The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 17, 1917, Page 16

Mention Leader when writing advertisers ADVERTISEMENTS What a Co-operative Packing Plant Means to the Northwest Under the present system, the co-operative ideas of the Equity Co-operative Packing Plant at Fargo operating at a capacity, will be able to save the stockholders on commissions and yardage alone a total amount of $75,000 per year. This saving would in less than six years’ time pay for the entire plant, or in other words, the en- tire stock raised in North Dakota alone in one year would produce a saving on commissions and yardage an amount sufficient to pay for the entire plant in less than one year's time not mentioning anything about preventing excessive shrinkage on long distance hauls. We will leave it to the farmers or stock raisers just what profits they have been giving away to middlemen that should really belong to the people who rightfully earn this margin—the producers. i VAYL.UE TO THE COMMUNITY . As evidence to show what packing centers will do for the de- velopement of livestock in any state, there are now located in the following states of 9 cities Operating 37 P. Plants 10 cities Operating 13 P. Plants MISSOURI and KANSAS, 10 cities Operating 29 P. Plants NEBRASKA....... ...4 cities Operating 10 P. Plants WISCONSIN.......ovvvnnnn 6 cities Operating 13 P. Plants Three of these Wisconsin plants are operated on a co-oper- ative basis and are muking progress regardless of all the criticism given by parties UNFRIENDLY to CO-OPERATIVE movements. These plants are all of modern construction and so arranged to operate economically and utilize all by-products the same as the large packer. Many packing plants are independent of the large packers., Throughout the United States there are nearly 1,000 plants of various sizes, but the large packers control only about 55 per cent of the entire meat supply. This leaves still a large field for independent co-operative packing plants. The Work Has Started to Put North Dakota in the List of Packing House States. is in Sight, You Can Help. The Fquity Co-Operative Packineg Co. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL $1,000,000 Fargo, North Dakota P. M. Casey, Pres., Fargo, N. D.” L. C. Hoopman, Mgr. and Sec'y. ‘Wm. Olson, Treas., Valley City, N. D. EXECUTIVE: P. M. Casey, Fargo, N. D.; J. C. Leum, Mayville, N. D.; O. C. Lindvig, Fargo, N. D. DIRECTORS: Anthony Walton, Minot, N. D.; Lewis Altenbernd, Sabin, Minn; J. C. Bergh, Hendrum, Minn.; A. E. Walley, Velva, N. D.; C. D. King, Menoken, N. D.; Wm. Olson, Valley City, N. D. Success - | ~ A CONVERSATION | W N AN R N R W N 995 ( P / : VX5 V1 74 254 71 77% 12 2 %%, S g y‘; o /I 2 / 2 vy 12, 7 7724 42&%‘%4%// 7, 7 s 72 —Drawn expressly for the Leader by Congressman Baer Big Biz—*“Say, Crafty, don't you think we had better drop this charge about that League conference at St. Paul being disloyal?” Politician—“Why? Aren’t we getting away with it?” Big Biz—“No. It seems to be reacting on us. Fact is, the League has suc- ceeded in getting those patriotic resolutions that were adopted before the people, and now it’s hard to make people believe those St. Paul delegates were traitors.” Politician—“Well, probably you are right.” Big Biz—“And by the way, Crafty, hadn't one of us better change our clothes? You see we look too much alike, both wearing checkered suits. Why don’t you come out in a new fall pattern of ‘progressive cut, for a change?” Politician—“Good idea. We must not appear to be friends or related in any way."” State Bonding Law Upheld North Dakota Taxpayers Save Money by Elimi- THE North Dakota Agricultural College WINTER SHORT COURSES - Ten Weeks—January 7 to March 15 3 Dairying, Preeds of Live Stock, Breeding, Feeding, Stock- AgT lculture_judging. > Veterinary Science, Farm Crops, Soils, Seed Treating, Seed Testing, Farm Accounts. 3 3 Cooking, Sewing, House Decoration, House Man- DomeStlc scnence_agement, Hygiene, First Aid to the Injured, Draw- ing, Painting and Industrial Art. 3 3 Gas Engines, Steam IEngines, Blacksmithing, Carpentering, Englneerlng*l’:actical Operation of Gas and Steam Engines, stationar};. and tractor types. Engineering subjects may be combined with Agricultural subjects Instruction may be had in Arithmetic, English Commercial Law and many other subjects. Winter term of Drafting and Building, Farm Husbandry, Homemaking, Power Machinery and all other regular curricula begins December 31. For catalogs and circulars, address: THE REGISTRAR: AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, NORTH DAKOTA. WINTER TERM AT Ceoncordia College, Moorhead, Minn. Opens January 2nd and continues thirteen weeks. Closes March 29th. Tirst Class Instruction, Good Board and Rcom for thirteen weeks, ...... $90.00. No extra fees, free tickets for all school enfertainments, athletics, no type- writer rent or commercial fees. Bookkeeping, Tpyewriting, Penmanship, Business English and Spelling, Rapid Calculation, Commercial Law, Office Practice, Review Grammar, Spelling, Arithmetic, Reading, and other Common School Subjects, Ladies Seminary Courses: Cooking, Sewing, Dressmaking, Household Manage- ment, Nursing and itlygiene, Art Needlework, Manual - Training, Drawing, Plans and Specifications. Choose as many subjects as you can carry in any course above and the cost will only be. $90.00 including board and room. School of Music offers a chance to study under teachers trained in European Conservatories. Piano, Voice, Violin, Orchestra, Band. Chorus and Giee Clubs. Write for free catalog. Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn. nating Private Surety Companies If ‘Attorney (eneral Langer had not pushed the state bonding case, it would have cost North Dakota taxpayers $65,000 to $70,- 000 more and the decision would have been delayed for another year. Former Attorney General Linde connived at the delay and loss by consenting to the appeal to the United States supreme court, by bonding companies, after they had been defeated in the state supreme court. Appeal was taken in April, 1916, and Linde never raised a finger to get a decision. But six weeks after Langer took office Langer started action. He asked that the $10,000 bond to protect state interests pending appeal, be raised to $300,000. Linde cheerfully consented to $10,000, which would hardly pay the loss for two months. Langer asked for immediate decision and if that could not be granted, then that the case be advanced on the docket. Langer’s initiative has now won the vietory. Another case in which Linde did nothing was the snuff case recently won by Langer. This was started before Linde came into office, but during his entire term Linde did nothing, except onece to consent to further delay. . ————————— Do You Want to Go to School This Winter? PAGE SIXTEEN INDICATION of the sound- ness of state management of insurance versus private management has just been given by the United States supreme court, which refused to over- turn the North Dakota state surety bonding law for the benefit of private surety bonding companies. The court held the North Dakota law was outside its jurisdiction, and as the North Da- kota supreme court had previously up- held the law, it is now to be put into ef- fect. Officials at Bismarck are taking all steps necessary to begin the bond- ing of all public officials who come un- der the law. The saving to the state will total a large sum, estimated by some who have gone into the figures as high as $50,000 a year. The saving will, how- ever, grow with each year, for after an emergency fund of $100,000 to make good any defaults by bonded officials has been .built up, the excess money will be prorated back to the various units of state government that paid it in, and they are henceforth exempt from further payments until the fund has been depleted. Under the old sys- tem of bonding with private companies it is necessary to continue paying premiums year after year. It is a never encing drain. Under the new law, after the first two or three years at most, the drain will cease and tax- payers will no longer be digging up premiums to fatten the surety bonding companies. f This bonding law was enacted in 1915, It provides that a state bonding fund of $100,000 shall be created out of the premiums paid in by counties, townships, municipalities and school districts .on the bonds of their various officials, and that the state of North Dakota shall issue the bonds. The funds go to the state treasurer, but the insurance is issued by the com- missioner of insurance, and the law is administered under his authority, These various units of state govern= ment may bond their officials with the state, not to exceed $50,000 for any one office, and pay the premiums out of public funds. Beyond $50,000 they must get private surety companies for the excess sum, and the counties, cities, etc., are not allowed to pay these ad- ditional premiums out of public funds. The law does not compel any county, city, township or school district to bond its officials with the state, but In case they do not and choose a pri- vate bonding company, then the premiums can not be paid out of the public funds, That is as good as mak- ing it compulsory, for no official is going to insist on being allowed to pay premiums to some private company for his surety bonds, when he can have these premiums paid by the civil sub- division employing him by patronizing the state bonding fund. ; That was where the shoe pinched. The big surety bonding companies who have tfirived for several decades im North Dakota, pooled their kick