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Show THE COOPERATIVE MACHINE NEEDS COOPERATION The American Cotton Cooperative Association makes steamed up the cooperatives must understand what they are trying to do, and how they are trying to do it. They must know their machinery, and put the power to it themselves. The machinery must be close to them. That means working in the home community, in a local association, or in a local this sage comment: "Before cooperative spirit can k Nevada and other mining states: he price of copper, which unit of a larger association. "American farmers handled more of their products cooperatively during the depression than ever before. Cooperative Co-operative factories of Europe during the depression made more boots and shoes and light globes and scores of other item's. Cooperative associations have been forging ahead while most other enterprises were unsuccessfully trying to stop the backward slide. "The cooperative machine that doesn't work is usually one where the members are standing too far off and just looking at it. The power to make it go must be supplied by the memibership, not by the hired hands. Cooperation is doing it yourself with the aid of your neighbors." The cooperatives which are progressing now, and broadening and improving the markets of their members, are those where the member "does it himself" and bends his shoulder actively to the wheel. The cotton producers of the south, the mill producers of New York, the walnut growers of California these groups have created and maintained main-tained strong cooperatives because they have given loyal support. Their work is constant and permits no let-downs. Farmers in this section of the country, producing each and every kind of farm corrfmodity, can observe their example and profit by it. |