Evening star., 1933-09-18
PROFITABLE LEVEL
FOR COTTON URGED
Suspension of Ginning and
Selling Otherwise Advocated
by Dixie Representatives.
BY the Associated Press.

6y tne ASSOclAteo fIesS.
A suspension of the ginning and
selling Of cotton unless prices for the
staple advance to a profitable level was
advocated before a cotton aid-inflation
conference of Southern representatives
here today by J. s. Wannamaker,
president Of the American Cotton Asso-
citation.
Addressing a meeting at the Hamil-
ton Hotel presided over by Senator
Smith, chairman of the Senate Agri-
culture Committee, Wannamaker. who
comes from st. Matthews, S. c., said:
III We cannot get relief otherwise,
the cotton growers with farmers of
allied lines should take steps to pro-
tect ourselves by discontinuing the gin
ming or selling of cotton and to dras-
tcally reduce cotton acreage"
Wannamaker made this statement
after listing the following aims:
TO ask IS cents pound for short
staple middlirg grades.
TO Immediately initiate the currency.
TO have the Government rescind the
order calling for the immediate sale of
$4,000 bales Of cotton to cover CROP
To suspend the processing tax on
cotton Immediately
ITO demand $25 ton for cotton
seed.
ITO permit the placing by farmers
OF cotton in warehouses and to ad-
vance them IS a bale for expenses of
handling the cotton"
Assailing the processing tax, Wanna
maker said he was asking its suspen-
sion because the farmers are supposed
to get it and to this day there has not
been a cent paid out"
The processing tax under the AgTk
cultural Adjustment Administrator
was fixed at AZ cents . pound.
Wannamaker concluded by saNn1
that the convention should first cun&
slder what We shall ask the GovekI4
ment to do and what We shall ask the
Government to undo"
Claude NJ Sapp Of Columbia, 8. c.
chairman of the State Democratic Exec
uative Committee. told the conference
unless the administration resorted to
initiation the farmers are going to do
something to change this form OF gov
eminent"
Il am not in any sense a radical, but
I believe that unless We resort to infla-
tion and Wall Street lets us reduce
their dollar to so cents that the whole
dollar will be taken away from them"
Sapp said.
Its better to have the dollar in
fated down to so cents than to take
the dollar away from Wall Street.
mean that by all that it may imply"
Sapp said he did not believe that
President Roosevelt or Secretary WAL
lace know the actual condition Of the
farmers in the South"
Seeks Is Cents a Pound.
Lets demand imitation" he con-
tinued Lets demand that the Amer
ican consumer be forced to pay proper
price for agricultural commodities. The
American farmer is not going to be
forced to starve to death. I advocate
that the cotton farmer not gin or sell
another bale of cotton until he gets 25
cents pound for his product.
Il advocate going on selling strike
and a buying strike and q mortgage
strike. The farmers Of the South
ought to do what those farmers did
out in that Wild West State of Iowa
when attempts were made to foreclose
mortgages on their farms"
Louisiana's delegation to today's cot
ton conference, while heartily in favor
of the meetings. objective, Is willing
to leave the solution of the situation to
"the wisdom Of the new deal admins
tration"
Fulmer Urges Imitation.
Representative Fulmer, Democrat. of
South Carolina, also urged imitation
and said cotton acreage should be re-
duced in 1884 and 1885. Representa-
tive Rankin, Democrat, of Mississippi,
also spoke in favor of imitation.
j. E. Mcdonald, Texas commissioner
OF agriculture, urged the meeting to act
as unit in presenting to President
Roosevelt "the present true condition
of the farmer and leave it to him"
Representative Rankin asked Nc
Donald If the meeting should not go
on record as covering all agriculture
instead of only cotton Mcdonald
agreed imitation would aid all branches
of the industry.
Representative Gasque, Democrat, Of
South Carolina, said he was for in
f1ation, but that it would be of only
temporary benefit unless the cotton
growers agreed to reduce their acreage
He maintained the processing tax
would aid the farmers in reducing their
acreage and asserted manufacturers
and exporters "are responsible for this
fight on the President and his honor
able Governments efforts to increase
the price of cotton through reduction
in acreage"