The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 24, 1916, Page 10

‘- . 4 the eyes of the childferi thié plump - little mare is one of the most important creatures about the place, 50 it wouldn’t do.to neglect her. ... %, . “Deo; youi~want” to take my pony’s picture,”. asked Vernon? “Say, papa, can’t I get the pony out?” Papa said he could and Vernon rushed to the barn and had the spirited little animal out in a huwrry, saddled and bridled. There was a collie dog which quivered with eagerness when the pony was being harnessed and went dashing ahead of her as Vernon came galloping across the yard. - . Vernon is-9 years old, slender and has freckles.” Did you ever see a freckle- faced little boy that didn’t grin a happy grin when you looked at him? Not if he lived on a farm like the Frazier farm and had a pony and a collie dog. Willis is a squarely built, stocky little chap of 7 who looks like his father. He is more sober-minded than Vernon, but full of health and good humor like the others. “Willis can ride the pony, too,” said one of the girls; and Willis did, sitting up erect in the saddle like a trooper to ' have his picture taken. “The pony is safe and good tempered, but a little headstrong because she has been handled by the children so much,” said their father. But the children, the pony and the dog all understand each other and are all on good terms. They all love a good time. 2 FRAZIER ANSWERS QUESTIONS OF ST. PAUL INTERVIEWER In the later afternoon the St. Paul correspondent “interviewed” the future governor while all sat en the porch, the children entertaining the Leader man and Mrs. Frazier crocheting, an inter- ested listener to the talk on politics and the farmers’ aims. The St. Paul man wanted to know many things about . the intentions of the - administration the farmers expect to put into offiec. That is his story, to be told in his newspapers, but there were one or two things worth overhearing. S 3 “You have been nominated as a Repub- lican, Mr. Frazier,” said the correspond- ent. “Suppose the. Republican com- mittee frames a platform in conflict with - ' the League’s program. “Where will- you stand then?” 3 “Just where I stand now, on :the League’s platform,” said Frazier quick- ly. “The people of the state nominated me because of the things the League stands for. .My duty is to the people who nominated me.” “Put it this ‘way,” suggested the Leader man. “The Republican voters of the: state have already adopted their platform. The program of the League is the platform of the Republican voters of this state, as plainly shown by the results of thé primary. If the state children, Willis (M, Versie and The Frazier ‘home— and its .sé'tfing:‘ of shade iregs, with Lynn Frazier and his family grouped on the front steps. \ committee adopts anything in conflict with that this committee does not rep- resent the views of the Republican voters and no candidate needs to be bound by its platform.” | ; FRAZIER HASN'T “HARMONIZED” HE TELLS CORRESPONDENT The .. correspondent™ had question. “Since you introduced Hughes at Grand Forks, Mr. Frazier,” he said, “some of the Democrats have been say- ing that you have harmonized withs the Old Gang of Republican politicians. What would you say about that?” “Well, I have told some, men whom I another . know to be gang politicians that. I don’t~ want their support,” said Frazier. as a general thing.I am quite willing to accept the yvotes“of all who approve my candidacy. I want them all to under- stand that my principles and platform have not changed a particle since the primaries. They needn’t expect me to concede anything for anybody’s support, I am not going to concede anything.” Along about this time it became nec- cessary to-start for Hoople to mount the Hill family’s rattler for Fargo, via Graf- ton and Grand' Forks. As the visitors said farewell to Mrs. Frazier and the children it was their common thought that here was a home which city children might well envy. Here is a good, plain American farmers’ family that will be an honor to the executive “mansion” of North Dakota, a state whose citizens think more of com- mon honesty, right purposes and good sense than they do of dollars and frills. But then even farm children who have so much of the things that make good healthy bodies, sound healthy minds and right ideals have some things to long for. They wouldn’t be human if they didn’t. “Say, papa, there’s a movie show tonight. Can we go to town,” said Unie —or maybe it was Versie. And about the sixteenth- time the subject was brought up their father said they could, which is very much the way of indulgent parents everywhere, isn’t it? Wanted: Real Storage Minnesota and North Dakota Both. Need State Eleyators, Says Osborne T. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 19.—“The state of Minnesota should own and operate a terminal grain elevator. T don’t see where there gan be any argument against it and I know it would be of vast benefit to the farmers. Now that- North Dakota, through its organiza- tion of farmers, is going to have a state- owned terminal elevator system, it is time that Minnesota woke up.” This s the view of ‘Fred E. Osborne, assistant secretary of the Equity Cooper- ative exchange. Mr. Osborne formerly had charge of the Equity interests at Great Falls, Mont., and his present work consists chiefly in assisting in the form- ation and organization of farmers’ co- operative country elevators in the states. of North- and = South Dakota and Minnesota. ACTUAL GRAIN STORAGE A BOON TO THE FARMER “The storing and' borrowing feature of ‘a state-owned terminal elevator is what appeals. to me,” he continued. . “Such an elevator owned by the state of Minnesota would furnish a place for " farmers to store and hold their. grain “till they caré to sell it, sométhing they “can not now do. “When the farmer stores'grain now he “gets a storage ticket that does not rep- [} resent = actual grain, for the country \ ticket. ] : " age ticket under those conditions. . elevator that accepts his grain for stor- . age dees not keep the actual grain on > hand—it can not do so, on account of " lack of storing capacity. It ships out <‘the grain and buys a ‘hedge’, or - ~*future’, against it. Hence the farmer’s ! storage ticket does mot represent actual stored grain and its value is dependent on the credit of the elevator issuing the He can not borrow on his stor- - “If his grain was stored in a terminal. ; elevator .owned. by the state—a truly public warehouse—his ticket would rep- - resent-actual grain and he could borrow money on it fréely, to meet his needs “and enable him to hold his grain till the R 7 h oF market was right for selling it. This would also prevent all the grain being dumped on the market at once at harvest time, forcing down the price, and it would keep the grain out of the wheat pits where the pricé is manipulated and where the gamblers deal in it. STATE SUPERVISION OF - ALL ELEVATORS NEEDED “Minnesota - needs other important legislation to foster and. aid the country elevator -businesses run by farmers. There should be state inspection and examination of country elevators and a uniform system of accounting and book- keeping for all country elevators. The state could be of great aid to farmers’ elevators if sufficient pressure could be brought on the legislature to pass the needed acts. e “At present all sorts of accounting systems are used by the farmers’ ele- vators—some good and some very bad. Most such elevators can not afford to employ a bookkeeper and depend on the elevator manager to do the accounting. - He may be a good grain buyer and seller - Such is often but a poor bookkeeper. the case. Perhaps he takes charge -of an elevator that has different account- ing - methods than any he formerly managed. If a simple system of book- keeping' was devised by ‘the state and enforced in all elevators through a state inspection department it would be a great aid to the cooperative elevator business. 2 “There is 'also the proposition that elevators should be - inspected and watched by a state inspection depart- ment just like banks are, for in many ways an elevator has the same relation to the public that a' bank has. The country - elevators accept grain for stor- age like a bank receives money for deposit. We protect the money deposit- - ors by a banking code and state exam- iners who examine all banks, but no state department exists to protect the storer . of grain through efficient examination ‘of : this kind.”