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Show What Co-operation Has Done. What does the word "corporation" mean? It means nearly the ka.no as the word "cooperation;" it is simply sim-ply concentrated effort uo-operation. Among the best things in our presout civilization today aro corporations, associated asso-ciated effort, concentrated cflort. The Grange is a corporation. Tho Farmers' Alliance is a corporation. Our schools and colleges are corporations. Our churches are corporations. Men and women organize, co.oporato, concentrate their efforts in overy good woik all along the lino. The rays of the sun fall gently upon your hand and you scarcely feel their warmth, but take that lens, hold it up where It can concentrate con-centrate thoso rays and you will very quickly remove your hand fiom beneath Its power. Concentrate those tajs on a pine board, and you very coon set the board on fire. Co-operation, or concentrated concen-trated effort, is the power that has made the wilderness to blossom as the iose-lt iose-lt is co-operation, or concentialed powor, that has given us our, 200,001) miles of railroad tracks in the' United Slates within the last halt century. It ii co -operation, or concentrated power or corporation if you ptdase, that lias developed our mines, built our factories, fac-tories, made us the greatest manufacturing manufac-turing power on earth. It is co-orora-Hon, or concentrated effort that has built up our colleges and universities, given us a high rank among the scholarly peoplo of tho world. It is co-operation, or corporations, that lias given us tho great newspapers of this country, the greatest in the world, and su Associated Press to which all tho world looks lor news, Hamilton White. |