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U. S. Wealth 353 Billion. lars amounted to 72 per cent., the
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National wealth in 1922 was placed | would be 16 per cent., allowing for
changes in purchasing power of the
dollar and would compare with about
15 per cent. increase in population.
at $353,000,000,000 and national in-
come for 1923 at $70,000,000,000, in
a special report by the Federal Trade
Commission, made public on Tuesday
in response to a Senate resolution.
While the increase in wealth be-
ween 1912 and 1922 measured in dol-
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POWER OF KING
COTTON GROWING
REG. dF
-Night and Day Average Man
Seldom Escapes Poten-
tate’s Influence.
Washington.—The serious predic-
tion of chemists that within a few
years we may order palatable “syn-
thetic beefsteak” made from cotton-
seed, fixes a royal personage more
firmly on his throne—his majesty,
Gossypium Hirsutum, otherwise known
as King Cotton. Something of this
Potentate’s power in the world is told
in a bulletin from the Washington (D.
C.) headquarters of the National Gen
graphic society.
“Night and day the average man
seldom escapes the influence of King
Cotton,” says the bulletin, “He sleeps
between cotton sheets on a mattress
stuffed with the fluffy white fibers.
After he discards his cotton pajamas
and takes his morning bath, he uses
a Turkish towel made of cotton; he
dons cotton underclothes ; and if it is
Summer, he probably wears outer gar-
ments at least partly made of cotton.
The celluloid comb and brush which
he uses in making his toilet, and even
the handle of his toothbrush are prob-
ably made from the same indispensa-
ble fiber.
Under Scepter in Home and Office.
“Breakfast is not entirely cotton-
less even though the table is spread
with linen. If margarin is used in-
stead of butter it is probably made
largely from cotton-seed oil ; while the
same oil or solid shortening made
from it may be used in griddle cakes,
biscuits or muffins. The morning pa-
per, too, which Mr. Average Man
thumbs through is dependent on cot-
ton for the film from which its photo
graphs were made.
“If he motors to town, he rides on
tires that could not be made so cheap
and strong and durable except for
their ‘carcasses’ of cotton fabric or
cords. Perhaps the upholstery, the
brake-linings, and even the lacquer
finish on the car have drawn upon
cotton as raw materials. Arrived at
his office he makes use of cotton in
some of his stationery, his telephone
insulation, his typewriter ribbons, his
window cords, his shades, and prob
ably in numerous other ways.
“Mrs. Average Woman leans even
more heavily on the royal and potent
Gossypium Hirsutum. The shelves of
her linen closet are stacked high with
white cotton goods used in bed and
bath rooms. In her clothes closets
hang dress after dress of the same
material, while her: dresser drawers
are filed with cotton garments. Her
dishes. are dried on cotton dish cloths,
her laundry (itself largely cotton)
hangs on cotton lines, she darns and
mends with cotton thread, and retires
for the night to sleep in and between
and upon cotton.
“From where does this Indispensa-
ble cotton come?
“Most of it from American cotton
fields of the South and Southwest.
Crop Worth a Billion.
“The little plants which will supply
the great American cotton crop of
1926 (‘great’ because even in poor
years American cotton 1s seldom
worth less than a billion dollars) are
growing in rows three to four feet
apart. They are planted rather thick-
ly; but when they are several inches
tall the farmers and their laborers go
along the rows with hoes chopping
out surplus seedlings, and incidental-
ly, weeds and grass, leaving the plants
from 12 to 18 inches apart. 4
“After this most of the cultivation
is given with broad shallow plows and
riding cultivators. Under the warmth
of the Southern spring and summer
the plants grow rapidly. When they
reach maturity each is virtually a
sturdy little tree three to four feet
high, its branches touching those of
its neighbors In its row and almost
meeting the branches from plants
rows on either side. :
“Cotton-picking time is as much a
nature-marked season In the South as
is the overflow of the Nile in Egypt
or the appearance of the summer sun
In the Arctic. The work appeals to
the Southern negro. Industries lose
their employees, housewives thelr
maids, when the late summer exodus
to the cotton fields begins. Many of
the pickers camp out for weeks near
the fields in which they work and look
“upon the outing as a sort of holiday.
Even children and aged persons take
part in the work, dragging their ean-
vas sacks behind them.
“Approximately two-thirds by weight
of ‘seed cotton™—the cotton as it
comes from the bolls—is seed, one-
third lint or fiber. The latter adheres
tightly to the seed, growing out from
all parts of it in tiny white hairs. To
separate lint from seed the seed cot-
ton must be passed through a ‘gin.’
Numerous whirling saws tear the
fiber from the seeds. The latter drop
into chutes which carry them to huge
gray-green piles in the seed room. The
lint passes on belt conveyors In a
broad endless stream to the presses
where it is squeezed into bales welgh-
ing approximately 500 pounds.
“Until after the Civil war the value
of cotton seed was not recognized.
Millions of tons were burnt, thrown
aside to rot, or shoveled into rivers.
Now the seed from between three and
four bales of cotton are worth as much
as a bale of the fiber.
“The United States is the world’s
greatest cotton producer, furnishing
more than half of the total crop, usual-
ly from 10,000,000 ‘to 16,000,000 bales.
A single state, Texas, produces: about
“one-third of "the American crop, or
about one-sixth of the world crop.”
OF 4,000 YEARS AGO FOUND
Hurri, Hitherto Unknown, Sought In
Vain to Prevent Rise of
Capitalism.
Philadelphia.—Records of an an-
clent race, whose clvilization vied
with that of the Hittites and Egyp-
tlans as they lived in the shadow of
the Tower of Babel, were revealed by
speakers before the American Orien-
tal society.
Dr. E. A. Speiser and Prof. Edward
Chiera of the University of Pennsyl-
vania made the report after a year
of study of a thousand clay tablets
uncovered in southern Mesopotamia.
The race, sald to have existed 4,000
Years ago, heretofore, had been un-
known to archeologists. It is known
as the Hurrl, and the translation of
the tablets was etpected by the sav-
ants attending the meeting to add a
new page to ancient history.
“This race,” sald Doctor Spelser,
“had a law against the direct sale of
land. However, much as they tried to
legislate against the growth of a cap-
ftalistic class, the effort failed. Land
owners adopted those whose land they
wished to obtain. As a result huge
land tracts were under one family’s
Jurisdiction. A man had a perfect
right to kill his slaves, suffering no
consequences whatever.”
The tablets, the translation of which
has just been completed, cover a period
of five generations in one family.
Report of the discovery of two
burial tablets, tending to bear out the
traditional story of the burial of the
bodies of Peter and Paul by Orientals
on the Appian Way, near Rome, as
related In the apocryphal writings,
was made by Prof. Romaine Newbold.
The tablets, he said, bearing Ara-
malic Inscriptions, were found in the
Church of San Sebastian, on the Via
Appia, about three miles from Rome.
They are declared to be the first in-
scriptions in Aramaic found In Italy,
and prove, he believes, there were
Orientals in Ttaly during the First
century of the Christian era.
Excavators found the tablets buried
80 feet deep. Translation revealed
that they were placed there by an
Oriental slave woman named Pecora,
who buried her master and mistress
there and who erected the tablets as
grave markers. The master and mis-
tress of this slave, Professor Newbold
believes, were early Christians of the
so-called Gnostic sect which tried to
gain control of the Roman church.
Professor Newbold said the earliest
date on which the burial of Peter and
Paul by Orientals Is recorded is
around 258 A. D. and that the tradi-
tion has been accepted by the Roman
Catholic church. Latin inscriptions
Invoking the blessings of Peter and
Paul by the earlier Christians of the
Third and Fourth centuries have been
found frequently. None of them, how-
ever, attests to the presence of Orien-
tals.
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Secretary of Labor Is
Listed as a “Fruitarian”
Secretary of Labor Davis is listed
as a “fruitarian,” as he lunches on
apples, bananas and other fresh
“fruits, munching them on his way
back to his desk after a noontime
stroll. In this photograph the secre-
tary was caught in the act of buying
his lunch at a corner fruit wagon,
Call Moose, Deer Pests,
So Many in North Woods
8t. Paul, Minn.—Moose and deer
40 thick and se tame that they are
& nuisance to his reconnaissance
crew, were seen by A. B. Pimpley,
state chief of fire suppression, while
on a six weeks’ stay in the Canadian
border country of Minnesota.
“We saw scores of moose and signs
of many more,” said Mr. Pimpley. “If
anyone thinks the king of the forest
is fading In Minnesota, he should
visit this part of the big woods. The
deer were running in groups as high
as ten. Both moose and deer were
very tame.”
The expedition was conducted by
* the forestry ‘service to obtain data on
. statecowned timber,
Notes ‘were made on locations for
lake shore homesites and tourist
camps and the conditions were
studied from a fire hazard angle. "I'he
crew worked in the térritory about
“twenty-five ‘miles’ morth of Grand’
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