The Robesonian., 1917-12-10
MAY FIX COTTON PRICES
Southern Senators and Congress
men Worried About Proposal
If Price is Fixed it Will be Be-
tween 20 and Is Cents and
Grower Would Know JustWhat
He Would Get For His Cotton,

Washington Correspondence Green's
boro Daily News.
Southern members Of Congress are
more than anxious over the propos-
ed fight by northern and western
members to wage a determined fight
| to have cotton included in the list of
commodities upon which Congress will
fix the sale price. AS cotton figures
so largely in the manufacture of mu-
nltlons and also in clothing for the
sailors and soldiers even the sugges-
| tlon that fight is to be made on the
staple IS already embarrassing those
| senators and congressman who hail
from the south.
+. r. Ray, prominent cotton man
| ufaccurer of McAdensville, who was
here today. after spending some time
IN New York, Philadelphia and other
eastern cities, said he found very
i strong sentiment among northern bus
mess men in favor Of fixing the price
Of cotton. He was questioned. he
said, by these business men, as to the
attitude which his southern senators
and congressman would take when the
: fight reaches Congress.
1t is evident that Representative J
Hampton Moore, one of the main ad-
: vocates Of price fixing on southern
grown commodities, is going to base
: his fight on patriotic grounds. He
: will urge southern statesmen to SUP.
e port the proposition on the ground
] that we are at war; that the price OF
n wheat has been fixed and many 9th
er articles which are necessary in The
t everyday life are to be put under the
: ban of governmental price fixing con
/ troll
a 1t is admitted such an argumen
: will have the effect of winning vote,
: even in some sections of the Soutl
r where cotton is grown on an eXten
+ sive scale. But as already pointed
d out in these dispatches, if cotton i
n included in the list of articles whicl
n the government says must be sold a
a stipulated price, it may not be a
bad as It looks now. If the govern
nent fixes the price of the staple
will certainly be around 20 or ,
cents q pound. With many thing
which the farmer has to buy place
q in the same category with cotton If
- not believed there would ne much dis
satisfaction in the South over til
o proposition of including in the ne
" price fixing legislation.
The old argument that pound {
is cotton should be worth a pound {
l. meat may be revived, and if the pric
d, of cotton is fixed on a parity with me;
as the farmers will get some high price
IN for their crop. There is another-goe
n. point about the proposed plan.
ne would mean that whatever the pri,
to is fixed at it would be a guarantee
d. that the farmer would get that mut
for his crop and he would know in a.
s. vance that he was to receive the pri
il stipulated. 1t would work about lii
hit the present law operates with regal
It to wheat. The government has fix,
of the price Of wheat at 1920 a bush'
i'm So that when the farmer planted
80 crop this year he knew that he wou
10 receive the government price Of So.
in bushel when he sells next fall.
es, All risk of the price going down h
fr. cause of the speculator would be O
on waited and the New York and Ne
he Orleans cotton exchanges would ha
no duty to perform insofar as its {
en- feet upon the price of cotton is co
tx cerned.