Arizona republican., 1921-06-05
COIT0NGROWERST n { RUSH ORGANIZATION
 IN F|NAL CAMPAIGN

Quiet grim determination to per xect the organization of the Arizona f1macotton growers was the out sthndtng feature of the meeting held yesterday by members of the organ nation committee and cotton grow ers In general And before the crowd lezt arrangements had been made to rcoyer every cotton district in the valley not yet organized in a thor oueh. man to man canvass.
 little time has been lost in an etIort 10 line up all interests back Of the movement and these efforts VIII be continued with the utmost good will but there will bo no fur ther delay: Immediately after a brief consideration of the past few weeks. I. 2. Phillips offered a motion that tt be the sense of the meeting that the campaign be pushed to completion immediately and the motion was then parsed by unanimous vote, whereby each man stood and pledge himself to work, and work hard until the sign up was completed.
 Monday morning there will be teams in the field In the districts n yet but partly organized, while tho remnants in the moro strongly organized districts, which include Washington. Creighton, Scottsdale and Phoenix.
 Mesa. Glendale, Alhambra, Roose. velt. Laveen, Peoria and Kyrene arr about half signed up, the remain. der of growers will De solicited thfl week. Chandler. Gilbert and ths West End have only scattering mem. borship 90 far and these district, win be thoroughly canvassed this week. It is confidently expected tha when the workers meet next Satur. day and the total number of tabulat ed that the campaign will have beel completed.
 K D. Hel2x arth, vice chairman 0 the committee presided in the absenc of the chairman. Joseph R. Loftus who is in the East in the interest o the tariff on foreign long staple cot ton.
 Material for field workers was dis fributed and every man present wen home pledged to work hard all weei reporting progress daily to the com mittee headquarters.
 number of matters Of general in teresf wero discussed. including tn prospective tariff Of 20 cents poun and its probable effect on the pric of cotton here, methoos of protect ing the interests of the growers { last years cotton still on hand. an other vital matters
 It was the unanimous opinion tha ,xrrWhen picking time comes there sti & win be q large part of last year crop on hand and that financing wi be . serious problem, to be solve only by the early perfecting of the oz Hanfxation of the Arizna Pimacotto growers and the election of the ne offfcern by the members.
 It was emphasized that the co loctive credit of strong organizs ton certainly would be necessary assist local financial institutions bringing In sufficient funds to tai care of the situation that will aris us result of the certain carry owe Oklahoma. with her strong organizs tion of 35.Oo0 members who will SC lo0, 900 bales through their organ = ration. and the Mississippi Delta Sts Die Growers association already al negotiating for arrangements mex fan and the local organization, to the best work must be completed 1 soon as possible.
 We would do better to blow !, our cotton right now than to spel any more time or money on il" sa one prominent grower from the Sou Side, unless we perfect our orga nation and I for one am going
 devote the time necessary to help ? 1t over"