The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-03-11
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THE COMMITTEE OF SEVENTEEN
MARKETING PLAN

In this issue of the Courier and on
page two thereof will be found de-
tails of the marketing plan recon-
mended by the Committee of Seven
teen.
1t is rather superfluous for the
Courier to discuss its attitude toward
the general features of this plan, for
the plan adopted by the Committee of
Seventeen. we believe. in the opinion
of any sane individual at all familiar
with the problems of agriculture and
the grain grower, there can be no
doubt as to the logic of such a course.
The Courier is a Staunch believer in
the merits of the National Farm Blu
reau Federation, and possesses faith
in the exceptional ability of the pres
ident of that organization and the
other officials who have to do with its
business affairs. This paper believes
hiatt a cooperative system of market
ing will not only prove beneficial to
the producer but will become a very
potent factor in the establishment of
an equitable market for the onsumer
The first chief feature of the plan
is the organization of a national CO.
operative sales agency, in the form OF
a non-stock, non-profit organization,
which will contract for the selling OF
the grain either through a great grain
pool or through contracts.
The second chief feature of the COM
mittee's scheme is that this great CO.
operative sales agency shall control
five different departments, as follows:
terminal agencies; warehouse corpora
ton; finance corporation; export cor
poration; and service department.
These subsidiary organizations would
have to have capital stock, but thew
would be controlled by the big parent
marketing agency and used by it ex-
clusively.
The Courier maintains a fixed atti-
u toward cooperative marketing.
We believe this plan can ultimately be
made the solution for a great deal of
the misunderstanding and unrest
which has so recently prevailed in
different parts of the nation. Coop
erative marketing is, though, not ne
cessarily a panacea, but it is a neces-
slty and can be successful if properly
managed. And undoubtedly it will
prove of great benefit and vastly inn
prove the marketing conditions if the
management is placed in the proper
and efficient hands. Instead of antag-
onizing half of the population of the
state, as any plan of state ownership
must necessarily do, it should invite
the assistance of every citizen of the
state, for surely the prosperity of the
state is dependent upon the prosperity
of the farmers. Every business man
and city dweller wants to see the far
mer prosper, either for selfish or I'M
selfish reasons But, no business man
will submit tamely to having his pro-
perty and credit conscripted by the
state for the purpose of permitting it
to engage in an industrial enterprise.
And neither will any business man or
city dweller sit idly by and allow his
properties to be excessively taxed
simply because the farmer has met
misfortune.
The committee of Seventeen bases
it's plan solely on cooperation, and
has no hing in common with any
scheme for state government or owner
snip. This point is indeed commend
able. State ownership and co-opera-
ton are mutually an~tagonistic and ex-
elusive. The Courier is heart and soul
IN accord with any sane and we'll
thought out plan of cooperation which
will improve marketing conditions-ir.
respective Of how it may affect our
~suppoaed owners" the grain gam
ib'ers." Ard, the Courier is unalterablv
opposed to any schemes of state own
ershin of industry or the penaliZing
of any larger industries already in op-
GRAFTON.