The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-30
To UNITY
WORLD RIFLES
AND PLOWS
Brookhart Going to Europe A.
Representative Of Farmers
and Sharpshooters.
BY WILLIAM HARD.

Senator Brookhart of Iowa gave
Washington a needed touch of gay.
ETY. today when he made a full an
nouncement of his plans for his APP
preaching trip to numerous coun-
tries of Europe.
all this talk about world court
Is talk about something OF minor
interest and Importance. The big
things that Senator Brookhart in
tends to do in Europe are to organ
ize an international conference of
all the worlds cooperative societies
doing a business of several billion
dollars year and to organize also
an international rifle match in
which there will be an all-European
team on one side and on the other
side an all-American team drawn
from all the countries Of both
American continents.
Senator Brookhart is scheduled to
be back from Europe in time to
discuss his annual duties as direc.
tor Of craftsmanship in the United
States Army School of Fire at Camp
Perry in Ohio.
The conservatives in Washington
claim that 1t would be good thing
If Brookhart would leave business
alone and attend entirely to shoot.
ing.
Cooperative societies are drawing
closer together everywhere, accord
ing to Senator Brookhart, and they
are beginning to do it information
ally, and the next step is the one
that Senator Brookhart will now
arrange before he gets back to
rifle practice at Camp Perry.
This next step is an international
conference in which the cooperative
societies Of Europe will league them.
selves to the cooperative societies
of America for the mutual inter-
change of cooperative goods in
world from which our present
capitalistic international competition,
according to Senator Brookhart, will
be ultimately eliminated
IF we have enough cooperative
societies, all working together in
ternationally for the common
good" says Senator Brookhart.
there will not be much need of
world courts"
The radicals think that his
ideas about business are fine, but
they cannot understand why he
wants to shoot They are against
shooting. Brookhart meanwEilpa
continues to shoot with his con-
to attack business with his radi-
cal left; and in his approaching
trip to Europe he proposes to work
at both these things on world
wide scale.
Tells Of Farm Unity.
He informs this writer that in
Europe there is already an Inter
national cooperative exchange"
which deals in the numerous and
voluminous products of the highly
successful and prosperous co-opera-
tive societies of Sweden and Nor
way and Denmark.
He also reports that the CO.
operative grain-selling societies of
farmers in northern Iowa and in
South Dakota, North Dakota,
Montana and Minnesota have Just
united themselves into a single co.
operative grain-selling agency at
st. Paul which will sell grain
amounting in value to more than
two hundred and fifty million dol
lars a year.
1t appears, however, that besides
cooperative societies a peaceful
world needs also one other thing
which likewise will be furnished by
Senator Brookhart. This final one
thing needful is rifle matches.
Countries He Will Visit.
Senator Brookhart goes abroad
as our chief "co-operationist," but
also as president of the American
National Rifle Association On
mission to the rifle associations of
Europe.
In the matter of cooperation he
will visit England. Sweden, H.or.
way, Denmark and Czechoslovakia,
which are distinguished "co-orera.
ZIONIST" countries. In the matter
Of shooting he will first visit
France.
The French, according to Sena-
tor Brookhart, should be the iirst
nation to be interested in the
Brookhart plan for a world vide
international shooting match. They