The De Soto County news. [volume] (Arcadia, Fla.) 1898-1924, 1916-11-09
4 SPEECH
Which Didnt Come On at the Truck
Growers Meeting Saturday.
by Carl Wittrock.

- many MISE lIll-~ nave NIltaNl
been said annu. the buildu- OF thi'
packing house and rIr association
and in such eloquent words that II
. would huallg ny necessary for me &,
say anything further un this subject
hut There asn few .hu-> /. a> a
truck farmer. vurIr r.sg ta ,mrha
Size little.
congratulate che truck growers %
thi- community 0u ;hcir new paekiu-
house. mot 30 account ~ the ma-uia.
ccncc Of the bu.ld.u-. uut on accom-.
of wha, it risufc> namely cv-o0era-
/ ton.
was born end raised in Denmark.
q small country. in area about the size
| Of DrSot" and POLK counties uut zoe
srthcr, hut with q population II a lit
tie over two millions II people. 81
farming country. which has not half
the resources ana opportunities we
have here wi,n has not the fine eli.
mate we oniuF here. where the farm.
crS had 20 ma q market for their
products ~ foreign countries. among
people who do not speak their Ian.
guagc, and they di' create n market
Tor their products I'm England, Ger.
many and France. and So well was It
done that yh"y were able. through in.
dustry and cooperation. TO wipe IN
for the state q national debt Of an.
pr"Nimatolv eight hundred AMI sixty
L al
about tire" hundred million dollars
! ON the credit side Of the ledger, and
| this was accomplished absolutely
through cooperation. corporation he.
tween government. railroads. hlrSineSS
men AMI farmers. It Is because 7
have seen what cooperation and in
duStry will do for a nation, that I am
indeed glad to soc the spirit of CO.
operation invade this community. I
| hope we will have success with this
| undertaking, So that we next year will
see another. large and fine packing
house i'm this place. and to see it fol-
lowed NJ 10y the truck growers CO.
! operative canning factory. / hope that
we shall not 90 on seeing Il large part
of our products wasted. as the case
has been in the citrus industry. There
will I've times when the market price
will be 81 low that It does not pay to
ship. We need a canning factory to
take care II our second and third
grades, and for that matter why not
grow tomatoes, beans. sweet corn.
peas, strawberries and cucumhers
enough to keep canning factory bu
Sy all the time. / have always won
dered why we should eat canned veg
etables In Florida which were grown
in Maryland or some other state still
further from here, when we can grow
these same vegetables better and
cheaper here. all tho year around. hut
walk into almost any store Won
please and see If you can find any
cans with a Florida label on them on
the shelves. We ought to he export.
crs Of canned goods from Florida in
stead of importers. There is n story
about an EnGliShman cit was not the
president # this association who !
visited large tomato plantation in |
Maryland some time ago. and he was |
astonished to see all those acres Of
tomatoes.
"But what will You do with an
those tomatocs?" he asked.
"Oh.' the farmer answered. eve |
sell what we can. and eat what we
can ana what we can't. we can"
The Englishman thought it was
pretty good joke, and decided to re-.
member 1t when he got back home
but when he was asked what those
Americans would do with all those
tomatoes he said: ooh. they sell what
they cam AMI eat what they can. and
what they can't they tin"
He had lost the point in the Joke.
Let us not do the same thing-I mean
lose sight If Why we want to coop
crate; it Is because we want to re.
ceive the full rewards for our hard
work. and whether we want TO can
our tomatoes or tin them. let us not
forget that cooperation is the only
way to solve the question for us.
The government through their ex-
detrimental stations and otherwise,
ately by the passing OF the Federal
Farm Loan Act, has shown that they
ire willing to cooperate with the
armer; the railroads, or at least one
II them here in Arcadia, has told us
hat they VIII do 50, and the business
'eople Of Arcadia have shown their
cooperative spirit by the moral and