The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-18
DIAL BELIEVES IN REVOLUTIONS IN COTTON EXCHANGES
Says There Is No Justice in Present Contract, Which Permits Delivering of
 Ten Grades
By HUGH W. ROBERTS Washington Bureau. The AKe-Herald,
 500 Davidson Building.

Wa shington, February 17-(Spe- eial)-Informed by cotton factors that his effort .to restrict the oper- ation Of cotton exchanges was revo- lutionary Senator N B Dial of South Carolina. today declared;
 T believe in revolutions when they are necessary to accomplish justice. Further in his statement, he compar- ed Congress pretending that it did not know the real reason why the south did not prosper in it's monop- oily of cotton production, to blind folded boys.
 Senator Dial is anxious that the cotton exchanges deliver the grade of cotton the purchaser contracts 10 buy. His scheme is this: "Eliminate middling fair as one Of the tender able grades and divide the remaining nine into three classes of three grades each, and make the middliag class the basis; and provide a dis count for grade below and pre- mium for grade above"
 Senator Dial contends that the fi- nal user of cotton, the mills, could handle any one of the three contig- ious grades, and by specifying the class, could get the desired grade
 
 Dial suggestion. They have recently had hearings in Washington before the agricultural committees Their spokesmen have been caustic Sen ator Dial has been termed by them, revolutionary,
 Fondness For Revolution
 In reply, Senator Dial declared a fondness for revolution whenever justice could be obtained by no other means. In defense of his suggestion, which is now in the form of a bill, the South Carolina senator said:
 There is no equality in the pres ent contract which gives the seller tho right to deliver any one of ten t-nderable grades of cotton, and which gives the purchaser no choice of selection A more ingenious plan to depress the price of a commodity could not be devised than one which permits person to sell one grade and deliver another The game as practiced is one of marked cards. t reverses the law of common sense and revolutionizes the custom uf 
 'I am not asking favors but simple justice. There is no use telling farmers to make a living at homo, diversity their crops, build ware houses, organize cooperative mar keting associations, hold meetings in Washington and elsewhere, and do other things which are essential and then for us to stumble around like a set of blindfolded schoolboys protesting ignorance of the real reason why our section of the coun- try does not prosper"
 Bill Should He Amended
 A. F. Lever, one of the authors of the Smith-bever bill, which permits the cotton exchanges to deliver any one of the ten tenderable grades, ad- mits today that his bill should be It served a purpose in all absolutely unspinna- ble grades. But, according 10 him, there is still room for improvement.
 Senator Dial contends that the en- actmeht of his bill would bring im- mediate relief, would free the cot ton industry from a perpetual thrall- dom, and increase the price of the staple several cents per pound"
 Senator Dial is following the trail blazed by ex-Senator Conner of Ala bama, two years ago.