Evening star., 1933-09-17
.PLEAF0R 15CENT
COTTON SCHEDULED
Southern Growers Will Carry
Appeal to Roosevelt in
Washington.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, September 16.-The Cot
ton Belt on Monday will take its plea
for 15-cent cotton to President Roose-
Welt and the administration in Wash
ington.
Farmers, Senators, business men and
plain citizens from the cotton States
will ask the Roosevelt administration
to set minimum price of IS cents
pound for cotton and $25 a ton for
cottonseed.
They will also request abandonment
of the cotton processing tax fixing OF
the 1884 cotton crop at 100000 bales,
immediate expansion of the currency
and a cotton marketing holiday until
the proposed minimum price is reached.
Success of the recovery plan depends
leaders of the South have said in meet
ings in several States this week.
Dissatisfaction over the price of cot
ton, which is now around 9 cents, cul-
minated in a great mass meeting in
/ Columbia S. c., which demanded Fed
eral action for a 15-cent minimum
guarantee and currency expansion.
Farmers Adopt Resolutions.
ftOuSlIlS ItSOlullOllS were dUOplSu Uy
the hundreds of farmers from the Pal
metto State and adjoining States. They
had the support of Senator E. D.
Smith of South Carolina, known as
Cotton Ed from his longtime cham
pionShip of the cause of the farmers.
He is also chairman of the Senate Com
mittee on Agriculture.
South Carolina wired the other cot
ton States for support, which has re-
suited in the appointment of delega-
tions to join that of South Carolina in
Washington to take the plight of the
farmers to the President.
The Alabama delegation will be
headed by Senator John H. Bankhead
while Gov. Eugene. Talmadge named
the Georgia congressional delegation
and 10 outstanding farmers to repre-
sent Georgia.
The Georgia Governor voiced the
opinion that removal of the processing
tax on cotton should be the first step
toward lifting the price of the staple.
Speed Up Acreage Checks.
Meanwhile, announcement came from
Washington today that the Agricultural
Department would speed up the mailing
of checks to farmers who signed the
cotton acreage reduction of this year
and plowed up certain portions of their
crop.
The question of whether money will
be available for prospective benefit pay
ments to growers in March was said In
Washington to be causing the delay in
announcing the cotton control plan for
next year.
This plan calls for the acreage to be
limited to 25,0OO.000 acres, and under
the plan farmers who agree to cut their
acreage would be paid in March in time
to finance the 1884 crop.
The processing tax Of AZ cents lint
pound is meeting with increased oppo-
:ition in the cotton belt This was the
source for meeting the payments to
farmers. 1t was expected that this tax
would yield over S100,000000 yearly,
but most of this for the first year
would be taken up in paying farmers
icr the emergency reduction program
of TIE 1888 crop.
AS soon as the Treasury determines
whether funds will be on hand to pay
formers the Agricultural Department is
expected to announce details of the
1884 control plan.
Manufacturers Protest.
One source of opposition to the pro-
cassing tax has been the statement OF
textile men that it puts the cost OF
l0e manufacture tu SOOOS W a POAAAI
where they have been unable to make
the sales necessary to make up the
added wages and other costs of the
II. R. A. program under which they
operate.
Gov. Talmadge said the tax discour-
eyed heavy buying of cotton by textile
mills because of the S21 per bale pro-
oessing tax payment on each bale
bought.
Presided over by Gov. Futrell, mass
meeting of cotton farmers in Little
Peck. Ark, today adopted resolution
calling for a billion dollar imitation OF
the currency A delegation was named
to go to Washington to join with the
other States to present the demands for
immediate action to Federal officials.
Cotton growers from throughout
Louisiana, rallying in Shreveport at the
call of Gov O.. X Allen. Endorsed the
South Carolina idea and authorized
delegation to join with other States in
the Washington conference.
State Commissioner of Agriculture
Harry D. Wilson and Representative
Riley j. Wilson and John N. Sandlin
were named ex officio members of
group of 10 delegates.
Six of Mississippi's seven Representa-
tives and George Lampton of Columbia
will represent that State at the cotton
rally in Washington.