Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-11
PLANS FOR COT7ON POOL
PERFECTED BY LEADERS

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Week" drive to be conducted next
week by the Georgia Cotton Grow
ers' Cooperative association were
perfected Thursday at "a confer
ence in Atlanta of the district
and county campaign directors, the
county chairmen and representative
farmers invited here from all parts
of the state.
j. E. Conwell, manager of the
Georgia campaign, presided over
the conference, which started with
a luncheon at IL o'clock in the
Chamber of Commerce cafe. Imme.
diately after luncheon the conference
adjourned to ne chamber Of COM
merce assembly hall and continued
in session through the afternoon.
A. A. Gilmore, director of organiza-
tion of the Georgia campaign, pre-
sided over the luncheon as toast
master.
Victory Week" is to start next
Monday and run through the week.
The object of the drive is to sign
up the remainder of the, cotton
necessary 20 make binding the CO.
operative selling contract. The con-
tract provides that if 100000 bales
are not signed by the first Of April,
Z no signer shall be bound. Already
the association has signed upwards
Of 100000 bales. For Victory
Week" the association has set a
goal Of $4,000 bales day, or a total
CT 100000 bales, which would carry
OF 100000 bales. The campaign
leaders express the utmost conf
dence that the goal will be reached.
Thousands Of bales have been signed
III the past ten days at farmers
meetings where speeches were de-
liyered, but where no special ef-
fort was made to get contracts
signed. ,
{ Every county has a county direcI
tor and a county Chairman, and all
of these will be at the rae ,-ing here
today. In each county strong
working team of farmers has been,
organized to work in the drive next
week. Upwards of 1,20D facme IS
have signed pledges to work. They
will cover every militia district. On
Saturday the county teams will be
called together in their respective
court houses for assignment of ter
ritory and final instf uations.
The speakers at the conference
held Thursday afternoon inc1ud-
ed: Eugene Bl&ck, Atlanta, "ten
minute talk" 7. S. Johnson, Jeffer.
son, more Pepi'' j. H. Mills, presi,
dent, Georgia Farmers union,
What the Farmers Union Members
Should Do in This Campaign" James
Morton, president Georgia farm bu-
reau, Georgia Farm Bureau Square
ly Behind Cooperative Marketing"
Charles B. Caldwell, Moultrie, and
Gus Hill, Dublin, "How Our Districts
Are Organized to Go Over the Top"
j. H. McCulley, of Bradley county,
Arkansas, "How to Put a County
Over the Top Lovett Martin, of
Lawrenceville, and Claude Tuck, of
Athens. on 4"The Farmers Part in
This Campaign j. E. Conwell.
Lavonia, This Is Farmers job"
C. o. -Moser, secretary of the Ameri-
can Cotton Growers exchange,
what the National Organization
Expects of Georgia. A. A. Gilmore,
of Oklahoma, "Pep Talk" Robin
Hood, of Bay City, Texas, Publicity
AS a Means of Getting Contracts"
T. r. .Shanks, of Beeville, Texas,
Final Instructions"
Joe Conwell, manager of the Geor-
gia campaign, accepted an invitation
Wednesday to address the chamber
Of commerce directors concerning
the movement. He told them it was
far and away the most important
cotton growers of the state or the
south. He predicted complete sue
cess. f. J. Bolender, of Dallas, told
how Texas farmers have obtained an
average of $40 to SIS bale above
street buyers prices by selling their
cotton through a cooperative pool.
The chamber directors appointed
a committee composed of r. K. Ram
no, Frank M. 1nman and Alfred G..
Newell to investigate the movement.