The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-08
FOrGOOd of the
 Community
THERE are two wire mills in the Bir- I mingham district.

In0fo are country Il0rClldnCS CuiOugu- out the state of Alabama who purchase the wire made by these mills.
 These merchants are not buying wire now They are the creditors of the farm CTS in their neighborhood. The farmers have had the price of their cotton cut in two. They are not making purchases of the country merchant. The merchant is not buying wire of the Birmingham mills
 Some country merchants, who are able to take on new stock of wire, will not do so because they do not wish to have 1t on hand. They do not desire to have the farmer whose credit with them is already strained, increase his debt by the purchase of additional goods.
 There are wholesalers on First ave- nue who find it difficult to collect bills owing by the country merchant. Coun- try merchants in good financial form have quit buying goods here because their farmer customers are not buying of them
 A 750,000-bale cotton crop selling at 40 cents a pound, with seed at S60 per ton, means $172, 100000. A crop of that size with cotton selling at 20 cents a pound and seed at $50 a ton, means S86, ,250, ,O00-exactly one-half. There is just one-half the amount of money in the latter instance to pay for the goods which the city man sells to the cotton producer
 Country banks deposit in city banks The more prosperous they are, the more money there is in city banks and the more there is available for loans on city enter prises.
 When country folk are prosperous they come to the cities and they patronize the retail stores When they do not come in person they are reached by the mail order department
 The city man is just as much affected by the price of cotton as is the man who raises it. The wealth of the west rests on the grain fields. Kansas was "Bleeding' Kansas until the grain was cared for in it's marketing. Now it is one of the wealth fest of states When the Kansas farmer was poor the Kansas city man was poor
 The city man who fails to line up with the supreme effort that is being made by the American Cotton association in it's ef- fort to stabilize the cotton industry is blind to his own interests A matter of S3, the price of theatre ticket, is the price. The 50,O00 Alabama members ought to have been obtained in one day.
 It is not question of saving this crop 1t is one of getting to the point where all of the mmay be saved. The cotton asso- citation aims at stabilization of the mar keting end of the game, which is the most important. It aims at licensed ware houses, whose receipt is as good as gold. It aims at one sampling and one grading that shall adhere to the bale until it is consumed. It aims at certitude of mar ketlng each crop that shall standardize 1t the same as pig iron, furniture or any other article of trade
 Once the lesson is learned by Alabam- ians that they cannot separate their des- tinies the one from the other, this state will literally blossom like rose. What is done must be done by us one for the other. It must not be asked who gets the direct and immediate benefit, but all must realize that all interests are so in terWoven that rent in one place event. ually extends throughout.
 Every Alabamian'S present and urpent