Gunnison news-champion., 1920-11-26
ARE ES-
SENTiAL But THERE ARE
RASCALS AMONG THEM

BY Chas. F. Davis, Associate Professor
OF History, Irrigation and Constitu-
the work of production by which will
Iionai Law, Colorado Agricultural Col
Iege, Fort Collins, Colo.
We may speak Of the organization
of the work Of production by which will
be meant the coordination of the ef
forts of those who are engaged in the
creation OF either primary or second
AIRY utilities, or we may consider the
organization of the product when IL
has been brought into existence. hay-
ing reference to the getting of the
widely scattered products of the world
INTO the places where they will be
available for the satisfaction of econo-
mic wants of mankind, that is the Gre
alton of what the economist calls
time and place utilities 1t is of the
latter of these two forms of organiZa-
ton that ! propose to speak of in this
paper.
4 factory group engaged in the
making of wooden goods must have its
supply of wool. and it must have the
different qualities of wool that 90 10
the making of various grades of cloth.
Some of this wool will be produced in
Australia, some in the Argentine, or
various other parts of the world
For managers of factories to locate
all the different of wool in other parts !
OF the world. For the production in
the various localities, the cost of trans
portation and other incidental facts,
would consume too much of the time
OF the Individual and would add too
largely ito the cost of production of
wooien cloth. II, however, a group
OF men make II their special business
to study all of these problems and to
lossemble the worlds supply of wool
at given great centers. each user of
raw wool can supply his needs from
these centers at far less cost than if
each had gone TO the primary produc-
er. In this way not only the wool sup
ply of the world is organized, but the
process is applied to every other pro-
duct for which there is a larger world
demand and the production of which is
in widely separated areas. As has
been apply said: "The organizer Of the
product. says to the producer, what
have You to sell7 l will find you a
buyer" To the consumer he says:
for YOU" He then bridges the chasm
between the producer and consumer to
the great advantage of both. Thru
his efforts much that is produced that
would not therwise find market is
utilized, and many who would not
have their wants supplied.
Now the man or men who do this
work are product of the worldwide
expansion of commerce. They are as
essential to commercial growth of ma
tons as are the producer, the trans
porter, or the manufacturer. They
are known as middlemen and could not
well be spared.
It has become fashionable to cry
down the middleman and to demand
that he be cut out Of the economic
activities of the world There has
probably never been any valuable
factor in social development that has
not. been used by dishonest and selfish
men for their own advancement to the
injury of society. That is as true in
the Office Of the middlemen Is Of any
othe agency. It is true that men with
no desire to be Of any use to society
have taken advantage of this import
ant link in the chain Of economic acti-
witty and have robbed the primary pr
ducer, tho secondary producer and
Eeyery other person who sought to
make use Of their services. But the
fhck that abuses have entered into the
practice is no reason for blind destruc-
6oa at . valuable agency. We 1hpuld
Enthef seek 10 reach and remove the
faoeolD WHO axo ukfnI q valuable 6nne-
tion for the purpose Of rnbee1y. -