Arizona republican., 1921-06-03
Entire South Is Now United On
 Cooperative Cotton Marketing

together. and to stay together
 He has made them realize the tre- mendous importance of the move ment. the tremendous possibilities for economic good. of the cooperative marketing movement to the entire south if properly organized on q commodity and not a locality basis He crysfaiyzed the idea by writing the-contract for the Oklahoma Cotton Growers association. putting into ft no experiments. but only proven prac- tice that had been successfully used In older associations for marketing Upon this contract Williams and nts able assistants on the organization committee have sisned up ,5.ooe growers tn that state. who win make more than 500. 900 bales of cotton this ycar.-and thss year and for the nsxt six more years VIII sell all they pre- duce through the association The Bledsoe. Jr-. Of Greenwood. Mixs- an- other pioneer in the movement. in or-
 ganixing the staple growers of the delta
 A total of eight cotton states are
 now using the same contract two cf them arc done. Arizona is going fine- Texas is making splendid progresa
 Arkansas is getting a fine start and
 the others are all working hard 1ns
 
 then next.
 And when the various state organ- izations are completed. they will au
 take their place In the gAlaxy of | cotton marketing organizations that \ Will cornprie the American Cotton l Growers Ex>hange. which ts author ixed in all the state contracts- and the plan for which was ziso written by Aaron Sapiro and tentatively
 adopted by representatives of the
 states that produce Ss per cent of | our entire cotton crop.
 One of the heaithicst indications for ! the success of the movement over the entire south is the fact that the
 leaders in practically all lines of en- deavor are soildly for the same thing. on the same plan and the same con-
 tract The officers and lczders of the American Cotton association the
 Farm bureaus of the south. the ] Farmers Union. the Grange. ana
 many other existing orgArixattone- are all working ioyaliy. shoulder Co [ shoulder. 10 accomplish the orgAnixa- ton of the cotton producers through , the belt. They have rcalixed that . this movement is bigger than any
 previous organization movement bigger than any man or group c< s men.
 l It Is fully and cooly under<eood i. and appreciated that this fs q big proposition. that the institution that
 is being created 10 handle the saIes r | of southern cotton hereafter. by and ( for the growers themselves through c their own organixationa wfu be the . biggest big business institution the nl world has ever scen-
 II The leaders in this movement un~ n derstand and appreciate that they af@ 7 not engaged in rsmodeiing an old ma f chine. but in the creation from the
 ground up. of new system of mar ,f damage to the ultimate conaumer. sh< Y prnducer himself win receive c lArgsI - proportion of the ultimate price paid e Whatever organizations exist iI l. various parts of the south visateveI 3: vehicle is available. IE being uoed c Is carry this movement to succssa I' N part of the states the pianferu then
 selves formed organization commit q tees and carried on the campawz q assisted by existing organizations q V the case of Oklahoma~ standing prac v ticaiiy alone in the case of MIns1a iy sippi- The Farm bureaus are pro ,x vfding the orxanixtnx machinery he some cases. the American Cotton as l- soclafion in otherR
 "a As vas well stalled a few days as
 by a pioneer in the cooperative col ld ton marketing movement. There ca r- be but two possible reasons why an D. man should oppose this movemen or Either he has a personal axe to krtn' 1- or he is the type of man that allow ,d his personal prejudice against som a- person or persons connected with th C. movement to stand in the way of hl i- helping tho greatest sinEie project fc a. the hettermcnf Of the cotton industr E. that has ever been developed he No man desires 10 be In etth< a- classification Everyone desires tf n. improvement in the economic cond' Id ton of the south. for that means n
 Improvement of everything pertain ne ing to the social and economic Etro< te ture of this part of the country. m No one claims that co-operatiy "a marketing win cure all the evils ( v- the old lack of system. right off. Bs by the biggest men in the souf> beues s- that it is a better system than an se that has ever been proposed n- The way the Solid South" is soil Id for this plan. the way the bsg me an the biE organizations now in exts' he ance. the big periodicals. and the hl s- growers are working to accompiis ch this thing. there fs small doubt thl
 a number of the states win have the he organizations completed this fA lat more next year. and they win all
 a united into the big. economic1 sf- powerful and far reaching overhes on sales organizations the Americs he Cotton Growers Exchange IT, -