The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-05-17
THE COTTON /
MARKETING
ASSOCIATION
Statement by Campaign Di-
rector For Sumter County

MIR. Editor:
Please permit me to use your
columns SO that in behalf of the
South Carolina Cotton Growers
Cooperative Association, l may
thank all persons in the county
who helped to make the sign-up
campaign a success. The hearty
support that has been given this
movement by the banks, bankers,
business men and by. the newspa-
pers of the county has been most
gratifying. The association de-
sires publicly to thank them all.
The members also have worked 10y
ally and faithfully in securing new
members.
The association is still taking new
members and all who sign by May
goth will have an opportunity 70
vote for members of the board of
directors. We now have in Sumter
county men who grew forty per
cent of the 1920 crop. The more
cotton in the association, the more
effective will it control the price
and the more economically will it
operate.
The next business before the as
ISOLATION is the election of a
board of directors. ALI members
of the association in Sumter coun-
ty and all others who sign the con-
tract by May goth, are hereby call
ed to meet at the court house in
Sumter on Tuesday, May 23rd. at
twelve o'clock noon. Postal cards
with this notice will be sent to each
member. 1t is important that all
members attend this meeting.
This county convention will first
perfect the organization of the
Sumter County Branch of the AS
ISOLATION as provided in paragraph
8 of the contract. The county
branch shall have such officers as
the members deem necessary.
These officers shall have the right
to attend meetings Of the board OF
directors and act in an advisory ca
pacity.
After ~perfecting the local organ
ization the convention will proceed
to elect fourteen delegates to a dis
trict convention which will meet
in Sumter on May 30th. (Should
there be owe fifteen hundred bales
more signed up in the county BY
May Goth, we will be entitled to
fifteen delegates), Sumter, Claren-
don and williamsburg counties will
form District No. 9 with headQuar-
ters at Sumter. The district con-
vention will nominate two men
either n of whom a majority OF
the convention would be willing
to have as a director. These two
names will be submitted to each
member on a postal card ballot,
and each will be asked to express
his preference of the two, or. il
neither suit him, to write the name
Of his choice for a director. The
man receiving a majority Of the
votes in any district will be the
director from that district.
Cooperative marketing is a sys-
TEN planned to eliminate waste
and to place the farmer in a po-
sition where he can set his price on
his product. It has brought pros
perity to thousands Of farming
communities in this and other coun.
tries. Properly managed. it, can
not fail to greatly benefit the south
ern cotton growers and southern
farmers generally. I believe that
with the machinery that the or
g%anization committee has devised
we can and we will get the right
men on the board Of directors. II
is the duty of each member to at
tend the county convention on May
23rd.
Z. W. Dabbs, il
Campaign Director for SulItel
County.