Show A COTTON TALE the following story is taken from a current magazine here is a bit of humor from a tennessee newspaper that tells the story of our american business insanity what is cotton cotton is the overcoat of a seed seea that is planted and grown in the south to keep the producer broke and the buyer crazy the price of cotton is fixed in new york goes up when you have sold and down when you have bought A buyer for a group of cotton mills was sent to new york to watch the cotton market and after a few days of deliberation wired his firm some think it will go up some think it will go down I 1 do too whatever you do dp will be wrong act at once cotton is planted in the spring mortgaged ini in the summer and left in the field in the winter |