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Show Farmers' Educational (IT and Co-Operative Union of America Marten Especial Moment to I I the Progreuive Agriculturist Loyalty is the backbone of co-operation. You scratch my back, I'll scratch your back. Community service is the greatest co-operatioa. Co-operation founded on hate and greed will not succeed. The day of the gabfest must give way to the day of service. Nihilistic railing against successful business will pay you no profit. Make your community prosperous if you would succeed yourself. Is your co-operation proposed mainly main-ly to give a job to the proposer? Co-operations should incorporate, and corporations should co-operate. Dare to do right, dare to be true, the failings of others, can never help you. Farm surveys show that the families fami-lies living on their own farms generally gener-ally consume more food per year than do families living on rented farms. The rental value of the farmhouse to the average American family is estimated es-timated at about $125 per year. If by co-operation you mean the substitution of your own selfish interest inter-est for that of someone else, it matters mat-ters little whether your project is cooperative co-operative or Individual. No American considers he is doing his duty unless he is worrying the life out of three or four people. Solomon, who married a thousand women, was not as wise as the poor old fool who married a million. About all school can do for a boy is to teach him to read and write. Anything Any-thing else he learns must be acquired by contact with the world. A fair exchange is no robbery. It Is usually a riot. Unfortunately the stubborn man never takes time to count the scars on a vicious mule. |