Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-04
COOPERATIVE MARKETING.
IX-Co-Operation in Other Forms,
By Frederic J. Haskin.

by representatives of the insurance COM
pany and settlement upon the basis OF
their findings practically always is ac-
ceptcd. Some years the losses are rather
heavy, while in other years they are prac-
tically nothing The co-OperatOrS always
are sure that they are getting insurance
at actual cost. which is better than the
best non-cO-ODerativec company can offer.
Good roads movements were in exist
ence many years ago in several parts OF
the United States. and i'll some sections
the co-operatorS learned TO do for them
selves what the states We're not then able
to do. and that which the federal govern
ment had not yet thought of undertaking.
Not many years after the civil war many
farmers. weary of the burdens inflicted
upon them by the mud tax. banded them
selves together into cooperative COM
Danics to build turnpikes of their own.
lhey realized that the state finances were
not able to bear the strain of such road
building and they preferred to put up
few dollars and to contribute some work
with their own hands and teams in an ef-
fort to have q good road rather than to
do nothing and continue to labor under
the mud tax.
The result was that local turnpikes
were established. Tile stock was plac ed
at So a share. and soon
IurnplkeS w;s subscribed by the
Established IA; mers contiguous to
oiASAoc. tie road. The. officers
were paid nominal salaries. i'll one case
the president being paid $50 a year, the
secretary and treasurer 81, and the ST.
perintendent s. a day. Tolls were fixed
50 that they would keep up the road and
yield small dividend. Since then the
tolls have been lowered frequently. the
road has grown better with each sue
ceeding year of the forty of its existence.
the farmers haul two tons where they
We're able to haul one before. and values
have risen more rapidly along this road
than anywhere else in that section. The
enhancement OF values has twice over
paid the cost of construction.
The cooperative apartment house has
been tried successfully in New YORK.
Such house is to be found at the north
west corner of Gath street and Central
Park 1t has siXty-four apartments, each
inhabited by a person or family of promi-
nence. Each apartment is q real home.
planned to suit the individual tastes OF
it's owner. and from the big entrance
court to the last detail of the big Summer
garden on the roof everything lii the
power of the architect has been done to
achieve the simplicity and quiet which
the occupants desire.
Many frateTnal organizations and labor
unions, inspired by the success of the In
ternational Typographical Union in the
establishment of the big printers home
at Colorado Springs. are establishing and
planning to establish similar homes. The
Colorado home for printers was estab-
lished in the early n.neties. since which
time ABOUT a million dollars has been
raised and expended in building up the
institution. The income now aDProHi-
mates SlCG,CJG a year. and the cost Of
keeping the 100 inmates is approximately
St).tG0 year. The remainder of the in
come is devoted to extension and better
ments. Each union printer pays ID cents
month for the privilege of knowing
that when he gets too OLD and feeble to
make his way in the world there is a
place where he can find haven to his
liking.