The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 6, 1918, Page 8

BISMARCK EVENING TRIBUNE MUST BUIL ancrete Property Co-oper- tive Effort Produces Will Endure When Agitator | Is Forgotten PERIENCE OF EUROPE ows. What Generations of Ex- | perimenting Have Produc- ed—Patriotic Appeal ‘The farmer will not find a solution * his ills in politics,” Millard vers, editor of the Co-operative Jour- |, told an audience of farmer grain! rwers and elevator men which fill-| | the municipa] auditorium last sht. “The solution lies in something aper, more basic and more lasting,” d the Chicago farmer editor. “The! ‘vators which we buy and own and > mills which we build and the other ‘manent property which we acquire co-operative effort will endure 100 ars from now when the politicians) © come to us with their quack rem-| es will have perished from the face| ; the earth and have been forgotten. I come here tonight fresh from a tr of Europe and a careful study of > generations of successful coopera-| e enterprise. I come to say that, in > light of what I have learned over sre, I-am confident our farmers are ng. blindly into a lot of things ich are foredoomed to failure.” Che speaker mentioned packing! |. “nts, co-operative store and other| serprises, into which the farmer 2s with little or no advance know-| ge of the business, into which he! ts comparatively little capital and| which he can give little or no time. Against State Ownership de declared against state owner- ip and for a co-operative democracy. the same breath he asserted his be- f that cooperation will never ach- ‘e a monopoly, and he told of con@i- ns prevailing in London, where the idesmen insisted the cooperative rkmen’s stories were a monopoly | uch could not be competed with, d he told how a Chicago merchant ot over to London and in the face this competition from a workmen's ist founded the greatest department tre in Europe and made of it a won- ful success. Co-operation, he de- wed, will furnish the balance wheel, ive*private ownership will continue supply initiative and efficiency. The o working hand in hand will solve 2 future’s problems for the consum- and the producer, He likened the farmer's movement América to a stately ship, every it of whose crew and her mach- ary is indispensible, Most indispen- nle of all, he declared, is the pilot, d this has been lacking, he said, in many of the farmers’ organizations ich have sprung up spontaneously combat a great wrong. They have undered around, steering no definite rege. with the tiller in inexperienced unscrupulous hands, and have ulti- ately foundered. | Mr Myers made an appeal to the| triotism of the North Dakota Far-| ar Grain Dealers’ association, and he} treduced during his remarks a pat- stic Original song, which he sang th great effect. Different Organizations. Rj i ! comes ‘back.to you. and you know IARMER NEVER WILL FIND SOLUTION FOR HIS ~ BOONOMICILLSINDEMOCRACY D ON SOLID ROCK OF CO-OPERATION SAYS MYERS . | While we are beating CHORUS: Hurrah, hurrah, we'll fi So we sing together, all While we are beati know,” But we stuck together, and How the farmer boosted for ! through sun and rain, How the hearts of all our m How our wives and daughter: flight, After we had licked the Hun. Settled down to run our fa men; When we had beaten th BEATING T By Millard R. Myers | Bring the good old bugle. boys, we’ll have another song, Sing it with a spirit that will move the world along; | Sing it as we ought to sing i So the killing Kaiser says, “We won’t give them a show.” Gave his sons, and bought his bonds, and worked How our Allies shouted when they heard the glad refrain While we are beating the Kaiser. How we sunk the submarines, and dropped the airplane’s HE KAISER ‘| t—a hundred million strong the Kaiser. Hurrah, hurrah, co-operate with me, ight for liberty, the folks from sea to sea, ing the Kaiser. “Those way-out-west Americans will never fight, you we gave him blow for blow, While we are beating the Kaiser. | a crop of hogs and grain, | en united in the fight, 's labored far into the night, While we are beating the Kaiser. , we came back home again, rms like brave and honest Binding up the broken hearts from Iowa to Japan, e Kaiser. in America which have little outside | competitions, which lend themselves | naturally to monopoly and are mionop-| olies to a very large degree. 1 think; they need honest cooperative com-! petition in many . Keferring to the grain busine er, there| isn’t a dry county anywhere on the map; there isn't a place where the} crops have been lost\in Texas; there! sin’t an island of the sea, there isn't| a foreign country on the planet, but) what the wires from the great ex: changes of Chicago, Minneapolis and} other markets record it. Any place; on the map that wants to buy grain is| in touch every hour with the central} markets of this country, and your manager has an equal opportunity to know the situation. There is a.cash market and the most competitive bids | in the world come there and are laid on his desk. And you as a farmer, can grow your grain, send it to town and know that every dollar it is worth that your manager, if he is competent and efficient, can put that grain into| 16 hevt market in the wor... and you get the benefit of it. And so I say, never since Adam came out of the| Garden of Eden have any farmers had | the opportunity we have in the grain | belt. Terminal Elevators i “Furthermore, regarding the build-| ing of terminal elevators, packing | houses, manufacturing plants and simi- lar industries which are intended to} benefit the farmer I hold closely to the theory that this is not likely to be done successfully where the invest- Continuing, the speaker said: i “There are about three kinds of or-) mizations of farmers in America hical, political and economical. Uni-| rsities and colleges send out men to/| ve a certain kind of education. You! ‘er your assistance. Your clubs and| stitutes offer education and enter-| inment.- That is ethical. It is good. 1e second is political. You try to get; an to vote in a certain way, to do| rtain things. Perhaps it is good. I! .ve never yet ‘been converted to be. sve it will be long lived or that it| ll render very material services, | ‘eve that the history of the past ‘ll bear me out when I say that the ing which will live, which you men il pass to your children is economi-| 1. The institution that you build ‘wn home and you put ten to fifteen twenty thousand dollars into, that the one you expect to will to your ildren. It will take the grain off your rm now and when you have been id away after you have done your ‘e’s work your children and your chil- r -en's children will continue to haul ‘e product of that soil to the same} ouse, ten years after, fifty years af r, yes a hundred years from today} at economical institution will stand iere, if built on the co-operative plan ytween the farmer on the farm and| 1@ outside market world. So I come yow and ask you to solve your prob-| ‘ms today along economical lines,| ad to’ be mighty careful that you! "t line up politically as neighbors| ainst each other and divide your in-| ‘aence. Attend to the growing and the! ‘arketing of your crops and then you| “ill be able to get what is right, no ‘atter who is elected to office. 2 The First Man. | _ “I sometimes have read about a man} “ho sinned. His name was Adam. He! ‘wed way back there in the Garden of; ‘den. You know Adam was cursed/ ‘nd told to go out and be a farmer. | ‘nyhow, he was to earn his bread by; sweat of his face. I have studied | ‘ae condition of farm folks over in| ‘gypt, in central Europe and along American coast all the way from | ‘Aen until now and I am going to look! “pu squafély in the face and say I ome believe there has ever been a ‘me or a place anywhere in the world farmer has had an opportunity ) market his grain'on as fair and quitable a basis a4 the grain growers if the grain belt in the United States: f America enjoy tocay. I mean, of lourse, where you have a cooperative levator company to deal with—end nere only. “Ya ee “L-do want to give out the im- spirit 0 ment is made by individual farmers. There are many reasons for this. | “The individual farmer who invests | from $100 to $500 cannot afford to! take the time and pay the expenses necessary to attend the annual meet-| ing of stockholders. ‘Personally -he cannot do a very large volume of bus- iness with the institution, The result is that he must send a proxy to some- one on the inside. Usually these en- terprises fail because of poor man- agement, or if they succeed the man- agers are capable of getting the con-{ trol of the companies. In the first case the farmer loses his money and} in the second case he loses the co- operation, “Until the farmers have organized good, strong co-operative societies at home which are financially and co- operatively successful they are not ready to embark on national under- takings. It may be that when they have built their strong local compa- nies these companies cold invest enough money to build packing houses mills and other institutions whic would furnish national competition for big business. For example, a live stock shipping association which could invest $5,000 and guarantee $100,090 worth of business annually could af | ford to send a delegate to the annual meeting and guarantee the integrity, the co-operation and the safe business | management of the packing plant. The | principle would work out the same as applied to a mill or other large indus- try, but the unit for building up these larger industries should be the local co-operative company father than the individual farmer. Experiences Abroad. ‘The soundness of this theory is based upon the experiences abroad. The principle is this year being ap- plied to the co-operative grain move- ment in Canada. It was not applied in the case of the Independent Harves- ter Company at Plano, Illinois, and now that company is going through a reorganization which will cost many a shareholder practically every penny | he has invested in it. If the Plano! company is eventually successful the! co-operative principle will more than likely have disappeared and the men who have put up the money today will enjoy the results of its future prosper. ' ity. This is a striking illustration of an so many hundred times in the last | fifty years in America that it ought not to need argument. Let us follow operations as practiced in the foreign | countries. We had better wait five or ten years to build slowly, conserva- tively and correctly than to make more great failures by our ill-advised haste, “I believe in a co-operative admoc racy. Our face is towards the future but in my judgment it will never come until we have a co-operative spirit, a | co-operative education among the} memberships of our local companies | and the local company must make the investment, elect the delegate and so} guarantee co-operative ownership and | control, for this is not likely to be/ done successfully by the individua! farmer. ‘It is all right to dream of thes great things and to listen to the voic« of the agitator, but we must build in| storms of commerce are sure to beat are founded on the rock they will live. Otherwise they will fail and great will | be the fall thereof.” Mr. Myers closed his address with unanimous support of the government in this hour of stress. joined him in singing “Beating the Kaiser.” CONCENTRATE a strong appeal to patriotism and the ment and to the allies is veste< board, and it The audience | Mating and anticipating the needs of any of these, creating or improving facilities for producton and ad¥sing! as to prices. t 'LIEUT. SPERRY AND HIS FIANCEE | , GREAT POWER INWAR BOARD National Organization to be Fed- eration of all Big Prohib- ition Societies. Washington, Mar. Aeorganiza- tion of the war industries board with Eernard M a practical way upon the solid rock chairman and with vastly incree and not upon the shifting sand or the | Powers to control the output of, Am: !erican industry during the war upon the structure we build. If they announced Tuesday by President Wil- son. ed Baruch, of New York, was Final determination of all questions of priority in deliveries to any de- partment of the United States govern- in the charged with co-ordi- Chairman is “General Eye” Much of the power is given to the WILL APPEAL CONVICTION chairman, with the board acting in an advisory capacity, and he, the presi- dent says, should “act as the general eye of all supply departments in the } field of industry.” | Through the board it is proposed | to eliminate all competition for sup-; Plies between the various departments | and the allies, t..us meeting in a mea: OF VON BANK N. D. School Principal Found Guilty of Disloyal Utter- ances Fargo, N. D,, ‘Mar. 6.—A. W. Fouler, counsel for ‘Henry Von Bank, profes- sor of school district No. 79 in Cass county found guilty by a jury in fed- eral court here Tuesday on a charge of violating the espionage act, an- nounced tonight that he would appeal the case to the circuit court of ap- neals if a motion for a new trial is denied by Federal Judge Amidon. Von Siank, who admitted on the witness stand that he had declared to Miss Burt, 71 year old school teacher, that “he would rather see a pair of old trousers flying from the top of the school house, than the American flag,” was visably affected by the jury's ver- | dict. He declared in vroken English that the verdict was “unjust” for he was “just as patriotic as anybody’; and that the jury and everybody else misunderstood him when he made that statement, which he declared o1 the witness stand was made in a jok- ing manner. AUCTION NETS THOUSAND FOR THERED CROSS Prof. J. E. Shaw, president and chairman of the Hazen Branch of the Red Cross is in the city. He reported that last Saturday afternoon, begin- ning at 1 o'clock an auction was held. | to which everyone within a radius of 5 miles contributed, with the exception of three people. Contributions con- effort to build a needed institution on the wrong basis. The farmer stock- holders alone of the Independent Har- yester Company buy enough machin- ery to support the plant in a thriving manner; but organized as they are, they do not buy their own machinery. | ‘of co-operation * advises: but under of sisted of all kinds of fancy work, cook- | } ed foods, loads of coal, loads of hay, { pigs, horses—in fact anything that a person wished to contribute was ac- cepted. y | Hazen is a town of about 600, but ure at least, the demand in congress! for centralization of power. There; were suggestions today that the action | now announced was one of the steps contemplated by the president. when he sent to the senate the bill now pending to enlarge his powers for re-| organizing and coordinating govern- ment agencies, and that the delay in bringing the measure to a vote caused him to. proceed without waiting for legislation. If the bill is passed it will be possible to make more « specific scme of the authority now yiven the industries poard. Willard Resigns. The president prescribed the new duties of the board in a letter to Mr. Raruch requesting him to accept the chairmanship as successor to Daniel Willard, who recently resigned to de- “DISCOVEFY for Coughs eColds makes it unnecessary for you to be annoyed by that dragging cold in the head. When your. eves begin to water, when you became feverish and when you begin to sheeze, take Dr. King's New oecoreS the popular. ly for SO y2ars. 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ARR RRR eee vote his entire. time to his duties as president of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad and as chairman of the advis- ory commission of the council of nat- ional defense. ‘BANDITS KILL TWO THEN POLICE KILL ESCAPING BANDIT | Attempted Robbery in Coving- ton, Ky., Results in Death of Three. Covington, Ky., Mar, 6.—Three men, two of them directors of. the Ninth Ward Building and Loan Association, and the other a bandit, were: killed when the bandit, with two, com-/ panions entered the meeting room of the association and ordered the direc- tors to hold up their ‘hands. lef of Police’ Theodore Klumper, who is a director and was. present opened fire on the bandits, killing one. The other two bandits shot and killed Andrew Nordmeyer, 63 years old, pres- ident of the association, and John Rehm, 83 years old, a shoemaker. 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