Evening journal., 1914-11-17
GRANGERS FAVOR
PERATION IN
THEIR BUSINESS
National Body Sees Great
Saving Through Passing
of the Middleman
REPORT PROFITS OF
ONE UNDERTAKING


was the special order of business for
this mornings session OF the National
Grange, Patrons Of Husbandry,
There was first a thirty-minute dis
cussiOn so as TO decide on the general
principles Of cooperation which have
been successful, after which an hour
and a half was devoted TO reports of
actual experience by delegates from
different States.
The following general principles
were decided on by the grange:
First-Local community co-opera-
tlon the first requirement of success
ful business cooperation.
Second-In conducting cooperation
enterprises, the basis must be one
man, one vote.
Third-Adequate financial arrange
ments absolutely essential to any sue
cess.
Fourth-Marketing high-grade pro-
ducts only with honest packing and
shipping of same, absolutely essential.
F1fth-Strictly cash basis, the only
safe rule; credit ventures always un-
certain.
Sixth Information Bureaus az
shipping centres an important re-
quirement.
Seyenth-The Rochdale plan Of CO.
operation in extensive operation in
Europe and partially tried in Kansas
commended as an example of success
ful cooperation.
Eighth-All successful cooperation
must begin with the small local unit
and work upward. rather than begin
ming on State and national basis and
expecting to embrace local communi-
ties later.
Ninth-The confidence ef the mem
bership Of any organization seeking
To promote cooperative enterprise, is
the fundamental necessity.
Those who spoke on the subject
We're: John G. Ketcham, Michigan
A. 3. Judson. Iowa; A. p. Reardon
Kansas; G. y. Kegiey. Washington
G. s. Stetson, Maine; B. John Black
Maryland; ]. ID. Ream, Nebraska;
George W. F. Gaunt, New Jersey; @
II. Rogers, New York; George w
Dixon, South Dakota A. r. Hart
Wyoming Henry Thompson, Della
ware; Joseph A. Homes, California
J. A. Sherwood, Connecticut: Edward
E. Chapman, Massachusetts; G. o.
Raine, Missouri; o. E. Young, Mon
lana.
The subject of the distribution OF
products and cooperation among
farmers to cut out the middleman in
buying and selling, was the dominant
note in the annual reports of all the
State masters.
The States in which business CO.
fcFaa II
are Kansas, Michigan and Washing
ton, according to the statements
made at this mornings session. Busi-
ness cooperation has, however, been
tried by the oranges in nearly all the
States.
In the State Of Oregon, creameries,
cheese factories, rural telephone as
sociations and fruit growers assoei-
ations have been run on the cooper
ative plan, and according to State
Master G. Z. Spence, of that State,
have been usually successful. There
are a few stores and fruit canneries
in the State that are doing fairly well.
A cooperative fish cannery at Astoria
pays the highest market prices for
salmon.
J. D. Ream, State master OF Ne
braska, in speaking for business CO.
operation, said sixty per cent of the
cost of distribution Of the necessaries
of life are an unnecessary burden, a
real tax on the producer and the
consumer.
In the State Of Maine there are CO.
operative stores conducted by the
grange and about per cent. Is saved
to those members of the grange. Such
Z store is in operation at Holton,
which did business of s250,OOO last
year.
Grange for Peace.
At the session yesterday afternoon
a call on the United States to lead the
world to universal peace by ceasing to
increase its navy and disarming its
forts, was made In a resolution intro
duced by State Master H. Harland, of
Idaho. Mr.. Harland's resolution will
be passed, it is thought.
The resolution, which reads as fol-
lows, was referred to the committee
on peace.
Disarm-that is humanitys man
date. Nothing less will save civiliza-
tion in the future from the certainty
of such catastrophes as the war
among the European nations which we
are now witnessing. The present war
was caused by commercialism and
corporate greed, together with vast
armies and navies. Where nations
maintain a vast armament, make their
youth spend part of its years in the
army, build forts, train airmen to
drop bombs and keep a vast fleet oi
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