The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-18
PRICE TELLS MEMBERS
HOW TO GET RESULTS

Stick by your organization. At
tend its meetings. Voice your opin-
ions, fight for your convictions I'M
til they are given serious considera-
ton or are shown to the satisfaction
of the majority to be impractical
for the time-those things and the
business of keeping posted on the
farm bureau through reading what il
is doing on a local, state and nation
al scale is what makes lie and in
terested farm bureau members, &C.
cording to the consensus of County
Farm Bureau Bulletin Editors opin-
ions.
While many false and malicious
reports regarding the farm bureau
are being circulated, it is equally
true that practically every farm
paper published today carries farm
bureau news of a local, state or ma
tional character. Weeklies and dali
les print farm bureau items regu-
larly and often the great magazines
publish special articles on the re-
markable achievements of the farm
ers' organization.
Says President T. C. Price of the
Saginaw county farm bureau in an
article on Sticking Together, publish
ed in a recent issue of the Saginaw
County Farm Bureau News:
"If you will come to the organiza-
tion-your organization-we will do
all we can, and it is there that we
can be of service to you. Don't re-
main away from meetings waiting
for someone to pull you in, for where
one man succeeds by being pulled in
100 fail. Push seems to be the order
of life. The front wheels of loco
motive lead; the hind drivers do the
pushing. The crowbar gets under a
thing and lifts or pushes it.
"Mr. Farm Bureau Member, have
you thought how far you can get
with your problems by a united eff
fort? Man is an individualist to a
very great degree and only joins
with his neighbors when his problems
are too great for him alone to solve /;
then he is willing to cooperate with
his community. If every member of
the Farm Bureau would realize that
battles are not won by individuals
but by massed force under a CEN
trail direction, the sooner he would
nave his problems solved.
Cooperation No Nostrum.
"Set this down as one of the fun
damentals in cooperation, whether
in California or Delaware: Economic
necessity forces it and naught but
the sternest kind of necessity at
that. The cooperative idea is not a
nostrum that can be prescribed to a
farming community by some travel
ing quack doctor of economic theor-
les, showed down its throat in a pill.
There's some very grim and savage
agricultural history out in Califor-
MIA to prove that only when ruin
stared common producers in the face
could they lay aside their strong in
dividualism and unite for the COM
mon good.
you hear many members say that
the Farm Bureau is not doing any,
thing; yet the organized opposition
realize what we are doing and gives
us credit. recall one trade journal
that has acknowledged defeat and
says the Farm Bureau is what put
the kibosh on them.
eff farmers will only get behind
and push it will make it so much
easier and tighten the burden of the
officers, so that they can concen-
trate their efforts on constructive
work. We can build on this Western
Continent a civilization that the
world has never seen-a permanent
agriculture that is not composed of
the peasant class"