Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-03-30
Accepts Appointment on State Com
mittee to Prepare Report For At
lanta Meeting April IL.
(From Yesterdays Daily

Announcement was made here Sat-
urday by O.. Z. Tate, of Elberton that
Charles S. Barrett, national president
of the Farmers Union and chairman
of the national board of farm organi-
cations has accepted appointment as
a member of the statewide commit
tee to work out a plan of organiza-
ton for Georgia cotton growers on
the California Cor Sapiro) plan for
presentation for the state wide mass
meeting to be held in Atlanta on
April II.
The object of forming this state
wide. committee in advance of the
meeting was to get the benefit of
state wide advice. Mr. Tate is pres
ident of the Ebert County Cotton
Growers Association, which indorsed
the Sapiro plan some weeks ago and
launched movement for state wide
organization.
A tentative association contract
and marketing law for Georgia is
being prepared by Aaron Sapiro.
originator OF the Sapiro plan, and
this will be submitted to the state
wide committee for such modifica-
ton as they see fit to make on it.
No other member of the statewide
committee has yet been announced
by Mr.. Tate His acceptance from
MIR. Barrett was received in a very
remarkable letter which praised the
Sapiro plan and ventured the predic-
ton that the long expected! day of
cooperative marketing by the cot
ton growers is about to come to pass.
In this letter Mr. Barrett says:
Il think you are engaged in a great
work, which, from all I can hear, you
are going about in splendid way,
and with brilliant prospect of sue
cess. l have known both Mr.. Sapiro
and his plan for pretty long time,
and fundamentally l believe both of
them are sound. refer to his prop
osition in regard to cttoon particu-
1arly.
at has been my opportunity, in
twenty years of almost ceasless
travel from coast to coast and from
the gulf to Canada, to keep in init
mate touch with farmer enterprises
of every conceivable sort, and in that
experience | ought to have 1earrsAl a
thing or two about cooperative mar
keting.
Il am intimately acquainted with
the workings of the sp1inded Pacific
coast organization, many of which
were in operation a decade or more
before Mr.. Sapiro, with his improved
ideas, entered the field, but nearly
all of them are being run in accord
ance with the fundamental theories
which he so well advocates.
1T is not only sound, but in its
fundamentals it is not at all new.
Except in details, Mr.. Sapiro has had
deep-thinking predecessors of my
personal acquaintance. But that is
point in favor of, rather than
against, his plan, and the milk in the
cocoanut at this hour is that, in the
opinion, his plan is today feasible
when it was not so heretofore.
"The storm of farmer interest in
cooperative marketing, which is the
result of years of hard driven educa-
ton by farm organizations, coupled
with the farmers painful predica-
ment today, is glorious and intense.
There has never been anything like
it, and unless l give the farmer credit
for less intelligence than years of
close association have taught me to
think he has, he is going to shake
himself free from the shackles which
have enslaved him.
Whats more, your 'ncle Ruben
in Georgia is not near as far behind
his brethren elsewhere as some
times like to fool him into thinking
for his own good And if some city
folks realized the amount of horse
sense he has in his head, they'd spend
their lives wondering how it is that
he has allowed himself to be the
goat of our economic system for so
long.
"But there's an end coming to
that. The farmer is just waking up
to the fact that God Gncluding the
times)' helps those who help them
selves. And he is now out to act
upon that information.
"You have got fine scheme, and
if you don't make mistakes you've
got fine opportunity to put it over
in Georgia and be blessed men,
Dry. All strength to your good right
arm. 1 will be with your commit
tee when it meets, and insofar as /
can be helpful otherwise, let me know"
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