Arizona republican., 1921-12-16

 goods. In innumerable instances the present spread of prices between pro- ducers and consumers is too great and the farmers of America, through the greatest organized movement in their history plan to secure fair prices both to themselves and to the ultimate users of their products. We have nothing but commendation for the man or institution who performs a valuable service in distributing our products and takes a fair profit but we frankly intend to eliminate the man who performs no valuable ser vice. yet takes 8. toll from our goods. With hides so low that man can not carry enough on his back to buy a pair of shoes, with corn cheaper than coal, with the enormous difference in price between our wool and clothing. conditions invite a menacing social unrest which we want to avoid. We want folks to understand that we are anxious to buy their goods and will enormously increase their volume of business for them, when our business is profitable, if they will confine their profits to figures commensurate with the ser vice they render.
 Our unfortunate agricultural situ-
 
 failure to appreciate each others viewpoints and things which should be done to alleviate this condition seem innumerable. However. I invite your consideration to a few sugges- tions. To the men of finance l recommend the adoption of credit systems adapted to agriculture! short term loans not for a sixty day period but for such a period and in such quantity as will suit the season of consumption. Long term loans. guar anteed by the best security in the world. skould be at the lowest in terest rates consistent with sound business practices and may well be modelled after Federal Farm loan plans. I would urge the developers of Arizona mineral and timber re- sources to buy our products that we may use your lumber and your cop per. I would suggest to railroad rep resentatives tha. freight raees shou!d be lowered to the point where we can again ship large quantities of ma . trri3I other than the most precious or most concentrat ted and that your charges for service from and to Arl- zona oe made consistent with your charges through Arizona tc the Pa cific coast or vice versa. To the | nor pound of material from elsewhere as long as similar Arizona products are without a market. l would re- mind the dealer in agricultural pro- duce that it is vital to his own ln- 1 terests that he should use the crops i grown on Arizona soil and that It ls l his duty to help us prepare our goods | in such a shape as to allow them to sell on their merits. I would urge | the farmer to produce that which nc | is best able to grow, that winch IS | particularly adapted to the pecullari- | ties of his region and that which the | market wants. and to offer it for sale 1 neatly. substantially and honestly | graded and packed.
 l Gentlemen, I invite your unstinteo 1 support of our program to the enc | that agricultural and national pros l perity may be attained and my ap- | peal is not alone to your sense ol l fair dealing nor to your belief in the l principle of the golden rule. but te ] your personal interest in your o~r | business enterprises.
 l President Brown was followed by Fred J. Elliott, attorney for the Arl- zona Pinacotton Growers association
 who had as his subject "The Organ 1 ized Farmer MT. Elliott spoke 1T part as follows:
 Fred J. Elliott Speaks
 1 It is a common saying that farm CTS marketing associations are borr i of desperation. The American farm | CT has always been individualistic and of the three dominant economic groups capital, labor and agriculture the farmer has been the only lasgarG in organization. He witnessed with out envy the phenomenal growth O | financial and labor organizations;
 and not until those organization! drew too largely upon his farm hell
 did he grow uneasy as to his abilit, to produce his country's requirements The acute shortage of help was fol lowed by well filled ranks again, bu the contact of such help with cit,
 industries had developed some rebel Eous tendencies, so that the preSen drift is towards smaller farm units The farmer is still individuaistic al
 to field operations, and he is agah
 giving his own close personal atten
 ton to his work. Shorn of his help, he cannot giv'
 adequate attention to market con
 ditions, so it is but natural that h.
 is now more willing to adopt som
 t;mesaving expedient such as orderl, marketing.
 You know in a general way of tn
 beneficial results which have followe,
 the installation of orderly marketing
 systems in California. One of tn
 Eastern bankers attending the recen
 American Bankers association con vention in Los Angeles remarked tha the splendid financial strength of tn coast institutions must be attribute largely to the marketing association:
 These associations do not defy tn
 law of supply and demand. They sta hilize supply and demand, and either supply or demand overruns tn
 other they seek to equate them in a orderly manner. The organization
 as they stand today are the outgrowt
 of great many experiments, man Of which were disastrous, but illu n7inating and helpful in the final re suits. The movement has made grea headway and has obtained genera recognition. especially from the pres ent administra tion, so that any de tailed explanation at this time of tn , mechanics of marketing association eiH not be as helpful for the purpos 5 of. this meeting as a brief review c the urge behind the movement, an 7 the sustaining ideals and ambitions ) The farmer is not in position 1 2 curtaiI his operations once that h : has launched his seasons program 9 His assumed obligation to provide i [ order that others may not come :, actual want should be balanced b ? an implied obligation on the part (
 the other classes to provide him wit { the funds to carry bis work througl s Ordinarily our banks have func f toned most satisfactorily on beha ,, Of the farmer; but when the bank e resources were no longer capable ( : supporting the unsold surplus and ( = finanicng new crops. the farmers ar I; reaIe6 o inc oo1-et.f7 mont =ii