The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 21, 1919, Page 22

cunitizion o e o ADVERTISEMENTS s ¥ - Who Manages ~ The Standard ~ Qil Company? " (Indiana) EVEN men, who have demon- - strated unusual ability in their articular branch of the business, have — een entrusted with the task and re- spon51b1ht1es of management. Mr. Robert W. Stewart il Chairman of the Board “Mr. William M. Burton President Mr. Henry S. Morton Vice-President Mr. George W. Stahl Secretary-T'reasurer Mr. Seth C. Drake General Manager—Sales Mr. William E.Warwick General Manager—Manufacturing Mr. Beaumont Parks General Superintendent are now at the head of the Company’s affairs. These men, all residents of Chicago, and all actively engaged in this business, and no other, are the Board of Directors. . They are responsible to the 4623 stockholders, j and to the publie, for the policies governing ‘the Company’s activities. Each Director is a highly trained specialist, who, ‘in addition to being master of his own particular specialty, has a profound knowledge of the oil business generally. This complete understanding of every phase of the business, from the production of crude oil to the intricate problem of distribution, is the reason for the superlative service given by the Standard Oil Company. Standard Oil Company ‘(Indiana) 910 S.Michigan Avenue, Chlcago Il 1134 Mention THE LEADER when you write to advertisers. Let them know that it pays to advertlse in the Nonpartlsan Leader. Mention the Leader When Writing Advertisers Equlty Farmers Denied Town Hall ‘Sparta, Wis., Has New Excuse of “Antagomstlc to Local Business” - z] NTI-FARMER public of- “ficials of Minnesota and other states, which have -barred the Nonpartisan league from holding meetings, have claimed that they were not opposed to the or- ganized farmers, but only to their leaders. The Wisconsin Equity News, in its current issue, reports the barring of Equity farmers from the city of Sparta, Wis., by the city council on the plea that the policy of the Amer- ican Society of Equity is “antagonis- tic to local business.” It goes to show that the petty poli- ticians are against the Nonpartisan league farmers, the Equity farmers, the Grange farmers, or whatever kind of farmers they happen to be, not be- cause of their leaders but beca.use they are ORGANIZED. When the Equity is the strongest organization, and ap- pears likely to do something to stop organized robbery, the politicians are against the Equlty ‘When the Non- partisan league is the strongest organ- ization, they are against the Nonpar- tisan league. The Sparta paper has some good advice to give to its misguided council. It says: “We recommend to the honorable council that they immediately enter into negotiations with some reliable construction company to build a high, reinforced concrete wall with seven towers around the city. Station one of the seven councilmen in each of the towers armed with a machine gun, under the strict orders to'halt, search and carefully examine every farmer wearing an Equity button. him enter the gate until he has given bonds in amount equal to the total valuation of the city. Give said farm- - er orders to spend every copper he happens to have in his jeans in as short a time as possible and then to get on out. “But what have they done, ‘those ignorant farmers in overalls,” to be subjected to such an erroneous accu- sation? “They want to do the same as the farmers of Denmark, the most suc- Don’t let. - 4cessful dairy and agricultural country on the face of the earth, are doing. They want to do what has Kept the poor tenant farmer of Ireland from starvation. It is simply this—collec- tive selling and buying, or, to use the more familiar word, co-operation. “This, my friend, they are going to do by. doing what the business men, bankers, barbers, laborers, bootblacks and merchants of Sparta set a prece- dent in domg They propose to or- ganize; - I # “Continue ‘to protect the busmess interests of Sparta in this manner and shout loud against the farmers and perhaps some time in the twenty-first century some poetically inclined per- son will write a parody on ‘The De- serted Village’ with this as its first - line: “‘Sweet Sparta, loveliest v1llage of the dale!” ” J. Weller Long of the Amencan So- ciety of Equity comments on the Spar- ta case as follows: “I wonder how long it will be before some so-called town booster will learn that farmers are human beings -the same as town people. They say we should not set up antagonism between . the farmer and the people in town. Of course we should not, and none of us have _any desire to do so, but what arouses this feeling of antagonism any _ amore than for the officials of the city” or town to declare that farmers are not welcome in their town ?” — GRIMM ALFALFA New reports of the -hardiness of Grimm alfalfa are being continually received by the North Dakota Experi- ment Station. The Grimm alfalfa, even if it does cost more for seed than other varieties, is cheaper in the end, as the chances are that the other va- riety will freeze’out some winter, and then comes the task of starting over. This is not "only expensive, but it. causes a Joss of a crop and usually upsets some plans. In North Dakota a seed crop can be secured from -the second growth of alfalfa. - If it is Grimm, it will bring a‘larger price.— NORTH DAKOTA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Strategy of the Special Interests for 1920 (Continued from page 5) eral, or anything of that sort. But he has certain leanings toward gov- ernment - ownership—principally, it seems, for the purpose of oppressing employes. Now the Republican stand- patters have nothing against Burleson but there is too good a chance to fur- ther discredit government ownership ‘and control to be overlooked. As a matter of fact, Mr. Burleson probably has done more already to hurt the public ownership cause than the Re- publican leaders can possibly do. . There is plenty of chance for gen- uine investigation work at Waghington to bring to light faults and mistakes of the Wilson administration. - There is the department of agriculture, for instance. In adopting the seniority rule for awarding committee chair- manships Jim Mann and Joe Cannon made one mistake. This rule gave John M. Baer, League congressman from North Dakota, the chaxrmanshxp of the committee that will investigate the agricultural department—if there is any investigation. - But probably the Republican leaders will not allow much of an investigation to be made. They have nothing against Secretary of Agncultnre -Houston. If an inves- tigation is made the papers will see to it that the anti-Wilson, anti-Baker -and anti-McAdoo stuff is’' given so much greater prommence that the x r"‘vmm,« Mam =L anti-Houston material will be lost in the shuffle. The other--method of keeping the Democrats from nominating a near- progressive -is also being worked. Every effort is being made to discredit Democrats suspected of being pro- gressive with . leaders in their own party. Republican newspapers have flatly announced that a gathering of Democratic leaders already has de- cided to do what they can to keep Wilson, or any man favored by lnm, from being a candidate. What are progressives to do in a situation llke this? An ohserver is tempted to throw up his hands and give former President - Taft’s classic answer, “God knows.” A The best thing to do at present is “to sit tight, not he carried away by any local enthusiasm for any of the favorite sons, and see what happens. World history is being made and remade over night.. The soldiers are coming home with a lot of new notions in their heads. Changes may easily come that will make it possible for a new, strong man of the peo- ple to be brought forward néxt year and elected to the highest office in the gift of the people. But not if the Republican and Dem- ocratic politicians can prevent 1t. . \