The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-04-24
...WHAT THE....
Bankers Of South Carolina
II OF THE....
COOPERATIVE MARKETING
OF COTTON

B. G.. Matthews, president Of the National Bank of New
berry: "How any one with average intelligence can refuse to
Join and cooperate with the cooperative cotton marketing asso-
citation is more than I can understand. 'Self-preservation being
one of the first laws of human nature demands that they pro-
tect themselves by joining. Every one knows how to plant,
cultivate and harvest cotton but how to sell seems to have been
an unknown quantity until the birth Of cooperative marketing
associations The juries of this country may not convict the
producers who refuse to join but they will certainly hurt ther
reputation in the church. Intelligence, assert thyset." .
Pc. cEnk,e.le, pre.iden. of the Bank of Anderson: III have gone
fully into the plan of cooperative marketing and most heartily approve OF Il"
W. {. Beaeham, president of the Peoples National Bank OF Greenv'He:
"Our farmers have suffered great losses in the past o account II In mar
ketng methods Of their cotton and cooperation a. suggested appears TO m
to be the only practical method of relief that has been suggested"
s. Stark, preaden. Of the Planter. Bank Of AbseviIe: 1.-THE. o-
ganization of the cotton growers cooperative ASSOCIATION IS 1e greatest
movement for the farmer yer undertaken" ..-
j. Pope Matthews, president of the Palmetto National Bank Of colam.
b.: 81 wish to state that I personally have given the matter a great deal
of study and investigated it from every angle both from within and WIN
out the state with the business men and l feel tina nothing nat QUIZ np-
pen at this time would be of greater benefit to the farmers IN Adjusting 1e
economic situation and putting the banks of the state in a position "nere
they can do business with the farmer in a buSnesslke manner"
The Bank Of Kins.ree, the Bank of Williamsburg adm the Wee Nee
Bank Of Kingtree: 1--WE will stand by the South Carolina Cotton Grow
ers Cooperative Association. We propose to help Williamsburg reahze ~
maximum prosperity through cooperation. We appreciate the power N
united effort. We know that now rs the time to organize. we nav 1aa'eu
the fveyear contract and see in it a real hope. We ndorse us pr0"S'HS
E G. Rowland. president of the National Bank of South Carolina of
su,t,r. 81 m most heartily in favor of the cooperative marketing of
cotton for the reason that it helps all those living in the cotton bet" l SIN
cerely hope the campaign to organize the state may b a decioeo success.
To those who arc organized and he himself does not organize "o IS ne
loser?" ~
National Loan and Exchange Bank of Columbia; eve hereby endorse
the movement for cooperative marketing OF cot'oh au "eieA"' "ee
farmers to join the association" ?"
Bankers and business men like Bright Williamson of Darlington R.
Goodwin Rhet, of Charleston and others have been dong everything "
their power to put the movement across in this state
The South Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative Association has nun
dreds Of letters from bankers all over the state strongly endorsing IN
r,voment at least 95 per cent. of the banks Of the state ar oehlnd IT,
In mar of the counties the bankers ar going ut canVassng 1or contracts
believing the formation of the association to be the states real hope
The executive council of the South Carolina Bankers Association la
endorsed it. The bankers of Oklahoma and Texas where's similar assoea-
tons are already functoning say that they mean much fr III 1armet a"a
evervbodv concerned. Nathan Adams of Dallas, Texas. one OF tn biggest
bankers of the South says: cooperative marketing IS TN saNaIoh VI
the South" G. S Weitzenhofer, vice president and active head OF tn Sc
u,rHv National Bank of Oklahoma City and who is familiar with me bene
fits derived by farmers, bankers and everybody else in Oklahoma IRON M
Oklahoma cooperative association, says: 1.-The banker IS a Damn ~" ""
doesn't help the cooperative marketing movement along"
Over $500 600 Bales will be Sold Comparatively This Fall.
The Campaign in Abbeville County Closes
Saturday Night. Thousands of the best Farmers
IN South Carolina have already signed the Con-
tract. Are you going to sell your Cotton cooper
a+;velv with them or are you going to sell in com
petition with them and fight them?
SOUTH CAROLINA is CALLING HER SONS
TO DUTY.
"United We Stick; Divided We Are Stuck.