Show the old settler written in in salt lake city my bly dear san Jua ners A market is any legitimate exchange where you can give what you have for something you need more there are such things as live profitable markets without any coins changing hands nor any promissory paper I 1 have seen markets to which people came in the morn morang ng with what they had to trade and went bacaj with other goods they needed more one man came with a car cart load of apples and went back with a load of flour another brought things he had in his work shop and took back a quantity of fish possibly P we think we are too progressive for anything as ancient as this but these people were holding their own paying their bills and ma staining nta ining a proper trade balance in their country co antry which suggests in connection with the trade balance we considered last week that we have a market right at home by wh h we could live if we availed ourselves of what it could be made to do we could trade with each other and thus make sure that our stream of money going to the outside was reduced to at ikast the ahe thc com ing in why not ape the custom of some of these thrifty countries by demanding that on certain things there must be a particular little label 0 on we will not use it it would be only fair to the country to demand that certain things be labeled made in san juan why y not adopt a patriotic slogan run ning we will not pay money to the outside for goods and materi als th thit t can be produced in tay t county ha have v e a list of at those JJ things thin g are ar e that loyal san j aaers while we e in the hilt count county we will e eat no e bu t san juan beef eef san sa n ju jua a pork and cheese chees and ice c crea r e a and every thing j ise se that natu e has intend ed us 0 produce asi f ourselves if aft think of our own elfare as have to do toj to urvine U in the 4 VOW of bf this aagre aggressive agae aag ii a 0 we w will h ha I 1 e to devise measures for self ml m r rk k e eting t i n g self producing self su orting the story sory of successful cess ful cooperatives cooperative 3 formed by comma ties all over the world is a surp surprising ing story of worthwhile ament they are not made ath 9 th the idea of getting rich bu bufil with the idea of living yet s so of them do become unusually usually j rous count t r cooperatives are formed by grou group P of people who can produce am amog 0 9 themselves the main things ne ed by the group provision is made ade for any of them to sell on the outside provided it rob nor upset the workings of the group the first object of the cooperative is to supply the people belonging to it one man produces the flour for the group if it is not too large a group agrout another man or men produce the dairy articles another the hay others the garden stuff etc the cooperative has its carpenters its barbers its tailors continued on page 13 the old settler continued irom from first page its blacksmiths its shoemakers everything that can be do done to advantage to make the mem members ers safe akam rm want and the peril of I 1 a b baade av ade ba balance ance the essential notion is to get away awa y from the necessity of debt and the danger of want the most simple concept of this idea is for each man to produce everything he be needs but it is much more safe and sensible f for or a group of people to act together and make a suitable division of the work so that by specializing and producing in quantity the output is better at lesser cost if the people of san juan should find themselves cut off from the outside they would suffer for the need of many things impossible to produce at home but they would react to the condition and live and in time they would learn to co coi elate to have and to pay foy comforts almost out of n ic c rider present conditions the ancient populace of san juan much greater than it is now had little dealings with the outside and therefore a trade balance that was always safe yo you U object that we think of living as they lived but with our advanced understanding we would never have to live that way yours for the good oj of F san juan ALBERT R LYMAN |