The Little River news., 1919-12-13
WOULD HAVE COMPRESS
 IN EACH GIN OF SOUTH
Object Better Farming, Better Cotton
 Better Ealing, Better Handling, and Better Prices.

Little Rock, Dec. 12. - (SpeciaD = Hon. Harvie Jordan of Atlanta, Ga, National Campaign Director of the American Cotton Association, has sent the following article broadcast thro- ughout the South, in which he compli- ments the work of the Arkansas div ision:
 Across the top of the letter-head of the Arkansas Division of the Ameri- can Cotton Association, is printed in good type the following:
 1 "Our object: Better Farming,
 Better Cotton, Better Ealing, Bet
 ter Handling, Better Marketing. Better Prices.
 Clio Harper, the live publicity director of the Arkansas Division, has put into the above words of his letter heads the whole object and purpose of the American Cotton Association. It has all been done in a single line with out fuss or feathers. These few words on the top lines of these letter. heads should be printed on card and nailed over the front and back doors of every farm homestead throughout the cotton belt What we need most to do in the future is to farm better, produce more cotton per acre on few acres better cultivated, and standar- dize the types of lint cotton in each county, so as to grow better lint and make the fibre more valuable for spin l ming purposes Cotton is grown to spin into yarn and then woven into cloth. If we would study the needs of the spinners, our customers, and then i try to raise the grades and staples of lint to meet their requirements, we would receive higher prices for what we sell and make a better profit on the yields per acre.
 The cotton farmers must, as an economic necessity, reform or revol- utionize the present primitive and wasteful system of baling cotton Every bale of cotton ginned in the South should be baled on a high den- sity gin compress and made ready for economic storage, transportation, and for the spinners without any further extra expense for recompression, The hundreds of millions of dollars lost by the growers on the cotton crop is due entirely to the old wasteful system of baling cotton, which nobody wants continued except those cotton mar chants, who have their money invested in the machinery of the big recom- press plants, Put up the bale of cot ton in nice and complete package at the gin house, and then, through a we'll organized warehouse system, so market the staple as to make it bring it's maximum value to the growers at maximum value to the grower at a minimum cost for handling and mar keting. That is what is meant by economy and efficiency in the best re- gulated business institutions in the United States.
 Let us all work together for the prompt wiping out of the present dis grace in the baling and handling of the great staple crop of the South. In this short, specific headline of the let ter heads of the Arkansas Division is adopted as the slogan all over the South, the results obtained in the near future will be of incalcuable benefits to the cotton growing interests of the South. The letter-heads and other stationary and literature of every state county division of the associa- tion should at once adopt the slogan of Clio Harper, the live wire of Little Rock, Arkansas. We expect to do it here at headquarters, and intend to keep up the fight until absolute sue cess is won in every county through out the length and breadth of Dixie Land