Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-14
Forty Cents for Cotton, $50
for Seed and Many Other
Vital Questions Passed
on for Farmers Protection


upon. the welfare and prosperity of
the farmer are the many construct
i've plans launched at the recent
convention of officials and members
of the American Cotton association
in Montgomery, Ala, early this
month.
Able committees were delegated to
attack numerous problems now con-
fronting southern agriculture and
in each instance these committees
determined upon definite and pro-
gressive methods for remedying the
evils considered.
While lack of space forbids that
The Tri-Weekly Journal present a
full report of the convention this
article summarizes some of the
Harvie Jordon. secretary, of the
American Cotton association. Lead
ers and field workers of the organi-
zation are now actively trying to en-
list the help and support of Cotton
Belt farmers in making the broad
program reality and their efforts
will doubtless command the atten-
ton and interest of everyone con-
cerned with southern agriculture's
present and future status.
The SUMMARY
Fully one thousand delegates
were present when the proceedings
opened in the city auditorium on the
with President J. S. Wannamaker
presiding. The conference was in no
sense a convention with a prepared
program of speakers as is usually
the case. No such program had
been prepared as the conference was
called for business and not enter
tainment. It was not expected that
the delegations would exceed two
hundred, including the national of
fcials and the larger attendance
was therefore most gratifying.
There has never assembled I'M
sand more determined and loyal
men than those who attended for
three days the recent conference at
MontgomerY An unusually large
number Of Bankers, merchants, cot
ton seed crushers and cotton factors
BS were. represented by Judge
w. f. Ramsey, governor Of the
Eleventh District Bank at Dallas,
Texas. A number of women oper-
ating large farms were also in at
tendance.
Without any speech making pre-
liminaries, the conference got down
to business at once after an earnest
invocation by the Rev. c. E. John
son, OF Montgomery. The usual pro-
cedure OF welcome addresses and re-
sponses was dispensed with. The
'7OCtA was It's 16du6TS Tor
a fixed and definite purpose of &C.
ton, to defend the price for cotton
and resist to the bitter end the pres
ent onslaught of adverse inter
ests in so ruthlessly hammering
DOWN the value of the fleecy staple.
Appointment Of Committees
THE national finance committee.
with B. F. Mcleod, chairman, went
into immediate conference with the
national executive committee at the
Exchange hotel The national com
m1ttee on cotton acreage and price
recommendation for lint cotton and
cotton seed, with Hon. J. j. Brown,
of Georgia, chairman, at once as
sembled in conference at the Gay
-Teague hotel. The following spe-
c1al committees were then appoint
ed and urged to begin activities
were made up of a representative
delegate on each committee careful
Iy selected from each cotton state:
mo. l. To arrange uniform plans
Tor cotton acreage reduction.
corn mo: on To form cotton export
No 8; To retire rs per cent
best grades to summer 1921.
mo. 4. To confer with mills for
buying on cotton exchanges.
mo. s. To finance producers for
buying cotton when price is below
SOoI VI pTOuuCC1On.
mo. g.. To arrange plans for as
surfing minimum price fixed.
mo. Z. To arrange WAYS and
means for financing cotton in stor-
No. s. To consider w. B. Tbomn-
sons plan for harvesting low grade
,, No 9os 2; - To select date for cotton
Important Reports
Each of these committees sub
m1tted reports recommending
course OF action designed to prove
OF direct value to the interests of
/. every farmer. Complete information
about the important programs decided
upon may be had on request at the
headquarters. of the American Cot
Ion a,,n association, South Pryor and
Probably the most important re-
port adopted by the convention was
the one submitted by the committee
on cotton acreage and price recon-
incubation: WHICH follows in full.
copies of the other special reports
by writing to the headquarters of
the association at the address given
above.
"That. after careful consideration
OF all the conditions relative to the
growing and harvesting of the cot
ton crop for 1920, they find the fol-
lowing to be a fair and equitable
price to be paid to the producer;
and, in addition thereto we respec-
lively submit our reasons for such
Cotton, basis niddling forty cents
per pound with an increase of one
cent per month, after November l.,
Cotton seed, $50 per ton, or one
ton of seed for one ton of per
cent meal
Reasons Given
ain reaching these conclusions we
have taken into consideration each
and all of the following reasons:
Dor; excessive cost of all living
necessities, live stock, farm machin-
cry, fertilizers, etc. a late, cold
spring, high priced and inferior plant
ing unusual boil weevil and other
insect damage. High-priced ginning,
bagging and ties and finally. as evil
denced by the late government re-
port, exceedingly low acreage yield.
eve hold as a fundamental bust
business. and especially one which
means so much to civilization and So
ciety, is entitled to all of the cost
of production and a fair profit.
eva submit that almost all of
the cutton crop is produced by the
family unit and that but little is
being grown on a large commercial
scale and the producer is largely de-
pandent upon the price received, for
has cotton for the support OF him.
self and family.
Concerning Profits
eWcall attention to the serious
aud well known fact that through
out the entire cotton belt the young
men and young women are quitting
the farm and we warn society, our
nation and the world that unless cot
ton production becomes more profit
able and at least in measu' e IS
placed on a parity of profit with otno
er commercial enterprises, the tlnne
is not far distant when the world VIII
60 unclothed and civilization will de-
ode if not perish. We cait upon
men with wide visions to go deeply
into this far-reaching question, WINE
vet it is not too late. I ABANDON
ing of the cotton farm by the young
Of our people is not a local issue, put