Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-02-13
has been enrolled IN some form Of

Buying and Selling Done Jointly.
The most general form Of coopera-
ton is the dairy society. OF these
societies there are now more than
four hundred. Next in number are
the rural banks, which number more
than two hundred. Other cooperative
| organizations make joint purchases for
farmers, breed cattle, promote local in
dustries, particularly lace-maldng, sell
poultry and eggs, grow bees and mar
| ket honey, sell butter and transact
Wholesale business for the country So
cieties. The central society and some
others are aided financially by the
government department of agriculture,
agricultural committees and county
| councils.
Cooperation Stopping Emigration.
The result shows in economic bet
terment and in a more wholesome
rural life. A single instance of the
first result is that the yield of butter
per gallon of milk has constantly in
creased during the last ten years and
that Irish butter now sells readily In
London in competition with its great
rival, butter from Denmark. From
certain counties where the cooperative
societies have done their best work
emigration has almost ceased. Much
has been done toward improving the
condition of the cottages and by es-
tablishing libraries, sane amusements
and helpful recreation in the villages.
The Gaelic league has done good serv-
fee here. Better be quarreling than
be lonesome" runs the Irish proverb.
The new village conditions would ban
ish quarreling without substituting
solitude, accomplishing this result by
discouraging drunkenness and pre-
venting emigration, the two giant evils
of the Ireland of yesterday.
Another happy result is the moral
discipline already making itself felt.
This has strengthened individual en-
ergy and the wise use of cooperation
has stimulated individual effort, devel-
oping taste for work by increasing
the produce of labor. However great
the material advantages of coopera-
tion, particularly the cooperative
credit system-by which money Is
lent at low rates for reproductive
work-the educational results are yet
more important.
Technical Education Bearing Fruit.
Close akin to the efforts Of the
cooperative societies has been the pro-
motion of technical education by the
state. This work, carried on by the
governments Department of Agricu[
ture and Technical Instruction for Ire
land, is, in way, similar to the work
of the American Agricultural colleges
and Experiment stations, except that
> it is broader, not confining itself to
agriculture and the mechanic arts"
1t teaches the farmer and laborer, 1t
trains in it's schools for business, COM
merce, agriculture and technical pur-
suits. 1t goes further and seeks an
industrial revival by encouragement
of new local factories. The depart
ment's work, also beset by difficulties,
shows considerable progress. Com
mercial enterprises and an industrial
spirit are appearing in the smaller
towns as well as developing in the
larger centers, Dublin, Belfast and
Cork. The manufacture of bacon, OF
woolen goods, of laces, has begun in
villages where ten years ago surplus
4 labor, unemployed was driven to for
eign lands.
Dear Transportation Heavy Handicap
With created or revived local indus
tries comes consideration of better
4 transportation. Farm produce and in,
dustrial products pay three per cent OF
their value to reach a market in Can,
I ada and fifteen per cent in Ireland. 1t
4 costs four dollars a ton to get eggs
from France to London, six dollars a
ton from Denmark, and twenty-five
8 dollars a ton from Galway, Ireland
This condition an Irish parliament
may be expected to seek to remedy
} Just now it blocks economic develop
4 ment
3 ireland is thinking now in terms Of
4 woolens and linens, poultry and fat
& cattle, eggs and butter, banks and rail
3 ways" said the brilliant T. M. Kettle
professor Of economics in the new
3 National university at Dublin.
"Social and Moral UpIift."
d Nor are the Irish at home forget
q full of the higher things in life. They
q are creating a new literature, they are
4 developing social life, gracious as al
4 ways in the veriest villages-for youl
Irish peasant is born a gentleman
and promoting higher standards O
morality. In all the constructive
movements in Ireland the religious
question looms large. For religion tt
the real Irishman, Protestant or Cath
olic, is not an argument, but an in
IT stitution. Quoting again Professor
IT Kettle: "It seems to us as reason
q able to prepare children for thei
J. moral life by excluding religion as tt
s. prepare them for their physical life b!
c. removing the most important lobe o