The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-10-27
Cotton Kingdom is
the World
Augusta Chronicle.


to the strains of music pumped
through the organ by cotton bel
lows"
The challenge is that Of a writer
In the New York Sun. The cotton
bellows" is to stress the uses to
which cotton is put. Follow this
writer. He is interesting even to the
man In the South most intimate with
cotton.
Cotton today is "hard hit" by the
European war. Yet without cotton
there could be no war. Without cot
ton not a modern gun could be fired.
Cotton is the basis OF high explosives
and of cmokeless powder. The
armor clad warship carries relative.
ly more cotton than was used by the
frigate of century ago with all it's
sails.
Cotton clothes the armies of the
world, and all the people of the
world, from the polar region to the
tropics. A film of cotton cloth.
across two poles, is the shelter of the
Hottentot. Cotton pads and warns
The comb you use Is celluloid
cotton treated with acids There
would be no useful celluloid things
except for cotton. Cotton is the chief
ingredient of the automobile. Those
soft cushions are cotton felt cover
ed with more cotton that looks like
leather and you go bounding along
on inflated cotton tires treated with
rubber.
Without cotton there could be no
great Office buildings, for fireproof-
Ing would be impracticable. Besides
1T would be too expensive to get the
cement to the spot without the bags
that consume 18O,0OO,0OO yards of
cotton cloth every year.
Light your pipe and think it over
but as the smoke rolls up to the en-
amelled ceilings remember that the
foundation of that enamel is cotton
and that one single company
requires million yards of cotton
cloth to shade tobacco plants grow
Ing in Cuba and Florida and 4,OOO,-
600 yards of the little bags in which
that same tobacco goes to the con-
sumer Cotton fattens cattle. When
the great American hog falls down
on his job of shortening hot biscuits
cotton is ready to do the work more
anu DlOTe Qel1Cately.
The railroads and trolley lines of
the United States use more than $50
600 bales OF cotton a year for ename-
led ceilings. plush chairs, leather
seats and airbrake hose. The auto
mobile consumes about 100000
bales year. Most OF 1t goes into the
cotton duck, which is the essential
feature Of the tires, and the rest goes
largely for leather cushions ard
- ats.
= The largest individual contract
for cotton goods in the world is the
one placed annually by the greatest
OF the harvester machine Companies.
1t calls for millions of yards of cot
ton duck, the consumption for the
entire harvesting machine industry
being estimated at above 5O,0OO,-
600 yards of duck yearly.
In normal times the New York
market alone consumes 100000
pounds of yarn weekly for the cleo
trical industry. 1t is necessary for
Insulation.
Cotton bags have displaced barrels
to great extent. 1t takes about
100000 yards of cotton duck
annually for coal bags for delivering
the coal where a chute cannot be en-
ployed. Cotton duck is used extern
sively for ventilating chutes in coal
mines. 'farpaulins have replaced
other covers for fat cars, vans and
wagons.
In South Africa the cotton blanket
has driven out the woolen one. Full
ly 20,000,000 yards of cotton duck
is consumed in the Canadian North
west annually for overcoats. replac-
Ing fur. With a padding of cotton
between layers of duck, these gar
ments are lighter and warmer than
fur.
Cotton cloth has taken the place
OF wall paper in thousands OF mod
ern houses. Buckram, made OF cotton
not only covers books, but is replac-
Ing burlap. Pottery establishments
use millions of yards of army duck
annually for squeezing water out Of
clay. The government uses 4,000,-
600 yards of cotton duck every year
for coin bags.
1t takes 100000 yards of cotton
duck annually to make feed bags to
hang over the noses OF horses. Duck
Is used for filteUng oils-millions
OF yards II 1t every year.
1t takes more than 50,000,000
yards every year of cotton ducking
for rubber betting and rubber hose.
The same substance is used for stiff
fening the gauntlets of gloves Mf
leggings, tennis and gymnasium
shoes, canopies for shower baths,
where rubber formerly was used, the
covering Of trucks and telescopes
About 100000 yards annually are
used for draining mines.
Wood pulp paper mills and other