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TWO SOCIETIES
Organic d to Help the Farmers.
Have Fallen Out And
ABUSE EACH OTHER.

ADUSG EACa VIaEne d
Cotton Farmers Advised to Paw No At
tentlon to Harvey Jordan's Litera.
ture Bearing on the Cotton y
Crop or Telling them
What to Do.
1t Deems that the Farmers Union
and the Southern Cotton Association,
both good societies organized b, sid
the farmer In getting an honest price,
for his cotton, has fallen out anil are
abusing esch instead Of pulling TO-:
gether Is they should, which ID to b.
regretted. A special dispatch from
Atlanta to tho Augusta Chronicle
says the meeting Of the Georgts
Branch Of the Farmers Uuion made tti
pretty pia that there la q fight 10
the death going on between that or.
ganlzation and the Southern Cotton
Association.
At the meeting In Atlantis on
Thursday night Of the Farmers' Un-
ion there was quite little discussion
along the line Of the interview with
President Barrett, In which he said
that Mr.. Jordan and the Southarns
Cotton Association had not done n ht
in not endorsing and urging the mini.
mum price OF cotton at II cents. Mr..
Barrett believes that the crop win be
q short one, IL d,contends that thAre
Is every reason for holding to IL cent?
Is the low mark for marketing the
crop. ......-... ~
A resolution was passed by ths
Union advising al farmers particularly
In Georgia, but generally throughout
tho cottoa belt, to pay no further Rtr
tention to President Harvey Jordan
Of tho Southern Cotton Association In
the matter Of advice issued by him ION
the cotton situation. The resolutions,
make 1t plain that Mr.. Jordan % not
popular In his ideas on the cotton slt.s
uation with the new organization,
and there Is little or no room left 10
doubt the fact that the Union and
tho Scu::e-n Gotten A13aciasions 4re
no long " 20 pull tc7sther, but rathsr
that tbs Union vii ma ke q dste fmin-
ed tff.f6, to break up the Souuhsrn
Cotton Association.
JORDAN HIT BACK. s
The Atlanta Journal says President
Jordan, of tho Southern Cotton Asso-
citation, replied to certain criticisms
made about him and the Association
by President O. 8. Barrett OF tho
Farmers Union. President Barrett
criticised lne Association for fixing
thu minimum price at 10 cents. when
the Union fixed IL at II cents, and for
raising tho price last December to 512
cents. He also criticised . purported
interview with Jordan In which the
latter was quoted Is declaring that
the storm damage on the gull coast
was exaggersting. e
I corrected that interview Wedlss.
day." said Mr.. Jordan. What I
did say was that there would be ads-
preston in tho price Of cotton II IT
was rushed upon the market. I satd
also that exporters in Texas and the
south vest had done all In their pow
or to boost their own pr!cM BY say;
ing that the crop had been almost
annihilated in the Atlantic states.
so far from saying that the damage
has b .en over estimated, I will say
that since August rains, tropical
rains, tropical storms, the boil weevll
and other causes have reduced the
crop fully 100000 bales. A for
the minimum price Of 10 cents fixed
by the Association, I would ny this,
that tho Association ct that time was
not Is thoroughly posted on the crop
as 1t was later, and that 1t fixed than
what is known as bread and meat
line, or 8 permanent minimum price.
The Union In fixing II cents estab-
lisheh fair price.
''As for tho other statement about
the 15 cent price fixed by the aSsocia.
tion LAST December, I cannot see why
President Barrett should revive that
ancient history. As matter Of fact,
tho Union, through E. A. Calvin, its,
president, agreed with tho association
| to pledge its members to hold for q
price ranging from 1912 to Is cents
and I have letters from Mr.. Calvin
making that agreement.
THAT they did not hold for Is
cents," said Mr.. Jordan, was due TO
the fact that members Of the Union
released their cotton Ut IL 1,2 cents.
President Barrett, however, says that
the Union held out for . price Of IL
cents, when q 0 matter Of fact, the
correspondence shown that they
agreed on scale ranging from IL IL
to Is cents. g..
II wish to repeat that the salvation
CT the farmer consists In marketing
his cotton slowly. If any unusual
cause should depress the market, I
would advise tho farmers not to sell
at all. For the indications now point
to the fact that there will be no bum
Dor crop in Georgia this year, nor in
the south as q whole. The most con.
serVative estimate cannot 60 above
IL, 500 900 bales, and IL. 100000 has