The daily times., 1921-07-09
COOPERATIVE PLAN
OF MARKETING WILL
! BEGIN ON TUESDAY
NUMBER OF VOLUNTEER.
The Various Townships of the
County Will be canvassed
Next Week and Signatures
to Contracts Secured, for the
Purpose of Pooling and Sell
ing Cotton and Tobacco.

Cooperative marketing received
big boost last night in the rooms of
the Chamber of Commerce. when,
| after an interesting explanation of
1.-THE plan for pooling and selling the
cotton and tobacco crops of the
South. by President Louis Tomlin-
/ son, president of the North Carolina
Branch of the American Cotton AS
sociation, and president of the North
Carolina Cotton Growers Association,
a call for volunteers was made to
canvass Wilson county the coming
week, and a number responded who
agreed to work on certain days.
Those who volunteered last night
to visit the various townships next
week are, Messrs. H. D. Brown, w.
H. Davis, e. ]. Barnes, j. e. White,
Harry Clark, George Clark, DR.. L. ].
Herring, John Griffin. c. P. Clark,
J. w. Daley, L. A. Teacher, j. L..
Smith, j. T. Peele, j. B. Lee, j. w.
Lamb, Aston Taylor, Kirby Wood
ard, J. w. House, William Riley.
Lindsey Moss, Sam Worthington, R..
i It. Atkins, Rex. Stephenson, A. B.
Carroll, J. T. Amerson, r. II. Full
4 lghum, Leslie Farmer, George Bar
!, foot and w. s. Brown, J.. w. Beland
J land Joe Bailey. Since all Of
these cannot go every day next week
land at least Is will be required to
lcover a township in a day, others
who desire to help, and it is the big
gest movement for the relief of all
classes of people as well as the
tfarmers, will please hand their
names to Mr.. B. t. Ferguson who is
1.-THE chairman of the committee for
Wilson County.
Mr. Tomlinson who is at the head
of the work in this state said at the
Iopening of his address that this
/ movement is not from the Wilson
= Chamber of Commerce, but repre-
sents concerted action on the part
Iof the Southern states to get the
: cotton and tobacco crops into some
t lshape. so the weight of their sales
: will not unduly depress their value
He went at length into the value OF
a Organization and showed how cotton
q had been depressed in price 80 pei
e cent, and tobacco 65 per cent from
: the peak of prices. On the other
n lhand steel had been depressed only
d ten per cent, and this is the result
8 of organization and cooperative sell
e ing. This the farmers lack. They
n sell their cotton and tobacco without
Q regard for either price, or the Law
o of supply or demand, and as result
r it is easy for those who are interested
lin depressing the market to batter
Iprices down.
It Mr.. Tomlinson at length ex
o planned the plan Of cooperative sell
ling and marketing in Cal1forln'
Iamong the fruit growers and state'
THAT thirty commodities in that stat
IS are now sold in that way. Not oni.
has the. price of raisins been IN
l. creased from eight cents to 4S cents
NJ but it was shown by letters to whole
lie salers in Wilson which were hande'
III to Mr.. John D. Gold to read, that tn
* cooperative fruit organizations tax
care Of all ends of the. trade, an
of that by advertising and boostln
lyithey have extended the markets, an
tif you want their products you mus
make purchases along the lines tn
Organization has laid down.
ID Mr.. Tomlinson stated that the COZ
Itract which the farmers would b
h asked to sign meant that they woul
ir- have to live up to them. That is the
ut must deliver the products to tn
OF pool, that the pool might be apl
er to know how to handle them ana
NJ calculate on the visible supply,
d. well as the amount required to kee
on the factories and the mills OF Il
th world at work. In response to ques
to ions, which he invited, he said thi
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