The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 20, 1918, Page 20

i { | ¥ Mention' the Leader When Writing Advertisers ADVERTISEMENTS “EVERYBODY BOOSTER’S CLUB” Wherever You Live Equip Yourself to be a Booster Enjoy the Sensation of Being a Live One There Are Three Things to Do—That’s Ali GET NO. 1 Hizh grade sateen pennant, 12x30, stitched edges, painted letters, background blue, letters - \! white, circle in red, white and blue effect. ) They will decorate your room at home, at | I\ \ y school, and liven up your automobile. Hang S one on each side of your windshield. Fly your colors at home and when you are in town. Ordinarily sell for 50 cents at the stores. Cost price, 25 cents each. GET NO. 2 SOUVENIR RALLY BOOKLET, entitled: “FREEDOM FOR ALL FOREVER”; four- color art cover. Convinece your neighbor with it. Song book with words and music of 25 popular songs. SOME OF THE CONTENTS Notes of Freedom by the President of the United States; Freedom Expressed in the Constitution; the Minnesota Issue, by C. A. Lindbergh; the League’s Platform and Principles for Minnesota. SOME OF THE SONGS Star Spangled Banner; Old Kentucky Home; Battle Cry of Freedom: The Old Oaken Bucket; ‘We're Tenting Tonight; America. Cost price, 10 cents. GET NO. 3 FLY YOUR'AMERICAN COLORS Fast color American flag, 12x18 inches, mounted on sturdy oak stick with gilded spear top. Just the thing to wave and flap on the hood of your auto, on your rig, or for home purposes. Regularly sells at 25 cents. Cost price to Boosters, 15 cents. FREE WITH COMPLETE BOOSTER SETS AT 50 CENTS With every order for a complete set of Pennant, Booklet and Flag, are given FREE, five high grade postcards of Congressman Baer’s best cartoons which you will take pride in sending to your friends. These postcards ordinarily sell at 2 for 5 cents, but to our Boosters they are FREE with every National Booster set ordered. Have the Fun of Doing Something Yourself and Order Today —— — — — —— — — —— —— ——— — I “EVERYBODY BOOSTER’S CLUB” I NATIONAL NONPARTISAN LEAGUE 5th Fleor Endicott Building, St. Paul, Minn. l Enclosed please find 50 cents for one' National Booster Set. S IT IS A WINNER “THE SPIRIT OF 1776 | Name Whoop Her Up- Boyb, and We’ll Win, at Home and Abroad! - NATIONAL NONPARTISAN LEAGUE - Endicott Building, St. Paul, Minn. Farmers to Return Young to Congress Public Services of North Dakota Representative Win In- dorsement for Re-Election : ORTH DAKOTA farmers, through the Nonparti- san league, have in- dorsed George M. Young for congress in the sec- ond North Dakota dis- trict, and- Mr. Young will have a “walkaway.” This indorsement is« particularly interesting because it shows that the farmers are able to appreciate and reward officeholders who do not betray them. Mr. Young has been a North Dakota congressman for several terms. He was elected once since the League was organized, but in that campaign the League farmers took no part in congressional elections. But as a congressman, Mr. Young has been faithful to his con- stituents, who are practically all farmers, and unlike some other con- gressmen from districts where the League is organized, Mr..Young has not used his office and his influence to oppose the League and its program. The indorsement of Mr. Young for re-election ought to be sufficient answer to unfair critics of the League who make the sweeping charge that the League is opposed to all office- holders, good and bad alike, and is simply an “organization for obtaining office for its own members.” Mr. Young is a lawyer and not a farmer. His indorsement disproves the equally insincere charge against the organ- ized farmers that this is a “class fight” and that the League will in- dorse only farmers for office, regard- less of their qualifications. - Congressman Young is serving his sixth year in congress. Recent dis- patches show thet he was active in se- curing an increased appropriation for the eradication of barberry bushes, also the establishment at Washington of a small experimental flour mill, chemical and baking laboratories, to be used by the government in ascer- taining the milling value of wheat, in order to .establish equitable grain standards for grading wheat. Mr. Young’s record in the state leg- islature, as well as in congress, has been one of service .n the public in- terest. While in the state legislature he introduced and secured the passage mE Congressman George M. Young of North Dakota. He is a successful ex- ample of a lawyer who proves that loyalty to the people is valued by them. of the bill .under which the experi- mental flour mill and baking labora- tories were -established at the agri- cultural college, Fargo, which has meant so much to the wheat growers of the state. It is hoped that the es- tablishment of a similar mill at Wash- ington will be of corresponding value. Congressman Young is a member of the committee on agriculture, an assignment which is never within the reach of new members, and, which places him in a position to render services of great value to the people of his district and state. Big Business Would Mobilize Farms (Continued from page 12) animals. There will be some addition to the acreage, and ‘a part of that, perhaps a large part, will consist of land hastily and imperfectly prepared. Returns from such land will be ex- tremely uncertain. Where then should our efforts be concentrated? Clearly upon the land which is already fit for planting, and ' | which is owned or occupied by farm- ers who understand what ought to be done on that land, and who are able to do most of the work themselves. This is our one safe bet. All else is pure gamble. I do not mean to say that we ought not to take such chances; as 'a matter of fact we have to; but attention to all the various side issues—war gardens, and all the rest —should not distract our attention from-the central fact of the situation —the actual farmer on the land. - Those concerned*with our agricul- tural interests have had too much the point of view of commerce, of concen- trated, large scale industry—in short, of big business. It has taken them a long time to discover that the actual American farm must. be ade * the basis for all calculations. = It*is not a mere matter of applying business methods, business management;" co- ordination—to ‘use the term so much .in fayor—to so many million acres of land and so many unskilled laborers, EDITOR. gathered up from the highways and byways of the country. But it is a question of aiding scientifically, and stimulating sympathetically, the pro- ductive effort of millions of dwellers upon the land. The mobilization of agricultural in- dustry, as conceived by those who view the_problem from the point of view of American big business, can be dis- posed of in a single sentence: NOTH- ING CAN BE DONE TO MEET OUR IMMEDIATE NEEDS FOR FQOD PRODUCTION BY THE APPLICA- TION OF ANY SUCH METHODS— ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. 'We must . look to the farms as they are and to the actual farmers living and working upon them. What we need to do is immediately to find out their needs and at once to supply them. THEY WILL DO THE REST. A MESS OF DECEPTIVE STUFF : ; Carlos, Minn. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: 3 I am. sending you a copy of a pamphlet called “The Farmer and Townleyism.” I for one have never seen such a mess of deceptive and unreliable stuff published in so small a pamphlet before. e S Y G. LOOKER. / The booklet referred to is an un- scrupulous attack on the League by enemies of ‘organized farmers.—THE