Arizona republican., 1921-06-14
30 MEN TAKE FIELD
 ID GET SIGNATURES IF COTTON RA|SERS
By Chas. N. Morgan Secretary Organization Comm

Secretary Organization Committee
 "Clean-Up Week in the organiza- ton campaign of the Arizona Pima cotton Growers started off with nearly 30 men. volunteer workers from among the cotton growers of the valley. in the field. and as their reports were coming in last night good progress was shown
 IL is expected that 50 volunteers will be working today. and an aver age of 70 maintained for the entire week. It is the desire of the com nnittee to emphasize that these workers are volunteers and their time is too valuable to waste.
 These men have forsaken their own fields for this week. well know ing that the making of a crop is not SO important as the making of an organization for the economical handling of financing and sales. for without the organization they will be in the same condition as in the past when marketing time comes. For these reasons. the committee asks that the individual grower CO., operate to make their work as rapid as possible. IL Is important that no time be lost if the organization is to be completed and the directors and officers elected Tn time for them to have a fair opportunity to get the new business organization ready to function al picking time.
 Through the newspaper publicity. the public meetings that have been held. and the man to man talking over the marketing organization has had. every man knows. or has had the opportunity to know. the essen tial facts about the new organiza- ton. which are. briefly:
 AA Av-tw ptnna nnfsnr is a democratic cooperative mar keting association 10 handle cotton only. and for It's members only. IL | is being organized under the new cooperative marketing law passed by the last legislature.
 The campaign is being carried on | to enroll in the association the growers controlling an amount of cotton equal to half the acreage planted under the project this sea- son Two-thirds of this is signed up. and the remainder is to be en- rolled this week. SO the elections can be held
 The membership campaign is be- ! ing carried on by an organization committee selected by the growers from every part of the valley. and | by volunteer workers added. and any grower may help by urging his neighbors to join.
 The contract being used was writ ten. in it's final form. by Aaron Sapiro. the famous san Francisco | legal authority of cooperative mar keting. and is legally the same con tract as was signed by 35.00o grow CTS in Oklahoma the growers ot I 200 900 bales in the Mississippl Delta. and the same contract and plan that is being used to organizs
 the growers in Texas. Arkansas
 North Carolina. South Carolina
 Georgia. and Alabama
 The plan Is no experiment. II has been proven in practice b, many successful cooperative mar keting associations with perishabiei
 and semi -perishable farm products and win be much easier to nak' successful with a -perishabls
 like cotton
 | The contract has been approved by the heads of the leading agricui. tural colleges and extension divf. sions. leading farm periodicals. ant
 leading cotton growers every wher'
 over the South It was formally ap-
 proved by the Memphis Conferenc' : on Cooperative Cotton Marketing called by the American Farm Blu
 reau Federation April 26. and domi'
 mated by Southern Farm bureaus
 The same contract. in all essentials
 Is being used by farm bureaus al
 over the South 10 form association
 of grain. hay. melon, tomato. ana
 cotton growers.
 The Arizona Pimacotton Growers
 when completed. will be governed
 by board of directors elected b, the growers themselves. who vii
 hire the necessary expert assista nc' to handle the crop. Its purpose il
 to handle the financing and sale O
 cotton more directly. on a suppl,
 and demand basis
 The proposition is. simply. tha the growers propose 10 substitute 1 business system of marketing. con trolled by themselves. for the pres ent lack of system. by the simpl expedient of trusting each other. bu ! being sure that all members vii
 stick by binding them into the or ] ganization with a firm and enforce able contract