The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 19, 1917, Page 6

These pictures show some features of graduating exercises of the Minnesota Farm school at St. Anthony, when practical demonstrations of some of the work the students are doing were given. To the left Lenora Torgerson is showing labor-saving cooking methods; below the nursing class is demonstrat- ing first-aid work and on the right boys of the class are doing farm black- smithing. Other things, however, than merely learning to farm are being talked about at the farm school. The boys there hold debates on marketing and farm economy and politics, the larger questions whose right solution depends upon the farmers of tomor- row. The girls are not shut out from discussion of these questions in whose solution they will have a part. Rip Gets An Earful 'Faithful Report of an Interesting Conversation at Great Prongs “Who's Bustin' up the ‘Stait?” BY RIP, THE REPORTER Deer Mistur Editur—I tole you in mi uther lettur that I mite have sumthin’ more to say later on, an’ now I find that mi predicshun haz cum tru. An’ the more I noze around an’ listen to the vocal exploshuns that air takin’ places over the stait the more I think I'll have still more to say. I have node fur a good menny years - that if thar wuz two sides to enny- thing an’ if wun side wuz black an’ ef I wanted to find out all about the black side all I had to do wuz to go to Grate Prongs an’ jist set around with mi ize shet an’ mi years propped open, an’ I'd git it. Not only so, Mistur Editur, but I have also lurned ef thar iz ennything in the stait that iz white that thar is sum fellers up at Grate Prongs that can maik it appear black, an’ if thar iz ennything - that iz black tha can maik it appear white. So, in view uv all this I did not no a better place to go to find out the truth, an’ az I sed be- fore I went thar, an’ thar I am. RIP GETS READY TO HEAR ALL THE NEWS I checked in at wun uv the leadin' hotels, whetted up mi safty razor and tuck a shave, then went out an’ got a copy av that famus an’ inturrestin’ paper called, “Grit” an’ sot myself down in a big cheer to reed the latest nuze. 1 had jist finished reedin’ a thrillin’ story about a butiful young gurl out in Yomin’ havin’ a turribel fite with a bob cat when the buss driv up,an’ two young fellers got out an’ walked into the hotel jist like tha owned the place an’ wuz a-goin’ to by out the rest uv the town. Wun uv ’em wuz more important lookin’ than the uther wun, ef that'wuz possibel an’ he walk- ed up to the desk an’ sined hiz naim with a ristocratick flourish, pushed hiz soft, fuzzy lookin’ hat back on the’ Northwest corner uv hiz hed, lit.a seegar az long az a dude’s walkin stick an’ surveyed the surroundin'’s o’er while contempt an’ disdain stood out on hiz features like bristles on a bull pup’'s mug. He wore a yaller neck tie with green an’ red spots in it about the size uv dimes an’ his overcote fit so tite around hiz waste that he looked like a bundle of wheat which had been tied too tite. On hiz rather sharpish, turned up noze purchad a pare uv horn-rimed spects, which give him an owlish appearance an’ on hiz upper lip sot two tufts uv black fuzz, each wun about the size uv the tip end uv a Tom cat’s tale. Jist az he got thru contemptiously surveyin’ the lan’scape o’er Sherry Saltpork cum outen his little den at the rite uv the desk an’ no suner did he lamp the aforemenshuned feller and the aforemenshuned feller I’me him, than tha made a dive for each uther like-a couple uv bush leaguers divin’ fur a pop fli in the left field. They grasped each uther bi the hand an’ slapped each uther on the shoulder an’ give much evidence of hilarious delite at seein’ each uther. ’An’ the plot be- gun to thicken. Over bi the south winder sot a raw- boned, rusty-lookin’, horny-handed feller a-reedin’ uv the Nonpartisan Leeder. The commoshun occashuned bi the meetin’ and greetin’ heerin be-~ fore described attracked hiz attenshun. Too sturn blu ize looked purcin'ly out frum under a pare uv bushy, grizzled ibrows an’ a horny hand plucked nerv- usly at a wisp uv sandy chin-whiskers. FARMERS ARE STILL HARKING TO “OUTLAWS” “Well, mi deer Sherry, how goze the big battle,” shrilled the feller with the tufts o’ black fuzz under his noze. “Purty good, purty good, but not az good az we wood like to see it,” replied the prop turnin’ around an’ leanin’ up agin his desk. ““What seams to be the matter?” ast the young feller, twistin’ the cat tales. “Oh! them fool farmers still keep a- listenin’ to that bunch uv carpet-bag- gin’ outlaws an’ seemin’ly beleevin’ ever thing tha say. Ever time our fel- lers hold a metin’ sum uv them free- lovin’ outlaws iz eether thar or tha gits thar durn quick an’ that tell a lot o' lize an’ shoot a lot uv hot wind-an’ the farmers simply throw theer hats in the air an’ holler themselves hourse.” “Who have you got holdin’ meetin,” ast the dudeish feller, flippin’ the ash- ers ofen hiz seegar. “We've got O. J. Sorry, an‘ Tom which we print herewith : Mr. Theo G. Nelson, Dear Sir: % their men in. Nelson Answered Again Here is another answer to the proposal of Theo. G. Nelson of Dunn Center for a meeting of men prominent in the Nonparti- san League for the purpose of stirring up an agitation about the leadership and policies of the League. Representative Church has handled the matter in keen and masterly -fashion. nothing be added to the comment contained in his letter to Nelson, THE OPPOSITION’S THREAT I am indeed surprised to read your letter after becoming acquainted with you at Bismarck. I thought you at least had the welfare of the farmers and the League at heart. Even if you were a good Equity man you could not help but see that this was the only time we stood united. If you carry out what you figure on doing you will only divide our forces and that will only be playing into the opposition’s hands for sure. If they can only get us divided why they have us then where they can get In fact, I had the opposition tell me last Thursday in Brinsmade that Barker Bumkum,” sed Sherry, liten a seegar, also. The fellar with the cat tales under” his noze studdyed a minnit an’ then sed, “Well, ef we don’t du sumthin’ to git rid uv them free-lovin’, outlawin’, carpetbaggers that stait will sune be on the rocks, ever bank will pack up an’ leeve, ever bizness consurn will blacklist North Dakota an’ the rale=- rodes will pull up theer trax an’ quit the stait.” All this time the ole vikin' lookin’ feller settin’ over bi the winder had not tuck hiz ize offen ’em. He had folded up hiz paper an’ stuck it in hiz pocket, raized hisself to a higth uv about six foot three an’ strided over to the desk an’ wuz a-standin’ rite in frunt uv them fellers an’ a-lookin’ down at ’em in witherin’ an’ scorchin’ contempt. I clutched onto mi seet fur I node sum- thin’ wuz goin™ to drap, an’ shur anuf it did. - x ‘““Whoze bustin’ up the stait? Whoze taikin’ munny outen the stait? Whoze purventin’ the development uv the re- (Continued on page 15) There need York, N. D., April 1, 1917. they would have a real Farmers’ Nonpartisan League like the one organ- ized in Minnesota, all over North Dakota this summer. I got your letter on coming home Saturday and it looked as if they knew. Now it doesn’t mat- ter who the leader is on either of the two leagues nor the policy, even if they are identical. The main aim is a division and two sets of officers for us to select and they would have us. Y There are a few in different localities who may “for various reasons or arguments presented to them” be wavering in their loyalty but they will all be together before voting time comes or I am sadly mistaken and if the . defeat of the Fairmont elevator made the ones in the southeast locality and those who lobbied for it sore, they have not the best 'interest of the farm- ers at heart if they try to bust the organization by a division; and that is exactly what will happen if you are successful in your attempt. If you read Judge Hanly’s decision in regard to co-operative elevators being a monopoly (in Friday’s Courier-News) it shows what straits the chamber of commerce is in when they will instigate proceedings of that nature. I hope and pray a united front to the enemy will not be marred by any such action as you contemplate and I would be the last to attend any such meeting but would rather use my influence to convince any wavering ones of the need of their sticking to the old Nonpartisan by all means. I am, W. J. CHURCH. P—