Show r Cliff Editor Uintah Basin Standard Dear Recently Utah's George Dewey Clyde who twice was elected our chief executive on the Republican was one of the featured speakers at the annual meeting of the Utah Cooperative His very informative address clearly points out that the matter of is not a partisan but is as a part of our American economy the same as it has been throughout the history of To assist the people of our area to see more clearly the place have in the economy of our well as would you please reprint his address in the Standard as a public A clipping containing a digest of his address is Sincerely R. V. CLYDE'S ADDRESS GOVERNOR SUPPORTS COOPS ECONOMIC is the enemy of American free just as it forced Voluntary co-operatives form a bulwark against and it is that that represents the essential between the cooperative principle as we it and state So said Governor George Dewey Clyde in his address to the delegates and visitors at the noon luncheon of the Utah Council of Farmer Cooperatives' Annual October in Salt Lake He told the Utah group of co-operators today's as in yesterday's pioneer men of clear staunch hearts and willing hands can always And when the job is too big for you or for me alone you and and all of our friends and neighbors together can get it have a great You are doing a great I speak for all the people of the state in wishing you continued and steadily growing success in the DISCUSSES CO-OP HISTORY In making his speech to the co-operative Clyde discussed the history of the cooperative as we know it in the form of a business institution established under- the laws of the is a comparatively recent development in but the fundamental concept of the cooperative movement is the foundation stone on which this state was According to the all these early co-ops aided significantly in the growth of this area he cooperatives are sometimes misunderstood by people who should be better RECOUNTS EXPERIENCE He explained that although he had not been connected with farm supply or producers' he had spent the greater part of his life working with water users associations he pure is widespread in some the Gover-r nor cooperatives are leaning toward In most cases the very opposite is He pointed out that small businessmen and can In many maintain their economic freedom only by banding together voluntarily to achieve their he individual farmer would be at the mercy of the big buyer and the small operation could not long TELLS OF RUSSIA Governor Clyde talked of his trip to Russia and the basic difference between the state farms and the agriculture of the USSR and the farm co-ops of tills He also briefly directed his remarks to youth groups in attendance at the meeting by Ideologies that have divided the world into armed camps pose a situation which has never before faced the peoples of the We have developed so rapidly in the material things of life that we have overlooked and forgotten our spiritual development and our concept of human relations which is so important in this day and age when all peoples of the world are The entry of science into the space age harbors a new development which and no doubt surprise all of Research and dedication to principles and a renewal of our faith in the future are absolutely |