Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-29
TOLAY COTTON
POOL SICN-UP
PLANS TUESDAY
County Committee To
Confer With Field
Worker Present

! OIHdilIGdllOu embracing lHC WlOIt
cotton belt putting into practice the
! California or Sapiro marketing plan,
will be mapped out at conference
at the courthouse Tuesday afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock Of a county commit
tee selected following the visit here
last Wednesday 5f A. A. TImore,
state organizer. Leading men in cv-
cry community of the county have
| been askc to nd tNelv assistance
in putting this campaign through
| which has for its object the ending
forever the power of the cotton cX-
changes to fix the price Of cotton in
the same way as the Georgia Fruit
Exchange protects the Georgia paach
/ grower from the preying specula-
! tor and commission men. J. T. Wise
! a farmer, who is now at work sign
ing the farmers of Macon county, will
! attend the conference to assist in
mapping out plans aud t. answer
any question on points not thor
oughly understood.
Already the states Of Texas, Ok
lahoma, Arizona, Mississippi and
North Carolina have perfected their
organizations. Owing to late start,
| Georgia will not be able to corplete
organization before abouS January
| /, which will be too late to affect
this years crop. The contracts be
| come effective when 100000 bales
of cotton in this state have been pool
ed The Texas pool controls 1000
| 000 bales
A Advieor.y Ton,1,,i5fac
At last Wednesdays meeting, over
! which Col J. z. D, Shipp presided
as chairman and J. 7. Motion, of
Leslie, acted as secretary, a temper
ary executive committee was named
consisting Of the following S. A.
| Rodgers, w. T. Anderson, J. w, Clop-
ton, J. l.. Pennington and w. S.
Kirkpatrick This temporary execu-
tive committee has arranged for the
meeting Of the county committee
which will hold its first meeting
Tuesday afternoon. This advisory
committee is composed of the fol
lowing:
18th W. T. Anderson, R. J. Sims,
J. T. Bolton.
New 16th-S. A. Rodgers, Wade
Turner, Jett Dean.
Old 10TH l.. Johnson, c. c.
Sheppard, J. W Peel.
17th-Walter Chapel L. B.
Thrasher.
New 26th-T. NJ. Lowery, Adam
Smith, Frank Mathews.
Old 26th-Sam McGarrah.
27tb-N, A, Raw, L. G. Council,
Gordon Hcys, J, Z. Poole,
28th-1I. 7. Methvin, Ed Brown,
Clyde Griffin.
29th-A. F. Hodges, W, A. Slap
pcy.
This marketing plan for cotton has
met with widesuread approval and
response, depending for It's success
only upon being thoroughly under
stood. Wade Turner is one Of the
most enthusiastic workers for the
plan. He has attended number Of
meetings on the plan, including state
wide gatherings, and declares it the
only salvation of the cotton growar.
Copies Of the contracts to be signed
by the growers, similar to the peach
growers contracts, but even more
effective, have been shown here and
will be available at this meeting.
Following his talk here, Organizer
Elmore has given out the following
summary of the marketing plan for
| the information of the cotton grow
! ers:
Mr. .Elmore Explains
"There has been so much misl1n-
derstanding or misinterpretation Of
/ +bn p1uoh JieorrroJ C,I;ro,r.: nj
for cooperative marketing Of cotton
that the Georgia Cotton Growers
/ Cooperative Association, which IS
now being formed to put it into cf-
feet in Georgia, has requested The
publication of the following brief
outline of the associations plans and
purposes.
The organization headquarters Of
the association, located in Atlanta,
has issued an elaborate questionnaire
which goes into great detail upon this
matter and which will be so distrib-
uted as to be made available to ev-
cry cotton grower in Georgia. In the
meantime, the following is an Off
cial general outline:
The Georgia Cotton Growers AS
sociation viii be an organization con-
sisting exclusively of growers Of cot
ton and landlords who receive cotton
as rent.
at is being organized by an or
ganization committee, of which Chas-
S. Barrett, of Union City, is chair
man. This committee will have moth.
ing whatever to do with the manage
ment Of the association, once the as
sociation is formed, and will go out
of existence as soon as it is formed.
''The association itself does not
come into existence and none of its
contracts are effective until the as
sociation,s membership contract and
marketing agreement has been signed
by growers representing not less than
100000 bales or more of Georgia's
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