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one quietly day by day in the clubs on the 

 concession lines. Here ideas have their birth, 

 and in the natural course grow into the public 

 opinion which all governments and adminis- 

 trators sooner or later find irresistible. In 

 nursing and training private and public opinion 

 the U.F.O. performs its basic task. On this its 

 leaders must continue to concentrate their best 

 thought. 



According as the true nature of the task is 

 learned by both those within the organization 

 and those without, whether they be farmers or 

 not, there will be an increasingly large measure of 

 co-operation amongst all citizens. Co-operation 

 is the watchword of the association, and as the 

 members co-operate they make progress. More 

 and more, men and women are coming to realize 

 that no man lives unto himself but that his 

 prosperity has some bearing on the prosperity 

 of many others. So all thinking farmers seek 

 to extend the spirit and practice of co-operation 

 to classes other than agriculture. That does 

 not mean that the U.F.O. is to be thrown open to 

 everybody, but it does mean that the U.F.O., 

 as the farmers' organization, should be ready to 

 co-operate with the Labor Party, the Manu- 

 facturers' Association, or any other organized 

 group on fair terms. There have been towns 

 and cities from time immemorial and there 



