The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1922-03-22
Co-oPERATIvE MARKETING
APPROVED AT OwENsBORo

The campaign to handle tn
Green river type Of tobacco thru
cooperative marketing association
was formerly launched at a monste
meeting held at the Plaza theatre Il
Greensboro on wednesday afternoon
Il is estimated that more than 1,
500 planters and business men hear
the cooperative marketing plai
presented by Aaron sapiro. California
marketing expert, who successful.
conducted the campaign to organic,
the Burley district of Kentucky.
At the close OF Mr.. Sapiro's ad
dress unanimous approval was giver
by a rising vote to the co-operativ,
marketing plan.
Immediate steps will be taken t.
organize every bounty in the Greer
river district. The campaign to Sc
cure at least two-thirds of the grow
| ers to agree to the co-oeprative mar.
keting plan will be launched al
once. The campaign will continue
until October.
Mr.. Sapiro arrived in Owensboro
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 rep
resentative citizens occupied seats
on the stage at the theatre. Grow
ers were in attendance at the meet
ing from all of the counties of the
Green river district and Southern
Indiana.
Tribute to Judge Bingham
Following a short presentation
speech by w. c. Haycraft, who paid
a glowing tribute to Judge r. 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..
Sapiro 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 80 per cent of the Burnley
growers had become members of
the Burley association, and he was
certain that 80 per cent Of the dark
tobacco growers would gladly join
hands with one another to start a
movement that would mean pros
perity, happiness and higher stand
ard 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 rurals school
than Kentucky.
Fruit Grwers 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
arrive at absolute independence on
the part Of the fruit growers of
California.
Fruit Growers independent
Mr. Sapiro told his audience, was
not an experiment, neither was 1t
a 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
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 vari-
ous other sections of the country.
The Dominion government in Cana
da has adopted the California plan'
with notifications to suit the exigen-
cies of the situation, and will put
it into operation throughout the en-
tire country to the North.
"There is no escaping the law OF
supply 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.-Owensboro Messen-
ger.