Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-07
Shanks Predicts Georgia
Farmer Will Sign 100000
Bales for Cooperative
Marketing by End of VIC
tory Week

Thirty thousand bales Of cotton
have been signed up in Georgia III
the past week, and the momentum al
ready attained, before the real sign
up campaign starts. insures the sue
cess of the movement by a large mar
gin over Georgia'S minimum quota
OF 100000 bales, it was announced
Saturday night at campaign head
quarters of the Georgia Cotton Grow
ers' Cooperative association.
The team of speakers on the road
last week were not endeavoring to
sign up pledges for the cotton pool.
Their object was primarily educa-
tional; to put the movement before
the farmers, merchants and bank
ers; to answer questions; to relate
the work done in Oklahoma, Texas
and other states where the farmers
have organized, and in general to
pave the way for the Victory
Week" drive, which will start Mon
day. March 10.
Yet so great was the interest and
81 Ieduy were lluilul Gus VI Ae1l hlC. .
to enter the association that 10000
bales, this figure being conserva-
tive estimate, were signed up, stated
the officials in charge at campaign
headquarters.
l.. F. ShankS, campaign director,
addressed a large and enthusiastic
gathering of farmers and business
men at Greenville yesterday.
q large
cotton" he said. Il do not know
how many bales, as I have just re
turned and have not had time to
count the pledges.
Zone Of the signers was a promi-
nent banker. He said he had been
reading Ralph Smiths series of ar
ticles in The Journal describing the
achievements of the Oklahoma asso-
citation, and that he was convinced
of the practical benefits to be OBJ
tanned through this method OF mar
keting cotton.
''I find that cooperative market
ing is the talk of the state. Every
where 1 go I hear the people dis
cussing it. There is not the slight
est doubt in my mind that the Geor-
gia cotton pool is going far over the
top. With a minimum quota CT
100000 bales. I firmly believe. we
will have 100000 signed up by the
end of Victory week.
Reports were received at cam
paign headquarters last night that
Dodge county has exceeded it's quota.
With 1000 bales to be signed up,
the Dodge county workers got $500.
Bulloch county also has gone over
the top with $500 bales, and Lau
rens ~countyF signed more than 800
bales at a meeting in Dublin Satur-
day, it was reported.
Contracts are being signed three
times as. fast in Georgia at this time
as they were in Oklahoma and Tex
as a month before the close of those
campaigns" said Mr.. Shanks. "This
convinces me that Georgia will go
over the top with a big margin
above the minimum quota
c.. o. Moser and J. G. Coghlan will
continue their speaking tours the
first three days of this week.
On Thursday the field men and
district leaders will come to Atlanta
for a conference, preliminary to the
launching Of the VICTORY week.
drive.
On Saturday the county workers
in every county will assemble i'll
their respective courthouseS lor
final conference, to assign territory
to teams and perfect other details
IF starting the drive.
Fifteen hundred men, including
farmers, merchants and bankers
will take the field Monday morning,
March -, in "Victory week. drive.
The key speaker in the cotton
campaign yesterday was G. y.
Moser, secretary of the American
Cotton Growers Exchange, which
this year will market more than
$500, 100000 worth of cotton for the
farmers of the south.
Despite interference by the
weather, a number of farmers have
heard him in the last two days at
Marietta, Lawrenceville, Commerce
and Gainesville. He will speak in
Gainesville Monday, Calhoun Tues
day morning, Dalton Tuesday after
noon and will close at Rome Wed
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