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PLANS FOR ORGANIZATION OF ENTIRE COTTON BELT Columbia, S. C., July 27.?The delegation from South Carolina which attended the meeting in Atlanta on Wednesday and Thursday of the Board of Directors of the American Cotton Association returned delighted with the progress made in the organization of that body. An enor mous amount of constructive work, they say, was accomplished at the Atlanta meeting. Contracts were made by the direct tors and complete plans mapped* out for the organization of the entire cotton belt. Whirlwind membership campaigns will be conducted in each State by expert'organizers. The organization of the entire belt will be directed from Atlanta, which was chosen as campaign headquarters, after a stiff fight between that city, Memphis and Dallas. The organization of the Associa-j tion will extend down to the school) districts and townships. The Ameri-J can Cotton Association wiil be the oi^anzation covering the entire belt j while each State will have a State association, which will be an integral part of the American Association. The South Carolina Cotton Association will be the name of the State association in South Carolina and it will have representation in the Am-1 erican Association, which will be the parent body. * Plans of Association. Plans were made by the directors of the Association^for the launching of the ambitions program for the : betterment of the cotton producers of the South. A mammoth meeting with representatives from every I county in the entire cotton belt will < be held probably early in September i for the purpose of receiving reports ] on supply and demand, agreeing on i a minimum price at which the grow- I uig cotton crop will be sold, agreeing i apon acreage to be planted in cotton ( 1, GOO ! I 10:30 - * i r fThis valuable t $300 pei AEROi Lay the four S [ E: "We Sell Lots a Lll?? in 1920, this acreage being based o upon supply and demand figures pro- n cured by officers of the association. IV "The Association," said J. Skot- n towe Wannamaker, president, yes- C terday, "is determined that under no condition will its members again d produce cotton for the purpose of n piling up surpluses which have been f usel by the New England and for- f eign spinners for the purpose of beat- c ing down prices, creating distressed t cotton and forcing the producer to y part with his cottori below the cost v of production. The farms of the o South will be operated upon a busi- n ness bass, sufficient food and feed t crops will be planted for the con- v sumption of the producer and the local markets, cotton being planted p only as a surplus crop. b "The campaign or State owned and State controlled warehouses will be pushed in every county in the 1 cotton belt. C ' "Temporary offices have been es- s tablished in Atlanta. Members of the Association are making sacrifices h of time and means to push to com- o pletion this .organization as they a realize that no sacrifice is too great J that it can be used as an excuse for o not giving freely of time and service E ' * c in xms great, cause. "A meeting of the special board on prganizaton will be held in Atlanta on August 4th. ci South Carolina Campaign. 0 South Carolina will be the first '-A State in the cotton belt to organize. t< The preliminary preparations for ^ the campaign in this State are al- a: ready being made under the direc- 111 tion of B. F. McLeod, a well known A business man of Charleston, who is P1 State manager and A. A. Protzman, ic organization director. Mr. Protzman managed the United War Work cam- A paign for funds in this State and the tc State heavily oversubscrbed its al- H lotment. He also very successfully M nanaged the Jewish War Relief Jrive in this State. He has had years M SEVER; >n T j IU Li A? ?|pjj g?--T,rr-,v ^ arm, located on the r acre, will be sold to >LANE FLIGH1 idation of your 1 Sa OUTHERf* nd Lots of Lots, and Farn f experience in organization busi. 1 ess. Confidence is expressed iby I Ir. Protzman that the drive for ( lembership in the South Carolina I !otton Assocation will be a success. J "I apprehend that we will have no * ifficulty in showing the farmer, the c lerchant, the banker, and the pro- s essional business man that the perection of the organization of the otton association will mean much o the South," said Mr. Protzman esterday. "The Association has a j ery ambitious program. If carried r ut it will result in untold benefit j ot sflone to the cotton producer but j o the other people of the South as . rell. ( Farmers, bankers, merchants, and j rofessional men of the South will i e asked to join the Association. t Meetings Scheduled. t Meetings for next Wednesday and r 'hursday have been scheduled in I Greenville Spartanburg and Ander- I on. The meeting at Anderson will be t ell Wednesday morning at 11 ? 'clock in the court house. Addresses t t those meetings will be made by 1 . Skottowe Wannamaker, president t f the American Cotton Association; t !. Harris, Commissioner of Agri- v ulture, and others. 4 To Assist Other States. g B. Harris, Commissioner of Agri- I ulture, will go to Oklahoma shortly r n a speaking tour in behalf of the J. ssociation, R. M. Mixon of Willis- t >n, will go to Texas on a similar g lission. Messrs. Harris and Mixon t re members of the Central Com- fi littee of the South Carolina Cotton b ssociation and have taflcen active v arts in the formation of the Amer- fc an Cotton Association. e South Carolina's delegation at the v tlanta meeting inchided J. Skot- a iwe Wannaniaker, St. Matthews; J. 1( . Claffy, Orangeburg; T. J. Rritt, t [cCormick; John T. Mackey, Cam ?n; B. F. McLeod, Charlestoh; K. Mixon, Williston; B. Harris, Co- j ZIUCLCLCiriLC1 nnnrinnriri UUUUIJUUUUUUuJI. . FAF \L HUND mm a Anderson=Abbeville i the highest bidder. " will take place ortune by buyi le For S. A. McAdai T ? A MI\ 1 i L,/\mu f is, My! My!" Anderson Office wi umbia, all members of the Board of ( Mrectors; A. A. Protzman, South 1 Carolina organization director; Mrs. i I. R. Clinkscales. Secretary of the f South Carolina CottoW Association, ] ind Harold C. Booker, publicity 1 ihairman of the South Carolina as- j ociation. j AGAIN FLOODING THE CITY. ] 1 Col. J. D. Kerr, of the Emporium, las returned to the city after skir- ( nishing around the country and vis- ^ ting everybody who ^ allowed the ] atch-string to hang outside. He re- ( )orts a grand and glorious time, and ( :laims that everybody was glad to see ( lim. First he rode right through ] Washington, and hitched his horse to ] ;he rack in front of Baltimore, where 3 jails one Marston, who is not the , nan who corrupted Hadleyburg, j ;ecause he was never there, but a ^ >ad man withal. ( After eating a square meal in Bal- ( imAfo onH mpnaiirirny fronts of 1 ill furniture stores in the city to deermine whether, as he says, they had 'a wider expanse of business" than he Emporium, he invited Marston o take him up the river to Unbana, vhere Marston's brother owns a 'plantation," with a sure enough Vir:inia home on it, sixteen bed-rooms ip-stairs, running water in every oom (which did not interest the Colonel so much), and with the panry full of Smithfield and other Vir;ini4 hams (a matter which did inerest him however). Before he inished with them, Mr. Marston also iecame interested in the question of whether he would be able to make uckle and tongue meet towards the nd of the year. The Colonel also isited the local newspaper offices nd handed in the following -bit of Deal news which he asked printed in he next issue: Distinguished Visitor in Urbana. "Col. John Davis Kerr, cousin of oe Wheeler, born in Winnsboro, S. IM NEA i in = RED ACR AT J i road near Antrevi Subdivided into s from this farm ng a farm here, tns, on easy terms, b AUCTION th J. J. FREWELL 3., Professor of Mathematics in (Vilson-Kerr Kollege, in Greenw< for many years, but now engaged ;he learned profession of selling f liture on the installment plan in i Seville, S. C.t also buggies and i jons, Presbyterian, is in the city i few days visiting friends, who j inxious for him to stay a few di longer, which he may do if tl <eep on asking him." i From Urbana the Colonel r< lown to Washington, where he \ ;o meet Col. E. C. Horton, who p lis way to Washington to buy a s 3nd hand Ford and for the privili if riding home in it with Col. Kt On his arrival in Washington, ( Kerr was met by the porter of Raleigh Hotel, and his baggage c ried up to a room on the 14th fl< vhich he soon occupied. On rea ng the capital city he bought a ?aper, getting one of the Wasiimg iailies when he found that all i :opies of the Press and Banner 1 jeen taken. He soon learned t; ;here was a riot on in the city i ;hat men were walking around sho ng people right and left, so he ci ;d on the clerk and asked that oom .be moved from the 14th to 1 L&th. (top) floor, the bell-boy hav ;old him that no shots would rei ;hat high up. He immediately jaired to his room locked the do ind telephoned down to the cl< ;hat he was in executive session i ;il the fight was over, and he did j vish to be called until then. He tells us that there was a fie: ight, but he did not know any he participants. He does not th: hat Jim Baker nor Dr. Harvin w< n it, but he saw a man who lool ike Woodrow Wilson loping do Pennsylvania Avenue on a democi c ass, with something in his he vhich he took for a sword or 1 eague of nations, he did not kn vhich. On ast Thursday while the n IWWWWPIFIPieiHHPII UUUUUUMIJ IJUMu r mm :ES OF UJC1 / i FREE I 1N1 ille, where land hi mailer farms or a THE DAY 0 This land is < ,y COMPAI % Home Offic 1JUIJUIJIJIJIJ1JIJIUI3 I the . who had been doing the fighting were lod I takine* a nan. he slitmed out of the in hotel, got brother Horton, and fordur ed the Potomoc, and is now safely Vb- at home, where he will toe glad to va- get rid of some furniture on any of foi his admiring friends fot either Cash v are or Credit. iya ley , NATION-WIDE DRIVE TO IMPROVE ALL LIVE STOCK >de n vas aid "Better Sires?Better Stock." ec_ This is the slogan of a national 2gS better live-stock crusade, to get actjrr ively in. motion October 1, that is }* , j0j announced by the United States Department of Agriculture, working in ar_ cooperation-with the State agricul* 30r tural colleges and other agencies inch J terested in live-stock improvement. The campaign looks forward to the I -J ^ J .J XL!- i f ?on luture iooa neeua ux i>ms cuuiiujr o increasing populartion and results ia(j from long nad careful observation of ^ the live-stock industry in this counmd try> and was planned after extensive 0t_ consultation with specialists and breeders. The plan is to hasten the jjjg replacement of the multitude of l^g scrub domestic animals in the United [ng States with pure-bred or high-grade stock, and also to improve the quaii- ; re_ ty of pure'breds themselves. The or goal in view is greater efficiency in production. . an_ The campaign will be the first oraot gariized crusade in a large country to improve all livestock simultaneously. It will interfere in no way with any rce work in live-stock improvement now being conducted, but makes all the ^ work more definite and effective by ere providing official recognition for proce(* gressive breeders. wn * at- . > .,] ' ind VVV \ VV VVV VVV the ^ ^ ow Engraved cards and wedding invi tations at Press and Banner Co. ^ y K : > . / RfyyyafissyHHafi! E 1LLE.S.C. 1 ! i*| -'.'lit h "ION I DINNER 1 pO I PRIZES || j as been selling at ij 9 is a whole. {J I F SALE Ejl easily built up. [i 9 srv |i| e, Asheville, N. C. [ | I