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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1914
Page
9
City finance committee weighs a plan to end double daily sessions in Atlanta public schools and relieve congestion. Officials argue the city, with substantial tax base and borrowing power, can fund a relief measure under $20,000 to modernize and expand remaining needs.
An Atlanta letter urges a hold a bale movement to reduce cotton surpluses by storing bales and retiring them for a year, arguing it could lower planting and boost corn and meat. The piece then discusses Georgia’s control over Western and Atlantic rail property as Louisville and Nashville plans threaten state leverage and asks how far the state can go to protect public property, comparing past debates over railroad charters, leases, and competitive routes.
A collage of poetic verses and quips celebrating joy love and rural life with references to harvest labor happiness in town and country. It blends sentimental lines about light overcoming darkness with humorous musings on home pride and simple pleasures.
The Constitution reports a letter from The Banner Tailoring Co of Chicago enclosing a $50 check and requesting purchase of a bale of cotton at 10 cents per pound, to be warehoused and a receipt sent. The Banner says they are a major wholesale tailoring concern in the Midwest and frequent advertisers in the paper, signed by L J Ashe, president.
The article discusses reducing cotton supply to balance markets and ease debt. It argues for bales held by buyers and hold-bale movements as essential to progress, with emphasis on farmers valuing their own food for the coming year. The aim is to keep visible supply under demand and lessen the mortgage on the South’s primary crop.
Cornelia Georgia writer IRVIN argues fertilizer companies should purchase cotton at ten cents a pound to balance wartime burdens with farmers across the cotton belt. He cites farmers' dependence on fertilizer makers and urges action to support during war.
Joseph A. Felker argues in a Monroe September 28 1914 letter that reducing cotton acreage is the only way to prop up prices. He urges a federal law capping cotton acreage at one third, backed by sworn returns with penalties, plus crop rotation to boost soil and yields. He cites bankers farmers and mills as convinced that voluntary cuts won’t suffice and appeals to southern lawmakers to act.
Editor Constitution Sept 27 article by J T Holleman lauded as best presentation of the cotton issue. A reader, CHAS T PAGE, details actions in Meriwether county instructing land overseer N W Barham to cut cotton 60 percent and rent remaining land for food, to rest land where possible.
B F RA M.D. Lafayette, Ala. argues in this letter that in the current emergency the government should deposit money in every bank in the South to back legitimate business with cotton receipts as security. He credits the Aldrich-Vreeland Act and favors the buy a bale idea if the South had practiced farming scientifically and diversified crops.
A reader from Atlanta praises the citys progressive spirit but condemns the sleep disturbing noise of motor cut outs and horns claiming the nuisance threatens the towns peace and asks for action to curb the disturbance.
J F Comer of Old Town Plantation in Jefferson County Georgia urges farmers to cut cotton acreage by at least one third for the next year. He argues the hold-and-buy plan, buy a bale at ten cents and hold, would stabilize prices, protect southern business and lenders, and sustain buyers for mills even amid European turmoil and surplus output. Comer insists the reduction is essential to prevent a price collapse and to support the broader economy.
R. E. Stallings argues against blanket limestone use. Finely ground limestone benefits soil but must be applied 1–4 tons per acre based on acidity and mixed before fertilizers. Best results before leguminous crops, to aid nitrogen fixing bacteria, and avoid replacing potash with lime. Warns limestone should not mix with commercial fertilizers as it converts water soluble phosphoric acid to an insoluble reverted form. Emphasizes potash as essential and notes many soils lack it. improper use wastes money and may reduce fertilizer effectiveness.
CHAS 4 DANCY, a member of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, urges a government investigation into a powerful "cotton trust" he says controls both spot and futures markets. He argues for exposing eastern interests, reopening talks with regulators, and possibly drastic actions to force market correction, warning the south must fight economically.
Cotton plants grown in Massachusetts from Georgia seed won first prize at the Melrasa Horticultural and Improvement Society exhibition in Boston. Franklin P Shumway of Melrose supplied the seeds to gardener James Holliday, with the garden display drawing curiosity on Bromfield Street. It marks the first time cotton has matured here in Boston, after earlier plantings in the public garden.
A lyrical tribute to Calhoun celebrating its mountains fountains and shade. The verses reflect a lifelong bond with the town, its river, and the landscape, linking personal memory to place from June to December, with a nostalgic note on time and continuity.
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