The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 24, 1921, Page 11

- 2 [ L Tty R #pe iy - principally organized on the Raiffei- sen plan, German farmers, at no stage in _their co-operative career, were com- “pelled to fight for progress. On the other hand, the government, from the time of Frederick the Great till the outbreak of the war, was constantly seeking to devise new means of mak- ing farming a. profitable business and of enabling farmers to save money through state credit, state insurance and co-operative marketing. A ‘cen- tury ago agricultural high schools were established. Representatives of farmers were welcomed in the councils of the government. MILITARISM CAUSE OF GERMAN DISASTER The wholehearted interest of the German government in the German farmer enabled a small country, with poor soil, to support a population al- most as large as that of the United States. But the fact that the German farmer was so well treated by the Ger- man government made him less watchful of that government. The German farmer did not develop a fighting spirit. He had no chance to develop a ‘strong and militant organ- ization to battle for needed reforms because the reforms were installed by the government itself long before the majority of the farmers could have been converted to them. The result was that the German farmer, believing that the German government was always looking after his best interests, did not spend enough time looking after the govern- ment. And the German government built along the lines of militarism and wrecked the German nation and the German farmer along with it. Cuts Bread Cost Co-Operative Bakery in Utica Turns the Trick N UTICA, N. Y; 92 workingmen got togeth- er in 1915 with an av- erage capital of less than $15 each, purchased an old bakery and remodel- ed it into a co-operative institution. The first year their sales were $20,000, out of which a cash rebate of 5 per cent was paid to members in addition to expanding the business and laying aside a reserve fund. By the end of 1919 the Utica Co-Operative society - had over 300 members, was doing a business of more than $72,000 a year, and besides paying rebates of from 6 per cent to 10 per cent to members, had banked a surplus of $25,000, bought new quarters and built a mod- ern bakery in conjunction with a hand- some grocery store. Since January 1, 1920, the membership has increased nearly 30 per cent, business has dou- bled and a paid-up capital of $27,000 was established. WORKMEN MUST HAVE CO-OPERATIVE SPIRIT The manager of this very success- ful bakery gives some sound advice for other groups who are planning similar enterprises: “The most important thing in start- ing a co-operative bakery is that the bakers working in the co-op. bakery are co-operators at heart, so that they have a sense of working for them- selves and not for a boss.. They will then of their own accord see to it that nothing is wasted and that the baked goods are as good as can be made. And with quality and right prices, you can not help but get the trade and good will of your members and others. - “Whenever conditions permit, €0-0p. bakeries - should be established 'and conducted in connection with a gro- cery store. Both will help each other and keep down the overhead, thereby making the savings returns Iarger." There is only one way to cut the cost of bread: Farmers’ co-operation can eliminate the speculators and middle- men at their end of the system, while the consumers can stop the leaks at their end through co-operative bak- eries. Bakeries are one of the com- monest forms of co-operation all over Europe. In Christiania, Norway, the citizens have just opened the largest bakery in Scandinavia, capable of sup- plying the needs of 120,000 people. The Belgian co-operators have built their political, fraternal and co-oper- _ative activities around.the bakery. For bread is an article of such universal use that every citizen in town profits through membership in the co-opera- tive bakery. A congressional committee investi- gating the high cost of living in the District of Columbia found that one of the big bakers made a profit of-$315,- 059 during the preceding year, in addi- tion to his own salary of $30,000, not counted as profit. The farmer who gets 4 cents a pound for his wheat and the consumer who pays 1 cent an ounce for his bread are the victims of all ‘the intervening middlemen who make their millions out of the staff of alife, Belgian Imported Melotte ES MELOTTE-—“The Edison of Europe’’—has again placed his Great Belgian Melotte Cream Separator on the American market and is. continuing his great pre-war offer to the American farmer. Free Trial—Small First Payment— Easy Terms— Duty Free. You, who have wanted the world’s greatest separator write for catalog right away. Find out why 500,000 Melotte Separators are in usetoday. 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