Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-18
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packed systematically and every
any buyer could order and know just
what he was gettins. For instance.
In shipping melons, any buyer could
order any particular brand OF melons.
size and know just exactly what he
was buying This same thing would
apply to any other article.
"It would train the producers to
have system. Quantities Of produce
could be turned into money that now
goes to waste. II any local branch
lad any article, there was no de-
nand, @he grand central branch could
know II any other branch could dis
pose Of 1t.
II am sure this Is the only basis
on which any practical plan can be
worked out. This should be under
the control OF the state.
Mr.. n1urphey's Views
A. o. Murphey. Of GAINESVILLE, Ga.
advises bankers and merchants to
organize buying concerns" to han
die all manner Of farm products by
the warehouse system. His letter
follows:
"The farmers of Georgia hope that
the campaign being I inaugurate ed
Arouse an interest In the erection
Of better market facilities for crops
other than cotton will bring about
satisfactory results. We need not
worry about the farmer diversifying
his crops II we will create cash
markets for such products as can
gent necessity Of the hour, brought
about by the boil weevil. will force
the farmer to adjust himself when
ever the commercial WORLD provides
cash market for anything ths farm.
er can produce. In other words,
whenever I'll: commercial world real.
farmer whatever he can produce at
a profit before the farmer will be
in position to buy from the mer-
chant the problem Of diversification
will be solved and we will soon re-
turn to normally and everybody win
have work
stores to SELL and no effort IL be-
Ing made to create buying chan
mel through which the farmer can
sell his produce. We are working
backward. Agriculture is the fouh-
dalton of all commercial and indus
trial prosperity. and we should first
Of all create channels (marketsl
anything which he can produce. at
a profit, If we are In earnest about
helping the unemployed
Now, then. let's talk less and act
more. Let's use less ink In trying
to boost things. and more money
and energy in preparing to- to pay eaIa
profitable. We all know the con-
ditions 1t does not require any
campaign to teach us what we need
WEI already know Let some OF
f,y, hat
b ng ESssh as is. If mean o 9eu Mr.
Banker. I mean you. Mr.; Selling
Merchant. mean you. Mr.. Doc
tor. or Lawyer. You can't thrive
unless the farmer is d prosperous Porous You
cooperate with .the man who. owes
you. enabling him to use his re-
sources to profit.
Nov this is not theory. 1t is
plain horse sense, 1t Is being done
in other parts Of our nation. have
mixing and mingiing with the bust.
ness interests of Ohio. Michigan and
Illinois. While in Adrian, Mich.
little town Of about 10000. be-
came we'll acquainted with a firm
which operated q large warehouse
handled everything the farmers of
Michigan could produce. mean
paid cash for it, just as we pay cash
for cotton. and then shipped 1t to
foreign markets. Did they confine
their purchases to any one product?
Not on your life. They were cash
buyers Of hay. corn. oats. wheat.
wool, potatoes, and they were pre-
pared to furnish the farmer anything
necessary to produce these products.
In that little town Of only four
small banks there was $S,O00,00O on
deposit from the farmers. August is,
and there was no distressed condi-
lions among the farmers.
$50 tell Mr. Ralph Smith to spend
his energies In organizing buying
merchants in every town in Geor-
gia and the people will rise up and
call him blessed"