Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-07
The Country Home
BY MRS. w. lei. FELTON,
what's the Matter With cottonP

somewhere, and somehow, to drag
down the price of the south's great
staple until it is forced out of the
possession of those who produce it;
and then the cotton gamblers will
have a magnificent opportunity, to
make ten times the profit of their
cotton farmers, when they never
worked day or an hour to grow a
single stalk of this cotton.
Liverpool has controlled the: price
of the south's cotton ever since l
can remember, and in my opinion
there are forces in Wall street TO-
day behind the bears" that nave
hammered off nearly a hundred dol ol.
lars from every bale of COTTON that
will be sold when the market opens
in this present month of September.
It is a preposterous situation.
1t. is beyond all reason, as cruel
farmer and put it in the pockets OF
rhese cotton gamblers-it is shame
less and tyrannicaL
This cotton crop has beeu the most
expensive ever known in the south
history. Three dollars day ana d
short day at that has been the rul-
ing price for cotton choppers in my
section of the country .,-
The expense of feeding pillow stock
has been away and beyond. what was
ever known in Georgia: ,r Svet ~
cu i the crop with has been paid
for or will be paid for, out OF that
cotton, when the producer gets II 70
the market place. The world anrsoao
is clamoring for cotton 70 rla.lu ,are
get big values. Everything that
touches the growing and manutac-
turing of cotton runs high IN ex-
pense and yet, the price OF good coz
ton mas been run Gown - 9 aeoi With
cents a pound in the bale to 5o' WIFI
in the month Of August.
Oh NV dear farmer friends, you
that can hold it. do be wise enough 81.
to hold it until this depression Is
exposed in its cruelty. r,,-,o
II my early life I had very many 1haG
e To1 called la grippe or the flu or
some new-fangled name that our
forefathers knew nothing apout. e
the most of the ailments that were
prescribed for US half century ago;
I never heard of what is called Ine
appendix until my brown ha1r ,i nIa
become nearly white. Wnen 49,
stood wi What it meant. Nowadays
theV call it aciditis, and SO on, ana
so on. to the end of the chapter.
But I must not forget the text l
started to preach from, at the hej ~
Of this article-naImelyyss BAD Io GTie Some
e euollatbr to have a bad cold in the
winter time. when we bays haye c and
damp creeps into your s9 tpa fires
slow down-or you must 60 a ions
trin and get so chilled that your
teeth chatter and your fingers are
numb. ,,,
smell
start up a cough and your headache,
and the fever comes along-and
maybe keeps you in your room
some days. Perhaps, you feel 700
ailing to sit up and the ped tee Us
good enough because you must llo
cold. YOU have got Something that
puts new ideas in your brain-and
another sort of aches IN your IL ltmq rs
make the bed feel like a place OF
rest-and you chill awhile and then
you sweat awhile-and you blow
your nose, and you cough until your
face gets so red, that 1t shades into
You don't want to eat and what
you do eat, does not give you a
relishing appetite, and you can't go
anywhere without a spell of cough
ing comes along, and makes people
SSO~~S
whooping cough in the days of your
youth:
Along in the early eo's, when I
was one of the board. of lady man
held in the city of Chicago, and my
duties called me to the exposition
grounds every day in the week but
Sunday, I caught one of the worst
summer colds. 1 can now remember,
in the middle of the day you had
be shivering with. cold before sun
down. The winds from Lake Mich
igan are the most changeable sort
of winds known to the United States.
The fashionables that dressed for
spin behind a fast pair of horses,
July weather. If you felt obliged
to wear a thin waist, you were al
most sure to wish you had a cloak
before you reached your sleeping
place.
Somehow and in some way I caught
the bad summer cold. Once I had to
get excused, I was too ailing to leave
my room. We took our meals at a
cafe, and I had to live on sweet milk
and crackers for several days, be-
cause could not go to the eating
places.
Finally I made arrangements to go
to hospital, II l. grew no better,
and then l knew the home folks
would be dreadfully anxious.
1 was, however, relieved after a
week or more of such coughing, spit
ting and nose-blowing, such as Il
had rarely experienced in my life
before. If I had such spell now,
I'd call it the "'1u," and so would
the doctors if they had had any ex-
perience with the name at that early
date-nearly thirty years ago.
Just after the war we had what
was called the epizootic. 1t was
sumner, believe me, when it caught
you. The horses and mules caught
it. It killed a large number Of peo-
pie and live stock. Some folks never
did get over it. 1t settled in the
ears and throat and caused deaf
ness and inflamed tonsils. 1t was
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