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1VUY COOPERATIVE? \
Sui’prir Ln^ as it may be. the:”0. i
are many people who be.on.ji to Coop- ;
eratives wbo don't know what th<- i
principles of su i •essOui c . operation]
are. The beat description ji Coop -
eration t) at 'as knew. i3 i>.{ med oy i
spying-, that •' it is people u . km^
together for thei*. t.tu? 1 interests’-1!
Americans have bee parsed Uiidcv* ■
a system ex' irdiv 1
that ma le there ma^ ocY.. : no r,-* if -!
suppor t in* du’ arc e s t or s mov ed
westward into new 1 rentiers constant
ly fox1 vac hundred rra s where .and [
and nature', rest nces were t: be
potter .for the ask ,nt . The deve..op-j
ment cf our country has been awe i
inspiring a id we still have the men
and women -vho '.an io these thxn&s
but the o' '. frontier <?a’<3 ace Oone
f oreve r
When cv.n ^ioneevs finally spann
ed the continent from the Atlantic
to the Fucific., there was no Longer
any more free land to be love j oped
and a nav spot era became neescarp to
meet the tnatv-ed oendit" ons . True,
many cf our .it'”-us still v.ere
able to aoc.ur.ulete 'vea.tb. and in
some 5.nsts’ nu even n»ox a easil y ;
than in the p1 onc-.v sta^e, out a :
lar^e section of etc oiti: o.u-y now ■
found themselves with . ot epportun
ity to advance or ever, in many
cases, auJe to maintain a standard
of livin- that offered the ordinary
comforts of jife, i\a tux ally the
people wore disturbed, and various j
movements were started ro end or re-^
form the system that had come to the*
end of it's usefulness. Unions
were formod by industrial workers
that have helped improve their lot..
Fnrmers formed organizations that
tried to adjust conditions for
their benefit but the oid spirit
of ' ru,ioed individualism” was so
s,cT’on0 that they were unable to
cooperate successfully, so that
not much Oooci came their effort.
?opv ' ‘.sr.. and r cate Socialism were
tried but failed, ana even a hi^h
tariff waij proved to be ineffect
ive as a remedy.
Ultimately the Cooperative was
tried one n^ter many failures, it
was fou! d that it would work in the
struc t are a 1:: c.•1 y built that it
would net be necessary to tear the
chr.n^s .’own that were already form
ed, ano that had worked success
fully w: mm ccrte.en limits Coop
ei ativt - were not new iit any sense
of the word bn when they were
: nt’-edu'' ~ S xntc u/ • o^ini r..nd
e* orotic syso.m, the usual try of
react!.'.idries and cense/ natives,
tiiat it was a Radicle, J^vement, was
neavd ">n a '. side , and many farm
ers who were hidebound politically,
joined m the reaction against the
the very movement ‘ha" was to
n^ovc to be then best Inend.
From a ve. y smil l be..inntn. the
Ccope •. ative ■ : nave own to be one
of erv lar.-.ert and most important
..roups j.n oh.c stonruic system. All
of this has beer accomplished in
suite or the opposition of mast of
our big imantiors and politicians.
The *e nave been times when it was
actually dangerous to be known as a
member oi _n sympathy with the
Cooperatives, hev.over, this has
beer, largel, overcome and a differ
ent method 13 used. Distorted
pne33 rtatemencs are published by
editors unfTv ondly to the Coopera
tives, but nearly always camouflag
ed by professions of f r j er.ds.hlp for
the movement Greedy individuals
posin6 r.s puoiic spirit ed persons,
start whispering sampai0ns against
officials and members of the Coop
eratives, cry ire-, to alienate the
individual members from the organ
ization, Beware this WOLF in
sheep's elothinfe.