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cwr- WISCONSINODEL* 8 Day --..Mao* systèm is- altogetiler inm cooperative and thatnetw United States societies bave not had government sponsorship. The system, has never, been developed on a-broad national -scale by -Fcderal 'aid and. supervision and made a major part oca Federal, program. One cannot find ýan exact. figure as to the number of consuiners coperative societies Wn the L'ii.ted States at the present. time and the volume of business transacted by them. The Consumers' Division' of the National Emergency Council lias estimated that in 1934 there were car7-( tried There is a great deal more thal ca:n be said on the subject, such as tc, the degree of success enjoyed by the various cooperatives organized in the United States aidi the distinguishing' features between thoselthat, have been successfttl and those that have failed. In view of ,the .increased emphasis which o.fficiai Washingtor is placing on, the "cooperative sys tem,"tit can welli be a subject for ourý personal study inorder that we may be -in a position to. pass intelligeni judgmneiit upon what should be the role- of the Federal govcrnment. in the developinent of the ýsystenï jlr. t-lt-. United -States. RETURN «To KENILWORTH Mrs. C. E. Driver,. 423 Abbottsiore, odKeiwrhanhrdugt. agtr raKnlotadh4-harlene, returned Stnday from an. Mrs. Driver and Charlene went west to attend the marriage of Miss Beatrice Driver to Gordon Hollauid at Palo Alto in june. '.\r. Driver returned to Kenilworth several weeks' ago but Mrs. Driver and Charlent took a trip to HoQnolulu and visited friends in southern California, __________ ,rnanizations on, approximately çuflcth wbich $000».M services. They have usually had their scale, as whei beginning on a small or Derhaps eh or c%.j "nl - 915whais o worh buines.lu of known as The Cooperative Leagueand nitd Sate was organized, the fo. g- 1 h 'niedS~ t ales the movemelit. Defixt. M.im.P.t For the benefit of those who ma Y be entirely unfamiliar with wvhat 's meant by a consumers' cooperative, in its simplest 'terms it may be deflned as a group of people organizted to suppiy themselves with goods and, kV rua.. Paul T. Gilbert, 554 Brit-r * ht¶ C st i1% "rh Q àt -2 i pro uc a »y1 z - Robet Dierks of 123 Nitli .. l, gefleral, cooperative SOcietes expected to return on Nonday is Hultnes. hard of have aisei out Inn, Mich;. whre he dreds of cooperativé societies were from Roshda.le weeks' vacation. two a spent has organized duing the depression: the!.________________ during period of 1920-'21 and 1 present as, a iormi of corisumners' organization las been renewed. As most of the people of our depression interest ini them ___________________ SOLOIST i ~ I CL pies adopted be theto by.,the,es seem dles' iii every country erative movement has sure there have been Chicago 7 ~sponsorea