Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-06-13
TENNESSEE men
HEAR POOL s SUCCESS
Dark Tobacco Men Talk To
Growers Who Convince Them
Cooperative Is Only Plan

ton of remaining in the blue
grass country until Tuesday the
delegation of farmers and busi-
ness men from Robertson county
/ Tenn. which arrived Friday night
to obtain firSt-hand information
in regard to the operation of the
Burley Tobacco Growers Coop
erative Association, and to learn
whether the growers are satisfied
with the results it has achieved
for them, returned to Tennessee
Sunday to report unanimously
that the members of the hurley
association are hopeful, happy,
confident of the future and tha
most of those with whom they
talked said they already had re-
ceived twice as much for their
1921 crop as they had been paid
for their 1920 yield.
The Tennesseans said they had
! found a man at Paris who was
I.opposed to the association and
that he gave them the names of
/ twelve other persons, some busi-
ness and professional men and
some farmers, who, he said, were
opposed to the cooperative. They
called on all of the twelve and
found each man enthusiastic for
the new method of selling hurley
tobacco and backing it to the
limit, so far as their influence was
concerned.
The TennesSeans went to Bour
bon and Nicholas counties, be-
sides making inquiries in Fayette
they said. Werner A. Bradley, a
member of the delegation, who
besides being a large grower OF
tobacco is we'll known in west
Tennessee politics, said:
Judging from our experience
today sentiment is either all one
way for your new hurley cooper
ative or we have been UP against
the biggest set of liars have ev-
er met in all my experience, and
that has been somewhat extern
sive, as ANYBODY who ever has
been in politics much will have to
admit"
B. L. Moore, business man
and warehouseman of Springfield
Tenn, said the proposition. had
been doubtful to the people of
Robertson county. Il am for 1t, y
he said. Il have a good living
and in going into this thing | may
be giving it up, but | think it will
be for the good of our country
down there in Tennessee, as it
has been for your country here"
D. w. Porter, farmer and to-
bacco grower, said that the visit
ors found one man opposed to the
new plan of selling. Il never in
my life say anything SO one-sided
about which there had been any
controversy" said Porter. We
came to stay three or four days.
We have learned all we wanted
to know in one days investiga-
ton. 1t certainly is a revelation
and a complete answer to the
propaganda being circulated
against the pool'in the dark to-
bacco district. fit has worked
as well for you people as it has,
| haven't a doubt in the world it
will do as much for us"
'We came here to stay until
Tuesday" said R. ]. Mcdaniel,
"and we're going home tomor-
low. We would have gone home
tonight, if there had been a train.
! l want you to say that we feel
most kindly toward all the bur
l1ey officials and members who
/ have helped us while here and
particularly toward your assist
ant counsel, Mr.. Virgil Chapman,
who gave up his own work to
show coultesy to us. He and the
others have demonstrated that
! the saying Kentucky hospitality
really has a meaning of its own
"We called on bankers, black
smiths, men in the stores, white
and negro tenants in the fields.
and the answer was always, It's
done more for us than anything
we ever went into,' referring to
the cooperative"
John Farmer, another member
of the delegation and prominent
tobacco raiser, declared he had
never seen anything like the ap-
parently genuine enthusiasm man
ifested for the cooperative. 81
heard dozens of men say" said
Mr.. Farmer, "that they had al
ready received twice as much for
their 1922 crop as for that of the
previous year, and with another
dividend coming when the crop
is sold. The rest of it will be
velvet, they said"