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Show DRONES IN AN ORGANIZATION Unless Greatest Care Is Exercised Enemies of Agricultural Co-Op-eration Get Into Society. It would appear that owing to the very fine principle of mutual help involved, in-volved, those forming a co-operative organization would be consistently loyal in their mutual relationship. But, on the other hand, unless exceptional care be exercised by the leaders an organization from the beginning will be burdened with drones, cheats, dead-beats, dead-beats, and traitors. When a grower joins a co-operative organization and then refuses to patronize pat-ronize it, he is a drone. He cannot excuse himself even on the ground of bad management, for it is his duty to help secure proper conduct of the business. If in selling through his organization organiza-tion a producer endeavors to pass off shoddy, poor-grade products, which in jure the reputation of the body of which he is a member, he is a cheat. The member who uses the special and private Information of the association asso-ciation in making sales outside, without with-out contributing to its support, is a deadbeat. The man who joins a co-operative enterprise and then through subtle ways endeavors to obstruct its progress prog-ress and defeat its purposes is a traitor. trai-tor. Those experienced with co-operative organizations have known all these types. They are to be found in practically prac-tically every community. They are the greatest enemies of agricultural cooperation. co-operation. If allowed to dominate with their dishonest practices, they will sap the energy, brains, and spirit of the officers, exhaust the moral and financial strength of the undertaking, and reduce the whole to a state of miserable failure and ruin. |