The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 18, 1915, Page 16

THE NONPARTISAN LEADER Hiram A. Rube Learns How to Farm WAL, GES HI'AM A RUBE. , ALRITE. THEY TELL ME HOW TER FARM BUT NEVER HEERD OF BANKERS LETTIN'. A FARMER TELL THEM® HOW TO RUN THEIR BANKS OR 1 aGE SIXTEEN - ] § i § 3 I'M BRINGING OUT PROFESSUR DIPPE, T.O’ How ‘(b HOW TOFAR Big Fight Is On To Smash the Grain Trust and Help Producer Minneapolis, Nov. 11.— A fight b2- ing waged to smash the grain trust or bread trust, which has its head- quarters in Minneapolis, is meeting with success. The packers of LaCrosse and mill- ers of Minneapolis are getting mighty biffs from the fists of cooperation— a fist teaching farmers how they may sell and, get more and buyers how they may buy and save more. The United States crop of spring and winter wheat this year will amount to 900,000,000 bushels—the equal of last year’s wonderful crop. Yet the farmer is scarcely any bzat- ter off this year than in previous years ME Consumer is Goat. And the consumer is still paying 5 cents for a scant pound of bread. Who does get the profit? “The grain trust.” say officials of the equity cooperative exchange, farmers themselves. who are leading a fight to break the combine and es- tablish an independent grain terminal. This means the smashing of the Min- neapolis chamber of commerce which, equity officials claim, is the comb:ne. The fight stared in 1908, when the farmers, throttled by the combine for years, started the movement for the marketing of their grain outside of the chamber of commerce. The re- sultant war has been so spectacular as to stir the whole northwest. In the past year, the first year the equity exchange has really got under full headway, it has put $5;000,000 back into the farmers’ pockets. Eliminates |\ Seven Profits, The cooperat has taken away the chamber’s 250,000,000 busi ’.—'!Illllllllllllll = CJLLE Valley : st 10 per cent of arly business of i of gran, esident ,.N. . \URAL CREDITS LECTURES, INSTRUCTION and DISCUSSION “s, axchange already- says it is is a saving of from 15 to 20 cents a wiping out approximately seven pro-|bushel to the farmer, fits which the combine levies before J. M wheat can be tumed into flour. This WHEN AND WHERE HELD School Sessions will be held each afternoon at 2:30 and evening at 7:30, for five consecutive days, Monday to Friday, inclusive. -want done. 'An’derson,‘ its president, .{i, HOW MUCH INTEREST _TO CHARG S has been stated before, the purpose of the Non- partisan League is to help the farmers of this state 8] get political control of the Legislature. 1t has also been stated that just what the League will do depends upon the farmers—depends upon what they The kind of laws this farmer-legislature will pass depends upon the kind of laws the farmers want. The farmers themselves are to decide that. We begin now to determine what some of those laws are. In order to get at this matter absolutely fair and im- partial we put the matter up to the readers of the Leader. Here is the way we are going to do it: We want every farmer who reads this to put on his thinking cap. We want you to think of the kind of laws the farmers of this state need—the kind you as a farmer need and want. We want you to say, “Now suppose the Legislature was in session at Bismarck, and suppose the farmers were in_absolute control. Suppose they could pass any law they wanted to; What laws would they pass?” ' Then set down consecutively, the laws you would be in favor of. Number them, 1, 2, 8, and on up to 10. We - want every reader of the Leader to submit ten laws that he would like to have passed by the next Legislature—laws that you as farmers want. Follow these rules: 1. Write on one side of the paper only. 9. Write brief letters—stay within 200 words if poss- % .3. Don’t try to give your “reasons” now; that will come later. These letters will be published. Then later on we will give you a chance to discuss the various laws suggested and give reasons for them. Now: get busy. Address all letters to the Nonpartlsan Leader, Box 919, Fargo, N. Dak. lllllIIlllllIllllIlIIlIlIllIlIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIlllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllfllllllllllL ; C.B. MAY, Ist Vlce Pres Argusvdle, D Velva, N.D. J. W. WASSON, 2nd Vice-Pres. v CHARTERED 1915 FAKMERS RURAL CREDIT ¢ ASSOCIATlON AUTHORIZED CAPITAL $500,000 FARMERS SCHOOLS Rural Life, Rural Credits, Farm Necesstties, Production, Marketing, Taxation, Co-operation, Farm Organization, and Fmancmg, Farm Busmess Gentlemen. et ot French Government What Kind of Laws Do You WantP The Leader fights for the farmer.|be paid for. A.M.BAKER, Sec’y - Fargo, N. D. MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA | Z FREE INFORMATION BLANK Farmers’ Rural Credit Association, G N e i TR Starts Campaign Aga_lnst War - Grafters : Marseilles, France, Nov. 8.— A vig- orous campaign undertaken by the 3 French government to'punish persons ‘ who bave profited unduly from the 3 needs of the nation is well under way. A supply corps officer named Parent and his soldier clerk -have Bt 7t been sentenced by a court-martial to b five years in. prison, and fines of $300 for accepting commissions from con- _ \ tractors on purchases of supplies i amounting to more than $1,200,000. & Jean Busseret, a tent manufacturer who obtained orders for $300,200 worth of goods by the payment ofi commissions, has been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment and a heavy fine. Three other business men con- victed on similar: charges have been sentenced to prison. MAY PINCH UNDERTAKERS Chicago, 'Nov.. 10.—They’ve been “rattling the bones” over the stones 'at such a reckless speed in Chicago recently that Judge Joseph Sabath, of the ‘‘speeders’ court,” has had to issue special orders to undertakers threatening them wnth arrest and fines if they violate the speed ordi- nance on their way to the “city” where speed doesn’t count. “I have had so many complaints of undertakers driving motor hearses to cemeteries at reckless speed,” says Judge Sabath, “that I have issued special- orders to them to slow down.” / w- --~i-~w0- Every timeée you haul a bushel of grain to town you haul from five to ten pounds of food value in the form - of “dirt.” That food value should e 'G. S: YOUMANS, Gen'l Mgl’. and Treas., Minot N. D CC-OPERATION leen Under the Direction of ThisAssociation Mmot North Dakots. S I.am in favor of Farmere Schools to teach Farmers how to :. o-operate to Double Farm Profits. i Kindly mail me full particulars. - These schools will be definitely located, and dated, when at leasl; _fifty students have been enrolled for a School in a certain locality. ‘Special cash prizes will be given away for the best papers on various subjects, as outlined in printed literature. 2 A complete course of study will be furnished, to teach fsrmers : How Tlmy can Go-opeuio to Double Farm Profits. lllllllllllllllllllllIIlll_IllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllllllll = ml_mlnmmn_mmnmnnunmi‘llnlmmumuunnumnmuml