Arizona republican., 1921-03-07
AARON SAP|RO ID SPEAK TODAY AT COTTON MEETING
Cotton Growers And Busi- ness Men to Hear Author ity On Cooperative Mar keting This Afternoon.
By Charles M. Morgan

Today is the day that Aaron Saplro, the famous authority on cooperative marketing, will address mass meet ing of cotton growers and all others in terested in the future material welfare of the valley.
 The meeting will be held at the high school auditorium at 8 o'clock this aft ernoon. and those who fail to hear him today may not soon have another op- portunity, as it has taken months Of negotiation to secure even this one date, between trains.
 1 In every big movement.-and no stu dent of marketing and of cotton mar keting in particular can doubt that the cooperative marketing plan is big | thing,-there are always certain men who by virtue of special training or adaptibility achieve and maintain lead 1 ership.
 1 Such a man is Aaron Sapiro. Start | ing as attorney for one marketing asso- citation, becoming counsel for the Cali l fornfas marketing bureau, he soon came 1 to be recognized as an authority, not l only on the legal aspects of co-opera- tive or commodity marketing, as op- posed to individual marketing, but a leader and an authority on the prac- tical working Of the system Of com modity marketing as well.
 Now Recognized Authority
 More and more marketing associa- tions retained him as counsel, until now | he represents 14 of the largest and most successful of these organizations of the coast region, and many others as well.
 When the peanut growers of Virginia got tired of the middleman system and i decided it was about time to attend to some of their own business in a busi- ness like manner. they sent for Sapiro, | and he planned their organization, and helped carry the campaign to success.
 The cotton growers of Oklahoma who have been subject to abuses of the street buyer system,-on this point see the reports of the department of agri- culture,-decided to organize on the firm contract basis, they retained Sa- piro to build their plan of organization. They started their campaign for a membership representing 300.o00 bales 1 of succeeding crops on the first of January, and in three weeks had over half of it. Their campaign is now rap idly drawing to a close, and the state legislature has passed a cooperative marketing act and has passed an ap- propriation of $5,000,000 to be loaned to the association to build warehouses. Sapiro wrote the plan under which the Texas cotton men are organizing with their goal set at 100000 bales, dIlu WILL DC lIl6 I1ilcl Spc<1hcI dl d Sldle wide meeting of Texas bankers this month to tell then how cooperative marketing has helped the Pacific coast region
 Helped Arizona Too
 Indirectly. MT. Sapiro has been oi very great assistance in the formula ton of the plan for cooperative mar and during his visit here will put tht finishing touches on it.
 When the Arizona American Egyp. tion Cotton Growers association, on it: loose organization basis, was started here, it was realized that it was thel impossible to organize the farmers or : the California basis. The present or ganization was started as an inforTna tion bureau and as means of educat ing the cotton growers up to the poin where they would be willing to co operate to the limit in the sale of thei ! products
 This preliminary education work ha been done and in every part of tn valley a demand for cooperative sell ing on the firm contract basis hal arisen
 Several months ago the association started the preparation of the plan fo firm organization, and the final plal has simmered down, practically to tn Sapiro plan as exemplified in his rec ommedations to the last annual con vention of the American Cotton asso citation, and his plan for the organiza ton of the cotton growers Of Oklahom and Texas
 Entire Field canvassed
 The entire field of successful co operation was carefully canvassed fo methods and practices that have mad good, all the way from the dairy asso citations of Denmark through the pea nut growers of Virginia to the success apif ff4 oc-f
 After this research by the associatio it was found that the Sapiro plan al ready embodied practically all the fea lures that have provided uniforml successful, so the Arizona Plan' a now worked out by the association an by the cotton growers orSanlzatlo committee is largely based on his worl with only such changes as seemed net essary to conform to local condition and to the local product.
 The plan is now awaiting only il finishing touches by the highest at thoritv. the man who is to speak toda Aaron Sapiro. This done, the plan, 1T cIuding the contract, incorporation pf apers and bylaws, will be printed, dii tributed to the growers through u district organization committees, ar the active organization campaie begun.
 Co-operative Marketing Act
 There is now before the legislatu the model cooperative marketing a written by Sapiro. It has passed u house and is now before the senat and is a matter of intense interest every man interested in the future
 agriculture in this state.
 Under the provisions of this act, soon as it becomes law, the produce of any agricultural product may orgal ize for marketing on a purely mutu basis. while under the present law | only method is to organize a corpor tion for marketing on the capital sto plan.
 Governor Neff of Texas signed |
 same law a few days ago, after passage by the Texas legislature, wi
 considerable ceremony. According
 the story of this event in the Dall
 Farm News, the governor signed t
 bill with special gold pen donated
 the purpose by the president of {
 Texas Farm Bureau federation, E.
 Shropshire, who is also one of the lea
 CTS in the cooperative marketi
 movement in Texas among the colt
 growers.
 pr. w. B. Bizzer, president of |
 Texas Agricultural and Mechanical c Iexe expressed the opinion that Gc