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HELP SOME YOUNG LADY IN YOUR TOWNSHIP TO WIN ONE OF THE VALUABLE PRIZES -SHE WILL BE GLAD AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY. The Monroe Journ. PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. VOL 20. No. 65. MONROE, N. C TUESDAY, OCTOBER, 13, 1914. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. ONE, TWO, THREE, AND GO! THE BIG CONTEST WILL START OFF WITH A BOOM. The Nominations Have Come In Like a Flood, But More to Come Yet In Every District Popular Young Ladies Have Been Nominated (or Honors In The Journal's Great An nual Subscription Contest All Persons Who Have Friends to Nominate Should Do So At Once and Get Them Started Beside That, the Nomination Period Will Soon be Closed. The manager of The Journal's Great Annual Subscription Contest Is proud beyond words of the great list of nominations that have been made at the offset of the contest. This can mean but one thing, and one thing only that we are going to have the most interesting contest that could be imagined. The more nominations the better, for the greater the number the more the work will be divided and the less each contestant will have to do. Nothing like this number of nomi nations have ever before been made in a similar contest here. More will yet be made. But this should be done at once, as the nomination period will soon close. Those who begin early and do faithful work will not be crowded out at the last by new en tries, because it is our policy not to permit this. After a reasonable time no more contestants will be allowed to enter. Watrh the Standing. All contestants start off even but next Tuesday when the figures will be again printed there will be lots of changes. It will be Interesting to the readers of the paper to watch the column of figures. It Is interesting indeed to watch these figures which tell of the work that each Is doing Each contestant will not only have great Interest In the work, but each one will receive pay for what she does. Lots of work will be done this week. Many of the contestants are eager to begin and try their hand at getting subscriptions for the popular and valuable two-times-a-week Jour nal. Voluntary subscriptions have been coming to the paper lately more large ly than ever before. 1 his shows that it will be no hard task for contest ants to get subscriptions and renew als In the hard times. Hundreds and hundreds of people are ready to take the paper and will do so readily when asked by our energetic and popular contestants. Readers who send In their subserlp lions may say whom they wish their Totes cast for. While there will be no betting on the contest, those who wish to do so may help any favorite to win. In fact, it makes the con test more Interesting to select any fa vorite and help her standing to In crease In size each week. It is often the case that one young lady has three or four friends standing square ly behind her and pushing her cause Everybody likes a friendly race and all have favorites whom they wish to see win. All the contestants now have receipt books and no doubt in a few days some of them will call on you for renewals or a subscription Be sure to give her a boost and help her along. Contestants are asked to notify the contest manager if their names hap pen to have been placed In the wrong townships. Very often the friend making the nomination failed to give the township and thus we were fore ed to make a guess. Let the contest manager know at once, If any name has been wrongly placed. Remember there are three big gen ct.1 prizes which will be awarded without regard to districts, and the twelve district prizes must be confln ed to the districts. Please do not fall to address all communications to "Contest Man ager," The Journal, Monroe, N. C. Now the readers of The Journal are invited to cast their eyes over this splendid list of nominations of young ladies. We are proud of It, and we know that you will be: MOXUOK. Miss Blanche Howie 5,000 Mrs. W. B. McManus 5,000 Miss Sarah McNeely 6,000 Miss Estelle Monroe 5,000 Miss Annie Lee Hinkle 5.000 Miss Martha Lockhart 5,000 Miss Eugenia Williams 5.000 Miss Gladys Bigger 5.000 Miss Lula Chaney 6.000 Miss Myrtle Sanders 5.000 Miss Ruth McCorkle 5,000 Miss Lida Baslnger 5.000 Miss Ollie Alexander 5,000 Miss Bertha Smith 5,000 Miss Myrtle Price 5,000 Miss Daisy Thomas (N.Monroe) 5,000 MONROE TOWNSHIP. Mist Lizzie McLarty 5,000 Miss Helen Williams 5,000 Miss Lona Polk 5.000 Miss Lillian Blakeney 5,000 Miss Jennie Richardson 5,000 Miss Bertha Hlnson 5,000 Miss Bright Richardson 5,000 Miss Mamie Helms 6,000 Miss Mildred Broom 5,000 Miss Edna Helms 5,000 Miss Ethel Mangum 5,000 Miss Clara Ashcraft 5,000 Miss Johnnie Broom 5,000 . Miss Bright Secrest 5,000 Miss Venie Cook 5.000 WINOATE. Miss May Bogan 5,000 Miss Mattle Jone 5,000 Mtsa Bessie Caddy 6.000 Miss Ella Whitmire 5,000 WEST MONROE. Misa Delia Iceman 5,000 Mlsa Nellie Earnhart 6.000 Miss Glennle Helms 5.000 SANDY RIDGE TOWNSHIP. Visa Marguerite Hudson 6.000 Misa Lucy Price 5.000 Mlsa Emma Morris 5,000 Miss May Garmon 5,000 Miss Flossie Moore ....5,000 Miss Kate Simpson 5,000 Misa Eunice Shannon 5,000 Mlsa Kate Thompson 5.000 Miss May Belk 5,000 MINERAL SPRINGS. Mlsa Ora Lee Porter S.000 Miss Edna Winchester 5,000 JACKSON TOWNSHIP. Miss Pauline Crane 5,000 Miss Olive Krauss 5,000 Miss Carrie Godfrey 5.000 Miss Lessie Helms 6,000 Miss Addie Tyson 5,000 Miss Bessie Weir 5,000 Miss Myrtle Blythe 5,000 Miss Maggie Simms 5,000 Miss Myrtle Helms 5.000 Miss Vera Belk 5,000 Miss Carrie Simpson 5,000 WAXHAW. Miss Zaila McCain 5.000 Miss Georgia Broom 5,000 Miss Mamie Gamble .5,000 Miss Elise Davi 5.000 Miss Lucile Niven 5,000 LANCASTER COUNTY. Miss Nettie Hallman 5.000 Miss Elise McCain 5.000 Miss Sallie Neal 5,000 Miss Beulah Thompson 5,000 Miss Bessie Flynn 5,000 Miss Odessa Plyler 5,000 Miss Myrtle Thompson 5,000 Miss Annie Sapp 5,000 Miss Ella Rowell 5,000 Miss Carrie Funderburk 5.000 Miss Estelle Gordon 5,000 MIrs Marguerite Sapp 5,000 Miss Lula Tlyler 5.000 Miss Maud Funderburk 5.000 Miss Ethel Taylor 5,000 CHESTERFIELD COUNTY. Miss Hessle Arant 5,000 Miss Blanche Pressley 5,000 Miss Maud Sanders 5.000 Miss Dora Terry 5.000 Miss Ollie Stegall 5,000 Miss Gertrude Jenkins 5,000 Miss Geneva Funderburk ....5.000 Miss Myrtle Wallace 5.000 Miss Hessie McRae ; 5,000 PAG ELAND Miss Nell Cato 5.000 Miss Marie Brewer 5,000 Misa Jessie Quick 5,000 CHESTERFIELD, Miss Bertha West 5,000 RUBY. Miss Ethel Oliver 5.000 MT. CROGHAN, Mrs. Lucy Huntley ,...5,000 JEFFERSON Miss Ruth Miller 5.000 Miss Maggie Miller 5,000 MAHSHYILLE TOWNSHIP, Miss Mayme Griffin 5,000 Miss Jessie Strawn 5,000 Miss Blake Braswell 5,000 Miss Maybelle Jones 5,000 Miss Ada Curlee 5,000 Miss Odessa Hamilton 5,000 Miss Myrtle Sinclair 5,000 Miss Blake Ashcraft 5,000 Miss Pearl Edwards 5,000 Miss Foy Pierce 5,000 Miss Ethel Webb .-, 5,000 Miss Annie Perry 5,000 Miss Bessie Mclntyre 5,000 MARSHVILLE Miss Llna Covington ........ 5,000 Miss May Burns 5,000 Miss Bernlce Phifer 5,000 Miss Euna Bailey 5,000 GOOSE CREEK TOWNSHIP. Miss Addie Baucom 5,000 Miss Llllle Hlnson 5,000 Miss Lela Little 5.000 Miss Maud Griffin 5,000 Miss Letha Austin 5,000 Miss Beatrice Watson 5,000 Miss Nannie Deese 5,000 Miss Carrie Clontz 5,000 Miss Minnie Hlnson 5,000 Miss Delia Helms 5,000 Miss Addie Diggers 5,000 Miss Winnie Braswell 5,000 Miss Carrie Braswell 5,000 Miss Annie Jame 5,000 Miss Ola Baucom 5,000 Miss Mattle Hargett 5,000 Miss Ola Medlln 5,000 Miss Wilman Duncan 5,000 Miss Lela Helms 5,000 Miss Ella Helms 5,000 UNIONVILLE. Miss Miranda Price 5,000 Miss Sarah Soger 5,000 Miss Wllma Hargett 6,000 Miss Lola Price 5,000 Miss Ruth Secrest 5,000 Miss Amy Helms 5,000 NEW SALEM TOWNSHIP, Miss Pearl Braswell 6,000 Miss Nola Smith 5,000 Miss Eunice Simpson 5,000 Miss Odell Brooks 5,000 Miss Rosalind Gaddy 5,000 Miss Dora Thomas 5,000 Miss Alma Hargett 5,000 Miss Mitie Simpson 5.000 Miss Ola Staten 5.000 Miss Ada Austin 5,000 Miss Dora Parker 5,000 Miss Ella Smith 5.000 Miss Ollie Davis .....5,000 Miss Erne Edwards 5,000 Miss Ettie Simpson 5,000 III FORD TOW NSHIP. Miss Era Belk 5,000 Miss Gladys Laney 5,000 Miss Galther Coan 5,000 Miss Lillian Mlcal 5,000 Miss Arlie Flncher 5,000 Miss Mary Starnea 6,000 Miss Wllma Tlyler 5,000 Miss Ida Broom 5,000 Miss Thelma Little 6,000 Miss Kate Funderburk 5,000 Miss Lessie Plyler 5.000 Miss Nancy Lathan 5.000 Miss Ruth Rogers 5.000 Miss Cornelia Laney 5,000 Miss Annie Eubanks 5,000 Misa Annie Lee Lowery 5,000 Miss Eula Cox 5.000 Miss Pearl Pate 5,000 Miss Edith Plyler 5,000 Miss Mayme Belk 5,000 Miss Olga Williams 5,000 Mlsa May Hlnson 5,000 LANES CREEK TOWNSHIP. Miss Kate Morgan 5,000 Miss Sarah Parker 5,000 Miss Alice Lee 5,000 Miss Rosa Rogers ....5,000 Miss Mary Lee 5,000 Miss Alma Davis 5.000 Miss Lizzie Simpson 5,000 Miss Ollie Belk 5,000 Miss Arlie Rollins 5,000 Miss Annie Smith 5,000 Miss Rosa Leonard 5,000 VANCE TOWNSHIP. Miss Tommie Hoover 5,000 Miss Myrtle Stallings 5.000 Miss Mabel Lewis 5.000 Miss Velma Porter 5,000 Mrs. Rilla Crowell 5,000 Miss Florence Helms . v ... .5,000 Miss Bessie Lemmond .'.....5,000 Mrs. Clarence Helms 5,000 Miss Ethel Foard 5,000 Miss Clara Stinson 5,000 Miss Pearl Stilwell 5,000 INDIAN TRAIL, Miss" Ruth Morris 5,000 Miss Annie Crowell 5,000 Miss Mary Bovd 5,000 Mrs. J. Y. Fitzgerald 5,000 STOUTS. Miss Maggie Haywood 5,000 Mrs. John Hargett 5,000 RULES. 1. To enter the contest, fill In the nomination coupon found in this is sue and mail to The Journal office The nomination coupon will be worth 5,000 votes. 2. No one connected with The Journal will be allowed to participate in this contest In any way. . 3. Subscriptions turned in by con textants will be accepted in exchange for voting certificates. Theso certill cates may be cast at any time the holder sees fit, provided that no con testant will be allowed to cast more than 10,000 more than the leader of the previous week. All certificates over and above this amount must be held in reserve. This rule will be suspended beginning with the last week of the contest and all certift cates may be cast whenever the hold er sees fit. The standing of contest ants will be published in the Tuesday edition of The Journal and the fig ures in this published score shall represent the official count. If an error occurs the attention of the man ager must be called to it before the next Tuesday. 4. Votes are not transferable. 5. Any contestant may have as many friends as she may wish to as sist her in securing rubscriptions Subscription books, etc., will be fur nlshed upon request. 6. Monday night at 8:30 marks the closing hour for the week. Your re port must be in the office by that time if you wish your standing to be changed in the issue of next day 7. Vote coupons will be published In The Journal of each Issue. Watch the paper and have your friends do the same and get as many of these coupons as you can. They may be exchanged for voting certificates any time you wish. S. All books and records of the contest will be open to the public 1m mediately after the close of the con test. Every contestant gets a square deal and we want her to know It MERIT not money WINS. 10. There will be three grand prizes and twelve district prizes. The grand prizes will go to the three young ladies having the highest score regardless of district. The nine townships In Union county, also Lan caster and Chesterfield counties In South Carolina, shall constitute a district each, except Monroe town ship shall constitute two districts the City of Monroe one and the bal ance of the township the other in which a grand prize for the highest vote in each district will be awarded. Provided that a winner of one of the grand prizes shall not be elllglble for the district prize. 11. If you send in a new subscrip tion or a renewal at the same time and In the same letter that you send in your nomination you will receive 5,000 extra votes (over and above the regular vote allowed) for each subscription or renewal which will be credited to your account at the same time your nomination is published, which will make your standing the first week 15,000 votes as all con testants start evenly with 6,000 votes. See scale of votes for value of subscriptions and renewals. 12. Anyone who was receiving The Journal regularly when the contest opened will be considered as an old subscriber. No subscription will be consldred as new when changed from one member of the family or house hold to another. 13. No subscriptions for less than a year wil be accepted. SCALE OF VOTES FOR NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS. A 1- year subscription 5,000 votes, A 2-year subscription 12,000 votes. A 3-year subscription 20,000 votes. A 4-year subscription 30,009 votes. A 6-year subscription 40,000 votes. FOR RENEWALS. A 1-year renewal .... 8,000 votes. A 2-year renewal .... 7,000 votes. A 3-year renewal .... 12,000 votes. A 4-year renewal .... 11,000 votes. A 6-year renewal .... 25,000 votes. CAPTURED ANTWERP SATURDAY HAVE THE TABLES TURNED? Took Eleven Days to Capture What Was Considered the Strongest Fortress in the World. Antwerp, the strong fortified city of Belgium, was captured Saturday by the Germans after the most ter rific bombardment lasting eleven days. From this point the Belgian army had been threatening the rear of the German commulcation and re quired large force to keep them in check. 'Thus, it was necessary for the Germans to wipe it out in order not to he interfered with in their larger operations in France. The fall of Antwerp is evidence that the even the most powerful forts are no natch for the collossal how itzers which the invaders have suc cessfully employed against every fortified place that stood in their way.. These huge guns open gaps through which the besiegers find en trance for their field artillery and in fantry.' The Germans, after shelling the city Itself for many hours, making it untenable, entered the town through the suburbs of Berchem, to the east. They hid made a breach in the outer line of ports, some of which were de stroyed: by their big guns and others blown up by the defenders. The Ger mans followed similar plans in deal ing with the inner belt of forts and at the same time threw shells into the city, which set afire many places. The inner forts, like those further out, soon succumbed to the enormous shells and on Friday morning several of these forts had fallen, opening the way for the Germans into the city. By midday they were In occupation of the town and at 2:30 p. m. the war banner on the cathedral was re placed by a white flag. MOST BELGIANS ESCAPE. A few forts continued to hold out and it was not until 11 o'clock Sat urday morning that the Germans, ac cording to their own official report, were in complete possession of the city and fortress. When they arrived yesterday they found that the Belgian field army and at least part of the garrison had anticipated them, and, like the King and royal family, had escaped. The death roll, resulting from the attack on and defense of Antwerp, has not been Compiled and probably the full details never will be known, but all accounts describe it as being terribly heavy. The Germans, nl though their big guns cleared a path for them, had to sacrifice many lives in closing the rivers and eanals and in driving out the defenders, who held the entrenchments until the last. MANY STORES BURNED. The stubbornness of the Belgians and those who went to their assist a nee cost them dearly, also, so that both sides will have long casualty lists. There is no reliable Informa tion as to the loss of life in the city and the damage there. Crowds of refugees arrived tonight In London Most of them left Antwerp Thursday night and their accounts of the at tacks are confused. The Belgians themselves, besides destroying forts, blew up steamers at the docks and set fire to the petrols stores and ev erything useful to the invaders, They also took what the transports could carry. Berehem, where the military and other hospitals, the orphanage and some public buildings are situated, is reported to be destroyed. Even if this is an exaggeration It must be badly damaged, as it was burning at least two days. The Antwerp railway Btation also made marks for the shells of the bis guns but, according to some of those who have reached here, the Ca thedral, which Is on the other side of the city nearer the Scheldt, while struck, was not badly damaged. The inmates of the hospital and other in stitutlons were removed Thursday or earlier, so that they were well out of the way before the Germans ar rived. In Antwerp everything is quiet af ter days of turmoil. The Germans, who arranged with the burgomaster for the surrender of the town, all the military authorities having left, have Issued a warning to the people that any disturbances or attacks on sol diers will be severely dealt with. So far as can be ascertained the damage done to Antwerp by the bombard ment was not so serious as at first reported. The Cathedral, art gallery, museum and other public buildings are in the northwestern part of the city along the Scheldt, where the shells did not fall. A Berlin report says the heav guns have been sent to France. 1 this is true, probably the Verdu forts along the French frontier.which arc hindering the German advance are to be attacked. In this case, how ever, there is a big field army behind the forts, for that while their destruc tion would make progress easier for the Germans, It would not absolutely ensure their advance. General von Beseler who directed the attack on Antwerp, and Prince August William, fourth son of th German Emperor, who was one of the first to enter the city, have been deeo rated by the Emperor. What the taking of the town cost the German Is not known, but It is reported from Holland that train loads of wounded are being conveyed to the hospital at the German base. AUSTRIAN'S NOW SEEM TO HAVE BEST OF RUSSIANS. Claim to be Defeating ThemThe Battle Lines in France Still Face Each Other with Little Advantage to Either Side Germany Appears to be in Best Circumstance!. The war news comes slower and slower, but withal it seems to be less favorable to England, France and Russia. The Russians, who have been claiming continued success in Aus tria, are being defeated. While the Germans, having cleaned up Bel glum, will doubtless push the French and English harder and harder along the huge battle line In France. Capt. A. C. Johnson has moved from his former residence on Church street to the house of the late Mr. Davis Arm field on the south end of the same street. that they should be ready to seek their cellars at the first sound of fir ing, as there will be no time to spread the news in any more formal way. Recruiting through Great Britain, particularly in London, has been in creasing, it is said, since the fall of Antwerp, the talk of the Germans ad vancing from there to Ostend having seemingly brought the war close home in the minds of the people. The whereabouts of the Belgian Queen is still a matter of conjecture and the same vagueness surrounds the King's reported wounds. RUSHING THE ST. LOUIS PLAN. London Dispatch, 25th. The finger of the censor having twisted the torniquet on all sources of news from Belgium, just now per haps the most potenially important scene of the fighting, the British peo ple were forced to content themselves today with the official communica tion from Paris and even a close analysis of this showed no marked change in the situation favoring ei ther side. From the east came tidings of a decided reversal in form, the dis patches both from Vienna and Petro- gad indicating that the Austrian army at Przemysl so often reported urrounded, hopelessly outclassed nd on the verge of surrender, had turned on the Russians with the aid of reinforcen.ents, and forced them to retreat. The first news of the claim came during the morning from the Austrl- n capital. It was followed later by hat purports to be a l'etrogad ad mission that the Russians had aban doned the Siege of Przemysl for strategical reasons with the object of rawing up a new line against the Austro-German army in other points n Galicla. NEWS IMPORTANT. Whatever may be the truth of the it nation the Russians have been claiming an unbroken series of vic- ories in their sweep through Galicla nd the coincidence of today's dls- patches, implemented as they wee more circumstantial accounts from Vienna and a vigorous Austro- German offensive, seemed to presage important news. The British and Belgian troops which retired from Antwerp before the Germnn occupation with the ex- eptlon of those now interned on Dutch soil, as a result of having had to cross the border, have been swal lowed up as completely as if they had been burled under the ruined forts. For military reasons their po sitlons and the area of hostilities in Belgium must remain obscure until the turn of events brings them sharp ly to the fore again as was the case when, after the fall of Antwerp, the British public learned for the first line that the British forces had as sisted the garrison. Optimistic as always the British press, besides contending that Ant werp is of no importance to Germany as a naval base, finds solace in the argument that the release of the Al ied troops there more than counter balances the troops which Germany will send from that point Into France. MOVING WEST. The official communication from Paris indicated that the left wing Is stretching farther west and north and will soon reach the coast, if the opposing sides continue throwing out cavalry in an endeavor to to out flank and break through. The Allies make no claim to vic tory in the afternoon statement which opens with the remark that these cavalry operations continue as far north and west as Hazebrouck, a point hardly more than a day's walk from Calais. When the Allies claimed yesterday they had driven the Germans from Aire, London learned for the first time that the Germans had made substantial progress west from Ar- mentieres which they reached las week. Presumably the Allies still hold the ground they claim to have regained but the Germans are throw ing more men westward and are put ting up a hard fight. The communi cation does not make plain which side holds the town nearest the coast Nowhere along the battle line do the Allies say they have made any progress except in the center, on the right bank of the Aisne below .Sols- sons. At two otner points, noiamy between Arras and the Oise and on the right in Vosges, it is said the Certnan attacks have been repulsed A paragraph In the official conimun Icatlon saying It Is understood th Germans are occupying only the su burbs of Antwerp, while the 24 forts along the Scheldt (Escaut) still are helding out, has been received London with considerable surprise and skepticism In view of the an nouncement of the British War Office that the city was occupied by Ger mans and Berlin official statement that he invaders took virtually com plcte possession of the city. LONDON PREPARES. Trobably stirred by the bomb dropping exploits of German aircra over Paris, London seems to be pre pared for such visitors and offlci notice has been served on persons living near the mouth of the Thames Syndicate Will Secure One Hundred nd Fifty Millions to l.end tit the Farmers and Merchant on Cotton to the Extent of SU Cents a Pound This Plan Is the One Approved by the Administration and It 1 Being Pushed By St. Louis. Merchants here are rereivelng let ters from business people of St. Louis pushing the plan for securing and lending money on cotton which has taken the name of the St. Louis plan. Mr. E. C. Carpenter hps received a letter from the Majestic Range people saying that they have subscribed one hundred thousand dollars and that the total subscriptions from St. Lou is people already amounts to two and a half millions. Mr. T. P. Dillon has received letters from the Simmons Hardware Company setting forth the same facts. The plan contemplates putting this money Into every section of the South through local banks at once, the whole thing to be complete by October 21st. An editorial in the St. Louis Depublic goes more fully In to the details of the plan, a report of hich was published in the last issue of The Journal. The editorial fol lows: On September 8 the Republic or ganized the Cotton Committee now nown as the Buy-a-Pale Committee of St. Louis. On Septemhf-r 9 it an nounced the formation of the commit tee on its first pate and made nn ap peal to the people of St. I.o'iis and the Southwest to g've It generous sup- ort. On September 25, after order for several thousand bales hi-d been received. Festus J. Viul nijfnre-l oforo it arid outlined a rl.Mi which lie committee approved for the raising of a loan fund of fl.'o.nM, 000 In order to advance money to cotton growers at the rate of 6 cents pound. A scheme of such magnitude was obviously wholly Impracticable with out the approval of the Federal Re serve Board. A committee of two therefore went on to Washington, Mr. Wade representing the bankers and George W, Simmons representing tho Cotton Committee. After full discus sion the members of the board not only approved the plan, but the Sec retary of the Treasury telegraphed a representative banker In each cot ton State asking him to go to St. Lou- Is to consult with Mr. Wade and the Cotton Committee on a plan for the relief of the cotton situation. In the meeting held here yesterday the plan was unanimously approved. This is not governmpntal aid to tho cotton growers; the Federal Reserve Board is not yet organised; the ac tion of the banks and jobbing houses subscribing to the fund will be whol ly voluntary. The banks will do nothing that lies in any degree out side of the usual limits of good bank ing. They will lend money, on ap proved recurity, in aid or current bus iness a thing every romr.tercial bank does every day of Its life. But the effect will be to make It possible for the grower of cotton, who now has hlswoduet left on his hands and cannot realize on it, to get t lie nec essary money to pay his hands fnf picking the crop, to pay the g!n ma i for ginning It, to pay hi rent, U' h. is farming another man's land, to piy for the mules he bought In the spring and to settle his acco'int at the ptoro. His credit will be restored: tl:. merchant will once more begin to se'l him goods; the merchant will remit to the jobber and the jobber to the manufacturer; the wheels of the fac tory will turn again. Railroad cars now running empty will run full; the revenue of the roads will show a gain where there is now a deficit there is no limit to the influence of a movement which will make it possi ble for the cotton grower to get cash. The effect of this will be to give cotton a standard price something which it now has not. The exchanges will reopen. The stiffening of the price will at once start the American mills to buying largely; they have been deterred thus far by doubt as to how low the staple might fall. This will doubtless stimulate demand from England and Japan; It may even lead to purchases by the German mills. St. Louis has made a good deal of financial and commercial history, at first and last. But this movement promises to be the most Important contribution. In an hour of need, ev er made by this community to the general welfare of the nation. The Republic is glad to have been instru mental In preparing for it. A practi cable way out of the darkness and doubt of the cotton situation is now revealed. The daily papers are now dividing up their big headlines between war and baseball. The news of the ball contest between the Bostonians and the Philadelphians for the world championship is sensational enough and Interesting enough to get right on first page in big letters like the war news. The Bostonians have won three games In suuceseloa.
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