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"Well-dressed on a Moderate Income" i '9 (Q Unusual lecture demonstration by Evelyn Hansen 6 Q Miss Hansen approaches hersub ject from the vari ous viewpoints of beauty, utility and economy. F6URTH AFTERNOON Redpath Chautauqua 7 Big Days SEASON TICKETS $2.7-5 . Chautauqua Week Here May 2-9 fiabitual Constpntion Cured In 14 to 21 D)ays "LAX-FOS WITi PEPSIN" is a specially. prepare(I Syrup Tonic-.axatie for Habitual Constipation. It relicvcs promptly but should ho taken regularly for 14 to 21 days to induce regular action. It Stimulates and Regulatei o Vcry Pleasant to TrAke. 60c ver bottle. Pains Were Terrific Read how Mrs. Albert her .wulywa . My pains erewterrifi'c.' 1 thought 1 would die. The bearing-down pains wer myt stand the pressure of Isimply feltsas ii life was husband was worried . One evenn while red case simnilar to minroand arduls fo mhtto try.om TAIKE CAR.DUI Te Womnan's Tonic " Ij took It faithfully and the results were Immedi ate," adds Mrs. Gregory. "I continued to get bet. ter, all my Ills left me, and A went through'. .. witht no further trouble. My baby was fat and strong,andmysel.-thank God--m once more hale and hearty, can walk miles, do my work, -though 44 years old, feel like a new person. All I owe to Cardu.'' For man~y years Cardul has been found helpful In buIlding up the system- - wheun run down by dis orders peculiario women. Take Cardui A NEW DEAL THE COT J. Sidney Cates in A vast andl sweeping Southern agri cultural movement is now under way. History records none greater than it bids fair to becoeic. It is a movement having nothing to (10 with achieving legislative enactment, or in any oway tending -to cause .politicians to flatten their cars to the earth; it does not de p10nd for its successful culmination on the signing of a bill by the President, surrounded 'by i proud group of lead ers who carry away the golden pen as a souvenir. JTlappily, the Movement of which I write 41as to do with men 'fighting their own battles alone and in their own wayp They are the growers of that stormy !etrel of all crops cotton. Back of the movement for pooling cotton and selling it coole rativeiy which is the Iear deal designated Im tihe title of this story-lies a decade (luring which cotton growers have had the most violent churnings, now up to unwonted heights, now cast di.vin again to still lower depths of despair Drought, pest, war and a world of buy ers gone mad-mad at one time with a wild orgy of spending, and more mad again witli poverty and penny-squeez Ing fright. What is Going on Today Add to the picture a lost of parasitic speculators, taking normally an unhec essary toll from every bale of cotton, .b ying wildly on -a rising market and 'Aing bankruvt on the slutinp which followed, leaving -price unsupported *while fading away to the ow point determined -by the quantity of distress coming into sight-add all this, str well and remember it has -been -brew ing for ten years, and you have the back-ground of what Is going on today. Two and a half years ago I -wrote for The Country Gentleman the story of the American Cotton AssocIation. It was a story of a spontaneous move ment of a group of leaders from every section startihg in earnest a fight for a permanent higher standard of living for the American cotton grower. In the main the outcome of this initial en gageient was a clearing of the air. The American Cotton Association was concerned iII the abstract-speaking broadly--with 'bettering Southern con ditions. Through the various state and the Federal governments enacting jware house legislation, facilities for housing cotton are becoming more and more adequate each year. The problemli is Oil th way towards -being entirely solved, and with the crop stored and insured credit becomes a iore. simple matter. Now the same general fight for het terment i. sweeping on in the more concrete 'form of coo:erative cotton marketing associations sprInging iu1p in every cotton state of importance, and the Amdrican Cotton Growers' Ex chlange, headed by Car'l Williams, of Oklahonma, binding the whlole together in a single unit. "J. Scottowe -Wallnnmaker," remark ed a leading man in the SouthI, "taught thle farmers to thinik in terms of the indulistry instead of in terms of the cot toll bale. Cotton wvas put onl tihe front agsof the big dailies." And from ts beginning has sprung the biggest dleveilpment wvhichl has ever conic into agricultural history. Today two have four states--Okla hlomla, Mississipi, TexaIs andl Ar'izonaL1 --handling cobperatively a goodlly part of the -19.2 cro-p. Ini Arkanasas and in North Carolina apiproximately half thle !)rosIpecctive crop for the next live years has been signed upi by tile growvers. OrganIzation is going forward rapidly in Alabama, Gborgia and Southl Carq linla. Soon the new ,plan will have coveried every cotton-prodlucing tsate. Picture iln yoiur m11nd( thle old condI tion, wvith every cotton producer Is own sales manager. Eivery village of tihe South was a mairket place; a score of abuyers, keen jiudges of cotton grades, hmouir by hour11 informed of price chang es, matchIng wvits iwith hun11dreds of small nfarmers standing 'by the cuurb wvith one or two 01' thlree bales of 'cotton on a wvagon. What chance had thle farmer of Jiusti~ce and fair dealing? 'l hien let ine picture to you the plan I found in opecrationl in Oklahoma. IEach farmier as he receives the ,bale from the gin-turks it over to tihe local repr1esentative of tile association and, through his locail 'band, driawvs onl the 'association for~ 0 qiner cent of tile elpot price for middling for the clay. A smite off thle 3pale of cotton is sent to the' grading -room at hecadquar'ters at Oklahomga City. Each -bale is so t'ag god 'as td maintain its identity, and a similar tag goes alogg wIth thdO nsamplle. There, in a 'athgle rooin11, I foundl over 100,000 samples 'of cotton1 each reQpre senting a bal9. -Theo Qklahomt 'crop tIs year ha8 ,been divided into thlirty seven lots of like grade amcj- staple. A.~rict tecoi'd Ia kept of the ,number and weights of ;b.ales of eachl memiber or the .associatio9). From this cenltral heoadfiluarters the crop is being sold. TIhporter, mnanu tanturer Jolbber, pnedulator or .anyonc FOR TON FARMER Country Ventleman felse may be the purchaser. The high dollar rules. But one thing else stands out in this icheme of selling. The man who is making the sale knacxs what he is offering and he knows what it should 'be worth. If a grower has a cotton with a longer staple than or mnal, he gets paid for it. When a pool has -been closed out the anoney received is prorated and distributed to the grow ers. This, in 'rief, is the simple work lng plan. 'le Plan Is Working A year ago the faint-hearted could give you many reasons why the plan Ixoulld not work. I could recount them to you here. And they seem logical enough. But patiepce and careful plan ning have swot all these reasons aside and anl incontrovertible proof remains: The plan is working. The total crop handled cooperatively has fallen far bhelow the number ot bales contracted. But this is not to be taken as a bad omen. There was a light crop, and on top of the light crop there was more cotton than ever -be fore covered by crop mortgages. Those reasons-resulted In the Oklahoma asso clation handling only a little more than a qiuarte rof the cotton contracted. Normally the man making the mort gage will sige over his interest to the cotton exchange, where provisions are made to safeguard fully the indebtea ness. In many cases the holders of the mortgages needed the money des perately, so desperately that they, in many cases, had to insist on immediate spot sales. And the crop mortgage takes precedence over the contract be tween the grower amil the exchange. So of the 400,000 bales normal crop production covered into the association by growers' contract, there twas a shinkage, flrst through the total crop dropping from a normal one of 1,200, 000 to less than 500,000 bales. Only 175,000 :bales actually were producea 1) the grower members. And when holders of crop liens insisted on the immediate marketing of approximately 60,00 bales, there were less than 120, 000 bales to be handled cooperatively. lretty 1 much the same train of cir Cuimstances develoed in Texas. The sign-up there was approximately 610, It Why than N Nov I~AIwas n ~ for $-14 r Thi odd and price was the lo ever made or yknown standan A genuine p yby the makers y . Now comes a 7$10.90 tires bel S the market." "New" treads. Y Unfamiliar t< perhaps an al y having been i ythe price. y . But the "Usci ya place by itse] United State s'fr are Gee Tires Copyrtiht 1922 U. S. TireCo. Where You Can Bluy 000 bales, normal crop. Thii norma Production was cut heavily throug cro) short.age, insistence of holders o crop llortgages that the cotton be sot( at once, aid through the 'itrtietr fac that the Texas organizationl was unabl to get Into actual sales operationi untl the fifteen of September, by whici time nearly half the cotton of Te:<a: had been pielod and -taken to narket Texas, therefore, had to release the cot ton comting inl prior to the time theil organization was able to funetion. Fo these reasons the cotton handled L3 the Toxas nexhantge this season '.va only about 125,000 bales of the (10,00 sign-upf. The .l ississi pI association had 220, 000 bales signed up, on the basis of normal crop. There was no croIp-iort gage trouble, very little sih rinkage il yiel, and the association has hald !e practically the entire crop signed 1!1i In the main h lie lississIPi iassociatioi s comliposed of very Ilarge growers Only 1,8111 iteibers fi-nish the mor than 200,1000 bales, aid I Could pic] thirty Iment ci the nlumober who prod-e 90 per cent ("f that total. Milssisippi's Slying start Then the Staple Cotton Cooperativ Association of .1ississipii got, off t a living s;t at onl another very import ant count. Its members did not at tempt to build their selling organ iza tion fromt the ground. They did not at tempt this becatuse they deelled stuc] a move impossible with staple cottonl The trade has long been (evelope I with the Alississi.:pli product, whiel centers arotintd one aid t Ih ree-six teeiths incies in length, by dealer who sell undertradeiark iames in stead of tisual grade designations. Th Alississippi growers, therefore took ov Cr the 'husiness of one of the larges and best established cotton merchant -William Garrard, of Greenville, AMis sissippi-paying him personally twen To Stop a Cough Quick take HAYES' HEALING HONEY, i cough medicine which stops the cough b: healing the inflamed and irritated tissues A box of GROVE'S O-PEN-TRATI SALVE for Chest Colds, Head Colds ani Croup is enclosed with every bottle o HAYES' HEALING HONEY. The salv( should be rubbed on the chest and throo of children suffering from a Cold or Croup The healing effect of Hayes' Healing Honey in ide tie throat combined with the healing effect c o rove's -Pen-Trate Salve through the pores c the skin soon stops a cough. foth remedies are packed In one carton and th cost of thc comtbined treatment is 35ce. Just ask your druggist for HAYES HEALING HONEY. he I022US just *IO mber 10,1921, standby onr x 3 "Usco" years. Bette iarked to sell .Still puttit ).90.honest quali closely figured sell for onl' west quotation ninety cents i any tire of The $10 Is. the record ioneering step product. of U. S. Tires. The tire tI * still buy for lot of different nity. of its q ng rushed into regardless o1 Special" tires, low amoui they pay. > look at-with :mnosphere of nade to meet >" still occupies f. A gqod old *Unitec United Stai J. D. SPENCE & EURAKA DRU E.V. GO I ty-five cents a [bale for every 'bale han i died, at a guaranty of $50,000 for the f year. The whole chain of circuistane IfI es, therefore, seens to have rworked out Lto make the 'Alississippi busliaesis 11111 along the most smoothly, (.n the ili I tial spurt, of any of tle state cooier i ative selling organizations. Arizona, Where long-sta:ple cotton Ii also produced, Is li in uch the ame slape as tle Alississippi associt ion Of the 10,000 bale produced in asso Send to Wi. SchicldMfg. Co., St. Louis, Mo., for Instructive free booklet. the Perfect Soap Make -the choice of thou making pure soap c waste grease, water, that's all. Easy, succ and floating soaps or upon the genuine -- As for it by nam 001 s bette .... t Ire nillions of cars for rtaithat's wal. Ess uponhethmphasisnen tyskefen if by does CO teolas bett .90 tire t of han proevernas tat people i~~ he dig tality ~ I' the it ? liiniTii tes ( Rubber Con :COMPANY, Gray Cour a COMPANY, Laurens, LDING. W(aterloo. S. C. lation territory in 1921, 20,000 will be Illindled cooperatIvely. Arizona, when tLf boom was On1, had juititped up1) to sOline sevetI1y or eighty iolusand 'hales [t year, but iade a dra)st ic atervage (ult last season. Tis anakes a total of somle 1:1,0000 ble's of ctott handlI4d coeu)rative'ly -a goodly total for a beginiting -anid fully eniulfor It( W ulraaniza lins, Conlsid(e(inlg t 1h1y had to 1u14i Croni ti hv a p -'k sands of women for Luickly-easily. 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