The Little River news., 1919-12-24
ORGANIZATION OF COTTON
 GROWERS IS IMPERATIVE
Would Have Had q 15.000,0OO Bale Crop Had it Not Been for the
 UnfavOrabIe Weather.
(By Harvie Jordan, National Cam
 paign DirectOr)

paign Directory
 Little Rock, Zee. 22.-(SpeciaD - The forecast of the production of cot ton for the year of 1919 has been esti- mated by the crop reporting board of the U. s. Department of Agriculture to be II ,030, 900 bales of 300 pound gross weight. This estimate is eXclu sive of linters and is from 500,000 to 1,500,000 higher than estimates com ing from other sources. It is conced- ed from all past records that the 1919 crop was grown and harvested under the most unfavorable climatic condit- ions and insect depredations ever known in the history of cotton pro- duction.
 The above facts indicate quite clear ly that if normal climatic conditions had prevailed throughout the growing and harvesting period of crop, with the acreage planted last Spring, there would have been grown a crop of not less than 15,G00,000 bales.
 It makes no difference how much raw cotton the world may require it is imperative that production be held down to the actual capacity of the spindles engaged in spinning cotton, Spindle capacity is determined by la bor ana financial conditions existing in the various countries where Ameri- can Cotton is spun and manufactured l into cloth It is we'll known that a spirit of unrest exists in the rank and file of labor in all departments of in dustry throughout the world, and in no section of this country or any for ! eign country, are cotton spinning and weaving mills operating up to their full peace time capacities. The con- ! sumption of raw product in any coun- try is further determined by the finan- cial ability of it's manufacturing in dustries to buy and pay the full mar ket value of such products. Foreign Exchange has reached the lowest mark
 
 fact renders foreign manufacturers unable to purchase our cotton in quan- l titles needed
 It is imperative that every cotton l growing county be fully and efficient ly organized into the American Cotton Association through their State Divis- ions as rapidly as possible. There 1 must be unity of action throughout the cotton growing area of the south in 1920 in the cotton acreage to be planted, and we'll developed ways and means provided for the safe and pro- fitable marketing of next years crop. If existing conditions continue and a large cotton acreage is planted in 1920 ] followed by normal. crop conditions the price of spot cotton next season i will fall below the cost of production i October future prices for 1920 are al ready below the cost of production several cents per pound, Nothing can l save. the cotton growing interests of the South but organization along the sound and safe business lines under taken by the American Cotton Assoc iation. Organize now while the op- portunity is presented and while there is sufficient financial strength among the people to make organization sue cessful.
 Look the hard and true facts herein presented squarely in the face, based on the present and the future, then de- termined upon an ironclad organiza> tion of Southern forces closely allied l together for successful solution of every problem which is to arise in the years to come.