Cotton Paper

Active in propagating new uses for cotton to increase consumption and reduce the cotton surplus is the Galveston (Texas) Chamber of Commerce. Recently it adopted and sent to Washington a resolution calling upon the Treasury to use an all-cotton paper stock for U. S. currency.* Last week Acting Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills, replying to the chamber's general manager, rejected the suggestion on the ground that linen stock gives paper money great durability. During the War when Irish linen was scarce the U. S. used cotton stock but discovered that it stretched and tore.

A notable user of cotton paper as stationery is Louisiana's Governor Huey P. Long. His letters go out as a cambric-like cloth sized with kaolin, with a smooth web finish and high tensile strength. (The letterhead carries the State seal in blue--a floppy mother pelican feeding her young encircled by "Union, Justice & Confidence.") Explains Governor Long: "There is agitation down this way that we should enlarge our use of cotton goods and some of we more or less super-cotton patriots, including fellows like myself who have picked cotton 16 long hours a day for 35-c- are having stationery printed on this cotton fabric. I think it is a very neat and dignified looking stationery. It is permanent." Manufacturer of Governor Long's cotton writing paper is Unitex Co. of Greenville, S. C. Price: $7.50 per 1,000.

*U. S. bills are now 75% linen, 25% cotton.

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