THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1935.
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KING COTTON GOES WEST
MOVING: BEYOND MISSISSIPPI "GREAT OPEN SPACES"
Montgomery, Ala. Mar, 24. King Cotton soon will abdicate Ja throne in Dixlo and move weat of the Mississippi, Mr. R. J. Goodom, Alabama Commissioner of Agriculture, has predicted:
JAPAN'S LESSON LEARNED
MEETING WESTERN
COMPETITORS
QUESTION OF
LIVING COST
Tokyo.
Serious students of affairs from the principal nations with interests In ten years at the most, he
in the Pacific area are to meet ⚫estimated, Western cotton staten here on April 18 to discuss what particularly Texas and Oldahoma, may be done about the low cost of will have, completely overthrown living in the Orient. It is no low cotton's traditional kingdom in the that at some future date it might deep South and will be the cotton lead to war unless drastic rend- growing centre of the world.
"Not that the south-east will de-justments are made here and cise. erease its production very much,"
he explained, "but the, Wit will
region is just opening
soon overshadow the East."
He pointed out that during the past seven years, the combined acreage of Texas and Oklahoma has Increased by 8,704,000 acres, which is more than the entire acreage planted in all three of the traditional cotton states-Alabama. Georgia and Mississippi.
where.
of a special regional conference of
It is to be the principle subject
the Institute of Pacific Relations. Delegates from the United States, Great Britain, Japan, China, New Zealand, the Philippine Islands and the Dutch East Netherlands are expected to attend.
The high cost of living also will the have a prominent pince on "The South cannot compete with agenda. That is the result of a the advantages of the West," he difference in viewpoints. A stand- said. "Its level prairies permit the ard of living which to a skilled une of huge four row plows and workman in an Occidental factory. would represent privation and cultivators, so that one man can tand 30 to 40 acres. In the south,rdship, is still far beyond the the land is too hilly for thrac im- plements. One min, working a single row, can only handle ten teres.
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BRITAIN HARD HIT
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The Prince of Wales is seen as he strolls on a sight-cñsing trip through the streets of Vienne dur. ing his European visit recently, Walking with him is Mra, Simpson, identified only as an American born woman with his party. At Right is the Prince's bodyguard and went wherever the Prince, want
even sightseing.
the Japanese by combatting the in-readily as the genuine article, but stallation of modern labour-saving the real market for this product
has always been among the foreig yement which would have given
run for theners and foreign-educat: natives their employers a money against new and extremely of the Far East, Consequently,
competition. In both cases eflleient
Whoever Osaka distillers will need to learn
parably lower than hia,
elsewhere; but when Osaka distil
era began flooding the Orient with roach of millions of trained crafts-a beverage which appeared, smell- men here and In other Far Eastern id and even tasted like Scotch countries. Now that Japanese tex- whiskey, the gravity of the situa- tile mills are robbing Lancashiretion was undeniable. "Again, the fresh prairie sod
of its market within the British the prices of the Japanese products may be at fault, many in English (tas importance of proper aging be. grows few weeds, eliminating the Empire and Japanese automobiles were so far below the British pro-cotton mill operative is now exist-fore their whiskey becomes a seri necessity of hoeing the cotton crop
are threatening to compete with during cost as to defy compititioning on the dole because of com-lous menace to foreign trade even during its growth, which is the those made in Detroit, this differ and the difference in quality, if petition from Japanese labourers in this part of the world. hardest, most expensive and time-ence in viewpoints becomes Impor-any, was not discernible by a large whose daily living costs are incom- consuming task the castern grower tant.
proportion of the buying public. bas during the season.”
The buying publie, with charac- He pointed out that the "mans:
The importance of the difference Loristic perversity, therefore bought production" methods of the West, although they put more nereage in has been brought to the attention Japan-made products to such an more extent that Lancashire began con- cultivation, were pratically offset of British manufacturers by the South'a intensive farming American producers in the past. mills more rapidly than they were emphatically than in the case of solidating and closing its cotton "By fertilising heavily, Alabama It was bad enough when Japanese opened during the boom. Some farmers produce an average of 200 cotton pirce goods flooded Empire British economists hold that the pounds of list per acre, compared markets in India, South Africa and British workmen co-operated with to 100 in the Weat he Bald. "Western states never will be able to intensify their production be cause they Inck sufficient rainfall to dissolve plant foods in the fer- tiliser and soak it into the soil."
methods.
Asked what would become of the tenant farmer and the negro col- ton picker in the event cotton pro- duction declines, Mr. Goudem sald he thought less emphasis on the cotton Industry would create the greatest industrial and agricultural boom in the history of the South.— United Pres
Girl Matador Of Spain
LEAVES NIGHT CLUB FOR BULL RING
CROWDS SAY SHE'S GOOD
Madrid. Soledad Miralles, beautiful night club entertainer, is planning to double in night clubs and balls. She is training to become a professional bullfighter and plans to make her first appearance with- In A few moutha possibly in Barcelona. Her bullfighting part- ner will be her niece, Marina Heredia, another beautiful night club performer who has a pen- chant to be a matador.
Soledad, who is a brunetto of rare charm, explained she has been an ardent bullfight fan over stace she was a child.
"I faced lots of calves in small Aghts on ranchos," she said, "but I didn't do it before a crowd until last year when I appeared at an uotors' benefit fight in the suburb of Tetuan. I don't know whether I performed well but I likod the idea of fighting for a big audience.
The crowd was kind to me and applauded me all afternoon. They said I was good. I don't know. Anyway, after the fight many per- sons told me I ought to take up bullfighting in earnest. I didn't bellove them but then three bull- fight promoters came to see me, two of them Frenchman, and offered me contracts. I told them I would think it over. And now I've decided to take up their offers. "I'll fight calves in the after- noon and sing in the clubs at night. I think it can be done."
Modest but confident of hor abilities, the brown-eyed Spanish *benuty said she would confine her bullfighting to cities outside of Madrid.
"I don't any I'm a world-beater but I intend to come to Madrid some day when I feel I've become good enough to face the most in- telligent bullfight crowd in the world."
Her bullighting outfit will con- elst of trousers, short Sevillian jacket, high-heeled Spanish leather boots and a wide-brimmed Cordo ban hat.United Press.
What alarms the Scottish dis- tillers, the German manufacturers Usora of whiskey apparently are of electrical equipment, the French more loyal to the product to which blenders of perfumes, and the they have been accustomed through automobile manufacturers of the the years. No reports of distillery world is the rapidity with which
The Japanese public, with, the ax duet and selling it below the prices bankruptcien or consolidations have the Japanese are karning the vital reached the Far East from Britain, necessity of making an honest pro- compellors-United ception of a few who were educated quoted by abroad, aceipt Osaka "Sentch" ns Press.
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