The Dermott news., 1914-10-22
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


Western Newspaper Uuion News Service
Memphis. 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 fayorine the reduction Of
the 1915 acreage as much as possible
by campaign of persuasion and edu-
cation in each state
The $lJ0,O00.o 900 cotton loan pool
was endorsed in the following resolu-
tor:
W hereaS. The governors of ma
jorltE of cotton growing states of the
| mon are unavoidably absent and We
haze no authority to bind them or
tier states in any manner. therefore
be it resolved, that.
We approve of the efforts of bank
ers of the United States to form the
St5e 100000 syndicate to take care Of
the surplus cotton crop of 1914; and
thai We urge our people that they cur.
II tie cotton crop of 1915 as much as
POSSIBLE. and not less than 50 per cent
reduction.
We urge upon the federal govern
rent and its officers the necessity of
furnishing all the financial aid posi-
Die i'll marketing this crop
We urge that earnest efforts be
made, not only to decrease cotton
acreage hut to develop proper mar.
kcttnt facilities for the diversified
crops made necessary by the present
conditions"
lie 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-
ily have not the least hesitauey In
STATING" said Governor Hays At the
meeting. and | hope that some such
solution viii be proposed and carried
To successful conclusion within n
short time. | am afraid that the farm
ers OF the South Will not realize quick
y enough The financial aid proposed
through the raising of a $l50.00o 900
fund, and that il viii be at least 80
DAYS, or perhaps 81, before financial
assistance Is given the South through
this channel
i believe that definite plan can
be outlined only with the entire co,
operation of TN. states in which cot
ton is grown. Enactment of lcgisla
ton by one state. or two. viii be of no
avail, and possibly ineffective. and il
Will be through the combined efforts
Of all The southern states only that
thu problems OF the South as brough,
TO a crisis this year Will be solved"
Amans those present were. George
W Hays. governor of Arkansas. /. +.
He'll, governor OF Louisiana. Earl
Brewer governor of Mississippi Cole
/ Bleasc, governor OF South Carolina /.
Clarence L. Poe representing the roy.
trnor OF North Carolina. J. T. G.
Johusouius, representing The governor
of Tenn, sscc senator John l.. McLau,
rim Of South Carolina claude \ Sapp.
member of the South Carolina leeis.
laturec William Stodd9rd OF the Nr.
kansas Hehway Departments and
Hugh Fomiuson OF EIttl, Rock