Arizona republican., 1921-03-06

American Cotton associa ton in Mont gomery." said Mir Stevens, "the nation al cooperative marketing committee, of which have the honor to be mem ber spent an entire day with MT. Sa- piro in going over methods and means of forming farmers marketing organi- zations to do the most effective work Sa piro made a very great impression with the least burden to the members. on all the delegates to the convention, and his advice was closely followed by the committee in making its final re- port, which was done under the leader ship of D. s. Murphy. the cotton mark eting expert of the department or agri- culture at Washington.
 He is also the author of the model cooperative marketing act which is before the state senate. having been in troduced by Representative Jones and having passed the house Friday with out Q dissenting vote This same bill recently was passed in Texas and is before a large number of states It will provide a uniform cooperative mar keting act that will help the farmer toward economic freedom as rapidly as he avails himself of it's provisions and organizes on a firm and well consid- cred basis"
 Here Only Short Time
 While efforts have been made for some months to get MT. Sapiro here in the interest of cotton growers organ ization, he will only be able to stop over between trains, while en route from Washington. where he has been helping the apple growers. to Nebraska, for a conference to help Middle West grain growers to organize for intelli- gent marketing.
 Following his visit to Nebraska, he is due in Texas to address the bankers Of the state on the advantages to business in general of having the farmers prop erly organized to market their products.
 The big mass meeting here tomorrow will be held at the high school audi torium To this meeting all cotton growers. bankers, business and pro- fessional men are invited--in fact, ev- erybody who is interested in working out the problems of future prosperity for the valley.
 Mr. Sapiro will arrive on the 9 o'clock train, and go immediately into ney for the cotton growers organiza- tion.
 At noon a luncheon will be given in his honor at the '. M. c. A. to which bankers and business men are particu- larly invited, to learn from this author ity what cooperative marketing has done for the prosperity of many sec 
 Meeting at 3 O'Clock
 At 2 o'clock he will meet the GO lead ing farmers and farmer-business men who form the organization committee of the growers. and at o'clock proceed to the high school auditorium for the mass meeting. He will be compelled to leave on the 6: 30 train in order to keep his Nebraska appointment.
 The organization plan, it is antici- pated, will be practically completed and ready to submit to the cotton growers in general as soon as Sapiro has made such final changes as may be necessary to perfect the plan, which has been un- der preparation for many months and part of the present association and of the members of the organization com mittee, which has spent several weeks on it.
 The active organization campaign will be opened within week. The or ganization committee met Saturday and wound up a great deal of the pre- liminary work of getting ready for the campaign for firm contract organiza tion. The valley has been divided into 23 districts, each of which will have it's own local organization and officers, and each of which will elect 6 director to the main association.
 On Firm Contract Plan
 In addition, there will be six directors at large elected by the vote of all mem bers in the county, and from the direc- torate will be elected the officers and an executive board.
 All the cotton raised by Or for the members will be turned over to the or ganization, to be handled and sold un- der the supervision of the men selected