The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-07-19
Keep Your Organization Out OF
Politics

You cannot maintain a successful
harmonious organization unless you
keep absolutely away from politics
and politicians. Your business is
raising and selling farm produce. See
that you stick to it.
Avoid Cooperative Stores
This has been another stumbling
block to farmers and one which you
should let strictly alone. AS said
before, your business is raising and
selling farm products. Tell that to
yourself several times and don't try
to butt into the buying end. When
you attempt to run a store you are
disorganizing the regular channels of
business and gaining the i'll will of all
the other business houses in your
town, thing which you cannot afford
to secrifice. You need the good will
of the business people to help you
steer your own organization. No
business man is particularly fond of
competitors and when you start CO.
operative store in your town you put
every merchant in that town against
you; and you all know that coopera-
tive stores have met with very poor
success. Organize yourselves so that
you can set your own prices for your
farm products, then fix these prices
in accordance with what you have to
pay for the merchandise you have to
buy, and forget the idea of cooper
ative stores. Let the merchants do
the merchandising and stick to your
own business. You know it takes a
good man to make success Of a
business in which he has been pro-
perly trained. Your business is
raising and selling farm produce.
All of US business and professional
people will help you because We want
you to be prosperous. Yours is the
basic prosperity, and unless you are
prosperous we cannot be prosperous.
Divisional Arrangement
After you have completed your or
ganization, you can handle your af-
fairs more easily by creating various
divisions for the different products,
thus: Beef Cattle Division, Dairy Di-
vision, Hog Division, Fruitgrowers'
Division, etc. This will simplify the
obtaining of information as to sup
ply and demand, and aid in distribu-
ton and warehousing.
Discord, Strife, CrOokedness and
Disappointments
Yes, brothers, you will have all OF
these and many, many Of them, but
don't blow up and quit the organiza-
ton because Of them. That would be
"biting off your nose to spite your
face"
You will find the creating and per-
fecting of this organization very much
like clearing stump lot and getting
it under cultivation. If you were to
get mad and quit the field because the
stumps interfered with your tilling
the soil, you would not get far, would
you? But if you keep on digging you
will have a valuable field that will re-
ward you handsomely for you strug-
gle.
Will the Bank Cooperate?
I have heard the suggestion that
the banks would oppose this market
ing association because after it be-
comes a sccess, your local banker,
dominated by the money powers of
the country, will no longer have fl
nancial twist on the nose Of the farm
er.
That may be true, but I will prom
Use you this, if you fellows will get
this association organized, or even on
the road to an orderly organization,
you will find that your united
strength will command the respect
of even the powers that control the
money of the country. You know the
men who can control the eats will be