Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-20
The Country Home
Just Another Word About Cotton
BY MRS. w. H. FELTON,

ndQ SIumpeQ a hundred pOlnLS LOluOr-
row. There seems to be no common
sense in that sort Of plunging and
soaring. 1t Is plainly evident that
this plunging and soaring are made
by the same folks, at the same time,
for the same purpose. I could not
testify on oath. that I know that
these movements are to pull the wool
over the eyes of the ignorant pro-
ducers. When the staple is nearly all
sold in 1921, then the cotton will be-
gin to rise. The dull-pated farmers
have been dismissed and allowed to
| retire with what has been allowed to
| them, and the bulls and bears.
The gambling spirit is in it also
| There seems to be a gambling spirit
in nearly every thing we do except
| to eat three meals a day and sleep
like pig, when we are not excited
about wheat, cotton or maybe the
election.
Just get the gambling spirit well
aroused and all that man produces
| by labor will go on the auction coun-
ter at public outcry.
AS 1t looks like a very short CROP
we may set it down that spinners
want it, here and in Europe. If one
is obliged to sell and can get near
zoe or Csc a pound for 1920 cotton
they will save worry and vexatior
of spirit to get the money in hand and
let the gamblers, the bulls and the
bears do the worrying.
Cotton ought to bring at least 2E
| cents under these conditions. That's
the way it looks to an old body like
this scribe.
Nothing New Under the Sun
rms heading may be found in the
Bible, but I am impressed that it is
very old proverb as well. One
Roger Bacon, lived in England be-
tween 1920 to 1898. He was known
as a kranc1scan-one Of the Roman
Catholic orders, and was active in
and around the University of Ok
ford.
Of his private life little is known,
but he was wonderful disputant
and attacked wrong doing wherever
he found it. There are three of his
best known books extant-full OF
strong pithy words.
He had wholesome fear of the
prlson-as the days Of religious per-
secut1on were familiar to him, but
Roger Bacon shouted to mankind,
Cease to be ruled by dogmas and
authorities. Look at the world"
seven hundred years ago there were
tides and waves by rowers with
oars. Listen to one paragraph, writ
ten and published by Roger Bacon,
and remember what he saw in real
lty and what came to him in visions
of the future:
Machines for navigating are pos
s1ble without rowers, so that great
ships suited to river or ocean.
guided by one man may be borne
with greater speed than if they were
full of men. Likewise cars may be
made so that without a draught ami
NAL they may, be moved cum impetu
lnest1mablH with inestimable i'm
petus), as we deem the scythed
chariots to have been, from which
antiquity fought. And flying ma
chimes are possible, so that a man
may sit in the middle, turning. some
device by which artificial wings
may beat the air in the manner of a
flying bird"
His prophetic vision took in steam
more wonderful than both these
prophecies is the airplane, which was
only produced few years ago, and
never dreamed Of by the millions of
people who live in these United
States as real proposition.
Seven hundred years ago these
three things are thus foretold by a
human mind, and doubtless the world
laughed at him as a silly fool.
Now we are asking how Roger
Bacon foretold these new things.
none of them mentioned by writer's
of several succeeding centuries; aft
er an Roger Bacon passed on.
Mother Shipton's prophecy is SIM
liar to Rogers Bacon's prognostica-
lions. If it is really true that this
wonderful woman's mind was so
thoroughly filed with the possibili-
ties of the inventive genius Of men
that she could picture automobiles
vi
mobile was constructed, why should
we of this age remain stupid and
resentful when other gifted people
torteu what is yet to come? Arabia
In the thirteenth and fourteenth CEN
turtles was experimenting with herbs
their times. They had experience
with glass and metal workers; they
were planning to make gold with
cheaper materials, and advertised
some sort of an elixir Of life to make
men live forever.
These things were scoffed at as
vulgar dreams. Nowadays we are
told that mechanics, aided by science,
Will get some sort Of wireless con-
structed and connect with the planet,
Mars. You and I have apparently
no faith in that proposition. Posi-
bly, we are too s1othful to look into
the business.
When Galilea found out the earth
was round and turned, by some SUBJ
tie process Of reasoning, the clergy
words-"take it back'-but after he
recanted-and saved his neck by re-
cantation-he stuck TO it, in private
talk.
Some Of these days--how far ahead
we cannot tell-when timber is too
devise a plan to keep the millions
warm by electricity generated from
the streams and Waterfalls of the
world. l was one Of the board of
lady managers at the famous Chicago
exposition between 1890 and 1894.
[ received an invitation TO a lunch
con one day, to be held in the won
derful electricity building. I saw
the experts prepare the luncheon,
ate some Of the cake, cooked right
before my eyes, by electricity, and I
never ate any, cake anywhere that
taste. That was twenty-eight years
ago.
was a girl nine years old when
the first Geographic messages be-
tween Washington and Baltimore Gre
ated a famous sensation. Some of
the current events of the Polk and
Clay campaign were thus transmit
ted over those wonderful wires by
the electric current.
L rode on an electric car from
Broadway, New York, to Garden City,
L. l., just a few years ago, and it
carried passengers as safely and
quickly as steam engines. I had the
privilege of saying few words over
ed States government, and which
connected the capitol with the gov
eminent printing office that day. I
listened to the first photograph that
was exhibited to congressman and
senators in the capitol in the late
seventies. 1t is all so wonderful and
still so full of mystery to me that
I am not going to say that we will
not connect by wireless to Mars one
| was a little girl not in my teens,
I was privileged to sit on my lit
tie chair and listen to Hon. Alexan-
der Means, then connected with EN-
DRY college, and a guest in my child