Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-15

markets bankers. business men. cdi-
ors and State officials have hit hard
blows In his behalf.
In the most successful counties
'vhcrc the drive was active forty Or
afty public spirited men. Including,
bankers. merchants and growers.
have Travelled ;hc highways aud by
ways OF their counties. holding meet
nBs in every SCHOOL house. pleading
with those who failed to see the
ieht OF better days ahead.
Favorable resolutions by the Viz
sinia Bankers Association indicated
he conference OF financial leaders in
ne state many months ago.
Practice Of cooperation while
Ilcading for cooperation has given
he leaders OF the campaign ia Viz
;ina their present success.
The aid Of tnc extension division.
with It's county agents leading the
i.Rn-up campaign for the association
n most tobacco growing counties in
he State has beer, of untold valu"
% tho Tobacco" growers.
u -. Thornhnl. president OF til"
Virginia Farmers Educational and
Cooperative Union. indorsed the con
ract aud the plan OF cooperative
markets at the start Of the campaign.
and the Farmers Union has aided
materially In the successful drives
Of several counties.
q score OF county newspapers
throughout Virginia have printed
weekly articles upon cooperative
marketing and aided the campaign.
O. W. Ko!ner. commissioner OF agri-
culture for Virginia. indorsinT tn.
movement 1T Its very start. wrote.
Il have made "A careful and thought
~ -. n
and tn" plans undertaken by tho
Virginia North Carolina Tobacco
Growers Aasociation-I believe they
are economically ana cthically sound
md just and sufficiently practical To
bc carried out. Now is the tim. for
farmers TO stand together. no, FOR
class legislation or other favoritism
but FOR economic justic. which other
industries demand and maintain by
united Efforts
Three states Represented.
Following the sIgn-up oc tho CO.
ppcrativ" marketing contract hy over
60. 600 tobacco growers In Virgins.
and the carolinas. and the securing
under contract by the marketing ns
ISOLATION OF II large majority Of AL
tobacco raised within those States
the success o. tho Tri-Statc Organoza
ton now seems assured.
Where other associations have fail.
cd with n small or local member
snip. the Tobacco Growers. co-Ope-
| ;at!vc Association has gained such
an enormous membership. that II con.
ta!nS -. majority OF growers in thrc,
| states.
Where "Gcntlcncn's agreements
have broken In tincs past like rope:
l "a, Sand ,41,uF.n
united now by rigid, binding con,
| tract with pGn:lt!es attached foi
| thosc who prove disloyal, and cx
tending through a term OF years IL
! which TO build up strong trade re.
| !at!ons and lasting commercial al.
| liances.
The success OF hurley Tobacco,
growers q: Kentucky in securing ait
| from their State bankers. following
the assurance OF loans by the Wa.
| F!nanc. Corporation and favorabl,
rulings by shc Federal Reserve Board
Indicate successful method of fl.
! nancinS the great Tri-Sratc organ.
."aton OF Virginia and Carulin.
tfo"cTs which now out numbers Ia,
ussoc.ailon OF Bur!cy growers extend
ing through k,ntucky. Indiana, on,
and West Virginia hurley districts
Kentucky Grn,vcrs Succeed.
The fac, that Kentucky grower:
nave reached "A so per cent s!yn-,,,
with 5000 members in the burIc,
district who are marketing thcII
t!op this year through their own as
soc.ation. means that close TO l2O. 90,
"hacco growers OF Virginia. Ken
| lucky and the Carolinas viii dircc
trough their associations the mar
kei!ng OF n majority OF tobacco /,
| the worlds most important nroaun.
area. In the future.
owing to the fundamentally larg,
lgn-up OF Virginia growers. VIII,