The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 12, 1917, Page 18

ADVERTISEMENTS A Letter: The farmers in this community would like to ship the grain from our elevator to you but our manager is so set against the Equity that we are unable to get him to ship to you. Please do not say any- thing to him about this, it will do no good. SIGNED. { Nearly every day we get letters like this. Sometimes two or three farmers in a community will send in the same kind of letters. manager! If your manager will not ship to us, The manager! The we can get you one who will. We have a number of first class men for managers if you need one. Be sure to let us know. Remember that we handle livestock at the old comission rates. TRY EQUITY EXCHANGE SERVICE for GRAIN AND LIVESTOCK The Equity Co-operative Exchange ST. PAUL, Minnesota. SUPERIOR, Wisconsin. Livestock Department, SOUTH ST. PAUL, MINN. 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 ©000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000¢ ©000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 WESTERN HIDE & FUR CO., 301-303 Front St., Fargo, N, D. Pays the highest prices for wool, hides, pelts, fur and tallow. Write for price Ornament Co. list. ot Fargo,N.D. 3 2 -SEND IT TO TheFargo Cornices MR. LIVESTOCK | GROWER! \ You Are Surely Entitled to the Full Market Value for the Livestock You Raise IF YOU DO NOT GET IT, somebody else gets the bene- fit you should have. The day is passed when business is done on sentiment, and cnly results in dollars and cents count. We want you to compare the results in dollars and cents we get for you with those received elsewhere. A comparison will convince you that “KIRK SERVICE" gets you the most money for your livestock. J. R.-Kirk Commission Co., Inc. South St. Paul, Minn. Authorized Sales Agency of the American Society of Equity First Class Cafeterla in Cofinectlon.‘ POWERS HOTEL FARGO’S ONLY MODERN FIRE PROOF HOTEL Hot and Cold Running Water and Telephone in Every Room On Broadway, One Block South of Great Northern Depot FARGO, N. D. L_l-l--l-----------m- Mention Leader when writing advertisers OLEDO, Ohio, was treated the other day to a strange sight. The sight was a retail flour store on a railroad siding. The store was a box car. From it a city councilman was selling flour by the barrel, half barrel, quarter barrel and eighth barrel to a long line of clamoring patrons. Toledo has been faced with the high cost of living problem. While prices are high everywhere, food gamblers seemed to mark out Toledo as a special field for their harvest. Flour has been selling there at $19.20 per barrel. Pos- sibly this same flour was made from Feed D wheat purchased from North Dakota farmers at $1 per bushel or less. KEggs, butter and potatoes also were way up, even above the high prices charged elsewhere. But Toledo, Ohio, was fortunate in having as a member of its city coun- cil a former farmer, John Mulholland. Mulholland for two years was connect- ed with the national headquarters of the American Society of Equity. He had helped to plan the great wheat campaign of the Equity. He had taken part in the fight of the tobacco planters of Kentucky against the tobacco trust and knew something of the past mid- dlemen’s profits that were taken be- tween producers and consumers. PEOPLE FLOCKED TO BUY THE FLOUR Mulholland knew there was some- thing wrong with the flour market. And to demonstrate it to everybody he went into the flour business the other day on a small scale for the benefit of consumers of Toledo. He ordered three cars of flour and ‘announced through the papers that this flour would be sold, from the car on the siding, to con- sumers at cost. Mulholland was able to sell his flour, not for $19.20 a barrel, the price most of the stores were charging, or even for $16, the lowest price charged any- where in the city, but for $13.80 per barrel. Customers flocked to the siding by the dozens and scores and in less than no time at all the entire supply was sold out. It was a great object lesson Some few weeks ago Mr. Houston, secretary of agriculture, placed Amer. ica's kitchen waste at $700,000,000. He said most of it went into garbage cans. Food Administrator Hoover followed with a “clean the platter well” slogan. Now Dr. R. T. Wilbur, head of the food conservation department, asserts the household food waste totals one bil- lion dollars! ‘We believe both Secretary Houston and Dr. Wilbur overestimate kitchen waste. It is probable they got most of their facts and figures from garbage pails belonging to the well-to-do and from food left on platters in restaur- ants patronized by the well fed. _ The poor are not throwing eatable food into garbage cans. They are not wasting eggs, butter, beefsteak, pie, cake or veal cutlets. These things sel- dom appear upon their dinner tables. They are not cooking too much food. They can’t get it to cook. The secretary of agriculture, and, ap- parently, Dr. Wilbur, seem to be guilty of penny wisdom and pound foolish- ness. Secretary Houston has spent considerable more time trying to save the penny from getting into the garb- age can than he has in keeping the dollars from being wasted in our notoriously inefficient and costly mar- keting and distributing methods. The nation’s food growers are now at the threshold of this year's crop harvest. Already the harvest has started in some sections of the coun- try. There the real waste begins. Be- side the wastage between harvest to kitchen the loss in the Kkitchen itself fades into insignificance. Ten times as much food will rot on because food brokers won’t pay what it is worth or because transportation facilities are lacking, as will go into garbage cans from Portland, Me., to Portland, Ore. As much more food will be wasted next winter in storage plants, refrigerator cars and ware- houses in the speculative attempt to keep prices up. Food Administrator Hoover recog- nizes that fact. He is, we believe, big enough to saverthose dollars, and let the American. housewife take care of the garbage pail penny. She will do that, at least nine-tenths of her, and i that one_tenth, her richer sister, may PAGE EIGHTEEN farm fields this summer and autumn, Store on Wheels at Toledo How a Councilman Provided Poor People With Flour—Former Northwest Equity Man Back of Plan for the people of Toledo, showing them what could be done by cutting out just one middleman. Mulholland interested the other mem- bers of the city council in his plan. The city now Is planning to buy supplies of eggs and potatoes from the farmers and butter direct from country cream- eries, to be sold to the poor people of Toledo at cost. WIPE OUT GAMBLERS, SAYS MULHOLLAND But Mulholland doesn’t know how long the city will be able to keep on at this business. He has been connected #with the Equity movement long enough to learn the power of the big trusts. Equity men have tried before to pur- chase coal by carload lot and sell it from the siding to their members and they have found, after trying this once, that they couldn't get a supply of coal next time they ordered it. Mulholland fears that the flour trust, foreseeing the exposure of- their profits, will seek to prevent him from getting a further supply: 2 So he has opened negotiations direct with the Xquity Co-operative Ex- change at St. Paul. He plans either to buy grain direct from the exchange or to have the exchange have it ground for him and shipped direct to the city of Toledo. He wants to cut out all the middlemen possible between the pro- ducer and the consumer. Probably Mul- holland will not be able to supply the - entire city of Toledo with flour, eggs, butter and potatoes, but he believes the influence of the city will prevent the private dealers from charging extor- tionate profits. ‘When Mulholland was with the Equity movement his plan was to es- tablish co-operative producers’ and consumers’ cold storage exchanges in cities and towns throughout the Unit- ed States. He is coming now to the belief that public operation, through the city government, may be the way to meet the difficulty. This is Mul- holland’s creed: “lI believe the only true solution of the high cost of living problem is to wipe out the gamblers and speculators, who have erected a Chinese wall be- tween the farm and the table.” Speculators Are Real Food Wasters be left in the charge of Secretary Houston, who has been unable—or un- willing—to do much real good for the American farmer.—ST. PAUL DAILY NEWS. THE NEW GOSPEL Brown county had a splendid chance yesterday to learn of the Nonpartisan league from the man who made it great—A. C. Townley. He spoke at Tacoma park. The fact that assurance of his coming had to be withheld till a couple of days before his address made it impossible to advertise exten- sively, but a big crowd turned out. If you want to know why it is that the League has such a hold upon the farmers of the state, read his speech. It is full of thoughts to give the jud- icious pause and rouse among men like those who gathered to hear him, an urge to action. ¥ Through the organization of a solid voting body of the rank and file of farmers everywhere reforms which they demand become a very present possibility, With their slogan sounding every- where, “We’'ll stick,” the farmers bid fair to be able to take things into their owns hands and have a try at government more completely than ever before, even in this state where most of the people are farmer folk. Justice is with their cause and be- cause it is they are bound to win.— ABERDEEN (S. D.) "AMERICAN. MINNESOTA BOOSTING The organization of the Nonpartisan league in this country is now going on at a rapid rate and the farmers are now beginning to see that the organi- zation is what they need.and the plat- form or program is one that all farm- ers can- unite on. — MAHNOMEN (MINN.) FREE PRESS. A GOOD SALARY If you want to earn a good salary, attend the Union Commercial College, Grand Forks, N. Dak. and secure a business education. A knowledge of banking, bookkeeping, shorthand, type- writing, etc.,, has started many young men and women on the road to success. Send for their free catalog and find out how this big, business training school can help you.—Ady. - - 2 3 4‘ % [ 7 5 § P T, o P