The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 23, 1915, Page 4

7 v TR s R i g i 2 == O o o FOUP. Washington, D. C., Dec. 20.—Con- gres man Helgeson is likely very soon to be the central figure in a contro- versey that will start a storm as wide a3 the nation. At the beginning it is all about Old Doc Cook. Mr. Helgeson used to be just pro- Cook. He had a conviction that the hero of the Mount McKinley fakes and the Miranda expedition had been rottenly treated. This got him well into the North Pole as a sub ect for investigation. Now he has ceased, to bother very much about Old Doc Cook but is roots on Admiral Peary, U. S. N. He seems to think that Peary is a bigger faker than the Old Doc ever though of being. He says Peary never discovered the North Pole nor anything like it and the rest of the discoveries he claims in the Arctic are either valueless or imaginary. Mr. Helgeson has been pursuing the Navy Department on this matter and appearently he has won out—to a cer- tain extent anyway. The Derartment has withdrawn from circulation all of the Arctic maps that contain geo- graphical features supposed to have been dizcovered by Peary. As a re- sult the government no-longer offici- ally recognizes Peary Land. Peary Channel nor the East Greenland Sea, geographical features that Mr. Hel- geson says do not exist. He is hot after Peary on other grounds. He says that the admiral was in the Arctic largely for business reasons, that he was in fact a fur trader and that on one trip he brought back furs valued, at $1,000,- €00. There ppints with others, Mr. Hel- geson will press home soon in a speech he is preparing to make in. the House It will be a hot old spezch and will certainly open a first class row. Reforms in the Land Laws Senator Gronna has been making a study of the whole complicated subject of the public lands and some of the most important measures that lie will pre's at this session relates to it. So far he has introduced eight of these bhills. Most of these seek to simplyfy ahd correct the present homestead system and to protect the rights of the settlers thereon. It has long been recognized by thoughtful men that one great reason THE NONPARTISAN LEADER North Dakota at the National Capital Bv WILLIS J. for the American exodus to the Ca- nadian Northwest is the somewhat chaotic condition of our homestead entry laws and the small chance they give to actual settlers. Sena- tor Gronna’s bills have already at- tracted some attention, as he is well known to be an authority on the sub- ject, and if anything can be passed at this session outside of armament and, great guns, I should think his reforms would have a chance. Entered for the North Dakota Pri- maries. The meeting here of the Republi- can National Committee last week revealed the interesting fact that North Dakota will be the first bet- Republican nomination and it will be right lively at that. News of an entirely new entry bobbed up at the meetng, and speak- ing of dark horses here is one darker than Egyptian gloom. Henry D. Estabrook of New York is his name. 'l bet mighty few of the Republi- can electorate ever heard his name, but ke will be right on the North Dakota field all right with a head- quarters he will open in your state about June 1. You will know him better then, for he has a law partner and chief back- er that is a peach and one that is no stranger to you folks. Ormsby Mec- Harg—that’s the boy. Ormby used to be Senator McCumber’s secretary and later was a prominent figure in Republican national politices. Well, " Ormsby is grooming Estabrook and Estabrook couldn’t do batter than that. You bet. No Lack of Candidates. It is the North Dakota primaries that brings out all these blooded racers. Your primaries come next to the very first among all the states, and are actually first in significance. Whoever gets them can tell the ra- tion he has solid strenght. At the Committee meeting it was learned authoritively that Senator LaFollette’s name would go on the North Dakota ballot. Theodore E. Burton, Senator Weeks and Senator Cummins are also geting ready to op- en their North Dakota campaigns. Elihu Root, it is said, is not forget- RUTLEDGE ting your state and Senator Sherman, former vice president, Fairbanks and still others are likely to bear you in mind. You can see that there is to be more fun out there than a county -fair. Mr. Marshall is Willing Incidentally, the North Dakota senatorial situation, is increasing in interest here. Among those that attended the meeting was Thomas F, Marshall, member for North Dakota. For pub- lication Mr. Marshall confided to all his conviction that success for the Republicans was sure next year, and on the quiet he was taking sound- ings to see how politicians would look upon him as a candidate for the Senatorship if he should con- clude to go in against Senator Me- Cumber and Governor Hanna. Mr. Marshall is not the only friend of ours that moves these days with ears to the ground, Congressman Helgeson and Congressman, Norton are each convinced of his aptitude for senatorial duties and are willing have from their fellow citizens re- ognition, of the fact. But if one of the above three, Marshall, Helgeson, or Norton, goes into the race the other two will probably keep out, so as not to divide the Progressive vote. Meantime, serenity dwells in the office of your Uncle Peorter J., who says nothing but points to his wood pile already.sawed and nzatly ar- ranged as evidence that he has been neither idle nor unsuccessful. For Two Cent Postage Ahroad Senator McCumber has introduced a bill authorizing the Pcstmaster General to establish two-cent letter postage between the United States and Norway and Sweden. We now have such a postal convention with both England and Germany. The Postoffice Department is attempting to run itself at a profit and the offi- cials, therefore, are opposed to any more foreign two-cent - tage. The British and German sery _es are op- erated at a heavy loss. Wr. Northo’s Pre -:cts Congressman Norton h: been re- ——— - ————— SR R TS T SR T, T R et WHO MAKES THE MONEY? William Laydon, of St. Louis made $2,000 a minute for fifteen minutes speculating on wheat one day last September—$30,000 in a quarter of an hour. Ware & Leland, Chicago brokers, ‘turned a million, bushel deal in fu- tures on October 6 and made $20,000 in ten minutes. Who says there’s no money in farm- ing? There’s a lot of bunk about the farmer’s prosperity from the billion bushel wheat crop.. - " THE LAD WHO FARMS THE FARMER IS THE $2,000 PER MIN- UTE GUY! Uncle Sam’s Department of Agri- culture says that Nebraska grows wheat at the lowest cost per bushel —55 cents. Nebraska farmers aver- aged, 19.7 bushels ®f wheat per acre this year, The average wheat field og the Ne- bBraska farm 1is about forty acres. That means 788 bushels of wheat per farm. The farmer got about 90 cents - for it—45 cents per hushel profit. That’s $3564.60 profit per farm on %he wheat crop. It took- the farmer ‘a year to grow it—about a dollar a day profit. It took 140 Nebraska farmers a whole year to make as much growing wheat as two speculators made be- tween cigars! Uncle Sam’s Department of Agri- {eulture says the average income of the farm family is $408 per year. - When it requires the labor of 125 farm' families—625 human souls—a whole year to make as much as a speculator makes off their produce in one hour there is something needs fixing. Here’s a problem for the “Back-to- the-Landers” to tackle—New York Call. WHY CABBAGES ARE HIGH. Some of the causes which may be responsible for a large part of the high cost of living are revealed by tracing the steps in the progress of ‘a head of cabbage from the farm “Where it is grown to the dinner-table of a wage earner, where it is finally eaten, The cabbage is raised by a farmer in Connecticut. A comparatively small farmer will send 1,800 to 2,000 'such heads of cabbage to New York. For one head he receives 11 cents. Then the head goes to the commis- sion meérchant. He lives on Riverside Drive and pays $2,000 a year for his apartments and keeps an automobile, ‘He spends $7,000 a year to live. Next the cabbage is sent to the wholesaler. He lives on West End avenue, pays $1,800 for his apart- ment and keeps an automobile. - His living expenses are $6,000 per year. The wholesaler sends the cabbage to the jobber, who lives in a Broad- . way apartment which costs $1,500 per year, keeps an automobile and spends $5,000 a year. From him the cabbage travels to the retailer, who lives in a $700 a- partment on a side street. He has a corner store for which he pays $125 a month rent, keeps two delivery wagons at a cost of $140 per month, and spends $2,500 a year on his living. Finally the cabbage gets to the con- sumer. He lives in an apartment for which he pays $40 a month; he rides in the trolly car or the subway; he spends all he can make or a little more to live, and he pays 13 cents for the head of cabbage, which brought the farmer who raised it 1% cents. OIL PRICES RAISED. Tulsa, Okla., Dec. 21.—Crude oil was again advanced 10 cents last Tues- day by the Prairie Oil & Gas Co., sending it to $1.20 a barrel and with- in. 8 cents of the record price .of 1902. Gasoline was advanced, to 16 cents. American oil fields promise to fur- nish '2,000,000,000 gallons less oil this year than last, and with the Russ- ian and Galacian supplies cut off, prices of gasoline and oil will jump . to record prices within a short time, said A. C. Crandall, vice president of the Prame Oil & Gas Co. GANADA GETS BUSY Winnipeg, Man., Dec. 21.—The Man- itoba government, following up the farm credits conference held recently in Chicago, decided today to use three and a_half million dollars of * apppinted to membership on the House Committee on Indian affairs. The fortunes of politics have brought him to the position of sec- ond ranking Republican on this committee with the assurance that he will be its charman in the next Republean Congress, assuming his reelection. The ranking Republican membar of the committee is Con- gressman Campbell of Kansas who will become Chairman of the Rules Committe when the Republicans control the House. Notes. All the North Dakota delegation except Senator Gronna remained at the capital over the holiday recess and Senator Gronna was abzent on public business. This is not the time for amusements. One of the good, things about the North Dakota delegation in the House is that its members are al- ways on the job. They have not miss- ed a roll call yet. Congressman Young in the House and Senator Gronna in the Senate presented the remonstrance of the North Dakota Pharmaceutical As- sociation against the reenactment of the emegency revenue lay with the features that bear so heavily upon druggists. The administration jammed the bill thru but the drug- gists of the country are likely to be heard further about it. The North Dakota members voted solidly against it on every roll call. Congressman Young has taken up the subject of employment and has introduced a bill that the Commit- tee on, Labor will consider to create a national employment bureau. The Immigation office has drop- ped its charges against John Hanna, a Canadian immigrant who came to Grand Torks last summer. The charge was that Hanna and his wife evad-d the immigartion authoritiss at Neche: He was ordered deported but Rep. Helgeson interceded for him » Among North Dakota visitors to Washington durirg the last week were Judge P. J. McClory, of Devils Lake, and H. A. Crocker, joint edi- tor of Jim Jam Jems, of Bismarck. The latter had business at the Pat- ent Office. the government trust funds deposit- ed in Winnipeg banks as loans to the farmers, establishing agencies for this purpose in the chief centers. This money is now bearing 3 per cent in3 terest, but banks threaten to reduce the interest to 2 per cen , having all the money they require at present, but refusing to lend it out to farm- ers. REAL PREFAREDNESS. One of our farmers says he agrees with the munition factory owners on the subject of “preparedness,” but differs with them as to methods. His idea of preparedness is: Two fat hogs and a side of beef, ten sacks of flour, two or three shelves of mince meat and preserves like mother used to make, ten tons of coal and a cellar full of potatoes and vegetables.— Omemee Herald. Turn About Is Fair Play.—“John- nie,” said his mother severely, it wasn’t nice of you to ask Mrs. Peli- can her age, especially after she made you such a nice Christmas gift. It made her very angry.” “Why did it mamma?” asked John- . nie. ,“She asked me first, and T dldn't . get mad about it.” An Exchange remarks. that the Nonpartisan League would do better if it would let bankers and business men. alone, It means the league would be dpne better.