Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-09
COOP MARKETING
VALUE IS PROVEN.
COOLIDGE ASSERTS

WASHINGTON, Feb. S.--A hope
that every encouragement" will be
given the cooperative marketing
movement was expressed today by
President Coolidge in a message to
the national council Of Farmers Co
Operative Marketing association at
the opening session of a three-day
meeting here.
The president added that there also
was a need for organization of urban
consumers ito give like benefits"
and declared a close working ar
rangement between these two groups
is the ideal toward which present
economic efforts should be directed.
The message from Mr.. Coolidge
was read as a part of g. program
which included addresses by Senator
Capper, of Kansas, head Of the SEN
ate farm bloc, and former Governor
Frank Lowden, of Illinois. Robert
w. Bingham, of Louisville, presided
and opened the conference. The
presidents letter was addressed to
Walton Peteet, secretly Of the coun-
I Gil, and said:
Slow to Adopt Plan
Il have many times declared my
conviction that the development of
a powerful cooperative movement
in this country is one of the needs
of this period of economic readjust-
ment. Much has been accomplished
along this line in many American
communities. but it cannot be said
that the cooperative idea has found
very firm lodgment in the actual
practice Of the great ma jority Of
the American people.
of Of
tages which have been set before
us in this and other countries are
so numerous and impressive that
one cannot but wish that every en-
couragement may be extended to
such organizations as your own,
which are seeking to establish a ma
tional cooperative purpose and
spirit.
ESPECIALLY in regard to agricul-
tural statements, when we consider
how high a price the consumer pays
in proportion to the price the pro-
Queer receives, we can not but feel
that here Is a great opportunity for
service to both the consuming and
producing groups of the public.
1--WE are all included in one or the
other of these groups, and most of
us in both Of them. In the long
run we will all be bettered if we
can lessen the burdensome costs of
conveying our necessaries from the
producer to the consumer.
Full Cooperation Vital
There is need for cooperative or
CARNATIONS among agricultural pro-
ducers to help them both in selling
their products for a better price and
buying their requirements more
cheaply. There is likewise need for
organization Of the urban consumers
to give like benefits. The establish
ment Of a close working relation
ship between these two groups ought
to be the ideal to which the larger
cooperative movement of the coun-
try should aim"
Robert w. Bingham, Louisville,
KY, publisher, who is chairman of
the council, opened the conference,
which is being attended by delegates
from twenty-eight states represent
ing interests in twentyfour agricul-
tural commodities.
The opening days program was
marked by a discussion Of the CO.
operative marketing policy of the
American Bankers association,
transportation problems, and uues-
tons of crop mortgages, farm ten
ancy and interstate cooperation
among cooperative associations. The
speakers included James S. Stone.
president Of the Burley Tobacco
Growers association; Carl Williams
president Of the American Cotton
Growers exchange, and Thomas E.
Wright, general manager of the New
York Canning Crops association.