Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-12

100 pounds. Thousands of tenant
farmers and farm hands are leaving
the farms and fiocking to the cities
because they believe they can make
more money working for wages.
"No More 1o-Cent Cotton"
THE day of 10-cent cotton is gone,
never to return, and the sooner the
world realizes the fact that cotton
heretofore produced by pauper labor
is not going to be produced on that
basis again, the better off everybody
will be.
81 am not bowling calamity 1 am
not talking pessimism. 1 am not
down-hearted. I know we have in
the south natural monopoly on the
richest farm product in the world,
and I know it ought to make US, and
will make us if we handle it right,
community on earth. But you bust
ness men know as we'll as l that if
cotton goes to 20 cents or lower this
time, and the farmers unload on that
market, there will be precious little
business to start us going next year
II am not advocating 50-cent cot
ton, nor 81 cotton. nor any other par
ticular price. L am advocating a
price that. will pay the producers a
decent living wage. If they do not
get it, they will quit producing cot
ton. I am not advocating the refusal
by farmers to pay debts. 1t is
wrong for farmer to make his mer-
chant suffer, Or his banker suffer
We are going to have to stand part
of the loss OH account of the general
tendency of deflation. Neither do
sanction the posting of notices on gin
houses that they will be burned I'M
less they shut down. [ want the word
to go out to the world that the south
will not tolerate such BolShevism. 1t
would be a good thing if they could
catch a few Of these notice-posters
and hang them as high as Hannah"
These comments on the gin-burn-
ing propaganda were received with
an echo of similar sentiments ex-
pressed by Governor Manning, who
had said he could find no words
strong enough to express his disap-
prevail of such a propaganda. He
said it would do the south incalcu-
liable injury unless Immediately
stopped.
q. z. Mcleod Speaks
B. F. Mcleod, a prominent whole
sale shoe merchant of Charleston,
leader in the organization of the
United States chamber of commerce
and chairman of the finance COM
mittee of the American Cotton asso-
citation, was the next speaker. He
presented the sustaining membership
pan VI the dSSOCIdIlOu, Whereby IL
is hoped to raise the money to get
the organization going at full eff
cheney and keep it going for three
years, during which time a perma-
nent membership will be enrolled to
make it permanent.
1--WE are handling" said Mr. Nc
Leod, what is potentially the great
est business proposition in the
world today. We propose to en-
gage the services, as business man
ager. of a man of national reputa-
ton. We propose to engage also
the services of very high class
publicity secretary. We propose to
put men in the field to carry on the
organization. That was the plan fol-
lowed by the United States chamber
of commerce, and today it is one of
the most far-reaching and influen-
tial organizations in the world"
Following the address of Mr.. Nc
Leod, the meeting Endorsed the pro-
posed cotton export corporation and
also the aims and objects of the
American Cotton association, and
the following committee was ap-
pointed by Colonel w. L. Peel, who
presided over the conference, to CO.
operate:
Robert F. Maddox, w. j. Blalock,
James j. Raglan, John K. Ottley, H.
Warner Martin and Chessley B.
Howard
All of these gentlemen. together
with other representative Atlanta