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Show BANKING HELPS STABILIZE The indications are that labor radicalism ra-dicalism and various forms of socialism so-cialism are on the decline. Banking organizalions have always al-ways shown a spirit of co-operation in progressive community movements. move-ments. The organization of groups to market mar-ket products and to purchase improved im-proved live stock has been encouraged. encour-aged. As a result of such encouragement sentiment for real co-operation has grown and made farmers stronger and more hopeful. Producers, associations such as fruit growers, wool growers and truck farming have increased and become be-come more self-reliant. To illustrate, an organization of flax and hemp growers has been built up in western Oregon, when land owners and renters are putting up ten dollars per acre for five years to establish co-operation in those industries. in-dustries. That is an illustration of the ef-rect ef-rect of constructive banking building up confidence in the producers of the raw material to go ahead and organize the capital to market a finished fin-ished product. Under good methods the farmers will reap the harvest not only of their raw material but the profit of putting it up in a more highly finished fin-ished material for which there is a world market. |