The Ordway new era., 1920-10-15
Farm Bureaus
Prove Profitable

The New Era has on numerous oc-
casions advocated the creation of
Farm Bureaus in the county, and OBJ
servations from other sections where
these Farm Bureaus have been or
ganized convinces us fully that there
should be more of them.
The Farm Bureau, properly con-
Quoted. will work well. and hand in
hand. with the great work the farm
ers are doing in Kansas in their or
ganizations of Farmers Unions, which
by the way do not in any way delve
into politics. The Kansas farmers
are on a prosperous basis and they
have one OF the greatest organiza-
tions. according to all that can be
gleanod, there Is in the United States
1t is strictly farmers cooperative
plan on doing business. leaving poll
tics in the background and devoting
their time to their organization un-
der the leadership of one of their
number; a man who has the backing
OF all Kansas.
California farmers are organized
under a plan which 10 working so ad-
mirably that they do not have time
for Nonpartisan organizers. They
havo a system which is so beneficial
and so result-getting in its work that
they are prospering.
The New Era has advocated Farm
Bureaus, milk producing associa-
tions. beet growers associations and
the like, and ir a strong advocate of
not only the farmers thus organic
ing but of the cooperation of the bust
ness interests of the town with them.
Here is what Aaron Sapiro, one of
the leaders In the California Coop
erative Fruit Growers of California.
has to say of the Cal fornia plan of
organization for the fGrmers:
THE California cooperative mark
citing movement has nothing TO do
with politics. 1t uses the existing
economic system; II helps to elimin-
ate the speculator where it can. but
we believe the speculator has no
function in real Industrial life We
do not fight the distributing man. We
believe that the distributing man is
necessary to a system. We do not
fight anybody. We fight for the far
mer and we get results.
"Momement Is Spreading
"All over California this cooper
ative marketing movement is spread
ing and in spite OF these attacks on
us. the cooperative movement is
there to stay. Wherevcr-the govern
ment. or any individual. shows us an
error, we are wildly anxious to cor
rect 1t. We do not think we know it
all. We are willing to learn and not
only willing hut wildly anxious to
learn. That Is why we have moved
forward. That is why the California
Prune Growers association is three
and half years has accomplished
more in organization than the orange
growers did in twenty-five; because
we learned thruogh their blunders.
They had the experience and we prof
tied by 1t. That same experience is
now being furnished to Oregon and
all other states.
Get busy. Put your communities
behind cooperative marketing.
r. iynfi- ETA SHR SHR SR SHR
do not say merely because II is the
way to fight the league. That would
be rotten reason. l say: Put your
communities behind cooperative
marketing because 1t is fundamen-
tally right. It is community fight
and not the farmers fight.
You take your choice here between
making five or six millionaires who
deposit their money in your banks
and may influence the bankers here,
or making 100000 prosperous farm
ers throughout the country who fifth
into local units, and who feed local
units and communities and through
! the metropolitan banks.