The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1919-04-05
OIL MILL IS LUCKY
m AN EMERGENCY
Foreign Oils Jeopardizing Home
IndustriesAn Appeal
to the People.

In GlScuS51ng the article reprinted
below: frst published in the New Or
leans Times Picayune, Mr. b. Mont
geometry. manager of the Brookhaven
Cotton Oil Co., stated yesterday that
1t expressed his views exactly and
that he indorsed it unequiyocally.
with reference to his mfll-the
Brookhaven plapt-Mr. Montgomery
stated that they had been lucky for
the past seasons output on account
OF the fact that they had contracted
in advance for their product last fall
as fast as they bought cotton seed
and were now running their plant
day and night while other mills were
forced to shut down entirely on ac-
count OF the below-cost prices they
were offered.
The Times -Picayune's article reads
as follows:
The directors Of the New Orleans
Gotten Exchange at a meeting
Thursday adopted resolutions urging
the use of domestic cotton oil and
peanut oils in preference to foreign
products. The resolutions read:
Whereas, we are informed that
the Chamber Of Commerce of Mem
phis, Tenn, has put forth the fol-
lowing statement, viz:
"The market for our cottonseed
and its oil is in jeopardy, not only.
for the present but also for the fu-
ture The cause is foreign oils. with
which the country is now flooded.
Here ere some facts:
Fl. The oil is received here in
second hand kerosene cans, the cans
having probably been used for
months in some Oriental home for
various purposes-the home in
which it was used was probably
germ-ridden with all the filthy dis
eases known to mankind.
90. The nuts and beans from
which the oil was made were prob
ably transported in wheelbarrow
for d few hundred miles; before the
journey the storage place was proba-
bly, the home described above and
during its journey 1t probably prov
ed d bed in stables and elsewhere for
its motive power. The mill in which
they were crushed was probably a
hand-power affair operated by cool
les who puddled around in the oil.
1t Is unnecessary to describe the
coolie, HIS diseases and habits.
ssS. We understand the local Food
Administration in San Francisco
where the stuff is loaded. after in
spectjon, declared it unfit for human
consunin ntion.
IL the stuff that is being sold
Is s6) Ss man tnrers in the form
Of LARD substitute. shortening COM
pound and cooking oil don't care
to eati myself,
"The fame and desirability of the
cooking fats above mentioned was
due to cottonseed oil made in our
clean and up-to-date factories. Shall
we allow it to be driven from our ta-
bles by the stuff described above,
and thus the market for our cotton
seed destroyed"
'sThe remedy is to purchase only
cooking fats branded Manufactured
exclusively from domestic cottonseed
and peanut oil"
.And whereas 1t has been repre-
sented to this exchange that "the
condition Of the producer Of cotton
seed is deplorable. Many thousand
tons may not be crushed. and the
mills have been unable to sell the
manufactured product. The remedy
lies in the determination of our peo-
pie to demand that cooking fats
used in America should be absolutely
made from domestic cottonseed and
peanut oil, each of which represents
a pure vegetable fat handled in a
plain and scientific manner and thor
oughly adapted for human food. !"
Therefore, be 1t
Resolved, That the New Orleans
Cotton Exchange earnestly calls up
on the jobbers and retailers here and
elsewhere to purchase and the peo-
pie to use only cooking fats branded
made exclusively from domestic
cottonseed and peanut oils Furth-
er, be it
Resolved, That the press of this
city and state and Of adjoining
states be and is hereby requested to
lend its aid in securing favorable ac-
tion on the foregoing resolution" !"
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