Judsonia weekly advance., 1920-05-27
PROCEEDINGS OF
 COTTON CONVENTION

entire proceedings of the American , Cotton Association at Montgomery Apfll l5-l6 are to be. printed for general distribution throughout the South, the nation and European coun tries. All writers on the subject are agreed that the convention was one I of the most historic ever held, and that the program adopted for the eliminating of waste and to insure the protection of the farmers is the most important ever taken.
 The special committee on Market ing and Cooperative Organization, of the American Cotton Association. meets in Memphis this week, and Dr. Bradford Knapp, of Arkansas, mem- Der of the Committee at large, and Adolph Felsenthal of Camden. aro attending. Dr. Knapp is vol king with the United States Bureau of Markets on some verys important problems, which in their successful solution, will add greatly to the value of the work being undertaken by the Association.
 The subject Of cooperative mar keting was thoroughly considered by Ia special committee at Montgomery, and it's findings were summarized in the following statement of aims: The formation of local neighbor- hood organizations for marketing cotton.
 Encouraging the establishment of bonded warehouses wherever local conditions will permit.
 l Helping county and local organiza- tions to put into effect the chasing of cotton by disinterested cotton class CTS, the classification to be based up on the official cotton standards of the United Sattes.
 The immediate adoption of plans for the creation of state and national selling agencies whose chef purpose will be to collect the cotton of all or ganized localities and sell such cot ton for the best interests of the pro- ducer.
 Your committee does not believe that the Association, within the short period of the present convention should endeavor to formulate in final form, plans for putting these aims into effect. It urges, however, the with view to such action, recomends that the Associations Committee on Cooperative Marketing investigate various successful cooperative mar keting plans and work out a national marketing system for cotton. This committee should be directed to pay special attention to the cooperative marketing methods which have been successfully worked out throughout
 twenty-four years of actual eXper- fence by the farmers and fruit grow CTS of California and should use the California plan as a guide in con structing a definite detailed organi- zation plan for the marketing of cot ton on a national scale. This com mittee should report it's findings to the Board of Directors of the Amer ican Cotton Association by June b, 1920. It is the sense of your commit tee that the Board of Directors of the American Cotton Association should, within thirty days thereafter  take the necessary preliminary steps to form a marketing cooperation as indicated. at the same time giving the widest possible publicity to the plan proposed, with a view to it's full discussion and understanding by the people at large. It is the further sense of your committee that especial meeingt of the American Cotton As sociation be held in some convenient city, at date to be selected by the Board of Directors, some time during the fall or winter of 1920, said meet ing to be called for the special pur-