The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 1, 1919, Page 11

b bl I i v e Al e - A 2 i s 4 ik = Pt N R 2o : & vy 5 ™ » Ho Ak A ¢ e \ o i e i N - 148 . - - Bo L Cin = p Ko v LedR: S Y i feat K Faz . Iy o B [ B LA - . | ¢ 7 P Livestock Shippers Plan Federation Representatives of Middle West States Meet and Move for National Body of Co-Operative Associations MOVE to inaugurate a National Federation of Co-Operative Shippers’ associations has been launched. At a re- cent meeting in Chicago, sponsored by a group of leaders and representatives of such associations, the plan was taken up and an organ- izing committee of 15 was named to perfect plans... The representatives came from eight states in response to a call issued by the educational de- partment of the Farmers’ Co-Opera- tive Grain Dealers’ associations of the . Middle West. Earl J. Trosper was elected organizing secretary. At the " meeting were representatives - from Minnesota, Wlsconsm, Iowa,; Illinois and Indiana. Reports made at the conference_de- veloped a number of facts of impor- tance to the industry: Shipping associations are being formed more rapidly than any other co-operative enterprise. There are over 2,000 farmers’ co-operative ship- ping associations in the United States today, doing an annual business of nearly $500,000,000. Minnesota leads - with 700 associations; Wisconsin sec- ond ‘with 600; Iowa third with 300; Nebraska fourth with 250; Mlchlgan fifth with 200 and Iilinois sixth with 60. - To date there has been no co-ordina- tion of effort among the associations by counties, state or nation except in Minnesota and Michigan, where state associations have been formed. Livestock shipping associations do best when incorporated. Legislation .- already enacted in some states legal- izes such corporations, but other Livestock - .states have no satisfactory law so far. There is no standardization in by- laws, accountmg, marking, grading, terminal commission handling, ete. A national federation of farmers’ co- operative shipping associations is ab- solutely necessary in order to accom- plish standardization of methods of handling and shipping, protection in respect of legislation and the settle- ment of transportation and terminal difficulties. A NEW LEAGUER . North Avondale, Col. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I have received our certificate of membership, and since receiving sev- eral copies of your splendid League papers I am proud to be a member of such an organization, which stands for such high ideals and such & worthy cause. The League is on the right road to free the common people from political greed and graft. | The League papers are the most welcome papers at our home, and they are always read from start to finish. Then, when I am through with them, I always see that someone else gets them to read. I would suggest that .every member of the League do thé same. - It is a good thing—pass it on. When one reads of the good things that North Dakota has and is getting, it makes one want to go there. But we are all going to have the same freedom in Colorado in- 1920 if we all pull together. The League is on the right principle and has the right plat- form to free the farmer and the labor- ing people. 2 GEORGE W. LITTLE.. Combensation Board Shows Efficiency North Dakota Worker Is Paid Full Amount of Claim Two : Days After Facts Are Filed Bismarck Bureau, Nonpartisan Leader. ORTH DAKOTA’'S first claim under the work- men’s compensation act was paid two days after the information was filed with ' the North Dakota workmen’s compensation bureau, it has been announced here. Charles A. Sterns of Bismarck, the injured workman, was given a voucher_ for $37.83, two-thirds of the weekly salary for the time he was unable to work. He received all of it and did not need to employ a lawyer to collect it. The bureau also paid the doctor © bill. This is the first opportunity the compensation bureau has had to prove its superiority over the private insur- ance plan. Commissioner L. J. Wehe compared the two. He said: “Had Mr. Sterns been insured by a private company it is entirely pos- sible that he would have received no compensation at all. shows that he would have had to hire a lawyer to collect his claim had he been granted a right to it. Last year $24,000 was awarded injured workmen in this state, of which over - $18,000 went as attorneys’ fees. “There is absolutely no comparison between the two methods of insurance. . For instance, when Mr. Sterns was disabled, he filled out an accident ‘blank and sent it to this bureau. This was supplemented by a report from the physician. When he returned to work his employer forwarded us the required notice. “All that was left for the bureau to “do was to compute the compensation . allowance due him and to audit the .- physician’s bill. ‘The law guarantees Experience the employe’s full compensation re- gardless of who was at fault. - As a result there was mnone of the quib- bling and none of the delay incident to payment by pnvate lines of insur- ance.” Mr. Sterns cut two of his fmgers on a nail July 4. He continued to work until July 23, when the wound became infected. It was then found necessary to lance the infection and as a result Mr. Sterns was unable to return to work until August 12. The bureau was notified on August 138 that he had resumed work. On August 14 the claim and the physician’s bill was approved and vouchers for the - amounts were mailed out the following day. COST OF HOG LICE Lice add a cent a pound to tl.le cost of producing pork. This has ‘been found in tests just completed at the experiment farm of the United States department of agriculture at Beltsville, Md.. Twenty-four lousy hogs were secured and divided into two lots as nearly equal as possible as to quality. The two lots were managed and fed the same way with the excep- tion that one lot was treated to pre- vent lice. The animals were weighed at regular intervals and at the end of the fattening period it was found that the hogs infested with lice cost a cent a pound more to fatten than those which were free from this pest. Every farmer knows, of course, that it doesn’t pay to feed lice, but this is the first experimental data show- ing exactly what it costs to have lice in the swine herd. A A precedent emba]ms a prlnexple — | ; DISRAELI. ; 1 ADVERTISEMENTS SRR [ ] Adain at Newell, South Dakota. Five selected tractors were entered in a Rlowmg contest on the farmof C, A. 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