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Show . 30 '4 Economic Freedom Thru Cooperation Public Opinion Company, Publishers Entered aa aecond-claa- matter a under the Act of March AY! Let U Save manufacturing. It is CONSUMERS' COOPERATION Ourselves Econom- that will Editorial con- stantly increase production COOPERATIVE I roMge" will give os just and justly distribute it. Evof wealth. DEMOCRACY do definite Consumers Cooperative re eryone should own home . work in his j,,u right coven the ownership of the Through Consumers Coop means of production and dis- neighborhood in organising a Consumers Cooperative. W nation we will build a Cooper- - tribution for the people. We, The literature of Consumlive Democracy. Its principle the people of America, have ers is large. of "me person, one vote will laigdy lost the of There Cooperation ownership of histories are economic ns democracy. the general give in which we live. of discussions the Its principle of minimum in- The ebuhtry movement, way to regain ownership desand terest on shares will give ns is through Consumers principles practice, Coopsecurity instead of specula- eration. It is not only the criptions of its growth in different countries. tion. Its principle of distrib- democratic economic system uting tiie surplus savings as for the future but it can be dividends on the bsis of pat put in practice at once by any REV,. ELLIS COWLING group which wishes to cooperTESTIMONY ate and buy together. It pays Mr. Raw son Goes to California as it in both material goes and moral benefits to its Mr. J. A. Raw son, genial members. of doubt "My moments of Utah the about real Cooperathe good I was domanager Consumers added to my readiCooperative s is Wholesale simply tive ing spending Growth ness to move when be on the the week in visiting an opportunity presented itaiad Consumer Cooperatives of Lack of space alone pre- self. Serious questions as to Bonthern California. It is our vents us from reporting many how much was accomplished tope to be able to profit by the examples of what is being by preaching against the domsystem inexperience of the California un- done in local communities to inant economic build effective new units of the creased my restlessness. Most its which have been operating economic order which will in- of the ministers I knew were continuously for several yean troduce for the first time the tormented by the same desire ; He is driving and taking his possibility of the economic to be on the move and admittfamily. justice. Here are just a fe.v ed doubts as to what redempillustrations: The Whitewater tive inlauence their preaching ? Wisconsin Consumers' Announcement was leaving in the social situwas organized ation. Our common spiritual ft. a! this year . In seven disease was wanderlust. $ Notice is hereby given to the early months the members have In 1932 I discovered CoV members of the Consumer's saved $2779 on a $2980 in- nsumers Cooperative discovvestment. The United Coop- ered it both as a theory . and Society. The ann- erative Society of Maynard, a practical technique of social Mass., reports total net. sales and economic redemption. I ual meeting for the for $188,064.66 with net began reading the literature of Directors will be held pun of $9,248.69 for the first of the movement and watched (.at the Store, 590 East 21st So. six months of the year. The it work as a growing concern i Cooperative is the citys larg- at Waukegan, Illinois. That Monday, January 20, 1938, at est business and has been discovery is freeing me of my able to cut . expenses to the professional disease. The re $730 p. m. point that savings are made demption of society is no Frank 0. Green, Pres. on original prices rather than longer an academic matter. divi- Consumers' cooperation with D. Ray Stone, Secretary. efltirely in patronage dends. An interesting item in its ninety-on- e years of suc-h- A Good Boost its opening statement which cessf ul growth demonshed light on its continued strated the practical possibil- The Deseret News is for its recent sple- success is $552 for education-s- i ity of creating the new soexpenses. The Cooperative ciety. It is no longer an acadndid editorial on cooperation. Trading Company of Wauke- emic matter; it is a thing This shows the trend of the Illinois, reports total which ifiust begin in the focal gan, times. The plan of salvation sales of $303,701, for the community. I must either before us is 'wise and intelli- lint half of 1935 with a net help make that beginning or cease prating about choosing gent cooperation. It is through saving of $7,356. The Cloquet Cooperative between Christ and CapitalCooperation that we shall save Society has reduced its gross ism. The question of rebuildourselves economically. operating margin from 14.5 ing the world has boiled itcent to ISA per cent in self down to the question of per CONSUMER'S the distribution of general rebuilding the community in merchandise, meat, drygoods, which I live. Cooperation hardware and coal and has set must inarch down Main Street a new record far business effi- of my town. I must help it In union there is strength; ciency. Total sales $420,512 : march. In cooperative buying there is net savings, $16,670. Lets I am intrigued with visa reduction iu the cost of liv- build our Consumers Coop in ions of what my community Utah. will be when the trek la done. ing; the greater the CooperaI want to be here to see what tion the greater the reductioa. Continue Stores Cooperative my town is like when CoopeJoin us in the Collective PurThe Chains To Beat ration has made it the com- chase of Coal, without any ex-- f beautiful busy. munity Superior, Wfo-- Th penscor obligation to you. If To in share that task is a big annual audit of the 130 Coopinterested in this proposal, erative stores and branches with affiliated with the Central Co.4 J. F WHITTEMORE operative Whofesafle shows Hy 4849 590 East, 21st d that the cooperatives have enjoyed an avenge sales increase of more than 24 per emit in the first six months of 1935. In contrast, the recently released figures show the. following: The National Tea! A combined annual busi-eeCo. sales increase was 12 per and Kroger Grocery and ness of over $4,000,000 has increase been realized by 60 consum-wpairing Company 1.8 per cat, the first 36 era cooperatives in the Texas country. In of the year. The Jewel weeks another Tea Co. up to August 31 were 1934 they returned to their 11.6 per cent. The Great At- - members over a half a city... there is and Pacific Tea Co. did lion dollars. In the last eight someone who not publish their sales. The years they have paid back to would like to Cooperative Builder, contains their members six times the Business authorities report amount of their original hear YOUR the chain stores are hav-- , vestment." VOICE say... ing trouble because of rising prices, keen competition, narrowed margins and unwieldy overhead, are not in a position to lose a dollar of dia-tributi- on H 1 S, 1879. through Mutual Action. It is the way to "start clearing your own little corner of creaWhat has it come to when one of the countrys most protion. Everyone has his or her part to do in building the new minent men has to take his family and flee abroad to insure economic order A : ic Democracy, of, by and for the people. It is Self-hel- p ECONOMIC SALVATION IN f BUILD tfiiifli f . self-he- lp ' - the safety of his child? Crime has got us on the run. Why not use the National Guard and the regular army, idle most of the time, to run down criminals and ferret out crime.In our r mammon worship we have permitted a condition to brought . about which threatens even government itself. ECONOMIC PLAN OF SALVATION Cooperation is of such importance that the Almighty has always stood ready to cooperate with men, nand if men will cooperate with him their spiritual salvation is assured. Then if men will cooperate with each other their economic salvation is sure. So it is not too much jo say that cooperation is a plan of salvation. The plan known locally a the United Order, is but the perfected ideal of true cooperation. From the earliest days to the present, men have been seeking far and near for a working plan of economic security, social justice. They have never found it because they have been unwilling to cooperate with their fellows to the extent necessary to Inring it about. If the depressions serves to bring men together in a bond of Consumer Cooperation it will not have been in vain. If all our leading citizens, including officials, could be taken to Denmark and Sweeden and see at first hnd results of genuine Consumer Cooperation they would open their minds to one of the greatest saving and regenerating economic forces at work in the world today. We must come to it, and the sooner the better. It is the path to human wel- fare. It is the plan to economic salvation. 9 9 9 9 9 Coop-Associati- , elee-visi- on y as com-limcnt- ed COOP-ERATIVECO- AL r eom--munic- J" Bo-A- nt as Somewhere ...in ins rail-lanti- in-th- "Happy New Year Consumers' . This Space Is For Sale Cooperation right in your own home neighborhood. It begins! by organizing a cooperative starts Its next best to being there i study and buying club, retail 'store, oil station, milk dairy, etc- - owned by the consumers. Local associations then join together and form a wholesale and the wholesale starts ; at very reasonable rales Why not use it U advertise your wares ' e For Self Help Thru Mutual Action- - at '.THE OLD AND THE NEW The old year is dying, passing on into oblivion. For better, or for worse, a Nem Year will shortly dawn. The same old bella will ring it in. The soft sweet burden of their music will be the same as it has ever been Happy New Year! Oh, that it might be happy for every son and daughter of Adam I But there already is a cloud upon it the war clouds over a great part of the world. And another cloud industrial unrest and discontent. People have not yet learned how to save themselves. Man is not yet free. He is still tenting in the desert, a ccaptive to fear, greed, selfishness, poverty and war. When will he learn? The for and hoped for Happy New Year may not be the one that will come dancing over the horizon next Tuesday midnight. But be assured, all you who have waited and hoped and prayed, that ere long there will be ushered in the Year of years, the New and YEAR ! It will be the great year of the Brotherhood and Sisterhood of human beings, when not one single soul shalll suffer from want and insecurity; when social justice, as preached by the Son of man ahan be thewhole law and prophet; when there ahaU be meted out to every man, woman and child fuU, heaped up and running up measure of the good things needed to make the good and abundant life. This ia the plain, practical truth. And the forerunner of that day is long-look- ed never-to-beforgott- en COOPERATION. 0 r DOING GOOD WORK Mr. Gilman Beeler, organizer for the Townsend Pension Plan, is doing some very good work in this dty and state. He is delivering some very illuminating lectures to capacity houses and ia getting good results everywhere in his organization work. Who says Utah - cant be organized for this great humanitarian plan? Those who believe in the plan mint give him all the encouragement and assistance they can. This thing is going over and dont you forget it. SEEN and HEAR around the NATIONAL CAPITAL By Carter Field TAMOUS WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT Washington. Then la more unanimity in private conversations among both Democrat and Republican!, New Dealers and reactionaries that tka silver policy of the United States government Is weird than oa any other controversial subject, probably. There la not eo much public criticisms of It, for various reasons, mostly concerning the electoral votes of certain strategic western ntatea. But the truth la that no one explains It satisfactorily, probably became It la rather dlfflcult for anyone to explain something he does not understand, and the only two persons credited with understanding the silver pulley are President llooeevelt and Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthan. Neither of them does any talking. If one exn cepts the occasional retort of that he Is still buying sliver and Is carrying out the mandates of the silver law." The moet Intelligent theory as to the actions of the administration runs something like this: First It was forced on the administration. Had It not been cepted, the probability la that congress would have rushed through some other Inflation measure. It la not impossible that congress might have forced the use of printing press money to finance governmental needs, and pay the national debt aa many advocated. Second, having accepted the silver law, the Idea of a tremendous profit to the treasury developed In the minds of Roosevelt and Morgen-than-. They had Jnst made a profit In gold for the treasury of something Ilka .two billion, eight hundred million dollars. Incidentally six hundred million la still In and two billion waa era. verted Into the famous mysterious equalisation fund, about which, like the sliver policy, nobody knows anything except Roosevelt and Mocgen-thaand they won't tell. Mor-gentha- Profit Looked Good So the Idea of mu king a profit on silver of about two billion, to be made by buying and commandeering silver cheap, and revaluing It later as gold waa revalued at a much higher price, was very appealing. Up to thin point, aa a matter of fact, there Is no doubt about the precise accuracy of what happened. Now cornea the more nebulous part. Having conceived the Idea of a big profit, obviously Hie more cheaply silver can be bought, the greater the profit wonld be. So every now and then Morgenthan would act as though Die silver buying policy had the whole movement, and the fact that many had actually coma with more Intention of stirring up trouble than of aiding In any conciliatory agreement or of the various viewpoints. So when several of the business representatives started the fireworks, they typified for Berry the spearhead of the whole force ha was fighting against, and be lashed out. It would have been much better, critic point out, had Berry re strained his feelings, and after re- minding the conference that nothing was on ' the agenda for this meeting but hie outlining speech, then announced the meeting adjourned, but Invited those whe wished to talk to organise their own meeting and go ahead. This would have left the business representatives who wanted to obstruct free to talk their heads off, but no particular harm to any administration objective would have . Feared Speeches 26-- 2 .2 for Pumpkin, large can Eggs, Srtly FreshoU Powdered Sugar, 2 lbs Beans, No. 2 can, 3 for Calumet, 16 oz can Peaches, large can Coffee, Schillings Peanuts, 2 lb.. Candy, Mix, 2 lb- Doz. - Oats, Mother's, China Grapefruit, Shaverss Oysters, large can Pickles, 26 oz Jar 3 for Time Jolly Popcorn, 3 for Seedless, Raisins, lb Cabbage, Utah, Yams, 4 lbs Lettuce, large solid heads, 2 for Toilet Paper, 15c 25c 13c 20c 23c 17c 24c 23c 19c 25c 12c 22c 19c 10c 13c 11c 2c 14c 15c MEAT DEPT Ground Round Steaks, lb Pot Roasts, lb-Rib Boil. Sausage, pure pork, lb WE DELIVER 590 EAST 21t ..15c - -- Ibi .; HY. 4849 SOUTH St. 10c 0c 23c Women SILK DRESSES HATS HOSIERY WASH FROCKS SMOCKS Handkerchiefs SWEATERS HAND BAGS Shop and Save at the U. M. C. Store 45 East Broadway Mezzenine Floor . Mdse. Store1 The United p Warehouse Receipts Accepted Co-o- , - FOR Handkerchiefs NECKWEAR GARTERS SHIRTS BELTS Flannel Robes . . CONSUMERS COOPERATIV HOSIERY ; Berry's own objection to this course waa that speeches would bo made at such a meeting, which might have stolen the headlines" In the next days papers. Ills critics admit this, but Insist that the net result of the speeches would have been to show more conclusively than anything else could possibly have done the difficulty business representatives would have had In getting together. Tiro courses are now open to the administration, and decision aa to 'Which will he fullowed will be made by Mr. Roosevelt himself. One thing la absolutely essential to either course. The face of Major Berry must be saved. One course would be to allow Major Berry to take all the letters ho has had from business men of va- -' rious shades of opinion, work them out, and finally produce - a report recommending specific legislation for a substitute NBA. .Despite widespread objections to the whole Idea of NILA on the part of many business men especially since prices have begun to rise plenty of Justification could bo produced In these letters In Major Berrys possession for such a course. It la true that some of tha letter writers have since changed their " minds. A great many business men wanted some form of NBA restored . while prices were still low. They wanted some form of government protection against clilselera. Now that prices are rising, the dangar . to their own selfish Interests la not so frightening, go they would Uke get rid government Interfer- - - IE Men, Boys , been done. Apparel Store BuyatConsumersStore 3 Day Special DEC ' id |