Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-14
VICTORY WEEK.
FOR COTTON POOL
BEGINS ON MONDAY
Seventy-Eight Counties VIII
Be Covered in Drive to
Complete Cotton Growers
PooI-1,2O0 TO Help

Over 1900 Georgia farmers will
launch tomorrow the Victory week
drive in the cotton pool campaign Of
the Georgia Cotton Growers Coop
erative association.
Campaign headquarters announced
Saturday night that county cam
paign meetings held Saturday we're
largely attended and enthusiastic in
practically every instance. and that
Fseveral meetings had a big sign-up
Of cotton unsolicited.
Seventy-eight Georgia counties will
be covered in the Victory week drive.
These are the counties where the
bulk of Georgia cotton is raised. Such
counties as Fulton, Bibb, Chatham
and others having large cities are
not included in the list. Counties
where crops other than~cotton con-
stitute the main farming industry
are not included.
The campaign, in other words is
TO be directed at the heart OF the
cotton industry, and the large army
of volunteer workers enlisted for the
drive is both an evidence Of the in
terest aroused and On augury OF sue
cess.
The movement to organize the
south's cotton growers into state as
sociations for cooperative selling OF
their staple has already become an
actuality m cotton states west of the
Mississippi river. as interestingly de-
scribed in The Atlanta Journal by
it's staff correspondent, Ralph SMITH
in a series of articles written from
frst hand information obtained on
Georgia is the key state east OF
the Mississippi, and the success VI
victory week will insure the success
If the movement in the states re-
naming to be organized ooo
Ceorgia's minimum quota IS wv
ooO bales. and Of that amount LOU,
oO0 bales have already been slgreo,
r. 10 exnected that "Victory week
will carry the cotton pool not only
TO the goal, but over the goal.
Campaign headquarters in Atlan-
70 will receive daily reports OF the
| progress Of the drive in every couh-
| tv. A stirring appeal went out lasl
night from headquarters to all the
workers. It was as follows:
"Next week, March 1918, is VIC
| tory week. in the great cotton poor
campaign. It will be the most I'M
portant week that Georgia agrlcui-
ture has ever known. Only lew
! more DAYS remain to the close OF
Ihel campaign, and we still lack
| number of thousand bales of gong
as,oY, fhe ff,f,rrl-..sssss F7s-ss
"We must not fail!
| whether the farmers of Georgia
are to have a cooperative cotton
marketing association depends on
the outcome of Victory week..
During this period of time it Will
practically be determined whether
or not we cotton growers are to
control the marketing of our own
| product or whether we shall con-
tinue to be dictated to by the hordes
of middlemen and spectators who
at present control the marketing OF
cotton.
Failure will not only be a great
disappointment to the people of this
state, but also to our brother cotton
growers who have already organized
in Oklahoma, Texas, Mississippi,
Arizona, Arkansas and North Caro-
lima. Georgia has been called the
"'key" state of the south so far as
this movement is concerned, and
next week is "key" week. If this
cotton pool goes over the top. it in
sures the success OF the greatest
movement southern agriculture has
ever known.
EVERY member Of the organiza-
| tion-every available man-must as
sist now. The time has come when
success or failure depends upon each
and every individual. You must &C
cept your responsibility. You must
do your share toward signing up
new members. The whole move
ment depends upon it. The cam
paign needs you next week.
xIf you have not signed the cot
| ton contract, do so at once. Get
inc the fight. The responsibility is
yours. You must make some per
sonal sacrifice to put this great en-
terprise over the top. There must
be no slackers in the fight.
1--WE shall not fail.--b cause Geor'
gia farmers are fighters.