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Contribution of Cooperatives By MURRAY LINCOLN Secretary of the Ohio Farm Federation /T 'H E development of cooperatives based on the time- mandate of the people who may not have incomes, but tested Rochdale principles offers the best avenue who do have votes. to correct the evils of the present capitalist system, yet The cooperative movement is addressing itself to the retaining its benefits by distributing income toward solution of these paradoxes mentioned above, and increasing mass purchasing power, rather than toward others. Cooperation has been defined as an education­ accumulating vast profits for a few. According to the al movement that employs economic action to bring Brookings Institute, one-tenth of one per cent of the about certain desired .social ends. Individuals and people in the upper income brackets receive as much groups of individuals are turning to the cooperative income as 42% of the people in the lower income movement and its economic action, after recognizing brackets. E. C. Lindeman, of the New York School of that government regulation has failed to protect them Social Work, says: “ One per cent of the people own against exploitation. It has failed to protect the people or control 59% of the wealth, while 75% of the people own practically no wealth whatsoever.” against high prices of goods or services, inferior goods, The cooperative method coincides with Christian humbug in advertising, and other undesirable social philosophy. In scope it is evolutionary, not revolution­ and economic consequences. ary. It brings into our everyday transactions the prin­ Therefore, individuals through their cooperative or­ ciple of brotherhood and democracy. As Christians, ganizations are taking hold of the only machinery they you are already social cooperators. And as cooperators, know of, to try to bring about in a peaceful, American, we are trying to put the golden rule into business and Christian way, some of the changes that they as indi­ practice real Christianity. I am sure we are all viduals believe necessary to contribute not only to their conscious and grateful for the benefits of this so-called own but to the general welfare of the country. machine age. No one is trying to deny the great eco­ Cooperatives claim that the ultimate solution to our nomic and social development that has come with the pressing economic evils lies in the organization of the machines, with electricity, with rapid transportation, people into cooperative societies in order that economic with easy and economical communication, and other freedom may be realized.