Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-10-14
CO0PE RATION IS
MOST NEEDED
". u. LEMi~. PRESIDENT ca
FARMERS UNlUN DISCUSSES
pUIIn Oi NION.

Special to iHo Nea
FORT WORTH To-, Oct l3
The Lord S. tbo ouly one iae Tcxas
farmer needs 10 fear baf We should
cooperate aifh everybody Who can
assist u.s. said vs. % Lewis Pres
ideut OF the Farmers nipn 30 dis
rusinf tho policy OF the Union for
fhe coming year
The executive committee of tho
FARMERS Union has spent the entire
~ek iu session IN This city review
nE the interest oi on. farmer from
lrIous ANGLES aud tho above state
mont Is ned by President Lewis sums
100 tHe attitude OF the farmer toward
the many thar enter into the agri-
uIuu Iife of the state
Tho union with Its quarter of o
million members. s the greatest col
ossus of power BOZ Texas today and
fhr biz fiauf hl. NOR" potential
urrg, for progress than ans and all
other factors 400 the stat" Likewise
the mombers OF tuo Executive com
uittco arD ralH1rt men who can
think white they pillow. plan while
they work and build Whil" thoy plant
Continuing Mr Lewis said We
4fr just learning ro work together
ana ] want the Union 10 first take up
% f'V simple tasks aud perform them.
Hm much encouraged over thc rr-
option pf my suggestion that fho
Drm,rs own tnr cotton gins and
operate them ON q cooperative basis.
II s." have 5000 piu. Boo Texas. valued
% t1DUOu.ouu. and the farmers oi
n Iho state can take the gins over and
II ave tho cotton growers nine to ten
\ million dollars per anmm which is
uuN paid tho OWNERS loo dividends
Too RII also give rne farmer luou
/ control Of the sale uf Che cotton seed
/ nI ,sprll million dollars more can
I Boo pul 600 the pockets of the farmers.
thereby getting q just price for mo
+ .aoI
Tho executive committee of the
/ Farmers Union has dockctod the co-
operative plan OF operating cotton
I ..u. COS tho FIRST work of th" year
Ind shall ASK space of the press 'o
outline the plan ol procedure the
/ Committee hl adopted There are
PM up approximately one hundred
/ UrN gins each year ln Texas and We
..k tur farmers ot every community
/ whore 20 l.u o. needed 60 give careful
/ consideration 20 our plan. We roo
dmm,ud that the farmers patroni2e
1u.f tHe gins whose owners are will
/ ms 20 share their profits with their
/ patrons and this princ.pal applies not
only to gins bat 90 the operation of
/ all simple machinery that will read
/ ly bend itself 90 cooperate methods.
used u preparing farm products for
/ tho market
/ I'D. executive committee have exc
anime" many plans of cooperative
.u associations. aud J"commend the.
following
4 Model Farmers Union Cn.Opcrat.
a., tin pnn
On order to erect and operate o
Farmers Union Co.oporatiyc Gin. al
. 3. FIRST rere.sar, Go orl4nilc COM
many whose membership shall be
made rp off members u. an, Farmers
/ Union .n good standing The com.
nan, cam Ia. either Ircorporaf.d or
1rmesrporateI and tho shares can
|ho either $4,000 srU.ou. or Vb8teyer
/ 4uon.t b.. de.irHbl,
n nrt member should desire a.
Itaka moro than one share. he may
lo stu hut r.e,rdl... off the number
off share. p. takes bc is only en-
|turcl 90 ono vote upor any question
coming lrf1r. the stockholders Tor
consideration
As illustration We will say that
F.. tHc ,nmplny after helms orealizod
/ mas decided tu errc.. q t.7u plant.
/ winch rs the ayerarr size. and when
I prf up Ir gr4t elias. order costs about
$4,000
lr order to raise the funds which
/ to purchase the aim buiIdiurs and
n machinery vo uiIl make tho stock
n 81 H0 nor share ANY member who
n 1isb.. fo take cash stock has tho
d .t.t. ,..... ..,....,,,,, .t.., b.
n desires pro,.ieJ 10 does not reach
! boyord ono hundred shares The
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