Municipal open-air concerts and park
{music, are regarded by the larger cities
as necessities, rather than luxuries,
for their cultural stimulus and their ef
fects in developing community content
ment. There is no city of this size in
the country where the need for mu
nicipal music is more pressing and
where the field for development is so
large and promising. Birmingham’s
municipal authorities might well give
further official attention to this means
Of making city life more attractive and
of improving its standards of citizen
Bhip.
ADVANTAGES OF CO-OPERATION
With cotton above thirty-six cents
and still strongly tending upward, it
looks as if predictions of a forty-cent
fevel are not unfounded. There is a I
fundamental reason for this rise :n
price quite unconnected with the or
dinary ups and downs of the market.
Fluctuations are partly due to varia
tions in offerings and partly to ma
nipulation, but the present steady
climb has been justified by the poten
tial cotton shortage. Last year’s sur
plus has been reduced, and the pres
ent crop, In the face of a strong de
mand, will perhaps contribute nothing
to the year’s carryover. Thus is laid
the predicate for the operation of one
of the basic economic laws as affect
ing prices, namely, that of supply and
demand. This law cannot easily be
set aside. It may be possible, through
manipulation of supplies, to keep the
price up during periods of high pro
duction, but it is impossible in the face
of shortages to keep the price at the
lower levels.
