Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-09-10
BIG DRIVE STARTS
TO go over THE TOP'
Prominent Farmers Hear J. G.
Stone and Go To Work To
Finish Tobacco Pool


pooling plan ''over the top" were
made at a meeting of about 50
prominent farmers of Madison
county Friday night. The meet
ing was held in the dining room
of the Glyndon Hotel and was
preceded by 4 delightful supper.
Jas. c. Stone and Clyde Buck
Icy, of Lexington, were promin-
.ent guests of the evening. The
former spoke at length upon the
great benefits that every farmer
may expect if the selling plan is
Il success, and he stirred his hear
ers to such enthusiasm that dOz-
ems of leading men OF the COM
munity volunteered to devote at
least four days to campaigning
and securing signers. Commit
tees were named to canvass every
voting percinct in the county thor
oughly.
A careful examination of the
amount of tobacco signed TIP, in
diCates that Madison has over B.
100000 pounds now signed. Ev
cry possible effort will be made
to convince Madison farmers how
this movement is for their best in
terests. Some growers are still
holding out, it was reported.
seemingly unable to realize what
this plan will mean to them.
Mr.. I. S. Burnam, county chair
man. presided. and called the
meeting to order. and introduced
Mr.. Stone. Mr.. Stone, an ex-
Madison man, is very popular
here. He has studied the tobac
CO situation from every stand
point. He is both warehouse
man and a grower. and he frank
ly discusses the question from all
angles.
Mr.. Stone declared that all
would agree that the farmer
needs help. He is the only man
who has had absolutely nothing
to say about the price he is paid
for anything he produces and who
has nothing to say about the price
he pays for anything he buys.
He told how men in other lines
have brought success by organic
ing. The merchants organize
business men in all activities are
organized. yet the farmer has
been on the outside, forced t.
take what they wish to give him.
Mr.. Stone pointed out that
this pool fails, every tobacco
grower is going to try to get his
weed on the market i'll January.
He must do so to meet his bills.
etc. They did so last year and
dumped their crops OH the mar
kct at time when the money
market was the tigltest it has
probably ever been in the history
Of the country.
Then just to show them what
they arc up against under this old
method of selling. Mr. Stonl
pointed out that if the farmers
had been enabled through an or
ganization to have sold what
grades they wished at satisfac-
tory prices for those grades, and
had held the lower grades whic
were dumped on the market, then
too, for period of four month,
they would have received SIS
100000 more for those lower
grades last spring.
This statement is borne out by
the we'll known fact that many
tobacco SPECTATORS bought ur
these lower grades at almost any
price. Many bought them at hall
a cent a pound, and it is a matter
of record how many cleaned uf
big by holding them a few
months. 1t doesn't require mucf
headwotk to see what the organi
zation of growers could have saw
ed or rather made for the farm
ers if it had been in working or
der last year, just on the loves
grades alone.
Mr.. Stone then pointed out th'
power that the banks have thr,
their organizations. He said tina
like the banks, the farmers, Cal
select their directors and picl
men at the head of their orgaiii
cations who are fitted to rnanag
the enterprise just as the bank
pick their cashiers to lend thei
money at interest, take care @
expenses, and make dividends f.
them. 1t is simply question .
business organization, like til
banks, or other successful busi
ness organizations, he show-
most conclusively. He pomlte
out that the farmers know no,
to raise their tobacco, they knoS
how to get it in prime shape, an
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