The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-01-24
SUPREME EFFORT
SET FOR FEBRUARY
AMERICAN COTTON ASSOCIATION
DEFINITELY FIXES DATE FOR
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
THE FIRST PRELIMINARY
Dinner to chaIrmen, Secretaries and
Speakers in New Orleans on
January gard.

At the request Of many Of the most
active and enthusiastic leaders OF the
organization work Of the Louisiana
Division of the American Cotton Asso-
citation. It has been decided to defer
the supreme effort from the last week
In January to the first week In Feb
ruary-the week Of February .. This
is where the economic interests Of the
state give way to politics. The not
political state campaign has interfered
to some extent with the work OF the
organization, and the original date
was fixed at time after the primary;
hut the workers in this cause want q
breathing spell to recover from the
final effort in the political campaign,
and it has been deemed best for the
welfare Of the movement to allow for
this.
There is no politics in the American
Cotton Association, and the leading
figures on both sides of the hot polit-
zeal contest are united in their sup
port Of this movement; so it is best 70
let politics get out of the way before
the big effort is launched.
The first preliminary to the drive
for memberships will be gathering
In New Orleans Of all the parish chair
men and secretaries and the parish
speakers, for a discussion Of the final
plans. The date for this was original
" set for January 16, but this has
| bean deferred q week later, to January
%. The parish leaders win be enter
tanned at q dinner, and there will be
two or three addresses-one by Col
Haryie Jordan, the national campaign
director, who has accepted an urgent
call to attend and give these real
workers the benefit Of his experience
in other states where organization
work has already progressed some
what farther than in Louisiana.
In the meantime, the work Of organ.
ization in the parishes has been pur.
sued without interruption. Field Or
ganizer Frank A Crippen has spent
the week in the South Central par
ishes, and perfected the committees IN
st. Landry, Avoyelles, EVangeline
Acadia. Lafayette, and then viii
swing over to the Western parishes
and wind up again in North Louisiana
East Baton Rouge and Ascension WeTe
also put on the map last week.
one of the notable efforts of tbs
American Cotton Association in be
half of the cotton producer crystalizet
In steps being taken by President J
s. Wannamaker to promote the move
ment begun by Col. T. ]. Shackelfor'
on his recent tour Of North Louisiana
to make New Orleans the real spo
cotton market CT the world. Mr.. Wan
namaker outlined his views Of the sui
iect in an article which he sent to pa
pers all over the South, and in it b
declares that wherever he has sound
ed sentiment on the question the fee
ing is unanimously in its favor. Thi
ia the first step toward cutting GU
the speculative element in New HorA
which has juggled cotton prices so e.
fectively in the past, but whose dom
= nation Of the market is rapidly pass
: ing.
{ There will be a national conferenc
' early in February, but the definit
date and place of meeting have nc
yet been announced by the presiden
Mr.. Wannamaker is taking adysntag
Of the meeting Of the national officer
: about that time to assemble q repr
f sentative gathering of cotton me
e from every section of the South,
I consider the problems confronting II
! cotton farmer during 1920. and to GU
line a definite programme Of action.