Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-04
Meetings Held in Seven Diff
ferent Parts of State on
Wednesday and Are Big
Success ~

operative ASSOCIATION InurSOay Sdlu
that more than 1000 bales of cotton
were signed up at meetings held in
seven different parts of the state
Wednesday.
The reports added that each OF
the seven meetings, local organiza-
tons were horned to- conduct an in
tensive drive in each section. and
that it is expected that within Few
days many more farmers will sign
contracts to market their 1922 crop
through the cotton pool.
Although continued heavy rains
interfered considerably with the
plans for meetings, and the attend
ance was materially curtailed, lead
ers in the drive expressed pleasure
at the way in which farmers
throughout the state were taking
held of the idea. Confidence that
Georgia's full quota of zoo, 900 bales
would be speedily secured was ex-
pressed.
j. E. Conwel1, manager of the
state campaign, and w. G. Davidson,
an Arkansas farmer, addressed splr-
tied meetings at Winder and Monroe
on "Wednesday, number of farmers
signing contracts upon the compile
ton of the meeting.
J. ID. Coghlan, of Texas, tcld an
interested group of farmers OF Nc
Rae and Soperton of the profit he
had made through the Texas asso-
citation. A. A. Gilmore spoke at
Ocilla and Nashville, while F. r.
Shanks addressed a large gathering
of farmers who braved the rain in
CedartOwn.
Meaning of Pool
Mr. Conwell, in his address at
Monroe, outlined the profit that
would acrue to Georgia through the
cotton pool He said in part:
This cotton pool means more than
$4,000, 900 to Georgia every year.
Georgia's annual cotton crop amounts
TO about 1 900 900 bales, and we have
every reason to. believe that COOP
erative marketing here will prove
equally successful as it did in Okla
homa and Texas. This is conserva-
lively estimated on the basis of the
actual savings secured last year by
the members of the Oklahoma asso-
citation.
1Ralph- Smith, correspondent Of
The Atlanta Journal, has been MAX
ing an extensive tour through Texas
and Oklahoma, and he has dug into
every corner of the two states .inves-
tigating the workings Of this coop
ere tive movement out there. He has
been in a dozen cotton centers OBJ
tanning his information. He now is
writing a series of articles about his
findings, which began in Sundays
Atlanta Journal.
THE evidence he brings forth is
conservative, yet he showed in this
article that Oklahoma growers were
gaining from two and one-half 60
three and three-quarters cents a
pound above the best figures that
"A they could obtain had they sold
their cotton under the old method.
IF you will take d pencil and pa
per and figure this average out,
you will find that 1T will mean abo3t
SIS gained on every bale, and then
sif you will multiply this by the 1000,
600 bales of cotton that we grow here
in Georgia, you will find that we
Georgia farmers will profit exactly
1915, 900 900 by selling comparatively"
Job for the Farmer
At Winder, Mr.. Conwell ennpha-
sized the fact that it was the farm
er's job to carry the campaign out
to a successful conclusion. On this
idea, he said, in part:
eff this job is going to BE- done
and it is goingSto be done-it IS the
farmer who has got to do it. The
banker The lawyer and the
merchant cam all help us little
but they can't do this job. No in.
dividual, regardless of his position
can bring prosperity to the farmers
of Georgia.
IF the condition of the Georgia
cotton grower is to be improved, no.
body in the world is going to do 1t
unless the Georgia cotton grower
himself does it-and he is doing it,
"He knows that cooperative mar.
keting is the only way he will ever
get a fair price for his cotton and
without asking anybody to do the
lob for him, he himself, in this Or
ganization, is setting up the macbn'
cry to handle his cotton cooperative
4 ly and profitab1yi~
"Do not get this organization CON
Il fused with any other cotton aSsoQa.
ton or agricultural movement which
has ever been put up to you before
Nothing like it has ever come &c
S3eo1 EJn. Moss farmer organiza lions
have asked you to get organized
lust forrfhe sake of organizing, and
Y then #. -rwards they propose to de
tcide what to do. That isn't the way
these cotton farmers are going abou.
If this time. They have a definite
program Of what they are going tc
do. they !. ow exactly what they are
going to do and they are organizing
in order to c that one particular
thing, and that is to sell cotton more
profitably.
oil rrnt he On I
{ otton. We will cut out the -marke
fluctuations caused by heavy specu
Iation. We will be able to have eX
perts grade and staple Our cottor
for us instead Of for the>buyer. We
wilfasell our stuff and we VIII know
what it is worth before we sell 1t
We can warehouse our cotton anC
cut out all this country damage. We
n can sell it in even-running lots, ir
large quantities and get a big
nremium for this classification work
All in all, the big things thGt I see ir
this movement is the fat that we
Viii be hiring people to handle oul
stuff to our advantage, instead Of
having some one else hire people
to our disadvantage.
zone of the best things about thi:
Georgia cotton pool is thai we have
got SIX OtneF STATES dreduy VI gun
led and all affiliated together as the
American Cotton Growers eX
change. Almost the whole south Is
organized except just us here, ant
when we get in with Alabama anS
south Carolina, the whole thing vii
he complete There will be NOR
than 100000 bales of cotton signed
nm in one great big organization
opd< one sales unit will be able e
take care Of at least one-third OF al
the cotton business in the United
states" -----
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