Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-07-29
GROWERS RALLY IS
SET FOR AUGUST 3
Prominent Men Will Speak at
Afternoon Meeting
COOPERATION
Representatives of Georgia Cotton
Growers Cooperative Associa-
ton Will Hold Meeting

ATLANTA, July 29.-The opening
gun of the organization campaign of
the Georgia Cotton Growers Co,
operative Association in Ben Hill
County, will be fired at 200 o'clock
IN the afternoon at the court houae
in Fitzgerald, on August 3rd, when
two distinguished speakers represent
ing the Association will address
mass meeting of Ben Hill County
cotto farmers.
The visitors will be Hon. w. I.
Hanson, Chairman of the Cobb coun-
ty Organization Committee, and the
other-probably Hon. J. J. Brown,
OF Atlanta, or Hon E. K. Overstreet
OF Sylvania. All are exceptionally
interesting speakers, and understand
the Associations plans and contract
to the last detail They are mem
bers of a group of score of speak
ers who took the field voluntarily on
behalf of the Association on July 81,
and are touring practically every
cotton county in Georgia before the
middle of August.
The Georgia Cotton Growers Co.
operative Association is the business
unit now being formed by an organ
ization committee headed by Hon.
Charles S. Barrett, of Union City. to
market 100000 bales or more of
Georgia's annual cotton crop under
the famous California plan, some
times referred to as the Sapiro plan,
from the fact that the attorney who
drew the marketing agreement be-
ing used by the Georgia unit and ten
other units now formed or forming
in ten different Southern states, was
Aaron Sapiro, of San Francisco
The plan was discussed here in a
meeting in Fitzgerald some time ago,
and voted down by the group. there
assembled, but it was not ,sresented
by anyone connected with Geor-
gia Cotton Growers Co6eerative
Association, and it is the claim of
the Association that its presentation
must have been incorrect.
Barrett May Attend
i plead earnestly, says Hon.
Charles S. Barrett, chairman of the
state organization committee, who
may himself be present on the date
in question, with the farmers of
Ben Hill County to bend every eff
tort to come to this meeting and
hear the plan explained and question
our speakers to their hearts con-
tent. This is the most important en-
terprise that has ever been presented
to the farmers of Georgia, and it
contains the only means to their eco
nomic salvation. They owe it to
themselves and to their wives and
children at least to inform themselves
thoroughly at their first opportunity
OF what the Georgia Cotton Crow
ers' Cooperative Association is"
Interest in the Association is said
to be running exceedingly high thru
out the state since it has become
known that the Mississippi Staple
Cotton Cooperative Association.
which recently succeeded in borrow
ing several million dollars from the
War Finance Corporation to assist
it in handling its 1921 crop, is a Cal
ifornia plan unit just organized upon
the identical plan now being offered
to Georgia farmers by the Georgia
Association.
Hart, Franklin, and several other
counties in the northeastern section
of the state, where the movement got
an early start, are reported already
nearly over the top with their respec-
tive quotas of cotton on the mini
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