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NATIONAL COTTON WEEK May 16 th to 24th COTTON Si MAY 16-24 COTTON is the Coolest Thing COTTON is the Cleanest Thing The Uses of Cotton On the Increase -Some fourteen year- ago llir cotton manufacturing industry through the Cotton Textile Institute inaugurated NATIONAl. COT TON WKKK. Il wan designed to increase sale* of roiton good*. So flood waa llw idea that in MW) I In- National Cotton Council, representing the raw cotton industry, joined in promoting Ct IT TON WEEK. If NATIONAL COTTON WKKK ?a? a good idea fourteen years ago, il is a niltcli heller idea today. Il is the Nation's largest crop and millions of people are dependent upon the crop, in one nav or another, for a living. The use of cotton is gradually increasing. Various agencies ami departments arc working day and night to find new outlets for raw cotton. The development and marketing of cotton products is Iteing pushed, for il means meat and hread for millions of people in the cotton helt. The Importance of COTTON COTTON is llir Nalion's No. I crop iiml North (iiimliiin'ii m'iiiiiiI crop in im|>orliiCotton is one of Ili?- necessities of life ami il in tlie most versatile ami widely lined of all fabrics. This i> ula MAY lf>-2l lias lieeii designated a? NVNONAI. (lO'lTIIN ft KKK, NA TIONAL COTTON ft KKK affords you a elianee to demonstrate some praetieal patriotism . , . practical because it's your oppor tunity to replenish your supplies of eollou wearing apparel ami household neeessities at bargain prices . . . patriotic because il belps twelve million fellow-Americans in the cotton licit iiIoiik the road to a livelihood, if not prosperity. BOOS T COTTON, call for and buy cotton materials iluriiiK COT TON ft KKK, Your local merchants arc cihpliusiziiiK COTTON Vi KLK with special hnr|fnills made from cotton. Blonde Mitzi Strother, recently crowned "M1m Florida." greets Alice Erie Beasley, 1941 Maid of (Cotton, upon her arriVal in Miami, one of more than thirty major citiea Alice will visit during her air fashion tour of the United States. The Maid of Cotton, clad in cot ton from head to toe, in modeling her eapeciaMy designed cotton wardrobe in citiea from Miami to Salt Lake City. She in accompanied _ on her 15,000 mile tour by a Lui atyliat and a representative of the al* sponsoring cotton organlza tions. This Space Contributed by Business Firms of Williamson
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