The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-08-08
20 CENT. COTTON LAMBS
PROPHECY.

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Leader of Cotton States Merchants
Sees Great Future For South.
An average of 40 cents a pound
for the 1919 cotton crop ia predicted
bo Geo. A. Lamb. merchant and
planter, of Bono, Ark, who is pres
ident of the Cotton States Merchants
Association. With five short cot
ton crops in succession and the
markets of the world open and the
possibility of onlp 10000, 900 bale
crop this year. we might expect cot
ton to average 40 cents" he said to
a correspondent of this paper, while
i'm Memphis last week on business
connected with the annual conyen-
ton of the association. which takes
place in Memphis Aug. 19, 20, 21.
The South should never grow
over 1900, 900 bale crop. said
Mr.. Lamb. When common sense
teaches Us there is more profit in one
bale of cotton at 40c than in two
bales at 20c, then we should grow
less cotton and grow all food and
feed that our families and stock
needs. The South will never be as
prosperous as it is possible for it to
be go long as we go to that smoke
house in Kansas City for our beef
and pork, to that cornfield in llli-
noIs. the -four mill in Kansas and
the potato fields of Minnesota to be
fed"
CoEDITIONS IMPROVING.
Mr.. Lamb says he finds in his
state that conditions are improv-
ing fast and business adjusting to
normal with the new born peace.
But we can only hope for rs per
cent. crop, as both corn and cotton
can never recover the loss sustained
from excessive rains. From a gen.
eral view of the conditions for cot
ton for the South to make IL 1,OOO,-
900 bales. we must have plenty of
moisture through August, few boil
weevils, few army worms and late
FROST"
Relative to the belief that the
war helped the price of cotton up
ward. Mr.. Lamb said: Cotton
would have been higher if there had
been no war; the war raised the
price of practically everything but
cotton. Now that the war is over
cotton will seek it's place along with
other high markets"
Upon the future of the South the
president of the Merchants Associa-
ton had this to say: Our boys
are coming home crowned with VIC
tory and honor; they know nothing
else but victory. Victory is one OF
the largest words that tongue can
speak, whether in the political world
or the business. social or religious
world. The world has it's eyes on
Christian America. Its factories
want our raw material; we cannot
grow enough food and feed; our
sawmills cannot cut enough lumber;
our miners cannot dig enough coal.
MONEY MUST LOOSEN UP.
Men with their thousands and
millions must loosen up and start a
new era of Investment; we haven't
got enough manufacturers; the cot
ton states should be dotted with
cotton mills to manufacture our cot
ton at home. We should have more
canneries and packing houses to
save the thousands of pounds oi
fruit and vegetables wasted each
year, We need creameries to en-
courage the growth of dairy cattle.
We should open up for cultivation
the millions of acres of fertile land
in these cotton states that are now
standing in forests more as burden
or liability than as an asset to the
South.
The merchants OF the South have
a great opportunity to help create
this progressive spirit. They have
the power to mould the sentiment
of the country; your customers look
and listen to you as their leader and
guide. Merchants of the South
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