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U. S. Consumes
About 40 Per Cent.

spindIes of the United States spin D
3S5 600 bales of cotton into yarn. The
rest of the raw cotton crop OF about
three-ffths of it all. goes abroad. Eng
land takes more than any other coun-
try, but Germany France and Japan
are good customers
The crop this year will be about the
same as usual. The normal capacity
of the mills would take 40 per cent
of it all 1t is believed by experts
that taking the year as whole this
can be increased so as to take an
other Is per cent. This will account
half 4 careful study of the situation
at the Department of Commerce and
the Department of Agriculture war
rants the prediction that the sea lanes
will be open sufficiently and foreign
mills will be operated sufficiently to
take about one-third of what they Tsu-
ally require. That means another 20
per cent Add this to the increased
home consumption and it still leaves
% per cent, or One-fourth, of the cot
ton crop in the hands of the planters.
This amount, about four million
bales, will have to be carried over
until next year. If the war is over by
that time it will find its way into the
usual markets. If not, then next year
the cotton planters will have to devote
part of their land to corn and other
products. Fortunately, cotton does not
deteriorate in storage. The very fact
of the war means that millions of men
are wearing out more clothes than
ever before, and some day every pound
Of cotton will be good.
In the meantime il is the purpose Of
the government, thanks to the new
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Bow the War Affects Us.
WAS to Cotton.
By Frederic J. Haskin.

Cotton is the hardest hit of all
American products. The war has in
terrupted exports of the raw cotton,
and has stopped imports of the dyes
used in the manufacture of cotton tex
tiles.
King Cotton could not hope to sur
vive this double calamity were it not
for the instant and mighty assistance
of the financial power of the United
States government and the equally re-
liable genius of the American business
man. The government will take steps
to relieve the exporters of raw cotton
to the greatest possible extent. and
American ingenuity Will furnish dyes
from some where III some manner. These
assurances. however. merely mean that
the disaster viii he alleNiated in part.
Its actuaiity cannot be denied Here
is the situation.
he yforl6-S cotton round
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crease their output not only because they
will wish to help out the country by
consuming an increased proportion OF
our cotton crop, but they also will de-
sire to reach out for the new markets
SO suddenly opened TO them.
South America and certain parts of the
orient will want American textiles for
two reasons. The first is that the Euro
pean supply is cut Off. and the second
is that shipping facilities and banking
facilities will be easier of arrangement
with the United States. since We are the
only industrial country not involved IN
the war. The Argentine republic has
already arranged for the exchange OF
credits through governmental agencies;
banks for the first time the authority TO
establish branches in foreign countries
and some of the great New York man
cial institutions are certain to take ad-
vantage of this opportunity. The liberal.
lied shipping laws will provide direct
steamer lines to South American ports.
The indications are. therefore ior
greatly increased activity in the cottoil
manufacturing business. Here enters
another trouble large part of the
dives used by American textile makers
are made in Germany. The stock on
hand in this country Will not Shthce ~
RIM the mills at their normal capacity
for more than few months. II tiiat
long. and any increased output naturally
shortens this time 10,
Manufacturing chemists have heen
,.,Ilad unon to do what they can to solve
mis- phase of the problem. and they are
setting to work with Will
:. =
Another question involved is that of the
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DEMOCRATS SET ASIDE
PLANS OF THE LEADERS
New York Conference Changes Plat
form-McCombs Warns Against
"Backstairs Conspiracy"

SARATOGA, n Y, August 27.-The
democratic state conference took the bit
in it's teeth yesterday. brushed aside
plans of the leaders and put through a
program which did not entirely agree
with the one arranged IN advance. An
official ticket was put into the field for
candidates for delegates at large to the
constitutional convention. Then the plat
form was taken out of the hands Of the
committee and altered in spots.
McCombs Gives Warning.
Another unexpected development was a
dramatic warning from William F. Nc
Combs national chairman, against back
stairs conspiracies' aimed at the new
primary law The chairman did not mince
words He said no Oppressive power
should be used by those holding any
political offices or leadership, and he de-
clared with equal emphasis that it was
the duty of every democrat to stand by
the result of the primaries.
All this happened near the close of the
conference. which previously had given
every promise of being an entirely pro-
sale affair.
For an hour or so there was free
flow of oratory. and the decisions of the
leaders were critisized plainly in some
particulars.
After heated debate sentence read
ing, 1.-The number of elective offices
should be reduced was stricken from
the platform
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Too Much Power Alleged.

1t was decided also that the powers
the platform would confer upon the gov
ernor in the way of making removals
were too great. and that he should not
be permitted. for instance. to remove a
Judge whom he had appointed to fill
vacancy.
The woman suffrage plank. which recog-
nized the widespread interest in SUI
frage" was changed to read widespread
interest and growth" Then the platform
was adopted by a unanimous vote, after
which the conference adjourned.
The platform presented to the demo-
cratic state conference indorses the ma
tional and state administrations: declares
for the short ballot; proposes that the leg
islature meet only every two years;
opposes doctrines declared to be de-
structive of representative govern
ment, although not mentioning specif-
cally such measures as the initiative
and referendum, and denounces the re-
call of judges.
1.-THE wisdom and patriotism of Wood
row Wilson and the work of Congress
are commended says the platform,
with special reference to the admin
istration's Mexican policy. the banking
law, the tariff law and antitrust leg
islation.'
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I'VE BEGGED HIM AND BEGGED
HIM TO KEEP AWAY FROM THE
GREEN FOREST" SAID SHE.
Billy Possum everything bad she could
think Of Her yellow eyes snapped so
that it seemed almost as if sparks OF hre
flew from them. 1t made Peter SILVER
just to look at her.
INC Billy Postum. who by slipping up
behind her and biting one of her heels
had made her let go of Peter. grinned
down at her from safe place in a tree.
Jimmy Skunk stood grinning at her in
the most provoking manner, and she
couldn't do a thing about it because
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Banks Will Advance
Money on Stored Bales.

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some way to advance money on the
cotton held in storage. This will be
done by permitting the regional banks
10 redlscount commercial paper Sc
cured by cotton, represented by Ii
censed warehouse receipts. The fed
eral reserve currency necessary to ac-
tompiish this will be issued under the
new law. This. to the planter. will
not be the same as selling the cotton
but IT will be infinitely better than
leaving him with his cotton and no
mcney al all
Demand has been made from some
~ the planters that the government
SaiorlZe the cotton at certain fixed
price Tor certain grade, but at this
writing there is support for such
scheme IN responsible quarters The
lhoiFidual banks will advance the mon
ey on cotton loans with their owp
knowledge, and then will rediscount
lheir notes in the regional bank This
VIII release the new currency. In the
END, the lending banks and nor tha
cotton itself will be the security to the
government The banks will have the
:otton to fall back on
Falorlzation, il is pointed out, would
lead TO no End OF complication with
foreign governments. since the mills in
countries disturbed by war are running
II al al. only under great difficulties
mo they would rot scoasent to pawn.
an artiiiClaI price for cotton. They would
prefer 70 use all the supply available.
from lil'iia and emma before taking IN
any o. the American crop. as the lower
prIce Of Asiatic cottot. would compef-
safe them for the greater difficulty in
transporting it.
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Labor Supply Question of
m
Is Also Brought Up. rat

Labor Supply Question of Sistins
Is Also Brought Up. rather than
an increase in the machinery itself. To
do this an additional supply of labor will
be needed at once. In the southern
mills this supply must be met either by
taking people away from the farms.
which is economically bad or by i'm
porting labor from the north and east.
The New England textile mills will be
able to recruit their labor from the ranks
OF those thrown out of work in some
of the other industries that have suf-
fered from the war. 1t is proposed that
the government undertake the transport
tation of unemployed from the northern
cities to the southern textile centerS. IN
order to meet the increased demand.
This can come however, only after the
dye-stuff problem has been solved.
The whole problem is one of terrible
difficulties but so much depends on its
solution that the government is counting
confidently on both the business sense
and the patriotism of the manufacturers
10 bring about the proper ending.
The cotton manufacturers also must
take steps TO get the new business IN
the South American and other foreign
markets To this end they must invest
their capital in travel and investigation
They must send competent agents
abroad and they must readjust their
manufacturing customs 50 as to meet
the needs and requirements OF their new
customers. And then they must he pre-
pared to put capital into the foreign
business. which is so much slower OF
payment than domestic business. To TINS
end the new banking system will be or
immense advantage to them .
1t now looks black for king Cotton,
but there is silver lining to the cloud.
&c a
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is the situation:
The worlds cotton crop. in round
numbers. is about 2o,0o0,ooO bales
YEAR OF this
Twenty Million Bales planters of the
of Cotton Year. 81 me 1-nlted
States produce more than 13,ooo,ooo
The next highest single production is
that of India. with nearly i."o".eoo.
and then come Egypt. China and Rus
STA with little more than l,ooo,ooo
bales each. The only remaining coun-
try OF any Importance is Brazil. which
cannot yet reach the half-mllilon mark
In order to understand the SITUATION
one must take into consideration the
peculiar nature of cotton as a com
modify. 1t is absolutely worthless I'M
~ it has been manufactured 1t can
not even be marketed until it has
gone through the operations of ginning
and baling. Once on the market 1t Is
worthless until It can be spun into
warn. and after that it must be woven
or knit into some useful textile
ks long as people are wearing clothes
there is market. but when the mills
are shut by war. or the trade routes
closed by hattleships stalking the seas.
then nobody wants the raw cotton.
Another thing. rhe cotton growing
land of the world is small in extent
that lands fitted for that product are
almost exclusively used to produce it.
Therefore. the southern cotton planter
grows cotton and trusts to sell it to
get cash to buy feed for his live stock
and food for his family He doesn't
grow a diversified lot Of crops as do
northern farmers. All his eggs are in
one basket.
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Now the cotton mills of the United
States consume about 40 per cent of
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The worlds cotton crop. in round
numbers Is about 2o.0oo.ooo bales a
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In the meantime it is the purpose Of
the government, thanks to the new
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In the new cloth top al
cloth back effects demand
by discriminating dresser
patent leather or gun meta
Spanish or Cuban heels.
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Another question involved is that of the
labor supply The emergency demands
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Womcns Footwear that
touches the highest note of
refinement (; all feathers and
cloth combinations; turn or
welt soles; Spanish, Louis or
Cuban heels.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-22

reason Kilbane did not select a soft
thing for his task OF breaking in as
a lightweight, for in Mandot's pres
emit form. the featherweight cham
pion was unquestionably meeting one
OF the best boys in that division. Joe
has been boxing in better form the
last year than at any time in his
career. He has learned apparently to
make the most of the gifts nature has
endowed him with. and has discarded
his former habit of mixing IL with
huskier and harder-hitting oppo-
nents. Mandot is a fast and scientific
boxer. and thus equipped ought to
hold his own over any route from
ten to twenty rounds with the best
in the division.
Kilbane May Initiate McGovern.
Should Kilbane go ahead with his
plans for invading the lightweight
class and ever realize his ambition of
becoming champion of the division,
he will have accomplished something
none of his predecessors was success
full at, although many Of them have
attempted the feat at different times
in the past few decades. The only
instance l can recall of a feather
weight champion defeating decisively
the recognized lightweight title
holder was when Terry McGovern
stopped Frank Erne at Madison
Square Garden, New York, in 1900.
But In that battle Erne, while
naturally rather light for a cham
pion of that division, was COM
PEELED to make something like
12S pounds ringside, and was so
weak from the effort that he was in
no shape to stand off the rushes OF
"'Terrible Terry" Several times dur
ing his career McGovern took excur-
sions into the lightweight division,
and notable among his achievements
was the defeat OF Joe Cans in two
rounds at Chicago a few months after
his success over Erne. But as great
deal of nasty talk was turned loose
after that fight the great little scrap
per was robbed of the glory arising
from such q feat. Whether there was
anything crooked about the mill or
not I haven't any idea, but 1 do know
it stands on record that McGovern
knocked Cans out in less than two
rounds.
Atteu Also Made Good.
Abe Attell was another feather
weight title-holder who frequently
went out of his class to get matches,
and to his credit it must be said he
generally made good. Abe and BAT"
Nelson fought a f1fteen-round draw
in San Francisco only a few months
before "Bat" beat Cans for the light
weight title. So if no further evil
dence was displayed in his brilliant
record 1t could be judged from this
battle alone that Attell was a great
little scrapper and might, had he as
pired to IL, have won the highest hon.
ors in the lightweight class.
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Penn Athletes Not Allowed
TO Perform on Poor Tracks
PHILADELPHIA

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 22.-The
track committee Of the University Of
pennsylvania Athletic Association or
gained yesterday afternoon in the
track office at Franklin Field. The
committee elected DR.. Howard Ken
nedy Hill to succeed himself as chair
man of the committee. and Hamilton
Cheston, manager of the track team,
was elected secretary.
The committee discussed the sched-
ule for the coming year and picked
some dates which will be placed be-
fore the board of directors for ratia-
cation at their next meeting.
The committee as a body expressed
itself as in favor of not arranging any
meets at places where the track is
bad" and spike shoes are not per-
mitted. The object of this is to guard
against falls, which might happen
and develop into injuries, damaging
the outdoor prospects.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-22
Fleming Makes GoOdney
Quit in the Fifth Round

MONTREAL, Dec. 22.-Joe Good
ney, of New York, failed last night
in his attempt to take the Canadian
featherweight boxing championship
from frankie Fleming, of La Prairie,
Que. Fleming made the New York
boxer quit In the fifth round of their
ten-round match here. In the fourth
Fleming pounded the New Yorker
about the ring. sending him down at
the bell with a right cross to the
jaw. After one minute of boxing in
tho fifth round, Goodney left the
ring. The men fought at 122 pounds.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-22
McVeigh Presented
With Gold Ring by Friends

Some two hundred and fifty friends
OF Jimmy McVeigh, 1.-The pride OF
the Ironbound district" assembled at
the st. James's Catholic Club, Jeffer-
son and Elm streets, last night at a
reception In his honor. After a
vaudeville show, at which amateur
and professional talent appeared,
Jimmy was presented with hand
some gold ring as a token of regard
from his friends. The presentation
which was made by Thomas Herman
came as a surprise to Jimmy and
after he had recovered from the
Knockout" he thanked his friends
for the gift.
Several speeches were made in
praise of Jimmy and his work In
the ring and telling of his worth as
a friend. 1t seemed that everybody
worth while in the Ironbound dis
trict was present last night to honor
their zone best bet.'
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II Mike Gibbons can be induced to
tackle Jimmy Clabby with a referees
decision at stake, there should be no
difficulty In deciding to whom the
niddleweighttitle rightfully belongs
These two middlewelghts stand out
from all the others, now that Claboy
has disposed of George Chip.
Here in the East Clabby is some
thing of a stranger. When he ap-
peared here last he was simply a very
clever boxer, just a shade too heavy
for the welterweight class. Since
then he has developed into a genuine
middieweight, big enough to cope
with any of the 15S-pounders, but
without having to weaken himeelf in
making the weight. In fact Ciabby
always aims to build himself up, In
stead Of reducing. This is an advan-
tage he shares with Gibbons, who is
also well within the class limit.
If the men ever meet in New York
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GIBBONS VS.. CLABBY WOULD
MAKE FINE GOTHAM CARD

Gibbins will probably be picked to
win. The st. Paul wizard Is so far
above the second-raters he has been
bowling over that he appears irwin
chile. But Gibbons has yet to show
that he can retain his wonderful form
against a first-class opponent. AS a
rule, the men he meets are paralyzed
with stage fright and offer very feeble
resistance.
Gibbons Is demon on the offensive.
So long as he can keep his opponents
backing up he appears to be in a class
by himself. But the man from St.
Paul is far from rash when his oppo-
nent is willing to exchange with him.
At such times he loses much OF his
brilliance.
Jimmy Johnston, manager of Madi-
son Square Garden, Is ready and will
ing to stage the bout, and says II is
up to the men themselves. John
ston is in hopes of staging the bout
late In January.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-22
CATTLE WINS AGAIN

NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-Harry Cat.
tie scored his eighth straight win By
knocking out Barney Phillips, of Pas
sale, In the fourth round of theil
scheduled ten-round bout at the
Olympic A. G. last night. Gattle'i
superiority was apparent at th'
start, although the battle was hotly
contested while 1t lasted.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-22

Featherweight Champion Johnny
Kilbane's first attempt to upset the
popular theory that good big man
can always beat a good little man
was more or less successful, accord
ing to the various view points and
pretudlces of the spectators. While
the featherweight champion was
given a draw with his heavier OPP
ponent. several accounts of the bat
lie intimated that the decision was
hardly fair to Mandot. Then there
are others, possibly influenced by
friendship or local pride, who boldly
assert that 1t was Kilbane's fight all
the way. However, the question arises
whether Johnny has accomplished
what he set out to do-to determine
II ne has a chance with the best Of
the 133- pound class. II was for that
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Tom srcCarty Comment.

II confidence will win a prizefight
Tom McCarty, the Lewiston, Mont,
heavyweight, will whip Gunboat
Smith when they meet at the Empire
A. c., New York, tomorrow night.
McCarty asserts he will challenge
Jess Willard IL he gets the popular
decision over the Gunner.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-22
LENNY BEATS BROWN

NEW YORK, Dec. 22,-Harry Len
ny proved far too clever for Knocl;-
out Brown in the final ten-round
bout at the Long Acre Athletic Club
asst night, holding a safe lead all
the way Lenny's best round was
the tenth, in which he scored al