Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-09-09
Hundreds Of Members OF rio Grande &
Coast Association Will Gather There
September IA 10 Decide Upon Most I'm
pOrtant Marketing System.
col. HEYWCOD ISSUES a
STATEMENT TO FARMERS
Urges Their Attendance at Coming Meet
ing and Declares Nothing But Sickness
or Death Should Keep Them From At
tending Great Gathering at HarIingen.
Especial ~ The Herald.

Of members Of the Rio Grande 4 Coast
Association are new having their attcn-
ton Il rcctel "a the annual meeting Of
the stockholders M Harlingcn on Mon
day. September IA. M which officers and
directors are 10 D. elected and final plans
laid for pcrfrcting the proposed Unit
Marketing system. Of which the Rio
Granlr a Coast Association l. the select
cd center.
Chairman Alba Hcywnod ~ the com.
mittce vn the organization Of units. today
issued the following statement. urging
attendance:
One week more. and then the big
event
On September nth. III 1Iarlingcn.
will bc c~onSlnmated the most important
matter ever contaminated i'm the Valley.
Upon the one question Of price for our
products depends the future success Of
the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
THAT we can produce two to three
crops per nnu spells nothing: that We
can produce the best crops IN quality
spells nothing; that We can produce the
greatest crops per acre spells nothing:
that we can produce them cheaper here
than in other irrigated districts spells
nothing: they All spell nothing. %nnlesS.
when they have been produced. We can
yet q fair price for them.
This country has been exploited on
blue prints and afidavitS. showing great
results. We have done all the business
with bond and mortgage companies and
with Snow diggcrs hat we can do on
prospective prosperity: we have dug all
the dollars ont ~ the snow diggcrs and
out of the northern bank vaults that We
can dig. until we demonstrate that we
can dig real dollars ont 81 the dirt.
Cooperation on price and on price
getting il the shortest cut and the only
cut ~ whi.h We can demonstrate il.
with the above in mind. pause one
moment and think how important j. the
Harlingen meeting Of the old Rio Grande
X Coast association which was selected
60 become the Unit Marketing System. NJ
the mass meeting in Harlingen July It'll.
Nothing but sickness or death should
Keep is members away from that meet
lux ~ lHF~bH. anu ubtHlu- NHbtnu
that meeting by proxy.
~All agricultural and farming opera.
lions should stop on that day. YOu have
grown yonr corn crop; the harvesting
and marketing ~ il eau rest a day. Your
seed beds and p%longhing for future crops
can rest 2 day: but 81 this day only.
September 18th. can the all important
matters " the Rio Grandc and Coast
Association. Or the Unit Marketing Svs-
tcm-whichever YOU see fit 10 call it,
he settled.
MANY details must w. thraShed out
and decided upon. hnt the an important
issue on that day j. whether YOU desire
"a proceed under the by laws nf the old
association. nov IN operation. or whether
sen prefer ~ ~hange these bylaws 10
conform 10 the bylaws adopted bv the
twentyonc units organized All over this
VALLEY for the purpose ~ making the
Rio Grande aud Coast Association y
Unit Marketing System.
An ANALYSIS az the two sets Of bv
virtually puts the control Of the .AsSo.
citation into the hands Of seventeen dir
ectors. who will he elected by the farm
erS: hut who. after election. have abso-
lntc Jurisdiction and control. even to the
power ~ altering. amending and rrpealt
ing the IN. laws. and substituting new
b. laws therefore. which new bylaws
must he operative until the next annual
meeting.
THE other ST ~ bylaws that will b.
presented gives 10 the farmer on the farm
all the power and control of the Associa
ton. with the Initiative Referendum and
Recall prim-iple inviolate. IL makes the
organization n system Of units.
each unit with a director who tenders his
undated resignation when taking Office.
enabling his unit 10 replace him AZ any
lime that his services are not Satisfac-
tory.
This will give every shipping locality
direct representation on thc hoard. thus
keeping H. members clnSr to the organ.
zation, The board ~ directors under
this new plan. instead Of dominating and
controlling. become the servants Of the
farmers; become the ro-hctween for the
units and the Unit Marketing System.
Whichever " these plans Won are IN
favor ". come and vote. or send your
proxy,
Il venture the opinion that the new
plan will he adopted by a very large ma
iority, II. indeed. II i not made manim
Gus al the start.
"A further analysis Of these two sets