The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 30, 1919, Page 5

of the existing system consist not merely in the grading of grain, its weighing, its dockage, the price paid and the disparity between the price of different grades and the flour-produc- ing capacity of the grain. They believe that the evil goes deeper; that the whole system of shipping the raw materials of North Dakota to these foreign terminals is wasteful and hos- tile to the best interests of the state. They say in substance: “L. The raw materials of the state ought to be manufactured into commercial products within the state. In no other way can its industrial life be sufficiently diversified to attain a healthy economic development. Probably the best-known hunter of big game in America was But the American farmer is after bigger game. He is out after what Ropseve‘lt(qnce called ‘the “predatory - Theodore Roosevelt. T D e S Y A N SN F N TR TR R ” o “2. The present system prevents diversified: farming. The only way that it can be built up is to grind the grain in the state which the state pro- duces—keep the by-products of bran and shorts here and feed them to livestock upon the farms of the state. In“no other way .can a prosper- ous livestock, dairy and - poultry -industry be built up. : “3. The existing marketing system tends di- rectly to the exhaustion of soil fertility. In no way can soil depletion be prevented except to feed out to livestock at least as much of the by-prod- ucts of the grain raised upon the state’s farms as that grain produces when ground and thus put back into the soil, in the form of enriched manure, Dakota, “stick” . PAGE FIVE = - the "elements which the raising of small grains takes from it. “The present movement began at least as far back as 1911. In that year an amendment of the state constitution was initiated authorizing the state to acquire one or more terminal grain ele- vators and maintain and operate the same in such manner as the legislative assembly should pre- scribe. That amendment was adopted in 1913. From that time forward the discussion of the sub- ject of marketing the products of the state has been the main theme of public thought. The move- ment has gone straight forward, the constitution has been repeatedly amended, including the (Continued on page 14) o : BIG GAME I HAVE MET _ By l —Drawn expressly for fhe Leader by W. C. Morris. interests.” He has taken the Scalps of some of them in North and like Theodore Roosevelt his best weapon is the big e e R DI A