The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-03-17
.SAPIRO MARKETING
PLAN IS APPROVED
Big Meeting at Greensboro
Hears Cooperative
Exponent.

The campaign to handle the Green
river type of tobacco thru a co-opera-
tive marketing association was for
merly launched at a monster meeting
held at the Plaza theatre in Owens
boro on Wednesday afternoon. 1t is
estimated that more than 1900 plant
ers and business men heard the CO.
operative marketing plan presented
by Aaron Sapiro, California market
ing expert, who successfully conduct
ed the campaign to organize the Bur-
ley district of Kentucky.
At the close of Mr.. Sapiro's adj
dress unanimous approval was CIV
en- by a rising vote to the co-opera-
tive marketing plan.
Immediate steps will be taken to
organize every county in the Green
river district. The campaign to Sc
cure at least two-thirds of the grow
ers to agree to the cooperative mar
keting plan will be launched at once.
The campaign will continue until Oc-
tober.
Mr.. Sapiro arrived in greensboro
from Henderson and was met at the
station by a committee of citizens and
escorted to the hotel where he held a
reception. About 100 representative
citizens occupied seats on the stage
at the theatre. Growers were in at
tendance at the meeting from all of
the counties of the Green river dis
trict and Southern Indiana.
Tribute to Judge Bingham.
Following a short presentation
speech by W. c. Haycraft, who paid
a glowing tribute to Judge X. w.
Bingham, of Louisville, for his dis
interested efforts to assist the farm
ers of Kentucky by establishment of
the cooperative marketing system
throughout the entire state. Mr.. Sa-
piro then took the stage, and with
out reference to any other subject
launched into his message for the
tobacco growers.
The speaker assured his audience
that the cooperative association
would go over and go over big. He
said that so per cent of the Burley
growers had become members of the
Burley association, and he was GER
tain that 80 per cent of the dark to-
bacco growers would gladly join
hands with one another to start
movement that would mean prosperi-
ty, happiness and higher standard
of living. - He referred to the fact
that California, his native state,
ranked first in the grade of rural
schools, while Kentucky stood forty
fifth in line, but three states in the
Union having worse rural schools
than Kentucky.
Fruit Growers Independent.
He attributed the high standard
of living and the many phases OF
prosperity of California to the CO.
operative marketing idea. He said
it had taken twenty-eight years to ar
rive at absolute independence on the
part of the fruit growers of Califor-
mia.
The cooperative marketing idea,
Mr.. Sapiro told his audience, was
not an experiment, neither was 1t
novel idea. The greatest corpor-
alton in Great Britain, he said, was
the great cooperative marketing as
ISOLATION which was handling every
class of merchandise in the United
Kingdom. He brought down for
many years the history of the CO.
operative marketing project and told
of the organizing in associations OF
the cotton growers of the South and
of many other commodities in various
other sections of the country. the
Dominion government in Canada has
adopted the California plan, with
notifications to suit the exigencies
of the situation. and will put 1t into
operation throughout the entire coun-
try to the North.
There is no escaping the law OF
and demand, but we propose
to substitute the demand at|the point
of consumption for the demand at the
point Of production" the speaker
said.
(The foregoing is a part of Mr..
Sapiro's speech, taken from the Ow-
ensboro Messenger)