Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-09-02
Trailing
The News
OF The Day

Germany Badly in Need OF Raw
Cotton"is the headline on a news
dispatch from Washington which
saws: "The cotton industry of
Germany is suffering from lack
of raw materials, according to in
formation reaching the depart7
ment of commerce. Before the
war. Germany required 100000
bales of raw cotton annually, but
the loss of Alsace-Lorraine will
reduce this quantity to 100000
bales.
Prior to the war Germany was
the second largest consumer of cot
ton in Europe"
And right on the heels of this
dispatch comes this one, also from
Washington: "There has been
rapid return to normal conditions
in the cotton industry in Lanca-
shire, England, since the settle
ment of the strike there, according
to department of commerce ad-
vices. 1t is reported that 10000 op-
eratives are working full time and
many manufacturers are advertis-
ing for weavers.
"Orders from the far east are
reported to be increasing"
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Which two dispatches inspire the
comment that the demand can't be
too great this year to suit the far
mers of Sumter county. With wet
weather and the boil weevil cutting
this seasons yield to half of last
years rather low yield, the higher
the price paid for what has been
grown the better off we will be.
Maybe the foes of President Will
son believe there is such a thing
as going a bit too far. Whatever
the reason. it is now announced
from the national capital that there
will be no organized tour of Re
publican speakers following the
president on his coming trip in the
interest Of the peace treaty as had
been planned. It was said, how
ever, that a sort of sniping war
fare would be engaged in; that
individual speaking engagements,
many of them in the territory
through which the president will
travel speaking for the League of
Nations, were planned.
Senator Johnson, republican. of
California, will speak in Indianapo-
hs few days after the presidents
.lst there and later will speak in
California. Senators Reed. demo-
erat, Missouri; Poindexter, repub-
hcan, of Washington, and others
opposed to the league, also are
making speaking engagements.
A hot time is in prospect.
Here IS omnious news conveyed
IN a dispatch from Austin. the
capital of the great Lone Star
State: Formal permission to inn
port $50 German families into
Texas is asked of Gov. w. P. Hob
by IN letter received from a for
mer resident of Texas, who had
taken out first papers in 1892 and
returned to Germany. The letter
from Goeritz On Oder, Germany.
"A similar movement of French
families to Texas also has been
brought to the governors atten-
tlon' The applications have not
been passed on"
Texas is a large state, and. even
with It's great population, is still
SparseIy settled. However, our
recent experience with citizens and
ahens OF German birth should
prove to us that there is no room
even IN Texas, for even so few as
1oO German families. A place
might easily be found for the
french immigrants, however.
EAO9o IllllJlICdl TO PRESIDENT
wilson has been making a great
deal of capital the last few davs
OF magnifed rumors Of break
between the President and Colonel
House, it being limited that Colon
el House had been cast adrift as
had Colonel Bryan and others
who were held up more or less in
the role of victims of the Presi-
deno. But Colonel House saws if
any rupture in thei~ relations has
occurred he is unaware of it.
Here is his authorized statement
given out in Paris:
so far as l know there is no
truth in the report. If there has
been any change in the relations
between the President and myself
l am not aware of it."
Colonel House pointed out thai
the President had appointed him to
serve on the Allied mandate COM
mission, which will meet here
again next year.