Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-02-15
Banker Royce Talks.

J. E. Boyce, president of the Cotton Belt Savings X Trust company. hap pening into the meeting hall in search of "a friend, was called upon for talk and added his endeayors to those of MT. Bloom, urging Chat the Bottlers aid and cooperate in urging farm diversification. MT. Beyce said some people were afraid of the word "diversification' Others, he said, misunderstood the Er eaning of the word. He told of one man. who quit planting cotton last ysar on 300 acres, and put in 509 acres of tomatoes. Another man, on more than 1000 acres, planted spinach for the Chicago market, in- stead of planting cotton. And they called that diversifying,' v said MT. Boycs, amid laughter from lis hearers.
 Mr. Boyce explained what "safe farming" means, net only to the farmer, but to the business man and every othsr resident, in town or coun- try, in the state and the entire South. He urged the Bottlers to aid in the movement for diysrsification, as they will share in the benefits to be de- rived from the prosperity which will follow,
 The Presidents Report. .t President w. l. Moody expressed his thanks to Mr. Bloom and MT. Boyce for their talks.
 That's what I call progress" he said. Practical business men hava talked practical business matters with you. Put their statements down in your books, and study them care
 ully.'
 Principal among the treasdres urged and recommended by the Bot tiers association, and which was put into effect during the past year by ..he sta3. board of health, was the series of r.iolutions adopted at the 1913 meeting of the Battlers. de- mandng moro sanitary cond.ians n and around all bottling plans in tna .stit. Tie measure has worlsd out 70 the grea, advantage of the boilers he said. and was 2 hardship upon none of them
 Lawrenc: Dixon ,:f Plnc Bluff, O. NJ. Wells of Ch.cag' ard o,h%s mad stro"r talks principally on the "get together" srir.t, +ac benefits of CO., operation and he ned of som n ethod of preventing tho grea, an- nual l,ss 10 tho bottlers, throrf,l broken and lost bottles. Th. final hour of the aft.fnoon session was devoted D a series of these talks, every nan present expressing his opinit n. and he int rchanga Of ideas appar ntly being enjoyed by tho en- tire mc eting.
 sMixtng' Fallcws Meeting.
 At 5.30 o'clock, "he material men and the Bottlers opesed "get to- gether' session, strictly informal. and intended as means of allowing the Botlers and the material men to get together
 Shop talk" the latest quotations of syrups, bottles, crowns and corks. freight rates, all such matters, were told, cigars were smoked, and the 1T aterial men and their customers appeared to enjoy the affair. which lasted until dinner tme
 Bottlsrs and material men who registered yesterday are as follows:
 w. l. Moody. Little Rock; Osceola B2ttling Co.,; Benton Bor,ling Works; Standard Carbonic company. Memphis W. M Carpenter, Batesvilla; J. T. Butler, Little Rock: o. NJ. Wells. Liquid Carbonic company, Chicago; A. J. Scott. Jonesboro; w. l.. Grooms, Pine Bluff; Lawrence Dixon, Pine Bluff; J. w. Meek. Fort Smith; Gscrge C. Bruce. Stuttgart;' w. c. Byers, Little Rock; Chas. w. Army, Crescent City Carbonic company, New Orleans; R. C. Wells, Monticello; F, M Camp. Gay Ola Syrup company, Memphis; Howard Paul, McGehee; James W. Harpsr. Little Rock; E. E. Hussey, Msmphis, Tenn; Jim NJ. Watson. Hot Springs; G. F. Cress, Prescott; J. k. Nicholas. Little Rock; H. A. Suares; Charles Holmes. Liquid Carbanics company, Chicago; w. J. Sinclair, Fl Dorado.