THE PEOPLES' BUSINESS
Cont. from pago 2
or else'tax'oursc1vos enough to pay off
$15,000,000,000 or $20,000,000,000 of our
national debt every year.
Apparently this generation is so mad about
getting temporarily rich that no are Hill
ing to placo our children in terrible
joopardy so no can enjoy a falso inflation
ary "prosperity." Present "prosperity"
is false and upsound because tho buying
ponor of the American people is not keep
* ing up nith the rise in prices; It con
tinues only because of exports, military
expenditures, unhealthy increases in money
supply—and bo cause no are leaving our
debt for our children to pay* They might
noil ask nhat no would have done in 1929
if no had had a $250,000,000,000 national
debt on our hands when the collapse hit us
Thero is one remedy the poople themselves
can apply. It is to build cooperatives
big enough and strong enough so thay can:
(1) bring down prices to sound lovols by
their competition;
(2) keep the people’s buying power equal •
with production by paying paying patronage
refunds;
(3) moke themselves independent of outside
financing*
Cooperatives which do 15$ to 20$ of a
given line of business can accomplish
these aims*
First step in applying thi3 remedy is in
vestment in cooperatives (including of
course credit unions) of every dollar we
the people have to invest. If this woro
done, the cooperatives could bo ready for
the great service they must rondor when •
the down turn comes.
Out in California the Cooperative Finance
Association has recently been organized;
Anyone con invest in its 3$ or 4$ notes.
It will make loans to cooperatives for*
necessary purpose, including expansion.
Such institutions in ovory region linked
with an active National Cooperative Finan
ce Association offer, even today, a road
to financial indopondonco’for people and
for the people’s business.
Fro$ the Pacific Northwest Cooporator.
Laundress*. ”Ay ban sorry Ay couldntt coomb
yesterday, Missus Yohr.son, but Ay hod r
sooeh a pain.”
Mrs. Johnson: ”What uas•it, dyspepsia?”
Laundress: ”Vcll, r:a!on, it muss ben soom
. ting Ay oat. Da doctor call it acuto in
discretion. ”
”Are you the young man uho jumped in the
river and saved my son from drouning uhon
he fell through the ice?”
'■Yes* Ma’am.”
V!jherofs his mittens?”
PAL MUR
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