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

sr’—~Day Book. e 3 - PAGE FOUR that state and I'm keen for it. region. It's a good looking state. V# THE NONPARTISAN I.EADE‘R By Charles Edward Russell r’'M for North Dakota. I have just ended a five weeks’ visit to | American spirit. If there were nothing else there to charm one -generous, democratic and warm Flfty vears ago it was open and|teo, and the mast open minded. I don’t know .any bett‘:er the peope alone would be enough—the kindest people, the most hearted. The most progressive, I never saw a community ‘that a]most treeless prairie, and men said it was practlcally uninhabi- | had less prejudice. They have mo objection to a thing merely be: table except by gophers and Indians. e wheat farm in the world, and the good taste and inspired efforts of its people :are transforming it into a garden. * It has more handsome, well built, attractive towns than any|.do in the cause of education:are marvelous. Now it is the greatest|cause it ismew. All they wantto .education and culture. Loek at know is whether it is;good. .Thoughtful people .and -a=people of noble aspirations for their schools. The things they In every town, big "other state I know of. Take Fargo, Grand Forks, Val»ley City, or little, the school house is the finest building_and so good. and Minet, Devil’'s Lave, Bismareck, Jamestown, Mandan. Here are{modern and advanced in itsiequipment it makes you wonder. exéht towns that 1 will match for neatness, orderliness and gaod | Look -at the North Dakota «ceolleges and the public spirit with _looks against any eight towns in.any other state in the Union, and {which they are supported. These things are impressive. win with them every time. lookmg business region in the United States. They reveal here a community of :achievement and possibilities that are f "% The city of Fargo, to take one example, has about the best| most extraordinary. I have lecture I will venture to say that in proportion to the wea.lth of the toured and traveled Wlde]y in all the states except Florida, and people of "North Dakota you .can :at any time go forth here and thez'e are very few cities in my observation that are as spruce and | get-more meney by public subscription for any goed and righteous . handspme in “their ‘business: regions :as ‘Fargo. firdaéh to it 1-can think:-of in any state is Watertown, New York, a place singularly favored by nature. ; pralme, ad yet to my mind it has ? tf’i" Watertown backed off the map. ‘The nearest ap-|object than in .any state-eastof the Mississippi, at least. To see such a region and such people hampered and bestrid- Fargo was bult on the|den by ratlroad combinations and elevator combinations and the grain speculators that grab-the profits of the farmers’ toil, is not { Island Park with the Red River winding past it, Minot with its | very encouraging, I admit that. But if I have read these people beautlful Mouse River “banks, Valey City, and the Sheyenne—|aright they have in their hearts and minds the punpose that wwill these ‘places are of the meost- extraordmary beauty -and would be | throw off all these evil conditions. i deemed so anywhere. For there is in North Dakota in addition to its other invaluable possessions more feeling for i .'.L Then all these wide streets thh'the wonderful shade trees, | progress and moere and mere radical convictions than in almost sometxmes double rows of them on each side, the well-kept lawns, | any other state I know. The West is the hope and salvation of th amfest prde.in civic beauty and the sense of it, the evdences|the Republic. In the next few years North Dakota, unless I ".of an exalted public spirit and a lofty determination to have|greatly err, will be recognized everywhere as leading the progres- thmg's~ right and clean—to my thinking this is one of the most|sive thought of the West. I venture this prediction and with full wonderful and most inspiring places on earth. It is enough to|faith in it, that these fine spirited, clear minded people will be "make a man thank God every day.that he is in America. and vitality, .a climate full of health and people full of the best our country a.nd its history. 'S¢ OLVE THIS PROBLEM Peaches apples, pears and = vege- Sty bles are rotting on the ground this fall—-and ever fall—in every -section ““of this country: And in the city markets they -are s Fmee for-ten-cents,” ’and whole fam- ¢ are suffering for want of food. ,There are hundreds of bushels of : péac es left to rot because it doesn’t |/ .Lay. the farmers to market them. They've sent shipment- after ship- meant_for charity. «fhey ve turned in ‘the hogs—and the ‘hogs have had their-fill. . A ‘mountain- is left: i %+ They’ll- lie- there -and rot--because the_ producer would ‘make no profit *if ‘he sent them to the city.and there is nobody to take them away—as a glft' .#‘Not “only in :western .and south: western states, ‘but in New York, -fllno sand Michigan thousands of ~imshels of fruit .and vegetables are ;zaéted every year. = Dklahotaa, :Colorado :and Oregon ‘they .give them away—to anybody -who will come and get them. - TA shipper in Mesa county, Colo,|: amade .a -profit of .$1.17 off one car- load. Jlmt was his pay for -his season’s work in the orchards after his help- XS, the freighters .and express coms- pames -had been paid. nflv,qyihless on the farm; “three- for- fien" in the city. . ‘Why? our haphazard c of transportation and mar- vmg makes it impossible to get the frplt to the eater at a fair profit at all. '{ gWho is the gemus who will solve Ftom‘ the producer to ihe consum- 5 The bankers never knock. - They boosti’ That is one .of the reasons they are bankers. You can well afford to surrender a thul ,9f your independence jn order to secure more independence.’ |-chance |feated in New York, Pennsylvania/ CHEAPER R. R. RATES WOMEN VOTE RIGHT ——— If efforts of the Merchants and the| Thesenemies of woman sufi'rage are ‘Manufacturers’ association materialize making desperate efforts to give ¢ir- Milwaukee will shortly receive farm|culation To the misstatement that produts over the interuban lines-of{‘thée good women do not embrace the ‘The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Qpportunlty to use the ballot even Lxght company. when it is ‘given to them. Nothing The servie will be similar ‘to that|is further from the truth, so far as of the Cilwaukee Northern which.car-|Kansas is concerica. At the general ries all kinds of merchandise, dairy |election held n this state last No-. produts etc., to Milwaukee from sub-|vember, which was the first time urbgn cities and between the suburb- women:of Kansas nad -the opportun: an cities. ity to, exercise in full their rights of; Inauguration of thxs service is ex- | citizenship, nearly as large a propor- pectéd to result in lower prices, es-|tion of the women .went to the rolls jpeciglly on vegetable truck, to Mil-|and voted as did the men. waulkee -consumers, in addition to of-| The .good women of Kansas, than fering it fresh to consumers. whom' there is no more intelligent At present farmers in the vicinity|bedy anywhere in the Wwhole world, of Burlington and Waterford, Wis,, [voted. They worked -for ‘the ‘right; are required to ship their offerings via | to vote and they know how to use Rugby Junction:if ‘destined to 'Mil-|that -right. They had ;démanded all waultee, the trgnsfer consuming some-|during ‘the campaign. that the .candis' times more than a day. dates should Tepresent and work for, Many farmers not caring to take:a:|Progressive measures. in having their shipments| ~And.'when -they had registered ispoiled because of the long interver-[their epproval or disapproval of the ing time, have made Chicago -their -candidates on the :ballot they weat: imarket hegdquarters. tback--to “their -business—their chil- ‘the service may be installed within 30 | €R went back to thier stores, theic \days. : offices and their shopa : e P Kansas is proud of her new cit-' I uens. H ELECTION RETURNS Latest news from the East indi- ‘WATEH IDAHO. cates that Woman suffrage was de- ‘j ‘The state of Idgho -has: started a very interesting experient by -~ e and Massachusetts in Tuesday’s elec- tion. New York’s proposed constitution -was als rejected, .as was also pro; hibition in Ohio. On the whole the. ‘Republicans make a gain, it is re- ‘prted. lishing a farm market- hureau. :three main functions of this bu are—a free farm employment but' free listing -of farms lands for and a better distribution of far ducts. The bureau stands betweeni MORE JOHN D. GIFTS * New York, Nov. 2—The .general ieducation board, one of Jhn D. Rock- -efeller’s ~“philanthropic enterprises, :announced tonight ‘it had ‘made gifts totaling $375,000. .to four colleges iand had provided the funds for a mumber of novel experiments in the field of education. It!s just.a dollar in your pocket ~to, .| exactly w_hat it is wortb.: : N Officials of ‘the. assoclatlonsay‘that dren-.and their homes—gust as: the| be able to sell a bushel of Avheat fm:» ’ the first to throw off the yoke of corporation bondage and erect North Dakota for mine. It has an atmosphere full of ozone|in their state a completely democratic commonwealth we'rthy of » FARMERS CONVENTION The farmers’ annual envention un- ‘der the auspices of the Equity Co<op- ergtive exchane will take place at the Auditorium Dec. 7, 8 and 9. Pres. J. M. Anderson of the ‘ex- change met with the retail merchants’ division of the -Assecciation of Com- merce Wednesday .afternoon :and 'an- mounced that aout 10,000 farmefs are expected, to attend the convention. - Mr. Anderson has returned from g trip through North Dakota and be- ilieves that the convention will be at- tended by more farmers:.than ever he- fore. Arrangements were made imme- diately to secure the Auditorium, i Expeet Promninent Speakers. The association will.co-operate with Mr. Anderson in securing promment speakers. One of the chief fegtures of the convention will be the laying of the cornerstone of the Equity elevator. "I"The convention this year ‘will "be in the nature of a celebration of the success in securing an cpen grain ‘market in St. Paul. TO ADDRESS FARMERS. Charles E. Bassett, office of mar- '] kets and rural organizgtion United || States department of agriculture, fwho is studying co-operative farmersi:; £ ganizatiods in ‘the Middle "West,: Mll sheak “o1*‘co-operative marketing:] be- “fore ay ;farmers’ conventm at Fm:go, N. D p _WON'T AGOEPT ozrausé" \5‘4 lashington, Nov. ~qupt Brit- ai;: s defense of its stoppage of trade Jaetween American shlppers —and : _?xraders ‘in Holland :and'!Sgandinavian “countries ,on the ground*%hat ‘goads | sent there really are destined for the 1+|-central powers, will not’be accepted |as satisfactory by the United States. This ‘much was ma&e oertam today when Consul Genei s dex " Sghts Ior the farmars. i