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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER
VOL. XLIX.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1914.
NO. 48
Seven Makes of Buggies; White Hickory Wagons
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I J. T. CARPENTER
Warehouses Needed for Surplus
Cotton.
Atlanta Jounal.
Georgians interested in financing the
cotton crop will spend the remainder of
the week making arrangements to
house in acceptable warehouses at least
a portion of the State’s crop.
That the first and most pressing need
in the fight to finance! the cotton is ade
quate facilities for storing at least the
surplus of the present crop in ware
houses on which insurance can be ob
tained, was shown at the meeting of
business men at the State Capitol Mon
day. And it was partly to give those
interested an opportunity to look into
this matter that many important mat
ters were carried over from this meet
ing to the one that will be held in
Macon, Thursday, Aug. 27.
Every plan advanced for financing
the crop is based on the idea of using
cotton in warehouses or warehouse re
ceipts as collateral either for loans or
for the issuance of currency or some
thing to be used as such until the pres
ent crisis has passed. This being the
case, it was shown that Georgia far
mers can benefit by Federal aid only in
proportion as they are able to properly
warehouse their cotton.
With this fact in mind, those attend
ing the meeting went home prepared to
learn just what facilities each county
offers along this line. Reports on this
matter will he among the matters of
importance taken up at the Macon
meeting.
Those who attended the meeting left
after the afternoon session in a far
more cheerful frame of mind than that
in which they had come. Ur. H. T.
Stockbridge's assurance from Washing
ton. U. C., that $300,000,000 of Govern
ment currency will soon be available
for the small country banks, and the
further assurance from the proprietors
of these banks that the gathering of
the crops will be financed by them im
mediately, not only relieved a most
pressing need but caused them to feel
that the situation is to be adequately
handled in the immediate future.
At the Macon meeting each county
in the Stat^ is to be represented by a
committee bf three, composed of one
farmer, one merchant and one banker,
all to be elected by a meeting of the
business men and farmers of the county
at large.
That the plan adopted at this time for
financing the crop should be a per
manent one was a point made during
Monday’s meeting by W. T. Anderson,
of Macon. Mr. Anderson pointed out
that during the past ten years it has
cost cotton raisers a little more than
11 cents per pound to raise the staple,
while they have received more than 1
cent less than this cost for it, on the
average. No other people in the world
would have tolerated such conditions so
long, he said.
He gave it as his opinion that the
present crisis, out of which gome feasi
ble plan for insuring the farmer a legi
timate profit on his money crop, will
prove a blessing rather than a disaster.
That the Governors of the cotton States
in their meeting in New Orleans on
August 27 and 28 may devise some per
manent plan for marketing the cotton
crop was the expressed hope of the
meeting.
It was in line with this idea of Mr.
Anderson that Harvie Jordan’s reso
lution fixing the minimum for middling
cotton at 12 cents was adopted by the
meeting.
Some of those present were inclined
to believe this figure higher than it
should be. It was pointed out, though,
that the Federal Government has fixed
12J cents as the basis on which $300,-
000,000 is to be advanced to the grow
ers. Mr. Jordan’s resolution provided
that no cotton should he sold or offered
for sale, wherever it is possible to
avoid it, except on the basis of 12 cepts
for middling.
Not bo Strange After All.
You may think it strange that so
many people are cured of stomach
trouble by Chamberlain’s Tablets. You
would not, however, if you should give
them a trial. They strengthen and in
vigorate the stomach and enable it to
erform its functions naturally. Mrs.
tosie Kish, Wabash, Ind., writes,
'Nothing did me the least good until I
began using Chamberlain's Tablets. It
is decidedly the best medicine for stom
ach trouble I have ever used.” For Bale
by all dealers.
Englishman—"The suffragettes salu
ted the prime minister this morning.”
American—“Did they fire twenty-one
guns''"
pe
Ri
Jim;
Englishman—"No; houses.
The Cotton Crisis.
Atlanta Constitution.
Continued development of the war
situation in Europe and Asia indicate
quite clearly that three-fourths of the
whole civilized world is likely to become
involved in a gigantic conflict, the end
of which so man can foresee. What is
evident and emphatic at this time is
that the whole South, and more espe
cially the cotton farmers, is to be the
innocent sufferer on account of a lim-
ted demand for the great staple money-
crop of this section. What cotton is he
ing sold in this State, (and only a very
limited quantity can he Hold at all,) is
being bought at from 8 to 9 cents—a
net loss under the actual coHt of pro
duction of from $15 to $20 per bale.
Ninety per cent, of the cotton taken to
market by the farmer is hauled back
home without a bidder. The cotton ex
changes of the world are closed, and no
means of transportation for ocean ship
ment is available at any of our ports.
These factB were all developed at the’
cotton conference recently held at the
State Capitol.
Opinions vary, but it is generally
agreed that from one-half to one-third
of the 1914 cotton crop will have to he
held and carried over into the crop of
1915. Commercial business all over the
South is suffering accordingly.
It didn’t take the Federal Govern
ment ten days to start vessels, laden
with millions of dollars, to immediately
relieve the American tourists stranded
in European countries. Millions of dol
lars from the United States Treasury
have been sent to the big hanks in New
York within the past fifteen days.
What measure of financial aid, and in
what manner iH it to be rendered, to
Southern cotlon-growers by the Federal
Government? Cotton is now being daily
sacrificed all over the South at prices
far below the cost of production, and
the mills are laying in supplies and for
tifying themselves against whatever
attempts the farmers may later on be
able to mske to advance prices to liv
ing levels.
What the South needs now is action
— prompt, definite, and without equivo
cation. If the big financiers of New
York are willing and able to float a loan
of a hundred million dollars for France,
they can find a better field in the South
with spot cotton as collateral, the best
gilt-edge security in the world, and far
better than the bonds of foreign coun
tries now engaged in a deadly grip of
war on the other side of the Atlantic.
Congress has for nearly three weeks
realized the critical position of cotton-
growers, and with hundreds of millions
of currency lying idle in the Treasury
nothing definite or positive has yet been
done to relieve the financial situation in
the South. State and county meetings
of farmers, merchants and bankers are
being called throughout the cotton
Slates to discuHs the situation and
await tho action of Congress.
The general cotton conference for del
egates from all the States, which Har
vie Jordan has called to meet at New
Orleans, was fixed for Aug. 27-28, be
lieving that Federal aid would have
been fully assured before that date, and
it is Btill hoped that definite action will
he taken this week.
This cotton conference at New Or
leans will he largely attended by dele
gates from all the cotton States.
At this conference this country shoald
put the world on notice that all the
cotton not needed for consumption will
be placed in storage and financed,
while that which is required by the
mills will not he sacrificed or sold at a
less price than 12 cents per pound,
basis middling.
The Federal Government should act
Now, and without further delay.
The Twenty Year Test.
“Some twenty years ago I used
Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diar-
rhoho Remedy,” writes Geo. W. Brock,
publisher of the Enterprise, Aberdeen,
Md. “I discovered that it was a quick
and safe cure for diarrhoea. Since
then no one can sell me anything said
to be ‘just as good.’ During all these
years I have UBed it and recommended
it many times, and it has never disap
pointed anyone.” For sale by all
dealers.
Many who imagine they could rule a
nation can’t even keep their own chil
dren out of mischief.
Whenever You Need n General Tonic
Take Grove’s
The Old Standard Grove’s Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic properties of QUININE
and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and.
Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents.