Utah Cooperator, December 1946;

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VOL. I, NO. 6.
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
DECEMBER, 1946.
THE COOPERATIVE WAY
Utah's Dilemma Can Be Answered
Through The Cooperatives
BY. JOS. A. GEDDES
Kditor's Note: This article (4th of a aeries) will conclude in
the next issue wherein Dr. Geddes examines important issues at stake—
economic, social, ethical and cultural—with a practical cooperative answer.
PART ONE
In the November issue of this paper it was pointed out
that. . . Utah has arrived at a critical point in her history
through the loss to outside investment interests of: (1)
the great body of her wealth producing natural resources,
(2) the manufacturing processes through which they are
made available to the market, and (3) the business organization which channels finished goods to the consumer.
This has resulted in two things: First the people of the
state have gradually been crowded onto small farms and
into little businesses where the struggle for existence is
anything but promising. Second the loss of these "heritages" has placed the predominant initiative with respect
to social and economic planning in the hands of the outside investor, commonly designated in America as "Wall
Street".
It should not require argument for the people to realize that unless they can extricate themselves from this
dilemma, the great purposes for which the mountains
were settled and reclaimed are doomed to defeat, for
only on the premise of
the development o f
the highest forms of
community — social
and economic —■ planning by this people
themselves can Zion
building (great community building) ever
be accomplished. Furthermore, only if this
people themselves
hitch their economic
wagon to the natural
resources of the area
can they accumulate
the sustaining surpluses   out   of   which
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This co-op service station and store located in downtown Richfield, Utah, began 10
years ago with a $600 pool as resources and today boasts a $50,000 annual business.
Co-op petroleum products, appliances, farm supplies and garage facilities are among
the services provided its patrons.   (Story of this Co-op appears on the back page.)
WORLD CO-OP CONGRESS...
An Appraisal—By Wallace J. Campbell
"... it ii increasingly clear that the economic (and political)
problems  of  the  people  of  Sweden,   or  The  Netherlands,   or
Britain, or France, or the U. S., cannot be solved in their own
. countries if the rest of the  world goes to pieces."—-W. /. C.
Sitting in a hotel in Stockholm ten days after the adjournment of
the International Cooperative Alliance Congress in Zurich, it is hard to
give a sharp appraisal.
So many impressions have rushed in during the last ten days that
it is difficult to separate impressions of cooperatives and cooperators in
Switzerland, Netherlands, Denmark   and Sweden  from  Congress   impres-
ZOItlCH (CNS)—Murray D. Lincoln, president of the Cooperative League of the USA, was elected first Tice-president of the International Cooperative Alliance at the closing session of its congress
here in October. Lord Rusholnie of Manchester, England, was re-elected
President of the Alliance, and Mr. J. S. Khokhlov of the USSR was
elected  second vice-president.
sions. And, what is more, it may be just as well that these impressions
are fused into those of the Congress, for after all the only measure of
the real strength of an international organization is the strength of its
member organizations.
The I.GA. Congress was a first step toward "a parliament of man."
Three different languages, and at times four, got in the way.
To the American delegation, used to whipping through decisions in
a hurry, the machinery of the Congress seemed cumbersome. Due to
our ignorance of procedure we sat quietly by, waiting for the completion
of discussion on  the secretary's report—failing to realize that the report
is  used as the basis for dis-
BSHM8KjKii cussing major Congress busi-
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Accomplishments
Most important of all was
the informal exchange of
ideas and experience among
the delegates of the various
nations   at  the  Congress.
Among the tangible results of the Congress and its
parallel meetings were:
1. Completion of organization of the International
Cooperative Petroleum Association, which should be
the cooperative movement's
greatest challenge to world
monopoly.
2. Initiation     of     policy
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