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FACTS ABOUT COTTON Production of cotton in Russia is confined almost exclusively to the Asiatic provinces of Turkestan and Transcaucasia. Since the outbreak of the Great War in 1914 production of cotton in Russia has averaged about 750,000 bales annually. World carry-over at July 31, 1920 of cotton grown outside of the Unit ed States was 2,100,000 bales great er than it was at the end of the pre- i vious year. World carry-over at July 31, 1920 i of cotton grown in the United States) according to Hester, was 6,086,000 bales. During the year 1919 the propor tion of world's mill supply of cotton contributed by each country was as J ? KC n iUUUWb. uiuueu oiatco c v. British India 22.4 per cent; Egypt 5.9 per cent; China 5.7 per cent; Brazil 2.8 per cent; Russia 2.2 per cent; all other 4.3 per cent. World production of cotton des tined for factory consumption in 1919 indicated bjr U. S. Census fig YOl || APERSO HE Pres ican W< instructe entire stock c Wool ens now less of their val that will move 1 have gone thr Spring patterns *.l .1 m witnin tne p< marked the pri v respond with t old days. This of out-of-season ti\ ductory sale saving of from ered on your ne J. w.: Am ( . 9 Washington St. / ures to have been 19,260,000 bales, not including 582,000 bales of lint ers in the United States. World production of cotton for factory consumption in 1919 was 1,-j 100,000 bales greater than the a mount consumed. World consumption of American cotton is running 25 per cent below! what it did last year, but the estimat-! ed production, government figures is! 1,662,000 bales greater. There is now enough cotton in the | world, unspun, to last nearly tw/o J years. V Cotton is produced extensively in i.; r nL: if i _ r :?. Tiany sections 01 v^iuna. in us t oi it | s spun by hand in the homes of the 3eople, but reliable estimates place :he quantity of Chinese cotton from ;he crop of 1919 which reached com nercial channels at 1,100,000 bales. During the years 1862 and 1863 ;otal production i1! tj^e United States iveraged less than 375,000 bales of :otton annually. The world managed o get along. First cotton seed were planted in Virginia at Jamestown in 1607. Cot on was introduced* into all the south- ; MAI IVlvl I ABOUT ;r Pric< J CAN Bl iNAL WORD ident of the Amer )olen Mills Co. has id me to sell our New Spring r on hand?regard ues?at reductions them. To do this u our line of new ;?that have come A ' t ist few days?and ces down to cor hose of the good is not a clearance rrnrkrlo Knt on ir? gUUUO) UUl Uli 111 to show that a $10 to $20^is of :w spring clothing LADD, Mgr. ericai A SURE CURE. "What's the quickest way to cure a Socialist?" "I know a cure, but I wouldn't care to try it myself." "Well?" "Hand him $10,000 and suggest that he divide it among his brethren" ern colonies by the first settlers. The Spanish invader in 1519 found cotton clothing in common ' use in Mexico, and Cortez received gifts of fine cotton fabrics from the hand' of the great Montezuma. Statements to the effect that Egyp tian mummies were wrapped in cot ton fabrics have been disproved. In the first chapter of Esther def inite reference is made to the use of cotton '"hanging" at the feast which Tfintr Ahflsuprns cavp ahnnf Sift B. cc. World carry-over of American cot ton at July 31, 1920, U. S. Census figures on the domestic supply and Chronicale figures on stocks held abroad, was 6,149,089 bales. I THIS RE JY HERE, i nfitrm auiia th 1 p* i $1D $25? We weave oui a pe i Wo ( /VVNT/VWy^V>/s^/VVV>A/VVVsrVS^/s/vrr>rVVWNAVNA/VVV POWER OF BOARD IN DISCUSSION ^ Erie Railroad Case Heard At Chica go?Order Not Obeyed i Chicago, Feb. 24.?Sharp con-j tention over the x^owers of the Uni-j ,ted States railroad labor board and | thje provisions of the transportation ; act marked the hearing of employ-J ees of the Erie railroad against their, employers before the board today. J The petition of the employees j charged violation of the act and of the labor board. Representatives of [; the road denied both. The case re sulted from an order effective Feb ruary I, reciting common labor wages and deducting one day's pay < a week from the salaries of all em ployees paid on a monthly 'basis. Most of the argument centered about whether1 a ruling of the board j i on February 12, ordering the road ^ I to make no change in wage rates , 1 was compulsory upon tne roaa | J which had already plit a reduction j i into effect. It was conceded by the j t railroad that the intent of the order.t DUCTION J \T OLD-T ; FOR nn - \ )0 $1; $27? own woolens?1< jrfect fit and absc olen R was to maintain the rates of the wage award of July, 1920. They de-: nied, however, violation of the law! in changing those rates. Business depression and revenues below oper ating expenses were given as the reason for the reduction order. During his testimony, R. S. Par sons, general manager for the road, i was asked by Henry T. Hunt, pub lic member of the board, whether' the road's position meant that it would not obey the orders of the board. '"We can't do it," Mr. Parsons re-: plied. "We want to do everything possible to go along with the board,1 t>ut I don't know what we would do if the board issued Impossible or ders." ; Samuel Adams, attorney for the Erie railroad, explained the road's attitude of the transportation act from a legal standpoint and denied, ;he power of the hoard to- continue ;he rates of its decision No. 2 (July L920), until a hearing had been held 1 ind a decision reached. He ques- j ioned the enforcement powers ' of ;he board and declared its powers J SALE A IME PRIC1 <pou= < ailor the clothes >lute satisfaction. Aills ( At were confined to the establishment of just and reasonable wages. This sweeping denial of authori ty in hands of the .board brought from U. S. Bratton, attorney for the employees, a denunciation of the railroad's stand, and the declara tion that if there was no authority to enforce the board's decision as in ended by Mr. Adams, the employees "would endeavor to find a way to make the Erie pay." The case brought out the most di versified argument yet offered in any hearng before the board on wage matters. ||P|V" ?T YOUR GROCERS rHAXWEU HOUSE I COFFEE jju rded [ ES t* V Vii ONE .00 * yj. !0 .00 ]j: if (40 .00 guarantee A Jo. Seville, S. C.