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IS YOUR HEALTH
GRADUALLY SUPPING?
Interesting Experience of a Texas Lady Who Declares That if More
Women Knew About Cardui They Would Be Spared
Much Sickness and Worry.
. Navasota, Texas.—Mrs. W. M. Peden,
lot this place, relates the following interest-
Fing account of how she recovered her
•strength, having realized that she was
' actually losing her health:
“Health is the greatest thing in the
world, and when you feel that gradually
slipping away from you, you certainly sit
oup and take notice. That is what I did
- s some time ago when I found myself in a
f very nervous, run-down condition of
• health. I was so tired and felt so lifeless
I could hardly go at all.
“I was just no account for work. I
would get a bucket of water and would
feel so weak I would have to set it down
before l felt like I could lift it to the shelf.
In this condition, of course, to do even
my housework was a task almost im
possible to accomplish.
“i was . . . nervous and easily upset.
STILL HOLD COTTON
. IS THE ADVICE GIVEN
J. J. BROWN SAYS THE NEXT
SIXTY DAYS WILL SEE TURN
IN TIDE. EXPECTS BIG ACRE
AGE CUT
Atlanta, March 10.—“ Hold and
keep on holding what cotton you
Shave, at least for the next sixty
fdays, so as to get the full advan
tage you will derive front the 50
| per cent reduction in the 1021 crop
. which is bound to come,” is the ur-
I gent appeal of Commissioner of Ag
riculture J. J. Brown to the cotton
growers of Georgia.
With credits more difficult to ob
tain than they have been in many
years; with the prices of materials
entering into crop production still
at high levels, and v.’th prospects
of greater boll weevil damage than
ever, owing to the mild winter. Com
missioner Brorn asserts there is no
longer any doubt as to at least a 50
per cent reduction in the new crop,
and there is a possibiity that it may
be larger.
“Those who have carried their cot
. ton right up to the new planting
[ season, which is now at hand, would
! make a grave mistake, as I see it, to
' sell now when a 50 per cent acreage
i reduction has become a practical
certainty,” Commissioner Brown
I said.
“The cott'on market today is low
|er than it has been since 1914.
[ Business men of the South cannot
I afford to stand for further deflation
[nova when we are confident the next
Isixty days,, the close of the planting
[season, will tell a better story. To
do so would prove an economic folly
| which would, more gravely than
Side and Bask Hurt
1 Jordan Mines, Ya. —■"I am making
; this statement for the benefit et any
one suffering as I
€d!d, 1 had pain
in my side kr.d
could scarcely feat
anything- My
back hurt fell the
time and f Waa
very nervous, No
medicine did Hie
any good until 1
took Dr, Flcfco’s
Golden Medical
Discovery end iria
j Favorite Prescription, together with
| tho Plea,lent Pellets, After .tJPdng
four bottles of each I could ba '4li nil
day.”—MRS. SARAH R. TERRY,
All druggists, or send 10c to Dr,
Plercs'e Invalids’ Hotel la Quffalo,
N. Y., for a trial packago of any of
his remedies.
108 acres 2 miles below Stark, $35 per acre
with terms.. There are two settlements on this
place with good pastures and 4 horse farm open,
20 acres original woods.
One lot on McDonough Road 65‘/ 2 ft. front
running back 22# ft., will sell for $600.00.
J. B. GUTHRIE REALTY CO.,
Real Estate, Renting Agents and Insurance
Harkness Building Jackson, Georgia
I couldn’t rest well at night and was . ..
just lifeless.
“I heard of Cardui and after reading 1
decided I had some female trouble that
was pulling me down, i sent for Cardui
and began it. . .
“In a very short while after 1 began the
Cardui Home Treatment 1 saw an im
provement and it wasn’t long until I was
all right—good appetite, splendid rest,
and much stronger so that I easily did iny
house work.
“Later I took a bottle of Cardui as a
tonic, lean recommend Cardui and glad
ly do so, for if more women knew, it
would save a great deal of worry and
sickness.”
The enthusiastic praise of thousands ol
other women who have found Cardui
helpful should convince you that it is
worth trying. All druggists sell it.
J. 78
BETTER
DEAD
Life is a burden when the body
is racked with pain. Everything
worries and the victim becomes
despondent and downhearted. To
bring back the sunshine take
GOLD MEDAL
The national remedy of Holland for over
200 years; it is an enemy of all pains re
sulting from kidney, liver and uric acid
troubles. All druggists, three sizes.
Look far the nam : Cold Medal on every box
and accept no imitation
ever, jeopardize the agricultural in
terests of the South.
“Let’s hold for sixty days longer
at least and get all the advantage
that is coming to us from the splen
did struggle we have made right up
to the planting season.
“There are betteer days just
ahead. There isn’t a doubt of it.
We are going to start the ball roll
ing in the Atlanta meeting of April
12, when the California or Sapiro
plan will be put into effect in this
state. The California fruit growers
have solved the problem of the or
derly and profitable marketing of
the products; we are going to apply
the same principles to the marketing'
of cotton. So is every other cotton
growing state. These states ai - e now
working to the same practical end.
“Since the farmers of Elbert
county have indorsed this plan, and
entrenched themselves back of the
Atlanta "meeting, the department has
had letters commending it from ev
ery section of the state. There has
been no single word of discourage
ment. -
It is important that every county
in Georgia be represented in the
Atlanta meeting by three to five
delegates, for no gathering in years
has involved more to the business as
well as the agricultural interests of
£he state.
“Once the California plan is ap
plied to the orderly marketing of
our cotton crop, the pricing of the
staple will be taken out of the hands
of the exchanges. The ‘short sell
ers,’ many of whom never saw a
cotton stalk, jvill be powerless to af
fect it, and our big' problem will
have been solved on a basis which
will give us a return at least cf cost
plus a reasonable margin of profit.
“That is all we ask, and I am con
fident it will not be long before we
are in a position to get it.”
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
COTTON SURPLUS FIGURES
TOO BIG, SAYS SHACKELFORD
By Thotrlas J. Shackelford
Prominent Lawyer and Business
Man of Athens, Ga.
The pessimistic propaganda that
on July 31, 1921, we will have a
“carry-over crop” of cotton of over
ten million bales, has been played
up of late by many people for many
reasons.
This is in a great measure respon
sible for the recent demoralization
of the market and the falling price
of cotton.
The cotton situation is indeed
shrouded in gloom, but it not so dark
as it has been painted. The picture
has been overdrawn in order to
stampede the farmers in selling their
cotton withiq the next thirty days.
In justice to the farmer who still
owns his cotton and to the banker
v.ho has loaned money on cotton, 1
desire to show the other side of the
picture.
My purpose is not to lull the cot
ton farmer into a sense of security,
but to point out the truth, show the
danger of making over 6,000,000
bales this year, and to demonstrate
that although the odds are now
against us they are not overwhelm
ing and that by producing only 6,-
000,000 bales we can answer this
“carry-over crop” argument for all
time, and save the South from
threatened disaster.
Regardless o fthe size of the “car
ry-over crop” the South will cut its
cotton acreage this year 50 per cent.
The farms which planted one third
in cotton and two-thirds in food
stuffs, will insure a reduction of
50 per cent in cotton acreage. This
will be done because it will be fool
ish and suicidal to do anything else.
It will be done because there is no
inducement to make a large crop
and sell it for one-half the cost of
production. It has already been
done because W 9 are not financially
able to do otherwise.
This argument of a “carry-over
crop” then affects and interests us
at the present time because it de
presses the price of cotton on hand,
and is being used by the bear spec
ulators for this purpose.
What is the truth? Will there be
10,000,000 bales “carry-over crop”
on July 31, 1921?
The basis for this claim is the
published claim of the cotton ex
changes and the article in the Mar
ket Reporter, a publication issued
by the Federal Department of Agri
culture. Nearly all of the figures
used in this article are compiled
from foreign sources and are merely
estimates and many assumptions are
used in these misleading calculations.
Fortunately the Census Bureau,
another department of the federal
government, has issued from year
to year accurate figures on American
production, consumption and ex
portations of cotton, and these fig
contradict the estimates contained
in the Market Reporter and the
claim of the cotton exchanges.
According to these figures of the
Census Bureau for the past six
years there has been but little sur
plus cotton left ifi America. We
make more cotton than the rest of
the worl deombined, and if the Eu
ropean countries made picre than
they could consume they would not
import from us. Mr. Sam L. Rogers,
director of the census, gives out the
following figures for the past six
years:
Production 1914-15, 15,905,840;
consumed in U.. S., 5,375,305; ex
ports rom U. S., 8,322,688.
Production 1915-16, 11,068,173;
consumed in U. S.,0,080,618; ex
ports from U. S., 5,895,672.
Production 1910-17, 11,363,915;
consumed in U. S., 6,470,244; ex
ports from U. S., 5,302,848.
Production 1917-18, 11,248.242;
consumed in U. S., 6,382,695; ex
ports from U. S., 4,288,420.
Production 1918-19, 11,900,480;
consumed in U. S., 5,589,820; ex
ports from U. S., 5,592,386.
Production 1919-20, 11,325,532;
consumed in U. S., 6,002,993; ex
ports from U. S., 6,545,326.
Total production for past six
year’s, 72,818,182; total consumed in
U. S. for this period, 35,901,675;
total exports frem U. S. for the six
years, 35,947,340.
Where is th's Surplus
Thus it will be seen that America
produced in the past six years 72,-
818,182 bales, and that we consumed
and exported 71,849,015 bales, leav
ing a surplus of only 969,167 bales,
and yet the cotton exchanges and
especially the Liverpool and other
foreign statisticians, claims that on
July 31, 1920, there was a world
surplus of 5,840,000 bales.
Then where is this surplus? It
is not in America, nor have foreign
countries any such surplus. Govern
ment experts sent out from Wash
ington .to foreign countries at the
close of the war reported that mill
warehouses and other storage ware
houses were bare of cotton. The
spinners at the World Cotton Con
ference at New Orleans in October,
1919, when they asked the farmers
to produce a minimum crop of 15,-
000,000 bales, said in reply to ques
tions, that there was no surplus,
that it was all a myth published by
cotton speculators. These spinners
permitted the confession to be
wrung from them by our farmers
there that none of the cotton raised
in India was spun in Engand, but
that it was all shipped to Japan, and
they admitted that it was the custom
to hold as much as 2,000,000 bales
of this cotton each year and count
it in surplus Ibefore shipping to
Japan* The chief value of the India
crop to England is to count it as
a surplus in order to depress the
value of American cotton. This In
dia cotton is inferior fiber, short
staple.
Senator Smith of South Carolina
in the debate last week in the Sen
ate on his resolution to have the cot
ton in America recounted, said:
“I asked the Census Department
for tables showing the world produc
tion and the world consumption.
They furnished me with that table
v.hieh shows that there are less than
a million bales of cotton carry-over
out of the world’s production. In
other words they state that there
were produced in the world for the
last six years 1 14,000,000 bales in
round numbers, and the consump
tion of the world was 113,000,000
bales.”
Then, where does Liverpool and
the cotton exchanges get their fig
ures that “on July 31, 1920, there
was a carry-over crop in the world
of 5,840,000 bales?
The figures are not based on in
formation from the Census Depart
ment. They are based entirely on
estimates, trade journals, and espec
ially on the Liverpool Cotton Ex
change, which is an adjunct of the
English cotton mills. These figures
include all the unspinnable cotton,
all the dog tails, all the cotton de
stroyed by fire, all cotton that has
rotted, snaps, etc., for the last year
in buying this cotton.
. The Market Reporter then esti
mates that for the year 1920-21 the
United States will make 12,987,000;
India, 4,676,000; Egypt, 1,315,000;
all other territory, 800,000, making
a total of 19,778,000 bales.
But it must be rememberpd that
India’s four and a half million bales
cannot be used except in Japan—
the staple is shorter than our half
and half; the Egyptian cotton is a
special cotton and cannot be used
in the general trade; of the Ameri
can crop a large • part of it is low
grade.
They then proceed from these fig
ures to arrive at the carry-over for
next July. Their calculation is mis
leading. From Aug. 1, 1920, to Dec.
1, 1920, there has been 25 per cent
decrease in consumption from nor
mal. The calculation is made that
this decreased consumption v.'ll con
tinue for the next seven months.
But this is unfair and miselading,
because from Aug. 1 to Dec. 1, near
ly all the mills in the world v.ue
closed down or else running on half
time.
The English spinners arc not de
ceived. They know that the acreage
in America will be reduced, and that
if it is reduced 50 per cent that they
are staling a cotton famine in the
face.
Sir Charles Macara, head of the
Master Spinners of England, has re
cently begged the cotton mills of
England to pool and buy all the cot
ton in America at once, in order to
encourage the cotton growers and
induce them to raise a normal crop
this year.
This so-called carry-over crop has
been used for years as a bludgeon
to beat down the price of cotton.
The census figures do not support
it. The cotton trade knows that the
figures are false.
The are unjust and misleading in
another respect. The cotton year is
made to end arbitrarily on July 31.
This is an erronous system of calcu
lation. The cotton crop does not
reach the mills by July 31 of the
year it is grown. Scarcely any cot
ton ever reaches the mills before
Oct. 1. so that the. consumption of
the mills during August and Septem
ber comes out of what is called the
“carry-over crop” to July 31, and
this amounts to at least 2,000,000
bales.
Thus, the so-called carry-oyer crop
has been reduced by these 2,000,000
bales, and also by the 2,000,000
bales of Indian cotton, which is arbi
trarily counted as a surplus, admit
tedly by the English spinners. These
figures just about wipe out the aver
age 4,000,000-bale carry-over crop
that is published each year.
It is high time that the cotton
grower should challenge these lying
figures; let us have the truth. Let
us recount the cotton. Let us dis
card from the count all linters and
all unspinnable cotton. This is the
purpose of Senator Smith’s resolu
tion.
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MRS. DILLARD WAS HONOR
CUEST AT A BANQUET
Spoke at -Churches -Here -Sunday
Morning and Evening
Mrs. Miles Dillard, of Decatur,
state president of the Womans
Christian Temperance Union, was
the guest of honor at a banquet giv
en at the Baptist church Friday
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FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1921
night. The activ and honorary
members of the local W. C. T. U.
and a number of invited guests were
present on that occasion.
Sunday morning Mrs. Dillard,
made a short talk to the Sunday
School of the Baptist church and in
the evening she delivered an address
at the Methodist church. She told of
what had been done to make the
United States dry and of the impor
tance of keeping up a constant fight
on the liquor traffic.
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