Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-01-14
MILLS SHOULD CURTA|L
THEIR OUTPUT, HE Says
Tendency Is That Way, Says
H. w. Atkinson, Editor of
Cotton"

Henry W. Atkinson, editor of Cotton,
talks interestingly of salient points in the
present condition of the south's cotton
industry.
"The trouble has been that the mills
have hot curtailed to meet conditions as
they should says Mr.. Atkinson. They
have been the buyers of cotton-they and
the spectators. Cotton this year is TO-
0S8 900 bales-some 100000 bales short of
what it should be to meet the demand
AS a result, prices have gone soaring,
which naturally created wide fluctuations
at such high level.
THE price of finished products, al
though advanced to some extent, has not
advanced in proportion to the rise in
price # raw cation.
"One of the favorable points apparent
now is the tendency of the mills to get
together. as they did in Charlotte a few
days ago. to discuss methods for ad-
vancing the price of the finished product
But we think that the curtailment will
have to he INDUCED in to a greater eX-
tent before there can be a general reduc-
tior in the price of cotton or any en-
harcemeht in the value of the finished
product.
Another point is that it is better to
have a gradual curtailment while it will
be most effective, rather than at the end
of the season when it would have become
absolutely necessary on account of the
lack of cotton. At this time, also, 1t
would have no appreciate effect on the
price of the finished product, as all the
stocks would have accumulated to an ex-
tent which would put them beyond 1t.
AN INCREASED ACREAGE.
IAN increased acreage is anticipated for
10 rNrfnn Of f,rfr laIf,
cries like October and December show
this through the fact that they are 2
cents below present quotations"
Cotton for January is a prize edition.
Two hundred pages from cover to cover
are crowded with thoughtful articles
from the best authorities in the country
The issue is we'll illustrated and we'll
planned. 1t is the largest by far on the
files of Cotton. and Is said to be more
over about the largest edition ever put
out by any publication in the south. Hem
ry w. Atkinson,its editor is justly proud
of it, and Atlanta can we'll afford to be-
as 1t spreads still further and still more
creditably tie claim that this city makes
to being the center of the cotton industry
in the whole south
MANY CONTRIBUTORS.
The January number is the southern
edition of Cotton" On its pages are
to be found exclusively contributed ar
ticles from such men as Lew w Parker,
one of the foremost mill men in the
south, who controls probably more spin
dies than any other cotton manufacturer
in this section; s. B. Tanner, president
of the Henrietta mills in North Carolina !;
Thomas L. Parker, president of the
Monaghan mills, Greenviile, S. c., and
the pioneer in welfare work in mill
communities; Frederick B. Gordon, presi-
dent of the Columbus Manufacturing
company; w. w. Finley, president of the
Southern railway; Col. Robert ]. Lowry,
president of the Lowry National bank,
Atlanta: Charles S. Barrett, president Of
the Farmers union; M. v. Richards, land
and industrial agent of the Southern rail-
way; H. and B. Beer, of New Orleans,
who contribute an annual review of the
cotton market; Harvie Jordan, president
of the Southern Cotton association; B. s.
Robertson, president of the Holt Granite
Manufacturing company, Haw River, n.
c., on welfare work; T. H. S. Cone, of
New York, on the methods of selling
yarn; Francis r. Weller, civil engineer,
Washington, on the conservation move
ment in the south; John Finney, secre-
tory of the Appalachian National Forest
association, on the southern forestry
question; John w. Fries, of Winston
Salem, N c., on humidity in mills; and
several others.
WORK AND METHODS.
Space is also given to discussion of
the work and methods of the textile
schools in the south, taking up the A.
French school, the Clemson textile school,
the North Carolina A. & NJ. textile de-
partment, and the Texas textile school.
f. c. Abbott, of Charlotte, n. c., con-
tributes an article on the price changes
of southern mill stocks. All this is spe-
cial mater and is in addition to the reg
ular subjects which Cotton treats.