Arizona republican., 1921-05-25
COTTON MACAz|NE
 e|vES ACCOUNT IF VALLEY MOVEMENT

VALLEY MUVtMtW| l The cooperative marketing move acnt of long staple cotton growers ot the salt River Valley is exhaus- NNeAy covered in the May number of | the Pacific Cotton Courier in an ar ucle entitled "Co-operative Cotton Narketing in the Southwest" A large part of the magazine is devoted to the long staple industry.
 >h it's page headed Leading Topics | m the Cotton Industry the Cotton [ SoArier publishes a photograph and biographical sketch of w. s. Stevens. 1 president of the Arizona American l Egsption Cotton Growers associa- ton Another article is "TThe Co., operative Cotton Plan" the address of Aaron Sapiro here March as published in The Republican at that time.
 The marketing article is as follows: Commodity cooperation in market ing has long been an established fact; a successful demonstrated principle in practically all of the leading pro- ducts of the southwest, with one ex- ccption. and that exception is cotton. Whether it was because cotton growers are inherently more conser- Nativc. or because such good prices were being received for the staple that there was no necessity, appar- cntly. for a change in the system; or, whatever the reason, it is neverthe- less unfortunately true that, until the last few years, there has been 10 se- rsous effort made, no important movement started for cooperative marketing of this staple until a conn para lively recent time.
 Now. however, the movement is on in earnest. The growers are sold on the cooperative marketing prop osition. and it is believed that, before another year has rolled around most of the cotton produced in the south west will be in the hands of strong orSanizatlons, who will not be throw ing cotton on the market faster than the market demands it.
 The necessary or preliminary inun- dalton work. leading up to the pres cnt movement of firm contract among cotton growers, has been done, largely. by the Arizona American Egyptian Cotton Growers Associa- tion. of Phoenix. This organization was founded two years ago Dy q com paratively small group of large plant CTS. who had the vision to see taat though the business of cotton pro- duction was prosperous st that time and prices were high, in the long run il would be necessary for the pro ducers of cotton to follow the ex- ample of the producers of other ag : ricultural commodities, and bring about certain fundamental changes .n the system of marketing their pro Suct.
 This little group stood practically alone in their belief that cooperative marketing on commodity basis was the ultimate ans ver to the recurrin 3 cycles of depression in the cotton pro- ducing business. They, therefore, started this organization as an in- formation bureau; to gather and d.s- siminate to it's members accurate in- formation on the state Of the cotton market. crop conditions, supply and demand. prices being received for comparable types of cotton and other information that wosld put the cot ton planted on practical equality of infprmation with the cotton buyer. ~ssIrfs was the first o5jerA The sec ohd object was to carry OH an educa- ri,snal campaign through the press and by letter propaganda, and by public meetings that, 1t was hoped, would in the course of from two to five years, educate the gorwers of cotton in the southwest up to he point where they would he convinced that co-opertive marketing on Cali forlia basis would be good thing for the cotton growers.
 The association has succeeded II Accomplishing both it's major object. in much less time than it's founders anticipated The ultimate plan fol firm cooperation has been unde way for more than year, and severa months ago, large public massmeet ing of Salt River Valley cotton grow CTS passed. by uanimous vote, a reso lution endorsing the work and tn benefits of the association, and m structing it to proceed with all dili xence to plan and organize a req tight solid and sound organizatio for marketing cotton co-operativen
 Many months of work were put i on the plan. Every possible sourc of information on successful cooper ation was canvassed, from Denmar on the east. to California on the wes Only successful features, ampl proven in practice, were incorporate in the preliminary draft of the plal This preliminary draft was the worked over by the faithful lit band of officers and directors of u present association, who had, for tw years. devoted their time and the money without compensation, oth, than the satisfaction of good accon plished. to the work that they under took to do.
 Then the growers of every distri
 were asked to select their best rel resentatives to form an organizatfc committee to further perfect the pla which was done; and a final meal of arriving at the best possible prov. practice. Aaron Sapiro, of San Fra cisco. a famous attorney on co-ope alton. counsel for 26 such organiz