Arizona republican., 1921-06-20
PIMA GROWERS ENTERING LAST
 LAP IF DRIVE
Organization Campaign of New Association Nears End = But 5000 Acres Needed to Complete the Quota

Needed to Complete the
 Quota
 With approximately 5000 acres to sign up to complete the minimum quota, the Arizona Pimacotton Grow CTS start this morning on the last lap of their campaign to form a. real firm contract, cotton selling organization. Next Saturday will see the prelimi- nary campaign over, according to members statements following the Saturday meeting. and all prelimi- naries will be worked out so that the election of directors by the entire membership can be held within a short time. and the new association officially incorporated under the CO., operative marketing act.
 The Saturday meeting at the Y. M. C. A. was the most enthusiastic of any of the long series of meetings necessary in the working out of the plan and the carrying on of the cam paign for membership. Members were present from every part of the valley. Volunteer workers who have been working hard all week in sign | ing up their neighbors turned in piles lof signed contracts and enthusiasm waxed high.
 One encouraging incident of the meeting was the reading of a report l from Superintendent Cragin of the Water Users association stating that l the latest estimate of the acreage in cotton in the project this year Is | ,690 acres.
 Campaign Near End
 ! On this basis the 50 per cent neces- sary to put into effect the contract I Of the new organization will be 2S,S45 acres. The total acreage turned in by the close of the meeting was 21,- l 579 acres. Twelve hundred acres \ more was reported signed up that was not brought in to the meeting I from one worker, and a number of i committees failed to report. but from \ telephone information. they are un- | derstood to have another 1000 acres signed and ready to turn in. This will bring the total signed to date up to 23.729 acrea leaving 5,116 acres I yet to be secured out of probably I 27. 900 acres Of cotton in the state l that is as yet unsolicited. A very l small proportion Of this. compara- I lively, will complete the campaign
 Cotton acreage in any part of the state is part Of the total acreage sought. and when the 50 per cent I minimum Is secured the campaign for
 
 along while the officers and directors I are being elected. and up to picking | time this fall. The committee ex- poets to have at least 75 per cent oi the cotton in the state signed up by ginning time, and requests are being 1 received from Yuma and other out | aide districts for field workers to be sent there so that the growers Tn I other sections may join this year 1 AS the Arizona Pimacotton GroWers | is. of course, statewide cotton grow 1 CTS organization. the organization I tcommittee is planning to send work- lers into the outlying districts as soor as possible.
 of agriculture of Kentucky. ana nov \ \ rancher in the Cartwright district made one of the most striking taiKi Iof the Saturday meeting
 A Kentucky Example II sWhen was commissioner ol asIl i culture of Kentucky'' said MT. SonS'' ssT tried for months to organize tn Iltobacco growers along the same line Ias the Arizona Pimacotton Growers . 1 Rut they were getting high prices ana we could do nothing with them |tIast year they paid $250 per acr | cas s,, rent for tobacco land. The cro cost an additional $50 per acre t | nroduce. making 1t cost $4o0 per acr. The average yield over the state L 1000 pounds per acre. It sold TOT !
 and Il cents per pound, q deao ios | of nearly $500 per acre. -- I'll .The leaders called in Aaron ga l miro. the famous California expert Q Fl remuneration, who wrote the contrae H we are using here. had him prepar a similar contract. hold series ( tio1 meetings. and now they are organ | ized. do inc same thing. If we do not Fl far as am concerned. shall new il DlanA another field of cotton, < ltl making a profit out of a crop once H a generation is not enough TOT n' lliI want to be a member of an orgai HI ization that win have something Il say about the price of cotton HI "We Are Not Crazy"
 HI .Once. in Kentucky, when ve' II to visit the state asylum TOT the II II sane noticed a man in uniform O Il in the yard. entirely surrounded Il many of the inmates. AssI was pas II ing he hailed me, and l founo m H to be an old friend
 Il .sHe was a small chap. and lot H the lunatics were big. burly fellow II and | said to him. How many II these fellows do you have to guard II and he replied Two hundred al II fifty And I asked him, 'Suppo II these fellows should organize 'a II attack you. what would you do?' Il My friend the guard burst Il Laughing.
 II .sWhy, Matt said he. don't y II know that crazy people haVel II enough sense to organizer
 II Now. the question is,, said lli Cohen in conclusion. "are we era . or have we got sense enough to - ganize?"
 Joseph R. Loftus. chairman of organization committee, presided
 the meeting and reported that mi
 in the east are watching with gr' deal of interest the progress of cotton growers organization mo'
 ment.
 .sThe only real opposition to
 movement said MT. Loftus, con
 from self-constituted guards
 seem to think we are crazy, but
 in reality have personal reasons
 wanting the farmer to remain at th
 mercy. as he always has been. r
 sonally, I do not believe we m
 guards. and there is no question
 my mind that we will assemble h
 next Saturday with our minimum . rollment complete
 A motion was adopted that
 chairman appoint a committee to
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