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were an integral part of a great social system taught in 

 the schools and the churches. There have been some 

 recent instances of success in new communities governed 

 by a single powerful influence. 



I should suggest three precautions in the organiza- 

 tion of cooperative stores for garden cities: 



1. In order to make sure that everybody shall con- 

 tribute to the necessary capital, and in the same pro- 

 portion, the price of the stock should be incorporated 

 in the price of the land and made inseparable therefrom. 

 In this way, adequate capital would be assured from 

 the beginning, and the danger that has often recurred 

 — the danger that many would seek to enjoy the 

 benefits of the enterprise without sharing its risks or 

 burdens — would be avoided. 



2. Provision should be made for one commodious and 

 attractive department store, which might well have ac- 

 commodations for bank and postoffice, and restrictions 

 placed in the deeds preventing the sale or use of any 

 other property for business purposes — this, as a means 

 of preventing the growth of mushroom competition 

 which is likely to do considerable harm and very little 

 good. 



3. For a period of three to five years sole manage- 

 ment should be vested in the parent corporation, or in 

 the Government agency having charge of the enterprise 

 when the principle of national leadership becomes ef- 

 fective. 



With these precautions, there would be reasonable 

 assurance of a store in which every landowner would 

 be a partner; mushroom competition, with its unsightly 

 buildings, would be avoided ; and there would be no 



