The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, March 18, 1918, Page 19

S e AR AMATEUR DEPARTMENT CONDUCTED BY B. O. FOSS, LEADER STAFF CARTOONIST Much ObLiGED UNCLE. NOW | CAN HeLp The boys Yangs ThAT PRrECious oL They CAN gETAT 1M, This week the eward for the best amateur cartoon goes to Harry B. Swan- son, Stowers, N. D. Harry’s cartoon is fairly well drawn and has a “kick” to it. Don’t you think so? “Kaiser Bill” is in his lair and must be pulled out. The army and navy are doing their part and the farmer is ready and willing to do his part. But in order to do so he must have a new link in the chain. With the aid of this link he will be able to pull hard with his great big strong horse (the 1918 crop). I think you will all agree with me that Harry’s cartoon is very good. Every week from now on, in addition to the regular prize winner, I will publish the names of all the girls and boys that send in good cartoons. They must be very good ones. Cartoons from Edward Torpet, Fertile, Minn.; Elbert Arthand, Sioux Pass, Mont.; Edwin J. Christen, Rupert Idaho; Isidore Magid, St. Paul, Minn.; Joseph Morgan, Buhl, Idaho» Carl Morse, Devils Lake, N. D.; Hilda Peterson, Toronto, S. D.; and Harold Folden, Holt, Minn., ADVERTISEMENTS nnnumnnnununnnnnnnsnnnunninuuunnnnnunnnnnnnnnE Five Years ago the farmers of the Northwest organized their own Gra.m Selling Agency to operate on the terminal markets and called Equity Co-Operatlve - Exchange Its capital stock is-$50.00 per share and draws a cumulative dividend of 8 per cent. This corporation now .operates a Livestock Commission Depart- ment on the South St. Paul markets, it handles thereon all kinds of livestock. The corporation also owns a Terminal Elevator in the City of St. Paul through which it handles all kinds of grain, at a nominal charge. It is the only elevator of its kind on any terminal market ‘in the U. S. The Equity Co-Operative Exchange also devoted to the interests of co-operation and tors’ Herald published at Fargo, N. D., $1.50 per year. We also have a Merchandising Department through which we handle feed of all kinds, groceries, fence posts, coal, wood and other articles used by farmers. We have over 10,000 inembers in the Northwest. If you have not already done so, get in touch with this movement. Let us know your wants, what you have for sale and what you wish to buy. Address Equlty Co-Operatlve Exchange ST. PAUL, MINN. ublishes a weekly paper own as the Co-Opera- the subscription price being I T L L T R LR L LT LR L LR LR EER T LT AL s nRnna i IIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIlIIIlIIIIIIIIllIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII]IIIIIIIIIIIIllIl THE NEW FREEDOM are all worthy of honorable mention. Keep it up! I am going to ask every girl and boy that has not won the prize to try it again. You may win ani if you don’t the practice will do you a lot of good. And always keep this in mind: cartoons must be on WHITE unruled paper and drawn with black ink, otherwise they cannot be used. Yours for more cartoons, B. 0. FOSS. Educating a Farm Editor A Letter to the Editor of the Leader and the Answer to It, With Some Comment on the Correspondence BY THE EDITOR CENTLY , a publi- "cation called Life, issued at Denver, Col., con- tained a Iong arti- cle attacking the organized farm- ers. There was scarcely a true statement in the en- tire article. Readers of the Leader in Colorado sent us copies of the arti- cle and requested that we write a let- ter to the editor of the paper, Mr. Alvin "T. Steinel, who was also the author of the artlcle referred to. We directed a courteous letter to Mr. Steinel; taking up in detail his state- ments .about the National Nonparti- san league and‘ offering ample .and positive proof that his statements were untrue. = We believed that he had been .misled by enemies of the farmers and had been Dbetrayed, through failure to make proper in- vestigation of rumors, into making . statements very easily disproved. . However,; we .probably were much mlstaken about Mr. Steinel being “misled.” The position he has taken now appears to be a deliberate one, it being his intention, we judge, to mis- represent the League and lie about it in _every way he can.. We incline to . view on account of a Ietter we - - have Just received: from him, in which he declines to conslder the pomts_ Western Farm. raised by us in regard to his false article, but indulges instead in calling names. We are pleased to quote as follows from his letter to us: “Every issue of your paper clearly expresses your purpose of playing upon the prejudices of the farmer, arousing class” hatred and causing political upheaval at a time when the country can ill afford to countenance such by-play. If your executive com- mittee' took: its orders directly from the German government it could not carry out the desires of the kaiser more subtly and effectxvely To cause unrest and confusion is your object. Your plan of action is de- structive in every particular. You of- fer nothing constructlve, nothing that will help us win the war or put agri- culture on a higher plane.” Such ‘billingsgate, of course, does not require an-answer. Mr. Steinel is not open to argument and his paper will not print the facts. ‘Mr. Steinel’s answer to proof that he made mis- statements: is - to call names. judge from his letter he is_a very young ‘and inexperienced man, or a | very old and hide-bound one. Taking the chance that he was young and in- experienced, we wrote another courte-. ous letter to- him, from which we quote as follows: “Patriotism consists in love of country. It is fostered and inspires men to great and noble deeds in:coun- | tries where econom;lc condxtions are, : . - . PAGE: Nmmm We. 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