If anyone doubted that co-operative organizations are business enterprises and subject to the same trials as other enterprises, he might obtain enlightenment from a report recently issued by the department of agriculture. It seems that since 1913, a total of at least 243 co-operative buying and selling organizations have ceased to function. Two hundred of them failed because they did not have sufficient business, 148 by reason of inefficient management, 733 through insufficient capital, 35 on account of over-extension of credit, 29 as a consequence of dishonesty in management, and 12 because a few members obtained concentrated control. The Nation's Business.

It is with considerable gratification that the people of the northwest receive the news that President Harding will visit the northwest and Alaska during the coming summer. The American people are always glad to see and hear their chief executive and President Harding may feel assured of a most cordial welcome. In fact, the people are entitled to the opportunity of meeting the president and he, in turn, will find, after his personality has been impressed upon the thousands who will greet him during such a tour, that his hands straightened. The people will be more deeply interested in the president and consequently in administration measures before congress and this interest, the president will find, will be productive of results. One secret of the late President Roosevelt's power with congress was the fact that he, in every way possible, appealed to the American people, and had them with him. 