Logan Republican | 1914-08-20 | Page 3 | Twelve Cent Cotton is the Georgia Idea

"- faaaaaaaaaaam TWELVE CENT COTTON jH IS THE GEORGIA IDEA jf Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 17. A resolu- flon providing that no cotton bo sold IH or offered for shlo at less' than 12 cents a pound was adopted hero to- H day at a meeting of throo hundred H farmers and business men roprosont- H log every section of Georgia. The H delegates also voted to urgetho con H ferenco of governors from tho cot- H ton states, to bo held In New York WM this month, to make permanent plans , H tor markotlng tho south's cotton crop. TaLLB Munnclpal governments woro urged to ll form cotton holding companies and bankers woro asked to holp maintain lH prices by loaning money on tho sta- ijl