The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 137, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 19, 1917 Page: 7 of 62
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HOUSTON JliAll rTOSI SUNDAYi MOflfalNG? AUGUST? 1 9T9 1 7i r
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;SeVen ' Discusses die Work That Is to
Be Done by the New Board of War In-
;f3SffiWuch"WiD Have a Wide Field
of Action
There la a story la Washington to th
eHeet that wh . IYnk V- Scott head
of the government' new war Industrie
roard. applied for his flr$t job as a boy
in . freight office the chief said he
wotfld hire him If he were only tall
enough to reach the wheel of the letter
prewVs ('Couldn't I tand on a boxT"
talced the boy. The freight agent hid not
thought of that but the Idea appealed
to him and Scott got the Job. He made
uch good use of It opportunities that
In the course of time he became the ex-
pert on freight rates of the Cleveland
chamber of commerce. lie became va-
rious other things too. In organising and
manufacturing but this Is not a bio-
graphical sketch of Scott. It is enough
to say that his qualifications were suf-
ficiently known and appreciated by the
secretary of war and other members of
the administration for them to summon
him to Washington at the outset of the
war and take . tlio chnlrmunshlp of tba
geneva! munitions board "and the munl-
t'ons stand:tvd board which had been
created overnight by the Council of Na-
tional Defense as emergency agencies.
These boards served as the box for
Bcotx to stand on when he reached the
levers of an important part of the gov-
ernment's war machinery. But the box
was not high enough and the machinery
Itself developed serious defects in the
course of early preparations for the war.
Now it has been scrapped by the coun-
cil of defense at the sussaatlon of the
president. The new war Industries board
has been created to take its place with
Scott still as -leader but with a much
smaller and significantly modified per-
sonnel with broader powers and more
concentrated authority.
Bach of the seven members of the new
board was practically picked for his
plaoe by the president himself and they
are all responsible to him through the
council of national defense. The crea-
tion of the new agency may fairly be said
to mark the beginning of the second
phase of the war so far as 'the task of
co-ordinating the vital industries of the
country and placing them at the disposal
of the country is concerned.
In the course of the first month of
the war Frffnklln IC Lane secretary'of
the Interior and a member of the de-
fense council said in an Interview that
the defense council machinery needed
perfecting that surer facilities for co-
ordinating and for determining priority
la supplies would have to be devised.
It is hoped the new board Just created
will prove .the remedy for the defects
that ware appreciated last April. It
does at least answer the chief criticism
in congress and elsewhere that has been
directed against the council and the ad-
visory commission. In part because of
the organisation and methods of the old
munitions board. But nobody In Wash-
ington thinks for a moment that the
president has ordered this change be-
cause of that faultfinding. That isn't
bis way.
The ohlef criticism was that volunteer
workers in the war service of the gov-
ernment were in effect buying from
themselves a producers and selling to
themselves as agent of the government.
The fact that they had no power to buy
or to fix prices but only to recommend
where things might be bought and to
nriul nrloea. was a-enerallv lost sight
of in this criticism and the expressed
fear of graft was altogether groundless.
BUt now even the appearance of the pos-
sibility of graft has been done away with
by the scrapping of the old munitions
board and the creation of the new board
of war industries. As the council of
defense put it In the statement announc-
ing the organisation of the new board
this action "makes clear that there Is a
total dissociation of the industrial com-
mittees from the actual arrangement of
purchases In behalf of the government."
Another improvement is in the greater
power of the pew board in recommending
prices. Under the old regime It was only
possible for the munitions board to sug-
gest a price for a specific purchase at
the request of the war or navy depart-
ment that suggestion to have no official
weight In the matter of the next purchase
of the same commodity by the same de-
partment. Now it is hold the war indus-
tries board may suggest as fair a Price
that will hold until it sees fit to modify
It because of economic changes.
Under the old board there has been
some effort to determine priority of sup-
tni
at department
'or any given necessity but the macnin
plying needs of tnis -or
re
ery for that very vital work has been in-
adequate heretofore. Now It Is to be per-
fected by the new board under the su-
pervision of ex -Judge Robert S. Lovett
one of the seven members. In the ap-
pointment of Hugh Frame the labor
union organiser as another of the seven
may be found perhaps the answer of the
government to the complaint of Samuel
ompers that the worklhgmen of the
country had apt been sufficiently rep-
resented in. the vital war organisations.
And one more point the creation of the
new board may be accepted as a satis-
factory substitute for a munitions minis-
try with it chief occupying a newly
made place Is the president's cabinet a
ministry for which there has been some
clamor.
"This war Industries' board." said Mr.
Scott Its chairman when he was asked
for an authoritative outline of his work
presents a point of insulation that pre
vents any possible current of personal or
selfish interest from flowing Into the
department charged with doing the buy
ing. The old general munitions board
which this new organisation is supersed
lng was a hastily organised body for the
purpose of meeting the emergency cre
ated by the entrance of America into the
war. It gof into action In time to pre.
vent waste- and the bidding of different
government departments agalnBt each
other for the vastly increased supplies
they had to have at the outset and it
has done such good work that I can say
for many vital things the producing fa
cilities of the country are now sufficiently
developed to carry us through a long war.
As to other vital things we have suf-
ficient stock on hand for' immediate
needs but the facilities for their produc-
tion will have to be further developed to
carry us through such a war.
"As good as It was the munitions board
did not meet all the requirements. The
end which that was intended to accora-
V
ptis remains the same. The govern-
ment has merely improved and modified
the means for attaining the same end.
The old board was cumbersome. It In-
cluded in Its membership a representative
of every- sub-department of each of the
two great military and purchasing depart
ments or the united states the war ana
navy department. Now the entire navy
department In the new board is repre
sented Dy Aamirai rieicner ana ine war
? apartment by Lieutenant Colonel Petrce.
t is th function of their colleagues to
determine where supplies may best be
purchased and to recommend tne price
that shall appear in the contracts. There
you have compactness combined with au-
thority and entire freedom from even the
appearance oi posstointy oi expiuuing me
government for privat ) gain.
"Such a body as the 'old board was
intended to be and as the new one bids
fair to be is absolutely essential for co-
ordinating our industries and putting
them behind our military forces in the
most effective manner. Furthermore it
Is one of the chief duties of such an or-
ganisation not only to obtain the avail-
able supply on the best terms but to
develop greater supply for which there
Is present lack of producing facilities. We
must foresee the military necessities for
a long time to come and see that pro-
vision Is made for them In advance for
the sake of the army and navy and for
the sake of normal industry. In other
. t
words we must took far ahead to bring
about the Industrial changes snade neces-
sary by war so ttat such change may be
made gradually and with the minimum
dtiturbano to such Industrial activities
of peace as will continue through the pe-
riod of the war.
"As an illustration of what I mean by
developing existing industries up te war
requirements we will take a manufac-
turer with a forge who has never made
gun forging but who has the facilities
to do so. That manufacturer must be
persuaded to devote his plant to serving
the country' new need. And so on
through all forms of industry f"m which
war supplies are obtained. The work has
been done all over the country with great
success so far by the old munition board.
In the new board w are going to develop
the same line of activity much further.
"The best example of what may.be
obtained for
waU the
from hv flfr
tangible simple case of buying cotton
duck for the army and navy. The quar-
termaster's department of the army use
duck for tentage; the ordnance depart-
tnn it Ma it tar havaraaiika and kit car
rier; the medical department uses it for
hospital cots; the signal corps use uoa
in aviation supplies xh new vt una
;st example of what may oe
or the government and of what
government may be protected
so-ordinatlon I offered by the
commodity in the navy Is about aaVwtde-
. In peace time each one oi uiee
rtmiiiili huva its awn sunolv of
duck without reference to what another
department Is doing or paying to get $h
am in peace umes u
spread.
suoaepa
aam nommoditv.
makes no particular difference
neace
rence. became
the aggregate of all their peed 1 so
small in proportion to the total available
supply that this independent buymf iot.
not affect prices. But with the beginning
of war the aeeds of every one of these J
separate departments of the army and j
navy become so vast not only in the
matter of cotton duck but for guns and
ammunition and vehicles and raw mate-
rial and all other supplies that their in-
dependent and separate boring would be "
fatal. They would bid against each other'' -In
a rapidly rising market and an Incl-
dental evil would be that the lesser need S
might get supplied before the greater.v
need. It was to prevent all this that the .
general munition board was hurriedly put !
together at the outset of the war and it y :
is to prevent it still more effectively as
well as to accomplish other things thsln4.
rh new hnorfl ha been created. I'-
t 1
"Needless to say this Is no reflection
on the great war and navy departments '
ss the government's chief purchasing or- ffc
ganisationa. On the contrary there are
no finer buying department in the world
than those of the army aqd navy of the
United States. They are excelled nowhere.il v
in the accuracy thoroughness and hon-. '
esty of their business transactions. That "- .
they have not been able to carry the liwn .
creased load of work due to war without
outside eivllan help la surely not to their ' .
discredit.
. . . . . i . . i .
and enthusiastic unselfish co-operation
on the part of all producers. In war'4
time is of the essence. We must have .
10 per cent output from all our Indus-
trie and It mut flow quickly and wtth i "
out Interruption to the government frotti
field factory and mine." v
SPECIAL COMMITTEE
SUBMITTED REPORT
Would Fix Minimum Price of
dling Cotton at 30 Cents.
A Farther Recommendation Is That
' Farmers Should Sell Slowly.
Everything Higher Since
the War.
(Houston Post Sptcial.)
AUSTIN Texas. August 18. Recom-
mendation that the minimum price of
middling cotton be fixed at SO cent per
pound and 60 per ton as the minimum
price for seed Is made In the report of a
special committee on price fixing ap-
pointed during the recent annual meet-
ing of the State Farmers' institute and
which has Just been submitted to Com-
missioner of Agriculture Fred W. Davis
president of the Farmers' institute. This
committee was composed of W. B. Yeary
Farmersville chairman; Matt Webb. Lone
Oak! J. M. White Dallas; T. F.- Gilley.
t'sldwetl; J. C. Hesland Sherman and
W. M. Dunagan Gilmer.
Further recommendation is made by the
committee iii.it th farmers "sell sloaly
Mod await further developments. Farm-
4n need not longer sacrifice their cotton.
nor mistreat their creditors oy noiaing n.
Cotton Will Be Wiped Out
If Pink Boll Worm Comes
With the Weevil and the Worm at Work Nothing
Will Be Left for the Farmer Asserts Congress-
man Buchanan. -
Hon. Leonard Tlllotson Austin Texas.
Washington D. C August 10 1917. Dear Mr. Tillotson: I am Just in recelpFof
your letter relative to the Pechnophora Gossyplella or pink boll worm problem. Per-
mit me to congratulate you on realising so quickly the seriousness of the situation
and the unquestioned necessity for prompt and vigorous action to prevent the
entrance of this most destructive of all cotton pests into our State. It is in times
like these a hen feeling Is running high over dissensions In our State and excitement
in our nation over the worldwide crisis In which we are involved that serious prob-
lems like this one are often overlooked until it is too late.
I have given the subject of the pink boll worm thorough research and considerable
thought and as a result I have become alarmed at the Impending danger- menacing
the cotton culture of our State and nation. I believe If the members of the Texas
legislature understood and realized the serious consequence which will Inevitably
follow the entrance of this destructive pest into our State they would not hesitate
for a moment In taking prompe action to co-operate with the federal government In
enacting legislation to assist In stopping the advance of thia pest at the border.
in Asia. Africa and the Hawaiian Inlands It habitually reduces the lint yield 60
per cent and the oil bearing quality of the cotton materially. Egypt Is now suffering
an annual loss by reason of this pest of $10000000. It has compelled the abandon
ment of cotton culture In the Hawaiian Islands and cut the cotton crop In halt in
Brazil which country was free from the peat In 1913 but through the Importation of
The reserve banks consider the ticket of cotton aeed from Egypt into Brazil it gained a foothold and now Brazil suffers and
a bale of cotton in a bonded warehouse as wm continue to suffer for all time an annual drain of one-half Its total cotton
to"dostoeCpla"e his rotton"nu"h a 5'leld rom Ms Pm 0011 worm Bone- In a few yer 11 has spread from Egypt to
warehouse and turn the ticket over to his JUaaail and the Philippine islands Brasil and Mexico. What reason have we to
believe if not prevented by vigorous and prompt action it will not enter our Htatei
Permit m to remind you that the cotton growing areas of Asia Africa Jaan
Ceylon and the Straits settlements the Philippines and Hawaiian Islands Brazil and
Mexico cow Infested with this plague the United States being the only country
free from 1L
If it should become established here we should have the Mexican boll weevil
which feeds principally Upon the cotton squares and young bolls' and the pink boll
worm whU-'i feeds upon the grown bolls so that with the weevil destroying squares
and youn? bolls and the pink boll worm destroying the few grown bolls that have
escaped the weevil nothing would be left for the farmers..
Unue its work at investigation andmeet
again about the middle of September and
make further reports.
W. B. Yeary. Farmersville
. Chairman.
Natt Babb. Lone Oak
J. M. White Dallas
T. F. Gilley Caldwel
J. C. Hestand Sherman
W. M. Dunagan Gilmer
Price Fixing Committee.
Four Austrian Army
Officers Arrested
(.Atfdtttd Frtst Report.)
LAREDO Texas August 18. Four Aus-
trian army officers alleged to be accom-
plices of Captain Irving Schneider re-
cently arrested at San -Francisco on a
charge of being a spy were arrested by
department of Justiec agents here Satur-
day and placed in Jail.
It Is said they had come here from San
Francisco and were en route to Mexico.
Suggestion is maqe mat eacn iocai
farmers' Institute in Texas and commis
sioners of agriculture In the various cotton-growing
States be advised of the rec-
ommendations of the price-fixing com-
mittee. Announcement i made that the
committee will continue its work and will
meet again about the middle of September
and make further reports.
TAFT RANCH FIGURES
WERE TAKEN AS BASIS.
The committee's report to Commis-
sioner of Agriculture Davis is as follows:
Hon. Fred W. Davis Commlslsoner of
Agriculture Austin Texas.
Dear Sir: In order that the farmers
may have a better conception of the value
of cotton from the cost standpoint and
that you would have a better Idea of the
price you desire to urge the farmers to
ask for it we your committee appointed
to make investigations of the cost of pro-
ducing cotton In Texas and especially the
crop of 1917 beg to make the following
report:
The most authentic figures those less
liable to be disputed are those of the Taft
ranch In South Texas. The cost of proi
ducing cotton on this ranch during 1912 is
Itemised as follows:
Per acre.
Labor including picking 112 87
Feed for mules. In addition to that
raised on the farm 4 15
Supplies and repairs 68
Poison 74
Fertiliser 16
DeDreclation on stock and equip
ment 1 90
Overhead expenses taxes super-
vision etc 1 SO
Seed 20
Total its 19
Added to this (estimated) ginning
wrapping . and marketing 84 per
bale and as croo mada half bale
per acre In 191) 1 00
Rental charges (estimated) 6 00
Grand total for 1912 crop S: 19
Thia was before the war. when teed
food implements repairs and everything
entering into the cost of production was
very much cheaper than now. Under their
condition they can do at least 15 per cent
more per nana ana muie man tne aver-
age of the State which would add 13.23
to 118.87. making It 110. By increasing
iae teea mil or me mines so per cent or
to tS in place of (4.16 would make the
total 833.44 ner acre.
near as we can get to It the average cost
over tne estate oeiore me war.
FOUND EVERYTHING MUCH
HIGHER SINCE THE WAR.
In revising these figures to meet the
present conditions we find the labor cost
to be 50 ter cent higher feed materials
I 1 ) eat taalitr
' f J tlMM fmttt t Ortm m
J I BUmml fciilnf wi kad
SSBMatsies. taaraaUaJ f I
- swat lull.
tat 8M vala wbliaia?
an a sew ( siawiBm
8X3? JUS
No Extra Chai
l tsars nwf Wit "f
faff BnlfiMa .ililaa ftm fain
UmftpMba rla sacksnMar Ua
WaH law Hi" ' eij
IN FREEro.
Tarst are aatr fylXSt
CisbProfitisrvr.
Together they will punch squares.
They will punch the boll.
They will pull up the stalk
And cover up the hole.
i
In my Judgment the remedy is contained In my telegram to Governor Ferguson.
This course is endorsed by the United States department of agriculture and Is as
follows:
"The pink boll worm travels from cotton field to cotton field and normally will
travel only about three miles per year; so that a cotton free zone on either or both
sides of the Rio Grande 30 to 60 miles wide together with the prohibition of the
Importation of cotton and its products Into the United States from Mexico and other
pink boll worm infested countries will constitute an effective remedy. This will
require the active co-operative action of the State and federal governments and
both should act at once. xThe northern portion of this cotton free zone can be estab-
lished on the Texas side of the Rio Grande without damage to anyone as no cotton
is planted there and the soil Is not suited to cotton culture. The lower portion may
by treaty with Mexico be established on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande If such
treaty can be obtained and the lower fertile Rio Grande valley on the Texas side
remain unimpaired In its cotton cultural rights as outlined by the citizens' committee
from the border in Washington a short time ago. This cotton free zone can be
constitutionally established by Texas by an act prohibiting intrastate shipment of
cotton ana its products from such cotton freo zone when the national government
In my Judgment will promptly prohibit the Interstate shipment of cotton and'lt
products from such zone. '
"This question is so vital to the welfare of not only the people of our State but
lo the entire nation thst it demands the attention and best thought of the officials
of our State and nation. I have made a study of the pink boll worm and my
services areat the command of the State as well as the nation" Very truly yours
J. P. Buchanan.
which should be at least 4 cents per
pound making the value of this crop 44
cents per pound.
Looking at it from another standpoint
we find practically all farmer plant and
cultivate corn and other feed crop not
for sale but to feed their team while
making their money crop cotton. This
being the case the feed crops are ab-
sorbed in producing the cotton. There
la about one-third of the land In feed
crops which should be charged to the
cost of producing the cotton after the
above feed cost has been eliminated.
Taking out thia item $13 we have the
total cost $87.41. Now by adding to this
the cost of the feed crops which would
b at least $30 per acre to each acre
of cotton there being one-half acre of
... . . ... ... . . I leea crop lor each acre or cotton would
two and a half times as high supplies and mllkB m to t0 tne 37 tt mak
repair twice a high depreciation on lng the totRl 852.(1 per acre.
r We also And that cotton cloth has ad
stock and equipment 60 per cent hlghe
overhead expenses taxes etc. 60 per cent
higher and seed three times as high.
If- this be correct as to the advance on
these several items of expense and we
believe It very conservative then we have
as a revised list of the coat of the 1917
crop the following:
Per sere.
Labor Including picking $24 is
Feed for mules 1.1 00
Supplies and repairs 1 38
No poiaon or fertiliser ... IN
Depreciation on stock and equip-
ment 1 86
Overhead expenses taxes etc 2 25
Seed f5
Ginning and wrapping. It one-fourth
Date per acre i maa l X6
Interest or rent charge on land.
6 0
Total expense per acre $60 (1
.The picking in the above la estimated
..4 KA Mna rur- h.mflMil knf fat half k
f: bale per acre. It will be a great deal
.rot: nignsr inia eaaun. oui.w vsumaie ine
i.in will n mMcn imiiwr. wmrn will
' . make the acre coat about the same.
eorr too r founi
'At the above figure the coat of cotton
V. production Will b IS cent per pound
" wwi a naie ner ore i maae. zu ram
. where half a hale per mere la mad. It
""' enU for one-third of a bale and Cent
v. acre Which Is. frbm present prospect;
tauob a will be produced this season.
There Is" nothing added beta for profit
vanced to a figure equaling from 40 to
60 cants per pound for raw cotton tb the
farmer. Thus If the price was raised to
40 cents and stabilized there would be
no need for an advance in the price of
cloth.
SHOWS THAT IN 1t1S
TEXAS FARMERS LOST MONEY.
We think It not out of place to mention
that from government statistic we find
the Texas farmer received for his crop
of 1916 111.64 per acre which cost him
more than $30 per acre. We find the
aggregate value of the lint and seed for
the five years from 1110 to 1914 to be
an average of $22.91 Per acre against a
cost of production bt at' least $30 per
acre. Cost tn the Taft ranch figure
in so far as labor is concerned 1 cal-
culated at $1 per day. When cotton
sell for lea than cost. It means the
farmer worked for that much less than
II pee day while producing It. Many
farmers their' friend and the publlo gen-
orally may be surprised at these figures
pot they are born out by teat and the
rural condition of the South. One-fourth
bale aor for the HIT crop I om
less than the government report for July
IS but the deterioration from drouth In
Central. Hnuth and Wast Texas ha con
tinued and North ana East Texas where
bumpr erepa were expecteo in sou
worm and the weevil ar playing navoe
with the crop and .eapeoiaUy In North
Tax. - Under the nreaent condition one
fourth bale or 1 than $.M0 bales look
i. It
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60c Arcadia Cream
26c Arteala Cream
26c Artesla Soap
26c Cold Cream (Radco) .
60g Cucumper Cream .....
26o Cucumber Cream
hOo Cutlcura Ointment ....
260 Cuticura Soap 20c
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BATH I NO CAPS 60c to
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Ice Cream
40c a Quart
Rubber Goods
.81.25
11.60
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11.26
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Tit.
11.76 White Enamel Douche Pan.. 61.25
11.76 White Enamel Syringe. 2 qL.
oemoleta vi.io
$2.00 Whirling Spray Syringe 81.36
8.00 Combination. S at.
12.26 Combination. I qt..
21.60 Fountain syringe ..
$1.76 Fountain Syringe .
61.26 Water Bottl
11.00 water Bottle
60c Hind H. and Almond' Cream. .400
86o Mercollzed Wax e
60c Non Spl' o
60c Odoroho
26o Odorono 1o
26o Peroxide Cream I'o
60c Palm Olive Croam 6o
26c Pond's Cold Cream 100
26c Ponds Vanishing Cream 1a
26c Hesinol Soap 10
16c Palm Olive Soap. 8 for 26c
26c Sanitol Cold Cream 1c
26c Sanitol Vanishing Cream 1c
76c Saxollte o
26c Splro Powder 1c
86c Velour Powder Puffs 1o
26o Wool Powder Puff 20
26c Wool Powder Puffs 16o
16c Wool Powder Puffs 10c
26c Wltchhazer Almond Cream.. ..17o
Hair Tonics
11.00 Danderlne
11.00 :
$1.60 Whirling Spray Syringe 61.10
Ked or Whit bynng Tuning
five foot lengths 26c
Hay Hair Health...
Herolcide
$1.00 LaCreole Hair Tonic.
Shaving Materials
81.00 Sag and Sulphur.
61.00 Westnhall'a
60c Danderlne 8 to
26c Ecllp Shampoo
60c Hay Hair Health
60o Herplcide '
$1.00 Mahdeen Hair Tonic...
60c Mulalficd Cocoanut Oil.
60c Canthrox
60c Q Ban Reatorer
60c Q Ban Hair Tonle
60o Bag and Sulphur
60c Palm OUve Shampoo...
$1.00 Patent Medicines
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...76 Ender Razor
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Colgate' Shaving Powder.
Colgate's Shaving Stick....
Colgate' Shaving Cream...
William Shaving Cream...
William Shaving Stick
William Shaving Powder..
Mennon'a Shaving Cream..
LaFrance Shaving Cream..
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..21o
..10
We carry Kodak Films every day
and Sunday too. '
50c for 39c
Face Powders
Armand'a Face Powder ...
26c Artewa Face Powder..
26c Freeman Face Powder.
2&o Gossomer Face Powder
60o Java itice Powder
60c Jardln de Rose powaer
...60s
...1o
...1o
. 1o
Beef. Iron and Wine 75c
Bromo Seltzer .'76e Capudlne
Lysol 76e Glover Mane Remedy....
Milk' Emulsion 76o Glyco ThymoTine
Peruna 76c Malted Milk -.
Pierce's Fsvorite Prescription 76c Murine Eye Water ...
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.. 76e Pond's Extract .3e
Pinkham s Vegetable Compound-. '6c O' Cedar Polish 3z
Pond's Extract 760 Anuiic Tablets i 39c
. .3e
..390
.S9c
..3c
.3o
Red Clover Comoeund (blood
purifier) 7Se
Syrup Hypophosphtr.es Compound. .7Je
..39c Syrup Pepsin 76o
3oc Vltalltaa rso
Bromo Seltzer We
Reslnol Ointment 39c
Foley Kidney Pills 3c
Hobson's Eczema Ointment ...3Sc
Hobson's Sarsapsrllia 4c
60c Isabell Face Powder 39c Wampole's Cod Liver Oil 75c Iron Quinine and Strychnine Tonic 3c
60c Madeline Face Powder 36o Zemo
60c Palmolive Face Powder 36c
26c Sanitol Face Powder lo
26o High brown Face Powder 1o
2&c Woodbury Face Powder 19c
Nuxated Iron 76e
Malted Milk 76o
Mother Friend .v 7c
Reslnol Ointment 7o
Wine Cardul 66o
76o Lysol 3c
j 86c ORCHID WHITE 29c
Tooth Preparations
26e Antiseptic Tooth Paste
26c Edge Tooth Paste
26o Euthymol Tooth Past
60c Pebeco Tooth Paste
11.00 Pyorrhoclde
26o Glass Tooth Brush Holder. .
$1.00 Lavorla
60c Lavoris
26c Lavoris
$1.00 Lilly Dental Lotion
60c Lilly Dental Lotion
26c Lilly Dental Lotion
Specials
23.76 Malted Milk 63.00
31.26 Genuine Russian Mineral Oil 61-00
Full Pint Pure Wltchhasel 26c
100 Genuine Aspirin" Tablet 11.00
AmericanMlneral Oil 1 pint 60o
El Vamplro 3 for 26c
ell.. . t W.
(-UIIU AHJIIUI ii fc'V
C gulphur and Cream Tartar Lozenges
3 for 26e
2 Nujol 660
Ccarett 0o
41 Freezone 2e
2 Peterman' Roach Powder Iso
.c p.i.nmn'1 Ant Powder....: 11a
Porter's Healing Oil 3o
Mentholatum 39c
Optona Tablets JVc
Oxidlne 3e
Pape's Dlapepsln 3c
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets 3o
Svrun Flas 39c
Tonslllne ...39e
Llvertone
Syrup Pepsin
.170
.10
.10
.40c
25c for 19c
.10
Bromo Seltzer
Bile Busters
C. C. Pills
Carter's Liver Pills.
Cold Busters
Capudlne
Eucalyptus Balm ..
Lysol
Mentholatum
Urban 'Balm
.860
...Mq
...ito
...1o
...10
...io
...ISO
...He
...Itc
...10
...10
...19o
Mali Order Filled Promptly Pared
poat Not Paid at Ths Price.
T
319 MAIN STREET
WE DO NOT DELIVER
ARTICLES ON SALE.
RADFORD DRUG COMPANY
JAS. A. RADFORD Prop. Phone P. 12. "The Popular Corner" Phong P. 334. JAS. M. RUCKER Mgr.
certain. The rest of the belt ha not
mads any Improvement and a vary short
vy mw me wurf ueit seems sure.
vre. mereror. ensioer 44 nnta tur
pound the real vajhie of the 191T crop lea
me amount or the seed which If they
bring $0 per ton will amount to $7.60 per
sere or 1H cent per pound on the lint
makhig the real value of the lint 42 H
MINIMUM PRICE SHOULD
BE 30 CENTS A POUND.
Owing to the fact that a great many
people do not realize ths true value of
cotton from a cost standpoint and that
they will be slow to be educated to It
we are not sure It Is advisable to name
Its real value as the prlco to ask for it
but in Its stesd advice 30 cent as the
minimum price that middling cotton
should be sold for and $60 per ton the
minimum price for soed but sell slowly
and await further developments. Farmers
need not longer sacrifice their cotton nor
mistreat their creditors by holding UA
The reserve banks consider the ticket of
a bale of cotton In a bonded warehouse as
gilt edged security and all a farmer
needs to de is to place his cotton In such
a warehouse and turn the ticket over to
his creditor a collateral.
As we understand you have several
thousand organized local Institutions
enough amply to care for any temporary
surplus we suggest each one be advised
of till action at once and that new or-
ganisations be made aa rapidly a possi-
ble. Please advise other State commis-
sioners of th cotton growing Statee. We
further suggest that th committee con
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GREEN'S AUGUST FLO WEE
Ha been used for all aliment that are
cauaed by a disordered' stomach and in-
aotlv liver such a sick headache con-
stipation our stomach nervous indi-
gestion fermentation of food palpitation
of the heart caused by gases In the stom-
ach. August Flower Is a gentle laxative
regulate digestion both In stomach tnd
lntestlse cleans and sweetens the tom-
aeh and alimentary canal atlmulatwi 'the
liver to secret the bile and Impurities
from the blood. 26 and .71 cent bottle
gold kf -A. B. WmUbs.. t
THE UNI VERS. AX CA.R
Wherever Ford cars have pioneered Ford service has
kept pace. It is the factor which strengthens the personal
relation between Ford owners and the company. To get
the best possible service from your Ford car bring it here
when it needs attention and get the benefit of Ford super-
vision throughout. We use the genuine Ford parts and
give you the benefit of the regular standard Ford prices.
Touring Car $360 Runabout $345? Sedan $645 Coupe-
let $505 Town Car $595 all f. o. b. Detroit. On display
and for sale by
THE FOLLOWING AUTHORIZED FORD AGENTS
ARMOR AUTO AGENCY
Prestos & Washington Ates. -Phones P 480
DOIV MOTOR COMPANY
UiUa K. Bilker Phones P. 17
RODERTSOn & PEARSON Inc.
North llaia isd V.Qti SttPfacne Preston 1776
UniUERSAL CAR COMPANY
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