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HOUSTON HUME JOURNAL
Price $1.50 A Year. la Advance.
Publiglitnl Every Thumdny Morning
Official Organ of Houston County
JOHN L. HODGES, Editor.
Thuksdat, Deoemhkr 4.
OUTGUESSING THE MARKET
The Progressive Fanner, ia a
strune editorial, points out how
haphazard it is Lo seli cotton in-1
dividuully and how impossible it j
is for the individual grower to
aiarkct cotton at a profit, further.,
it defines cl?*arly the benefits ofl
co-operative marketing ami urges
tlir members of the cotton co-oper
aiive assm-iai ions and all growers
to support, the various co operatives
in the South now organized for
marketing cotton.
The editorial follows:
"A few members of the co
operative cotton marketing as
aoci.ition arc complaining tli.it
tl?c.\ ecjuld have sold their cotton
for mme money. This will alwajs
be the case. fho man who assumes
that he would have sold his cot
ton at the top of ?ho market will
always lit aide to figure out how
ho would iiave clone better outside
the mm k tin?: associate n. Hut he
??ems to turret that he has only
?ne chance out of about twenty
five to sell at. the top price. Only
% per cent sell at the top prices.
This is because the man has not
jet been born who knows when to
?c 11 cotton.
If the member of t ho co-oper
ative who thinks lie knows when
to sell cotton and would have sold
?t iho top price really knew bow
to do that ho would not long con
tinue in the hard business of pro
ducing cotton, lie would make his
millions in a year or two and have|
no need for fanning, or the co
operative marketing association,
and could "live happily ever
after."
The basic or fundameutalprinci
paf of co-operative marketing of
rotton is orderly marketing, which
means selling cotton all the time
or every month in the year, be
cause cwtloH is used every month
4? the year. The co-operatives will
not, should not, and cannot sell
their cotton all at one time or at
the top price. They will uol and
cannot sell at the top price, be
cause uo one can do that, for no
one knows tho top price. They
should not attempt to sell all their
rotton at ono time at auy price,
for the chances are they would not
get tho top price if they did at
tempt to sell it, and many times
would sell for less than they now
get by selling all the time and
getting the average price, iiy sell
ing orderly and refusing to dump
their cotton and forcing prices
<k>? u, they get a better average
price than under the old dumping
system.
The co-operatives will never get
the top price for all their cotton.
They will get better than average
??rices by the old methods of sell
ing, but no one who has the slight
est. knowledge of the principles of
co-operative commodity market
ing of cotton will expect these
associations to ever get the top
ixice. On the other hand, they
-will never get the lowest price.
They will simply get a better
average price for their members
tban is obtained by farmers who
market in the old way.
(t is, therefore, rank nonsense
for any member of co-operative
marketing association to complain
that he lost $10, or $15, or any
other amount per bale, by market
j?g his cotton through the co
operative. He can with the same
lack of reason, olaim that he has
lost money every year he tailed to
ret the top price when ho was not
a member of a ce operative.
Hut he can claim with the best
of reason that in a term of years
bs has and will continue to get
throagh the cooperative a better
avrvag? price than those outside
lbs association who dump their
rotton on the market io the fall
sr daring three or four months.
*Ten last year th?se wbe sold
their cotton early aud those who
sold ii late ^ot less than the aver
age and less than received by i
uietn bers of t lie co-operatives.
'1 be average man outside the
association cannot sell his cotton |
for the top price and those inside,
have no reason to assume that
they could or would have done so.
The average man who i? not a
member of a co-operative must
sell cotton when he is told to do so,
by those he owes He is usually
forced to sell cotton when it is
going down and therefore seldom
gets even the average price.
Why do the co-operative as
sociation!* pay their members more
than the average price? Why do
the member* of these associations
gets more one year with one
another than those who sell in ihe
old way?
First, as shown by the report
of the Federal Trade Commission
it costs the co-operatives less to
market cotton than it does the
merchant, or broker under the old
system.
Second, the member of the co-J
operative gets paid for the actual
grade of his cotton, while the man
who sells from the wagon in the
old way gels paid for at least one
grade lower than his cotton actual
ly is.
Third, there is lesa country
damage, warehouse charges aie
less, his cotton is better insured,
the co-opeiatives pay a lower rate
of interest than the individual
merchant, and the member of tiio
co operative instead ot the mer
chant, is paid the rebate in freight
on cotton which is compressed or
stored in trausit.
Fourth, the member of a co
operative and not the merchant
gets the money which the samples
and loose cotton bring when sold.
There are other reasons but these
ought to be enough.
The Federal Trade Commission
after a thorough and impartial in
vestigation, declares that the co
operatives pay their members
more than the large merchants
pay the country merchants or
local buyers who buy the cotton
from the farmers. This being true,
it goes without saying ihat the
oo-operat ives must pay their
members more than the local
buyers pay uon-members.
The member of a cotton co
operative marketing association
who claims that lie has lost
mouey by marketing his cotton
through his association is simply
fooling himself or allowing the
enemies of co-operative marketing
to fool him. The only escape from
this is for him to assume that, he
could or would market his cotton
for top or near top prices, and in
such case he is still fooling him
self, for no man knows when to
market cotton.
The only safe and sane plan is
to market it at all times, because
cotton is used at all times."?!
Editorial From Progressive Farm
er.
WHOM SHALL WE HELP?
Within the recent months the'
increase in appeals for aid has
been noticeable to a great degree.
With each succeeding appeal there
arises the question of doing the
person a teal service and raising
him to a higher plane, or is it just
passing him on to another juos
pect ive helper.
There is a gieat pleasure in
giviug a man the helping hand
when be needs it sorely. All down
and out with no friend near, no
money in t ho purse and no gas in
the tank and no place to lay or
eat-what joy it is to take him to
heart and give a lift. Such aid is
not to fall short in the reward to
Ihe faitbtul in that place where
all shall be judged according to
the deeds done in the body. The
heart of a man untouched by ap
peals of the needy is hardened to
ail that is high in life's experiem e.
While there are many worthy
one* that come to onr town, or
rather pass on to other places,
who have been unfortunate or
disappointed in some way that wo
are unable to know, yet doubtless
some who make oalls on our
generosity arc not of the genuine
type for consideration in a friend
ly manner. J ust a won! of question
iaf will usually be sufticitnt to
find out whether one is being im
posed upon or not. Is it not well
to ask Nomething record of
persons approclnug osf J want to
state two axioms from the ex
perience of charity workers every
where: No person is better by Hiv
ing to ono whom be afterward
finds to be a fakir, or graft or un
worthy, any person aided for as
ninny as three times when he could
produce his own livelihood is not
far from beggary or pauperism.
Therefore let us pool our charity
into some one resposible in char
acter to help the needy and send
away the unworthy. X
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Cow, brown on bank. Finder
please notify K. M. Johnson, Fer
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