The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-08-12
ITO CANVASS STATE
COUNTY BY COUNTY
Figure Set is Fifty Thousand
Farmers, Bankers, Business and
Professional Men.

IfOIeSSlOAdI "Ch.
The State, 10th.
Plans for the ,whirlwind member
ship campaign to be conducted by
the South Carolina Cotton Associa-
ton the last of this month provide
for mass meeting to be held in
every county in the State during the
four days period from August 19 to
%, inclusive, the week prior to the
membership campaign.
B. F. Mcleod, State manager, has
engaged a number Of the very best
speakers in the State for these mass
meetings. They are men who are in
terested in the movement and be-
cause of their desire to see it sue
ceed have offered their services for
these meetings. Mr.. Mcleod says he
will within few days prepare the
itinerary for the speakers and will ad
wise each of the county chairmen the
date fixed for the meeting in his
county and the speakers for his
county.
The prospects for success of the
membership campaign in South Car
olina are exceedingly bright, Mr..
Mcleod said yesterday. "South Car
Gina will rally splendidly to the sup
port of the cotton association, be-
cause our people know of the magni-
fcent work that it has done. We
hope to procure minimum of So
600 members in this State. l believe
we will rot be disappointed. Every
farmer, merchant, banker and pro-
fessional man in the State is asked
to join and we believe that most of
them will. The organization of the
farmers, merchants, bankers and
professional men of the South offers
to this section the greatest oppor-
tunity it has ever had"
The dues for membership in the
association from date of application
for membership to January /, 1921,
will be 25 cents per bale of cotton
produced in 1917, and Is. cents per
$1,000 capital invested in mercantile
and other classes of business, banks
or manufacturing plants. Profession
al menwill pay So each. The dues
for 1921 and 1922 will be ten cents
per bale of cotton and ten cents per
$1,000 capital per annum. The dues
will include the subscription to the
Cotton Journal, to be published by
the American Cotton association.
The objects and purposes of the
American Cotton association, of
which the South Carolina Cotton as
sociation is an integral part, are:
81. To protect the interests of
the cotton producer and to improve
his condition.
"2. To promote econmic regula-
ton of cotton production to the end
that supply shall be so adjusted ITO
demand that the producer shall at
no time be required to sell his pro-
duct at less than a fair and reason
able profit.
"3. To promote intelligent diver
sifcation Of crops, and to develop
markets for such crops, other than
cotton, as may be proftably raised.
~. To improve and enlarge pres
ent existing warehousing facilities to
the end that the producer may carry
his crop, or such part as he may de-
sire, at the minimum of expense and
physical damage and at the maxi
mum of security and financial abil-
ity.
IS. To broaden the market for
raw cotton and to enlarge the uses
for cotton and cotton goods.
"6. To improve and increase
and distribution fa-
cilities.
"7. To collect information as to
both domestic and foreipn conslnp-
ton of cotton, the state Of trade, the
extent of acreage, supply and condi-
ton of crop and all other informa-
ton of practical interest to the cot
ton industry and to disseminate the
results through the several suborgan-
and Billie Nance of Columbia are
visiting their mother, Mrs. Alma
Nance.