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The Story of the C.W.S.

the rusty iron trawlers sailing out of Grimsby—one's imagination
quickens at the many aspects of life (each prosaic in detail, yet
poetic in the whole) long before it travels the linked counties to the
fruit-pickers under the Kentish sun, or the diggers for China clay in
Cornwall, or the remote lighthouse-keepers of the Western cliffs
and rocks. Hardly a better way could be found of realising this
multiplicity than by taking a ourney through the country with an
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introduction to its co-operative stores. From Tweedside to Penzance
one would meet almost the v/hole industrial population upon its
domestic and, therefore, more intimate side; in a word, see the
Enghsh and the Welsh people at home. Short of so extended a
progress, perhaps the next best course would be a privileged visit
upon market and special sale days to the C.W.S. salerooms and
warehouses from Tyneside to Thames-side and across to Bristol,
Cardiff, Manchester, and Blackburn. At any rate, in the large
centres and the small, though more obviously in the small, the
visitor sufficiently privileged would find the active mutual interests
of local committee-men and managers and the C.W.S. officials and
representatives creating friendly, social relations ; and in so favour-
able an atmosphere he would not find it difficult to draw from many
reservoirs of intimate local knowledge and understanding.

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Vanished Bhistol.
Aldersky Lank,
Where the C.W.S. Depot nuw Stands.
After the drawing by S. Loxton,
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