Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-08-27
HENRY COUNTY FARMERS
HEAR THREE SPEAKERS
Rally in Interest Of Coon.
eralive Marketing Large
ly Attended.
TrouNH1LL AND HURT srEAu>
Words OF virEfntnns as 20 Rcncflt
az Co-Opcratfve Marketing Given
support by IL }. Works, of hurley
Tobacco Association.

MARTlNSV1LLE. VA. Aug IS
With plenty OF fried chicken. water
melons and like good cheer for the
inner man. between 1000 and 1900
farmers on the ground. good speakers
on the program and close attention
10 what they had 10 say on the part
o, tho audience. tho Henry County
farmers picnic at Eairston Spring
Saturday was pronounced success
The picnic was held under the Joint
auspices OF tho State Farmers CO.
operative and Educational Union and
the Tobacco Growers Co-operative
Association The speakers were a.
: Thornhill, OF Lynchburg president
"f the Farmers Union. Joseph NJ
Hurt. OF Blackstone. former president
40 The state Bankers Association and
Vice president OF the Tobacco Grow
e-s' Cooperative Association, and r
! Works. o. Lexington. Ky. d.
rector Of the Burnley Tobacco Grow
ors' Association
Discusses Farmers status.
Mr.. ThoruhiIl brought ont forcihly
the immense factor the american
farmer represents In tho economic
life OF the country. and tho made
cuate remuneration he receives FOR
his great services. The American
farmer. he said. is the biggest bust
ness man in the country, producing
more values than ten trusts and pur-
chasing more than five trusts. The
American farmer produces over So
ooo.0o0,0Oo worth Of products, yet he
receives for it less than S5.OO0.OOO.O 0G.
or in other words, the farmers dol
lar Is iO-Ccnt dollar
over against the American farmers
+o-cent dollar Mr.. Thoruhill put "A 90
cent dollar of tn. farmer o! Den
mark. The reason for this 10 not
that tho Danish farmers are more in
duStrious or more intelligent than the
American farmer. the American
farmer is the best type to be found
in any country in the world orr
American farmers 4O-Ceut dollar is
the result Of our system OF market
Ing. system whereby the merchant
fNcs the price to te paid for the
farmers product. and then fixes the
i'rice which the farmer must pay for
his ucccs Sities. II is not the NOR
chant who is rotten, by the system,
;.nl the fault for the system lies in
The inactivity and lack OF co-opcra-
ton on the part OF tho farmer. he
said
I'm closing Mr. Tharnhtll appealed
80 his hearers 10 cease to triiie with
tur lights and throw away the OPP
purlUEitics OF their children by hold
'rE 10 the old system o: marketing,
and Ia institute tho cooperative sys-
tenn
Hurt Makes business Talk.
Mr.. Hurt said "a. had come To talk
ass business man to business men
IA No. III a T.,t ,,s..
SOME .rurs ago. No said he had quit
his bank and gone to live on his
f'inl Ey applying bookkeeping ana
iaslurSs q" his farm, he round that
i, was making money IN ais other
utgrySts to lose raising low priced
products on his farm
Nh Hurt has found tho --mcdv far
tins condition ia his recent visit To
iup tobacco markets Of South Caro-
ne Wh"r. he says the cu-Ipcrative
; stem OF marketing tobacco has
doubled the price ot tobacco. He said
%ul farmer. business man or "a ere
houayulun in south Carolina who re-
srects his oath viii swear 10 lhis e.
!cct II put on oath
Message From Kentucky.
Mr.. Works. In au eloquent address.
'o'd 81 the improved conditions Ire
r.-operative system had broush;
"''-t go NtbtIGhN since us r'p1 gan
iza'ion in 1920. He gave graphic p!e-
lures Of his own mother WORKING w
h., fathers side in the tobacco neIl
when -" was 4 5-ycAr-oid boy. &C.
ting cyerheatcd. dying Of cousump-
i'or which developed sal to. raise
.-.,ut tobacco.
Nr WORKS closed with an ,upas-
= laaa appeal u the farmers OF Ia"
'-i Dominion not To stand In tie way
~ bette. conditions lor the farm
BOYS ana gins but 70 stand !oyally
s1L sol.dly behind tho cooperative
association and Eelp bring about
,rsss better conditions