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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, February 12, 195.7
Do you know about The National
Cotton Council of America? About
sixteen years ago a Columbia law
yer, Mr. J. B. Murphy, uas all a ^ r ®i se ed meal, many times more nutri-
with enthusiasm over the plan of ^j ous the most nurtitious food
champions of cotton, and finding
new uses for cotton.
Cotton is more than just the fleecy
staple in bales; it is seed, hulls and
other things. Cotton seed wasn’t
worth much, if anything, in your
grandfather’s time, or about sixty
years ago. Then it was thrown away;
later it was used as a bed for the
hirses. We don’t use many horses
today but we use cotton seed. What
is cotton seed good for? It is full of
oil, rich oil, some as rich as olive
oil. So we crush the seed and get the
oil; then that leaves the rich cotton
some Arkansas, Mississippi and
Texas cotton planters to organize a
Cotton Council. My friend Murphy,
known affectionately to many of us
at "Pat”, came from Texas and
knew the moving spirits. The out
standing cotton farmer in this great
project was Oscar Johnson of Scott,
Mississippi. Mr. Johnson was a real
cotton farmer; he planted thirty-
eight thousand acres and averaged
six hundred pounds of lint to the
acre. How’s that for real fanning?
And that was sixteen years ago; be
fore many of the new ideas and new
insecticides—and all that. I do not
think that my friend Murphy was
that efficient in producing cotton,
though I’ve never asked him; I steer
clear of my Texas friends since one
told me of freezing ice cream with
the hail stones that fell six months
before and formed a lasting heap.
I’m not exaggerating; that is what
they said.-
Several of us went to the j first
meeting—Mr. Murphy, Col. Wynd-
ham Manning, Mr. J. Wade Drake,
Mr. T. K. Durst and others.
While thinking of yields per acre,
I was surprised to read in Los Ang
eles that the County of Los Angeles
averages 693 pounds of lint per acre.
California, you know, is the second
of the cotton producing States in the
number of bales produced; of course
Texas is first. Texas is so large that
the Texans tell the biggest yarns and
make the biggest clairtis.
It is said that a Texan who was
telling stories covered so much
ground that a listener remarked sar
castically "You Texans all have an
inferiority complex”; whereupon the
Texan said "Well friend, if that’s so,
all I have to say is that its the BIG-
we usually eat. And then we have
the hulls which are a cattle food.
When you think of cotton seed oil
the chemist can talk for weeks; it
is a subject worth much study and
experimentation. Today our farmers
sell the cotton seed, just as they sell
cotton; and they sell hulls, too.
Do you know that we have a table
spread, which we use freely, known
as margarine; it is made of cotton
seed oil. The great dairying States
uspd to fight margarine.
Today margarine is winning. So
that is a cotton victory nad that is
a victory for the National Cotton
Council.
Now do you know that the cream
eries want it clearly understood that
margarine is not the same as butter
and that cotton seed oil is not milk?
Well, something new again has
come up: ice cream is ICED CREAM,
isn’t it? Cotton seed oil is not cream,
for cream comes from milk. There
fore if we buy a frozen confection
that we serve in a cup or a bowl and
eat with a spoon it is ICE CREAM,
if made with milk and cream, but
what is it if it is made of cotton seed
oil? Here we are in line of battle
again. The cotton people, seeking a
wider market for our cotton, have
all the derivatives from cotton to j
promote; whereas those of our people)
who sell milk and cream have their
own interest to protect.
Observe how like an unceasing j
warfrae is the peaceful life of trade |
and commerce: our cotton farmers j
competed with \Vo<bl and silk for
generations, but now the new man
made fabrics are crowding in: our
creamery brethren had their trade
all the generations and now the
GEST INFERIORITY COMPLEX in i P roducts made from cotton seed oils
and meals and derivatives push in
to claim part of the trade.
THE WORLD.” So when you hear
the Texans talk you can believe it
was a Texan who tried to sell a
milking machine to a farmer. The In the great campaign to promote
farmer said "I have only one cow | the dse of cotton and its by-products
and my wife milks her.” But theall the six groups interested in the j
Texan persisted, using all the arts, cotton business are working together i
blandishments, persuasions and;-‘-the PRODUCERS, who are our i
iers; the GFNNERS—whom we[
sophistry, so notable in our
"salesmen, until he sold a mAatiiig have in every County; tiie WARE-j
machine to the farmer and took his HOUSEMEN; the MERCHANTS;]
cow as down payment. the CRUSHE1RS (cotton seed oil
I’ve just spent a week out in the' SPINNEIRS (operators of
land of great plains and distances 0011011 mills ’ making threads and
but we were discussing cotton and its
future.
cloth, etc)
I attended the Councils Conven-
You know that we nave on the 11011 as a s Pmner, serving for Mr.j
market many synthetic or man-made Marshal Stone who could not at-1
fibers which compete with our cot- j ten< *-
ton. Seldom does a lady buy cotton 1 Those attending the Convention j
hose today. So w’e must compete from South Carolina, according to i
with silk and imitation silk and a Mr. Murphy, Mr. Hambright and,
dozen other fabrics which are taking others, were:
the place oi cotton. That is what the 1 W. A. Hambright, Blacksburg;
cotton council is doing; it is looking Frank M. Wannamaker, St. Matth-
lor new markets for cotton, new uses ews; J. F. McLaurin, Bennettsville;
for cotton. Cotton cannot sit still; it' V. O. Cox, Spartanburg; W. R. Mood,
must advance constantly. Cotton is Columbia" Thomas N. Durst, Colunt-
a part of the life blood of the South, j bia; John B. Eldmunds, Spartanburg;
Tociaj the chemists are in a sharp EYank A. Jones, Greenville; T. W\
competition: thousands of them try
ing to make new substitutes for cot
ton and thousands who are the
Dr. Fred E. Holcombe
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j ning.
Business in the South is largely
built on or around cotton. In this
day of organization all interests
stand together to promote their com
mon interests and aims. The Cot
ton Council is a great organization
' served by the finest technical brains
1 and rendering a great service.
Let me quote from The Dallas
Morning News:
"Beset by competition abroad and
new synthetic fibers at home, Amer
icas cotton growers and processors
are having to fight to keep their
markets. Meeting in Dallas, the Na
tional Cotton Council of America is
trying to lower trade barriers and
to find new uses for cotton lint* and
seed. Recently it had a part in the
doing away of ddscrirhinatory laws
against margarine.
Cotton • cloth, for most purposes,
still has advantages over most of the
competitors in its price range. It
absorbs moisture better. It holds col
ors better. It has a soft feel that
many prefer over the synthetics. Yet
research should be able to find new
uses for cotton and to improve its
qualities for specific purposes. Put
ting science to work on this prob
lem gives hope that cotton not only
will retain its position but may re-
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