J. JEWKES
This evening Mr. J. Jewkes, Senior Lecturer in Commerce in the Victoria University of Manchester, is to give his first broadcast in this series. In his talk tonight about cotton, he will show that the equilibrium between supply and demand is inevitably precarious : supply uneven because the weather may double or halve the crop; demand uneven because cotton is consumed by an industry that itself depends on circumstance.
Mr. Jewkes will describe the difficulties of the cotton-growers, and the reasons for those difficulties, especially the decline in the need for the raw commodity. He will show how the whole problem of readjustment has been complicated by official intervention. The growing of raw cotton in the British Empire has been subsidised now for many years, and Mr. Jewkes will describe also the more dramatic experiments in Egypt and America to help the cotton-farmer, and the difficulties that have been encountered.