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Show CHECKING UP OFTEN NEEDED Members of Farmers' Organizations Owe It to Themselves to Audit Accounts Frequently. The fault of many mutual or co-op-srative organizations is financial. We have numerous farmers' organizations that handle more or less money. Be It said to the credit of most of them, the officers have handled the finances In the way they should be handled. Some of these organizations give the financial officials a real, genuine check-' check-' Ing up, while some have an auditing committee that does just about what the secretary or treasurer tells it to -do, and others do not check their officials offi-cials at all. Many a good man has gone wrong just because he was not checked up, says Twentieth Century Farmer. The members of every organization handling han-dling funds owe It to themselves and to their officials to check up all financial finan-cial transactions carefully. A lot of what might have been good, useful farmers' organizations have failed and quit business just because their chief financial officer went wrong. Generally Gener-ally this man went wrong because he was not properly checked up. No honest man will want anything but a thorough checking up, and the dishonest man surely must have It or failure will result. A little more businesslike busi-nesslike methods Injected into some of these organizations will keep them going and allow them to perform the work for which they were organized. |