The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-11-10
FOR BENNINGTON COUNTY
DEVELOPE MENT AND
BETTERMENT
Department Edited by Secretary vii.
lard Bartlett of the County
Association.


bound to get along. you can't stop
him. Every time | go to town |
spend fifty or seyenty-five cents;
every time he goes to town he takes
something along which brings him
in fifty or seventy-tive cents. The
farmer in question had caught tie
secret of getting along. took pans
to visit him and ind out wha. tle
secret was.s | found that he got sew
eral cents a pound more forShis butt
ter His butter was very carefully
put up in neat pound cakes and at
traotiyely wrapped and packed Thus
with all his produce He was getting
a few cents more pound or few
cents more bushel than his neigh
bors,"
There is a difference in men. Some
men spend few cents every time
they turn around, other men save a
few cents every time they turn
around Which are you?
Cooperation on the Farm.
When anything is proposed in the
country, owing to the splendid indie
pendence of the American character,
it becomes religious aspiration on
the part of some to obstruct that pro
posal One attraction for those who
obstruct their neighbors is the case
with which ii can be done and the
S,f NO tr;x, 10 ,,lr,
vents his neighbor from leading. 1t
matters not what the proposal is,
a satisfaction for human nature in
showing how it cannot be done
There is Joy in being ones self the
defender of the impossible. In way
il gives to the obstructionist the sat
isfaction or a public leader. 1t CON
stitutes him an influential person and
some men deceive themselves by the
influence they possess in preventing
anybody from doing anything.
On the other hand, the qualities
which enter into public service are
vision, obedience. patience. humility,
hope and faith. 1t does. not so
much matter what the object is; the
building of a piece of road, or better
ing OF the public schools, the super
vising Of the play Of the children, the
increase OF the minister's salary, the
Improvement of the church music or
the support OF a foreign missionary,
every one of them requires man to
exercise those virtues which bring
promise of eternal salvation
The men that wrote the Bible were
very modern. See how they all de.
manded obedience. 1t is the one vir-
tue that country people do not prac-
tice today. 1t is no eXaggeration to
say that if farmers knew how to obey
one another the country life problem
would be solved. There is plenty of
knowledge in the country. Men and
women are there with leadership, but
there are few who know how to obey
very many who know how TO OBJ
struct. Therefore, il you are De-
lever in the Bible, do not be an OBJ
structionst. If you have given yoUr
heart to God, give your obedience to
the best people of your community.
Follow your neighbor, Cooperate
with your leader. Accept duty un-
der some one else and learn how to
command other men by obeying other
men. No greater sin can be commit
ted at the present time in the coun-
try than obstruction. The greatest
need OF the country at the present
time is leadership and obedience.
Just to illustrate this need, in
every average country place there
should be a cooperative business
done by the farmers themselves in
the manufacture of their product
Farmers complain that all the profits
from milk Or apples or berries or
pork are made by capitalists That
is not necessary In fact, it is more
expensive and requires more pains
taking for capitalists to kill hogs and
cure bacon thal it would require for
the farmers to do it themselves. The
one-advantage the capitalist has is
his ability to lead and to obey. He
knows better than to obstruct. There
fore. he is able to haul beef or pork
a thousand miles to Chicago to manu-
facture it and to ship it thousand
miles to its market, underselling in
that market local meats. The Ameri
can farmer no longer knows how to
cure bacon, because he does not
know how to obey and to organize
and to cooperate. With a great
many other men ! believe that co.
operation is the greatest necessity.
The lessons of working together are
the lessons which ought to BIT taught
by the religious leader in the coun-
try The best place to learn 1t is
with pork or milk or berries and the
best school for it is a local creamery
or cannery or bacon factory.
Warren H. Wilson.
Courtesy of the Presbyterian Dept.
OF Church and Country life