Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-08-16
TOBACCO SELLING
PLAN WILL GO over
Organization Expected To Be
Completed By Nov. 15-Suc-
cess Is Now Assured
IBy associated Press)

organization by November ID, I'M
the opinino of Joseph Passoneau
and will be in shape for business
this year. This opinion was eX-
pressed here today in a statement
on the progress of the organiza-
ton work which has been going
on throughout the summer.
Apr oxim a tie y 10000, 900
pounds of the 1921 crop have al
ready been pledged in fifteen
counties and during the next
week it is hoped by organization
officials to have fifty million
pounds pledged.
'The movement for the 'Burley
Tobacco Marketing Association
has progressed sufficiently that it
is now practically certain that
necessary IS per cent of the to-
bacco will be signed up to the or
ganizat ton before the fifteenth
of November said the statement
"and thus assure the incorpora
ton of the association for doing
business this year. In none Of the
organization campaigns with
which [ have been associated has
definite prospects of success been
evident as early after launching
the movement as has been the
case With this Burley Association
"This is probably due to the
splendid support which has been
given by practically every inter-
est in Kentucky. The newspa-
pers everywhere. have advocated
the plan with an intelligence that
has seldom been equalled by any
of the western papers during va
rious similar movements on the
Pacific coast where the COOpera-
tive Marketing Associations have
been SO successful The country
bankers, as we'll as those in Lex
ington and Louisville, have taken
a definite position in favor Of the
association and from the begin
ming have asserted that the plan
is sound both economically and
financially. Such intelligence and
helpfulness thus expressed by the
bankers has done much to con-
vince tobacco growers every
where that the organization is
not only necessary but in every
| respect fair and practical
There are now splendid work.
ing organizations in about 18 or
20 counties, including the heavy
producing counties of the Blue
Grass: Mithin another couple of
weeks there will be complete
county organizations in every
Burley county of Kentucky, In
diana and Ohio. By the first of
September, campaign organiza-
ton will be busy in Tennessee,
and Virginia. These local organ!
izations made up of working
teams solicit membership to the
association. !
"The success that the various
soliciting teams have had thus
far gives assurance beyond any
reasonable doubt that at least
seventy-five or eighty per cent
of the tobacco growers are now
ready to sign, and it remains only
for the teams to visit them and
get their signatures.
Thus far only few precincts
in a number of cunties have ac-
tually done house to house work. +.
The Bourbon county committee
has already canvassed half of the :.
county, obtaining nearly four ).
million pounds of tobacco. That
part of the county which has been |
solicited is more than ninety per-
cent signed up. In one Bourbon,
county precinct, every grower
has signed the pledge, except one.
Woodford county has forty perl
cent of all the tobacco grown ,inI
the county pledged; Bath countyi
has thirty-fve per cent pledged
Shelby county thirty per cent andI
three and one half millions areI7
signed up in Fayette county. Thet
other counties have from o5O,OOOE
to one million pounds each all
ready signed.
cat least fifty million pounds
should be pledged during the twot
weeks house to house canvass,
which was started in about II off
the Blue Grass counties on the.t
fifteenth of the month. There isl
reasonable assurance that AMI
amount of tobacco equal to att
least forty per cent of the mini
mum necessary to perfect the orr
.ganization will be signed up by[
the 18th of September. j
The success of the movement
lis assured. The Association will
he