Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-02-20
Especial Dispatch to The Journal.)

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mers union was the development that
is now on in several counties for a
movement to organize a fraternal So
ciety, which has for its aim a protect
| i've insurance. This scheme is regard
ed favorably by the Georgia division
of the union and that it may become
feature of the state and even on
the national union
/ Nothing has so far been done in the
matter of a definite scheme for con-
trolling and marketing the cotton crop,
the cotton committee having asked fol-
an extension of time before submitting
it's report This report will be made
in the course of 80 days to the officers
of the union at Union City when the
findings Of the committee will be dis
seminated in The form of letters and
pamphlets to the farmers of the state.
| With the four sessions held Friday,
a morning. Afternoon and evening ex-
| ecutive session and meeting in the
earlier part of the evening which was
opened to the general public. the work
of the seventh convention was practi-
cally completed. In the morning ses-
sion Lawson e. Brown, of Sandersville,
Washington county, was elected to the
presidency and the whole ticket of the
regular party of the state union went
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NEW ADMINISTRATION.
The roster of the new administration
is as follows: Lawson E. Brown, of
Washington county, president; Rev. w.
Fl. Faust, of Oglethorpe, vice president;
j. T. Mcdaniel, of Rockdale, reelected
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES: ]. l.. Lee, Of De-
Kalb, organizer; H. Grady Smith, of
Epson. conductor; A. l.. Wallace OF
Scriven, sergeant-at-arnls; Asa G. Cobb,
nP Enr M Raw II
Ulm, of Fayette, chaplain.
The executive committee elected az
the afternoon session is w. H. Thomp-
son. of Dodge county. reelected, chair
man; J. Fl. Hoyle. Of Epson, reelected;
j. B. williams, of Hart reelected; +.
d. Wimberly, Of Pulaski, reelected, ana
DR.. S. NJ. Johnson, of Jeff Davis coun-
ty, elected in the place of DR.. William
Bradford, who declined reelection.
The election of officers took up
practically the whole of the time or
the morning session the only other
matter being the appointment of the
committee ON live stock, on which was
named G. F. Hunnicutt, IF Fulton
county; o. I. Harper, of Bulloch; Fl.
Grady Smith, of Epson, and w. T. Tay-
lor Of Johnson. In the afternoon ses-
sion the executive committee was
elected. the union showed its apprec1-
dIlOu OF Ine 6IIOTIS Oh I6llIluS pIGSl~
dent, r. f. Duckworth and Secretary
Treasurer ]. T. Mcdaniel by the pre-
sentation Of handsome gifts.
WATCH FOR MDANIEL.
The first matter that came before
the afternoon meeting was it's remem-
brance to Secretary t. easurer McDan-
iel Mr.. Mcdaniel has served the union
for five terms, this being the sixth
term of office on which he is now en-
tering. The union has been on the
steady increase during his service ana
the work has been Voluminous. 1t was
the expression of the union in session
that the success OF the work had been
due largely to his efforts and it was
with the idea of showing this appre-
citation that the union presented him
with a handsome watch, engraved with
his name and tine date of the presen-
tation
The same esteem was shown for the
retiring president and the token given
him was large loving cup. Mr. Duck
worth has served the union in an official
capacity for nine years and the large
majority Of the rank and file Of the
state union is unanimously for him.
Another feature of the afternoon
meeting was the election Of the Georgia
delegates to the national convention.
K. Cabaniss and Lawson e. Brown were
chosen for this duty. The national con-
vention will be held on the first We'd
nesday in September, the place Of meet
ing to be determined by the national
executive committee shortly before the
time for the convention.
During the course Of the evening eX-
ecutive session +. D. Wimberly, of Pu-
laski county; r. A Smith, of Washing
ton; DR.. S. w. Johnson, of Campbell
county, were named on a committee
whose duty is to draft an open letter
to he United States senator's and repre-
senatives from Georgia in reference 20
the parcels posts project. The commit
tee will make its report at some later
date, probably this morning, and VIII
then, an the approval Of the convention,
draft the letter.
At the open evening session there were
three speakers beside an informal in
troductory address by National Prssi-
dent c. A. Barrett. The regular speak
ers were L. L. Gould, Of the Georgia
Packing House and Stock Yard COM
pany, speaking on the project for
packing house in Macon; R. E. Grabel,
agricultural agent of the Southern rail-
way, and George Dole wadley. presi-
dent of the Southern States Cotton
company.
PLAN PACKING HOUSE
Inc aim OF Mr.. GOuluS Idlk was 10
prove that the state union would be
great winner by the institution of
packing plant in Macon and to enlist
the support of the farmers union III
this plan.
In Introduction he traced the history
of the packing house industry, showing
that the packers have learned from
years of experience until now the busl-
ness has been reduced to a science in
which not a scrap of the stock IS
wasted. He showed further that the
once broad lands of the western coun-
try from which the east and north We're
supplied have passed out of existence,
never to return, and that therefore
there is a place in the south for SOCK
raising. 1t would prove a gigantic In
dustry once seriously taken up, but
Mr.. Gould argued stock raising would
be fruitless without the facilities 70
take care of the products.
The banks don't like to see the insti-
tuition of the packing house in Geor-
gia, particularly the small country
banks, the speaker said, for it takes the
farmer out of their control and set him
on his own feet by placing him in a
position to raise his live products on the
farm, and taking them to the packing
house get his money Immediately with
out being tied up by notes.
Statistics were then produced to show
that in 1909 the business of the six big
packing houses of the United States
had been S945 600 900 nearly double the