Arizona republican., 1921-04-04
Pimacotton Growers Organization
 Campaign Going Steadily Forward

secure as many more, as large a pro- portion of the remaining acreage as it is possible to enroll and, of course, new members will be admitted as fast as new people become cotton growers and desire to take advantage of the marketing plan and facilities of the association.
 More than that, the association is pledged to assist the neighboring states of California and New Mexico and. if necessary, other long staple districts, to organize along the same plan.
 The preliminary work along this line is already under way. Copies of the contract the growers here are signing are in the hands of the lead ing growers, and the leaders of the farm bureaus in the neighboring states, so that when the campaign here is over they will be ready to join the same movement and take part in an overhead sales agency. All the state organizations will co-op- crate, just as the individual growers CO., operate with each other. The vital importance of this move ment among agricultural producers, | to trust and cooperate with each other and thereby to bring about vital changes in the marketing sys- tenn throughout the country, has not been fully appreciated in many quar- ters and has been the cause of alarm among certain other groups. There is, however, no cause for | alarm among the general public in | regard to the farmer organization movement, for several reasons. The growers are organizing to se- cure better prices for their products ] That is true. But their leaders are 1 keeping in mind the fact that 60 per cent of the consuming public Is made up of farmers and their families | They would therefore be foolish tC try to extort the highest possible price for each separate commodity for they would themselves suffel from having to pay high prices fol everything except their own product What they are~doing is this: They are organizing to secure better prices for their products, not by raising thu price to the ultimate consumer themselves-but by shortening thu
 route between the producer and thu | consumers, and by eliminating tn
 waste motion and the extra and use
 less profits that are extracted iron their products along the deyiou
 routes they now travel.
 , For instance, the farmers of thi
 valley are aware that some bales o cotton in recent days have been sol' , five times in the same day the grow
 CT parted with tt, each time at a high CT price. and each time yielding al
 additional profit to an additional han , dler, most of whom were unneces l sary.
 They know, down in Oklahoma tha Uncle Sam has told them in an of ficial bulletin that many bales of cot , ton yield twelve profits before
 reaches the spinner, and that is wh tn growers in that state have signe ? up 300, 900 bales of their next year , crop on the same sort of contrae , being used here-only for seven year instead of five.
 , The cotton growers and other pro , ducers have made up their minds : another point as we'll They hay
 found by experience that small locs 7 organizations are of no avail, ths : organization must be on commod l ity basis and not a local basis. Ths
 is the reason the local growers ar f determined to help organize other dis t ltricts and federate the sales agencie f To show the wide interest beinI s taken in the movement, it might b f mentioned that the Arizona Stock f man. Farmer is backing the move
 ment, as is the Oklahoma Farmer p Stockman, all editions of the Pro n gressive Farmer. the Georgia Rural : fist, the Manufacturers Record, an' V practically all the rural press of th : nation. Even the New York City pa t pers have long articles of the move ? ment.
 The Country Gentleman of las r week had an editorial strongly CT q dorsing the movement, and speakin Q of it as a sane and patriotic move s ment and typical of the progressi' o leadership of America.
 9 Golfers Weekly in last issue ha
 an impressive cartoon showing tt @ hard time of the old fashioned bir N that scratches for his living, show , ing the producer as a chicken th' . had dug up a worm. being hotly pun if sued by a horde of middlemen an n spectators who did not care to d IT for themselves but preferred to tai $ the worm away from the industriol e fowl that had dug it.
 . Somehow or other. the industrio,
 fowl that digs has decided to erect 2 fence around himself before he star Is to dig, so that he can get the benef d of his own digging.