, 1935-02-17
Cooperation, or Failure?
An Address Before the Citrus Institute b.
Delta Orchards Company's Manager

We shall save our faces as well as our
business.
st. John IRVINE made this signi-
ficant statement: The first thing
that any reasonable creature dis
Govern Is that he cannot live as amply
as he wishes to live II he does exact
" what he likes In disregard OF 9TH
er people. The moment that every
body starts to do exactly as he likes.
nobody Is able TO do anything that
ne likes"
II We take the philosophy OF that
statement to heart. u task Will %
greatly simplified.
But" you ask. IF we are 20 sur
render our three organizations, VINO
is to reshape the new one7"
That may be the very center OF
this difficulty. It may be quite I'M
possible for our neighbor to say, Let
me show you how TO operate this
thing. You move over and let me
pull these levers awhile. Human ma
ture has q tendency to come up on
top at a time like that.
We have not forgotten how III
ficult 1t was for washington society
to compose the question Of prece-
dence that arose between Dolly Gam
and Alice Longworth. The nation got
a good laugh out Of that tempest
in a tea pot" While we are trying
to compose our trouble here, We
should preserve our sense Of humor.
But why not ourselves and our
neighbors under the strain hat would
result II any particular individual
should select himself as the leader.
II this suggestion 70 taken serious
ly7
Can II not be avoided wholly II
we call in some national character
who has established hts reputation
for unselfish labor. and who has
proven his capacity as a negotia-
err
We CRY for someone who can arbi-
trate our differences fairly and who
can offer a plan so workable that II
will be accepted by the executive
committees OF the Co-operatives,
which will be ratified by their
boards Of directors to avoid mis-
UNDERSTANDS
Undoubtedly an outsider would
have to be selected for that service
Surely 1t would be too great a strain
on human nature TO put n OF u
neighborS on such q rack Of torture
as this arbitrator would find him
self hanging on.
What compensation should such
an organizer and arbitrator have7
Certainly it should be ample. II
would require but a small portion OF
the sale price Of each box Of fruit
handled this season by the three ex-
changes.
Doubtless this matter could be
provided for by vote Of the members.
requesting our boards Of directors 70
pay that expense out Of the re-
serves that will ordinarily be dis
! burSed at the end Of the season.
without question, any plan worked
out by an organizer and arbitrator
would include a new membership
drive SO set up that II would have
cur hearty and irresistible support.
Such a drive would bring every
grower into the new set-up.
This In substance Is the heart OF
my suggestion ! would only ask In
addition that our members talk this
over with the members Of our sew
eral boards and with the members
OF the executive committees, and that
the boards of directors Of each unit
and OF the several co-operativeS, at
their next meetings, indicate their
reaction TO the proper exceptlve
committees, and that the press OF
the Valley. az has been its patriotic
custom. open its pages so far as It
can consistently, TO such discussion
OF this question as you may wish TO
conduct through that forum.