The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-18

featuring interests take the pains to
 be fully informed; they know the
 truth and they know, also, how to ap-
 praise the very purposes and plans
 now being considered, for they know
 the economic conditions and practices
 ill the south and can fairly judge just
 what may be done and what cannot be
 done in the present situation
 He continued by observing that at
 the beginning of the planting season
 the south confronts situation
 (which may easily develop into a
 calamity, but which, if rightly used,
 may be the means of another forward
 step in sound agriculture and regional
 prosperity. There is a similarity of
 the present situation to that of the
 fall and winter of 1914, when the
 farmers sold at cents a crop that
 had cost them from 9 to 12 cents"
 But as the record crop of 1914 was
 absorbed in the years following, so
 we may absorb the remainder of the
 1918 crop in another small crop in
 1919.
 The world actually needs more cot
 ton than the United States has to sell,
 yet, as MT. Ousley remarked, this
 country "cannot immediately sell all
 the cotton it has," He said that those
 interested in selling cotton have looked
 only to the worlds dire need of SUD-
 plies, while those interested in buying
 have looked only to "the military,
 commercial, transportational and po-
 litical aftermath of the European war
 and seem to think that the present
 chaos in Europe will continue in-
 definitely and to hope that the present supply will be sacrificed"
 The solution of the problem flies simply in safe farming" Diversification of crops is demanded now more than ever. eff we make the same progress in food and feedstuff crops in 1919 that we have made in the preceding four years there will not be land or labor enough left to produce more cotton than the world requires. What is the inducement to produce more food and feedstuff and more live stock? The answer is plain. For several years Europe will require large supplies of American live stock products. Meat and corn are the prin- cipal items of food and they both promise to command high prices for sometime to come.
 l MT. Ousley's address, of which only an outline is here presented, will be widely distributed and will be care fully read, and read with profit. * # *
 1 The New York World says Hawaians have been maligned by the so-called Ha- waiian dances and Hawaiian music. We | always had an idea the Hawaiians could
 put up good defense if the ukulele
 players would give them a chance to be heard.
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 l Two men styling themselves "com- I rades of the world arrived in Lawrence Mass, and were met by the pestiferous police. The word "comrade,' or it's Ger
 man equivalent, got into extremely bad I odor along the western front. E # *
 l A contemporary laments the passing of the old fashioned livery stable minstrel )who used to play mouth organ" l Don't suppose it would be worth while | to inquire for him at the nearest garage * # #
 With an annual salary of s250,00O Presi- dent Ebert of Germany could pay his chauffeur as much as President Wilson gets and still have enough left to keep
 the wolf away from his door. x # x
 Some parcels of land here and there will never again resound to shouts of 'Hoch der Kaiser and the singing of Deutschland uber Alles" They are Germans lost colonies.
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 Having an unblemished grape juice record in Washington. Josephus Daniels is one cabinet officer who can address a religious gathering without trace of embarrassment There is a glad look in the average uplifter's eyes that an ordinary citizen cannot understand. Perhaps the uplift- CT does not realize the magnitude of his job.
 Although we are going to have a league Of nations designed to prevent wars in the future, it may still be possible to