The Pulaskian., 1920-01-09
COTTON GROWERS
 ARE ORGANIZING
ARKANSAS PREPARING TO MAKE A CAMPAIGN FOR MEMBER
 SHIP IN A FEW WEEKS.

the organization of the American Cot ton Association entering upon an era of renewed activity. There are eight i hundred cotton counties in the South and in many of the states, there is already large membership enrolled. Arkansas is preparing to make it's campaign for membership in short time. More than half the counties have active chairmen and the indiea- tions are that the next month will bankers, mercants and professional men, wose interests are mutual in the l advancement of the interests of the cotton grower.
 The machinery of the association is complete in every state from Vir- ginia to Texas, Arizona and Califor, mia. The fair and reasonable prices for spot cotton advocated by the asso- citation has been realized today by the cotton growers, in the face of the most desperate efforts made to beat down prices and adverse world con- ditions ever before known in the cot ton trade of the South.
 "The association passes into the New Year of 1920 flushed with vic tory and gaining additional strength with the decline of each days sum-" said J. R. Alexander of Scott, presi- dent of the Arkansas division of the American Cotton Association "The slogan for 1920 must be the enroll ment of one million members, active, i patriotic and loyal. The association must have upon the membership rolls of the various states, 6,600 Southern bankers, 100000 merchants, 20,000 ginners, 10000 warehousemen, 500, ,O00 farmers and 50,000 business and pro- fessional men in other allied avoca- tions. The Arkansas State division will enter cheerfully into the contest great membership drive for 1920. It has been conclusively proven in nu- merous tests already made, that every class of the association membership 1 is readily enrolled when the oppor- tunity is given. This opportunity will l be given in every city, town and ham, l let, and in every rural home through out the length and breadth of the cotton growing area in this state dur l ing the year 1920"
 ''The association must have an av- craze of one thousand members in each one of the eight hundred cotton growing countless" said Harvie Jor 1 dan, national campaign director. Many of the counties have already exceeded this number, and, in some cases, have more than doubled it. There must be a fixed and definite goal to work for. One million mem 1 bers is to be the slogan. With one million members, the American Cot ton Association can safely go forward to success for the solution of it's great economic problems relating to cotton and agriculture, bringing to Southern farmers prosperity and happiness, and to the whole South progress and undiminishing development along all lines of industrial and commercial and financial endeavor."
 Let the slogan for 1920 be: ONE MILLION MEMBERS and win it.
 w. c. Lassetter, director of the co operative extension work, and mem Der of the executive committee of the association, writes as follows:
 "The organization of the American Cotton Association, which is proposed to include those having to do with the production of cotton, is to my mind a most important step for the cotton growers and the merchants and bankers of the cotton territory
 There is much in the handling of cotton that needs correcting. Those responsible for part of this will not change until forced to through the organization of those interested in the production of the crop Many of these factors cannot be changed except through organization. There is much to be done when the mass of cotton growers and the merchants and bankers, who are interested in their welfare, come together. The leadership represented in these peo- pie will undoubtedly work out a method of procedure, that will lead to great improvement in the hand ling of the cotton crop Leadership had no opportunity among disor- ganized people. The natural leader ship within the people themselves will begin to assert itself with the