The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-10-01

To be as exact as possible, there are
100000 farmers in the country, formed
into 1000 co-opera' We societies. which
permeate all the bnomic relations OF
life. These cooperative societies are
the proprietors Of all the machinery
for buying all. that the farmer needs
and distributing all that he produces
and does not consume himself.
No Graft and No Corners
There is no graft; no middleman can
corner" any article of necessity; there
are no multi-milionaires, with excess
profits gained from home industries
In fact, the Dane who would declare
that capital is the enemy OF labor
would be looked on as an economic
idiot, just as it would seem equally
\ idiotic to assume that labor existed for
the piling up of capital
In Denmark, money is not an end;
| it is an instrument, medium of cir
culation. And the object for which
all parties in politics are struggling
the conservative in Denmark would be
looked on as a radical here's that it
should be equally distributed, not for
luxuries, but for necessaries.
Until the middle of the Nineteenth
century the Danes were brought to the
verge of ruin by stupid system of ag-
riculture only comparable to that in
vogue in some of our cotton-raising
states. where the same old crop de-
stroys the nutrition of the soil and the
bollweevil eats its fruits. Scientific
agriculture was unknown to them. The
growing Of grain was fixed dictum
and rotation of crops heresy.
Then came Bishop Grundtvig with
new ideas of education and Kristen
Kold, who started the first peoples
high school, From Kold's first school
grew the great system of Danish high
schools, which it is said were the mod.
els on which our Chautauquas were
founded; and also the system of uni
versity extension in Englfsh-speaking
countries. But neither the Chautau-
quas nor the university extension
courses have been as far-reaching in
their effects as the Danish high
schools.
It is understood, OF course. that
these schools are not, like our high !
schools. introductions to college or
the finishing off OF the education of
those who do not intend to go to col
lege. No requirement Is necessary
for the student except the desire to
learn. There are no degrees given in
these schools. no examinations. and
no fixed standards Of scholarship.
Aristocracy to Decline.
There Is an aristocracy in Den
mark. an aristocracy Of a very high
lass, as a rule, but 1t has lost its
privileges. Its titles have even less
'alue socially than they have in
france, which is a republic. and, I'M
Ter the usage which makes all the
ions and daughters Of count or
aaron counts and countesses or bnrons
distinction, and new titles of nobility
re no longer given.
The aristocracy. which for a long
ime controlled the upper house. fought
ard against the subdivision Of the
and, and its members were not SYM
athletic with the Danish system of
redit banks, by which any man Of
God character, with very small sum
f ready money, might be able to own
farm.
The habit of farming land on shares
oes not obtain in Denmark Every
ian works his own farm In the
months. however. over 10000
alicians. and other immigrants come
Ito Denmark to dig the beet root and |
do other jobs which the Danish c
irmer prefers not TO do. The large
state owners are obliged every year /
provide facilities for these alien t
borers who go home In the autumn
ute content.
Denmark is not an Industrial coun-
v In the sense that II Is country g
manufacture The scientific treat ,
ent OF one Of the worst soils for
yricultural purposes In Europe,
lined with the equally scientific sys-
m Of cooperation. enabled 1t to
the export Of butter, bacon .
Id eggs into England and Germany.
efore the war the Danes supplied J
% breakfast table Of the British,
I'd the export Of milk and cream, and n
'en Of beef and hogs, into Germany ]
xed their capacity. 9