Arizona republican., 1921-02-21
COTTON RA|SERS
 BEEN PLANS TO PRODUCT.
Centralized Control Of Staple Is Means Taken To Stabilize Markets; Prin- ciples Of Program Are A d o p t e d After Long Study Of Conditions
By Chas. M. Morgan

Cotton growers of the Salt River valley have taken the initial steps toI take effective charge of their own busi- ness, and to provide means of mar keting. under one head, all future crops of cotton.
 Hereafter it is their intention to have one seller of cotton to many buyers, not many buyers dealing with each individual. Experience has shown con clusively that individual selling means selling at the lowest price offered, while the experience of all successful CO., operative marketing organizations controlling a major part of the crop Of any commodity has been that the grower receives a better average price.
 The Plan Prepared
 The fundamental principles for the plan. after months of research and study, was prepared by the present as sociation, and those fundamental prln- ciples have now been worked into final shape by representative committee selected by the growers themselves from every section of the valley.
 Thus the plan, in it's final form, is the growers own plan, and as such will have the entire support of the selected leaders in each community It IS now being printed, and will be available to begin the active campaign in a few days
 Temporary Directors
 The organization. after the first an nual election of directors this sum- mer, will have q director selected by the growers from each district com prising the association, and directors at large. At the second meeting of the organization committee, held Sat urday, the plan was threshed out care fully, paragraph by paragraph, and at the close of the meeting temporary board of directors chosen to serve un- til the organization is completed and the election held for the ensuing term. The temporary directors are J. Stan ley Howard of Phoenix, Jas. G. Ham, mels of Glendale, II. A. Sanderson Of Peoria, K. D. Hellwarth of Washing ton. R. F. Garnctt of Albambra, J. Garnett Holmes of Tolleson, Ray Cow den of Cashion. Angus Cashion of Ky rene, Fred Tait of Wilson, Leonard Nets of Mesa. A C. CCrDeu of Tempe, ! E. J. Showers of Scottsdale, J. c. Dob bins of Laveen, M. T. Jones of High 1 land, J. A. Higgins of Cartwright. G R. TifaI of Chandler, Lin B. Orne of 1 Grey Archer of Roosevelt. Marvin Young of Madison. Will Mosser oi 1 Creighton. and F. w Hudson. w. $ | stevens, l. J. Phillips, C. T. Hirst, C i R. Greene Dr. J. C. Norton and Chas 1 NJ. Smith, at large.
 The temporary board of directors will hold a meeting within a few days to select the temporary officers, ano thereafter the board and the remainder of the organization committee, mum bering between fifty and hundred o- the leaders in the valley, will push tho organization campaign cnergetically James c. Hammels of Glendale ha: been selected as chairman of the or ganization committee, and Chas. M
 Morgan as secretary treasurer.
 The Plan in Brief
 ]. Taking a number of leaves from th' books of experience of other sections . producing special crops, the grower have determined to organize them selves into q tight co-opera tive mar keting association on the firm con ! tract basis. winch means that caCl grower will contract to turn his cot , ton over to his association for d. perioc of five years, to he handled and sCl' } collectively, and that each man wil , have an equal vote in the selection O ? the men who arc to handle his mar
 keting for him and his neighbors. The method of government is entirel, democratic and representative. Eacl
 district organization will have it's owi local officers and directors. Ther ; will be selected from among them on director to the main association. Di rcctors at large will be chosen by com mon consent
 Realizing that reasonable Continuit ; of management is necessary to scCur
 the credit the organization must hay
 10 handle from $25.on0.0 900 to S50,000, %
 worth of cotton per year, the plan pro
 vides for rotation in office both of tn
 local directors and the directors in tn tv-aT i.T.
 Purely community problems affect
 ing the cotton growers of a given dis } trict will be handled by the loCa . boards. Marketing. financing the cot t ton until sold, and other general prob
 lens will he in charge of the boar
 governing the central organization.
 Taking leaf out of the eTpericnc z of the raisin grower organization, tn
 association itself win have the con
 tracts for the cotton. and will make tn actual sales of fl. hut the physica
 handling and tho making of arrange
 u.1t@ with banks for finance win D Q handled hv a subsidiary corporation - entirely controlled by rne association : known as the Cotton Finance corpora - ton Thus tho growers wiI torfor
 10 tie sherman act. --l vii. L-L sc