Judsonia weekly advance. (Judsonia, Ark.) 1???-1922, 1921-01-27
WOULD REDUCE
COTTON ACREAGE
REDUCTION IN COTTON ACREAGE
is ENDORSED BY THE STATE
CONFERENCE.
LAST SESSION IS STORMY
Closing Hours of Conferences We're
Marked BY More Or Less Turbu-
Ience, Farmers Were in Big Ma
Iority at Conference.

Little Rock.-After heated discus
sion the state conference of farmers,
planters, merchants ana bankers
adopted a resolution endorsing the so.
called Memphis PLAN for the reduc
ton of the cotton acreage in 1921. AZ
ter adopting this resolution the confer
ence adjourned sine die at 1870 p. m.
This plan, which was adopted at the
meeting of the Southern Cotton Con.
efrence at Memphis December rs, 1920
would compel all cotton growers tc
reduce their cotton acreage so that
they would plant not to exceed one.
third of their cultivated land to the
staple. The plan provides for the
signing of pledges by farmers that
they will not exceed this limit, by
landlords that they will compel theil
tenants to observe the limitation, and
by banks and mercantile firms that
they will not extend credit to farmers
who exceed the limit
After adopting the resolution en-
dorsing the Memphis plan,' the con
making any provision for organizing to
enforce the reduction plan. However,
supporters of the plan said that an
organization is provided in the Mem
phis plan" itself and they quoted Ar
ticle of the PLAN which reads as fol
lows:
Immediately after the Memphis
cotton convention adjourns the presi
dents of each of the several state
bankers associations in cooperation
with the officers of the American Cot.
ton Association, both the national as.
sociation and the state DIVISION, the
farmers union and other farmers or.
CARNATIONS shall be requested to ap.
point a state central committee con.
sisting of three or more bankers,
which committee shall undertake the
organization of the said state by the
appointment and supervision of coun.
ty executive committees, which shall
organize the said counties into the
cotton reduction movement for the
purposes stated in the foregoing pre-.
amble."
1t was said that as a result of the
endorsement of the Memphis plan"
by the conference recently it is proba.
BILE the heads of the various organiza.
lions mentioned will get together at
once and appoint a state central com.
mittee, as provided in the Memphis
plan.
Opponents of the Memphis plan"
argued that 1t was impractical, that
it could not be enforced, and that it
would arouse resentment among the
farmers and cause trouble over the
state. They declared that il the far.
mer was forbidden to plant all his
land to cotton, that would be the very
thing he would want to do. They con.
coded the urgent necessity of a radi.
cal reduction in cotton acreage. but
they said that the thing to do was
to conduct campaign stressing the
necessity Of every community raising
it's own food and feed They, present.
ed figures to show that if this were
done it would automatically result in
a decrease of so per cent in the states
cotton acreage, and they argued that
no greater reduction would be advisa-
BILE.
However, sentiment was so over.
whelmingly in favor of the Memphis
plan that its opponents offered no
opposition to the Adoption of the reso-
luton, which went through by unan-
imous vote.
The closing hours of the conference
were marked by more or less turbu.
lence. Farmers were in a big major
ity at the conference, and the major
ity of them were anxious to adopt the
Memphis plan and to adjourn. Many
of them wished to leave for their
homes TN early afternoon trains. The
audience appeared to be filled with ora
tors who were eager for an opportun-
ity to talk, and finally E. j. Bodman,
chairman of the conference, was fore
ed to announce that oratorical out
bursts would be limited to five min.
utes.