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2,100,000 Workers Needed for
One Hundred Days to Handle
Crop of 14,000,000 Bales,
World Cotton Conference To Be
Held in New Orleans in Octo
ber Will Tackle Problems *
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 20.—Unless
the army of cotton pickers in the
American cotton belt can yearly add
to its number an average of ninety
thousand recruits, spinners and man
ufacturers of cotton may some day
face a serious crisis, and it will be
no easy matter to add such a number
to the cotton picking forces of this
ountry. When it is recalled that the
American picking seafi\{\ lasts only
from ninety to one hundred days and
that the average dnily work of a
grown up picker--man or woman—
is thirty-three pounds of lint cotton,
it will be seen that it requires the
continuous labor for one hundred
days of 2,100,000 workers to pick a
14,000,000-bale crop. This is one of
the problems which will have eonsid
eration at the world cotton confer
ence to be held at New Orleans in
Oztober.
Not a few students of the raw cot
ton situation believe that the avail
able supply of cotton pickers will aot
keep up with the growing needs of
the world’'s spindles, because on the
one hand the cotton factories and
other industries of the South have
attracted large numbers of laborers
from the cotton plantations, while on
the other hand Kuropean immigrants
Fave usually gone to other parts of
the country, avoiding the cotton belt
almost altogether. Nor is the outlook
brighter when viewed from another
angle—that of distribution of popu
lation.
- Seventy years ago the Southern
States had nearly 40 per cent of our
total population. In 1910 they had
only 32 per cent, while that great cot
ton growing section, the South At
lantic States, had upward of 20 per
cent of the total population in 1850,
and only a little more than 13 per
cent in 1910. Can this wonderful in-
Custrial age discover, invent or per
fect a picking mechanism with a
power of selection more human than
Las yet been foreshadowed *» On a
practical answer to this may depend
America’'s continued supremacy as a
producer of cotton, or perhaps the
well-being of the entire industry over
a long period of years. It is, there
fore, natural that this phase of the
eotton industry is to be given serious
consideration at the conference to be
held at New Orleans. Those partici
jating in the conference can not heln
but regard with foreboding the pro
viding of an ample future supply of
raw cotton of the right quality. Many
of them frankly fear a cotton famine
in the not distant future. |
Indeed, it was this very present
threat of a possible cotton famine‘
that years ago impelled the British
government to the spending of mil
lions of dollars on rallroad construc
tion in the heart of Africa, The same
urge has drawn further millions out‘
of the savings of the factory opera
tors in Lancashire for investment in
new cotton growing undertakings un
der the auspices of the British Cot
ton Growing Association in those
parts of the world where cotton
growing can be successfully carried
on. Before the world war the same
impulse sent funds from France,
Italy, Spain, Portugal and Belgium to
the development of cotton cultivation
in such of their colonies as possessed
soil and climate and labor available
for the purpose.
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No Wiggly Dances To
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Be Allowed in Dallas
(By International News Service.)
DALLAS, Texas, Aug. .. -—Miss Alecia
Brown, public welfare wirector, has put
her stamp of disapproval on the shimmy,
caterpillar wigghe, jelly bean and strap
hanwe= dances. She declares they are
vulgar and Indecent and has notified
dance hall managers that they will be
prosecuted if they permit such “wiggling”
on their premises. Miss Brown declares
that the shimmy and other objectionable
dances are practiced more in the home of
socioty folks 1u Dallas than in the danes
halls, and says there should be some
means to reach these people and stop
dances which make the body shake like
a bow! of jelly.
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Needle in Body for
Half Century Caused Ills
(l& International News Serviee.)
ELYRIA, Ohio, Aug. 30.—From mumps
to measles and chronic ilndigestion to
neuritis, Robert Myers, fifty-two, had run
the gamut of human (liness. Reemu{ a
Jump appeared between his shoulder
blades. It did not keal, and when the
family physician was called he hurried
* the patient to a hespital, There a tar
nished needle with 24 inches of thread
attached was removed. Physicians be
lleve Myers swallowed the needle when
a child and that during perhaps half a
ecemtury it has been wandering through
his body secking an outlet. His various
allments are oharged to the meedie’'s
peregrinations. i
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Mutilatéd Body’ Was 1
' Only Turtle Carcass
NEW YORK, Auk 16, ~<Patrolman ‘
PuMip Curry of the West Forty-seventh
street station teiephoned to the morgue
that the badly mutilated remains of &
human body had been tied to the dock
at Mifty-fourth street and the Hudson
River. A wagon was sent to the plm‘
and the “body” was brought to the
lll“&llt. where it was laid out on one‘
of e tables
Dr. Benjamin Schwartz, assistant medi-
S cal examiner, approached and viewed the
‘hody.” ‘“Phat's not n man's body, it's
the body of a giant turtle” he said "Nu‘
doubt it waa removed from its shell for
culinary purposes and then thrown over
hoard.”
Chemicals Lend \
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Life to Beefsteak
WICHITA, Kan., Aug 30—A E Hmnll,‘
a chemist with the J. B. Dold Packing |
(o, here, is experimenting with a view to
reducing the high cost of living. His lat
st experiment is with !eefstonk
By a process of dehydration— drawing
all the water out of the meat the steak
is In & mood state of presery stion and (A
capable of being kept almost indefnitely,
When it is desired to bring the steak
back to a condition of freshness all that
s necessary, Mr. Smoll says, i to wonlk !
t n water The mest ix said never to
lose its edor of frish meat and it in A 8
tough as sole Isather when dehydrated
.Exhibition of Ivory Miniatures at
Maj. Belmont’s Newport Home
Show Post-War Influence.
Countess Korzybski Restores
Vogue With Collection of Her
Work Portraying Celebrities.
NEWPORT, R. L, Aug. 30.—Por
traits have come into their own again
in society. Throngs attended the ex
hibition of ivory miniatures in the
home of Maj. and Mrs. Perry Bel
mont, Belcourt, of the villa colony.
The display was the work of Countess |
Edgerly Korzybzski. As most of the |
portraits were done within the last |
few months, they expressed the moods
and modes of the post-war period.
Color has full play, not only in the !
costumes of the sgitters, but in the |
backgrounds and all the accessories.
The so-called amber portrait of Mrs. |
Edward MclLean of Washington is a
striking example of the returnim:g
taste for warm and alluring tones. It l
is painted on a ground which has the |
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to the sheen of the smooth ivory
panel.
The charming portrait of Mrs, John
Fell of Philadelphia stands forth
from a background which suggests.a
light green of the aquamarine.
Another indicatign that the gloom
of the last few years has passed is
seen in the imaginative and often
fanciful poses of some of the sitters.
WASHINGTON BEAUTY,
Mrs. Colville Barclay, one of the
reigning beauties of Washington so
ciety, appears in a delightful phan
tasy entitled “The Breath of Spring.”
She kneels with head raised, as though
to drink in the warm and invigorat
ing airs which come when winter has
thrown its mantle aside and all thlnp‘
are made new, She is also seen in
another symbolic pose called “Star
Dust.”
Mrs. John Sanford of Amsterdam,
N. Y. a friend of Mrs. Cornelius Van
derbilt, and one of the most beautiful
women in Newport this season, Is re
vealed in a reclining attitude looklnl‘
dreamy eyed toward the distant sea.
Among the other portraits in this
manner are those of Miss Sheila Bur
den, as “The Four Seasons;” Miss
Hope Islin, as “Wind, Rain, Sun
shine and Shadow.,” In four poses.
Miss Josephine Osborne, as “P‘.typtinn}
Night;"” Mrs, George Winthrop Sands.
as “Tanagra,” and Mrs. Frances Car
olan, as "“The Golden West."
Miss rielen Borap, whose hair is a
glorious aaburn, is truly Aurorn.'
Her likeness is well named "[)nv/n."l
The lively contrast between her flow
ing tresses and the dark blue bl('k-l
ground gives this work a jewel-like
charm.
As the artist spent last winter in
Washington there are many portraits
of prominent figures in official and)
diplomatic circles in the collection, |
An interesting likeness indeed Is
that of Lady Reading, the wife of
Lord Reading, which was painted |
while he was acting as ambassador to
the United States from Great Britain,
It was completed only a few days be
fore she left for Enl{lnd. I
In the Washington group are the
presentments of Mrs, John Hays
Hammond, Miss Natalie Hammond,
Mme. Zaldevar, wife of the former
minister from Ralvador: Breckenridge
Long, third assistant secretary of
state; Mrs. Long and their young
daughter, Miss Joseph Leiter; Mrs
George leiter: Capt., and Mrs. John
Pitney, ("01. George Patton and Mrs
Patton, Mrx, James Barton Payne and
AEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN — A Newspaper for People Who Think — SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1919
Strikingly artistic miniatures of soeiety, done on ivory by the Countess Edgerly Korybski.
In the triangle is a portrait of Mrs. Colville Barelay, entitled ‘‘The Birth of Spring;” in
the central oval is Mrs. Vanderbilt Webb; to the left is a picture of Mrs. Marshall Russell,
while in the cirele is Miss Helen' Moran, in a pose called ‘‘Dawn,”
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As the countess spent several years
in England, where she was consid
ered as a court painter and looked
upon as a successor of Cosway, there
are many portraits of the nobility in
this gallery. A list of them suggests
excerpts from Burke's Peerage.
Some of the well known figures in
British soclety portrayed are the
Duchess of Hamilton, the Countess of
Hardwick, the Countess Drogheda, the
Duke and_ Duchess of Connaught,
Princess Patricia, Countess Curzon
of Kedleston, Lady Florence Wil
loughby, the Honorable Katherine
Villiers, the Honorable Victoria Sack
ville West, Bir Robert Filmer, Sir
(ieorge Holford, equerry to King
George, Lady Hatfleld, Lady Robert
Manners and Princess Alexis Dol
gourkl.
Included in the American portraits
of men may be mw‘loned those of
James ¥, Burden {lllam H. Blss,
Benjamin Kimball, Philip H. Liver
more and Capt. Fairfield Asborne.
Even Alimony Feels
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Urge of High Cost
CHICAGO, Aug. 10 Now alimony has
gone up'
Judge Bwanson, sitting in the court of
domestic relations, said
“Why not? FEverything els hus gone
up.”
And he told John Bulat, who has been
Kiving his wife $8 a week to give 310
Don't grumble, Pay it,"" the court said
|"Thnt‘- the way 1 do when | hear the
price of anything has been ralsed. What's
the use of grumbling?” Apd John rolled
{his hat in his hands a few times and
, CLAYTON, GEORGIA,
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Pure mineral water from 80-foot well
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Plenty of fresh mountain chicken. Golf,
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EXPRESSMEN TO DANCE.
Piedmont Lodge No, 65, Order of
Ruilway Expressmen, will entertain
its members, their families and
friends with a dance on Tuesday
night, September 2, nonth floor For
syth Building., The entertaining com
mittee has made preparations for an
enjoyable evening, and extends a cor
dial invitation to all expressmen and
their families to be with them, Re
freshments and good music,
AYWOOD WHITE SULPHUR
SPRINGS HOTEL
Kirkwood Citizen Has Caller and
Entrance to His Home Has
Severe Test.
By JEFFERSON 8. MILLS.
Cays a Kirkwood citizen:
*l saw at last that I must buy to
keep a house over my head, but a
conscienceless real estate dealer got
my family into the notion that we
must buy a house with a vestibule.
"I did mot know what a vestibule
was, sir, and I never saw the house
until after my family had moved iao.
When I arrived I asked my wife what
they had left the bardrobe in the frowt
door for, but she said that was the
vestibule. And, sure enough, I saw
tha the thing had four doors leading
in all directions, but all opening on
the inside.
“In a little while one of our new
neighbors called, and 1 may observe
that she was a very stout and se
verely decorous woman.
SLAMS FOUR DOORS.
“She rang the bell and my wife said,
‘L.et her wait a moment in the vesti
bule.’ But three different children
pushed wide open three different
doors at once, .and impinged her
against four different door edges, for
| vou will understand the front door
was already open.
“Well, sir, our lady visitor whirled
| around like a fat cob in a corn shell
er and slammed all four doors simul
' taneously. It was the most extensive
door slamming I have ever seen per
formed at one operation by an ex
cited woman, and after that she was
just about as bare as the finished
corncob I have just mentioned, for
every door and every doorknob car
ried with it about' a yard of ribbon or
something essential a well dresudl
woman. ‘
“But a moment later we realized |
that the trouble had just begun. for
the doors had new-fangled locks on
‘em, and the poor whirling dervish
had locked herself in. She just had
to stand there, facing the street,
framed in the plate glass of the door,
the object of the most painful seru
tiny, sir, while myself and the whole
family worked at the combination of
the locks,
CYNOSURE OF TOWN,
“And when we did get her out we
got her out the front door, which was
the very hest we could do, and it ap
peared that the whole town had gath
ered to see her dramatie exit, but the
truth i« they had only come to see
about the supposed explosion, which
was nothing but the slamming doors.
“The accident, as any falr-minded
person will allow, was unavoidable on
account of the vestibule, but I under
stand the lady entertaing mixed sentl«
ments of shame and -indignation,
“But T am going to tear out that
vestibule this very day, and 1 hope
some one will do me the kindness to
eoffect a reconciliation with the good
woman, who, I trust, will agree to-ne
cent A return of her personal effects
left in our vestibule, consisting prin
cipally of about a coal scuttle full of
pins, hairping and just plain hair”
.
Sailor Who Bought
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Cow for Old Women's
Home Has Returned
Jack West is home. again, with
his sailor outfit back in the trunk
and a discharge in the inside pocket
of his new civvies. He said Sat
urday that he thought he had had
enough of the navy for a while,
having enlisted in 1914 and stick
ing through until this week.
Mr, West called around to in
quire about the health of Molly, the
new cow-at the Old Woman’s Home
in West End. He feels a personal
interest in Molly, for if it hadn’t
baen for him, Molly would be some
where else,
You see, the old cow at the home
died, and there was no money to
buy another, and The Georgian
published a piece about it. And
on board the U. 8. 8. destroyer
Maury, in Venice, Jack West read
the story in The Georgian his sis
ter had mailed him, and he got
right out of his hammock and went
up and down the boat with his cap.
He came back with SBO for a new
cow for the Old Woman's Home,
The money was sent over by the
executtve officer, and that's how
Molly came to the home.
' Mr. West was on the cruiser
Seattle through most of the war,
making eleven convoy trips aboard
her. He declared Saturday that he
had never had an adventure nor
seen a sub.
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The rabbit breeders around Atlan
}ta are planning a big show in con«
nection with the Southeastern Fair
Association, October 11-21.
‘ A meeting of the majority of the
‘bromim's held recently resulted in the
formation of the Georgia Breeders
and Fanciers' Association, with the
following officers:
| President, H. E. Newbury; viee
president, George C. Fife; secretary,
John 8. McCreight; treasurer, C. M.
Kenimer.
The breeders hope to have Gibson
of Detroit judge the show, and if
they are successful this alone should
bring out an extra large entry, as
the judge is one of the best and most
popular men in the rabbit business
in America today.
Classification and entrance fees will
be announced next Sunday.
John 8. MecCreight, who has just
returned from France, will have his
old position as superintendent of the
poultry and pet stock department of
the Southeastern Fair, and this in
sures every one's birds and pets hav
ing the preper attention.
The poultry and pet stock will be
shown this year in one of the new
fireproof concrete buildings, and the
outlook Yor a big show is very en
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