Paddy founded a Co-operative

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the Polish Pavilion at the York World's Fair, will be accepted for the huseum by E. P. Richardson, assistant director of the Atlete County Webel, curator of textiles, DETROIT PRESS Paddy Founded a Co-Operative BY J. D. CADLAGHAN YOU MIGHT think, and be forgiven, that there is little of interest in the telling of the details of founding and operating a co-called co-operative. If so you haven't yet met up with Patrick Gallagher. Paddy Pat Bawn, they called him in the parish of Templecrone, way up in Ireland's northwest corner, where the rocks of Donegal look out on the rocks of the isles and neither of them take much comfort in the looking. How Paddy found the key to easier living for his people through the establishing of a co-operative—a "Cope"—as the people of the Gaeltacht called it, is the reason he wrote "Paddy the Cope" (Devin-Adair). It lifts with the inimitable Anglo-Irish speech of the country; is tender with feeling; sly with witticism and strong with the dour philosophy of the farmer. Paddy Pat Bawn doesn't have to tell you of the hardship of his tender years—he probably doesn't realize that they were hard. The thought escapes now and then, despite him; a casual reference to tea served in state in the Gallagher cottage in cups that were "sitting in saucers;" a brief remark to the effect that they walked to town (it was 36 miles), or a description of his mother lighting a rush candle from the turf fire—all these things are remembered by the writer with delight. One learns, besides how to run a co-operative against the organized obstructionism of the merchants (gombeenmen), how gossip could run the length of the glen and still be kept utterly secret from the outsider. One learns also what the parish priest meant in the lives of his parishioner. For the reader is permitted a glimpse into the confessional to overhear His Reverence advising Paddy to "fight your corner, son. God bless you;" and that in the darkest hour of Paddy's fight with the traders. Paddy's "Cope," you will be glad to learn, flourished and grew until thousands of the hard-pressed in Ireland came within its influence. It's the success story of a simple man; one whose learning stopped short of completing "the second book," but whose education continued until it would, and will, astonish you.