The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-08-07
Regin-Mexico Trail Dis
cussed With Sask. Min
lister of Public Works
Continued from page one)
Thompson, provincial engineer, high
ly pleased with the results.

thompson, provincial engineer, luSH-
ly pleased with the results.
Great Meeting of Farmers
Six thousand American and Cana
dian farmers jammed the stadium, to
hear men prominent in the coOpera-
tive movement in Canada and men
elected by the farmers movement of
the province, speak. Amongst those
who were introduced to the great au-
dience besides the premier and the
Hon. C. M. Hamilton and Hon. Chas.
Doherty, were the following noted
men in the cooperative movement:
C. Rice Jones, gencarI manager Of
the U. G.. G., Winnipeg; George Keen,
general manager of one Cooperative
Union of Canada; J. B. Musselman,
vice president, Sask. Cooperative
Elevator Co.; F. w. Riddell, general
manager; w. C. Mills, secretary; j..
A. McPhail, president, The Wheat
Pool; d. McRrae, general manager,
and George Robertson, secretary; j.
A. Gregory, president Of the Sask-
atchewan Cooperative Creameries,
Ltd; A. D. Mclean, general manager;
A. G. Rattray, secretary; A. E. Viii
son, president, Municipal Hail AssO-
citation; E. G. Hingley, secretary; w.
/ w. Thomson, manager western branch
Canadian Cooperative Wool Pro
ducers; H. S. Markham, secretary;
George Spence, H. L. a., president
Saskatchewan Registered Seed Asso-
citation; NJ. P. Tullis, of the co-opera-
ton and markets branch, and S. H.
Vigor, commissioner; Ed. Evans, man
ager, Southern Saskatchewan CC-Op-
erative Stockyards, Moose Jaw
George Edwards, provisional chair
man, Saskatchewan Egg and Poultry
Pool; Mrs~J McNaughtcn, secretary;
H. w. Ketcheson, chairman of the
Saskatchewan Agricultural Co-opera-
tive Associations; F. Hedley Aud
deputy minister of agriculture; w
Waldron, commissioner of the coop
Grafton and markets branch of the de-
partment Of agriculture
Addressing the great crowd Premier
c. A. Dunning of Saskatchewan, un
like Montana politicians, did not
praise his audience, but vigorously
criticized the drawbacks of some
farmers organizations. He did no
speak as a politician currying favol
with the voters but as a man talking
to his fellow farmers. He said il
part:
"Some characteristics appear to b
common with coo-peratOrs. If / ap
pear to be critical, l you'd Away
rather be a constructive critic than
fatterer. There is, as a first char
acteristic, tendency to quarrel. On
of the greatest difficulties compliance
of at the conference was the lack o
, cooperative spirit. Perhaps that
natural. The cooperative idea is
, forward-looking idea, and the ma
: who is forward-looking tends to b
rather a talkative individual. Whe
) one like that gets into similar CON
pany, there is need Of the co-opers
, tive spirit if anything good is to re
suit.
'In Saskatchewan we talk a grea
? deal about the cooperative spirit, bU
cooperation and intolerance are tw
f words that are not synonymous.
! Must Demonstrate
) ct also found in this conference
! tendency On the part of co-operatOl
to insist that the particular form {
J cooperation in which they are Ell
gagged is the only true form, and tn;
all others are false. We have all g
that disease. I wonder if there
not something to be learned fro
that? We are today making tt
meaning of the word cooperation.
has no scientific definition at the pre-
n ent time. We are finishing nothing
we are developing everything in CO.
. nection with it. Can we not, as C
operators, demonstrate more of Il
cooperative spirit, teach to Othe
undertakings and beliefs with less
tolerance and prejudices? More C
operative enterprises have founder
r. on the rocks of disagreement as
what the scientific definition of Il
" word was and the application of ce
# tain principles, than from any 9th
% cause.
Administration, Management
"There is also the tendency to
IS leve that if the broad principle
sound, questions of administrati