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AN OPPORTUNITY FOR
COTTONSEED OIL INTERESTS

IAN
Administrator Herbert G. Hoover,
acting through the Interstate Cotton
seed Crushers' Association, there has
been created an "Interstate Cotton
seed Products Council" to cooper
ate with the Government" in the con-
servation of food and feed in the
emergency of national defense.
Following a series of conferences
between Mr.. Hoover and President
Fielding Wallace of the Insterstate
Association and the voluntary offer
of the associations facilities and re-
sources to the Government, President
Wallace called a special meeting of
the associations executive commit
tee at Memphis this week, at which
delegations of officers and members
were preset on invitation from all
State associations of oil-seed crush
ers.
1t was voted to create a council of
five, as above, with President Wal
lace as chairman. The other four
will be appointed by the president
from among the leading members of
the association. Mr. Hoover desires
to have the council ready for confer
ence with has as necessities may re-
quire, and this action is in accord
with his policy to work with and
through the large industrial organi-
cations of the country in ~co-ordinat-
ing the patriotic impulses of the peo-
pie for the war emergency.
To supplement the work of the
Interstate Council, an Interstate
Advisory Committee" was created,
consisting of the chairmen of ten
State committees of five members
each, the ten chairmen being named
as follows:
Alabama-C. W. Ashcraft, Flor
nee
Arkansas-E. S. Ready, Helena.
Georgia.. L. Benton, Month
cello.
Louisiana-Bryan Bell, New Or
leans.
Mississippi-E. M. Durham, Vicks-
burg.
North Carolina-C. L. Ives, New
bern.
Oklahoma-E. Cook, Guthrie.
South Carolina-Russell AGREE,
Darlington.
Tennessee. H. DuBose, Mem
phis.
Texas-C. C. Littleton, Fort
Worth.
President Wallace will spend as
much time in Washington as is nee
essary to the furtherance of the
plans, but in order to concentrate
the forces of cooperation a resident
Washington director was appointed
in the person of j. j. C%ulbertson of
Paris, Tex, who will open h~eadquar-
tiers in Washington and be on hand
for service constantly during the
war emergency.
A systematic correlation of duties
is thus provided, through the presi-
dent and executive committee, act
ing with the resident director, and
the National Cottonseed Products
Council, the interstate advisory COM
mittee, the State advisory commit
tees, the secretary of the Interstate
Association at Dallas, the assistant
to the president at Memphis and the
various State organizations.
Indeed, it would not be a bad idea
for the cottonseed-oil mill interests
to call a convention in Washington,
representing every cotton mill, now,
while Congress is in session, and
through this convention proclaim to
the world, in every way possible, the
strength of the cottonseed-oil indus
try as we'll as that of peanut and
soy-bean oils, so closely connected
with the cottonseed-oil industry, in
largely increasing the food supply
of the nation. A broad discussion
in Washington at the present time by
representative men of the industry
might be of great value in helping
to arouse the Administration, Con-
gress and the country at large to the
tremendous value of the c]ottonseed-
oil business, and in connection there
with to the growing Importance of
the peanut and soy bean oil industry,
all of which combine to increase the
food supply of the nation to a lar
ger extent than it has yet been pos
sible to make the public realize.