Arizona republican., 1921-07-09
Mississippi Staple Growers In
 Fight To Get Tariff Protection

The staple cotton growers of Mis- sissippi are putting their shoulder to the tariff wheel and helping Arizona in her fight to gain protection against Egyptian cotton, it was indicated by an interchange of telegrams in the past few days between w. s. Stevens and Oscar Bledsoe, Jr.. of Greenwood, president and founder of the Staple Cotton Growers association.
 MT. Bledsoe went to Washington immediately after MT. Stevens wired him that staple cotton was on the free list, and has apparently made some progress. The following telegram was received yesterday.
 Washington. D. C.. July 8. 1921. w. S. Stevens,
 Phoenix, Arizona.
 War finance corporation agreed advance five millions. Committee amendment to include staple cotton expected on tariff bill. whether busi- ness or politics doubtful.
 OSCAR F. BLEDSOE. JR. At the meeting of the local com mittee on tariff at the chamber of commerce yesterday this telegram was the cause of great interest, and the consensus of opinion was that there is no time to be lost, but that dCtiOil must pc ldken dt once tO SeHu representatives to Washington to present the valleys case for protec- l ton.
 l It was pointed out that if an amendment can be secured through the ways and means committee, as was inferred as a possibility in the Bledsoe wire, it will take much less effort and expense to get the sched- ule through than if the fight had to | be carried into the senate and then i back to the house.
 The reference in the opening of the telegram to five millions. interpreted means that the war finance corpora tion has agreed to loan to the staple their association, which is exactly similar to the Arizona Pimacotton Growers, the sum of $5,000,000 on their new crop of cotton.
 This adds another possibility for financing the valley crop this year through the association, the other possibilities being large and wealthy group of New York finan- ciers, and the federal reserve system
 That the mills and big cotton bro- kers are getting interested in the CO., operative selling movement is dem- I onstrated by a story appearing ir the last issue of the New Bedford Standard, which says:
 Both the mill men and the cot ton merchants here are very much interested in the outcome of the at tempt to consolidate the Delta cottor lgrowers into a cooperative selling organization, and from reliable re. T ports received here there is disposi ton to believe that this time tn, movement is really going through The most important feature of tn, plan according to the local cottor men, is that the growers are to retain no conrol of the price at which theil cotton is sold after it goes into ths hands of the cooperative association This has always proved the stumbling block heretofore, and it is recognized here that if 1t has been possible tt get 100000 bales of staple cottor signed up for five years under such an agreement. the association vii work if it Is properly managed. es- pecially in view of the unquestioned character of the membership.
 l Angling is already going on among | the various local selling houses in order to land the privilege of repre- senting the organization as eastern selling agents, for it is realized that the association will have not only tc build up shipping organization in