Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-17
URGE ABOLITION Of
MARKET BUREAU

A resolution calling upon the 1egiS-
lature to abolish the state bureau of
markets featured the special SEES
sio1 of the state advisory board of
the Georgia Farm Bureau Fedora
ton Monday morning in the head
quarters of the, bureau in the Cham
Der of Commerce building.
The board also went on record as
being "unalterably opposed to the
Sapiro plan of cotton marketing as
impracticable for Georgia cotton
growers" and considered a number
of bills which it will recommend for
passage at the next session of the
legislature.
The meeting was presided over by
r. A. Kelley, president of the state
bureau, and was attended by seven
teen of the twenty-four members
comprising the board, and represent
tricts of the state.
The board passed a resolution in
structing the president to appoint a
committee to work in cooperation
with the marketing bureau of the
state college of agriculture, and Sc
cure an expert cotton grader from
the United States bureau of mar
kets in Washington to appoint COM
petent cotton graders in every coun-
ty in Georgia SO that every cotton
grower may know definitely the
grade of cotton he has for sale.
The committee also is to appoint a
sales agency with headquarters in
Atlanta, so that every cotton grower
in the state may take advantage
of the best prices prevailing when he
has his cotton ready for sale.
The resolution declining to COM
nit the bureau to an approval of
the Sapiro plan for cotton markt-
ing, came after President Kelley and
other officers of the federation told
the board that they had attended tif-
teen meetings in different parts of
Georgia and that with one exception,
each of the, meetings went on record
as opposing the plan.
President Kelley said that he had
talked with. bankers in all parts of
Georgia and that they were unani-
nous in their opinion that the plan
was not feasible.
James w. Morton, of Athens, ma
tional committeeman from Georgia
to the American Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton, told the members that at a
dinner he recently attended in Wash
ington Secretary Herbert Hoover
told the members that it would be
the most foolish thing imaginable
for cotton growers to rush in over
night into Il proposition that would
change the marketing plans for the
oi,l, 1ooxl to1- hrn inc nd
courage one hundred and fifty years
to build up.
The resolution Withholding approx
al from the plan was unanimously
adopted.
the plan, it would not in any sense
be antagonistic toward it, nor would
it attempt to prevent such a plan
being formed in Georgia.
Declaring that the work that isl
done by the state bureau of markets
is being duplicated by the work being
done by the state agricultural col
lege President Kelley told the mem
bers that in the adjustment of the
state bureau of markets more than
$4,000 would be saved the, state an
nually.
He said that in addition the state
college of agriculture was in a posi-
ton to do the work in a better man
ner, as it trained young men espe-
cially for this work
In urging the adoption of the reso-,
luton fdvoring the, abolition of the
state bureau of markets Mrs. M. E.
Judd, of Dalton, declared that the
effort to eliminate this bureau was
one of the most forward steps the
farm bureau had ever taken.
The resolution was adopted by a.
unanimous vote
1t was pointed out in the discus
sion that the plan to abolish the
market bureau and thereby save the
state a large sum each year would
most likely meet the approval OIL
Gcvernor-elect Hardwick, who has
announced his purpose to inaugurate
policy of economy.
The meeting adjourned at noon for
the members of the board to attend
luncheon at the Hotel Ansley. A
session was to be held Monday aft
ernoon. at which time. further legis-
lative matters were to be considered.I