National Affairs: No More Cotton?

On the heels of the Farm Board's rejected proposal to plow under every third row of cotton (TIME, Aug. 24), Louisiana's energetic red-headed Governor Huey Pierce Long last week called a conference to consider the cotton situation. To New Orleans flocked hundreds of State officials, factors, planters, millmen and plain farmers. The conference resolved that there should be no cotton planting in 1932, that the Federal Farm Board should buy up 8,000,000 bales of this year's crop to replace next year's. Under the plan Legislatures would prohibit cotton production. Such a prohibition, however, would not be effective until States producing at least 75% of the country's cotton had acted. Governor Long and Governor Ibra Charles Blackwood of South Carolina left the conference talking about calling their Legislatures into special session at once to enact the required legislation.