San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-10
CHAP|N'S DREAM
ABOUT To Be
REALIZED
Chain Of Plants, Market
Cooperation, to Put
State to Fore.

Establishment Of chain Of can
ming, preserving, dehydrating and colo
storage plants across Texas from th'
; Rio Grande 10 the Red River, with one
I Of the first and central plants to be
located in San AuIonio-
That's the dream of Judge D. b,
? Chaplin local attorney and large
Texas landowner, who visuallzcr
Texas, feeding the world"
And that dream, nurtured through
+ long years OF planning, seems about TO
come true.
Judge Chaplin and other proponents
of his plan seek the 60 operation OF
Texas farmers, thus eliminating mar
/. ketiDg troubles, creating a demand for
} Texas products and affording a ready
supply of foodstuffs TO meet that de-
mand.
ASKS COOPERATION.
when Texas growers cooperate, as
have those Of Florida and California
for several years, then the Lone Star
State will come into its own as the
chief base of food supplies for the ma
hon." Judge Chaplin said.
The seed that is expected to grow
into the greatest cooperative food or
ganization in the world was planted at
three meetings held in as many Texas
towns this week.
One of those meetings was held N
GAINESVILLE, where a group OF progres-
sive North Texas farmers of the Red
+ River belt met with DR.. Nolan Wat
son.
Another was held in the piney woods
belt OF East Texas, with former State
Senator ]. J. Strickland presiding
over the assemblage Of farmeres from
that section.
MEET IN s. A.
The third was held in San Antonio.
in the office Of Judge Chaplin. Farm
ers from Pearsall, Sutherland Springs.
F1Oresville, Lyle. Poteet and other
towns in this section attended.
Tentative organizations were per
fected at these three meetings which
viii be merged and form the nucleus
Of q giant Texas organization TO be
known as the Texas Food Packers.
The name is already registered in the
office of the secretary of state, and a
ms dplllFu LuE.
On January %, Judge Chaplin, Dr.
watson and Mr.. Strickland will ar
's1en' 2 statewide agricultural confer
ene which will be held in Dallas al
the call Of Commissioner of Agrieul-
ture George 3. Terrell. Cooperation
and united action in solving agrlcul-
tural problems will be discussed at
this meeting, and further steps will
be taken in perfecting the statewide
organization of the Texas Food Park
ers.
TO BUILD CANNERIES.
II is the plan Of Judge Chaplin and
his associates TO establish a chain OF
canneries and similar plants at van
tage points throughout the state.
Fruits and farm products will be-
canned and dehydrated at these plants.
then TO be marketed under the one
Label OF the Texas Food Packers.
San Antonio has been selected as
the base for one of the first and
largest plants to be built. It will take
care o. the foodstuffs of Bexar. Alas.
cosa, Wilson and other neighboring
counties.
In a recent speech in Chicago
President Coolidge declared that e.
operative marketing is the mos. d.
pendable remedy for farm ills.' ~ Judge |
Chaplin said. "And therein lies t6e
salvation Of Texas farmers and /
growers.
1000 FARMERS IN LINE.
Our motto will be Don't compete
--federate.'
We have about 1000 Texas farm
ers already lined up in this tentative |
organization, and we hope to see il |
grow until every grower Of foodstuffs |
within the state is within the fold.
Texas led all states in value Of I
Iarm products in 1925 with less than !
70 per cent Of the land in cultivation.
recording to Judge Chaplin. Without
ssbihzed prices and ample marketing
facilities farmers Of Texas viii lose I
nueh money and the state viii 20 4
bankrupt II al available land is put