The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-07-30
STATE COTTON
MEETING CALLED
Farmers and Business Men to
Meet in Columbia
August 6
TO FORM PERMA-
NENT ORGANIZATION
Call Issued by Governor Cooper
And President Wannamaker
of Cotton Association

sued yesterday for meeting III CO.
lumbia Wednesday, August Of the
farmers, bankers, merchants, business
and professional men of the State for
the purpose OF effecting the perna-
nent organization of the American
Cotton Association in South Carolina.
The calls came from Gov. Robert A.
Cooper, j. Skottowe Wannamaker,
president Of the American Cotton AS
sociaticn; B. Harris. commissioner Of
agriculture for South Carolina; A. E.
Padgett, president Of the South Caro-
lima Bankers Associations; J. H.
Claffey, president Of the South Caro-
lima Farmers Union: Nv. G. Smith,
warehouse commissioner, and Joseph
D. Mot, president Of the Columbia
Chamber of Commerce.
The meeting will be held at Craven
Hall beginning at noon and promises
to be the biggest and most represen-
tative meeting held recently in the
State.
The call issued by Governor Cooper
follows:
In order to effect the permanent or
anization of the American Cotton
Association in South Carolina a meet
ing of farmers, bankers, merchants,
and other business and professional
men will be held in Columbia, Au-
gust 6. l urge that each county be
we'll represented, or, better still, each
township.
THE temporary organization of the
Gotten producers and allied interests
has been one OF the important factors
in bringing about an increase in the
price of cotton. The permanent or
ganization, erected upon the ground
work of its predecessor, will have the
same effect.
'::The cotton belt has never enjoyed
prosperity commensurate with, other
sections of the country. The ecoAo-
mic and social life of the South has
suffered tremendously because cotton
has not yielded a reasonable profit to
the producers Some advantage,
however, has now been won; it must
not be lost. Our progress in educa-
ton, roads, in general happiness is
considerably dependent upon the price
Of cotton.
Bearing this in mind appeal to
the people of South Carolina to CO.
operate in an effort to insure for the
present and for coming years fair
profit for the South's greatest COM
modify. Organization is essential"
A Joint call for the meeting was IS
sued by J. SlAottowe Wannamaker. E.
Harris commissioner of agriculture:
A. z. Padgett, president Of the South
Carolina Bankers Association; j. II.
CIaffey. president Of the South Caro-
lima Farmers Union; w. G. Smith,
warehouse Commissioner and Joseph
D. Mot, president of the Columbia
Chamber of Commerce. This call fol-
lows:
Whereas, the organization of the
American Cotton Association has saved
to the South sum estimated con-
servatively at s5,000,00o, and whereas,
as g result of the organization Of the
American Cotton Association every
citizen in every township and every
county. not only in South Carolina,
but l., the entire cotton belt. will re-
ceive great benefit. and
"Whereas. as q result of the organ
ization of the American Cotton AS
sociation. the farm will be operated
on business basis. cotton will be sold
at profitable price, the producer Will
be furnished with Information on
supply and demand through represen-
tatives in every cotton consuming
country in the world and regular crop
condition reports issued, and
'Whereas, as final result. the bad
roads of the South will be q thing of
the past, illiteracy will be blotted out.
and rural conditions will be so i'm
proved that the farm will attract and
hold the white man. and
e'Whereas. as final result of the
vast benefits that the permanent or
Ganization of the American Cotton AS
sociation will bring to the entire
South. the entire nation will in like
manner DE greatly benefited, there
fore:
BE it resolved: That the perma-
nent organization of the American
Cotton Association. which will include
the farmers. merchants, bankers. bus
mess and professional men in every
school district. every township. in eV-
cry county in the entire State of South
Carolina and throughout the length
and breadth of the entire cotton oeit
is of such vital Importance that we.
the undersigned, both in our ofhclai
capacity and as citizens Of the State
of South Carolina with the best 1n-
terests of South Carolina, of the en-
tire cotton belt, and the entire nation
at heart, hereby earnestly urge that
the citizens in each township. each
school district and each county In
South Carolina send large and rep
resentative delegation to attend
mammoth mass meeting in Columbia
wednesday, August 6 at 10 o'clock
noon at Craven Hall for the purpose
of hearing addresses and discussion
on this great question-on the OBJ