Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 3, Number 4, DeMotte, Jasper County, 8 June 1933 — EDITORIAL [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL

THE FARMER’S DISCOVERIES Perhaps the most encouraging phase of farmer’s troubles is that they have caused him to look with a new and inquiring mind on economic and social problems. He has discovered that the world has changed much--that methods that were good thirty years ago are now. He is finding out that no one can prosper alone in a world in which the interests of every business, every producer, are

inextricably intermingled. He is finding that the cooperative ideal --whether in industry, or agriculture, or simply social relations--points the road to stability and permanence. During the depression thousands of farmers have joined cooperatives. Thousands of others have redoubled their efforts in behalf of their cooperative, where before they simply held “passive” memberships. These are the farmers that are applying real business methods to farming and that are in line to profit in the future.