The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14
WILL HOLD MEETING
AT DAWSON SOON
SPEAKERS WILL COME HERE IN
THE INTEREST OF THE AMER
ICAN COTTON ASSOCIATION.

Major d. F. McClatchy, campaign
director for Georgia of the American
| Cotton Association, writes The News
that meeting will soon be held in
Dawson in interest of that Organi-
cation, which is working in the inter-
est of the cotton growers of the
south. The date of the meeting will
be announced later.
Purpose of the Association.
If the planter is to hold his cotton
crop where can he store it with ade-
quate protection, with the assurance
of finding it. unchanged when he
wishes to put it on the market-no
matter how long it has been stored?
If the farmer is to hold his prod
uct over to his own chosen marketing
time where can he obtain needed
credit or raise a loan, commensurate
with the value of his stored cotton,
for this period of waiting, whether it
be short or long?
The American Cotton Association
has set out to answer these ques-
tions, and one or two others; or rath-
err the farmers themselves have so
decided, for the American Cotton AS
sociation is no other than an organl-
cation of the cotton growers of the
South and their allies. These allies
are the merchants, business men,
bankers, professional men and ship
fhnU
that the solution of these problems
of prices, marketing and warehouslng
equally concern their own prosperity.
Of the many movements for the bene-
fit of the cotton grower this is the
first one in which all interests OF the
d-agricultural, commercial,
financial, professional-have joined
hands. The association IS now con-
Quoting a whirlwind campaign to IN
crease its membership, to enlist in its
ranks every cotton man, merchant,
banker, shipper and professional man
in the cotton belt. j. S. Wannamaker,
of St. Matthews, S. c., is president
of the association; j. A. Thompson,
of Corsicana, Texas, vice president,
and w. C. Barrickman, of Dallas,
Texas, secretary and treasurer. The
executive committee for Georgia is
H. A. Boykin, J. A. Davis, c. II. Kit
trell. T. S. Johnson, E. c. Teasley, |
Minter Wimberly and ]. w. Williams.
Better Warehouse Facilities.
To return to the first question
that about warehousing-the constr
tuition adopted at New Orleans an
nounces the following as one OBJECT
of the association:
"To improve and enlarge present
existing warehousing facilities, ana
to secure additional facilities to the
end that the producer may carry his
crop. or such part as he may desire,
at the minimum of expense and phys
zeal damage and at the maximum OF
security and financibillty."
Some centers of cotton production
are we'll supplied with warehouses for
the storing of such part of the crop
as the producer may wish to hold
but throughout the cotton belt as
whole there are not enough Warehous-
es. Also, many of the storage places
do not give sufficient protection TO
the cotton with the result that the
product is exposed to the weather and
loses much of its value for the mark
ct There is furthermore a deplor-
able lack of sound business methods
at many warehouses in the handling
of stored cotton, which results in
losses, occasional fraud, and lack OF
confidence in the value of warehoused
cotton as security on the part OF those
who are asked to extend credit or
lend money.
In seeking a remedy for these con-
ditions the American Cotton Assocla-
ton is working along two main lines.
It is doing all in its power to encour-
age adequate warehouse facilities as
near the points of production and
preparation as business prudence VIII
dictate. Secondly, it is preparing
through its warehousing committee
suggested legislation providing for
uniform system of warenouslng
throughout the cotton states. Every
effort will be made to put through
each state legislature this uniform
warehousing bill, with slight modltlcc
cation to accord with the statutes OF
each particular state.