The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 7, 1918, Page 19

oA 1 1 o o » @ ¥ s NOTICE TO EDITORS AND PUBLISHEES ‘ _ The Leader has been receiving several hundred publications at its Fargo, N. D, office.. Now that the office of the national Leader has been moved to St. Paul, we desire to get these publications at the new address. oThe new address is: Box 575, St. Paul, Minn, editors and pubhshers by mail of the change in address. » the hurry and difficulty. of moving it may be that some publica- tions were not notified in that way. If you are sending the Leader your paper, will you consider this announcement sufficient notiee and change the address on the paper you are sending us? Please send all publications intended for the Leader to Box 575, St. Paul, Minn. Thanks! used to put big tracts of land under cultivation, and to help the new farmers get started at their job of producing food for the country. Even more notable, it would give the lumber-jack a chance to have a . home, a permanent residence, a com- munity life, It would give him such conditions that the day of ‘“striking on the job” would be gone forever, and with it the profiteering timber speculator and the old method of lumbering which strips and ruins the countryside. Representative Robert Crosser of Cleveland, author of this construc- ‘tive bill, is a single tax Democrat with a trade union constituency:- He has been a fighter for public owner- ship of street railways, and for this land colonization bill. . “My bill provides for development of land and. natural resources,’” he said to the Leader’s correspondent at the capitol, ‘“by what you might call the project method. That is, the colonization board, which would con- sist of the secretaries of the interior, of agriculture and of labor, would have definite tracts of land examined, and specific plans for their develop- ment. In these the community unit will be used as far as possible. Agri- cultural land will _be:developed. So will land valuable chiefly for fores- try. AVAILABLE LAND IS WIDELY DISTRIBUTEL * “Take the agricultural land. -There are about 100,000,000 acres of possi- ble and undeveloped agricultural land in different parts of the United .’ States, in’the valleys of the moun- tain region of the Pacific Northwest, ' the Rocky mountains, on the cut-over ‘lands of northern Minnesota, Wis- consin and Michigan, in the swamps “in this region tributary to Lake Superior, the swamps of the lower Mississippi, Florida and the southern Atlantic coast region, as well as the arid lands of the Colorado basin and elsewhere in the Southwest. “Most of these agricultural lands are privately owned. It is necessary, then, to get the co-operation of private owners, This ought not to be difficult, when:once they under- stand that the government will help them to reclaim -and colonize their lands, provided they will be content to receive a fair return on their in- vestment. : “<“The test 'of the development of farm land is this: No land will be used unless it can be farmed in such a way as to secure a normal wage for normal labor. “For such land, the government. _through the colonization board would offer to use its credit and engineer- | ing facilities for clearing off stumps, diggipg ditches, grading, etc., pro- viding - the state and the private “owners involved will do their share. <+ The state must pass such laws, cov- -ering ‘the’ project as will' ‘do away - with speculatlon in land values. The . rivate owaers, as I have said, must he: content'with aomething less than» Nonpartisan Leader, ‘We have notified a large number of But in mountain ranges on the western and the eastern sides of the. country. While the forests in the East are so depleted that they need re-foresta- tion, those in the West are for the most part ready for immediate colon- ization purposes.” LUMBER-JACKS WOULD BECOME CITIZENS Here Crosser explained his plan for solving the industrial unrest in the timber industry by doing away with ‘the chief source of injustice against timber workers—their de- privation of the right to have homes and established citizenship. “If the lumber-jack can have reg- ular employment, within reasonable distance of his home, and if he can become an established member of his own.community, which is utterly im- possible under present conditions, nobody will be able to deny him his industrial . rights,” continued ' Mr. Crosser. “If my bill is made law, the :ixber or forest projects will be tracts of forest lands capable of sup- porting timber communities. That is the timbered lands in a project must be handled in such a way.as to give a continuous supply of timber, from a locality small enough to enable the workers in the woods to live per- manently in that locality. When that is done, nine-tenths of the trouble with the I. W. W. in the timber in- dustry will be done away with. ‘“Instead of taking out timber as : though it were metal from a mine, and leaving the region a desert, which is the established rule in this country, we ought to take out the grown timber as they do in the gov- ernment forests abroad, and let the young timber grow up. Instead of moving a colony of lumber-jacks into .a valley and ‘mining’ the timber, we would simply take out the good tim- ber year after year, over a certain _area, by the labor of the forest work- ers who would live in one community in that area. And the project ought to be so planned that here, also, the lands would yield normal wages for normal work. “After the civil war the returned soldiers were given scrip, which was, in effect, tickets for free homesteads anywhere on the public domain, This scrip fell into the hands of specu- - lators, and was used from Arizona to Alaska, to take anything from a waterhole to a power site or a harbor frontage. That scandal must not be repeated after this war.. We should made ready to give the returned soldiers who want to work on the land, a chance to do go unde. favor- able condltions e ~YIELD OF LETTUCE ‘The yield of lettuce in California is quite variable, but 300 crates per acre of four dozen heads each is con- - gidered mormal. A growyer in the Imperial Valley last -year “who had 60 ‘acres shipped 43 cars from the first 84 acres, but shipped only nine cars g from the remaining- 26 acres. Another grower: setured 10 1-2 cars | trom ‘eight acres but the entlre valle produced less’ than ATTENTION South Dakota Members We shall carry on a speaking campaign during the coming winter, and for this purpese shall have several League speakers of natlonal reputatlon It is our desire to bold one or more such meetings in every county in South Dako a, at the county seat when practicable, or, at some other town in the county more conveniently lonated and having a larger hall. i ‘We have already begun to route the first speaker m the course. If you want one or more of these free lectures in your county, please fill out the information blank printed below and mail it to the SOUTH DAKOTA BRANCH of the NATIONAL NONPARTISAN LEAGUE, Box 464, SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA. With your assmtance we shall be able to arrange ‘a meeting in your neighborhood sometime during the next three months. In order to make these meetmgs a complete success, the co-operation of the League members in all parts of the state is earnestly solicited. Send:us the information at .once, so that we can complete our routing of speakers for the entire state with as little delay and as economically-as possible. ——===-= Cut Tlns Out and Mail to Us--—---—-q Name of Hall Name of Manager...,............. L e Who will hire hall and advertise meeting? Name R S R A P P. O. Address Name of local papers DO YOU SOW WILD OATS? As ye sow so shall ye reap. No farmer sows wild oats wlllingly, but only because unable to clean it out of his seed grain. It is not difficult to take this robbing weed out of wheat and heavy barley; but to separate wild oats from tame oats and light barley and rye—*"Aye, there is the rub.” After trying all other separators, take this same grain “and use the HOILAND WILD OATS SEPARATOR; you will see how well it will pick out every wild oat by the Whiskers, whether large or small. 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