Mr. George A. Norwood, president of the Co-operative Tobacco Growers Association of North and South Carolina and Virginia, yesterday gave the Goldsboro News the following statement:
To The Editor of The Goldsboro News:
Not a tobacco man in Wilson will say over his own name that in his opinion the Burley Association was not a cause of better prices being paid to all growers of burley tobacco this year. Why do they quibble over who got the best prices?
Goldsboro, May 22, 1922
G.A. Norwood
This brings the controversy about prices of the burley tobacco which has been sold in Kentucky since January last to a head. It is a put up or shut up proposition.
As a matter of fact, all responsible statements that have been made show that the farmers who joined the Association and sold their tobacco through it did get much better prices than those who stayed out and sold by auction in the old way. To such official statements as that by the commission of Agriculture of Kentucky and Dean Cooper of the Agricultural College of Kentucky, letters by the dozen, written by men unknown and without responsibility, have been circulated saying everything from the charge that the Association was a failure and its members disgusted to insinuations that the officers had stolen the crop.
The contention of the Association is that not only did their members get more this year for their tobacco than those who sold at auction, but that the result of the fact that a large pr cent of the tobacco was in the pool was the life of the price of the whole crop, wherever and however sold.
This is what Mr. Norwood challenges any responsible man to say over his own signature to be not true.
Come in, gentlemen, that water’s fine.
Here’s your chance to call off the bushwackers and make a frontal attack upon the position.
From the front page of The Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, May 23, 1922
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