Arizona republican., 1921-05-07
P INA GRO WE RS .OF VALLEY MEET THIS AF FTERN00N
Farmers To Be Told Of Progress On Marketing Plans And Efforts To Get Tariff Protection

The story of how the cotton grow CTS of the entire South propose to handle their problems of marketing under a nationwide selling organiza- ton will be one of the features of the cotton growers meeting at o'clock this afternoon at the high school.
 How and by what methods the orr ganiZation committee in Oklahoma signed up 35,00o members who will produce 100000 bales of cotton, on the same contract that is being used by the Arizona Pimacotton Growers, will be related by delegate to the recent convention at Oklahoma city
 How it was shown that eight southern states now are either or ganized or organizing on the same standard contract and plan will be told in sufficient detail, and the main features of the big national overhead selling agency outlined.
 How the Memphis conference of April 26, called by the American Farm Bureau Fedora tion for the con- Sideration of cotton cooperative marketing, went on record as endors- ing the plan and the contract being used here and in eight states, and the national plan as well, also will be told in detail.
 The progress made in Washington by association representatives in the effort to secure protection sufficient to make up the difference in the cost of production the difference in favor of the foreign producer in exchange. and the difference i'll profit allow ance necessary to maintain American standards of living, will be told by Dwight B. Heard, who spent some weeks there working on the matter. 1 Dr. A. ]. Chandler will preside, and immediately following the general meeting, a meeting of the organiZa- tion committee and volunteer workers will be held, reports heard on prog ress made in the ''sigrl-up" in various districts. and plans laid to complete 1 the organization, hold the elections and get the new association. the Ari- zona Pimacotton Growers. ready for l business, and ready to function in unison with the Staple Cotton Crow CTS association of the Mississippi Delta, which is practically done. hay ing had 96 per cent of its minimum signed up three weeks ago.
 Definite stress will be laid on the 1 fact that these business institutions of farmers-the cotton co-operativt selling associations on the commodi- 1 ty basis-are being organized in var l ious parts of the South by utilizing i the best and strongest existing agen- i cies- In severaIs states organization committees are doing the work alone in some in cooperation with the Earn Bureau and in others the actual or ganization work is being carried ol by the state branches of the Ameri
 can Cotton association.
 The reason for this will be mad
 apparent, and the further reason wh,
 the marketing organizations, whei
 completed, being purely business in
 stitutions for the purpose of intelli
 gent handling of cotton, will have n
 particular relation to their parent or
 ganizations, will be made plain b,
 the speakers.
 Every cotton grower, whether ' member of any organization or mol
 is urged by the organization commit
 tee to be present in the same hal , where Aaron Sapiro few weeks az
 laid down the fundamentals of sue , cess for this type of association-th fundamentals that are written int the contract here.