The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1914-10-20
REDUCTION BY
PERSUASION ONLY
GOVERNORS OF THE SOUTHERN
STATES DO NOT RECOMMEND
LEGISLATIVE ACTION.
BIG COTTON POOL ENDORSED
Education of the Farmer Through Co
operation of State, Federal and Pri-
vate interests Is Recommended.
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mphis-While not recommend
ing federal or state legislation to re-
duce cotton acreage. the conference
of governors of the cotton states went
on record as favoring the reduction of
the 1915 acreage as much as possible
by campaign of persuasion and edu-
cation in each state
The S150,000,0O0 cotton loan pool
was endorsed in the following resolu-
ton:
Whereas, The governors of a ma
Jority of cotton growing states of the
Union arc unavoidably absent, and we
have no authority to bind them or
their states in any manner, therefore
be it resolved, that:
we approve of the efforts of bank
ers of the United States to form the
$50 100000 syndicate to take care of
the surplus cotton crop of 1914; and
that We urge our people that they cur
I'll the cotton crop of 1915 as much as
possible. and not less than so per cent
reduction.
We urge upon the federal govern
Tent ara its officers the necessity Of
furnishing all the financial aid posi-
bic III marketing this crop
We urge that earnest efforts be
made, not only to decrease cotton
acreage, hut to develop proper mar
ketinG facilities for the diversified
crops made necessary by the present
conditions"
he resolution was endorsed by the
governors of Tennessee. Arkansas,
Louisiana, Mississippi and North Car
DINA. and was disapproved of by Gov
ernor Cole Blease of South Carolina.
Education of the farmer through a
cooperative plan of the United States
Agricultural Department and the
states of the South, and thereby the
reduction of the cotton acreage, is the
best and only feasible plan for the
relief of the cotton situation now and
in the future, according to Governor
Hays of Arkansas.
That this can be brought about cas-
lily | have not the least hesitancy in
stating" said Governor Hays at the
meeting. and | hope that some such
solution will be proposed and carried
10 successful conclusion within a
short time. | am afraid that the farm
eTs of the South will not realize quick
ly enough the financial aid proposed
through the raising of a $3.50. 900 600
fund. and that it will be at least 80
days. or perhaps 60, before financial
assistance is given the South through
this channel.
Il believe that a definite plan can
be outlined only with the entire CO.
operation of the states in which cot
ton is grown. Enactment of legisla-
ton by one state, or two, viii be of no
avail, and possibly ineffective, and it
will be through the combined efforts
of all the Southern states only that
the problems of the South as brought
to a crisis this year will be solved"
Among those present were: George
w Hays, governor of Arkansas: l.. f.
Hall, governor of Louisiana: Earl
Brewer, governor of Mississippi; Cole
|. Blcase, governor of South Carolina ;
Clarence +. Poe, representing the gov
ernOr of North Carolina ]. B. G..
Johnsonius, representing the governor
OF Tennessee; Senator John L. McLau.
rim of South Carolina; Claude n. Sapp,
member of the South Carolina legis-
lature; William Stoddard of the Ar
kansas Highway Department. and
Hugh Tomlinson of Little Rock.