The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 2, 1915, Page 16

Pauk SIXTEEN - THE NONPARTISAN LEADER === HOWDE' coM’ |N AN’ TAKA CHAIR. I DIDN'T COME. TO ¢ TAKE A CHAIR BUT TO TAKE “OUR" THRESHING RIG! I'LL GET DE))GO OUT AND COLLECT THIS ACCOUNT FROM HIRAM A RUBE, HE'S SN AT —_— AN NN ARISIRARARRNN Gisipaii There Is No Need of Charity If We Stop Wasi&~ EIRAM A. RUBE AND THE BIG BIZ COLLECTION LAWS. /BY THE FARMER CARTOONIST. ;(\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\: HI'AM A RUBE ALRITE,I'VEY PAID $1150.00 AN’ INT'REST AN’ THEY TAK' 1T ‘CAUSE I NAINT GOT TIME TO THRESH ) 75 BUSHELS FROM A STACK CAN'T YA STAY OVER A DAY WHILE 1 THRESH OUT, ENUF TER PAY YA. WHAT ? STAY IN DIS DUMP? .NO! GO'T NO TIME TO THRESH IT OUT IN WORDS_,NOR GRAIN, 'LL GIT DE RIG — — AER,GEACH 1Y By Oliver T. Milton OME icy, cold morning next December when you tome down your carpeted stairway and place yourself in front @] of a steaming breakfast the front page of your morning paper besides your plate will tell you of the poor who are suf- fering for want of fuel and food. § In view of this occurance, which is coming as sure as Christ- mas, we suggest that you preserve the following quotation, tak- en from Collier’s weekly. Above the quotation,we are going to make is the picture of a woman standing byfithe biggest pile of peaches you ever saw, or ever will see, perhaps. The caption to the article reads: “A 4000-Bushel Peach Crop Gone to Waste.”" 4 443 The story reads: “This pile of fruit, grown in a single orchard near Guthrie, Oklahoma, was allowed to rot because the owner could not get enough for it to pay marketing expenese- Similar losses ozccured throughout Oklohoma, which grew 3000 carloads of peaches this year, and in many other states as well. - Yet in the cities peaches have been retailing all summer and fall at 2 cents to 5 cents a- piece. Even in the bulk they have been out of reach of hundreds of thousands of people. This year milions of dollars’ worth of food has perished.on the farms. Better distribution facilities for farm products are one of our biggest economic problems.” To have such a picture as this handy while you are reading of the widespread suffering by lack of food may add to the vivid- ness of the story. If you need to be furiher impressed along these lines run through the files of any newspaper for the early summer months of 1915—papers filled with news of peas being plowed under because it did not pay to pick them; potatoes left in the ground to rot because the market price was less than the combined cost of labor and bags; fresh vegetables and fruit of various sorts being dumped into Lake Michigan by the carloads because Chicago markets were flooded; New Jersey farmers com- plaining because they had to pay transportation charges on farm products, which they could not sell after reaching the market - centers- ; , ‘ All this has nothing to do with war but we may get a very valuable lesson from Germany in respect to economy. Germany’s economic powers in the present war have been the marvel of the world. The secret of her powers has been due to efficiency. With the same wasteful system we have in this country Germany would have been prostrate before her enemies along before this. Not that she would necessarily have e e S D IR ) e been defeated by the armies of the enemies from Withofit but by starvation from within. And yet, so well is she economically and industrially organized; so economizing in foods is she; so effectively does she avoid waste, that she has been able to feed her 65,000,000 people, under the enormous economic strain of a great war, all within a territory four-fifths the size of Texas- For the past fifteen months Germany has been shut out from a large part of the world’s markets. During that periol most unusual drains have been made upon her available food resources. In addition to feeding her citizenry, she has had to nourish mil- lions of fighting men, under conditions that demanded a plenty of good food. In addition there has been a host of prisoners equal to the population of Philadelphia. ‘ Yet, with only one-tenth as-much land as the United States, she has supported a population two-thirds as large as ours. There is no secret to this. It is simply a matter of no waste- For a quarter of a century the German people have been drilled in economy at every point. They have been taught that produc- tion is only one phase of the prosperity that leads to and sustains efficiency; that proper distribution of what is produced is equally as important as production. The German government has taught the German people this. Because of their large numbers and the small area of their country they have been driven to extremes. They have planted their roadsides to fruit trees; have planted gardens along the railroad rights of way and along the sidewalks and on vacant lots. They have used every available foot of land 'for productive purposes- After reaping the fruit of such cultivation they have been taught how to avoid wasting a single stalk or root. The state has taught them, not only how to grow and market but "to cook and serve. No wonder the German people love the “Fatherland.” The fatherland takes an interest in them; it has done something for them. No people can be patriotic to a country who permits its people to be gouged, robbed and exploited Dby heartless corpo- rations and land-hogs. If a people are to love a country that - country must protect and serve the people- s The big problem to be solved by the American statesman is that of bringing the government and the people into closer ‘co- operation. Bringing the government to serve the real producers of the nation from whom all prosperity must come. tion. ‘ C. J. LEE, President AUTHORIZED CAPITAL $500,000 FARMERS LECTURES, INSTRUCTION and DISCUSSION 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. These schools will be definitely located, and dated, when at least 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, A complete course of study will be furnished, to teach farmers How They Can Cooperate to Double Farm Profits. LR FARMERS RURAL CREDIT ASSOCIATION Rural Life, Rural Credits, Farm Necessities, Production, Marketing, Taxation, Co-operation, Farm Organization, IIIIIIIlllllllIlllllllllIIIIIIIIIflIIlllIIlll_llll!llIII_IIIIVI>IIIllIillIIIIIIIIIIIIII!I_IIIIIIllllllllllllllIIIIIIlIIlII!IlIIIllIIIIIIIHIIIlllll =AIilllIIllIIIIIlIIlIIiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiIIIIIIIIlIlIlllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIiII|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIlII|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIE C. B. MAY, Ist Vice Pres J. W. WASSON, 2nd Vice-Pres. A.M. BAKER, Sec'y G.S. YOUMANS, Gen'l Mgr. E Valley City, N. D. Argusville, N. D. Velva, N. D. ; Fargo, N. D. and Treas., Minot N. D. = RURAL CREDITS CHARTERED 1915 CO-OPERATION MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOLS Given Under ‘the Direction of This Association and Financing, Farm Business MONEY FOR FARM LOANS We are making Farm Loans to farmers on the patronage dividend plan. Each patron is to share in the dividends of the Association. Liberal Loans to Actual Farmers Telephone 255, Write or call if a loan is wanted. ST RO ERRORER O RCRRAC OO