.WHERE ARE CO-OPS HEADED?
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and did not havo the money to adv
-vance the full market price for the
produce available. The loyal mem
bers of this cooperative peddled
their roduce to the highest bidder
and left their cooperative high and
dry, with half the previous year’s
volume, and no appreciable decrease
in overhead expense. The result is
a large deficit and the possibility
of liquidation.
These producers needed their cooper
ative to essuro themselves of a
square deal but they were not pre
pared to put up the required capita],
They will likely lose annually, as
individuals, as much as their coop
erative needed to, make it strong.
u.s long as cooperators are not pre
pared to back their cooperatives
v/ith their money, they are wasting
their time organizing—and wasting
the tin^ of bther people in trying
to make them work.
ft'aybe there was a time when a busi
ness could be started on a shoostrin
but in those modern days, it takes
money to make a business operate ef
ficiently and profitably.
Froducers should take stock of their
present setup and make sure that
their cooperatives are propezrly
finaneed now. Next year may bo too
late, ftlaybo producers need to go
back to the old days for a year or
two. ITaybe they have forgotten how
things V7i.ru, before they had thoir
cooperatives.
Faybe the younger producers of today
n.jed to surfer as the last genera
tion did. They certainly will Suf
fer, if they don't do something aboul
their cooperatives, and soon.
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iroucle awaits the farmers in 1950, be the Brannan Plan successful, or
be it a flop. The farmer's take in 1950 will be less than it was in
1949, unless farriers as per past record increase production on reduced
acreage.
All that talk about free enterprise on the farn or anywhere else is most
ly hollow mockery, a little bit of it is true but just how much--figure
it out for yourself, -and all that talk about the lav; of supply and de
mand, though it may pour out of the consecrated mouth of a president, is
pure balderdash. Supply is supply only when it is demand also, and de
mand is demand only when it is supply also, the two words in this case
being interchangeable as you may become convinced if you will study the
economists, Ayers ana Chase, or at least peep into the hoary old Encyclo
pedia Britennica. It is not a law, says ^.yers, it is a tautology,which
means that it is an unnecessary word repetition. If professors of this
so called lav; spoke to me of human greed, I could understand.
^j?d now comes the buxom parity maid. Have you seen her? Every farm polit
ico pours it on you, than looks important, waiting to see if you were
really impressed. Parity means equality. Presumably the word' equality
was not adoped in this case because it would be more easily understood.
-—C-ont. ...on pag.e_6_i_