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r,r.E two MONDAY, AUGf K, 1S22 THE GASTONIA ( N. C?) DAILY GAZETTE SILENT REVOLUTION SWEEPING THE SOUTHS CO-OPERATiV MARKETING OF C0TTONiRlJNNlNG INTO millions J .- j ... . . .. - ' ' . - - . ' . ' . . . . ' . ', ;' ' ' fOOMT DUMP mi N l . . ' . ietus puayou - our with r-s '! tbadiiiG 1:1 conor v GOODS HAS BEEN SLOW With two and a half million hales of cotton signed In binding contracts to co-operative marketing associations, near ' ly two hundred thousand cotton growers ef the South, stretched all the way from North Carolina on the East to Arizona on the Wfit, are ready to enter the bus iness world and play a part unprece- dented in the history of the cotton trade. This is nearly a fourth of the cotton crop of the South. Marketing authorities are venturing all sorts of , opinions regarding the effect of this new factor. ' American cotton is the slandard cot torn of the world. The price paid for . it is used as a-basis for determining the price d all other cotton, , whether pro, dused in India, Turkestan , tF.gypt or China. American cotton constitutes the major portion of vegetade fibre which enters international trade, and whatever happens to it .influences the price of all ; other eotton in the world. England has tried to establish new cotton-growing zones in her dependencies which could compete with American production, but to date lifts been unable to affect the supremacy ef the Southern States. What will happen when 200,000 grow er!, controlling 2,500,000 bales of cot ton, fail to "dump" their crop this fall t , It is one of the fundamental principles guiding the new movement that Cotton shall be marketed in an or derly manner, over a period almost a year long. In previous history, farmers -' bate glutted the market in November, bave brought more eotton to the buyers than -the buyers are ready to use and this has invariably depressed the price, riee recovery has usually followed several months after the dumping orgy, after - the eotton has pone entirely out ftf control pf the farmers, but this price recovery has been to the benefit of the speeuIator"and Hot the farmer. r Now comes the farmer, or : rather npit come. 200,000 farmers who have made financial arrangements with the War Finance Corporation, who sny that tbey will not "dump" their 2,500.000 aales, who say that they will sell their Sotton as the market is ready to) ab ort) it. The whole world is waiting, SepresentativM from Africa, from Eng land, fronf Central Europe have called at the off! flee of the Ainereau Cotton growers' Exchange in Dallas, Texas, to study the situation. In the mean whilef the farmers have gone ahead and kave made arrangements to borrow mil Eons and millions of dollars to make advances to their membership to tide ver the time it takes to market in an rderly manner. They have gone out ihto the cotton world and have "hired'' tbe best eotton experts in the South to supervise their sales. .They are en- faring the new eotton year with confi dence born of the experience of- f 6ur !H4ntP associations whu-h marked alto gether, nearly a half million bales in W21 and 1922. J Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona and Mis sissippi last year demonstrated the prac eability of the plan and inspired the rotates of Arkansas, Xorlh Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and tje short staple growers of Mississippi ta form like associations. Texas fann ers marketed S,777,70i worth of eot ffm. Oklahoma handled almost lis Juch. Mississippi staple growers more inn twice as much- as Oklahoma or Tr-xai In money 'v(;!uc. Arizona had Hue quality, of Pima cotton and the growers in this-'fnr Western State top ped the market. Hut this fall the bus yiess will ran into hundreds of millions f dollars.1 ' There has been much interesi in the Lbjtory of this silent agrarian revolu-lion- which is sweeping the Mouth. It began in Oklahoma in 1919 under the Kalership of Carl Williams, now Prcsi jpnt of the American Cotton Growers' Exchange. Williams was editor of the Oklahoma Farnier-Ktoekman, but iden tified himself Very closely with the for mation of the Cotton Marketing Asso ciation in that 8tate. Mississippi, Arizona and Texas followed almost in the order named, the close up of the tign-ap campaign coming within a few As a result, a system of co-operation practiced in Denmark for more than for ty years bv farmers wad adopted to Cali' fornia conditions. Today we have the wonderful example of agricultural pros perity of the Pacific coast. This same system has now been adapted by the cotton farmers of the South and following is the text or an explanation of the plan sent out by the Texas organization to people making in quiries regarding it: There are certain fundamental prin eiples in the formation of co-operative associations which have been Jearnet after many expensive failures. Six of these principles have been very definite ly established. The first three deal with the fundamental nature of the 'organi zation and on the second three depends the success of the organization in carry ing its membership. Under nnture of organization, we enumerate the three following requirements i 1 , The orgauhsatioh is built around the commodity. 2. It is composed of growers only. 8. These growers are tied together with a legally binding contract. Organization built around the com-1 modity is economically sound, because the business world is interested in the thing you have to sell and not in the place where it is grown. V The organization should be a non profit association without capital stock, composed of growers only, because the interest of the growers will be properly protected by no other form of orgnni-! zaztion. Farmers have failed in the past because they have allowed men who were not producers to have A voice in determining the netion of their co-operative selling projects. These outr siders have invariably possessed or de veloped selfish Interests opposed 'to the best iuteres of the growers, and as A consequence have brought ruin to the farmer; The growers should be tied together with a binding contract because this is the only menus discovered whereby it can be definitely established that the co-operative will remain in business. The binding contract is the only form which will enable the co-operative to finance the movement of its crop. No banker will lend money to a co-operative association If that association is unable to show that it has title to the crop upon which it wishes to borrow money. 1. The eo-opeTntive must control enough, of the crop to be a real factor in the market. 2. It must employ experts to do nil work requiring the knowledge of an ex-. rt. ..... 3. Fanners' products must be pooled according to grade ami quality and the farmer paid accordingly. Unless the cooperative is large enough, that is, unless it controls enough of the crop to command the re spect of the business world, nnless its decisions regarding its. holdings are awaited with interested - by private firms engaged in the same badness, it ' cannot hojie to acltipve any large meas ure of guccess. It may even be at the nirrcy of private business firms that wi!l crash it but of existences KxKrts must be employed to direct every department of the co-operative, loo many farmers' organizations-have 2one on the rs ks through, mismanage ment. The farmer is regarded r. an ex Vert producer, but not as an export salesman, therefore, po-opcrativcs I.ave found through hitler experience that they must employ expert salesmen to sell their crops. When they have' look ed for these Salennen, they have found that private business firms pay these Salesmen good salaries and eo-oieratives have been forced to pay good salaries to obtain the services of the sales ex perts. They hrve had to meet the eom- Ietition of private business firms. As Aaron Sapiro says, ',' Farmers must not expect te get a fair price for crops if they are unwilling to pay a fair price for brains." On account of the variation in grades and quality of the crops raised by dif The Latest! New Skin Game had Gold Brick Beaten A Mile By Roy Gibbons, C CHICAGO, Aug 10 "Take one of these little pills and wish you were some where and presently you'll find you're there." This was the sales talk handed out by 4 bewhiskered chap whose, fore-fathers ' NEW VtJRjt; -Aug" 12-Tradini In cotton goods has been slow in consequ ence of tb$ instability III cottJil futures and the unsettled start-of labor. Crop reports have proved ? chcerintr to mei chants and they look for brondiug tivity whea industrial' disputes are set tled and tariff discussions are ended. .Print cloths rind 'sheeting weakened in price a teine wln fine combed yarns held fairly steady. Yarn markets have len Weak and irregular.-The new wash goods season for spring 1923 is develop ing very slowly, most of the orders be ing' of small siz fof . sapling purpose.' Pome part or ttie hesitation in attri buted to the-ancertainty in styles of fubricg that may prove popular.' Uleacii ed" goods have"been fairly steady. . l'er- ciilcs are being bought to about the ca pacity of . surrent . production but for ward business its being built, up slowly. New gingham prices for Spring $ re. be ing deferred and that.' is leading to lioM business back. The time is near at hand when mills must buy cotton from the nev crop und men-bants and "manufacturers are hoping for-more tttahli price con ditions. The attestffence t(f buyers la the New York market has been unusual ly large due to the holding of a merchan dise fair and. buying1 iif small lots 4i.is been general. Prices current in primary' markekts are as follows: Print' cloths, 28 -inch 64x648, 7: GtvtiO's, 6 .1-4 cents; brown sheetings. Southern standards '13 cents and 13 12 cents; .18 1-2 inch; C4x(i4'i, 8 3-4 rents: denims, 2.20 's. 18 1-2 cents and 19 cents; ticking' 8 ounces, 12 1-2 cents; prints 10 1-4 cents; staple ging hams, 14 1-4; dress ginghams 20 and 22 1-2. ' T c ei 1 " "'ssswa j - , s - y . 1 i : , .- : rrm I . . : .... Jrr , l - ... JilJ..' I . 0'c5l:'l - -ciftarettes :. .jSId. ' ''flTO' ;: t . ,'' '". i. '' ' - " '-VI iiiy; j we nave a iun line oi -TareGO! g;pg THE PIECES. ; : ' tii run noflifiT.1 Vr . ' ' flod . save the King ' ' has it ,goodj points, put wnai tne vioria neois bow is something in the nature of "0od save the pieces." ., INDEPENDENCE IN OKJJ RESPECT. (Galveston News.) Personally we do not claim 100 per cent independence, but we do say we have never dressed to please head wait ers and hat boys. most likely sold gold bricks to an en thralled. .clientele of foreigners here. Mr. Whiskers guaranteed his ware in preparation for the street car Strike which made. Chicago hbof it. The pills of course, he said, would only work in ease a strike took place. For each, package of 10 he charged 30 cents. A good many were sold. He pictured to his prospects the ad vantage of swallowing a "strike pill", There is also this unusual condition in bluehnll find judicial circles Judge Landis nnd'Babe Ruth are both off the bench at the same time, Kansas City War. .. . ; ! " done well in keeping up with their crops, considering the bad weather conditions. Labor is generally plentiful, but not ef ficient. Urban demands hurt the fa rm ers near towns. , FRANK PARKER, -Agricultural Statistician. Office Furniture . Quality ' Furniture at ' Quantity Prices - Flat Top Desks. ' Roll Top Desks. ' ' Typewriter Desks. -Filing Cabinets. ' Card Files, Small Office , Supplies of all kinds. Spencer-Atkins Book Co. .i Gastonia, N. C. bath room accessories, such as Glass and Opal Shelves, Towel Bars, Soap Dishes, Tumbler and Tooth Brush Holders, Robe Hooks, etc. We also have a nice line of Plumbing Fix tures on display to select from. ,; - . . Estimates gladly furnished on y our plumbing and heating job. You are cordially invited to visit us. Piedmont Plumbing Co. Phone 884-L ' 124 S. Oakland St. SUBSCRIBE TO THE GAZETTE DO YOU READ NEWSPAPERS? Are you carrying accident insuraneet You need it. Let's get together. " , THE WILLIAMS INSURANCE AGENCY ; INSURANCE . - ' BONDS Gazette-Building Tel. 125-J V'. Gastonia, N. C. over walking to.and from Work. "All you have to do is take, a pill arid say 'I wish I were on-the job' and in a minute the pill will take you," he promised . Of course the nostrum didn't work. It was made of coated gum which the purchasers obewed in vain and then walked. , If WhiskcTS ever hits this totfti again he'll bave to hot-foot it some himself, his victims worn. " eek of each other. These Stales sold j ferent members of a co-operative, it their cotton last year, did it successful-1 has been found necessary to grade care It and satisfied their membership that they were following a plan economical ly sound. ,Vbat are the fundamentals of the plant To find this out , we turn to Aaron Bapiro, the California lawyer who acted at legal Adviser 'to these States and who wrote the contrast which was sign ed by cotton growers in all of the as sociations now in the American Cotton Growers' Exchange. Kapiro has laid dowa these fundamentals before board meetings, before crowds of farmers, be fore business men's organisations in every Htate in the fSouth. When farm ers ia the United States first began to think of co-ojierativc marketing, they turned to the best example of co-operative activity they could find, that is, the Rochdale pt.-in iiW by Knglish con sumers. The Eoibdale form of co-op-rsion was for the purpose of buying nl hot selling Crops, and after numer ous attempts to apply the Knglish sys tiin. pm-titccni found that it would not vroik. Taking np the Uohdale sys ti,'i wst sn awbbMit due to the fact tl.it it was practiced by j-eoplc Senkir.g tis s.itiie Unguige that we spmk in tte I'sife,! Ktates. When the Knglish ' 'ca fsikvl, American growers tegan ti e'sri-k throughout the world for a -:t!u tt.it would le rconomirallv sound t.t the co-fjierstive selling of crojs. industry .WEEKLY CROP NOTES. , (Augnst 1-7) , Weather There is kUH much raiii in the eastern part of the state, with hail St onus doing much damage in Caldwell county. '. '..The Piedmont area Is dry and cool,, eseepting in southern counties Where the weather is favorable. In the mountains it is rainy and cool,- Wheat Wheat isVptmr to, fair. Very little is grown in the eastern counties, itust Was general and destructive. Corn GbrhJ's poor-in ntcrn areas with miprovejncnt reported in Jones, Wilson "and ii southeastern counties? ltaiit has retarded growth 8ttH develop ment. .Mention of, feuleh improVetneht in the' Piedmoht plitenn, with prospects of a good yield. Itis good in the moun tains, but harvest will-be late. , Cotton Oertcrftl improvement in cot ton is noted in Piedmont. The boll Weevil i doing efliiaiderable damage in the southern border counties. Heavy fruiting is reported in spotted localities. Cotton in eastern areas is recovering from the rainy seasons to some extent, with prospects for a better yield than was anticipated '. Boll weevil is preva lent oyer .southern half of coastal belt fruiting poorly in some sections. Hay Generally good all over state for hay and- grasses. Continued rains have been favorable to growth of these crops. Tobacco Tobacco indicates a fair prospect in the northern Piedmont coun ties. Borne good in eastern sesction but much is very poor there Curing is well advanced.; T-oo'mueh rain has affected tobaceo; as well, as other crops.- Truck Truck Is reported to be fair in the mountains. Potatoes are some what blighted. Markets flooded in sec tions of Piedmont, where truck 'crops are grown. Increased attention to truck in some localities of the coastal belt. Harvesting is in full swing. Pastures As with hay, pastures "are generally good, due to favorable and wet seasons. ' Fruit Frost in the mountains caused irregular fruit crops. Northern Pied-1 mont fruit only fair while .Sandhill sec tion has excellent condition, especially peaches. More fruit in eastern belt than usual. . Livestock Increase in cattle in some mountain sections. Good condition in Piedmont and Coastal sectious. Good demand for dairy cattle. Reports on bogs show mote activity in east, in fair condition all over the state. . Progress Farming is becoming more production applied to tne agricultural j diveruhed. Much progress is being ful'y the products.delivered to the asso ciation and to provide for internal pods into which all the products of a like grade and quality are placed. This in sures each . grower receiving the true value of his crop. If it is of a better grade and quality, he gets the extra money which should come to him for having grown a superior product. This internal pooling also makes it possible for the association to enter the busi ness world, with its wares arranged in grades desired by the trade and in creases the amount of money which the association can ask for what it has to sell. In addition to these six points al ready mentioned, associations have found that proper merchandising of the crop means marketing in - an orderly manner over a period covering most of the year. This avoids the former prac tice of dumping, which . has always forced the price of farm products down during the time of harvest. The co operative marketing associations have found that they can make the law of upp'y and demand apply at the point of consumption instead bf the point of production. Co-operative marketing is simpiv the well knows factory principle of group MAJESTIC THEATRE Billings Booth MONDAY, WW OPENS AN INDEFINITE ENGAGEMENT AUGUST 14th. 10 PEOPLE 10 .... ' ' . ' 9 - jjy ' . '- Wlf' ';Z""t!h " '--'-'f ''k 1 ' I " Nil , -n ,' ''.f-i s '"Sri pf , : L 'V . . , L" '! to i ;rfX U k !A ' l ' ft? - I'fC: t i ' n'tmf i- ' '' -w..-.:.vv. .v,... . . . ., ,: ;' made in dairy lines. Farmers have ft ' f 1 ii' . St I Ur p. S t' ; - -s " ' r i: : - ) i ; v "i '-.' . , r - . ': . . ' a I e. . '." .' JN'n 1 ' :'' ' .-'. - ' i '. THELMA' -BOOTH v BILLINGS BOOTH'S MUSICAL v REVUE Comes to Gastonia with a record of four years successful engagementsin cities in every part of the United States. The policy of this company is to present tabloid musical comedy versions of the big New York successes featuring Mr. Al Pharr, one of the funniest-blaekf ace comedians on the American' stage.. . " , . ..'. ' ' "--' ;''-.' . . ' . . . '"..'" H ' V '' - ' '-. : v ;f'' t. . -. v .-- .- .... .. . .. - - -.- v . : ;. -;-' '.'The 'offering for Monday and Tuesday is "The Oriental Princess" With' some of the following plays to be offered during the engagement -"Her IIus band3 Double" ''Alillion Dollar. Doll" "Chinese Bequest" "Mary's Ankle'' Tt Pays to Advertise" "BiiFy" Fair And ' 1Vafmer" and many others. i r f : i i " m BILLINGS BOOTH
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