What you are going to read here may cause you some discomfort, as it presents information about a wrong that has gone on so long, it has nearly taken on the appearance of being right. Millions of children are involved, and our entire American textile industry.
Almost 40 years ago there was a crisis in the United States for cotton farmers. Manmade fibers were making inroads into the textile business. The cotton farmers were provided relief by the Federal Government. They were allowed to take one dollar from every bale produced and put it into a pool.
What happened before this plan got off the ground is quite astounding. Americans from coast to coast became aware of the problems associated with the manmade fabrics. Keeping them clean, uncomfortable wear in cold and hot weather and the danger of fire as they melt into human flesh. So, without prompting, Americans stopped buying the manmade fibers, and within 2 years, cotton was once again taking a large market share of the fiber market.
A company named Cotton Incorporated was formed and took responsibility for the turnaround.
For 20 years the company concerned itself with advertising and quiet dealings with mall owners.
Then a change came. 20 years and over 1.2 billion dollars later, cotton prices are as low as ever. In fact, they are so low, that the Federal Government has to pay out price support payments to keep the farmers planting, even while they force a cap on contract prices.
Cotton Incorporated is a failure for the farmers and American consumers.
The farmers are planting more than ever, and more than half of the crop is exported. A Federal price support program, set up to benefit farmers and domestic mills is benefiting countries like communist China, which annually takes nearly a quarter and sometimes nearly half of our cotton crop at artificially low prices. They process the cotton into yarn, fabric and finished goods and dump them back into our economy at unrealistic prices. Recently there has been a 26 to 30 percent drop in average prices of goods originating from Asia. In a further bizarre twist, every time this happens, Cotton Incorporated and the National Cotton Council receive cash from an import duty imposed on the cotton goods coming back into the United States. They are in no hurry to reverse this trend. The result is a loss of 60,000 American jobs, just last year. The total number of jobs lost has been in the hundreds of thousands over just the past few years as this destructive economic engine con
tinues to tear at the fabric of our nation?s economy.
In spite of scientific evidence that cottonseed oil, cottonseed meal and cottonseed itself are more suitable for uses such as the manufacture of shoe polish, fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, dyes and explosives, the material is finding its way into more and more foods on grocery shelves in greater and greater quantities. Cottonseed contains a chemical called gossypol. This chemical causes sterility in animals - it doesn?t take much. Cotton Incorporated has been pushing roasted cottonseed as a feed additive for dairy farmers. The cottonseed needs to be roasted in order to assure that there is little aflatoxin left, as cottonseed meal is prone to contamination of this sort. Often, information is not provided to the farmer that strict guidelines must be followed in order to avoid sexual sterility in the animals fed, and to ensure that the milk is not altered so as to produce a butter that more closely resembles a plastic than a food. Losses have been recorded on a reg
ular basis.
Cottonseed oil is now showing up in school lunch programs. It has historically been used as a base for soaps, shoe polish, floor wax, insecticides and herbicides.
Cotton is the most heavily chemically treated crop in the United States. The cotton plant itself could reduce the amount of manmade herbicides, insecticides and fertilizers used in its culture if the chemicals present in cottonseed, hulls and stalks were put to better use. It has proven advantageous to the USDA to push the Federal Government into allowing more cottonseed oil into the marketplace because they monitor foods, not industrial products. Everyone in this little scheme profits at the expense of the cotton farmers and American taxpayers. Many scientists consider it dangerous to feed cottonseed oil to children because it contains complex fats, phenols and gossypol. In spite of this knowledge and the real danger it poses it is being fed to children in ever increasing frequency in a dizzying array of foods. Farmers, in the meantime, are cautioned not to feed it to pigs.
Pigs that eat cottonseed will die. Cattle become sterile. Chickens lay eggs with enlarged, green yolks. There is a town in China where no children were born for nearly a decade. The cause was traced to cottonseed oil that was widely used for cooking in the town. China is using gossypol as a male contraceptive, which is just another name in that country for male sterilization. Women are also effected by gossypol. Their menstrual cycle will become erratic or stop altogether.
The increased availability of the noxious cottonseed oil is beginning to impact the corn oil, soybean oil and canola oil markets.
Cotton Incorporated, for some time, has also been developing software to assist mills in mixing their cotton, accepting it, warehousing it, and exchanging market data with other companies, and in many cases assisting with sales. The software is called, EFS, the ?Engineered Fiber Selection System?, which is a cleverly disguised averaging program to determine which bales of cotton to use in a warehouse. It includes a random number generator in order to use up bales outside normal parameters.
This is clearly unfair competition to private software companies. They cannot compete with the price offered by this pseudo-government agency and lack the contacts to break the stranglehold. Cotton Incorporated leases the software, and so, avoids detection by not selling the product. The company leases the software to anyone that promises to use at least 50% of American cotton in their product. It is impossible to prove or disprove this assertion by a mill, especially a foreign mill unless the people at Cotton Incorporated have access to this vital market data, and even if they make one product which contains 50% American cotton, there is nothing to stop them from using it to make products that do not contain American fiber. If they have this information, and they clearly have the means and reason to get it, they would be able to predict market fluctuations. A general investigation of the financial situation and financial activities of all of the employees of Cotton Incorp
orated and the National Cotton Council, the Cotton Council International and the Cotton Board should be carried out immediately. They are barred from profiting from their information not only by the nature of their business but by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In practice, Cotton Incorporated apparently offers this software to anyone with money in hand and the right connections. They are also running an information exchange program ? the CI~EDI system which sends and receives confidential shipment information from mill to shipper and back again. There is a serious question as to the involvement of the company at this level of cotton transactions. They are supposed to be a marketing company ? not a cotton market ? but that is apparently exactly what they are doing. They are not assisting in trade, they are carrying it out to the disadvantage of private firms.
The practice results in foreign textile firms with an advantage over American firms. Some are located in the jungles of the Phillipines, in Ireland, Bogota, Columbia (cocaine capital of the world), Mexico, and several European countries. They are being given free access to a portion of the American market that they should not have so readily and so easily without working for it. Foreign textile firms are able to produce fabric that mimics fabrics produced in the United States because they are using technology developed in the United States. American textile firms are further assaulted. A textile mill in the jungles of the Phillipines does not have the overhead of even the worst paying American mill. They have no health benefits to attend to, no pollution controls to worry about. There is only the matter of shipping the material to the United States, which again, is assisted in a big way by Cotton Incorporated, the National Cotton Council, the Cotton Council Internationa
l and the Cotton Board.
That is correct, no less than 4 entities with uncomfortably close government connections exist that are actively providing unfair access to American textile know-how. They freely provide contact information to foreign mills, importers, exporters and shippers. Each year foreign countries violate the import quotas of the United States. Each year a flood of illegal drugs is pouring into this nation and destroying the fiber of our nation. The next time you go to a department store, take a look at the labels, and even if they have the cotton logo on them you will notice that a vast majority of the materials for sale are NOT made in the USA. The main export of the United States these days appears to be paper money. For every dollar coming in, if fifty go out, that is not advantageous to the United States. The economy is bleeding at a rate that cannot be sustained.
Cotton Incorporated also maintains an unhealthy relationship with mall owners across the nation. Just a few years ago the American Textile Association invented a device that allows consumers to be measured by light, and then order custom clothing whenever they choose, either through the internet, from catalog or over the phone. The clothes would always fit perfectly and would be made custom at a cheaper price than is now available in stores ? because rents would be a lot lower for stores that only need house the light machines. Shipping would be direct from the textile mills ? which now would effectively be tailors. This technology threatens Cotton Incorporated and the ?work? it does in making fabric suggestions to the mills and the marketing favors they perform on a daily basis for mall owners around the nation. The resurgence of the American Main Street is being held hostage by companies associating with Cotton Incorporated. Small business is suffering.
Our enemies are waiting for the day when we don?t produce even our own underwear in this nation. When we depend solely upon them for our clothing and textile needs. Just recently it was revealed that the communist Chinese, the same people that scurried over here to buy the wreckage of the World Trade Center and who are in business with our enemies, like Iraq and Libya, had the contract to manufacture the berets for the United States Army.
In Texas, the cotton farmers earn more money some years from drought or flooding than they do from bringing in a successful crop because of the liberal farm crop insurance system in the State of Texas.
Even the President of the United States has declared that better opportunities have to be found for American textile exports ? that is going to be hard to do if no one is making any American textiles to export.
It is time for Cotton Incorporated to be set out to pasture, along with the Cotton Board and the Cotton Council International and the National Cotton Council. The money that each farmer makes belongs to each farmer. The money is not supposed to be taken from them anymore ? the Supreme Court has declared it unconstitutional. In spite of this and in defiance of the Supreme Court and the Constitution of the United States of America, these people, who are little more than agents of foreign nations are going to try and take the money again.
A few years ago, a group of cotton producers won a court case and forced Cotton Incorporated to be audited. The resulting audit was sealed when it was completed. So ? the producers got the audit they wanted ? but they were never allowed to see the result.
The CEO of Cotton Incorporated, Berrye Worsham, like Spencer Abraham of the Department of Energy, had little scientific knowledge of the group to which he was appointed leadership. His background was initially announced as that of a Certified Public Accountant at Case International, a maker of agricultural equipment, but is now touted on the Cotton Incorporated web site as having been a marketing leader at that same company. The only thing that is certain is that Case International now markets heavily to the cotton producers in the United States, even though many people recognize the inferiority of their machines to those manufactured by the John Deere Company. The point being, that, as director of Cotton Incorporated, Berrye Worsham has access to the personal information of the cotton producers, such as name, address, and is even close to production and earnings information ? all he has to do is reach out to get it. This should not be allowed and the company has become al
l too enmeshed in a portion of the economy that they were never intended to enter.
Almost half a century ago, a man by the name of Sasser invented a little spring that enabled a device known as a strength tester to be operated thousands of times within a very tiny window of tolerance. This device has been used by mills around the world and by the USDA to test and classify cotton strength. It is a funny little device, invented by a company headquartered in Texas, but which has transferred the technology to a foreign company. It is a funny little device, because after studying it, one comes to the conclusion that it is little more than a toy. First of all, the device destroys the sample it is testing. Second of all, cotton is and has been produced within a narrow frame of standards for nearly two hundred years. It is amazing to see how closely cotton of today resembles cotton of fifty years ago. In any case, Dr. Sasser had been in line to succeed Mr. Hahn, however, was passed over by the younger, lesser known Berrye Worsham. Dr. Sasser claims vociferou
sly that he is of no relation to Mr. Sasser ? ex-ambassador to China, an office that has also been held by ex-President Bush.
Political power was brought to bear in California a few years ago, when a woman by the name of Sally Fox was popularizing colored cotton. Cotton, being made of cellulose makes fibers in many different colors, red, green, violet, brown, orange, yellow ? and gossypol actually forms a brilliant blue pigment, discovered in the 1930?s that has never been pursued commercially. The reason that political muscle was brought to bear is that the cotton farmers in the San Joaquin Valley did not want to have their cotton cross pollinated with the colored cotton. You see ? colored cotton is not covered under current government payment programs. So ? as an indirect result of government interference an agricultural advance that should push America forward has been forced to hide in a remote valley in the SouthWest. Colored cotton was spun at Cotton Incorporated headquarters in North Carolina and the fabric was fine and produced excellent color. However ? as they were using Japanese and
German spinning frames that could not handle the fiber they declared the fiber unfit for mass production. This fiber has been successfully spun and woven in other locations. The report Cotton Incorporated provided should be revisited.
A cold weather strain was unexpectedly discovered while an experiment was being conducted on early fruiting cotton plants. The plants will grow as far north as North Dakota and provide good fiber. This information has likewise been suppressed.
Cotton Incorporated reported another stilted view of another ?study? they conducted. A mixture of cotton and American Hemp was run that produced a cloth superior in every way to 100% cotton and cotton/manmade fiber blends. It is stronger, moisture resistant, color fast and just plain beautiful to look at. Cotton Incorporated once again reported it was not fit to manufacture because their Japanese and German machines had difficulty with it.
The textile industry itself cannot avoid responsibility. For example, anyone with an Excel Spreadsheet program or an Access program and a little textile know-how can create a process superior to the Engineered Fiber Selection System, and yet, incredibly, the textile executives don?t realize they have the power to defeat these people ? it lies within their American employees. They must demand these raw materials in order to get them, and they must stop moving their manufacturing equipment out of the United States into Mexico and other Latin American countries in a frantic pursuit of cheaper labor. It only proves to be more expensive because they are less educated and less willing to work. Americans now see the cheating form of government that has been at work in Texas and people outside the United States now know why American companies want to employ them, and they don?t appreciate it. No one wants to work at jobs that are here today and gone tomorrow, and pay only enough
to get you a tin house. Would you want that?
By merely rejecting Cotton Incorporated?s interference, which now should be clear, American capital can finally be brought to bear against backward thinking politicians who call themselves American but act on the behalf of foreign interests. Like those in Alabama, who continue to fight against American Hemp because it suits their interests while opening the door to Japanese car companies to assault our manufacturing industries.
American ingenuity and know-how can create the devices necessary to work with the fibers discussed here. They can no longer be shackled by ignorant lawmakers and pseudo-governmental agencies that are more concerned with their retirement funds and cocktails rather than the security and economic well being of the United States of America.
I don?t want to live in a Mexican colony or in a Chinese protectorate.
Do you?
The false politicians are decrying governmental interference. They constantly whine and complain about the dangers of big government and all the while they are growing things like Cotton Incorporated and the National Cotton Council, and the two other parasitic appendages to the cotton plant, the Cotton Council International and the Cotton Board.
Let us see if Cotton Incorporated can exist on its own for five years without government support. I suggest five years, because, most likely the first year they will support themselves from either the missing money or through contacts at the National Cotton Council and shippers like Dunavant Enterprises ? until it is apparent to these entities that Cotton Incorporated just isn?t worth it.
Let the textile industry take care of itself. Stop these people from giving away our secrets to our enemies and stop the tyranny. Cotton Incorporated is NOT a non-profit organization, each year it and the other bodies mentioned above operate with a considerable surplus which is never refunded to the farmers, but, rather, invested without consulting the farmers. It is common sense that if you take something from someone for one purpose and use it for something other than that which you promised, and profit from it, that it is theft.
The proceeds never return to the farmers. Every once in a while a bunch of them are flown to North Carolina, paraded around the brand new, unnecessary Cotton Incorporated ?headquarters?, where they get to see a few pieces of spinning and weaving machinery. They are then whisked back to the airport and on back home.
Investigate their finances to bring out the particulars.
By the many years it has existed and drained down support unfairly from cotton farmers and cotton importers ? Cotton Incorporated is playing the role of a government agency. The fraud must be brought to an end immediately.
Almost 40 years ago there was a crisis in the United States for cotton farmers. Manmade fibers were making inroads into the textile business. The cotton farmers were provided relief by the Federal Government. They were allowed to take one dollar from every bale produced and put it into a pool.
What happened before this plan got off the ground is quite astounding. Americans from coast to coast became aware of the problems associated with the manmade fabrics. Keeping them clean, uncomfortable wear in cold and hot weather and the danger of fire as they melt into human flesh. So, without prompting, Americans stopped buying the manmade fibers, and within 2 years, cotton was once again taking a large market share of the fiber market.
A company named Cotton Incorporated was formed and took responsibility for the turnaround.
For 20 years the company concerned itself with advertising and quiet dealings with mall owners.
Then a change came. 20 years and over 1.2 billion dollars later, cotton prices are as low as ever. In fact, they are so low, that the Federal Government has to pay out price support payments to keep the farmers planting, even while they force a cap on contract prices.
Cotton Incorporated is a failure for the farmers and American consumers.
The farmers are planting more than ever, and more than half of the crop is exported. A Federal price support program, set up to benefit farmers and domestic mills is benefiting countries like communist China, which annually takes nearly a quarter and sometimes nearly half of our cotton crop at artificially low prices. They process the cotton into yarn, fabric and finished goods and dump them back into our economy at unrealistic prices. Recently there has been a 26 to 30 percent drop in average prices of goods originating from Asia. In a further bizarre twist, every time this happens, Cotton Incorporated and the National Cotton Council receive cash from an import duty imposed on the cotton goods coming back into the United States. They are in no hurry to reverse this trend. The result is a loss of 60,000 American jobs, just last year. The total number of jobs lost has been in the hundreds of thousands over just the past few years as this destructive economic engine con
tinues to tear at the fabric of our nation?s economy.
In spite of scientific evidence that cottonseed oil, cottonseed meal and cottonseed itself are more suitable for uses such as the manufacture of shoe polish, fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, dyes and explosives, the material is finding its way into more and more foods on grocery shelves in greater and greater quantities. Cottonseed contains a chemical called gossypol. This chemical causes sterility in animals - it doesn?t take much. Cotton Incorporated has been pushing roasted cottonseed as a feed additive for dairy farmers. The cottonseed needs to be roasted in order to assure that there is little aflatoxin left, as cottonseed meal is prone to contamination of this sort. Often, information is not provided to the farmer that strict guidelines must be followed in order to avoid sexual sterility in the animals fed, and to ensure that the milk is not altered so as to produce a butter that more closely resembles a plastic than a food. Losses have been recorded on a reg
ular basis.
Cottonseed oil is now showing up in school lunch programs. It has historically been used as a base for soaps, shoe polish, floor wax, insecticides and herbicides.
Cotton is the most heavily chemically treated crop in the United States. The cotton plant itself could reduce the amount of manmade herbicides, insecticides and fertilizers used in its culture if the chemicals present in cottonseed, hulls and stalks were put to better use. It has proven advantageous to the USDA to push the Federal Government into allowing more cottonseed oil into the marketplace because they monitor foods, not industrial products. Everyone in this little scheme profits at the expense of the cotton farmers and American taxpayers. Many scientists consider it dangerous to feed cottonseed oil to children because it contains complex fats, phenols and gossypol. In spite of this knowledge and the real danger it poses it is being fed to children in ever increasing frequency in a dizzying array of foods. Farmers, in the meantime, are cautioned not to feed it to pigs.
Pigs that eat cottonseed will die. Cattle become sterile. Chickens lay eggs with enlarged, green yolks. There is a town in China where no children were born for nearly a decade. The cause was traced to cottonseed oil that was widely used for cooking in the town. China is using gossypol as a male contraceptive, which is just another name in that country for male sterilization. Women are also effected by gossypol. Their menstrual cycle will become erratic or stop altogether.
The increased availability of the noxious cottonseed oil is beginning to impact the corn oil, soybean oil and canola oil markets.
Cotton Incorporated, for some time, has also been developing software to assist mills in mixing their cotton, accepting it, warehousing it, and exchanging market data with other companies, and in many cases assisting with sales. The software is called, EFS, the ?Engineered Fiber Selection System?, which is a cleverly disguised averaging program to determine which bales of cotton to use in a warehouse. It includes a random number generator in order to use up bales outside normal parameters.
This is clearly unfair competition to private software companies. They cannot compete with the price offered by this pseudo-government agency and lack the contacts to break the stranglehold. Cotton Incorporated leases the software, and so, avoids detection by not selling the product. The company leases the software to anyone that promises to use at least 50% of American cotton in their product. It is impossible to prove or disprove this assertion by a mill, especially a foreign mill unless the people at Cotton Incorporated have access to this vital market data, and even if they make one product which contains 50% American cotton, there is nothing to stop them from using it to make products that do not contain American fiber. If they have this information, and they clearly have the means and reason to get it, they would be able to predict market fluctuations. A general investigation of the financial situation and financial activities of all of the employees of Cotton Incorp
orated and the National Cotton Council, the Cotton Council International and the Cotton Board should be carried out immediately. They are barred from profiting from their information not only by the nature of their business but by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In practice, Cotton Incorporated apparently offers this software to anyone with money in hand and the right connections. They are also running an information exchange program ? the CI~EDI system which sends and receives confidential shipment information from mill to shipper and back again. There is a serious question as to the involvement of the company at this level of cotton transactions. They are supposed to be a marketing company ? not a cotton market ? but that is apparently exactly what they are doing. They are not assisting in trade, they are carrying it out to the disadvantage of private firms.
The practice results in foreign textile firms with an advantage over American firms. Some are located in the jungles of the Phillipines, in Ireland, Bogota, Columbia (cocaine capital of the world), Mexico, and several European countries. They are being given free access to a portion of the American market that they should not have so readily and so easily without working for it. Foreign textile firms are able to produce fabric that mimics fabrics produced in the United States because they are using technology developed in the United States. American textile firms are further assaulted. A textile mill in the jungles of the Phillipines does not have the overhead of even the worst paying American mill. They have no health benefits to attend to, no pollution controls to worry about. There is only the matter of shipping the material to the United States, which again, is assisted in a big way by Cotton Incorporated, the National Cotton Council, the Cotton Council Internationa
l and the Cotton Board.
That is correct, no less than 4 entities with uncomfortably close government connections exist that are actively providing unfair access to American textile know-how. They freely provide contact information to foreign mills, importers, exporters and shippers. Each year foreign countries violate the import quotas of the United States. Each year a flood of illegal drugs is pouring into this nation and destroying the fiber of our nation. The next time you go to a department store, take a look at the labels, and even if they have the cotton logo on them you will notice that a vast majority of the materials for sale are NOT made in the USA. The main export of the United States these days appears to be paper money. For every dollar coming in, if fifty go out, that is not advantageous to the United States. The economy is bleeding at a rate that cannot be sustained.
Cotton Incorporated also maintains an unhealthy relationship with mall owners across the nation. Just a few years ago the American Textile Association invented a device that allows consumers to be measured by light, and then order custom clothing whenever they choose, either through the internet, from catalog or over the phone. The clothes would always fit perfectly and would be made custom at a cheaper price than is now available in stores ? because rents would be a lot lower for stores that only need house the light machines. Shipping would be direct from the textile mills ? which now would effectively be tailors. This technology threatens Cotton Incorporated and the ?work? it does in making fabric suggestions to the mills and the marketing favors they perform on a daily basis for mall owners around the nation. The resurgence of the American Main Street is being held hostage by companies associating with Cotton Incorporated. Small business is suffering.
Our enemies are waiting for the day when we don?t produce even our own underwear in this nation. When we depend solely upon them for our clothing and textile needs. Just recently it was revealed that the communist Chinese, the same people that scurried over here to buy the wreckage of the World Trade Center and who are in business with our enemies, like Iraq and Libya, had the contract to manufacture the berets for the United States Army.
In Texas, the cotton farmers earn more money some years from drought or flooding than they do from bringing in a successful crop because of the liberal farm crop insurance system in the State of Texas.
Even the President of the United States has declared that better opportunities have to be found for American textile exports ? that is going to be hard to do if no one is making any American textiles to export.
It is time for Cotton Incorporated to be set out to pasture, along with the Cotton Board and the Cotton Council International and the National Cotton Council. The money that each farmer makes belongs to each farmer. The money is not supposed to be taken from them anymore ? the Supreme Court has declared it unconstitutional. In spite of this and in defiance of the Supreme Court and the Constitution of the United States of America, these people, who are little more than agents of foreign nations are going to try and take the money again.
A few years ago, a group of cotton producers won a court case and forced Cotton Incorporated to be audited. The resulting audit was sealed when it was completed. So ? the producers got the audit they wanted ? but they were never allowed to see the result.
The CEO of Cotton Incorporated, Berrye Worsham, like Spencer Abraham of the Department of Energy, had little scientific knowledge of the group to which he was appointed leadership. His background was initially announced as that of a Certified Public Accountant at Case International, a maker of agricultural equipment, but is now touted on the Cotton Incorporated web site as having been a marketing leader at that same company. The only thing that is certain is that Case International now markets heavily to the cotton producers in the United States, even though many people recognize the inferiority of their machines to those manufactured by the John Deere Company. The point being, that, as director of Cotton Incorporated, Berrye Worsham has access to the personal information of the cotton producers, such as name, address, and is even close to production and earnings information ? all he has to do is reach out to get it. This should not be allowed and the company has become al
l too enmeshed in a portion of the economy that they were never intended to enter.
Almost half a century ago, a man by the name of Sasser invented a little spring that enabled a device known as a strength tester to be operated thousands of times within a very tiny window of tolerance. This device has been used by mills around the world and by the USDA to test and classify cotton strength. It is a funny little device, invented by a company headquartered in Texas, but which has transferred the technology to a foreign company. It is a funny little device, because after studying it, one comes to the conclusion that it is little more than a toy. First of all, the device destroys the sample it is testing. Second of all, cotton is and has been produced within a narrow frame of standards for nearly two hundred years. It is amazing to see how closely cotton of today resembles cotton of fifty years ago. In any case, Dr. Sasser had been in line to succeed Mr. Hahn, however, was passed over by the younger, lesser known Berrye Worsham. Dr. Sasser claims vociferou
sly that he is of no relation to Mr. Sasser ? ex-ambassador to China, an office that has also been held by ex-President Bush.
Political power was brought to bear in California a few years ago, when a woman by the name of Sally Fox was popularizing colored cotton. Cotton, being made of cellulose makes fibers in many different colors, red, green, violet, brown, orange, yellow ? and gossypol actually forms a brilliant blue pigment, discovered in the 1930?s that has never been pursued commercially. The reason that political muscle was brought to bear is that the cotton farmers in the San Joaquin Valley did not want to have their cotton cross pollinated with the colored cotton. You see ? colored cotton is not covered under current government payment programs. So ? as an indirect result of government interference an agricultural advance that should push America forward has been forced to hide in a remote valley in the SouthWest. Colored cotton was spun at Cotton Incorporated headquarters in North Carolina and the fabric was fine and produced excellent color. However ? as they were using Japanese and
German spinning frames that could not handle the fiber they declared the fiber unfit for mass production. This fiber has been successfully spun and woven in other locations. The report Cotton Incorporated provided should be revisited.
A cold weather strain was unexpectedly discovered while an experiment was being conducted on early fruiting cotton plants. The plants will grow as far north as North Dakota and provide good fiber. This information has likewise been suppressed.
Cotton Incorporated reported another stilted view of another ?study? they conducted. A mixture of cotton and American Hemp was run that produced a cloth superior in every way to 100% cotton and cotton/manmade fiber blends. It is stronger, moisture resistant, color fast and just plain beautiful to look at. Cotton Incorporated once again reported it was not fit to manufacture because their Japanese and German machines had difficulty with it.
The textile industry itself cannot avoid responsibility. For example, anyone with an Excel Spreadsheet program or an Access program and a little textile know-how can create a process superior to the Engineered Fiber Selection System, and yet, incredibly, the textile executives don?t realize they have the power to defeat these people ? it lies within their American employees. They must demand these raw materials in order to get them, and they must stop moving their manufacturing equipment out of the United States into Mexico and other Latin American countries in a frantic pursuit of cheaper labor. It only proves to be more expensive because they are less educated and less willing to work. Americans now see the cheating form of government that has been at work in Texas and people outside the United States now know why American companies want to employ them, and they don?t appreciate it. No one wants to work at jobs that are here today and gone tomorrow, and pay only enough
to get you a tin house. Would you want that?
By merely rejecting Cotton Incorporated?s interference, which now should be clear, American capital can finally be brought to bear against backward thinking politicians who call themselves American but act on the behalf of foreign interests. Like those in Alabama, who continue to fight against American Hemp because it suits their interests while opening the door to Japanese car companies to assault our manufacturing industries.
American ingenuity and know-how can create the devices necessary to work with the fibers discussed here. They can no longer be shackled by ignorant lawmakers and pseudo-governmental agencies that are more concerned with their retirement funds and cocktails rather than the security and economic well being of the United States of America.
I don?t want to live in a Mexican colony or in a Chinese protectorate.
Do you?
The false politicians are decrying governmental interference. They constantly whine and complain about the dangers of big government and all the while they are growing things like Cotton Incorporated and the National Cotton Council, and the two other parasitic appendages to the cotton plant, the Cotton Council International and the Cotton Board.
Let us see if Cotton Incorporated can exist on its own for five years without government support. I suggest five years, because, most likely the first year they will support themselves from either the missing money or through contacts at the National Cotton Council and shippers like Dunavant Enterprises ? until it is apparent to these entities that Cotton Incorporated just isn?t worth it.
Let the textile industry take care of itself. Stop these people from giving away our secrets to our enemies and stop the tyranny. Cotton Incorporated is NOT a non-profit organization, each year it and the other bodies mentioned above operate with a considerable surplus which is never refunded to the farmers, but, rather, invested without consulting the farmers. It is common sense that if you take something from someone for one purpose and use it for something other than that which you promised, and profit from it, that it is theft.
The proceeds never return to the farmers. Every once in a while a bunch of them are flown to North Carolina, paraded around the brand new, unnecessary Cotton Incorporated ?headquarters?, where they get to see a few pieces of spinning and weaving machinery. They are then whisked back to the airport and on back home.
Investigate their finances to bring out the particulars.
By the many years it has existed and drained down support unfairly from cotton farmers and cotton importers ? Cotton Incorporated is playing the role of a government agency. The fraud must be brought to an end immediately.
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