Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-19
Bankers Lay Plans
To Market Crops
Other Than Cotton
Two Great State Associa-
tons Join in Founding Bu-
reau for Cooperative
Handling of Products
BY RALPH SMITH

thursday dIIelHOO1l DIT JOlHI HleeLs
ing Of representatives of the Coun.
try Bankers association and the
Georgia Bakers association. The
organization is the immediate out
growth of the market movement in
augurated some six weeks or two
months ago by the Country Bank
ers' association in cooperation with
The Atlanta Journal.
The federation marks the initial
step in a tremendous movement that
is expected to enlist the aid and CO.
operation of every financial, COM
mercial and agricultural interest in
the state in providing facilities for
marketing the diversified products
Of the farm.
The scope of the work of the fed
GRAFTON is practically unlimited. I'm
der the provisions Of the formal ac-
ton by which it was created the or.
ganization will encourage the pro-
duction and seek tor find markets for
all Georgia agricultural products
that are produced in commercial
quantities.
Temporary Board
The organization committee, with
the addition of a couple Of mem
bers, was named as the temporary
board of directors in the farm mar
kets federation, as follows:
l.. r. Adams, secretary of the
Country Bankers association, chair
man; Ely r. Galloway, president of
the LAGRANGE National bank; Peter
r. Kittles, president of the National
Bank Of Sylvania; M. L. Lee, cash.
Ter of the Moultrie Banking com.
pany; J. S. Peters, vice president Of
the Bank Of Manchester; B. w.
Hunt, president of the Middle Geor.
gia bank, Eatonton; j. w. Vaughan,
vice president of the Bank of Car
tersville; j. S. Kennedy, cashier At.
lanta National bank; J. M. Ross,
vice president Lowry National bank,
Of Atlanta; A. B. Sims, vice president
Fulton National bank, of Atlanta;
Milton w. Bell, cashier Federal Re.
serve bank, of Atlanta; Haynes Nc
Fadden, secretary Georgia Bankers
association; Ralph Smith, of The
Atlanta Journal; Fritz R. Jones, Sec
rotary.
Executive Committee Appointed
The actual scope of the fedora
tons work will be formulated by
the executive committee, consisting
of L. r. Adams, J. S. Kennedy
and Ely r. Galloway. The conclu.
sions will be subject to confirmation
by the temporary board of directors,
and the board will be Influenced by
the considerations Of statewide
conference to be held in Atlanta.
Attending the conference will be
the executive head Of every existing
cooperative marketing association
in Georgia and representatives of
such similar organizations as may
be in contemplation or process of
organization. All editors Of city and
country newspapers will be asked
to participate, and it is probable,
also, that the agricultural and indus
trial agents of the several railroads
will be invited.
The date of the Atlanta conference
will not be fixed until the executive
committee has concluded vast
amount of further preliminary work,
designed to facilitate the organiZa-
ton, and has considered many de.
tails that require attention. Chair
man Adams hopes to have a meeting
of the executive committee early
next week.
Although, as stated the organiza-
ton of the Farm Markets federation
is the outgrowth of the marketing
movement jointly inaugurated by
the Country Bankers association
and The Atlanta Jour..al, and marks
the first definite, distinctive step
taken in Georgia looking to a solu.
ton of the problem, the better mar.
ket campaign is not to be abandoned.
The Country Bankers association
and The Atlanta Journal will con-
tinue their cooperation.
Campaign to Continue
It was the opinion of the organiza-
ton meeting that the campaign OF
the bankers and The Journal has
awakened a statewide interest in
the marketing problem and that
pending the actual functioning Of
the Georgia Farm Markets fedora
tin the agitation of the situation
should be continued.
The sustained campaign of pub
lfcity through the columns of The
Journal and other newspapers of the
state in connection with the unre--
efforts of the Country Bank
ers' association, is arousing all
classes of Georgians to the acuteness
Of conditions in the state.
The creation of the Farm Markets
which, as the name inn
plies, contemplates cooperation with
and coordination Of the several CO.
operative farmers associations now
existant and such as may hereafter
be created, scarcely eclipsed in in
-erest, at least the intimate discus
sions of the bankers attending the
meeting. Many phases
If the problem of pulling the OK out
If the ditch" were freely and frankly
considered.
The Right Foot First
The organization meeting sus
away on the right foot first, e8-%
good start, thanks to an admirable
and Illuminating analysis of the stu
alton by Secretary Adams, of the
Country Bankers association, and
highly instructive talk by Charles e.
3assett, field organization agent of
he North American Fruit exchange,
md former attache of the markets
bureau of the United States depart
nent of agriculture. The remarks
# these gentlemen stimulated a deep
interest in work about to be under
aiken and encouraged the utmost
rankness in the discussions that
1t was obvious at the outset of the
Meeting that neither during the pre-
meeting, nor hereafter, is
'olitics to play any part, or receive
NY consideration, in the operation
f tht farm markets federation.
For the organization, politics Is
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