Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1919-08-20
ORGANIZE COTTON ASSOCIATION
The Whirlwind Campaign Will Take
Place August 1928.

will be extended to every county Of
our State, to every parish and com
munfty In every cotton-growing State
In the Union. This membership cam
paign Is being preceded by q prepar-
atory drive which began yesterday,
the 18th, and will close OH the 22d.
The speakers for the drive include
farmers, lawyers, bankers, merchants
and other business and professional
men. They go to tell the people what
the association has done and what it
can accomplish If we'll organized.
This is Southern business mems
organization, and there is place
for every one and sore need for
every one.
Tho Campaign Will Open
for Oc9nee at Walhalla Court House
on the goth of August at 11.3O a.
M Gen. NJ. l.. Bonham, of Ander-
son, and DR.. w. M. Riggs, Of Glenn
College, will speak for us. Every one
is invited to be present and hear
these leaders speak. y
The plan Of organization is as fol-
lows:
Temporary Organizations.
A. The present State executive
committee constitutes the temporary
State organization and will direct
the affairs Of the State Cotton Asso-
citation until permanent organiza-
ton is effected.
The membership campaign will be
under the direction of the manager
and an organizer, whose acts are
subject to the approval Of the State
executive committee. -e3, ). q. KS
IsssE !. +. The county. executive com t.s
tee VIII consist Of chairman and
four or six others. A temporary
secretary may be elected by the COM
mittee.
G. The county executive committee
Is authorized to appoint, as soon as
possible, a central committee in each
township and ward, consisting Of
three members, subject to the appro-
val of the State president and State
manager. This will be the temporary
county, township and ward organiza-
tions, and will be the machinery used
In putting over the membership cam
paign.
The members Of the township and
city ward committees may add as
many to their number as they deem
advisable to aid them in the men,
bership campaign. All of which is
subject to the approval Of the county
central committee. Every cotton pro-
ducng State will put on the member
ship campaign at the same time and
finish in three days.
ID. The county executive commit
tee will call the township and ward
committees together prior to the date
fixed for the membership campaign
for the purpose Of explaining to them
the plan Of organization, etc. It
would be better to hold public
meeting to which all of the farmers,
merchants, bankers, manufacturers
and professional men should be in
vited. All county executive commit
tees that want speaker to address
the mass meeting can secure one hy
applying to the State manager sew
eral weeks In advance. 81"
E. The membership application
blanks will be furnished by the State
centraa-committee and will be for q
term OF three years, plus the bal
ance OF 1919.
F. The dues for the balance Of
1S19 and dues for 1920 must accom-
pany the application for member
ship.
Dues.
Dues from date to January 1921,
to be Csc. per bale of cotton pro-
duced in 1917: Csc. per thousand
dollars Of capital invested in mer-
camille and other classes Of business,
banks or manufacturing plants. Pro-
fessional men, such as lawyers, doc
tors, school teachers, etc., SO each.
Dues for 1921 and 1922 will be 1Oc.
per bale Of cotton and 10c. per thou
sand dollars capital per annum. Dues
for professional men, SO per annum.
The dues will include the subscrip-
tion to the Cotton Journal, to be
published by the American Cotton
! Association. The dues for the first
year and balance of 1919 to be paid
to the committee securing the appli-
cation, who will turn same over to
the county secretary for transmits
sion to the State organization treas
urer. All dues in future must be sent
by each member direct to the treas
urer of the State organizat ation, but in
no case shall the dues Of any individ
ual, firm or corporation exceed one
hundred dollars. Minimum dues, two
dollars.
G. 1t will be the duty Of the coun-
~ secretary to list all applications
for membership alphabetically and
by townships and wards. Member
snip books will be furnished by the
State central committee.
The Local Trustees
OF each school district in Oconee are
earnestly urged to act as local units
to make the membershtn comnoton