The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 28, 1919, Page 14

it § 3. i i | ADVERTISEMENTS A= 2 r i Lighting the Trenches v During the recent war the world came into a full and com- plete understanding of the value of efficient and comprehensive organization on the part of big business. : One J}hase of the aid that the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) was able to render is interesting. The U. S. Government called on the Company for candles, and in an incred- ibly short space of time the initial ship- ment was made. ' In all, 285,000,000 candles were shipped - from Whiting, Indiana, to France_— about 85 candles for every man in the United States Uniform. The Standard Oil Company makes can- dles from the by-products of crude oil. Besides sefving a most useful and nec- essary purpose in themselves, the man- . ufacture of candles enables the Com- pany to keep down the manufacturing cost of gasoline, so that you may run your car without: great expense for . fuel. : This is only a single and minor phase of the part played by the Company in helping to win the war, but it serves to illustrate the usefulness of the Com- pany as a public servant, and the ben- efits accruing to the world at large from Standard Oil Company (Indiana) - operations. Stand_aird Oil 'COfnpany (Indiana) : 910 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Ill. 1780 ~ Seek Aid for Drouth Stricken = Freight Rate Reduction to Ship Cattle to Pas ' Minnesota to Be Asked =~ . FIFTY per cent cut in freight rates on feed shipped into Montana and on stock shipped out for pasturing will be re- quested of the United States railroad administration as one of the first necessary steps to give relief to farmeys in the drouth areas. This action was recommended at a conference of government officials and field men just held at St. Paul. George M. Rommel, chief of the bureau ex- perts in agricultural extension work, presided. Recommendations were also made that the government establish offices in the East and West to serve as a clearing house to bring together farm- ers in the East wanting cattle and farmers of Montana and other west- ern states desiring to sell them. J. M. Brander; state livestock agen of Montana, has made arrangements-> - for securing a large acreage of Min~ nesota pasture, most of which, he de<*:" clares, has been donated to the usg”~ - of Montana farmers by the owners. _ Information received during the conference indicates that the drouth . . area is larger than at first believed. Practically the entire state of Mon- - tana is affected. Even the irrigated - districts are suffering because the flow of water from the mountains has been so light that the irrigation sys- . tems have been nearly useless. ’ The adjoining states, North Daketa, South Dakota and Wyoming, are all in bad shape in the sections bordering Montana. The damage extends to Alberta and Saskatchewan. Natural Resource Grab Menaces Bills Now Before Congress Would Give Away Rights Worth Millions, Farmers’ Council Fears WARNING against the plan of special privilege to grab the natural re- sources of the country through congressional action is issued by the Farmers’ National council in Wash- ington. In a statement, they declare there is a concerted action on the part of big interests to accomplish this re- sult and point out that there have been several bills introduced * in the special session of congress to alienate coal, phosphate, sodium, oil, oil shale and gas deposits on’ public domain and to permit private ownership upon terms grossly unfair to the public. The statement says in part: : “Nearly a dozen bills to despoil the American”people of their natural re- sources have been introduced in the - house and in the senate. The house c¢ommittee on public lands reported within a.year that the estimated ton- nage of bituminous coal in public ownership .in accessible areas is 10,- 000,000,000 tons; of semi-bituminous coal, 80,000,000,000 tons; and of lig- nite coal 5,000,000,000 tons—a total of 90,000,000,000" tons. This report esti- mates the value of phosphate in its natural state in -public lands at $90,- 000,000,000. The value of oil and gas on the nearly 607,000,000 acres of public land in the United States is in- calculable, and there is energy enough in the waterpower of the United States to keep the business of the world running for countless years. “Our natural resources’ gtill in pub- lic owmership are conservatively worth close to $500,000,000,000, which is equal to the total commercial and governmental indebtedness of the world. Much of these natural - re- sources will be practically given away by the pending bills, which have been introduced by both' Republicans and Democrats. “The Esch waterpower bill has™ been passed by the house. No hear- ings at this session of congress were granted on this bill to alienate the - country’s natural resources in water- power for a term of 50 years with rights of renewal.. The chairmen of the senate and house committees on public lands have informed us that they do not propose to hold hearings on the bills to turn the people’s nat- ural resources in coal, phosphate, sodium,- oil, oil shale and gas owned by the United States over to proti teers. : “The enactment of the pending bills, on which no hearings are to be allowed by the congressmen in charge, who were elected to serve the public interest, will increase the cost of liv- ing to every American citizen. “The pending legislation will in- crease the price of farm machinery, of transportation on railroads and of fares on city railways. It will add to the cost of practically everything we have to use or wear. In our opin- ion, the legislation is designed to pre- vent government development of tures in . these natural resources, which all for- % ward-looking farmers of America de- mand. : “The American people should promptly write their United ~Stateg senators and congressmen urging them to defeat these measures, which are .in contempt of democracy and in defiance of the expressed will of the people of America, recorded when we entered the war.” Packers Benefit by Official Sabotége‘ ; (Continued from page 11) Indiana. “I want the market dis- turbed, the American people want, the market disturbed. In order to avert industrial calamity, in order to head off the radical element, we have got in some way to reduce the cost of liv- ing here.” : ¥ “You say it is essential that the market shouldn’t be disturbed,” Rep- resentative Reavis of Nebraska said to Mr. Hare. “The condition of the market was certainly disturbed in their favor when the packers sold the war department thousands of tons of -this “meat and got their very: good profit-on every pound. Do you recog- e any Tight on their part to dictate about the resale of this meat now %« It appears, however, that whatever action is taken now will come too late. Food - experts agree that before any large quantity can be placed on' the market the meats will probably be = unfit for consumption. This. being so the packers will have scored the greatest victory of their career. = The big question which must be an- swered, and on which Director of Sales Hare passed responsibility to Chief of Staff March, is- why, when the war department knew that the standing army would not by any pos- - sibility be. over 509,000, absolutely _nothing was. done: for six 'months to _-sell the obvious surplus of thousands - .of tons of foodstuff