The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-02-21

OF NORTHWEST
FORCES ASKED
Governor Nestos, Speaking in
Moorhead, Urges General
Policy of All States
CORRECT IMPRESSIONS
Also Urges Close Individual
Attention to Cooperative ,
Enterprises

Moorhead, Minnesota, Feb. 21.-Co-
operation in the Northwest in "a,
strong and aggressive campaign to-
bring to the people Of the union
true knowledge and correct apprecia-
tion of every phase of the life of
the people of the Northwest" was
urged by Governor r. A. Nestos,
speaking here this afternoon before
the Retail Merchants and General
Grocers Association of Minnesota.
and North Dakota hardware mer and
farm loan bank representatives at
tending conventions in Fargo.
In speaking on the subject, "Co-
operation" the Governor urged that
business men and farmers alike in
cooperative enterprises insist upon
the strictest regulation of such bus
inesses in order that they may be
made success.
"There is one form of. cooperation
in which you and l are mutually in
terested," the governor said. "You
co0e from various cities of the
Northwest and while each one of you
is interested in the proper solution
of the problems of your particular
community and state, we are all, l
am sure, mutually interested in the
welfare and reputation of this great
Northwestern region as whole, ir-
respective of community boundaries
and state lines and that each should
develop such cooperation in cor
recting the wrong reports, in spread
ing reliable information, and in
creating a truer and higher apprecia-
ton of the Northwest among the peo-
pie of every other section Of the
United States that the Northwest
may hereafter be appreciated at its
true value.'
Need For Watchfulness
The Governor said in part:
"The greatest service that can be
rendered to the cause of cooperation
today is that of educating the indi-
vidual members of the cooperative
groups of whatever kind to a realiza-
tion that each man must make an
earnest and sincere effort to under
stand the business, to realize it's pur-
poses, and to know as much as pos
sible about what is being done and
ought to be done in order to achieve
the success in the business of the CO.
operative group. Our farmers and
business men alike must be made to
appreciate that as long as you have
a lot of members of these cooperative
k-J.
in studying the business in which
they are interested, in finding out
how it is being managed, and in pro-
noting its.efficiency, but instead are
depending upon one or two men to
look after everything, that the 'busi-
ness is almost certain to fail. If this
lesson can be brought home to every
member of every cooperative associa-
ton much shall have been done to in
sure the success Of the cooperative
movement in the coming decades.
This education would also result in
groups would insist that the business
transacted be thoroughly supervised
and frequently audited so as to make
sure that there will be no leaks re-
sulting either from inefficiency,
waste, extravaganza, or crookedLess,
and this in itself would do much to-
ward popularizing cooperative asso-
Citations which have altogether too
frequently in the past been made to
suffer from the acts Of unscrupulous
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