The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-11-23
FARMERS MUST
GET TOGETHER
IN WAR TIME
VALUE OF ORGANIZATION POINT
ED OUT BY UNIVERSITY EX-
TENSION WORKERS
BY III. w. HOCHBAUM,
County Agent Leader

Ed Howe, of Potato Hill, Kansas
fame, holds that farmers are senti
mental about organization, that prac
teal, hard-headed corn growers ant
Stockmep who never theorize about
farming, easily and repeatedly fall fol
theories about cooperative marketing
and other farm organization enter
prises No doubt this comes because
farmers see the great need for organ
ization, and eargerly accept every
message brought to them on this great
problem. There is no greater rural
need today But it is also fact that
farmers will have to stop theorizing
about cooperation and get busy. They
will have to learn to be more patient,
TO realize that the good things they
have been dreaming about cannot
! come IN IA adays Moreover, farmers
will aave to Wake UP to the fact that
if they really want cooperation, they
!, themselves have certain big duties
40 perform which they alone can do.
It, is Time to go to Work
The time is here for acting, for less
talk and more doing. What Denmark
and other foreign coutries have ac-
complished in the way of cooperative
marketing and farm organization is in
spring but this has not come by
dreaming. 1t has taken 40 years of the
hardest kind of work, and the practic-
al reconstruction of the entire school
n CHI &c.
now. So farmers here must realize
that they will have to exert themselves
for the good things they have heard
about They must put into practice
the principles learned, must stop talk
ing cooperation and actually bring
this nearer by learning to work for
it. They must also learn to give up
individual privileges and some indie
pendence if they want to put the OPP
GRAFTON in cooperation.
COttOnwoOds Grow Fast
Practical organization of farmers
and rural cooperation will come
slowly. as farmers educate and train
themselves to work together under
their own leaders, each giving up
little for. community good. Paying a
membership fee to some organization,
listening to fine words on the needs
of farmers, idly dreaming about the
good FIXTURE of cooperative marketing,
will not bring us the realization OF
our hopes. We must sacrifice indiv-
iduas needs and desires to common
: he io1,J ,0r
in solving common problems. This |!
may mean giving up a great deal of
individual preference, and will require
that farmers accept community stand
ards and community task, but when |
that victory is won, we shall be on
the road to successful cooperation. BY |
placing trust in the local leaders, by |
working with them to a comman dend,
by sharing responsibility, and by real
Iy thus to- know what cooperation
means, we shall approach the goal.
Farm Bureaus Point the Way
Farm bureaus everywhere are real
1y succeeding in putting these fund-
amenta1s into practice and as re-
suit, are showing some worth while
accomplishments. Naturally, the farm
bureaus are gaining in strength eve
l.y Nue. I. for after all, results are
what We are looking for. Farm bur
eau members are actually accepting
sponsibilities and leadership and
farmers are really working together
under this leadership to a common
end. What is more, the farm bureaus
are leading farmers to look at the
larger problems as they may affect
the whole community, and not as they
may affect the individual alone. In
other words. farmers are learning to
practice cooperation. Gradually, then,
community effort is brought
into action and with this development,
results must also come.
Hurry Up I
The present great national emery V
ency emphasizes more than ever the &
Conditions are abnormal and the prob S
lens brought to us because of labor O
shortage, changing markets, trans g
portation difficulties, high prices of a
supplies and the necessity for increas- a
ng production and conserving food, of v
var time needs in general, make con- d
tant readjustments necessary. Many L
armers are completely changing their
ystems of farming to meet existing a
demands. Patriotic duty will neces- v
itate many more to change and 1t O
AZ, - &ho na+r;otic duty Of every RI