Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-17
GRANGE SPEAKERS
EMPHASIZE POINTS
In COOPERATION
Discussion Adjourns to Per-
NIT Delegates to Join Ex-
tensive Sightseeing Motor
Trip.

! WILMINGTON, Nov. 17.-Co-operation
| In buying and selling occupied the atten-
! tion of the National Grange at its session
today, and the discussion was stlll on when
the body adjourned at noon to permit
members Of the body to take an auto.
mobile trip to points OF interest as guests
! of the members of the Delaware State
! Grange.
Speakers on cooperation were: John
| g. Kctcham, Michigan A. B, Judson,
! Iowa; a. p Reardon. Kansas; c. B..
| kegley. Washington; c. s. Stetson,
Maine; b. John Black, Maryland; J. d.
Ream, Nebraska George w. Il. Gaunt,
| New Jersey; c. II Rogers, New York;
George w Dixon. South Dakota; A. f.
Hart. Wyoming; Henry Thompson. Della
ware Joseph A. Homes. California; j. "A.
Sherwood Connecticut Edward Il. Chap.
man, Massachusetts,; c. o. Raine, Mis-
souri,; o. Il. Young, Montana.
SUMMARY OF POINTS.
These were the conclusions reached:
First,-Local community cooperation is
the first requirement OF successful bust
iless cooperation.
Second.-In conducting cooperation en-
terprise the basis must be one man. one
vote.
Third. -- Adequate financial arrange
Fourth.--Marketing of high grade prod
ucts only, with honest packing and ship
ping absolutely essential.
Fifth. Strictly cash basis credit ven-
lures being always uncertain.
Sith.-Information bureaus at shipping
centres an important requirement
Seventh.--The Rochdnle plan of CO.
operation in etensive operation In Eng
land and part tried in Kansas commended
as an eample of successful cooperation.
Eighth.-All successful coloperation
must begin with the small local unit and
proceed upward rather than start on
State and National basis epectlng to en-
brace local communities later.
Ninth.-The confidence of the member
ship OF any organization seeking to pro-
mote cooperative enterprises is a funda-
mental necessity.
A 1O-year-old girl being treated in the
The automobile trip was made over
some of the best roads in this section.
The delegates visited New Castle and saw
the spot where William Penn first landed
In this country, a number of other his
toric points about New Castle, the county
hospital and the big State hospital for
the insane at Farnhurst, Fort du Pont
and Fort Delaware, the latter famous as
Il prison for rebel soldiers during the
Civil War, the big guns at Fort du Pont
and the monument at Cooch's Bridge
where lHS american nag was nrSt car
ried in battle. They returned by way of
Newark.
There will be no more pleasure trips
except on Thursday, when members of the
grange will visit Delaware College and
the experiment station at Newark, where
they will be given banquet in the eve
ming,
WOULD HALT IMMIGRATION.
The most important resolution so far
presented to the convention. in the minds
of some of the delegates, not excepting
the matter of farm credits, is the one put
in by Fl. Harland, of Idaho, which would
call halt on undesirable immigration
The members of the grange view the sit
lation with considerable alarm. They feel
that as soon as the present war in Europe
Is over, undesirables in the countries now
at war will flock to this country and will |
be allowed to come here, while the de- |
srable people will be induced to remain |
At home. The ignorant who wish to |
escape military service. the incapacitated,
the incapable and the dishonest will be /
The kind, 1t is feared. which will come
here, and while the grange does not look
on all ignorant foreigners as either dis
honest or undesirable, members do feel
hat the kind OF persons permitted to
come here to make their future homes
ihould be people who are qualified to alb
orb the customs and observe the laws of
he country.