The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 9, 1917, Page 17

- P ADVERTISEMENTS Hore' SHERMAN E““ST. PAUL MINN== Fourth and Sibley Streets One block from Union De- pot and Nonpartisan League Headquarters. The Hotel Sherman i§ the leading popular priced ho- tel in St. Paul, and caters especially to the people of the Northwest. Modern rooms, $1.00 up. Official Headquarters Equity Co-operative IEx- change. A. J. CAMERON g B B B ] ] ] 8 [ | ] ] ] [ | ] | Excellent Cafe and Cafeteria, ' i | i ] [} [} B [ [ | | i i B = ] [} ¥ RECORD OF FOUR MONTHS CURE BY WEARING GROUND GRIPPERS The above patient living in Spring- fiéld, Mass.,, was suffering with Flat ¥Foot and DBunions, a local doctor advised her to wear “‘Ground Grippers.”” The doctor kept a care- ful diagram of her foot from April 19th’ to July 10th and the above drawing is reproduced from his records. \Vritc-fur Medical Book, ete. Hall-Allen Shoe Co. 107 Broadway FARGO, N. D. If you want to help around the house, see thaf there are plenty of Manchester Biscuits IN THE PANTRY. We make biscuits for every_ occa- sion and all of them are good. Try them instead of heating up the house baking half a day. The chil- dren like them made in a sanitary factory. Manchester Biscuit Co. FARGO, N. D. — Cash for Cream Ship your ecream direct. We pay the highest possible price always for butter fat. Cash and Can Returned Promptly We aim to give the farmers of the Northwest the best possible service in return of can and payment for cream., Write today for shiping tags, and our paying prices for butter fat. Duluth Creamery & Produce Co. Duluth, Minnesota. i Help Mother— ———————————————————————— —————————————————————————————— 1 FARMERS AS BANKERS FARM LOANS AND CITY LOANS 5 per cent paid on savings accounts. 6 per cent paid on time certificates. Does gen- eral ‘banking business by mail. THE SAVINGS LOAN & TRUST CO. 2 The Minot Farmers Central Bank Farmers’ rest room. MINOT, N. D. | A GOOD HOTEL When in town try THE ROBERTS three minutes from G. N. depot and five minutes from N. P. Nice, clean, well furnished rooms—with or without bath. Rates 75c to $1.50. Office up- stairs, 302 Broadway, MRS. C. M. ROBERTS, Proprietress. — —— Mention Leader when writing advertisers cle that there are_some 100,000 farmers in the Northwest that these small- bored politicians have cried “Socialism” to, but the farmers just winked their other eye and said: “I'm not afraid of that so long as I am on the job to make nominations for political offices. And 40,000 of them in North Dakota have listened to the old political gang and heard their wail and cry of “Socialism” and then gone about their business and voted . for the candidatés that they nominated, and elected them. The cry of “Socialism” is the last dying gasp of the old political regime, but the League goes on and on and on. Another Farmer Protest Governor is Asked to Remove the North Dakota State Board of Regents e HIE Three Springs\ Farmers clubs at a recent meeting swung into line with the movement of the Forde farm- ers club for a’statewide pro- test against the wrecking of the North Dakota Agricultural college by the board of regents. The following reso- lutions were adopted: - “Whereas, there is unquestionably a plot concocted for the purpose of mak- ing our state Agricultural college a tool of the large corporate interests whose homes are in other states, instead of an aid to those who are devoting the prime of their lives to the production of food for the nation, and “Whereas, this plot involves a prop- osition to continue the policy already entered upon by our board of regents, namely; to oust Dr. Ladd, Prof. Bolley, and many others who have been of untold value to the people of the state. “Now therefore be it resolved that we join the Forde Farmers club of Nelson county in an appeal to every citizen in the state to use all honorable means to retain these men on the faculty of the Agricultural college, and further urge Governor Lynn J. Frazier to use, all means in his power to have removed from the board of regents the men who are responsible for the effort to oust Dr. Ladd and his associates. We also approve of the idea of a state wide mass-meeting to lodge protest against the proposed action of the board of regents and declare ourselves willing to send a representative to such a meeting from the Three Springs Farm- ers clubs, Dunn county, North Dakota. “MRS. JOS. H. MARX, President. “MRS. V. E. NICHQLS, Secretary.” What Dairy Farmer Fights (Continued from page 10) buy the private packing plant. Boyd, Chryst and others incorporated the FFarmers’ Co-operative Packing com- pany, capitalized at $250,000, and se- cured the services of a professional Chicago promoter, I, A. S. Price, to sell stock to farmers on a 15 perscent commission. 2 About this time ugly rumors began to get out among the farmers th'\xt the plant was not worth the $122,000 demanded by Boyd. But there-appear- ed in La Crosse a man named R. A. Hall, who claimed to be a competent appraiser of packing plants. They put . Hall in as an appraiser and investi- gator. He returned a report showing that the plant was worth $140,000 - stead of $122,000 demanded by Boyd. So the b ad of directors agreed to accept Boyd's offer without further question. When the actual sale of stock began, Hall, the.“expert_appraiser” blcssom- ed out as a stock salesman; so did’ President Chryst, recceiving commis- sions for his work. veas all sold, most of it to farmers. In all 2126 different persons purchased shares. PROMOTERS EXPENSE IS HEAVY BURDEN Promoters got altogether $37,814.53 of the stockholders money. But this was not the worst. After the plant had been taken over and was being run by the new company it developed immediately that repairs were urgently needed to make the plant usable. So $11,314 was used for this purpose. There is still worse to come. The first year’s report showed a loss for the year of $71,000 of which $40,000 was for meat allowed to spoil in the cooling house and $31,000 was for gen- eral losses in running expenses. When the stockholders got this state- ment there was a big roar and an im- mediate shakeup. Boyd retired as manager and Chryst as president. The directors put in a new manager, D. H. Baker, a former employve of the plaat and, a stockholder in the company. He started in again with no capital in an effort to build up the looted enterprise. Baker did his best, He operated for a year with a net loss of 8nly $3,000, as compared with $71,000 under the previous management, and. then he took the directors "and stockholders into his confidence and told them the truth. They had had unloaded upon fhem a wornout plant, burdened with the additional charge of promoters’ profits, which could not be operated in any way except to producea further loss. So they locked the doors on the La Crosse co-operative packing plant, and the doors are still locked. They can't even get rid of the property that is left, because there are so many stockholders scattered 6ver such a large territory that they can’t get a quorum together. If you meet a stock- holder in the late La Crosse packing plant today he will tell you: “I know there is money in co-opera-( tive packing plants; there is $250,000 of our,money there. But we don't ever expect to get it out.” Since the La Crosse packing plant was started, four other co-operative companies were organized in Wisconsin. three of these at Wausau, Madison and New Richmond are now in operation The stock finally . and a fourth will be going soon. It is not likely that any of these will be a victim of the experience at La Crosse of having a° waqrnout plant saddled -upon it, but each of them ig starting in with one burden, that of heavy pro- motion expenses. DIS/.STER BECAUSE OF POOR MANAGEMENT Charles A. Lyman, organizer for the National Agricultural Organization So- ciety, which is trying to correct some of the evils connected with co-op- eration, said recently before a legis- lative committee at Madison: “During the last two or three years farmers in this state have subscrib2d and paid for about $1,500,000 worth ~f stock in co-operative packing plants. In addition to this another $500,000 co-- operative enterprise is being promotad When all the stock has been sold the. cost of promotion out of the farmers' pockets will amount to in the neigh- horhood of $300,000. In addition to this I Dbelieve it can be shown that be- cause of the ease with which “stock -of this sort can be sold with the aid of professiéhal salesmen there has been a loss of at least $200,000 in the La Crosse packing plant.” There has been a bill before the Wis- consin legislature = to limit to 5 per. cent the amount that can be charged for promotion expenses. The backers of the big enterprises say it would prevent any co-operative enter- prises being organized on a large scale. The N. A. O. S. men say the big en- terprises ought not to be organized if the organizers are not interested enough to do their organization work at small expense, like the creameries do. HURT JERRY'S FEELINGS The Socialist mayor of Minneapolis has been abused by a North Dakota publication (the Grand Forks Herald) for saying that “Not all the Huns are in Europe’—meaning there are some in -4he United States. Assistant Secretary Carl Vrooman seems to indicate the truth of this statement of Van Lear's in an interview in which Vrooman de- nounces in unmeasured terms the sor- did, money grabbing efforts of certain big munition manufacturers to hold up the government and extract the last penny of exorbitant profits in the mat- ter of government contracts. Van Lear may not be so far out of the path of truthful statement as we have been led to believe. —JAMESTOWN (N.. D.) DAILY ALERT. LEAGUE AND ITS ENEMIES ‘While Jerry Bacon's Grand Forks Herald and C. B. ' Little’s Bismarck Tribune are howling their heads off ly- ing about the Nonpartisan league its a good thing to remember that, League or no League, what these papers want the people do not want. You can’t go wrong if you do politically exactly what these papers do not want you to do. The League, however, is here to stay and is making no mistakes that you can notice unless it is a mistake to engineer the course of events in such a way that the people shall be legislated for instead of against and that “Big Business” built up by special privileges and class legislation shall be put out of business and made to'work for a living.—DOGDEN (N. D.) NEWS. PAGE SIXTEEN “ADVERTISEMENTS Delco-Light is every man’s electric plant and provides electric current for light and power for anyone anywhere. Ilectric light—clean, cool, safe—for your home and your barns, Agents everywhere _B. F. ASHELMAN Distributor : Cor. 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