Show EUROPEAN WAR RR SHATTERS 6 AT KING COTTONS THRONE FLEECY STAPLE PAY RAW RAN bom INTO THE COMERS OP OF WAR nation rings ring with cries of crickon industry by peter radford lecturer notional national farmers Fan nera union king cotton has bas suffered buffered more from the european war than juaa any other agricultural agri ri product on the american continent the shells belli of the belligerents have over oter his throne frightening hta his subjects and chattering his bla markets and panto panic stricken the nation cries out god save the kingl king people from terr every walk of life have contributed their mite toward rescue work society has ha danced before the king milady has ha decreed that the family wardrobe shall contain only cotton goods the press presa his baa plead with the public to buy a bale bankers have been formulating hold ing plans ton congress gress and legislative bodies have deliberated over relief measures statesmen and writers writer have grown eloquent the inalienable rights of ill his majesty ind presenting schemes cremea for preserve pree pre err ing the financial integrity of the at tr ricken ieken staple but the sword of europe eur r has proved mightier than the pen of f america in fixing axing value upon this product of the anny sunny south prices ave been bayoneted values riddled nd markets decimated by the battling hosts costs of the eastern hemisphere until the american tamer farmer has suffered a war lose losa of and a bal bale of t cotton brave enough to enter a ur port roust must pay a ransom or of aalf its value or go to prison until the sr r Is ir over hope of the future lies in co opera tion the farmers Farm pra union through the columns of the press wants to thank the he american people for the friend ship sympathy and assistance given the cotton farmers to in the hour of distress arf sip and to direct attention to oo 00 methods necessary to permanently manent ly assist the marketing of all firm farm products the present emergency presents presen tn as e rave a situation as ever confronted the american farmer and from the viewpoint of the producer would seem to justify extraordinary relief mesa meas ures urea even to the point of bending the constitution and training business rules in order to lift a portion of the burden off the backs of the farmer for unless something Is done to check the invasion of the war forces upon the cotton melds fields the pathway of the european Pur pestilence on this continent will be strewn with mortgaged homes and famine and poverty will stalk over the southland filling the highways of industry with refugees refu Rees and the bank court with prisoners all calamities teach us leamons and the present crisis serves to illuminate the frailties of our marketing meth ads and the weakness of our credit system and out of the financial an aguish and travail of the cotton farmer will come a volume of and a mass or of suggestions and finally a 1 I solution of this the biggest problem in the economic life of america it if indeed we have not already laid the foundation for at least temporary relief reiter more pharaohs Phara needed in AgrI agriculture agricula cult U r farm products have no credit and perhaps can never have on a perma nent and satisfactory blots unless i build warehouses cold storage plants elevators etc for without storage and credit facilities the south to Is corn com polled to dump its crop on the market at harvest time the farmers Pin ners unions in the cotton producing states have for the past ten years persistently ad vacated the construction of storage facilities we have built during this period 2 2000 warehouses with a ca WHY of approximately bales bale and looking backward the results would seem encouraging but looking for forward sard wo we are able to house loom lesa than one third or of the crop and warehouses warehouse without a credit system lose loae 90 per cent of their unet ulness rho rhe problem in a gigantic one too great for the farmer to solve unaided he must mint have the assistance of the bank er the merchant and the government in production we have reached the high water mark of perfection in the worlds world history but our marketing methods method are most primitive in the dawn of history we find agriculture plowing with a forked tick stick but with a system of warehouses iea under govern mental supervision that mad fiade the egyptians egyptian the marvel of civilization for who bag baa not admired the von of joseph and applauded lauded the wisdom of pharaoh for storing the surplus until demanded by tb abe eon eonsuper sumer but in this age we nave have too t many jozepha josephe who drom dream aaa 4 1 ma I huou pharaoh who bulla |