Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-05-19
TO Get BANKS
f BACKING FIRST
Elmore Tells OF Plans
For Cotton Market
ing Organization

ATLANTA, May 18.-"The hank
ers and business men of each cot
ton community in Georgia will be
lined up strongly behind the Cali
fornia plan for cooperative market
ing of cotton, before any really or
ganized attempt is made to sign up
the cotton growers of that commune
ty to the association contract" saws
A. A. Elmore, director of organlza-
ton for the Georgia Cotton Growers
- cooperative Association.
"a Mr.. Gilmore was giving out for the
first time detailed plans of the forth
coming campaign to sign UP growers
of more than 100000 bales of Geor-
gas annual cotton crop to the as
soclatlon tlve-year marketing
agreement. The plans are those
which have been evolved to a great
extent, by the general organization
committee, and the execution of
which was placed Tuesday in the
hands of an operating committee to
remain in permanent session in At
lanta consisting of Mr.. Elmore, H. G..
Bagley, G. S. Barrett, 0. Z. Tate.
and l.. B. jackson.
"The acsve co-opertion of banks
and business interests of all kinds
is not only essential" he said. But
very easy to secure. We found it
so in the successful organization of
the Pacific Wheat Growers Asso-
citation, which have just left to take
up this work. / know they are solid
ly behind the tight cooperative en-
terprses in California, and | under
stand that they were the deciding
factor in the successful organization
of the Oklahoma and Mississippi cot
ton units which have just completed
themselves upon the idential con-
tract which we are offering here.
This movement is different from
anything that has ever arisen among
the farmers of this country outside
of California, where it has brought
endless prosperity not only to the
farmers but to all interests in the
community in which they dwell. We
are not creating class organization,
but business institution. We are
forming an economic unit purely and
not a political one. And when the
bankers and business men realize, as
they must as soon as they under
stand the enterprise, that we operate
strictly and constructively within
the existing business order, they
come with US to a man.
There is some contract signing
going on among the growers here
and there already" said Mr.. Emore.
"but we have not yet got really
started"
The state is being divided, he said,
into about 35 districts in each of
which a central local organization
committee will be created, which will
have more or less complete control of
the work in that section, and which
will operate largely through militia
district committees of its own APP
pointment. Organizers sent from
headquarters will visit the various
!. districts and will probably be estab-
Aished at many points, but paid forces
t~Will be used only to the smallest pos
sible extent and will be built up as
the need arises.
Meantime, mass meetings will be
held at important points and that
work has already begun.
Asked whether or not that he eX-
pected the organization to comrlete
itself in time to handle the 1921
crop, which means that the 100000
bale minimum would have to be Sc
cured before July Is, next, Mr.. Ell
more said:
at is quite possible, and alto
gether probable in the event that
the organization committo is success
full in an effort now being made
by some of It's members to raise
substantial organization fund at
once among friends of the movement
THE committee has the power to
borrow money and bind the associa--
ton, when formed, to repay it; and
it may use that power In any case,
the contract fee of five dollars
while small, will be more than suf-
ficient, in the long run, to pay for
the campaign. But unless a sub
stantial advance can be secured at
this time, our beginning will have to
be slow.
But" he smiled, don't you
doubt for one minute that we're 60
ing to get therew