The log cabin Democrat., 1921-02-09
FINAL STEP TAKEN
 ON ACREAGE PLAN BUSINESS MEN APPROVE
School Districts Notified to Call Meet ings February 17 When
 Farmers Pledged.

Tuesday afternoon at the joint meet. ing of merchants, bankers and lanc owners with the committee of sever appointed by the farmers at Satur- days mass meeting. Without excep- tion the business interests represent ed pledged support to the reduction and will withhold credit from farm CTS and others who attempt to over- step the acreage fixed under the plan To complete the work, call was made to all school districts to hold meetings on Thursday, February IT, when individual farmers will sign the pledge,
 Business men at the meeting yes. teday were singularly unanimous in approving the reduction as the only means of profitable agriculture this year. Pledges to observe the provis. ions of the Memphis plan were given by G. ". Adkisson, Jo FrauenthaI fol Frauenthal & Schwarz, Frank Farris for the Farmers State Bank, B. L, Harton for the Faulkner County Bank x Trust Company, Tom Davis for the Bank of Conway, w. M. Harrell for W. M. Harrell X Company, John A. Mode, D. 0. Harton, W. ". Moore. W. B. Mills and s. G. Smith. To have i general supervision of reduction en- forcement, the meeting then appoint ed a county executive committee to be composed of Frank Paris, Tom Davis and V. D. Hill, representing the banks. Jo Frauenthal, s. G. Smith and D. O. Harton, representing the merchants, and J. F. Raney, Charles Lienhart, John Hooks and T. B. Adams, repre- senting the farmers. Mr. Farris was named temporary chairman of the committee and authorized to convene it when occasion might demand.
 With the organization completed, the meeting directed that all school districts be notified to hold meetings on Thursday, February r, and pre- sent pledges to individual farmers. Charles Lienhart, temporary seere- tary was directed to have pledges printed and mailed to all school di- rectors with instructions to call the meetings. The pledges signed at that time will be returned to Mir. Lienhart not later than March 1. Too much stress can not be placed upon the pledges by farmers, it was said, as they will be filed here for the guid- ance of merchants and banks in hand ling credits.
 Mr. Frauenthal presided at yester- days meeting as temporary chair man. T. B. Adams. who was chair man of the farmers meeting stated the purpose of the gathering and what was proposed by the farmers. MT Frauenthal then made short address on the relation of the merchant to the customer, and MT. Smith talked on what the farmers want. J. F. Raney spoke of the tenant farmer, and the pledges framed by the Memphis con, vention were read by the chairman. Progress in organizing the county and state for the reduction was reported by Mr. Farris. Other talks were made by w. w. Moore and Young Mckinney.
 Every one at the meeting urged ad- herence to the Memphis plan, which calls for not more than one-third of the total acreage in cotton this year and the other acreage in flood and feed" crops. G. w. Adkisson briefly stted his view, saying q am for less cotton" Mir. Smith declared that the entire south should reduce it's cot ton acreage, not only for one year, but for five years. w. w. Moore, who IS a planter on big scale, pledged the reduction of his acreage. Others were as positive in declaring for less cotton
 Yesterdays joint meeting was the final one of the preliminary gather, ings to launch the reduction move ment and perfect the organization which will carry it out. The first was the meeting of business men at the Commercial Club soon after the Mem phis convention and then the mass meeting of farmers late in January when meetings by school districts were directed for the selection of dele gates to the county convention o1 farmers on last Saturday. Meetings in the school districts for the signing of pledges on February IF will be the last act, the reduction then being left to the farmers under the supervision of the county executive committee unless some unforeseen development should require the calling of general meeting. Leaders in the movement are more than gratified by the unan imous response given the appeal and are confident that Faulkner county will follow the course of safe farm ing and produce it's own "food anc feed' for the first time Tn it's history