The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-22
Commercial Club Mem
 bers Talk of Life,
EVERY MAN IN FINE HUMoR
Building, Prosperity and Produce
 of Farmers Noted.
trr. CasseIs Points Out Several New Uses of Cotton Seed Oil, Among Which is Making Ice Cream
 --other Things Boosted.

In the core of one of the great nerve centers of a great country. country that has been hollering panic" every time business has been mentioned for the last year, is a little band of men. They speak of themselves as "Gideon's Three Hundred" for there are that many members in the organizations; club" but to the mercantile world and Montgomery the organization is known as the Montgomery Commercial Club.
 Their one end. aim and object is to boost. and when economic derelicts re- fuse to listen to them, they just gather together and tell each other what a beautiful commercial world this is, what possibilities there are in Ala bama and particularly in Montgomery.
 Last night they gathered and listen- ed to several of their number discuss prevailing, past and future commerce, business and progress
 Mir. S. J. Cassels. district manager of the Southern Cotton oil Company. was first to speak, discussing cotton oil, meal, and the by-products of both. Mir. Cassels threw the assembly on guard by saying that he and the other oil men wanted to raise the price of cotton seed; but moment later, after his auditors had gotten their breath. he disarmed suspicion by saying that when this is done the oil concerns can get more money for their products.
 Mir. Cassel laid especial stress on the waste of money in using cotton seed meal as a commercial fertilizer, saying that the same amount that is put in the ground is worth just twice that pIained why.)
 He also said that a thing that was worrying the oil producers was that an enormous quantity of their output is bought in Southern Europe, put in bottles and sold back here as olive oil, and the people here have to pay for the expense. The main thing he said that was objectionable in this was that cotton oil, as it is now refined. a condtment CD and article of household food of a higher grade than olive oil. more cleanly prepared and far more nouriehing.
 To give some idea of the quantity of seed used here, the speaker stated that sB0!000 tons were handled in Montgom- cry last season and that for this seed the companies using 1t paid to the farmers S750 ,000. The entire amount, almost. was grown within seventy-fiye miles of the city. In the city, to all the workers of the different depart ments of the mills. the sum of $Soo.o0o was paid, this amount being earned by about four hundred men.
 Mfr Cassel mentioned at some length the number of uses to which mill handled seed is put. including cookine oil. far more clean and wholesome than lard, it's medicinal use, a principle in- gredfent of many soaps, It's use oy farmers of the Scandinavian peninsular ae a stock food and it's use in fertilt- ger. He said that if it paid manufac- turers and farmers abroad to use II and nay the transportation why no' use 1t as they do. at home, get 1t cheap CT and build up new home industries.
 Magic Qualities Of oil.
 The speaker said that the oil Is now az, highly refined that he erstwhile oo- Sectionable feature of 1t. its odor, to which many used to object, has been aradicated and now many dairtes use thirty-three parts of cotton oil to one of cream in making butter and get better grade of butter than that mace of all cream. He said that ice cream could be made of 1t. without the use oi any cream or milk at all, and to demon strate the fact he had a large churn of cotton oil fee cream served to prove what he said. The confection bore out his statement and made those present go happy that the chair called upon Captain Edward Joseph to tell the as- sembly what he knew of the present condition of real estate.
 Captain Joseph said that in spite Of the calamity howlers. the panic fiends'