The Little River news., 1920-05-19
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
 COTTON CONvE'T!ON
American Cotton Association Getting Their Platform Before the Cotton --..
 Growers of the South

Growers of the South
 Little Rock May 1S.-(SpeciaD- less than 5O,0O0 copies of the entire proceedings of. the American Cotton Association at Montgomery April 1916, [are to be printed for general distribu- tion throughout the South, the nation and European countries. All writers on the subject are agreed that the con- vention was one of the most historic ever held, and that the program adopt ed for the eliminating of waste and to insure the protection of the farmers is the most important ever talk en.
 The Special Committee on Marketing and Co-Operative Organization, of the American Cotton Association, meets in Memphis this week, and Dr. Bradford Knapp of Arkansas, member of the committee at large and Adolph Felsen- thai of Camden, are attending. Dr. Knapp is working with the United OIdUco bulcdu oI ploi hCto ou SOIue very 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 market ing was thoroughly considered by a special committee at Montgomery, and it's findings were summarized in the following statement of aims,
 What They Intend to Do. 1. The formation of local neighor- hood organizations for marketing cot ton,
 2. Encouraging the establishment of bonded warehouses wherever local conditions will permit.
 3, Helping county and local organi- cations to put into effect the chasing of cotton by disinterested cotton class CTS, the classification to be based upon the official cotton standards of the United States
 4. The immediate adoption of plans for the creation of state and national selling agencies whose chief purpose will be to collect the cotton of all or ganized localities and sell such cotton the best interests of the producer.
 Your committee does not believe that the association, within the short
 period of the present convention should end'eavor to formulate in final form, plans for putting those aims into lportance of the immediate action anG with view to such action, recOm- mends that the Associations Com mittee on Cooperative Marketing in- vestigate various successful co-opera- tive marketing plans and work out a national marketing system for cotton This committee should be directed to pay special attention to the co-opera- I tive marketing methods which have been successfully. worked out through twenty four years of actual experience by the farmers and fruit-growers of California, and should use the Califor- nia plan as guide in constructing a definite, detailed organization plan for the marketing of cotton on a national scale. This committee should report it's findings to the Board of Directors of the American Cotton Association by June 15, 1920. It is the sence of your committee that the Board of Dir ectors of the American Cotton As sociation should, within thirty days thereafter, take the necessary prelimi- nary steps to form a marketing CO., operation as indicated, at the same time giving the widest possible public ity to the plan proposed, with a view to it's full discussion and understanding by the people at large It is the fur ther sense of your committee that a special meeting of the American Cot ton Association be held in some con- venient city, at date to be selected by the Board of Directors, some time during the fall or early winter of 1920, said meeting to be called for the spec ial purpose of finally organizing such national marketing plan as is above desired"