Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-19
ORGANIZATION
Is SOLUTION
CHIEFS AVER
Seller Must Be Well
Informed On Value
OF Product

WESLACO. July i8-That the
cotton grower must take over and
manage his own business was the
ever recurring theme OF talks made
before Valley farmers Friday after
noon by c. o. Moser vice president
and secretary Of the American Cot
ton Cooperative assn. and r. j.
Murray OF Lubbock. general mana
ger OF the Texas Cotton Corpora
tive assn.
Mr.. Murray went into a discuss
Ion OF the farmer and his problems.
saying that cost OF production. VOL
ume OF production. prices paid by
the farmer for what he needs and
the price which he receives for his
product are the main factors In the
situation.
Production Good
There is little to be desired IN
South Texas SO far as economies
o. efficiencies IN production are con-
cerned," MI. MoSer said. The pro-
duction per acre and per man Is on
an efficient basis-perhaps as efii-
Gent as in any other section Of p
cotton producing world.
During the past 100 years We
have been engaged economically IN
the organization Of various groups
OF our people according 70 their eco
l<nomic interest. and setting up ior
their benefit protective legislation
behind which they have been able
TO build a machine whcin has gwen
them economic advantage III the eN-
change OF their products and ser
vices among different groups.
Those having the greatest Or
ranized strength which they MAJ
use in both adjusting production 70
demand and in the movement or
their products into the market. have
the greatest exchange values as
with less favorably or
ganized groups.
Unless the seller Is as well IN
formed As the buyer on the value OF
the product and is under no great
or necessity to sell than the BUYER Is
70 buy. all the advantage o. trace =
with the buyer.
BUYER Knows Market
The buyer knows both the value
Of his product. the ~flu-tuating mar
ket prices and will not buy unless
he sees in the operation an oppor-
tunitv for profit while the indiYld-
ual farmer neither knows the value
of the product he Is offering for
sale nor the market price on the
dav OF the sale while his maturing
production credit notes compel him
10 sell at the best price obtainanle
The Agricultural Marketing Act
IA an honest and conscientious at
tempt 10 do for our agriculture the
things which II has been imDossi-
BILE for the farmers to do for them
selves.
ut is not necessary in this highly
intelligent ace to more than mem
ton the protection which has been
given manufacturers. railroads.
merchant marine. banks. organized
labor. aviation and the radio.
we hear much wailing when the
benefits az practical governmental
assistance are extended 70 aEricul-
lure. only those individuals or cor
porations who have been buying
from farmers and who have directly
been effected hy the inevitable
change which has taken place IN
business procedure as a result OF
the organization Of agriculture.
Their attempt TO impede the pro-
gress OF the times Is as futile as an
attempt 70 dam the tides.
Law for Farmer
The Agricultural Marketing Act
is not an attempt 10 interfere with
the immutable laws Of supply and
demand but 70 make them work
euuitablv in behalf Of farmers ra-
fher than against them
1T is not an attempt 70 put the
government In business but to give
needed assistance 10 farmers In
setting IN their own powerful bus
fness groups In the only practical
vtav known by which their indus
tFies may be organized with cap
able MANAGEMENT. amply financed
and soundlv conducted as Is the
case with other industries.
Those who would take away from
the act the financial support which
the act empowers the Farm Board
to employ in behalf Of the cooper
atives would simply deny farmers
an equal opportunity a. organiza-
lions with other groups.
"Of the tremendous wealth
credited bv farmers az this country
SIRE the beginning Of the republic
little has been retained BY farmers
themselves or even in the agricul-
tural areas.
There is no remedy for distress
ed agriculture known to the wisest
and most patriotic or our thinkers
and LADDERS except through organi-
zation. Every problem We have
other than that Of individual pro-
duction will yield 10 organization.
None Of III major problems can be
solved bv individual effort.
THE way OF organization Is the
certain road TO the solution OF our
problems. The way Of disorRaniza-
ton and individual competition Is
10 a certain way to continued pow
erty."
Reviews Conditions
Mr.. Murray told how agriculture
had been depressed since the Civil
war when the best policy Of the
farmer has been one OF "watchful
waiting for the boil weevil. drouth
or a great war 70 get good prices"
The Texas Cotton Co-operatives
assn. is going to take q militant
stand" he declared. with every
man who Is not IN favor OF the
crou-rr getting more for his cotton
than II cost him 70 grow H."
The meeting here "a called 70
order BY RAY A. Hardness. publicity
director for the Texas Farm Bureau
Federation and s. VI. Patterson.
manager of the chamber Of COM
merce. presided. James Howe local
banker. made the address Of vel
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