The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-14
GREAT INTEREST SHOWN
in WORLD CONFERENC CT
NO COTTON IN OCTOBER

New Orleans, Sept. 1S.-Farmers. gin
ana all allied interest of the cotton
industry will attend the World Cotton
Conference to he held in New Orleans
October l3 to 16, inclusive. Advance
| reservations for hotel and rooming
house accommodations indicate record
! crowd, and judged by the interest gen.
orally displayed, the conference will he
the most important business session
held in the United States during the
current year. Besides many thousands
of delegates from this country, there
will bc several hundred foreign delegates
| representing 80 or more European ma.
| tions Famed for its hospitality. New
Orleans through the New Orleans Cot.
| ton Exchange members. bankers and
/ business men, will live up to its ideal
reputation for elaborate entertainment.
| The programme is varied and not one
| item that might add to the perfection
of the entertainment scheme has been
overlooked
Leaders in every branch of the cotton
industry will take part in the conference
! program. Nine governors of as many
of the cotton growing states will pre-.
side over the nine business sessions.
These sessions will cover the following
subjects, which concern directly the far.
mer and those generally interested in
the cotton industry:
THE Growing and Handling of Cot.
ton Future Requirements and New
Sources of Production The Storage
and Insurance of Cotton" "Thc Trans.
portation of Cotton" THE Buying and
Selling of Cotton" and World Prob
lens of the Textile Industry"
Every phase of these subjects will
he gone into thoroughly by men most
fitted to handle the problem. The dis.
cussions, in the opinion of John NJ. Par.
ker, planter, broker and cotton expert
of New Orleans, will result in ines.
Unable good to every branch and line
Of the cotton industry"
"The purposes of that gathering are
to tell the story of cotton, starting in
from the time when the farmer begins
to break up the land to the planting.
cultivation, harvesting, ginning. baling,
marketing, transportation, manufactur.
ing and right up to the period of the
sales of cotton goods to the consumer" "
said Mr.. Parker in an interview with
your representative. "Thc real intent
and purpose Of the conference is not to
boost any particular branch of the cot
ton industry. but to be of material as
sstance and benefit to all, and by a
thorough understanding of the Difficult
ties which beset each of the varied
steps Of cotton production and manu-
facture, to bring about better feeling
and that necessary team work to pull to-
gether ON lines which will be equally
just and satisfactory to all.
"Thc prosperity of the cotton pro
duccr is essential to the health and con
tinuation of cotton production, and in
stead of having bitterness and friction
every line of business in the cotton in
, dustry should strive to see that each
other line derives a fair share of the
, profits. \ period of over-production fol
lowed by a period Of production much
less than the worlds needs is always
demorali2ing and upscts trade and trade
conditions. In the long analysis. the
cotton farmer is the most important OF
all the allied cotton interests because
if he does not produce the cotton. mil