The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-10-13
COTTON MEN MEET
IN COURT HOUSE
Farmers, Merchants, Business Men,
and Others Interested in Better
Prices for Cotton to Meet
Here Saturday

this County, of the branch of the
American Cotton Association, has
called a meeting for Saturday, 10th
at II o'clock at the Court House,
when the plans and purposes of the
American Products Export and I'M
port Association will be outlined,
and an effort made to get the people
of this county to take an interest in
the organization of this association.
Briefly stated, the plan of this as
sociation as outlined is the formation
of company with capital stock of
s1O,OO0,OOO for the purpose of dis
posing of the cotton raised in the
South directly to European buyers.
The American Cotton Association has
seen the economic waste suffered by
the farmers of the South in selling
their cotton on the streets to buyers
at the buyers prices, and then of!
having it go through the hands Of
several middle-men, all of whom
want a profit, before it gets to the
consumers. There is in fact no more
antiquated and out-of-date machine
in existence these days than the
means of getting either raw or manu-
factuued products from the man who
produces to the man who consumes.
The people are finding this out and
the cotton farmers of the South, it
is to be hoped, have reached that
state of mind when they will give
some attention to matters of business
in connection with the marketing of
their crops, and less to political
poppycocky
1t is believed that a company or
association such as that proposed,
acting as the representative of the
cotton producers of the South, as a.
great selling company, will be- able
to-save the expense attendant on the
former method of getting cotton to
the manufacturers, thus helping the
price, and that by marketing cotton
through an association of this kind
composed of business men, the cotton
can be marketed in a manner and at
times which will guarantee US against
losses which attend sales made at
hap-hazard as in the past.
The association it is believed, once
it is started, will eventually be the
selling agent of all the farmers of
the country, and that cotton instead
of being sold on the streets to buy
ers who are often Indifferent, will
be sold in large quantities to the
consumers of the cotton who want it,
and on terms which the sellers will
dictate rather than the buyers as at
present.
It is evident that there are great
possibilities for such a company and
il is hoped that the people will take
an interest in it., at. least to the ex-
tent of seeing that business men are
at the head of the enterprise and its
officers, and that it do not drift into
political spring board from which
somebody expects to get into office.
One of the things to be done will
be the appointment of committees to
solicit subscriptions to the capital
stock of this company. In order that
full committees may be appointed,
and that they may understand the
scheme and their duties, Capt. Nick
les has already announced their
names, and he urges the following to
be here Saturday for this meeting,
as they have been selected for COM
mitteemen:
Abbeville- y. S. Stark, Jim Gillian
and C. W. Norris.
Due West-G. N. Nickles, J. R.
Winn.
Donalds-L. J. Davis, R. L. Bar
more, J. F. Agnew.
Level Land-W. W. Wilson, A. F
Carwile, J. K. Temple.
Antreville-S. d. Wakefield, A. M.
Erwin. Rice Crowther.
Lowndesville-E. w. Harper, j. G.
uuoLohoo w T. Ellis