The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-10-10
MARKET BUREAU
WANTS BIG PRICE
PRICE or NOT LESS THAN THiR-
TY CENTS FOR COTTON MUST
BE HAD

Atlanta, Oct 12-(Special) Rep
resented by their Commissioners OF
Agriculture, Market Bureau Directors
and the State Pesident Of the Far
ture j. j. Brown, Director J.. B. Jack
son Of the Georgia Bureau of Markets
and J. II. Mills OF Jenkinsburg, Presi-
dent of The Georgia Farmers Union.
1t was Georgia, too, that prevented
the passage by that convention of a
resolution indOrsing government con
troll OF cotton. Georgia led the fight
against 1t, because Federal control
would have meant, in effect, the CON
troll by threa.fourths of the states
which are non-producers and large
consumers. of tire one-fourth that are
producers Of cotton.
On the question OF suggesting
price for cotton the convention was
divided. Some wanted to fix mini
mum price; some wanted figures left
out entirely; while others wanted fig
ures higher than those which were
finally adopted.
Commissioner Brown strongly sup
ported on the floor the following reso-
luton offered by Director Jackson Of
the Georgia Market Bureau, with the
not less than 80 cents a pound for
cotton, and have formed permanent
organization to look after the regular
marketing of the crop on fair basis.
1t was due 10 Georgia's earnest and
persistent effort in the New Orleans
cotton convention of last week, that
these two important steps were taken.
In that convention Georgia was rep
resented by Commissioner Of Agricul-
mers' Union, the farmers of the cot
ton growing states have declared that
present conditions justify a price of
result that it was adopted by unani-
nous vote of the convention;
at is the sense of this meeting that
the present selling price of manufac-
tured cotton products fully justify
price Of not less than thirty cents
pound to the farmer"
This was directly in line with the
announcement of warning, issued 20
the farmers of Georgia through its
Department of Agriculture the latter
part of September when cotton was
forced down. without reason 10 20
cents a pound. 1t will be recalled at
that time that Commissioner Brown
and Director Jackson issued a state
ment urging and warning the far
mers of Georgia not to let pound
of their cotton go at less than 25
cents and stating that, in their opinion,
it was worth fully 30 cents. Suisse
quent facts have fully borne out the
wisdom Of this declaration.
The most important action of the
convention, urged also by Georgia,
was the organization of the Cotton
States Official Advisory Marketing
Board TO be composed of the Commits
sioners Of Agriculture, the Marketing
Bureau Director and the Farmers
Union President of each of the cotton
states This was also offered by the
Georgia Department of Agriculture.
and presented to tho convention by
Director Jackson.
The work Of this organization
which will grow in importance every
day. will be the marketing of south
ern agricultural products at fair
price. with cotton as the immediate
problem. It's headquarters will be in
New Orleans, the southern center OF
cotton trading, and it viii employ an
expert statistician who will gather
facts about the cost of production,
in every county in tho south as well
as TIE cost Of cotton goods and the
price Obtained for them in all mar
kets Ii will be seen that the organi-
aaticr is directly representative of
the people, as it is composed OF men
chosen by popular vote in their res
pectivc states.