The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 18, 1918, Page 2

j OUBLING the farmer's { share of the wheat dol- ' lar is one of the war- ' time Jobs Uncle Sam has i done since food control ie became possible, After \ five months. of: grap- ; C pling with the probléi, Uncle Sam is now trans- ‘lating into the pockets of both produc- ‘ers and consumers benefits derived hy the Nation, He has shut off specula- jtion, produced a free market and ‘movement of all grades of wheat, cut éxpenses and indt¢ed a normal flow of Wheat in’ natural directions, and ef- fecteil'a thousand other economies. The Food Adniinistration Grain Cor? poration, which supervises the sale, or itself buys every bushel of wheat pro- duced in the Nation in its progress frora country elevator to foreign buy- ers or domestic consumers, marks a new step. toward national effidjency. How in four short months It has been done is told in the following episodes wherein two bushefs‘of wheat traveled to market. One fine fall’ afternoon, Col. Bill Jenkins, who farms somewhere in Mis- souri, loaded his wheat into a wagon and drote along the black road that led across the prairie to town, When he reached’ the co-operative levator of. which he was 9 stockholder, he pulled up on the scales, checked his gross weights carefully, and began to] unload. “The nianager came out and | fixed charge made in this locality for asked: ‘handing’ and’ selling. The 5-cent “When you want to sell this wheat?” | charge included the commission’ of 1 “L dunno.” he -answered, “One| Cent per bushel customary in 1917 time's about ax good as another— among commission men for selling the ‘these’ ‘days: “T won't weigh any niore wheat \to domestic millers o foreign later,” he added, with a dry smile. Whent shrinks alot.” admitted the manager. “I hexr the Government wants) as much wheat as it can get Just now—unders‘and the Allies do ible lot of it since the war.” wheat t¢ * asked. Col, Dundenthe:, new grades,” “Gradés? What alent grades? That |! sald the eleva- “The! Food ame. Con- tor man, giveirtn Administration ix’ nat to gress pasned the partment of Arientture to fix. the . They, Leenme effective. last T sent-off nv letter on tt.” plnce? it sahnost every town at, the great grain er August 10; for revo- lutton in grain’ market- ing was taking place. Uncle Sam had’ started’ ii! this: remarkable’ ex- perinent; he was zoing to'see wheth: er wheat could: be marketed minus rake-offs to the speculators, This necessitated complete conttol by” the Government of siorage facilities, trans- Portation and distributive agencies, pee machinery for was, troubled; most of tials of the Food Adminis-, in Corporation who had undertaken, wifhdut 'y, and at the sacrifice of their personal connection with’ ‘the grain trade, to, whip’ inte shape'the ‘forces that would. drive for ‘ward: tlie big business machine for marketing American w heat. 4 single 3 anid ‘a. $50,000,000 nonprofit. aking. corporittion, to do the work, This work is a'necessary atin of the Food’ Aiiminisitntton, allowing” ‘the Government to. do. business quickly and without red tape. ‘Its stock is held in. trust, by the President of. the Unit- ed States. For tlie thme of the war It ‘wal’ supervise the rate or purchase ‘the part commercially available of the 660,000,000 bushels. of wheat and tae 50,000,000. surplus of rye° grown in Amebiea In 1917. Its’ job'is to‘find a tet’ for every bushel, irrespéctive of 'olass’afid grade. Under its patron- age, wheat screenings are moving: just. ¥:as No.1, Northern, It must, rk, out, satisfactorily the’ “local: pas for wheat at each of almost couritry elevator points, adjust’ ‘thoteands of’ complaints, organize’ the gathiétlitg“and analysis’ of date, 1aspect coficerns reported as dealing unfairly, adive vexatious disagreements: among de; and deal effectively witht! purchasing’ agent and ‘the néu- ‘who. may di to!purchase, lays, folowing the de- tetititiation ‘of prices’ for 1917 wheat by' the! President's Fair'Price Commis: stonj:confusion existed in every part Of the ‘wheat: producing regions, ‘This was tensified’ by the inauguration of'the new grain grades, as promulgated by the pects ate of Ai ure, which todd? pace’ about the rime; and 160° to’diverse complaints and, a feel- ing-among farmers | that thé Grain ‘Cor- er ofthe Food ‘Administration w , ‘béponsible ‘for héth the:price as termined and stricter, observance of + gtteity grades. But’the corporation war nsible for neither act. «It. i: + Charles W Holman NE Cin the Country Gentleman) zone agent of the Grain Corporation. and. told the De-| ithe, price. at the most advantageous ly an administrative arm of the Gov- ernment formed to buy grain or super- vise its sale at the prices determined by the commission, and It must do its work’on the basis of the new grades. But to return to our farmer and his expectations of price. Introducing Two Bushels of Wheat. Lying side by side in his wagon had been 2 bushels of wheat that fate had marked for strangely different ends. They were very much alike, those bushels of wheat, and to look at them you, would not have suspected the strange and wonderful adventures in store for them. Yet one was destined to travel abroad for consumption in France; the other to find its way into Georgia, where it’ was’ milled and its flour finally reached a New York baker on the East Side. But in the sum‘of the travels made by the two, as we shall follow them, will be un- folded the international panorama of wheat marketing in time of war. Finding a Price at a Country Point. High war costs of production gave our Misgourl “farmer much. concern’ a8 to his returns and accounted for his depression over the prospects of his wheat “grading‘down” ; for that meant a reduction of 3 cents per bushel’ un- der the No. 1 grade. But it graded No. 2. The) elevator would also deduct sn additional 5 cents a bushel td cover the buyers! (wm ‘The elevator man was none too sure as, to’ how to get at the, price which ‘this wheat should bring. He knew ‘considerably more about human nature thdn. freight’ rates and decided to “check up” the problem to the nearest So he wrote a letter to the representa- tive stationed at St. Louis. That let- ter. was.referred to the traific expert {n the New York office, who transjalt- ted the following rule for deterinining ‘the price ‘of wheat at any’ country point: There is only one price for wheat at a country point, That price-is always ito, be: arrived at. by taking as a basis primary market where we have fixed a price and deducting: the freight to:|. that’ market and’a fair handling proft. 1 | hettér sell for |:That isthe price to be pald for wheat |. | $2,0802 per bushel. fatany otation, to which it may-be shipped. Working out the price which should ibe paid for wheat at your station Is a fine occupation for an off day, If you cannot find the-answer, write to, the Food Administration Grain Cor- poration in New York City and its traffic expert will give you aid, Finding the Price of No. 2 Wheat at Sikeston. aw. AKE an actual example:) 9, An. elevator man in . Sikeston, Mo:, wanted Ly to know what price No. 2 wheat ‘should: bring’ at his’ station when No, 1 wheat! at New York City was $2.28 per bush- el, Here is how he went about it: The freight rate from Sikeston to New York being 16.98 cents per bush- el, he deducted that from $2.28" per. bushel and found the price at Sikeston to be’ $2.1102, From this he deducted 1 per cent per bushel for the commis- sion firm's charges, which’ put the net” price f. 0. b. Sikeston at $2.1002, He next comparéd this price with. what he could get if he sold at St. Louis, his\nearest primary market, At St. Louis the basic price is $2.18 per bushél, and the freight rate from Sikeston to St. Louis 6 cents per’ bush- el. This would make the Sikeston price $2.12, less 1 cent per bushel for selling charges, or $2.11 net. The St. Louis price would therefore govern, being’ advantageous to the Sikeston seller. If our imaginary 2 bushels of wheat had started from Sikeston, since it was a No, 2 grade, we must deduct 3 cents per bushel, which would. bring the price f, 0. b. the elevator point to As our imaginary elevator man is charging 5 cents per bushe} for handling, which includes the commission feeQust mentioned, we deduct an additional 4 cents to arrive at the price the farmer received. This price would be $2.0402 at the elevator. Some of that 4 cents will return to our farmer if the elevator prospers; for it is owned co-operatively. When’ Farmer and Elevator Man Die- ‘ agree. ” Had this elevator been owned by pri- vate firm or person, or had it been a “line” plant, Col. Jenkins would not have been so bland and trustful. ‘ He might have refused to sell at all and arranged to store his wheat or he might have taken it over to a com- petitive concern which offered a high- er price; for. the Food Administration has not yet attempted to regulate ‘the prices paid farmers for wheat at coun- try. points... It does, however, offer to sell for any farmer or farmers’ organ- ization” wheat offered at terminal points, but makes a commission charge of 1 per cent for its services, Watch Your Blood Sup ae) ; 3 Don't Let Toupurities Creep In Health. The'ave: medicine that is purely vegetable. ‘druggists is Py pro-k wonderful mis Sry lis great oll meloe istomers yy this grea’ ™ tnd they know tat S 8.8. is one of ‘druggist has handled] the’ moet reliable blood puriflers eve hundreds of medicines in his day,|made. 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LOUIS iS regardlesé of the polnt’ “|procured a continuance of their pre- er TT BISMARCK: DAILY TRIBUN liminary hearing until today. The charge of rioting embraces, under the North Dakota statute, any crime which may grow out of the riot, and the state's attorney has declared that if Pennington is found guilty: ofAnur- der every, one who can be proven to have been a meinbey ‘of the mob wilt be held. equally -guiltq. EVANGELICAL YOUNG PEOPLE TO MEET HERE Annual Convention of Two Big Church Bodies Opens in Bismarck ‘Tomorrow {5 HAZELTON MEN ANSWER RIOT CHARGE Members of Mob Which Killed Mrs. E. L., Perras Are Arraigned at Linton linton, N. D., June 18.—Fifteen well known’ Hazelton men were arraigned here today for a*preliminary hearing on a charge of rioting as a result of the sensational killing. of ‘Mrs. E. L. Perras, a wealthy Hazelton widow, who was shot to death shortly after’ midnight’ the morning of June 7 by a mob which was seeking her son-in- law, W. W. Dougherty, a well known farmer, charged with’ hoarding wheat. Dougherty had withdrawn his wheat from the Victoria elevator at Hazel- ton. When he presented his storage ticket he was informed that his wheat, which -was of the. crop of 1915, had been shippe dto ‘Minneapolis ‘to be sold, under food” administration rul- ings prohibiting the holding of wheat in elevators more than 30 days. Dougherty insisted upon having his wheat, and the elevator finally sent into. Minneapolis and brought back Dougherty’s 1,000. bushels of grain and turned it over to him. The incident created considerable discussion, and when it was found that this wheat had not been marketed prior to June J, as the food adminis- tration had bee ndirected, a mob was formed to call upon Dougherty and de- mand the reason. Dougherty advised his callers that he had sold his wheat to a mill at Temvik. The mob pro- ceeded to Temvik, where the manager denied purchasing the , Dougherty wheat. It wasithen that the.mob con- ceived the idea of tarring and feather- ing Dougherty. Late the same night they called at E..L. Perras and de- They were in- formed that Dougherty was not there. There were some words, and C. Pen- nington, a village drayman who was The annual conventions of the Da- kota conference ranch of the Young People’s alliance and the Dakota Con- ference Sunday Schools Evangelical association will open in Bismarck to- morrow and will continue over Sun- day. Governor Lynn’ J. Frazier will welcome delegates in behalf of the state and city, and Miss Louise Hoer- mann, superintendent of nurses,, wil! speak on-behalf of the Bismarck ho: pital tomorrow morning. Rev. W. | Hallwachsj of Cleveland, O., who gives his first address Thursday morning. is one of the notables on the program. He will appear. at all of the succeed- jing sessions and pill ve one of the speakers Sunday evening, when the |; two organizations will dedicate their | | service flags, with addresses from Gov- ernor Frazier, Dr, Edward Everett Rall and Dr. Hallwachs. Cc Strutz, formerly of Big Stoney City, S. D., and now pastor of the Bismarck Evangelical church, is pres- ident of the Dakota branch of the Young People’s alliance; John E. Booth, Ramona, S. D., vice president; Miss Grance Korts, Big Stone City, S. D. recording secretary; Miss. Bar- bara Heidner, Fargo, missionary sec- retary; Miss Edna Burckhargt, Vienna, . corresponding secrefary; A. L,. Horn, Aberdeen, S. D., Bidle study secretay; George J. Hasse, Aberdeen, treasurer; Miss Adelia Britzius, Aber- a member of! the posse, drew a-revol-| deen, junior superintendent; Miss ver and fired. Mrs, Perras after re-; Myrtle Grier, Ortonville, Minn., budget peating her statement that she was| fund secretary; Miss Mabel Anton, not hiding Dougherty dropped dead.{ president Bismar« district; Samuel J. Teichman, Fargo, pr distr R._D.*Dexhiemer of Beresford, The village marshal placed Penning-} ton under arrest, and the mob dis- | persed. Pennington was arraigned on a charge of murder in the first degree and was held to district court, being taken to the Burleigh county jail for safe-keeping. No further arrests were} made until last Friday. when State's Attorney Scott Cameron procured war- rants for fifteen who had been identi- fied as members of_the mob. They were brought to Linton, where they dent Fargo s Away with DEADLY POISONS FAT CORN KILLS RATS, MICE AND GOPHERS . ““FOR'SALE BY Finney’s Drug Store, Bismarck, N. D. AKOTA'S PRIDE . BACON Delicious Vegetable Dishes BY using just’ a little bacon with potatoes, man’ ives are finding they can largely dispense with other meats. 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