The Mena weekly star., 1921-09-15
rOLD BENEFITS OF
 COOPERATIVE # COTTON MARKETING
.rK ANsAs ASSOCIATION. IN PROCESS FORMATION, <TTs IS OF ITS OBJECTIvES, ORGANIZATION AND
 HOW IT WILL PRO DUCERS.

which all parties agree to sell their cotton thru the association for per- iod of five years, during which time , all members must deliver all of their cotton to the association and to no other person, firm or corporation. That is the big point of the whole mat ter; that guarantees that the asso- citation will stick; that it will be able to deliver the goods; that it will pre- vent the weak-kneed from sliding out and that it will function.
 When this marketing agreement is signed, the cotton becomes the actual property of the association in which each member has an interest propor- tionate to the amount and quantity of cotton he delivers. The association then, thru it's Board of Directors and technical cotton experts and marketing specialists, will handle the cotton of it's members in the most profitable way, operating the maximum returns : back to the members.
 Does it conform to law? The mar keting principles and methods of or
 ganization of the Arkansas Cotton Growers Cooperative Marketing As-
 sociation are not a matter of experi- ment. Nothing is being tried now that has not been successfully done before. These principles and methods have been worked out thru more than
 quarter century of actual experience in cooperative marketing by the farmers of California and other Vest
 ern states, have been upheld in the
 highest state courts, and have suc-
 cessfully stood the test of inspection by the Federal Trade Commission and the Agricultural Committee of the Ar
 kansas Bankers Association
 The legal principles involved in this
 plan have been given careful inspec-
 tion with regard to both state and fed eral statutes. Aaron Sapiro of San
 Francisco, attorney for many of the
 California and Northwestern cooper ative organizations and the best in- formed man on cooperative organi-
 zations and cooperative finance in America, is the legal advisor for the organization committee.
 How It Will Be Organized. The Arkansas Cotton Growers Co., operative Association is to be organ ized by an organization committee consisting of a chairman and vice chairman and vice chairman, a mana ger, a secretary treasurer, and 20 or more additional members. This con- mittee will work in cooperation with the Arkansas Farm Bureau Fedora tion in conducting the organization work.
 Members of the association will be
 secured by membership campaigns in cooperation with the Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation in those counties
 where the federation is organized, and thru leading cotton growers and county agents in unorganized coun- ties.
 Immediately thereafter, the asso- citation will be legally organized and incorporated and it's directors elected. The affairs of the association will be controlled by board of 23 directors, 20 of whom represent 20 cotton-grow- ing districts to be designated by the organization committee, one director to be nominated by the governor of Arkansas, one by the commissioner of mines, manufactures and agriculture, and one by the dean of the college of agriculture of the University of Ar
 kansas. These three directors will represent the public in the affairs of the association. The other 20 direc- tors will be nominated and elected by members of the association, each member having one vote, irrespective of the amount of cotton represented on his contract.
 When the board of directors is elected, it will take immediate charge of the association and begin the sell ing of the 1922 crop, thru it's cotton marketing experts and specialists. Please remember that the associa- tion is not organized to make profit as an organization, but to get bet ter price for members by eliminating waste, reducing unnecessary cost in selling and by stabilizing the cotton market thru orderly and judicious handling of cotton. Therefore, it is an association without capital stock. It is cotton that counts.
 Under the association plan, the real value of cotton will be paid to the grower, less actual cost of doing busi- ness. The plan of the Arkansas Cot ton Growers Cooperative Associa- tion, in all of it's essential features, is the same plan that is being adopted by cotton growers of other states. There IS prospect that, within the
 next few years, Arkansas will mar
 ket her cotton comparatively with other similar marketing associations in other states, so that large per- centage of the cotton of the entire
 South will be sold by the farmers themselves, acting as possible, to the manufacturers of cotton goods.
 The membership campaign is now under way. It is expected that every
 cotton grower in Arkansas will be
 given an opportunity to join this as- sociation. Remember this: The or ganization of this association is a movement from the ground up for the
 sole purpose of curing the disease
 whose principal symptom is the lean nOckethOok of tha cnffnn l.1.nwer.