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pression should occur affecting agriculture, and par- 

 ticularly wheat and cotton, it is almost certain that 

 Congress would depart from previous governmental 

 policies and pass some such legislation as the Norris- 

 Sinclair bill or the McNary-Haugen bill. But it is 

 certain that this legislation will be opposed by the 

 more conservative of the population whom it is 

 intended to benefit. 



The Significance of the Cooperative Movement 



"Knowledge, faith, leadership this is the trinity 

 of essentials," says Clarence Poe, in his book on 

 How Farmers Cooperatej "in rural cooperation, and 

 the greatest of these is Leadership. Give us leader- 

 ship and all the other things will be added to us." 

 The hopefulness of this movement grows out of 

 the quality of leadership that has appeared. But 

 faith faith in the policy of cooperative marketing, 

 faith of farmers in each other, faith on the part of 

 farmers in those whom they select to serve them 

 is essential to the continued advancement of the 

 movement that has had such a remarkable begin- 

 ning. Cooperative marketing as an expression of 

 agrarianism has survived the return of prosperity. 

 This in itself is encouraging. But much needs to be 

 done to establish this farm economic policy on a 

 sound and profitable basis. 



The most serious criticism that can be offered to 

 this latest expression of agrarianism is the narrow 

 interpretation that our farmers have given to the 



