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Show I O The Inter-Mounta- 1336 Economic Freedom in COOPERATOR Thru Cooperation Public Opinion Company, Publishers Entered aa muter at the Poet Office at mcooH-cU- m Balt Lake( Utah.Apr. 26. 19)2. under the Act of Hare S. 1879. It Can be Done! Have 1 HERE'S HOW TO DO IT. ! GROWTH OF iipmsecmimieichurchMEN The Editorial Cooperative movement Japan has enjoyed great growth under its able leader Dr. - AND FOLLOW OP GOOFS IN U STUDY S. Worlds Example of Cooperation STARTING A CONSUMERS COOPERATIVE IT CAN ASSOCIATION ...This is not an exhaustive answer to the question: "How ram we start a cooperative Bociety 7" It is to make clear to Cooperative Board simply inquirers that the State intended to anticipate some early difficulties and prepared to advise and help those who may wish to start a society. The exsuggestions herein presented are the fruit of practical perience; and it is hoped that a careful perusal of them will remove many misconceptions and prevent needless disappointment. Existing Societies It should be noted that wherever there is a cooperative society able and willing to open a branch, this course is preferable to that of starting an absolutely new society. Assuming however, that there is no society near enough to open a branch, these notes should afford all the guidance necessary to ensure a satisfactory start. Self-Hel- p Cooperative Knowledge It is practically certain that; in the first instance, the confined to two idea of starting a cooperative society will be or three individuals. These friends, while perhaps enthusiastic enough, may not be well acquainted with the principles and practice of cooperation; and therefore their best plan at the outset will be to apply to the Utah Cooperative Wholesale, 175 W. 3rd South, Sait Lake City, Utah. The First Group of Members While the few are busy absorbing knowledge of the cooperative movement, they will naturally proceed to make converts among their friends ; until, in course of time, the group is large enough to form the nucleus of a cooperative society. This group should meet frequently and regularly to study and discuss the constitution and history of the cooperative movement, as well as the application of cooperative ' principles to local needs. The basic course in cooperation preCooperative Board is a good pared by the State Self-Hecourse to start with. Education Fund' A voluntary fund will need to be raised in order to pro- -' for ;the- nurrhgae of the books, pamphlets, andv leaflets required for study and distribution. A sufficiently leaflets for free distribution large supply of can be obtained for a very small amount of money. lp . 1 -- - well-writt- en Provisional Committee A committee of eight or ten members should be formed to carry out the preliminary organization of the society, under the State Cooperative Board. The secretary, who should be a man or woman with some clerical ability, will nerd to possess a spirit of enthusiasm which will not be daunted by ridicule, obstruction, or even opposition. The first business of the provisional committee will be to get into communication with the Educational Department of p the State Cooperative Board, Room 300. State Capitol Bldg, which will be ready to render all possible asSelf-He- lp Self-Hel- sistance. The First Step be as well to point out that the organizer should expect some little time to elapse before they can hope to establish a society. This remark is not made with any desire to quench enthusiasm, but rather to prevent disappointment for those who are unwilling to face reasonable difficulties. Approaching the idea of a cooperative society without cooperative experience, many people get the impression that a society can be started in a very short space of time; and although this may not be impossible in some cases, under very favorable conditions, it is best to anticipate some delay rather than raise false hopes leading to dissatisfaction. It may be taken for granted that in most cases a lot of spadework will have to be done before the society is finally established. Fifty Years Ago and Now Today, starting a cooperative society is not so simple a matter as it would seem to have been fifty years ago, when people were willing to put up with preat inconvenience in order to achieve their object. The days when young societies were content to deal in a few articles, and only opened their modest store for an hour or two in the evenings, the mom- bers handling their goods themselves, seem to have gone never to return. The desire now is to make a start on a big-gscale, and consequently much more preparation needs to be made. Sometimes, for example, the collection of what today is really a small amount of share capital, say $2500.00 involves very much more patient labour than many would at first imagine. Given sufficient local interest, however, it is easy for a society to get properly started. Thus, we have today what our forefathers kicked an efficient organization which, through its Educational Department and other agencies, is. always ready to offer guidance and help, free of any cost, to' the organizers of approved type cooperative societies. Membership Steeped in the competitive ideas of the past century or so, we find it difficult to realize the difference between coop erative trading and ordinary business; but it is essential to grasp the fact that a cooperative Bccicty is not an experiment in profitseeking. The aim of a cooperative society is to supply its members with the necessaries of fife in Ruch a way as entirely to eliminate profit, which is the primary motive of competitive trade. It will be seen, therefore, that the first necessity for a successful society is a sufficient number of members, seeing that the society exists for the members and not for any Yet there is no arbitrary figure, for we have in this country societies which have proved successful with a membership of less than 100, while there are now several societies with more than 90,000 members in Great Britain. The Collection of Share Capital When the principles of cooperation are thoroughly un- - It may perhaps er profit-makin- g. ((Yniinueii on page four) Fourum Meeting After nine months operation the Racine Consumers Cooperative will pay a handsome rebate to its members of S3204. These people are bnilding a future security all their own. They did a volume of business of in nine months 338.000 py People's Practical Govern- The Public Forum at City ment. There'll be music anil and County Bldg Sunday night special talks by Mr. Alder and offers a very good Program, Mr. Keen Polk. All welcome. BEjDOXE, Kawoga. The Cooperative movement embraces over40Z of the population in its membership There arc 15,000 credit Unions, or Cooperative banka. The Dootor is credited with having founded the Farmers' Union in that country and with having a leading part in the formation of the Japanese Fed era' ion of Labor. All Progressive nations have strong Cooperative movements in them. In the United State Consumers Cooperatives are springing up everywhere. The leaders in Utah will soon wake up and we will lead all others, Study the movement in this paper which is now The Cooperator. BROTHER, IT CAN BE DONE For your own? good read and study this editorial wherein the editor tells, n plain and simple language, about one of the worlds most perfect examples of Cooperation. It shows how govemmett may be perfected, how men may be perfectly united to work solely for the common good, and how poor, homely human beings may become aa great and as perfect as it s possible to become in this life. It proves that what many call the impossible may become possible. It can be done, brother, but only through Cooperation. I oper- Go Back 2500 ation. This is a rebate to mem- Yean No great life that we know of comes nearer to the perfection of Jesus than that of Pecicles who lived 2500 years ago, an who, for thirty-on- e years was the first c'tizen of Athens, the sun around- which gathered the finest array of genius and talent ever known. No government, no age was ever brought nearer to perfection than was the government and age of Pericles, the ancient and noble Greek. No other group has ever wrought so wonderfully well and so grandly successful as these. No other place, save it be Bethlehem, inhas ever given" mankind such a lasting and little names as deathless such dozen and a fluence for good Greece gave so long ago. All because one man knew how to insp're his fellows, draw them together and unite them in a Cooperative bond to build the worlds finest highway to the ultimates oT truth, beauty and harmony. True, Pericles was an idealist.'but remember, he was also a very practical man who worked with common clay, common Btone and common men. bers of 9.2 per cent. They are a so operating a Credit Union gasolene station and a restaurant. These people take care of their members loans through their p bank. In keeping with the cooperative spirit they have paid labor a high wage. Manager Hath, reports; during the 9 months 350.000 has been paid in wages which are highest of its kind in America. co-o- far-flu- Inter-Mounta- Denham, Minn.. Our Coop sales for Nov. were 3,591'. 9 5 as in ng BRITISH COOP PARTY COOPERATE Forty-fiv- e church leaders New Haven, 'appeal to of Presi- - ' dent Roosevelt; "We urge you to take drastic steps in cooperation, to ape that the standard of living of all people rise to the made level possible through socializing on potential resources. This improvement involres transferring the distribution of the necessities of fife, aa well as other consumption goods, to the cooperatives. This would do away with the dole. Pi. would actually earn what they consume. This would be a happy solution of our economic ills. The Novcinlwr election gave nine more delegates in Parliament to the Cooperative Party. It also increased its seats in the House of Commons from 61 to 150. The Lalr Party and Cooperative Party are in conjunction and scored the largest popu lar vote in its history, 8,200,000 as compared with the Conservatives 10,300,000. The Cooperative party was formed during - Out of the Primitive It is gratifying to know that-- ' the churches through the land arc taking active part in develConsumers' Coopers- -, oping tion Know ye not when ye are in the service of your fellow Out of the p imitive wilderness of life, in a barbaric age where for ignorant and slavery held sway, without the susthe same against 31,090.10 and inspiring influence of religion as we know it, taining beings, ye are only in the servmonth in 1934. The rise was Pericles gaiher-- d his people about him, united them, taught creatr.g-worrkharmoning ice of your God. We hope it to 136.37 per cent. We will soon them to woriC end set them and fiva vocations and all in discovering professions, iously, will not be long until all church be a big store. t. nhere it was thought non existed mak-tidin' briogjng, 4 i.TrinarTo'pretect VElil ne set 7 Iron Belt, Wis. Manager ing opportunities where none haif been ttiov-'npseci crest of the Conpera live movethe land humming with industry in a hundred lines. Out of ment has ice of and doctrine the Master the recently grown Hendrickson reports: Our Nov. ignorance and in the midst of slavery, he led them to an hand walk and He made rapidly. 'idealism TlicConix'rativj Party "Thcrforc all things whatsoever uncqunlcd. utility beauty sales were 342,006.93 for the hand Bntillhe ,.lttlr bcc,me n passion. lie glorified the lias a reeiprocal agri cnient with fiscal year wa reported by the city with a deathless beauty. lie built theatres, temples tin1 Labor Party, by which they ye would that men should do ver seen, do not and public buildings more beautiful than any but rather sup- to you, do ye even so unto them: comp'-imanager at theannual member- their ruins, after the lapse of twenty-fiv- e centuries, still beeach other in the running f.-port this is the law and the pro- ship meet ing of the Farmers Co- ing the charm and the marvel of the civilized word. He and of candidates. Six of tin nine those working wilh him built up a literature, a philosophy, op Trailing Co. This figure is an art, a form of oratory, a style of poetry, an architecture candidates were from London plli'tS. distiict. A total of 20 candida-lesta310,956, 77 larger than a year which the world has ever since held up as examples of p. Brigham Young, once said to They made ami carried on the first and greatest eleven being defeated. A of 34.52 gain ago. per cent. civilization of Europe, which directly or indirectly, has in'I his is the kind of an arran-g- i his people, Unles we an unitThe gross earnings was 12.66 fluenced every soul on earth from that day to this. They men two need in U. S. to ed iu temporal things, ns we are proved beyond the peradventure of doubt that the perfect 9.30 total state and the perfect race of men can be created by the bring uliniil that economic de- united in spiritual, we shall not percent, expense will and work of a determined people with proper mocracy we so much need. united and a stock turnover 6.63 times. redeem Zion. Again the coop leadership. Why spend years developing The 31,954,35 net saving will some thing new only to wake erative principles are stepping ' Pericles Stands Alone be returned to the consumers up and find it has been in ope- stones to the United Order. Among all the worlds statesmen Pericles stands alone. ration for a hundred years anil as a 4 per cent rebate on pur- He once remarked that during the 31 years of his ascendyou wen asleep and dident Churches could he a big factchases and 5 per cent interest ancy he never caused a single citizen to wear crepe, Peace know it. Read, Conthe study at home was a passion. Work was a pleasure.The joy of or in bringing about Cooperaon share capital. creating was supreme. He spent less money in glorifying sumers Cooperative at home, his city and building his great civilization than Italy has Utah, in the Nation and abroad. tive Dcmocrarv. Robbing, Minn.; The Coop-stor- e spent in its Ethiopian campaign. Ilis achievements have never been paralleled. Had those coming after him kept to of this place made a 31 his policies and walked in the paths he blazed the whole increase in volume. course of history would have been changed for the bi tter Every where in the L'nited and we might long, ago have had the universal Golden Age of Man. A noted wrirter has said : To the Greece of PeriPlates, as well as abroad, we cles we go for consolation, and in her armless and headless see this rapid growth in consu- - marble we see the perfect type of what men and women yet may be. What an inspiration! What a lesson fo the .mors cooperation, statesmen of all nations! As long as the people were united, We invite the good people of as long as they they remained strong, virile, SPECIALS FOR SATURDAY. JAN. 1ITH happy supreme and unconqucred. But when they permitted Utah, to investigate the Roch- greed to possess them, they began to go down, and down dale Cooperative principles, they went on the long trnii to oblivion, perishing, never to rise again. Fut what Pericles had done could never entirely that have been a real boom to perish. The memory of it is one of the priceless possessions Corn Beef, Libbys ... 17c of the race. the consumers. tot, . n 3 tiliii. 25c the lxlnml . Cr--. optrit . , r n, CONSUMERS COOPERATIVE! line .V"-:- not every- - Surely we have progressive 'when, u well ns niigiir pimiru- tlmis mi (lie (V'iMmI pin lux anil tin people ill I tall who can lirlp.nmre Infrequent lxlnml InwIiiniN. t lienisel es out of t lie slough the long oppression hove suffer i I from eentiiriex of xnll of fmxlnii, with resiil'ant lniutlnmiit of rlln ii'iwy. ISi'fureslulliin. fun-a- nt Hint irrwiiii. nii'ii nri- -. and need. We have litera(iir'l,i:"'ns( '"il ,r"imi will lip tnniii r S'i'.'J.um. to the tilin Must nf written on the Consumers Co-.'ttl- H 1ivilil Wllsll(Il IK:iy from in rue Hre.ix, nmi ninny (.r operative that is available Imi. to, ''i1'1 w,,re n,,t cm were any one interested in economic liv liii'Tii'lilii'x linxe of ieinni'i democracy. It is non religious; llw ,llk 1!r.. llv(s , non political, a real democratic, cm-h- hk well s Hie mere nxvm movement of the consumers k"ni' whlrh wrriikiil sill'll jalong tlie Klnriilnn shores, which inc'udesa.l persons. farmPr wlll AMlh,r 1 hone Ily. 4S49 or Was.i458be the ruml elect rlflcnt Inn project. . it tiny cnnnterpnrt of similar proj dw,r 10 th hpart r h iMta . Announcement fr- mix, luw, ngrleiiltiire anil the ine' chiinlc arts, ami the uni- verxity high school. It lx kmmn for Its line work In tropini! medicine, troph'ii! agriculture anil Spanish ami Kngllxh lmiguiigex. (irnilinilcil from lix ehixsex are many of the lenders of Ixlnnil life anil. In fact, through- iiimiy irnniiiieiil pcrxoiiit out Snitiixh America The I'liliA administration wishes to uitiiln a permanent status, lint xo far lias not lieen aide to secure I lie iiieexxiiry iiiimval from Wash- the I'KltA iugteii. Ordinarily fiimlx are endorsed only up to June, IIB7, lint during the last aesslon of emigres a hill was inlnslueeil by wldcb the funda nf IMiltA might he extended three years past that dale. It didn't paia. WMtsra t; officiating priest asked for a ring and a pair of operative Society. Theaiinu- - slnrea preferably red, with three ,, nw"esr ,n Khem- - ,,ut' al for the elee meeting . l,n tne glovea Into the gromn'a tioti of Directors will lie niKl rlcht hand, he Joined this with the at the Store, 590 Enst 2Iel So. (right hniid of the bride, and then. the clasped hand, he left Monday, January 20, 1936, id parting the glovea In the gipsp of the bride. 7:30 p.m. The most exis'i dve of gloves women can buy are cheap compared Frank O. Green, Pres. wor" "f wl,! D.Hav Stone, Secretary. trank 2H0 years sgoj At the esrl of Arran's sale. In ITI, a pair given lT 8 t. ) , j j t a 3 J j j ) Corn, Standard for 2 for .. Tuna, Salmon, Tall Pink Snowdrift, 3 lbs for Raisins, 15oz Seedless Chilli Concarne 3 for Dlnamite Bisquick, large pkg Beans, Barns cut, 3 for. Macaroni and Spaghetti, 2 lbs Tomatoes, lrgcan,3for Spinach, Texas 3 lbs Oranges, large Potatoes, Idaho 10 lbs .. 23c 11c 57c 6c 25c 19c 30c 29c 17c 25c .19c .19c 11c MEAT DEPT KnwiHr Hals. by King Henry VIII to ftlr Anthony lenny were bought for 22. And a pair of mitten fetched 23, They are said to be preserved In an Irish collection and to be among the old-- . est gloves In the world. Hill long before then, men and women were wearing glovea. A Creek hla'orlan tells of a contemporary who put on his gloves before sitting down to a meal so that he could tear hla meat to pieces while It was still too hot for his guests to tackle. ; ijo - Notire is hereby given to the 'hen the members of the Consumer sCo - h the groom I pnrt of which will be furnished in I Pork Roast, Shld lb. Boneless Pot Roast, lb. Pork Steak, lb Shortening, lb pkg Bacon, Swifts Prem, 1- 2 lb WE DELIVER HY. 4849 590 EAST 21st SOUTH SL 19c ..15c 22c 13c 21c |