Imperial Valley press., 1919-07-18
ASSOCIATION PAYS
HENDERSON COMBINE
ALLISON PECK, RECENT MANAGER LOCAL OR
GANIZATION BRANDS BANKER DAIRYMAN'S
MILK THEORIES UTOPIAN DREAM.
Imperial Creamery Expert Sounds Warning to Valley
Dairymen Against Falacous Schemes and Program
of High Finance

While | believe. that cheese might be
manufactured prOfitably during the
winter months, the falling prices of
these other products sounds a warn
ing to be cautious. 1t at least would
be big mistake to erect expensive
buildings and buy expensive machin-
cry to go into an industry that war
time conditions might have made prof
liable, but which peace time conditions
are bound to make Improbable eX-
cept for those concerns that have eX-
cellent natural conditions and eXcep-
tlOnal marketing facilities.
For many months the local Asso-
citation has been paying into the State.
organization, but SO far it has ref.
ceiVed not one panny's worth of bene-
fit. In fact, has not received the
scratch of pen as indicating where
its money goes. In other words, no
balance sheet or financial statement
has ever been made.
'At one time the local Association
served notice on the State organiZa-
ton that it intended to withdraw, bas-
ed ON the declaration that no benefits
were forthcoming for the money eX-
pended
"In this connection it might not
be amiss to sound a warning that,
since the local Association being a
body of unlimited liability, every
member is jointly responsible for the
debts of the Association, every con-
sideration of good business suggests
caution on the ~art Of the most we'll
to-do against entangling their pro-
perty in the unchartered shoals and
reefs of high finance:
Il believe cooperation is the only
thing fer the dairyman. l believe it
would be a good thing to have but
one factorv to make all the butter in
the valley, if transportation facilities
were such as to make it possible But
/ don't believe that the State Asso-
citation or the present board of the
Valley unit will be able to make
success of the undertaking along pres
ent lines.
The Delta Creamery, up to the
time it was sold to the Association,
made butter at a cost of from $1.55
to S1.65 per hundred pounds. While
the Association should have cut down
this cost on account of larger output
the secretary's report shows that it
costs the Association $3.75 a hun
dred pounds of butter.
One thing that almost everyone will
resent is the statement of Banker ].
NJ. Henderson, Jr., the promoter, to
the effect that the only reason he is
interested in the present deal is to
save the bankers of the State from
insolvency thru bringing about bet
ter conditions among the dairymen.
He saws that the banks are so en-
tangled with the dairymen, and that
the dairymen are so envolved and are
losing money so fast that unless some
thing is done to relieve the situation
both banks and dairymen are going
broke
AS a matter of fact, the dairymen,
wherever you 60, are the aristrocats
of the agricultural world. Their
farms are always distinguished by a
look of prosperity. And what is more
to the point, their prosperity is both
implied and real.
These facts are so well-konwn that
Mr.. Henderson's statement suggests
the thought that it eminates either
from a fool or knave, and in either
case is worthy Of no consideration
whatsoever.
The ENTERPRISE very strongly sus-
poets that Mr.. Henderson's activities
are in the interests of the Chicago
packers. whom, it is believed are
gradually working their way west,
and who are today a serious menace
to the cooperative industry in the
State of Arizona.
Mr.. Dairyman, watch your step.