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COTTON PROBLEM
IS BEING SOLVED
Distress Cotton Is Being Taken From
The Market Rapidly -Needy
Farmers Are Aided
GEORGIA MILLS RUNNING
Buyers Find Very Little Cotton on
Open Market at the Pre
vailing Prices
Each day sees an improvement in
the cotton situation. The "buy-a-bale"
movement is restoring confidence.
Southern representatives of Eastern
buyers who would buy cotton at pre
vailing prices for speculation are find
ing very little cotton on the open mar
ket at prevailing prices. The deter
mination to store cotton in warehous
es and hold for ten cents or better
seems prevalent everywhere in the
South.
The cotton warehouse, receipt is cols
lateral in the cotton growing states.
Most of the banks are advancing as
much as eight cents on them. The
merchants in some instances are ac
cepting bales of cotton on accounts.
Other dealers are following suit and
this is helping greatly to relieve the
tight money situation. The advent of
the Northern and Western dealers,
who do business with the South, in !
tile "buy-a-bale-of-cotton” movement, I
is bringing much-needed money from
other sections of the country.
Much encouragement was received
when it was learned that the state
banks would probably be permitted to
participate in the Aldrich-Vreeland
elastic currency system. However,
hope of aid from this direction waned
when it was learned in dispatches
from Washintgon that the amendment
to the Aldrich-Vreeland measure,
which would have made this possible,
met with the disapproval of the house
banking and currency committee.
One of the encouraging features of
the cotton situation in Georgia is that
many mills in ft's state are running
full time, it will be only a matter of
a short time before they will have
used up all of the old cotton on hand.
Those who have attempted to purchase
new cotton say that little can be found
below ten cents. With the arrival
of a shipment of dyes from Germany
last week the manufacturers of color
ed goods received renewed hope. The
dry goods market is the only thing
that is holding the mills back at the
present time. When the cotton situ
ation takes a definite form, it is ex
pected that the dry goods market will
be placed on a firm basis.
Columbus Mills Running
Columbus —The Columbus cotton
mills are doing their part toward the
solution of the cotton question by op
erating on full time. Every plant in I
the city is running on full time with I
the exception of one mill of medium j
capacity, which is making a limited i
curtailment of its output. Local mills
are buying cotton in much the usual
way and their policy in this respect
is determined by their individual situ
ation as to the amount of manufactur
ed goods on hand and the demand for
the particular lines they manufacture.
Their purchases of raw cotton are
made as a matter of business, not as
a matter of sentiment, but the same
beneficial effect is had. The Colum
bus mills are not making any heavy
purchases of cotton and could not buy
locally in unusual quantities for the
reason that only a limited amount of
cotton i^being offered for sale here at I
the prevailing quotations. All that is |
offered for sale is beipg promptly I
bought by the mills. As illustrating
the general holding attitude, one lo
cal warehouse received 150 bales of
which only two bales were offered for
sale. Both planters and tenants in
this section seem thoroughly deter
mined to hold cotton.
Few Offers at Prevailing Prices
Local manufacturers of colored
goods, while still in a state of uncer
tainty as to where their dyestuffs will
come from, are encouraged by the
news that Germany is still sending dye
staffs to this country byway of Hol
land. and it seems reasonably certain
that the colored goods mill will remain
running as long as Holland is neutral.
Local cotton circles are interested in
two rumors that have been circulating
for the last day or two. One of them,
which seems well founded, is that the
Augusta representative of a cotton ex
porting firm received orders from his
house to buy 25,000 bales of cotton at
prevailing quotations. Upon investi
gation he found only 125 bales offered
for sale in Augusta that day at exist
ing quotations. The other report is
to the effect that an English firm has
been making strenuous efforts to buy
300.000 bales to fill a contract soon ma
turing. Difficulty has been experienc
ed in getting the cotton, and a flood
of urgent telegrams has been sent to
the firm's representatives in the South
to get busy and buy cotton.
§ DOINGS AROUND
STATE CAPITAL
Markets for Food Products
Atlanta. —Realizing that if the cot
ton growers of Georgia are persuaded
to reduce their acreage in cotton
fifty per cent next year some pro
vision must be made for establishing
a market for other products that they
would have to raise, a meeting was
held in the Georgia Chamber of
Commerce offices to discuss this prob
lem. The meeting was called by the
Georgia Chamber of Commerce at the
instance of Hon. James D. Price, the
state commissioner of agriculture.
It was attended by agricultural ex
perts, cattle men and representatives
of grAin dealers of the south. Among
the more important matters discussed
at this meeting was the growing of
more food products, such as grain,
cattle and hogs, providing ready mar
kets for these products for the farm
ers and the establishment of trading
points nearest to the farmers for the
disposal of these products.
Atlanta Holds City Election
Atlanta. —Administration candidates
carried the day in Atlanta’s city-wide
primary, which was held Wednesday,
and which was marked only for the
interest created by the vigorous con
tests for recorder, tax collector, chief
of construction, electrician and aider
man to represent the ninth ward. The
total vote in the primary was 9,493.
The winners were: Mayor, James G.
Woodward; Cierk, Walter C. Taylor;
[ Attorney, Janies L. Mayson; Marshall,
j James M. Puller; Building Inspector,
Ed. R. Hays; Warden, T-homas Evaus;
Treasurer, Thomas J. Peeples;Re
corder, (second primary necessary);
Chief of Construction, Nym Hurt;
Tax Collector, (second primary nec
essary); Comptroller, J. H. Goldsmith;
Electrician, R. C. Turner.
Anti-Saloon League Reorganized
Atlanta. The Georgia Anti-Saloon
League is now working under a new
regime. The board, upon recommen
dation of Rev. Dr. G. W. Young and
Dr. P. A. Baker, national superintend
ent, unanimously elected Rev. G. W.
Eichelberger, D. D., state superintend
ent of the Anti-Saloon League of Mis
sissippi, to be superintendent of the
league in Georgia to succeed Doctor
Young, who has been called to the.
National Anti-Saloon League cam
paign.
Doctor Eichelberger visited Atlanta
about a month ago, met the board,
considered the conditions of the league
In Georgia in all their bearings and
accepted the work. He returned to
Georgia and took charge of the work.
At his request Doctor Young remain
ed with him until September 14 and
assisted in readjusting the machinery
of the league with the co operation of
the board.
Doctor Eichelberger has had many
years’ experience in anti saloon league
work in Texas, working with sucli men
as Rev. Dr. Gambrell, Doctor Ran
kin and others. For over three years
i he was state superintendent of the
| league in Mississippi, the president of
; whose board is he veteran, Capt. W.
T. Ratiff, who frequently visits At
lanta.
Stanley Polls Most Votes
Atlanta.—Hal M. Stanley, commis
sioner of commerce and labor, during
the recent state primary, won the dis
tinction of leading the ticket in the
number of ballots ,cast for an unop
posed candidate. For a number of
years past this honor was won with
equal regularity by Secretary of State
Cook. The vote given Mr. Stanley by
the voters of Georgia in the recent
primary attests his popularity in the
state.
Auto Club to Buy Cotton
i Atlanta.—Members of the Atlanta
Automobile and Accessory association,
representing a majority of the dealers
in autos and supplies in Atlanta, join
ed the “buy-a-bale” movement, and
at a luncheon launched a campaign
which may result in 5,000 bales of
distress cotton being taken from the
market by the big auto manufacturing
concerns of the United States.
Atlanta.—At the graduating exercis
es of the Atlanta College of Pharma
cy, diplomas were awarded twenty
nine students, coming from every part
of the country.
May Invite President Wilson
Atlanta.—The local executive com
mittee of the American Roads con
gress, which meets in Atlanta Novem
ber 9-14, is planning to bring Presi
dent Woodrow Wilson to Atlanta to
address the convention on its opening
day.
Children's Home Burned
Atlanta.—While all the children of
the Home of the Friendless were on
their knees at evening prayer, fire,
causing approximately ?800 damage,
broke out on the top floor of the dor
mitory.
Rome.—The tax rate for Floyd
county for 1914 will be 7 mills, or $7 a
thousand, as heretofore. The total
returns of property valuation amount
ed to $15,244,568, an increase of $219,-
064 over the previous year.
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GEORGIA.
GEN. FRENCH TELLS HOW GERMAN
ADVANCE ON PAR!S WAS CHECKED
London.—lmportant details of the
operations of the British army in
France are contained in a report
which the war office issued.
When the German army began its
eastward movement to cut the French
center, according to General French,
it was ignoring the British as a factor
in the fight. The allies began a gen
eral advance on September 7 against
the German rear guard of their right
wing, which had been left along the
River Ourcq. The British army was
re enforced. The Germans began a re
tirement on their right on the seventh.
It was the first time they had turned
back since the battle of Mons.
According to letters found on pris
oners they had expected to enter Paris
in a few days. The order to retreat
was a bitter disappointment. The
British crossed the River Marne on
the ninth with the French, and on the
tenth captured 1,500 men, four great
guns, six machine guns and fifty trans
ports.
The Germans of the right army
seemed demoralized. They were with
out food and surrendered readily. The
continued advance, General French
says, has delighted the troops.
Text of Statement Issued.
Following Is the statement as Issued
by the official press bureau:
“The following report is compiled
from information sent from the head
quarters of Field Marshal Sir John
French, commander-in-chief of the
British expeditionary forces on the
continent, under date of September 11.
This account carries the operations
from the fourth to the tenth of Sep
tember, both days inclusive.
“It will be remembered that the gen
eral position of our troops on Sunday,
September 6, was stated to be south
of the River Marne, with the French
forces in line on our right and left.
Practically there had been no change
since Saturday, September 3, which
marked the end of our army’s long re
tirement from the Belgian frontier
through northern France.
Change in German Tactics.
“On Friday, September 4, it became
apparent that there was an alteration
in the advance of almost the whole
of the first German army. That army,
since the battle near Mons on August
23, had been playing its part in a co
lossal strategic endeavor to create a
Sedan for the allies by outflanking and
enveloping the left of their whole line
so as to encircle and drive both the
British and French to the south.
“There was now’ a change in its ob
jective, and it was observed that the
German forces opposite the British
were beginning to move in a south
easterly direction, instead of continu
ing southwest on to the capital, leav
ing a strong rear guard along (he line
of the River Ourcq, which flows south
of and joins the Marne at Lizy-sur-
Ourcq, to, keep off the French sixth
army, which by then had been formed
and was to the northwest of Paris.
“They were ’ evidently executing
what amounted to a flank march diag
onally across our front.
Attack French Left Flank.
“Prepared to ignore the British as
being driven out of the fight, they were
Initiating an effort to attack the left
flank of the main French army, which
stretched in a long, curved line from
our right towards the east, and so
to carry out agains^ it alone an en
velopment which so far had failed
against the combined forces of the
allies.
“On Saturday, the fifth, this move
ment on the part of the Germans was
continued and large advance parties
crossed the Marne southward at Tril
port., Sammeron, La Ferte-Sous-Jou
arre and Chateau Thierry. There was
considerable fighting with the French
fifth army on the French left, which
fell back from its position south of
the Marne towards the Seine.
“On Sunday large hostile forces
crossed the Marne and pushed on
through Coulominiers and past the
British right farther to the east. They
were attacked at night by the French
fifth army, which captured three vil
lages at the point of bayonets.
Advance of Allies Begun.
“On Monday, September 7, there
was a general advance on the part of
the allies. In this quarter of the field
our forces, which had now been re
enforced, pushed on in a northwest
erly direction in co-operation with the
advance of the French fifth army to
the north and of the French sixth
army to the eastward against the Ger
man rear guard along the River
Ourcq.
"Possibly weakened by the detach
ment of troops to the eastern theater
of operations and realizing that the
action of the French sixth army
against the line of Ourcq and the ad
vance of the British placed their own
flanking movement in considerable
danger of being taken in the rear and
on its flank, the Germans on this day
commenced to retire toward the north
east.
This was the first sign that these
troops had turned back since their
attack on Mons a fortnight before, and
from reports received the order to
retreat when so close to Paris was a
bitter disappointment. From letters
found on dead soldiers there is no
doubt there was a general impression
amongst the enemy's troops that they
were about to enter Paris.
Hand-to-Hand Fighting.
“On Tuesday, September 8, the Ger
man movement northeastward was
continued. Their rear guards on the
south of the Marne were being
pressed back to that river by our
troops and by the French on our right,
the latter capturing three villages
after a hand-to-hand fight and the in
fliction of severe loss on the enemy.
“The fighting along the Ourcq con
tinued on this day and was of the most
sanguinary character, for the Ger
mans had massed a great force of ar
tillery along this line. Few of their
infantrj- were seen by the French.
"The French fifth army also made
a fierce attack on the Germans in
Montmirail, regaining that place.
"On Wednesday, September 9, the
battle between the French sixth army
and what was now the German flank
guard along the Ourcq continued.
British Take Up Pursuit.
“The British cprps, overcoming
some resistance on the River Petit
Morin, crossed the Marne in pursuit of
the Germans, who now were hastily
retreating northward. One of our
corps was delayed by an obstinate de
fense made by a strong rear guard
with machine guns at La Ferte-Sous-
Jouarre, where the bridge had been
destroyed.
“On Thursday, September 10, the
French sixth army continued its pres
sui'e on the west, while the fifth army,
by forced marches, reached the line of
Chateau Thierry and Dormans on the
Marne. Our troops also continued the
pursuit on the north of the latter river,
and after a considerable amount of
fighting captured some 1,500 prisoners,
four guns, six machine guns and fifty
transport wagons.
"Many of the enemy were killed or
wounded, and the numerous thick
woods which dot the country north of
the Marne are filled with German
stragglers. Most of them appeared
to have been without food for at least
two days.
Germans Eager to Surrender.
“Indeed, in this area of the opera
tions the Germans seemed to be de
moralized and Inclined to surrender in
small parties, and the general situa
tion appears to be most favorable to
the allies.
“Much brutal and senseless damage
has been done In the villages occupied
by the enemy. Property has been wan
tonly destroyed. Pictures in chateaus
have been ripped up and houses gen
erally have been pillaged.
“Interesting incidents have occurred
during the fighting. On September
10 part of our Second army corps ad
vanced into the north and found itself
marching parallel with another in
fantry force at some little distance
away. At first it was thought this was
another British unit. After some time,
however, it was discovered that it was
a body of Germans retreating.
Germans Caught In Trap.
"Measures promptly were taken to
head off the enemy, who were sur
rounded and trapped in a sunken road,
where over 400 men surrendered.
“On September 10 a small party un
der a noncommissioned officer was cut
off and surrounded. After a desperate
resistance it was decided to go on
fighting to the end. Finally the non
commissioned officer and one man
only were left, both of them being
wounded.
“The Germans came up and shouted
to them, 'Lay down your arms!’ The
German commander, however, signed
to them to keep their arms and then
asked permission to shake hands with
the wounded noncommissioned officer,
who was carried off on his stretcher
with his rifle by his side.
“One of the features of the cam
paign on our side has been the success
obtained by the Royal Flying corps.
Praise to British Aviators.
"It is impossible either to award too
much praise to our aviators for the
way they have carried out their duties
or to overestimate the value of the in
telligence collected, more especially
during the recent advance.
"The constant object of our aviators
has been to effect an accurate location
of the eneihy’s forces, and, incidental
ly, since the operations cover so large
an area, of our own units.
“Nevertheless, the •dies adopted
for dealing with hostile air craft are
to attack them instantly with one or
more British machines. This has been
so far successful that In five cases
German pilots or observers have been
shot while in the air and their ma
chines brought to the ground. As a
consequence the British flying corps
has succeeded in establishing an In
dividual ascendancy which is as ser
viceable to us as it is damaging to
the enemy.”
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