The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, February 25, 1918, Page 12

ADVERTISEMENTS LET THE MEN HELP : Westerheim, N. D, Editor Woman'’s Page: In nearly every paper we see the subject of food conservation seemingly taking the lead. Women are advised and entreated to conserve food, they are even asked to sign a pledge card so to make sure their minds will turn oftener to the all-important subject. Now that is all right as far as it goes. But must the cooks alone learn to conserve? How about the men? We are asked also to conserve clothing -and use less “frippery,” also gum, candy, ete. ; In our county, Golden Valley, we got scarcely any crop on account of drouth and hail. Our own particular crop for 1917 consisted of 24 bushels of pota- toes, about 40 bushels of corn, one and one-half sacks of speltz and one and one-half sacks of wheat and oats to- gether, We didn't get one kernel of flax. We sowed about 100 acres. We are a family of seven, with the children between the ages of 20 months and 15 years.- I signed the pledge card and sent it in. T have very little to cook and not a crumb to waste and I only eat two meals a day myself. I can’t ask the children to do that and no man would think of doing it, but I can, and by = = . ; ' so doing can save a little. \\ . But for all the crops being-so poor, ; I can’t see the tobacco bill diminishing Its Special Construction Enables It To a bit. Why wouldn’t it be a good plan Do A Wider Range of Farm Work to have a pledge card for the men to sign? I think it is a grand thing to be more careful in all ways, but when I ask people (better than I) for their old clothing to make over for my The use of the Wide Drive Drum enables simpler and more rigid frame construetion as well as simpler transmission. By simplifying we reduce weight without loss of strength or traction ; efficiency. The Gray’s 6,000 1bs. weight is distributed over 70 inches of earth surface—54 inches on the Drum and 8 inches each on the two front wheels, It, therefore, cannot pack newly plowed or soft soil. 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Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Enclosed please find clipping from the Jordan Gazette. I wish you would publish same in your paper with your answer and send a copy to the Gazette. Yours for the League now and forever. A. F. HARRIS. Evidently the editor of the Jordan (Mont.) Gazette had been swallowing whole the chunks of buncombe being peddled broadcast over the country by enemies of the farmers. He said the Montana farmers are charged $16 a year membership fee, “twice that charged in North Dakota,” and that this was because the League leaders considered it “would be easier to get the money in Montana.” This is a straight falsehood. League members in North Dakota and in every other state are paying $16 for two years membership. He said:- that when a member joins the, League he agrees to vote “as the officers of the League tell him to,” and that joining the League is “selling their political birth- right.” The Jordan Gazette is wrong. Farmers by joining the League will have the first opportunity they ever had in their lives'to vote for the men they choose themselves. From bottom to top, the ticket will be of their own making in conventions of League mem- bers. It will be the first time ‘they ever went to a primary or an election For Wheatless Days OUR NEW Liberty Biscuits A healthful combination of— Oatmeal, Barley Flour, Corn Flour, Sterilized Bran, Whole Wheat ‘With only enough sugar and shorten- ing to make them crisp and delight- ful to eat. The housewife’s share in the war is to conserve the food supply, es- Escia.ny wheat. Serve these new lberty Biscuits in place of wheat consuming products and in this way do Kour part, They are for sale at your grocer’s. Headquarters — Nonpartisan League --- Session, 1917 THE PATTERSON HOTELS The The Northwest Soo Hotel HOtel 50c. to $1.00 A High-Class Hotel at i ave . Reasonable Rates Hot and cold water in every room k¥ kR 50c per day and up Single room \;i:hfll, $1.00 The MCK nZie Ask for them. Running d cold The Seventh Story of North Dakota. **8 By the box, Net weigh where the candidates had not been mt?;;mzfl b .fibgéul‘:‘l,qu%Zo:fis:E;;l:;m; EUROPEAN 331'-2 1%5. xewegt' 65C hand picked by a few bosses in the Oppotite McKenzie Hotel on seventh floor. Dairy lunch open NS ] background. The farmers are paying EUROPEAN duy nndl niqmpflnfib Park. Cafe in connection ManCheritneGl; ]iisncult CO. their money to regain their “political g b T birthright,” stolen from them by polit- b The NORTHWEST, 100 Rooms The McKENZIE, 210 Rooms The SO0, 125 Rooms ical tricksters. Then there are other S THE HOTEL CENTER IN - BISMARCK, N. D. EDW. G. PATTERSON, Qwaer and Prop. wild assertions such as that “the ¥ League has brought ridicule and dis- Y WesternHide & Fur Co. 301-303 Front St., Pargo, N. D. Pays the highest prices for Wool, Hides, Pelts, Furs and Tallow.. grace on North.Dakota.” This is too flighty to merit any answer. There is also the hggkneyed 'charges of “trea- son” which every League member ex- Dects to be hurled at him by the farm- ers’ enemies.—~THE EDITOR. Your Advertisement in the Leader Now Reaches Nearly a Million Readers T Lo Mention Leader when writing advertisers g e PAGE TWELVE ~ r.,_-,‘-,gfgr.:*z-‘,flm?fi}‘{ D R L