The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-17
WOMEN OF GADSDEN JOIN BUY-A-bALE-OF COTTON MOVEMENT
Clubs and Individuals Pur- chasing Staple at Ten Cents-Postpone Trips
 and New Gowns

Women of Gadsden are indeed heroic according to ". G. Belnnger. mayor-elec' of that place, who was in Birmingham yesterday. The ladies are postponine pleasure trips and new gowns in oroer eo invest their money in cotton at 1( cents the pound, so that they may heart en the farmer in the present crisis. Ncl only are clubs buying themselves and urging others to buy. but individual mem bers are very active.
 NIT. Bellinger was in Birmingham yes terday with Adolphus Reich and a party of friends who came here to secure MT. l.eicl's automobile and make the trip to Gadsden through the country. They vis- ited the newspaper club, the Tutwiler hotel and were guests of w. B. Smith of the Drennen company at lunch at the Florence cafe, which opened yesterday.
 T have been well pleased to secure a bale of cotton at 10 cents' said MT. Bel lenger. rhe movement initiated 1 am informed, in Rome, Ga, which is not fal from our own delightful city of Gadsden, and with which we claim kin, has been greatly encouraged in our home city The citizens of Gadsden, the merchants, the hotel men, the automobile dealers and others have risen to this occasion, and are buying for future sales cotton at 10 cents.
 This movement has spread, and has found warm sympathy in the ranks of the ladies of Gadsden. And so far as l know this is the first city in America where the women, the participation of whom is always d benediction to any movement, have walked boldly forth and joined in l commercial venture.
 Tn Gadsden they have organized clubs to buy cotton at 10 cents. The clubs of long standing there have bought cotton tt 10 cents and in a great many instances .hat-I could recite the ladies individually have taken from their means and bought cotton. They have postponed for the tilne being any new gowns, any trips to New York or any new raiment to protect insofar they can by these actions the chief crop of this section of America. It Is unfortunate that such an extreme sit- uation has been faced by our men and woman, but it is great experience to find that the women of Gadsden have come forward so courageousy and have thus taken hold of an acute stuation.''
 MT. Belenger is strongly opposed to the appointment Of any one to the United States circuit court except O. R. Hood He is, l believe, the logical man upon Nnbiif d cOlnpToHflSe could be Sd1eiya set tied, said Mir Bellenger. He is not an- tagonistic to any interest MT. Hood has beer one of the leading lawyers of thIs state for great many years. He is a young man in years, relatively speaking, ls exceedingly well versed in tte law and IS u man whose environment has been of such nature as to fit him eminently for that position. While we would be ex- tiemely greved to lose him as a citizen at the same time we would be willing to sac- riLce our own interest for that of tae cifcuit court of appeals We are inclined tc believe that MT. Hood will secure the appointment. He intends to visit Wash lnston seon and personally talk over the situation with the department of justice anV others. l am informed. Judge Grubb ] am Informed, and Mr. Hood arc the ieacing candidates. There are a great mary reasons to advance why Mir Hood should have the place, and none why fe ssould not get it. so we are confident that President Wilson, who has never vet been swept off his feet, fguratively speak ing, will see the wisdom of appointing MT. Hood of Gadsden to this place"