Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29
Barrett Mdorses
Sapiro System
OfFarn1 Markets

Announcement was made here Sat
& rday by o. E. Tate, of Elberton, that
Charles S. Barrett, national president
f the Farmers union and chairman
the national board of farm organi-
lations, has accepted appointment as
member of the statewide commit
be to work out a plan of organiza-
ion for Georgia cotton growers on
he California Cor Sapiro) plan for
Fascination to the statewide mass
&heeting to be held in Atlanta on
pril II.
The object of forming this state
Fide committee in advance of the
beeting was to get the benefit of
tate-wide advice. Mr.. Tate is pres
BENT of the Ebert County Cotton
rowers' association, which Endorsed
be Sapiro plan some weeks ago and
punched a movement for statewide
fganization.
A tentative association contract
nd marketing law for Georgia is
bling prepared by Aaron Sapiro,
I
bis will be submitted to the state
hide committee for such modfica-
on as they see fit to make in 1t.
No other member of the statewide
'bmmittee has yet been announced
N Mr.. Tate. His acceptance from
) II. Barrett was received in a very
#markable letter which praised the
hpiro plan and ventured the predic-
on that the long-expected day of
Cooperative marketing by the cot
Rn growers is about to come to pass.
In this letter Mr.. Barrett says:
81 think you are engaged in great
ork, which, from all 1 can hear, you
Re going about in splendid way,
I'D with a brilliant prospect of sue
&ss. I have known both Mr.. Sapiro
+ nd his plan for a pretty long time,
I bid fundamentally 1 believe both of
em are sound. I refer to his prop
Tition in regard to cotton particu-
\ rly.
Z 1T has been my opportunity, in
kenty years of almost ceaseleSS
be gulf to Canada, to keep in init
! ate touch with farmer enterprises
every conceivable sort, and in that
Experience I ought to have learned
hing or two about cooperative mar
BITING.
II am intimately acquainted with
9 workings of the splendid Pacific
bast organization, many of which
+ ere in operation a decade or more
e mn
cas-, entered the field, but nearly
Of them are being run in accord
bee with the fundamental theories
hitch he so well advocates.
\ 'It is not only sound, but in its
fundamentals it is not at all new.
Except in details, Mr.. Sapiro has had
fep-thinking predecessors of my
point in favor of, rather than
gainst, his plan, and the milk in the
$coanut at this hour is that, in my
binion, his plan is today feasible
i hen it was not so heretofore.
1.-THE storm of farmer interest in
cooperative marketing, which is the
1 sult of years of hard driven educa-
on by farm organizations, coupled
18th the farmers painful predica-
ent today, is glorious and intense.
here has never been anything like
and unless 1 give the farmer credit
$r less intelligence than years of
ose association have taught me to
link he has, he is going to shake
nself free from the shackles which
I've enslaved him.
whats more, your ''ncle Ruben
a Georgia isn't nearly as far behind
brethren elsewhere as 1 some
mes like to fool him into thinking
r his own good. And if some city
lks realized the amount of horse
nse he has in his head,.they'd spend
Z cir lives wondering how it is that
Z has allowed himself to be the
pat of our economic system for so
ng.
But there's an end coming to
lat. The farmer is just waking up
the fact that God Gncluding the
bvernment, though some of US
+ievously doubt the relation at
&mes), helps those who help them
hives. And he is now out to act
BON that information.
"You have got fine scheme, and
you don't make mistakes you've
BIT fine opportunity to put it over
Georgia and be of blessed mem
Y. All strength to your good right
TN. I will be with your commit
e when it meets, and insofar as I
IN be helpful otherwise, let me
how"