Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-29
TOLAY COTTON
POOL SICN-UP
PLANS TUESDAY
County Committee To
Confer With Field
Worker Present

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which is the Georgia branch of the
organization embracing the whole
cotton belt putting into practice the
| California or Sapiro marketing pla1,
Will be mapped out at a conference
at the courthouse Tuesday afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock of a county commit
tee selected following the visit here
last Wednesday 0f A. A. Elmore,
state organizer. Leading men IN eV-
cry community of the county have
been aske to Ind 1neW assistance
in putting this campaign through,
which has for its object the ending
forever the power of the cotton CX
changes to fix the price Of cotton in
the same way as the Georgia Fruit
Exchange protects the Georgia peach
grower from The preying specula-
tor and commission men. ]. T. Wise,
a farmer, who is now at work sign
ing the farmers of Macon county, will
attend the conference to assist in
mapping out plans AID t. answer
any question on points no. thor
oughly understood
Already the states Of Texas, Ok
Iahoma, Arizona, Mississippi and
North Carolina have perfected their
organizations. Owing to late start,
Georgia will not be able to con,plete
organization before about January
l, which will be too late to affect
this years crop. The contracts be-
come effective when 100000 bales
Of cotton in this state have been pool
ed. The Texas pool controls 1,00O,-
! 600 bales.
Advisory Committee
! At last Wednesdays meeting, over
which Col. j, f. D. Shipp presided
as chairman and J. T. Motion, of
| Leslie, acted as secretary, a tempor-
ary executive committee was named
consisting of the following: s. A.
! Rodgers, W. T. Anderson, ]. W. Clop-
ton, j. /. Pennington and W S.
| Kirkpatrick. This temporary execu-i
tive committee has arranged for the
meeting of the county committee |
which will hold its first meeting
/ Tuesday afternoon. This advisory
committee is composed of the fol !
lowing:
15th-W. T. Anderson, R. j. Sims,
]. T. Bolton.
New 16th-S. A. Rodgers, Wade !
; Turner, Jeff Dean.
Old 16th-J /. Johnson, C. C. !
Sheppard. ]. W Peel
17th-Walter Chapel, E. B.
Thrasher.
New 26th-T. NJ. Lowery, Adam
Smith, Frank Mathews.
Old 26th-Sam McGarrah
27th-N. A. Raw, L. G. Council, |
Gordon Heys, J. E. Poole.
2Sth-4J T. Methvin, Ed Brown,
Clyde Griffin.
29th-A. F. Hodges, w. A. Slap
| peY.
This marketing plan for cotton has
met with widesnread approval and
response, depending for its success
only upon being thoroughly under |
! stood. Wade Turner is one of the |
most enthusiastic workers for the
plan. He has attended a number of |
meetings on the plan, including state
fwlde gatherings, and declares it the
only salvation of the cotton grower. |
| Copies of the contracts to be signed
by the growers, similar to the peach
growers contracts, but even more
effective, have been shown here and
will be available at this meeting,
Following his talk here, Organizer
Elmore has given. out the following
summary of the marketing plan for
the information of the cotton grow
ers:
| Mr. .Elmore Explains
There has been so much misun-
derstandIng or misinterpretation of
the much discussed California Plan
for cooperative marketing Of cotton
that the Georgia Cotton Growers
! Cooperative Association, which is
now being formed to put it into cf-
feet in Georgia, has requested the
publication of the following brief
outline of the associations plans and
purposes.
| The organization headquarters of
the association, located in Atlanta,
has issued an elaborate QUESTIONABLE
which goes INTO great detail upon this
matter and which will be so distrib
uted as to be made available to ev
cry cotton grower in Georgia. In the
meantime, the following is an Off
cial general outline:
"The Georgia Cotton Growers As
sociation, VIII be an organization con-
sisting exclusively of growers of cot
ton and landlords who receive cotton
as rent.
at is being organized by an or
ganization committee, of which Chas- /
). Barrett, of Union City, is chair
man. This committee will have moth.
ing whatever to do with the manage
ment of the association, once the as
sociation is formed, and will go out
of existence as soon as it is formed.
"The association itself does not
come into existence and none of its |
contracts are effective until the as
sociation's membership contract and
marketing agreement has been signed
! by growers representing not less than /
30O,0 200 bales or more of Georgia's S
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