The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-09-26
"HuY.A-BALE" DAY.

| ST. FranclSVllle, sept. zI.-rrludy,
3 D. M, October 2, 1914, is hereby set
Iaside as Buy-a-Bale Day In all of the
parishes which raise cotton, the super
intendent will please issue a call for
the assembling at the schoolhouses of
all patrons and citizens at 3 p. m,
October 2. The announcement should
be published in all the papers of the
parish this week and the editors should
be requested to urge, editorially, the
attendance of all patrons and citizens;
land all principals of schools should be
INSTRUCTED to see that a cordial invita-
ton to attend the meeting reaches
|every citizen in their districts.
What to Do after the People Assemble.
| l. Teachers and children should sing
la few patriotic songs.
/ 2. The principal (this applies to one
teacher schools as we'll as to larger
schools) or a citizen should explain
the effect of the European war upon
the cotton market, the tremendous
losses and hardships that the Southern
cotton farmers are facing, and the re-
lief offered by the buy-a-bale move
lment.
3. Have pupil demonstrate on the
L L. Il Int fhn In
will suffer, If it sells its cotton crop at
the present market price, placing the
crop at fourteen million 500 pound
bales, and taking ten cents as the
standard price of cotton. (Any daily
, newspaper will give the market price,
4. If any chambers of commerce or
other organizations in the parish are
promoting the buy-a-bale movement,
the principal should write the names
I lof the officers on the blackboard for
y the information of the citizens present.
If no organizations in the parish are
= ipushing the movement, the superin-
O Etendent should get in touch with all
# the chambers of commerce in his parish
and urge them to take immediate
o action
II 5. Each farmer present should give
a statement showing the number OF
. bales of cotton he has or will have, the
! number he can hold, and the number
e he finds it absolutely necessary to sci
at once. The superintendent should
e prepare the blanks for these state
# ments.
d The blank forms should have space!
lie for name, post Office, bales owned
bales the farmer will hold, and thu
is bales the farmer wishes to sell at tel
ut cents pound.
tie When the blanks have been properl.
Oh filled out, the principal should collec
- them and send them to the superiu
" tendent, who should tabulate the infoI
as nation and furnish it to the organize
tons in his parish which are pushin
~ the buy-a-bale movement, or in tn
absence of such organizations in hi
a. parish, to the nearest organization
known to him.
~ 6. Ali farmers present owning cotto
should sign an agreement to the effec
d. that they will sell no cotton classin
~, middling for less than ten cents
ey pound. This signed agreement shoul
be turned in to the superintendent
by and by him published in the paris
Vi papers.
ID T. Each cotton farmer present shout
ay sign an agreement to the effect tha
next year he will not plant more tina
a certain number of acres in cotton, r,
a ducing the acreage where the acreag
al heretofore was large.
O5 If our cotton farmers are forced t
sell their cotton at present prices, tn
suffering resulting from the loss cal
IS not be estimated There is no nee
for the loss. There are sufficient nun
I'd bers of patriotic citizens with surplu
ng money to buy at ten cents pound th
IT. cotton which the farmers must sci
20 o. and to hold same until the senseles
war now raging in Europe has close,
ID, and cotton prices have become norma