The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 10, 1935 Page: 5 of 8
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ASHWOOD
PLEDGER
But unfortunately the program as 000 to raise the price of American cot-1 Southern Rice Milters’ committee to
laid down does not remedy the farm- ton from five to 13 cents a pound, the mills at the present time for con-
ton from five to 12 cents a pound,the mills at the present time for con-
1
Mr. L L. Orrell of Leakey visited
his son, Mr. W T. Orrell the past
week.
Mrs. Lee White and daughters of
El Scott are spending the week with
Too much rain, not much farming
done yet.
Erwin Horvath is trucking spinach
to Houston this week
ers‘ difficulties: in fact it seems to us and the Rockport (Texas) Pilot pro- sideration and to be voted upon
that ultimately it would only aggra-
vate an already onerous situation.
Misses Jewel Spence and Imogene
Mrs M A. Guy. I Burton returned to their studies at |
Miss Rose Ellen Hanson spent the Denton where they are attending C
week-end with friends in Bay City.
Mrs. Jess Walker and daughter. Jes-
sie Lee of Bay City spent the week-
end here with homefolks.
Mr. Dewey Penland of Conroe spent
the week-end in the Guy home. Mis.
Penland and children returning home
with him Sunday.
Mr. Frank Ellis of Conroe is visit-
ing homefolks this week.
Mr Hopkins of Alvin visited here
and his brother Mr. D. B Hopkins
returned home with him
Mr. and Mrs. Tommie Whiddon and
family of Brenham visited their sis-
ter Mrs. W. A. Brown Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace McDougal,
I A
Robert Hodge, senior at A & M
returned to College Station Sunday.
He was accompanied by Messrs. Frick
and Wertz of Bay City.
Deputy Sheriff Sailor of Bay City
was fluctuating among our citizens
Monday.
Mr. Eugene Cloud of Baling and
and it is to be hoped that some fun-
damental corrective measure will be
taken before another cotton crop must
be harvested, which will assure to
the cotton producer a reasonable price
for his product and at the same time
assure him a market for his product.
Nothing is being gained by piling his
surplus cotton into warehouses, and
loaning him 12 cents a pound in ad-
vance of actual sale, and waiting for
sesame to open. It will not open.
During the past few weeks we have
duces an article which says in part I Such an amendment, if approved, it
"The cotton industry is facing an was stated here would have the ef-
emergency and drastic measures will, feet of taking the price off of clean 1
be necessary to avoid serious imuair- rice. This, many believe, would re-
ment of standards of living of practi- sult in the removal of a set price on
cally all the entire population. The clean rice and would release the mills
emergency cotton program must: from the present regulations under
Provide means for restoring export which they are suposed to operate,
markets for American cotton: elimin- This of course would not release
ate the processing tax to restore the them from
domestic market tor cotton goods on
paying the parity price on
rough rice to the farmers The parity |
a basis of fair competition with other
textiles; relieve the unbearable tariff been sreatlyendanger
burden now being carried by cotton
price on rough rice, however, has
under the
New Property
T a x Proposed
arising ont of those holdings rather ed that those from Southern rice
| than upon value."
1 The report stated the constitutional
1 injunction that “all taxes shall be
| equal and uniform" was impossible
of performance, and noted that with
I inflexible constitutional restrictions, a
— . system may develop which was too
P u Mallyok rigid and “runs to another and worse
T ¥ TUEUTOUM extreme than by rapid changes by
* J ** the legislature
H Eugene Cloud of Boling and ha 1 the honor to receive a great many
/ Margaret 4Mack. fughter of etters from our readers on the sub-
Judge Mack of Pledger were married ject of our cotton program. These
in W barton last week have not all agreed with us by any
Danciger Oil & Reining Co. are means, and those who have differed
erecting a carbon black plant at their have had good reason to differ. But
plant near Danciger, Texas taken as a whole.
And by the way, according to the has received a rather wholehearted
Houston Chronicle the Pledger oil endorsement in principle, and we hope
field will in the future be called the that many more readers will write us
Bay City oil field Fine, now maybe their views.
we can get that five-mile stretch of The difficulties of the cotton pro-
mud hard surfaced from the county ducers certainly lie far deeper than
------------line to. connect up with the highway | the Bankhead act, which is a tempo-
business visitors here Monday.I at Pledger. rary measure than a 12-cent loan,
The post office department, has au- | which is also a temporary movement.
The former is admittedly of little im-
Misses Catherine Hanson, Lucille Mar-
tin and Messrs James Martin and
George Walker attended a dance Sat-
urday night.
Mr. Lee Davidson and Ed Anderson |
were
The Home Demonstration Club met |
with Mrs. Sadie Dodd Monday. Mrs. thorized and established mail service
Sides being present not being able to to Danciger. 0 L. Hodge has assumed
finish their business a meeting was charge there as postmaster.
called for next Tuesday at Mrs. Gen. Gregg Laurence of Van Vleck was
Clark’s.
The girls club meeting, Mrs. Sides
present was held at Mrs. George Wal-
ker’s and they worked on their shoe
racks, discussed making smocks and
their garden goals for this year.
Mesdames Hanson, McDougal and
George Walker were Bay City shop-
pers Tuesday.
Those from here attending the P.-
T.A. in Van Vleck Tuesday afternoon
were Mesdames Walter Brown, B. N.
Cocke, J. Fisher Smith. A. Hanson and
Wallace McDougal.
Mesdames B. N. Cocke and G. Law-
rence were guests in the W. A. Brown
home Monday.
renewing acquaintances at Pledger,
Monday.
Miss Sammie Allen spent the holi-
days with homefolks and returned to
her studies at commercial school in
Houston.
We welcome Mr A. S Walters of
Boling as a new citizen of our city.
Trade Prospect
VAN VLECK
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Wyatt of Mexico
City and Mr. and Mrs. Marston John-
son returned Friday from a delight-
ful trip to California where they vis-
ited Mr. and Mrs. G. Y Wyatt at
their palatial ranch home near Escon-
dito. While there they enjoyed trips
to Los Angeles, Hollywood, San Di-
ego and Tia Juana and Agua Cali-
ente. Mexico. They also visited Jua-
rez. Mexico.
Mr. and Mrs R. J. Wyatt left Sun-
day for their home in Mexico City
after a visit with her sister. Mrs.
Marston Johnson and Mr. Johnson.
Misses Wilmoth. Elizabeth and
Frances McMahon. Bobby Cousins of
El Campo and Herbert Bickham spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Pat Brown
in Newgulf.
Mrs. Charlie Shiver of Richmond
spent Wednesday night with her
daughter, Mrs. Lampton Bickham and
family.
Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson of
Houston spent the week-end with her
sister, Mrs. F. H. McMahon and fam-
ily. They were accompanied by Miss
Elizabeth McMahon who had been
visiting them.
Our community was saddened Wed-
nesday when news came that Mr. Mike
O'Connell had passed away. He had
lived at the old O'Connell homestead
all of liis life and had a wide circle
of friends all over the county He had
been in ill health for several years
and had failed fast for the past year
but never complained. Always when
asked how he felt his reply was "I’m
all right.” He had been confined to his
bed most of the time for the past
month. Mr. Mike was the soul of
generosity and hospitality. He will be
sadly missed by his family and his
friends. Relatives from other places
attending the funeral were Mrs. Nora
O'Connell. Mr. and Mrs. Elliot John-
son and Mr. and Mrs. Simon Johnson
all of Houston and Mr. Frank Johnson
, of San Antonio.
r The P.-T.A. met Tuesday afternoon
with good attendance. Many impor-
tant matters were discussed among
them being the child welfare amend-
ment. The Van Vleck club was hon-
ored in having two of their members
elected as officers of the County Fed-
eration at the Wadsworth meeting.
Mrs. Philip Johnson as president and
Mrs. F. H. McMahon, secretary. It was
decided to invite the Federation to
meet with us in June.
Rev. E. G. Cooke kept his month-
ly appointment at the church Sunday
afternoon. A nice little crowd was
present to enjoy his message. We urge
everyone to attend services every
Sunday afternoon at our church.
Sunday school at 2:30 and church at
3:30.
(Cotton Digest)
As the new year dawns, more en-
couraging reports are coming from
foreign markets for American cotton
and present indications are that we
may soon witness a substantial in-
crease in new export business. The
old year will go down in history as
the most unsatisfactory period since
American cotton was produced on a
commercial scale; the statistcial pic-
ture brings genuine alarm to the
South, and for good reason. At the
close of 1934, our exports for the five-
months' period showed a reduction of
nearly 50 per cent under the 1933
period, mountainous stocks were on
hand in this country, cotton that
might have enjoyed normal trade but
for various holding and artificial
price boosting policies. Meanwhile
cotton produced in foreign countries
has passed freely into consumption.
But from several sources recently
have come reports to the effect that
desirable characters foreign growths
competing with American cotton were
rapidly becoming depleted with cor-
responding increase in price. This un-
doubtedly accounts for the better in-
quiry for our cotton from European
markets, and while prices on this side
remain too high and little actual bus-
iness has resulted, shippers are con-
siderably encouraged and feel that the
next few weeks may witness the turn
ing point in export trade. Textile con-
ditions abroad are not as bad as they
seem; latest cable advices report that
mill activity is generally being wed
maintained at recent levels. So with
the rapid exhaustion of foreign
growths, it is only logical that buyers
abroad must sooner or later turn to
American cotton more largely for the
balance of this season.
Unfortunately, under present cir-
cumstances supplies for a larger vol-
ume of export business may be diffi-
cult to obtain. It is well known that
merchants’ stocks' are relatively small
and there is little "free” cotton in the
interior, the 12-cent loan cotton will
• portance. There seems every indication
that restrictions on production will be
somewhat relaxed during the coming
crop year, although there is room
for doubt that the limit upon produc-
tion will be fixed at 12.000,000 bales or
above The 12-cent loan plan while
certainly well meaning in its purpose
has badgered the government, proven
expensive to the cotton producer, and
will no doubt prove more expensive
before the cotton which is now being
held is ultimately liquidated. This
cut may be borne by the government,
rather than by the producer but it
will have to be paid by some one.
There is, however, prenry of room
for doubt as to the benefits which
will ultimately accrue to the cotton
producer from these two features and
there seems no question of the dis-
advantage which they have proven to
all of the rest of the South. The
smaller cotton crop, which was prob-
ably necessary to balance supply
with demand, has nevertheless proven
an ill fortune for many a worker, for
the ginner, in fact for the rank and
file of various lines of business all
over the South. But even this would
not have been so keenly felt had it
not been for the policy of advancing a
loan of 12 cents a pound to the pro-
ducer until next July 31. This brought
wide acceptance. Vast quantities of |
cotton were thus held off the market
and added to the current surplus be-
cause the price was arbitrarily held
above that which was being paid for
cotton produced in other countries.
While this was of course a factor, we
believe that the war debt question,
the tariff, the nationalistic policy to
which many nations have found it
necessary to turn has been of far
greater importance in the loss of our
foreign markets.
How well this is concurred in by
others is evident from expressions we
have received and noticed.
The National Grain Journal repro-
duces our editorial "Bankheadism or a
Return to Sanity” in full while a
reader in Savannah, Ga., has this to
say: "As to war debts we agree fully
that an early settlement would be to
the disadvantage of all concerned
When the war debts were contracted
cotton was selling at 40 to 45 cents
gold, in other words the debts to the
extent of four-fifths have been repaid
by paying over prices for our raw
materials. We are endorsing your
viewpoint upon downward revision of
the tariff fully. . . . Mr. Wallace ex-
growers: restore hundreds of thou-
sands of farm families to homes on
farms with a prospect of making a
decent living; bring about betta farm
management practi >« on cotton farms
to prevent over production and Iro-
vide addition, cash enterzrinie."
It becomes that that gradually the
Suth is wall w up to the fact that
not only the cot i farmer but ev-
eryone in th land of cotton is being
deprived of its just crusirty through
continuation of the exceedingly high
tariff walls which have been built
through the Hawi ev-Smoot tariff a '
I: i- time tha. me become more vocal
The Democrat . party is committed to
a lowered tariff it only awaits the
will of the people to effect that re-
reduction. Gradually the North is be-
coming aware of the fact that the
high tariff is killing the goose that
laid the golden egg. and the time is
ripe for us to do something about it.
AUSTIN Tex. Jan 7 An overall
tax not to exceed $1 on each $100
valuation of real property was rec-
ommended today by Senator T. J
Holbrook of Galveston in a section
written for the report of the senate
Public Hearing
Is Postponed
WASHINGTON, Jan 4 A public
sections who were expecting to at-
tend the hearing will postpone their
trip to Washington until later.
Local leaders, however, announced "
they were not surprised about fur-
ther delay. They predicted that even
after the hearing there would be
plenty of delays and that the program
would not be ready to be announced "
again this year until after the plant-
ing season.
; That has been the case, they ex-
plained, during the two previous years
that the program has been in effect.
Today and Tomorrow
movement to buy rice on a partial
certificate as is being done at the
present time. tax committee
Senator Holbr k estimated the
This move was made some weeks yield from such rate would not be less
ago and it is understood that consid-than now collected at higher rates,
erable rice already has been purchase if it was properly enforced. A broad-
el on this basis, which does not ened tax base would be necessary, the
provide a fair basis for buying of the legislative report stated, to equalize
rice and which likewise permits the the burden Levies were suggested on
violating of the parity price ’ sources deriving income from services
Many millers have contended for and things not connected with fixed
many months, however, that they properties
should be turned loose and required Outright repeal of the ad valorem
to pay the parity price to the farmers tax was not proposed but it was sug-
mills, determine their own milling gested it should be removed as a
* - 1u i si 1 source of revenue for the support of
price as we is profit ane then, be the state government and other forms
permitted to sell the rice for the fig-......
A 1.1 of taxation be substituted Many per-
ure they could get for it, sons writing the committee urged out.
It is believed by many that if the right repeal
conversion charge article is eliminated The legislature will be asked to con-
from the marketing agreement as this sider “the multitude of inequities” oe-
amendment provides then it would curring under the present ad valorem
create considerable speculation in the system. Suggestion was offered “it -.....- ........
| clean rice market and the price would might be enforced with the proper de- place until the later date.
■ depend solely on the ability of the tree of care against real estate hold- With the announcement of the post-
miller to operate his mill, ings based on income receiving or ponement of the meeting it is expect-
hearing on a proposed marketing
agreement and license for the South-
Radio Is To Honor
President’s Birthday
presses himself very clearly when he
said we must decide between a na-
tionalistic and an internationalistic
program. An international exchange of
come upon the market only at ad-
vances in price and it becomes in-
creasingly apparent that fresh supplies ,________ ........._
must come from government holdings, the world. . . . As long as we are a
Recently the manager of the cot-
goods has brought us the prosperity
of pre war times and will solve the
question of unemployment all over
ern Rice Milling industry, scheduled
to be held at the department of agri-
culture on January 11, 1935 will con-
vene on the announced date, but will
recess immediately and will not con-
vene until 9:30 am January 21, it
was announced today. The meeting
will reconvene in room 2050, South
Building, department of agriculture,
Washington. D. C.
The effect of technically opening
the meeting, with immediate recess,
will be to postpone the public hearing
until January 21. There will be no
necessity for interested parties to ap-
pear at the hearing until it is re-
sumed after the recess as no discus-
sion of the proposed amendment to
the agreement and license will take
NEW YORK, Dec. 3- Over 150 ra-
dio stations will participate in a
combined hook-up of the networks of
the National Broadcasting Company
and Columbia Broadcasting System
for the evening of January 30, 1935,
when a gala radio program of the
Birthday Ball for the president will
tie broadcast.
The program, which will include an
addre s by President Roosevelt, will
feature dance and orchestral music
from cities in all sections of the coun-
try. A full hour's entertainment from
11:30 p.m to 12:30 a.m. EST has been
scheduled Radios to receive the
broadcast of the festivities will be in-
stalled at each of the 5600 or more
parties scheduled for the occasion.
Proceeds from the parties will be
used to fight infantile paralysis all
over the nation.
Family Doctor
To Save Money—Boric Acid.
An old, time-tried friend, this boric
acid. Go to your druggist and buy
yourself a pound—get the name right
—boric acid. Not "borax," not yet
, “boracic acid." You want a pound of
L-boric acid. It need not cost you over
M fifty cents—possibly not so much. It
I should be powdered, not crystals.
1 Then, what have you? It is one of
8 my office “stand-bys.”
Well, a first class dusting powder
for the whole family. It is the basis
of most dusting powders, sold at many
times higher prices. You will have
saved several dollars in one season
by buying this way. It is a good ap-
plication for wounds too.
And you have the stuff to dissolve
in water—and you have the very best
and safest mouth wash going; no high
priced mouth "antiseptic" approaches
it in efficacy.
Dissolve a little in an ounce of pure,
boiled water, and you have a first
class wash for inflamed eyes. Your
doctor will agree that I am right.
Eyes with red, angry lids, from ex-
cessive perspiration. Nothing better
than boric acid solution.
Then, you've got a remedy for skin
inflamations— nearly all kinds. Make
up wet dressings with strong boric
acid solution and lay them on the in-
flamed spots—you will be gratified.
Shall I say more? There is no bet-
ter. safer powder for making a douche;
the doctor can give you no better-
and costs nearly nothing. Honest old
boric acid! Wives and mothers love it.
% There is so much quackery—hum-
bug—these days: you had as well have
aoservice that costs you a cent or two.
to pay some oily-tongued blather-
1 skite a dollar for the same thing.
ton producers' pool of the AAA an-
nounced that approximately 1.750.000
bales, a small proportion of which
consisted of futures contracts, remain-
ed from original holdings of nearly
two million bales. Of all the cotton in
which the government has a financial
interest, the producers' pool cotton
can alone be sold, and its sale is left
entirely to the discretion of the man-
ager. Some salient acfts regarding
sales policy were recently disclosed
in an official announcement: The
price level does not influence the at-
titude of the pool manager so much
as does the condition of the market;
it is not practicable to adopt a fixed
policy or any hard and fast rule, and
there is no time limit for the ultimate
disposal of this cotton by the pool
manager. "It is our thought.” he said,
"that it is far better for the govern-
ment to get this cotton into consump-
tion and have the government get
out of the business of marketing cot-
ton. We realize, however, that this
cannot be done in a day, but that the
matter will have to be carefully nurs-
ed and handled."
In spite of the pool manager's desire
to "get this cotton into consumption"
it was disclosed that less than 250,-
000 bales have been sold from original
holdings, a pitifully small amount
when one considers the crying need
for American cotton in world mar-
kets. A fixed policy, contrary to the
pool manager's opinion, seems not on-
ly desirable but absolutely necessary
if we are to feed the spindles of the
world. Market experts will not doubt
that sale of such a huge quantity un-
der present conditions will disturb
the market, but the gradual sale of
specified quantities over a period of
time should have little if any effect.
That is the course which should be
followed if we are to enjoy a return
to normal trade conditions for the
remainder of this season.
Views on Our Program.
That a policy of restricted cotton
creditor nation we will have to figure
with foreign competition.”
From California comes this: "Is it
not fair to say that regardless of any
crop restriction program, that our ex-
ports would have suffered to a con-
siderable extent in any event by rea-
son of the financial situation in Ger-
many, and to a certain extent in
neighboring countries? And cannot
the increasing consumption and pro-
duction of foreign cotton be said to
have had its inception in the effort
of foreign spinners since the war to
become independent of American cot-
ton as far as possible-a policy which
has fitted into the idea of self con-
tainment which has swept the world?
Especially since the English spinner
is getting our cotton on the basis of
seven cents gold. ... I might say that
like a good many others, 1 am staunch
New Dealer, and a strong supporter
of our president. His policy of a high-
er domestic price level seems to me to
be fundamentally sound. ... It seems
to me that we should put all our
weight back of the Wallace-Hull
plan of moderate restriction and grad-
ual expansion of our production on
the one hand, and the reciprocal trea-
ties for the exchange of farm com-
modities on the other. And above all
else we should advocate elimination
so far as possible of those friction
points which have come to clog up
the channels of world trade to such
an extent since the war, such as ex-
cessively high tariffs; war debts, etc.,
and which forced most nations into
the policy of self-containment."
A Gulf steamship agent calls our
attention to increased consumption
of “other growths” in Holland, while
a Texas farmer has this to say:
"Farmers vote to continue the Bank-
head bill for another year and by this
vote indorsed production control.
Cotton is of such vital importance to
Texas and the cotton program of the
AAA so disastrous to all Texas, in-
cluding the farmers who voted for its
production is not a solution to the ills
of the cotton farmer seems quite clear.
In fact no less an authority than greater insistence
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has
continuance that the demand for its
abandonment should be made with
than before. We
made this admission. He says in effect
that restricted production has done
just about all that it can do to aid
agriculture, and that more markets for
the farmers surplus must ultimately
be the solution to the farm problem.
The South is becoming increasing-
ly alarmed over the loss of world
markets for cotton and the nation is
becoming increasingly alarmed over
the loss, not only of world markets,
but of its market in the South.
No one could have but admiration
for the efforts that have been made
by the administration to lift farm
prices, including the price of cotton.
That it has made mistakes is not to
be doubled, but it is equally true that
they have been honest mistakes and
Better Ask the Driver—"Are you
quite sure this bus is going to Shep-
herd’s Bush?" .
"If it isn’t lady,” said the conduc- there is plenty of indication that these
tor, "I'm in a worse mess than you
are!"—Daily Express (London.)
mistakes will
be corrected in due
time
have slept on our rights. In a time
that boasts of its education we have
forgotten the simple facts that for
nearly 100 years determined the poli-
cies of the South.
“One hundred years ago South Car-
olina was threatening to nullify a
tariff law of the United States be-
cause South Carolina was raising
cotton and cotton was being produced
in quantities much larger than the
home market could consume, and
therefore South Carolina was vital-
Health and Age
Worrying about one's health is,
usually a sign ad advancing age. 1
used to do a lot of it. until I got old
enough to realize that the human ma-
chine. like any other machine, needs
only regular, normal care to keep it
in good running order until it wears
out.
The best way to keep well, after
one reaches middle age, is to be lazy.
I make it a rule now in the sixties,
never to indulge in any physical ex-
ertion that I can avoid Of course,
when you're not running the engine at
full speed it doesn't take as much
fuel It's surprising how fit a man
can keep on half the food he used to
consume, if he doesn’t throw his'
weight about and burn up his muscu-
lar energy.
Chauncey Depew, who lived to be
93, remarked once that all the excr-
cise he ever took was walking to the
funerals of his golf playing friends.
I gave up golf ten years ago. Five
men that I used to play with, all
younger than 1. have since dropped
dead on the golf course.
Pictures; They Improve.
I am not the world's most enthu-
siastic motion picture fan, but I find
myself going to the pictures oftener
that I used to, and getting more sat-
isfaction out of them.
It seems perfectly clear to me that
there has been a great improvement
in the films in the past year or so.
Better stories, better acting, better
stage effects, better sound reproduc-
tion. I find much less that is offensive
to my sense of good taste and decen-
cy than I used to, less of the sort of
thing that is apparently aimed at the
lowest mental and moral types.
No greater mistake can be made by
anybody who seeks to entertain or
instruct people than to underestimate
their capacity for discriminating be-
tween good and bad. No newspaper
ever succeeded whose editor thought
it necessary to “play down" to the
supposed low level of his readers’ in-
telligence.
It looks to me as if the motion pic-
ture people had discovered that the
best they can offer is not too good
for their audiences. They have also
discovered that it is not necessary to
be dull to be decent.
History — Good Teacher.
A friend who is in charge of the
historical collection in a great libra-
ry tells me that more young folk
are coming in for information about
things that happened in the past, than
ever before.
That is a good sign. Once one un-
derstands that nothing that occurs to-
day is without its parallel in the past,
the better he is able to judge of the
value of new experiments to change
the social order. The realization that
human nature is unchangeable is the
chief lesson of history.
I have been reading lately the ac-
counts of the great speculative era in
England and France in 1720 and there-
the South Sea Bubble in England and
the Mississippi Bubble in France.
Everybody was speculating, everybody
lost, tens of thousands were ruined
and the bottom seemed to have drop-
ped out of everything.
But, somehow, civilization continu-
ed to develop and the world kept on
running.
Cotton i nd Calico,
Two hundred years ago the flax-
growers and sheep breeders of Eng-
land were greatly concerned for the
future of the wool and linen indus-
tries. Gaily printed cotton cloth was
being imported from India-from
"Calicut," where we get the word "cal-
ico.” Women were discarding w ool and
linen to wear the new fabric.
Laws were passed forbidding the
importation of calicoes. They result-
ed only in extensive smuggling. Fi-
nally parliament passed a law pro-
hibiting the wearing of cotton gar-
ments. That didn't work, for it was
impossible to send to prison all the
women-folk who persisted in flaunt-
ing their calicoes in public.
The outcome was that England be-
gan to import raw cotton and spin
and weave it in its own factories, and
encouraged the growing of cotton in
its American colonies.
Now we grow more cotton than the
world will consume. A lot of other
people have found out that they can
grow and weave cotton. Women are
wearing more rayon, made from wood
pulp and less cotton. The English
cotton mills are in distress and so
are our cottcn growers. No man-made
laws will cure the situation.
Yet, somehow, the world will wag
on. It always has.
MILLING CHARGE
REMOVAL URGED
ly interested in its foreign markets.
This is as true today as it was a hun-
dred years ago. Without a foreign
market for cotton commercial farm-
ing in Texas must cease."
The Matagorda (Texas) County
Tribune calls editorially to a copy-
righted article by Owen L. Scott wh '
points out that it cost 300.000 people
their jobs and the 'axpay ers $241,000,-
(Crowley Signal)
An amendment to the rice market-
ing which would eliminate the con-
! version charge altogether and which
would practically have the result of
removing the price on clean rice, is
expected to be voted on by the mill-
ers or considered at the public hear-
ing to be held in Washington, D. C.,
I. 1. 21 it has been learned here.
Such a , oposed amendment, it is
understood is being sent out by the
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 10, 1935, newspaper, January 10, 1935; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1696361/m1/5/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.