The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-12-12
Have Forced Up Price of Cot
ton and Consequently Euro
pean and English Mills Run
Short Time.
SPECTATORS AWARE
OF CROP SHORTAGE
Prominent English Manufac-
turer Says the Tariff Cues
tion Did Not Enter Into the
Matter at All.
(Herbert TempIe.)

(Herpert IemoIe.)
London, Dec. 1.-THE cotton trade
is once more suffering acutely from
the raw material, who, foreseeing a
short crop, have been able to force
up the price. Cotton spinners, not on
ly in Lanca shire, but in the United
States and on the Continent have
found that they cannot run their mills
full time prfitably, and short time
running has been resorted to. BY rea-
son of the international federation of
master cotton spinners this short time
movement is now more general than
on previous occasions, when Lanca-
shire had to fight against cotton
corner" and the users of American
cotton throughout the world are max
ing common cause against the present
conditions, which are hampering
| trade.
Mr.. c. w. Macara, president of the
| Industrial Cotton committee. at Man
chester, yesterday received from the
president of the American Cotton
Manufacturers association a letter,
stating that the consumption of cot
ton IN the southern territory of Amer
lea at present is 20 percent less than
it was this time last year.
Views Of Marcara.
In an interview Mr.. Macara said
that, from reports published in the
press, the public might judge that
Lancashire was the only cotton center
suffering from depression. Nothing
could be more erroneous. Every cot
ton center was suffering alike, and the
reason was, that an anticipated short
crop of cotton and the action of specu-
lators had advanced the price of new
cotton nearly so percent and had
made the manufactured article so
dear, tiat trade was restricted to the
smaller possible limits. The question
Of tariff did not enter into the subject
in any degree Only by the contnu-
ance of short time running could the
evils at present existing be averted.
A telegram received here from Mi
Ian last night. states, that as an out
come of the understanding with the
English cotton indusry, Italian mill
owners, who use American raw cot
ton to the extent of three million
spindles, have agreed to shut down
one day weekly during the next ten
weeks. A further stop towards regu-
lating the cotton output is the forma-
tion of a syndicate there, with a capi-
tai of 100000, which will guarantee
surplus stocks with the banks. SO as
to reduce by about one half the actual
average production of nine pounds per
spindle.
A Popular Duchess.
The Duchess of Marlborough, who is
daily becoming more popular in Lon.
don because of her increasing per.
sonal efforts to improve the condition
of the poor and especially of the chill
dren of the slums, the other day pre-
sided at a meeting at her residence,
ISunwerland House, Curzon street, in
aid of DR.. Barnarde's Homes. In an
address she said. that it was a terrible
fact that every day the number of un.
fit and uncared for children, and the
percentage of parents. morally and
physically incapable of providing for
their children. was growing at an
; alarming rate. The answer. she
thought. to those who held the opinion
that to take away children from their
parents was to undermine parental au
thority, was that no mother. who was
fit to bring them up, would voluntarily
give them up.
Drink, unemployment, and the con
diions of tenement life were to some
extent responsible fNG unfit parents
but the root of the evil lay deeper
and, to the speakers mind, was the
want of practical and technical educa
tion in the schools. Young people
were taught to read and write. but the
schools were unable to make them
healthy and useful citizens The ap
! premiership system was dying out
and we were now suffering from the
effects of being in transition state;
for our educational system had moi
yet completed the equivalent for ap
premiership. 1t was the sound mora
and physical bringing up of the chill
dren in DR.. Barnarde's Homes. and
the practical and technical education
: given them, that transformed them in
to useful citizens.