COTTON FIELDS
OF SOUTH NEED
MORENEGROES
Big Inducements to Colored
Men to Return to Dixie—
Northern Darky Is Not
Wanted in South
MEMPHIS, Term., Aug. 19 (Corres
pondence of Associated Press).—
Plenty of farm and mill work, better
wages than ever before paid and im
proved living conditions await South
ern negroes who have gone to the
North and who now are said to be
clamoring to return to the South, ac
cording to employers here.
Southern farmers and plantation
owners want the southern negroes
back. If there were some method of
getting in touch with them it is de
clared the expense of their return to
Dixie would be willingly borne. This
will hold especially true for the next
few weeks, because there is need of
negroes who know how to take care
of the cotton crop.
But these employers say they do
not want northern-born and reared
negroes. They would prefer to bring
in foreign labor, they assert.
“We would not hesitate to pay the
expenses of a hundred or more ne
groes from Chicago or other northern
cities to our place if we can get
southern negroes, particularly ne
groes who have gone from Mississip
pi, Arkansas and Tennessee,” said
A. C. Lange, vice president and gen
eral manager of the Chicago Mill &
Lumber Company, which owns more
than 70,000 acres of timber and agri
cultural lands in Northeastern Arkan
sas, “I think it is safe to say that
every southern negro in the north
would be brought back without ex
pense to him if southern farmers and
plantation owners knew where and
how to get in touch with the south
ern-born. We don’t want and will
not have northern negroes.”
The question of how to get in touch
with negroes who have gone north
was. discussed at the Memphis meet
ing of the Southern Alluvial Land
Association several days ago, and the
subject will be a special order of
business at the next meeting. The
association is an organization of
f bankers, land owners, chambers of
commerce, planters and lumbermen
of the lower Mississippi valley formed
to serve, in a measure, the same pur
poses for the delta country as the
chamber of commerce serves the
town or city. At the last meeting it
was said that there was great need for
more labor in the lower Mississippi
valley and especially for negro labor
acquainted with southern agricul
tural methods and with cotton grow
ing handling.
SHOPPING IN ITALY
IS SERIOUS PROBLEM
TO HOUSEKEEPERS
ROME, July 28 (Correspondence of
Associated Press).—Seven hours of
each day of the Italian housekeeper
must be devoted to buying food. The
problem of the American housekeeper
pales into insignificance even with
their troublesome servants when com
pared to the Italian. Domestic ser
I vants’ strikes in Italy are chronic.
The recent upheaval in Italian
economics when the government or
dered prices of foodstuffs and cloth
i ing reduced 50 per cent has begun its
reaction, and the factor affected most
to market at 7 o’clock in the morning
and is forced to hurry from one store
to another. To obtain a piece of meat
usually takes two hours. To obtain
bread about an hour, eggs two hours,
vegetables one hour and a half, and
canned goods about an hour.
The housekeeper’s day starts by
placing herself at the back of a long
line of waiting customers. The line
sometimes extends for half a block
guarded by armed carabineers. When
the buyer is permitted to enter the
store she finds inside a scramble for
all sorts of commodities. Guards are
stationed there to prevent any mis
chief. If she obtains what she wants
she is lucky.
She treads over the streets whole
mornings searching for the things for
lunch and then, in the afternoon must
start on the hunt again for food. If
she is looking for butter she is usu
ally disappointed for there is little
to be had. She may obtain meat, but
is usually thankful to go away with
a can of American “bully-beef.”
It often happens that her family
must miss a meal but that is usually
overlooked. It is too evident on
every hand.
Housekeepers sometimes watch a
car of produce unloaded at the rail
road station and follow the motor
trucks to the store where the produce
will be sold. When a oarload of eggs
arrived the other day women clung
to the trucks carrying the eggs to
stores while others ran alongside. At
the stores the clerks stood in door
ways and handed out the eggs three
only to a customer. Some customers
reached over others’ heads with their
is the housekeeper. She must start
hats while others pushed aside the
weaker ones.
Servants take their rest days by
telling the housekeeper they are go
ing for a day or two. They come
back when it suits them. The days
of “those perfect Italian servants,”
as Americans used to call them, have
passed away and a housekeeper is
lucky to have a servant at all.
STATUS OF HYDROPLANE
RULED ON BY COLLECTOR
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 1 (by
Associated Press).—A hydroplane is
a boat, according to a ruling re
ceived recently by Collector of Cus
toms John B. Elliott, and as such
must carry port and starboard lights
and a whistle which must be blown
with the usual signals on landing and
starting.
Several hydroplanes are plying be
tween Los Angeles harbor and Ava
lon, Santa Catalina Island. Albert
Lee Thurman, solicitor for the Steam
ship Inspection Service, recently ad
vised Mr. Elliott that hydroplanes
come under the definition of “me
chanical contrivances” covered by
the rules and regulations of the ser
vice.
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