The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 4, 1915, Page 10

s S4BTt s e s e FHASL LauiN 2 L i ~-~M¢-~- Presents for All That W l! Wnte Auswers to Our Problems. -FIRST PRIZE - - - Twenty Dollars in Gold SECOND: PRIZE - - Ten Dellars:in: Gold: THIRD: PRIZFE - - Five Dellars in Gold FOURTH PRIZE - - - Three Dellars To Every School Pupil Under 19 years of Agé_'l‘hat Sends an Ans- wer The Leader Will Send a Beautiful Christmas Gard' Free. HERE ARE THE PROBLEMS. A North Dakota farmer took.a wagen load of wheat contain- ing 52 bushels to an elevator .where the wheat was graded No. 4 ‘and docked 6 pounds. Two days later he took another wagon load, 62 bushels, of :the same wheat to another elevator and it was gxaded No. 2 and paid for at the price of No: 1, while it was docked only 2 and | | | I % one-half po | | | Between the price réceived for the first load and the net price regeived for the second load; aliowing for fluctuations of the market meanwhile, was a net nctual difference of §9.87. Suppose the total.wheat crop of North Dakota to bz 119,- 000,000 Sushe Is. g o ' ‘Suppose it all to be put into wagons containing 62 bushels each. Suppose that because of misgrading and. dockage there is lost to the farmers that raised it $2.87 on every second wagon load HERE ARE THE QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED: 1. What would be the-total amount of loss in dollars to the farmers of North Dakota in Dockage and Grading Alene? 2. How many automobiles at $460 each would that amount buy?’ aln y 3. How many boys and girls would that amount semd: to col- * lege for four years. at $400 per year? P . If it costs’ $100 for a month’s vacation for a farmer’s R $ Py S5 TS T 6. il — 7 THE NONPARTISAN LEADER lon o ¥ t‘.-.r..d‘-4r-‘v-ut'.-aw..ar-ufl-n'--t-huv-.-u'l-4finnafl‘-flr‘.“..‘fi..‘ OUR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS | READ THIS ALL YOUNG PEOPLE wife and three children how many such mothers would be able with this amount to enjoy a_vacation of travel and recreation? 5. How many membershli;e in the Nonrartisan League would the amount pay for at $6 each. How many at $10 each? 6. If the farmers of North Dakota were to establish their own elévators would they not eliminate the loss they now sustain in dockage and in grading by prlvately owned elevators? What is a parasite? - 8. How many newspapers now published in the state of North Dakota have advocated the abolition of the present system of dockaoe and misgrading of grain? Why have not the oth:rs dene so? 9. If the farmers, who comprise 73 percent of the ponu!atlon, stick together, can they or can they not change the laws of Nerth Dakota so that they will retain’for themselves and their families the money that is now taken from them by the present system of docking and: mlsg'radmg' of g‘ram ; - RULES AND CONDITIONS OF THE GONTESYT Write plainly. Give name, postoifice address, county and state, Contest open to all school boys and school gurls under the age of nineteen years. All replies. will: be considered' that reach the offlce of the Nonpartisan Leader in Farge net later than 12 o'clock nosn on December 15, Each contestant will' be allowed to scnd but one set of - answers. Neatness in writing and brevity of statement will Iw favor- ably considered. Write on ome side only of the paper.. Mail Answers to “Contest Editor’, Nonparhsan Leaxler. Box 919, Fargo, North Dakotn. Names of the winners will be prmtm! in ~the’ Loader of December 29. We invite all: our young friends: to enter this oonhst. Al awards will be strictly on merit. 2 Days of Steam About st 3™ 5" e v Ended: 'Electric: | 5 anns s stean sallroads. . Power toTake . . " Its. Place “Gentlemen,” he said, in address- ing - the:” members of- the - Eleetric club Jovian league at the Hotel Sher- man, “can’t you see the face of the earth changing before your very -|eves? It is changing the city, the Poor, old fashioned, clumsy, and'in-| factory, and the Lome, just as radi- efficient steam power! It had.a hard| cally .as steam changed it. day. yesterday, apd its hardest: days] “Steam huilt up our great cities are still ahead, in the opinion of Dr.| with our congestion and slums. Blee- C.-B. Steinmetz, the ‘Edison” of the| tricity: will. break them down and insiders in the electric field. scatter the' population evenly over Besides being chief, electrical engi-{*the continent; beeause-electricity can neer of one of the gremtest elctrical| be transmitied anyivhere by simple| concerns of te- world: -~ Dr. Steinmetztrancmission wires; Steam must be is also responsible for a. list of pat-|used where generated, and where ent rights, there is a large labor supply. Hardly four feet tall, wearing the Chap: Land: to. Decide sames fierce black. beard and wire-|.. “With full eleetrical development, like' rompadour and; the same pierc- | the labor supply need mot he right ing gray eyes that alone would make|at the factory door: It:can be moved any passerby turn and siare; he wés [icheaply and guickly even more impressive as.he leaned on] evening, There will be no necessity the back of his chair yesterday and|for locating near where the power in the most commonplace tones, re-|can be produced the cheapest, as in divided the periods of civilization in-| the steam factory, because the power to the time before and after the de-|can be carried over the wires. velopment: of electricity, re-named| ‘The factories will then go where the mest important date in American | the lard is cheapest. Eleetricity will history. as- the time when. electrical! run errands in the home: the way. to the limited: use of the electrical|land ad Massachusetts. motor rather than any natural disa<|, hility. spects to the plan o an advisory :the money to the expert naval board morning and{ . among the important constitutional “The cost' is all that is standing in Governors were elected in four But the high cost is due|sStates, Mississippi, Kentucky, Mary- And in sik states, New York, Mlss- It is as simple as an alarm|issippi, Maryland, Kentucky, Massa- ‘clock, and’ should and would be as{chusetts and New Jersey state legis qheap if it were: used as generally. laf;_ures are to Be életied, in whole: All' we ‘need: is. better disfribution.|or in part, The more we use the lower the- cost per unit and the more electricity 'People wfiolauéhat tizeidea of th; will supplant steam and hand pow- £ 3 VR ! ‘er,” just as steam once supplanted o ganizing; aze. the: fest.-to i g sneer when. they don’t. Dr. Steinmetz also. paid. his re- - Write and tell a friend in some board of clvnhan inventors fm the | other state about the Leader. Tell ‘navy. his to'Subseribe: “Qongress: would get mueh better : results in the: long run if it gave alllj— : e For years the: farmer ha&inet | .to. separate WILD oats ‘from his seed with fan- ; ningmills and grad- Wehave | iers yet in the fall learned: || he has Oa.ts that. it takes a. to do this sf;:g(l:tly. We Wild : are now putting on the mar- ket what is known as the Cotton Flan- nel Lined Drum, highly recommended | by agnculhmsts and seed men, Did you see it on demonstration at your State Fair? Write for catalogue today. - Address, Hoiland Wild Oats Separator Mfg., Fargo, N. Dak. ! and let them spend: it. unhampered. If the beoard needed any help it could' invite: the men in industrial’ \York to submit ideas.” IMPORTANT ELECTIONS Eight states held elections Tues- day, November 2. Municipal home rule, income tax, the referendum, woman suffrage and prohibitin are issues voted upon in five states, New York, Massachusetts, Marylard, Penn- sylvania and Ohio. C.J. LEE,Prefident C. B: MAY, Ist Vice Pres Valley. €ity, N. D. RURAL GREDITS AUMEFGAM’BALW LECWRE& nmmmn - and DISCUSSION. Sehoal Sessieng. will: be: held each afternoon at 2:30 and evening at T:30;. for five conseeutive days; Menday to Friday, inelusive. Thes& scheols: mll he definitely. located; and dated, when at.least fifty studients: liave: been-enrolled. for a:School'in a certain locality. Special’ cash: prizes: will' be given away for the best papers on verious subjeets; as outlined in printed literature. g nmmuuuuuumnmuulmmmumuummnummunmmuul ‘How Farmers can Oo-operate to lncrease Farm Profits. . Rural: Life; M Credits,, Farm: Nenessmes, Prodzxdzon, Marketing, Taxation, Co-opamtwn, Farm Organuntxot, & complete course of study will be furnished, to teach farmers 2% 6 s timo when eloctriel un errsnds in the lowes - leylniasdObo | i _llIllllllllllllllllllllflllllmuflllllllflfll!lflllflllllflIllIIIIIIIIIIlllllliflflfilllmllfllllIllIllllllIIIIlIIl|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIHIIIIIIIIHIIIIHIIIIIIlllllllllIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIlIII!IIIlIIlIIIL Y. W. WASSON, 2nd Vice-Pres. Argusvdle, N.D. Velva, N. D. * CHARTERED 1915 FARMERS RURAL CREDIT ASS@CIATION A. M. BAKER, See’y G. S. YOUMANS, Gen’l Mgr. l-‘argo, N. D. and Treas., Mmot N.D. CO-OPERATION MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA | !fil!l!l!llll,ll!lfllllIlliflllllllflllll_llllll Givem Under the Dnrectlon of *This’ Association and Fmancmg, Farm Busmess- . FREE: INFORMATION m;kgu, Farmers’ Rural Credit Assoeiation,, ] Minot, North Dakota. | ; Gentlemen: = Y “¥ am in favor af Farmers Schoois to. tea.ch Farmers how 'bo Co- to to Farm: Profits indly mail me full particulars. Name teeerereiiaiiiieeeins Address. ...io.nnn he Write name and address plainly, cut out then mail in for free ’§ informahon eovermg meers Schools a‘mn|umnmm.’lilfiinmnmmmuw Seseveccasmtssenees et aiale’a’o dieTs o e ble eld o u a1 378 500 0 0 B 906