Brownsville herald. [volume], May 30, 1929, Page FOUR, Image 4

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Co-operative Plan !
Endangered By Farm
Relief, Experts Say
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YAKIMA. Wash., May 30—Co
operative growers would do well to
scrutinize the present movement
lor legislation along the line of
farm relief, according to J. W. He
bert. general manager of the Yak
ima Fruit Growers' association. In
discussing this subject of the Big
Y Bulletin. Mr. Hebert said:
"In these days when cooperative
marketing is being laid down as
the fundamental basis on which
farm relief Is predicated by con
gress and all those who have this
matter in hand, from President
Hoover down. It behooves the ex
isting successful cooperative asso
ciations to 'Stop. Look and Listen*
before endorsing the type of legis
lation which is being proposed.
Wholesale credits to cooperatives
which may be formed under the
stimulus of government aid and
with the mistaken ides that by
some peculiar legerdemain sur
pluses will be absorbed without, de
pressing markets, may or may not
be a good thing for existing co
operatives which have by hard ex
perience finally established them
selves firmly In the commercial
activities of their respective indus
tries.
"Are we to have a mushroom
crop of hot-house cooperat ives,
most of which must eventually fail,
is a question we may well ask our
selves. If so. is It a good thtng for
the advancement of the co-opera
tive movement? Or does it hold a
grave danger of setting back this
great economic agricultural de
velopment which is slowly but sure
ly winning Us way? To discredit
the cooperative form of organiza
tion in the eyes of the business
world by numerous failures would
be a serious thing: to discredit it
in the eyes of the producers would
be fatal.
"Even now with the government
departments lending their influence
to furthering the cause of coopera
tives. with state and national legis
lation ind the courts favoring and
fosterirg the movement, with the
United States Chaniber of Com
merce and industrial and educa
tional leaders throughout the
country endorsing the plan of-col
lective marketing for agriculture,
we still have a great part of the
public rho look upon cooperative
marketing as somethink akin to
socialism or at best, something
which isn't just right.
"Where do they get this idea?
Probably from the wide publicity
which is given to every mistake or
failure which occurs in the coopera
tive field, and probably because the
private corporation is accepted ev
erywhere and glorified as the one
way of doing business successfully—
or both. The cooperative, being a
semi-public institution, is constant
ly placed in the limelight by the
daily press—usually in an unfavor
able light, if the publisher is
schooled in the old order of things,
as is mast likely
“The public and the dailv giress
lightly overlook the fact that 95
per cent of private enterprises fail
within a short time, although they
have more than a century of ex
perience in corporation methods to
profit by, and the average corpora
tion only attains a dividend paying
basis after seven years of opera
tion.
"While public opinion is an im
portant factor and it takes courage
and a fighting spirit at times for
the struggling co-onerative to carry
on in the face of it. the respect
of the grower for his co-operative
is even more essential to Its suc
cess. Without the high regard of
the producer for his co-operative
organization or his respect for this
method of marketing, no coopera
tive can succeed or probably even
be organized in an antagonistic or
indifferent community. And no co
operative can rse higher than th»
common level of the respect of Its
membership.
"Congress can legislate a thou
sand co-operatives into temporary
existence, which Is just the begin
ning, but It cannot make them suc
ceed even with the wealth of the
United States government behind
them Too much credit is as often
destructive to economic endeavor as
too little Experience and a trained
personnel and th» adoption of
sound business principles which
have proven thslr worth in private
business are as essential in co
operative marketing as in corpora
tion systems of trading for a pro
fit on dollars invested in capital
stock.
"The existing successful co-opera
tive organizations which have be
come strong only as a result of
long years of experience and pains
taking work and after many trials
and tribulations, have cause to
watch the trend of farm relief
legislation now pending with no lit
tle concern, lest we have another
•surplus,* In this ease of coopera
tives so-called whose uncertain
tenure of life may prove a menace
to the great economic agricultural
movement of which they are the
pioneers.
"The government virtually washes
Its hands of all responsibility and
passer, the buck to the cooperative
association by giving them $500.
000.000 with which to stabilize the
industry. If they fail, as probably
they will, for the provisions of the
law go against established economic
laws, the cooperative movement
will bear the odium of that failure.
“They will fail because the gov
ernment has laid down in the law
provisions which in fact say that
the government fund? shall be
used to buy surpluses and sell them
presumably at a profit on the do
mestic and foreign markets, prefer
ably on the foreign markets. The
inevitable result will be that prices
must be stabilized at a figure that
will dispose of the surpluses, which
means that the price for the entire
production must of necessity seek
the level fixed by the stabilization
corporations for the surpluses.
‘The ridiculous feature of the law
is the provisions that they shall not
be fixed so high as to be objection
able to the consumer and yet high
enough to return a profit to the
producer, if the trouble Is over
production brought about by exten
FORMER - FUTURE I
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(By The Associated Press.)
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NEW ORLEANS—If policemen
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ders are that It shall b» done pri
vately end not in public places.
Julius O. Relngart has been fined
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drink stand.
GRADE ‘A’ DAIRYMEN
WILL MEET THURSDAY
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A meeting of all grade “A” dairy
I men in Cameron county has been
called for Thursday night by R C.
Graham, county sanitarian. The j
meeting will be held at the city
hall beginning at 8 p. m.
Matters of particular nterest to ;
dairvmen of this class will be dis- !
mssed. Graham stated He urges
that all fce present that can possi- [
bly attend.
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sive use of farm machinery, then
to increase credits on a wholesale
basis will simply act to further In
crease production and aggravate [
the situation. The whole scheme ;
is in effect on attempt to have the |
farmer pull himself out ol,the mire
by his boot straps.
“In spite of the fact that practi
cally every co-operative organize- j
tion in the states of Washington
and Oregon and all the large fruit1
interests of the Northwest are op
posed to having apples included in ;
the bill and have expressed their :
wishes most emphatically to repre- 1
sentatives in congress and in spite
of the fact that they have gone j
on record opposing the stabilization J
features of the bill, nevertheless |
the senate voted by an overwhelm- j
ing majority aginst taking apple? ]
out of the bill. In other words the 1
apple industry is to have this bill ;
crowded down its throat whether It
wants it or not."
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