The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22
ID SHOW
 BIC BULL SALE Red Cross Sale and Parade Held Here on July ?
 on Screen

Birmingham movie fans will receive a great treat today when many of them attending Loew's Bijou will be given the opportunity of seeing themselves and friends on the screen. At the same time they will be enabled to see the great Red Cross bull sale from many different angles-just as it was caught by an active camera man that day. Loew's Bijou is the place.
 This will ooubtlessly prove of un- able them to see the enormty of the event. This is the first Dull sale" to be held in the United States for this purpose, and it was recognized as a movement of national interest. Thou sands flocked upon all of Birmingham s downtown streets to witness it and Capitol park was filled to overflow ing when the auctioning began.
 This sale, still fresh in the minds of all Birmingham people, having oc- cured July 2, will be flashed on the screen today, Tuesday and Wednesday,, at Loew's Bijou theatre.
 The remainder of the current events will be devoted to pictures of the war work and the official pictures issued by the French and British govern ments showing actual scenes on the lTOnI, many taken unQ6r lire.
 of us suspect. Notwithstanding that their concept is essentially brutal and that they are, obviously, beyond tAs pale in dicussing any question amo>, civilized men, they are exercising a potent infu- ence in shaping public opinion Their activities are certainly more menacing than that of any other class of reaction aries. They potentially stand in the way of those better conditions of living which labor IS imperiously demanding, which all fair minded men regard as just and which all wise men realize must be con- ceded if the world is to be made secure from dangerous social disorders.
 REACTTONARY OPINION
 This covers, with fair degree of ac- curacy. the reactionary opinion that has developed during this discussion of the cost of growing cotton. Its general lack of reasonableness and the intolerant air of confident ignorance by which it is more or less pervaded. make it impor- tsnt that it should be met and thor oughly dissipated if the investigation is to be carried through to a conclusion that will be of practical value to the cotton trade. 1t is clear that the best way to accomplish this is to steadily demand with every estimate an itemized statement of the expense involved, D9 Ched DIV TepuIaDi6 records and natn- enatical deductions.
 The linters and seed of the prospec- tive crop will bring, approximately. s5o0,- O00, COG, 900. Including this, with the in- come from live stock, grain, peanuts and other products, it will total an in come from southern farms for the year 1918 of a sum above s4.000, 900 O0O outside of the returns from lint cotton. This estimate is justified by the records of fa will bax lao fewer debts to pay out of this magnifi- cent total than they have had in any year since the close of the Civil war Any anxiety, therefore, about the farm CTS ability to carry the surplus. and all the crop as to that matter, seems, and is. conspicuously ridiculous.
 OBSTACLES MOST FORMIDABLE
 Although the obstacles have been the most formidable perhaps ever known in the history of the cotton market, the producers have steadily controlled the initiative in marketing the crops of re- cent years, and these indicated resources make it reasonably certain that they will continue to be in control this year. It seems tolerably certain, therefore, that, regardless of it's size, the coming crop will not be sold except at a req sonable profit above what it cost to grow it, as that cost, it should be diff IereHtidteu, HdppetS to De conStTueu py the producers.
 This differentiation as to the produc CTS view, in connection with the fact that the cost of the coming crop prom ises to be higher than any crop ever grown. emphasize the importance of as- pertaining the cost of production this year While you cannot ascertain this, of course, with the same accuracy that you can the cost of the manufactured product, it can be arrived at sufficiently near to be of great practical value, to both the planter and the spinner, in mar keting the crop.
 Based on strict accounting in keep ing with the rules of sound bookkeeping. I do not hesitate to say that, al the current price of October contracts on the indicated crop, the producers would lose more than many crops have actually brought.
 New Orleans. July 20, 1918.