The Pulaskian., 1916-11-10
COTTON CHASING IS
 INTERESTING TO ALL

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 fully. But with the introduction of the saw gin and the steam power spin ming machinery it's development as an industry is wonderful to think of.
 What Peter the Great did to make Russia dominent,' says Macauly, Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin to the power and progress of the Unit ed States" It is estimated that the population of the world increases at the rate of three per cent per annum and now approximates 1,700,000,000 people. Slightly more than half Of these 1,7OO,0OO,000 people are supplied with cotton goods made by modern machinery, and Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese minister is quoted as having said, that, If my people wore cotton like they do in America, and every Chinaman should add one inch to his shirt, it would consume the entire crop of the South.
 Cotton is the cheapest and most . desirable all round fibre grown for the clothing and other uses of mankind. It is the monitor of decenc5, for it clothes the universe. It is the right hand of civilization in it's progress through savage lands. It has made possible the automobile, it has aided in conquering the air. No other plant in the vegetable kingdom affords a fibre capable of being transformed in to a greater variety of fabrics contrib uting from root to leaflless stalk to the use, comfort and happiness of mankind The United States Govern ment enumerates three uses for the root of the plant, four for it's stalk, 113 for the fibre and 6S for the seed, 1S8 in all.
 Evidencing the close association Of mankind with cotton one writer calls attention to the following facts:
 You get up in the morning from a bed clothed in cotton. You step out on cotton rug; you let in the light i by raising a cotton window shade; you wash with soap made partly from cotton seed oil products; you dry your face on cotton towel; you array yourself chiefly, if not entirely, in cot ton clothing At breakfast perhaps in the biscuit you eat. The beef and mutton were probably fattened on cot ton seed meal and hulls. Your i'm ported olive oil is more likely from a Texas farm than an Italian villa. Your butter is probably product of Southern cotton seed. The coal that burns in the fire may have been mined by the light of cotton oil lamp. The tonic you take perhaps contains an extract of cotton root bark; and if you smoke the tobacco you use, grew in all liklihood under cotton cover and is put up in cotton bag.
 Another writer points out that It is universal article in universal de- mand, and is everything from the neither end of a Chinaman's shirt to my lady's muslin gown. It blithely meets the stork upon it's arrival and lends to death it's slumbering shroud, while Henry Grady once exclaimed: l 'Cotton-what royal plant it isl The world watts in attendance on it's growth. The shower that falls whis- pering in it's leaves is heard around the earth, the sun that shines upon it tempered by the prayers of all the people; the frost that chills it and the dew that descends from the stars are noted, and the trespass of lit tie worm upon it's green leaf is more to England than the advance of the Russian army on her Asian outposts.
 It isi gold from the instant it's puts forth it's tiny shoot. It's fibre is cur rent in every bank and when, loosing it's fleece to the sun, it floats sunny
 banner that glorifies the fields of the humble farmer, that man is mar shalled under flag that will compel the allegiance of the world and wiring a subsidy from every nation of earth"