The Montgomery Advertiser
- City voters ratify school bond issue by large majority
- Trial of Daugherty and Miller ends in mistrial after five weeks' grind; jury is deadlocked sixty-five hours
- Planters' main hope in balanced crops, keynote of meeting
The Montgomery Advertiser of October 12, 1926 led with a local vote. Montgomery approved a $1 million school bond issue, 1,205 to 158 in the body count, to pay for a new fireproof high school on the South Court Street extension and equipment for other schools. The mayor planned to sell the bonds within 60 days, and the school board expected the building to be ready for the 1928 school year. From New York, the Associated Press reported that the conspiracy trial of former Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty and former alien property custodian Thomas W. Miller ended in a hung jury after more than 65 hours of deliberation. The prosecutor said he would take at least a month to decide on a retrial. A five-state regional agricultural conference at the state capitol agreed that the South had grown too much cotton and needed diversified crops. Governor-designate Bibb Graves urged taking a third of the crop off the market. In Birmingham, a U.S. Chamber of Commerce vice-president proposed bonded warehousing and bank loans instead of federal aid.
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CITY VOTERS RATIFY SCHOOL BOND ISSUE BY LARGE MAJORITY
Independent VOLUME XCVIII-NO. 285
Light Vote Polled Shows 1,205 For and 159 Against Million Dollar Educational Expansion Program
MAYOR PLANS TO OFFER SECURITIES IN SIXTY DAYS
Work to Begin on New Building Next Spring; Leaders Gratified
Montgomery voted Monday in favor of the issuance of school improvement bonds to the amount of one million dollars by the city. While the vote cast was comparatively light, a great majority of the ballots were in favor of the issue, the count being 1,205 for, and only 158 against.
The issue was for the purpose [?] of providing funds for the erection of a new high school building and for providing additional equipment for other schools of the city to meet the growing demands upon educational facilities.
The bonds ratified will probably be offered for sale within 60 days, according to Mayor W. A. Gunter, Jr.
Construction of the new high school is expected to begin in the early spring, and will probably be in readiness at the beginning of the 1928 scholastic year, L. C. Cardinal, president of the city board of education, announced.
Officials Gratified
Officials of the city board of education, the city commission, and the parent-teachers' association, expressed gratification at the outcome of Monday's election, declaring it reflected the spirit of the Montgomerians towards advancement of education.
The vote count by wards follows:
Yes No
Ward one, box one........ 50 11
Ward one, box two........ 59 24
Ward two, box one....... 105 7
Ward two, box two........ 81 17
Ward three, box one...... 198 7
Ward three, box two...... 140 9
Ward four, box one........ 85 7
Ward four, box two........ 79 9
Ward five, box one........ 40 12
Ward five, box two........ 42 14
Ward Six.................. 65 6
Ward seven, box one...... 149 20
Ward seven, box two...... 112 15
"The election turned out as I expected," Mayor Gunter stated Monday night. "I was confident that Montgomery citizens would show their desire for better educational facilities.
"The citizens of the city should be appreciative of the splendid work done by the parent-teachers' association in forcing this matter to become an issue. The issue was presented by the city commission upon the recommendation and request of the city board of education."
"The city board of education takes heart at the faith shown in Monday's election in the future of Montgomery," stated L. C. Cardinal. "We are pleased that the issue was passed, and the city board of education will exert every effort in upholding a high educational standard in Montgomery."
Hopes Realized
"Hopes of the Montgomery Parent-Teacher's association were realized in the outcome of the election," Mrs. James Fitz Hill, president of the local association, stated. "The organization has been working towards this end since last June, and we are gratified to know that the congested school conditions of Montgomery will soon be relieved. We wish to thank the city commission and the city board of education for their cooperation in advancing the issue."
According to plans, the new high school building which is to be erected on South Court street extension, will be thoroughly modern and fireproof, will be built of stone and brick, and will stand three stories in height. Approximate dimensions of the building will be 200 feet long and 230 feet wide.
SUICIDE IS VERDICT
Body Of New Orleans Man Found In Atlanta Hotel Room.
ATLANTA, GA., Oct. 11.—(AP)—The body of Morris Amplosk, 45, of New Orleans was found in a hotel room here today by hotel employes who forced an entrance. Physicians who examined the body expressed the opinion that he had been dead since Saturday. A verdict of suicide was returned by the coroner. Amplosk, a traveling salesman, left a note to hotel authorities indicating
TRIAL OF DAUGHERTY AND MILLER ENDS IN MISTRIAL AFTER FIVE WEEKS GRIND; JURY IS DEADLOCKED SIXTY-FIVE HOURS
Full Day and Night Service of The Associated Press MONTGOMERY, AL
Buckner Undecided as to Asking Retrial; Will Take Month to Deliberate
Report Says Division 6-6 on Former Attorney General and 10-2 Against Miller
NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—(AP)—A "hung jury" today ended the five weeks' conspiracy trial of Harry M, Daugherty and Thomas W. Miller, government officials under President Warren G. Harding. The jurors had been out more than 65 hours, longer than any other jury in the history of the federal building.
Former Attorney General Daugherty was the first gnan to be brought to trial on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the government he served while a member of a president's cabinet.
Daugherty and Miller, former alien property custodian, [?] were indicted for conspiring to defraud the government of their best services in permitting release in 1921 of $7,000,000 war impounded assets of the American Metal company.
The case was given to the jury at 9:43 o'clock Friday night. Saturday failure to agree was reported, but Judge Julian Mack insisted on further deliberation. Again yesterday the jury was told that not yet would anything but a verdict be acceptable to the court. At 3 o'clock today, however, the talesmen were called into the courtroom for the last time, and again reported inability to agree, whereupon Judge Mack said:
"I shall not hold you longer, gentlemen. You have deliberated long and earnestly, and I thank you for all that you have done."
After counsel on both sides had also thanked the jury the talesmen trooped back to the jury room for their suitcases. As they reentered the corriHARRY M. DAUGHERTY dor a marshal said he heard them say that they had stood 6 to 6 on Daugherty and 10 to 2 for [?] tion of Miller. Besieged by r [?], however, the jurors state [?] they had pledged themselves [?] tell what the standing had b [?]
The jury delib [?] was marked by the illness la [?] of one juror, a shellshocked [?] veteran, and the statement to [?] rt of another that duress was [?] rought to bear upon the minori [?] urray White, the veteran, had [?] ved sufficiently today to permit h [?] to complete his task.
Daugherty and Miller both seemed quietly jubilant over the disagreement, and Mrs. Miller, who has attended almost every session of the trial, smiled happily as she left the building with her husband.
United States Attorney Buckner, who prosecuted the case, said that he would not decide about a retrial for a month at least.
LITTLE TOTS GIVE PENNIES TO SWELL FUND FOR DEFENSE
More Than Fourteen Thousand Dollars Raised to Fight Mur
CHICAGO ATTORNEY WOUNDED IN FIGHT WAGED BY GUNMEN
Two Notorious Gangsters Slain in Machine Gun Attack Near
PLANTERS' MAIN HOPE IN BALANCED CROPS, KEYNOTE OF MEETING
Constructive Fearless Independent 12, 1926 14 PAGES Price 5 Cents
Better Understanding Among Interests Need, Says Duncan; Graves Favors Taking One-Third of Cotton From Market to Relieve Crisis
A better balanced agricultural production in the South is badly needed, according to the almost unanimous opinion expressed in the sessions Monday of the regional agricultural conference at the state capitol. More than one hundred and twenty-five representatives of agriculture and other businesses from the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana were present for the meetings.
Speakers at both the morning and afternoon sessions Monday expressed the opinion that the South has raised too much cotton this year and that there is an especial need for diversification of crops.
L. N. Duncan of Auburn, who presided at the conference, struck the keynote of the meeting when he declared that the great need in the South is for a better understanding by bankers, merchants and other business men of agricultural problems.
Col. Bibb Graves, governor-designate at a luncheon at the Exchange hotel at 1 o'clock Monday said he believed the solution of the cotton price situation is the taking from the market of at least one-third of the cotton crop.
Gen. Robert F. Ligon, president of the Montgomery Chamber of Commerce, called the conference to order and nominated Prof. L. N. Duncan of Auburn, as permanent chairman, he being promptly elected by acclamation.
Introduces Brandon
Prof. Duncan immediately introduced Governor W. W. Brandon, who welcomed the visitors to Alabama and to Montgomery. Another address of welcome was delivered by Mayor W. A. Gunter, Jr., of Montgomery, after which the discussion of the day began.
Agricultural problems and financing were the main subjects considered, marketing being left for consideration Tuesday, the last day of the conference.
William Harper Dean, manager of the agricultural section of the chamber of commerce of the United States, made a brief explanation of the purpose of the conference during which he insisted that each section of the United States has agricultural problems peculiar to itself and that this is why the chamber of commerce has arranged its series of regional conferences, of which that in Montgomery is the fifth. Mr. Dean expressed doubt rgarding a national agricultural problem unless it be the disparity between what the farmer gets for what he sells and the price he pays for what he buys.
There were no set speeches and each person present was given an opportunity to express himself and to make any contribution to the conference. During the day the agricultural situation in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi was thoroughly analyzed and redies offered for the disastrous condition in which farmers now find themselves.
County Agents Praised
The agricultural colleges and the county agents were commended for their introduction of improved methods which have resulted in a bumper cotton crop but the farmers, bankers, agricultural leaders and chamber of commerce officials present agreed that (Continued on Page Three)
MUST PAY CLAIM, COURT DECLARES
Insurance Firm Loses Fight to Keep From Paying For Cotton Burned at Athens
ELLIS DECLARES SOUTH HOLDS KEY TO COTTON CRISIS
Vice-President of United States Chamber of Commerce Says Warehousing and Loans Solution to Situation
BIRMINGHAM, ALA., Oct. 11.—Special to The Advertiser.—Declaring that the situation caused by the decline in the price of cotton, while serious, is not fatal and that the South holds within its hands the solution to its problems without asking aid of the federal government, Robert R. Ellis, vice-president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, tendered the principal address at a banquet tendered a group of directors of this organization at the Southern club Monday night by the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce.
The proper method of warehousing, and the use of loans from southern bankers was the plan proposed by Mr. Ellis for use of the Southern farmer in tiding over the economic situation caused by the market decline following the hurricane.
"There is no need for the South to appeal to the federal government for aid. With a systematic warehousing program and the business-like use of loans offered by bankers on cotton the farmers of the South can weather the storm and solve their own problem," Mr. Ellis declared.
"There are many more important crops to be raised in the South than cotton. Diversified farm products raised in the South are three [?] of greater importance than the cotton crop," he continued.
The storing of cotton in bonded warehouses until the price reaches a more advantageous figure and the use of law interest loans offered by bankers of the South in order to carry the planters over until next year was recommended by the speaker who discussed the cotton situation minutely.
"The situation is not as serious as it has been and the South, with its great progressive strides, can stem the tide and solve her own problems created by the low price of cotton," he continued.
Mr. Ellis, accompanied by W. M. Howze, Wichita, Kansas, Frank Knell, Wichita Falls, Texas; Louis Lipsitz, Dallas and J. G. Leigh, Little Rock, members of the board of directors of the national organization, arrived in Birmingham Monday from Nashville. They were the guests of the Birmingham chamber at the banquet.
Mr. Ellis is a prominent wholesale druggist of Memphis, Tenn., and said to be well in touch with the general situation in cotton growing states.
Mr. Ellis and other directors were scheduled to leave Birmingham late Monday night for Montgomery where they will meet in connection with the regional agricultural conference to
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Why Montgomery's high school was overcrowded
Mrs. James Fitz Hill, the PTA president, hoped the bonds would relieve the "congested school conditions" she described, and crowding was acute at the high-school level. A history of Sidney Lanier High School on the school's alumni website says the original Lanier building could hold 600 students, but by the early 1920s its enrollment was almost twice that. The same history says Lanier remained Montgomery's only public high school until 1922. After that, students who chose the new Montgomery County High School in Cloverdale relieved the overload only temporarily, and Lanier was soon overcrowded again. The bond issue in this article was meant to fix that shortage. According to the paper, the million dollars would pay for a new high school building and for more equipment at the city's other schools. The city board of education requested the measure and the city commission put it to the voters, after the parent-teachers' association had campaigned for it since June.
The 'Million Dollar School' opened in 1929
The article does not name the planned school, but its location, cost and timing match the new Sidney Lanier High School. The school's history gives the building's address as 1756 South Court Street. Wikipedia says the Gothic Revival building was built in 1928–1929 to merge the original Lanier with another school. It opened for classes in September 1929 and was called "The Million Dollar School" because of its approximate cost. That was a year later than board president L. C. Cardinal's forecast that it would be ready for the 1928 school year. According to the alumni history, the opening came just a few weeks before the stock market crash. Segregation decided who would use the building. The same history says that from 1929 Lanier was Montgomery's only all-white high school. Wikipedia records that the school was not desegregated until September 1964, and its first Black students graduated in 1967.
What became of Daugherty and Miller after the hung jury
The hung jury was only the first round of the case. Daugherty had already been forced from office. The Miller Center's biography says he refused to turn over records to the Senate committee investigating alien property transfers, and President Coolidge demanded his resignation in 1924. It adds that Daugherty was tried twice for defrauding the government and never convicted, and that he went back to Ohio to practice law. The retrial that U.S. Attorney Buckner was considering therefore did take place. Miller fared worse. According to Wikipedia, he was convicted in 1927 on two counts of conspiring to defraud the U.S. government. The case came from the effort by Germany's Metallgesellschaft AG to undo the wartime seizure of its stake in the American Metal Company. Miller served 18 months in prison, was paroled in 1929, and was pardoned by President Herbert Hoover in 1933. These outcomes fit the split a marshal said he overheard, 6 to 6 on Daugherty and 10 to 2 for convicting Miller, although the jurors themselves would not confirm it.
Diversification and cotton's long dominance in Alabama
The conference's call for diversification responded to a long-standing problem. The Encyclopedia of Alabama reports that the state's cotton acreage grew steadily from about one million acres in 1866 to almost four million in 1914. It also says the boll weevil reached Alabama in 1910 and was first found in western Mobile County. The encyclopedia describes cotton as dominating Alabama agriculture until after World War II, with diversification coming only gradually and partly because of the weevil. When the conference praised agricultural colleges and county agents, it was praising a research system with deep roots in the state: the encyclopedia notes that in 1883 the legislature funded the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, the first in the South. The paper's own reports show two kinds of answer in 1926. Governor-designate Bibb Graves's plan to keep a third of the crop off the market and Robert R. Ellis's plan for bonded warehousing and bankers' loans both dealt with a surplus that had already been grown. The conference's call for balanced crops, by contrast, aimed to change what farmers planted in later years.
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CITY VOTERS RATIFY SCHOOL BOND ISSUE BY LARGE MAJORITY
Independent VOLUME XCVIII-NO. 285 CITY VOTERS RATIFY SCHOOL BOND ISSUE BY LARGE MAJORITY Light Vote Polled Shows 1, 205 For and 159 Against Million Dollar Educational Expansion Program MAYOR PLANS TO OFFER SECURITIES IN SIXTY DAYS Work to Begin on New Building Next Spring; Leaders Gratified Montgomery voted Monday in favor of the issuance of school improvement bonds to the amount of one million dollars by the city. While the vote cast was comparatively light, a great majority of the ballots were in favor of the issue, the count being 1, 205 for, and only 158 against. The issue was for the purpose [?] of providing funds for the erection of a new high school building and for providing additional equipment for other schools of the city to meet the growing demands upon educational facilities. The bonds ratified will probably be offered for sale within 60 days, according to Mayor W. A. Gunter, Jr. Construction of the new high school is expected to begin in the early spring, and will probably be in readiness at the beginning of the 1928 scholastic year, L. C. Cardinal, president of the city board of education, announced. Officials Gratified Officials of the city board of education, the city commission, and the parent-teachers ' association, expressed gratification at the outcome of Monday's election, declaring it reflected the spirit of the Montgomerians towards advancement of education. The vote count by wards follows: Yes No Ward one, box one........ 50 11 Ward one, box two........ 59 24 Ward two, box one....... 105 7 Ward two, box two........ 81 17 Ward three, box one...... 198 7 Ward three, box two...... 140 9 Ward four, box one........ 85 7 Ward four, box two........ 79 9 Ward five, box one........ 40 12 Ward five, box two........ 42 14 Ward Six.................. 65 6 Ward seven, box one...... 149 20 Ward seven, box two...... 112 15 " The election turned out as I expected, " Mayor Gunter stated Monday night. " I was confident that Montgomery citizens would show their desire for better educational facilities. " The citizens of the city should be appreciative of the splendid work done by the parent-teachers ' association in forcing this matter to become an issue. The issue was presented by the city commission upon the recommendation and request of the city board of education. " " The city board of education takes heart at the faith shown in Monday's election in the future of Montgomery, " stated L. C. Cardinal. " We are pleased that the issue was passed, and the city board of education will exert every effort in upholding a high educational standard in Montgomery. " Hopes Realized " Hopes of the Montgomery ParentTeacher's association were realized in the outcome of the election, " Mrs. James Fitz Hill, president of the local association, stated. " The organization has been working towards this end since last June, and we are gratified to know that the congested school conditions of Montgomery will soon be relieved. We wish to thank the city commission and the city board of education for their cooperation in advancing the issue. " According to plans, the new high school building which is to be erected on South Court street extension, will be thoroughly modern and fireproof, will be built of stone and brick, and will stand three stories in height. Approximate dimensions of the building will be 200 feet long and 230 feet wide. SUICIDE IS VERDICT Body Of New Orleans Man Found In Atlanta Hotel Room. ATLANTA, GA., Oct. 11. - (AP) - The body of Morris Amplosk, 45, of New Orleans was found in a hotel room here today by hotel employes who forced an entrance. Physicians who examined the body expressed the opinion that he had been dead since Saturday. A verdict of suicide was returned by the coroner. Amplosk, a traveling salesman, left a note to hotel authorities indicating
TRIAL OF DAUGHERTY AND MILLER ENDS IN MISTRIAL AFTER FIVE WEEKS GRIND; JURY IS DEADLOCKED SIXTY-FIVE HOURS
Full Day and Night Service of The Associated Press MONTGOMERY, AL TRIAL OF DAUGHERTY AND MILLER ENDS IN MISTRIAL AFTER FIVE WEEKS GRIND; JURY IS DEADLOCKED SIXTY-FIVE HOURS Buckner Undecided as to Asking Retrial; Will Take Month to Deliberate Report Says Division 6-6 on Former Attorney General and 10-2 Against Miller NEW YORK, Oct. 11. - (AP) - A " hung jury " today ended the five weeks ' conspiracy trial of Harry M, Daugherty and Thomas W. Miller, government officials under President Warren G. Harding. The jurors had been out more than 65 hours, longer than any other jury in the history of the federal building. Former Attorney General Daugherty was the first gnan to be brought to trial on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the government he served while a member of a president's cabinet. Daugherty and Miller, former alien property custodian, [?] were indicted for conspiring to defraud the government of their best services in permitting release in 1921 of $ 7, 000, 000 war impounded assets of the American Metal company. The case was given to the jury at 9: 43 o'clock Friday night. Saturday failure to agree was reported, but Judge Julian Mack insisted on further deliberation. Again yesterday the jury was told that not yet would anything but a verdict be acceptable to the court. At 3 o'clock today, however, the talesmen were called into the courtroom for the last time, and again reported inability to agree, whereupon Judge Mack said: " I shall not hold you longer, gentlemen. You have deliberated long and earnestly, and I thank you for all that you have done. " After counsel on both sides had also thanked the jury the talesmen trooped back to the jury room for their suitcases. As they reentered the corriHARRY M. DAUGHERTY dor a marshal said he heard them say that they had stood 6 to 6 on Daugherty and 10 to 2 for [?] tion of Miller. Besieged by r [?], however, the jurors state [?] they had pledged themselves [?] tell what the standing had b [?] The jury delib [?] was marked by the illness la [?] of one juror, a shellshocked [?] veteran, and the statement to [?] rt of another that duress was [?] rought to bear upon the minori [?] urray White, the veteran, had [?] ved sufficiently today to permit h [?] to complete his task. Daugherty and Miller both seemed quietly jubilant over the disagreement, and Mrs. Miller, who has attended almost every session of the trial, smiled happily as she left the building with her husband. United States Attorney Buckner, who prosecuted the case, said that he would not decide about a retrial for a month at least. LITTLE TOTS GIVE PENNIES TO SWELL FUND FOR DEFENSE More Than Fourteen Thousand Dollars Raised to Fight MurCHICAGO ATTORNEY WOUNDED IN FIGHT WAGED BY GUNMEN Two Notorious Gangsters Slain in Machine Gun Attack Near
PLANTERS' MAIN HOPE IN BALANCED CROPS, KEYNOTE OF MEETING
Constructive Fearless Independent 12, 1926 14 PAGES Price 5 Cents PLANTERS ' MAIN HOPE IN BALANCED CROPS, KEYNOTE OF MEETING Better Understanding Among Interests Need, Says Duncan; Graves Favors Taking One-Third of Cotton From Market to Relieve Crisis A better balanced agricultural production in the South is badly needed, according to the almost unanimous opinion expressed in the sessions Monday of the regional agricultural conference at the state capitol. More than one hundred and twenty-five representatives of agriculture and other businesses from the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana were present for the meetings. Speakers at both the morning and afternoon sessions Monday expressed the opinion that the South has raised too much cotton this year and that there is an especial need for diversification of crops. L. N. Duncan of Auburn, who presided at the conference, struck the keynote of the meeting when he declared that the great need in the South is for a better understanding by bankers, merchants and other business men of agricultural problems. Col. Bibb Graves, governor-designate at a luncheon at the Exchange hotel at 1 o'clock Monday said he believed the solution of the cotton price situation is the taking from the market of at least one-third of the cotton crop. Gen. Robert F. Ligon, president of the Montgomery Chamber of Commerce, called the conference to order and nominated Prof. L. N. Duncan of Auburn, as permanent chairman, he being promptly elected by acclamation. Introduces Brandon Prof. Duncan immediately introduced Governor W. W. Brandon, who welcomed the visitors to Alabama and to Montgomery. Another address of welcome was delivered by Mayor W. A. Gunter, Jr., of Montgomery, after which the discussion of the day began. Agricultural problems and financing were the main subjects considered, marketing being left for consideration Tuesday, the last day of the conference. William Harper Dean, manager of the agricultural section of the chamber of commerce of the United States, made a brief explanation of the purpose of the conference during which he insisted that each section of the United States has agricultural problems peculiar to itself and that this is why the chamber of commerce has arranged its series of regional conferences, of which that in Montgomery is the fifth. Mr. Dean expressed doubt rgarding a national agricultural problem unless it be the disparity between what the farmer gets for what he sells and the price he pays for what he buys. There were no set speeches and each person present was given an opportunity to express himself and to make any contribution to the conference. During the day the agricultural situation in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi was thoroughly analyzed and redies offered for the disastrous condition in which farmers now find themselves. County Agents Praised The agricultural colleges and the county agents were commended for their introduction of improved methods which have resulted in a bumper cotton crop but the farmers, bankers, agricultural leaders and chamber of commerce officials present agreed that (Continued on Page Three) MUST PAY CLAIM, COURT DECLARES Insurance Firm Loses Fight to Keep From Paying For Cotton Burned at Athens ELLIS DECLARES SOUTH HOLDS KEY TO COTTON CRISIS Vice-President of United States Chamber of Commerce Says Warehousing and Loans Solution to Situation BIRMINGHAM, ALA., Oct. 11. - Special to The Advertiser. - Declaring that the situation caused by the decline in the price of cotton, while serious, is not fatal and that the South holds within its hands the solution to its problems without asking aid of the federal government, Robert R. Ellis, vice-president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, tendered the principal address at a banquet tendered a group of directors of this organization at the Southern club Monday night by the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce. The proper method of warehousing, and the use of loans from southern bankers was the plan proposed by Mr. Ellis for use of the Southern farmer in tiding over the economic situation caused by the market decline following the hurricane. " There is no need for the South to appeal to the federal government for aid. With a systematic warehousing program and the business-like use of loans offered by bankers on cotton the farmers of the South can weather the storm and solve their own problem, " Mr. Ellis declared. " There are many more important crops to be raised in the South than cotton. Diversified farm products raised in the South are three [?] of greater importance than the cotton crop, " he continued. The storing of cotton in bonded ware houses until the price reaches a more advantageous figure and the use of law interest loans offered by bankers of the South in order to carry the planters over until next year was recommended by the speaker who discussed the cotton situation minutely. " The situation is not as serious as it has been and the South, with its great progressive strides, can stem the tide and solve her own problems created by the low price of cotton, " he continued. Mr. Ellis, accompanied by W. M. Howze, Wichita, Kansas, Frank Knell, Wichita Falls, Texas; Louis Lipsitz, Dallas and J. G. Leigh, Little Rock, members of the board of directors of the national organization, arrived in Birmingham Monday from Nashville. They were the guests of the Birmingham chamber at the banquet. Mr. Ellis is a prominent wholesale druggist of Memphis, Tenn., and said to be well in touch with the general situation in cotton growing states. Mr. Ellis and other directors were scheduled to leave Birmingham late Monday night for Montgomery where they will meet in connection with the regional agricultural conference to
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