshal Joffre at
the first Marne was possible.
DUBLIN, Dec. 20.—Government
police are engaged in tracking down
the men who yesterday attempted to
assassinate Viscount French, lord
lieutenant of Ireland. Belief is ex
pressed that evidence has been ob
tained that may result in the ar
rest of several of those who planned
and carried out the attack.
The absence of independent wit
nesses and the quickness of the at
tack caused a number of discrepan
cies in accounts of the occurance.
Most recent reports state that the
motor car in which the Viscount
rode was not struck by bullets, the
attacking party centering its atten
tion on the automobile immediately
behind which was empty. This car
was shattered by a bomb which
burst inside of the vehicle. Large
crowds from Dublin visited the scene
of the attack yesterday afternoon.
22 Staple Articles
Os Food Advanced in
November 2 Per Cent
WASHINGTON, Dec'. 20.—Despite
efforts of the government to reduce
the cost of living retail cost of twen
ty-two staple food articles showed
a:: average increase of 2 per cent in
November, as compared with Oc
tober, the bureau of labor statistics
announced tonight. The average
familys’ expenditures for these ar
ticles increased 5 per cent from a
year ago, the report said.
Eggs went up 13 per cent, onions
and sugar 10 per cent, raisins 9 per
cent, butter 6 per cent, storage eggs
and prunes 4 per cent, canned sal
mon, fresh milk and potatoes 3 per
cent, rice and bananas, 2 per cent,
evaporated milk, oleomargarine,
cheese, lard, crisco, bread, flour and
macaroni 1 per cent, and coffee and
tea less than 5 1-4 of 1 per cent.
Decreases reported included pork
chops 5 per dent, ham 4 per cent,
bacon 3 per cent, round steak, plate
beef, hens, navy beans and oranges
2 per dent, sirloin steak, rib roast,
chuck roast, lamb, baked beans and
canned corn 1 per cent.
President Sets Aside
Death Sentence for
Three A. E. F. Officers
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Convic
tion of three officers of the Three
Hundredth and Sixty-Eighth infan
try, on charges growing out of the
failure of that regiment to hold its
place in lin4 near Bearnirville,
France, September 28, 191 S, have
been set aside by President Wilson.
Army orders published today re
corded executive action in the cases
of Lieutenants Horace R. Crawford,
Judge Cross and Robert W. Cheers,
each of whom had been sentenced
to death on charges of having vio
lated the seventy-fifth article of war.
The specification in each case charged
the officers with having “shameful
ly” retreated from the enemy.
Insurance Co. Drops
Whisky Liability
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Still without
a plan, so far as learned, to
dispose profitably of 35,000,0006
gallons of liquor before January 16,
when it must be out of the country,
Kentucky distillers heard a pro
nouncement by the Connecticut Mu
tual Insurance company branch
office here, that liability for whisky
could not further be provided by the
company.
This action was taken by the com
pany, it was announced, because of
the fact that no valuation can be
placed on liquor now that it cannot
be sold. While no other insurance
company has taken similar action,
whisky men were said to forecast fur
ther announcements of this kind
shortly, which, it was said, would
endanger safety of their stocks from
fire or other damage.
Man, With Wife in
Russia, Denied Citizenship
ALBANY, Ga. —United States dis
trit court, Albany division, adjourn
ed for the term Thursday, after a
short session which convened lasi
Monday morning, Judge Beverly D.
Evans presiding.
The last business of the court
was the matter of naturalization,
citizenship being granted to thr
applicants and denied to another
One applicant whose wife is still ir
Russia was denied citizenship, Judg<
Evans holding that a man is render
ing only half allegiance when h
resides here while his family rc
mains in the native country.
It is understood that the gran
jury returned a large number of in
dictments at this term, but officers
of the court were not ready to give
them out when court adjourned, say
ing that this information would be
made public later.
Prisoners given penitentiary sen
tences were taken to Atlanta Thurs
day. while most of those given jail
sentences will serve their tilne in
the Dougherty county jail. A few,
on application, were allowed to go
to the jails in their respective home
counties.
Judge Evans left Thursday for
Savannah, where he has important
court matters to attend to Satur
day.
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COTTON POOL IS
TURNED DOWN
That large financial interests for
several weeks have been engaged in
an effort to form with the Amer
ican Cotton association a pool of two
million bales of cotton, and that the
proposal has been declined by J. S.
Wannamaker, president of the asso
ciation. was the statement made by Mr.
Wannamaker Friday while in Atlanta
conferring with the headquarters
staff of the association in this city.
The suggested pool, if made, would
have been the largest in the history
of the cotton industry, Mr. Wanna
maker said, and would have involved
practically the entire existing sup
ply of raw cotton. His statement
giving the details of the negotiations,
as given out from headquarters of
the association, is as follows.
“Agencies stated as representing
large financial interests have for
several weeks made intense and per
sistent confidential efforts to secure
the consent of J: S. Wannamaker,
president of the American Cotton
association, to enter into a combina
tion for pooling 2,000,000 bales of
cotton by members of the associa
tion. The proposition guaranteed an
advance cash payment to the holders
at present market prices; the mem
bers of the association so pooling
being thereby guaranteed against
market; and the members to be paid
loss from any future decline in the
one-half of the advance in price at
any date they desired to make final
settlement between the date of the
pooling transaction and the first day
of August, 1920.
“This is the greatest pooling
proposition ever suggested from
strong financial interests in the
history of the cotton industry. Aft
er several conferences which care
fully considered the proposal, it has
teen definitely and positively de
clined by the president of the Amer
ican Cotton association for the fol
lowing sound and specific reasons:
“First: Because it is believed that
such a pooling agreement, no mat
ter how highly financed, would be
violative of the Sherman anti-trust
law, and violative of safe and con
servative business and banking rules
in the marketing of a great product
such as cotton.
“Second: Because prevailing prices
for spot cotton are far below the
intrinsic value of the staple based
upon a system of marketing the
crop according to the legitimate laws
of supply and demand, and upon the
present prices of the manufactured
product.
“Third: Because with the present
loyal support and co-operation of the
local bankers and the federal re
serve bank system, the farmers can
finance their cotton, market the
same slowly to meet the needs of the
spinners, and secure the full value
of the advances in future prices
which are certain to be realized re
sulting from a well-known famine
now facing the raw cotton supply of
the world.
“This statement regarding the
shortage of spot cotton is confirmed
by the best experts on the situation
in this country, and further by the
great English expert on cotton, Pro
fessor John A. Todd, who believes
an enormous shortage of 'raw cotton
faces the entire spinning world be
fore the 1920 crop will become avail
able, regardless of the enforcement
of the strictest economy on the part
of the consuming mills.
“The American Cotton association
is determined to adhere strictly to
the rules and regulations of safe,
sound and conservative business
principles in the solution of every
economic problem facing the future
handling and marketing of the
south’s great staple crop in the in
terests of its membership.”
Mr. Wannamaker passed through
Atlanta on his way to Louisiana and
Texas to confer with officials of the
state divisions of the American Cot
ton association in those states. He
came here from a meeting in Raleigh,
where a North Carolina division of
the association was formed. In dis
cussing the association and the gen
eral cotton outlook, Mr. Wannamaker
said dealers in cotton futures are in
the worst predicament today in the
history of the cotton exchanges, as
they have sold large quantities of
cotton for delivery this winter, and
the holders of the contracts are de
manding the delivery of actual cot
ton instead of the payment of mar
gins.
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