MANY SOLUTIONS
FOR COTTON CRISIS
Prominent Business Men And Officials
Offer Suggestions For Solving
South's Problem
ALL URGE QUICK ACTION
Warehousing—Short Crops for 1915.
More Food Crops and Federal
Aid Suggested
Atlanta. —The question of bow best
to finance the cotton crop of the South
is receiving the undivided attention
of many of the leading business men
of the country, and many suggestions
and plans have been offered. It is im
possible to give all of them here, but
the following interviews with repre
sentative business men will give an
idea of what they are trying to accom
plish.
Mr. C. H. MacDowell, president of
► Armour Fertilizer, works, says the cot
ton crop of about fifteen million bales
can be financed and moved in an or
derly manner and Without serious dis
tress, providing growers promptly
pick^and gin their cotton, using money
from the sale of cotton seed to pay
the picking, ginning and hauling charg
es, selling the cotton on a spot basis
as fast as the market will take it, and
warehousing under negotiable ware
house receipts such portions of the
crop as they want to move, making
such receipts available as collateral
for emergency currency and for debts
already contracted. Such receipts may
be temporarily used locally iu lieu of
<cash. Armour Fertilizer works has no
intention of entering the cotton ware
liousing business, feeling that the
warehousing is largely a local busi
ness and should be conducted by local
people, but that temporarily, and tn
this emergency, and iu furtherance,of
-.suggestions approved by government
authorities, it is prepared to issue ne
gotiable warehouse receipts for cotton
at its plant, sub stations and distribut
ing points, if the local people fee!
there is need for such facilities.
I —
Hilaries 8. Barrett, president of the
Farmers’ Union says:
' ■“Numerous voluntary efforts are be
ing wade hastily by many of our
splendid citizens who have the best
intentions, and who want to relieve the
^situation. These efforts, however well
meaning, and however worthy of our
regard, will, of necessity fail. One and
all of them, when narrowed down,
means that the people of the cotton
belt must, out of their own resources,
invest at least four hundred million
dollars in cotton with the prospect
of holding it one year. While there
are a large number of people in the
cotton belt who could buy and hold
some cotton one year as an inactive in
vestment, the mere statement of the
fact, which is true, that it will require
four hundred million dollars, proves
■the utter imposibility of the cotton
belt, out of its own resources, putting
this immense sum of money into an
Inactive investment.
■“ln the present situation, I and
those who agree with me do not ap
iproach government as mendicants;
but as men who have had a large
ehare iu the making of this country,
whose services have been of enormous
value to all the people; and we feel
that we are but asking elementary jus
tice when we ask government to stand
by us in a crisis which is not of our
making, and when we know that gov
ernment does not risk the loss of a sin
gle penny in so doing.
“The demand is so urgent that we
feel entitled to as prompt action on
the part of congress as the congress
gave when it was appropriating money ;
and ordering out ships to bring Amer i
lean refugees from Europe, and these
refugees, who were primarily pleas
ure-seekers, would never have been
able to take their pleasures in Europe
but for the labors of the men who are
now confronted with such tremendous
loss.
"Representative Bob Henry of Tex
as has introduced into the lower house
of congress a bill which will save the
.day. But the congress has already
plainly indicated that it will do noth
ing unless pressure is brought to bear
■upon it; aud the purpose of this let
ter is to ask that every farmer and
every true friend of the farmer, who
reads this, will set him down Instantly
and write to his congressmen and his
•senator, demanding the instant pass
age of this bill. If the senators and
■congressmen can be made to feel that
the farmers and their friends in this
country demand this action, they will
get it; and until they are made to feel
that way, they will not move.”
J. D. Price, Georgia commissioner
■of agriculture, has his force working
practically all the time on the cotton
problem, and is especially urging a
reduction of the acreage next year
and the planting of more food crops.
He says: “While we must do all we
can in addition to the assistance ren
dered by the government to take care
I of the present crop and see to it that
it brings a fair price, I think the mat
ter of reducing the acreage next year
i and planting more food crops is one
of tlie most important that has con
fronted us. To encourage the planting
of food crops it is my purpose to issue
from the state department of agricul
, ture a weekly bulletin, each one deal-
I ing with some particular food plant
aud to give them as wide publicity as
possible. In this, I think, lies our
future agricultural salvation.”
C. J. Haden, president of the Geor
gia Chamber of Commerce, has always
been very much in favor of crop di
versification, and, speaking of the pres
ent situation, says;
“The government furnishing emerg
ency currency to the banks, which is
now being- done, will be a substantial
help. The sentimental campaign to
“buy a bale of cotton" will also sub
stantially aid. Other plans will devel
op through the inventive skill of moth
er necessity. But, in the last analy
sis, the only permanent relief will
come from growing more foodstuffs
in the South. Whenever the South
feeds itself and makes cotton a cash
surplus, the cotton problem is solved.
This is a cure. Every other device is
a crutch.
"We have two hundred and forty
growing days of the year, between
the last frost of spring and the first
frost of winter days in which the
grass grows; and yet we are buying
baled grass from Illinois, where they
have only one hundred and sixty grow
ing days of the year. Georgia holds
a higher corn-growing yield per acre
than Iowa; yet we are buying corn
from lowa. Admittedly the best and
cheapest apples on the earth are
grown in Georgia; and yet we get a
large portion of our apple supply from
the state of Washington, more than
thirty-five hundred miles away.
“The Georgia Chamber of Com
merce, since its organization, has bent
every energy to stimulate the produc
tion of food crops in Georgia We
are endeavoring to do this by getting
the farmers and business men of each
county organized. The only dependa
ble defenses for Georgia against In
vasion are Fort Corn Crib and Fort
Smokehouse."
Atlanta. The Atlanta Real Estate
Board, at an enthusiastic meeting, took
definite action toward putting to a test
the government's plan of issuing
emergency currency on bonded ware
house receipts for cotton by appoint
ing a committee to locate aud offer
warehouse space for the purpose of
storing cotton in order to get the re
ceipts which the proposed issue of
currency is to be made.
M. L. Thrower took the Initiative in
the scheme when he declared before
the board that he was in control of
several warehouse properties in At
lanta and that he was willing to have
this used for warehouse cotton stor
age purposes at any rental those who
stored cotton saw fit to give, or, if
they felt unable to pay any rental, he
would offer the warehouses anyway
for the purpose of a test of the feasi
bility of the federal government’s
plan.
“The home money in time past is
not what has moved the cotton crop,
hut the money from outside which
came from foreign markets. We are
not now in position to get outside
money from that source.
"The federal government has offer
ed a solution to the problem of outside
money bv offering to issue emergency
currency on bonded cotton warehouse
receipts. Vet we have been talking
around and have made more efforts
in other directions than we have in
the direction of getting hold of this
money as a solution.
“For the purpose of giving the gov
ernment a trial. I will offer ware
house properties which I can control.
I I am willing to leave to the honesty
i of those who use these warehouses to
i pav me a fair rental. If they cannot
afford to pay it, I am willing for them
to use them as long as necessary any
way. It is my own funeral if I don t
get value received.”
In addition to the buildings which
Mr Thrower personally offered, he
declared that there are innumerable
vacant warehouses and store buildings
about the city which he believed the
patriotism of owners would lead them
to offer for use. These he said could
readily be put into shape to meet the
fire Insurance requirements.
A definite plan of organization for a
cotton selling crusade in the business
district of Atlanta was set on foot at
a meeting held in the offices of the
Atlanta Freight bureau in the Cham
ber of Commerce building, when a
; central committee of six was appoint-
I ed each to constitute himself the head
I of a sub-committee which he shall
choose to canvass the business men
with a view to persuading them to
■ buy a bale or more of cotton each.
; The members of this committee are
t Harrison Jones, Ivan E. Allen, Fred
t Houser, Albert Adams.
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GEORGIA.
LITTLE NEWS ITEMS
THROUGHOUT STATE
Atlanta. —Gov. Jolin M. Slaton has
appointed Frank U. Garrard as’trustee
of the state sanitarium to succeed J.
N. Jackson of Muscogee county.
Perry.—The county commissioners
at a meeting held here assessed the
county tax rate at twelve mills, the
same as for 1913, and the school tax
rate at two mills, an increase of one
mill over 1913.
Savannah. —Scheduling liabilities at
$33,221 and assets amounting to $30,-
874, Barbee Brothers of Hazlehurst,
turpentine operators, filed a voluntary
petition in bankruptcy. The firm is
composed of J. P. and F. W. Barbee.
The Producers’ Naval Stores company
of Savannah is the largest creditor, its
claim being $20,000 and is secured.
Jonesboro.—To enable the bankers
and farmers of Clayton county to get
together and adjust their mutual diffi
culties in regard to the marketing of
the cotton crop, the Clayton county
cotton association was formed at
Jonesboro which was attended by most
of the principal bankers, planters and
business men of the county.
Cuthbert. —The Cuthbert Woman's
club called a special meeting to dis
cuss ways and means of helping the
farmers in this time of the trouble.
The seventy-five women took of their
Tunds raised to buy a lot for a public
library the sum of $250, with which
they will buy five bales of cotton at
10 cents per pound.
Americus. —Six hundred women of
Americus, together with business and
professional men. crowded the city
hail to capacity in vigorous protests
to the city council not to repeal the
existing ordinance which prohibits sa
loons serving free lunch and maintain
ing electric pianos to attract trade.
The beerkeepers have planned a cam
paign to defeat the Law and Order
league and propose taking out restau
rant licenses and serving penny
lunches.
Union City.—The campaigns that are
being agitated in behalf of 10-cent cot
ton have been the means of bringing
considerable relief to the farmers of
Campbell county. J, T. Braswell of
Union CUy, one of the leading supply
merchants of the county, is buying col
ton at 10 cents per pound from all his
farmer customers in settlement of ;
their accounts, and the fertilizer |
agents have announced that as long
as the farmers hold their cotton the
fertilizer accounts will not be pushed.
Atlanta. Secretary W. H. Leahy of
the industrial bureau of the chamber
of commerce, is planning an extensive
campaign of advertising Atlanta broad
cast through means of railroad sched
ule folders. A number of the leading
railroads throughout the country have
agreed to carry advertisements of At
lanta’s sky line, showing a cut. of At
lanta’s skyline, figures treating of the
city’s bank clearings, deposits, capital
and surplus, postoffice receipts com
parative for two years, altitude, school
facilities, property values, manufactur
ing enterprises and various other facts
which have been set forth from time
to time by the Industrial bureau in its
bulletins.
.Tifton. —"Use more cotton,” the
movement started by Mrs. Z. 1. Fitzpat
rick, president of the Georgia Federa
tion of Women's clubs, is being endors
ed and put into practical operation by
the club women of this section. Tift
county will send a unique, but a prac
tical demonstration, of the use of more
cotton in the home to the meeting of
the Georgia Federation of Women's
clubs in Albany the last week in Octo
ber. The model will be the work of
the boys and girls of the second dis
trict agricultural and mechanical
school and will be carried by Mrs. N.
Peterson, vice president of the state
federation.
Savannah. —J. Ward Motte and Her
bert L. Kayton. two leading naval
stores factors of this city, left for
Washington, D. C.. to lay before Attor
ney General Gregory a plan agreed
upon by the naval stores interests
of the South at a recent conference
in Montgomery. Ala., with the view of
protecting the market until conditions
improve. Before it can be put into
effect it will be necessary to get the
sanction of the department of justice.
Briefly, the plan is to establish a sell
ing organization which will control all
sales of naval stores. The plan will
be outlined to the attorney general af
ter a conference with Senator Hoke
Smith and other Southern senators.
Tifton.—The general plan of making
the country school house the social
center of the community, which was
first experimented on In North Caro
lina in 1912, and was so successful
that it was adopted at the annual meet
ing that year of the national education
board, is being carried out in an at
tractive and practical way iu Tift
county. A rural school improvement
club was organized at Excelsior
school, iu this county by Mrs. N. Pe
tersen, vice president of the Georgia
Federation of Women’s clubs. This is
the first club of its kind to be organ
ized in the state. Mrs. Peterson in
tends to have this club represented at
the meeting of the state federation in
Albany in October.
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