The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 18, 1915, Page 2

Hl B | BEAEL B ST ‘bushels have been shipped elsewhere. " market received 19,007 cars, or 24,- B PAGE TWO . Only One-fifth of Na- tion’s Wheat Crop Is Sold---Hold- ) < Less than 20 par cent of this year’s bumper 300,000,000 bushel . wheat crop in the Northwest has found its way to market compared to nearly 54 per cent of the crop marketed by Nov. 1 last year. . Analysis of the market report to- day by wheat dealers showed, that while threshed, nearly one-third was stored by the growers waiting for better quotations. Record Day’s Receupt. Carlot - receipts today, cevering Saturday and Sunday - shipments, reached a record for the year with 1,622 cars, 8 more than were receiv- ed October 18, previous record day. All grain received today totaled 2,513 cars, or 5,626,000 bushels. Since Sept. 1 the Minneapolis mar- ket has received 41,414,000 bushels of this year’s crop. It is estimated that 22,000,000 " With clear weather for the past 10 days dealers expect that as soon, as. farmers get time from their threshing. the receipts will increase more than double. 19,007 Cars Received. During; October the Minneapolis 574,000 bushels of -wheat, compared to 15,0.6: cars or 17,883,560 bushels for the same month last year. + Shipments. were two and: one half times as great this. year as last for the same month. Heavy demand for milling wheat: in the southwest. caus- ed shipments of 8,846 cars in Oetober, compared: to: 3;395. cars-in October, 1914. Flour Shipments Double. The year’s shipment of. flour is nearly double: that: of 1914 for the first 10 months. Flour consigned: for| the month: was:- 64,383 barrels; while for the first 10*months:the ‘shipments amounted: to- 2,264,744 barrels; com- pared to-that:time: F4 Question: of Net Profit - Parming is\ primarily. the: science of ‘'making bothends' meet, witlsome- | thing over; andit. is the. something; over. that determings: ‘whether: the man stays on the land. - Is. the farm- er who- lis. $10,000 to $16,000 invest- ed: in his plant expecting toe: muech; when he: looks for returns. over- and:| abeve his living; exceeding the wages of a hotel porter.. or a. restaurant waiter or an- average stemographer? Yet in the Seuth, tabulated: reperts: show that ‘many farmers-have net:-re- turns naet excefldmg% per: year, and- in the; East not exceeding $456 | per year:. < 4T wasi hoin and- brought’ up: in: this/ country,”t -said:- a- lawyer, who' was making' his: pickings. from" -forolosed mortgagose in-the- dairy country;-and: %DH bet of all the farmers delivering: mitk, at station, -not . a dozen m-ke two. per: cent - on the invest- mént-of their. capital. L .. THese’ are not .my sentlments They. ave-his,"and I confess 1 was' 5o shock= ed: by any man ‘who makes a living out. ofva. community-actnig the part of' depreciator that I at once: coun- tered, by asking: “They why do you stay in.such a country? My only-ob- - jection to' your 'country is the curse of whiskey with the hired: help, and " the worse curse of such ‘perpetual kneckers as; yourself.” ' He responded. rost viciously: “I stay for the same reason as: flies swarm’ round a honey pot.” I feltslike answering: “And for the same reason as: Crows: - come to carrion.” The Leader fights for the farmer. THE NONPMTIS‘M LEADER Corn: Values Slump To The Tune of 260 Million In Month Washington, Nov. 156.—The slump in corn values in the nation as a whole, as computed by the board of crop estimates, United States depart- ment of agriculture, was nearly 9 cents a bushel, 8.6 cents, which, on this year’s large corn crop of 3,026,- 159,000 bushels, means. a shrinkage in values for the month of $260,249,674. Minnesota Not Hard Hit Minnesota was a. mild, sufferer in comparison with her neighbors, for the reports to the department indi- cate that the average price of corn on the farm in Minnesota was only 2 cents a bushkel less November 1 than it was October 1, and Minnesota. did not have a very good corn crop any- way, less than 63,000,000 bushels, as against 91,000,000 a year ago, and, a recent average of 76,000,000. So the October price shrinkage hit the Minnesota corn crop growers for only about $1,250,000. Crop Gets Big Boost South Dakota 6 fared worse, for there the slump was 5 cents a bushel on 96,300,000 bushels, or $4,815,000. The October estimates of the corn crop in South Dakota, however, were exceedingly low. Fuller, and new practically com- plete returns show that instead of being down around 76,000,000 bushels, as was estimated, October 1, South Dakota actually raised 20,000,000 bushels more than that, so that in spite of the price slump,; South Da- kota has a corn crop worth about $52,000,000- this year. This is: about $8,000,000 more than the same state’ got from corn last year. Empire Builder’s Son: Says Farmers Ride Much St. Paul Daily News: “The farmer spends too much: time in his automo- bile. “The recent fall rains are the best thing that could. happen to this coun- try. “It.is the farmer’s fault. if he is: unprepared for them.” TEat. is: what. L., W. Hill,. chairman ‘board: of directors. Great Northern railroad-,said: today. i “The rains put.the grouand in fine: condition for plowing, and the farm- er: should. be in- a -position te carry | out: this work,’ -he said. “The- farmer -who does not staeck his: grain each year is making a big| mistake. If grain-is stacked; the field is-left:for plewing. - A little-mere in-| .dustry. would be a good thmg for him: “If he did more work and spent less time /in going to and fro in his nutomobxle he would accomphsh re- sults. “A little ‘more: work would -make his present complaints unnecessary. “What we need in the Northwest is. smaller. farms and. more: people. “As soon as-there are more people in the country there will be more in- dustry and more; intensive’ farming. Mr. Hill said that one of the gteat- est. reasons. why meore stock should be raised on. farms was: because they demand more people: for their care and keep the farmer normally busy. =:“If the farmer would only work as hard, at his farming as a man on a hunting: trip, he would have np cause to- comp.lam," he smd. o ; plnnderbnnd* o .Szgmfwant Things in Events of the Day British Maidens To Marry Broken War Heroes To Per- petuate Race' : London, Oct. 14 (by mail) oA “League for the Marrying of ‘Broken ‘Heroes,” now. is- being promoted in England for the purpese of bright~ ening the lives of thousands of per- manently. disabled “Tommies.” And it has opened up one of the most interesting human problems of the war. Will arranged marriages. strike. at the .foundation .of Engllsh romance? Is. calling on the ‘women 6f the na- tion to. marry and care for broken heroes overstepping: the limits of pa- triotism? Will such unions prove lasting and happy? These questions are much debated: " Many Offers.: Hundreds of young women are con- sidering- the matter seriously enough to write letters to. Rev. Ernest Hough- ton, Bristol, chief promoter of the plan, offering to.marry broken heroes. Names are kept in confidence. Lady Muir Mackenzie, while approv- ing, believes that girls under the age of discretion should be excluded. She said: . 3 “We, in Englard, are very much against arranged marriages, but it seems: to me that they are just as successful as: these aecomplishedusdm: our own haphazard way. Enghsh women still hold, to the delusion t# wonderful romance goes on.” Lady Byron, also 'approves. She said: “Certainly, I thnik suck' a league should be arranged.. I.am @ the girls would much rather marry | disabled soldiers. than slackers who refuse: to: do. anything for their coun: try: I think- the scheme might be carried out in all classes of saciety.” Lady Lemerick, noted relief work-|. er, said: ™I think the idea is splen- did. England must never allow those 'who have suffered: to. feel that they are net wanted.” Cailed: It ‘Rediculous. “I think it is a rediculous. league,” said the Marchioness: Townsend. “Women: should: ‘wait until wounded soldiers ask: them to marry. I should not. think mueh of a girl who would join: such: a league.” Lady. Tenterton: saidr. “My firsk thought is that I' do: not eare for the: idea. Such a leauge is really a kind' of marriage bureau sgoiling the whole idea- of ‘marriage. Love would: be completely ruled: out.” A Millien Loss.in Big Fire | South: Bethlehem, Pa., Nov. 10.— ‘That: the: loss,, caused: by fire which’ destroyed No. 4 machine:shop of the: Bel:hleh_e.;ni Steel Co., early this: morn- ing will total a million: dollars .and .probably more was. believed; this: af- ternoom.. - The buiding,, in: whch 2,100 men: were employed, was, used for the manufacture of guns for this govern- ment and Englangd. The fire was caused by an explo- sion following the short circuiting of electric wires; a spark from: which. lg- nited a pit of oil. . ‘When the fire started 800 guns were in the building, 150 of which were ready for shipment. Some of these were for England and her allies and’ others for this government. A Grand:-Ferks county farmer put: in nearaly twenty days riding with; the organizer. Through his efforts nearly three hundred names were added to the membershlp of the Non- partisan League. This is the way the farmers: of! North Dakota are; going| at it to free - tben- state froxn thQ Yook Gov't I nswmnce Law In Australia Has Saved People Sydney, Nov. 11.—Victoria, Aus- tralia, established a government in- surance department . September . 7, 1914, mainly to. carry out. work nec- essary under the workmen’s compen-: sation act. : Although it entered a field that had been held for many. years by private insurance compames, the first: balance sheet, now. just issued, shows: that it has- justified its. existence. "The profit and, loss account shows that claims have been. paid amount- ing to-$9,480, and others aggregating '$65,5:0 are still outstandmg Un- earned: premiums are put down at $71,860.. The net premiums:received amounted to $137,5610 after allowing for re-insurances, rebates and re- funds. A balance of $21,225 is car- ried .forward, which represents thz profit for the year. Save the People Money. In other words the government has: saved, this amount to the people, be+ sides giving them a fairer deal than they would have got from the private companies. The premium rates charged by the Victorian state gov- ernment are the cheapest in Austra- lia or New Zealand, and from what can be seen, the policy issued by the government is about the most liberat: we have in the southern hemisphere. The balance sheets of the state ho- tels’ business, carried. on by the West Australian government, show that for the year ending June 30, 1915, the state made. a profit of $22,- 630: on its two hetels, which. needless to say goes to the collective purse of .the taxpayers. Since the war broke: out, the New. South Wales bakery has heen: supply- ing the federal government with bread for: the soldiers encamped in: New South Wales. Seo. far the state bakery has saved the gpvernment m soldiers’ bread over $50;000. In addition to this the: bakery ‘ business of the state showed: a profit of 32 per cent on the p,ut year’s: work. ARSI AT SRR ot 40T * Louis Hill 'Says Far- - metso Do: Not ka Hard . Enougfa Mfimt, N: Dak Nov 16:=-Louis W.‘ Hill;. pmden.t ‘of the: Great Northern Ranlway taday repel.tedz his statement: thdt ‘the. farmers ‘of Northi Dakota: wopld not werk, that. they got along:’ by domg just.as little work as possi- ble ‘and, spent: teo much [time.in their Fords- and- . antes, - negleeting thexr work.on the farms. When asked if he had been correct- ly quoted by the Twin City- dailies, respons:ble for everything t_he papers: mmade himsay. ' “But” and Mr. Hill tookon the aspect of one who believed: what he: was' saying, “What I do say: is that a lot of these farmers: do not work half as ha.rd as Idoona hunt- ng: trlp “Mr. Hill acknowledged that he bad never’ had: any. first hand knowledge: or experience: . in: farming in- North: Dakota other than. what. ke hadi- glimpsed from auto trlps across ths state or from the rear of one of his 'overland trains. He thought-this was: o fool question to asky as every body: - ‘knew- that-he was not: a farmer; but. a ratlroad nian and presi Great Nfirthei'n Rallway. 2 Mr. Hill said that he, could-not. be held: :