Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-21 | Page 9 | Farmers Offer Aid on Costs

IK OFFER if COSTS "Get Busy," Says Equity! Chief to Public in Urging j County Operation j By EDWARD M. THIERRY. N. E. A. Staff Correspondent. CHICAGO. April 21. Co-operative societies and stores are the quickest and most efficient means of reducing tho high cost of living. Farmer producers, possessing pro- llinH-v.i .... ' v...., uiutuiucii, are wining to co-operate with consumers who will organize distributing machinery. These are statements by P. L. Betls president of the Farmers' Equity Union and founder and for three vears manager of the string of co-operative creameries in the Dakotas, oClorado and Kansas. Betts declares the banks' opposition opposi-tion in refusing proper credit is the biggest obstacle co-operative food marketing has. Belts said the Farmers' Equity Unions in tho Middle West were first organized to beat the country grain elevator profiteer. Now thev are buv-ng buv-ng necessary supplies nn'd selling their products on tho co-operative plan. Last year nearly $1,500,000 In sales were handled by Betts' Chicago office for the 2,500 producers handed together at Aberdeen, S. D and tho smaller organizations at Orleans, N. D., Liberal. Kan., and Limon, Col