Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1940-02-22
Will You Stick or Get Stuck

You're we'll your way toward solution Of
your milk problem. You've demonstrated your ability
to through situation, to help your ghbor as
we'll yourself and to stand together sort
of economic Justice. You've ed your brains
and the Better Buyers be justly proud of them
selves and those others Who have Joined hands with
then.
The meeting tomorrow night will probably see
great things settled and you may yourselves
out of the woods. And so you are-unless you lose
the common sense which helped you get out Of the
woods. don't have to tell you what price war Is
nor do have to tell you that it is waged for
the benefit of the consumer. THERE'S not one of US
VINO hasn't seen prices go scooting down, taken adj
vantage of the lower prices with a certain lifted
eyebrow, and then them 60 rocketing soward a.
gain when the objective has been gained. And the
objective -remenber-is never the consmer's gainl
don't want to make doleful prophesy, but Ill
be very surprd sed gal if of the diaries who
don't get the buying agreement find it extremely
pedi tious to drop the price of milk. You've been
told by the da4ries that the price has gone
because they "couldn't afford to sell milk
old price due to the advanced prices the milk
bought wholesaler. The situation will not have
changed, you'll know that isn't the reason for
the drop. You'll know-you'n be bound to lmowI-
that the only reason for q drop in price from any
dairy outside the buying combine Is to break the
back of the buying coop.
Tim terribly afraid that some of you WIZ have
signed the purchasing agreement going to fall
for milk at lower price than your buying club
give you. I'm so afraid some of you are going to
say, well, have to make every penny stretch
far as can, and if I few cents on milk
by buying from Blankis Dairy, going to do it.u
And If you do, and the back of the buying club is
broken because of your ac on, and then the price
milk goes back to thirteen cents quart and higher,
and dairy which has been awarded because
of best quality and price loses money and walks
out and refuses to touch with ten foot pole, it
Will just be rotten shame Not just because you've
Let US down with bump, not just because you've let
the diaries sell down the river and your self with
the rest of US, but because you'll have destroyed
theory which idealists say is true-that humans are
naturally cooperative and intelligent enough
see the wisdom of pulling together and you will have
demonstrated the truth of another theory which says
that humans are essentially sci fish and too
sighted to see an ultimate good. You'll have given
the lie to everything we're trying to build up In
Greenbelt, you'll have given the lie to the brother
hood of man, you'll have given the lie to the old
cartoon of the two dreys tied together who practi-
ca11y strang1ed themselves trying to eat opposite
piles of hay until they got the idea of eating
pile and then both going to the other. You'll
have given the lie to the trick that children with
pair of scissors, where they make few ships on
folded paper, give flip to the paper and there is
a long line of little boys girls holding hands.
The symbol Of cooperation. And if you the weak
link in that chain, and you break and make of the
rest of us nothing but scrap paper-boy, we 60
ing to hate your gutst