Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-02-15


auguries. the National Cotton and Cot
ton Products association, organized in
this city on Thursday, faces career of
success and usefulness that will event
ually work an inestifnable benefit to the
entire country and especially to the
south.
An especially interesting program was
prepared for the initial meeting, and dur
ing the morning session many addresses
were delivered by able and distinguished
educators. editors. statesmen and others
interested in cotton. --
During The afternoon session officers
were elected for the year, these being
chosen as follows:
President, A. NJ. Soule, president Geor-
gia Agricultural college; vice presidents,
Charles S. Barrett, president of the Ma
tional Farmers union, Union City, Ga.
r. F. Taylor, vice president of the Inter-
state Cotton Seed Crushers' association,
Columbia, 5. c.; Lawrence McRae, man
ufacturer, Winston-Salem, n. c.; w. B.
Browner, farmer, Jacksonville, Fla. /;
Charles Barrett. secretary board of ag-
riculture, Guthrie. Okla. John Thomp-
son, commissioner of agriculture, Nash
Vile, Tenn; Prof. c. J. Roberts, Cape
Girardeau, Mo-; H. z. Blackslee, commits
sioner of agriculture, Jackson, Miss; j.
Z. Calvin, ex-president Farmers union.
Waco, Tex; j. c. Rankin, secretary of
board of agriculture Lexington, KY. A.
c. Gracey, farmer, Little Rock, Ark; ].
A. Wilkinson, secretary board of agri-
culture, Montgomery. Ala; secretary, G.
S. Viewer; assistant secretary, J.. l..
Godfrey; treasurer. r. +. Maddox.
Six southern states are represented in
the new organization, and one of the prin-
efn oh ic he
great cotton exposition, or rather an ag-
ricultural exposition, for the purposes of
education. -'-"r
At the afternoon session, F. S. White
agricultural and horticultural commits
sioner of the St. Louis and San Francisco
railroad. made the opening address upon
THE Empire oss the South His talk
was the wittiest sand one of the most in
teresting of the session! E.
w. r. c.. Smith. editor Cotton the
well-known textile periodical, followed
on "Gems that Blush Unseen--Undevel-
oped Opportunities in the South" whose
advice, able and concise, if carried out.
will soon bring this section into it's own.
j. L. Godfrey, of Omaha, Neb., former
Iy with the National Corn association.
made a speech on what the National
Corn Association Has Done" In this
brief and breezy address he told of the
brilliant success with which the corn
growers of the west had met in their ex-
hibit, and showed how even greater sue
cess could easily crown the efforts of the
cotton growers and crushers.
c. H. Schmidt, commissioner of immi-
grafton for the Rock Island system, who
has been connected with this work for
40 wears. made the concluding talk elab-
Grating in detail upon the possibilities
of immigration, and how the south could
be enriched by the importation of desir-
able farmer settlers from Continental
Europe. -.
The following is a partial list of those
who attended the gathering:
c. B. Schmidt. commissioner OF imnl-
grafton. Chicago; Harvie Jordan, Atlanta :
F. S. White agricultural commissioner
Frisco railroad, St Louisf X. G. Mathe-
.son Atlanta. ]. M. Brewer. Yatesboro,
Ca. Hoke Smith, Atlanta; Edwin A. VIII
son. Springfield, H.; r. f. Smith, Easley'
8 C.: B. Harris, Pendleton, S. c.; Henry
s Reed. Atlanta: A. NJ. Ransom, Atlanta;
Clarence Poe. Raleigh n. c. FleldlhS
Wallace. Augusta, Ga; Robert F. orr
Hartselle, Ala: a. NJ. Soule, Athens, ga: ;
r. NJ Freeman, Atlanta; A. A CRAWFORD
Yatesville, Ga; james NJ. Johnson, ga
vannah. Ga: ]. F. Hart, Jr., Madison,
prof. A. Rhodes Athens, Ga; Morris H.
Rothschild. Woodville. Miss; Charles Is
Gay. Montgomery. Ala; S. l.. Dickey'
Atlanta; H. o. Murphey, Barnesvilte, Gar ;
]. B. Broadwell, aAlpharetta, Car, Dc O
Reese. Alpharetta, Ga; r. j. DeLoach,
Athens, Ca; Dan G. Hughes, Danylhe'
Ga; l.. W. Jarman, Porterdalesy Ga. !;
William L. Peek, Conyers, Ga; D. A
Carmichael, Union City, Ga. w. n. Max
well, Gainesville, Ga; IA. Brady'-,At-
lanta, Ca; H. G. Hastings, Atlanta; II,
". Stockbridee, Atlanta; ]. S. Carroll. At
lanta: l. NJ. Fleming. Atlanta; w. re.
Smith, Atlanta; NV. Richards wash
fngton. d. C.:sF. A.,AStafford. Barnes
vile, Ca: NJ. B.. Dennis, Barnesvtlle,. Ca;
]. O. MCDANIEL, Union City, Ga: Z. NJ.
North, Savannah, Ga; j. Lovick COBB
Johnson, Elberton, Ga; f. 7. Brown, At
lanta: Minter Wimberly, Macon, Ga; j.
c. Hopkins, Centerville, Tenn A. j.
RusSman, Pine Bluff, Ark; j. l.. Godfrey,
Omaha. Neb.; II, ]. Steele TeXarkana,
Tex: w. II. Leahy. Atlanta; John Hugh
Mcdowell, Nashville, \Tenn.