The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-02-27
COOPERATIVE PLAN
MEETS APPROVAL
ANOTHER MEETING THURSDAY
IN OPERA HOUSE, ADDRESS
BY R. c. HAMER-THOUSAND
BALES ALREADY SIGNED UP,
SAYS DIRECTOR.

contract met with hearty response
in every section of the county, &C.
cording to J. F Hill, the county di-
rector. The ten meetings held in va
rious sections were we'll attended,
approximately 1000 bales being rep
resented in the signatures received
One other meeting will be held in
the county Thursday, which Mr.. Hill
hopes to make a general one, at
tended by interested farmers from
all sections of the county. This meet
ing will be held in the opera house
in Abbeville next Thursday and T.
C. Hamer will be the speaker.
Mr., Hamer is said to be an excel
lent speaker and those who hear him
p,sy feel assured that they will get
the best advice on the subject. Mr.
Hamer is a farmer and a well in
formed farmer who believes in the
cooperative marketing Of cotton.
"If the farmers of South Caro-
lima do not enthusiastically support
the movement now on foot to organ
ize and put in successful operation
the South Carolina Cotton Growers
Cooperative. Association, they need
never start another farmers move
ment because it will be a failure" "
says j. d. B. Jenkins, vice president
Of the Peoples Bank and Trust Co.,
: Of York in a letter to w. B. Wilker-
son, York county farmer, a copy of
tie letter having been made public
By the officers of the cooperative as
sociation in this city. e..
Mr.. jenkins letter was in reply to
one from Mr.. Wilkerson asking the
attitude of the bank towards the
movement. Mr.. Wilkerson had writ
ten Mr.. Jenkins that the banks in
MANY counties of the state were
strongly backing the movement and
asked if MIR. Jenkins bank would ia
,vor it.
"In our opinion the proposed CO.
operative marketing movement" con-
tinued Mr.. Jenkins "is the, only move
ment that has ever been started by
the farmers that has ever had teeth
to it. A cooperative association with
the proper enthusiastic support, un-
der honest and capable management,
organized in South Carolina and in
the other cotton states will do more
to bring about and regulate orderly
marketing of cotton at fair profit
than anything else that can be done
Therefore the Peoples Bank and
Trust Co. strongly recommends the
organization of properly managed
cooperative marketing associations
and we unhesitatingly offer our
facilities to this end.
1--WE have quite a number of far,
ners among our stockholders; we
number hundreds of farmers as pa
irons and we are and will be just. as
willing, if not more so, to assist fin
ancially farmers who are members
of the association as those who are
not. The fact that the government
through the great war finance corpor-
alton and the large financial institu-
tions in the money centers have en-
dorsed cooperative marketing associ-
ations and have expressed willing
ness to extend and are already ex-
tending financial assistance in large
amounts is in itself extending finan-
cial assistance in large amounts is in
= itself evidence of the soundness of
the proposition. 1t is great pity that
the farmers of South Carolina have
not long before organized such an as
sociation. They would now be enjoy
ing the great benefits that are being
enjoyed through associations already
organized in Texas, Oklahoma and
Mississippi.
"The farmer who does not join in
hi. movement is not only standing
in his own light but is retarding the
future development of the South"
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