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To the Editors of the Crimson:

Those Directors who are supporting their proposition to abolish the Co-operative Society state that it has been necessary for the officers of the Society to sign "some leases," thereby making themselves responsible for the payment on such leases; and they argue that the Society should not impose these financial liabilities upon them. It is therefore necessary to inform them that no such liability is imposed, that it is not the business of the officers to sign leases, and that as a matter of fact there are no "leases" upon which the name of an officer is to be found. In a single case the President endorsed the terms of the CRIMSON's lease when the Society took the CRIMSON's old quarters. It is submitted that this is not ground to justify their statement in regard to the signing of "some leases." We may, therefore, lay aside any argument that they have based upon this ground.

In the CRIMSON of May 26 it is stated that a committee of Directors found, on making enquiries looking to a lease of a certain property for a term of years, that the Society was not considered a very desirable tenant. On asking a member of the above committee for information on this point I was told that a certain man had refused the Society unless it was incorporated. Feeling that there might be some mistake, I went to the man who had refused to rent to the Society and told him what I had heard. He declared that he had said nothing about "incorporation," but that he had said that there must be some "organization" to the Society before he could lease property to it for a number of years. The committee who had come to him for a lease had evidently not informed him that there was at that time an organization running under a fixed constitution; and he seemed surprised to learn of the existence of a constitution. Since this hypothetical undesirability of the Society as a tenant was the only reason advanced to show that "the disadvantages of the present system are not merely matters of theory," we must ask for other reasons before we throw over an organization which is a desirable tenant and which has proved a marked success.  C. H. AYRES, JR.