The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-07
New York Stocks
and Cotton Market

1 1E LURRIES on the New York U stock exchange have an effect upon the financial world. The big
 banks are big lenders to brokerage concerns and when the brokers are "rattled" the banks "take notice" With the cotton market it is differ ent. The weather bureau gave warn ing of a great drop in temperature. The drop was something like that of cotton. It was violent, but after all, the change from moderate to freez- ing was appreciable for a few days only.
 The crash in cotton last week was mostly on paper; likewise the rise in cotton quotations. In November cotton was fetching good price. In December it was bringing even a better price. The farmers had been holding for big price, thanks to W. P. G. Harding. A 2O-cent market 'hove" in sight and very large percentage of the cotton producers sold their crop at 19 or 20 cents.
 When the down-slide came last week no one was hurt; that is no one l worth considering in the commercial world. Less than 5 per cent of the sight cotton was in the hands of the farmer. The man who raised the crop had not only sold, but he got the big gest price in all his life. The slump, therefore, was without effect on the business situation.
 The stock market will continue to be business barometer, but not cotton.
 Raymond Hitchcock advises young girls to beware of the man who mixes salads he might have gone further and warned them against men who mix drinks any, where.
 Great Britain is called the vampire of the continent by g. German writer. Ac- cording to her pictures, Britannia doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to any of our movie vampires"
 writer in the Fatherland says the Turks are not enemies to Christianity. It certainly would make Turk sick to hear a statement like that coming from anybody.
 Having been put in state of great preparedness against the devil by Billy Sunday, Boston is now confronted with the task of preparing to keep out the Germans.
 President Wilson is popular man in Paris, but there was time. and not long ago, when an American in France hardly dared to mention the Presidents name.
 Let us hope that if war is declared those pestiferous Germans will never get close enough to New York to take shot at the Woolworth building or the Singer tower.
 Those miitiamen who had already en- trained for home and were ordered back to camp probably felt considerablye more than they wre able to put into words. 1 Henry Ford says he will turn his fac tory over to the government free of charge if there is war Henry has evil dently had a great awakening. 1 After person has been bored to ex- tinction by best seller,' he can always counteract it's soporiflc effect by reading "Trilby' again.
 l President Wilson has so many grave responsibilities resting on his shoulders that no one expects him to play a good game of golf
 American citizens who have the incur able habit of taking a sporting chance" may soon have plenty of opportunities for doing so.
 | No doubt Holland could commit sui cide'' by opening her dykes, but Hol- land is not yet ready to shuttle off this mortal coil
 1 Some of these dancers who are paid 5000 a week and furnish their own cos tunes must be about $99O to the good every week.
 1 Now that diplomatic relations with Ger many have been broken off, those Belgian babies will feel the pinch of hunger worse than ever.
 Apparently there is no way to combat the boil weevil except through prayer l l PEEVISH PEDAGOGUE