Americus times-recorder., 1919-11-10
FUTURE
TO Be FIXED AT
MACON MEETING
To Organize To Retain
Benefits Brought By
War Conditions

ATLANTA, Nov. 10.-The future
of the cotton growing and marketing
in Georgia will kidnapped out and
practically decided upon at the state
meeting which will be called today
by the American Cotton Association,
to be held in @he city auditorium in
Macon Wednesday, Nov. 10, begin
ming at 10 am. Governor Hugh NJ
Dorsey has been requested to open
and preside over Sthe meeting, the
purpose of which is bringing to a
close the preliminary work preced-
ing the permanent state organization
of the American Cotton Association.
The gathering is to be made up of
cotton farmers, factors, bankers, and
! representatives Of all those Ines of
business which are directly or indi-
rectly dependent upon the success of
the cotton production of the state,
Nthis representation running from
five to ten men from each county in
the state.
j. S. Wannamaker, of South Caro-
lima, president of the American Cot
ton Association, who for two months
has been deyoting practically his
whole time to a personal study of
the world spinning conditions and
the demands for raw material, and
to the actual production from the
fields themselves, will participate in
the Macon meeting to the end that
proper arrangements may be made
for concluding the Georgia member
ship enrolment campaign within the
time decided upon. That enrolment,
however, will probably not be wound
up for a couple of weeks after the
Macon meeting, on a day to be an
nounced later by Campaign Director
D. F. McClatchey.
Former Congressman A. F. Lever, |
of South Carolina, who resigned his |
seat in congress recently to go into
the administrative branch of the
United States Farm Loan system, |
and who also is the author of the
Food Control bill, and the Smith
Lever Agricultural bill which has
been in operation several years, will
come to Macon from Washington to
lend his assistance in the formation |
of the Georgia division of the Cotton
Association J. B. Cannon, banker,
of Spartanburg, who has probably !
done more organization work within !
his state than has any other one man
in any state in connection with the
formation of the Cotton Association; I
J. j. Brown, commissioner of agri- |
culture; J. Sheckleford, of the ma
tional board of the Cotton Associa- |
ton and who has in the past couple
of months covered the whole cotton
belt; Harvie Jordan, now in charge
of the national headquarters of the
Cotton Association; T. S. johnson, of .
Jefferson, who operate the largest
and most successful farmers ware
house in the South, and probably the
only man making farm loans at 6
per cent, are all to participate in the
meeting called for Nov. 10.
The Georgia division of the Cotton
Association has spent so days in an
educational campaign preparing for
this gathering and there is no differ |
ence of opinion among those men
who have covered the territory in
behalf of the association that no
gathering held in the state in years,
if ever before, has meant as much fl
nancially to the immediate future of
the individual farmer as we'll as to
the state as a whole as will what is to
transpire at the reorganization
meeting of the American Cotton AS
sociation next week.
Those men who have devoted
themselves to cotton marketing and
production are in accord now on the
fact that principal concern for farm
ing interests of the South now is
more a question of so systematizing
and organizing as to be able to hold
what they have gained up to this
time than anything else. 1t is their
view that though cotton is more
valuable farm product today than 1t !
has been at any time since the war
between the states; that it is nearer
a basis of giving to producer a fair
and reasonable profit on his labors.
There is no certainty it will continue
to retain that position after the pass