Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-18
by RICHARD sprLLANE

Do not throw away your old
clothes. .,.-'...- -
In all probability all kinds of
wooden and cotton goods VIII be
than at any time in fifty years. II
you are prudent you will be as saw
ing of everything from your best
suit to the bedclothes as you were
in the days when the government
was telling you it was patriotic
act to curtail your purchases to bare
necessities
There are men in the trade who
declare ready-made mems suits that
now sell for $50 will command S75
within a year. That seems extreme,
but it is not Impossible.
: There is a pronounced shortage of
wool threatening America. There is
likelihood also of pronounced
shortage of cotton. Supply and de-
m9nd govern price-making If, coin
cident with shortage of supply, there
is no curtailment in demand the re-
suit in price depends only upon how
insistent is the demand and what
is the ability of the consumer to
pay. s. .---.
Great Britain is well fixed as re-
CARDS wool. To the quantity in her
colonies, approximately 100000, 600,
she had in stock early this year
about 190,000,000. This. with what
comes, forward from new clips, will
give nice surplus to the British.
Great Britain is after world trade
and, naturally, will use her strong
position in relation. to wool to pro
mote her efforts in restoring her
ruptured trade connections in yari-
Gus parts of the world and especial
ly where she desires to supplant
Germany or forestall America.
The United States is in bad po-
sition as regards wool. The gov
eminent has disposed. of its stock
in the war period, Much of this
has gone to the mills. Phe govern
ment holdings aggregated 268,000,-
900. .,G7
growers will market their clips.
They expect and in all likelihood
will receive much more for. their
wool than the government obtained
for what it so1d
: America does not raise enough
wool to meet its ordinary require
ments. It cannot possibly obtain
this year as much as it needs. That
means higher prices for wool
There is another shortage threat
ened. That is in manufactured
goods; There have been long, drawn
out strikes in the wooden mills this
last few months in which enough
time was lost to mean probably 10
to Is per cent reduction in the
amount of cloth manufactured in
the calendar year.
In addition. the mill hands have
won shorter hours. This may or
may not mean a further reduction in
production. The probability and ex-
pectation is that it will add consid-
erably to lower production. There
fore the amount of wooden goods
probably will be much below the or
binary demands of the public.
IN REGARD TO COTTON:
THERE HAS NOT BEEN A LARGE
CoTFoP CROP SINCE 1914. The
acreage planted this yearSis probably
IA less than in 1918, The seas are
open now and Great Britain, France,
Belgium, Spain, Switzerland and,
probably Germany, will be in the
market for cotton. If the foreign
buying are anything near what they
should be, and the crop turns out to
be small, the price of cotton and cot,
ton goods will be higher than at any
time since the Civil war. There is
imminent danger of the crop being
small
To raise large crop the weather
must be favorable. Also, east of the
mississippi river, there must be much