The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-07-29
Want Permanent Organization uF
American Cotton Association
in This State.
WILL MEET ON AUGUST G
Governor Cooper Urges That
Every County in South Caro-
lima Be Represented-Means
Much to Farmers.

Calls were issued Saturday for a.
meeting in Columbia Wednesday,
August s, of the farmers. bankers
merchants, business and professional
men OF the state for the purpose oc.
erecting the permanent organizations
OF the American Cotton association i'm
South Carolina. The calls came from
Gov. Robert A Cooper. j. Skottowee,
Wannamaker, president of the Amer
lean Cotton association; b. Harris
commissioner of agriculture for
south Carolina; A. +. Padgett. presi-
dent of the South Carolina Bankers-
association; J. II. Claffey, presidenr
| OF the South Carolina Farmers I'm
! ion; w. G. Smith, warehouse commis-i
sioner, and Joseph ID. Mott, president
OF the Columbia chamber of COM
merce.
The meeting will be held at Craven3
| hall beginning at noon and promises
to be the biggest and most represeu-
tative meeting held recently in thse
state.
The call issued by Governor Coop
er follows:
In order to effect the permanens
organization of the American Cotton
association in South Carolina, a meet,
ing of farmers, bankers, mefchants.i
and other business and PROFESSIONAL
men will be held in Columbia, Augusr.l
.. l urge that each county be wefKi
represented, or, better still, eachs
township.
The temporary organization of thee
cotton producers and allied interests.
has been one of the important factors;
| In bringing about an increase in the
price of cotton The permanent or
ganization, erected upon the ground
WORK or It's predecessor, will have the
same effect
The cotton belt has never enioyedT
prosperity commensurate with other
sections of the country. The economic
and social life of the South has suf-
tered tremendously because cotton,
mas not yielded reasonable profit toi
the producers. Some advantage
however, has now been won: il musrl
not be lost. Our progress in eCiuca-'
uon. roads in general happiness is
considerably dependent upon the price
of cotton. :
Bearing this in mind l appeal to-
the people of South Carolina to CO.
operate in an effort to insure for the
present and for coming years a fair
profit for the South's greatest COM
modify. Organization is essential"
joint call for the meeting was is
sued by j. Skottowe Wannamaker, e.
! Harris commissioner of agriculture
A. f. Padgett, president of the South
Carolina Bankers association; ]. H
| clancy, president of the South Caro-
lima Farmers union; w G. Smith
warehouse commissioner. and Joseph
ID. Mot president of the CoIumbia
chamber of commerce. This cau foE-.
lows:
Whereas, the organization OF the
American Cotton association hass
saved to the South a sum estiuateg
conservatively at $5.OOO.OOO. and
whereas, as result of the organiza-.
tion OF the American Cotton associs-i
tion every citizen in every township
and every county, no tonly in South
Carolina, but in the entire cotton belt
VIII receive great benefit, and
Whereas, as a result of the organ
! ization of the American Cotton asso-
citation, the farm will be operated ora
a business basis, cotton will be ssld at
a profitable price. the producer viii
! be furnished with information or
supply and demand through represen--
tatives in every cotton consuming
country in the world, and regular
crop condition reports issued, and
Whereas, as a final result, the bad
roads of the South will be a thing OF
the past, illiteracy will be blottcd out
and rural conditions will be so i'm
proved that the farm will attract ana
hold the white man, and
Whereas, as a final result of the
vast benefits that the permanent or
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