The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 21, 1915, Page 11

ra MRS. GALT © Genthe. .. 5. Ay At the world's series baseball games, opened by President Wilson, Phillies came in for a great deal of attention. The war as affectin; Greece, war premier, was again forced to resign by the king, took place as 70,000 French troops landed at Saloniki, Greec when it was announced that the human voice had ca; official decree-celebrated the birthday of James Whit: $3,000,000,000: President Wilson announced coming marriage to M rried from Washington (o Fruit Growers of Cal- ifornia Set Good N | Example to N. D. | - Farmers > 4 With food prices as high appar- ently as the consumer can bear, it is an extraordirary thing that the farmer of the Northwest can receive “but - sufficient for his grain ‘to tide him over from one year. to the next and then only=by practicing the most rigid economy. ‘To hold before him always the il- L. lusion‘of some-time producing a bum- per crop, ‘and marketing it at bum- 4 per prices has been the work of the , men who live only to gamble with : a nation’s. food stuffs. Theirs also has been the work to see to it that this thing should never.come to pass. The turning of the road has come in North Dakota. As the fruit grow- ers of California threw from their shoylders the parasites who " were feeding upon them, so, are the farm- ers o fthis State doing today. The| not far distant’ when the| day .is Farmer will get a man’s chare for his crops. As the Fruit Growers of Cal- ifornia came together in a closely knit organization for their own pro- tection and preservation and haye béen able to bid absolute defiance to the grasping middle-man, so are the farmers of the Northwest unit- ing to control the price of their pro- ) duct and: the market. — It took the Fruit Growers of Cali- fornia. over thirty years to perfect their * organization, regulatirg tha movemernt of the crop to the markst, : setting the- price for it, and seeing i : . that no market is ever glutted or ever under-stocked.. " - Their fruit sales total over $50,- 030,000 each year. Fully seventy-five per cent of California’s’ fruit crop is -marketed- through the organization, : B E, which is: known as the California| . Fruit: Growers’ Exchange. A certain portion of the crop is moved cach month, whieh with the model selling |. agency this association has built up goes out to-a market that is so even- ly ‘balanced that normally ‘ the pro- SEa e advance what his income.for ihe en- suing year will.be.. " Bl “In the days before: the organization had ‘mastered the selling end of ths business, and still marketed tkrough the jobbers they learned several bit- ter lessons of the advantages the-job- » has in the purchase of any com- . modity. Slowly but surely the price " ducer, ‘knows fully twelve months in| comb Riley, the poet. Lawson Purdy, PHOTOS 'BY, AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION < A Honolulu, 4,900 miles, e T — to facilitate their handling and shipr ped to the different packing houses where they are set up and nailed together. So long as the price re- mained 17 and 18 cents there was no complaint from the growers. But when it began to climb toward 20 and then jumped to 21 something had to be done. The Fruit Growers came together and authorized their directors to or- ganize a subsiduary corporation with a capital of $1,000,000 to purchase a mill in the northern part of the state and manufacture their own box shooks, with the result that today sheoks in the state of California are sold to the growers at ahbout 13% cents -apiece, and at that figure the hooks of the corporation show a hand- some profit. The price of California citrus fruits has not appreciably increased to the cohisumer, ‘oranges and lemons fre- quently being sold as cheap or cheaper than apples, yet the producer O/ Gras) han Than theit. e Here's my song, (| Thats got noth Comin-goin, ev'ry day- ‘\ Best friends first togoaway- ) Slips their grip while greetin’you- “Say good-by er ho'wdv do!. & owdy- doand then, good-by-V\"m ~ Mixes jes' like laugh and cry; Deaths and births,and worstand best Tangled their contrariest; - Eviry jinglin’ weddin-bell ‘Skeerin’ op soine fureri knell- owd}f-_do,'and then,_goodfby'! ' {ISome One’s runmin'’ this concer < LEF Hezs willing, wéll pull through!/ > 4L IN S Pitchers Leonard of the Boston Reds and Alexander of g the Balkans took a most peculiar turn when Venizelos of although he was voted the confidence of the chamber. This action e, fearing Bulgaria’s attitude. (3] A ‘the The surprise of the week came by wireless telephony. The whole state of Indiang by AWS( tax commissioner of New York city, asked a personal tax on over rs. Norman Galt, & Washington widow. Dr. Dumba, recalled Austrian ambassador, sailed. has increased his net income fully 50 per cent and all through the elimina- tion of the middle-man, the jobber. When the farmers of North Dakota eliminate the jobber, the board of trade in Chicago, Grain Exchange in Minneapolis and Duluth and market the finished product, flour, then and not until then will they control their market., 4 It used to cost $100 to buy 2 seat in the Minneapolis Chamber of Com- merce. Now five thousand dollars is not enough. The business of farm- ing is apparently getting Dletter at the same ratio that the business of farming the farms is growing worse. Hand grenades and knives are now being used in trench ‘warfare. If guns of longer range are invented man will probably go back to the primitive club as his most effective weapon. ds youd ht in’soltd hg{' \d ®) ’ i/ and there’s your; sigh- in’ else to learn: howdy—do! 1916.. L] Balance of Power Held by the Pro- gressives of Nation From the New York Globe. Reactionaries are welcome tov all the comfort they can get out of The- odore Roosevelt’s present position with regard to the Progressive -party. The progressive movement in polities is dependent neither on Roosevelt nor a Bull Moose party. Those who think of it as solely due to a revolt stirred up by a man disappointed in gétting the nomination for the presidency - had better go over the facts af the situation- again. The - pregressive movement is the result of the large and growing independent vote, which is here to stay. Long before the Chi- cago convention even the stugpgid.st, though unable- to adjust themselves to the change, realized there was a new spirit*abroad in-.the larnd. Al- ready the behavior of great number of voters had begun to disturb the “old guard.”” Even the damming ad- jectives “muckraker” and “demagogue. were unable to stop the exposures of the illicit alliance between crooked, business and crooked bosses. These independent voters will be here what- ever becomes of the Progressive or any other party. Their principles are not dead. Suggested by the ardent desire for it, many people would like to- per- suade themcelves that there is » wave of reaction sweeping over the country in which annoying progressives will be silenced and privilege seeking bus- iness carried beyond legal “persecu- tion.”” Let no one deceive himself. The signs of the times do not'point to a national lovefeast of victorious standpatism at present—not when ev-~ en Mr. Root is so far overcome by progressive principles as to liken the “invisible government” of New York to Venezuela, and seeks its adoption of the short ballot amendment in or- der that his convention may recom- mend at least one thing that.the vot- efs of New York will approve.- Not* when Mr. Barnes is striving .to find cream puff substitutes to prevent the voters from demanding the initiative, referendum and recall. If the Progressive party gives up = its party organization some of -tha progressives will support Wilson in Others would support « pro- gressive republican. But one thing is certain; progressive paity or no pro-: gressive party the independent voters . in this country have learned by the - experience of 19127 that they hold balance of pewer in national cam: paigns. - They- will not_ scon forget: that gratifying discovery. e ) i