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HOBWBCTM TOWB-RBTlWir sTESDAY, ArOFST S, 1M. American Cotton Clothes World II-' . V n II:'-' a II m r it !' s i '"U ipni m I S."V . k. f - - l! PROOAISS IN TeXTILiE I kT SSjjZZ--ZZZCOTTON MIU. NEW I umm ijn a - ' s 'i sskS feTV -':Mm$mM-, fcr tiPj ? spas? vACW ' I ... .... , ... - 1 Ysna f ij tfri iwiki&m-M By FRANCIS H. 8ISSON, Vie President of Guaranty Trust Com pany of New York. HE United States for some time to come, as It has bi-en doing for years, will con tinue to supply the greater part of the world's raw cot ton. Cotton Is second In value of all the crops of this country, and furnishes approximately fifty-six per cent of the world's total. No single competitor ap proaches It India follows with 17 per icent; China with 134 per cent; Egypt and Ituiufa with 4V4 per cent, and the 'remaining 44 per cent Is made up by I Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Turkey, Persia, Japan and several other countries. The United States first became iid Important cotton producing country toward the end of the eighteenth cen tury. This development was sudden. Ia 1792 the United State? exported only 275 bales. The next year, 170.1. hi which Ell Whitney Invented the cot ton gin and revolutionized the Indus try, Is the most Important In the his tory of cotton growing In the United States. The acreage Increased enor mously. The volume of exports lenped overnight. New England became a cotton goods manufacturing center. Iron works and coal mines were aban doned aDd men turned their energies from the culture of corn, rice, and Indigo largely to the raising of cotton. The Civil War and the freeing of Hie slaves held np production only tempo rarily. In 1014, the banner year, the crop reached the tremendous total of (MJSUSO bales, of Ave hundred 'pounds each. There are now 84,000, WO seres devoted to cotton, a seven teen fold Increase since 1839, when the Irtt statistics were compiled. A little spinning had been done here In the seventeenth century, but In 1787-88 the first regular factory, locat ed In Beverly, Mats., was put Into operation by a group beaded by John Cabot and Joshua Fisher. This fac tory failed chiefly because., of the crudeness of the machinery. But Sam uel Sluter, newly come from England with models of the Arkwright machin ery In his brain, set up a factory In Pawtucket In 1700. From that time forth the growth waa steady and sure. In manufacturing, however, we have not led, though Europe has drawn on us largely for the raw material. In 1910 American cotton mide up almost exactly three-quarters of the whole amount Imported Into Great Britain. The other countries of Europe have also developed a splunlng Industry by no means Inconsiderable and Ameri can cotton Is sent to almost all those European countries which spin and weave. British supremacy In cotton manu facturing has never been truly chal lenged, but there has been an appre ciable growth In several other coun tries, and In Germany and Japan, at least, the recent development has been little short of phenomenal. It has been In the South that the growth of the American cotton manu facturing Industry In the last few de codes has been most phenomenal. In I860 there were 824,052 spindles In the cotton growing states, compared with 8,(W2.087 In New England. In 1917. the figures were: Northern States 19,835,082 spindles devoted to cotton spinning exclusively; Southern States, 14,292,918 spindles. About 1880 the southerner first saw his opportunity In manufacturing his own cotton. Then ho was consuming only 18S.748 bales, while New England took 1.129.498. In ten years he was utilizing more than half a million bales, while New England had Just passed the million and half mm::. In 1905 the South consumed 2,140.151 bales, A TYPICAL SOUTHERN COTTON FICLD COTTON RANKS SeCONO IN v IMPORTANC C OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL A COTTON B4LF6 AVbMITINa EXPORT ON A SAVANNAH WHARF AMERICA fURHISHES FIFTY-SIX PERCENT OF THE IWU' COTTON. while- New England had climbed to only 1,753,282. However, as competi tion with the South Increased, New Englund following the earlier lead of Old England, has tended always to produce a liner and finer quality of cloth, leaving the coarser grades of sheeting, drills and ducks to the South ern mills. At any stage of the Industry, cot ton represents a large part of the na tion's wealth. There are two very clearly marked stages In the process of financing. The first has to do with the row cotton, as It goes from planter to mill. The second has to do with the journey from mill to consumer. The first Is usually called the raw cotton market and the second the cloth market The planter begins his work early lb the spring. His crop Is dependent upon his ability to pay for tools and machinery and his owu ex penses. Small planters must borrow money with the growing crop as a basis. They may borrow from the country merchant Credit here Is through the Mchnrge account" system, whereby the merchant supplies the planter's wants by giving credit to bis farm hands. When the picking season begins the merchant may take the col ton, crediting the grower at trie mar ket price. The cotton Is sold to local buyers or occasionally to shippers or exporters. In the case of the larger plantations or groups of plantations, operated by syndicates or corpora tions, the cotton Is frequently shipped direct to the mill or more often to a warehouse. The larger producers. In stead of getting their credit from the local stores, as their tenant farmers do, are financed either by their bank or by their buyers, who in turn are financed by their bankera. The lnrge cotton buyers purchase for the account of the mills for ex porters or for clients ulirouil. They are usually firms of strong financial standiug, and they are bankers of fuc- tors themselves, flouncing growers or small buyers during the growing of the crop and the first concentration of the cotton. But when the large move ment of cotton Is on It Is frequently necessary that they, like the local banks, must be financed In order that they may execute their orders or, as is frequently the case, accept cotton sent to them on consignment Until recently warehousing In Its re lations to the textile trade bad not been developed to the extent which might have been expected. Modern warehouses of approved type, however, with all requisite facilities will soon be established. The cotton merchants hnve estab lished great common markets where they nihy meet and enter Into transac tions with each other and the whole world, which are necessary to bring the cotton Into the channels of com merce and keep It moving to Its multi tudinous destinations. These mnrkets ure In addition to the numerous local markets where the preliminary con centration takes place, and to some extent they are subsidiary to the lat ter, where the cotton of the actual quantity and quality they are seeking Is to be had In the first Instance Yet it Is the great markets which establish the prices. These great cotton markets are those of New York and New Orleans, In the United States; Liverpool, In England ; Bremen, In Germany ; Havre, In France; Alexandria, In EgypL and Bombay, In India. The output of the manufacturer finds Its way to the ultimata consumer through a variety of chunnels. What these are will depend upon how the various mills are organized, and their resjiectlve policies as to the marketing of their products. Some mills, usually very large organizations, will have plants completely equipped, In every department, spinning, weaving, dyeing, printing, finishing, etc., and will process all of their goods themselves In every detail, offering them on the market In their finished form. Then there are a great number of cotton mills, many of them of very lurge alze, which do no weaving at all, but confine themselves to spinning, finding a market for their yarns with tn many weaving mills which hart no spinning plants. Numerous milla. both large and small, manufacturing, . principally, goods of staple grade, which may either be of floe or coarse character, sell their entire product in the gray, or unfinished state, A anhfttanHal Hurt of the OUtD!t of the mills (but nothing like that of for mer venrs and It grows relatively .mailer ever vear) la disposea ot Oh (. rectly to dry goods Jobbing houses and j ,Dy them to reran ueuicia, wuw ' j by the yard to in consumer. ur-j rtier enormous yardage passes sven- tually through the cutting houses, which manufacture garments of every , kind, from overalls to pajamas or from ' raincoats to shirts, and dispose of their products to distributors, who eventually sell them to the public. Then there are retailers whose re quirements for goods of particular Irinita BM art considerable that their r sufficient magnitude to warrant the mills In dealing with them direct iit,M am the oreat mall or der bouses, with a gigantic annual. turnover, whose cataloguea go 10 everj . part of the land, and which handle! nnantitioa nf niece gooda, as well as made-up garments, and whose: custom is esgerly sought for. In ad-1 i.t ihMa and other domestic; outlets, a great quantity of goods Is produced for export Such goods are handled through houses speclslly or ganized for that trade. nf the cloth market again Illustrates the economic lnipor e hnnblnr service. The mill frequently pays cash for Its raw stock,! or else buys upon snort term noiea.. The average mill does not hnve a Mnitni inrvA enoueh to enable It to tie up the thousands of dollars necessary for sucn a proceeuing, mm n.aii a the funds which must con stantly be paid out for wages, for op-j eration expenses of an kinas, ior up- keep, and all other overhead. Mills, a martar nf fnct. are frequent bor-! rowers, either from general banka, or; from textile banks or factors, or rroin tiioir aelllnz aients. who combine their ! primary and original function of sell ing with that of supplying nnauciai assistance. Despite the very remarkable growth which had taken place between 1910 and 1918, the United States ranaea fifth among the nations exporting cot ton goods. . Until recently, the banking facilities , abroad were Insufficient to the needs m-ain, mmiwnw' and shinning . facilities, In pre-war days, were not j such as to make regular snipmenis pos sible to many foreign markets. The war served to disarrange the ays-1 tern of cotton cloth distribution of the; whole world. While In 1913 our total ; vfwirta nf cotton goods amounted to about 445,000,000 yards. In 1017 the, figure was about (WO.OOO.OOO yards, an Increase or nny-nve per cent, me Increase, moreover, had been In the colored cottons, the uncolored cloths showing an actual decrease. , i Aur huat and ir.nr r.prr,',A i',r, t mnr. kets are probably to be found. In snrh countries as (.-una, aiexiro, tne i-niup-, nlnna and fVntrnl and Rntilh America. and, to a certnln extent, Canada and Australia, and parts of Asia and Africa. German Ships on Way to New York r (By Associated Press.) WAi3,,,,N"uiu.N, auk. 1. rour of the Ave German warships allocated to the United States for experiment al Purposes were in the thick of the BRhtlng at the battle ot Jutland, ac cording to naval intelligence records here. The vessels are due at New lork from Brest, France, this week, and under a clause of the peace treaty they must me destroyed with in "an V. :.r after thr arrival. The light cruiser Frankfort, now a wreck in machinery and being toed to the United States by the transport Hancock, was the first ship in the German battle line when It collided with the IlritlBh grand fleet, while the 22,000-ton dreadnought ustfriesland was the ninth ship In he line, immediately In the rear of the flagship of the German comman-Her-ln-chief, Admiral Scheer. Of the three destroyers, all of which are being towed over as a re wit of their submersion with iho Wm.m fleet at Scapa Flow, the G JM and the V-43 were In the fore foot of the fighting throughout the MOTHER! "California Syrup of Figs" Child's Best Laxative ii i Jutlund engagement. Leading a division of four scout cruisers that bore the brunt of the British fire at the opening of the engagement, the Frankfurt, flagship of Rear Admiral Brodicker. was hit four times, but with a small caliber ' shell in each instance and stayed in the fiKht to the finish. The third 'cruiser behind her was sunk at the 'opening of the engagement. The Frankfurt, which has a speed of 28 .knots. Is believed to have pnrtlci I pated also in raids on theh Britixh . coast. ' Although she was well up in line and her 12-inch guns worked thru out contact with the British fleet, the dreadnaught Ostfriesland, flag ship of Vice Admiral Schmidt, com manding battle squadron No. 1, es caped without a major blow, so far as naval records here disclose, but , was damaged later by hitting a mine pated the withdrawal to YYIlhelms haven. Of the two destroyers, the G-102 , was with the scouting forces, close to the Frankfurt, at the opening of i the battle. She took part In the de '. Btroyer attack on the British battle cruiser divisions at 4:30 p. m., and later In the general engagement with British destroyers sent out to cover the battle cruisers. The V-41 also was In the thick of the fight and was included in the flotilla that launched the destroyer attack und'T cover of which the German fleet be gan Its withdrawal. The third de stroyer In the group, the S-122, Is believed to have been completed ar the close of the war. I The warships will be opened to public Inspection shortly after their arrival at New York and the navy ! department now is considering plans to send them to other ports. As only the Ostfriesland Is able to pro- reed under her own power, however, 'she may hhe only one of the i group sent on an exhibition tour. The thre.e destroyers are scheduled to go to Norfolk In two weeks. During the trans-Atlantic trip Cap tain Julius F. Hellweg. United States navy, is 111 uibi fic wi iiic ii"" arrant "--u, . oiiIt i . """ria syrup or ng ea for the name California S5?"d.U h"la ,h best and t0B,.i, ? phy,ic for the ""le lMt. fr,',' f nd h0W'''- Children .: tast- Full directions jJ'ootUe. You must gay "Call- Draft Evader Is Being Sought Here Police officers In the state of Ore gon have been notified to be on the lookout for Orover Cleveland Berg doll, millionaire fugitive draft evad or whn waa rennrteH seen last at Kent Washlnetnn. In a Hudson super six automobile. Bergdoll. while nnder sentence for evasion of the Craft, escaped from military guard. A reward of (2000 for his capture has been offered by attorneys who. it Is said, arranged with naval au thorities for Bergdoll to go with a military guard to dig up 1150,000 which he said he had hidden in the vicinity of his home In Philadelphia. It was while he waa on the project that he escaped. Bergdoll has two scars on the side of his face, has brown hair and eyes, and Is 27 years of age. He also has a yellow streak a foot wide up his back, according to American Legion members, who are assisting in the search for the nrch slacker. o7 Fire-water Is Enroute to Oregon Is On Visit Dr. Lucetta Smith is on her way to Michigan, where sho will spend a month or six weeks visiting with relatives at her old home. Here Kmm tJi-eon Mrs. A. Wilson and Mrs. W. F. Davis rpent yesterday In this city at tending to business matters. They returned home on the evening train. Local motoriBts who have been busily engaged during the past month in mixing moth balls and ether In their last gallon of gas will be overjoyed at the news which ar rived here today to the effect that 25 gasoline tank cars are now enroute to Portland and other valley points in western Oregon from Tulsa, Okla homa. The special train passed El Paso, Texas, several days ago and is due to arrive In this state in the near future. Cars will be dropped off the train all along the line and it is thought that Roseburg will be one of the main distributing centers In the state. Another special train of tank cars will follow in a few days. Southern Pacific traffic officials have been in formed. At outer state points the supply of gas is becoming more plentiful and with Increased allotments this month to pleasure cars the stress Is becom ing less acute. IJemand of motor trucks and other essential Industries are supplied up to 100 per cent. VMt In Asliluiid Mrs. D. N. Gllmore, of this city, left on the evening train yesterday for Ashland, where she will visit with relatives and friends for a short time. VMtl From Wilbur Mrs. John Mcl'lanahan. of Wilbur, who has been visiting Mrs. A. J. Wulf in this city, left ibis morning for her home. Mrs. Wulf accompanied Mrs. McClanahun to Wilbur for a visit. KltiEXK NEXT MKKTI.Ntl PLACE. Owing to the fact that the American Legion slate conveu- tion recently held In Asturia Be- 4 lected Kllgene as the meeting ! place for 11(21, Uiupqua post of I Douglas county will no kubt ! send a very large delegation to that place. The members of the local post will hold their next meeting in September, at which time the report of the three 4 delegates sent to the slate con- ventioti will be made. Mrs. L. Morehouse, of Portland, who hns been visiting ' with her father, Thomas Thomas, of this city, returned to her home this morning. ROSEBL'RG-CAMAS VALLEY STAGE Two Daily Stages Two D:i'!v Stages leave 1(1 iSKlil IK,.' -- - 7 and 2:.'t0 Leave CAM ' S. -- 7:4.) anil 11 Nnei-':i! triu n i'le at any time. I'h'tne 'Til , l!-!iiii'jj or t'amas Hotel :in 'i- V:i lev. (IIOla.K I -Mt- AH K fSKIl) LKi: C. H)M V, Prop. AHOl'XD THE TOWX On Outing Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Lemera and wife left this morning for Seaside to enjoy a short outing. Scotland TmlriMa Hei J B. Pwan and family, of Scot land, spent last night at the Umporm hotel. They are on a tour of the United States. Alterations Made On account of several alterations the now organ at the Majestic the ater will not be ready for operation tor several days. MAN'S BEST AGE A man is as old as his organs ; he can be as vigorous and healthy at 70 as at 35 if he aids his organs in performing their functions. Keep your vital organs healthy with GOLD MEDAL Tba world's standard raroady for kidnay, ar, bladder and uric acid tranbiaa sloe 1696; corracts disorders; stimulates vital organs. AU druggists, throe alias. CaU MaaWt ararr has Millions for a New Stomach One of the creatmt American milHoa aired Raid to his physician, "A million dollari, Doctor, ipot ciuh and no grum bling, for A new atomach," and tlia the sick man groaned and turned away. All hia wenlth could not make hint happy or contented, for happiness IarKv ly dopends upon di goat ion. Without health where dona hap pin nag come inf After all the stou.ar. plays a great pa rt In everyday life. W it hout a hoalthy stomach and good digestion our blood is thin, watery and poor, our heart action is weak, our liver does not do its duty, and man is minora We and unhappy. Prevent tUneune by putting the bouse in order and atrongthoning the system agr.ii.r.1 tli kithis t diseaae. Dr. Pierre, of the InvoJida' iioU-l and Surgical Institute, at IlufTalo, N. 7 years ago undritool disrawa and their prevention, and he discovered certain roots and herbs which were nature's remedies, and succeeded in putting them np in a form that rould be easily pro cured at tJie drutf store (liquid or tablets). This he allud Dr. I 'tree's Gulden Medical Discovery. This Din eovery gives no f:ilse stimulation be eanae it contains no alcohol or any nar toUic. It helps digestion and the aav iini.ation of such elements in the food aa are required for the blood. 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