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Bp^aHtnc on the rottoo tltuatlon
bafora th« Farmart' Coagrbat at Col-
logo Station Taiaa. July 29. Clar-
ancc; Analey, aaalatant ggcretary of
agriculture aald “na calamity^. Im
pends If we do not looae our heida.'*
Hla speech follows:
"It is an old saying that the arer-
age cotton farmer will not sell when
prices are advancing and will not
hold when prices are declining. From
what I have learned during the last
few weeks I am inclined to the view
that the cotton farmers today are re
solved and are prepared to pursue a
more rational course. I find evi
dence that the actual farmer is the
least panicky over the cotton situa
tion. He remembers the sad exper
ience of 1914, when we brought a
big crop to market just after the
world war broke, and because there
was then more cotton than could be
sold and delivered, we fell into hy
Uterfes and sacrificed a large part of
it below coat of cultivation. If we
had been wiser then, we would have
retired a small port of the crop and
sold the greater part of It at a fir
prices because, as a matter of fact,
we had to hold a small part aad ulti
mately we absorbed It hi the reduced
crops of the three succeeding years
ttee that the sMoatloo now u e* see
loos as M was lo 1914 ll i ~e ool
so appear to me Ho« eeeo if It e ere.
If wo win only profit bp the taper-
fteore ef 1911 e# COO •esflt selre the
Jo*
dt* will btf dope to a tort a
instead ef fore lag It all oa the
kef at one time, the difficulty to
eveu Its worst aspects of approbea
slop will disappear.
(tool Cnooscls Mott Prevail.
I am sura that whatever the War
Industries Board or any other func
tion ot-{M>vernment may ba able to
to the Cotton growers. As I see the
situation, no calamity Impends if we
do not lose our heads. At the same
time, while the Government may be
depended upon to exercise the ut
most of its ’"ar power to prevent loss
it wust be remembered that not even
the Government of the United States,
with all its powers, can make tw;o
bales of cotton fit into the place
where there is room for only one. If
there js a surplus of cotton this year
it must be absorbed by. reduced pro
duction next year just as the sur
plus of-1914 was absorbed by reduc
ed production in the succeeding
three years. It is only fair to say
that the Government did not ask for
so large a crop. It was produced
because our people In the South re
fused to heed the warning of agri
cultural leaders and economists. By
such aid as may be rendered through
Governaaaat agencies, by judicious
marketing, by wltbboldlng for later
development a small part of tbe
crop, aad by adjusting nest year's
acreage according to tbe knows facta
aad probabilities aa Ibey appear at
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pllaly evident this week by the re-
ural of von Ludeadorff to accept
Marshal Foch'a challenge to a pitch
ed battle for the mastery of the Mon-
tdldler salient and the highly impor
tant front southeast of Amiens.
Faced by a strong British attack,
undertaken in conjunction with the
French on the southern and Ameri
cans On the northern end, von Lud-
endorff has turned to the defensive,
duplication* the tactics he employed
in his retreat from the Marne. The
importance of this week's progress
by the three allies is not so much in
the actulay ground gained, but in the
implied acknowledgement by von Lu-
dendorff that he must shorten his
front to save his reserves.
The military results that have fal
len to Marshall Foota In three days
Include the removal of Amiens from
any immediate danger of a new Ger
man offensive, the re-opening of the
important Amiens-Paris railway
which was previously under com
mand of the German guns, and the
elimination of the strategic value of
tbe Montdidier salient aa a possible
base for a new German drive to Par
la.
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gueures of this weeks victories are
astoagary. however, to tbe fact that
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Thursday, the Allies have ' demon-
strkted that the Initiative has passed
!rom the hands of the Germans. They
lad their chance and they failed.
Now it is the turn of the Allies and
the most will be made of it.
There was profund satisfaction in
Ix>ndon when If became known that
French and British armies are fight-
ng side by side under Sir Douglas
Haig. While there was no disposi
tion to rejoice prematurely It was
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nay certainty baa much sbtppinc
will ba available far export during
tbe next It months hut we do know
that at the present time tbe allied
countries are constructing ships fas
ter than they are being destroyed
and that sub marines are being de
stroyed faster than they are being
built. I hope that we can maintain
this rate of progress; In that event
there may be considerably more ship
ping for cotton the coming year than
we had during the dosing year with
out jeopardising or decreasing the
military movements. We do know
that Europe needs cotton. The total
visible supply of cotton In the world
on July 12 was 3,370,211 bales, com
pared with 3,026,904 bales in 1917,
3.651.272 bales in 1916, and 5,218,-
784 bales in 1915. Total European
stocks on the same day were 433,000
bales, compared with 638,00 in 1917,
1,241,000 in 1916, and 2,688,000 In
1915.
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of cotton In European stocks is no
more to be regarded as a menacing
surplus than a million to two million
bales In American mills I nfact.
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. Remarking upon the fact that Ad
miral Sims refused knighthood at the
hands of the English king, the Wash
ington Times recalls that Gladstone
"manufactured peers as a baker
makes bunsU>ut "he took no title
himself.'*
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Activities of German* or German
Aawtraas from the Catted fltau
arrow* the Metlcan lower California
border, where a wlreles* plant U lo-
iHKumenu of the ino9t rated are under investigation by gov-
character. Indicating that recent .
events have brought about an ex- rrnment agents
tremley marked state of depression Reports indicate that for month*
In the German army, have fallen into group* of'about a half hundred Oer
the hands of the British. Most sig
nlficant of all, perhaps, in an ab
stract from a German officer’s dairy
in which he relates he had been ask
ed by the divisional headquarters
whether the troops in the line favor
ed peace or a continuation of the
war, his anfwer being: "mmediate
peace or an immediate decisive bat
tle." This entry, was dated before^ 1 .
the German drive for the Marne be- T nin « 8 «-
gan. ^
Hardly less important Is a letter
taken from a German prisoner. It
was written to him hy ^mother Ger
man stationed along the Marne. It
reads:
"You will be in the thick of it now.
Shirk aa much as you can. Do not
be stupid, , We are risking our lives
only for big victories. Now we are
taking the offensive on the Marne and
wa will never get out of this mess at
all. Oar regiment has been nearly
wiped oat aad we have aot pushed
far Tbe war la becoming a greater
baa ever Wbat M getag
I dea l
mans have, been found in Mexicali, a
a torried little collection of baked
shacks just across the border from
Calexico, California, and about fifty
miles of Yuma. Ariz., on a spur of
the Southern Pacific. The town Is
inhabited' by a shifting population
of Mexicans, Indians, Japanese and
The Germans who were never
known to visit the town before the
war. now congregate at a store start
ed recently by jfjDerman known to
have been active in propaganda work
in the I’nited States before the war
and have used the wireless station
there which is capable of communica
ting with Mexico CU. w
MANY SKELLS SALVAGED
(hM* Krewrfe Army Repurt* f| Gu*
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/ The American <
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With irreetettble epeed aad aided
by e deaee fap. tbe Pritleb fearth
army •urged forward, after ealy
three mi a u tee of
bard amt. aad
hafore It. phiaglag ahead two. four,
•lx. tea miles la the center. Oa their
right, around Moreull. tho Gorman*
• ere better prepared, the French at
tack having been preceded hy n 49
minute bombard men But there,
too, the dash of the attackers was too
much for the Teutpns and Moreull
and Moritel fell In the* first two
hours to the offensive. - . *
More than a dozen villages were
taken by the French and British.
Capture of Morlancourt. reported un
officially late Wednesday afternoon,
has not yet been confirmed, but in
the British center Marcelcave, La-
motte-en-Santerre, Harbonnieres, Ba-
yonvillers. Cayeux and Calx fell to
the attackers in swift succession.
Thursday night’s French commu
nique. referring as it does for details
to the British official night report,
shows the Picardy drive has been
entrusted to the British commander-
in-chief, the larger portion of * the
sector In^hich the offensive is tak
ing place, being an integral part of
the British front. It will be recall
ed that during all the battles on tha
Aline, Oise and Marne rivers, detail
ed toeporta of tbe progress of opera
tions came invariably from tbe
French war office, even wbea. aa
waa mostly tbe cnee. British troops
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