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CO-OP LEADERS STRESS FREE
ENTERPRISE
Emphasis on the business nature of farm
cooperatives and their established position
in the American free enterprise system was
a keynote of state farm cooperative council
conventions last month' in Oregon, Idaho and
Washington. *
Messages along’this line were given by Dr.
Karl D. Butler, Washington, D.C., president
of the American Institute of Cooperation,
and by Judge Lyman S. Hulbert, office of
the solicitor, U*S. Dept, of Agriculture.
Dr. Butler said, ’’Firmer cooperatives are
here.to stay as part of our capitalistic
society. Some of the detailed rules and
regulations may be challenged, whibh we
welcome? and some of them modified, bub I
am confident that they will never be'changed
to the extent that cooperatives'will be
permanently'crippled if farmers, other
businessmen, leaders of industry and govern
ment, study the problem thoughtfully with
mutual respect for the place of each in ov.r
capitalistic society.”
Judgd Hulber urged cooperatives .to. "net,
talk, write-and live in the community as
though they are a part of the free enter
prise system. Too many cooperatives are
using terms which seem to set them apart
from other business institutions.”
His definition of a cooperative: "An agri
cultural cooperative is an organisation of
capitalists functioning on a cooperative
basis for financial gain or economic advan
tage of its members on a patronage basis.5'
LOST : A TEW ANTI-CO-OP
LEGISLATORS
Cooperatives everywhere were cheered at
seeing the names of some of their most pre
sistent (and powerfulJenemies scratched from
congressional rolls in the iast election.
At the head of this purge list which cre
ated new hope for co-ops and havoc for
NTEA were the names of: Harold Knutson (R
Hinn,), Walter Ploeser, (R-Mo.) Robert A
Grant, (R-Ind.) and Max Schwabe, (R-lfo •). ,
K’utson,Floeser and Grant, not only made
th-ir Anti—cooperative stands clear during
the recent session, but they were in a posi
tion to.do something about it.
Knutson,chairman of the powerful tax-writ
ing House Committee on YTays and Means had
declared his belief that the cooperative
movement would lead the nation to commun
ism.
Added misery for NTEA was the election rf
pro-cooperative men. Pacific N.W,Cooperrr-cr