The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-25

at cents per pound, and yet we went through 1t without any government state or federal aid. Good middling cotton is now ranging from to cents per pound It is generally believed that cents will be about the right price for cotton con- sidering all conditions, and it is predicted by some that cotton will go over cents. but my frank advice to all growers and owners of cotton is to sell for cents rather than hold 1t for a higher figure. while they pay interest on their invesct- ments or debts or require their advancing merchants to pay interest on their debts and shut off interest charges, which 1 think good business and good sense.
 Another thing to be borne in mind by the people of the south Is that we have all the other resources in farm products, fruits cattle and other arti- cles we ever had, that the prices arc as good or better than before and that even though the price of cotton is off on account of the war. owing to the fact we are making cons. derably more cotton than previous years, at s cents a pound, even the amount of money produced for us from the sale of our cotton crop would not be very much less than the total jsum realized from the sale of the cot ton crop in previous years.
 Not Objects of Charity
 'I heard a farmer the other day, when talking of the situation, grow very indig nant because people were adopting the ''buy a bale" movement in the north by way of helping the south. He said that the southern farmer was not bankrupt and did not want to be considered an object of charity. l heartily agree with that view and believe the southern farm CT will take his loss just as the mer- chant or business man will do when nec- nGc ory an II n fhptl will not block the highways of business but will accept cents and go on ana 1t- tend to other business and let the hum of business along the n ghways of com merce be promptly resumed. Think of everything you can and we must realize that now that the $15s, ,o00000 cotton pool has been effective and will be available. that the reserve bank funds are also available and there is nothing more the government or business man can do and it is simply up to the farmer and holder of the cotton to cash in his products and business will immediately start on the normal road"
 MT. Ewing then took up the trade et home idea, applied it to the United States, then to the south, then to Alabama and finally to Birmingham. He deplored the fact that so much money was sent to the east and west for furniture. farm inn plements, foodstuffs and wearing apparlel and urged his hearers to spend their money at home, where at all possible.
 Ip closing his address MT. Ewing had the following tosay
 'In closing I will simply voice the thought that this war will certainly mean to us that we will not in the future look abroad for our fashions. but that we will depend upon our own country; that we will not thirst to see Europe or the Orient but we will see America first and appreciate it, too. as never before.
 Things primarily are not really so bad. They merely seemed so to some and their blue feeling and blue acting has made others feel and act blue and that has made things temporarily blue. Now, let's reverse it. and think bright and talk and act bright and things will be bright. Let s try 1t and keep 1t up and it will work out"