Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-02
CAPTION PRICES NO HIFDERANCt ID BUYING BONDS Local Committee For Lib erty Loan In Jefferson
 County Receives
 Letter.
STATES INFORMATION
 NOT GIVEN TO PUBLIC
Farmers Need Not Wor1ly About Matter but Should
 Subscribe to Loan.

Farmers in Pine Bluff, Jefferson county and turnout Arkansas who have neglected to subscribe to the Fourth Liberty Loan for fear that the government would fix the price of cotton at much lower rate than desired by the cotton grower need not let this further stand in his way, asserted officials of the Jefferson County Fourth Liberty Loan Tuesday afternoon.
 No information has been given out that cotton prices of any nature had been decided upon. In fact prices will not be fixed at all is the universal opinion.
 The following letter received Tues day afternoon by the Jefferson Coun- ty Liberty Loan Campaign committee from Thomas Walker Page, Chairman of the Cotton Committee fully ex1 plains the situation and alleviates the fears of the Dixie farmer and cot ton men.
 Therefore it is highly important that persons who have neglected to sub scribe to the loan for fear of the cotton fixing question need no long CT offer this an excuse. The letter of Mir. Page to the local Loan Committee is as follows: Announcement by The Cotton Com. mittee. The public and ill pjarticular the cotton interests are warned aaginst giving credence to unauthorized re- ports, rumors and information pur- porting to come from the Cotton Com- mittee or the Committee on Cotton 1 Distribution, All authentic informa- tion will be published over the sigma ture of Thomas Walker Page, Chair man of the Cotton Committee or Char les J. Brand, Chairman of the Com- mittee on Cotton Distribution. The Cotton Committee now makes the following announcements: 1st The committee will not recOm- mend that price be fixed on raw cot ton at the present time; nor will it so recommend i'll any event before sufficient time has elapsed to test the effect as a stabilizing influence of the work assigned to the Committee on Cototn Distribution. unless in the meantime unexpected changes occur in the cotton market 0 such violence as to threaten the welfare of legitl- mate interests.
 2nd The Committee on Cotton
 Distribution has been organized and has been directed to effect as quickly as possible an equitable distribution of cotton as to quantity and also as
 to grade among both domestic and foreign manufacturers, with special view of providing for the proper util- taxation of the surplus of grades be- low middling.
 Note: It is planned to accomplish this distribution by regulations ap- plying to foreign and domestic manu- lecturers without interference with the usual trading between farmers and buyers or merchants.
 3rd. All purchases both for for eign and for domestic consumption will continue to be made at market prices through the marketing and distributing agencies commonly used unless and until the Cotton Commit tee shall determine and announce that necessity has arised for mak- ing change.
 In view of this announcement that Cotton Committee hopes that agen- cies engaged in the cotton Inquiry will proceed in the normal transact ion of business without uncertainty or hesitation.
 (Sisned) Thomas Walker Page.
 Chairman. September 21, 1918.