Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-10
A Model In Cooperation.

A Model In Cooperation.
From the Portland Oregonian.
In connection with the particulars
which the Oregonian has been pub
fishing about cooperation in various
sections on the Pacific coast, it may
not be uninteresting to notice the
progress which the same cause mas
made in England. The Wholesale Co
operative Society of England has just
celebrated it's fiftieth anniversary by
publishing an account of its origin
and business. The purpose of the
society is to furnish goods to the re-
tail. or Rochedale, stores, which have
made themselves SO famous in Great
Britain. It was organized in 1868,
with $4,000 capital, and its flrst
years business amounted to $20,OOO.
Last year 1t had $40, 100000 capital,
and its sales footed up $50, 00O, 600.
This is an astonishing growth, but 1t
has not all been made along strictly
mercantile lines.
The society has gradually extended
its scope to meet the needs of the re-
tail stores to which it caters. 1t man
ufactures shoes, furniture, wire mat
tresses and other staples The by
products of its establishments are
frugally utilized. For example, 1t
makes annually 100000 worth OF
soap from material which would oth-
erwise go to waste. The society
makes 1000, 600 pounds of flour day
in its mills. Its dry goods factories
employ 5,400 persons. The tobacco
business which it conducts amounts
to $4,000, 900 O year. The investments
which 1t has made in agriculture are
almost endless 1t manages farms
which supply the retail cooperative
stores with fruit and vegetables. 1t
has diaries, creameries and hothouses
in England and tea farms in Ceylon.
Like many similar enterprises, the
Wholesale Cooperative Society owes
its success to the impetus which 1t
originally received from a devoted
apostle His name was j. t. w.
Mitchell. This enthusiast, who was
at the same time an extremely ca
pable man of business, conducted the
affairs of the society from 1874 to
1895, the year of his death. His fidel-
ity may be estimated from the fact
that his private property amounted
to $1,750 when he died. All his ener-
giles went into the society, which he
believed would solve many Social
problems for mankind. Cooperation
in England has always commanded
the services of highly-gifted men for
small remuneration, because its
promise to humanity moves them to
make sacrifices for it.
The Oldest Tune I'm the World.
From the London Chronicle.
"Malbrook s'en-va-t-en guerre,"
which is perhaps the oldest tune 10
the world, would probably not have
come down to us but for an accident
According to Sir George Groves Die
'tionary of Music, although popular
air, it was only handed down from
memory. Nine. Poltrine used it as
lullaby for the infant Dauphin in 1871,
and Marie Antoinette took fancy to
her baby's cradle song and sang
it herself. "Malbrook s'en-va-t-en
guerre'' was afterward soon heard all
over France, and was even introduced
into operas and vaudevilles. But the
seal of its permanent popularity was
undoubtedly set when II was bor-
rowed for I'VE Won't Go Home Until
Morning" and For He's Jolly Good
Fellow"
Cuban aud American Farmers.
From La Discussion, Havana.
1t is not true that the American
farmer in Cuba is a harder worker
than the Cuban farmer; on the con-
trary the Cuban "guajiro" works
more and harder than any other
countryman of the world.
The Americans who cultivate the
lands of their colonies, who exhibit
fine fruits and other products at the
annual expositions, work very much
at their ease. They do not labor dur
ing the heat of the day; they use
tents in the fields; they stay indoors
when 1t rains and they sleep under
mosquito bars.
But 1t is not true that they work