The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, March 8, 1920, Page 8

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Humptulips, Wash, 2 FOR PLUMB PLAN The action of the National Grange in ‘opposing the Plumb plan is being condemned by resolutions adopted: by a number of local and Pomona granges throughout the West. o ot G e iR AL St A TS U S A AR i 5 » e e o i Gronna Bill Stirs Up the Animals Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce Delegation, Quick to Protest, Hears Some Unpleasant Truths Washington Bureau, Nonpartisan Leader. =1EARINGS upon the Gron- na bill to abolish the United States Grain cor- poration brought to Washington half a hun- dred grain brokers, ele- vator men, millers and jobbers mar- shaled by Secretary McHugh of the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce. The basis of the objections of these You Should Buy Genuine International Repairs * Made Exclusively For INTERNATIONAL HARVESTERCOMPANY EPAIRS made for International implements and other farm operating equipment by this Company are the only repairs made from the original patterns. from copies, and in this roundabout reproduction they may lose in correctness of shape, sharpness of detail, closeness in fitting, and quality of material used. Genuine @ Repairs for Deering, McCormick, Milwaukee, Titan and Other International-made Machines Are Better in Quality Fit Better and Wear Longer The Harvester Company makes good machines and stands All others are copied . Mention the Leader When Writing Advertisers back of them. We want them to make good. Is it fair then, to us, to the machines, or to yourself, to substitute an imitation for the genuine when repairs are needed? Repairs made by other concerns and marked “Made for” or “Will fit”, are not genuine | H C-parts. They often lack weight, are not always correct in shape, are imperfectly finished, go not fit properly, or are made of inferior material. Buy Genuine International Repairs for your International Farm Equipment. ; Beware of Any Other Kind The best dealer in every community sells the Full Line of I HC repairs, twine and machines. - INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER-COMPANY CHIcASO ek usa interests was the fact that they all had contracts with the grain corporation. The production of the contracts show- ed why they objected to having them abrogated. The contracts allow ele- vators, jobbers, millers and bakers to buy wheat or other grains at the gov- ernment guaranteed price and to prof- it from any advance in price. On the other hand, if the grain corporation: should fix a resale price lower than the government guaranteed price, the corporation contracts to make good any loss that the elevators, jobbers, millers or bakers may suffer. Itis a case, with the elevators, jobbers, mil- lers, etc., of “heads we win, tails you lose.” In addition the contracts pro- vide that if dealers, elevators and brokers “after using every effort and all diligence to ship in any week 20 per cent of the amount of wheat in his elevator and owned by him at the beginning of such week,” the grain corporation will pay the dealer, to cover insurance and interest, seven- twentieths of 1 cent per bushel per week on the entire amount in the ele- vator at the beginning of the week. In the case of Pacific coast dealers this guaranteed payment is not-.even de- pendent upon efforts to move the grain. ONLY THREE FARMERS HEARD BY COMMITTEE Three farmers were heard. John Simpson, president of the Oklahoma Farmers’ union, and State Senator Carpenter of that state urged that the government guarantee the price of wheat for the crop of 1920. State Senator Mish of Maryland asked for a three-year extension of the farmers’ guaranty. Legislative representatives of the National Grange, National Farmers’. union and Federation of State Farm bureaus were present, but offered no advice. Farmer organiza- tions in a few localities wrote their congressmen in opposition to the bill, on the ground that it removed the guaranty from the wheat price. Sen- ator Gronna, author of the bill, ex- plained this was incorrect. The Equity l()1_(fi.0perative exchange indorsed- the i Boiled downm, the question was whether the millers and jobbers and bakers should or should not be assist- ed by the further existence” of the grain corporation to realize the prof- its they have expected to realize on the wheat and flour of the 1919 crop that they have on hand or may buy. Senators Capper of Kansas, Mc-* Nary of Oregon, Norris of Nebraska and Wadsworth of New York, by their questions, appeared to feel that they had been justified in voting a favor- able report on the Gronna bill. The measure was not recalled from the senate calendar, and it is still subject to being called up for passage. During the final day’s hearing Sena- tor Gronna declared that “The only real solution for this problem is for the farmers to organize completely and effectively—as completely as you business men are organized—to con- trol their own industry and its prod- uct. When they are so organized they will need no grain corporation to con- trol the marketing of their wheat; they will control it themselves.” “The fight against the grain deal- ers and grain gamblers in our part of the country has been going on for more than 25 years.. The Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce has been ac- cused of being the greatest gambling den in the world. It was because of that that the Nonpartisan league was _organized.” | : -l