Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-10-07

together before and after his talk.
With Mr.. OusIey, who is spending
only three days in Georgia, was Phi
J. Campbell, director of the state
college of agriculture, at Athens, and
u. II. Mills, president of the Georgia
Farmers union. They drove to Ameri.
cas- in Mr.. Cambell's car from Daw,
SON where Mr.. Ousley spoke Thurs
day forenoon. Immediately after the
address here Mr. Campbell and Mr.
Ousley started for Athens, when Mr.
Ousley was to speak today before
distinguished gathering, Intending to
stop overnight at some convenient
point on the road, probably Macon.
Mr.. Mills, who came to South Geor-
gia for the sole purpose of hearing
Mr.. Ousley's address, remained over
in Americas today to do little mis-.
sionary work fer the cotton organi,
cation here if he could, although
making it plain that his organization
was not yet behind it and that he
was out principally for information
which he was to report to the union,
Personally he has signed up his crop
Of cotton, he said, Observation-Disclosures.
Practical and Scholarly
Mr.. Ousley's daIk was practical
as we'll as scholarly. Although show
ing himself to be a man of wide cX-
pcrience and deep thinking, he spoke
clearly and simply He declared the
cotton growers were not merely
planters, but were actually manu-
facturers of cotton fiber, as surely
and certainly as the cotton mill is
a manufacturer of cotton cloth. He
declared that any other business
would be absolutely without banking
credit if it did not have a selling
end to it, and called attention to the
fact that the farmer knows nothing
about selling his cotton, must take
what is offered without regard to the
products value, Situation absolute.
ly preposterous, he said. He did not
go into the details of the association
contract and machinery of its opera
ton as have other speakers here, but
went into the subject on its broader
basis, developing the need for the
organization. He declared that under
present selling methods buyer is
unable to secure cotton by proper
grades to fill his requirements, but
to supply his needs must buy lots
containing other grades, usually
three times his requirements. TIC
protect himself he is forced to pay
a lower price than the cotton is
really worth, and the farmer is the
lesser. Under the organization plan
all the cotton would be sold co-opera-
lively by grade and in quantities
needed. The result would be the best
possible prices, without losses to tho
grower by forcing the buyer to take
cotton of grade not needed or want.
ed and assuming risk of later dis,
posing of it at a profit.
High Cost To Sumter
he declared that as result of the
present system Of speculation it is
costing Sumter county growers at
least $25 a bale to get their cotton to
Europe, if exported, above freight, or
more than 50 bale in this country
also above freight, this being the diff
ference between what the farmer re.
ceives for the actual cotton and what
the mill pays for it. He declared this
to be an outrageous price, which
could be broken UP by cooperative
selling He declared a state associa,
ton controlling millon bales could
put it in the mills for not more than a
dollar a bale.
Admitting that the associations did
not pretend to control all the cotton