The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 13, 1918, Page 19

Dear Mr. Foss: AMATEUR DEPARTMENT CONDUCTED BY B. O. FOSS, LEADER STAFF CARTOONIST I am three years old. While seated in my high chair this morning I asked my daddy for some ink and paper so that I could send in a cartoon to the amateur department of the Nonpartisan Leader. good enough to win the award. Hoping to see my cartoon in print, I am, Yours truly, Of course, this is just an imaginary letter but it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if I should receive a cartoon and letter from a three-year-old. Car- toonists, so it seems, are in the making at an early age these days. Isidore Fischer, an 11-year-old boy of Jordan, Minn., wins the weekly award I hope this cartoon will be J. USTA KIDD. of $1 for the best amateur cartoon received last week. By way of explanation Isidore says: “The Old Gang, Big Biz and the Kept Press are shooting arrows which are lies, of disloyalty and pro-Germanism, at the farmer but they don’t hurt the farmer because he -has the Nonpartisan Leader shield which stops them before they go far enough to do any damage. My pa is a member of the League and we are interested in the cartoons.” Could any of you older folks do as well as Isidore when you were his age? Wesley Hoeft, Connell, Wash.; Ross J. Waters, Velva, N. D.; Miss Arduser, Marion, N. D.; Walter Borchardt, Dallas, S. D.; Agnes Watne, Jessie, N. D.; John Horns, Buffalo, N. D.; Earl Hill, Fullerton, N. D., and Theodore Falos, Thompson, N. D, all sent in cartoons worthy of honorable mention last week. Yours, B. 0. FOSS. 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Of course you will vote right and of course you will boost for all you are worth. But what about helping with the organization work? Of course we know you will go along with the organizer in your community .and do all you can but why not be an organizer yourself? Our success depends upon_how complete we can make the organization. Now who do you expect to do this work? Not Big Business surely—or the Chamber of Commerce or big millers or the big packers or the Steel Trust. They are doing all they can to tear down our organization. Who is building it? Why the farmers themselves! League organizers are farmers and farmers’ boys who know that if we want this job done, we’ve got to do it ourselves. How about you? Can’t you give some time to this work? Can you go to work now? We have a training course for organizers which will fit you for the work. If you can’t arrange your affairs to do organizing now, can’t you take the training course now and be ready for work after seeding or this fall after harvest? Think what success in the fight for democracy at home means in the winning of the war— what it means to our boys at the front. Think what taking government out of the hands of Big Business and the profiteers means to you and to your family and to every working man and woman in the United States. Let the boys at the front know we are backing them in the fight for world democracy by cleaning up the profiteer at home. Will you help? Write us today about organization work and get on the firing line. THE NATIONAL NONPARTISAN LEAGUE, g Educational Department, Endicott Bldg., St. Paul, Minn. ! I want full particulars of organization work. (From the Public) 2] RESIDENT WILSON has written a letter to Sena- tor Overman, strongly opposing the Chamber- lain bill to turn all pris- , oners accused of propa- ganda, sabotage or spying over to courts martial. This assures its de- feat and probably means a turn of the tide. Hysteria reached its height in Washington last week when wit- nesses for this bill appeared before the senate ‘military affairs committee and talked indiscriminately of firing squads for strike leaders, socialists, and divers others. One of the wit- nesses was Chairman John F. McGee of the Minnesota Public Safety com- mission, who said the work of the de- partment of justice in Minnesota had been “a ghastly failure” and that the firing squad should now work over- time in his state. “What we need is a court that can’t be fooled with a lot of technicality and red tape,” said this guardian of law and order. “You can't fool a military court.” Mr. McGee’s contempt for the es- tablished judicial processes of his country is illuminating, and helps to explain a situation in Minnesota that has required all the influence of the federal government to prevent organ- ized workmen and farmers from an- swering in kind the provocations of men resorting to reckless patrioteer- ing in their attempts to discredit or- ganizations that threaten the privi- leges of the great millers, grain brok- ers, bankers and steel interests. Pes- gimists still fear serious disorder in Minnesota ‘if local authorities persist in baiting the Farmers’ Nonpartisan league with disloyalty in the face of the fact that the federal government has sent emissary after emissary to address League assemblies, and that one after another has come away con- vinced of the League’s loyalty. The latest instances are the visits of Mr. William Kent of the federal tariff commission and of Captain W. S. A. Smith of the Federal Farm Loan board. Mr. Kent has two boys in the service and is one of the most hard- headed and canny liberals in the coun- try. Yet he believes in the Nonpar- tisan league and is lending his aid to their efforts to unite the farmers on a program of economic reform. The thing for liberals to do is to discount outcroppings in the press and else- where of hysteria and the spirit of witch-burning, and to remember that President- Wilson is on the job, to- gether with a corps of federal officials overwhelmingly in accord with his policy, and a majority in the lower house, at- least, who can be counted upon to block any ill-advised action. Senator Borah’s service in opposing the Chamberlain bill is another thing to remember to his credit. There is a belief in Washington that “patrioteering” has passed its flood tide, and that hereafter it will become increasingly more difficult for special interests to use the loyalty issue as a club to destroy their opponents. What the situation would seem to demand is drastic government action followed by full publicity in the case of con- victed spies. 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