The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-25

If Won have been under the impress
sion that the Committee of Fifteen"
evolved the cooperative sales idea IN
the handling of live stock, or that CT
establishing farmers sales companies
at various stock yards, you have been
mistaken.
They did nothing of the sort.
What has been done at Indianapolis, |
since May Is, and at ST. Louis since
January 2, had been done several
years earlier by farmer sales bodies |
at Omaha, st. Paul, Kansas City. Sioux
City, Iowa; Denver. Colorado; st. JOS
eph, Mo, and possibly at a few smaller
points where farmers have taken hold /
on the reins
And more than this, there is sales
company at work at the East st. Louis
Illinois, stock yards, organized by the
Missouri Farm Club body as state
association, which recently marketed
500 cars of mixed live stock in four
weeks, on a cooperative basis. AS a
matter of fact the Farm Clubs or
Missouri have been doing thing"
worth while in a cooperative way for
a long time so successfully indeed, as
to bring praise from the American
farm bureau The Missouri expert
ment station is to be credited with
much good influence and assistance in
building up these county clubs, and
for the better farming and marketing
methods so widely noticeable in the
"show-me" state.
All Are Going Concerns
At latest advices the cooperative
offices at the cities mentioned were 60
ing concerns, and so successfully So
that they have practically pre-empteo
ST. Paul, Omaha, Kansas City, Sioux
City, etc, and are likely to continue
! to do all the cooperative sales bust
ness to be done in those markets. II
is understood, in fact, that the Ma
tional Live Stock Producers associa-
! ton will not attempt to invade stock
isyards where the business of the con
Germs mentioned is prospecting, to the
welfare of the farmers and stockmen.
A wise conclusion.
But the new Producers officials
| have served notice on all and sundry,
that any attempt to further pre-empt
!, live stock markets, for the sake Of
| getting in on the ground floor and
| shutting the Producers out, will be
| contested to a finish, which might be
| expected, of course.
Organization Is Completed
But one thing is certain, the Ma
tional Producers have completed an
organization on the exact lines laid
down ats Omaha. ST. Paul, etc, years
ago, without the change of the dotting
of an 'I'' or the crossing of a "T''
| in its effective workings. They have a
board of officials, complete from presi-
dent down the line, with a central
Office in a skyscraper at Chicago. But
the central Office. the official board,
executive committees. etc., do not
| finance local sales Offices. Each city
and shipping section must raise their
own money, just as did indianapolis
a short time ago, by borrowing or do
nations, to be paid when a fund has
been accumulated in excess of ex-
penses of operation. That there will
be such a fund can hardly be doubted.
and the more loyal the farmers and
| shippers, the quicker will the debts
incurred in getting going be wiped out.
The Office at indianapolis
A really first-class, ready-made board
of directors and other officials has
been organized at Indianapolis. 1t
couldn't be otherwise as to selection in
1.-The preliminary or first year organiza-
Ition. The outfit is comprised of prac-
teal stock growers and capable men
it is pleasure to state. A year later
the actual shippers will have chance
to elect the officers and to retain OF
make changes as they may wish What
was done by the Equity Cooperative
Exchange at ST Paul, back in 1916, is
now finally being done at Indianapolis
some seven years later
The writer has been unable as vet tc
visit the well-located and conveniently
: equipped Offices of the Producers
/, Commission association at Indianapo
lis, but will do so shortly. In the
meanwhile we are able to give the
official lineup, name the statesmen, anC
to briefly state few facts relating t.
the opening of the business.
Officials and Statesmen
> The president of the board of direc
tors, of which there are seven, al
live stock shippers and growers is Muir
: ray Barker of Thorntown, Ind. anC
the vice-president. O. B. Goble O
Charlestown, Ill. Scott Meiks of Shell
!; byville. Ind, is secretary-treasurer
| Lon Hodson of Newcastle, JEFF w
; Miles of Mooresville, James Riggs o
Sullivan and Albert Kinzer of Carme
: complete the directory D. L. Swan
son is the general manager.
The five statesmen employed to dat,
are: Lee Cunningham. cattle; c. D
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