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Show TT7 Friday. March 8. 1916 UTAH VALLEY NUWS MW Cooperatives--ThU: Big Barbecue, Dance and The fatted" joung beer, (not calf this time because their aint" no prodigals) has been killed, the meat properly tenderized, i)o! Ortons famous orchestra engaged, the hi picture show arranged for, George Hnhhorks flowers for the women stimulated to bloom their colorful best, in fact everything is arranged for .Mount A Lake's first annual party nel Tuesday evening, March 12th. And the membership drive has Ix'en clipping along at a steady pace to the general goal of ".00 members. Just where it stands today is a "military secret." Captains Moroni Jensen and Lawrence rainier of the West teams arent releasing their and East memU-rshias but yet through tlu underground we learn figures is 300 almost in sight. that the goal It's also a seeret who will win the beautiful new table model plastic radio whieh was offered ns a prize to the member of the Association (officers and employees are barred from this contest) wlio brings in the most new memlH-rshipduring the period of the s contest which ends March 9th at midnight. Hut lets get back to the big celebration. Here is the order of events and how to gain admission to them: Tuesday Evening March 12th Moving Picture Show at Sccra at 7 p. ni. Feature: Tatrick the Great" starring Donald OConnor and Patty Ryan, also America the Beautiful in Technicolor. Big Barbecue And Dance 9 p. m. Is Subject of Strong Speech by Congressman Voorhis of Calif. Free Show Tickets! Free liarbecue Tickets! Free Dance Tickets! Picture Sbov; Tuesday Nile (oast Representative Tells Congress How To Get Them: All members of Mount A Lake and other regular patrons of the Association are invited and entitled to go to these events as the guests of the Association. Admittance will be by ticket) Representative Jerry Voorhis, Democrat of California, made a speech last December before the U. S. Congress on The Middle Way to a Better World, that a has attracted great deal of interest throughout the country. The speech is too long to print in full but some pertinent paragraphs are reproduced here said Rep. .Voorhis in part: j CuoiN-rative- only. Memhers: If you havnt your membership card go to Mount A Lake Service Station and get it and you will also he given a statement which when presented at Scera Theater will entitle you, your wife and all your children eighteen years of. age and over to attend the pict ure show, barbecue 13y j : ; Serving of barbecued beef sandwiches with punch will take place in the basement of the amusement hall immediately the picture following show at Scera and will continue during the evening until all are served. Dancing will be going on at the same time in the hall. Guests should go down the back stairway from the amusement hall and return to the amusement hall by the outside front stairway. Flowers for ladies: Each lady present at the dance will be given a beautiful flower through the eourtesy of George Rohboek of Kohbock's Sons, enterprizing Orem florists. Anyone in the Provo area who would like to join the Association may do so through Mount A Lake Service Station No. 2 at 17th West and (enter Streets. Provo (formerly the Viaduct Service Station) Russ Tucker will enroll you. YOU CAN JOIN ASSOCIATION ANY TIME Its better to join before midnight Saturday, .March 9th but you ran join and go to ail the big events as members if you join any time before they take place. J. Morris Bird will be at Scera Theater entrance Tuesday evening at show time, lie will take memberships there from all late comers. Yes, you can go to the show and all the big events. Mount A Lake Garage Speeds Up Repair Work ASSOCIATION COMMITTEES IN CHARGE OF CELEBRATION Operations at Mount A Lakes garage in the building formerly known ns the FisCher Garage will increase their tempo Monday morning. Karl Terry expert mechanic will take over active management of the garage next Monday morning, lie has finished his work with his former employer and will be ready to give full time to the Association from Monday on. Neal Bunnell, returned war veteran, is already on the job. Additional help will be recruited as soon as it is necessary. In the meantime, members of the Association and other patrons should take their cars and implements to the garage for repair and overhauling. The Association's chief purpose is to give the best of service at the lowest cost. While the principle idea is service in this department, the Association does hope to make some savings particularly in the purchase of auto parts so that good service will not only come but some savings refunds as well. New Members Coming In John Stratton, general chairman Reception Committee: All hoard members and their wives as follows : Mr. and Mrs. John B. Stratton; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Weaver, Mr. and Mrs. Moroni Jensen; Mr. and Mrs. Chester Graff ; Mr. and Mrs. C. Maston Wentz; Mr. and Mrs. Arch Fulham ; Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Gordon; Mr. and Mrs. LeGrand Jarman; Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Madsen; Mr. and Mrs. Philo Edwards; Mr. and Mrs. C. Wilford Larsen; Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Watkins; Mr. and Mrs. Samuel II. Blake; Mr. and Mrs. R. and Mr. and Mrs. Charles II. Foulsen. Master of Ceremonies and Chairman of Refreshment Committee is C. Wilford Larson. Also on this committee are Oiester Graff, Arch Pulham and Moroni B. tween having as much as 60 percent of the consumer's dol-- i Iar reach the pockets of the actual producers of a food com-- ; modity instead of having only 3(1 percent of the consumer's the first cooperative store was started in Rochdale, England, in 1844, it was begun by those 28 poverty-stricke- n Englishmen as a means of raising their standards of living. They had tried without success to get Increases in their wages. So they turned to the method of attempting to make those wages go further in the purchase of the food their fam-- ! ilies needl'd. Their experiment proved a success so great a j success that as of today one-- i sixth of the purchases of British consumers are made at their own cooperative stores, one-thir-d of the purchases of Swedish consumers are made at their own cooperative stores, while varying percentages obtain in other countries. The significance of this does not become clear until we realize that the root cause of unemployment and economic distress in modern nations has been the fact that the people have been chronically unable to purchase with their Incomes as much as they could produce with their energy employed on modern methods of production-Therefore- , any method which makes the consumers dollar When retail i ' stretch 10 or 15 percent furthei in the purchase of goods must be a direct contribution to the solution of the basic problem of this modern day, the problem of bringing into balance the peoples power to buy and their power to produce. Clearly this is a matter of the greatest im-portanre. But perhaps a still greater value in the little dingy store in Rochdale and all its suc-- ! cessors down through the years has been the fact that those stores has given to the people I I 1 j Gapp-nuty- er Jensen. Committee on arrangements consists of T. G. Weaver. J. Morris Bird, C. II. loulson and A. V. Watkins. Annual Meeting; Of Mount A Lake This area expects to send a big delegation to the annual membership meeting and its attendant COME GET YOIH TREES Members who have onion'd fruit trees and shrubs should call immediately at the assn store on the Glenn Fischer property to get them. They will be ready for delivery next week. This will take place at 9 :30 p. m., or soon thereafter. The meeting will le short. President Stratton will make a short statement atul then will receive nominations for 15 directors of tlu Association to serve for one year. Voting will be by secret ballot. Voting will be carried on until 11:15 p. m. Meanwhile dancing will carry on while the voting is taking place. The only interruptions in the dancing will be while the nominations are being made. The names of the candidates will lw posted on the blackboard near the ballot box. Members must present membership cards or be otherwise identified, to lie allowed to vote. The vote will lie announced as soon as counted. i I , Mount A Lake Assn i "The Farmers Purchasing Agent. , I (Fald Advertising) t- Ruum: FRESSURE COOKERS! Your Kitchen ( raft Dealer eating oil. They devoted the A. Brewer avings. the difference between the actual cost and going market Now Available. Get Your selling price, to paying off the Before Canning Time so that cost of their laboratory to Rl. 2 Box 28 Oren. Ph. C67RS it might belong debt-fre- e the people themselves. And this margin, the margin between real costs and inflated selling WANTED RABBITS prices, proved enough to pay the entire cost of the laboratory 3 to 5 lbs. 21c per lb. Vernon and all of its equipment in the II. Younger, 1 90S L. Center short space of 9 months- - And St. Phone 175l. lrovo. even more important is the fact that because of this exercise of the basic cooperative KITCHEN CRAFT principle of furnishing the best passible product to the people, a better nil was made available Heavy Aluminum one which increased the life of machinery and added to the wealth, therefore, not only of NOW AVAILABLE the cooperative members, but Shown by Appointment of all of the other people in these communities. Write or Phone 067R5 Provo R. D. 2. Box 28, Orem, Utah Old peat and skill have made RICHARD A. BREWER Kalamazoo, Mich., a noted cel. - Farmers Purchase Tankers One of the best Illustrations of this that I know of is to be found in what the Indiana Bureau Farm Cooperatives have done in the field of petroleum and petroleum products. Some years ago the approximately 100,000 Indiana farmers who compose the Farm Bureau Cooperatives purchased a fleet of tank trucks for the delivery of gasoline and other oil products to the farmers of that State. The savings effected, ery center. that is, the margin between what the delivery of the gasoline would otherwise have cost if it had been furnished by the big oil companies in the usual way and the amount that it actually did cost when delivered by the cooperative trucks, was devoted to paying for the cost of the trucks. In 11 months all debts had been paid and the fleet of trucks belonged outright to 100.000 Indiana farmers. They then proceeded to purchase some oil wells and some river barges and to lease some pipe lines in order to supply petroleum products from the southern portion of Indiana to other parts of the State. This whole distribution system is now returning to the cooperative members $1 each year for every $1 they invested in it. These 100,000 Indiana farmers own their local petroleum associations and marketing those associations in turn own the pipe lines, the refineries, the oil wells, the barges, the tank trucks. Ware Miiii.::iiiii.:iiuiiiiijiiuniiiiuiwMiittui!Htiiiitininiiiitmiiiiiuii dollar reach the farmer and the other 30 percent go into the cof-fers of handlers and middlemen of one kind or another. 9 New members are continually being added to the Mount A Lake rolls. The opening of the service station on Center Street and 17th West in Provo lias brought a great deal of attention to the Association and is bringing in many new members in the southwest Provo area. cooperatives First Retail Slots. j Citizens in the Provo Area of . Patrons Who Are Not Members Dont fail to gel these statements from the service station: If you already have your membership card, present it at the Srera Theater at the show where you will be given tickets which entitle you and memhers of your family as stated to go to the picture show, barbecue and dance. Kemenilier, you must have tickets to attend these various events. They wont cost you anything, so dont fail to get them. means the farmers have udded to the total income of agriculture and kept in Ihc hands of rural producers that portion of the cost of food which was once represented by unnecessary middlemens margins. The marketing cooperative is the farmer's sales agency. It belongs to him and represents his interest in the distribution channels of the country as no other type of agency in the world could do. It has meant, where the cooperatives have been strong, the difference be- and dance. You should call at the Mount A like Service Station where you will be given a statement to he presented at the Scera, Theater where you will be given a ticket which entitles you to go to the picture show, the barbecue and dance. It will entitle your wife and your children eighteen years of age and over to attend. s man over, f.-- ti-r- Richard About Cooperatives and How They Work I Takes place at Timpanogos Ward Amusement Hall Immediately following the first run of the picture show 9:00 p, m. Dob Ortons famous orchestra will furnish the music. Middle Way e A caisson used in 7 bridge over tlu Ea-- t r i NYw York was 103 t jn . It was sunk iiu a I ,und. ntiuii 172 feet Ik low thy fan- - of the river- - Savings Returned Now all of the savings effected by this cooperative distribution system are returned at regular intervals to the purchasers of these petroleum products- And when we consider the economic problem as a whole, we can see the contribution which the cooperatives make toward this solution. For this Indiana Farm Bureau Cooperative petroleum system means that instead of these farmers turning their money over to the oil monopoly to swell the surpluses of huge companies in Chicago or New York bank, the savings from the efficient cooperative system increase the purchasing power of every rural community in the State of Indiana, and thus continue to be a part ot the active demand on the part of rank and file people for the goods and services which they need. Every single person in those Indiana communities profits by this result and every single manufacturing plant in the country and all the work-re- s therein derive employed some indtrectbenefit from this improved distribution of the purchasing power generated by American production. who owned them as cooperators a feeling of possession, of proprietary interest. This little spot in the great complex economic machine has belonged tr them. The feeling toward it has been like that of a farmer Farmers Develop toward his farm or a home own- 0,1 or toward his home. Only in some respects it has been rvenl,Imce Jfoperabves belong to c pw,p c worn Mrve more poignant because this ex- inevitably bring into the perienee of ownership has come they to people who in most cases economic life of the Nation could not know it in any other competitive element which is to bring a betway. The bulk of them have always striving ter to the peoquality product been city dwellers renting than they had before. Again rioms in apartment houses and ple I will take an from working with tools belonging the Indiana Farmexample Bureau Coto someone else. Dissatisfied with operatives. the quality of lubricating oil For Factories People Pay which was being furnished by Mr. Howard A. Cowden. the the oil companies, the Farm president of the Consumer Co- Bureau Cooperatives in that operative Association of Kan- State tried to get a law passed sas City. Mo-- , has pointed out by the legislature to compel oil that all the factories in America companies to sell lubricating oil have actually been paid for by on the basis of known and the consumers who bought stated specifications. They did their products, but that the only not succeed in getting the law sjaumsuoa aq; qjiij.w soijoj.tcj passed, nor did they succeed in own are the ones which belong getting any company to make to cooperative members. its sales upon that basis. AccordCooperation then is a means ingly. the Farm Bureau Coop-- ! of organizing the consumer eratives built their own laborabuying power of the people in tory and developed their own such a way that it can be em- lubricating oil from their own ployed by them to acquire an petroleum produced by their actual ownership stake in the own wells. They sold this oil at modern industrial machine. standard going prices for lubri- - y n n We adhere to no rigid plan in conducting The Perfect Tribute for Provo families. Each service is in- dividually suited to the familys needs, their religious beliefs, their personal preferences. Each service is carefully supervised and personally conducted throughout, with emphasis on the little details that add so much to the comfort and confidence of the family who entrusts their problems to us. Berg MORTUARY '5 Bait Ciater - Telephone STS it'i 'A T 5 MW Eternal As Time! ORDER YOUR Bronze Marker or Memorial NOW ! For delivery before Memorial Day. 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