Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-10-07
MEETINGS WILL Be HELD
At COUNTY SEATS
OCT. Il
Especial to Times-Recorder.)

ATLANTA, Ca, Oct. The COM
mittee appointed Monday by the
Food Crops conference
to carry out the plans adopted by the
conference is rushing the work to put
into effect, in each of the cotton states
the intensely practical plans for cut
ting cotton acreage, substituting food
crops and arranging for cash markets
for the new products.
c. ]. Haden, chairman of this COM
mittee and president OF the Georgia
Chamber of Commerce, said this
morning:
THE people of all the cottongrow-
ing states will be urged to assemble
at 10 a. m. Saturday, Ovtober 18th at
the county seats, or the most conven-
lent meeting points in each county,
and take action to have special ses-
sions of the state legislatures called at
once to reduce cotton acreage for next
year to one-half that planted in 1914.
Also, these mass meetings are expected
to prepare a second line of defense by
organizing county associations of far
mers, incorporated by law, according
to the Lee County Plan" which has
been approved generally in Georgia,
so that the mutual contracts between
farmers will be on the same business
like and legal basis as agreements be-
tween stockholders in other corpora
tons, and in the same degree enforce
able in law.
with these associations formed, the
efforts of farmers to reduce cotton
acreage will be on a sound business
basis, the lack of which has caused the
failure of all mutual agreements in
the past The first effort will be to
secure the enactment of laws reducing
the cotton acreage, but if the laws do
not pass, this second line of defense
will prove effective.
These assemblages in every county
in the cotton states will pass resolu-
tons putting the people squarely be-
hind the governors of the states in
calling special sessions of the legis-
latures, and upholding them both in
the passing of the necessary legislation
and in the enforcement of it after
ward.
Many able lawyers say that such
action of the states will be perfectly
legal under the General Welfare
clause of the constitution"
1t was the concensus of opinion in
the Southeastern Food Crops confer
ence that the quickest and most eff
fective way to secure, at the same
time in all the cotton states, legislation
and the permanent organizations to
reinforce the law and see to the en-
forcement of it's provisions was to
call county meetings to ask for legis-
lative action, in recognition of the dis
astrous effects on the South of further
delay.
The time is short in which to secure
the action of all the hundreds of
but the committee expects to
give the call such great publicity,
through the cordially cooperating
of the South, that the re-
spouse will be practically spontaneous
and that every county will have mass
meeting on Saturday, October 18th, and
pass the necessary resolutions asking
the governors to call the extra sessions ,
Of the legislatures, and that the meet
Ings will then proceed to form associa-
tons in accordance with the Lee
County Plan," in order that the agree
ments between the members may be
by law the same as anv
contract between members of any other
business corporation.
Through this concerted county-by-
county action, it is believed that the
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