The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, August 23, 1917, Page 16

=Y ADVERTISEMENTS ‘The No rth Dakota NORTH DAKOTA NEEDS HUNDREDS OF SPECIALLY TRAINED YOUNG State School MEN AND YOUNG WOMEN of Science Your FUTURE is at stake, IT depends on your TRAINING Trains Young Men and Young Women If you are ambitious to serve, secure a special training For Life Work in The North Dakota State - Vocational School You can always s be sure of a good posi- tion and a good salary by taking a special training at the State School of Science in one of the following life vocations: Agriculture Automobile Repairing Business and Commerce Dressmaking and Cooking Electrical Engineering Farm Engines Gasoline Engines Steam Ingines Traction Engines TRADE COURSES: Bricklaying and Plastering Cabwnet Making Carpentry and Building Drafting Dressmaking Management of Cafeterias Management of Lunch Rooms Management of Tea Rooms Plumbing and Steam Fitting Practical Electrician ATTEND THE NORTH DAKOTA STATE SCHOOL OF.SCIENCE BECAUSE the expense BECAUSE it is a State BECAUSE it offers a of attendance is very low. Vocational School. SPECIAL TRAINING in Vocational Courses for all students, fifteen years of age, or older, with a sixth grade preparation, or more, and especially for those who do not desire the lege courses. usual four year high school and col- BECAUSE it offers to older students elementary eighth grade courses such as reading, arithmetic, spelling, penmanship, and geography. How How *‘How How How How 24 { How k How How How How How to How to How to { i ¥ How to ! How to How to How to How to How to Name Town or P. O.. County ... make a gasoline engine drain your farm do blacksmithing keep books cook run a dairy farm use the typewriter run steam and gas engines build your fann buildings play a band instrument write shorthand make your own dresses keep your farm fertile do some carpentering wire your own home survey write a good letter be an electrician make and trim your own hats play basketball arrange and manage your home Check course or work interested in and’ write for fur- ther information. Write today for further information about North Dakota’s State VOCATIONAL School. Register September 25th for full year cOutse, and 'December.4th for winter term course. F. E. SMITH, President ; North Dakota State School of Science NORTH DAKOTA STATE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE STUDENTS Wahpeton, N. D. (A ; ARE SUCCESSFUL BECAUSE THEY ARE SPECIALLY i TRAINED FOR LIFE WORK. . What Grangers Think of It Man From Michigan Investigates League and Tells Eastern People About It - .~ (From the Adrian (Mich.) Patron) HE political revolution wrought out in North Dakota, last November under the leader- ship of the Nonpartisan league has been an eye opener to the whole country and it was a great privilege during a western trip to come in contact with the promoters of the League who are now busily at work organizing several of the western states. Their organizers attended four of the seven Grange rallies in Colorado . and had a good place on the program. Their program is to unite the farmers in a political way for their advantage in state legislation affairs. Inasmuch as their story is but another proof the power and necessity of organization which the Grange has been advocating for many years-—the members of Grange will read of this new move- ment with much interest. The Nonpartisan league began in a unique way. The farmers of North Dakota rely upon their wheat crop as their main support and for years they rebelled against the unfair grading standards applied to North Dakota wheat by the Minneapolis millers. Professor Ladd of the North Dakota Agricultural college demonstrated the unfairness of the grading by taking some of the socalled low grade North Dakota wheat and making the best of bread from it. This fact led the farm- ers to ask the state to come to their assistance and help secure adequate prices and a fairer grade for the North Dakota wheat by providing proper terminals within the state and providing a fairer gradation. In language which has since become historic the legislature told® the farm- ' ers to “Go back home and slop the hogs” and it would attend to._the law- making end. ; This insulting reply to over 500 rep- resentative farmers who had come to Bismarck to ask for relief incensed them to organize the state thoroughly in support of state officials. who would carry out their wishes. Each individual farmer who joined the League put in a contribution of $9 with which to buy Fords to send out the organizers to cover the state. So popular was the cause and so thorough were the methods that a complete ticket—gover- nor, legislature and three judges of the supreme court was chosen by the League at.the November election by overwhelm. .1g majorities. This victory gave them courage and they are now busy in nine other west- ern states and the prospects are ex- ceedingly encouraging. The organizers reported that whole communities of farmers were signed up without skip- ping a man at $16 per man. Hardly a western state but has some great local predatory interest that is thoroughly intrenched in the political life of the state and nothing short of the most heroic measures will loosen its grip on the public affairs of the respective commonwealths. The people of the West are less hide- bound politically and are more ven- turesome than the conservative East and the time is ripe for a sweep of this new movement. It has recently taken on a national aspect by electing a mem- ber to congress, Mr. J. M. Baer, who was chosen to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative Helge- sen of North Dakota. Baer’s plurality is reported at 4000 or better. The League has a constructive pro- gram for agriculture and believes that the men upon the farms have brains, patriotism and sense enough to write ‘the laws that are required to put this fundamental business of food produc- tion on a level with other lines of hu- man endeavor in its economic phases. Grangers of Michigan will watch the progress of this new movement with sympathetic interest as it is bound to bring results to the Western farmers that have been brought to Michigan farmers through their recent fights for better prices for milk, beets and beans. Additional Grange interest is given the movement through the. leadership of State Master McKaig of North Da- kota who is one of the pioneers in the work and who is assigned the task of opening up the Nonpartisan campaign in the new states. ‘Borrow Money on Potatoes Federal Reserve Banks Will Make Loans on : Warehouse Receipts NE thing accomplished for the producers by the Hoover food administration, which has not been much talked of, is the use of potato warehouse re- ceipts as collateral for loans. Mr. Hoover followed up his last spring’s urging for a huge potato crop by an appeal to the federal reserve.banking board to take the potato crop, when properly prepared, as security for loans to the farmers, thus relieving many of them of the necessity of accepting whatever price might be paid by mid- dlemen at digging time, by advancing money on their own stored potatoes. The federal reserve board has decid- ed to do so. The farmers will, under this arrangement, be able to put their potatoes in a public warehouse, and get part of their value at once to apply on the expense of harvest. It is hoped by Mr, Hoover that this will be such a financial aid as to storing of more potatoes than would otherwise have been made, and insure to the producers a better price than they usually receive. It will also tend to prevent congestion of the potato crop in speculators’ hands and thus help to keep down exorbitant prices to consumers. The plan for using potatoes as secur- ity is somewhat complicated. The only “way it could be done was to obtain a ruling from the federal reserve board, classifying potatoes as non-perishable food stuff. But potatoes are not strictly non-perishable. They are quite subject to temperature, moisture and heat, so that in order to classify them thus, it will be necessary for the grow- ers to put them up carefully. Of course they will have to be inspected by au- thorized employes of the ‘federal re- serve board and be in good condition and in safe responsible storage. MUST: TAKE RECEIPTS TO FEDERAL BANK It will be required that the potatoes be graded and sacked, that they be stored in cool, dry warehouses, so that they will be in every sense a commer- cial product, capable of finding a market demand. Otherwise they would not be worth much for security. This use of potatoes, as well as of many other farm products has long been es- PAGE SIXTEEN " cause careful ' tablished in FEurope, where farm finance and rural credits are on a much more progressive basis than in this country. The farmers will have to talke their warehouse receipts to some federal reserve bank, and present them as se- curity for the loan desired. Just what percentage of their face value would be advanced by the bank, is not known, and it would perhaps vary in different sections and with different banks. These federal reserve banks will in turn forward the warehouse receipts to the central bank of their district and the central bank will advance to the loaning bank the money which is ulti- mately to reach the farmer. TUnder regulations established this year, such banks will get a preferential rate of interest of 3% per cent, so that it will be money in the coffers of the bank to make the loan to the farmer at the going rates of interest, § to 10 per cent, . or whatever it shall be. MAY BE HELP TO MANY FARMERS These loans, however, will only be made to the member banks by the cen- tral banks for periods of 90 days, so that using this method of holding one’s crop will require a new arrangement at the end of three months, either re- newal of the loan, or sale of part or all of the potatoes. But even at that. the ability to hold his potdtoes for three months to tide over the season of market glut, and do it without jeopardizing any of his other property, may prove a big help to many a farmer. Of course the banks will make “their bit” too. The food ad- ministration hopes it will result in stimulating better storage, and that as a result of it more potatoes will be saved to be eaten and less of the total yield .be frozen and dumped as garb- age. In New England a move has al- ready been begun to provide extensive storage as a result of this possible ar- rangement. | REAL PATRIOTISM ‘We can not talk of patriotism unless we are willing to come to the support of the nation with purse as well as with rifle, ‘'with honest tax bills as well as with flags over the front door.—AM- BROSE (N. D.) TRIBUNE.