White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-10-30
Plans Formed to Teach
Cooperative Marketing

Plans Formed to Teach
Cooperative Marketing
BY Macy Campbell
The Department of Rural Educa
ton of the National Education Asso.
citation in the recent meeting in In
dianapolis announced vigorous new
patton in cooperative agriculture
The important facts governing co,
operative marketing which should be
taught in the schools are being Sc
lected and put into text books and
courses of study. They will be taught
as far as possible to all pupils in the
public schools--city and country
alike-that all may have an intelll
gent and sympathetic understanding
of all cooperative modes of agricul-
tural life which promises to be the
permanent type of the future.
The motives which impelled the
National Education organization to
take this step as follows:
Every American believes that farm
children should be given as good edu-
cational opportunities as other chill
dren have.
Educators now know how to de-
velop as good educational facilities
for farm children as other children
have, when adequate financial sup
port is given.
Farmers cannot get the money to
support good schools only as they
get it out of their crops.
They cannot get it out Of their
crops until they cease dumping them
individually at loss and begin to
market them collectively at profit.
They cannot do this successfully
until they understand the basic prin-
ciples of cooperative merchandising,
the form which the marketing or
CARNATIONS take, and the absolute
necessity for loyalty to the market
ing group.
1t is the business of education in
rural communities to prepare farmers
to live intelligent and successful lives
one important phase of this is to pre-
pare them to be intelligent, willing
loyal, courageous members of mar
keting groups now that the coopera.
tive form of agricultural life is be-
coming the permanent form in
America.
Cooperative marketinge develops
more rapidly and more soundly
where young farmers have first been
educated to understand it; the proper
education of the young, before they
become members, reduces the strain
on the membership contract and the
morale local."
The spiritual virtues which make
the farmer and his family good citi
zens in the economic democracy
known as cooperative-marketing asso
Citations are intelligence, faith in his
! fellows, willing obedience to self
chosen authority, sense of economic
values, loyalty to the group and un
daunted courage.
These same virtues make the farm.
er and his family good citizens in the
political democracy known as town
ship, county, state or a nation.
There is no more dynamic and vital
means of teaching good citizenship
than by teaching the citizenship nee
essary to successful cooperative agri
culture. This should be taught il
childhood when ideals sink DEEPEST
and bear the largest measure Of fruit
To. give such training in the public
schools is an act of the soundest pa
triotism, because that which increases
the strength and prosperity of agri
culture increases the strength and
prosperity of the whole nation. The
whole people will ultimately go uI
or down with the farmer.
A committee has been appointed to
write these findings into text books
and courses of study. Ex-Governor
F. o. Lowden of Oregon, Illinois, is
chairman of this joint committee, and
Macy Campbell, head Of the Depart
ment of Rural Education, Iowa State
Teachers College, Cedar Falls, Iowa
is secretary. The work of the com.
mittee is going actively forward. 1t
is proposed to keep at the task with
the same devotion that characterized
the thirty-year campaign Of the
| w. G. T. u. to secure the teaching
of the evil effects Of alcohol in all
the schools of America, until farm
children are being prepared every
where for intelligent participation in
cooperative agriculture.
Thirty-seven per cent of the men