The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, January 16, 1930, Image 10
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FEDERAL FARM BOARD ms
TO DEVELOP C04P MARmiNG
Laurens, Jan. 12»!::::Clarence I. Mar-
Commodity Groups BeinK Formed To Handle All Principal Farm|;|^^’^[X”iri^r?o If
Products. tV’ill Be Agricultural Trusis* • • - ' *tX
(Written for "The Chronicle By Caleb Johnson, Through Autocaster Service)
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What is the new Federal Farm
board doing and how will it benefit
the individual farmer?
THqs^ are questions to which the
answers are not yet clear, event to
many of the people whose business
.it is to observe things in Washington.,
' As a result, some folk have already
begun to throw brickbats at the board
and to utter dire predictions of failure
of this great effort at farm relief.
/without venturing an opinion as to
h5w it is all going to work out, sup-
{luse we see just what the board has
et out to do, and how it is going
.ibout it. For it is now getting into ac
tion, and the results of its work will
be felt by every man, wdman and
child in the United States. It is, in a
very reaf'-aense, the' most powerful
governmental agency^ ever establish
ed, by reason of its authority-and its
immense financial resources, and it
has been entrusted with the most rev--
olutionary task which any government
bureau has ever tackled.
In a nutshell, the job of the farm
board is to teach fanners how to be
business men. Under the agricultural
marketing act the board is directed to
do four principal things. These' are:
1. To minimize speculation in agri
territorial organizations for each cbnji-
modity.
The Farmers National Grain cor-
poration,«to handle wheat especially,
was the first of th^se. Its problem is
the most difficult of all, mainly be
cause wheat marketing in private
hands is already highly efficient and
wheat growers are likely to gdt less
benefit from the new law than an^
other class of farmers. Nevertheless
the board’s policy of lending up to
$1.18 a bushel on 'wheat (Chicago
market) has stabilized the return to
the cooperative members at that fig
ure, less cost of handling.
Juliys Barnes, chairman of the
Chamber of Commerce of the Unitdd
States and himself a wheat exporter,
has criticised this policy of the board.
He contends that it gives the coopera
tives an-unfair advantage; that^pri-
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Claims , >
C. L. Martin
vate dealers ought to be able to bor-
at his home on Laurens sti-eet, after
a brief illness,^although he had been!
a sufferer for sometime fronr heart ^
affection. —
Funeral services were held at 11
o'clock Monday morning from Mount
Olive Baptist church, conducted by the
Rev. William D. Spinx, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Laurens. f
Mr. Martin was a native of the*
county, a son of the late J. A. C. Mar
tin. For many y^ars he’was engaged
in farming near the city, and later
w'as a popular salesman with a local
mercantile store. He was « consist
ent member of the First Baptist
church and of the Men’s Baraca class.
■ He had a wi<}e circle of friends who
mourn with the family in the sorrow
that has come to them.
Mr. Martin is survived by his wid
ow, formerly Miss Florence CJooper,
who is sister of former Governor
R. A. Cooper of Washington; his
mother, and by three sons, Earl Maf-
tin, of Hampton Roads, Va., where
row at the same rate. The board’s re
ply is that local elevalors will have to
pay commercial rates, as the central
organization will charge a premium
on loans to its members,, to cover
costs and possible losses.
Mr. Barnes is not opposed to the
cooperative plan; quite the contrary.
He is a director of the only national
he is connected with the U. S. navy; I
.^2. To prevent wasteful mkhods of ation which was in operation before
distribution. * * j the farm board was created, the\Fed-
3. To prevent surpluses, so a* to | crated Fruit and'Tcgetable GroWs
give the advantage to domestic mar-1 of the United States. This month of
kets. [January fruit and vegetable coopera
R. A. Martin of Columbia, and Ernest
Martin of Laurens; three daughters,
Mrs. C. T. Lollis of Fork Shoals, Mrs.
B. B. Senn and Miss Dorcas Martin of
Laurens; three brothers, E. L. Mar
tin of CHntoh, R. 0, Martin of Green
wood, and C. _W. Martin of Greenville;
four sisters, Mrs. George W. Culbert
son of Waterloo, Mrs. L. B. Culbert-
Culbertson of Laurens, and Mrsl E. L.
Biirts of Laurens.
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4. To encourage the organiz
of farmers’ cooperative marketin
Rociations.
That i-s a big program. It will take
years to develop it fully. Meanwhile,
It is to be -expected that the board
will make some honest mistakes, that
its members, being human, will have
to learn by experience, and that many
farmers will believe that they have
been sold another gdld-brick by the
government.
But the board is authorized to use
five hundred million dollars. That is
a lot of money, even when you say it
fast. One hundred and fiffy millions
of this is already available. This mon
ey is to be lent to farmer organiza
tions for the purpose of facilitating
the marketing of farm products; not
to private dealers, but to organiza
tions owned and controlled by produc
ers—the farmers themselves.
Fifty-three million dollars has al
ready been promised by the board to
such organizations, twelve miHioh paid
tion tives of the whole nation are meeting
by delegates in Washington to make
plans to enlarge this national marke*^-
ing association. The hardest oppose
tion of all is exp<*cted in this Held,
in which thousands of commission
houses now function.
Cotton men began meeting in Wash-
ingtoti in December to set up their
national association; the .board has
agreed on loans up to 16.59 a pound
on cotton. New Orleans market, when
cooperatives have got together. That
will make money for Texas growers,,
not so much for those east of the Mis
sissippi.
What is in prospect is a series of
agricultural trusts or cartels, one for
each major commodity or group of
commodities, which will be_ actually
owned and capitalized by the farmers
themselves and- which will control the
markets for their respective products
for the whole country. They will, if
properly managed, be able to regulate
productTbnirnJ Jrstribufioh7 cuFbr^
erage and freight charges, and with
out increasing food cost to consum-
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out. The borrowers pay the govern
ment rate, limited to 4 per cent by
law, so far about 3’/a per cent on thejers increase the profits to the' grow-
average. |ers. Private capital now employed i»!
The board cbnsideis that the third |'^'‘‘ "'“'•keting of food will find, some j
purpose set forth above, the preven- i IL g'ood investments in the stock
tion of surpluses, will involve many I national cooperatives. Some big
years of experiment and education, j-^ hii uRo and New York ^financiers
so it is concentrating on the organi-. have already agreed to take shares in
some of the asswiations now forming.
Men’s
Other private interests in the field
will have to compete on the basis of
greater efficiency and lower profits.
Grain is organized, so*'are fruit and
vegetables; cotton, livestock, tobacco,
wool,, dairy priKlucts, eggs and.pouW
try, all are organizing nationally. It
be reduced and wasteful distribution j will take time to get everything going
cut down. And these organizations are smoothly, two or three years in some
the beneficiaries of the revolving fund' I'nes^ perhaps lunger before enough of
in the board’s hands. the output of a given commodity is
Local cooperatives now borrow from cooperative control to enable
local banks to finance the movement
of ‘crops after they are ready for mar
ket, from Federal Intermediate Credit
banks to finance the production of
crops, but they have to wait for the
the growers to make their own bar
gains* in the national markets. That
ie the real objective. Heretofore the
farmer has had to sell in a buyer’s
market, take whatever price was of-
A/uv iicavv Vv trcaiv a \ f i •
crops to be sold before the growers , ^he.. new way will give him the
get all of their money, which means chance to set the price, based on his
that many growers prefer to deal
with commission men for cash on the
nail, even at lower prices. The farm
board provides supplemental loans to i structure,
the full current market value of the i
cost of production. But he can do this
only by cooperating with other farm
ers. Cooperation is the key to the
crop, enabling grower members to get
their nmney as^ speedily as if fr^i
TllVat? soirees and enabling
operative lo hold, grain, fruit, cotton,
tobacco, or whatver in elevator or
Aged Mother
7 Passes Laurens
l>aufens, Jan. 12.—Mrs. Cornelia
warehouse until the market is r;ght, ^^*11 DuvauK 82, widow of John W.
giving the grower then the benefit of Duvaul^ died at 1:30 o'clock Sunday
any higher price obtained.V morning at the home of her daughter.
If the board is not going to lo'>e a' Duvaul Machen, South
lot of Uncle Sam’s money d7 street.'^’She^had- been -4H--fTH4 -
RPVPral mnnfKa I
loans which locaf cooperatives will not i months.
be able to repay, because of poor juJg- j At 3 o’clock Monday afternoon fo
ment in marketing, then it must do | neral serveies were held at thV riesi*
two things. It must sturt a huge cam-' dence, followed with interment in the
paign ^f education to impress the ijm- j Laurens cemetery. The services were
portance of well-paid intelligent man-1 charge of the Rev. W.' D. Spinx,
agement upon members and prosper-1 or of the First Baptist church,
live members of cooperatives, and it! ***>sted by the Rev. Jodie Martin, the
must tie local cooperatives together' Rov. Graves L. Knight. D. D., the
into highly-organized selling and dis-jR^v. W. Ray Anderson and Chas. B.
tributing systems. j Bobo, a life-long friend and former
Those two things the board is now
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jthe value of its efforts w’ill come only
when orderly,marketing on a natjonal
Mrs. Duvaul was a native of the
county and had lived in the Barksdale
station section most of her life. She
scale with a mhifitiuYn of middlemen’s j ® woman of deep piety, devoted
I tolls is actually in effect. So while it church and considerate of
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Is lending whore needed to local co
operatives, to enable them not only to
get their products to marl^i^*to
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friends and neighbors.
.^ IW’dABghters, Mrs. Machen and
Mrs.' Grace Duvaul Pearce, both of
Laurens, survive the aged mother.
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