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PERSONAL GLIMPSES Continued committee was formed and in October of At the first meeting the stockholders By the first of April eighteen drivers were put to work. The ease with which the business was built may be illustrated by the case of an old driver, returning from Sweden to Minneapolis, who was taken on. He started out with an empty wagon to build his own route. In two weeks he was earning at the rate of two hundred and fifty dollars a month. The average driver in the cooperative earns a minimum of one hundred and fifty dollars a month and his earnings increase according to the quantity of products sold by him. Week by week additional wagons were put on and before the end of the year the plant was running at maximum capacity and additional machinery had been ordered. By September of 1922 the plant was supplying eighty-four wagons, running over routes closely concentrated and convenient to the plant. To meet a growing demand throughout the city, the Franklin Association opened last November in the northern section of Minneapolis a plant capable of supplying 170 wagons. We are told that Its opening was the occasion of a great cooperative demonstration-a housewarming, so to speak. Thousands of people attended, there being at that time nearly seven thousand stockholders participating in the project. Noted speakers discust the fundamentals of cooperation. The musical program was furnished from the ranks of the employees of the Franklin Plant No. 1. Early in the life of the association a glee club had been formed and an orchestra had been created. Both of these musical institutions had practised regularly under a trained leader. The opening of the north side plant was the signal for a milk price-cutting war in Minneapolis. 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FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, Publishers, 354-360 Fourth Ave., New York cooperative is now selling more than onefourth of all the milk consumed in Minneapolis. It has become the largest milk distributor in that city. It has an authorized capital of one million dollars. In last October more than $600,000 of this had been paid in and stock sales were progressing at the rate of $25,000 a week. The by-laws provide that no single person may own over $1,000 of the stock. It does not matter whether a stockholder owns one share or ten, the association operates on the one-stockholder, one-vote basis. The by-laws limit the dividend on capital to eight per cent., but do not require this full dividend to be paid. They do require a part of the earnings to be set aside for maintenance, depreciation and reserve. The balance of the profits is distributed on a patronage basis among employees and consumers. That is to say, if a five per cent. dividend were declared on patronage, and during the year you had purchased forty dollars' worth of milk and twenty-five dollars' worth of butter, you would get a patronage dividend check of $3.75. A wage-worker drawing $1,500 a year would get a wage dividend of seventy-five dollars. The by-laws also require that a certain percentage of the net earnings be set aside for educational purposes. A further provision concerns patrons who are not shareholders. It permits the patronage dividend to apply on the payment of a share of stock, and in time if the patron does not pay in any cash he may own a share in the company. The board of directors are all employees -all old-time drivers. They are also stockholders. The influence of unionism is shown by the creation of a special grievance committee, formed to consider misconduct of members or neglect of duty of officers and employees. Should any matter of that kind arise it would be a sort of trial board, but so far nothing has occurred to bring about a trial. The plant itself shows the result of a good morale. All plant workers are in white uniforms. The place is sweet-smelling and clean. One room is set aside for the drivers who congregate in the middle of the night to go out on their routes. This room is equipped with games and a library. Adjoining it is a lunch-room run for the workers on a cooperative basis; the exact cost of preparing food is charged the men. In another room is a small laboratory equipped with the latest apparatus for testing milk. Everywhere are indications of care being taken to put out and preserve a good, sweet milk supply. The Association holds an annual meeting in January of each year. Ten per cent. of the shareholders may constitute quorum. It is easy to get out a quorum because the stockholders live in the same eity. The annual meeting, like the housewarming meeting for plant No. 2-is always something of a social occasion. It does a lot to keep up the spirit. a Big Business.-A man came in and asked if he could see the boss. They told him he would have to wait, that the boss was in conference. "Very important," added the attendant. "I know that," said the stranger. "I heard the cork pop."-Louisville CourierJournal. Made a Hit.-BOXING INSTRUCTOR"Are you satisfied with your first boxing lesson?" BATTERED PUPIL "Y-e-s; but don't you think I could take the others by correspondence?"-Le Rire (Paris). WITH THE "RABBLE" AT A BASEBALL GAME President and Mrs. Harding are seen here in a grandstand at Augusta, Georgia, getting some "inside dope" from Ty Cobb, man: g of the Detroit Tigers. Other members of the baseball "rabble," it seems, are leading financiers, captains of industry, statesmen and jurists. baseball teams in action. Of course our "hoi-polloi" can be counted upon to be among those present at these games. In fact, some writers have even hinted broadly that the attendance at a ball park consists of nothing else but "hoi-polloi," and that the "laboring class" dominates not only the bleachers but also the choice seats right behind the home-plate. In other words, the rumor has gone abroad that baseball is a "poor man's" game, and one not good enough for anybody who is anybody. News dispatches frequently tell us that this or that college has dropt baseball as a major sport in favor of some more genteel form of athletics, such as tennis, rowing, or basketball, or football. All of which leads Edgar F. Wolfe, writing under the pseudonym "Jim Nasium" in Sporting Life (Philadelphia) to exclaim peevishly that "some benighted persons, whose intellect has shriveled till it rattles in their skulls like a pea in a gourd, have the nerve to say that baseball fans are the 'rabble of the community."" to form such a bond of common interest between men of all ranks. Its great value to the nation and individuals as a whole is that of a connecting link between the classes." By way of elaborating his views, he continues: Men may be far apart in their stations in life, but that one common interest draws them together in human sympathy. Capital and Labor may have their own private differences, but they unite in "rooting" for the same ball club, forget their selfish ends in discussing a subject that holds a common interest for both. It makes human beings out of those who would otherwise be self-centered fops. As a bond of brotherhood it has every fraternal organization ever invented whipt to a whisper, because its scope is widerthe average fraternal organization being a class institution in itself, while every mother's son from banker to bum is eligible for membership in the Benevolent Brotherhood of Baseball Bugs. The popular fallacy seems to be that baseball fans are confined almost exclusively to the laboring classes. It is a common mistake of writers who should know better to assert that the working class -the ordinary "hands" of the factories. mills and industrial plants, are the principal financial support of our great national pastime, and even baseball clubowners labor under this delusion and place undue importance on the arranging of LAS A Contest For All Book Lovers AST MONTH ten distinguished literary critics and writers waged a ferocious battle in THE INTERNATIONAL BOOK REVIEW Over the selection of the ten best books of the present century. 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There seems to exist a popular delusion to the effect that baseball interest is more rife among the so-called "lower classes" than it is among the higher type of business man -in other words, that baseball "fans" are the rabble of the community, in spite of every evidence that goes to prove that the biggest percentage of baseball "fans" is really found among the leaders in the marts of trade and the social world. As a matter of real fact, the financial support of baseball is provided by the socalled "moneyed class" and NOT by the "working class" to whom that honor is too frequently accorded. We have no hesitation in declaring that if an accurate poll were taken of the attendance at any bigleague ball game the ratio would be around 80 per cent. of business officials, office employees and men of leisure to 20 per cent. of the actual "laboring class." 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