San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-08
LESS ACREAGE
PLEA HEARD
BY G|NNERS
Increased Fire Hazards
Discussed at Dallas
Gathering.

DALLAS, April S.-CP)-Fire pre-.
vcntiOn and cotton acreage reduction
were two problems before the Texas
Cotton Ginners' association which
opened its eighteenth annual conven-
ton here today.
According to C.. b. Hunt. secretary
the practice that has grown in recent
years Of ginning low grades of cotton
has introduced increased fire hazards.
The machinery. he explained. consists
of boil breakers. cleaners and the like
which often strike rock hidden in the
cotton.
The cotton acreage reduction prop
oSitiOn was presented by Colonel Clar-
encc OuSlcy. director of the Texas
Safe Farming association which is
campaigning for better cotton on few
cr acres and more feed on more acres.
OUSLEY SPEAKS.
Colonel Ousley drew n picture OF
conditions resulting from the all-cot-
ton habit of the Southern farmer. He
said that il business fails to solve
the farmers" problems, it will de-
fault in the greatest problem of all
time.
business is falling off, he said.
Bank deposits are smaller, retail
clerks are less busy and even gasoline
filling stations are less crowded than
they were Il year ago. If there were
any reasonable expectation of better
mcnt in the near future. or il copdi-
tons did not promise to become worse,
il would be mere calamity bowling
to rccitC the facts. As it is expected,
we will be wise to look the facts in
the face and endcayOr to avert calam-
ity.
REASON APPARENT.
THE reason is apparent TO all busi-
ness men who look beyond their count-
erS TO the ultimate source of their
well being. Commerce should now be
enjoying the trade that comes from
the farmers spending for anOther
crop. but the farmer is spending only
the small funds that the bank is will
ing to advance for labor, seeds and the
barcst sustcnance, because the banker
does not see how the farmer can more
than break even this year.
Town trading is mere swapping OF
dollars with profit on one and loss
on another. With real wealth, the
increment Of trade. consists only in
what comes out of the earth or off the
earth.
VOICES PLEA.
Outside Of our comparatively small
oil, forest and other natural res
sources. our wealth comes from agri-
culture and last years agricultural
products did not sell for as much as
they cost. This years operations are
financed on the prospect that the
best the farmer can hope for is cost.
1t may BE- less than cost. 1t will be
less than cost if We produce another
cotton crop approximately as large
as the last.
One hundred Of the foremost
bankers. manufacturers and merr
chants believe this can be changed,
or somewhat amcliorated. by prOmot-
ing system Of safe farming. They
are asking you and every other BUSH
ness man TO help them. not for any
thing they will get out Of it more than
you will get out Of il. but in the in-
tcrest Of a more dependable prosper
ity for all.
ISSUES WARNING.
"Thcy nrc asking business men in
sheer self preservation to interest
themselves in the business side OF
farming. If it is not done il will be
evidence that business genius, which
has solved every other economic prob
lem. has dcfaultcd in the greatest
problem If all timc-thc preservation
Of u profitable agriculture to which