Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-06-28
GROWERS CRUSADE
ST|RS CAROL|N|ANS
Lake City Scene Of Enthusi.
astic Meeting of
Farmers.
MOVEMENT is PRAISED
Speaker Sees Relief From
Dcbt-Opcn Program
With Prayer.
MOVEMENT is PRAISED
Especial to The Times.D,sna,on

iSp'clf! 10 i ne Time Dispatch
FLORENCE, S. c.. June 27.-With
the fcrvent spirit OF crusade. to-
bacco farmers gathered with mer-
chants and bankers OF Lake CITY and
delegations from neighboring towns
today and opened a remarkable mass
meeting in behalf OF co-operative
marketing At the largest tobacco
market OF South Carolina with
prayer for divine guidance In their
chort to win fair and steady wages
Tor the labor OF the growers.
John Blanks, OF Kentucky. farmer
and former tobacco buyer from the
hurley country, who was last year a
grader for the Burley Tobacco Grow
ers Assoc!nt'cr, was introduced by
Mayor w. II. Whitehead. of Lake
city, who indo.sed the Tobacco Grow
eTS Cooperative Association. and
said. Fundamentally we recognize
mat the principle of their orsaniz,
iion IL right"
Tells Cnuse OF Inst Years Drop.
Telling the Lake City growers that
the low prices with which their mar
ket opened and closed last y.ar were
dne TO their lack of organization. the
hentucky speaker asked why 50 per
cent OF North Carolina crops were
inortgaged and why the farmers are
. CARRYING similar burden Of debt in
S""'h carolina, with the richest nat
Hral resources Of the South.
Flaming the outworn auc,lon .vs-
'eh "i selling tobacco for the present
conditions on the farms and pointing
|" c"-oporeation as the only nope for
chanse. Mr.. Blanks said For the
farmer II means nrst the blotlirr rut
ot farm mortgages" To the NOR
chants. he pointed out. that In the
hrst year Of the Buriey pool the mer-
chants of Kentucky are saving
We've collected old debts we had
given up as hopeless" and chal-
ieneed his hearers to write any bank
fany postmaster in the hurley to-
paeco belt of Kentucky to verify these
facts
Sou,h's Greatest Movement.
me men and women from the to-
o"cco farms who ;hrongcd the mo-
hon-picture theater of Lake CITY
today. were visibly moved when the
Nentuckian said: It's the greatest
movement that the Southern people
nave ever known. God pity the man
mat tries 10 block it, w. Wesley
SihS'e'ary. Warehouse manager OF
me Cooperative Association at
Lake city. prophesicd a very heavy
sign-np from the meeting.
Reaching the big tobacco centers
OF the State and border markets TO-
DAY the speakers from Kentucky.
Virginia and the Carolinas held sue
cesSiul meetings at Dillon. Darling
'"h' fairmont and Johnsonviilc. Sen
h'or y, brown. Il director Of the
association from North Carolina.
conducted rousing meeting a, Wmi'
iihs' wherc stores were closed TO aid
the drive the merchants mud honl.
ers OF the town forming campaign
committee to complete the sign-uo
IN their section OF Marion County.
impressive Meeting al Darlington.
darlington staged an Impressive
meeting. where John Bell reused the
growers when he told them thar the
'-ceht tobacco with which South
carolina opened her markets last
summer warned the Kentucky grow
ers or the fate which awaited them
u theN failed 10 organize and hast
cned inc successful organization by
which they were enabled 10 douh,a
~ 'h'iT tUIlTs cTOD with
in a single wear. Many growcrs
signed the contrac; Of the associa-
Ton at the meeting in Darlington
today.
At Fairmont. " c.. rous,np
s-meetinE resulted from the
large gathering OF farmers who cam,
To The big border market 10 heor
southa!l Farrar. district agent from
the bright belt of Virginia. The onl,
meeting marred by rain today was
that In Johnsonville. where a mum
bcr or farmers heard !. II. Quiscn-
Ferry. another Virginian, tell of the
successful operation of the famous
sun cured pool OF the Northern to-
bacco growing counties in his State
According To w. T.. Lea. manager
OF the campaign from association
headQua 'ters in Florence. enthusiasm
and success surpasses all cxpocta-
tons as the long line Of meetings
advances through the State. In
creasing numbers OF contracts are
coming In daily.
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