Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-30

/ L am SOl1U IOT COllllllOult
marketing. Not to get it starte
in eight years, but to get it start
cd right now. California has bee
struggling with the problem 10
i26 years"
Here Mr.. Shapiro told of CO
Operative commodity marketin;
in the orange. prune. barley am
Iegg industries. Each of these ex
iperiences. he asserted, was o
value to Kentucky.
The men right here today arr
going to work out a policy whicl
ICan be recommended to ali of tn,
United States for the tobacco Ill
dustry."
Stresses Organization Need
+ +. II. Woods, president of The
farm bureau federation. in deliv-
ering the opening address, stress
ed his disintcrestedness in this
movement to organize tobacco
growers for the cooperative mar
keting of tobacco and the great
need of such an organization. Ii
was obvious, he maintained. when
the farmers were not getting fail
income from their tobacco anC
the manufacturers were making
more money than they ever had
made. that something was wrong.
The explanation of this condi-
tion Of affairs he found in the fact
that there arc twelve types OF to-
baCCo. many of which compete
with each other. and, while the
Of this tobacco are
well organized and are able to do
their buying i'll keen. intelligent
manner. the sellers have no or
ganization at all. \ hope was cx-
pressed that this lack of organ
izatron will be rc1ncdied and that
ultimately there may be a nation
al marketing committee.
Bingham Urges Organization
Judge Robert w. Bingham.
speaking after Mr.. Woods had
his address .cNplaincd
how he had come to be interested
in the tobacco situation :'hoW it is
Of paramount Importance to the
state. and how necessary it is that
any organization formed to per
An organization Of the Ken
tuCky growers Of dark tobacco
and of hurley. first separately and
h. co-ordinatcd. was advocated
|. ~Judge bingham. Alter this CO.
ordination of all tobacco grow
rrs of this state had been attain
ed the logical step would be fur
ther coordination with tobacco
growers of other states.
Judge Bingham explained that
the time is ripe for definite. sound
and permanent ideas. He urged
that Kentucky should not be self
ssh. but that all the tobacco in
terests i'll the country should CO.
operate.
1--WE must organize by the com
and not the locality. Many
places in China have done this for
centuries. and those districts are
not the ones that are now calling
for help. Denmark has also sue
cesSfully worked this plan. even
with such an everyday product
As butter
Mr.. Gustafson emphasized the
necessity Of having the right plan
Df cooperative marketing. Far
mers now. he said. arc producing
at a loss. 1t is necessary to have
organization if the farmers are to
have a marketing machine all
their own. He said that he was
4 member of the Committee of
doing work among the
grain producers and he explain
ed their plan of marketing. which
was pooling contract or straight
selling.
"Hitherto," said Mr.. Gtistafson,
everything has made profits for
the investor. 1t is high time that
The producer has his share. To
larry out this marketing plan Sue
cessfully you must have two
-hin%s-Centralization of forces
and an experienced man at the
head of the organization, the best
hat money can employ.
1T makes~no difference whcth-
er you belong to the Baptist
church or the Democratic party.
religion or politics should cut no
figure. Farmers should get to-
gether.'