The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 15, 1918, Page 19

~ newspapers could not find it. The “News” as It Is Printed Scare Story That Wife of A. C. Townley Had $60,000 on Deposit Proves Backdoor Gossip =|HE St. Paul Dispatch, one of the anti-farmer, anti- labor dailies, had a front page “sensation” recently to this effect: That a “Mrs. Staake” had said that Mrs. A. C. Town'ey, wife of the president of the Nonpartisan league, in 1916 made the statement that she “(Mrs. Townley) had $60,000 in a De- troit (Minn.) bank—money, suppos- edly, belonging to the Nonpartisan league, which Mr. Townley had given to his wife to hide. The Mrs. Staake mentioned was said to live in Mary- land. = - The Dispatch story . was widely copied in the campaign of slander against Mr. Townley. If the papers which printed it had been NEWS- PAPERS, instead of sewers for anti- League lies, they would have checked up Mrs. Staake’s statement, if any- body of that name ever made such a statement, -which is very doubtful. Detroit, Minn., isn’t hid away wlhere t is on the main line of the Northern Pa- cific and is connected with the outside world by telegraph. If anybody by the name. of Mrs. Staake ever made such a statement, it could have been verified or proved a dream within.at most an hour, by getting in.touch with all the banks at Detroit. . But the St. Paul Dispatch - and the other papers which made screaming headlines of the story did not try to verify its truth. They knew that investigation would prove.it un- true and hence there would be nothing to use against the League. The story was so ridiculous that the Nonpartisan Leader intended to ignore it. If the Leader made an at- tempt to answer all the “old wives’ yarns” . and backdoor gossip which passes for news in the daily press when the League is concerned, all we would be domg would be printing denials. However,; there is a little country paper at Detroit, Minn.: It is called the Record and it is not friendly to the League cause or to Mr. Townley. Yet this little country paper demon- strated more news ability than all the Twin City dailies together. The editor of the Detroit Record simply went around and asked all the banks in Detroit—of which there are three— whether Mrs. Townley had ever had any "money on deposit there, or whether the League or Mr. Townley had. And that is the only reason that the Leader mentions the “Mrs. Staake” story. Here is what the De- troit Record printed: “As a matter of playing the game above the board the Record editor called on the three local banks Mon- day with the following result: “H. S. Erickson, cashier of the Se- curity State bank, said: ‘Mrs. A. C. Townley has never been a depositor with this bank.’" - “H. G. Correll, assistant cashier of the First National bank, said: ‘The Nonpartisan league nor Mrs. A. C. Townley has never had a dollar in this bank in any form.’ : “A. C. Knudson, cashier of the Mer- chants National bank, said: ‘Neither A. C. Townley nor Mrs. A. C._Townley have ever bLeen a depositor in this bank ’ 9 And that’s all there is to the gos- sip about Mrs. Townley depositing $60,000 at any of the three Detroit banks. . Labor Assured for F arms Postmasters, Rural Carriers, County Agents and Others _Will Direct Farmers to Supply STERICAL stories of an impending f arm labor shortage that is going to curtail the crop or leave | farmers with grain stand- *ing in their fields at har- are discredited by the vest time, United - States labor. bureau as un- founded and dangerous to the nation. There will be plenty of help. It will be - distributed where wanted, when wanted if the farmers let the proper ‘persons know their needs. - It will be experienced help in the great major- ity ‘of. cases, and not the inefficient, thing that many newspapers have an- nounced, These are the assurances:: _ given out by the department of labor and backed up with the evidences of what has been done to make them -good. ' “The: Nonpartisan Leader several weeks ‘ago published the government’s outline. of its plan. The plan has been — more nearly perfected since that and the various offices of the department are. now .in operation -in - 19 states. == Additional publicity is asked by the department - especially iin the papers that reach the farmers, as-the great- " est obstacle to be ‘overcome now is the lack of -information among the farm- - ers-.as to how they can’get in touch. with this labor supply. Briefly, the government'has estab- lished state ae;encles in most of the states where labor is going to be most -in demand. These state agencies: col- lect ‘data for their respective states “from: the many subomes distributed having a birdseye view of the whole' country, can at once draw upon the sections where there are surpluses and send them directly to the sections where needed. The persons “whom . the farmers will need to see in order to get needed ‘help are their postmasters, the rural mail carriers or the “county agents.” There are 55,000 postoffices in the United States that have been made subagencies of the department of labor. ters has as one of his duties to get in touch. with the farm labor con- ditions in the country served by the rural routes running from his office. He is to furnish blanks and tell farm- ers where they .can get help, and’ to keep the - state -agency informed of any demand for help in his territory. ~This data is gathered directly by the rural ‘mail carriers. They generally "know . the patrons along their routes. 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