The Pulaskian., 1919-10-10

AAo N0A CUu, o' VI. pSESuSOu, COmu1S- sion of mines, manufactures and ag- riculture; B. c. Powell, banker and chairman of the agricultural com 11ittee of the Arkansas Bankers As sociation; J. H. Noteworthy of Nash Vile, secretary of the Farmers union; R. E. L. Wilson of Wilson. planter; W. J. HarS3field of Washing ion, Ark, president Arkansas Gin ners' association. Clio Harper was ramed as secretary and publicity di- rector.
 This committee will meet Wednes- cay to select delegates to the state convention on October p, which will make the plans for the membership arive to be made about the middle of November. There are four classes of membership, as follows:
 1. Charter Memberships = For tfose desiring to give liberal aid in organizing and furthering the cotton industry; the dues of this class shall Dc s100 from the date of joining un- tii January l, 1923.
 2. Farmer Memberships-F'o cot ton producers exclusively; dues until January l, 1921, shall be 25c per bale based on promotion during 1917; and from January 1. 1921. to January 1, 1928, 10c per bale per annum on the production of 1917.
 g. Merchants, Bankers and Man ufacturers Memberships-For banks, corporations, merchants, partner ships and firms; the dues are 25c per 1000 capital invested until January 1, 1921; from January 1, 1921, to Jam uary 1, 1923, the dues shall be 10c per s1,000 capital invested per annum.
 f. Allied Memberships-For pro- fessional men and the general pub lie; dues $500 per annun.
 Crisis in the Situation.
 The cotton producing interests and the cotton producing sections of the United States have been heretofore deprived of their just rights and emoluments. The sections which pro- Guce this world-used necessity have been retarded in the general march of progress and the producers of this great commodity have been condemn- cd to lives of grinding toll and de- Trivation in order that they may earn a hare and pitiful subsistence for themselves and their families.
 These unfortunate conditions have resulted primarily from uneconomic methods. of production and market ing, which faults in turn have been due largely to lack of effective organ i2ation on the part of the producers themselves and to tho failure of the producers and their allied interests to make common cause for the regen- era.ion of tre industry. Therefore, it Inay be concluded that the disorgani- zatlon of the cotton producing indus try and interests is fundamentally re- sponsible for the :;ls of which con,- plaint is made, for the hardship of the producers vocation and for his defenselessness against the attacks of his organized adversaries.
 The late crisis in the cotton situa- ton, preciptated oy war and post war conditions, wherein infinite dis aster to the cotton producing inter ests and to the corton producing sec tions was impending, brought all the interests in question into a swift movement for self-preservation. Farmers, merchants and bankers fl cm all the cotton states met in q spirit of determined cooperation, agreed upon the policy of holding present supplies for remunerative rrice and materially reducing the cot ten acreage for the coming season, immediately returned to their. respec- tive states and communities and or sanized the same for the most sum- mary and the most effective blow ever struck in defense of the cotton producing industry.
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