The Dermott news., 1914-08-13
MARKETS BUREAU
TO HANDLE CROPS
PRESIDENT MOBLEY INSTRUCTED
TO REPRESENT FARMERS
IN WASHINGTON.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Little Rock.-The Arkansas Farm.
ers Union in annual session decided
10 ask Congress to create a Bureau OF
Markets to handle the cotton crop OF
the South so that the growers may dis
pose of the product with profit.
This action was taken in the form
of instructions to President II. s. Mob.
ley, who was selected to represent the
union at Washington. D.. G., and fol-
lowed an interchange of kilograms
with members OF the Arkansas dele
cation in Congress.
President Mobley was directed to
urge The creation by Congress of a Blu
reau OF Markets to be maintained dur
the present situation. when foreign
markets are cut off from the cotton
growers. His Instructions also directed
that Congress be asked to fix a fair
valuation on the cotton crop and to
advance to the growers a part OF that
valuation in exchange for the owners
compress or warehouse receipt. Con.
gross will be asked also to issue to the
owner a certificate calling for the dis-
ference between the sum advanced
and the valuation fixed by Congress
on the product.
These certificates are to be trans
ferable, so that they may be used in
trading. The Bureau of Markets is
to sell the cotton crop.
H.. s. Mobley of Prairie Grove was
unanimously reelected state president
and DIT. NJ. f. Dickinson of Little Rock
vice president. J. H. Fry of Atkins
was elected secretary and treasurer
to succeed J. B.. Paine of Won Buren,.
who was not a candidate for re-elec-
ton.
The new Executive Board consists
OF W. l.. Walker of Dewitt. ]. d.
Ellis of Harlow. J. l.. Phillips of Con-
way. j.. b. Paine of Var Buren, and
f. W. BroadnaX OF Camden.
!. I. Gibson OF Greenwood was elect.
cd conductor, and IA. Byrd chaplain.
w. T. Ham will represent the Arkan.
sas# union at the national convention
at Fort Worth in September.
The convention adopted a resolution
directing the new Legislative Commit
toe. which will be at work during the
1913 General Assembly, to seek to cor
rect existing evils in the difference in
prices obtained for cotton seed and for
@cottonseed products.
The Legislative Committee is com
posed Of four members representing
the four agricultural school districts
Of the state and a fifth member select.
ed al large Or. NJ. f. Dickinson of
Little Rock was elected member at
large. The other committee members
are as follows: w. f. Tate of Cam
den: J. A. Blackford OF Jonesboro.
Or. George l.. Sands of Charleston
and H. NJ. Burge of Jacksonville,
former member of the State Tax Com
mission.
Another resolution calls upon the
Department OF Agriculture at Wash
ington to make effective and practical
the Division OF Markets recently es-
tablished at the urgent demand of the
Farmers Union.
The convention went on record in
SupOrt or the proposed municipal Dond
amendment for cities and towns and
also for the proposed bank guaranty
act.
That the work of the Juvenile Court
is favored In the rural districts of Ar
kansas was indicated by the action of
the Farmers Union in adopting a
resolution endorsing the court. The
farmers also urged that ar institution
be established for the care and indus
trial training of delinquent and de-
pendent children.