The Washington herald., 1920-10-15
GROWERS BURN
COTTON CROPS
Destruction as Means to
Raise Price Viewed as
Unfair Step.
By RICHARD sPILLANE.

In Texas. Georgia Alabama, North
and South Carolina cotton gins have
been burned and cotton dealers
threatened with the vengeance OF
-citizens" unless they cease buSi-
ness until cotton sells at 40 cents q
/, pound.
This Is not surprising. The most
influential weekly publication in
the South has been printing stun
of character TO inhame the minds
Of the farmers, and they have come
to believe they are a much abused
Tot.
Possibly they are. but destruc-
ton of property and mob violence
will not help them.
What the cotton grower needs
about as much as anything else Is
common sense. No major crop OF
the world is handled so wsstefully
as cotton. Its bailing is atrociously
bad Its marketing is attended with
! unnecessary costs. Cotton growers
are long on talk Of reform and
short on prscticing economies. Re-
gsrdless OF how high cotton goes,
II never is high enough for the
cotton grower. Within the last
twenty-five years the crop has been
marketed as low as cents a pound
and within the last few years IL
has sold at nearly 40 cents. When
I IL was around 40 cents the cry
was for so cents. II IL went to so
there probably would have been
argument that so was a moderate
figure.
II does not seem as II the South
erner plays fair. In the war period
I he refused 10 permit price regulation
OF cotton, although he hsd'no objec-
| tion TO other commodities being
governme Why cotton
should be held in sacred regard is
( not plain to the naked eye. In 1914.
when the South had a big crop and
the war cut of exports, the South
| begged the nation 10 buy q bale"
/ to help out the cotton grower. The
grain men of the West made no such
appeal.
Wheat. corn, cattle and practical
ly all products Of the soil have de-
Clined radically from wartime high
prices, but there is no burning OF
elevators in the West by the far
mers or threats Of Furnishing grain
dealers.
The South has had several years
OF plenty. il should accept read5Ust-
ment to a new level with good grace.
Women Revere Flag.
on three trucks in the Broad
Street (PhiladelphiaD trainshed three
caskets were wheeled from the bag
gage car OF one train TO the baggage
car of another. over each casket
there was spread an American faE.
Two women who had thoughts OF
/ the blood fields OF France
/ bowed their heads and. perhaps. said
a prayer for the hero dead.
But not one man IN all the crowd
waiting for trains raised his hat
Honor Aged Banker.
Father and son serving the same
: institution a total OF lO2 years is
record perhaps unparalleled in Amer
/ lean business life.
The Greenwich Bank. OF New
York City. is the institution. II
was established ninety years ago.
| One Of its officers today is William
H Hawes. He has been with the
bank ffty-two years. His father
had been with the bank fifty years
On the fifty-second anniversary
/ the other day OF the entrance OF
the son into the employment OF the
bank the directors went in a body
to the once OF Halves and, together
with a tangible evidence OF their
affection and esteem, they made
some addresses that warmed the
cookies OF his heart. Then the en-
ployes gathered round and did a
bit OF celebrating in his honor.