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TIIE PLATTCMOtnn JOURNAL PAGE EIGHT Thursday, December 4, 1952 YOUR FRIENDLY Grocer Offers Voui IN 1 Legislative SIDELIGHTS.. by B ERNIE CAMP Information Director Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation (Legislative Sidelines Is made available to your local newspaper as a service of the Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation. Opin ions expressed are nojt neces sarily tbnsp of this newspaper). The Chair on the Left Though the recent election has presently eclipsed the political social theory of cooperative ad ministration, cooperative lead ers who believe in cooperatives as a way of doing business in a free-enterprise democracy must guard against centralizing con trol of their cooperatives in the hands of the zealots who await the day they can come again into position of political influ ence. Control of agricultural coop eratives is an important phase of the effort of political zealots to convince farm families that the free-enterprise profit system has failed in America and that the destiny of agriculture is best tied to bie eovernment. It is possible, unless steps are taken soon to protect the Amer ican free -enterprise system that under a Republican administra tion long in power these zealots will find an opportunity to ad vance their profitless, coopera tive society philosophies further than they did under the recent ly terminated Fair Deal. Some years ago, a so-called leader of one of America's farm organizations spoke before the national convention of that or ganization, outlining his ideas about agricultural cooperatives. During his speech, this leader outline philosophies which ap parently, so far as this reporter can ascertain, continue to be his personal beliefs and those of many of the leaders of his or ganization. Neither he nor his organization have to date re pudiated or acknowledged a change in their basic philoso phies proclaimed on that occa sion. It seems logical, therefore, to assume on the basis of the actions of that organization to day that these philosophies con tinue to guide its policy deci sions. In 1933. this so-called farm leader said: ". . . Today we are in the upward pull of another great tidal wave. This time the breaking down of the profit sys tem and finance capitalism is the cause of a great upward surge of humanity . . . Today we are witnessing the confusion created by the complete break down of the existing order of things . . . "In the farm organization fipld then are three chairs. The chair on the right is occuDled by an organization wnose leader ship now in control is apnarently against any change in the order of things. To them the profit svstem will work aeain as soon as we turn some mythical corner nr tlr.lrr with the mechanism a bit the farmer can solve his own problems if h can lust starve it out . . . The middle chair is occupied by another lartre farm organization, which concludes that as long as things run down the middle of the road and don't get too far left too radical; as long as some oi the nrolit toll bridges are leit m that things are an right . .. The third great farm organiza tion chair on the left has been vacant a lot of the time . . . we have been warming up the left chair ... a little more we are getting a little more familiar with the students whose philoso phy forces them to sit in the left wing classroom ... "Do we actually believe and take the position that the profit system has failed and that we must build a new economic or der, a new way of life through the cooperative movement, or are we lust kidding ourselves by developing coooeratives to make a little profit for ourselves? . . . If we want to unroot the nrofit system, we can't consistently work for profits ourselves and expect the folks to think we Pre sincpre. Do we look at legisla tion as the objective or do we recoenize it as a means of keeD ing the road clear for the devel ' opment of a cooperative Democ racy? "If we decide that we are go ing to fill that chair on the left ... we must recognize that we believe that the profit system Is done for, that legislation is only a means to an end and not an end in. itself and that cooper atives are the mechanisms for building a new economic order ... We must do a better job of . convincing our members that cooperatives are the basis for development of a new economic nrrir imri not lust another way of doing business to get a little profit . . . More than 15 million tons of coal are required annually by the paper and printing industries in this country. Ignorance, perpetual and pro found, is the worst sin of man. THOMAS WALLING CO. Abstracts of Title . "Title Insurance" Platfraautti, Nebraska ) o : ii Low Butternut, Folgers, Hills Miola Swans Down Campbells TIDE Sunkist Navel 200 Size 2 Lbs. Crisp Cello toils PKG. CAKE TOMATO S0iP . . . . . - lie FAIRMONT FROZEN FOODS 6-CZ. ORANGE JUICE ...18 12-OZ. PEAS .... 23 12-OZ. LIMA BEANS 29 12-OZ. CAULIFLOWER ... 25 10-OZ. 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