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TRI-STATE TOBACCO GROWERS ASSOCIATION CAMPAIGN TO MAKE SIGNATORS UNANIMOUS as the incompetency of the regular buyer. My dear friend, paying for all of this will be notliing new to the farmer. It may look a little v^arger, for it will not be camouflaged as it is now. o Who Is He Serving? In the issue of November 29, 1921, the editor of the Southern Tobacco Journal made this statement in regard to the Tobacco Growers' Co operative Marketing Association: "It matters not what our own private opinion may be in this matter, we are not going to place any obstacle )n the way of any possible success of the co-operative marketing plan. In fact, we could not do so if fce so desired." About Christmas and since that time he has been making strong appeals to the farmers to stay out of the association, saying he was taking ; this action for the farmers' interest. By his own admission, as you will read below, his Journal is the only ; paper in the entire south taking that : stand. The following appeal was sent out to the pin-hcokers, speculators and ; warehousemen in two circular letters. < Mr. Farmer, read this carefully and < see if your interest or your name i appears anywhere in it. Has he kept 1 hit November promise? Is it not i significant that this Journal is the 1 cnly paper in the south against the i association? When you receive a fiee copy of this Journal, you may know who is sending it and who is < paying for it. The Journal did not < intend for the association to get hold ] cf their circular letters, but we have them. They are as follows: < First circular: I ] "Leaf Dealers- Warehousemen! i are you asleep ? 11 "Frankly, gentlemen, we done un- 1 derstand you. The co-operative mar- ' keting planus threatening your very : business existence, and practically every newspaper in the country is against you, either openly, or quietly. The Southern Tobacco Journal is your only champion in thqse perilous j times. We are fighting your fight j a'one?yet you are not giving us ] your support. Seventy-five per cent. 1 of the warehousemen do not even sub- < scribe to our paper. Cut of over 150 i warehouses in North Carolina, and 1 ^rearly 100 in Virginia, not one car- < ries a regular ad with us 1 "Frankly, gentlemen, this cannot ] continue. Up to six months ago, the 1 Journal was struggling along on what ] patronage it had, just about break- < ing even. We then decided to lose 1 WHS 10 for 5c^^tj ^ /?/^1r Af 41lCf OUgcu jac&vi juoi w "melts in your mouth," ? then you get the delectable gum center. And with Wrigley^s three < standi ys also affording frien aid to teeth, throat, breath, ; petite and digestion. Soothing, thirst-quenching. T money on it for awhile, to improve it, and see if those interested would not wake up and support it. But ycu do not seem to realize that it takes money to publish a paper. "Now the point is just this: Do you think the warehousemen and leaf dealers of the south need a champion, such as the Journal? Do you think enough of it to give it your support? Do you expect it to fight your battles without your co-operat-on ? "If you expect us to ke^> up the work, you must help us. And do it new! Send us in a list of subscriptions today, and a small ad for your business. Get the tobacco men /of your market together, and jointly take space in our Journal, in which to advertise your market. Appoint a good man in your town as correspondent, and see that he sends us a weekly letter, telling of conditions on your market, and in the surrounding territory. "Send us at least ICO names of farmers to which you wish the Journal mailed regularly. We will make a special price on these of $1.00 per year. Get busy! Let us hear from you ut once! The Southern Tobacco Journal. Second Circular: "Our great and good friend, Colot el Garland Webb, editor of the South em Tobacco Journal, and incidentally cne of the famous old-time tobacco auctioneers (a profession, by the way, which seems doomed to extinction) is dying hard on this progressive totacco co-operative marketing proposition. "His paper, so far as we know, is the only paper in North Carolina openly fighting the movement?Ex:ept from editorial in the Reidsville Review. "Have you realized that the Southern Tobacco Journal is the only paper in the south on your side?" This last sentence was added by ihe Journal to his "friends," but this ? as not sent to the farmers. Who's ?ide does he mean when he says pour side? o ? Race for Signers. Williamsburg and Florence counties ire two of the largest tobacco growing counties in South Carolina. The Bureau of Crop Estimates of the United States Department of Agrirulture gives both counties an estimated yield of 9,900,000 pounds for the year of 1920. Based on this proiuction, Williamsburg county has al- 1 ready signed 7,022,159 pounds, representing over 1,600 signers. She is iow starting a drive for two million pounds additional. ^ Florence county >n the same basis has 6,894,908 pounds signed, representing over 1,100 sign% t MS DOUBLE treat ?Peppermint old ^HBsS^PfM idly ap- l|^K|^flH ers. Florence county has thoroughly organized with committees all over the county for an active campaign for signers beginning April 10th. The Florence leaders say that when the tonnage is footed up at the end of the campaign they expect to have the honor of having the largest signup in the state. The Williamsburg leaders seem equally confident of holding their lead. However, just at this time both counties are looked upon as Banner counties at the headquarters in Raleigh, N. C., Another significant feature in this friendly race is that Florence county is in the First District and Williamsburg in the second, making the interest still more far reaching. A Prize Essay on the Po&l. % The Kentucky Tobacco Campaign Committee offered a series of prizes ViinrVi e/?llAAlc frtrAllffll IU IIIC \ CLLIUUO lU^il OVI1WIO v**A V cut the Burley district fot the best essays on tobacco co-operative marketing. The essay which landed the $20 in gold follows: "The first reason my father should join the association is that it is a farm organization, organized by the farmers, operated by the farmers and used for the fanner's benefit. "The second reason is, business is organized, labor is organized and every one else but the farmer is organized. Why should the farmer not organize? "The third reason is -that matters cculd not be worse. The farmer is selling his tobacco at starvation prices and buying other things at war-time prices. Thi3 cannot last forever, for the banker cannot lend money without the prospect of payment. It has come to the point where the farmers v.ill either have to stick together or starve separately. "The fourth reason is that the farmer blamed everyone last year because he did not get a fair price for his tobacco. All the good it did was to relieve him of his sentiments. "With 75 per cent, of the tobacco growers organized, the buyers will rever dare antagonize the organization, and the farmers opinion will amount to something besides hot air. "For years the farmer has been compelled to take what was offered him. This plan places him in a position to force the buyers to pay him what he wants. Father, think what this means to you and your family. It means fair recompense for your labor, better clothes and more freedom for your wife and an education for your cliildren. "Hie grape growers of California and the wheat growers of the West cm states have put through organizations of this kind and made a success of it. Why shouldn't thi tobacco growers of the southern states make a success of it also. "It is a democratic body in which everyone has the same power?tenant i.nd landlord alike. So my father should join other fathers in making this a success. Remember: 'The Lord helps them that help themselves.'" o Celebrate Success. Leaders of the world's two largest co-operative marketing associations of tobacco growers, representing the organized tobacco farmers of areas producing 900,000,000 pounds out of America's 1,400,000,000 pound crop, will meet in Ra'cigh next week. Robert W. Bingham, of Louisville, leader of the campaign of the Kentucky burley growers, Oliver J. Sands, of Richmond, manager of the co-operative association of Carolina-Virginia growers, G. A. Norwood, president of this association, and directors representing twentytw-o districts and ninety-six counties in the tobacco area covered by the tri-statc organization, will celebrate and discusss the successful progress cf the two associations at a Smoker given by the Raleigh chamber of commerce to directors of the tobacco and cotton assnciaHfinc MnnHflv. Anril 10th. The Raleigh chamber of commerce has extended invitations to presidents and secretaries of the chambers of commerce in the cities of the tobacco-growing area of North Carolina. Other distinguished guests invited to meet with Judge Bingnam and directors of the marketing associations next week are James C. Stone, president of the Burley Tobacco Growers' Association and Eugene Myers, chairman of the War Finance Corporation, which recently offered a loan of $10,000,000 to the organized tobacco growers of Kentucky. Beginning the conference with the warehousemen of fofir states at South Bostom_Va., on Wednesday, April 5th, />nnti?incr mnfprpnrps at fJreenshoro antfcaleigh, N. C., on April 6th and 7thAmd ending the meetings at Flore^f, S. C., on Saturday, April 8th, Warehouse Manager T. C. Watkins and the committee on warhouses will report to a full meeting of the directors of the association in Raleigh on Tuesday, April^" Uth. The recent selec on of Oliver J. Sands, of Richmm f?president of the American Natio|jr Rank of th?t cily, tu> manager of L marketing association, and the c .oice of Frank D. Williams, the skillful leader of the sun-cured pool of Virginia, and wellknown leaf dealer, as manager of the Dark Leaf Department will further insure the success of the association in three states. Growers in both the Carolinas and Virginia are urged to support the many meetings being held this week and to win new signers to the contract. Tobacco Packhouse. Just at this time it is very necessary that all tobacco growers should begin to arrange for a place to store their tobacco for a short time after it is cured. The recent grading act passed by the legislature makes this necessary. All South Carolina tobacco this coming season v/ill have to be graded and tied, whether sold over the open floor or co-operatively, therefore, it becomes necessary that we begin now to prepare some place to store and grade our tobacco. This is a rather simple matter to arrange a temporary place. Any out building such as a seed cotton house can be easily converted into a suitable place. You simply have to remember that you want a reasonably tight room which does not have a leak and which is not easily affected by outside atmospheric conditons and changes. You want a tight floor and high enough from the ground so that the moisture from the earth will not efr feet the tobacco through the floor. Any pole house daubed makes a splendid place. If a weather boarded house is used which is not ceiled, the cracks should be stopped by using building paper, or old newspapers tacked on will answer the purpose. 'All new inexperienced tobacco grow ers should have a talk with some older grower, or his county agent, or some tobacco man and begin now to make his preparations. By starting in time, he can do this work on rainy days with but little cost A great many use a spare room in the dwelling for a few weeks, but in order to stay on good terms with your wife, the writer advises that you make some other arrangements. News and Nuggets. When you have read this paper, hand it to some neighbor who has not signed a tobacco contract. California has twenty-five successful co-operative marketing associations. If you are not a member of the Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Marketing Association, you are fighting it You may not think so, but by selling your tobacco in competition with the association, you are helping to lower the price. You admit that the old system is a failure?that they robbed you last year. Have you a better plan to offer than co-operative marketing? Ex-Lieutenant Governor Thos. G. fMcLeod in a cotton speech last week at Anderson, S. C., referred to the splendid success of the Kentucky Burley Tobacco jjooI. The South Carolina general assembly at its recent session unqualifiedly endoresed the co-operative marketing of cotton. The March issue of the World's Work has a very strong article on co-operative marketing by Bernard Baruch. President Harding in his annual address to congress at its opening in December stated: "Every proper encouragement should be given to the co-operative programs." Is a plan whereby the farmer can estimate the cost of his product, and add a reasonable profit, a bad one? The merchant, the banker, the manufacturer does it, why not the farmer? Are you satisfied to take your tobacco to a warehouse and dump it on the floor, saying to a few buyers, "Give me what you will for it?" Nothing stands between the farmers success in marketing his tobacco and cotton except signing his name. T. M. Cathcart, county agent, and any of your banks have contracts. Get one and sign your Declaration of Independence today. THE THRICE-A-WEEK EDITION OF THE NEW YORK WORLD IN 1922 AND 1923 Practically a Daily at the Price of a Weekly. No other Newsparer in the World Gives so Much at so Low a Price. The whole world is being made over and the United States is taking the lead in the work. This year, particularly, history will be made, and every American citizen will be deeply interested. No other newspaper is better equipped to give tie new5 cf the world at the time it is news than The New York World. The Thrice-a-Wcek edition of The World is the greatest example of comprehensive journalism in America. Ic will keep you as thoroughly informed as a daily, which v/ovud cost five or six times as much. It is a unique newspaper, published three times a week, for $1 a year. 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