Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-24
], E, ConweII Makes Earnest
Appeal to Business Men to
Aid in Cooperative Mar
keting Project

| ]. E. Conwell, prominent Hart
county farmer, is now actively at
the helm of the organization CAM
paign of the Georgia Cotton Grow
ers' Cooperative association, and
on Saturday made an earnest appeal
to bankers and business men, as we'll
as the farmers, to back the organ
ization in carrying out plans for
the successful prosecution of the
| work. AT least one important step
was the selection of Mr.. Conwell
by the committee. to remain perma-
nently in Atlanta to represent it
with practically complete charge of
the affairs of the organization, Mr..
IConwell himself revealed other de-
velopments when he said:
"We have now such technical help
at hand as ought to insure success
if anything of that sort ever could.
All our old and experienced leaders
and workers are still in harness, and
in addition, the American Cotton
| Growers Exchange has placed at
our disposal r. r. Shanks and Robin
| Hood, campaign director and pub
| licity director, respectively, who put
over the brilliantly successful or
ganization campaign in Arkansas. +"
The organization committee now
| consists of: J. e. Conwell, Lavonia;
| c. S. Barrett, Union City; J. III. Bur-
! son, Carrollton; J. T. Childs, Butler:
| Ralph Collier, Conner; J. S. Cowart,
Arlington; l.. A. Dean, Rome; w. T.
Hanson, Smyrna; T. S. Johnson, JEFF
ferson; A. G. Little, Gainesville; r.
o. Manner, Millhaven; A. H. Pinson
Sylvester; T. B.. Thornton, Hartwell;
J. c. Turner, Jefferson; II. u. Wal.
lace, Elberton; A. M, Wilkins, Com
er, and Martin f. Amorous, Ma
rietta.
Mr.. Convict proceeded:
Anybody that says this. is the
farmers business only, is afflicted
with a kind of short-sightedness that
l can't understand ! should think
| everybody else would be more in
terested in putting the farmer in a
| position where he can pay his debts
than the farmer himself. The
farmers broke, and when you're
| broke, you're broke and that's all
there is to 1t. But what about the
fellow who isn't broke yet, but is
going to be pretty soon IL the farmer
doesn't get enough money to pay
him?
You've got a wonderful city here.
But as for being plumb busted in
II and being plumb busted out on
the farm, I'd rather be bankrupt out
there where I can at least raise me
something to eat, whether I've got
dollar or not.
Georgia. farmers who owe mil
lions and millions of dollars today
to banks and supply merchants help
them to solve their marketing prob
lens so that they can at least break
even on the stuff they produce?
The solution of it all lies in cor
rect cooperative marketing. And
this cooperative marketing move
ment for cotton is the most impor-
tant thing before the south today.
That's not only because cotton is
our principal money crop, but be-
cause If this movement succeeds it
Will bring cooperative marketing
for everything else, and If it doesn't,
therell be mighty hard road to
travel in Georgia from now on, &
mo matter how much help we
may get from farseeing and friendly
forces that are not on the farm, I
want to put the farmers on notice
that this is their job, and if they
lay down on it for one minute with
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do it, they'll wake up to find that
the job hasn't been done and they
are in the hole worse than ever.
If every farmer in Georgia to-
day who has already just about
made up his mind to sign that cot
ton contract, would put his John
Hancock on the dotted line tomor-
row, next midnight would see this
| campaign finished. And If everyone
who now thinks in general way
that this is a good thing, but doesn't
know much about 1t, would take the
trouble to investigate and do the
same thing, we'd soon have half the
cotton in Georgia"
Mr.. Conwell is a Georgian, and all
his life, while he has had consid-
cradle business experience, he has
been farming much of the time, and
exclusively and continuously for
the last Is years
One Of the earliest signers Of the
cotton contract, to which he pledged
an annual crop of 100 bales, he first
attracted attention by signing thou
sands Of bales to the contract in his
home territory by himself. Later he
was placed upon the organization
committee, then upon the executive
and financial committees, and now
finds himself practically in COM