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Show CO OPERATION AS A SCIENCE Germany Ocee to Work yetemetleally to Find Out Who Oete Money-Taught Money-Taught In Colleges. Who geta the money T They are trying to find that out ovei In Oermany, but. Incidentally, they are also trying to keep blm from getting It. Uncle 8am Is struggling along with co-operation In a haphatard way, but Oermany la teaching It as a buslnesa The Oermans are educating young men to take charge of co-operative organisations. or-ganisations. They are teaching both cooperative buying and co-operative selling. In the United States, co-operatlou Is a venture into an unknown field, as r general thing. In Oerroany. It Is i science that Is atudled In the universities univer-sities and even In the high schools Uncle Sam, when he starts a co-opera-ttve association takes a chance of getting get-ting the right man to manage It II he guesses wrong, the w hole thing Is r fliile. Germany educates young men for that business. The people of tbe United States are turning to co-opera, tlon more and more, but they are dt Ing It blindly. According to A. M. Tbackara. consul general at Merlin, courwea bearing upon up-on co-operation and marketing are found In the curricula of both government-controlled and private education al Institutes In Germany, writes Elliott El-liott Flower, In the Chicago Record-Herald. Record-Herald. Kven In the elementary schools the subject Is touched, although al-though It Is not. until the hlghel schools are reached that It becomes a distinct course. The German Is thorough. That Is one of the things that has given him bis world trade. He packs hie goods better than the American, as was shown in a previous article, and thai counta for a good deal. Now be ha taken up co-operation, and be la Just as thorough In that as he has been In other things. He Is making It a part of the curricula of bla colleges training train-ing young men to become efficient managers of co-operative aseoclatlona. He knows as well as anybody that tha consumer pays, but he la trying to arrange ar-range It so that the consumer will nol pay so much. He may not know wheN tbe money goea, but be Is mightily In tereated In seeing that too much ol It does not get away from the consumer. con-sumer. . |
