The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-08-28
COTTON PLANTERS
ORGANIZING COUNTY
CAMPAIGN FOR MEMBERSHIP IN
DILLON BEGAN MONDAY
Every School District Will Be Can
yassed from One to Three Times
in Big Drive.

in Big Drive.
Following the practical talk OF the
state organizer, B. F. Mcleod, anu
the eloquent address Of president
SNYDER of Wofford College, at the
court house last Thursday, the far-
mers of Dillon county organized 1or
the big membership drive OF the
south Carolina Association which De-
gan Monday and will end today. Dr.
/. H. David, county chairman, pre-
sided at the meeting and lntroduceu
Mr.. Mcleod and Prof. Snyder. Inc
former outlined the plan of organlza-
ton while the latter showed the I'M
portance of the farmers banding
themselves together for their mutual
protection. Both addresses were along
strong practical lines, and those VINO
heard Mr.. Mcleod and Prof. snyder
left the meeting with the determlna-
tion to go out and work for a per-
manent organization in Dillon coun-
ty.
Every school district and town
ship in the county will be canvasseo
for members and if you refuse to join
when YOU are first called upon,
second committee will call on you,
and a third committee and so on until
Won ioiu the ranks of your brethren
who are fighting to secure the farm
er a legitimate profit on his labor.
Meetings were held in every county
in the state las week preliminary 10
the campaign and in almost all OF
the counties great crowds heard the
speakers and evinced great enthu-
siasm for the organization. EV-
ery farmer, merchant, banker, busl-
ness and professional man in the state
will be asked to join. The prosperity
of the South is dependent on the
prosperity of the cotton farmer. In
this way it is figured that men Of ev-
cry calling should be as vitally inter-
ested in the association as the farm-
er who grows cotton.
Plan or Organization.
The organization will extend into
the townships of the county and the
wards of the city. The plan for the
permanent organization provides for
township associations. Each township
association shall elect a township
hairman. vice chairman, a secre-
tary and three members Of the county
beard of directors.
The county board Of directors, con-
sisting thus of three members from
each township and ward, shall elect
a president, vice president, a sec
retary and an executive committee,
consisting of the president, the vice
president and five members OF the
board of directors, of the state ass
citation. All county associations are
branches of the state association.
The state organization will. con-
sist of a board of directors, compos-
ed of three members from each cot
ton producing county of the state.
The board of directors is charged with
the duty of naming president, a
first vice president, and seven other
members of the board of directors.
. Objects of Association.
The South Carolina Cotton Asso-
citation will be an integral part OF the
American Cotton Association. The OBJ
jects and purposes of the American
Cotton Association are set forth as
follows:
l. To protect the interests of the
cotton producer and 10 improve his
condition.
2. TO promote economic regulation
of cossOn production TO the end thai
supply shall be SO adjusted to de-
mand that the producer shall at no
time be required to sell his product
at less than a fair and reasonable
profit.
8 To promote intelligent diversi-
fication of crops, and TO develop
markets for such crops, other than
cotton, as may be profitably raised.
4. To improve and>enlarge present
ly existing warehousing facilities and
to secure additional facilities to the
end that the producer may carry his
crop, or such part as he may desire
at the minimum of expense and ply
sical damage and at the maximum oi
security and financibility.
5. To broaden the market for raw
cotton and TO enlarge the uses fol
cotton and cotton goods.
8. To improve ana increase trans
portation and distribution facilities
Z. To collect information as to botl
domestic and foreign consumption oi
cotton, the state of trade, the extent
of acreage, supply and condition ot
crop, and all other information OF
practical interest to the cotton indus
try, and to disseminate the results
through the several sub-organiza
tions to every member of every com
munity, together with directions az
to the course to be pursued in order
TO secure the best results in view
akpf the facts disclosed.
IN g. To do all and singular whatso
Yer may be conducive to the stabil
IN and profitableness of the cottoi
producing industry.
The American Cotton Association