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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-06
WEDNESDAY PAROLE PLEA DAY

Montgomery, March 5-tSpecial)-Gov
 ernor Kilby will hear pleas for paroles in the future only on Wednesday of each week, according to information at his office Wednesday afternoon. In the past the governor has been asked to hear these pleas while he had other important matters up, and he considered it best to systematiZe the work of the office by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-06

the cotton crop as the main crop, the south demonstrates the reverse of all this. Which will you take. diversified tion and prosperity, or cotton. and the old hard times? Mir. Norden, member of the Cotton exchange. says make big crop and sell it cheap. Gentlemen farm CTS. what do you say2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-06
PROTEST GAMBLING DEVICES

We are to have in the worlds poli- tics a league of nations, through the God given guidance of President Will son-a league of nations to protect the little nations of the world against the Hun-like methods of any nation of the world. We protest to MT. Wilson, to his cabinet and to Congress that the national policy of the United States, the cotton south should be protected against such conditions as these-pro- tected so that no association of gam blers, chartered and run under the federal law. should be allowed to con tinually make gambling devices with which to manhandle this greatest A m q r nrnl1lnt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-06
SMALL TENDER; BIG BREAK

February 26 the press dispatches quoted a decline in the New York exchange market stating the break was caused by the tender of 1000 to 20,c00 bales of otton to fill March contracs. The break was to 2.25c for March, exchange mid ding basis, while middling cotton was quoted at 2660c. and the New Orleans March exchange market, basis middling. was 24 46c, and the spot msrket, New Orleans. 725c The press dispatches fur ther stated that the buyer of the tender would ship 10,000 bales of it to--.ew Orleans, and tender on March contrs it's, they having until the last of March to do this
 A SHELL GAME
 I will say to Mir. Norden, that to an
 interested outsider, thSse transas cions evidence loaded dice. shell game, or any other deeply immoral proposition by which the cotton raisers and legitimate cotton handlers were robbed. and that. too, under the oversight of the govern ment. The government allows the eS> changes to make fictitious assembly of low grade cotton at fictitious price diff ferentials, and with these to o.gerrymander the price of cotton. If such a transac- tion was attempted in the grain and meat exchanges of the west somebody would be hanged. Cotton is the only agricultur- al product in the handling of which the government recognizes the interest of the gambler. A straight, honest clearing house through exchanges is just as inn portant, and just as possible for cotton, as the similar exchanges or clearing houses are maintained for all the other agricultural products. NO ATTENTION AT WASHINGTON
 No attention was given these trans actions by MT. Clarence Cusley. Assist ant Secretary of Agriculture, or by MT. Charles Brand, ichairnian ( the bureai of markets, notwithstanding they had thu administration of the SmithLever bill, which bill was enacted to prevent these very things. I would call attention to the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-06
ORGANIZE AND STAND

The federal government during the war enacted the espionage act and put every untrue American either out of the country or in jail. Gentlemen, organize Organize as one solid, compact body to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-06
DIyERSIFICATION

As to diversification. I have farmed for 50 years. I am farming now, and besause of the successes of it, I am the firrhest believer in diversification and reduction of cotton acreage of any man in the state. The first business of any farmer is to make a living. The main crop is the living crop. The money crop should come from the by-products. Cot ton should be the incident. and not the mainstay of planting. My experience Is that 1t does the land more good, gives more lasting improvement. and brings more money to erect hog wire fences ana plant legumes with everything rather than buy fertilizer
 The south has demonstrated that it can raise at profit peanuts. peas, beans and grains. The south has demonstra+ ted that it can raise at profit cattle and hogs. The soutE has demonstrated that it can do these things, and at the same time improve the lands, and have a good living. After 50 years trial with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-06

hold your cotton. The dealers on the exchange: the sellers of cotton, will have to have the real cotton, the good cotton. by and by. When they do, you will be able to name a fair price, and this is right. The price today-is banged around like a shuttle-cock. banged around be- cause they do not believe you will organ ize and stand firm. They do not believe you will hold the preesnt crop and cut the future crop. Gentlemen. farmers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-06
CHEAP COTTON; CHEAP LABOR

Mr. Wilson has called meeting of the governors to discuss, among other important questions, that of labor. We hereby ask MT. Wilson and all the governors to consider that cotton is a national product; that there is an insistent. extensive and unholy demand that cotton should be cheap. This means that the price that the labor which makes cotton should be cheap. Hitherto the 1aborers making cotton have been the poorest paid laborers in America. The south is poor because la Dor has been cheap. The cotton labor . CT is worthy of his hire; the cotton producer is worthy of every protection which the nation can give, and if we have not sufficient laws. then laws should be enacted to give the laborer and the producer in the south the same equity as every other nrodncer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-06
LIKE A LOTTERY

The cotton exchanges, advertising themselves as the clearing houses for the cotton of the world, should be run like the Louisiana lottery. con tract for 100 bales of cotton on the cotton exchanges should be, in law, equivalent to the delivery of 100 bales of merchantable cotton-100 bales that would sell at the point of delivery
 at the price, basis spot middling, at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-06
THE ASIATIC BASIS
FACT1TIo11s DIFFERENTIALs

Neither did he state that the present r.ethod of assembling a multiplicity of low grade cotton at fictitious differen- t.als and fictitious values made by inn possible processes, makes this cotton un- usable in it's multipleX assembly the very nature of the tender dishonest and preventing it's use by manufacturers, it's utmost proposed usufruct being to bounce the exchange market around e;- actly like a boy would use Jumping fack-pull a string. up she goes Pull a string down she goes!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-06
A SECTIONAL CROP

Cotton growing is sectional. It's use, like sunlight, reaches the furthest cline. The world demands it, and, like sunlight, the world demands it cheap. Cotton, fabulous in it's beneficences. a depres
 sant, a curse, only to the section which produces it. Cotton brought the slaves from the east to the south at a price. Cotton was productive of internecine strife, and of the civil war. Cotton made the south the defenders of slavery, the derelicts of agriculture, the victims Of a vindictive peace, and consigned them to a sectional prejudice in the countrys government. The unnatural demand that cotton should be grown cheap and sold cheap placed the south in everlasting de- fense of it's life product, and in the fatal position of organizing within the govern Inent an ex parte government for it's own protection All these things have mado the south poor, not rich. The elements which enter into the production ana cost of cotton are varied depending upon soil, season, insect enemies, charac- ter of fertilizer and cultivation that stated cost value is impossible, and esti- mated profits a vagary That the profits in cotton raising are the lowest of any other agricultural product, or any indus trial proposition, and that the cotton producers life is less desirable and ideal iS evi6aut -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-06
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

l have planted cotton for 50 years l was reared on a cotton plantation, and have been a cotton manufacturer for 20 years 1 was a country merchant, hand ling farm accounts and cotton for SQ years. I have been the aggressive de- fender of the price of cotton against the immoral and bearish methods used by members of the cotton exchanges; used under the eyes of the government, and used to debauch the price of cotton. mak- ing it gamble in which. to all effects, loaded dice are used. to the very great loss and cost of the south
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-06

IaCt that InlS QellNery or March con- tracts, exchange middling basis, was oc per pound less than the price of spot middling basis.
 WITH DOUBLE-BARRELED GUN
 I would further call the attention of MT. Ousley to the fact that sometime ago in an effort to secure for the farmers fair treatwent by the government in securing a stabilized market for this great world necessity, cotton, I printed in the New York Journal of Commerce a protest against the advertised scheme of allocat- ing a million or more bales of accumu- late low grade cotton on the cotton mills protesting that the scheme would add a million bales additional to the cotton crop, and thereby break the price: and protesting also. against the continuance of the departments methods of facti- tiously differentiating values of low grade cotton by compositing quotations from 10 spot markets with their values fictitious to the last degree, and that the gamblers on the cotton exchanges would use these two devices. allocation and quotation, as a double-barreled gun to shoot the market to pieces.
 DEPRESSED BY DEPARTMENT
 I would say to Mir. Ousley, the facts in the case have demonstrated the. cor rectness of my statement. Mir Ousley gave out a long interview, viciously criticising my statement. I am the only man he ever attacked. I would again call his attention to the fact that it is not I who depress the cotton values, hurting the farmers, but that it is the rendering of the Smith Lever bill of the agricultural department. Mir. Ousley said that I ntimated an undue intimacy with the exchange. I will answer that, to an outsider it not only looks like a liason, but full grown marriage. In other words, the agricultural department has been in full sympathy With the measures which the bears on the cotton exchanges use to depress the value of cotton. and that there is. an unnatural sympathy be- tween the department and the bears on the market. At least, after 12 months study of the unnatural diff ference between the exchange price of middling cotton and the market price of middling cotton, the department has offered no suggestion to Congress, so far as We know. amending the Smith Lever bill, making it accomplish the evident intention of the bill to create a reliable clearing house for cotton
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-06
CROP FAILURE AND PRICES

l Cotton lands are the least sought after l because the product, cotton, is the cheapest. There is no immigration into | cotton lands. There is emigration rom l them. The poor whites, and also the poor darllies of the south, are made so | bv the poor results of the cotton plant | ing, and not because inherently in the climate or class are the qualities which bring these results. No country can be prosperous when it takes crop failure ! to produce a fair price for it's product 1 and no laborer can be prosperous where 1 the product of his labor does not prlng | a fair price.
 "The New York Times of Sunday, Feb ruary ?, in an article with big headlines, states: ka@ Campaign to Limit 1919 Cotton De- 1 cried Expertse ITere,9 AlarmedansOver Movement To Curtail the New Crop Acreage Sees Economic Mistake Ef- fort Should Be Made to Produce as Much as Possible, as Cheaply as Possi ble, says A. Norden.
 Any campaign designed to limit the supply of American cotton, whether II be by reducing acreage to be planted for the new crop, or through the wlth- holding from market or the destruc1lof of stocks already grown, is economically wrong and bound to rebound 10 thc great detriment of the south accordlhs to cotton experts who are HOW peeoihiHs- charmed over the strenuous ettor's ot some southern bankers, merchants, poll ticians. and farmers to force a decided curtailment of acreage this spring. From an economic viewpoint the success or this movement would be a mistake, says MT Norden'
 THE ASIATIC BASIS
 Mr Norden further states that India Mesopotama and China would become the competitors of the south in cotton growing. and therefore the south should grow as large crops as possible and as cheaply as possible-a clear suggestion that the labor of the south must be kept on an Asiatic or coolie basis, and that the landlords should accept low margins of rental on their property.
 Mr Norden advises the farmers to raise plenty of cotton and raise it cheap, but he did not publish the fact that the exchange formerly charged $l0 for hand ling 1O0 bales of cotton; that they ad- vanced the price to SIS, and asain to SEQ, and that it shows no sign Of being reduced. sg
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-06
DO tHe esPTUIIHEG
 HOW THEY DID IN. KENTUCKY

In Kentucky years ago when the bear combine on burley tobacco had appor- toned out the crop. giving every opera tor his special division of tobacco, and at price the lowest ever, one that would confiscate everything, the planters organized the night riders, It was fear
 ful, but it broke the combine and won
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-06

fact that this delivery of March con- tracts exchange middIing basis, was oc
 per pound less than the price of spot middIing basis
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-11-07
DICKENS TWO LOVE AFFAIRS
Biographers Generally Have Over
looked Interesting Passages in the
Life of the Great Novelist.

The many biographers of Charles
Dickens have made little mention of
his love affairs, though it is certain
that the great novelist had loved pas
sionately in his time, says writer in
London Ideas. It is only in out-of-the-
way little books that one comes across
such revelations as this:
'When only a boy Of five years
Charles Dickens had a little playmate
named Lucy, a beautiful fair-haired
child, whom he loved to distraction.
at was his first love, and only a
baby affection at that, but the novelist
never forgot 1t. 1t is fact that she is
novel;"
The original of Dora Spenlow in
David Copperfeld" was a later love
of Dickens, and one which was un-
happy for him. The lady, early in the
acquaintance, encouraged his affec<
tions, but her parents objected on the
score of the position he then held In
life, and she inclined to their view.
She went away to Paris to study art,
and completely forgot the unhappy
lover. Later, when Dickens had at
tanned fame as a novelist, she wrote to
him, and after a time there was a
| meeting.
But the lady whom the novelist had
known and loved had changed.
Charles Dickens, at all times a senti-
mentalist, was prepared to find her
grown old with him, but he did not
anticipate the change in her character.
And thus the attempt at reconciliation
failed of its purpose.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-11-07

the fellow was Tim, the deputy sher-
iff from st. Louis. The negro rested
his tray on the rail, while the white
man fumbled through his pockets for
q key, finally locating it and inserting
the instrument into the lock Of the
second cabin from the stern. heard
no words exchanged with anyone with
In, but the negro pushed the tray for
ward without entering, sliding 1t along
the deck, while Tin, evidently salts
fed that his charges were quite safe,
promptly reclosed and locked the door,
returning the key to the security of
his pocket. After staring a moment
over the rail at the shore past which
we were gliding he disappeared after
the negro down the ladder. Eager as
certainly was TO make the poor girl
sware Of my presence on board, the
chance Of being seen, and my purpose
suspected by others, restrained me.
Besides as yet had no plan Of res
cue; nothing to suggest
Even as 1 hesitated, industriously
scrubbing away at the paint, Kirby
and the captain appeared suddenly.
pausing a moment at the head of the
ladder In friendly conversation. Part
ing at last, with hearty laugh over
some joke exchanged between them,
the latter ascended the steps to the
pilot house, while the gambler turned
aft, still smiling. cigar between his
lips. 1 managed to observe that he
paused in front of the second cabin,
as though listening for some sound
within, but made no attempt to enter,
passing on to the door beyond, which
was unlocked. He must have come to
the upper deck on some special mis-
sion, for he was out of my sight
scarcely a moment, returning imme-
diately to the deck below. This occur
renee merely served to make clearer
in my mind the probable situation
the after cabin was undoubtedly occu-
pied by Kirby, perhaps in company
with the deputy; while next to them
securely locked away and helpless to
escape, were confined the two slave
women. In order to reach them ]
must operate under the cover of dark.
ness, and my only hope of being free
to work, even then, lay in the faith
that the gambler might become so In
volyed in a card game below as tc
| forget his caution. So far as Tim was
concerned I felt perfectly capable Of
outwitting him; but Kirby was dan
gerous.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-11-07
WAIST LINES PART IN SUIT
Feature Plays an Important Part In
Apparel of This Season-Recalls
Some Old Styles.

The waist line this season plays
quite an important part in the dress
or suit. 1t may be long, extending
below the natural curve of the body,
or it may snugly accent the slender
line with which nature usually rounds
the figure.
When made in a basque effect it
recalls the styles of 40 or so years ago,
when little round lace collars, similar
to those which are worn today, were
much in vogue. This long, straight
style is as becoming to the slender,
rounded figure as it is to the well-de-
veloped matron.
When the girdle is at the natural
waist line it is apt to be fitted rather
snugly, outlining the figure with easy
grace. The skirt may be made with
a full ripple peplum which flares out
beyond the hips, or with gathered
tunic, at any rate whateVer the mode
of the skirt, this style or girdle is
almost always becoming.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-11-07
WRAPS FOR WINTER
Heavy listers Have Been Made
to Be Really Attractive.
Bulky Garment Now Does Work 1t
Was Cut Out to Do; Good
Looking.

The big ulster coat has developed
into one Of woman's most fetching gar
ments. Once it was bulky arrange
ment, designed mostly after the pat
tern Of the mans, to give warmth, and
that only. Now it does the work that
1t was cut out to do and is extreme
ly good looking as well.
The materials are of soft texture.
There are velours de laine and silk
duvetyns which rival the handsomest
qualities Of velvet There are beauti-
fully woven English tweeds and Scotch
mixtures. Those who manufacture
these cloths assure us that they will
wear like iron," and that, indeed, Is
true.
AS for colors in these coat stuffs,
they range over the whole gamut. The
| thick pile fabrics are being made up
in gorgeous plaids, and the Partisan de-
| signers have made most interesting
combinations Of plaids and plain ma
terials in the construction Of coats.
You will see a plain taupe lower Sec
| ton combined with an upper portion
Of taupe and dull green and brown,
making large-patterned plaid. An
other combination uses the plaid mere
| ly for wide facing.
Besides the plaids there are many
Of these soft materials made in pat
terms of stripes, and the colors COM
bfned in them give warm look which
will take the place of furs, now al
most prohibitively high in price. When
furs are worn they seem much more
lavish than ever before. The coats are
big and roomy. Kolinsky is popular
variety Of fur and the deepness and
richness of it's brown tones make il
almost universally a becoming shade
Then there are the dyed rabbit skins
which have come into favor not only
for deep collars and cuffs used OF
coats and suits Of woolen materials
but also for whole coats. The ermine
coats for evening are more beautiful
than ever and those of sable rival the
mantles of queens. Goat skin, Ions
and silky, has been dyed and used fol
fur trimming. The favorite shade is
gray.
The wraps for evening indulge ii
color to the last degree, and it is here
that the metal brocades and the vel
vet brocades are used to their bes
advantage. The wraps are cut ou
of long square pieces and little or NJ
shaping is given to them. All of theil
style comes in the draping.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-11-07

an long bout daylight, l reckon. sum
fellars cum ashore off steamboat, an
done broke inter de house. We never
done heerd 'em till dey bust in de dore.
One OBJ dem he knocked me down. an
den All saw Massa Shrunk kill one,
afore dey got him. All don't know
Just whut did cum OBJ de free niger
All reckon maybe he run away. Dar's
fellar on board yere whut killed
Massa Shrunk; an he's de same one
whut made me cum long wild him. A
smooth-faced man, sorter tall like, all
dressed up, an who never talks much"
"Kirby-Joe Kirby. river gambler"
"Dat's de name-Kurby. WaP, he's
de one whut was lookin' fer dis we're
gal, Rene Beaucaire. He wanted her
pow'ful bad. Dey hunted all round
fer ter git hol' her, cussin' an threat
enin', an a haulin' me round: but
'tvan't no sorter use. So finally dey
took me long ter boat in de crick-a
keelboat, run by steam. Most de odder
men disappeared; All never did know
whar dey went but dis yere Kurby
done shut me up in de cabin. All don't
know much whut did happen after
dat. til bout de time de steamboat
done hit us; an bout de next thing
All wus yanked up yere on deck"
"But there was another woman OF
the keelboat when it was sunk-a pris
oner also. Surely you must have seer
her." insisted.
"Ah saw her-yas," eagerly. "But
All don't know who she wus, sab, mol
whar she ever cum frum."
''Then she is not there with your
mo, sab; Abs yere all lone. Al
reckon, tho, she sure mus be on board
sumwhar. All what All does know is
dat de gal called Rene Beaucaire sur,
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-11-07
Dissatisfaction.

The old saying that some folks would
find fault if they were going to be
hanged is undoubtedly true. There
are too many dissatisfied human be-
ings, minority, to be sure, but
enough to shade the picture which
portrays our everyday life. Hanging
is a serious matter, and no one can
wonder If its contemplation causes dis
satisfaction to the hero of the occa-
sion, but lesser ills and woes, and
common things like wind and weather,
lack of money, unpleasant occupations,
a crumpled roseleaf in the bed, q
wrinkle in some other woman's get up
which has escaped her own. turn loose
stream of fault-finding disagreeable
and contemplate. We might as well
decide that we all have something to
bear in this world and that we will
bear it without grumbling; we might
as we'll subscribe to the truth that
IL it is not one thing, 1t Is another
and set our teeth and say nothing
Caroline Harris Lee.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-11-07
French MiIIiners Inaugurate Style
Hailed as Omen of Lavish
Season of Old.

French milliners have shown the ef-
feet of the dawn of peace more in the
creation of their elaborate and ornate
head-dresses than in anything else, for
these ornaments are so essentially a
luxury and intended to be worn only
with the most sumptuous of gowns.
The most costly fabrics have been
employed in their making, and French
pearls are used in large quantities.
Paradise branches finish the ends of
many Of these pearl bandeaux, and
heavy cloths of gold and silver are
bound about the heads, hardly show
ing the hair.
Many of these head-dresses or BAN
deaux were worn showing the elab-
crate use of paradise. Some bandeaux
of silver or gold braid supported a
coronet of uncurled pastel-tinted os-
trich banding standing high about the