Show WILL NO LONGER fEED GAMBLERS Members of the Southern Cot Cotton Cotton ton Association Hold An Annual J nual Convention BirmIngham Ala Jan The third thir d dt annUal convention of the Southern Cot Co t tn association began here ere toda today wIth wit h everyone every one or of the eleven eleen cotton states stat es being represented M L Johnson of Georgia president of the Georgia di division d i vision In a speech said My frIends It is war Not a war w ar with powder and lead but a war r as much bravery demanding as ashe much brains and calling for as muc ash h sacrifice and patriotism as nerved the he t hehe arms and inspired the spirits of the he t Lees the Jacksons and the Johnson hes s heroes of our lost cause but a cause cau se never neTer t to be forgotten Forty Years of Robbery He HC said that for forty Olt years the south sou th had submitted to beIng robbed upon the th e ets price of its chief product because of oC Its I ts po poverty velt 3 For rort forty years he contin conti continued n we have paid tribute to Wall Wallstreet W all street gamblers the spInners of Europe Euro pe anti and the spinners of our own countr y Are you ou ready for tor the battle against again st this robbe robbery PresIdent Hanle arvie Jordan then dell delivered y ered his annual address He said This association has within two t wo years established a fixed minimum m basis of 10 cents a pound for Ameri Ame American rl can cotton and that price is now rec recognized re c as unalterable throughout the he t cotton spinning area of t the e world Evils of Speculation rhe fhe greatest evil eil with which the he t southern cotton growers and the man manufacturers ma n or of American cotton ha have e had h ad adin to contend has been the sp speculation in inon cotton futures cI I was especially directed by the ex e x committee of this association on ons to take steps lookIng to the s sion ot of the unfair practices and who le sate sale speculative features of the New N ew York cotton exchange CIA A postoffice fraud order was se secured cured t cannot cann ot be abated through the postoffice depart depa department rt meat ment they will be reached through gh other legal departments of the state or orIs federal government My only object Is Isto to force the New York cotton ge to adopt the same methods employed employ ed ednd by the leading cotton exchanges and a nd Issue a legal honest and fair contract act which can be used In the legitimate cot cotton c ot ton trade or to force It to go out of busIness S It |