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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-13
Build Big Business

The story or the 1Santl county Coop Association in Cambridge, Minn., is typical. There a coop was organized in 1892. The original capital raised amounted to $1,700.
 Since that time the co-op has paid back to it's members $26,000 in patronage dividends and built a business valued at $30,000. In the first six months of 1885 1t did a business of 6l,000.
 At the same time, encouraged by their success in the oil business, the members opened grocery store that had a turnover of $24,500 in its first five months of operation.
 Albert Lea, Minn., presents an- other example of coop growth. An oil and gas group started there in 1925 with capital of $500. Tn tho 10 years of it's existence it has returned to the community more than $250,000 in patronage divi- dends.
 It operates seven bulk plants, { serving farmers throughout the county. Just recently 1t invaded the county seat and set up super service station that is going strong. Runs Shoestring Into Fortune
 Almost next door, in Rochester, Minn., is 8 group that started in 1930 with a small gas station. Today 1t operates II small stations, fou1 bulk plants, and a warehouse handling tires, batteries, and access sorks. It operates 8 fleet of 13 tank trucks.
 Its 1884 business amounted to B33O,o00. It handled a total gallon- age of 1,300000. Standard of In- diana, with @ lot more money in- vested, came ip second with total of 100000 gallons.
 Heading the set-up of which these co-ops are members is the Midland Cooperative Wholesale. It started in business in 1925 with a few hundred dollars capital, which was promptly tied up in & closed bank.
 Tn 1881 this wholesale had ad- vanced to the point where 1t owned its own oil blending plant, turning out coop brands of oil. Last year it did 6 business close to $2,000,000 Snubbed; Buys Out Rival
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-13

the club rooms Sunday morning ct II o'clock.
Evening star., 1936-07-20
Rest at Sea.

President Roosevelt Is well-advised to
have recourse to the sea in his search
for a place to rest. At the moment of
his departure for his marine holiday he
said that he prayed for fog"-a cur
tain of haze to protect him from intru-
sion. Experience has taught him that
Chief Executive ordinarily has no more
privacy than the proverbial goldfish. On
land he has an audience constantly;
also, he is available for incessant inter-
ruption. The bounding main, then, pro-
vides about the only escape he may enjoy.
And Mr.. Roosevelt is fortunate in being
equipped with temperamental affection
for the water. Calvin Coolidge and Her
bert Hoover, on the other hand, lacked
the nautical instinct and found scant
pleasure in sailing. Indeed, 1t is neces-
Sary to go back to Grover Cleveland to
find a natural-born yachtsman among
occupants of the White House-he sought
the isolation of cruise on one occasion
when his physicians desired seclusion for
q delicate operation which they were
obliged to perform in the interest of his
health.
But it is mental recreation, not merely
physical leisure, that MIR. Roosevelt
wants. The past several months have
been more strenuously busy than the
Evening star., 1936-07-20
Judicial Duck Soup.

Judge Mattingly has rendered the
Communist party Of America distinct
service by his ill-advised lecture on Com
munism, which he delivered from the
bench the other day in sentencing two
persons to pay a fine of twenty-five
dollars or spent thirty days in jail for
distributing Communistic handbills at
the ball park.
The offense with which these persons
was charged was distributing literature
In a public place in violation OF police
regulations. That the distributors were
Communists, that the literature advised
persons to vote the Communist ticket,
had nothing to do with the case. The
same charge would have rested with
equal force, under the law, against per-
sons violating police regulations by dis
tributing handbills at the Roosevelt noti-
fcation ceremony advising the public to
vote for Governor Landon and to tune
in on his next radio speech.
When judges make the injudiciouS mis-
take of rendering irrelevant dicta from
the bench against Communists and Com
munism, when the charge against the
defendants before him has nothing to do
with Communists or Communism, they
help the Communist party. For what
the Communist party needs now, more
than anything else, is to be taken seri-
ously.
Judge Mattingly's little anti-Com-
munist speech is duck soup for the Com
munistS.
Evening star., 1936-07-20
Local Budget Procedure.

In commenting last month on the fact
that the amount of the Federal contri-
button to Capital City expenses will not
be known until the President submits his
recommendations on the subject to the
next Congress, in compliance with the
terms of the District appropriation act,
The Star suggested that the Commits
sioners either would submit to Congress,
through the Budget Bureau, budget
based on District needs-without refer
ence to anticipated revenue availability
or delay the submission of any budget
until the amount of the Federal contri-
button becomes known.
The latter procedure would appear to
be more logical. A budget is supposed
to contain the proposed expenditures to
be made from an accurately estimated
amount of revenue. Otherwise, it is no
budget-merely list of proposed ex-
penditures. But the Budget Bureau may
insist that the Commissioners submit
their proposals for bureau approval. In
such case the list of proposals to be
submitted should cover all the ground
OF essential District needs
What is the procedure to be? The
department heads at the District Build
ing are even now working on their pre-
liminary estimates, wisely cautioned by
Maj. Donovan to exercise every rea-
sonable economy. Under normal condi-
lions these estimates would be submitted
to the bureau by the middle Of next
month. But under present conditions
no one has the fainteSt idea of what
amount the President will propose should
come from the National Government as
joint participant in Capital City f1nanc-
ing. Nobody knows, in other words, how
much money the District will have avail
able for expenditure.
Regardless of what else is done, one
thing that should by all means be avoided
Is the submission to the Budget Bureau
of partial budget made up only of
those items that can be financed from
local tax revenues. Such a partial budget
would present false picture of local
needs. 1t would necessarily be confined
to mere maintenance, on a restricted
scale, Of the most essential activities. It
could include none of the long-delayed
school building or other improvement
projects. 1t would distort the accurate
conception OF the joint responsibility be-
tween the National Government and the
local community in financing National
Capital needs. Local tax revenues and
the national contribution, representing
the national obligation in support OF
the National Capital, are inseparable and
indiviSible. Each forms a part of Dis
trict revenues. The amount of District
revenues will not become known until
the Presidents recommendations are
made. A partial District budget, con-
templating the expenditure of revenues
from local taxation alone, would be OF
little use to anybody.
Evening star., 1936-07-20

public has realized. In q single day q
fortnight ago the President studied and
signed or otherwise disposed Of seventy
bills passed in the firal hours Of Con-
gress. Each separate piece Of legislation
represented q problem which had to be
solved before the end Of ten days after
adjournment; none could be accorded
approval until its merit had been con-
clusively established in the mind Of the
individual who, above all others, is re-
sponsible for administrative policy. The
mere reading of the text of nine hundred
and sixty five different acts in one ses-
sion is tedious task. Yet Mr.. Roosevelt
perforce performed the labor of it.
No wonder, then, that the President
chose to take his vacation on the ocean.
Even though he still is watched by re-
porters and keeps in touch with land by
radio he is as completely exempt from
coercive routine as 1t Is feasible for him
to be the while he continues to support
the burden of his Office and its duties,
the most difficult job in the world.
Evening star., 1936-07-20
s'This Fine, Pretty World"

Percy Mackaye once wrote play about
q ne'er-do-well Kentucky mountaineer
who, despite plethora of troubles, still
insisted that "this fine, pretty world"
is wonderful place in which to live.
The man loved romance and laughter,
color and adventure; and he found those
values even in poverty and degradation,
hardship and suffering. His philosophy,
it seems, might be extended also to
include the age-"this fine, pretty time"
in which so much goes wrong and yet
so much somehow goes right.
Think Of the marvellous triumphs that
practical science is winning for children!
A boy accidentally is hit in the corner
of an eye by steel bullet carelessly
fired from a theoretically harmless air
rifle. Mercifully, the pellet misses the
eyeball Instead, it lodges deep in the
optic socket beyond the reach of sur
geon's probe. But there is no reason
for despair. In hospital operating room
an electric magnet, skillfully directed,
draws out the missile; the wound heals
and within a fortnight the patient is
recuperating in camp, none the worse
for his experience.
Another lad crosses the Pacific from
Australia to America to have nail
removed from his lungs, wonderful
invention perfected by a Philadelphia
physician accomplishing the miracle in
seven minutes. By grace of radio the
small visitor then converses with his
father back home, nearly ten thousand
miles distant.
Meanwhile, a little girl has her in
verted stomach corrected" and happily
anticipates the first degree of normal
health she ever has known. And
Evening star., 1936-07-20
Revolt in Spain.

Chronic unrest, prevalent in Spain ever
since the Radical Fronts accession to
power in the February election, has fared
at last into something approximating
revolution. Following an army rebellion
against the government in Spanish
Morocco and the Canary Islands, the
Leftist cabinet of Premier Quiroga has
quit Office, leaving former President
Barrio, as chief of the Republican Union,
to carry on with a stop-gap ministry
amid conditions that are immeasurably
precarious.
Events plunged toward crisis at the
end of last week after the assassination
of Senior Sotelo, leading Monarchist
deputy, supposedly by elements identi-
fled with the Radical regime. FaScistS
joined Royalists in the bitter hue and
cry that the Leftists in power were bent
upon setting up a Republican dictator
ship under Socialist-Communfst control.
Fears of such development Spurred the
army, long resentful of Intellectual prole-
tartan rule at Madrid, into open insurrec-
ton, which manifested itself in an up
rising of the 10000 troops stationed In
Spanish Morocco. Government ships and
planes were ordered into action against
the rebels at Melilla and Ceuta and
prompt steps were taken to prevent the
revolt from spreading across the narrow
strait separating the Spanish mainland
from North Africa. Meantime soldiers at
Cadiz, Barcelona, Seville and other points
rebelled, precipitating violent clashes
with government forces.
From his vantage point of exile in
Italy, ex-King Alfonso doubtless observes
the troublous course of affairs within
his former realm with hopefully longing
gaze. While only super Right
lists envision the possibility Of monarch
ical restoration, events indicate that
Spain is heavily saturated with conserva-
tive sentiment and ready to resort to
force to check the swing to extreme rad
icalism. To that end faith is pinned
mainly on the army. Former War Minis
ter Robles, chief anti-Leftist leader, re-
Gently predicted that the army would
revolt unless the reign of terror ascribed
to the Communists and revolutionary
Socialists was halted by the government.
That prophecy seems to be bearing fruit.
General Franco, leader of the rebellious
troops in Morocco, was Robes chief of
staff at Madrid. He has been frequently
mentioned as probable captain general
of military uprising.
Spain thus becomes the first arena
of determined hostility to the Radical
regimes which this year has seen sue
ceSSiVely swept into Office there and in
France and Belgium. In each of those
three countries. groups Of varying
Fascist hue are leagued to overthrow
Socialist or combined Socialist Com.
munist ascendancy. Extremist Labor
factions of more or less revolutionary
tendencies aggravate the situation. In
Spain everything depends upon the
ability of the civilian authorities to cope
with the army. The military rank and
file are bitterly dissatisfied with the
LeftiSt government. They have been de-
of suppressing the disorders, accom-
panied by heavy loss of life and property,
which have kept Spain in incessant tur-
MOL and terror for the past five months.
Evening star., 1936-07-20

Canadian country doctor. unprepared
for emergency, brings five baby sisters
into "this fine, pretty world" at single
birth and, still more incredibly, manages
to keep them alive.
The list might be prolonged endlessly.
Men fly above the poles, commute over
the Atlantic and the Pacific, climb the
stratosphere, plumb hitherto unmeasured
depths of the sea, develop wireless teleg-
raphy and telephony, make pictures
talk, photograph the stars, weigh the
planets, analyze the atom, double the
presumption of life in less than three
centuries, decrease by more than half
the toll of maternal mortality, recon-
struct the shattered faces of wounded
men rescued from battlefields, halt the
progress of typhus and tuberculosis,
stamp out yellow fever and smallpox,
construct huge water-power generators,
electrify railroads, harness the tides OF
the ocean to the uses Of industry.
To dramatic the issue one has only
to glance out of window. Any pass
ing automobile will suffice to prove the
point. Represented in it. pulsing un-
seen within it, is gasoline motor-a
device so utterly magical as to be un-
imagined a mere fifty years ago! The
genius of it's sponsors has set the clock
of human advancement forward by a
far more notable span.
Mr.. Mackaye's hero was well-advised
to be joyful. 1t is, incontrovertibly, a
"fine, pretty world" and a fine, pretty
time" People, conscious of enhanced
evolution, are not discouraged.
Evening star., 1936-07-20
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Dear Sir: Your remarks in This and
That about squirrels drinking bring to
mind droll happening in our yard just
few weeks ago.
There is a bird bath about 18 inches
OF the ground very near to a beautiful
Grape myrtle bush, which you can imagine
Is the delight Of all the birds.
"Our breakfast window overlooks this
spot, and one morning our handsomest
squirrel was romping about in the Grape
myrtle, and to our great surprise landed
stomach down in the middle OF the bird
bath.
"He jumped up into the branches and
Scolded for about two or three minutes
in a manner indicative of great rage with
himself, then began buSily cleaning him.
self up like a cat as you describe.
II had never seen q squirrel do this.
He licked and licked, and that seemed to
be too slow, so he got down on the
branches Of the shrub and rubbed his
stomach along the bark
Finally, after giving his tail final
touch and getting himself in order, he
descended to the ground and stood up on
his hind legs, his front paws reaching
to the edge of the bath, pulled himself
up, squatted there on the edge and took
long drink.
1T is our belief that he had wanted
a drink in the first place, but fumbled,
as it were, and got himself wet.
Il wish to take this opportunity to
tell you how much enjoy your remarks
at various times about the birds. Wash
ington seems to have so many, and right
in the city. We live within block Of
Meridian Park and we have bluejays,
cardinals, robins, starlings, sparrows,
blackbirdS, thrushes, wrens and others I
cannot identify. To watch a blackbird
take chunk Of bread over to the water,
dunk" it and wait around until it is
soft enough to eat is better than most
comedies one pays to see. Very truly
yours, m. M. o."
There is very real point in this very
interesting letter, and that is the great
amusement value of watching birds, ami
mails, plants, weather, etc.
There is comedy, tragedy, drama every
minute of the time for those who have
the preliminary urge to be interested.
without this urge Nature becomes a
bore, or threat.
With it Nature becomes a vast stage
whereon natural actors strut their parts,
some with sound and fury, some comic
ally, as man sees it; some heSitatingly,
some boastingly.
These fine scenes crop up everywhere
so that one is never at loss for this
entertainment.
Man and his works are wonderful.
If you want to see something as dramatic
as anything look up the chemical formula
for carotene, the pro-vitamin A, and con-
trast it with the formula of the true
vitamin A.
Those sggregationS Of symbols, rang
ing across an entire page, show how
the mind Of man has searched and found
out something.
Such things are incredible, but the
natural things are even more so. If we
view them rightly.
This mental attitude Is, In q way,
scientific. That Is, the observer of
Natures plays is not content to say, "Oh,
a pretty bird" and forget about it.
He has the urge to know more, upon
which all human advancement has been
built.
And upon which, too, entertainment is
built.
"Life IS Joke, and all things show it;
thought so once, and now know it."
Evening star., 1936-07-20
Shooting Stars.
The Indomitable Song.
BY PHnANpER JOHNSON.

The Indomitable Song.
Oh, mocking bird, you seem to hear,
Despite the discord and the storm,
The songs that sound when friends are
near,
Holding them still in memory warm.
Though clouds are dark In yonder sky,
Your gladdest song you still preserve.
sometimes listen with sigh
And wonder how you have the nerve!
In ridicule you may repeat
The cackle or the snarling cav;
Then you resume your singing sweet,
And happiness is still your law.
OF fairest blossoms still you tell,
Beneath the rainbows radiant curve,
And to all sorrow bid farewell
wonder how you have the nervel
Evening star., 1936-07-20
Self-DeceptiOn,

"Why don't you marry some good
MANI"
1.-THE trouble is" said Miss Cayenne,
''that any lady who finds q man who
really interests her Is likely to be mis-
led by her own imagination. His appre-
ciation of her makes her think he must
have extraordinary taste and discrimi-
nation"
Evening star., 1936-07-20
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
On the Pool.

Dragon-fiies from marble rim
Ger the fountain water skim,
Hovering, f1uttering. In sunlight
Seeming dark Of wing, then bright,
Blue as ether, green as trees,
Darling, fitting, Ill at ease.
Sun-suffused their restless wings,
Opalescent, brilliant things
Blown along by breezes cool;
Water babies of the pool.
Evening star., 1936-07-20

Government organization will have
the attention of Senator Harry F. Byrd
Of Virginia. 1t is proudly remembered
that from Virginia came some of the
forefathers who are regarded as having
organized the best government.
Evening star., 1936-07-20

Halle Selassie has been absent from
the news dispatches for so long that
fears are felt that he may be at work
on an underground campaign against d
Duce from somewhere within the Alpine
area.
Evening star., 1936-07-20
Choosing q Course.

CMOOSInS . COufSts
You must try to see both side Of
every question"
81 do" answered Senator Sorghum.
"But the effort to do so win make it
hard to go straight ahead If you per-
sist until it renders you cross-eyed."
Evening star., 1936-07-20

The King of Kings, who has met many
exploration parties in Africa. is now con-
Quoting searching party to locate the
League of Nations.
Evening star., 1936-07-20

SPANS contribution to the turmoil Of
nations Is at least to be welcomed as
not another demonstration Of the fu-
tility Of the Geneva League.
Evening star., 1936-07-20

A third party usually has enough
communistic sentiment present to desire
a new distribution of all tangible assets.
including votes.
Evening star., 1936-07-20

bonds with the proceeds. Bonus bonds,
If held until maturity, will pay 3 per .
cent interest. Baby bonds pay an average
of 30 per cent.
(Copyright, 1850
Evening star., 1936-07-20

Prisoners who have money can buy
extra luxurieS. Glass distinction Is so
insidious that it peryades even the
peniteatiary.
Evening star., 1936-07-20
Memory MiSmanased


The things that we remember
Will too often cause a sigh
That brings fame into the ember
OF q grievance long gone by.
We recall the bitter speeches
That impulsively were made
And the old mistake that teaches
While far better lessons fade.
Generous kindness seems to perish
AS we harbor vain regret
And the memories we cherish
Are the things we should forget.
Jud Tunkins says as soon as man
says psychological" you. can make up
your mind that pretty soon you are not
going to understand what he is talking
about.
"vice," said HI Ho, the sage Of
Chinatown, "is in many cases pitiful
ignorance frankly. even boastfully, con-
Tossing ITSELF"
Discrepancy.
Amid the Nations hopes and fears
A curious fact youu note,
The man who gets the longest cheers
May land the shortest vote.
Arguments kin often start" said
Uncle Eben, mot 50 much because
sumpin' is wrong as because q lot O.
folks 5es' natchelly Like b axsNe."
Evening star., 1936-07-20
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ised to campaign for Lemke, which is
just another way of saying against
Roosevelt.
How much good Father Coughlin has
done either his cause or himself by call
ing the President a 'liar" and a be
trayer" is decidedly questionable. That
kind Of personal attack upon the Presi-
dent may really bring aid to him. It's
something that Coughlin will have
trouble living down in the future. Now
that the Townsend convention in Cleve-
land is over, the followers of Coughlin,
Townsend and Rev. Gerald Smith of the
Huey Long share-the- wealth clubs will
be looking forward to the convention of
the National Union for Social Justice,
which is to be held the middle Of August.
The new Union party, of which Lemke is
the Self-imposed presidential candidate
with the backing of Father Coughlin-
may flower from this convention Of the
national union.
The Democrats are talking about
launching an attack on Gov. Landon on
the ground that he has been a dry Gov
ernor Of dry State. It is said that some
Of the vets in New York, Illinois, Mis-
souri, and other States are looking at the
Republican nominee slightly askance.
They want to be assured that the drys
will get no comfort from Landon If he
gets into the White House.
With national prohibition apparently
safely buried, it seems scarcely possible
that the issue will amount TO much in
the coming campaign, although the ma
tional prohibition party may put pres
idential candidate In the field. The
vets, however, had tough time Of 1t for
q dozen long years. They may remem-
Der that 1t was Roosevelt and his elec-
ton which speeded the repeal of the
eighteenth amendment.
Evening star., 1936-07-20

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