Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-31
GREATQUESTIONS
FOR COTTON MEN
Minimum Price Only
One Phase of Mont
gomery Meeting

ATLANTA, August Leading
cotton men from various sections Of
the state are in Atlanta today hold
ing a conference with officials of
the American Cotton Association pre-
paratory to their departure tonight
for Montgomery, Ala, where the
semi-annual meeting of the cotton
association will be held tomorrow.
The Montgomery convention, which
will be attended by officials and
members of the association from all
part of the South, promises to be
of unusual interest and importance.
Sessions covering a three-day period
will be held in the city auditorium
of the Alabama city.
President R. w. Mattox, of the
Georgia Division Of the American
Cotton Association, will head the
Georgia delegation. Among others
who will attend will be Harvie Jor-
dan, secretary of the national asso-
citation; ]. ]. Brown, commissioner
of agriculture, and L. B. Jackson
director of the state bureau of mar
kets. Both Mr., Brown and Mr.. Jack
son are members of the acreage and
price committee, Mr.. Brown being
chairman. Commissioner Brown will
insist on 40 cents as the lowest fig
ure as the lowest price for cotton
that can be considered. He thinks
it likely that the committee may
recommend more than 40 cents.
The association has been urged
not only to give consideration to a
recommendation for a minimum price
for cotton and seed but to also ar
range plans and see that they are put
into systematic, operation in every
county of the fourteen cotton pro-
ducing states to assure large in
crease in the acreage of small grain
this fall and food and feed crops
next spring, and the drastic reduction
IN cotton acreage.
On account of the enormous in
crease in the scope of the work of
the American Cotton Association the
board of directors, it is stated, will
subdivide and systematic the work
in various departments, electing
one of the most prominent and sue
cessful men of the South as vice
president and general manager. The
report of the consideration and plans
will be put into effect to assure the
uniform adoption of the co-opera-
tive plan for handling and market
ing the cotton crop throughout the
entire cotton belt.
A special committee of the lead
ing representative from every cot
tor producing state will be appointed
for the purpose of holding confer
ence with the Federal Reserve Bank
inc officials and also leading finan-
ciai institutions SO as to absolutely
assure the securing of the compile
ten of necessary financial arrange
ments to enable the producers to
market and warehouse their cotton,
stretching the sale of it over full
twelve months period and only sell
ing when the minimum price named
by the American Cotton Association
has been reached.
Another important matter at the
Montgomery convention, which has
been recommended by President
Wannamaker, will be the formation
of an export trading corporation for
the purpose of trading in Europe,
the stock of which is to be paid for
in cotton. Mr.. Wannamaker win
ask that a million bales of cotton
be subscribed in the stock of this
corporation and that each of the cot
ton producing states take its pro-
portionate share.