TH3 LUMBER'S POSITION IN -HIS" COOPERATIVE
ASSOCIATION Cont. from page 2
The preceding remarks are taken from the
"Membership Relations of Cooperative’
Associations” and was written by Ji.W.Jones
In comparing these ideas with our own
Association we find that this Cooperative
is one of the stock type of small invest*
merit. ’ The individual manbers have only a
$5. investment insofar as stock certifi
cates 'are concerned. The real investment
that the members have is in patronage.All
members who patronise' the local coopera
tive have an Equity in the Association.
In casts'where the patronage is large,
these Certificates of Equity amount to a
great deal'/' The 'amount of this patronage
does not influence the vote—in fact many
may hold large amounts in Certificates of
Equity’arid have no vote at all. This is
due to 'tiie fact that we have a joint
Consumer’s and Producer’s Cooperative and'
as many of the Consumer’s arc not farmers,
they have' no part in the Producer’s part
of the Association. There is no reagon ...
why they should' have a vote in. the farmers'
affairs even though they might like to
have'something to say about the Consumer
part.
The most important thing about'the whole
set —up, however, is-Does each member
realise that in supporting his association
he is protecting his own investment. It
isri’t "that $5.00' investment (which many
hardly realizo they havo) but the amount
represented on thoso Certificates of
Ecuity. For somo-theso amount s'run well
up into the hundreds of dollars.That amour.'
is just as much your investment as if you
had taken'it out ,of your pocket and loaned
it to your Association. If the Associa
tion spcc'cd^G,' i^ is returned to you at
the end of a'ten’year period; if it fails,
you will lose it.
The risk in a Cooperative Association lies
with the members and not with the Officrrs'
or something that is apart from themselves,
T.T. Jones says that—"Members of a co
operative Association are perfectly will
ing to have someone else assume.the risk
ihherent in the 'capital structure of any
organisation, and are even willing to .
avoid the risks attendant in marketing.The
attitude of the member toward the cooper
ative too often is not'that of a willing
contributor ;of capital, but of a .seller of
commodities who wishes to place the maxi
mum risX upon the Association with tho
minimum upon himself. Too often the man
agement acqui'escos in that viom."
"Loyalty, basexj-on understanding, enables
the r:--moors—who aro the owners—i}o work
out the nroblcrijs facing thb Association; or
to employ individuals who cun assist in'
analysing conditions responsible for its
limited success."
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Immediate "Possession;, no-: house, shed,
well pump, on 80 acres timber land.
Cleared garden spot. $3000,00
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160 acres, 33 acres cleared, 7 rra.hcuso,
furnished; running rater. Bam, 'Same
hay and grain. Chicken house,35rohickans
'"ell houco, Tractor, Machinery. .3 miles
out of Palmer $10,000.00
JOB MIMEOGRAPH TTOHS Yes, wo do a little. ■,
Job work on the side in 'the Settler
Office. "o haven't advertised ..the fnqt- ..-~4
:'bOdnus^ there;is $ot nxuch;t 'imo in rhidh )
• tp ,db this;, bijt re do take' the- work whom , j
someone vault's'something donb. Eric os on
this work may bo obtained by inquiring
at the Settlor Office.