Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-04-18
EDITORIAL
MORE LIKE HIM NEEDED.
THE South needs more men Xix

THE South needs more men like
Judge Robert Worth Bingham.
OF course you know who
Judge Bingham is. He is the Louis
vile jurist who became owner and
editor of the Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal after the retirement of the late
beloved Col. Henry Watterson and
who since has conducted that famous
newspaper in a most creditable and
fearless way, continuing it in the
path of public service upon which it
was steered by his able predecessor
for so many years.
Judge Bingham does other things
besides publish great newspaper.
He helps his fellow men. He is
very wealthy man and numbers his
friends among the great, industrial
ly, financially and otherwise. Bat
he is a friend of the under dog; he
loves his neighbor better than him
self Just now he is undertaking to
help tobacco growers of the South.
Occupying the position of chairman
of the organization committee of the
Burley Growers Cooperative asso-
citation, of Kentucky, he has helped
organize a pool in his own state that
now comprises 124 tobacco warehous-
es in 100 in the state, putting the
organization over so successfully and
so solidly that he has gone into his
native state of North Carolina to help.
organize the growers there.
Standing before a meeting of rep
resentative men at Charlotte a few
days ago, Judge Bingham told his
hearers that he understood the grow
ers' pool would need 100000 by
July to finance the movement. And
IT didn't require any pressure upon
nm to volunteer to put up the whole
amount or any part of it if required!
That was the test of the man. He
told his audience that there would
be no trouble financing the proposi-
ton; that the banks of Kentucky had
lent $4,6O0,000 to the Burley Grow
ers' association and that thew would
be glad to do as well in North Caro-
Ina. But in case there should be
a mitch anywhere; in case a fight
should develop somewhere for some
selfish reason, he stood ready to die
doWn INTO his own pocket and finance
the whole proposition alone!
Judge Bingham's statement, COM
ing from a man of responsibility
brought forth loud cheers. but he told
ms hearers he deserved no credit as
ne was not taking any chance. az
nope would be willing to do the
same thing if l were taking a
chance" he said.
Then Judge Bingham launched ;r+o
remuneration of the old wav of
selling tobacco, with the growers alb.
aointely dependent upon the BUYERS
Tor price. He recalled how the com
plnatlon of manufacturers will nav
high price one year to induce bipb
ereage the next, then when the bio
crop comes pay prices so low that dis.
as'ef comes to the farmer, the cycle
continuing constantly, year after
year, with the grower the victim, I1o
showed how the growers pool takes
the market out of the BUYERS hands
ana gives the whip to the orowar
lie urged the growers not to blame
the manufacturers for what had beer
oone Sfn the past, but declared +be
pane belonged on the grower fo,
ms failure to use the remedy that
lay at his own door.
The movement to oroaniza 4Le
Burley tobacco growers of Kentncl,v
North Carolina and Virginia is intar
esting to US of Georgia, for in If we
see parallel movement to the cot.
Ton pool, organization of which !,
1eorgla has just been comnle+od
Judge Bingham told the men of or
lotte that the day of co-operativ,
marketing is here; that it is no Iono
er theory but a practice. that =
IS succeeding in other products ar(
vii save the tobacco farmer from hi,
slavery.
What he said is true-every word
ana 1t applies with equal force ant
truth to the cotton farmer. The nex
I'VE years will see the growing anc
marketing of cotton in Georgia an,
the South absolutely revolutionize,
as a result of cooperation of tn
growers.
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