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I T nr-1 1 • flick a hm-he! r, fond of chil¬
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littl "s ami m phen>. so when the
new * ■ hy came and papa told them
that tlie stork had left it at their
house Buddy said thoughtfully: “Too
had the stork didn’t know where Uncle
Dick lives.’’
THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, Georgia.
SHACKELFORD TALKS
TO SOUTH CAROLINA
BANK PRESIDENTS
Urges Need of Southern Cotton Indus¬
try for Thorough
Organization
The Hon. Thomas J. Shackelford, of
Athens, candidate for congress from
the Eighth Congressional District,
made his sixth address to bankers of
the South in the interests of the
Southern cotton farmer and business
man when be spoke Friday to the
members of the South Carolina Bank¬
ers Association at its twentieth annu¬
al convention in Greenville.
Mr. Shackelford outlined the needs
of the South for organization through
the American Cotton Association in
securing a staple market at a fair
price for the South’s great product
and pointed to the present world con¬
dition that demand organization by
the farmer against the already organ¬
ized market manipulators and menu
facturers of cotton. The convention
extended to Mr. Shackelford a rising
vote of thanks for his remarks.
The following account of Mr. Shack¬
elford’s address is taken ft cm the
Greenville, S. C., Daily News:
The matter of lending support to
the American Cotton Association, with
a view' to encouraging the cotton
growers of the South, and assisting
them in obtaining a fair price for
their product, which is considered to
be so vital to the prosperity of the
South, was a i 'eminent factor in the
delibeiafiotis of the c* event ion. T
problem of securing a profitable price
for cotton, through the betterment of
warehouse conditions, and the amel¬
ioration of other factors tending to
compel the farmer to accept for his
product a price far below its true
value, was ably dismissed during the
morning session by Thomas J. Shack¬
elford, of Athens, Ga., attorney for
the American Cotton Association. Mr.
Shackelford heavily scored the New
York Cotton Exchange for its activi¬
ties in bringing the price of the staple
below a profitable level for the pro¬
ducer in the South. "The New York
exchange,” said Mr. Shackelford, “is
a criminal agency which is beating
down the price of cotton.”
The attitude of Ehgland in the mat¬
ter of keeping down the price of cot¬
ton was also strongly condemned. The
speaker declared that while the cheap
cotton is of great benefit to England,
it is not and never has been of advan
tage to the United States, and that
numbers of the people in the South
have thereby been kept in poverty
and illiteracy. Mr. Shackelford assert¬
ed that a fair price for cotton, and
the encouragement of the cotton in¬
dustry in the South was of strenuous
importance not only to the prosperity
and well being of cotton growers in
the South, but of all the southern peo¬
ple and of the entire United States.
Middlemen, who stand between the
cotton producer and the consumer like
a “wall of parasites,” the speaker
said, are a menace to the prosperity
of the nation and one of the impedi¬
ments to a successful issue out of our
present industrial difficulties.
Mr. Shackelford declared that cot¬
ton is the “only raw material which
nas never beer, organized, and has al¬
ways sold below its true value,” and
that for this reason the fight against
fair prices for cotton, which has been
waged in England ever since the end¬
ing of the Civil War, as it has been
by the New England spinning indus¬
try, and later by the New York Cotton
Exchange has attained a greater de¬
gree of success than would otherwise
have been possible.
The South has alway had' a mono¬
poly on cotton, Mr. Shackelford con¬
tinued, and it has been by threatening
us with the loss of this monopoly that
England and New England have beat¬
en down the price of the staple. In
this manner, cotton has been treat¬
ed as a sectional product, rather than
as a staple upon which depended the
prosperity of the South.
In the South, declared the speaker,
there is to be found the center of con¬
servatism, and the proper functioning
of industrial conditions, and the edu¬
cation and uplift of the people should
be jealously guarded by the whole na¬
tion.
“1 believe that I could convince any
jury,” Mr. Shackelford declared, “that
cotton is sold for less than it’s pro¬
ducing cost.” The work of the women
in the fields and the labor of the chil¬
dren who should be in school, are
items the speaker said, not commonly
considered.
As it is *he farmer who always pays
wasteful methods of handling cotton,
warehousing is the prime need of the
South today.
Losing on Cotton.
Mr. Shacaelford asserted that far
from making a profit, the South loses
the value of an entire cotton crop
every ten years. He saw some hope
in the situaiion, however, as he stated
that for the first time the federal gov¬
ernment is beginning to protect the
cotton grower by appropriate legisla¬
tion, and the cotton growers of the
South are beginning to realize their
need for irganization. He declared,
however, that there is no hoarding of
cotton in the South, and that if tlie
crop is to be forced* out of the hands
cf the farmer, it would fall into the
clutches of the speculator and the
profiteer. The speaker stated that a
new era of reconstruction for the
South is being entered upon, and that
when the cotton growers realize'their
needs, organize, build warehouses and
hold their -product until they can se¬
cure its proper value, their conditions
will improve.
By a unanimous rising vote, the
thanks and appreciation of the con¬
vention for his speech w ere extended
Mr. Shackelford.
PEOPLE OF OUR TOWN
Observe, Young Felier, what a Life¬
time of Saving will do to you! The
Hard Saver has Nothing But dollars
and he’s grown So Used to Clinging to
Them tiiat he can’t even Loosen Up for
a Few Comforts of Life in his Old Age.
But Iris Heirs will soon take the Old
Man’s Dollars out and Give them the
Air. |
New England Least American,
Talk of Americanizing New England
rings oddly on American ears. If the
cradle of our country needs American¬
izing, where are we?
We think of Massachusetts as the
heart of New England. Among the
states it is “next to the oldest.” But
a count of her present generation's
ptyentage shows Massachusetts to he
almost tlie least American of the 48
states, the World Outlook states.
The 1910 census discovered that only
32 per cent of Massachusetts folks
were native born of native parents.
More than 08 per cent were either for¬
eign horn or were born here of foreign
parents. Later figures would lie even
more astounding. The years that in¬
tervene between 1910 and the outbreak
of the war saw the greatest influx of
Immigrants the country has ever
known.
New Aerial Regulation.
Tiie small Australian who flies a
toy balloon or runs with his Japanese
kite against the wind may offend
against the majesty of the war pre¬
cautions act. A new war regulation is¬
sued in February, 1920, gives power to
the naval or military authorities in the
commonwealth to declare any area a
prohibited area for the Hying of bal¬
loons during any specified period.
“Balloon” is defined as anything up to
an airship. The reason for this ali-in
eiusive regulation was primarily the
ttighl from Sydney to Melbourne of Sir
Ross ftinitli, tiie airman who crossed
the world from London to Darwin.
Milkweed Seeds.
The milkweed seeds are concealed
la a pod, which breaks open and ex¬
poses them to tbe wind. Up they go
through the air. each seed carried by
n ball of silky down, tiie threads so
frail that you are astonished when
you examine them with a microscope.
Bach thread turns out to he a separate
tube ribbed with dark vein-like streaks
arranged in an irregular manner.
When a milkweed pod bursts open,
you can imagine yourself at a minia¬
ture aero meet, in which scores of
white craft soar up Into the morning
wind.
jOOOD mileage, good looks,
vJI good traction—all to an
extreme degree—are features of
these tires. In their making and
in their selling, the Fisk ideal is
a vital factor.
The Fisk ideal: “To he the beet
concern in the world to work
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