The Little River news., 1920-06-02
COTTON ASSOCIATION
 ARE HOLDING CONFERENCE
Finance Committee Are Discussing Production and Marketing of the
 Cotton Crop.

Little Rock, June 1. .(-SpeciaD- Powell, vice president of the American Cotton Association, will attend con- ference of the National Executive and Finance Committee of theI Association at Atlanta, Ga., June 1-3.
 At a recent meeting of the Arkan- sas Executive Committee, Gordon N. Peay of the Dohthen Company was elected a member of the National Fin ance Committee to represent Arkansas.
 One of the features of the meeting will be report of the offers of the Association, who recently made visit to a number of the leading cities of the North for conferences with repres- entatives of business and Commercial organizations including the Association of New England Spinners,
 It is said the results of the confer ence were highly beneficial. At the Richmond meeting, w. H. Miles of the Miles Shoe Company, subscribed $500 to assist in raising q fund to assume the perpetuity of the Association. He approved the movement to select an outstanding business man as vice pres ident and general manager, which is one of the policies initiated by the Arkansas delegation at the Montgom- cry meeting.
 Mr. Powell, who has been giving the work of the Association the most care ful study, has been advised of the re suits of these conferences and makes the following statement:
 Tt was conceded that, from the pro- duction of cotton in the South the pro- ducer has failed to receive anything like a fair price, and that he had en- riched every section of the world where cotton was used commercially, except the cotton producing section, to which the production of cotton had only brought poverty followed by var , ious other uneconomic conditions. Ut was conceded that the work of the American Cotton Association in promoting economic reforms, would re- suit in the saving of one years cotton crop out of every ten, or around two hundred millions of dollars per annum, which now goes to loss, and would re- suit in placing the cotton industry up- on an economic basis, placing the marketing machinery in the hands Of the cotton producer, where it right fully belongs, warehousing cotton and selling same only when the manufac- turers will pay a profitable price, thus bringing benefits nationwide.
 Tt was conceded in the conference with the spinners, that the only part the South had played in the cotton in- dustry was the producing end of the business and that they had no voice in the marketing of the same, and that : the successful organization of the Am erican Cotton Association meant an absolute revolution in the handling and marketing of Americas great cot ton crop, and that this change would bring tremendous, unthinkable bene- fits to Doth the producer of cotton and the consumer of cotton goods.
 "The great National Association of Manufacturers of Finished Products from cotton goods, urge in the strong est terms that the interests of the pro- ducer and themselves are largely mu- tual and that, in justice to both the producer and themselves and to the consumer of cotton goods, these two Association should form joint plans for the purpose of removing every possible loss in the handling of the American cotton crop and to assure direct deal