WE The source of this uncorrected OCR text may be viewed as a digital facsimile at: http://fax.libs.uga.edu/ FIFTY THOUSAND ONE DOLLAR A YEAR MEN ABOVE is an illustration of the stamps to be used in the Co-op Radio Fund Drive. The first million stamps have been printed and are now available. The stamps, postage size, green and white, are printed one hundred to a sheet and sell for a dollar per sheet. Each person contributing a dollar will receive a hundred stamps in return, and it is urged that the stamps be used on all correspondence during the coming months to tell America about cooperatives. BUY CO-OP RADIO FUND STAMPS AND HELP PUT THE CO-OPS ON THE "AIR." Organize a radio committee in your local co-op. See that every one has an opportunity to tell his neighbors about cooperatives by contributing to the radio fund. Stamps and posters, 19" x 28", using the same design as the stamps, may be obtained from: NATIONAL CO-OP RADIO FUND THE COOPERATIVE LEAGUE 167 West 12th Street New York City 181 CONSUMERS' COOPERATION OFFICIAL ORGAN Of The Consumers' Cooperative Movement in the 11 S. A. VOLUME XXVIII January—December 1942 Published by The Cooperative League of U. S. A. 167 West 12th Street, New York City 181 INDEX CONSUMERS' COOPERATION fl PAGE Accountants, National Society of Cooperative.............................................................................. 12C After the War—Full Employment, review .................................................................................... 80a After War Distribution .................................................................................................................................... 223 Aiken, Senator George D. .............................................................................................................................. 45 All American Co-op Tour .............................. ........................ .. 14 Allee, Dr. W. C. .................................................................................................................1...............! 87 Allgemeiner Konsumverein Bieder ...................................................................................................... 76 American Farmers Mutual Auto Ins. Co. .......................................................................................... 10 American Institute of Cooperatives ...................................................................................................... 17 America Reaches the Cross Roads ............................................................................................................ 3 Animals, Cooperation Among .................................................................................................................. 87 Architecture, Cooperative ...................................................................................................... 13, 150, 216 Are We Cooperators Originators or Copyers ? .............................................................................. 23 Associated Cooperatives of Northern California .................................................................. 9, 23 B Babcock, Dr. H. E. .................................................................................................................................... 17, 49 Beaton, Neil S. ............................................................................................................ 113, 145, 213^ 224 Bergengren, Roy F. .......................................................................................................................................... 200 Bituminous Coal Act, Resolution ............................................................................................................ 222 Bolles, Joshua K. ................................................................................................................................................ 95 Books, New ................................................................................................................................................... 15, 144 Boston Play Co-op .............................................................................................................................................. 59 Bowen, E. R. .............................................................................................................................. 116, 146, 173 Briefs, Dr. Goetz ....................................................................................................................................1 36 British Broadcasting Company .................................................................................................................. 63 British Cooperative Wholesale Society ............................................................................................. 76 Brooks, Dr. Lee M. ............................................................................................................................................. 107 Brophy, John ......................................................................................................................................................... 198 Broun, W. T. ..............................................................._ 104 Build Cooperatives Stronger and Faster .............................................................................. 146, 173 Business Summary of Co-op........................................................................................................................ 154 Business, Next Steps in Cooperative ................................................................................................... 207 Calkins, Gilman ................................................................................................................................................ 117 Canada and Cooperatives .............................................................................................................................. 182 Canterbury, Archbishop of ........................................................................................................................ 77 Capitol Letters ..................................................................................................................... 29, 46, 60, 75 Carpenter, J. Henry ....................................................................................................................................... 114 Carson, John ......................................................................................................... 29, 75, 140, 143, 159 Center Opens, Co-op ....................................................................................................................................... 78 Central States Cooperatives ........................................................................................................................ 32 Central Cooperative Wholesale ...................................................................................................... 9, 111 Chamberlain, John ............................................................................................................................................. 80 INDEX PAGE Chase, Stuart ...................................................................................................................................................... 144 Chinese Industrial Cooperatives ............................................................................................................ 223 Circle Pines Center ............................................................................................................................................. 59 Coal Case ......._..............__....___......_._-___-_«_.......__.._._......_.._••.__ 63 Colombia Cooperatives ................................................................................................................................. 77 Communications Network, Cooperative .......................................................................................... 222 Conferences Staff ..........................._......_......_._......._.........__...............__......_........._ 154 Congress Hosts, Appreciation To ............................................................................................................ 224 Constitution and By-Laws ........................................................................................................................... 224 Consumers' Cooperative Association .............................................................................. 9, 32, 44 Consumers Cooperatives Associated ...................................................................................................... 9 Consumption, Must Precede Planned Production, Organized .......................................... 65 Cooperative vs. Government Authority .......................................................................................... 131 Cooperative Society of Municipalities ................................................................................................ 77 Coordination, Keynote of 1942 National Cooperative Conferences ........................... 116 Cost Will Control a Cooperative Economy .................................................................................... 100 Council for Cooperative Business Training .................................................................................... 1 3 Cowden, Howard A. .........................................................^ 207 Cowling, Ellis ................................................................................................................................................... 95 Credit, Cooperative .................................................................................:......................................................... 200 Credit Union National Association ...................................................................................................... 110 Crisis Brings New Trends to the Co-ops .......................................................................................... 44 Customers, Here's an Idea—for Bringing in the ........................................................................ 138 D Daniels, John ...................................................................................................^ 96 Dearly Beloved, a review.......................................................................................................................... 80a Distribution Managers, Meet and Organize, Co-op .................................................................. 122 Douthit, Davis ................................................................................................................................................ 6, 122 Drive, Nationwide Co-op ........................................................................................................................... 15 Duell, Harry Sylvester ....................................................................................................................................... 80a Eastern Cooperative Recreation School .......................................................................................... 139 Eastern Cooperative Wholesale ........................................................................................ 32, 44, 111 Economic Problems, Our ......................................................................................................................... 175 Education, Report of Cooperative .......................................................................................... 148, 151 Education, Next Steps in Cooperative ................................................................................................ 202 Eliot, Charles W. .......................................................................................................................................... 178 Emerson, Alfred Edwards .............................................................................................................................. 109 End of the Procession of Panaceas, The .......................................................................................... 80 Erickson, Stanley ......................................................™^^ 219 Ethics in Economics ".... . „„.„....„..„......................................•••••.•.............-...•••..—.••......••••••.••••.....• 187 Expansion, Planned Cooperative ............................................................................................................ 222 Fairchild Dr Henry Pratt ........................................................................................................................... 175 Farm Bureau Cooperative Insurance Services .............................................................................. 12 Farmers and Cooperatives ........................................................................................................................... 195 INDEX PACE Farmers Cooperative Exchange ............................................................................................................... 9 Films ...........:............................................................................................................................................. 4, 14, 48 Finance, Report on Cooperative ............................................................................................................... 152 Finance, Next Steps in Cooperative ................................................................................................._ 206 Fowler, H. L. ...................................................................................................................................................... 182 Gallagher, Patrick ... . ...................... ...................... .......................... ................................. 80 O ' Gaxiola, Tavier Tr. . ........... .. ..... . ...... .. ........................... 184 ' j » j Government, Consumers Cooperative in Relation to ............................................................ 141 Green, Perry L. ....................................................................................................................................... 67, 206 Groceries, Get Into, Why and How ...................................................................................................... 91 Groceries, Getting Into ................................................................................................................................. 32 Grocery Sales ......................................................................................................................................................... 12 H Hansen, Alvin H. ............................................................................................................................................. 80a Harbo, Esther ......................................................................................................................................................... 42 Hayes, Helen ......................................................................................................................................................... 218 Health Program, Cooperative Employee .......................................................................................... 223 Here Is Tomorrow .................................................................................................................................... 4, 14 Here Is Tomorrow, a review .................................................................................................................. 96 Hermiston Women Built a Cooperative Laundry and Cannery, How ........................ 53 Housing, Cooperative ........................................................................................................................ 60, 219 Hoiv to Teach Consumer Cooperation, a review ........................................................................ 159 Hull, I. H. ..................................................................................................................................... 50, 115, 180 Hutchinson, Carl .................................................................................................................................... 132, 215 Ideas for Action ................................................................................................................................................... 73 Immunity to Government Restrictions, • Cooperative ............................................................ 101 Indiana Farm Bureau Cooperative Association .................................................................. 9, 44 Inflation—Prepare for Further, and Future Deflation ............................................................ 73 Ingalls, W. K. .............................................................................................................._,................................... 42 Insurance, Report on Cooperative ...................................................................:..,.......--................... 222 Inter-American Cooperation ...........................................................................................".......................... 223 International Committee for Cooperative Reconstruction ...................................................... 62 I See America Thinking ................................................................................................................................. 132 J Jacobson, George W. .................................................................................................................................... 217 Jesness, Dr. O. B. ............................................................................................................................................. 195 K Kallen, Dr. Horace M. .................................. KF, the Cooperative Union of Sweden . King, Rt. Hon. William MacKenzie .... 78 131 152 15 39 170 119 152 96 221 INDEX L PAGE Labor, Resolution on Organized ............................................................................................................ 223 Labor and Co-ops .................................................................................................................................... 131, 219 Labor and Cooperative Committee ...................................................................................................... 123 Labor and Consumer Cooperatives, Organized ............................................................ 196, 198 Legislation, Report on ................................................................................................................................... Legislative Front .................................................................................................................................................. Lehner, Anthony .................................................................................................................................................. Lehtin, Laune L. ................................................................................................................................................ 120 Lincoln, Murray D. ................................................................................................................................. Ill, Linson, Ellen Edwards ........................................................................................................................... 27, Literature, Report on ....................................................................................................................................... Literature, New .......................................................................................................................................... 32a, Logan, S. R. ............................................................................................................................................................ Looking Forward to Next Year's National and Regional Staff Conferences ...... 126 M Magazine Articles, Outstanding 1941 ................................................................................................ 14 Marlowe, Andrew ................................................................................................................................................ 216 McLanahan, C. J. ............................................................................................................ 82, 124, 138, 159 Medical Service, Cooperative ..................................................................................................................... 217 Memoriam, In ......................................................................................................................................................... 224 Mexico and Cooperatives .............................................................................................................................. 184 Midland Cooperative Wholesale ......................................................... 9, 32, 44, 62, 92, 111 Midland District Six Drives On ............................................................................................................ 6 Midwest Co-op Management Institutes Planned, More ...................................................... 125 Mil'er, Merlin .............................................................................,.........................,.................................._ 125 Müliman, E. E. ................................................................................................................................................... 196 Mitchell, Dr. Morris R. .............................................................................................................................. 55 Muench, Bishop Aloysius ........................................................................................................................... 187 Myers, Rev. James ..................................................................................................................... 123, 189, 219 N National Consumers Economic Congress Meets Again ...................................................... 162 National Cooperatives ....................................................................................................................................... 9 National Cooperative Recreation School .................................................................. 27, 119, 139 Neighbors, Hats Off to Our Cooperative .......................................................................................... 83 News of Cooperatives .................................................................................................................. 62, 76, 110 Nilsson, Henry ................................................................................................................................................... 91 Norris, Ruth ............................................................................................................................................................ 139 o Ohio Cooperative Recreation School ...................................................................................................... 139 Ohio Farm Bureau Cooperative Association ............................................................ 10, 32, 44 0. P. A. .......................................................................„.„„..:...........................................„ 30 Organization, Internal ................................................................................................................................. 155 Organization, International ....................._............................................................................................ 156 INDEX PAGE . 9 Pacific Supply Cooperative ...................................................................................................................... Paddy the Cope ...................................................................................................................................................... 98 Paddy the Cope, a review ........................................................................................................................... 80 Palestine Cooperative Wholesale ............................................................................................................ 77 Peace, Economics of Permanent ............................................................................................................ 99 Peace, Economic Steps Toward ............................................................................................................... 157 Peace, Four Steps Toward Permanent ................................................................................................ 84 Peace, Prepare for Permanent .........................................................................................................66, 131 Peace, The Economic Bases of a Just and Durable .................................................................. 68 Pennsylvania Farm Bureau Cooperative Association .......................................... 9, 32, 44 Pennsylvania's New Educational Program for Cooperative Employees and Directors ......................................................................................................................................................... 39 People's Business, The, a review ............................................................................................................ 95 Personnel, Report on ..................................................................................................................._......... 150 Plymouth Rock—1942 .................................................................................................................................... 117 Political and Economic Freedom in the World of Tomorrow .......................................... 185 Post-War Reconstruction .............................................................................................................................. 45 Poverty", "Tm Not a Student of .............................................................................................._ 130 Prices in the USA, Cooperatives Can Control .............................................................................. 34 Princeton Recreation Association .............................................................1...................................._.. 59 Prisoners of Debt—the American Consumers .............................................................................. 140 Problems of Cooperation, a review ........................................................................................._........ 63 Problems of the Consumer Cooperative Movement in the USA, Four Greatest 34 Producer to Consumer, Thinking and Action .............................................................................. 34 Production, Co-op ............................................................................................................................................. 11 Profit Road or the Cooperative Road, The ....................................................................................... 129 Program 13th Biennial Congress, Preliminary ........................................................................ 136 Program, The Cooperative ..................................................................................................................... 180 Progress in 1941, Consumer Co-op ...................................................................................................... 9 Publicity, Report on Cooperative ......................................................................................................... 151 Publici2ing Co-op Participation in the War Effort .................................................................. 222 Purpose, the Cooperative ...................................................................................................... 18 L ' L R Radio Broadcasts ..............................................................................................................................13, 21, 63 Radio Campaign ................................................................................................................................................... 221 Radio Fund Drive Under Way .................................................................................................................. 21 Radio Program .......................................................................................................................................... 47 Readers' Page, Our ....................................................................................................................................41, 58 Recreation Aids ............................................................................................................................................_.. 79 Recreation, Cooperative .................................................................................... 10, 27, 58, 148, 215 Recreation News ...................................................................................................................................__.. 59 Recreation, Why ................................................................................................................................................... 42 Refinery, Scottsbluff .................................................................................................................................._ 110 Regli, Capt. Werner E. ...........................................................................................................................23, 114 Relationship with Other Organi2ations .................................................................................... 13, 151 Relationships, National ............................................................................................................................... 155 Religion and Cooperatives ........................................................................................................................... 188 INDEX PAGE Research, Report on .................................................................................1.................................................. 149 Resolutions, 13th Biennial Congress ...................................................................................................... 221 Reviews, ......................................................................................................... 32a, 63, 80, 95, 144, 159 Road We Are Traveling, The, a review ............................................................................................ 144 Rochdale Institute ............................................................................................................ 13, 31, 217, 223 Ruf, Dr. ...............................................................................^ 22 Rural Electrification .......................................................................................................................................... 13 Scholarships, Resolution on ........................................................................................................................ 223 Schools and Cooperatives ............................................................................................................... 190, 221 Schmidt, Hans J. ............................................................................ 78 Seen at the Congress ....................................................................................................................................... 192 Self Regulators, Co-ops Are ........................................................................................................................ 98 Sink, Kip .._._...._............._..............................^ 220 Skillin, Edward, Jr. ............................................................................................................................................. 80a Smith, Robert L. ...........................................................................^ 202 Sociologists, Cooperation and the ............................................................................................................ 107 Southeast, A Cooperative Program for the ...................:................................................................ 55 Southeastern Cooperative League ............................................................................................................ 3 2 Southern States Cooperatives ..................................................................................................................... 9 Steps in Economic Progress, Three Necessary .............................................................................. 36 Strengthen and Expand Cooperatives ................................................................................................ 67 Study-Action Group Committee Meeting ....................................................................................... 124 Study Groups ......................................................................................................................................................... 13 Summer Opportunities in Cooperatives .......................................................................................... 112 Swedish Cooperatives ....................................................................................................................................... 78 Swiss Cooperators Think Things Through .................................................................................... 22 Tallapoosa School Cooperative .................................................................................................................. 97 Taproot of Permanent Peace ..................................................................................................................... 20 Tax Now or Later ............................................................................................................................................. 83 Tax Program, Cooperatives in Historic Move Present a Consumers' ........................ 143 Temple, Dr. William .................................................................................................................................... 77 Thomas, Lawrence G. ....................................................................................................................................... 58 Time to Move Forward Into Food Distribution ........................................................................ 37 Training Schools, Cooperative ....................................................................................30, 39, 44, 125 Treuenfels, Rudolf ............................................................................................................................................. 126 U Understanding, Complete .............................................................................................................................. 50 V Vine, Vernon ......................................................................................................................................................... 53 Voorhis, Congressman Jerry ............................................................................................................... 19, 185 Voorhis-Wagner Bill ....................................................................................................................................... 16 Vote, Consumers Should—Their Consumer Interests ............................................................ 159 INDEX I W PAGE War and Peace ...........................................................................^ 222 Warbasse, James P. ...................................................................................................... 63, 101, 210, 217 Wartime Planning for After the War ................................................................................................ 178 Washburn, Carleton .................................................._............................................................................. 190 Western Producer ................................................................................................................................................ 18 Wholesale Should Supply Management Service ........................................................................ 104 Why I Am So Deeply Interested in Cooperatives .................................................................. 19 Women and Cooperatives ........................................................................................................................... 218 Women's Conference .................................................................................................................................... 125 Workshop, Cooperative Recreation ...................................................................................................... 28 World Cooperative Democracy, A ...................................................................................................... 213 World Needs a Big Democratic Idea, The .................................................................................... 170 VC'orld Program, a Cooperative ............................................................................................................... 51 World-Wide Cooperation the Immediate Need ........................................................................ 210 Wright, Ruth ........................................................................................................................................................ 125 Wieting, C. Maurice ....................................................................................................................................... 159 Youth, Resolution on ....................................................................................................................................... 223 Youth and Cooperatives ............................,.............................................../!................................................ 220 Youth Conferences, Cooperative ............................................................................................................ 59 Youth League, Northern States Cooperative .............................................................................. 28 ! „ A-jyllc i i. JANUARY 1942 Scottsbluff Co-op Refinery: A Highlight of Co-op Progress in 1941 CONSUMER CO-OP PROGRESS IN 1941 MIDLAND DISTRICT SIX DRIVES ON! DavisDouthit AMERICA REACHES THE CROSSROADS Editorial SCENES FROM «HERE IS TOMORROW" »NATIONAL MAGAZINE FOR COOPERATIVE LEADERS "LET'S TELL AMERICA ABOUT COOPERATIVES!!" HE three-month drive to raise $50,000 for a National Co-op Radio Fund to "awaken America to the advantages of consumer cooperation" opened January 1. Before the Drive officially got under way, there was over $700 in the National Drive treasury. Three million Co-op Radio Fund Stamps have been printed and are being distributed to local cooperatives in all sections of the country. Plans call for the $50,000 to be collected in time for a spring radio program. One of the unique features about the cooperative movement is that it doesn't be lieve in high pressure salesmanship. The purchase of Co-op Radio Fund stamps should he looked upon as an opportunity, not a duty. But we are sure that there are hundreds of thousands of cooperators who want to help awaken America to the advantages of consumer cooperation through making a contribution to the Radio Drive. Send your contributions to: NATIONAL CO-OP RADIO FUND 167 West 12th Street New York, New York THE COOPERATIVE LEAGUE 608 South Dearborn, Chicago 167 West 12th Street, New York City 726 Jackson Place N.W., Washington, D. C DIVISIONS: Auditing Bureau, 167 West 12 St., N. Y. C. Medical Bureau, 1790 Broadway, N. Y. C. Design Service, 167 West 12 St., N. Y. C. Rochdale Institute, 167 West 12 St., N. Y. Ç. AFFILIATED REGIONAL AND NATIONAL COOPERATIVES j Name Am. Farmers Mutual Auto Ins. Co. Associated Cooperatives, N. Cal. Consumers Cooperative Wholesale Central Cooperative Wholesale Central States Cooperatives, Inc. Consumers Cooperative Association Consumers' Cooperatives Associated Consumers Book Cooperative Cooperative Distributors Cooperative Recreation Service Eastern Cooperative League Eastern Cooperative Wholesale, Farm Bureau Cooperative Ass'n Address St. Paul, Minn. 815 Lydia St., Oakland 7218 S. Hoover, L.A. Superior, Wisconsin Publication Cooportunity New Age Living oujji-ii^i, v. .„_^,.„„, Cooperative Builder 2301 S. Miliard, Chicago The Round Table N. Kansas City, Mo. Cooperative Consumer Amarillo, Texas The Producer-Consumer 27 CoentieVSlip, N.Y.C. Readers Observer 116 E. 16 St., N. Y. Consumers Defender Delaware, Ohio The Recreation Kit 135 Kent Ave., Brooklyn The Cooperator 135 Kent Aye., Brooklyn The Cooperator Columbus, Ohio raim Duicau v^jup*,i£ii.L.*. .»u.,.. ____ Farm Bureau Mutual Auto Insurance Co. Columbus, Ohio Farm Bureau Services T ---•"-- T^P:-I-:~ Farmers' Union Central Exchange Grange Cooperative Wholesale Lansing, Michigan St. Paul, Minn. Seattle, Washington kjraiige ^uupcLitiiv*. w 1,^1^.,«^ _____ ., Indiana Farm Bureau Coop. Association Indianapolis, In Midland Cooperative Wholesale *"————'•"- A/f National Cooperatives, Inc. National Cooperative Women's Guild Pacific Coast Student Co-op League Pacific Supply Cooperative Pennsylvania Farm Bureau Coop. Ass'n Southeastern Cooperative League United Cooperatives, Inc. Workmen's Mutual IFire Ins. Society Minneapolis, Minn. Chicago, 111. 608 S. Dearborn, Chicago Berkeley, Calif. Walla Walla, Wash. Harrisburg, Penn. CaiTollton, Georgia Indianapolis, Ind. 227 E. 84th St., N. Y. Ohio Cooperator Ohio Farm Bureau News Michigan Farm News Farmers' Union Herald Grange Cooperative News Hoosier Farmer- Midland Cooperator Pacific N.W. Cooperator Penn. Co-op Review Southeastern Cooperator FRATERNAL MEMBERS Credit Union National Association Madison, Wisconsin The Bridge CONSUMERS' COOPERATION OFFICIAL NATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE CONSUMERS1 COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT Volume XXVIII. No. PEACE • PLENTY • DEMOCRACY JANUARY, 1942 Ten Cents COOPERATION NEEDED BETWEEN COOPERATIVE LEADERS In a conversation with a prominent cooperative leader about the next steps ahead, he expressed himself something like this, "Cooperation means cooperation between leaders as well as among members." And then, in humility, elaborating upon why such cooperation between leaders does not always take place, he added : "We all unconsciously endeavor to build individual greatness—rather than to build cooperative greatness." And who, among cooperative leaders, would do otherwise than to confess, "Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!" Not in justification, but only in explanation, it should' be added that conversion from competition to cooperation is not completed over night when one becomes an employee of a cooperative. The spirit of competition, in which everyone has been trained, persists, as well as competitive habits of action. It is not easy to learn that to lose one's selfishness is to find one's personality as a member of a cooperative society. But, granting the personal difficulties of becoming full-fledged cooperators, and with due patience in the evolutionary process, the Cooperative Movement cannot permit any failure of its leaders to embody within themselves the spirit of the Movement preventing its fulfilling its great purpose. The Cooperative Movement rightfully demands that differences of personalities be minimized, that destructive criticism be stifled, that everyone who is chosen to a position of leader ship be humble over the great responsibility which is theirs, and that no personal position or organizational structure be allowed to interfere with whatever future steps may be necessary to BUILD COOPERATIVES STRONGER AND FASTER. This, we offer, as a general cooperative movement and cooperative leaders' resolve for 1942. An organ to spread the knowledge of the Consumers' Cooperative Movement, whereby the people, in voluntary association, purchase and produce for their own use the things they need. Published monthly by The Cooperative League of the U.S.A., 167 West 12th St., N. Y. City. E. R. Bowen, Editor, Wallace J. Campbell, Associate Editor. Contributing Editors: Editors of Cooperative Journals and Educational Directors of Regional Cooperative Associations. Entered as Seecond Class Matter, December 19, 1917, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Price $1.00 a year. ill L rtes Road-MOTION ^ $32f/Sfc AMERICA REACHES THE CROSSROADS THOR some three thousand years, mankind struggled upward through Slavery. *- Then for fifteen hundred years through Serfdom. Finally, we have been struggling upward through more than three hundred years of the Compétitive Profit system. The end of the dominance of the profit system has finally been reached in America with the second world war, as the first world war ended it in Russia and Germany. A profit system cannot be depended upon to build a world of peace and plenty after the war. It had its chance after the last war and failed. We have been endeavoring to describe the coming crises for the past several years by the use of a crossroad chart. The crossroad has now been reached by America. The Managerial Revolution, as described by James Burnham, is on. William Morris wrote during the latter part of the 19th century that when we threw off our shoulders the chains of the profit system, "we would be free indeed." But President Hutchins of The University of Chicago was more nearly right in saying that when mankind has thrown off each form of slavery, it has thought itself free, only to find itself in a new but larger prison house. The world is now entering into the period of Statism which prophetic writers such as Gide, Belloc, Russell, Warbasse and others have warned against for the past quarter of a century. The pendulum of society has swung from laissez-faire liberty to state solidarity. How long we will remain in the Statism period cf history, no one can accurately foretell. But it will be far shorter than previous economic periods. Time moves far faster with each succeeding system. 2 Consumers' Cooperation It is our hope that this period will be, for nations which have been trained in religious, educational and political democracy, a better period than that of the profit system. It was based on the false premise of competition for profits. It reached its predestined goal of monopoly with the majority of the people becoming tenants, poverty-stricken, and increasingly unemployed, and with the world full of disease, aime and war. It cannot be blamed. This was its natural end. Having lived through the period of monopoly in profit business, we look forward to some thing better, rather than worse, lacking as it will be compared with the cooperative ideal. We do not expect America to turn either to the left or right as Russia and Germany have done arid adopt the extreme of state dictatorship, but to progress straight ahead along the middle way of state-regulation to the goal of Cooperation. The people have temporarily turned to the State for relief from intolerable economic conditions by indirect political means, because they have not educated and organized themselves for direct ownership and control of the economic system. The reason we are entering a period of Statism, rather than Cooperation, is simple. It has been clearly stated by philosophers. No new system is ever born until it has been sufficiently incubated in the shell of the old. Cooperation is still too new a system, and the seeds have not yet germinated1 to a sufficient degree to immediately replace the profit system. The breakdown of the profit system has required the State to take over for the time being to restore order, which is the duty of the State in a time of chaos. But we should never forget that "the consumer incarnates the public welfare in economic organization—not the citizen." Consumers cooperatives must become the common denominator of producer groups—not the political government. The use of the political state to regulate an economic system is external and unnatural and, accordingly, dictatorial. Only an internal consumer-producer cooperative economy can be self-regulating and democratic. It is toward that ultimate economic system we Cooperators strive—a demo cratic cooperative economy—an economy of freedom and abundance. An economy not only for the people but also of the people and by the people. An economy which will provide everyone with the three economic rights of ownership of productive property, employment and equitable incomes. An economy where the inalienable right of Property will be realized as well as Life and Liberty, as ex pounded by John Locke, Samuel Adams, James Madison and others. With our natural resources and power production, we can almost reach out our hands and touch it—almost but not quite. We must develop still further the spirit of brotherhood and the necessary cooperative organizations. When mankind is willing to cooperate arid when we learn how to organize cooperatively—then we will achieve the goal. This is the star that leads us on. Our job as cooperators is to redouble our efforts and sow the seeds of cooperation more widely. The soil is being plowed deeper for cooperative seed with the coming of the second world war. If we sow enough seed well, it will eventually bring forth an abundant harvest of plenty for all and peace on earth. BUILD COOPERATIVES STRONGER AND FASTER NOW! The time is riper than ever before. January, 1942 3 HERE IS TOMORROW At long last "HERE Is TOMORROW." For the last five years, the first sound motion picture of the American Con sumer Cooperative Movement has been "under consideration," "under discussion" or "in production." Today it is a reality. And those who have seen it have been unanimous in their conclusion that it was well worth waiting for. "HERE Is TOMORROW" was produced by Documentary Film Productions, Inc. under the direction of Herbert Kerkow and Willard Van Dyke and is a dramatic story of common people who have met bitter economic problems and solved them. Congressman Jerry Voorhis said: "I only -wish everyone in America could see 'HERE Is TOMORROW" for it would give them renewed and substantial hope for the future." "HERE Is TOMORROW" may be secured for rental or purchase on life time lease from The Cooperative League. See the back cover of this issue of Consumer? Cooperation for more complete details. Office of Co-op Refinery, Phillipsburg, Kansas Central Cooperative Wholesale, Superior, Wisconsin L- Streamlined Co-op Store, Waukegan, Illinois 4 Co-op Refinery, Phillipsburg, Kansas Consumers' Cooperation ~_, L :"> ,. V! ( - 1 Cooperative Services, Minneapolis Co-op Fertilizer Factory, Cincinnati Consumers Cooperative Association, North Kansas City 11 \ %_ Co-op Truck, Minneapolis Jabez Gray and Phil Brown, stars of "Here is Tomorrow" MIDLAND DISTRICT SIX DRIVES ON! ' I 'HE Co-op Drive show at Mora, Minn. A (pop. 1500), was scheduled to get under way in the Co-op Creamery hall at 8 o'dock that evening. By 7:30 every chair was occupied. They began moving in all the extras they could scare up. By 7:45 the hall's seating capacity of 700 had been passed. They began wheel ing in scores of cream cans. By 8 o'clock people were standing in the aisles, on window sills, and all over the stage; some climbed on the roof of an adjoining building. There were easily a thousand persons in the jam-packed creamery building. You couldn't have possibly safdined into the hall one more small boy with short hair and a snub nose. As the rally opened, disappointed late comers, unable to get within yards of the doors, could be seen streaming away. All Folks and People Inside hardly an inch of floor space was visible. It was all Kanabec County folks and people, squeezed together like lovers going through a tunnel. Space had to be cleared on the stage to give the singers, actors and speakers room to wave their arms. Ade, 300 goodnatured pounds of the WDGY radio singing team, Pearl and Ade, could make no headway through the crowd out front, so he approached the stage from the rear. Even so he had to be hauled up by ropes. And Gwen Good rich had to stand up to play the piano for the singing. The piano stool was occupied by several other persons. After it was all over, Max Ott, secretary of the Farmer-Cooperative-Labor Council of Minnesota, mopped his brow and opined: "Well, sir, I've never seen a Co-op meeting like THAT one before. Why, say, it was an inspiration just to see three or four hundred people turned away from Davis Douthit, News Editor Midland Cooperate* a Co-op meeting." And so it was. Just One of Twenty But this Mora show was just one of a series of twenty Co-op Drive meetings held from November 1 to December 15 in the 6,000 square mile area known as Midland Cooperative Wholesale's District VI. And every one of them told much the same story. In community after com munity meeting halls gave at the seams, unable to hold all the people who wanted to see this Co-op program. Many places had the biggest crowds in their history. Cambridge, 1,200; Princeton, 1,000; For eston, 450; Lindstrom, 450; Onamia, 600; Pine City, 600; and so on. Many meetings could boast of an attendance as large as the population of the town in which they were held. Altogether 11,000 persons came to the twenty District VI meetings, not counting those turned away. Only Lesser Half Of It This, however, was only the spectacular, mass production phase of the Drive. It had another, less spectacular, but far more important, handmade phase. Listen to this (and the figures are vouched for by Jack McLanahan, Midland fieldman who helped lead the Drive) : Eight hundred rank and file members ('Minute Men') from some 35 Coopera tives made 15,000 calls on families in their communities to invite them to take advantage of their Co-op opportunities. When, down every rural highway and every town and village street, that many ordinary Co-op members go door-knock ing at that many houses, brother, thai it something in the way of membership participation. It all started, of course, as a part of the current Nationwide Co-op Drive. At two meetings in Cambridge, Minn., in October, representatives of 35 coopera tives in the District VI area unanimously Consumers' Cooperation dedded to set their part of the world on fire for co-ops. Taking part in the drive were not only Midland-affiliated oil and grocery associations, but also Credit Unions, Co-op Clubs, American Farmers Mutual Auto Insurance Company, Co- operators Life (Insurance) Association, Group Health Mutual and the United Cooperative Burial Association. Objective Is Calls Objectives of the Drive were talked of at first in terms of percentage in creases in members, capital and sales volume. But it was realized that it would be difficult to judge results in dollars-and- cents. It was felt that if only a sufficient number of people were told about co operatives and their activities, and if these people were given sufficient inducement, the dollars-and-cents results would follow as the night the day. So the major ob jective of the Drive was fixed in terms of CALLS, with each community having a certain quota, and the success of the Drive rested, finally, on the shoulders of the Minute Men callers (Minute Men because they were volunteers from the ranks ready to notify their neighbors at a minute's notice of the benefits of cooperation). Planning and promoting the Drive was a district campaign committee of one per son from each community and a district publicity committee similarly made up. Steering the Drive was an executive com mittee headed by Werner Johnsen, Chisa- go City, with these other members : Paul Becklin, Art Magnuson, Dick Leekley, Andrew Jensen and Jack McLanahan. The Drive was touched off with some big, over-all publicity centered around two mass meetings in different parts of the district addressed by Dr. Arthur E. Mor gan, former TVA chairman, former presi dent of Antioch College, and now presi dent of Community Service, Inc., at Yellow Springs, O. Dr. Morgan and his views on the part co-ops can play1 in developing community democracy rated plenty of space in Twin City newspapers as well as in the small town press. January, 1942 Shows Shoehorn 'Em In Next came the series of Co-op Drive shows, the program that really shoehorned 'em in. This program, well-publicized by posters and newspaper ads and stories, was staged in each community as a send- off for the local part of the drive. At this rally Minute Men volunteers were called for and these ladies and gentlemen would, for the next two weeks, roam the highways and byways with their wares. But first, those shows. They were headlined by the radio song sters, Pearl and Ade, who are highly popular in this part of the country. Pearl and Ad'e's rendition of "Take The Cow Away, Father, For I Cannot Milk To night" usually brought the house down. Another star of the program was Irving (Man With the Face) Tingley, University of Minnesota caper king, who was equally adept at leading group singing or doing impromptu grimacing and clowning in the big "Medicine Show." This Medicine Show, presented by a cast headed by Pearl and Ade and Ting- ley, was usually the high point of the evening. It was thought up late one night by Gwen Goodrich, the district's recre ational leader. In the Medicine Show, Ade arid Tingley sell to an open-mouthed audi ence bottle after bottle of a beverage labeled "Spirits of Cooperation"—cures everything what ails you, from bills to boils — take internally, externally, or eternally. In addition, local talent in the musical field was worked in as part of the Medi cine Show. The Serious Side In the more serious (and briefer) part of the program the Co-op Tour movie, "The Co-ops Are Comin'," was shown and McLanahan told the crowd what the Co-op Drive is all about, urging the peo ple to do something through cooperatives to help save their communities and their country from the flames of Apathy, Ig norance, Poverty and Selfishness. This was the place, too, where the call for Minute Men came in. The Minute Men, who worked ïn pairs, were equipped with a specially prepared illustrated pamphlet, "Would You Really Like To Get The Things You've Dreamed About?" telling of co-op activities arid achievements in the district and outlining what goes on cooperatively in each com munity. They also had books of coupons, "interest survey" cards and a brief printed explanation of the Drive. The Minute Men would make no attempt to get into much of a conversation with the family called upon. They would simply say hello, leave their literature and coupons and be on their way to the next house. They called on members and non-members alike. Daily reports were made in each community so that "call progress" could be shown on a big map of the area. Upon filling out the interest card and taking it in to one of their local co-ops, the family called upon could "cash" each coupon (ten to a book) for 25 cents on a $2 purchase of gasoline, or for so much on grocery purchases, or for part payment on a membership in the Crédit Union or the Burial co-op or on a policy in one of the participating insurance cooperatives. "Don't Hesitate; Cooperate" Supporting the Minute Men was a bar rage of ads and news stories in the local papers, supplied through the campaign publicity committee representatives. Post ers and handbills were also distributed profusely. Auto bumper slogans read: "Co-ops Are Coin' Places; Join Now." Buttons on Co-op employees urged: "Don't Hesitate; Cooperate." Well, and did it work ? Was the Drive a success? The answer is yes. For District VI didn't make the mis take of taking its "Spirits of Cooperation" straight. Instead it spiced them with fun and entertainment and while the people were laughing and singing arid having a good time, they were also absorbing some serious cooperation. Another thing, member participation was made fairly easy and simple. The 8 Minute Men needed only to make their calls and hurry on. Their work was simply to pave the way for more intensive co operative education at the local co-op. The Drive cost altogether about $1,800. Most of the local co-ops contributed lib erally to the Drive fund on the basis of four cents a member. The central or ganizations, such as American Farmers and Midland, also chipped in. Collections were taken at the meetings. And although expenses exceeded income by around $450, this is causing no worry. The déficit, it is expected, will be erased without much difficulty, for it would be mighty hard to find anyone in the district who doesn't think that every cent spent on the Drive will come back to his Co-op a hundred fold. Just Ask Any Manager Go up to 'most any manager in the district and ask him what he thinks of the Drive. He'll start grinning ear to ear, make excited-like gestures to convey the idea of business booming and finally come out with "Fine, swell!" or maybe Scandinavian multiples thereof. Soon he'll calm down a bit and start reeling off story after story about how Old Man Such-and-Such, who hadn't been seen at the Co-op since Hector was a pup, came in the other day to get a fill-up; and about how the Smithsens, who live out south of town a ways, came in, ad mitted they'd maybe strayed from the Co op path a bit, but that, by gosh, after hearing that Midland feller, Jack McLana- han, talk at that meetin' the other night, they were going to be 100 per cent co- operators from now on. S'help 'em! And one manager will tell you about a fellow who came in and confessed he was a backslider and he was so ashamed of it he said he wouldn't even cash the coupon he'd been given on a purchase of gasoline. "Aw, shucks," he said, "those coupons are only for people who don't believe in cooperation." Well, that gives you some idea. Consumers' Cooperation CONSUMER CO-OP PROGRESS IN 1941 CO-OP ORGANIZATION (1). Two new members were added to The Cooperative League roll in 1941— Pacific Supply Cooperative of Walla Walla, Wash., and the American Farmers 'Mutual Auto Insurance Company of St. Paul, Minn. The name of the South eastern Cooperative Education Association was changed during the year to South eastern Cooperative League, and a field- man hired as a result of a grant from the Julius Rosenwald Fund. (2). Two new members were added to National Cooperatives roll in 1941—the Farmers Cooperative Exchange of Raleigh, N. C, and the Associated Cooperatives of Northern California of Oakland'. The lat ter has developed from the Northern Division of the California Cooperative Council, initially sponsored by The Co operative League as an educational organ ization. (3). As a result of a presentation made to the board of directors of The Coopera tive League on the subject of "The Na tional Organization of the Consumers Cooperative Movement," an invitation was extended by the directors of the League and accepted by the directors of National Cooperatives and United Co operatives to hold a joint meeting of the three boards. This meeting took place in October in Indianapolis, Ind., at the invi tation of the Iridiana Farm Bureau Co operative Association. The late Frank Os- borne, former secretary of Midland Co operative Wholesale, used to say that such meetings result in knocking off a few horns and cause everyone to realize we are all cooperators. (4). Inter-regional cooperation in 1941 resulted in Midland Cooperative Whole sale of Minneapolis, Minn., and Central Cooperative Wholesale of Superior, Wise., drawing commodity territory lines. It further resulted in the same two whole sales setting up a joint organization— Cooperative Insurance Services—for the January, 1942 management and distribution of various types of cooperative insurance in the states of Minn. and Wise. During the year, the Ohio Farm Bureau Cooperative Associa tion of Columbus, the Penna. Farm Bu reau Cooperative Association of Harris- burg and the Southern States Cooperatives of Richmond, jointly contracted to build a 100,000 ton cooperative mill at Read ing, Ohio. During the year, the Producer- Consumer Cooperative Association of Dallas, Texas, and Consumers Coopera tives Associated of Amarillo, joined to gether in one organization, taking the name formerly used by Amarillo. (5). As a result of invitations sent to all farmers cooperative purchasing asso ciations, the National Farmers Cooperative Defense Committee was set up to deal with the government in matters of priori ties, etc. ; and the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives was selected as the agency through which the committee would act. CO-OP FINANCE (1). At the instigation of The Co operative League, the National Society of Cooperative Accountants recommended five finance and accounting policies for cooperatives to follow, which after revi sion by the directors were adopted. (2). Further progress was made dur ing the year in regional cooperative as sociations going on a cash basis. Consum ers Cooperative Association of North Kansas City, which had led the way, erided their fiscal year with only 9% of their assets in receivables. The Pennsylvania Farm Bureau Cooperative Association's latest report shows only 10% of their assets in receivables. Central Cooperative Wholesale of Superior ended their 1940 fiscal year with only 10% of their assets in receivables; it is presumed their 1941 financial statement will show similar re sults. On January 1, 1942, Midland Co operative Wholesale, after a lengthy edu cational program, also went on a cash basis.