CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20150, 19 May 1928, Page 10 (Supplement)

CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL

We hear the cry of “back to the land” continually, but fur one who goes back dozens go away. Tne miracle to be wrought is the creation of rural civilisation. Civilisation implies some measure of luxury and comfort. It can only be attained when the community is organised and has strength to retain some surplus of wealth beyond what is required for the bare necessities of writes George W. Bussell editorially in the Irish {Statesman. The organised industries, the organised communities, are always wresting any surplus from the unotganised. The business mind of the country must be organised to counter the business mind of the town. The fact is that farmers have allowed the control of their industry to i slip out of their hands, and they are squeezed because the organised industry always unloads its bunden on the unorganised*. If farmers are to retain a surplus of wealth beyond the 1 bare necessities of life, if they are to permanently see in the rural districts the comforts and luxuries uf the city, they must make it their steady, persistent and fundamental policy to work towards complete control over the sale of all of the produce of the countryside, so that they can act in their own interests througn their own agents in distant markets, and push their produce with the energy of self-interest.